Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 4, 1922, Page 1

LXIV—NO. POPULATION 29,685 * NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1922 10 PAGES—74 COLUMNS DAIL vOTE ONPEACE LIKELY TOW pression Prevals Thnt Rnhfiuhm: is Certain, But That the el S e P New Yea rholiday resulted in a number of participants being killed and wounded, according to a dispatch to the London Tlv:e- today, from its Milan correspond- on Majority Will Be Small Countess Markievicz Gave |methods were further defined today by *uerile Display of Irony Involving the Engagement of | [ii* 59 Tstomers to be © ed by Mlchael Collins. take more hen constiti¢lonal law to et them back. The treaty, continued Mr. N: a surrender by the British government of what the Britlsh governmunt shortly it would never yleid. zive Treland all she wanted, but brought With ninety-five pef cent. of the people approving of thetre | was the duty of the Dail Eireann to ac- ept and put it into operation. Lord Mayor O'Callaghan, plored that 1 ichglls, was final action on sald did not it has not been fe t Cork, de- members of the pariiament | gecided by could not differ without bitterness. side was there & monopoly of patriot He was app-sed to the treaty; what his constituents would do to a consideration that He represented as ohairman of the co il and as a member on no or commen sense wonld as him was not intuence him. noton personal It the peo- were . he suggested decidine nly cast eonle had elected favor of Irish indefendenee. this vote agalnst the treaty. and O'Dea Dumzarvan of Waterfo posed the treaty. i, op- was Gael of Amer- =id he a1 8. lican movement the and knew what acceptance or rejection meant The Dail members, when the negotiations were aware of the fact that they involve a compromise; challenged to erenk o airman of tha Cla favoring the treaty, worker in the repub was charact- untess Mar. axvelaimed Mr. “Go1 knows have mada up for it since. " (Laug! the were setting bounds | pecause they frequently sell at cut pric- who would , he declared, to the nation's pr PROPOSAL TO AVOID DIVISION |The court also said it had refused to sell the afternaon P.)— | and maintained a large force of special- in a state- |ty salesmen or drummers who refused ment tonight hie proposal to aveld a di- in the Dail Eireann on the ques- | wholesalers who gell at prices less than {tlon of ratification of the treaty. “The suggestlon 1 made with the ob- | to others who do so. the Dall{ Reference was also made by the court sald: 7 Treland and of securing unanimity by members: who are roposed ratification should, has manifested itselt overwhelmingly for | to- enable it -to-identity the distribu- personal the | pure damage Treland | to identify price cutters, as well as those They are not |from whom they obtained their suppli that the country common good opting this attitude. to abandon any principles. if need beMhct as guar- |ers from whom the retailers who cut intcrests, as uar- | prices obtained the supplies. Card rec- rements and as |ords, the court ssserted, also were main- censors of the government of the free |tained with the names of thousands of | & Dré % The government of the free state | jobbing, wholesale and retall distribu- |E57eral Aehate M have difficuities mn earrying on and | tors, using to indicate the various ciass- | yro s 11" ¢ Ywyomine, republican leader fulfilling the promises contained in the |es of trade the words “undesirable-price |\ or B SAotashts less. In | cutters,” “do not sell,” or, “D. N. S." than we who stand | the abbreviation for is a|expressions of like character. for the present on- | The majority suggested a form of or- ponents of the treaty t oshow their abil- |der which the federal to guz#d the Irish nation and act In |should have used in forbidding the con- ans of the nation antors of Ireland’ Terence MacSwiney | thelr working out glorious opportunity the same moment we ask not to = we Ao mot believe what we desire ard {ntend we shall will- way for others, find no_more loyal be hampered, Shiey AN ECONOMIC CONFERENCE supporters than of restor- | Paris, Jan. 3 (By the A. P.)—Premier ing the unity “of the Dail and preserv truly representative of the |Of the coming supreme council meeting Trish people.” DISORDERS I SPREAD TO BUSINESS STREETS |quarters today. It Is understood he is wed a request A. P.)—Thae | nomic conference, at which perhaps R wiioh ! hawe ent |S1a_and Germany may be represented. for several days spread tonight to Roy-| thorough- | Other subsidia~y matters should. be , where snipers fired at tram cars. | Shelved, believing that if both of the machine gung |Above questions are settled satisfactorily was wounded. A wide area In the York street district| It Is known that the French delega o'clock curfew | tion agrees in principle to Germany's . while a new order | Making four pdyments of 125,000,000 o'clock tomorrow seen stopping affects ddistrict will be | though Premier Briand has insisted that o military custody. An_extraordinary come under from tomerrow no better thar was to have estion ofrati- » street in the outburst of firing late this evening |COnversations in Londen, Inasmuch. as the whole city |Felgium and Italy were not represented hurried to ther homes | there. was heard by and many people snipers were pari | replied with machine guns. only these exchanges| Washington, Jan. : a_man killed and a woman wound- . TEIFRII® bomb was thrown at a tram car In the Newtownards road, bue exploded | tion-of retall prices for necessities in va- A guard of soldiers who | rious parts of the country, it was indt- fired, wounding | cated today by Attorney General Daugh- ;,.,h.,,,,,,‘ p e fighting In | AW men running away, five of them. NEW HAVEN MAYOR VETOES BOARD OF ALDERMEN ORDER |by the department. Mr. Daugherty said, or Fltz- |representatives or several of them an der recently | opportunity to be heard. Preparations New Haven, Jan vetoed an ¢ connection with the theatre tangle which |18 in the different communities will be this Rialto |completed within a week or tn days when This order directed Chiet | they will be made public, It was eaid. principle alon: developed shere since Theatre fire. of Police Smith to such theatres in this city which were | CROSS FOR K. OF C. MADE city officials to conform to lo- dealing with safety dom and independ- i means of free. | The mavor's veto was recelved by a new board of aldermen, which took of. fice with the beginning of the new vear, eto is not expected to have any theatre' situa- all thatres can e ol hatres cail | battle of Cedro Samto. It ‘tas heen inunctions obtained from the federal and state courts, between the treat opposing the at if the treaty had been eann before the would have as practically WOULD INCORPORATE PORTO RICO AS TERRITORY OF T. Washington, Jan. 3. made no differ- satisfactortly LER, ~Santiago Tglesias, — an organizer for the American Federation | Washington, ~Jan. of Labor and member .f the Porto Rican | Presldent Harding’ senate, outlined at a meeting today of the legislative conference a bill, which he eald would be introduced in_ the Porto Rican senate to make Porto Rico | by inconprated territory,” ed States Instead of an rd to blame the ¢ the Irish atiitude was under the apinion of one of his eon- s evacuated Ireland it would CABLED PARAGRAPHS | s Fights In Various Parts of Italy. Lendon, Jan. 3 (By the A, P.)—Fights in various parts of Italy between Ital- ian communists and Fascisti during the LAWFUL TRADE METHODS Washirgtch, Jan. 3—Lawful trade the supreme court ig a decision hold- ing the trade metnods &nd policies of at to Her Bitterness in Opposition to the Treaty by a|the Beech Nut Packing Company in ob- | Frank Sloman of Oakiand, taining the co-operation of its distribu- | and Ekon C. Herseman, of Weston, W. nfair meth- | Va., aviators from the naval air station ods of compeltition” within the meaning ance of such methods the court divided five to four. Justice Day delivered the opinion of the court, and Justices Holmes, McKenna, McReynolds and Brandeis dissented. The decision Tre- verses the lower courts. chandising Is against public -policy be- cause of ‘its dangerous tendency to hinder competition or to create monop- oly, within the power of the commission to make an order forbldding its continua- tion.” the supremye court which ! brought under the Sherman anti- |1 trust law, and not urder the federal |l trade cominission act as was the Beech et act a jrader is not gulit Infthose who will not sell them at the |d prices which he fixes for their resale.” ft In the Beech Nut case the court stated |t that “the facts found show that the W Beech Nut system goes far bevond the in the legal right of the producer.” The |t Sherman act wag not involved except as “a deciaration of public pol era]l trade commission is empowered to |t condemn and suppress.” The methods and plan of the Beech Nut Company In its trade policy were wholesalers and retailers who do not |q sell at prices it suggests, or who re-sell to other jobbers, wholesalers and re- tallers who have failed to re-sell at pric- fused te sell to practically all main order housex engaged in interstate commerce, es, and had refused to sell to practically all jobbers, wholesalers and retailers who sell its products to mail order houses. to practically all so-called price cutters to flll their orders through jobbers and suggested ire-selk ricgs or > sell . . t to |to the various lists maintained by the company of dealers, with key numbers tors from whom obbers and retailers : t se, enabling its representatives ¥ the company refusing to sell to the deal- do mot sell” or trade commission tinuance by the company of its practices. BRIAND IN FAVOR OF & | Briand is determined to limit the agenda at Cannes to two questions, reparations and the economic restoration of Central Furope, it was indicated in autheritative In favor of subsequently calling an eco- | The French delegation feels that all the conference Will be a success indeed. gold marks each on the fifteenth of Jan- in|vary, February. March and Aprll, al- nothing binding was decided with Prime Minister Llovd George during the recent in —Assoctations of il merchants mav be given hearings before the department of fustice in con- nection with the givernment’s Investiza- erty. Requests from many of these aswoci- ations for a hearing have been received adding that he would probably give the in |of the schedules showing the price lexc to == FROM HISTORIC TREE New York, Jan 3.—The archbishop of Santo Domingo has presented to the | Knights of Columbus a wooden cross made from the same tree from which Co- lumbus constructed the cross with which he opposed the Arawak Indians in the in brought to the United States by a news- paper man who accompanied the sena- torial investigation committee. T CONFERENCE APPROVED BY FARMERS ARMAME: —Approval of s course-in calling the armament conference was voiced by farmers of the country today when let- ters and resolutions signed, it was sald, more than a quarter of & million of the Unit- | farmers fn more than half the states ‘organized terri- | Were taken to the White House by offi- ‘The conference gave its approval in principle to the measure. clals of the American Farm Federation Bureau, former who was 28 years of age, “If the Beech Nut system of mer- | baby, the court maintained, “it was|CONYGRESS RECONVENES TODA: Three trade method cases previously |Start mpcn the 1922 legis! simple refusal to sell goods to persons |deal who wili not sell at stated prices, which { for all government functions in bLudget in the Colgate case Was held to be with- [form. They are slated to be stated over to the sénat: aue to be acted on early next week. sideration of the Newberry case must be- gin Saturday under the agreement while es suggested by it. Further, that it re- |on Tuesday debate is limited to one hour for_each senator u mileage books b able hetwaen for consideration starting January 11. A wote ma ffquestion can draz along as unfinished federal ment, at the next vacancy, of a represen: ative of the farmers board. exp manent tarit bill. Nose Dive. Pensacola, Fla., Jan. 3. —Licutenants California, here, were killed late today when their - i il N of the federal trade commisslon act. alrplane went into a nose dive at an al- Princess Mary—A Dignified Reproval Was Administer-| m upholding the right of the federal | titude of 1,000 fect and crashed off Fort trade commiasion to order discontinu-| Barrancas wharf. Lieutenant Sloman was acting as in- structor and Lieutenant Herseman was making his first fiight at the station, having arrived here this morning. The s sur- vived by a widow and ten months old Herseman is survived by his fa- ther, W. F. Herseman, of Weston, W. Va. RAFT OF BUSINESS AHEAD Washington, Jan. 3.—Congress will tive program omorrow faced with the prospects that t may be kept steadily at work until late n the summer. In addition to debates over the routine Nut case, settled, the court stated today, | appropriation bills, there confronts the “(hat in prosecuions under the Sherman |Senate the probability of <ne fight or a of violating its | Series over new internatfonal agreements terms “who simply refuseg to sell to oth- | resulting from the Washingion arms ers, and he may withhold his goods from | conference. President HNarding is un- derstood to be prepared to forward ali o hem to the senate for consideration once he arms conference has concluded its worl © the first time, house and senate will h the measures suppiving mone hrough the house January 5 when the taken Un- ¥ to be con- | @er the program laid down by Chairman sidered in determining what are fair {Madden of the house appropriations com- methods of competition, which the fed- | mittee, a money bill would be rut through he house each week until all are turned The senate begin work with three agreements resbecting important matiers described at length by the court, which |pending on its lezislative calendar. The asserted that the concern refused to sell |first of these, the its products to practically all jobbers, [Truman H. Newberrq, republican, to resolution declari duly elected senator from Michigan, Con- il a vote is reached. The blll authorizing the issuance of railroads, interchange- or systems, is set down ines be taken immediately or the business until January 17 when there must be a vote <n proposals to amend the reserve act requiring the appeint- gthe federal resers While the senate is disposinz of these hree propositions its flaanee commitico ‘s to cohclude hearings on the fer- Acting Chairman McCumber annsunced aday that the tariff proposals of the far: bloc of the senate would be heard Thurs- day. Representatives of the southern tar- iff congress and twn or three individuals then only will remain to be heard before the formulation of the bill will be start- ed. The house may give further time to rnching ve was not certain tonlght whether that corld be done in the face of the resular Wednesday schedule <f calendar business TWITNESSES BELIEVE THAT ARTHUR C, BURCH IS SANE Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 3. Testi- mony of a dozen Witnesses who swore to a belief that Arthur C. Burch is sane ook up the greater part of today's ses: Flon of Burch's trial for the alleged murder of J. Belton Kennedy. They: were called by act If he killed Kennedy. The afternoon session was interrupted rhila Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain was brought into court by agreement of coun- el and the date for her trial thanged from February 15 to February 6 next The agreement was that trial of an ters that of Mrs. Obenchaln. { W0OD ALCOHOL CASE ox TRIAL IN SPRINGFIELD Springfield, Mass, Jan, 3.—The trial of Alexander Perry, formerly proprietor of the American House in Chicopee Falls, on a charge of manslaughter growing out of the two score or more ies in this vicinity 4n Christmas weel, 1919, from drinking so-called fatali helt-hom 5 wood aleohol whiskey, Was begun be- ater that e fore a jury in superior court today firing | RETAIL MERCHANTS MAY Perry was indicted on a charge of cau: the soldiers BE GIVEN HEARINGS | tng the deaths of Joseph Kunia and M chael Beonarz, both of Chicopee. Mra, of Joseph Kunia, testified to incident§ leading up to her husband's death and a neighbor gave Anna Kunfa, corroborative testimor GERMAN SHIPS REFUSE TO FLY EITHER FLAG Hamburg, Jan, 3 (By the A. P.)—Dia- Inclination to fly the new black, red and gold merchant flag of Cermany, which became, the official flag January 1, was evident today when a majority of the German boats showed only the customs flag. Others departing from the port re- fuse:l to fly either the old or the new emblam. One of the boats belonging to the Hugo Stinmes interests left the har- bor displaying a Christmas tree whers the new fag should have been. The skipvers who sailed today seorn- ing the republican flag, declared that they would hoist the old German flag in international waters and foreiem ports. MILITARY PREPARATIONS ON RUSSO-FINNISH FRONTIER Riga; Latvia, Jan, 3 (By the A. P)— Extensive military ~preparations _along the frontier between Russia and Finland are known to be underway today by both the Russians and Finns, and diplomatic tension is high. Both the bolshevik and Baltic missions at Rig® however, ex- sed belief that there would be no rr war, FATAL HEAT PROSTRATION IN TURKISH BATH New York, Jan. W cold, Mrs, 13 sie . Rimmer, the hot room of a Turkish bath. the prosecution in rebut- fal of assertlons by defense Witnesses fhat the defendant was insane and In- capable of rea'lzing the nature of his ening_case should be set to follow .—While most New Yorkers were suffering today from the No Clemency For . W. W. Prisoners Government Has No Intention of Giving Their Cases Im- mediate Consideration, says Daugherty. Washington, Jan, 3.—The government's attitude on the question of freeing the half hundred members of the I W. W. still In prison for violatl'n of war laws remains unchanged, Attorney G:neral Daughtery said today. Their cases were digested along with the others of the total of 137 cases of war law offenders in prison, Mr. Daugherty said today. Their cases were digested along with the cthers of the total of 197 cases of war law offenders iIn prison, Mr, Daugherty sald but they were neither recomended for freedom or corsidered by President Harding in connection with executive celumency to Eugene V. Debs, socialis: leader, and 23 other others on Christmas day. There is no Intention on the part of the government at this time. he declared, of taking up the cases of the I W. W.'s or of giving them Immediate consideration. l, |s MISCONDUCT ALLEGATIONS IN THE PELLETIER TRIAL Boston, Jan. 3.—Three specific allega- tlons of misconduct were presented by Attorney General J. Weston Allen to- Qay when trial of District Attorney Jo- Mph C. Pelletigry whose {umowal is sougth, was resumed before the full bench of the supreme court The defense scored today in relation to the charge that Pelletler bythreat- ening criminal prosecution used his of- fice to frighten Miss Charlotte Broad to aropping a breach of promise suit which she intended to file agalnst Sam- uel D. Waxman Counsel for Pellctier Introduced a let- ter in which Miss Broad sald she nev had intended prosecuting the suit b had hoped by projecting the litigation to obtain a settlement from Waxman, Farlier in the day the court heard testimony relating to the allegation that Pelletier had !mproperly pressed a charge”of accosting acainst John Preder- gast, who, had been convicted in municl- pal court on complaint of Miss Agmes M. Bennett and had appealed, Counsel for Pelletler in a statement to the court admitted that Pelletier had taken this action “for rcasons which we may offer later.” The forenoon .sesslon wWas occupied largely with corroborative testimony re- garding charges that Pelletier had used his office in an attempt to frizhten Warren G. Daniel in paying a $10,000 fee to Danlel H. Coaklev after Daniel had been informed the district attorney’s offlo= was Investizating the dharacter of stock Daniel was selling. AGAIN FAIL TO BREAK WILL OF AMO3 F. ENO New York, Jan. 3.—The third attempt to break the will of the late Amos Eno, once owner of the old Fifth A enue hotel, which disposed of an es- tate of $13,000,000 was started today be- fore Surrogate James A. Foley and a jury. The will, after making substan- tial bequests to relat left the res due of the estate to several ins including Columbia university, the ropolitan Museum of Art and the York Public Library. The contestants clalm that Mr. FEno, ed who was T8 and a bachelor when he was unduly Influenced and mentall: capacitated when the will was made. Two juries had declared the will inval- 1l but in each case a new trial was or- dered by the higher court. Among the contestants are two s ters of the deceased, Antoinette E. Wood and Mary P. Eno a niece, Flore Graves, all of Simsbury, Conn.; P. Eno, of Washington, D. C. : Lane Eno of Princeton, N. J., Gifford Pinchot of Milford, Pa, and Amos R. E. inchot of this citvk. THREE WORKM KILLED BY EXPLOSION OF POWDER Kingston, N. Y., Jan. 3--Three work- led ‘and Sx Injured, two an explo- sion of powder in the Shandaken Tun- men were ki perhaps fatally yesterday b: nel In the Ashokan restrvoir district abount thirty-five miles from here, ac- cording to word reaching this city to- day. The explosion was caused, It was said, when workmen emploved by the Ulen Construction Company, struck the pow- der with a blart drfll. The theory is advanced that the powder remained in the tunnel, having fafled to explode in a previous biast. 5-YEAR-OLD GIRL FATALLY BURNED AT THOMASTON Thomaston, Conn., Jan. 3 Grano of River strest this place. TO LIMIT THE POWERS OF SOVIET SECRET SERVICE Moscow, Jan. 3 (By the A, P.)—The change designed to limit the powres the Cheka, or sSoviet secret servi which Is regarded as the most conspicu- ous achlevement of the mninth all-Rus- slan sovlet congress, will be eag: watched by Russians of all parties, w regard the change of polic yas an effort to make the soviet court system win the approval and ultimate recognition by the foreign powers. The Cheka, which came into world 'n-nmmence under M. Djerinsky’s leader- ship in 1918, has been the chief target SR forelgn and domestic cri the soviet government have directed their shafts ever since, WEDDING. Gntes—Davison. Locust Valley, N, Y., Jan. 3, Alice Trubee Davison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry P, Davison, was mar- ried here today to Artemus L. Gates, son of Mrs. E. L. Gates, of Clinton, Towa, and a former Yale football war. The ceremony was performed in the pal church of St. John's of Lattingto 5y the Rev. Charles W. Hinton, rector. The ceremony took place in the pres- ence of two hundred relatives and friends, many of whom came here from New York on special trains. Mr. Davi- son, the bride’s father, a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company, was unable to attend. He ls spending the 3 4, died of heat prostration.” She wag overcome In winter at Thomasville, Ga., recovering from an operaton performed three chemical works whom Iy months ago. {Lynn, Ma. itutions, -Despite the efforts of doctors to save her, Philo- mona Grano. five vears old, died here tonight as a result of burns received when her clothes caught fire from play- ing with matches this morning. When found, the child’s body and face were horribly seared by the flames. She was the daughterof Mr. and Mrs. Domenick nisco- n i feur, was found in the wood mear BRIEF TELEGRAMS Great Britain may hold a generz| election in February. ==~ Four negroes held up the proprietor of n Kansas City loan offics and escaped with jewelry and cash valued at §15,000. Bo McMillan, football star of Centre College, was married in Fort Worth, Tex- as. Postmaster General Hays will decide on Jan. 14 whether he will accept positi-n as arbiter of motion-picture association. Mrs. Sallie Helm is dead at her home near Danville, Ky., at the age of 105. She had eut her third set of teeth. Briagdier General Charles H. Cole yes- terday took office as Massachusetts com- mander of the American Legion. British atr ministry is buflding 150 troop-cartying airplanes as part of the plan for creation of an aerial army to maintain order in Mesopotamia. Tt was announced that Julins Miller, president of the Borough of Manhattan, had formed a law partnership with Harry N. Wessel. Engagement of Prince of Wales will be announced befora the end <f ths year, says London Daily News. Iden- ity of bride-to-be was not revealied, Sheriff John Wilson, charged with com- ity in the $31.000 roCbery of th tate Bank of Pcoria, III, was Set at lib- erty under $10,000 bond. ational Association of Manufacturers will meet in Washington, Jan 39 and 31, to urge congress to adopt American valyati'n system for imports of goods. Georze A. Long. convicted of the mur- der of Lucina C. Broazdw=ll in Barre, Vit in May, 1919, lost his petition for a new trial. A hurdred how makers went on strike A hundred box makers went on strike .. in protest against reduction in wages. The city clerk yesterday ruffled his ledg- er and showed per cent 971, Three men were killed and six Injured in an explosion near Shandaken, N. Y. where a tunnel is-being o nstructed to divert water from Schoha Ashokan reservofr. river to th Members of the Vermont Bar Asso- clation decided yesterday by a vote of 37 to 34 against proceeding with an ac tlon for disbarment 2 former Governor Horace F. Graham. Captain John F. Milliken, of Malden, Mass., has been elected secretary treasur- er of the Neptune Assoc comprising more American Merchant Marine Joseph A. Green, of Athol, ¥ was arrested by a detective in New Hawen on a charge of forge and embezzlement after he had been polnted out on ths street by.an officer from that fown. Passage of a state prohibition rf‘l'flr('ll- ment act in line with th amendment was recomended Ly Gocernor Bmery J. San Soucl of hode Isand in his message to the general assemts ¥inndreds of children were conducted from the Kingman schonl building safel Brockton, Mass, when fire s eight rorm structure soon after t ing sessio® opened yesterd e An Increase In working hours from 48 of 12 1-2 to 54 per week and a reduct per cent. in wages was announced i of the larzest textile mills in " Y.,. The change is effective January 9 Oskarl Tokol, foriier premier of Fin- land, was arrested in Fitchburg, Mass, as allen anarchist and undesirabla cf izen was taken by federal oficials to Boston, to arraigned before the bureau In Brston. Seyonty commerclal engraving shops. employing aporoximately 1,600 men, were closed as a result of the failure of negotiators to reach an asreemen ending the controversy between the Photo Engravers’ Board of Trade and the Photo Engravers' uniod Wood heel makers in 20 factorles Heiverhill, Mass,, their arrival price lists pos per cent. cut in wages and no recogalition iof the union. Clarence W. Loud, a shoe salesman of Melrose, was brought into the Middlessx 1 on an indictment charging the murder of county superlor court to stand tri James A. Preston, a patrolman on the ‘Wakefield pollce force, _ Wholesale food dealers were charge: with restraining retaflers from lowerin thelr prices In several commodities by the oommission on mocessaries of life in its annual report to the Massachusetts legis- lature. Fred M. Lamson, a Boston banker and a Christian Scientist, was asreed upon Iby the directors of the First Churca of Christ, Scientist, and the trustees of the Christian Scienco Publishing Society, as the stle temporary trustee to administer the society & affairs. Governor Willlam C. Sproul, of Penn- sylvania, lasi night dism ed reports that he would resign as governor to be appointed U. S. senator within elght hours by saying ths qu the successlon to Boles Penros. not be settled for some day! not untf} next week. orty - possibly Premier Maura of Spain recetved n despatch from the French Chamber of ing Al- g to intercede with the French and Spanish govern- ments for the purpose of terminating the Commerce for transmission to K fonso, requesting the ki tariff war between the two countries. Rabbi Joseph S. Kornfeld of Columbus, Ohlo, recently acpointed American ister to Persla, and Rev. S-lomon Hood, of the Agririan Methodist Episco- , minister- for their posts 2, saliing for pal church, of Trenton, elect to Tifberia departe on the steamship Ameri Plymouth, Cherbourg and Bremen. Nathanlel Ingraham, of FEast TFark, Y., pleaded guilty before Subreme Court Justice Morchauser degree for the er, Bea- trice. He was given a sentance of from near Poughkeepsie, ) to murder in the second Killing of his six vear a4 dang’ twenty years to life in Sing Sing prisn. The body of James Coleman, a ch: plant of the Merrimac Chemical o mpan near Woburn, Mass, the throat cut. i, olice expressed the belief that t by recovering stolen Property. s e, — - — o 7 - - = ~- 2 FeR et s e afnse T Vo L i B R R s AN s S e s W PRI 2o SR s e e R SRR S s S B R R ¥ o AT I FRANCE ACGEPTS PROPOSAL FORSUB To Prohibit the Use of Submersibles sels—French Delegates Reserve Fin ing Discussion of the Precise of the precise 1 guage of the de tance vreviously had been | io would .r‘(r-1 full ay nrmul red in some m submarine att are to be pern of commerce. ctive as among the bt et e French acceptance was comms cated 1o Se hat touched on several Japanese Have Intimated They Would ricus Objection Should the Prope: proval of France. ‘Washington, Jan. 3 By the A. P.).— to prohibit use merchant vessels, issue of the arms has been accep But her delegates have is were stirring b The Chinese, deadiock with the tung, took stepss pioyment of the of Secretary four. The resp can and Britl proached perso resentatives, and results are Foilowing the —-4 . the British : have no ~alecmbm- the new four-power Pacifie t wu' not apoly. | of the Japaness on on the M:.;. m frue siznatory powers, s to be in preparation. Meantime work on two im lateral features ing technical d!&* | ment and revision @ g.. Chiness ystem, moved fe tees with a promise | ‘The naval experts | il da c‘arh‘m @- Ioose ends of the. re tariff sui | | a session late in the a virtual decision 1 ment of China's tan Before the of 1 ‘s chairman, msm U American deiegation, & th Albert Sarramt, \nd roup. and they are sald & ed the particular m~ the new Chinesa fiscal arss ing out of conditions French Indo-CMinz. The of th been revewed by tne the result that the nittee was facllitated m Thile the arms heir first attention |they also were taking velopments on the fringe |ence itself but regarded &% a meeting | c: less direct commi of the naval committee of the who | Particular interest was charges by the {zatton of the Far East ring Japanese plans ezation making publie. o was the textmti N i | Japanese army and (Continued on Page ORDERED TO VISIT ALL SCATTERED ARMY COMMANDS tof the scattered a department’s n Washingten. decision to send fon concerning serves and to components | onfous structure. travel as Mr two officers officers and men General Harbord alsy will devot is' planned to open sinee the war. in the depar being made modate_about their journey to Camp Knex, Saturday, going NEW SILVER DOLLARS PLACED IN CIRCTLATION Philadelphia, —The new sllver forirt | dollars—the “peace dollar"—was placed would ¢ coln wag made in commem- the arms corference at Wash- The first dollar nger to Precident Iarding. HUNGARIAN MINISTER TO THE UNITED STATES has been .appointed Hungar- | United States. in Washington. OBITUARY. Henry E. Seaver. . president of the Eastern Music Publishi two daughters. W. D. Willlams. D. Williams, treasurer of ms Company, died at his 0 years. He » man | Robinson and Wil ad been killed by men employed at the had antagonized | home today, at the age of wife and one daughter. Chicago, Jan. 3. National Bank and Trust and Savings 0-—-7 ' sorbed today by the Commercial National B nental and C ngs Bank with nancial circles to indicate g} volving $60.000,000. The| merger, announced te tre Clearing House Af Actermined that the "‘I Banks were {3 Cifficulty extension of ciodits by and Compapy, chief “ sald to have ayerted the | diffienlty which had o : rict More than $15,000.¢ the Fort Dearborn through the streets h—dq-u v in making the transfer, banks were working at the G 2nd Commercial banks, whe rosits now approximate $41 the ann that nial and. Commerclal b meet all obligations and & posits in the Fort Dearborn | few denositors today made ti the institutions that ha dtaken | funds to reassure themselves the merger, but there was : withdrawals, GLOUCESTER MAYOR TRICKS OF nm Gloucester, Mass., Jan. 3- the trade in fish wers aileg cized by Mayor Percy W. naugural address yesterday. "I have seen harbor across the back and branded i ped as mackerel” he sald. “I hake salted and branded as T have seen skinny New E: herring salted and sold a8 bradors. “T have seen large pollock the back, ealted and dyed #0ld as ocean salmon. I has of mackerel, each with & key in the center, shipped | can't build vp the ity on = ) smuggled bom WINES snm Ilfl nnw Ttica, N. ¥., $1.000 advertised fn local arrest and convietion of cently robbed the resids Root, Clinton, d took from the M a" wines, some of and rare vintage, !s not known, as | of his family mfi'