Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 12, 1922, Page 1

v SRR VOL. LXIV—NO. 10 THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1922 10 PAGES—74 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS SNOW. RAIN AND HAIL, WITH THE WORST GALE OF WINTER Wind Velocity 90 Miles an Hour Off Sandy Hook—Slippery Sidewalks and Slushy Streets Added to the Discomfiture n New York City—Many Pedestrians Were Injured, Several Tall Stacks Were Felled, and a Number of Small Boats Were Biown From Their Moorings—New Jer- sey and Long Island Were Hard Hit, Resulting in a Tan- gle of Telephone and Telegraph Wires. ¥ o A 4 short time. The omly man aboard es- was caped. The Marshal, valued at about e of . 00, was owned in Newx York. SNOWSTORM CAUSED ONE DEATH IN SPRINGFIELD Springfield, Jan The snow storm which struck 4 this 4 rning caused one death. . The body of an unidentified man about 65 years old was discovered in Bay road early to- night. Death was the résuit of expos- e, according to the medical examiner. FCONOMIC LAWS FORCING 5 DOWN RAILKOAD RATES Washington, Jan, 11.—Railroad rates | are ® slowly but steadily forced | downward by economic laws which gov- ern their levels, Daniel Wiliord, presi- e e 71 A 1dene of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, vere DIOwWn {10 | 4rgued today before the interstate com: i commission when that body re- | < inquiry into the general lev- sreibly decreasing them by ment ed i sent tim who will sum He was | by severa ticians who I masscs of figures wll tending o insuficient carn trom rail- en rates are ot sa‘d re 1 sta- stir [ 1e to pay | ng ratos and fares? s no reliet " Assime hat such « the case ! In the pést Amer % Aoinz at this minute. High as rail- and | eajacively than other prices ar eor we lan1 < importa remember that mar | raliroad charaes s were the very ¢ They e e he down- - < | earing for west- $7.013,000 ons during b L s general repre- < ! interests in the commission 80 or- appear the £ - 2 and § Paul . " While dates nvaral Wodks.bh o Preanizations and state raflroad com. h f .| missions tn nresent arguments in favor | PISAGREE TvPoN scrarrinG GahvE Akl Rt { OF PROSCRIBED BATTLESHIPS NORTHERN N2W ENGLAND | wacnington, Jan, 11 (By the A. P.y— i The "Big Five" ‘made further progress srow treaty. but encountered a difference of of proscribed Anferican on it was eseels be ren. France Yurs the dismantied 1sed as harbor guards or delezaiion heads ad- Agsiontted ws | journed afer several hours of dsbate the . a question remained unsettied and will he . oriheast with | taken up again tomorrow. During thelr . ewhers east of the| two eessions today, however, they had | completed approvai ot first of the n Maine | treaty annexes emhodying a replacement - - or Mas- | chart, and they expressed hope tonight ew York t all of the five annexes might be dis- Pecoeasis northern Now | posed of tomorrow or Friday . a West Vir- | Except for the article dealing with - sastern Ohin Hea Pacific fortifications, all of the text of ng srow ware experi- | the treaty proper aiready had heen vie | . AtHisRiE SEAtes approved, and should Tokio's reply bl B o the e fortifications provision be received forecast for the | in time, a plenary session for public dis- cussion of the cmopleted treaty may b ol eld Saturday or Monday. The Japanese ¥ FATALITY FROW ¥ that they expected to re. STORM IN PHILADELPHIA awaited message from their | capital by Friday night. One death and| Indications that an agrsement will not ated a: thousands of dol-|be diffcult were supported by a declars. e ewent | tion of a Japanese spokesman tonight syivania, southern|that he saw no objection to including elaware today. A pe-| Bonin Isiand and Oshima group in the was hers when two au-| “8tatus quo” agreement on tfortifications. N ashed together, | 1t 18 #aid to have been over these islands . tween them. Tele.| that the issue now referred to Tokio compacies reported| arose. from broken wires. ax' was whipped by a| CHARGED WITH SENDING = that section said, that| OUT OBSCENE PICTURES i & velosity of 70 miles 5 k Meriden, Jan 11.—Walter Cobb, 45 - dropped to 28 ears old, of 26 Pearl street, Brattie- ark in nine years. The wea-|boro, Vt.,' was arrested here this morn. ecaster pr d a falling tem-| ing for the United States postal authori. would reach twenty de-| ties on the charge of using the mails for . » morning sending out obscene pictures. . He was taken tnto custody followi t BARGE W. A MARSEALL TOST |t oty ot Bt Lk Viet to IN MASSACHUSETTS BAY| Casey of Roston g === The inspector brought along two pack- o The loss of the|ages of the pictures mailed by Cobb from. ge W n Massachu- | here to Haverhill, Mase., which he se. -ty Ba 4 hers today by|eured while investigating a New Haven ¢ fidencs. The Marshall, with| case. Cobh was called to the postoffics oo, was being towed from|by Postmaster John F. Penders on the wipom 1o New Yord and when about | ground that the packages were returned ¥o mies northeast of Bowton lightship | here and is said to have admitted mail- t bega L The barge sank within' ing them. = i A SRS o o 2 b L N BRIEF TELEGRAMS Ald For Italian Bank. Rome, Jan. 11—(By The A. P.)— Minister of Commerce Belotti today au- thorized the Bank of Naples to allot 60,000,000 lire for the benefit of the New ork branch of the Banca Italiana Di Scento. DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TIMBER LANDS URGED wasmngton, Jan, 11.—Provisions of the Snell-McCormrok forestry bill were ‘endorsed today by Elbert H. Baker, pub- lisher of the Cleveland Plain Deailer, who appeared at a hearing before the hous agricullure committee s a representa tive of the American Newspaper Pui- lishers’ Association. Mr. Baker said he favored “every por tion” of the bill which provides for co- operation by the federal government ‘With states and owners of timber lands in the conservation of forests and de- velopment of new timber tracts. Passage of the measure also was ad- wocated by W.el. Hall, representing the Union league Club of Chicago, who pre- sented resolutions from the club indors- ing the bill, Mr. Baker stated that of approximate- seven millior, toms of paper produced annually in the United States about 1 tons was newsp:int. An unfail- ing suppiy of paper Is vitally necessary to newspapers, he declared, adding that publishers aiso realzed the importans fire prevention as a means of safe- guarding forest lands. It is a wroblem of co-op: tween the feieral government private owners of forests Which we must e he asserted, “if we are to have a continuing supply of paper.” Mr. Hall, urging that the present gov- ernment program of gradual acquisition of land for forests be continued, de- clared there was need for national for. ests in all forest regions. “In the devastated lands of the lake states and the south” he stated, “we| have on our hands now the fruit of long vears of folly in dealing with our tin- ber lands. The newly erament Iy be- ration states &nd purchased national es foresty han in have bette stment for the according to Mr. Hall, who said | forests have become the the forest fire prevention resion where they in per con:. hone of tem in He new emphasized o a mportanc Pennsylvania A Ohio head prevent the in waters floods the | tey. | “Phm he W. Ay the Roston federal representing New Hampshire F more comprehensive b the Nat Prozram | itherto_unavailabie for this purpose I northeastern states | George W. Sisson, Jr., of Potsdam. N. Gt e S L and Pulp Association, emwha : | n the far iwest, Twith | e cost of rafl| ranmortation ! “The pa nation,” a maintained Mr. the Telicemint reut | cannat follow the fores: ver as the saw mills has “anada’s paper industry is grow- | ng ramiily because of the wealth of raw wmaterial In ite farests. America meist be permitted to face a future in <which its supply of paper wou come “rom foreign lands." Mr. Sisson declared that the paper in- dustry dld not use more than four per| rent of the amnual vmber cut of the TUnited States although more than 25 per nt. of the paper made in the United Statez ls' manufactured entirely or in | part|from wood Rameort Cebiedaincion Droviding for the conservation of tim-| her was given by the pamer ustry, he | | asserted. because of a recognition of lts| relation to the general public welfare. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN JAPAN AND FRANCE| Washington, Jan, 11 (B ythe A. P.)— Representatives here of the far eastern republic of Chita made public today a { memors ndwa whioh, they said, had been | submitied to Secretary Hughes as cha man of the Washington armament con- | jference anl o each. of the participat- ng delegatiors, comprising conies of th »lleged to have passed Tokio and Paris govern to Siberia documents, leged agreement ent of | correspondence | between the ng the | ments rel | Most o |an a dealing with r as to the - | Japanese protectorate over | Siberia, already ha Their authentieity hoth of the este has interested been pub- been de- | govern- mbers of th e Chita delegation sald | had not recefved a reply to| st for a hearing before the | when the subjest of Siberia The request was reiterated | memorandum, with the statement | interests of the entire world, of Siheria, are involved in | the equitable adjudication of that coun-| try's claims | | they Ir reay | ' reached the that | | Reviewinc ~onditlons in Siberia from | the date of \'ed intervention, the Chi- ta memorani. n asserts that the Japan- | 5o supported and protected Semienoff In the Zabaikal reglon and along %the line of the Chinese Fastern raiiroad, at the time when his activitles were cax ng the internationa ltechnical hoard to pro- test to the allied governments. It al- i leges that in April, 1920, the interollied | commitiee adopted a resolution hold | that the Japansse milltary authorities | by placing troops alonx the Chinesa eastern railroad assigned by the interal- ed agreement to the Clrinese gnards, had provoked conflicts as a result of | Whi Russians, Chinesa and Czecho-Slo- vaks had been cansed needless loss of life and the movement of trains jeopar- dized, After the American troams ‘laft Si- beria, in March, 1920, the mamorandum declares, the Japanese brought in mew troops, MAN'S BODY FOUND BY TWO FOX HUNTERS Middlefield, Conn., Jan. 11.—Two fox hunters crossing over Meriden mountain near the Wallingfbrd line. today came across a man's body which was identi- fled as that of Adam Wagsewich, aged 29, who had beon confined for a long time at the Connecticut. Hospital for tha: Insane in Middletown. Dr. John E. Toveland, medical examiner, saldj the man died of exposure Wassewich had been given liberty on | Severa the grounds of the January 2 he institution and on walked away. It is thought that probably that day or the next he reached the mountaln and be- came exhausted. RS Fight in the Senate is Growing in Intensity—New Resolu- tions Are Introduced Delay- ing Vote. Washington, Jan. 11.—The fight in the senate over the right of Truman H. New- berry, republican. of Michigan, to a seat in that body. which has been contested by Henry Ford, his opponent in the 1918 election, continued in all of its Intensity today, and when the session ended to- night predictions of the outcome generai- Iy were held in abeyance, so uncertain had the result become. It was agreed among leaders that the outcome rested on the final position to be taken by fewer than half gfozen senators whose attitude has not béen disclosed. Hopes for a vote today were dashed early by late minute demands of senators desiring more time to speak. Even an aitempt by Senator Spencer. republican, Missouri, who Is leading the Newberry supporters, to obtain an agreement to vote at 4 o'clock tomorrow was biocked, Senator King, democrat. Utah, objecting. Mr. King suggested tnat the agreement might he entered into tomorrow it brought up then. The introduction of two new resolu- tions dealing with Mr. Newberry's right 10 A seat also complicated efforts to bring the controversy to a close and de- | ferred agreement on a possible voting | s a result of the new resolutions nators whose time had been ex- under the hour limitation. im- by unanimous consent under the nal resolution dealing with the seat- of Mr. Newberry, again could gain e fioor, and soveral tofk advantage of the opportunity The resolutions hrought In today to declare the seat vacant, were b ators Owen, Oklahoma, and Montana. democrats. submitting his sought to elim the contr hoth | of Walsh Mr. Owerl said in proposal that he had nate all diaputed points in rsy so that the senate could | solely whether it was sound | i hat such latge amounts Oft s should he exnended in a campaign, | Valsh's resol represented a re- proposition declar- but redrafted “to tone” a statement of h respeic to the | the nation when iarge sums of in a campaign and elec- | Mr. casting ng the fon his original t vacan press in firmest x re possjbility of a move hy the demo- the whole case | o setk semat eclect privileges | committee, tempora set aside du iay, were talked of again close of th ate. No decision reached, however, as to whether suc 1 motion should he made. Leaders said to- night further informal conferences among the democrats be- meats tomorrow got arranged for nst the seating of Mr. Newherry nued in order offset the loss of on either side through the ab- | The pairings arranged Senators Dupont, republican tor_ and Stanley, democrat inst; and Mosen, republi- ! ampshire. for, ‘and Reed Missour!, against. Senate of- 0 attempted todar fo locate Sen. Johnson, republican, California, attitude on the cas: is not known, e senate foris 1o nairs and con- Irish Parliament to Meet Saturday Eamonn De Valera Tells Newspapermen That None of His Party Will Recog- nize the Meeting. Dublin, Jan. 11 (BY the A. P)—A meeting of the south Ireland parhament has been summoned for Saturday next, it was announced today. Eamonn De Va- lera informed the newspaper men this afternoon that none of his party would Tecognize the meeting of this parliament. The south Ireland parliament, elected In 1920 under the government of Ire- land act but which has never met offi- cially, is charged by the Anglo-Irish treaty with the duty of formally pass- ing upon that pact. Its membership is virtuaky the same as that of the Dail Eireann, which already has approved the treaty, PRELIMINARIES OF PUTTING IRISH TREATY INTO OPERATION Dublin, Jan. 11 (By the A. P.).—The summoning of the southern parifament to meet Saturday by Arthur Griffith, presi- dent of the Dail Eireann, and his cabinet, has started the machinery for putting the treaty into operation. Half a dozen huge vans backed in front of the chief secre- tary’s 6ffices in Dublin Castle this af- ternoon and removed stocks of official documents and effects of the secretarial and police departments. thus beginning the evacuation of the castle—the symbol to Irishmen for centuries of British con- trol. Eamonn De Valera informed the corre- spondents that he helieved his party would igRore Saturday meeting of the parliament. In response to am in- quiry regarding his plans, he said he in- tended continue the fight for inde- pendence: he supnosed clections would be held within six or nine months. Such elections, added Mr. De Valera, |five years. the Boston clearing hocPe an: | like the signing of th: treaty in London, |nounced it is to move to the new federzi| would be held under British threat of |reserve bank In Pearl street renewal of warfare and therefore he = would not accept the verdict as the un-| The London Times declares fthat al'| coerced will of the people. Rritish forces are to be withdrawn from | There is a biz line of cleavage,” said |Treland, excepting Ulster, as ranidly as De Valera, “between those standing or dependence and those for indepen- Never would he under any conditions take of aliegience contained in the treaty. Allu repub- n bonds. he declared they would be cemed by w r government was eventually establshed, and added that & | meeting of the leaders of the Sinn Fein ¥ would be held tomorrow to con ider the general position. An important development today was e issuance of a manifesto by the Irish labor party stating that labor would participate in the elections to secure rep- resentation in the new free state govern- ment. The method adopted In summ n- ng those who are to ratify the treaty < heid 1o indicate that the British ¢ w're avoid friction in the transerence of the ‘authority in Irelanc. Instesd.of act- ing directly, the Britis. gover ment act- ed through the Dall csMinet. leaving the Dail to initiate executio : of the treaty. The Associated Press is officially in- formed that the heads of Dublin Castle will do their utmost to facilitate and ex- pedite the provisional government's tak- telegrams have heen despatched n efforts to locate him_and to determina | whether he can be pairad, if he is unabla | to reach Washington in time for the vote. | re were seven speeches in the | course of the day, among them being one by Semator Underwood of Alabama, dem. | Ieader, which marked his entry o this stage of the fight, and another | Senate Tones. republican. Washing- N_ncad he would vote| vberrv. The other sena- all in oppoeition to the declaring Mr. Newberry to ba jualified senator, were Norris. repub- Nebraska, and Reed of Misso of Nebraska. Caraway of Ar- kansas and Heflin of Alabama, all demo- crats i by ton Mr. tors who spoke agalnst ican, Hitcheock Jones' epeech was brief, but he da- | clared that in determining to oppose Mr. Newberry he had not been frightened by | any threats that if he voed otherwise | his political life would jeopardized. Hea asseried that the controversy could in no way be made a party question and asked of dwmocratic slde whether if thev were in control they would determine all | such cases on a partisan basis. He added | he_did not belleve they would | Mr. Jones said further that he helieved the voters preferred a man who was 4 from conscientious grounds | than a man who was right| fear’ He declared that if h wrong In this ease Mt was on the | d that he could not believe thas Mr. | Newberry was antitled fo 2 seat A2 he. | i the rathe: through was or anvone in his behalf. had expended more than £200,000 in pressing his cam- paign for election. POISONOCS LIQUOR TRACED TO STEAMSHIT SARCOKIE N. T, Jan. 11.—The sour ? the poisonous iiguor which has can: ed a total of eight deaths In Hohoken Hoboken, and Jersey City, within a few days, including two reported today, was trac- ed to the Steamship Sarco Chiet of Police Hayes announced tonight. The vessel sailed from Hoboken last Saturday for South American ports with several drums of woe# alcohol, one of which, an Investigation disclosed, had been broken into by longshoremen and a_quantity of Its contents stolen. Chief Haves stated that the inquiry had established heyond doubt that the re- gcent fatalities, half of them oceurring | within a_small area of Hoboken resulted | from pilifered cargo of the Sarcokie. Today's victims were Carl Freund, 45, found dead at his home on First street, Frank Sanhop, 54, a longshoreman. Both were natives of Germany. EVERY SCHOOL CHILD IN BRIDGEPORT TO BE VACCINATED Bridgeport, Conn.,, Jan. 11.—The de- partment of health today ordered every child attending public or parochial schools vaecinated today as the resuit of the smalipox outbreak. One new case was discovered today, making 15 In all. One case has been reported from Mil-| ford, a suburb, and the state authori- tles have been notified. The dicease has made its appearance In five public schools. e LIQUOR LAW FINES I HARTFORD $63,500 IN 1921 Hartford, Conn., Jan, 11.—Fines col- lectad for violation of the liquor laws, imposed after trial, in the Hartford city court during 1921, reached a total .of{ 63,500, according to figures announced today. This revende goes into the city treasury. In estimating the budget for 1921, the clty court income in fines was Dplaced at $22,000 | begin. | ing over of full authority. Arrangements have 7iready heen made for the speedy evacu:tiion of the auxiliaries. and as soon as the treaty is ratified by the southern parliament evacuation of the army will Any of the existing Ifish officials whom the free state dismisses must be compensated from the Irish, excepting the auxiliaries and black and tans, who will be compensated by the British gov- ernment. The auxiliaries probably tn many cases will be emploved in the British crown coloniés. but ‘the black and tans are | featnteas ¥ regular recruits of the roval Irish constabulary. The date of their re- ent will furnish evidence of the purpose for which they were emploved, and. whatever happens the rest of the police force. they will all be dismissed. Tt is believed that all considerations of technical legality will be set aside in the transference to the provisional gov- ernment. with a view tg wxpediting af- fairs, ‘and necessary proceedings w! later b evalidated by an act of indemnity. The public is deeply interested in the hirried removal of the papers from Dub- in Cas It is generally surmised that one reason for ths is the undesirabiiity that the new government should have an orportunity “to inepect the Contents of documents having > do with searches and raidds and other measures of coer- clon, and that therefore all will be cart- ed away before the provisional govern- ment begins to function. tle THE cOALITION sPadism CABINET WAS RESIGNED Madrid, Jan. 11.—(By The The coalition cabinet, headed nio Haura premier and m| Jjustice, resigned today as a A. P)— Anto- ter of result of | the bitter political strife which has heen prevalent in Spain for a long time. Marker opposition lately had been shoswn to the conduct of the ministry of war by Senor De La Cierva, and the mins. try of finance Senor Cambro. by For a long time there has been econ- slderable political strife In Spatn, grow- Ing out of the conduct of the war in Morocco, the budget and internal affairs generall Particularly bitter has heen the dispute between the army officers' committee and Minister of War Clerva over the question of prometion of of- ficers. Since the return of Senor Clerva from Moroceo the antagonism of the of. ficers' committees has been exceeding- ly strong against him For several daye ghere .hake been rumors of the imminence of a ministerfal erisis and the dissolution of the coall- tion cabinet. Premier Maura wag de- clarad to be discontented over the po- litical eftuation and to have reached a decision to take & rest from polities. RUSSTA AND GERMANY RESUME BANKING RELATIONS Berlin, Jan. 11-—(By The A. P.)— After seven and a half vears' interrup- tion, official banking relations between Russia and Germany wert reopened on Tuesday. The new Russian state bank deposited several million marks in ' the Deutsch bank and drew its first check for 1,500,000 marks. SALPSMAN ARRESTED FOR BURGLARY AT HARTTORD New York, Jan. 11.—Leon Tarr, 24, a salesman, was arrested in Fifth avenus tonight as one of three burglars who drilled, oven the safe of the Reliable Jew- elry company of Hartford. ilonn., on the night of Dec. 31 last. stealing $2.000. Tarr, according to the police, confessed. |l and named his two companions CABLED PARAGRAPHS The price of eggs dropped 8 to 10 cents on the wholesale market it New York. The Australian Workers' Unions have voted, seven to one, in favor of one big union. . The Turkish nationalist assembly at Angora unanimonsly artoroved the freaty of friendship with the Ukraine. Native American seamen soon will be- come extinct, according to the In tional Seamen’s Union. One more smallpox case was reported to the heaith authorities in Bridgeport, making a total of 18 positive cases. The body of a man, clothed like a fisher- man, was picked up cn the beach near the Brewster, (Mass.) line, The monthly tomnage report of the United States Steel corporaticm, shower 4,268,414 tonsfof unfilled orders on rand December 31. age was estimated at $200,000 Tn & bloody fight hetween fasclsti and communists at Bergolia, near Garrara Ttaly, three persons were killed and & dozen badly wounded. Feur children were instantly killed and 17 othersyinjured when a schocl tus was hit by a.Pennsylvania fasi freight three miles east of Van Wert, Ohio Ammi Whitner of Portiand. e, who has been engaged fn the seed and azricul- tural fmplements trade since 1858, died at the age of §9. e i ixports of American eral excluding ipments to Canada and Mexico, increas- ed by 00 per cent. in 1921 as oorapared with 1913. Paul Deschanel. former president of France. seeking his first senate office was | defeated in marty eawpus for membership | on the senate foreizn affairs committee. After having heen on State street aixty- possible. the movement involving about | 50,000 men. A sentence of imprisenment in the Par- ish jail for 24 hours was imposed azainst Mayor I. F. Foley of Alexandria, La. by ( Judge Hundley, of the city court, for con- | tempt of court. Fire partially destroyed one of Tonis- oes. the old Courler- | ville's historic bulldings. th L3 Journal office buliding. for almost a ha'f century the home of the Conrier-Journal | The loss was estimated at §200,000 Nine year old Russell Mueller «f Chica- g0 is in a hoepital with a self-inflict>d buliet wound in his right thigh. He shot himself after his pet Boston terrier “Pez- gy" died. Nichelas Angnstine. arrested In Bridge- port on a charge of highwav rebbery of Nicholas Cammara, was bound over to the sunerlor court under £1500 bonds upon identification In court by Cammara. Princess Radziwl]l annonnces that the Sacred Rota’ tribunal of the Vatican. has | annulled tha marriage of her son. Prince Radziwill, to Miss Dorothy Deacon, which tonk place in 1910 at London. Oficial annenncement s made that the | supreme council anproved the nlan for the !formation of an international finance eor- iporation, decided upon by the economic committee. Pi alley. & hyway ns old ns Boston lteelf and considered public property by the thousands who us. it as a short cut he- tween Newspaper Row and City hail, has been posted as a private way. The Tondan Times snve It s anthorita- treely stated that the eouneil of alled am- hassadors has consentend i tha Zep-alin company bullding in Germany an atrehip for the Ameriean government, The Airectors of the Fagle Lock com- | pany, TerrrTe, electad Henry B. Phrh president of the comnany tn sueceed his hrother, Rollin J. Plub, who ded last | week | The Farr Alpasa Co. Folveke, Wass, | announced the distrib | of a total of anoroximate! bonus to its 3,000 emnloves annual distribution The fire wardens of the state. In sesclon at Hartfordw heard an address by State Forester A. F. Hawes. He said that fer: fires in Connecticut had swept over 19.- 6§30 acres of timher land in the year 1921 causing a loss of more than 900, on next Friday | ¢ $250.000 as 2| This ts an | Tneoma tax collacted from Connecticut the previeus year. gated more than 32! wres for 1920 were $59, $36,750,000 for 1921, people in howed a big decrease from The decline. aggre- 000.060. The fix 36,000, as againet More men and women are baing trained fer the ministry than ever before accori- ing to the report of the life work eom- mittes at the annual meeting of the couneil of church boards of education of Chicago. A DBHI permitting @ person Injured by antomebile to have a lien on the car for | the satisfaction of any judzment against the owner was recommended by the @pecial commission «n Insurance in its| xeport in its repont to the Massachusetts| legislature. The voleans Ometepe. on the island of Ometepe, eight mifles from the western shore of Lake Nicaragua, 1Is in active truption. Many thousands of eocoa riants have been destroyed, large areas of graz- ing lands are covered with ashes, and many cattle are dead. The emploves of Smith & Wesson. pis- tol manufacturers, Springfield, Mass were notified to report for work Monday when a wage reduction of 20 per cent. will ba put into effect. The plant has been closed since last July owing to busi- ness conditions. Night life In Montreal sustains a severe blow in the bylaw adopted by the execu- tive committee of the city council here which fixes the closing hour of public dance halls at 1 a. m., except on Saturday when they must close at mid- night. Proposals to establish an export eombine of 130 automobile manufacturers to en- large cradit resurces ani reduce over- head cost of foreign trade were taken un- der consideration by delegates to the con- vention of export managers. of the Natfon- Automobile Chamber of Commerce im New Yol D e o B I S BRITISH MEMO — RANDUM FOR THE SECURITY OF FRANCE In the Proposed Anglo-French Agreement Great Britain Pledges That She Will Be Ready to Throw Her Forces to the Aid of France If French Soil is Attacked—Memo- randum Declares, That the Resumption of Trade With Russia is Indispensable. “annes, Jan. 11---(By the A, P.)—The [and’s su porters, PBritish memorandum of the proposed Anz- lo-French pact, which has bee ntelezraph- The Angler mills plant of three buildings | ed textually t Londop, decares Great on Main street Asnland, Msss, was de- | Britain makes the security of France a stroyed by-fire early vesterday. The dam- |probiem of her own and that she wil, be ready again to throw in her for 1814, if French soil is attacked. Resumiction of trade relations with Russia was declarad by memorandum to be indispensable to the recovery of Eur:pe and the consent of France to the Russian participation in the economic ne- gotiations was made one of the condition: of the accord. A copy of this British memorandum was handed to Premier Briand yesterday. The memorand: an emb, diment of the British viewpoint on the proposed Ang- lo-French pact as expressed by Frime Minister Lloyd eorge in convcersations with the French premier in Cannes on January 4 foliowing ;revious discussions of the subject between them in Lindon The memorandum sets forth as th British viewpoint substantially the fol lowing points: Great Britain cannct agree to postpo ment of,the r ion of Burope wh meeting French regardicz T arations and security. The British gc ernment must be in a on to tell the British people that the two countries are marching together to restore the econcmic structure of Europe. eat Britain con- siders the first condition to a trus en- tente is the avoidance of naval competi- tion. Therefore, the British government prop-ses as a condition 1o the contfm posi t plated treaty that the admiralities of the re- Wo counries confer with each other garding their respective naval pre order to avoid such com; & The memorandum also < uron the of clearing up ints at sue between the two countries. Therefor: an essential condition ¢o the pro- he is- is that peace in the near near should be restored, and d clares his majestey’s givernment is con- fident at there are no outstanding uestions whick cannct be satisfactory solved, in order that a treaty of guaran- tee between the two countries may be sealed and confirmed by a complete and durable entete. The intention of the premies that no piecemeal treatment is admissible, but that all problems between the two coun- tries must be treated together. The mem- srandum e largely a resatement of speech of Mr. Lloyd George at the open- it of the Cannes conference, dealing with the whole Furopean situation It contends that France is more for- tunately sMuated than other countries, inasmuch as being agricultural and self- dependent she suffers much less than Eng- 1and and other nations from unemployment and collapsed international trade. After amrhameizing the need also to restor Russia It says, with regard to her own in- terests and therefore is preared to und take that, in the even* of unprov German ageressiin against Fren the British people v-il iplace their forces of the side of France. The memorandum adds that this will be a double guarantee, not only safeguarding France in the event of an attack. but makin gsuch an attack extremely impron- o1 able, “because Germany is wiser than in 1914, when she mew little of the British commonw h, and knw- ing that the British emp wiil stand by France, she will not likely be tempted to keep alice dreams of revenge.” - It greatly important to divert the German mind from such ambitions, as well as (o rrovide for th edefeat of such amb sh-uld they mature, eays the memoran- dum, ’ The memorandum proceeds to Toint out two alternatives to act results. The first is an offensls fensive alliance, which the premier rules out because such alliances are contrary British traditfon. Morcover: the Brit people would be unwilling to he committes jes for breaches of the or Eastern Europe ove to mil ntral rlsewhere, and would not sanction an al- liance appearing to involve such responsi. bility. The second ~ alternative guarantee that the British \France will stand togethe rirerovoked aggression French soil. This was discussed last impertal conference and would sess greater weight because it wo the British empire's support. Mr. Lioy= George argues that as France Franes ¢ rot be invaded by any nation ecept G many such a guarantes wruld seoure complete safety and “this alternative his majestey's Drefers o adopt therafore gavernment On the question of submartnes Mr. Lioyd George declares plainly that Bri ish eninion would insist on a rrogram of anti-submarine craft if the French mand for submarines was maintained The two countries would thus be launched vron naval competition. “The British government ecannot uise the fact says Mr. L'oyd George. hat such a development would react very sertously on British sentiment toward Fraree and French sentiment toward Great Britain. Great Britain's sea e¢'m- munications are to Great R: in what France's eastern frontier is to France. Nava loompetition in a form would eorrode go0d will Declaring that the time has nassed when statesmen ean pledge their coun- tries to engagements regardless of pop- ular sentiment, the premiar emphasi: the necessity t5 avold dividing Euroe to two armed camps and repeats that basie for the proposel sconomic confe: ence must be that all nations jotn I an undertaking to refrain from ageression against each other. BRIAND WILL FACE TRE FRENCH PARLIAMENT TODAY Paris Jan. 11.—(lly the A. P.)—Prem- ler Briand, bearing the text of the long sought British alliance, will tace the French parliament tomorrow, w al- trough hostile tonight, may nevertheless. in tha opinion of many observers. give him a vote of condence because it dare not re- fuse a concreta pact owing to differences of opinion concerning some of the clauses and concessions. Both senate and chamber party caucus- es have sent messages of p-otest to M. Briand, and there is much talk of over- throwing the government, as has freugen ly been the case In the pas year. Bri- o wever, expcct him to Gaston Vidal, under secretary of state, commenting on the alliance, said: “We are bringing to the country the security’ which it has been demanding since the Versailles treaty. How can the chamber refuse 1o endorse what it has been anxiously calling for f past three years. . The cabinet held long sessims yesterday and today, and parliament makes no secret of he min- isters disapprov he Briand bargain, and also that t badly split. The fate of the Fr and also the future of orif foreizn policy of France hangs upn tomorrow's vota, Mr. Briand will reach o'clock tomorrow mornis | addition to se sucplied by wl Cannes, which the cuuncil considered sufficient. A desvatch sent to the premier by the cabinet at the conclusion of its deliber. ations, this morning, the tex: of which is not known, was respe for M. Bri and’s hurried trip to Pa Whather M. Briand will g0 before chamber In the ration and reues approval of th decided at the cabinet counc: fer himself, through M. Danielou, secretary of st known in the chamber ti aMy desirous of bringing before the chamber and thus his oft repeated utterances i and chamber rnoon, read his decias a vota of confi FOUR ESSENTIALS FOR THE ANGLO-FRENCH AGREEMENT Paris, Jan. any agreement with Great - volving the German The telegram exp the proposed pac apnroval of the The message was an a resomtion adopted unanimously by 25 after a long discusston. It from the commission financas of the chamber of depu reminding Premler Briand that he had obligated hi the parliament not to consent to further sacrifices. A more drastic motion was prepared for the commission for foreign affairs of chamber, along the same lines asm in the m sent by M. Poin- which will presented tomor- Britain reparations ques- tlon. that in become followed a telegra M. Polncare's telezram declared that the general sentiment of the senate eall- ed for the following general declarations: cconimie and n of France !s e the reconstruction of Europe Second—The reparations -due Fra: hould not be changed, there must const reduction or of the previ- ous schedule of May 5 and Belgian pri- ority should not be toucher; Thiri—France cannot accent the position to attend the fortheotng Gen- less she is given defintta 03 conference u and effective aseurances that her rights will he respecte Fourth—The Franco-Britteh pact should, above all, confirm the gmaran- tees and methods of execnution and tha uritles France now holds under ex- Isting peace treaties, or will hold undes sture accords. The fourth point erumerated was sen- erally internreted tn mean that Franca reserves the rizht to physieally enforce the terms of the treatr of Versaflles fhat QGmeit acord emch TRANSPORT CROOK ALFAK WITH 942 A. E. F. MEN ABOAED New York, —(By The A. P)— Tnreatened awy nort ales which eau officials predicted would north antic’ coas’ the arn k. ng eleven knots under repairs, w: he lee of tha pending danc- back 942 A. sprung a lea! banks in heavy a late radio sald danger ed and all wag well At noon today the transnort’s post 400 miles 130 nd Banks. Weather burean ht the terrific gale ! tern part of the coun- still traveling a northeasd ion, but was mov- S tia veerinz from southeast to west, tonight wou'd be blowing violently from the north west The naval communications office c rcultted, however, ghat the trasport stood @ good chanee to reach the protecs tion of the Unlted States coast befora the full force of poksible northwest gales crossed her path. Anticipating encounter with hazardons woath the crook's weakened cond: tio: St. Mihiel, which was e transport sent to her aid and recalled, put o again this afterroon, It was said b commanding offices had orders to tak ok the Cook's pass: if she shor be w The St. Mihiel to port onsidered in dan accompany her The Coast Guard Cut Boston to pick up the after the news of her ceived and with orders to stand by We until €he reached port. The steamshin George Washington aiso was belleved to be one of the liners in the y that could give assistance If needed. The Crook is one of the oldest ships in the army service. She carries a erew of thirteen officers and 133 men, com- manded by Joseph Reppa. + Charged with atealing an antomobil én Boston and later rophinc Brunswick, Me,, of $1,0 ltrie of East Boston was tulmed ove &0 the Maine authorities. He was b rested in Worcester,