Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 8, 1922, Page 1

FOPULATION 20,685 < \OL. LXIV=-NO. 34 PRESIDENT AGTSPRONPTLY N THE ARMS AGREEMENT ————— Has Ordered Discontinued Al Work on Additional Fortifica- tions on the Mmd&\{'u‘li‘m‘d in lhe Philippjne Is- jands—Order to Suspend Work on Naval Craft Now Building Will Not Be Issued Until the Treaty is Ratified —The President Intends to Send to the Senate This Week All'the Treaties Growing Out of the Conference. Washington, Feb, 7.—(By the A. P.)— [ty for adapting existing banking facili- Exeeutive department of the government | L¢S to 8ll the gap so as to extend long- . timfe credits to farmers. = took steps today toward earrymghout the| The hill reclassifying federal employes. 3 included in _the waiting v 0 { wait ns radifioation b thecsemteof sthe| 08 o e i earod (AT s soveral treii= resulting from the con-|tjon on the measure for the reorganiza- ference. while the Amerig#h delegation to | tion of federal the conferenée werked on their re ort | Probably would be deferred until the mext be submitted to Presiden: | *°S5io™ -~ ing and leaders.in the &enate pezan : q fignt on [ TO ANNOUNCE POSITION ON / GENOA CONFERENCE FRIDAY Washington, Fef. 7.—American re- sponse to the invitation of the allied su- preme council “to be represented at the Genoa. aconomie conference probably will be announced Friday it was said today at the White House. At the game time Phite TTobRS. ai 8 ® it was stated officially that the delay in T e, o vould ovder superded | framing the American Teply had mot which are des ined for the sorap Fean uns| Peen oceasionsd by zny conmection with Ser the fvespower treaty with Crest | 16islation for the tinding of the debt of Pritatn, France, Japan and Ivly. tn. | fOrelen. nations to this country. No indication of the naturs of the firal order to diseontinua sueh construc- H . tion, however. will not be jssued antil #h | AMerican government's response to ithe marshalling theln forees for th ratification of the treaties. Announcement was made. during the i had ordered dis- TTh on aditional fortifi-a- ions on the idland of Guam a®d in the hilooine islands, thus taking note of e claume in ths naval treat¥ which fixes | Wr these Pacific islands The pregident, it was stated at the status qu traaty I8 rarified. 1t 9 invitation was given today, but the be- eaty is ratified, it was mald. e &! ¥, but Seeremry Weaks, in furtherance of (s | Hef has been expressed fn - official -clr- order rspuih the Phili.. | cl%e that -the attendance of ~delegates liedl the arders for—sengine | A¢tHally. representing the 'United States at Genoa, as differentiated from unoffi- Secretary Derby alsy sn. | Clal observers, might be dependent upon ary equinment, 1. ||{Ne scope of the proposed -discusslons. A" ciuding mines destined for Guamhad heen | thiE connection, ¥ was suggested in some rdered returned. quarters that last minnte developments Discussine his aetion. Sesretary Weels |Might determine this country’s attityde. <Ald the orders had been cane < an | _ Matters likely to he discussed at the evidence of the £ood faltly of this country | GeROR conference were reviewed exten- ace those in the fortiA- t0 carry out fn epirit and letfar the pro. | SIVelY tonight by the - f:deral _reserve visions of the maval trealy res.sctinz the | PO2™ in its monthly bulletin for February fortificati-ns of -Paclfic iflands, In which it covered a broad fisld of Some discuseion ot the nesessary | EUrOpean cconomic problems such. as <trength of Me armed fsroes of tee corm. | German reparations, the existing fiscal w) At the e | affairs of the various nations-the gold President Hariins | standard and cxchange stabilizatlen. me reqfietsn in -the person-| According to the hoard, Russlan and 1 of the army and fhe navy would re- | Gérman questions are “practically ine- £ 't from t7e arms comferance agree. | vitable elements” ments, biit that they would be 6f ™F-acon- | éan economic situation. = shie refativity.” 1 navy, in Tig epinion, | “The issues at stake on_these points, it was 8214, chould nat %o helaw $0,000 | howsver, the board declars, were “po- men, as the mistmim for safety. litical” in the hroad. ense rather than The precident Intends to send *n the | fconomic ‘and for this reason the beliat saate by the end of—this week. all the | was advanced that any plan adopted af- teeaties growine out of the ennference, | fecting the rehabilitation of Russfa, Ger- but this was eald at the White Honse to | manv, Austria, and southeastern Europs ievend on whether fae renort . of th~ ) generally would hat he very likelv:to mae- Aherican delegates was recehved by Yio | ~oed, bacause of the naturzl Hmitations. cresident hy that time.- Senctos o which it would be subjeqt. caled on the presidsnt: dn Importance of the reparationg ques- aid later that Jy hoped the repc ion to Eiropsan cinditions waz—stressed Lod-e who 114 b rrescnted on Friday, The pre the board, which called attention to | fent. it was sgid. would ask “sieediesi | “the unsatisfactory position” in which ratifica’ion” consistent with the | the question had been left. senate on| “Within the past month or more," the to the na- |board said. “it has been contended more has not . deni positivaly than ever before the répara- w¥1 present them in gerson o: | tions prodlem fn' aimoss, inevitable by Ietter, it was satd element in any discussion which, alms te nted also deyelop a general solution of European for resor qubstions large.’ # o of the treaties. Consldering the best way for Germany : While T Bliean - and - demncratic | to settle with France during the next few caders were prevaring for considesation | years the board discussed a possible ex- tine by 156 the senate of the method provided 'in the Viesbaden agreement, under which pay- ments would be made in kind inlieu of M Iéaha, In Nty calied for immediata transla- f the werk of the conferees into a - 2 cash, but added that “pavments_In-kind 1o g will not, however, uitimately sslve the y e French situation hecause of the large ée that 1§e American troops be re. [ pronc, S o m the Rhine . at once. furtheranee of plans decided aton the reouslican and democra the senate, for informal con- cration of the arms conferencs treaties brfore they are taken up on the floor of meetings fo talk, over taa e conference ars ' expactad to aenators carly 1o, A fundamental issue to be dealt with at Genoa, the board asserteq, would un- doubte: be the restoration of the gold standard, or some plan for the stabiliza- tion of exchange. No programme for FEuropean currency reform, however, has any chance of succese. the hoard con- tended, until some sort of an interna- tional agreement makes possible the bal- ancing of hudgets and the consequent cessation of inflation through the inatlon of expenditures fn exc ability of the government to pa caders in the senate e held by w03, ? their parties, ha their colisagues that s desire in DISARMAMENT COMMISSION TO MEET IN\PARIS FEB, 20 Parls, Feb. 7 (By the A. P.)—Follow- ing adjournment of the Washington con- ference, the disarmament commission of the league of natlons has declded to meet In Paris February 20 for the pu Pose of /discussing further = means of bringing jabopt reduction in the imple- nients of war threnghout the world. The commission, which s composed of twenty members representing the chief countries of Europe, is greatly encour- aged by the 'results accomplished at Washington. Its members believe that the progress made through Ameriean initiative will give added strength to the league's disarmament work. Whils a general discussion _of | the fuestion of land disarmvament may take place, although the commission, in the opinion of league offclals, probably will be unable to take any definite action in view of its not being direetly represen- tative of the governments, reports from ase steering committees. England that Franee might take advan- It was= the understanding that the|tage of this mesting to make an import- treaffes. which the nresident expects; tojant stafement 'on” land "disasnament, mibmit to the menate this week, or as|through M. Viviani, are regarded.as au- scon as the American delegation’ can|thentic In league circles. - # report. would be given the right The ‘Washin: conference has in the serate until stich time as|caused the who® world to think.about the tariff blil was reported by the finance | disarmament. according= to ' lea; offi- The plan then would be t6|oials, and has proved that gene?‘i dis- , it was sald, desire the extent t5 wh'ch Senator Un- gone in suzporting the g the arms eonférence. — i apparent no (mrpose of the leaders to urge caucus action or t3 *mpt 75 hind senators to any position, it 1t was said oday by some senators nat the American delazaes prefer not to be embarrassed by what ene describe “the “sikping of cogs”. when the aties are formail taken u. know derwood has reaties @ - N TEGISLATIVE PROGRAM AGREED UFON AT WHITE HOUSE DINNER Washington, Feb, gram A legislative pro. contemplat’ng ratification of the s growing out of the arms confer- and passage of the tariff, séidier onus farm eredit and merchant marine bille, with adjournment of congress about June 1, was sald toghave been agreed upon a ta White Housé dinner confér- snce tonight with President Harding, at. tended by members of the senate and he tariff measure and the trea- | a-mament s within the realm of possi- ernately. ¢ bility. Tt fe frankly admitted in leagu¥ wag eaid that the president had ofrcles that the conference at Washing- guen szmured be senators | that | there| ton accomplished something which would wonld he Fttle: i any, onposition to the | hace been almost impossible for any ex- traaties. The presidedt. it was added, i isting agency to accomplish and there is a feeling that the Washington effort will make easler and more successful the ef- fortz of /the league of natlons for dls- armament, / gave no indication. as to whether he would present the treaties to the genate n person. Thgrbonus bill -was sajd to have besn tiscussed a1 the conferenee, but the preblem of financing it was not touched apon. Some of the president’s- caijers 5218 they were satisfled to leave this te he majority memhers of the house Wways and -meant comnwttes and the genate finance committea. This was In line with he' agreements teached by the- president \nd members of those committees yesers| the Irith tyeaty by the Dail Eireann, day. was reopened today with the reading of Pregident Marding’s guests loft the | the speech from the throne of the spsech White House with the impression that it | by King George. < was the intention of the executive to| = Regarding the Irish treaty, mbmit his recommendations as to mer- | said ‘pa shant marine lezislation with'n ten dayve.! sider The farm credit legislation contem- | ess ;‘ur_v to give effect to the agresment. slated, it was exslained, will be drawn|He also touchad upon the negotiation vith a view to earrying out.the recom- | for @ pact with France to Fuarantée o nendations of the speeial congressional|tion in the event. of '“an unprovoked ommission which has bden inquiring intn | attack hy Germanv.” and paid. hight trib- wonditions in® agriculture. 1In fts report ute to the accomplishments of the Wash- Bis ‘emphasized the necessi- “Ington conference. Y BRITISH PARLIAMENT - i 4 HAS BEEN REOPENED . London, Feb. ‘7 imperial parliament, which was prorogu- ament would be called to con- in the existing Europ-’ To Suppress the | “lessness. - London, Feb. 7 (By the A, F.)—Tha dia office issued an officlal communi- cation this evening indicating that it was the intention of the: government to|Puy, former chai Int adopt stérn “measures t« cuasthe demands contain manifesto of ‘Mahatma K. Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader. The civil @isobedience as proposef=in | India must be met with legislative program|by Gandhi in bis manifesto. n asserting that the demands contained in this man- festo are such that ne government could government departments | giscuss “much less accept communication saya: the people of Indla are The issue no longer is that programme for political but between lawlessness, and on the other. the all clvilized government. with such danger to the ity. The ecommunication em: on a policy of lawless assoclation, free, speech .a disobedience was finally act or the eriminal law the act refers” to which Gandhi ‘were issued. On ited The application of amendment act of 1908 amsociations. a majorit: of which dation.” Refutation is made of the government's racent volved a @enartura from long as they ‘remained word and ded and when it may think €nces, the while the government is concessions, there is no co-operators, othgr than g and civil disobedienc Turther, it adds, Gandh register his decree. \ CAPITALIZATYY! as, authorized b the ge many In their annual view of the vear's. busin part of the mew stock used in financing plant a 130 ; dividends, leaving undivi $93,223. The corporate The company now hag nd last year the numbe 000 over ¢oll lines. The present ard of re-elected by e stockh The directors re-elected the company as ident, Harrs Httle, New Raven; 2nd treasurer, Clinton J. ford. Richmond, Va., for and 28 an “undeterniined 'cause ment ‘on_the Lexington spread through the four fore it was checked. to $500,000 marle county, Va. mond, F. ‘L. Shaw of Rf L\;'l: ler, of Yonkers, N. xmn auickly cut the hoty the -foll; T. Carter, United B. Frederick Keller, | Unitod Thomas Flagan, Brooklyn, N. Y.; C. C. erly, T. W. Crannen, thorne, T. T. Leftwich —(ByaThe A P.)—The | Whose addresses are unknown. P ed early In Novembr to awalt action on | N0 MONEY FOR COMMISSION Hartford, Conn., Fe. plan. they regarded the action islature in refusing a $30,000 app! atlon for 2 new commission as-final in I § Civil Disobedience—Dater- mined to Suppress .Law- campaign of civil disobedience in Indla, It adds that no government could dis- severity, the communication declares inliome i diets of the armament conference withow: | which already has passed the house, is |refuting certain ‘‘misstatements’ “The alternatives that now confront Gk try can no. longer obscure or dangerous conseguence on the one hand thdse principles which lie at the root of “Mass civil disobedience is must be met With sternness and sever- | York from Stockholm with 35,000,000 fn djates a statement of Gandhi to the/ef- fect that the_government has embarked also a suggestion that the present cam- palgn of elvil disobedience was forced on the nonlco-operation party in order[to secure to the elementary rights of free. Tt adds shat the declsion fo adopt ‘xf'vu ember 8, before the ’recent notifications relating ‘to either the seditious meetings asserts that the government was forced to" take these measyres_because of the acts of professed followers of Gandhi. Nevertheless the operation of tlops meetings act had been strictly ltm- to a few districts in avhich there was risk of great disturbamces to the peace. the . criminal law abitually induiged in intlmi- the government shomld not the activities of the nen-co-operators. so . The communication adds that the government will enforce the law relating to offences against the state persons committing breaches. Wit reference o #he proposed confer- communication any of the illegal activities of \the non- apparent that the proposed round table conferences would be called mevely E. T. CO. TO INCREASE 7 New Haven, Conn., Feb. 7.- crease of $5,000,000 in the capital stock, to bring the total capitaljzation to $20,- 000,000 was voted by stogkholders of the Southern New England Telephone Com- President James T. Moran, in his re- The financial statement of the cofn- pany for 1921 showed assets of $20,204,- $1,077,948 as the total come and $1,290,627 as the total net_ in- come frem which $1,196,794 was pald in propriated, amounts to $885,758. 260,382,000 over local lines and 10,248,- . follows: James T. Morag, New Haven: vice pres- Knight,\New Haven; Escretary and trensurer, Charles B. Doo- assistant r SIX DEAD, 30 MISSING IN RICHMOND HOTEL FIRE Feb 7.—Six dead, 30 reported missing or unaccounted known injured was the toll of a fire which early today started from structure and then epread bulldings, sweeping half a city block be- The property loss is variously estimated at from $250,000 The known Adead are: Hiram S. Austin, of \Fincastle, Va.; M. J. Fox, of Willlams- port, Pa., C. M. Thomas, sheriff of Alber- E. T. and the guests many with' Snuln flames, jumped from tHe Some landing in life mets.but, others | o plunging to the pavements. g /' Seventy-two guests were. registered at the hotel when the fire broke out. - e list of missing tonight. Includeed ON STREAM POLLUTION | eastern railroads to review board - of control refused today t the king | low sxpense money for a new state com- ) mission on_steam pollution. such measurers ag may be nec- | Hubbard. president of thi ers’ Association of Connecticut, appear- fand treasurer ' of Richmongd, 0 ed befors the board on behalf of he|cause his wife who, was: Member§ of the board sald that | for ithe offics, raary 24, 19 bond. ign of, :m;mm Few ted by New Miss Annie Allen, of Auburndale, Masi. | it the most prominent A ‘woman % EA ‘Wines. " New York, Sult to recover $182,048.12 dermen today adopte; Cruchble Steel company of America was filed at Pittsburg, Pa., by ‘Herber: Du of the board.’ - A chein of ten potato heu: 60,000 barrels of potatoes W in Mapleton, Me. The logs was at $300,000. N 7 ‘wines, 0 suppress. the ment act as leislatio ed In the recent pressive character an _the S Henry D. Coolldge, clerk of the Massa- chusetts senate, droyoed dead on a train late yesterday while en his way to his in d. He had occupied his made Jnosiflon Msu. : tion.” ‘the sternest of within constitutional that _ “real throughout the'countty. N More than ome hunmdred persons were made homeless when Sowashee Creek. swollen by a fiva inch rainfall overfiowed it banks, at Mericlan Miss. . them,” "thé& _New York savinga_ institn lisgnise. fuary 1 owed their between this ord advanee. with all”its such Los Angeles, Feb. 7 sereams and pr: here today of W toins em JQ- ositors $1, 84,137,- 851, an increase of 4273033 ver July 1, 1921, , asgsophis- & Seventy-nitk bodies . have been reeor- ered from .the wrecked train ‘which was buriedby an aivalanche Saturday at ltog- awa station, Japan. _» / Py, <G The steamer Nylada number ~30,000—almost maintenance of fraught that it Many womén in the fainted. VAthin the cathedral oniy one K state arrived in New gold for the Natiomal Clty-bank of New York. phatically repu- | Injury of twvo men and loas of six dories, foresail and deck gear, were reported by the Gloucester fisherman Waldo L. Stream jun her arrival at Halifax, X, S. The casket, repression, and ack and topped by T: THe board of finance and taxation of New Britain went on:record as favoring a 10:per cent. cut in the salary list of every city depaftment. nd a free press: Four uniformed accepted Miss Caroline Upshaw of Atlanta, Ga.. niece of Reoresentailye Upshaw died 2s 4 reculf of injuries sustzined In the Knick- erfooker theatre ddsater. - B of the Motion amendment to “unquestionably the contrary it here and there. Demand will be made shortly by mem- bers of the house who are former service men that the United tates mdke an ef- fort to obiain oustody of Grover C. Berz- doll, wealthy stdcker now In German: the -sed!- feet of the casket. she fixed her A report curreat in New Haven for several days was that what remains of the Shore Line Electric road was to be bought by ecertain men, rehabilitated and operated by use of gasoline ‘buses. was confined to an_companfon. of the membe the charge that measurss in- the policy that interfere in John P. Clark, for several years n tel- cgraph_coerator for the Associated Prest at Pawtucket, R. L, Pittsfield, Mass,, and Meriden, Conn., in recent years, died in Daver, > in < The four-masted schooner Bradford F. Jones, 18 cays out on a run from Vineyard Haven to Portiand, Me,, is so-dens over- due that-Ciowell & Thuriow, her owoers,1- oday asked that radiograms ba bréa: casted in an effort to locate her.- jead dlrector. home. non-vialent, :; =hrilt dinge.- fit .against ardy says that| 3 _— asked to make| Stars and Steipes will float by springd vics despite previous repopts that fuggestlon that |OVer White Star, American Red Star and might. But she ‘Briall bouquet of Leyland liners acgrezating more than 500,000 tons of” shi, hartale. picket- I Jou thas UIEa o thouid canse, | States-Burdsean sutes: eyl 1 has made it her. 3 / “With thel Reports that the Dutch gevernment contemy>lates a -loan of $25,000,000 to $50 000,000 in this country were current in conriection with the further siremgth of exchange on Amsterdam. to cathedral. TO 320,000,080 R z - Damage estimated at $10,000 wns dene, by fire in the St. Jean Baptiste builddnz, ‘Whare, Mass, a business black, which apparently started in a pool room amd bowling, alley from unknown-cause. The Ewedish steamship Thyra, rudder- less in the Neorth Atlaniticfor more than a week IS again adrift, and the Canadian government steamer Lady Laurier left Loisburg to mearch for her. Civic organizations of Pasadena, Calif. are planning the sale of $100,000 of “scrip” in order to raise the last of 2 $300,000 sum which the tournament of roses association has voted to mmse in thc erection of 2 new stadium. e -An in- neral assembly, £y meeiing today. said that a issde would be dditions. gross in- ded profits of surplus, unap- Marshal” Jogre, who has beem & suest ~ .|of the Japanese government for severa! 106,057 stattons |days left Tokio for Kyoto on his way to T of calls were |Korea and China. He expeots to sail from Shanghal for Victoria, B. C., on March 12. directors were - olders, Representatives of twenty areles of the officers ot | fFie Fraternal Order of Eagles will meet President, | in New Haven Saturday afternoon to act upon a proposition to memerialize con- gress to consider a bill to establish old- .age pensions. $300. rald by federal agents Y., by the F and consigned to Kirk. sefretary | Benjamin, Mil- | =0 The annual meeting of the American Brass company, scheduled yesterday In ‘Waterbury, was adjourned because of lack of a quorum of the stockholders. The-meeting will be held one week trom |/ today, Feb. 14, at 11 .. m. New England Jocale of - the -United Shoe Workers of ‘America will decide by, a referenum within 60 days whether ftheir organization shall be recresented at/a convention in Bostom May 31:te con- sider_ the formation of & general inde- pendent shoe workers' union. known | “alcoho!l ring.” In the flase- hotel, quickly stories: of the to other —_— . Requests by women of the Syracuse Presbytery that they participate in a dinner to be given in honor of Rev. Henry Chh an Swearington of. St. Paul, mod- erator of the general assembly ing his visit in Syracuse February 18, teen denied. | ward. Fitz Strathmore, police department. be based on dence . itncovered King. Cox, of Rich- chmond and T. 50 o off all e(iu in ‘clath- —_— 4 Fitty represemtatives of Npw Emgland industries began in Washington a series. of two day conferenceés with - Secretary Hofiver and commerce ~department- offl- wIndows, | oaje, The elegation consisted of secre- and presidents of chambers of commerce in various New England cities. \dismissed. complaint might be tomorrow, Mrs, Theress Oliver of Syracuse, N. ¥, was granied an l.nmlm-l;;! of her mar- Hiaeg to Alexander J. Oliver of Ajeans, when he Broted fosi her husband” was her uncle, Costody of the two chiidren the couple was awarded to the hu: band. . S 2 letter to Ta “T ‘love yt followed by a serles States - navy. States naveh: €. W. Haw- and 8. Hamin, £\ Litchfield, Conn., General Man . L. Barde, of the New Haven mmnliztpnd' nueu?:,‘ 4%“ York today of managers of the _status of wage negotiations in a ary preliminary. way leading up the the regional .cep- ferences’ suggested by governmeént offi- cers. .gm "A‘ Du:—;:-'t/!dl.v —The over Jae o' al- of the P E. .Kent Manufactur- ficed “her : rowing her friends’ votes his way -whi a ‘‘dark horse” candlda P the wapen of the I leg- nearb) pri- _ . $own meeting. - / stood before. the altar. form,of an officer S-.l'foEBe‘ernndh'ght The committee on rules, in the resoZiion, characterized the énferce- Féb. 7.—The board of al-| upon comgress f6_amend the Volstead att 50 as to permit the sale of beer and light 3 ‘“of the most op- not- at. all e I Y ).,'“ IN MORBID CROWD AT FUNERAL OF W. D. fainted. Mabel Normand. who was attired in deep mourning, and Who is one of the last to, have seen the dead director aliv draped with the served during the world war.” While Rev. William McCormack of S Paul's was reading the burial shouts and” langhter from hysterical, riotous thrown without echoed through the pro-cathedral. ~Miss Normand had sat within & few During the service ves upon it, occasionally sobbing and_clasping the hand of a wom- XY"tHe cemotery there was a brief ser- vige, and the body was placed in_a vault “Tavlor's daughter, Ethel Daisy of New Yérk, did not arrive for the ser- was represented by ts and lilies of the valley, to which was’tied a card beafing id to have been written by FIVE MEN HELD FOR SHIPMENT OF ALCOHOL Pridgeport, Conn.,~Feb. 7.—Five men were held for the United States district Tourt on charges of \conspiracy to vio- late. the prohibition law. at the conclu- #slon of a“hearing before United States Commissioner Lavery herg today in ‘the case involving the shipment of 100 bar. rels of alcohol into this city. St e e BUTLER €HARGED WITH ' MURDER OF W. D. TAYLOR Los Angeles, Feb. T—A charging Bdward F. Sands, allas Ed- “DOC" FLAHERTY BOUND = 3 OVER ON ARSON CHARGE At Feb. 7. Wjlllam (Duo) Flaherty of Baptam was bound “the superior court on charges of arson -following a_hearing beforé Justice Hubbard here tonight, Fla- &t{ 1s al 'd to have set fire to the ‘warehouse 6f the Heces- prevadl Sk Laughter and rs marked the funeral jiam Desmond Taylor, ‘murdered motion picture director. A crowd estimated b; the police to en times as many as could be seated in St. Paul Episcopal pro-cathedral—fought for ad- mittance and In the streets outside. crowd outs darkened pro- She was vlor's army Taylor's body which —he British veterans guarded ‘the casket, which was banked ‘with- scores of massive floral pieces. On one side of the casket sat members icture Directors’ assocla- tion, of which Taylor had been presi- dent. Stars and producers.were-scattered service, the jostlihg, Supported on the arms of two women she was the Jast of the long line to file ast the casket for a last look at the She gave a quick glapee, cried out. staggered a few paces and fell to the floor in 4 faint. She was carried into the vestry room, revived, and taken When the funeral cortege moved away from the pro-cathedral it was led by @ group of Scotch bagpipe players, playing &he But Miss Normand’s floral offering, an immense wreatof pink roses and lilies of the valley, occupied the place of prom- inence in the arrangements at the pro- Near by was a large boaduet of red roses and . Scotcle heather, bearing card of Mary Miles Minter, fllm actress, upon which was written ““With Sympa- the William O'Brien of Stamford, Michael Del hery, Jr., ot Danbury and Frederick L. Kirk and Edward Derigibus of this city were held in bonds of $10,000 each, and Joseph Krautter of this city was held in Edmundo Cella and Willlam J. Bishop of this elty were discharged. The arrests were made following & in a rallroad freight yard here on January 9, when 100 barrels of alcohol Were seized. Laicohol was shipped from Peekskill N. schmann Alcohol company The| Prohibition En- forcement Agent L. T. Evans of Wash- ington was in charge of the rald. testified at-the hearing™ today bribe- of - $20,000 was offered hy one of the arrested men to a federal agent who was working on the case. Sau! Grill of Washington, ons of the federal “agents in the acse, raid at the hearing that he posed as a bootlegger In order to trap the members of the alleged. He that a complaint missing butler- secretary, with the murder of his forrmer employer, William' Desmond Taylor,- will be igsued, it wasi declared tonight by Detective Sergeant Edward King of the The compiaint will “new and conclusive” evi- Sands ls now & fuglttve from justice, as charges: of grand larceny have been |- It was sald that the new crosses. bull and Vander- 000: In~fetanit of $3,000 bonds, Fla- was locked up iz - the Litchfield posl_ Electric Marufacturing company af le:znglmy night. . The flames a ouse and BN cap, | ‘Two New York merchants; Moe Galew- gki and Abraham Reinert, were arrested nts has been lssued by TUnited Statss Commissioner. Hitchcock charging conspiracy to defraud TAYLOR | ance companies and violations of the Dyer motor vehicle law. — v Both were held in $2,500 for a hear- after 28 warra ing March 7. Samson Charles Scheiman, “chauffeurs, also were held. Maxwell 8. Mattuck. \ et Plot Among Auioinab sel them in New Jersey and cut after the insurance had peen col- The committes also recommended that | jocted, were made by the sale of ‘wines and beerS be permitted | 154,y limits to the end temperance may Satatas @ifigdney, d-ff fred tiat chauffeurs had'confessea and had involv- ed three members of the police auv.oma-]mey werk in the garages, he said. Owners in New York to Swindle Tn. ies—After Insurance Had Beedi Collect: 53 P \ \ s ed For the “Stolen” Machines, Chauffeurs Would Drive the Cars to Connecticut and New Jersey and Sell Them. New York, Feb. 7.—Revelations of an extensive plot amqng automodile owners to gwindle insurance companies by hiring sary for the proper enforcement of the |chauffeurs to “steal” thelr ma eighteenth amendment to the constitu- bile squad in the plot. He sald federal authorities ftr~the ghree rounding up all petzons known to have been engaged in the ‘traffic, and that an investigation indicated that at Jeast 100 cars that recently disappeared yWte- riously may have been disposed eof in manner e conspirators, Mr. Mattuck said, had garages in Bristol, Manchester, New Britdin and New Haven; also at Newark and Hoboken an% .on ng Island. Twelve machines on whic insurance had been pald have been recovered, he added. 0 The Supposed stolen machines, Mr. Mattuck stated, were hidden in garages with the knowledge of thelr owsers whi bought back the cars from the “thieves while others pocketéd the proceeds of the re-gales/ The ident!fication marks on the cars wers removed or painted out es ‘and nnecti- ~federal omot insur- Freiman and assistant United twp -_— . DEATH_OF A CHIPPEWA © INDIAN, AGED 137 YEARS Cass Lake, Minn., Nah-Gewn-Wonce, also Smith, a Chippewa Indian, reputed to be years of age, died here today after a week's {liness with pneumonia. »The United States Burgfiu of Indian 137 Affairs, the American toric Preservation Society, other. historical socleties that have\inter- ested thamselves In this famops abori- Zine, in fact, had been led to accept the Ga-Be-Nah-Gewn-Wonce and his fellow Indians on thé Minnesota res- | ervation that he was “the oldest living pResen in the world.” claim of The date of his bis ured back b; as 1785, which would 137 years old teday—just about ak oldy o0 as the C itution of the United States ers contended that he was in 1783, which would have made —while born him 129. Ga-Be-Nah-Gewn-Wonce known as Wah-ha-gunta, even answer to plain John Smith. cording to- the bureau he was fire-maker of t His declin bank Blackfeet tribe. spent .on the noj twalve miles from | Club, Minnesota, wher of birch bark. He outllved several wives, and when long past the' century mark Te- was still young enough to woo an- other. His he never humming ness for ties. Ofte some tune, he ‘walked to Ball Club to hear a piano or violin, his favorite musical instruments. When a ragtime air was struck up, the old In-| broadly, beady eves would sparkle, dian would smile it his shoulders and real remarkable memory to les of the Indian fights, some of them back as far as 1800, able to give the year, times the day of Indian happenings that liad been lost.track of. Om» event in his early life which the aged Indian related in he /declared Is imprinted evep-more fi ly in his memory than i penings of the last few years, is a mas- sacre by the-Sioux Indians in Minnesota near the present sites of the Twin Citles. The massacre resulted from an effokt by a missionary, knbwn to the Indians as Pah-de-gree, to effect a concillation be- tween the Sloux and Chippewas. Many hundred of the latter were slain. Smith says he was but ten years old at that time. THa “falling of the stars” the shower of meteors that occurred in 1833, he re- called minutely. In a recent Iy, almost deserted him. Indian customs, closely followed, considered the big factor In extending lifs so long. His oldest” goquaintanges never recall having seen him sit chalr or lfa.in a hed. much opposed to many of the whites, for he they were contrary to tyre: . rth had been fig- some authorities as early once powerful frame“had siowly wasted, his hair-turned pure white, and his face became seamed Hke hide, but his step was still stepped from his His wnusual fond- usic was one of his peculiari- cabaret style. - His&!u‘s made use interview Smith eald, through an interpreterthat forty vears ago he could speak English quite fiuent- but that in recent vears since his mind became less. active, the language BODY OF WOMAN RES! D EVELYN !:B!Bfl THAW Washington, Fel 7.—Thesbody of & woman closely resembling photographs of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, found floating in the Potomac river yesterday was said late foday by newspapermen who attend- TROBLEM OF, FINANCING BONTUS FOR SOLDIERS | 7 Washington, Feb. T—wora went oot FeB. T Ga-Be- ] trom' tha White Houz?mday €12t Presi- 1 known as JORM|dent Harding wes stjongly opposed to the writing into the spidier bonus bill of a provisi, for the use of the refunded — bonds in helping to financp’the adjusted compensation ‘programme. Confidence w: expressed that no such provision would be included in-the measure. | The president was represented as tak- ing the view that since the refunding ne- gotlatfong: would be incomplete whem the bonus bill was passed it would+be un- wise to depend upen the forsign bonds as a\source of Teyenueto meet the compen- sation payments~In his,taflk with con- greesional leadérs on this subject he is understood to have Insisted that the legislation provide definite and certajn revenue sources. ~ . The problem of financing the bonus-is giving congressional leajers mno-'. small 3 amount of concern. With the house ways > and 'meansicommittes hearings prought Was als0lio & close today, majority members of A e | that committee and the semate finance v committee plan to attack that problem of Indian, '-"“""" within a few days. - once powerfull Gn. gifficulty in conmection with the !‘gla'l:;‘;' drafting of thd bill, jt is explained, i - Bl “ol Ran | the lack of aéfinite Anformation as to age il put | 1h® cost_of carying out the “five-way he lived in a hut|y1on v “rhis wifl depend mpon the num- ber of former service men who chooss the various plans. If alj take ‘cash the cost would be approximately $1,509,000,- 000 within tws and one-haif years. The basls upon which-the commiitteerien will work in solving th® ‘financing problems probably 1 be that 50 M‘fm of the men will taks cash. Since the cash payments wowld be/ distributed over more than two years, with each quarterly payment during that period equalling ene-tenth of the total ta \be pald to each applicant, mem- bers of congress belléve that large ma< " joriy of the men will elect one o the gth his blackler four plans, Insurance, vocatlonal and he would| {raining, land settlement ad home- aid. ap his fingers mJo als 0f thHe American- Legion whe Scenic and His- and various have made him walrus ghtly and ut without the twelve mlies i have appeared before the house come of - thy mittes also share this view. corrob: Indian's ite stor i I-YAILS TO LIMIT DEBATE ON . CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING BILL Smith was often month and some- ‘Washington, Feb. 7.—An effort by Sen ator Kellogg, republican, Minnesota, td obtain an agreement for limitation of debate on the co-operative marketing bill after 2 o'clock tom! failed to day after the senate had spent another four hours debating the measure. The move for debate limitation falled through eb- Jection of Senator Brandegee, republican, Connecticut, who sald that most intri- cate constitutional questions wera fin< volved and he declined to be held to five or ten minutes in discussing such sub- Jects. - The debatd was desultory today and for the most part continued ag ft had been begun yesterday on legal phases of Ahe proposed grant of authority for er- ganization of co-cperative assoclationy and relief for them from theapplication of the Sherman anti-trust law. Ques« tions of public polley fizured constantly in the discussion which was partieipate ed in by morethan a score of senators. detail and whigh mbomant hap- he " _— BRITISHM STEAMER ASHORE m a2 ON MASSACHUSETTS COAST He was just as Other customs of Provinestown, Mass., Feb. T.—Th British steamer Thistlemore wem oo ¢ 'nat | aground late today on Peaked Hill bar, S four miles morth of Highland Jight af 3 the tip of Cape Cod.¥ A coast guard crew has gone to the rescue. Owing to the rough sea and northeast gale, the coast guards bell they would be unable to take off the crew of the stranded vessel tonight. Peaked HiINl bar is a danger spot for shipping. The Thistlemore 1is an - oflburning freighter registering 4,146 tons, and is bound from Liverpool:to Boston. ed the trial of Harry Thaw inconnec- ~ tion’ with the killing of Stgnford White, not to be that of the form? Miss Nesbit dropped New York several weeks ago after her tea room had been closed and the body was belleved by local authorities to have today, according to :\m in the water almost that length of RAILWAY STRIKE IN BERLIN : HAS BEEN CALLED OFF Berltn, Feb. 7 (By the A. P.)—The actress. out of sight in Chancellor Wirth that the men would re. o AR sume work conditionally on the govern- Evelyn Nesbit Located. ment's agsurance that It would refrain having been reported herself and the woman il 5o 2 Pl PULLED OUT wolfly IN S i THE APFONAUG BLEACHERY Providenes, R. L,* ponaug this morning, of the Narragansett 4 small tire fabric mill, and. pulled out most of the workets in the Appomaug Bleachery. g - Canvass of .the mills and bleacheries, e 10,000 and 11,000 hands are closed, .wh several dther plants 'hgm:fl]l . portion of. ning have a ~ New. York, Feb. ,7.—FEvelyn NesBit, against him|former actress and divorced wife Harry K. Thaw, was located tonight in Guards remained on duty tonight about | an apartment on West the home of Mary Miles Minter, who ad mitted today she was the writer. of a|ton. lor containing the phrase| Mise' Nesbit, for several month§ has repeated three times, and |been absent from the Haunpts which knew The | her well in the olden days, guards, were employed” to protect the discuss the reported resemblance betwe: actress against uninvited callers. = , whose body was found In the Potomac river. rdl_ 7.~Strikers from villagers nearby marched to Ap- strike situation Rhoge Jsland today Indie 5 from reprisals in the nature of wholee sale discharges. THa govern: serves the right to reprimand ers, but promised that the regular works ers would be reinstaged. . — of 2nd strest after fead in Washing- FOUR POLICY /HOUSES RAIDED IN WATHRBURY refused to ‘Waterdury, Conn., Feb. '7.—Police late tonight raided four allsged policy hous- ‘es and arrested 67 men, twelve of ‘them charged with being policy writers and the remainder charged with being re- quenters of folicy houses. mu%.”m made at 10 Burton street, 40 street, 62 Scovill stredt Main ptreet. and 465 West the closing company, a | FRANCE rafiway strike’ has been called off. The strikers’ committes late tonight notified WANTS NOA cONF COE POSTPONED ‘Westminster Gazette, the British governs' mepnt has received a. note - from French government making strong Tesentations conference ) that 24 ploying between the Genoa be postponed their workers, states were. ro- leads | ‘ London, Feb. 8.—According to the -