Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 25, 1922, Page 1

LXIV—NO. WOULDATTACHTE BONUS TO REFL crat, Calls For Payment of Borus by x..u.\m of Short Term Treasury Certificates Until Interest or Allied Debt Can be Collected—Mr. Simmons Declared the Finance Committee Has in Mind a Reduction of the Interest'Rates to be Demanded of the Foreign Governments—Treasury Department Remains Opposed ‘to the Bonus. . : stallments under the treaty with Colom- bia, a total of $112,000,000. To overcome these deficits, he explain- ed, expenditures must be’ reduced in the aggregate by about $300900,000 in_ the next two years, while at the same time the goverhment faces a heavy shrinkage In view of the depression in business, he added, there {s grave doubt whether the estimates of receipts which appear in the budget can bd realized. The overshadowing problem treasiry, Mr. Mellon declamd, was in the handling of the publiq debt, amounting at the end of the past yéar to $23,438,984, which $6,500,000.000 falls within the next sixteen months. funding/of this vast maturity, ed, would require the treasury's constant attention from now on. How much additional taxation would be necessary ‘to pay a_soldier bonus, he declared, wpuid be difficuit to estimate, but on the basi¥ of the McCumber bill it would appear that the total cost would be about $3,300,000,000, of which at least $850,000,000 would fall due in the first ars of operation, and possibly as high as $1,000,000.000 if an unexpectedly large number_of veterans should choose The minimum cost, he placed at about $1,560,000.000, based on cash pay- I the maximum cost at about 000 if all the veterans should take certificates in lieu of cash. These estimates, he added, took no ac- tofcount of'the cost of administration and involved would be addition"to about $450,030.000-a. year for 922 and 1923 already estimated -for re- To_discover xes that could properly be levied to yleld as much as $650,000,000 within , Mr. Mellon contended, would | as the field of taxation has been so_ thorpughly covered. Washington, Jan. 24.—The question of bonus was presented r Simmons, democrat, lina, of the five way adjusted amendment to providing™ for Te- tme loans to' the or_ payment of the bo- the ssuance @f short term be collected to retire them use of the principal of the ch becomes avail- pance and sale of due The re- © assert- he amendment, Mr. Sim- that he was up becausa former 1 the bonus and be- e of which he demoeratic member, se consideration” unding bill before the lat- was reported t that as a result among democrats, had been assured tha ed an amendment fgn representa- dnot he binding on the Ame: nti] the consent said, ss determine to adopt. the| ng a soldfer bonus, it would orap flat five'per cent s of articles or transgctions in order to pay " - ernational speculators to ga- PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER! FUND 250TH ANNIVERSARY he added, had In interest rates Philadetrhia, Jan. d _of the foreign goverr. st life_insurance comyanie: rian Ministers’ b anpiversary, today by’ unveiling o Presbyterian 4—One f America’ the. Pres- 1S “OPPOTED tablet ‘i the F SOLDIERS’ BONUS !t building in which the fund was estab- {dshed on January 24, 1717. The fund was created by the Rev. Jede- Mdier bonus remains un- diah Andréws'at the first meeting of tr th 10 be a bonus it'synod of Philadg in ous uses. 1ureh, 24 —Treasury oppo- a as a “fund for pi Thé first person to reoctve ased by existing | aid was the impoverished widow <f a min- In 1759 the coionial government the chartered a “widows' fu ns committee. Any de for the bonus principal and interest of Secretary Mellon declared tonight in“ster. and from the wo {nds sprane.all the board, agencics rough and charities of the Presbyterian. church Prebyterian ministers’ fund to- as well as um- has more than 17,000 policy holdfers. er #as in response to POINCARE TO SACRIFICE from Mr. Fordney for an ex-! ¢ ews of the secretary | y department on the gov- outiook for ¥ and for suggestions OLD TIME DIPLOMACY 4 the A. P.).—Pre- mier Poincare. it was understood in au- © quanters today, is willmg to! fice his declared preference for old | diplomacy and to meet representa- es of Great Britaln and the other al- | lies in a conference previous to the forth- | coming Genoa meeting, despite his previ- { ously expressed dislike for the activitles of the aliied supreme council. no allowance s most conservati Ve S| 38 DEGREES BELOW ZERO IN SOUTHEEN MAINE Portland, Me., Jan. 24.—The col wave out of the northwest struck Maine with force today. forting thermometers in would be dan.|northern counties to 44 degrees below In the southern section of the state Spentitures. involved oy tho | the minimum. temparatyre, reported: wis degrees was re- de in the Stroudwater district of this 1d make it any Clt¥. borne in the long ver, Mr. Mellon declared, se the foreign sis for bonus payments. . be maintained, in 2d- § arrangements, % t ollected on the fore In the near future by way of interest. e obligations, are in the form of demand obliga- are not. he asserted, the publicy while to offer them guaranty of this government rfere ‘with Yhe treasury’s re- % operations and prove more ex- v than the sale of direct obligations 3 the government. strian Envoy To United enormously complicate the inter- sational situation and certainly embar- unding negotiations.” id accomplish mothing, Mr. Mel- to sst aside the forelgn debt fof the payment of the bonus, even if mough could be realized in tme. w now stands,” he sald, “and justioe to the millions of Liberty bond the government is bound to ap- any principal payments by foreign ernments, as well as any proceeds the retirement of _outstanding y bonds, about ten millfon of which n the first instance t0 pro- ¥ide for advances to forelgn govern. Jobless Battle in London. London, Jan. 24 — More than two thousand upemployed staged a demon- stration today in the neighborhood the West Bromwieh police court, where five of thelr leaders faced charges of intimidation. several - hours W the manifestants. Jjuring & number of the /police charged th their batons, in- them. e ARGUMENTS CONCLUDED ; IN THE PELLETIEE CASE Boston, Jan. 24—Final arguments In the trial of District Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier, of Suffolk county, . charged with misconduct, Wers conciuded before | the full bench of the supreme court late today by Attorney General J. Weston Allen with_a demand that Pelletier be ousted 'from office. The attorney gen- eral declared that the evidénce present- ed during the trial/ which has takem more than four wekes pictured a car- nival of crime which would. be refused a showing on any screen. The declsion ls mot expected for sev- eral weeks, The record is voluminous, aggregating more than 2,600 typewrit- ten pages, and in addition “there are many pages of exhipitions, consisting of letters, grand jury proceedings and other documents. “A public officer is before the bar of justice,” AttThey General Allen declar- ed in concluding his argument of more than five hours duration. been made the subject of the gravest charges. has neither taken'the stand himself, nor called a Single Witness, “This man has used his office for his own selfish ends. A sword of justice was placed in his hands and he has made of it a highwayman's club. * He he had has protected the criminals sworn to_prosecute. In the mame of the commonwealth of Massachuisetts, I charge that ne commiited malfeasance, _misteasance and nonfeasance, that he-has committed crimes #hd misdemeanors In” the fdmin- tration_of ‘his uffice, and I ask that be ousted from office. Liké Macbeth &ilt”is proven out of his own mouth. The attorney general stressed the failire of Pelletier tostake the stand or to offer any evidence in his own defense, assByting thjt under the laws of Mas: achusetts that fact must be held against him. He declared also that William J. Corcoran, a former district- attorney of Middlesex county, who is charged by the state with being a co-conspirator with Pelletier in fnany of the instances of 1alleged misconduct cited in the present hearing, had become “En anathema to Pelletier and his associates,” and “was ready to take the stard and tell the truth.” Allen. argued also that so widely had the close relations between ~Daniel H, Coakley, Boston lawyer, and Pelieti becamé known,” that clients having im- portant matters pending In either a civil or criminal way, invariably retained Coakley. The government charges in at Pelletier that the district attarney “shared the” profits of a™partnership of crime. Instead of becomiing angry at the reported boasts-of Coakley that he had influence with the district attorney any could gef\ favors that other attor- neys could not obtain, Allen asserted admitted that Coakley was a friend. close 1 1 FARGUMENTS Ix wUEDER casE OF CLARENCE W. LOUD Cambridge, Mass., Jon. 24.—Taking of testimony in tiie case of Clarence W. Loud, Melrose saleinan, charged with the murder of Patrolman James A. Preston of Wakefield, was completed to- day in the superior criminal court. Arg- uments will begin tomorrow marning and Loud's fate is esvected. to be in the jury's hands by nightfall, All testimony of Henry G. Hefler, formerly of Hallfax, N. S, a defense wit- ness, was stricken from the records to- day on motion of Attorney Feeney aft- er it had been shown that Hefler in several occasions in the last few years had vsed assumed names and had made conflicting statements as fo his age. Hefler, Introducec-.@s’ an important witness, had testified ‘that on the night of the murder, April 8, 1921, he talked with @ patrolman of Préston’s descrip- tion and saw four men and an auto- mobile only a short distance from where the patrolman was standing. As he walk- away Hefler sald he heard three hots. Preston’s body was found later. Judge Brown, at Feeney's request, told the jury not to consider Hefler's testi- mony and not to permit the expurgation to prejudice’ Loud’s ¢-se. OFFICERS OF CONNECTICUT STATE NURSES’ ASSOCIATION State Nurses’ assoclation met here today, beginning a three days' convention. Qne of the speakers today will be Dr. John T. Blake, head of the state health de- partment. - About 150 delegates are in attendasce. The following officers were elected at this morning's sessioms President, Nellle Optfele, R. N., Hart- ford; first vice president, Rose Heavern, Essex; second vice president, Marle H. A. Barrett, Hartford; secretary. and treasurer, Martha Peters, Canaan; coun- clllors, Margaret K. Stack, Hartford; Mary Wright, Waterbury: Sarah A. Keevers, Willimantic; Maude Churchill, Washington; Elizabeth Bigelow, Meri- den. PONTIFIOIAL HIGH REQUIEM MASS IN CATHERDAL, HARTFORD Hartford, Jan. 24—Rt. Rev. Jobn J. Nilan, blshop of the Hartford diocese, pontificated at the high reguiem mass in Bt Joseph’s Cathedral this morning for the repose of the soul of Pope Bene- dict XV, The assistants sn the aitar were Monsignor Thomas §. Duggal priest, Revs. Wiillam O'Shea and J. C. Martin of Hartford as deacons, Rev. W. H. Flynn, chancellor of the dioces, and Rev. Francls P. Keough, masters of cer- emonies. The on which was an eulogy o the life and accomplishments of Pope Benedict was delivered by Rt. Rev. J. G. Murray, the auxiltary bishop, In conformity with the directlon of Bishop Nilan, solemn high masses of requiem were celebratad in practically all the churches of the diocese during the ‘mornfng. — DIFFICULTY IN COLLECTING PERSONAL TAX IN NEW HAVEN /New Haven, Jan. 24—Collection of | the personal tax from residents of New . | Haven on a 100 per cent. efficlency basis Is not going to ‘be easy this year, in the opinfon of City Wollector HacKett. . Already 16,000 bills have been returned by the post oftice because delivery could not be made at the addresses given. The general registrars who supervised the canvass to make up the list of persons between 21 and 80 claim care wag used to obtaln sccurate records. Cupid 1a always making matched, but mever masries. & ot | Traffic was held up for | “Hjs motives| are impugned. His ponduct in office has Yét he stands here mute. Ho has least five of the 21 cases cited against| 4iat Pelletier confirmed the reports and| Bridzeport, Jan. 24.—The Connecticyt|¥hich it was declared ing the” WindUp Wil Come Within a Week., ‘Washington, Jan. 24.—(By the A. P.) —Swinging into high speed again, the arms conference today made quick work of the Siberian question, virtually agreed on the sole remaining issue of the na- val reduction plan, completed a re-efi- nition of the scope of the four power D fic treaiy and grshed ou toward v solution of the Shantung tangle and va- Tious lesser )rgblem:n‘ 5 So sweeping was the day's progress that little save perfunctory detail re- wmained tonight to bring all the diverse tasks of the conference to a gimultane- ous conclusion. Some of the more op- timistic among the delegates were pre- dicting that the final windup would come Within a week, ¥ In its two day Incursion into the Si berian field, the far eastern committes contented ltself with listening to and spreading on the’ conference record, de- tailed stataments of the respgctive Views of the Japanese and American governments. Japan's declaration di: claime® territorial designs in Rus¥a, Dut set forth the reasons that impel her to Keep troops in eastern Siberia, and ihe Teply of the United States reiferated the desire that there would result no permanent integrity. Except for the French, who expressed confidence in the Japanese pledge to withdraw from Sibenian sofl as soon as stable conditions will permit, no other delegation joined in the discussions, Sec- infringement upon Russian retary Hughes propcsed the readily-ac-{ was epted resolution by which the ites wiped off the conference program, fo ap- Dear no more Gntil the pronouncements of the two governments are formally en- tered in the mtinutes of the Dext plenary session. The last difference over principle In he naval treaty, relating to the forti- ficatiens <*atus quo in the Pacific, was swepl_aw%° in informal consuitations am'e™th. chief delegates affer it hal held up completion of the treaty text for many days. Under the settlement, the British plan of defining a latitude and longituge boundary #for the status quo zone is replaced by the Japanese sug- gestion that instead there be a list, by name, of the islands which must not he Turther fortified. The Japanese agreed that the Japanese Bonin group should e included under the prohibition. A further cause for delay developed, {however, when the Japanese plenipoten- tiaries declared their desire to submit the fortifications article in exact phrase- ology to Tokio for approval. Re-definition of the geographical scope of the four power Pacific treaty, already signed, todk the form of a series of notes which ~have been completed and mutually approved by the four powers and will be formally exchanged for the record~before the Washingten confer- ence’ ends. informal agreement of the:délagates amd provide that in constructing jhe trea‘y hereafter the major Japanese islands, Including the Bonin groap, shall not be classed among the “insular possessions and_dominions” to which the instrument appli e In the Shantung negotiations between the -Japanese and Chinese, it became apparent that outside pressure for settlement was increasing as the two ready have agreed. The question of the Tsingtao-Tsinanfu railroad, now wir- not touched upon at the meeting. Ish compromise effort, it *was sald to night that a settiement was “very near. Meantime, sentiment to bear to hasten the Shan- tung negotiations failed after a short renate floor. senate rejected the resolution of Senma- tor Walsh, democrat, Montana, asking President Harding for information as to 2s a side issue of the conference. today's session. It expressed “special presented yesterday, against infTinge- sia, fcan note sent to Japan last May, that in the unrest and disorder in that region,” tention of terminating finally the Siber- fan expedition and of restoring Sakhalin to the Russian people” Mr, Hughes then closed the debate by propos\z his resolution and it was quickly adopted, Its text follows: “Resolved, that the statements by the Japanese and American delegations in Tespect to the presence of foreign troops in Sibenia be Teported to the conference Bt its next plenary session to be spread @pon its records.” ) At today's session of the far eastern committee the topic of “mandated isl- nnds” aiso was ‘wiped off the conference agenda, Secretary Hughes explaining that when the subject was listed, .the Yap controversy betweem the United States and Japan had not been settied. A resolution proposing to prohibit im- vortations of arms and. ammunition in- to China was presented by Mr. Baifor but was withdrawn for the time. being When the Italian and Netherlands dele- gations asked for a delay— to consult their governments. An abstract of the Russo- Chinese alllance which expired in 1911 was put into the record by the Clinese but was not discussed. When the committee —adjourned it ‘was considering a resolution by Elihu Root to creats an international commis- sion for study of the wireless communi- cation problem in China. - The Shantung megotiations proper were adjourned tonight until Thursday, in order to give a free field tomorrow for discussion of other conference is- sues, 2 ~ ~ At today's session the Japanese and |/ Ohiness groups discussed subjects “re- lated to land along the railway-and its telegraph line and private claims in the former German leasehold. sy . - Weilington Koo, one of the Ci delegates, sald after the meeting that the Chinese were ready to resume discus- sion of the railway questi that the Japanese had expressed no formal desire for if. f S " Southern California’s vrange cfop suffered from 4 0to G0, per ctat. das durine the prasent ool mupl. They reverse the previous- Official Announcement. Rome, Jan. 24.—(By the A . P.)—For snother day the body of Pope Bemedict XV will lie In state. The funéral cere- monial will thus be delayed untiled Thurs- day. An. official announcement to this effect was made today With the qualifica- tlon, howaver that should earlier burfal be advisable, the final rites would oeour tomorrow as orizinally arranged. Benidict's tomp will face thet in which Pope Pigs lies; it adicins that of Queen Christind of Sweden, who having abdi- cated the throne in 1654 settied in Rome, where she died in 1689. Puily half a million people have filed past the catafalque in St. Peter's to view the body of the late pope. and While the great procession has been orderty, 1ts very vastness has entailed - strenucus lobors on'the part of gendarmes and guards, for the stream moved slowly amid scencs of grief and mouring. - The formal registration of the death of Benedict took piace this morning in +he Roman capitol, when Mayor Valli himself received Prince Aldobrandini, commander of the Noble Guard, who with Marquis Sacchetti, acted as a witness. The death was entered in a specially prepared regis- ter, lined in \satin and was engraved in silver. A An aliznment- of Torces and opinions which' are likely to clash in the conclave for the election of the new pope, ‘was plainly discernible tondght, although the opening session is nine days away. That the question of closer relations between the Italian government and the Vatican Gominates the discussion is tha.conicensus of opinion in relizious circles and the press, i The groun led by Cardinal Merry Del Val, it is reported, will have more than a majority in the conclave. The so-called “peace rarty” of which Cardinal Mafti is head, represents perhaps a little more than <ne third the votes, while the Center, the leader of which is Gasparri, favoring con- tinuance of the policy of Pope Benedict, tolerance without sctual recognition, is fewer in number. There may’be, a possible change is the election is conducted aleng strict party lines. —A two-thirds vote is necessary for the election of the pontiff. The official acts of the Italjan gov- ernment. after the anmo¥ncemenit of the death of Benedict, f¢r the purpose of show. ing the general sympathy of th ewhole Italian nation, were noted with great sat- isfaction by the Vatcina officials. The Italian bag on the Quirinal was at kalf- mast this morning. AN the Toyal houses give the same recognition’ to the pentiff’s death. Similar siens of mournmg were jobsetved about the Queen Mother's pail- ace Villa Savoia, -and the gove nment ‘buildings. CONJECTURE CONCERNING CONCLAVE OF CARDINALS Washington. Jan. 2. Wantos, afohbishop of ‘To- 1edo, Spain, which occurred one day after thes death of the pove, it wgs said here today the mon-Italian cardinils who will entet the next conclave will be reduced 10 29 as against 31 Italians, It is considered probable - here thai Cardinal O'Connell, who is sald to"b long tol the group supporting the election EToups met to clear away varlous minor details of the points on which they al- tually the only undetermined issue, was By ‘conférerice officlals in close touch with ' the, progress of the American-Brit- efforts to bring senatorial season of debate on the subject on the Without a record vote, the the progress of the exchanges taking place between the Japanese and Chinese Secretary Hughes' presentation of the American attitude toward Siberla was in a prepared statement read to thé far eastern committee at the beginning of gratification” with the Japanese pledge, ment on the territorial integrity of Rus- Reciting the language of an Amer- continued Japanese occupation of Eastern Siberia “tends rather to increase than to allay the secretary continued that his govern- ment desired to “relterate the hope that dapan will find it possible to carry out within the near future her expressed in- of Cardinal Merry Del Val, will not ar- rive before the proclamation of the new nor “will Cardinal Dougherty of e one of pope. Philadelphia, who is sald to the group supporting the election of Cardinal Gasparri. It is expected that on the first bal- Jot the votes will be dispersed o that {&ea Island, the censusbureau announced. even approach _the two- no one will thirds vote of 36 required. The second balloty however, it was the twi said, would probably reveal strongest candidates, although rreither perhaps would approach the prescribed If {he necessary vote is not received by a candidate on the thord or fourth ballot, it Is most likely that at the fifth ballot, on the morning of February 4, the majority of the Sacred College will agree on a candidate outside of thosé who have received Insufficlent votts in the two previous days. Should o | this prove to be the case, a week from Saturday shortly before noon through- out the thousand rooms of the Vatican the cry will ring out of “Habemus Pon- two-thirds, teficem. The assertion was made here today that any impresslo nthatya kind of rivalry exists between the' Italian and the so-called foreign cardinals over: the sclection of a pope of Itallan or non- | Prosecutor of Essex coynty, Most of the so-called cardinals agree on the advisability that the pope should be an | Were in' general remarkably free from Itallan, because of tradition (only forty- | Serious physical defects, Dr. Roger I. Lee, | professor of hygiene, found in physical because the seat of the papacyis in |eXaminations. Italy (when it was at Avignon the popes vere French), and bécause of the neu- Italian authorfty waS' mistaken. eight popes were forelgners out of 260y t-ality which the Italians succeeded in maintaining In the most momentous pe- cds in’ the history of the papacy. The comdng conclave. is an example of | €00d avenue. the difficulty of electing a pope out- €ide Ttaly. Th& “most popular for- eign candidate now, It is considered, will be Cardinal Mercier, but h eis expected here to recelve at most a total of less thah twenty-elght votes, insufficient to be_elected, 2 % The “onl¥ possibllitly of returning now, after several centuries, to mon-Ttallan pope, it is belleved, lies in the selection of Cardinal -Merry Del Val, a Spaniard, who because of his long sojourn in Rome, is considered as an Itallan. COXFERENCE OF__CONNECTICUT FEDERATION OF CHURCHES New Haven, Conn., Jan. 24—A con- ference of the Connecticut Federation of Churches, held in Center church, on New Haven Green today brought here pastors and delegates from many clties and towns. More than two hundred pedrséns were in the first sesslon which took up “Evangelism,” the speakers being, among others, Rev. Dr. C. L. Goodsell, of Federal Council of the Churches, of Christ, and Rev. Frederick L. Fagley, secretary of the National Counoil of Con: £Te. gatlonal Churches. Clergymen of sev- eral denominations took part In the sev- eral meetings which mrdde up the con- ference. = v FRACTURED VEETEBRAE WHILE COMBING HAIR Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 24—Helen Vick- w Schenectady, & student nuzse of the Good. Shepherd nospital here, is con- to a bed in that imStitution with & fractured vertebrae shuffered svhile her hair Sunday night. She had d in an inclining position and building programme ssing the comb through her halr | volve outlay of $20,000,000 in the next of | five years was outlined by James Gam. vertebrag in her meck ont the declare _an infury of this Tarely suffered. trom \such a4 s fire which destroyed five business bulidings at Port Washington, N. Y. - s it e to hold an aviator's certificate, was killed | at Askeriund, Sweden. v The plant ‘of the Victor Brewint com- pany at Jeannette, Pa., near Pittsburgh, was seized by>prohibition agents. 3 Ffans B i el o an of | % Charies W. New York shipbuiider, and others with the shipping board. Training of three thousand-gfficers and 20,000 ‘mes 1n each of the n Brmy ned by the war department. government had been advising the stock- ing of coal in preparation for a prospective strike on April 1. Some understanding between the Cath- olic church of Rome and the /Orthodox church ¢f Russia may be one of the acts of the next pope. < Chicago, Jan. 24—(By. The A. P.)— Rejection of all raroad shop rules, re- cently promulgated by the United States rallroad labor board which cut time and one half for extra work from the shop- men's wages was ordered today by tne committee of one hundred, acting for the six railroad shop cra In a circular issued to the 500,000 shop ‘workers in the country, the committee or- dered new disputes instituted with the raflway managements imp Milately over théke rules, and falling an agreement, labor hoard for hearing. The circular was signed 'BY the International presidents of the six shopcrafts usions. Of the seven refectea rules, ahe great- est dissatisfaction contered on rule six, providing straight time for regularly as- signed work on Sundays and holldays This work was previously pair for ar time and one half. The committee pro= Dosed/ a substitute rule reinstating time and one half. The, hoard'w, new rules covering em- ployes' assi—med to, emergeney work and to tem%orary 'vacancles at outlying Doints were also rejected bysthe commit- tee because they took away certain pay | provisions contalned in the old national agreement made during federal control. Under rule 10, emergency employes are paid for time worked In accordance with Chiet Justice Taft announced’ that the supreme court w<hild take a recess from January 30 to February 27. This Is the regular February recess. Delegates trom Japan, China, Korea, Mongolia and the Far Eastern Republic of Stberie are in Mosccw f0r the congress of oppressed Far Eastefn peoples. Mayor H. T. King, of Meriden, de- clined a ralse of $1,000 a year in alary Tecently grarted by the city council, which would make his salary $3,000.~] 1 ~ Eleven hundred pupils and 27 teach. ers were excluded fronr the public schoo! in Bridgeport because they have not been vaccinated. ' The two Italian fishing boats missing from Gloucester, Mass., for several days and sought for by th€ coast guard cutter Ossippe returned yesterday. Joshua W. McClain, a negro, who re. sjgned recently as a police officer in Bos- on, pleaded gullty to a charge of extor tion in the Roxbury district court. PROSECUTION HAS CLOSED IN THE ARBUCKLE TRIAL Indicatien of improved business condi- tions throughout the country werg de- clared by Secretary Hoover to be seen in the increased orders for equipment being placed by the railrcads. San Francisco, Jan, 24—The prosecu- tion closed today in the second trial of a manpslaughter charge against Roscos C. Kle, reserving the right to examine witnesses {n impeachment of ome of its principel witnesses, Zey Prevost a show girl. The prosecution charges that Miss Pre- wost made statements in her testimony which conflicted with testimony presious'y taken from her under oath. ~ Adolph Juel, finger print export of the San Franciseo police department, and Mil- ton Carlson, Los Angeles finger.print ex- pert were called by the defense In an at- tempt to refate efidence offered by E. O. Rinrieh, 3 similar expert of Begkeley, Cal- ifornia, . % Heinrich testified that fingerprintes found- on & door of Arbucklig o In. the Hotal St. Francls: wers triee 7 backle and Miss Virginia Rappe, whose death was made the basls of {he eharge against Arbuckle. Carlson testified that fingerprints can be forged bevond the possibility of de- tection by a layman. He said that the prints on tha door did not compare with, those of Ar- buckle and Miss Rappe: Juei testified that he could find “no points of poitive comparison between the police finger- prints of Arbuckle and Miss Rappe and those on a door.” The prosecution contends that the fingerprints were rhade by Arbuckle and Miss Rappe while she was trying to escape from the room on the occa- sion of a party dyring which he is al- leged to havé fatally injured her. Under cross-examination Juel said, “I will not say that the priats gn the door are not those of Aybuckle and Miss Rappe. He also said that thé prints appear- ed to be those of a man and a woman. The suit of the state of North Dakota to promibit. the Chicago and Nerthwestern and other railroads in that state_ from ‘charging .increased~Fates within the state was dismissed by the suprerie’court. Directors of the Manhattan Shirt recommended a 20 per cemt, increase the common stock and an increase of the cash dividend on that issue from 6 to & per cent, Prohibition autHorities are on the trail of two German chémists alleged to be working_ with a_bootlezging crganization in New Yorlk, in an effort to nullify the poisonous character of denatured aloohol. Carriod ont figs the ice eoated waters ‘of Lake Superior lace Saturday by a severe gale, Alfred Peterson, a fisherman cx Knife River, Minn., reached Port Wing, Wis,, after his wife had perished in an open rowhoat. Persons sentenced to death in the Dis- trict of Columbia after next June would be electrocuted, instead |sf beine hanged, -under a bill by Sehator Dial, democrat, Scuth Carolina, passed by the senate. Cotton ginned prior to Janumry 6 amounted to 7,913,971 running bales, in- cluding 123,563 round bales, 32,363 bales lof American-Egyrtian and 3110 bales of s The Rome correspondent of the London Times says that the pepe's death prob- ably will hasten the successful issue of the negotiations for a closer union with the Anglican church, Parents have grown lazy and are re- sponstble, in the main, for derelictions of boys and girls, Lester F. Scott, nationgl executive of the Camp Fire Girls, told 100 executives at a conference in New York. TELEPHONE ATTACHMENT THAT ASSURES SECRECY Washington, Jan. 24—(By The 'A. P.)—The “superphone” an apparently simple attachment for telephones Which is sald to assure absolute secrecy bf communication and security from inter- ruptions and-make possible multiplex tel- ephony, was demonstrated today. in office of the chief signal officer of the army. It was shown that one telephone line to which “superphones” were = tached could be used for a number of conversations taneor and that no pair of speakers could hear or in- terrupt another pafr. The “superphohe” it wss explained, has_been developed: under the direction of R. D. Duncan, Jr. chief engineer of the signal corps research laboratory of the bureau of standards, It is based on “wired wireless” or ‘%ne radio,” invent- An application for the appointment of a receiver for the New Haven-Waterbury jitney line, to be heard by Judge John IP, Kellogg in the superfor court at Wa- terbury the latter part of the week. By a vote of 17 to 3, the Naw Jer: senate refused to confirm Governor Ed- wards' appointment of James R. Nugent, democratic leader, of Newark, as public | . Young men entering Harvard this year Niles Johmsson, aged 95 years, the oldest resident of New Britain, was found dead In bed at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Anna Peterson of Os- ed about ten vears ago and consists of instruments office a_small ‘portable set ot which may be installed in any or reside: in a few minutes. The principles involved are t] n as in “wired wireless” it was explalned, high frequenoy alternating currents be- ing employed. The tomb of a prehistorle warrior who apparently fell in combat, has been dis- tovertd in the ruins cf a large Pueblo com- munity dwelling near Aztec, New Mexico, which is being explored by the American ORGANIZED LAGUWS PART Museum of Natural History. IN HOUSING PROBLEM New York, Jan. 24—The executive commiitee of the buflding trades council today approved “In principle” Samuel Un- termeger’s plan for attacking the hoosing problém by constructing. blocks of model tenements to be built and rented cheaply through the co-operation of organized la- bor. : < Under Mr. Untermeyer's scheme, fiinds would be adyanced by life insurance com- panies undef a proposed amendmert to the Ingurance laws, while laborers would work ‘on_the job for §1 a day less than standard pay in return for a chance to rent the new lodgings a:t £9 a room or less, Material dealers and contractors al- so0 would be expected to fmzfl a o n of their usual profits in the Ikerest of mect- ing the housing crisis. While official figures were not de- termined it was estimated at the offices of the New Haven railroad at New Ha- ven that about 50 passenger trains would be cut off the new schedule which will come out January 29, Patrick M. Crowley, 60 years of age, an essence peddler at Biddeford, Me., died from poisoning. He wag found in his garage imconsclous from the fumes from the automobile engine on which he had | been working. The fact that France has regularly outvoted in the aflied supreme council is Qisoussed In many amthoritative quarters in Paris as the real reason why Premier Poincare has shown a preference for old- fashioned diplomatie n ions to settle Pending peace questlons. " OBITUARY. Carl F. Waterbury. Stamtord, Conn\ Jan. 24.—Carl F. Waterbury, 8, head of the-coal firm of Waterbury &\Son, established by his father in 1870, Yled tnday after 2 week's illness of pneumonia. He was a direc tor in the First National bank, vice president of the East Branch Lock - pany and had other office holding efn- nections with Stamford organizations. “Mr, Waterbury was a grandson of General David Waterbury—whoMook part in the Lake Champlain campaign of the Revolutionary war. Mr. Waterbury is survived by his wife, 2 son, David, and pne married daugh- ter. - Twe men In s sedan type of antomo. blle refused to obey a traffic officer at Stamford *and were detained and later arrested when, according to the officers, they admitted they had taken the ma- chine at Chicopee, Mass, T2 Mrs. Perry, wife of Rt. Rev. James DeWolt Perry, Episcopal bishop of Rhodc Istand, frightened away a burglar when she was awakened ear)§ yesterday morn- ing by the mam openimg her chamber door. A which may In- ble Rogers, supervising architect of Yal university at a conference with New Ha- History spends -haif its time in re- -ven city officers and others Who are in- peating itself and the other half in ”tgmgd,m city planning. A Boak ~ getting iteelf revised. S - (. 2 7is the 500,000 Shop Workers in the Co by Committee Telling of New Disputes to be In Assignments, Whether Working, Waiting or Traveling the practice at the home station and straight time for all time walting or The -union committes : X tion of & dispute to reinstate time and. one half and double time to cover mil time spent on the emergency assignment whether working, Similar provisjpns. wil disputés to be directsd institns or travelings over rules 12 and 14, applylng to men assigned to tem- porary vacancles at outlving points and. to men on road work who leave return Ao their home stations daily. The board’s new rule a_lowing the cars . riers a physieal examination of all &p= plicants for employment was also Te- manded to the system federations to re- negotiate with the individual roads. Tha committes directed that the dispute bs instituted to have this rule modified the interests of the employes.” Another rule by whic; the board mads it possible for the roads to hive any man famillar with tools' pairer came under firs proposed which wodA\l allow Hipers and helper apprentices with lers than four years' experience tuv be savanced to mechanic's grade. ‘Thirty-three other rules Were accepted, subject to the interpretatiom which the. committee placed upon them and the re- maining rules were agreed to. s & car re- A new rule was BELIEVE AUTO TRIP EXDED IN COUPLE DROWNING ‘Windsor, Conn., Jan. 24—Mr. and Mrs, George Okanus of Hartford are believed to_ have Geen drowned in the ley waters of the Farmington river late today 23 @ result of 2 wild automobile ride which ended with the front wheels o fthe machine banging over the edge of a trolley bridge at Po- _ quonnock. Th® driver of the autSmobile, Peter Semvy 29, of Hartford, is alleged | to have driven the Car onto the trelley ‘bridge, mistaking = f for the highway bridge. He was arrested on charges of manslgughter and riving an automebils while under the Inbuence of lquor, The police tonight had been unabls ts obtain a connected story, from Servy, but they icarned that Mr. and M. Okenus were passengers in the automoblle sho: 1y before the accident cocurred. Ne.evs Jadiat e g =1 v own Info th eriver fi tomobiie when it halted abruntly om edge after bouncing over the ties fa some distance. Mr. and Mrs, Okanus léav idence that they PUT TOO MUCH “PEP” IN A | SCHOOL MINSTREL S} Burkngton, N. J., Jan., 24—Profssson Gay was dismiseed as director of physical culture in the school here, because he injected too “Pep” in a school minstrel show. Parents who made up the audience Fris. day night complained to the board 3 the sclence téacher, who serived as man early decided the entertalfiment was' proceeded to “speed it up™t highly epiosd storfes, | The board tomight dismissed him with- out a hearing. MORE THAN 200,000 ARE i JOBLESS IN NEW YORK CITY itnce tvichar and too slow, an with several New York, Jan. 24—The worst m employment sitGation of the winter has = deseended on New York, Bira S. Coler, commissioner of public welfare, rectors of the welfare bureau st & ference today. A census of the jobless, taken by the industrial aid bureau and the Americaz i Legion, he saud, reveals that thers are more than 200,000 unemployed fn thi city. , Seventy-five thousand of the Job as ex-soldiers. To< day, he added, the bureau received 808 applications for work, nearly all from high-ciass_me nand women skilled professiondl or technical lines. remedles for the conferencs decided to urge stimulation shipping board bullding pregram in New York harbor $11,000,000 - federal appropriation for road buildings; speed city repair work and new comstruction; appeal to the government to do the re- puir work on the steamer Leviathan at this port; and call on Governor Miller to authorize state road work. \ seckérs are listed situation, the. United States seek a ‘part of the MAY NEGOTIATE A NEW & TREATY WITH GERMANY w-mxto'}, Jan. 24—(By the A. P)— A new treaty between the United States . create a commisston for. ivate damage claims grow~ g cut of the world war probably wiil bs negotiated under a decifion T have been reached tonight at a - confegence at the White House between: President Harding, Secretary Hughes and & republican leaders of and Germany te T Qs the /senate and . Another new administration policy sald - to have been agreed upon was for & lomn of $5.000,000 to Liberia. The Genoa economic conference, the & treaties resulting from the armament eon-_ ference and other international problems, it was ‘eaid, were mot discussed at ) conference, which was reported to have been confined to the war claims, arbitra- tion and Liherian doan questions, FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE ABRESTED IN Adley, 20, of 527 State street, and Ci of 180 Davenport land Janmpect, enue, for the Bridgeport chargs ob being fugitives from A third member of the party, also 10 be in the city, is belng’ local police. 3 The Bridzeport police claim that ‘men were implicated !n a tire store in that clty early in the month for men are now under They further claim ¢