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VOL. 'LXII—NO. 314 . A, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1921 TEN PAGES—70 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS MINSTERURGED TOUPHOLD NAVAL INTEREST OF FRANCE — |By Naval Committee of the French Chamber Declaration is Made That France Resuires an Adequate Fleet to Assure Defense of Her Coasts, Her Colonies and Communications—French and Etritish A!;ms Delegates Are Hopelessly at Odds on Submarine Problem. Par 28.— (B A. P.)—The | “unthinkable” that anything but friend- | 4 > ship should prevail befween Great Britain g Rtee iec o and France, history recalled that they futies learning of the statement |y, poen in vonflict in the “distant past.” iy ssenate Tuesday by MIn- |y apways had possessed superlor e o ¢ GFuisthau on the sub-| . 01 5 mament and inferior land forces o ations at Washington, | rance, he said, adding: g minister energetical- | “.xoverin the history of France has aval interests = Of | . "yaq to fear the power of Great Brit- The motion declared that France | ., ¢ girike a blow at her heart. In the ate faet to assure the | .4;r0 of things that must be so. No in- " her colonies and | rorjor military power has ever vet been presided over BY | (Continued on Page 6—Column 2.) notion was pre- e Giels, forter under sec- | JupGE HULL CRITICISES THE i i REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION < Ke ,}‘le‘:'f,”',wm,’]:i Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 28.—Declaring veanon of defense |that the time has come when “patriotic e o iimed | citizens and democrats should _indulgs eiedd ot el ain-talking” Judge Cordeli Hull, DAl S a of the democratic national ¥ proposed at | committee, in first public address sinc ol e ‘s | clection t. that position, tonight raview- e e minister said me |ed the republicar administration of at Washington would | tional affairs since March, 1 - 3 th ne iament | contrasted this with the unparalleled S5 i achievement of the democrats in the prev- fous eight year: FRENCH AND BRITISH AT The address was delivered at a din- ox | ner given hy the state democratic ex ODDS 0N SUBMARINE QUESTIQ ‘h + pos. |and explained the attituce which his pa:® . s between |tV Wwould take on them. : % | Further reiisf for farmers, adquate aid ensate for the ‘fanic conditions” now with an |Obtaining and a remedy for the situa- 4 must re- | ton resulting from the flood of tax ex- . st vee | empt securi were among the & Popaliony that she |outlined by the new chairman for the construct, In addition, ic party 10 < Gther aSh: ocrats are the loyal and consist- nage of 330,000, |ent friends of the ex-service men,* he de- Americans, Jap- |¢lared. Turning to the farmer's condi- ) th expres- | tion he added that “aver solicitous of his g Wwhile the | Welfare—tha democratic party, when in ich a |Power, did more to advance the Interest : be regarded as |Of the farmer than had been dono in me chores. Arthur J.|all the previous history of the nation and Mo he had no doubt, i | had planned to do much:more, if it had Pritain wonld be |remained in pov % f “she reserved | “Urgent and deserved rellef as to farm St ¢ s to the con- | credits,” he continued, “hetter and Bebdition ' o 1 auxillaries | cheaper warehousirtg and marketing faell- st underwa- | itis—these and like,of shdsld have been given him to avoi® ard to relieve his g A sent ur-aralieled distre: ttee turned its at- ‘The burden of our public debt should Whthrat Wabyetin foaNiikns djusted S0 as not to be oppressive to s sc of submarines, | the American tax paver laboring undér i of the. stee" and ic o ns. The states. rather ¢ uxiliary ves- | than the federal government shouil be . a reement urged to orm pe with regarding fon $ d-claration re- |Judge Hull asserted, were secured by " & oblization of submarine | “criminal malignity and reckless false- warn merchant ships be- [hood” on the part of the republican iead- r frain from sinking v | ers. At nd passengers could | “Tt was not so much the democratic safety law. In sngwested a change | defeat” he declared. bit attacks on | “It is heyond the power . r and to make |abuse, falseiod and detraction who violate the |[dim the glor paths purposes of work of constr ssed by the statesmanshi> acomm of powers, but def- | party will stand out In clearer parsp s a 1. Should an|during the coming y I o 1s to be sub- jcratic party eme from that 1 nations suver-human <rdeal with flag untarnis r ed. with docfrines sound and pyre, wi il presented |a record of undying fame and with cheer- and given | ful hope for the future. e the “Fundamental prineciples cannot be as- lary ves- |sacsinated and a =reat historic record ould be |cannot be falsified.” -3 powers, o air have a unqualified rromises 7.000 tons, A tuted a statutory crime,” Judge Hull said, er tonnage of §0-|cevery reactlonary republican ted States, 80,000 for|state and national would. under 000 for Japan, 2%.-|of guilty, be in the custody of nd 28.000 for Ttaly |tonight. v the Americans ana| “The disappointed farmer now reads rther discnssed tomorrow. the account cf his indstrial ruin by 4ha T et result of av's deliber ht of his burning corn. Millions of st far lahorers are.freq ing the soun houses, hip a re sh ane carrier FXCHANGE OF BRITIST AND FRENCH VIEWS ngton, Dec. 28 (By the A. P.).—|ing power of farm products, of .66 per Sarraut. h of the French dele-|cent, uickly followed.” For two years sented the submarine and aux- | prior to March, 1921, he said, the only ! his government to the | remedy offered by republican leaders for comi in a specch declaring | post-war conditions wag “an antiquated figures suggested were a mini- | high tariff and the archale doctrine of num red for national defense. He | mmercial isolation.” phasized that nch naval| Development of a “sound phlic obin- rities as we! nch cab- | jon that will give intelligent and active ad made a definite decision on the {{qaproort to flezfslatire and congresses ndicated that further at-|in ctment of wise, remedfal legisla- seoure recession would be fu-ftion,” was declared by the speaker tc he Schanger also spoke of the rious preoccupations” of Italy beczuse of The democratic party is the only po- he “economic sacrifices” and the “polit- | litical organfzation, Judge Hull eon- oal equences” which the French |tended, which today offers a “compre- am might produce. hensive up to date nationai program of M. Sarraut replied sharpiy “to aHega-|policies and principles. The party, he tons which have just been made, certain | said, still holds to its beliéf in a tarift »f whicl* I find whol'y inacceptable.” | for rewenue only. for economy in zov- Frenc! stimates were based on a|ernmental ewpenditures, for “ecual rights conceptlon “of the true needs and inter-{to afl and spectal privilages to none. ~ ests of France and her colonies” he said und were In no way influenced “by a comparison with what other are doing or by anxiety to measure naval forces against theirs.” Herein” M. Sarraut continued, the profound points of view and those of others. ““We object to having it belleved or Taving it sald that the ¢ creation ) France of a defensive weapon involving | 1920 it $13,500,000,600. Py |and attended by party leaders irom every of | Part of the state. It w ry | erally as the opening of ay | Pre-election campaign by anr |Man who went into tha public questions into and to con- established party; it was the American peonle who have suffered the colossal and incalenl- ad- | able losses t Ire | the days of chattel slavery. Business has ment of any aux the “first need of the country” at this ates. France would | time. of 90,000 as ! Mofra. . Oon$ éyv.. &he now possesseS.| “The ccuntry is In sad and urgent proposed that she re-|need,” he said, “of more educatlon and nder the status quo|more co-operation on the part of indi- " J. Paifour that Greal|yiduals and busines with respect to our st regard the French subma- | public affairs. An iIntelligent under- ram as “a- very great menuse” | gtanding and wrole hearted co-operation security. For the Ialian group “se- neighbors our, difference Wetween our of Deputies— e committee in ho: of Chairman H Ivhich he said now faced the governmen’ for veterans reduction of taxes 4 com- al- 3 2 1 1ax exempt se- hu < e resalts of the Ia national election, resulted from democratic “If wholesale breagh of bread lines and the auction bleck as in nd | discorered that it was crucified on the all | crozs of politics.” Under republican leadership, the chair- man said, American forelzn commerce “has slumped six billion. doMars in tha last twelve months” and an “almos vertical slump in prices in America of from 30 to 50 jper cent., and in purchas- on thelr part would soon imbrove gov- ernment 100 per cent.’" “The recent democratic administration has not yet received credit for its many great acmemplishments,” he said. “What- éver its defamers may say in the future, even the school children will soon learn that in 1912 our national wealth was ny fes ‘Washington, Dec, he the department of agricuit: estimates of the year. on December 1 and the cr about 90 per cent. of the farm crops. v lars or m:re. YFroduction crops this year was: 067 acres last year. announced included : Corn: Production 3,081, shels; value $1,305,624,000. Winter wheat: 587,032,000, 8,725,000. Spring wheat: S Rye 918,000 Buckwiieat 14079,000 and 112,00 and $11, Potatoes 346, 000. Hay 000. Hay (wild) 15 Oranges 30,700,000 and § ENORMOU INCREASE Berlin, Dec. 28 (By lin’s diamond bourse lished a ear ago. precious stones, the to stabil tial increase in buSins of South Afrian raw francs bank bourse. repo; have Four times this amo , has passed through on 1 500,000 marks worth alone. Foreigners are permitted the alue of the mark usua MORE THAN $100,000,000 previously. Capital invested in to §25,000,000 in 1919. oli; ed from $8,000,000 in 19 last year. Wwhich started in the Alice Caine. Apparatus from Winsted used for this purpose. ON FINDIN NO RETURN New Haven, Dec. e in i is almost $3,400,000.000 less than last year's crops were worth and $8,000,000,000 les the crops of two years ago when high prices prevailed fer farm products, values are based on prices paid to farms compris That G- ‘which Amsterdam in this fieN. ccorditig to the . report, Dutch guilders and 5.000.000 Fr passed throuzh to cover turnovers of the diamond 20,000 to 45.0%0 marks per karat. stones known to have come in from Rus- sia have been handled by the bourse. 0 Chief Farm Crops Corn and Hay the Only Two Billion Crops—Almost Ev-. ery Crop Below Last Yzar. important farm crops of the United States this year were valued at $5,675,877,000 today by tha; alue of a Ther¢ were only two billion-dollar crops this year—corn and hay—while last year four crops were valued at a billion dol- vas below last year for almost every crop, although the 348,336,000 acres, compared with 349,- Final estimates cf production and value 251,000 , and Production 207,861,000, and vaiue $178,343,000. All wheat produciion 794,893,600 ; value $737,068,000. Oats, 1,060,737,000 and $321,540,000. Barley 151,181,000 and $63,788,000. and $40,680,000. $11,438,000. 000. ,000 and $35,189,000. ,000 and §: 9 Sweet potatoes 98,660.000 and $86,910,- ,000. (tame) 81,567,000 and $989,693,- 35,000 and $101,083.000. 3,520,000, OF GEM TRADE IN BERLIN wa ize Tafiic has done an enormous business. The report showed a substan- despite the loss materials and claims that Berlin is becoming recognized a sa strong competitor of Antwerp and the R urt, says t other bank! the government colleoting 200,000 mark of bus done by four foureigners in eight weeks membership S P NT FOR TOYS DURING 1921 New York, Dec. 28.—More than $100,- 000,000 was spent by the American people tured in this coun- try has more than trebled, it was esti- the American dustry. advanced from $10,000,C00 in 1914 | Toy imports d te $1.000 000 in 1918, white imports rose in 1920 to $6.000:000 and to $10,000,000 in 1951 Exports of American toys jumped from less than $1,000,000 in 1913 to $4,000,000 P —— FIRE DESTROYED GARAGE AND 23 AUTOMOBILES New Hartford, Conn., Dec. 28.—A fire furnace Frank W. Jones' garage here early to- day was not put out until it had destroy- ed the garage and twenty-three automo- biles in it, a grist mill, lumber shed and coal pocket owned by George W. Case, and a tenement house belonging to Mrs. jGeorge Marble and occupied room by and Pl Meadow assisted the New Hargford fire- Farmington river after holes had been cut in the ice, and Winsted's truck was G OF RIALTO THEATRE TIRE were subjected to the cnsyre of the cor- Tne bu- value ly vary from Many Mrs. The losses are totaled at between $50,000 and $75,000. the Church of the Immaculate Concep- tion and other buildings were threatened. For a time oner was seen however, in a move made by Mayor Fitzgerald late today. The mayor notified the heads of the board of police ccmmissfoners and the board of BRIEF TELEGRAMS Murders in Chicago.in the wear fended December 15, were at the rateyof{ncarl: one a day. - Geological Soclety of Amerlica and several affiliated organizations ' opeped 5 three day convention at Amherst col- lege. General Percin, of France, that 75,000 French soldlers were killad by thir cwn artillery through (defective Jiaison. estimates First shipment since 1914 jof Astrakan calviar arrived at Berlin ‘by aimlane from the Caspian Sea. It is sellingjfor 6,000 marks a pound. Newport rolling mills of Newport,{Ky., were reopened unmolested by stdikers after two ' shutdown on accoumt of the holidays. Figures compiled by Philadelp¥ia po- lice department show 3.261 automcbiles. 11| valued at $5,292,414, were stolen:in that Thomas Grace, for ;more than 25 years bishop of the Roman® Catholic diocese cf Sacramento died after an illness of sev- eral months. He was/81 years old. acreage of the important crops was pe slightly larger, except cotton. Expenditure of $1,871,450 for the im- The area devoted to the important |provement of Oaklandyharbor, San Fran- 0 bay, has been recommended congress by army engineers. to A wood pattern shop of the Ecomomy Concrete Comvany, in Hamden, was burned arly. Wednesday. The loss was placed at $35,000. More than 306 employes of the Cush- ing Shoe Company of Lynn, Mass., are idle as the result .of a strike by 30 shoe cutters. A new genus of dinosaur has been dis- covered by an expeuiton from the Uni- versity of Toronto in the Badlands of the Red Deer river of Alberta. Four convicts who attempted to escape from Auburn prison over the holiday were sentenced to serve iive vears in add to their Tegular sentences. On_ being notified that their Tobacco 1,117,682,000 and $2 <#0,000. | cent., 600 weavers employed by the Royal Cotton 8,340.000 and $67 000 Weaving Company, silk manufacturers Cottonseed, 3,704.000 and $107,972,600. of Pawtucket, R. L., quit work. Peet sugar 2,24,764,000 and cane sugar 534,000,0000. Lewis M, Iddings, of Warren, O.. Peanuts 816,465,000 and $32,288,000 former secretary of the American embas Beans 9,118,000 nd $24,298,000. sy in Rome and prominent in war reliet Apples, 96,881,000 and $163,215,000. work in Jta'y during the war, died sud- Peaches 32,733,000 and $52,176,000. denly in Rome. He was 71 vears old. General Charles G. Dawes, the budget, appointed Gordon Ramsay, a lawyer of Chicago, as chalrman of the Interdepartmental Board of thc Budget Bureafu. Between fifteen and twenty automobiles intand approximately 200 cases of whiskey at Rouse's Point, N. Y.. within the last month. Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the U. S. Steel Corboration, announced 190,000 f tha corporation at §84, effective Janu ary, 1922. Reports of the engagement of the Dulke e | of Brabant, eldest son cf King Albert, Victor Emmanuel of Italy, considerable circulation. hatve gained The official reception, former’y an occasion of great in the hourse enty mder excrigonal cir | {0 administrative circles. bu. cumstances ing goes on yractica ; i el scontinued during the Wilson adminis- all day and prices during fluctustions in | LSCORL = tration, will be revived this year. Diphtheria is go prevalemt at Corn- wall, Conn., that public gatherings have ‘been banned for the time being. Some thirty cases have been reported to the local health authoriiies. t “alarmnig,” > : Frank A. Goodwin, Massa- for toys and games during 1921, the Na- | chusetts state registrar of motor vehi- tional City bank has figured. The factory | cles declared in a public statement. value of toys mfnufa Increases In express rates on strawber- mated. since the. war cut off the SUDDIY | ries from Florida to points in the north- from Germany, Mef source of America’s | wastern portion of the United States, have toy imports. The value of toys made|yaen refused by the interstate ccmmerce here in 1919 was given as $56,000,000, | bowmnission compared with $14,000,000 five years | orioSion: New municipal ferryboat Roo: t was put into servica between New York and Stapleton, Staten Island. Garnerville High school of Garnerville, Y., was destroyed by fire, causing estimated at $50,000. According to report received in Chicago, Mrs. W. French, wife of the alleged con- spirfator, with Joan W. Worthington, in the $60,000,000 swindle, was arrested at n Diego, Cal, cn charge of using the ils to defraud. i - i los A lean of 200,000,000 lire was anther- ized by the Italian government to a+so- ciety which was organized to utilize the water power available in Catania, s uth ern Italy, to develop electrical energy to power. of the time two armed men entered the jewelry store of Henry Holtz at Seventh and Olive street, St. Louls, cne of the busiest with $700 in cash and jewelry valued at $5,000, ne men. Tt was almost a zero temperatures Lieut. Licutenant George H. Doyle, 60, a and the fire fighters had many hahdi- | member cf the American team which caps. Water had to be pumped from the | won the Palmer trophy in international matches at Birley, England, in 1903, and twice 2 winner of the New York govern or's cup for marksmanship, dled in Flush- ing N. Y. The St. Louls Medlcal seclety anneunc- ed it would treat, free of charge, crippled 28.—City officlals | children of parents unabdle to pay, and took no actlon tcday against the trree|that free service in the city's besth os- men held by Coroner Mix to have been re-'| pit would be available to thesa un- sponsible for the loss of life the Rialto | fortnates. theatre fire here. The possibility of sl stepr being taken against ipersons who| Samuel P. Rotan, federal dlstrict at- torney at Philadelphia, and Mrs. George W. Elkins, widow of the late bank and depitalist, were marrled at the i ¢ ter’s winter home, Folly Farms, at Su vannah. Ga. wages would be reduced from 20 to 22 1-2 per | director of have been confiscated by customs officials shares of stock will be offered employes to Princess Yolando, edest daughter of King White House New Year's The number of collisions between au- i and children coasting has become Theodore With hundreds of persons passing at | downtown ccrners and escaped | diamonds and isgayokriony | EAMISHED RUSSIANS ARE RESORTING T0 CANNBALISM At Newspr William J. Pape Replied to a Attack Made on the Ame can Newspaper Publishers. Dec. hearings were enlivened today by an at- ‘Washington, tack on Amecrican by Ceclonel William York eity, the Waterbury, speaking for a num ing corporation Were unable themselves priced newsprint. bec dustry against Eu “congress had grad per on the free 1 ery t the free list was Wi should again have f a condition tage of a n the purchase excessive, unreason fair prices.” newsprint.” Colonel Haskell, f finite rate of duty he would leave that contended that the shape as a result tries could be sold $20 below the actu: here, On try; that tracted countries and that it was th bearable limit: HOLD-UP WAN R In the uniform of the same year when valier in her home. Cleveland, Ohio. SHOOTING IN EM Torrington, De 16, is at the hospit: wound in the back qualo Strano, 17, for another man w vice pre: national Paper Compa attack on the newsprint paper manufac- turers by William J. Pape, publisher of ers, who, he said, organized a joint buy- single-handed in an effort to obtain fa! Urging a tariff protection for his in- Colonel Haskell told the committee that clamors of the paid agents of the pub- Thomason of Chicago. as to the retention of news for the manufacturers, Germany, Sweden. Norway and Finland, Sascriinge thati papertmade ot those conr the other hand, Mr. Pape argued that the prices of the forelgn made pa- per sought ahout the level in this coun- manufacturers PLOYMENT OFFICE IN TORRINGTON charge of assault with intent to kill, as the result of a row ployment office of a local factos Two shots were fired. not intended for Tedesco, had a row over a game of int Hearing | ) - -28.—Senate tariff newspaper publishers E. Haskell, of New dent of the Inter- ¥y, and a counter ‘2!. Riga, Dec. (By the P.)—The randdaughter of General Conn., Republican, | first official report of cannibalism in the king, she said, for the Amer- ber of small publish- | famine districts of Ru Committee for Russian res made to the All-Russian > forum of the national cou ause many of them|DY Delegate Ovsienko of i to assist | cording to a despa Agen “At Ramikov ropean competition, ually yielded to the People Are Eating the Bodics of Their Dead—Graves of Fam: ine Victims Guarded Until Bodies Have Decomposed— Mothers, Maddened by Privations, Are Cutting the Throats of Their Babes. to the the parish are eating the bodies of their dea presence of the peovle, and guards must be kent over them until th n of armament hera relie® be granted in the Russian regugee. said, an Ameri- Rassian refugee, be- Russia has given the more than one critical a” in the was denied by Em- speaking for print paper on tion, droppad hether the publishers Cote withdrew 2ble and wholly un- control the supply of | the matter. ' McCallum =ald he n presenting the case | there were any mested no de- Pelletier had received from Coakley for the defense for newsprint. saying|she assured him there were no grov to cross-examine the to the committee. Ho | for aotion asainst her. Later, the w McCormick and her industry was in bad | ness sald, Pelletier told hir- he ha mediately e of competition from ley and expected here for from $10 to By this time, MecCal al cost of production ®irl friends received hvsterical and wanted e price here that at- in the foreign fmports *rom Europe ped and paid a visit t lum =ald he washed FR ARR TED an army lientenant he held up Mrs. Che- He was captured In resicned on Monda of the foreign office. and Charles Dumont, 28.—Peter Tedesco, | finance. al here with a_bullet of his lez and Pas- of the Indo-Chinese under arrest on a nounced. in front of Attorney General Cap: ds. pear before the grand ties named are Maurice yeare in a lishers” until finally all tariff on news-|State that makes eating immnossible. - SRR "“"' print had been removed that “the indus-| ©viensko said that Dr. Fridtjof Nan- ad r’)m+ to hfl:hvecen‘;y try abandoned to drift in the ebb and |Sen, hizh commissioner of t nternas o W] "‘hf"‘}- t under flow of the international competitive|tional committee of Russian relief in which the writer tide.” though a hardened explorer, ret Asserting that newsprint was the only | Moscow sickened by the scene: 2 ulia Grant is product of the paper, making indus nessed in the stricke districts. The refugees of “which has been ed of all protec- | Speaker said that children are being tak- remember once sit- tion and be dev by inspired federal|€n to the Steppes and left there to her in camp regulation and interference.” the witness|that mothers, madiened by their expe were atly troubled at the said the reason for “the invidious treat- | €nces, cut the throats of their babhes To! of th 1 there came to ment this branch of the indu has| At the beginning of P Im just then news that a Rus suffered is obvious.” He added that “the | Ued Ovslenko, the sovle an e oy beratiNem Y fact that the press can control legislation | outside ald, will be able to feed only o Lincoln and invoke unwarranted regulations, re-|the starving children and only one-tw at fleet, the priti- strictions and interference for its own | tleth of the adults. re of t¥ early 90 vears old Selfish Interes constitutes a grave | Ple would have to while awalt refugees. It was charge ~f undue influence and special | SeID. that the com- privilege.” Washington, Dec. 28.—Princess St Ly The charge that any “undue influence” had been used by the publishers in ar- guing for the vlacing of newsprint pa-| PROCEEDINGS IN THE PELLETIER MISCONDUCT TRIAL the American Newspaper Publishers’ as-| Boston, Dec. 28.—The case of sociation. He' declared the publishers | Dorothy Cote, allezed to have been | had based their argument on the econ- | threatened wi srosecution on black omic ground of the Inability of American | mailing charges, wa hed late newsprint manufacturers to supply do-|in the trial of District Attorn mestic consumption. This inability was| (. Pelletier on charges of misco stated by Colonel ‘Haskell. office. William Shaw McCal Mr. Pape told the committe. that the |ton attorney, testified that the question before congress in deterinining | attorney after threatening the in court at imposed on them such | wag MceCal < orn bill which as was found by a senate| era]l Allen has charged that Pelle of desert« committee, which renorted last year that|improper methods assisted Danfel H. n Zurich certain manufacturers had taken advan-|Coakley, a Boston attorney, to get this| later Mr. print _shortage “to exploit | suit withdrawn. and “hold them up for McCallum testified that Miss Cots re- tained him in December, 1917 possession of an automobile w Publishers, who, as a class, larzely | sai@ had been given ner by Guy W dominate public opinlon affecting busi- | rence, of Gardiner( Me., an dw ick was asked lesg than ness policies through direct appeal to |automobile company was 1estions by her attornevs. readers, Mr .Pape added, “have Been po-| from her. He said he was proceed: necessary to tently weak when fichting for a fair| with a suit for conversion of the fied that she price for mewsprint”” He declared that|when he recefved a telephone call frn that Mr. McCormick on no less than three occasions In the | Distriet Attorney Pellstier. who told T past ten years prices had “soared to un- | that Coakley. representing Mr. dreamed of heig™g.” and that nething,|rence, had asked him to inve including the federal trade commission.|forts to blackmail Mr. Laween congressional, and court action had| gistriet attorney suggested, t testified “stayed the ‘demands imposed by cer-|kadd. that they have a conference k in Zurich tain of those Wwho ed his asts for the informat looking into the charges made by %0° present to_the grand jury within At a fow lnm sad had become worried and when one of her a summons fury. she to drop her suit.|" Miss Cote Insisted that the suit be dron- | ‘vrfl. 0 Coakley. his han whole affair and never again tal had prove the salvation of the small Pelletier. He sald, however, *h tnland publishers during the davs after |Cote never had been indlcted the war when, he said, both contract R — and spot prices for paper roSe to “un-| xo DIRECTORS IN THE Irenbis = Paris, Dec. 28.—Eleven senators and | home here. It was smaid TPON R SE FROM JATL| (hirteen deputies will have to give ug egrams were of a either their seats in parliament or their ure on the improve- Boston, Dec. 28.—When Frank Sea-| pocitions as directors of corporat h and that the volume man, allas William G. Lemar, was re-| 5 resolution in the chamber of de d any like ber of leased from jail today after serving a|ic carried owt, according to the newspaj ever received by wil- two-year term for holding up and rob-| r*Eeyvre. The resolution forbids bing Mrs. Grace Chevaller of $2,500 in| pars of parliament from accepting afternoon Wil jewelry. he was arrested at the jail door | o girectorates. and In for Philadelphia authoritles on charges |~ Among the senators listed by L'Ocuvre dinner of robhing. Miss Lottie Cantor of $2,000,| are Paul Doumer, minister of Wilson's In jewelry 31 1919. Seaman Was Dosing | Frederick Francois Marsal, former m ister of finance; Pierre Marraud. of interior, and Andre Berth president of the Industrial Bank of Ch and a brother of Phillippe F TR Among de former mt M. Marraud has resigned as a dlr bank, it s TO HAVE BODY EXHUMED —FErnest Helwiz, y today. > : . f Milford suffered the The bullets were FOE EXAMINATION rm today in a hunting it is said, but TR X hig brother, Henry, aged when iftraiio b | - Proviemee; B i3 Dec A% Asvasst s i otosto _tod: general sec Rothseh MRES. EDITH ROCKEFELLER M'CORMICK GRANTED DIVORCE desertion and simflar by Miss E. Bol k's departure clie the court reem, final details and the divoree de- 11.40" o'clock. no alimony pro- the 2 court a cree in ope mention the thres to an- Ha F. Mc- MeCor- their father McCal- ed wwith Miss FORMER PRESIDENT WILSON CELEBRATED 65TH BIRTHDAY Washington, Dec. 28.—Former Presi- d son was today deluged with ¢ llover the world on the celebration of his 65th former the more intimate friends ilson called at his home in 8§ ng the day to extend their It was sald the s in excellent spirits 1 the messages of znod thronghout lot, W is BOY LOSES LEFT ARM IN HUNTING ACCIDENT trailing a fox when cided to have the body of Elsie B. M A3 1:“!1 Alhhewfe:l he ik, e =5 n as ex- TWO MILITARY AVIATORS :‘3“- A ”“;‘(”"l“‘ "\;r ‘“,rl ’,I"""“",“' the discharge striking him in s 4 Caw of Bristol, exhumed, for exam . h KILLED NEAR ARCADIA, FPLA. | 1o 1o determine If her death was natt arm. The brother carried the in- i + due to poisoning. Mr. Capotosto's|jured man five miles to a farm house Arcadla, Fla, Dec. 28.—Lleutenants | Fan.or due 1o polsoning. 4t & jand then had him taken in a wagon to Samuel H. Davis, and William C. Sin- CeRtior ' Tenost o mthe x 1} Tilf hospital where the shattered clalr were instantly killed and their et tio S Tt Bean b | 1. The mother of Hel- bodies burned when their airpane crash- | M°% WhD have been HesUEAUE » an auto accodent five od five miles from her - The of- | 1 iion to her SCRODL T E. McC is yet confined to her ficers were statione o e e s b1 nd ing hel harge In §10,000. = NO COMPROMISE REACHED oot hi e Alesm OBITURFY. BY DAIL EIREANN LEADERS |hat the cause of Elsle's death w Viadmiar Korolenks. known. During the past 24 hours the| Dec. 28.—(By “The A. P.)—The . Dublin, Dec. 28—TExhaustive inquiries | ylice authorities interviewed nian novelist Viadmfar Koro- in Dublin today failed to confirm the re- | to] persons. and it was upos lied on Christmas day at Poltava, port that a compromise had been reach- | sypnitted this afternoon that M rding to a wireless message received ed by the Dail Eireann leaders Insur- | tosts declared his intention of Ing ratification of the treaty. So far as |edical Examiner Sigal of Brist j Dail. can be ascertained the position has not changed since the adjournment of the disinter the body of the girl. PRINCE OF WALES OPENED Hartford, e president and general manag- Charles C. Goodrich. Dec. 28.—Charles C. wood- fire commissioners at once. The fire board Saturday afternoon. to arranze meetings to consider the coroner’s finding. Arrangements for the meeting were made will meet to- morrow afternoon and the police board on P BRIDGEPORT BRIDE-TO-BE PROBABLY FATAELY BURNED special Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 28—Joseph Weiser, of Bridgeport, left his fiancee, $187,000,000,000 and in 1920, when the republican administration was chosen, it to | was $330,000,000,000; in 1912, our for- by | eign trade was $3.850,000,000 fand in A year after the a oertain tomnage of submaiines could be | war, the value of manufactured goods ex- considered as a menace to any friends.” of her ported in one meonth equalled the amou exported in an entire year under Taft's Mr. Balfour declared that while it was administration.” 3 Miss Rose Ritzo in the parlor of her home at 14 Cliff street, Norwalk, this afternoon to get a marriage license.. They were to have been married in two weeks. In his absence Miss Ritzo and her cousin, Miss Mary Wago romped about a candle- lighted Christmas tree. The tree caught fire and both girls were badly burned. They are in the Norwalk hospital and e-to-be is expected to die. ton wrote Governor Channing H. Cox mately $1,000.000 for the completion the South Shore Boulevard. Ing he said the unemployment situation Would be relieved. DISCLOSURES MADE IN DRUG RAID IN BOSTON Boston, Dec. 28.—Memorantla describ- Ing jewelry and other valuables in safes In various downtown office buildings to- gether with nine watch charms, rings and dentists’ tools are said by, the police to have been found ia a drug raid on the home of Dr. Clarence Boyle in East Boston today. Dr. Boyle and a com- ing an’ Investigation. MaYor-elect James M. Curley of Bos- asking him to make available approxi- of By so do- = E Har nd New York Trans- SEVERAL SHOTS FIRED AND e A TR ORI L/ died in s hospital et S ! e age of 76. BOMB THROWN IN BELFAST | Calcutta, Dec. 28.—(By The A. P.)— |ooce 131G 1002, at the age « 'd,f..l‘:;m?: et Amid scenes of great splendor and in the | ooy B ES 1 ST . Belfast, Dec. 8. —There were further | presenge of enthusiastic, crowds, the | ‘m’flf"r 1“:"1 ::_fi'hx‘rpars‘“"“"um incidents of lawlessness this evening. bprince of Wales tod: opened the Vie- o . one son. Scveral shots were fired and a bomb was |torian Memorial, dedicated to the Queen Richard Forester. thrown. Nobody was reported to have | pmpress Victoria, whose memory is held “onn., Dec. 28.—Richard been red, but several shop Keepers |in the highest esteem throughout Ir head of the firm of For- were held up by armed men and thelr dia. r & Co cash drawers looted. WEDDI Stearns—Roraback Cansan, Conn., Dec. I8.—Miss Grace Roraback, daughter of Judge A. T. Ror- aback and Mrs. Roraback, was married general to Rev. John Hunter Stearns, secretary of the of New York c Roraback. a brother, l pastor at the bride’s home yesterdayp. of Vational Bible Institute ;, by the, Rev. A F. the era, Ter ceremony today fn full state. panion, John L. Hurley, were held pend- Church of the Evangel, Brooklyn, N. Y., larove from the government house an escort of guns and cavalry. seum, commemorated to India’s gl contains portraits of ‘the old Emperors of Delhi labored for India duriag v It and of the famous men who the Victorian 16 char was carried out The prince of Wales tion. with a of Rockweil- The building is in the foxm of a vast Forester, Inc, of Bridge- marble palace and is 6i rare architectur- | pos d here today after a short fll- al beauty. It required fifteen vears to |ness. He was a native of New York erect it. The building comprises a mu- [and was at one time engaged in the wholesale cloak and suit busis York, opening a retail store in this elty ears ago. e of a_ trading post in the far west for the Hudson Bay company and agent for the Blackfoot tribe of Indian reserva- He New York regiment. widow and one son. of this city and president ss in New Years ago he was In served in the Civil war with He leaves his