Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 6, 1922, Page 1

- VOL. LXIV—NO. 5 POPULATION 29,685 NORWICH, CONN. FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1922 PEACE COMMITTEE AT WORK AMONG MEMBERS OF DAIL e Hope to Create a Basis of Agreement Between the Support- ers and the Opponents of the Treaty~—The Committee is Made Up of Able Members of the Rank and File of the Dail, With Both Factions Represented—Will Re- port at a Private Session of the Dail This Morning. Dublin, Jan. § (By the A. P.).—The Dall Eireann, which met this morning, with disruption threatened. adjourned to- night In the hope that a basis of agres me: giht be reached between mup- mittee had not got much further after lunch today, and this time Mr. O'Duffy moved adjournment until tomorrow morn- ing. His motion gained importance through being supported by Richard Mul- cahy, chief of staff, in a speech sus- ers and the opponents of the freaty. | gesting that the matter was so serious tee. which is trying| that it wouid be worth discuesing in pri- » an accommodation { vate session. at which, even If an agree- factions, is meeting | ment were not reached, they might learn ) report at a private | how far along the road they had pro- ymorrow morning. | gressed ent of the existence of | Notwithstanding the many resolutions was the re|sont fo the members of the Dall from a thrill was given to tha | their constituents, u them elther to siina by the reveiation '\Vi""u)y,\v\'! the treaty or res'sn, only two of wer assdmed to be Irish republi- | the 120 depnties so far have yielded to rponenta of treaty. had | this nressure. They are P. J. Maloney ol the mdent of tha Lon- rary. whose resignation Speaker ex and him offyto Cark. | 3 announced Alcerman Dro- . ved. howsver. that|han, wavor of Cianmel who resigned . eecuied by agents | because he opposes the treaty whiie his ' - | constitusnts approve it Dublin The greater part of the public pro- Ber of the lings today was ocenpied in a dis- evce commitiee, which is made| cusson regarding the attitude of the vely of able members| press toward the Dafl Eireann. Many of - file of the Dail who have | the members were eager to take action gainset the treaty the Freeman's Journai by ex- £ these a peliing its representative from the cham- . orMenasipit’ i 114 ber as punishment for the attack in its who s @ supporter | editorial coiumn on Mr. De Valera and . nd Liam Mellowes, an uncom- | Erskine Childers. Action was postponed. & republican, who Bene| yhadtek an:inuolony: | GutSinithoneh ihe = 0 Ao either with the treaty or | deputies were agread in condemning the a % alternative proposals | attacks. some of ihe most prominent A influential member who joined the | members, inclnding Da Valera. Childers, = request John T.|Grifith and Collins, thought that such Sinn. Fein representative in | atiacks should be ignored in the interssts vbom Mr. De Valera and his|of the freedom of the press. which In zues opposing the treaty have great | their opinion should get the widest lati- tude. Mr. Griffith and others pointed ont that fforts of the neacemakers are be- d toward an arrange- | the sunporters of the treaty had been which would allow the ireaty to go |abused in the republican newspaper sup- i atl the same time safeguarding | porting Mr. De Valera, but they prefer- epublican position in the future. | red to ignore it. This discugsion gave wen O'Dufty that the purpose | Desmond Fitzgerald, minister of propa- eting ommittee was the | zanda. the odportunity, which in the n of an agreement whereby | mornine he had soushi in vain, to cail era's leadership wouid be retain- on to the kidnapping of the Times *aid the committee had it pondent, which he deseribed as an which he could not reveal. |act of some eriminals e of the committee, | Mr. De Valera himsif entirely ignored . I régarding the situation, de-|the attack on him by the Freeman's Jour- give aus hint of the way out. | nal, but did comnlain of-the sngeestion in 1 it impossible fo arrive at a | that naper that 3 Mad acted as an auto- romise last evening. but got so far [ crat in declaring his intention to follow acing a propomal hefore Mr. De | his own nrocedure. He apnealed to the a‘era bat did not obtain his appreval. | memory of his colleagues for testimony The committes rasumed consuliation | that in all h's deallngs he had never gan th's mornng. and it was regarded | acted autocratically, and explained that * slanificant that it was Mr. O'Kelly | hie dec'sion to foilow his own procedure "7 appeaied 1o the Dall Eireann to ad- | had resulted only from his failure to so ™ the morning. and thus enable a | ewra an agresment with the other side *r attempt 10 ba made. The com- | regarding the course of the proceedings €0 SUBMARINE WARFARFE SIMPLICITY AND SECRECY OF AGAINST MERCHANT SHITS | BURIAL OF BOIES PENROSE s | O R . E The A. P.) | Philadelphia, Jan. 5.—Burial with the al powers of the | greieqt simplicity as was nis desire, the " as betwen them- Senator’ Penrose tnight rested “lves abolishment nf submarine warfare X lined gras Laursi merchant ships. Te purge the ey Bamb th for ever of thiz hidden menace to [The grave. situated a promentory ace « and ships world is | overlnokim® the emst river drive f Fair- o subacripe o the decres s a |mount park, was devold of fl floral *% principle of internatiznal law. offerings. Guards who were thrown A5 adopted by the naval committes of |around the crave after the rndertakers — remce. the resolution pro- |and assimants had liwered the bronze wnd Flibu Root and amended by |lined casket into it hortly before nine - 1. Baifour. 1o become immedlate- [0'clock this morning, were still ther, late ctiva hetween the five signatory |today “rs runs s foilow The same secrecy that marked the Bowers recognize the | MAKINZ of the arrangemenis for the fun- v of nueing subma. |°ral Was maintained unti the end. No in- | g destrovers without | formation beyond tre brie? (bituary notice an they were vioiated in the |In the newpapers that faneral would 41918, the requare. |De strictly private” was given out anc . iy aceepted by civilized |It Was not known known until th~ hu- . pretection of the lives |TeAU of vital statistics issued a rermit § s "t ad v ¥ for interment that the funeral . . ibizion of the use of | Would be held oday as commerce destrovers | Only the late semator's three br-thers, niversally mecepted am a part |Dr. Charles B, Richard A, K., anc . atiors that prohibition as | SPencer Penrose, and their families coforth binding as betwesn them- | Leighton C. Taylor, his secretary, and - . it= all other nations |the nurss who accompanied the hody here s gt nil from Washington were in the funeral - of the committes is final so far {party. Four automobiles carried them e conference and the five naval |and the undertakers' assistants from the —_— neerned, the conference | Penrose home in Sprice street fo the cem- v + formal ratification to |etery and as the small o-rtege passed In- son -5 g TR e to the grounds. the gates wers locked and which it will be incor- |the curious warned away by the guards. n open semafon No questions wore answered and no on< The committee alko adopted the [ Was permitted to ses oven from a distanc M to deciare in simplest | the ®rief rites with which the late re- rules of international law |publican leader was consigned to the siving to vesseln. their full | tomn. . - and the invi- Mr. Tavior said tonight that there had been a short service at the grave, but that he did nct know whether it was condu. ed by a minister. There were no servie a1 the house. Everything was done in ex. act accordance with Senator Penrcses wishes, Mr. Taylor said. The will of Senator Penrose, leaving his powers to all the diclaration other ACTION FAVORABLE TO CHINESE TARIFF SYSTEM Washingten, Jan, 5.—(By The A. P.) |entire estate to his three brothers, was The powers acceded in part today to |the simplest of documents. It was flled a's request that forsign restrictions |late today at the office <f the registrar of “er v system be removed and that | Wit The estate Is valued at $200,000 = be on ward withdrawal of jand upwards, ftut friends sald it was sign troops frem: Mer sell. worth many times that swm. There were Tnder agreement adopted In the [no public or Individual bequests of any srence Kind. The will was written on a single sheet of paper and dated June 10, 1305. It merely states that his entire estate in be- queathed to his three brothers who also were named as executors. The brithers, however, have waived their rights as ex- scutors in favor of a financial institution. The executors were instructed to file “no *n committee of the arms con- an_increame estimated at $48.- n Chinese customs receipts is t> 4 tmmedlately “through modifi- g treaties, and machin- In motion for further in- they are warranted by re- negs tariff administration. nether resolution adopted at the « mesting the forelgn ambassadors | inventory or ascount of any account of my “eking will confere with Chinese of- | estate” The will was witnessed by W, R. sl whenever China so requests, rel- | Andrews, Ernest Hitchens and James 1o exscution of the declared pur- | O liins Jones. Hitchens was a negrc + of ihe vowers to withdraw their | messenger In Senator Penrose’s office in . case where conditions |this city. Andrews, now dead, was the able. senator's private secretary, and Jones la the troop declaration the [is a lecal attorney. sgates A'd not express them- ength. but theyr volced disap- (he tariff settlement had fxed a definite date on which for- supervision of the Chinese customs he withdrawn altogether. Complete # autonemy has been held by them he sssential to China's commercial de- pment. just ax withdrawal of foreign opn has heen regarded as necessary to ore China to full sovereignty. The entire meeting of the committes, first held since December 14, was FOUND NINE STILLS IN IN MOUSE IN NORTH BRAXNFPORD ol North Branterd, Conn., Jan. 5.—Pro- hibiton agents from New Haven ralded a house here today and found six stills in operation and thres others not in use. Geriaido Angelino, 25, alleged operator and owner of the stills, was arrested. He was held in bonds of $1,000 for a hearing next Monday before a United ecated o consideration of the tariff | States commiasioner. 4 forelgn troop proposals, the Chin- [ Raiph Bjakesiee was in charge of the “ss fnding no spportunity to sress their | enforcement officers. He gave a list of wquest that the “twenty-one demands” somtraversy be brought into the confer- s for revief. The mext meeting preb- A0'r will not be held until after the wbmarine question now oceupying the sientian of the five majer powers, h *» eactied. articles and meterials seized In the raid, as_follows: Nine stills, 600 pounds of sugar, 30 gallons of aleohol, 150 poundg of rye, 1- 250 gallons of rye mash, several gallons of whiskey, sx of] stoves and 4§ gallons of kerosene ofl. % CABLED PARAGRAPHS | German Newspapers Decrease Size Berlin, Jan. 5.—A number of newspap- ers in ermany have decreased recently the size of thelr editions owing to the shortage in mewsprint. Some <f them ai- nounce the probability o f a temora suspension owing to the unusual heary export of prirt paper. EMERSO MOTORS FIGURES THE PELLETIER TRIAL Boston, Jan. 5.—Testimony that Dis- trict Attorney Joseph C, Pelletier drop- ped threatened criminal prosecution against the Emerson Motors Company of New York after counsel for that com- any had paid $20.500 fees to Daniel H. Coakley, a Boston jawyer, in an effort to avert prosecution, was offered in su- preme court today at the trial of Pelle- tler on charges of misconduct. This 15 the twelfth instance presented to ths court of the sixty oited in the informa- tion filed against the district attdraey by Attorney General J. Weston Allen in the proceedings looking to Pelletier's ro- moval, The Emerson case was investigated by the Boston Bar Association which af'er- wards presented the matter to the at- torney general. The specification con- tains five counts and alleges that the dis- trict attorney conspired with-Coakley Dby threatening the company With proscc- tion and thus coerced the company into paying the fees#) Coakley for “averting the prosecution.” Oniy three witnesses in the case hadl beén heard when court adjourned fer ihe day. They were Francis M. Carra.l, a Boston attorney, and two police offi cers who were engaged in the gations of the company's 1915. Carroll Robert testified that he was reta by Matches in the orgauiza- tion Massachusetts corporation (o handle Emerson Motors stock. He ree- ommended the emwloyment of Coakicy ‘o Amos T. Stepehens, New York counsel for the Emerson Company who had come fo Boston after hearing reports that the district attorney was igating the company's business. 3 Coakley arranged a conference with the district attorney who inquired of |Stepenens as to rep BY sentations in news- ver advertising concerning Emerson stock and indicated that he contern prosecution on charzes of false ments in the advertising. Because Stephens and Matches thought the publicity incident to prosecution ‘weuld be disastrovs to the company, Carroll said they accepted Coakley's of- “er to take the case on a $300 retaining Vee, with an additional fee of $20,000 to ''» naid if he were able to stop the prose- sta | cution, \iter the retainer had been paid the ‘witness sald Pelletier told him in a tele- “hone conversation that he had cox red the matter carefully and in view of promises made by Coakley for the Emer- son Company he had decided to drop the case, The conditions imposed, sail sid- the witness on cross-examination, were agreo- ment by the company to discontinus ad. vertising ' to begin at once the manu- faciure of cars and to refund money pald by, purchasers of stock in cases Where the company had so agreed at the time of the sales, should demand be mada, | “Twn dave atter this conversation wi Pellatior. s n the witness said he gave Coak- b for $15.000 retaining $5.000 as his own fee. He sald Stephens had “nformed Pelletier dquring their confer- enca that the stocwholders would be suf- ferers if the company were prosecuted. George J. Farrell and Silas F. Waite, police Inspectors in 1916, testified to | teps they 100k In investigating the case | r the district attorney's office. Waite visited the Emerson Company In Long Island Ci that facto N. Y. and found instead of occunying a four-story builling as was revresented in the com- pany's advertising, it actually 2 single room 100 feet square. occupied STATTS OF POLICE I RIALTO THEATRE FIRE | New Haven, police com specia eral Jan. ‘The board of issioners of New Haven. at a 1aeeting to®ight. discussed sev- phases of the responsibility of the police department in connection with the Rialto theatre fire. Corporation Counsel Bennett submitted to the board a lengthy opinion to the effect that the chief of | police sl not required by law to demand certificates of inspection from the build- | ing inspector and the fire marshal before issuing & license to a theatre. The opin. | ion stated. however, that it wa sthe duty | of the police force to enforce the state | 1aws in regard to moving picture houses. | The board ordered all members of the police department who testified at the | coroner’s inquiry to appear before the ' board next %onday night for examina- | tion. and also asked Chief of Polic Smith to submit a ssatement on the pro- cedure employed in inspecting theatres | and how he interpreted his authority on | this subject. The board also ordered the a:vnnmlmen( of a special squad for inves- tigation and inspection of all theatres. PRESIDENT CAL| S MEETING ON LEGISLATIVE PROSPECTS Washington, Jan. 5.—President Hard- ing called into conference late today a Eroup of genate republican leaders for a prolonged discussion of legislative pres- pects in the pression session of congress. At its conclusion it was said that con- clusions had not been reached and that zrother similar meeting would be ar- anged for the near future. Senator Lodge, the majority leader. Senator Curtis of Kansas, republican whip, Senator Watson of Indlana and Senator McCumber of North Dakota, who Is expected to succeed to chairmanship of the finance commitfee left vacant by the death of Senator Penrose, partici- pated in the conference. The tariff, pro- posed bonus for service men, and other auestions of legislation before the senate were discussed, it was sald. 50 MEN OF AMERICAN FORCES LEAVE REINE Coblenz, Jan. 5. —Twenty-two officers and 1,050 men of the American forces on the Rhine. left here today as casuals for Antwerp, where they will board the transport Cambrai, sailing for the United States tomorrow. Major General Henry T. Allen, com- mander-in-chief of the American army of occupation, with a composite company of American troops, will place the Con- gressional Medal of Honor on the grave of the Unknown Italian Soldler in Rome on Jan. 14, 1,4 SEVEN SEAMEN RESCUED FROM BUENING SCHOONER Boston, Jan. 5.—The rescue of seven men- from the Nova Scotia schooner Ruby L. Pentz, while thelr vessel was afire at sea, waS reported today in ra- diograms belleved to have been sent out by the tank steamer Muskogee.. The Ruby L. Pentz, probably bound trom Turks | 1and for La Have, N. S., was destroved the message indicated. The position given was In the vicinity | 131 tons. Are to be High Private Rates. ‘Washington, Jan. 5.—The American’ re- lief administration has applied ship operater: day. At the shipping board it was sald the | 100, Virginia, and nearly a dozen men request from Secretary Hoover would be the ships being taken from those now at New York, Phil- Newgort News and immediately approved, adelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans. Mr. Hoover said the American relief ad- ministration has arplied for ‘the govern- ment ships because of what he described asked by as the “not justified rates' private ship operators. Officers for charters to Baltc ports received yesterday by the buying commis- Harding purchase grain for Russian relief under the congressional authorizaticn appropri- ating $20,000,000, were from $2 to §2.50 a ton higher than the same rates a week ago and about $3 a ton higher than rates offered by foreign ship operators to the sion created by President same ports, Mr. Heover said. The ‘congressional relief appropriation, grain purchased under it should be transportsd but he added the he continued, provided that in American bottoms, relief administration was also utilizing Breaking down while witnesses were funds provided by the soviet gorernment | telling the committee thai for his ser- and ft w a questin as to whather the ices In tha Argonne qffensive, ending higher rate should be paid upon graln |In a hosnital, wounded, he was awarded purchasad with Russian money. Mr. Hoover indicated that the reMef ad. was considering the nse of hips for the transportation of its es which were not purchased under in order that the saving in rates might be used for ministration foreien the congressional appropriation the 7 rehase of famine supplies FINANCIAL A™®) ECONOMIC DEPRESSION IN CUBA New York. Jan. 5. toda; by try. Mr. Speyer prima troubles to the Provided by Ship-| One Shot in the Air, Another ping Board—To Avoid the to the | of chiarges that he had shot two of his shipping hoard for thirty vessels to carry | men wWhile his command, part of the grain to soviet Russia in order to avoid | twenty-niath division, was in the thick high rate demanded by private American |of the Argonne fighting, was made be- Secretary Hoover sald to- Reasons for the | financial and economic denression through which Cuba now is passing were set forth James Spever. head banking house of Sneyer & Co., who re- cently returned from a visit to that coun- of t Iy attributed Cuba’s extravagance and wastefn ness in the management of nublic affs hefore President Zayas er said, the low by ce_ of assumed These causes were accentuated. Mr. Spev- sugar and enormous speenlation and” gambl'ng. to shape, putting men I recog- t is a remarkable fact” sald Mr. n command. I sent runmers to| Speyer, “that Cuba has no naper money | bring all the men up. There was not| and no bank notes sxcent our owns and that she has net resorted to the printing to ease conditions. One thing the country needs I either an to our federal reserve federal reserve bank of its own Should the latter he established, it must =afeguarded and super- presses and Inflation auxillary or a be very strictiy vised by men indenendent of pol i ical or Chairman Brandeges wanted to know local influences Mafor Onie had any theory as to how Cuba. entered the war against Ger- 1 the remorts about him had started, many at the same time wa did and re-{ “None, sir he said % celved from. the Tnited States govern-! Iy mac ba that one elren ce led ment a 080000, OFuIS T | to 1t T dlslikento thontion menc 1l am told. it took only $10,000.000. and has | 1t might be the only thing. te qx ta Sust repatd allment of $635.000 | tice to others. It happened that Toos roE piterial cinbing fond. cwhich“ I | tenant. Floyd W, Co bt o hax Tlet: think is quite nnique in comparisen with b s sl other foreign debtos e the first to reach him. I bent dow It is very much to be desired.that|onencd his blouse, and w}}uf- there dai:w:‘ during the crisis w2 nursue a conistentls | 11 tnar pestin stragglers ma firm but generons poliey towards the | il - s stragglers may | and republic. intentions. He aso seemed that what his country needs most at thig time is not so much a large foreign lnan the present ‘hard times' rest lareely with her govern- but that the remedies for ment and her citizens.” to TRYING TO LOCATE B0DY Springfield, Mass., Jan. 5.—Polish resi- dents of the eastern part of the city and private detectives late today began ging in a dlstr who has been missin search s the resu Walter Cieplik, 11 that an unknown man who as with him in an auto truck. the truck contalned a box. g > Opfa's Witvesmes, exnected. hess oo a spot that the bey designa: he savs !, X h a failed to arrive in time e & away from the highway and that In doing | | ext week. 50 he sa side. the hox into the hol Whila the digging was unsuccessful, it will b was announced pol. investigate. 1 found Prasident Zayas a man who seemed 2rimated by the by Teal OF WORLD WAR VETERAN ct off the Boston road in the Delief that they wonld Incate the body of Albert Kiewacz, a worid war veteran, month, of a story told b vears old. who sa about Dec. § he was approached by ad him to ride “The bov sald On reaching W human legs protruding from it. H esays he was ordered to help dig a hole and then told to walt at the road- He declares that tha man lowerad and roverad undertaken it tod; continued, it North Wilbraham o cers as well as men from the Springfleld | ice deparf_snt have heen assigned to | i1t is sald that questioning has failed to shake the boy's story. CLATMS FOR COMPENSATION FOR 16,000 WORLD WAR V=TS Boston, Jan. 5.—Claims for compen- sation of 16,000 World War veterans of New England, some of them held up f: he past two years, have been sent for New riet Readquarters of the United States” Veterans' Bureau, accord- ing to a_telegram recelved toray by Dr. Arthur E. Briles, ®istrict manager. In a short time, Or. Brides said, the claims will be setfled and pavment begun to those who are adjudged entitled to com- settlement from W3 Bngland distriet ington Ppensation. to VILLAGES IN PANAMA INUNDATED BY FLOODS Panama, Jan. lages have been ing been swept away. The government has sent loaded with foodsfuffs awd medicines to the rellef of the sufferers. 5.—Additional from the Pinogana distriet of the Prov- ince of Darien state that numerous vil- inundated by from the River Tuira. The Inhabitants are suffering from exposure agd hunger, their cattle and other possessions hav- a PLEAS OF NOT GUILTY BY INVESTMENT UNDERWRITERS Boston, Jan. 5.—Pleas of not gnilty te indictments charging a schems to de- | fraud through the use of the mails were court today by Thomas C. Perkins of Hartford, Conn., and Guy White of North Tonawanda, N. entered in the federal reports waters laun Y. They furnished $2,500 bonds each. The two were indicted recently with about forty others. including oficers of . investment under- They were con- concerns aileged “ to have of Bermuda. The schooner registered been reorganized by the investment com- Hollister, Whit writers, of nected with & Co. this ity pany. office. ystem es. But at the close of the session, Sen- The | 2ot Watson. announcing that ha was ¢|not prosecuting any case, prasented a 30 Vessels to Carry |Major Opie Tells ] GraintoSovietRussia) Of Firing Rifle / in the Ground—To Prevent Men Running. ‘Washington, Jan, 5.—Sweeping denial fore a senats investigating committee to- 4ay by Major Hierome L. Opie, of Staun- serving with him overseas. At an all day session only one voics was Ifted against Major Opie—the voice of a shell-shocked vietim of war, now a patient in a Virginia hospital for ‘the -insane. The witness, Lemuel C, Smith, deciared that while in a dugout svikh three comrades and four German prisoners, Major Opie entered, shot and killed a soldier, then ordered the” body Temoved, without once uttering a word. In rapid succession the comrades to | méntionea by Smith we=t on the stand and swore they saw no such Killing, that they were not in -the dugout, and that they knew of no evidence whatever to SUDPOTL the chArges. And then after a half dozen of Major Opic’s men had tes- tified that they never heard of his shoot- |Inz a soldier in France or anywhere el the major himself spoke in his own de- fense, declacing there was no word of truth in the accusations and that he “mever shot a man in his life.” the Distinguished Service Cross, the Le- Zion of Honor and the Cr De Guerre, with two palms, Major Opis quickly re covered his composure, and ecalmly, but | With great emphasis, asserted that e never fired a revolver In the army, Major Opie explained in detall how he all the time he w had attempted to get his men in a line after they had been demoralized and were running wildly, some saving thty [had been ordered to retreat while others 'were shouting that the enemy was ap- vroaching. A tense situation, developing suddenly, found him alone in the effort o reform the lines. At the moment he Wwas without side arms, was wearing a rain coat, the insignia on which was covered by mud, and it was with difficul- ty that he could make the men halt T took a rifle and fired twice,” said, “knowing perfectly well what was doing. One shot was fired in the ai he he 1 r Nobody was hit. lines stopped, and T got s nd one in the ground. After T fired the them “ dead soldier on the line and there had | teen no Rring.” “Did you shoot a runner with a revol- vXer. as charged?’ Chairman Brandegee | asked, “Lngyer fir-7 a nisto 1 w4 'pn‘ 0y, Wwith embhasis. the whole time Major Ople declared ally killed himsel? with a rifle and T was have been around. this scene may have Wwhich I was the vietim.” Senator Willis, reputlican, Ohto, ques- | tioned Major Ople, rezarding the testi- mes think | ted rumors of | t . mony of Henry L. Srott, of Kenmore, Ohio, that he saw ths major shoot a run- ner. ‘Tt is delfberately untrue,” the major exclaimed. Senator Willis =ald he merely desired to get the major's denial Senator Watson, democrat Georgia, Whose charges In the senata that Amer- ican soldlers had heen hanged without trfal tn France. took no part In the ex- amination of Major Ople or his wHness- in the record. z- {Iist of witnesses to he summoned to o | testimony relating to the Ople charmes. The committee indlcated that 11 would be called when the hearinz is re- sumed next Tuesday. Some of or NEGRO PRISONER KILLED ONE DETECTIVE, WOUNDED ANOTHER New York, Jan, In 200 feet of the West 1 hice station tonight saw a negro shoot and kill Detective Se; A. Miller and morts Francis J. Buckley af ed the negro the confusion w the nesro escaped ‘The two deiectives were walkinz alonz ~—Flfty pe ons with- o eet pe prisoner geant Wiiliam Iy wound Detective ter they had arrest- for felonjous assault. In 2 followed the shooting ‘West 135th street toward the p-ilice gtation with the negro, unhandeuffed, between them. Suddenly, the prisoner stepped back and fire two shots at Miller, who fell to the sidewalk. Puckley had just drawn his revolver when the negro fired p blank at him and he, too, collapsed, drop- ping his gun. Milier died a few minutes after beins taken to the Harlem hospital. Buckley though fast losing conselousness, told Police Captain Haupt the name of the man who shot him and Miller, Buckley’s wound, in the abdomen and ranging upward, was se grave that Llood transfusion was resorted to almost im- mediately after he reachad the hospital. Several policemen volunteered and suc- cessively submitted to the operatlon. which was successful In that h gave Buekl strength to submit to prolonged probinz for the bullet. Miller left a widow and nine children, while Buckley Is married and has fear children. Shortly after the sheotirs a zeneral alarm was sent out for the fugitive. He had been arrested for shooting another police officer who still is fighting for his life in another hospital. ch NEGRO JANITOR SHOT DEAD BY TWO NEGRO BANDITS New York, Jan. —Two unidentified negroes tonight held up Jacth Belkin, a real estate overator, and Charles Johnson, a megro janitor, who accompanied Belkin, sheoting and Killing Johnson when he refused to obey An order to ‘“hold up your hands and hand over your cash.” The hold-up and murder took place in West 140th street. Belkin told the police he oheved the bandit's eommand and was robbed of |1ating the prohihition BRIEF TELEGRAMS Central postoffice at Tokio was. destroy- ed by fire. sed who join- State department was advised w! ed the Spanish Fopeign Legion are strand- ed in Modrid without funds, Honduran State legislature began 1ts regular session o new capital at Coma- yagua. William G. Ogden, president of J. M. Quinby & Co., carriage and automobile manufacturers of Newark, died at hi home in East Ofange. N Tation Senator Norris introduced a resol to abolish the electoral college and provid- ing for the election of the president and vice president by direct vote of. the reople. hen a Twelve passengers were injured when Northern Ohio traction car tipped over near Bedford, 10 miles from Cleweland. ElsVudet&Know is the time for liuse appreprintions committee in re- porting the prohibition bureau, bill of the treasury department reduced funds $73. 000 making the bill $,250,000. Commercial Cable Co., annoances there ns a deny to Belgium, Hotjnd an Germany owing to Interruption of wices abroad by storm. Prestdent Fbert and Food Minister Hermes recetved delegation fram the ser- vice committee of American’ Friends headed by Alfred Scattergood. Hoover was Gpngressional peated in Secretary cf Commerce clected president of the Country clud, a new golf club Maryland, near Washington Ci Mrjor Gen. E. . Crowder will refurn from ~uba this week to discuss Cuban conditivns with State Department offi- cials. Representative Peters, from the Third District Maine, resigned as a mem of the House of Congress to becr: Federal District Judge tn Maine. Rollln J. Plamb, aged 68, president of Eagle Lock company at Terryville for the past twenty-five years, died after a brief illness from heart trouble. The stranding of an unidentificd fish- ing schooner on the south side cf tucket was made known in sages received at Boston yesterda the Textile manufacturers representing various centers of the industry in New England, at a meeting at Boston, decid- ed that mo gemeral reduction would be made at this time. in wages Districf Attorney S. Howell Donnell, of Essex county announced that he would request from Dr. William FHood of Boston, a Teport of his examination of the organs of the late Edward F. Searles, multi-millionaire <f Methuen. Former State Semator Blon M. 66, one of the first Maine sardine pack ers, and president of Lubec Trust and Banking Company, dled at Lubec, Maine, Boos Pike, the Control of the New Fngland transpor- tation linee should be restorsd to the New FEngland states as a district and not given over to outside trunk lines in opinion of the Massachuzetits De- of Public Utilities. An attempt to amend tl ew York state assemil tec mmittees fq ee was defeated on &i the partmen! of bstita rales the ing e rules a striet party comm wot Abont half of the Kansas National Guardsmen sent three weeks azo e Cramfora County coal -fields to restore order were leaving for their homes ves- terday. raneportation of freight by moter troek between rafl termimals in Jersey and inland warehouses in York City to relieve waterfront gestio nwas introduced by the Erie road.: wanted fn New on charzes of frandulent use.of the in connection with the operation steck brokerage otneern, v)'s 7.5 Dallas, Tex 3. Frank LAy, York mails of a held for in pre- 500 honds at hearing. minary An Fbling Brewing Ce. truck an: cases of allrzrd 4 1-2 per cont heer was seized in New Yori. The s2'es manas ot tha company. truck driver and his helper. were arested on charges of vio- A nation-wide eampaign to enlist 5.000 vounz persons to train f-r the ministry and for foreisn misslona~y work was determined npon at a conference of the Tnterrational Christtan Endeavor Fiel Secretaries Unfon. mpson. repnhiican, 2 resolution i for an amen at would ner te $45,000,000 to pry ment to the eom the state to apnroprh a soldier honus. To seenre mniformity In the salsing and lowering of the United States state armories, the adiut fice issued the order which pros reveille is at 6.30 a. m. and retreat p. m. on at Following the discovery of two small pox cases in the Jefferson and Prospect schools, Bridgeport, the health depart- ment has ordered that all p ing these schools be vacci Jan. 9. Several scores of shop hands have been taken back Into thé shops of the X Haven road at New Haven since the zen- eral lay-off on Dec./24, and at points on the system men have resumed work In small numbers as needed. Judge Fdwin S M. Thomas in Unlt- ed States Ceurt, at New Haven, Conn. sued an order on application of H. Childs, of New York, receiver of the Robert H. Ingersoll Bros. & Co.. restr: ing creditors from brineing suits agafnst elther he receiver or company. Thomas F. MeAuliffe, former prohibi- tlon enforcement officer for CSomnec cut, was taken to the Hartford Hos- pital to undergo an operation on his jaw and that jt was deubtful if McAulitfe would ba able to appear In federal court next Monday. RESIGNATION OF WELLESLEY STUDENT OFFICERS REJECTED Wellegley, Mass. Jan. 5—At a mass meeting &t Wellesley college today the students voted not to accept the resigna- government association. The officers ten- the support of the undergradmate bo $800 In cash. . Johnson resisted, he aaded and was shot through the head, the ban- dite making their escave. : I This action followed the failure of a nar- ty of eirls to report, at ixast foia time, | Joseph and Arthur, and two sisters, Mrs. the fact that they had gone swimming without tbe reauired chaverone. 10 PAGES—74 COLUMNS pits attend- | ted before | ow | tions of the student officers of the college | dered thelr resignations on Dec. 8 last on | the ground tiAt they were not receiving | tion Providing For Farmer Representation on the Fed« eral Reserve Board—Whie the President Desires in Eve ery Way to Promote the Interests of the Farmers, Ha Objects to Legislative Measures That Would Interfers With Executive Appoifitments. ! Washington, Jan. 5.—President Hard-|understanding that the president had ing was said tonight by members of the |indicated his emphatic diszppr-wal of thd senate agricultural bloc to have indicat- | legisiation. Some of these block members ed 1o bloc leacers at a conference today |Said the president went 5o far as to i« his disapiro.al of bloc-sponsored lesis- | dicate he might vato the bill if passed, but lation providing for farmer representa- |other members said this was not their un« tion on, the federal reserve boardi. derstanding. The ¥ews <f the president with respect The president, it was sald by bloec mem< to the legislation, which is to, be taken up |bers other than those who took part in in the senate foj final consideration Jan- | the White House cniference, stated he dea 17, were outlined to Senators Ken- |sired in every way to promote the inters von of Towa, and Capper of Kansas, both | =sts of the farmer's of the country, buf republicans and bloc leaders, who called | that pending legislation would tle the at the White Heuse, accompanied by Sen- | hands of the executive with respeet 1o ap= ator Kellogg, of Minnesota, a Tepublican | pointments. He was represented as hav= member of the senate finance committes. |ing declared further that the bill weuld None of the three senators who con- |Set a precedent in the direstion of ape ferred with the president would discuss |pointments from particular interests which ne White House visit, but other members | re did not regard as a desirable develop- of the agricultural block said it was their | ment in governmental affairs. DISCUSSIONS PRELIMINARY TO SUPREME COUNCIL MEETING Jan. 5 (By the A. P.).—The for the forthcoming internation- al economic conference was uppermost in s conversations between the premiers and the chief delegates to the NO HEADWAY MADE IN SHANTUNG CONTROVERSY Cannes, progr Washington, Jan. 5.—(By The A. P.)' —The Shangtung controversy again ap- peared hopeless of sol late today when after a two and a half hour ses- n between the Japanese and Chimess supreme council which meets in session | Gelegations devoted to consideratiom of £ hero tomorrow. the return of the Kiaochow-Tsinan‘u The Frenct view kas been that the|Railway, the latter announced that ur- nda should be strictly lald down in|less the Japanese accepted the Chin: nce. It is understood that David [Plan for payment for the road Lioyd George, the British premier, agreed | o7 aliments by tomorrow the ‘icon- to this. and that the question will be the | versations” would be ended. Only a re- first discussed when the council goes into newal of the “good office” of Arthur J. se Balfour and Secretary Huglies, it was sald could then bring about a meet- ing of the two groups. The Chinese delegation definitely ree fused to accept the Japanese proposal for payment of the rallway by a Japaness loan, Wellington Koo, one of the Chin- ese delegates said, but the Chiness mads a concession regarding Immediate des posit of 32.000,000 Chinese dollars as = sion at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. Today firm developmerts seemed to con- the impression that the allies are d upon the principle of an cconomic conference, though still debating the de- tails. Reparations were discussed by the ex- perts today, the Belgians stoutly oppos- ing any modification in the schedule of nis that likely would compromiss prio on the 2.500,000.000 goli |cash payment, due by Germany. The French nless the Japaness acoept elther tion is backing the Belgians on offer or our alternative offer to this point, but it is incined to make in instalnients at tomorrow's ses- concessions to the British viewpoint te . that Wil be the last meeting.” L1, the extent of reducing the cash payments sad. “We made this concessioc, to €00,000.000 gold marks annually and {a7d suzzestod to the Japanese that 3n- the rest of the reparations nd. The|less 1his wes acceptable tomorrow, they Priti Ser thas this and desire to | had 2li in Messrs. Balfour and reduce the dieveries imkind 8o that the|lsuzhes with a view to using cnelr g4 00 totak both in cash and in kind can be|Offices * "N ced about 25 per cent from the| ¥ the conversations were Ziar- Paris agreement, or 1,500,000,000 goid |9°T™ two weeks Bgo, after a deadlzek marks hal been riched both on the mode o€ Participation by Germany in the even- |Pavment and n.anagement of the disp- tual international ecoromic conference ig|d T0ad, the Japanese had demanded an now taken for granted, byt there still ju | immediate cash deposit of the purchass discussion s to what weuld be the con- nces of the presence of Russian so- which it is held in French price if they decided to accept cash for return of the road at months as they the end of nine tentatively agreed to be tantamount to yecozni. |40 if other detalls could he worked out. 8 bolshevik regime. The® E-itish | This the Chinese said they were un- experts agree that an invitation to the |able to do, but agreed to make thres Moscow rament to send delegates to conference would be equivalent to de 0 recognition, while tha jurisis at- ed say there ittle difference between de facto and de ition. The Ttalians are strongly supporting the idea of a full conference, comprising Russians, as principal ciczates to the supreme counefl have been spared a great ameunt of work b e anpointment of committees which continy e work begun by the ex- perts on reparations and the cconomic payments over the minth month period the last to be on the date of actual turning over of the read. The Chinese today agreed to make the immediate deposit in fuli by placing at the disposal e Japanese the resoure- es of the Chinese hargers' comsortium. The aiternative Chinese plan provided for payment a period of twelve years with an ontlon to take up the remaining notes threa years. This afrere still holds good, Dr. Koo announe- od. fact after MANY POSITIONS = ACANT U. S. PATENT OFFICH ALLIED SUPREME COUNCIL MEETS IN CANNES TODAY Washington, United States was asserted, Jan. —Conditions in the inadequate rates France, Jan, § g (By the A. P.). tions went forward today foF om baters o lgon "::“ # ° tomorrow of the allied | council of the Federated American Ex Aamaetingsoy zineering societies, which convencd hers WhIchuthe i today for a two-day session. The coun+ proposed in as voted to co-operate Wwith othe: economic conference were discuss-| geencies in a mation-wide campalgn n f of reforms which it deciares ta & be pecessary for the protection of Ameris & ca® $ndustry and invention i o NriLonis Loucheur, French minis- |~ Rectgnations among the examiners off 1§ ter of llberated regions, and Premier| e patent office, accord! to Edwin J. x Dar hehiye, ol Beithin Prindle, chairman of the council's patent . st aiae committee, have continued “until now UEand: it ax descrpd “sare than half of the force consists of LA Semalon sl Young men fresh from college who have Premiers Lloyd George . : no knowledge whatever ok P or patent law.” Twenty positions a —_ unfilled, he added, because it has bee PROTESTY: ATTAKS BY impossible to ge tmen qua;mcd to pase - i = < | the entrance examination wko will accer CLERGYMEN UPON AUTOS | \ne ghinry offered. % o : : “At the same time” Mr. Prindle de- i it TEvmen. who charge the | ;poreaged by leaps. and bounds” automobile with peing the cause of small [ B T Prescott, Tnitarise pocey b¥ Re¥. | MERGER WILL STABILIZE sist in thelr attacks and turn the tables |" THE BRASS INDUSTEY To gasoline, he sald, he attributeq | Waterbury, Jan. 5—John D. Ryan much of the success of his t chairman of the board of the Amaconda “ivinz Sun- ‘ay school. Seated at the wheel of a | COPPer Mining company, and Cornelius g truck, and followed by a fleet of | F- Kelley. president, declared in publie touring cars, he obevs tha Biblica! in. | addresses here tonight that the proposed junction of goirg out intothe highways and_byways every Sunday and bringing to his school children within a radius of seven mil merger of the American Brass company with Anaconda Wil stabilize the brass indusiry. Roth officials asserted that there will be no change in the policies of ion in rth Parish meeting houss, of which | the brass company but that product {the clergyman is mefnr. wes by . the Naugatuck valley will be stimulated 5 ‘ANG: 1% ongior ithe | SWles by the coalition. Mr. Ryan said that he ew E nd: proposed t6 own a horho in Waterbury, and as pledge of his good 1#ith bought stock in a community building and loan society The Anaconda officlals, together with Chairman Charles F. Brooker and Pres- ident John A. Coe‘of the American Brass company, were guests of the Rotary club, which arranged the session in or- der that the question of the fature'of | the brass industry in the Naugatuck vai- [ ley might be answered by the leaders of the orgaxization which proposes to American Brass. OBITUARY. Rev. Albert R. Peters, §. 3. Worcester, Mass.. Jan. 5.—Rev. Albert R. Peters, S. I., dean of the Jesuit order. ed here tonight at Holy Crass college, aged 86 years Father Peters was born in Havre, France, Feb. 10, 1835, but mdst of his fo was passed in the United States. He entered the society of Jesuits at George- town university, September 2, 1851, as a and completed the regulation course at the university. He was a member of the Georgetown university facuity and among his stu- dents was the late Chief Justice White Another of hiz_d'stinguished pupiis was ther Hudson of Notre Dame. dean ie Catholic editors in America. Father Peters numbered among his close friends President Lincoln and Pres- ident Garfield. He has been associated with Holy Cross coilege for more than fifty yvears, although he has mnot been actively engaged in teaching or preaching for about twenty years. Fathre Peters leaves AMERICAN ENGINEERING i COUNCIL ELECTS . Washington, Jan. 5.—The As Engineering counci! at the sion of its two-day mes elected Dean Dexter S. two brothers, Catherine Boardman and Miss Mary A. Peters, living in San Franeisco.