Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 30, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIN—NO. 26 POPULATION 29,685 12 PAGES—88 COLS. - PRICE TWO CENTS 112 BODIES RECOVERED FROM THE KNICKERBOCKER THEATRE Bodies of 92 of the Victims Have Béen Identified—More Than a Hundred Others Are Known to Have Been Injured When Weight of Snow Caused Collapse of Roof an Steel and Concrete Motion Picture Theatre in Washing- ton—Crash Came While the Orchestra Was Playing and a Comedy Film Was Being Screened—About 350 Persons Were in Attendance—Details of the Catastrophe Given by a Survivor. Jan. 28 (By the [ ceeding rows and, except when the house gy oy g A o i< R b Tammed, commonly were not all oo 2 oW Srdagitt ed. WWith the small attendance of - e ot e ast night, probably only a few had paid g Ak the extra price for these seats. And many oy e a-| of those behind scrambied up the steep | . - s Siope of the fallen balcony to safety, ai- gh many were struck down in the S ow when the roof came in. Some of fled down into the pit wreckage fell and even some of . g e escaped with bruises. There i record, however, of any sur 4 tonight | {0 i the foremost balco it First Aid Statlons. “ it e aitle: talls 10: i1 Mrenbimit an sooin, | - . < for the | as those in the double walled structures - . 1z als suf-|which form the Eighteenth street -and | S Srokeh or severc in-|back wall of the auditorium realized ; M e iven fe. | what hed happéned: - These twa. fhree-. N ised <ta- | floor winzs form the offices. a store alons i pes Fighteenth street front. and house 3 i gtairways and the approaches and < hoth on that side and along the | T nickerbocker, one of wall, and they were not involved in | ital's the disasier which was confined to the | as one of el ditorium itseif. Later this store and| wing s patrom ior became the first aid stations as O TON on M the mangled victims were dragged from uper Connecticut avenue. | iy TEIEE SrEs. piGRtoRIeY In. 1he 8 In List of Identified Dead . D it ot | : e t0entine “ded@l ‘i the Knicker- 4 o Toof, | bocker theatre catastrophe are snow, descended | Former Represéntative . J. Barch- a whispered In|feld, formeny of Pittsburgh, Pa. ence only ¢ Miss Helen Barchfeld, daushter of the rmerly of Vineland, N » worked the y oper, n the| Chauncey Brainerd, Washinztos - ze majority of the victims, both | Eagle were residents of this| Mrs. Chauneey C, Rrainerd. me rec from| Wifred Brosseau: North A . of the ruin tent at Georzetown TUn i thoss]| « Gy Eldricze. ¥ bodies |trother-in-law of Senator Utan. Oscar G. Kanston, Chicago, his wite . two daughters, Helen'and Anyln. . n Cutler Laflin, Jr., aged 16, Chicas ~ Miss Nannie Lee Lambert formerly of - oro, X. C. - W. Murray, The Plaios, Va. . G. Sammon of Wyoming, student i I thpes.Toot toud ' at Washington robably never wiil he known.| W. L. Schogeid, Dansille, Va. T erhaps a hundred who| Laverfle Sproul, aged 17, Chicago, me- njured have been reported |phew of Representative Eiliott W. Sproul, . oo that wa ng in| O.F Boston, Aliried ‘cie en the| Lewis Straver, inzion corressend- nket, earrying | ent of the Pittsburzh Dispaich. - nt of the wide balcony in Miss Margarct Duteh, Ludington, Miss. H. Conroy Canve, Frederickshurs, Va. 5 svery seat in the theatrs has| Mrs. H. Conroy Vance, Fredericksberg, een B that hour, and nealy 2000 | Va. ne The same un-| Willlam Walter, Brookiyn. N. Y., sta- Jght in{dent at Georgetown University. Mary Fthel Atkinson, Joseph W. Feal, ome flic had William G. Bikle, Thomas R. Bourne, : s and side- | Mrs. Daisy Garvey Bowden, Albert Bueh : assable with |ler, William M. Canby, Mrs. D. H. Covell, W. M. Crocker, Vinson W. Daubert, e M ok Miss Helen Dorseh, A. G. Eldridge, Mrs, = ause of ¥.H. Ernest, McC. emaeives Feize, Joon P. Fleming, tire mind Mary Lee Fleming, Thomas ilem- S Freeman, Mrs, Clyde M. Gear- ™ P . H. Hall, Douglas Hil Tughes, Danlel K. J n at h Jeffries, John M. Jeffries, How- b Kneesi, Guy S. Eldridge, Kneesi, floor below (son Howard Knecsi), Scott Montgom- acute-angled | ery. Wiliam A. Walters, D. N. Walsh, . t and Colum- | Jack McKimile (brother Wyatt McKim. “thwest, the heart of the|fe) Christine Thomgson, Paulus Lamby, i residence asction of the|Mss M. E. Walsh Krkiand Duke, Esther - niche of the stage on | Foster, Resse}l Mane, Mra Russell was hung was backed | Mane, Mrs. Carre Parsou, Afbert Baker r angle. while to the left | Miss Frances Bikle, Dr. James F. Shea, age the Iine of the auditoriym | L+ L. Lelier, Leroy Lehmer, Mrs. Leroy raizht Ime for some 200 | Lehmer, David H. Lyman, Wyait Me- Fiehter sireet. To the|Kimmie, Jullan McKinniey, Ernest E. wall fof fatellio, Mrs. Norman E. Martindale, sy Miss Agnes Nellon, Mrs. Jean Mirsky, - o€ the £ Veronica Mrphy, Miss Vivian Og- D. F. O'Donne?l, Mrs. D. F. O'Don- teet | Lois Pitcher, Miss Hazel Price, Mrs |Marie Russell Mrs. Cora G. Sigourney, 200 - 4 rosfless to the | Miss Marie H. Smith, Victor M. Sturgin, ¢ the first hissing | Mrs. Gertrude Taylor, William Tracy, of the breaking roof gave warning | MisS Gladys Thomas, Charles Cowles i o & orchestra. Tucker, Mrs. Charies Cowles Tucker, Thet B me survivor thus far |Jacob Urdong, Mre. Jacob Urdong, Louis - b ¢ having heard that warn- | F. Vallyntine, Mrs. Louis F. Vafyntine, “he first powdery handful | Miss Mildred Walford, John L. Walker, ¢ #: down over the head of the |Mrs. John L. Walker, Captain Whiam . . to make his|E. R. Wamer, quartermaster corps, U. S. o % forward on | A, Mrs, Willlam E. R Warner, Mrs. Chas. ced for the doors at |M Wesson, wife of Colonel C. M. Wesson, ast of air. expelled |Ordnance department, U. §. A, Ivan J. . oof came down. hurled Aim out | White. Mrs Virginla Farrand, sister of Julio Bianchi, Guatemalan minister to the United States, = STy Most Bodies from the Pit. e bodies weer recoverad from ReRaih: tha wiiifaks ~ List of Injured. . of alcony itsel Among the injured in the Knickerbock- e of metion pleture au- | er theatre disaster were: Mrs. Bateman an almest empty houss | Adams, Nobile Tomasso Asserto, third secretary of the Iltalian embassy, June Bergiran, Mrs. Hazel Buehler, R. J. Bo- se on the main floor had s in the rows of seats « the front of the balcony. They | wen, Mrs, R. J. Bowen, Mrs. Bernard - . © enough 1o mee well and |Bresslau, Miss Sadie Bresslan, Joseph + front and back rows were almost|C. Bruce, formerly of Milford, Mass., Elliott Brumbaugh, Gllbert Caplan, M. A the point they had chosen the dan-| E. Castney, Mrs. Mary Chalmers, C. #er oroved to be just double. Few of | Clafiin, Miss Margaret Odle, Jamos A. « seated thers could have eseaped. | Curtain, F. W. Dodson, I B. Dodson, J. Even if the falling concrete siabs and | L. Durland, Mrs. Guy S. Eldridge, Miss Mary Forsythe, Miss Ruth Fouts, Wil- liam A, Galloway, Dr. Clyde M. Gear- hart, Norman L. Gebson, and sister, Mrs Saley, Hugh Glenn, Moe Gold, Dr. Cus. tis Lee Hall, and his wife, Ivy Hamilton, Dr. E. E. Hayden, his wife and two chil- roof missed them, the ® baicony front came wreckage with crushing The gleaming brass rail that lay spread the roof fifteen feet reached the scene. dren, Warren Helphen, Mrs. Douglas Those farther back on the main floor | Hillyer, Captain J. H. Hills, U, 8. A, pr y a escaped Tre beams that|and wife, M. Pera HIll, Miss Helen Hop . back end of the balcony teeir clutch on the wall, eep of seats they supported *n until the . wreckage below of the front end, then kins, Margaret John, John Klenner, Mrs, Howard Kneesl, Henry T. Lacey, S. M. Lee, Clarence Long, John. A, Margot, Oreste Matlllo, Lillian Masse, John T, MoEverley, Mrs. Julius McKinney, — wiood covering the back Tows of the main | Merti Mr. and Mrs, Jonah Michajeas, V., foor 1ke & tent T. Monahan, Wakefleld, R. I, Scott ATl Steel and Conerete. Montgomery, John A. Morgant, H. B. - % Moses, Herbert and Mildred Nash, John fromt rows of the b: - 3 3 e wiated mane of rote in tne|and Katherine Nesbit, Clarence New. | He was in the balcony CABLED PARAGRAPHS Bombs Intended For Assassination. Cairo, Jam. 9.--The police informed of a plot to assassinate Abdel Khalek Sarvat Pasha, minister of justice, last night raided a house and found there six bombs ready for use and also a num- ber “of pistels. Leveral perscns were ar- rested. Shackletorf, uritish Explorer, is Dead Antarctic Bound Steamship Quest. Myrtle Chaughnessy, Ruth Shaughnessy, Represntative John A, Smithwick of Florida, Albert W. Sward, Martha Straver, Mrs. Gertrude Taylor, Lieuten- ant Colonel Taylor, U. S. A., Leonard| Montevideo, Uragury, Jan.: 20.—(By and Elizabeth Theunissen, Christiana|mye 4. s e s o Cis P.)—Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Upshaw, Nathan I. Urdong, Alphonsa Van Poucke, Colonel C. M, Wesson, U. S. A., Nancy Wesson, Miss MacLean White, Edward A. Williams, Mrs. Juliette Webb, British explorer, died January 5 on the Steamship Quest, on which he was mak- ing another expedition into the Antarctic regions. Miss Inez Woodruff, Edward W, W Death was due o ang.na pectoris and liams, Miss Marie Young, Mrs. Joseph|occurred when the Quest was - off the Younger, Licutenant Commander Ta- | Gritvsken' station. ‘ laski, medical §fficer of marine barracks, The body was brought to Montevideo and his wife on board a Norwegian steamer and will be taken by another - steamship = to Europe. Captain L. Russey of the Quest will accompany the body home. Sub-Command>: Frank Wild will as- sume- direction of the expedition. ’ LATEST REPOKT GIVES 107 DEAD, 134 INJURED ‘Washington, Jan. 30.—(By The A. P.) —official police records early today placed the known dead In the Knicker- bocker theatre disaster at 107. Elimina- | Sir Ernest' Shackelton was born in tion of duplicated names brought t 1874. He was a third.licutenant in the final total down from the unofficial peak | British national antartic expedition in of 112, at which the toll of the disaster was placed, last right. 3 The list of injured stood at 134 with 14 listed as “serimusly injured.” 1801, and in 1907-09 commanded an ex- pedition which got-to within 97 miles fo the souti pole. He made his third quest of the pole in 1914, The expedition in which he was en- gaged when he died was to have cover- ed 30,000 miles of uncharted sections of the south Atlantic, the Pacific and the Antarctic seas. On board the Quest, a little' 200-ton ship, Sir Ernest set sail from England last September on what was. to have been a two yvear voyage. Exploration of a petrified forest and the location of STORY OF THE ROOF COLLAPSE AND SCENES THAT ENSUED Washington, Jan. 29, (By the A. P)— An avalanche of broken plaster, bricks. splintered wooden and _ twisted ms catapulting upon the audi- ence while' the orchestra played and at comedy film was béing ground out is the | Of a petrified fc ‘l“":‘cr(lhmon of the Knickerbocker theatre!a “lost” island—Tuanaki—the adjacent Qisaster given today by Representative| Waters of which had not been sailed for e Bomithwick, of Pensacola, Fla.|more than 90 years, were ozjects of the He was' in of the theatre!expedition. Also soundings. were fo. of collapsed, under its weight | have been taker, of the ocean plateaus e o o bod unalded—just: how | surrounding Gongn's Island, in: an effort he cannot recall—with more or less se-|to determine the truth regarding a sup- s posed underwater continental connection “The orchestra was playing beautiful [ betWeen Africa and America. when of comic film was rusning”| Sir Ernest, for his distinguished ser- e ithoriow, 1ying. 1n his bed,| vices, was made a knight in 1909, Varie f:;‘ .u;:d "and with Ms face and hands|cus socicties throughout the world hon- covered with. cuts. “Suddenly there was|ored him for his work. a sharp crack. 1 lo great fissure running across the ceiling. 1t was right over my nead. I XllsKfll;lll) released what was happening, The plas- ter began to fall, dropping down in large and small chunks all over the LI\E?{N. it scemed to me. While I was looking up a great piece right over my head| started to fall. 1 ducked, crouching, in-| voluntarily 1 suppose down between the 4 up and saw a| Sir Ernest an Irishman. He was lucated a h College, and after graduation went to sea, choosing sailing ships. It was in 1906 he organized ths expedition to the South Pole which brought him s greatest fame. It was Magnetic Pol On the trip Shackleton reached a point nearer the South Pole than ever had been attained by any ex- plorer. seats. The. plece struck the seat right | Plor i ! S otre 1 mad bean sitting, The force was| His 1914-16 cxpedition was on scien- broken by the seat, bul it pinned mo|tific surveys. 5 Ao down where I was crouching. _ oS Emest married in mily ““The noise was awful. It Was a great,|Mary, daugh\: of the late Charles tremendous roar. 1t was simply inde-|Dorm, an old resident of Sussex. Two Scribabie. 1 mever can forget it. sons and a daughter were born of the 2 2 union, Shrieks, Cries and Groans. 3 “In the midst of the roaring were Available maps do not give Gritvicken station where Shackleton was reported to have dicd. shrieks and cries of women and children and a few shouts of men. ~There wer cries for help, groans, and, worst of all, the moans of those in {er;mle n?in. 1: BOAED OF CoITSSIoN s was awful. I can't describe it. I see § s falll 5 2ll the time, those poor children and ORDLRS INVESTIGATION women crying and goaning there. R e e “There werd only & few of us in the| FAshnaton, Jo (Bx e 4 [P) balcony. Lucklly ‘there weren't _more. | -Tnvestisation of whe coliapse of the The balcony gave way and crashed, soon | *0i8 el L after the cefling began to fall, on those of commissioners, th. zoverning body of on the lower floor. . They were causht | f S0 0 O o b S ERe, 2 e the worse, We in the balcony weremore} i S0 ore wene "t ¥o lose-all thea Tortunate. ters until the snow had been cleared “I guess there was a lapse of mayhbe | L€7S until the sno n_d fiom the roofs and spectors had made twenty seconds, hardly more, before the [ 1o the, ronfs and inepector€ had mad balcony fell. Funny, but it spun around, | A CAAPATE BF the Struchures, | G Kind of twisted, as its. supports gave| OGS S A Sty way and it swung down in those below, | 10 heen made the tioer cause of the It didn’t go straight down, just kind of could not be determined. “No man can tell at the present time just what was ctly responsible for the, collapse of the roof,” said Building Inspector Healy The inspector slid sideways and slanting, "1 suppose from the welght of the debris that had; fallen on us up stairs. Narrative of Escape. “I don't krow how I got out from where 1 was crouching under that churik of plaster that had fallen on me. I really believe it weighed all of 500 pounds. And I think I moved that plas-| It was stated that the inquiry would ter with my shoulders. Anyway, 1|be started as soon ¢s the rescuers at crawled out between the seats to Where|work in the wreskage had made certal I saw a small hole in the plaster above.|that all of the bodies had been removed I forced myself up through that hole, | The examination of the wreckage will wiggling and shoving. Then I crawled ""P made h}(‘ Major Cary H. I’,rnv&lnli a:. out over the smow and plaster, over the|sistant engineer comm oner n:t$ i ¥ tangled debris, to the doors on the|structural enzineers from the bullding Eighteenth street side. inspector’s office. " “Across the aisle from me wWhen the| Senator Capper, of Kansas, a member crash came was a little fellow—I never| of the senate Dlstrict of Columbia com- w him_again and I wonder if he is|mittee, announced tonight that as soon - as the senate reconvened he would in- troduce a resolution ecalling for an in- vestigation of the Knickerbocker theatre Qisaster and also of all large byjldings constructed in Washington since the be- ginning of the war. * Senator Canper said reports had come to him that the building code of the District of Columiia had heen violated to a more or less dezree during the rush of construction following the increase in the city's population after the declara- tlon of war. could not recall a previ- ous case of the collapse of a building in the District of Columbia directly as a result of the weizht of snow on the roof. dead—who laughed and roared at every especlally funny part of the film. I don't know what became of him or the others in the balcony after we were showered with plaster. ‘ “As the ceiling broke, the plaster fell firs chunks. It was just like an ice breaking up. The roof didn’t give way in ono crash. It seemed to break up everywhere. That let in the snow, which came In through the. broken places where the ceiling had given way, “It's queer, but 1 was conscious all the time when I was pinned down under there by that great plece of ceiling, My mind, when 1 saw the ceiling falling, and afterward, was just as clear and col- lected as it is now. I knew I wasg hurt some, but I didn't know how badly. It seemed that my time had come. I lived a vear, I tell you, plnned down between the seats. “It wasn't untll I ght outside that I noticed blood falling from my face and hands. T got out myself. No one helped me. I crawled over the broken seats and plaster and enow to the door. On the way I saw a young fellow lying half curled up, mogning and erying for help. I leaned over to lift him and then every- thing went black. The next I remember 1 was at the door, wiping the blood from my eves and moutn. I don't know how I got out” I dldm't see any other injured ones as I crawled out. I can't Temember about that part of it. My only thought then was to get home before I should die. My chest pained me, my: back séemed broken, by face was drip- ping with blood. ~All I wanted to do was to get home and tell my wife and little girl What had happened and how I was hurt. I thought I was going to' die.” Representative Smithwick Injured, Representative Smithwick, who lives about a block from the theatre, said ho staggered home Without overcoat or hat through the snow drifts. Physicians were summoned immediately. They found him suffering from shock, bruises and Dossibly internal injurles. “I think it was a miracle that I came out alive” said the Florida congress- man. “But think of those poor children and men and women were not so fortu- pate. I don't see how any Who were' un- der that. balcony escaped. If those be- low could have seen the ceiling break- ing they would have had time to rush cut through the doors, but I, guess they couldn’t see as we could in the balcony. Those underneath us had no chance, 1 Head Of Greek Church T CORYRIGHT. KEYSTOE VIEWL CO. NEW-YORK Right Reverend Melitios Me- taxakis Fcumenical Patriarch, of the Holy Eastern,Orthodox Church. was 1o wood in the struc- | Kirk, Mrs. E. Pasquaie, Alice Pasquale, 1 steel and concrete, but | Henry Peason, Miss Virginia Poole, ight of the balcony was | Miss Ruth E. Postiey, Mrs. Henry §. ‘o wind the tortured | Powell, Henry Wilson and Misg Edelin stie shapes. | Wilson, John _ Prezioso, Marie Rnea, H. “hance played a purt in | Belle Rembo, Edward A. Sacks, New reducing number of vietims. The | York eity, Harry F. Sacy, Walter Urd gront rows of the balcony. four or five|Sacy, Mrs. Mattie Schwab, E. H. vers were known as “reservad” Shaughnessy, second assistant posimas- peats They were priced above the suc- ter general, Mrs. E. H. Shaughnessy, e e TR guess. I keep thinking of it all the time, that awful roaring and the: crashing of the balcony on its way down to those people below. It was all over in half a minute, I guess, but it seomed hours, The Patriarch, who'isthead ofithe Greek’ Orthodox Church’ the, world over, was in this country when he wmwas alavated to bis hizh position. this expedition that discGvered the South| Conclave of Cardinals To Open Thursday It is Expected That the 261st Pontiff Will be Elected byl Next Saturday. Rome, Jan. 20.—(By The A. P.)—The 261st pontiff of the Roman ichurch will be elected by Saturday next, according to the consensus of opinion as expressed by prelates here with the cardinals at- tached to the coaclave. They expect the decision will be reached un the third or fourth ballot. The conclave opens on Thursday, and f-om present Indications the work of electing a new pope will be carried on expaditiously. “I do not ancizinate a sharply drawn contest, which ssme predict” sald a Prominent Enzlish ecclesiastic today. “Although there are naturally diverzent views among the cardinals, these differ- ences are not irreconcilable, and I am confident that the Sacred College will be able to agree upon he successof of Ben- edict in a relativeiy short time. merican and FEnglish church digni- taries consider it a certainty that the choice will fall upon ‘an Italian. They believe that tha best chances le with Cardinals Maffi, Ratti, Lega and La Fontalne. A prominent Enclish prelate, who ask- ed that his name ne withheld, declared it would be a sreat mistake fo elect a. foreign cardinal, as that would lead to disappolntment and dissatisfaction among countries Itke the United States, Great Pritain and France, all of whom i probably felt that they merited high of- fice, whereas the selcw on of an Italian would be azsseable to all. This church official pressed the opinion that the new pope would con- tinue to observe the complete independ- ence and dignity of the Vatican. He add- ed: “The Vatican should be nelther the subject mor the zuest of any govern- ment, but should he scrupulously neatral and unhampered."” Nelther Spain nor Austrla, he declared, woall atiemnt to exercise the right to veto the conclave's chofo which these countries have heretofore en- joyed Traace, TWO GIRLS FOUND SLEEPIN UNHARMED, BENEATH DEBRIS Washington, Jan. 20 (By the A. P).— Sleeing peacefully beneath the debris in the wrecked Knickerbocker theatre, two little girls aged about four and six, were found early today by rescuers, ten hours after the playhouse roof had fallen in. Apparently neither of the children was badly hurt. They were taken to a hos- pital without identification. Four hours earlier a five vear old girl was found, unhurt, seated between the bodies of two women. Her life evident- Iy had been saved by her falling between the seats and the protection given her by the bodies of the two women who were led beside her. ¢ The last person to be taken from the ruins was Dr. Scott Montgomery of Washington, who was - rescued - twelve hours after the roof collapsed. He was pinned by his legs underneath a beam which killed the young woman whom he had escorted to the theatre. The beam was part of the structure of the baleony and was literally a key log in the jam above him. It took hours to assemble the hydraulic jacks from the navy yard, which were the only things adequate to lift the heavy weight the necessary dis- tance to free him. Physicians plied him with restoratives during the night, but his condition was extremely serious when he was taken out of the buflding. MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY BY PRESIDENT HARDING Washington, Tan. 29 (By the A. P.).— President Harding issued the following statement late today on the bocker theatre disaster: have experienced :the same astound- ing shock and the same inexpressible sor- ich has come to all of Washington and which will be sympatheticall Knicker- telt throughout the land. 1 I knew what to say to soften the corrow of hundreds Who are so suddenly bereaved, if T could say a word to cheer maimed and suffer- Ing, I would gladly do it. The terrible tragedy, staged In the midst of the great storm, has deeply depressed all of us and left us wondering about the re- volving fates.” MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING IN THE TOWN OF VERNON Rockville, Conn., Jan. 29.—The state police are investigating a mysteriour shooting in the town of Vernon late last night which resulted in fhe wounding of two men. Mark Hewitt, who lives in a shack on the William Grady farm, was arrested late today and is held in con- nection with the shooting as a suspicious person. % James Sargent and John Johnson, the wounded men, have been living with Hewitt in his shack for the past ten days, according to information obtained by the state poiice. The three men were awak- ened just before midnight by a shot and as they scrambled from their bunks more shots were fired through a window of the shack. Johnson was struck below the heart and Sargent was shot in the abdo- men. Hewitt, it was said, had crawled under a bunk and was not hit. At daylight the two wounded men, as- sisted by Hewitt, made their way to the Grady residence, two miles away. The wounded men were brought to a hospital here and the Rockville police calied the state police into the case. Johnson's con- dition was said to be serious. After several hours of inv stigation the state police arrested Hewitt on suspicion. It was said he will be questioned tomor- row. MERCIER SAYS NEXT POPE I8 CERTAIN TO BE ITALIAN Rome, Jan. 29 (By the A. P.).—The next pope is certain to be an Italian, ao- cording to a statement made today by Cordinal Mercier, primate of Belgium, to The Associated Press. “There is no need to indulge in vainp conjectures or to count the votes in ad- vance,” said the cardinal, “but one must Wait the decrees of Providence, and Providence for the past five centuries hag Tuled that the supreme pontiff should be an Italian.” The distinguished Belgian prelate di not concur in the opinion that has been freely expressed in Vatfean circles that “never has a forelgn' cardinal had such a chance of being elected pope.” “It is against all tradition that a for- eigner should be elected,” said the car- dinal. “The next pope certainly will be an Itallan” Human nature is the thing that makes some men imagine they have 2 perfect right to work less themselves and at the same time work others more, - BREF 'TELEGRAMNS La Lorral atynoon Saturday. y Mrs. Mary Orowder, mother of Major General Enoch H. Crowder, died m ‘Washington,s a/zed 88 years. The Kinglf Tom farm, a landmark in Charlestown,] R. L, for almost two cen- turies, Waskfdestroyed by fire. Abolition§ ot Pulgue, the national drink of Mexico,§is planned biPresident Ob- regon. H Rats and mice are migrating N swarms from the Russian famine area, and Budapest is now overrun with thea. | Jacqueline Lebaudy, daughter of the late Jaoques Lebaudy, self-styled “em- peror of .the Saraha,” has been married in Paris yto Roger Sudreau. Henry I'. Weaver of York Beach, Me., and Haroll W. Eager of Manchester, N. H., were appofnted prohibition agents by Commissioner Haynes, Richard} Westacott, who has been the American {vice consul in London since 1897, diedin London Saturday. He was born in .Boston in 1849, With prisoners acting, as instructors and caretakers:an ice “skating rink for children has been opend in the rear of the county jall, ‘Manchester, N. H, An explosion, of a/still in the basement of a house In ‘the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, set five to tHe building and burned an uniclentified man to feath. Discovery off the first blne caterpillar known to biology - has been reported to the American Association' for the Ad- vancement of gScience. Antonlo R, Burcelo, president of the Porto Rican ‘senate and opponent of E. Mont Reily,{gover: ed for home on e steamship Ponce. The Irterstate Commerce Commission issued an order prescribing the account- ing methods to be used by the railroads | in makimg returns of excess income un- der the; transportation act. 'Suit for $100,000 brought by Frank P. Spellman, former showman, against Jack Dempsey, world's heavyweight boxing {champion, has heen settled out of court. A_carrier pigeon which was released | in Madison Square Garden, New York, bearing a note to Mrs. Warren G. Hard- ing, was found in a lumber yard at As- bury Park, N. J., exhausted by the cold. | Cardinal Mercler, primate of Belgium, has stopped off ‘at’ Milan on his way to| Rome to attend the conclave of the sa- lered collegs, and is sai® to be suffer- ing from an attack of influenza. Construction of a reservoir of four hundred billion gallons capacity on the | Ware river at Enfield is proposed as nec- essary to insure an adequate water sup- ply for Boston. The Cunard freighter Nellavia, which left London on January 20 for Boston, | has broken down at sea and is return-| ing to London in tow of another steam- | er, The number of stray dogs throughout Massachusetts has become so great as| to cause a situation characterized as “very serious” by Willia mA. L. Lazely, commissioner of conservation. Joseph J. Lynam, former ensign and paymaster of the U. S, cruiser Chester, Was sentenced to serve five years in ths | Plymouth jall Saturday. A federal jury in Boston found him guilty of embeze zling $21,000 of government funds. Judge Crosby In supreme court at Boston announced the appointment ot | Fred M. Lamson of Marshfield, Willlam B. McKenzle of Cambridge and #ame E. Patton of Boston as trustees of the| Christian “Sclence Publishing Society. Two men attacked John Doherty, car- rying the $2575 payroll Lof the S. M.| Howes company, Charlesion stove man- | ufacturers, Boston, as he was entering the yard Saturday afternoon, seized the money and fled. The request of the Bollvian govern- in the forth- | in ment for representation coming treaty of Ancon conferences Washington between Peru and Chile been refused With regret by Harding. President | Spectators eame from miles around te watch United States marshals pour 12,- | 000 gallons of whiskey and seven bar- rels of wine into the gutters at Union | Hill, N. J. The liquor had been seized | at Jersey City, Hoboken and Union | Hin, Isaac White, & former policeman, ro- turned to Detrolt after being maroon: with scant food supplies and shelter f, 42 days, on a small island in the Upp: Detroit river. He was rescued by Nels Nelson, after a perilous trip of two and one-half ‘miles over the Tce floes, Nine clersymen and laymen have been appointed by the world alllance for in- ternational ~ friendship _through the churches to make a study of labor con- ditions and their relation to religious Jife in the United States and the princi- pal countries of Europe. Train service over the New York, New Haven and Hartfo:d Railroad, in Man- hattan and The Bronx, and as New Rochelle, far east was tied up Saturday night by a fire ‘hat destroved the ad- | ministrative officss of the New York di- vision of the railroad at Willis avenue and 122nd street, The Bronx. INSTRUCTIONS FROM TOKIO FOR JAPANFSE DELEGATION Washington, Jan. 29—(By The A. P.) —Further Instructions from Toklo to the Japanese delegation brought a fina: agreement on the five.power naval treaty one step mearer today, while moves were developed that seemed to insure within a few days a final decislon in_the Shantung controvarsy. The exact nature of the Tokio commu- nication was not disciosed, but it was understood to accept with one or two reservations, the language of the forti- cations article, which is the only por- tlon of the naval treaty remainite in complete. The Japanese government is said to approve definitely the plan for listing by name the Pacific islands which are not to be further fortified, but the reply Is In such form that some furth- er discussion will be necessary. In the Shantung negotiations there ap- creasing pressure was being brought to MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES UNDER TWO FEET OF SNOW — Center of Storm Was Washington, D. C.—Heavy Snow- fall Made the Streets Almost Impassable—Deliveries of Foodstuffs Were Greatly Curtailed—Heavy Seas Were Experienced Along the Water Fronts of the Hampton Roads District—A 42 Mile Gale, With Dense Mist of Snow and Sleet, Made Navigation Hazardous. 3 Washington, Jan. 29.—Buried under jbia and Baltimore the snowfall was o from one to more than two feet of snow |MOSt a8 heavy as in Wasaington. South< by one of the most severo storm e T aad - Y and about Philad were covered wita eral decares the Middle Atlantic section |a foot to a foot and a haif o of the country srent Sunday in veliant | York city and adjacent se but mostly .vain efforts to resume the ac- [State also experienced a tivities suspended Friday night when the | 31078 the eastern storm swpet wp from the zouth. Jersey. The storm, cescribed e weather [ Thy coastal region had added to the face bureau as the worst in twenty-three years |t054r of snow sirong gales w! had its center tonight slightly nortn and |#ed shipsing. The Ha cast of Cape Cod and was mov! trict_experienced heavy seals along ou over the ocean, but in its w water fronts, a for ©_mite gale, rth Carolina to Southern New a dense mist of snow and slee and and from the coast to the Allegheny |the area within t to maritime traff mountains all was buried under a snow blanket, extremely movi Washington as the center of 1 e Reports to the weather bureau ton! b crip- n Roads dis- and made perilous 15 the orm gth and the center of the storm’s stre suffered the most severity—a toll of near- | indicated that gales which were strong Iy a hundred lives having been taken and [from Cape Cod to Cape Ha more than a hundred injured ne of would dimini: whom may be added later-to the lis: of t as the sto dead. The loss of in the capital |over the sea. The with one or two exceptions was due t> |cloudy and unsettied weather over 1 € coliapze of the roof of a motion picture | Middle Atlantic reg 1OmorTow _ an theatre underthe weight of twenty-s: inches of snow and this catastroph. accounted for most of the injuries. aside from the theatre d: Tuesday with no severely cold weatbe: TWo new storms, however were rush- ing toward the eas: and weather bureeu officials scanne dth aso saster he e iz ir charts and re- as hard hit and although the snow ports anxiously to se¢ T° the Two dis- ved falling ‘a few hours after midnignt |turbances mignt add was not until long after day moralization. They tonignt that Was 100 early to ascertain whether tha new storms, one over Texas and the-oth- er over the norfhwest, would reach t:e s it dawned that the full effect was Daybreak found the ity without an; of street car service its streets to impassability with snow, its s completely cut off, deliveries of 1 m d other stricken region. Taking warning from the theatre ca- W a perishable foodstuffs | tatrophe spartment houss and of- grcatly ourtailed .and many bulidings en- | fice bufldings issued orders eariy in the dangered, by the load of snow. day for removal Of the snow from tha Maryland feit the effect of the storm |roofs. Many porches, however, collaps- almost as much as the District of Co e EDITORS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS CONNECTICUT'S PENAL INSTITUTIONS CRITICISED Boston, Boston, tors of the First entist, Jan. 23 —The direc- Church of Chris announced t Washington, Jan. 20.—Dr. E. E. Dud« ding, president of the Prisoners’ Relief eht that, acting | " & under the Manual <f the Christian Sci. | S°Ci€!¥, the organization which has just ence church, they had elected Wi investigated jails in various sections of Abbott and Albert Field Gilmore, bo country, severely criti ; S i ]’ ised the ma- of New York, as editors of the Chrls- ¥~ of Cor 9 al institnt ol Sinior Pt o e e ¥ of Connecticuts penal institutions newly appo! trustees chosen editor here yesterda, of the Chri Monitor, a| ° ut,” he £ald, “has three well daily of the | managed titutions. They are m 3 tian Sei- and as near a ence Journal, iristian Sclence Sentinel, inspection they Le Heraut (Freach) and Der Herold [are to the the coun! Tweive (German). however, are as bad as can s Mr. Ab bott is a native of New Haven, Conn., studied at :he University of Mich- h diseases wer mixed up in igan and has p2en actively connected | Connecticut jails wit ows in good h newspapers in Chicago, New health. < ttle Cree, Mich. He the suffering 5 or of numerous bHooks, efiy histori- { What can be worse Y cal and craphical and is a member of | Prisoners, after c« h n the Mother church. jali, are taken to the court room and Mr. lmore was born in Turner, Me,, | min; others? was graduated from Bates college in | “In one ja is member of the Board of |awful; 1 Overseers of Bates college and an au. | Were . thor and lectursr ¢n nat subjects. He | there were m! served as principal of several Mai now, our inspector looks back at her visif ondary institutions and for many to that as though it was a night- was_connected with text book pub mare. Ther is one prison in Connecticut n New York. He SIS Bt First Church of Brooklyn, and o committee on puhlicatl state. s a member of the | Where the £ for New York FORECAST OF BUSINESS IN SENATE THIS WEEK | Washington, Jan. 29.—The senate asked to indicate the probably will turn this week from the o which he gave a clean biil discussion of the broad international said the policy of giving exact e allied debt to s domestic s ng. Lead position of the h is expect names of t it w tere | AREE or two, motion would be made to| Prisons. up the kuestion of giving federal ter on, he added, the places womid on to the formation of go-|be inspected again by the society, and it marketing organizations. changes has ade by then th Half a dozen sucn bills bave been in-|=ociety will names of the past year, but two of Sena sr Capper of Ka nator MeCumbe at cha: - mbers of com- the other by communities and Dokota—stand out as the meas- organizations taka about which discussion w center. 0 investigate the Mr. Capper's bill has been on the senate | . and help clean calendar for ten months and, according to | it WP, laeders. is the legislation most likely to be enacted. ‘.E BRUNDAGE CHARGED WITH THE EMBEZZLEMENT OF $1,716 gyptian Fire-brand Arrested Danbury, Conn, Jan. 29.—Charles H. Brundage, former treasurer of the Con- necticut Poultry association, arrested In Hartford early brought to this city thie afternoon and released in bonds of $2,000 for appear- ance in the city court tomorrow. He is charged with embezzlement of $1,716 fllI the association’s funds. Brundage owned a farm here until re- cently and now lives Bethel tion’s in the attending the Hartford town of as<ocia- Whil meeting in last Thurs- day he reported o the polica that the funds in his custody had bien stolen from his room In a Hartford hotel of the money. 500 ARRESTS RESULT FEIM DISORDERS IN CALCTTTA Calcutta, India, ‘Jan. 29.—Five hun- dred ersons were arrested today after the police and Gurxhas, armed with rifl had charged throagh a barrage of brick bats, staves and cther missiles In order to disperse a larze public meeting held by members of the non-co-operative so- clety. Many persons on both sides were injured. FLAGS IN CONSTANTINOPLE HALF-MASTED FOR POPE Constantinople, Jan. 29 (By the A. P.). —Contrary to established regulations, the council of ministers ordered the half- masting of Turkish flags on all public bear for a settloment. The prediction heard almost everywhere in conference circles was that a day or two more would tell the story, with the odds fa- voring acceptancs of the settlement plan supported by Presiden: Hardina. Pasha, the notorious tian fire-brand, who has been arrested by the military for refus- ing to leave Cairo and to refralm from all political activity. buildings in honor of the late Pope Bene- -7 v dict. This was the first otcasion in Turkish history of the Otfoman govern- ment_officially taking part in mourning for the death of & Christian or foreigw sovereigr 'rh-| association elected a nmew treasurer to succeed Brundaze, but took no formal action In regard to the disappearance