Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 6, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIV—NO. 32 POPULATION PBalletin NORWICH, CONN., MONDA DUSANDS OF DEAD BODIES ONTHE STEPPES OF RUSSIA Of Men, Women and Children Who Fell Exhausted in Their Quest For Bread— When the Snow Melts Hundreds of Thousands of Skeletons Will Be Revealed—Millions Are . Still Wandering in Search of Food—Along the Railroads Bodies Are Piled in Frozen Heaps—Freezing Refugees Remove All Garments From the Dead. Tta, Volga Region, Russia, Feb. 5 (By the A. P.).—When the snows meit next spring the Russian steppes will be strewn ~ith skeletons. They will resembie the high prajries of the American cow coun- try in the days when big cattle outfits had suffitlent hay to carry their stock through a hard wintre, But among the skeletons.of eattle and amels there will be the bones of hun- dreds of thousands of men, women and “hildren who fell exhAusted in their quest read; who lived the simple lives peasant ancestors lived for cen- s. and had little conception of the upheaval which made this fam- more terrible than that of 1891 They wandéred, gnd miliions of them e still wandering. There was n tn eat in th mes, o they s a trak forporead. Some drifted west- | xard to the Volga and found death in the typhus ridden railway centers, or among the horrors of refugee camps along the Volga: others started for Tur. ward Siberia others moved eastward to- the land of gold and wheat has always been =0 al mujik who heard its hardehipe and its reasante knew nothing of modern They wére unable to buy tickets on the railways, unabie to get permits to a tra burdened with the Red for Moscow and r eir animals dropped d ¥ys hoping knoll ave no grain families have a small sup- al it in the effort to pr Ives uny er crop s the larger towns there is fabulous vrices, but the ng refugees have neither nioney nor eir own n A for sale at | Freezing refugees remove all goode to exchange, and can only sit down to await death, or trudge on till they sink of exhaustion. The bodies .which lie along the rail- roads are collected on cars and hauled to centers where they are piled in frozen, snow-covered heaps to await burial garments from the dead, &o the frozen bodies are nude when ‘the scavengers coilect them. Familics drift apart and wander aim- lessly on to their inevitable fate. Human instinets are lost; and they become little better than beasts. The city and town populations are so hardened to suffering that they are little moved By the misery h lies all about them. Death seems more merciful in the country for the refugees; they sink into the white cov- ering of the endless plain, and woives strip their bones. From Permand Ekaterinburg Caspian a death is stalking over the steppes. Russians, Cossacks, Kalmuck Kirghiz and Tartars alike are meeting their end with hovelessness and patience begotten of centuries of unequal struggle against poiitical extortion and unfavor- able climatic conditions made worse by ignorance. of scientific méthods of tilling to the an corn will be too late to save these wanderers through the ies who have many of steppes, as well as the fa elected to make their fight in their vil- ges remote from railways rather than endure the hardships and death their meighbors have suffered along the main iines of transportation Entire viilage ions have died in the provinces east of the Volza and the animals which survive are so weak it is mpossible to get adequate horsepower to deliver fo0d to the thousands of snow- bound, testitute gettlements far from food stations. ARMS CONFERENCE ENDS TODAY WITH S1GNING OF TREATIES ton, Feb, 5 \ington and far me to and end nary session given signing of Washin Wa (By the A. P.)— conference on arma- eastern probiems will tomorrow with a ple- over to the formal treaties and to a farewell ad- President Harding, Making his first appearance in the se ions of the conference since he wel- omed the égates to Washington, un Novembe he president plans to dice briefly his gratification over the re- accomplished and his conviction iment has justified full practice of settling troub by some questions in am “international mee of minds." Mr. Harding’s belief in “conference plan”. of iucting international nego- iations has been $o strengthened by the velopments here, his friends say, that regards the intangible reationships re- g from the Washington meeting as even greater significance than the for- agreements that are to be brought to umma’ion tomorrow., He is to make short spedch, but it is expected to ‘ontain important utterances on the ene ubject of international fellow- Despite the small amount of wors left o however, tomorrow’s session may r several hours. Four treaties and sup to a fifth are to be signed s at the big green table 1 Hall, around which all the ngs of the conference have The affixing of wax seals and exacting work of inspecti texts before signature, are importance that conference there will be no reld tasks offi- disposition e say fore the end of the week, aties probably f the senate. The American dele- already has about competed the report that is to accompany the treaties y are turned over to President ng and he has indicated that he submit them for ratification within day two after they ‘come into his possession. All five are expected to go capitol at one time, but whether lent wil in person the con- teren be in the deliver tiuem PATRONS ESCAPED FROM BURNING PICTURE THEATRE New York., Feb. 5.—An explosion fol- owed by fire, spread panie among 500 ons of the Lyric motion picture thea- on West Twenty-third street this af- ternoon, but all got out safely. The blaze was put out by firemen after it had de- everal thousand feet of film and gutted the operating room. stroyed The plavhouse, one of small seating capacity, wae crowded when a loud re- port was heard. Tongues of flames ed toward the ceiling, the music and in an instant the place was uproar. sons were slightly injured crush at the exits, a number, of were broken, and hats, coats and doned by their owners, A cool attendant swung the doors, while Mrs. Grace Holly, lanist, resumed her playing in an Altempt to restore calm. She was the ast to leave the building. After the flames were brought under ntrol. a poifee inquiry to determine the sause of the explosion was begun. COTTAGES PLUNDERED AT SOMERVILLE, N. J. Somerville, N. J, Feb. 5.—Summer tottage burelars, operating with Jimmy und plunder pack, Wted the South Somer- iTie houses of Charies A. Worrall and Trowbridge Calaway New York brokers tome time durine the past week, carrying of sliverware Nnen and other househol sffects valued ar severai thoisand doliare, This became known today wien care takers, livinz fn the neighbernood, dis- ~overed thar windows had been foresd and Te houses systematically rareacked, Both had been Miwd since Octo-er. MOTION PICTURE HOUSE BURNED AT EAST HAMPTON Fast Hampten, Mass. Feb, The Majeeic theatre, a motion poture hous® was barned carlv today, caueinz a lo&: sstimated at $60000. The building was y P i s e e DECREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT IN U. S. DURING JANUARY Washington, Feh —Unemployment decreased sharply in the United States during January. the department of labor reported today, and 40 out of 65 cities and industriai centers had 4.2 per cent. more workers on payrolls Jan. 31 than on Dec. 31. The ealculation was made from | the actual reports of 1,420 concerns nor- maily employing more than 500 people each. Nearly all industries, outside of steel, textiles and rdilroads, increased their labor for¢es. In Detroit, center of the | auwomobile industry, the increase was 89.9 per cent.; in Sioux City. Ia., 21 per cent.. and in San Francisco 14.3 per cent. Chicago was listed with 4 per cent. im- provement among 40 cities reporting in- creas Denver, Col, showed the largest de- crease in employment with a decrease in the number of employed of 43.7 per cent. during the month, while Chattanooga. | Tenn., last 16 per cent, Johnstown, Pa., 14.1, and Philadelphia 8. In New. York 1.8 r cent. e the results n of the sub “fail to give any in- stantial improvement ness activities predicted for Janu- Dircetor Jones of the federal em- ployment gervice said in the repcrt, “in- crease in emnloyment in metal products other than iron and steel, and miscellane- ous industries is the encouraging fea- ture.” “The feeling that there will be a de- cided change for the better by early spring is manifested everywhere¥ he added, “and seems to be based on real evidente of prosperity and not mere op- timism.” L3 IRISH RADICALS PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO REPUBLIC Dublin, Feb. 5 (By the A. P.)—Six hundred delegates, most of them youth- ful, representing womun's Sinn Fein or- ganizations reaffirmed their. allegiance to the republic in a resolution today. They also called upon the womer of Ireland to support at the forthcoming elections only candidates standing true to the. repubiic proclaimed in 1916, and asked them to Join 'in reimposing the Beifast boycott unless prisoners in northern jails for po- litical offenses are released forthwith. Countess Markievicz presided at the convention which was held at the Man- sion House, Speeches betraved considerable diver- gence of opinion, many of those who ad- dressed the gathering opposing interfer- ence with the provisional government, Mr: uleahy, wife of the minister of de- fense in the dail eireann cabinet, de- clared the delegates could get a free and independent republic through the Free State, Miss Mary MacSwiney moved the res. olution reafirming allegiance to the ra- public, which was adopted after an amendment moved by Mrs, Wise Power, of Dublin, in favor of not obstructing the government in its support 'of - the treaty, was rejscted by a large majority. Mrs. Power contended that the treaty Wwas a big step toward a republic. PULLMAN SLEEPER SEIZED BY PROHIBITION AGENTS Santa Rosa, Cal, Feb. 4.—United States District. Attorney E. G. Davis, to- day*filed the® case of the United States against “one standard Pullman sleeper,” which Wwag seized by state and federal agents under’ the provisions of the Vol- stead law. Papers were served on the car today just as it was about to leave for Spokane. Friday pight offieers /searched the sieepr and found two suit cases of liquor. They arpested three Pullman employes, who, following arralgnment today, were placed in jail because of inability to furnish_bond. the reported decrease in empioyment was# Business in Berlin Paralyzed by Strike City is Without Tramway Ser- vice, Gas, Water and Elec- tricity. Berlin, Feb. 5—(By The A. P.)— Tramway service and the gas, water and electricity supply In Berlin were com- pletely paralyzed when the_ municipal 0mplg}'es struck this morning. Even hos- pitals are without water and light. The strike of railroad men hag ex- tended to all of Badem.where the work- ers went out last night. Nothing has come of the negotiations begun vester- day for settling the railway strike, which now has been in progress since Wednes- day midnight. - Many factories and bakerles have re- duced: their working hours, and. some of them have already closed down. e WOMAN'S SILK NIGHT DRESS FIGURES IN TAYLOR MURDER Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 5.—Search for a drug peddler, upon whose trail the police said they were “getting warmer” and a woman's silken night dress, said by Henry.Peavy, coored houseman to he missing from the apartments of William Desmond Taylor, slain film director, vere the outstanding developments here tonight of the search for his slayer. The police were reticent as to the de- tails concerning their search for the man a peddler who was believed to have sought patrons for his contraband druzs among the employes of motion picture studios, but they intimated thelr beliet Te had attempted to make a delfvery through Taylor to an actress who found it difficult to make her purchases In per- son. The exact Importance of the missing night dress, which was nink, was not made plain. Peavy, however, was firm in his declaration that it had a regular place in Tavlor's apartments and equally firk in his assertion that since his em- ployer was slain, he had been unable to find it. After the announcement of the search for the drug peddler deputy sheriffs left for an unnamed destination on what the: termed the “mest definite clew thus far discovered In the Taylor murder mys tery.” They said they were going to view “a certain party” and pi make an arrest. This was the first active participation of the sheriff’s forces in the case. Another anjfe was the story told by an associate o\ the dead director that 3 former employe’ had been keard to ex claim, when he heard of the slaying: “Bill Taylor got only what he deserv- e The investigation showed, the nplice said, that this man had been empoyed by the Famous Players-Lasky concers working under Taylor, .in a minor ca- pacity, One day he was drunk when he went on dut Taylor ordered him removed from the place. The next day the man returned, only to find an order from Taylor that he should not be admitted. The police id they had egun & search for him. MOTION PICTURE ACTOR ANTy A CAMERA MAN QUESTIONED Los Angeles, Feb. 5.—A motion plcture acter and a cameraman were brought to the Los Angeles county jail here tonight for questioning as to their possible knowledge of clues to the murder of liam Desmond Taylor, fim director. The make-un was still on the actor face when he arrived at the jafl, indicat- ing, officers stated, that the deputy sher- iffs who had bSrought him in, Al Manning, chief criminal deputy, and Harvey Bell, were in great haste to learn his story. The men were located at a motion ple- ture studio in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, it was stated. After they had been questioned sepa- rately for two hours, the officers startcd back to Hollywood with the actor, it was stated. The trip back to Hollywood, it was annoupced, was to give the actor an op- portunity to make good his declaration to the denuties that If they would escort him there he could account for his move- ments last Wednesday night, the night Taylor was slain. At that time, it was sald, the camera- man was still held in jail. SEARCHING FOR MISSING BUTLER OF WILLIAM D. TAYLOR Los Angeles, Feb. 5.—The search for Edward F. Sands, missing butler of Wil- liam .D. Tavlor, motion picture director, Wwho was mysteriously murdered last Wednesday night continued to be the most important eiement of the investiga- tion of Taylor's death. police said today. Checking ¢! the various angles of the case. among members of the motion ple- ture colony and other friends and ac- quaintances-of Tay!sr almost invariably led to some mention of Sands’ name, ac- cording to detectives, * Police sald they had had several clues to Sands’ wherexhouts, but that these nad resulted in disappointments. Henry Peavy, valet of Taylor, who found his employer’s body, came to police headquarters again today and was ques- tioned hy detectives for a nalf hour. It is understood he was asked for more de- talled informatlon concerning the ar- rangement of Taylor's furniture and other belongings in the apartments. Two other men, Whose names wWere not divulged, also were questioned at police headquarters, One of these men departed with detee- tives. who ‘said merely they were going to check up on an angle of the case that had been previously Investigated. The whereabouts of ietters which Miss Mabel Normand, motfon picture actress, sald she had written to Taylor and which she sald were missing from his apartments, continued to be a matter of suspiclon to- day. -It-is- believed = that: these letters and other pzpers could have been re- mboved last Thursday morning some time during the period when Taylor's - house ‘was unguarded, while it was belleved he had died of natural causes. Miss Nor- mand sald she had seen the lstters in the apartments z few days before the mur- der, and knew no reason why anyone should want them. She sald she would The Oregon Short Line Raijroad com- pany later today gave bond of $20,000 for appearance of the car when the case some time 'during T is_called. REMOVED PLATF. GLASS WINDOWD TO ROB DRUG STORE Oakville, Conn., Feb. 5.—Burglars re- moved the plate glass from a window in the Oakville Drug company . store here Yie_night and carried es valued at 3400. away ocash and suD The glass was found leaning against the ~ be willing to publish anything they con- tained, ¢ INCENDIARY FIRE DOES $25,000 DAMAGE IN BANTAM Bantam, Conn., Feb. 5.—Fire believed to have been of incendiary origin to- tally destroyed the warehouse of the Trumbull Vanderpoel Electric Mfg. Co., 2 two story block owned and occupied by M. A. Brunetto, and the dwelling house o George Morris, here tonight. The loss is placed at $25,000 only partially BRIEF TELEGRAMS The British ofl tanker Snwanee is he-L ing for Halifax with rudderless Swedih steamer Thyra in tow. , Sixty cases of scarlet fever in the Finsh- ing distriot, New York, were revorted to the health department Saturcay. One hundred and ten persons were kill- ed and a number of others injured when a rallway trafs was buried by an ava- lanche at Itcigawa station, Japan. Miss Mary Murphy, 60 years old, of Boston was suffocated in her bed in a South End fire that started from an ov- erturned lamp. The date of Roscoe . Arbuckle’s third trial on a manstaughter charge arising from the death of Virginta Rape will be set this morning. Mexico will send 25 students to the prirkipal Furopean universities, partit- ularly German, according to the news:ap- er Excelsior of the City of Mexico. A royal decree has been fssued In Greece calling to the colors the reservists of 1910 and 1911 .who are ordered to Te- port before February 13. The Lincoln bleachery and Goddard Brothers in Lonedale. employing atout 500 hands, was closed down Satusday by a walkout, Announcement was made in Edinburgh, Scotiand, of the death of the Duke of Le- inster (Maurice Fitz Gerald), vixth of his line and premier peer ‘of Ireland. Dublin is serionsly perturbed by the disagreement between Michaci Collins, and Sir James Craig, on the uestion of boundaries. The near east relief received an un- confirmed rezort of the death of Miss An- nie T. Allen, of Auburndale, Mass,, a mis- sionary in Sivas Turkey. The homse military committee decided to hold open hearings on the proposal of Henry Ford for the Musdie Shoals pro- ject about the middlle of this week. Samuel G. McClurf, who has ownesd the Youngstown (Ohio, Telegram for 15 years, announced its sale to the Scripps- McRae newspaper interests, Government agencifs have stopped the distribution of the gilver “peace” doiiars bearing the date of’1921. A total of $1,- 006.473 of the series of 1921 were. coined. League of nations circles are discussing the probability of considcration by the Genoa coliference of the question of dis- tribution ‘of ‘raw materials. A weekly newspaper, the firss can paper to be published in Mississipoi in many years. has been established in Jackson. General Rafael Pimento, accnsed. of the murder of Vice President Suarcz, at the ttme of the Madero assassination in 1913, will be placed on trial in Mexico City Wednesday. The Russian trade mission, invited te Brussels Belgian manufacturers bav- ing large interests in Russia has propos:a that these m . facturers resume posses- sion of their iii:sian properties. The United States army transport Can- tigny, with 1,100 officers and men of the Americaneforces in Germany, from Cob- lenz, on board, sailed from Antwerp for America. Edward Cunningham, who sald he tried whisky on himself before giving it as a medicine to his colicky horse, had his ex- planation accepted in South Boston d trict court. Orders for temporary suspension of radio broadcasting by amateurs, because of Interference with regular radio ser- vice, was announce dy the ~ommerce de- partment, The New Haven road, It was stated. has abolished the position, of auditor of equipment service accounts and in its stead has created the position of car ser- Vice assistant Stolen American automobiles are over- running the Mexican market, according to & report to the commerce department from John W. D; consul at Juarez. Approximately 1,000 Cape Bretom, N, §., miners who have been unemployed for two monthe will go back to werk tomorrow when the Dominion Coal company reorens three large mines that closed down'about the first of December. Governor-General Woad in Manila pre- claimed Feb. 7 tag day for the purpese of raising funds for the 5,000 lepers on Culicon Island. The Anti-Leprosy seciety is attempting to raise $500,000 to assist the lepers. Accompanied by Senator Wadsworth of New York George Eastman, president of the Eastman Kodak company of Roches- ter N. Y., handed back to the war desart- ment $182,770.60, 25 a refund to the gov- ernment on wartime contracts. A one day celebration to mark the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of Boston’s.first mayor and city government, which falls May 1, wae recommended in a report submitted to Mayor Peters by the “Boston centennfal committee.” Discovery of a method by which iren and steel mmy be made rust greof, was anmounced by Dr. Miller Ress Hutchin- son, inventor and enginser in an address before the Alurfini Association of Cooper Tnion, New York. Fines of $1,100 each were given in the ici" g court Portland, Me., to Joseph A. Kirby and Danfel H. MeGlagetilin of Cheljca, Masng charged Wil wunning alconol into that state from Massachu- setts, —_— Coungel for James A. Stillman suceeed- ed”in Blocking, at least temporarfly, an- othet eft®ft by Mrs. Anne U. Stffman to obtain additional expense money and the appointment of a commission to .take testimony at Montreal in the Stillman. - vorce case, Smallpox has become epidemie In many districts of Costa Rica and a commission of physicidns and Red Cross workers has left San Jose to begin a sanitation cam- paign and take other measures to fight the disease. Two members of the pagan tribe of Manobos in the province of Agusan, Isl- and of Mindanao, Philippines, were kill- ed by constabulary after one of ' the tribesmen had treacherously stabbed and killed Constabulary Sergeant Magno Frutte. Director Forbes of the veterans’ bu. reau has issued a call to leading neuro- psychiatric specialists of the country te confer with him in Washington Feb. 18 on ways and means of improving the bu- reau’s method of dealing with mental and nervous cases among the disabled former T \psEvice Bam. T FEBRUARY 6, 1922 EIGHT PAGES—56 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS veah of Gerera |\ DEADLOCK HAS PREVAILED Christian Dewet | Commander-in-Chief of the Boer Forces in the Anglo- Boer War of 1899, Bloemfoniein, Union of South Africa, Feb. 3.—(By The A. P.)—General Chris- tian Dewet, commander-in-chief of the Boer forces in the war of 1899, died at his home in Dewets Rerp today (Fri- day). Christlan Rudolf Dewet was born Oc- tober 7, 1854, at Leeuwkon in the Smith- field district of South Africa. Se served in the first Anglo-Boer war of 1880-81, and was a member of the Volksraad when the second war, in which he took such a prominent part broke out. He was given an obscure command at first, but wag later sent to relieve Gen- eral. Cronje. whom he succeeded upon the latter's- surrender. His operations against the British were marked by considerable stragetical ability, his forces falling upon and an- nihilating isolated British posts while the enemy columns attempted in vain to surround him. In the peace negotiations of 1902 took a prominent part and later vi Europe with. other Boer generals, - seek Ing without avail, a modification of the terms of peace concluded at Pretoria. He was electerdl a member of the first pariiament of the Orange River colony in 1307, and was appointed minister of agriculture. Shortly after the outbreak of the world war he headed a rebillion in the Orange Free State and’ Western Transvaal, which was suppressed Sy the govern- ment forces after a brief month of fizht- ing, in which a son, Daniel, was klilled and General Dewet himself wounded. When his forces surrendered to those un- der General Louis Botha, Dewet suc- ceeded in escaping with 25 men but was captured a few days later. For thi= rebellion he was tried, and in June, 1915, was convicted of treason and sentenced to six vears’ imprisonment with a fine of £10,000. He was released, however, after beinz confined only six months. While maintaining his stand for the freedom of - South Africa hz did not again particinate in armed revolt and In 1916 was instrumental in nipping another reellion in the bud. he d EENTUCKY STATE TROOPS CLASH WITH STRIKERS Newport, Ky., Feb. 5.—Another geries of clashes between Kentucky state troops and strikers and their sympathizers, growing out of the labor disorders at the plant of the Newport Rolling Mills, curred on the streets of this city today. Numerous shots were fired. but so far as could be learned, no one was struck by bullets. Several persons, however, were said to have heen beaten. While none of the clashes were serious as those on the preceding when two men were shot and at & =core of others were heaten, both union and non-union men, troops were called on to rep tacks against their tanks and one against a truck. Several members of the at- tacking parties were arrested and taken to the temporary guard house at the military headquarters Insids the plant Tn each case, it was announced, the sol- diers fired only after being fired upon Among those arrested was Jack Nie- meyer, former president of local No. 15 of the strikers’ union. Niemeyer with se al others wag arrested when the goldiers rushed a mob which attacked a truck guarded by the troos, conveving mill employes from the plant. He is being held on suspicion. least CONFERENCES ON TEXTILE LABOR TROUBLES TODAY Providence, R. I, Feb. ment was made today by N ganizer James A. Dick, of gamated Textile Workers who is conducting the strike than 2,500 cotton mill workers Pawtuxet valley who are out in protest to a 20 per cent. reduction in wages an- nounced v the mill owners, that a Se- rles of conferences have heen arranged for tomprrow betwecq representatives of the strikers and the mill operators to attempt to arrive at a settlement of the issue. Labor organizations both in the Paw- tuxet valley and in the Blackstone val- ley, the two chief textile centers in the state gave over the dav to a series of organization meetings, Plans were dis- tussed for asking the aid of other branches of organizad labor in the fight against the wage reduction. E Tt was reported today that outside of the Pawtuxet valley, where more than 2,500 workers are on strike, between 2000 and 2,000 textile workers are out of work in Rhode Island, 5,000 of which are members of labor organizations. of CONSTABLE ACCIDENTALLY HIS 2-YEAR.OLD SON Prvidence, R. I, Feb. 5.—Special Con- stable Louis Sharp, of the North Prov- idence police accidentally shot and killed his two year old son Rene Sharp, and critically wounded his cousin, Arthur Sharp, 42, in whose lap the child was seated in the dining room of his home at Greystone, R. I, this afternoon. The officsr had removed the chamber from an automatic pistol, fearing that tHe boy might discover it, but neglected to re- move an extra cartridge from the bar- rel. He dropped the weapon onto a ta- ble and the impact djscharged the bul- let, which passed through the boy's head into the man's breast, lodging just above the heart THREE BABY GIRL: NARROWLY ESCAPE BEING SUFFOCATED Waterbury, Feb. 5.—Three baby girls, the children of Mrs. Edward Bria of 236 Bank street, this clty were saved from death by suffication tonight through the efforts of Patrolman John Palmatior and John Donahue and Fireman Jack Cuddy ‘when fire droke out in the cellar of a six story tenement builduing. The chil- dren were alone in their tenement asleep on a bd and looked in, their mother hav- ing gome out earler in the évening. The babies were almost entirely overcome when discovered by the tiree men who were forced to break In the door to reach ;hem. Litfle damage resulted from the re. PAIR OF OXEN, 200 CHICKENS LOST IN LARGE BARN FIRE Cheshire, Conn., Feb. 5.—One pair of oxen and 200 chickens were lost in a fire of unknown origin that completely de- stroyed a large barn owned by Mrs. John Birke, early this mojning. The loss was placed at $3,000. Other animals were rescued by neighbors, and the nearby residences were saved by the efforts of - INCONCLAVE OF CARDINALS Until Saturday Morning Cardinals Gasparri and Merry Del Val Were the Leading Candidates in Balloting For New Pontiff—Both Were Virtually Eliminated at the After noon Session—Cardinals Are Looking For a Compro- mise Candidate—Cardinal Tacci Now Leading in the Conclave Today. Rome, Feb. 5.—(By the A. P.)bSunc: passed without he election of a suc:essor to the vontifical throne. Balioting by tne clave of cardina's continued today both in the morning and afternoon, but, so far as could be learned, withour coming any nearer to the selection of a success to Benedict XV on the previous days. It is now considered a certainly that Oardinal O‘Connell will arrive in Rome in time to be introduced into the comclave through the barred and bolted doors and take past in the balloting tomorrow. In- deed, the cardinals are revorted to have discussdd JergHhily the adiésalRity of prolonging the seesion so that at least one representative of the churcn in America could be present. The TRk veil of secrecy whdch sur rounded the deliberations whhin the Vat- ican since the conclave convened Thurs- day was lifted stizhtly today when it was learned from a most authorhiative soures that Cardinas Gasparri and Merry De Val were the Jeading candidates tHroug’ seattered vote On Saturday il dead ocked and the cradinais rea) at the fon of ecither of these candifates was i possible, and in consequence, both 1w virtually eliminated at the afte=wioon s sion. The cardinals were busy st night look- ing for a comocromise candidate, wit Camillo Laurenti, secretary gregation of the Prcrazanda for five morning of the con- Gio and vanni Tacel papal majordomo. both ated cardinals in 1921, prominertly to the fore. Cardinal Tacei was reported to be lead ie in the balloting The ¢ within the palace, and the pontifical household outside, are pieas- ed with the reguMarity with hich every- thing is proc==ling, according to an an- nouncement made this éveninz by Prince Chi the mar=hal. The crowds awaiting the apostolic beneliction, which was no: forthcoming. nombered 100.000. The long wait for the last smoke siznaf, with the accompanying disappointment, led to the conclusion that the Sacred Colege deoided to retard its final chofce until an American cardinal occupied a place among the thrones in the IstSine chapel is thought that there wi untll Tuesday morninz, or i made tomorrow aft announced unti 1 Cardinal O’Connel's the conelave is expected to take place about noon. Monsignor Burke, vice rector of the American College, bas formed the gzov- ernor of the conclave jus: what time the cardinal is likely to arrive Whether he will be ushered immed wi t secret walls or remain outside until jus: hefore a session begins, has not been de- cided, but all prerarations for his intro- dioction have been com fleced. The Camerfengo has communicated e marshal that the health of the ear- inals i= excellent., but nothing offic has been vouchsafed regarding the natu or presress of the proceedings. Perfect weather ahd the Sabbath day to G A S CA SED FIVE DEATHS IN GREATER NEW YORK New York, Feb. 5.—Gas, escaping eith- er by accodent or-turned on with sui- cidale intent, killed two men and two women here today. The bodies of Misses Mary and Eliza- beth Howard, 45 and 43 years old, were found in thelr apartment in Douglas street, Brooklyn, when enighbors traced down escaping fumes. A cock stove jet was foun doue Ibert Berg, 53, was found dead in bed at his Broome street home. Closed win- dows and a wide open jet pointed to suicde. John Brown succumbed to fumes es- caping from a gas heatef in a bat of his home at Far Rockaway, where he was shaving. Defective piping was blam- ed by the police. SWIMMER RESCUED FROM THE JAWS OF A SHARK London, Feb. 5.—While swimming in the sea at Coogee, a seaside resort near Sydney, Australia, Michael Coghlan, aged 18 years, was attacked by a shark and both arms were almost severed, say a Reuter despatch from Sydney. A returned soldier, Jack Chatmers, swam to the rescue and dragged Cog! lan from the shark’'s jaws. Eye witn .- es assisted Coghlan on the shore but he died on the beach in view of thousands of horrified spectatos REDUCTION OF GAS RATES IN NEW HAEN ANNOUNCED New Haven, Feb 5.—The New Haven Gas Light combany today announced a reduction in gas rates here, effective next month. ‘A flat rate reduction is not mac but the accounting methods are to be al- tered, 8o that the monthiy service charge of 50 cents, a& such, wil! be eliminated. Instead, the consumer will pay a high Tate for the first 100 cubic feet of gas used each month and a lower rate than at present for additionalgas. The saving to the average housencider wiil be about 10 per cent. Under the new plant the charge for one thousand cubic feet of gas will be $1.45, as azainst $1.60 under the present rates. -~ 5 INFANT KILLED BY FALL FROM HER FATHER’S ARMS Nenw Britain, Conn. Feb, 5.—Marguerite Mlezanka, ten months' old, was killed to- day when she £}l from her father's arms, while he was carrying her on the veranda of their home. The child fei three stories. The father droched the child, % wes said, when a baby carriage he was trying to take down a Btrway butiped into him. MAN’'S DEATH CAUSED BY FUMES FROM WINE VAT Santa Rosa, Calif., Feb. 5.—The body of SamTomblinson, 60 years old, who entered a wine vat today to rescus Ly- man Miiler, 19 vears old, was taken from the vate tonight. Fumes. had killed Tomblinson. Miller, after Tomblinson had extricated him, was too much dased to let anyone know Tomblirson still was in ; ‘Balloting—(.lardind O’Connell is Expected to Enter the combined to bring out the largest crowé yét assewbled in historfc St. Pster's square. By 11 o'clock - in the morni overy point of vaniage and every space affording foot room was cazerly seized It was an ordeal to move throngh the solid mrass of humanity. The assemtlage was d t around the right colonade of the cathedral, command- ing an unobstructed view of the chimney shaft which makes mute proclamaton to the world whether the head of the Roman Cathodc church has bpeen chosen. In order to prevent a repetition of yes. terday’s confusion and d =r, when an enormous body of spectators retreated precipitately from the caihedral after the final negative an: + from the at ican, the militar: ties today eta- tioned troans at various points. Accoutr- ed with steel helmets, rifies and full fieid equipment, the gray cled soldiers imparted to tl somire and peaceful scen: When the cathedral clock struck 11.30, the broad steps were thronged with those who hoped that the fourth day woald bring them tr nedictivn from the new holy father. Ten minutes later a hushed urmur arose from the multitude as a thin thread of smoke appeared. “Tt Is black,” came the ary from thousands. and the great crowds turned in disarpointmen and dispersed. But they came only to suffer a back in the afternnon, Alar disappointment Then, on lcavinz, they swarmed about the sqiare and became confused and e ed with vehicles and trolley cars. Ration of the traffic was lacking and peo- ple moved In every conceivabie direction, and while crowds were dispersing there were still | lins of tramcars bringt others to ti . converging made a v fusion but the unravefled witho only six pes the entire concla CARDINAL 0°CO> ARRIVE AT NAPLES TODAY Rome, Feb. nal O'Conn steamer P Rome for the conclave to arrive at Naples early Mo and hopes to reach Rom noon, says a w from him today by lege. The American college authori notified the Sacred college of the time the American prelates expect to arrive in Rome. The governm lace a specal train at Card s disposal te rush bhim to F r Monday mornifg’s ballot: iave. Rev. Bernard J. Ma direcior of meet Car- dinal O'Connell on h and escort him to Rome. D — £600 NEW AUTO SOLD FOR §15 AFTER PLUNGING OFF CLIFF New York, Feb. 5.—A ne® automobile plunged off an Edecomb avenue olfff to- day and landed seventy feet below, a wreck. Around it gathered a crowd. “I'd give $15 for her as she is,” Te- marked a bystan; “Sold,” eaid a voice, and Fdward Jack- son who bought the car yesterday for $500, crawled from beneath its twisted remains. Young Jackson's fatt to drive and in attempting to am collision with—a “axicab put foot on the accerator instead ef the brake iever, Neither was badly hurt. The eder Jackson was arrested for driving without a Heense. ’ DECEEASE IN INFLUENZA CASES IN NEW YORK New York, Feb. #-—A slight decrease in influenzt cases dur the past 24 hours was noted today in the daily report of the health deperament. It showed, 1,198 new cases of influenza and 214 of pneumonia, as compared with 1,297 cases of influenza and of Pneumonia re- ported yesterday. ere were 14 deaths from influenza and 63 from pneumonia reported today. Yesterday thers were 9 deaths from influenza and 58 from pneu« monia. orry . = _Nfwiwiabl, 3318 gEnounced as 25 SENTENCED FOR TEACHING CRIMINAL SYNDICATISM Duluth, Minn., Feb. 5.—The maximum sentence of a $1,000 fine or a year in imprisonment was imposed on Toblas Kekkonen today for teaching and ad- vocating criminal syndicalism. He was found guilty by a jury nearly a year 2zo. Kekkonen was alleged to have been editar of a newspaper Hubliclgad by the Workers Soclalist Publishing com- pany, in which an article headed “The Workers of America Mast Become Rev- olutionary” was printe The company recently. was fined $1,000 on a similar charge. _— TRGE AMENDMENT OF THE VYOLSTFAD ACY Santo Rosa Calif., Feb. 5.—A growp of officers of banks in Santo Rosa In the heart of a section formerly devoted laree- Iy to the growing of wine grapes tonight telegrapthed Chairman Fordner of house ways and means comittes urziny amendment of (h¢ o'stead law to cermit safe of beer and wine and financinz of a soldler bonus bill throy taxation on these beverages. STRUCK BY AN AUTOMOBILE; MARTFORD WOMAN DIES Hartford, Feb. 5.— Mrs. Decker, of this city, died in a hogpital tonight from Injuries received when she was struck by an automobile driv Dr. Arthur B. Lanndry. Witnes th police Dr. Landry was driving slow- ly. He was arrested and ordered held pending the coroner's inquiry, Eugenia A. Germany’s floating debt on February 8,210,000 marks