Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 16, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIV—NO. 13 POPULATION 29,685 '}\ NORWICH, CONN., MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1922 Bulletin EIGHT PAGES—SIXTY COLS. ; NEW FRENCH MINISTRY HAS BEEN FORMED BY POINCARE List Submitted Has Been Accepted by President Millerand— Poincare is Credited Wth Having Achieved a Notable Success in Limiting the Ministerial Crisis to Three Days —OF the Fourteen Ministers Four Are Senators and Ten Are Members of the Chamber—All the Under Secreta- ries Are Deputies. A. P, ntention of having Great Britain and France guarantee Poland against possi- German attack. of Franco-British reld- —Ray- Arist . mier of ¥rance. completed [ '9 HCEOAR S o presented their | yiontl[o To0ly S b the Jourdal Des Milterand. The pres- | popaey Poincare’s premiership. | T ader the coutries lived, .| savs the paper, “iike an unhappily mat m of foreign at-| ST LT time in wrang- v | reconciliatigns, sometimes justic [ wn rm in arm, sometimes suiking, 5 ow.. | France always pa the expense of garto ot repudiating the supreme ¢ De Las 6 Wilat s e Hackssass foicanc g | sidhs: ‘previonsly teaGien Be o | he movernments, M. Poncare T.ean Terard at affairs should me studied and foreign ministers and printe what it alleges g of many men in_the . S: : | the effect that Mr. Lloyd P ambitions to ho'd the supreme ih Furope, 1s children and make you vour interests. Desbats, “Paris is no ablishment of London or New STATEMENT OF JINANCIAL ity | CONDITIONS IN GERMANY 15—(By The A adical re- which ter and ed to it at heme and No onporftion is advanced by Herr Rernhard to foreizn particination in the he hank. He suzzests that onlv confined- to the entente T Atuo" GREN el e ner. . rests. e cwnresses the helisf . raational Aircetorate wouljl control through an en- R fef expresred over the tempor- th her N navment now &l tue oaiint b Zovernment will' be A dema na fa nroblem amission actually exp ernment to wh 5 ‘ range of renar ssues in { which the allled governments amo @ hive been unabl s s ist two vears S e Fropkfurter ¥ savs C m aced In a noeuliar posi- Ived in <ion, inasmuch as the nrobl man o hest of the ded ac nloaded on Germ of movement a this newspaper us tem- ad BRITAIN TO GUARANTEE BELGIUM DEFENSIVE SUPPORT . 15.—(By The A. P)— n an ve foday received the z r wepapermen and confirmed the sig- ire of a provisional protocol for an arie ention cuar- e aaten suoport Tcer all the Britisn forces In case of ag- zression azainst Belzum by any for- The the terms of the com- mitted simultaneonsly tomorrow to the Britlsh and Belgian eab- ts. He added that Italy would send ations to the Genoa conference and expressed the belief that fted States would be represent- Belzian Aelegates were proceeding to Genoa with the home of re-establish- tion that nz Aurable peace: Belzium has impos- should be vemched on ali 4 the condition that Russia recognizes r Deshats is more|not onlv national loans, but municlpal . “We believe that|and provisiona] leans, and also Integrally oree is mistaken in the|restores factorler and industrial works, s bound M.|In which 2,50,000 frangs mold is the ce. Inanr case it ia|amount of the Belgium investments. e of the premier of a| Referring to the facllities for the pav- s tn declde whether the|ment of war debts granted by Great zovernment is bhound by the | Britain on 1500000 pounds sterling loan- by a Freneh premier wio has|ed to (Relgium, Premler Theunys ex- sanoroved. That fs n consito. |pressed the hope that the United States on which the French goy-|would follow Great Britan's example, as | alome 1= qualified to decide” | the Belglan debt amounted to $160,,000,- 000, MPARISOY OF OBJECTIVE OF BRIAND AND POINCARE | LEGAL ACTION OVER = A STOCK TRANSACTION s Jan. 15.—(By The A. P.;—The — vuppossdly ‘wills Givekmiice of visws hetd w Yorle, Jan. 15.—An alleged stock oincare and M. Briand on the | transaction In the open market involving British pact appears less strik- | 2700 shares of California Crushed ¢ In the light of later information |Fruit Company, caused the arrest to- > by delegates returning from the | night of Willlam Herman, James Grat “nnes conference. It appears that the | and Henry Spitz, of the brokerage firm the pact published represented | of Grat and Company, on a charge of ompiets stage: it was te text of | grand Mrceny. art of the pact so far agreed to,| The complainant, Willlam W. Lennox, a4 by Mr. Lloyd George and hand- | member of the brokerage firm of Len. » Mr Rriand an hour before the |nox and Montford, charged In an affi- prem davit that the three primoners instruct- Rran ed his firm on December 20, last, to buy *d 1o the attention Lioyd | the stock at the market price for Grat i* be made reservations on{and Company and at the same time —first, that a clause shovld be | threw upon the market, throughout dif- serted that the French and British | ferent brokers, an equal quantity of the #affe agree upon measures to he tak- |stock to be %old at the hizhest prices to give practical effect to the pact, | obtalnable. The result was, Lenmnox and. secomd, desired some charged, the 2,700 shares *which Graf for an exten: and Company was selling, were hought veary by Lennox and Montford for $13,750. He Thus apparently M. Briand sought and | further charged that when the stock was #xpecied to obtaln what M. Poincare is | offered to Graf & Company in mccordance understond to be demanding, except that with the original agreement, % French premier is credited with the refused to acept ft. the firm CABLED PARAGRAPHS Carried OF Historle Couch. Jena, Germany, Jan. 15 (By the A. P.). —Four men, representing themselves as French officers, entered the hotel known as “The, Sign of the Nightingale” last night and demanded of the proprietor the surrender of the historic sofa upon which Napoleon is supposed to have rest- ed during the battle of Jena. The hotel proprietor complied Wit the request and :’l\e couch was-carried off in an automo- iie. Runaway Airplane Crashed Into Skaters On the Shrewsbury River at Bank, N. J.—Killed 2 Wo- man—Many Persons Injur- ed. * Red Bank, N. I, Jan. 15—A runaway airplane crashed into a erowd of several hundred skaters on the Shrewsbury river today, Killed Min Anna C. Hounihan, | severed the right arm of her brother, | Lawrence Conley, of Middletown, N. J., and slightly injured many others. Thousands of persons, gathered along the riverbank to witness iceboat and skating races, saw the accident. The airplane, piloted by James Casey of Shrewshury. former army aviator, manoeuvered over the heads of the skat- ers for several hours, then descended to the jce. The crowd gathered around the machine, and rivernien, fearing that the ice would give way, suggested that Casey leave. PROBLEMS OF THE ORIENT DELAYING ARMS CONFERENCE Washington, Jan. 15 (By the A. P.).— It the Shantung conversations make the progress hoped for by conference lead- ers during the next two or three days, the end of the coming week ma? see of the issues raised in the Wi negotiations well on the way toward so- lution, Confidence that the Shantung problem is nearing a settlement was apparent in most quarters tonight, the delegates feel- ing that with the other Far Eastern questions in abevance the separate ex- changes between the Chinese and Japan- ese over the former German leasehold | would be pressed forward rapidiy. Neither of the two groups directly inter- ested was prepared to say that an agree- | ment was in sight, but they evinced a| He assented, turned the propeller and hope that fresh instructions from Tokio jumped for the cockpR. The machine and Peking, expected hourly, might help swerved and started toward the crowd. materially to clear up the situation., | Mrs. Hounihan, with herSusband, brothe As soon as Shantung is out of the way, | er and two children, stood in its path. and perhaps sooner, the conference Far| Conley attempted to drag her to safety. Eastern committee will resume its con-|but both were caught in the propeller eration of other problems of the Ori- | blades. ent. with all the delegates in a position to| Mrs. ‘Hounihan was killed instantly. present their views quickly, so that the|Conley’s arm was severed at the shoulder negotiations here will not be excessively | and his olothing torn to shreds, prolonged. On most of the remaining is-| Other persons were struck Wy the sues the delegatoins already have inform- | wings and sent snrawling on the ice, but ed themselves thoroughly regarding the | their injuries were superfi views of other groups and the prospect e for an agreement. INSURANCE OF CROPS IS The navai negotiations NATIONAL FARM POLICY/ be as good as completed also appear to the treaty text agreed to by the “Big Five” being re-| <wachington, Jan. 15— Instrance of gardd as v "'f""'i,"_’ iain to meet the ap- | crops as a method of stabilizing prices of Usiabere s i OB LR naval| farm products is exnected to be one of Committes and of the oonference JSClf, | many suggestions put forward at the na- SULNE R DDRALY Hes Joth of these ! tional agricultural conference which meetings - probably will be held during|,nens here Jan. 23 for inclusion in a the coming week, leaders pianning to set| o manent national farm policy. Discus- the conferente motion_ for | on within the conference would be ex- ed to develop whether the proponents would recommend that the insurance be ed y the farmers co-operatively { private companies, or through Hail insurance has already been tried cco growers and storm insurance force in some secfons of the west, final approval of Tokio sends formal cle dealing as soon as | with Pacifie fortfications. | govern: S OF THE YALE CORPORATION | | hy ew Haven, T, —The election of | za Grant Mason of New York and|but for the first time experts expect to Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin of New |See the question presented for an insur- < members of the Yale Corps anc ainst all cron risks. was announced tor Mr. Crop insurance has heen tested to a son succeeds the Rev. Smyth | certain extent. it was declared, both hy of New Haven, who resizned last spri mitual farmers' companies and by ori- after a service of 22 vears, and Dr. (' vate insurance companies and agricul- fin succceds Pavson M of 21 experts declare it has proven sue- York, who resigned . last week. B (GE (he) mnty et ieiecien Balancing produetion with consumption B el i e e | is another important tonic which the con- Mr. Ma: n was graduated from Shef-| leaders expect to see come up. fletd Scientific School, Yale, in 1885. He tion of supply of crops and has been active in Yale alymni werk for | {oodstuffs to markets has long been come vears and as the renresentative of | Studied and suzzestions which are likely the New York Yale Club has ~heen a (0 come from conferenca delogates, it was member of the_alu ranze all the way from the oid aere- o is at present sor mitation 10 a more-careful study of nroduction and consu chairman of this e was pres-| mption. Along nt of the New York Yale Cluh from | ¥ith.this would zo czon surveys in Amer- 1013 to 1990 and acted as chairman of | ica Which wcuid enabie producers, in the the committen on plan for university de-| opinion of acrieultural leaders, in ad- S e _\‘ama of crop planting, to guage the con- PO o 2 | sumption demand. le two years azo. Mr. | —_—— of the hoard of control of | ANTHRACITE MIMERS TO FRAME WAGE DEMANDS s Pa.. Jan. 15—C. Golden. = om nt of District 9, United Mine Tniver: Workers of America, announced tonight: edford Park Preshvterian | that nreparations were complete for the 1900 to 1905, | onvention of anthracits pastor of the Madison 1l meet here Tuesday to Avenue Preshyterian chureh, which pas- | ime demands for a new wage contract radicals nut a enrb on torate he now holds nz the w h the onerators to replace the agrees <a .M C. A worker in France. e mont which expires Aprll 1, an assnclels w-ofessor at Tiaion The-| Tpo international officers of the unten o 2l Semiha # M8 | nave arranged to attend. Their influence he Lyman s at | B President Johi L. tomorrow, while Murray and ington, Jan. 15.—Agreement has - expected Tuesday. eached by leaders of the senate | e officers would maxe no predic- itural bloc on two aiternatives de-|iinne what the miners will do, Indlea- nove objections held DY |tione were that an effort will be made to President rding to legislation propos-| g, a schedule that will ask for a ing a farmer representative on the fed-|iiwenty per cent. inerease wages, the eral reserve hoard. These are expected | to be presented to the White House so that the president may indicate his pref-| crence, when thiy will become the ac-| lution of the senators supporting lation he first of the two suggestions, said to have been adopted i formal conferences yesterday | between the bloc leaders, was th; | proposed statute he changed ta give mem- | bership on the hoard to representatives of | the several phases of national industrial and commercial effort; the second| oo yo Jam i5.—Four hundred would wipe out any specific designatiol delegates from four states at a meeting the makeup of the board. #aich now . : ) e = v | 0f the American Jewish relief commit- must include two members of banking | ot 5 - troom pEs {tee here today pledzed experience, and leave the representation | D N to the authorfiy hoiding the appointing | "ia7 (he wm B8 BHDIR X0 et FEurop: The delegates were power. There did not seem to have been a defi- i closed shon and uniform rates for simi- hour r work at all mines, ork day may also be giv The demands, after adoption by the anthraclte men, must go hefore the In- mational convendan Tndianapolts next month for apnroval before they are presented to the ameraters six n cons $6,700,000 FOR JEWISH RELIEF IN EUROPE n east nite understanding among the bloc lead- ff'"«p"?"h""d En Desscy HiTew York, ers s to whether they would press their | COnecticut and Rhode Island. - original demand that the board m'mh(r-\ . '"'> .hr ;“' b s s s {0 EHip lbe incedze b one o fakekcuator A that the three main courses | committee had declded g pursue, were the granting of eredit facilities to small merchants and farmers, the organization and increased support E and the purchasing of tools and fmple- ments for those unable to buy them. Eugene Warner of Ruffalo, president the farmer member. This plan was con- tained in the original Kellogg bill, but| | the Smith amendment altered it scme- what and specified that the farmer men ber. should be selected To fil the first vacanc: e of the Jawish Federated Charities, was JURY IN BURCH CASE X sps | clected chairman of th» New York state HAS BEEN OUT 50 HOUES| ;mpaien. The state quofa was placed at $6,000,000 of which $5.000,000 is to Los Angeles, Calif, Jan. 15—The |y, focar®yh oL "o en 380 jury in the case of Arthur C. Burch | connecticut's quota was fixed at $150. charged with the murder of J. Belton|ong witn Tsame Tilman of New Haven [ Kennedy, was taken to dinner at 6 o'- ; chairman: Rhode Island’s. $150,000. Ar- clock this evening, fifty hours after the chibald Silverman, Providence, chalr. ten women and two men cOMPOSINE it|man and northern New Jersey, $600. first retired to the jury room. Announcement was made that the jury woxld return for an evening session about 7.30 p. m. The jury has made communicate with the terday afternoon when Judge Sidney N. Reeve, presiding, ordered them locked them up until Monday morning. On several oocasions women's voices raised to a high pitck could be heard in the jury reem. Reports current wers that balloting had generally resulted nine to three with a majority adverse to the defend- ant, - 00; Felix Fuld, Newark, chairman. LIFE OF WILL HAYS TO BE INSURED FOR $2,000,000 New York, Jan. 15.—The life of Post. master Will H. Havs will be insured for $2,000,000 when he resigms his cahinet Post to head the Natiomal Moving Pic- ture Combination, it was announced to- day after a meeting of a_sub_committee of motion picture men. The policy will he made payable, in even of his death, fo e reorganized Natlonal Association of the Motion Pictnre Industry, and the amount being 0 large, it was stated, wonld be dlstributed among several eom- panies, no attempt to court since ves- TEN ARRESTS MADE BY THE = ROYAYL, IRISH CONSTABULART Belfast, Jan. 15—Members of the Royal Irish constabulary in County Ty- rone today arrested ten occupants of au- tomobiles bound from Monaghan to Lon- donderry, who said they were Gaellc football players, but who wore Irish re- publican army uniforms. Several of the men are declared to have carried loaded revolvers, and arms are alleged to have been found in the cars. Onme of the men PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN FOR STAR IN THE WINDOW Chicago, Jan. 1§.—The Christian Temperance Union row, the second. anniversary tion, will launch a “star in the window” campaign. It is planned to have star flazs similar to the service flags of the war, put up in every home where no li- ‘Woman's on tomor- of prohibi- arrested in belleved to be an Irish repub- lican army officer. He carried despatches ‘which as “importang” quor is consumed. The flags will bear the inscription: . ““We are Americans We supvort the Constitution.” BRIEFATELEGRAMS Benjamin F. Shibe, president of the Philadelphia, American League Baseball club, died Saturday. Crew Saved After Abandoning Hope Eight Men Were Without Food and Water For Two Days—Lashed to Cabin Hatch. New York, Jan. 15—Without food and water for two days and during that time lashed to the cabin hatch pf their water-logged crawt to prevent them being washed overboard by -mountainous seas, Captain V. M. Cole and sevan members of the crew of the American schooner James M. W. Hall arrived hera today on the steamship West Canon, awhich picked them up 250 miles’ southe east of Cape May. N. J. Virtually abandoning hope of ever be- Inz picked up alive. the shinwrecked crew used its remaining dry match Fri- day night to set fire to a dishpan of. gas- oline in a last desmerate attemnt to make The French are planning to reeap the aeronautical endurance rocord re- cently taken away from tnem by the Americans. - President | Harding by executive order has removed from civil service require- ments the wffice of deputy commissioner of internall revenue. Nine of’ Uncle Sam’s old submarines have just iended their careers by serving as targets. for the guns of the destroyer squadrons attached to the Asiatic fleet. Water, heat and light from a single well less than 230 feet deep has made John Schaeffer, an Allegany, (N. Y. county farmer, envied by his neighbors. Lady Allee Whitney, widow of Sir James Whitney, formerly premier of On- tario, died in Toronto, after a brief ill- ness, Former United States Semator diah\ Gardner of Rockland, M Oba- known its plight. The resultant flaré|covering nicely from the surgical opera- yas soon from the Weat Canon. bound | SOIECond Saet Monar. o it and took off the men, who i bl X g William F. Carrigan, former manager e echonaer whien 1oft Cnafiecton, | 0f the Boston Americans, has resigne: 3 g 7 as vice president of the Maine and New s Soston, January 5 with a car- : e e & CAT) Hampshire Theaters Company. i Captain Cale declared he encountered heavy gales and roush seas snan after| Twelve persans, most of them wamen leaving Charleston. They increased In force and hecame so violent on the tenth that the vessel sprung a leak and hegan to fill with water. All hands were out to work at the numps but they could make little headway hecause of the ter- rific pounding to which the craft was subjected. Finally, conditlons became o bhad that the captaln ordersd all men to lash themselves to the hateh of the cabin 7 was the only part of the deck structure to remain above the water. Except for brief intervals when one ar the other of the men would risk the fury of the seas to send up distress siz- nals, they and children, were rescued Saturday during a fire in a four story temement house in the West End, Boston. The schooner James M. W, Hall, on 2 voyvage frem ston, S. C., for Now York, was abargned at sea in a water- logged conditioi. Men's clothing during the coming vear will be, for the most part, sober in its general effects, but it will refiect thing of the atmosphere of the ballrcom. somes The schooner J. Duffy, the recent Nowa Scotia fis participant in ing schooner remained that way for twn|faces, was heached, filled wat days and nizhts with nothing to eat or|after she had siruck a bar at the moud drink. ATl their clothes. and versonal|of La Have riv s. 3 felongings, With the exception of those ¢hey wore, wera lost Wwith the schooner.| The Massachusetts supreme courti s- The schooner resistered 491 tons andsyed an interlocutor: decree accepting the resignations of Herbert W. Eustace and Paul A. Harvey as trustees of the Christian Science Publishing Societ was owned In Poston, ENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY INVITES AN INVESTIGATION A Bill filed for legislative actlon secks New York, Jan. 15.—The General|enactment of a law requiring every in- Electric Company, through its counsel.| habitant of Massachusetts to attend Charies W. Appleton, tonight made pub-|church each Sunday unless unable be- lie er chaj it by S cause of mental or ph William H. Lyneh, a_veterinary surgeon = cal condition: v a letter to Altorney General Dauza- king him investigate thc of illeal practices made againat muel Untermyer. counsel for the Dr. Me., of Portland, was charzed 1 at 1| with emhbezzlement of §2, of state Lockwood iegisiative « §mittee investi- | With e gating the housing !y on, funds in his office while serving as state The letter states that the company |livestock sanitary commission. Father Dominie, who was spiritual ad- viser to the late Terence MacSwinay, lord mayor of Cork, was among the thir- ty Sinn Fein pjrisoners released from Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight. was charged, directly or indirectly, with creating and maintaining a monopoly in the manufacture and of tungsten incandescent lamps, with extortinz large sume from the public by unlawful meth- ode,“ with g its accounts to evade payment ome taxes, and with vio- lating a decre of the federal court. All_these charges tnacompany denles and M ppleton suggests that if At- torney General Daugherty is in doubt as to the of any of the company’s he “bring an approoriate procsed- inz in a court where the company may be heard, in order that the matter may be determined.” One bandit was killed and another was seriously wounded and captured when six armed men held up W. M. Brown's roadhouse ten miles south ot Toledo, O. legality acts, The Quebec llauor commission is planning to open a wine shop for wo- men, mahaged by members of their cwn AT lstter also ‘waz sent to'Stats Attor- | SEX, in the heart of’ the “ahopping dis ney General Newton inviting him to{ ‘T THE Soroceedines menina (e COMPANY | Terminntion of the steike mgaiust six roine belicved Chat anv, ofifhe chsizes|New Foik meat, padking oy, Pointed o a vibiation of any law of the | (il (e g western packers. wa atedon Newdax nounced by Pendleton Dudlev, eastern APAR: G Eno NS {Eomiaotion Institute of Meat rack- ISLANDS PART MAINLAND 2 = Death in New York of Jiss Nora Tokio, Jan. 15 (By the A. P.).—That|g.oit " gister of the late Mrs. Marshall the Bonin Islands. belonging as they 49| preiq and aunt of Countess Beatt the Tokio prefecture, properly constl- | e ™o W%, Farl Beatty of the © a part of the mainland, and must be i ® O\ BATIEE RE -l so regarded, and therefore excluded from | % S the zone of fortification limitation, is al-| po 0 v TEIT bl an attorney leged to be the declsion of the Japanese | op c"'A merican "Civil Liberties’ Leaxue The Nich! Nichi today quotes a foreign ‘,;‘r;\"l'jz‘ e G B office authority eaving the questlon is not |, " 1izced in an automobile and car- of the most importance to Japan. since £ town. there is no intention to increase fortifi- | Ted 0ut of 5 cations. It expresses the opinion that the zovernment will no timpose serious obe jections to the contention of Arthur Balfour of the British delegation at Washington. “The foreign office, says the new: paper, “denies the report that the o ernment has instructed its delegates af Washington to make further concessions or proposals regarding Shantung, and says its at de in t'\is regard is entire- Iy unchanged” the it Leave of nhsence to Professor Ken-| neth S. Latourefte of the department of micsions of the Yale Divinity School, was granted by the corporation that he may attend international meetings in Pe- kin and Shanghai next year. The United States trandport Crook, which was in serious difficulties at sea on Wednesdaq, when she sent out wireless call for aid, arrived in New York Saturday. She was accompanied by the transport St. Mihiel. P Rioting which attended the arrival at Madras, India, of the Prince of Wales, was caused by the activities of the new- ly organized “civil guards” composed of British residents and half-breed An- glo-Indians. TWIN INFANTS WERE SUFFOCATED IN BED Baltimore, Md., each other’s arms, Jan. 15.—Clasped in Charles and Frank- lin Moran, thr,> months old, twin sons of Mr. and Mis. Frank D. Moran, were found by their father suffocated in their bed this morning. The infants, during the night, had drawn their thick blan- kets over their heds, and In their con- vulsions as they -smothered, had grasped each other's arm The American Haedwood Manufac- turers Association will ask the supreme court for a modification of its recent decision which held that the operation of the statistical bureau of the associa- Mrs. Moran, their mother, does mot!| o ia illegal know of the tragedy. She is i1l in a hos- | U°% 18 HI°E s H Dital after an operation and lest tha A antlty of provisions in New FHa shock -make her condition more brecari- et ! ven, valued by the owners at $12,000, ous than It already is, Information was | was ordered fastroyed by the healtn de- ithpeic. partment Saturday, after traces of cva- nide of potassium, a deadly poison, had MICHAEL COLLINS AFEAux et faun bil ithen NEW IRISH GOVERNMENT Christopher Minor Sponcer, 88, in- ventor of the Spencer repeating rifle, one of the first automatic screw machine, one of the best known American Inven. tors, died at the home of his son, Roger M. Spencer, Hartford. Dublin, Jan. 15 (By the A. P.)—The provisional government of the Irish Free State is now a functioning body. Final formalities of approving treaty with England were carried out late -vesterday when, after a historic meeting in the Mansion House of repre-| sentatives of the southern Irish consti- tuencies, who formally ratified the trea- the Passafe of the Langley bill providing for an appropriation of §16.000,000 for additiona] hospital service and eare of | ty, Eamon Duggan teok to. Dubiin|men disabled by war was urged by rep- castle a copy of the treaty signed by |resentatives of the American Legion, ap- the members of the new government as| pearing before the house buildings com- provided for in the terms of the peace mittee, pact. The Youmg Men's Christian Associn- tion of New York has sent twelve habi ual drunkards selected from thousands of inebriates treated at its Bowery branch, to take the cure at the Christian Home for Inebriates at Mt. Vernon, N. 13 ULTIMATUM SENT TO THE PEKING GOVERNMENT Peking, Jan. 13 (By the A, P.)—Gov- ernor Wu Pei-Fu, inspector general of Hunan and Hupeh, who is moving troops north from Hupeh, has sent an uitima- tum to the Peking government givinz the Liang cabinet three days in which to resign. Wu Pei-Fu threatens. to pui- lish further charges agalnst the cabinet if it does mot comply With his demands within five days and declares he will fight if_the cabinet declines to retira in seven days. The cabinet _has repiied that it refuses to resign under any cir- cumstances, within three, five or seven days. As & result of an argument in Detrolt over their pugllistic prowess, ome man, 70 years of age, is in jail now, charged with felonious assault, and another, 64 years old, is in a hospital They are, respectively, George Monroe and Ed- ward Sherwood, The board of aldermen of At. Louf has passed a resolution by a vote of 25 to 1 calling upon United States senateis and representatives to lend_their efforts in behalf of a modification of the Vol- stead aci to permit the sale of light wines and beer. Mrs. H. Greenfield, wife of Premier Greenfield of Alberta, died at Edmon- ton, following an operation. ‘was said that plans for inereasing. ths §200,000,000,000 HANDLED Stupendous Financial Sum Reached in Receipts and Dis. bursements as Shown in Figures Compiled by the Teasu. ry Covering Period Frem April 6, 1917, to December 31, 1921—Public Debt Increased From $1, Washington, financial entrance ,000,000 to Jan. 15.—Government operations since the country’s into the world war involved more than two hundred billion doliars, according to figures compiled today by the treasury on the basis of daily state- ts from April 6, 1917 to December 31, 1921, ¥ This stupendous sum consisted of re- 000,000 while public debt disbursements totalled $53,451,000,000 and on Decem- ber 31, 1911, the net balance in the gen- eral fund was $3488,000,000. For the war pejod the excess of the disbursements, exclusive of princlpal of the public debt, over receints of same class was $24,000,000,000. Over the same veriod the gross de by $22,000,000,000 from $1,000,000,000 on ceipts, both ordinary and public dedbt, of | April 5, 1917, to $23,000,000,000 on De- more than $92,000,000,000 bala cember 31, 1921. against disbursements, of -both ck Exciusive of foreiza loang cf $9.597.- of a like total. Starting on the eve | 000,000, ordinary disbursements of the of the war, April g, 1917, with a net | government from April 6, 1917, to the balance in the gemeral fund of & end of the past year aggregated $36- 000,000, receipts, exclusive of prin 187,000.900 the expenditures amount- public debt, from April 6, 191 {ing to $330,000,600 frora Aopril 6, 1917 to cember 31, 1921 totalled $24.015,000,000 | June , 1915 £,000,000 for the fis- public debt recelpts during the | cal year of 1318 :$15,035,000,000 for fis- same period amounted to $75,643,000,- |cal year 1913; §5.952,000,000 for the fis- 000, cal year of 1 fiscal year 1921 July £5.042.000,000 for the and '$1,537,000,000 from 1, 1921 to December 31, 1821 Disbursements, exclusive of public debt, for the period aggregated $45 PLAN FOR A NATIONAL BUREAU OF EDUCATION !'nvo W. A., TROOPERS SHOT WHILE ATTEMPTING ARREST New York. Jan. 15.—The plan to estab-| Charleston, W. Va., ian. 15.—Lane H, lish a national bureau of education is|Black and Zacharia: W. Tayior, troops characterized by Nicholas Murray Butler, | ers of the state constabulary, were shot president of Columbia university, in his |and se-iously wounded at Dry Branch, annual report, made public today, as a|on Cabin Creek today while attempting proposa Ito “bureaucratise and bring into | to take into custody H. F. Alford on a uniformity the educational system of the | writ of canias from Logan cgunty, is- whole United States while making sued in connmection with the armed most solemn assurance that nothing of |marsh jast August. The two troopers the kind i intended. Wwere brought treatment, olonel Jackson Arnold, superintend- ent of public safety, later gave out a statement that the troopers were fired upon by relatizes of Alford who, after the wounding of the officers, succeeded in liberating the arrested man., Al three escaped but a detachment of for- ty state troopers were immedlately or- dered to go in pursuit of Alford and his kinemen. Several bloodnounds wera likewise placed on the scent. Anmoumnce- ment was made that the shooting today was the first armed resistance encoun- tered by officlals in making arrests i connection with the Temonstration ta suppress which federal troops wers or< dered into the state. H. L. Fletcher. sunerintendent of the Dry Branch Coal Company, who said . he witnessed the shooting and the tending incidents, attributed to the en< treaties of Mrs Bertha Trent, whose home is on the opposite side of Cabin Creek, the cessation of shooting befora both men were more serfously injured os killed. Both Mr, Fletcher and Colonel Arnold sald that as the first shot rang out from the brush, while Alford was b Ing con« ducted to the railroad station, at ths sound of which the prisoner took to his to a hospital here for He urges the continuance of “the free ¥ and natural system of &ucation that h grown up among us” stating that glory and successes of education in the United States are due to its reflection to the needs and ambitions and capacities of local communities, and 1o jts béing kept in close and constant touch with the peo- ple_themselves. He says it is universally acknowledged that the “unhappy decline in German unl- versity freedom and effectiveness and the equally unhappy subfection of the edu- cated classes to the dictates of the politi- cal and military ruling groups were the direct resuit of the highly centralized and efficient control from Berlin of the na- tion's schools and universitles. 0 set up such a system here, he de- clares, wouid be to tap the federal treas- ury in the guise of aiding the states to establish again an army of bureaucrats In Washington and to ald “in effecting so great a revolution in our American form of government as one day to endanger its perpetuity Advocating a world revival of classieal study, Dr. Butler asserts that a begin- ning should, be made at once toward re- pairing the damage done by the past gencration’s neglect of the classics. He suggests that Athene itseif might become “the effective center of a new renalssan o % ol heels, Mrs. Trent plunged Into ths { a twentleth century revival-of Inter- | strogus and waded to the other. siay est in the origing and - excellences of | wher.' gha singlcd ont those Terden man's intellectual and spiritual achieve- 3 ’ e SREn the thickete and succesefully prevallel upon them to discontinue the fusilade. Thile she was thus engaged the two | wounded officers lay at the base of an | embankment down which they had bess rolled by the impact of largs ecalibra cartridges. After the flight of thosy who had done the shooting Mrs. Trent ments. Since the Civil war, he says, there has been a tendency in this country. to look upon the college “as the most inviting and satisfactory form of country elub with Incidental facilities for reading and stud He biames “shiftiess and ambi- tious parents” for the spread of this no- tlon. which has been aided in its growth 'l',f,.':‘.:':,,h',.r,.;‘:(?fimx:. o by the rap'd spread of the elective system cher, wife of the 2 (i id of Y'! 4 lete of studi 3 e mine superintenden administered first ald prior to thelr re< ‘The result has been.” he points out, | 7' 0 “that side hy side with an earnest, de. voted and high minded body of young colleze graduates there has zone out into American jife a very substantial group of those who have gained college degrees but who are. to all intents and purposes, as undiscipiined and uneducated both in mind and morals as if they had enjoved no advantages whatever.” —_— RUSSIA UNABLE TO PAY HER FOREIGN DEBTS Moscow, Jan. 15 (By the TUntil Russia knows what a foreign powers will give toward her res construction, it is impossible to make a statemént about the payment of foreign debts” said Maxim Litvinoff, chief of the soviet legations abroad, tn a state- ment today. - re.| “Russia mow is unable to pay. and ot cannot estimate her abiiity to pay in the employed here as journai-| future unless she learns what outsids evorio, who was expelled | Anancial help she will receive. That is ago from Mexico, to sets|3 matter for negotiation” 2 quarml arising grom jubifsned| M. Litvinoffs statement was virtually criticisms by “Ballesteros of a hook is|® Teiteration of what Leon Trotzky. sued by Ossorio on conditions in Mex. | Leonid Krassin and other soviet I fen. Ossorle sustained . slight wound, | 531 DHor to being informed of the & while Ballosteran. recetved & thony: | tation 10 the Geriga conference, and thers Throuch the shoulder that sent him ta a|1® RO indication there will be a change in hospital. News of the encounter, which | the soviet yosition. 100K place a week ago, leaked out today, | o L4tVInoff added that Genoa was an un. When' Ballestoros “was dlscharped fran | d€sirable location for & conference. be- e e cause of the inadequate facilities for telx cgraphic or wireless communication wita Moscow. Furthermore, he said, taly had not been able to protect the soviet Tep- resentatives in that country from a tacks, and tha tthe Russians regarded as an unsafe place. London, he dedared, was a desirable point for the holding of the conference and would be excellent from the standpoint of being a center for communlcation with their home govern= SWORDS WERE USED BY DUELISTS IN HAVAN3 Jan. 15.—Swords wera L. G. Ballesteros Jr., Havana, sorted to b Mexico City . and Leon some months FOUR PERSONS KILLED WHEN TRAIN HIT avTo Edinburg, Ind., Jan. 15—Four per- sons were killed and one seriously in- jured when an automobi which they were riding was struck 2 Pennsyl- vania passenger train at by a crossing here today. The dead are: ments for all the delegati Mrs. Aleinda Joslen. 74 years old: e . Dorothy Joslen, 2 rears old: Miss Opal oy AT T Joslen, 5 years old and Emil Joslen, 10| ABATEMENT IN STOCK vears old. SPECTLATION IN GERMANY John Joslen, 54 vezrs old, driver of the car, was seriously cut and bruised. Washington, Jan. 15.—Tension in Ger- man financial and industrial circles has lessened somewhat, although the eco- nomic situation in that country is prac- tically unchanged, according to a report from Commerclal Attache Herring Alber- tin made public tonight by the commerce department. The feverish industrial activity and - unusual speculation on the stock exs change, characteristic of a few weeks 2go, has abated somewhat, he said, but shortage of coal and raw materials and general increased production costs are thaking it difficult for indvstry, while & falling off in orders is noticeable A. F. OF L. CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN BOSTON Boston, Jan. 15.—A conference of rep- resentatives of all labor unions affiliated with the American Federation of Lahor will be held here on April 17, the Bos- ton Centrgl Labor Union announced to- day. The purpose of the conference, which Wwill be presided over by Samuel Gompers, was not made public, but it federation’s membership would probably be discussed. SOUTH OPPOSED TO SPECIAL LEGISLATION ¥OR WOMEN TWO BINGHAMTON YOUNG MEN KILLED BY A TRAIN New York, Jan. 15.—Organizations seeking enactment of legislation giving women equal rights as property owners and in politics, and changing the laws Binghamton, N. Y., Jan. 15—Walter 22, and Harold Vrooman, 23, both of this city, were instantly killed this afternoon, one mile west of Endlcott relative to child control, are meeting|When they stepved from in fromt of an strong opposition. in the south, Miss Ani- | east bound Erie freight train in the path ta Pollzer, legislative chairmfan of the|Of @ west bound engine. Both wera national women's party , today told | émployed in the £ndicott Johneom shoe members of the party in this state. factorfes at Johnson City. . Very little of the general progress of ‘the woman's movement Is reflected in Killed in Coasting Accident. i the seuth, said Miss Pollitzer, whose| Yonkers, N. Y. Jan. 15.—Miss Esther M. Ferguson, 19, of Hoboken, N. J., was. home is in Charleston, 8. C. Mrs, William Blauvelt, of Syracuse.killed in # Soasting #od was' clacted ‘chairman of the party in Her sled struck an this state. n