Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 23, 1922, Page 1

Nor VOL. LXIV--NO. 47 SAYS TWOMEN AND A WCMAN e % POPULATION 29,685 NORWICH, = CONN., THURSDA' BRUARY 23, 1922 CABLED PARAGRAPHS Roma Disaster Distresses Italy Rome, February 22.—The Roma disast- er caused deep distress throughout Ital and the entire press today expressed pro- found regret. King ~ Victor Emmanuel vartioularly asked for detaileds and Gen- eral De Delbert, head of the Itallan avia- Pursuing @ Rum Laden Schooner tio nservics, cabled heartfelt condolences. Searchiing for Cablnet for Italy Rome, February 22.—The Italian cabi- net situation remained unséttied today, with search continuing for a combination through which a ministry might_be form- ed. King Viotor Emmanuel this morning again received Signor De Nicola, president of the chamber of deputies. It was later stated that the president had declined the King's offer to form a new cabinet, Form- er Premier Orlando was then cailed . to conter with the king. e INVESTIGATING CAUSE OF DISASTEE TO ROMA PLOTTED MURDER OF TAYLOR Statement Made by Harry M. Fields, Now Under Arrest in Detroit—Claims to Have Received $900 For Driving il.e Automobile in Which the Plotters Went to Taylor’s I7suse to Kill the Director—Knows Nothing of the Mo- tive For the Crime—As Fields is a Drug Addict Doubt 1s Cast on His Statements. Detroit. Feb. 22.—Two men and a wo- man plotted the murder of William Des- Norfolk, Va., Feb. 22.—A statement by Major General Mason M. Patrick, Coqftin tonight reiterated that he doubted Flelds was connected with the crime. mond Taylor, Los Angeles fiim director, { Fields, according to the sheriff, asserted :32‘-&‘ :1?: 3;‘?3\.5}3.\"3’??: u:rlsn“e who was shot to death February 1, ac- |he and three other men, all members of | 20 2P€C 1€ W ISTIICTOH S cording to the reputed statement of Har- [a drug ring, entered into a conspiracy to r o= ot the ry M. Fields, now t Maldng public £ ailaged admission, w controlls regulating ihe altitude of the craft stood out tonight as the omly of- ficlal statement from any of those in- vestigating the accident which yesterday caused the death of 34 persons, the jury of eight others and the demolition of “the world's largest semi-rigid air- ship. Meanwhile tonight the army board of bring sbout Taylor's death and they fled from Los ngeles immediately after Tay Tor was siain. The sherifl expressed the wiew that Fields who s said to have admitted he is‘a drug addict, manufactured his story in an attempt to cbtain free transporta- tion to Los Angeles, where he says he has a wife and four children. He was ar- der arrest here. her details ot Fields hich included some ges from the story he was at firat #ald 10 have told officers, Sheriff Irving J Coffin, tonight stated that the suspect told m he knew nothing of the motive behini « slaving and that his only Interest in it $300 he received for driving the al- . y Investigators, called “into session today, fle in which the plotters went o |rasied recently on a forgery charge. Yor's house to Kill the director A summary of Fields' statement has |continued its hearings fonight behind Afier the shooting, Flelds s £ald to | been wired to the Los Angeles authorities. | closed doors. Nene of the proceedings ~d he drove the men and woman a resort which he characterized as 2 ‘Top ot ‘where the murder was was pald then, It was add 4 1eft Los Angeles. Authorities here refuse to divulge the names of the three men Fiekis declared were implicated with him. Fields was arrested in Buffalo two weeks ago, but despite this fact asserted he was in Los were allowed to seep out of the quar- ters occupied by the board. General Patrick expressed ‘his opinion on the basis of testimony he had heard thus far and substantiated statements planned. F e Flelds ra,uted admission that | Angeles February 1, the night Taylor was | previously made unofticially by survivors « drug addict bas caused come | killed. of whe wreck that the elevating rudder, bt 1o be cast on his statements, au- a contrivance resembling the wings of an s here have questioned him close- | A LIST OF QUESTIONS afrplane and attached to the stern of and have telagraphed a report to Los FOR FIELDS TO ANSWER | the Roma, buckled and felf forward, \ngeles Pending further advices from : forcing the craft into a nose dive, which ofwclzls a there have re-| oo Angeles, Feb, 22—Word from the | ended when she crashed into a high pow- wad t » any informationNeoncerning | oot at Detroit that he had under arres: | er electric transmission line, caught fire cwult of the quiz to whigh Fields was |, ‘man named Fields who claimed to pos- [ And burned with the greater number of Mimciad. following recelpt 'of questions | g.co jnformation about the slaying of | har crew and passengers pinned be- Sieriff Treager of Los Angeles tel- [ \vijjam Desmond Taylor was recelved | neath. egraphed 10 be asked the priso: today. Sherifft W. I Trager sent a list of questions to be asked the prisoner which he said would definitely establish whether the new lead was worthy of seri- ous consideration. District Attorney Woolwine who has had general charge of all inquiries In the Taylor case was absent from his office today but deputies said he was engaged on official husiness, It was relterated by army officers to- day that there was no explosion or fire while the Roman was In the air. General Patrick who came here by airplane from Washington immediately upon being 2d- vised of the accident, declared there had been none, adding that the fire and re- sultant explosion were caused by the high tension electric wires which the Roma struck when it plunged to earth. Army officials emphasized that the rudder had given away and that the firo dld not occur until the ship struck the electric wires, Five of tae eleven Injured men whi DOUBT IMPLICATION OF FIELDS IN TAYLOR MURDER Despite the @etaileq M. Fialds, who is said was implicated in the " Desmond Taylor, Los ector, Sherift Irving J ARBITER'S WAGE AWARD FOR NEW YORK PRESSMEN TALK OF ALLIANCE OF SEVENTEEN BIG UNIONS New York, Feb, 22—A decision by | Were first taken to the public health “hicags, Feb. 22.—An alllance agree- | pogary) Judge Manton as arbiter between | Service hospital, have now been found ment was adouted unanimously tonight | 1. pypiishers' association of New York | Strong enough to be rejoved to Lang- br representatives of mere than 2,000~ [ ot T e Unfon, No. 25, |1e¥ Feld. Thev are Major J. D. Reardon, 899 union coal miners, rai'rond workers | pif N FERIUEN L vides for main. | Captain C. H. Welch. Sergeant Blen- and iongshoremen, declaring for “elos- | ini T lcont wage scale: takes, the | denback and Corporal Flores. 3 . peration of our forces which will | pogie Poott R4y ‘should work | A small morgue in Newport News more effectively protact” the | stk Hours dally whether employed dur- | housed the dead. thirty of whom had ers in wage struggles. No [{.o4.viicht or at nignt. and eliminates | been identified tonight. None was al or me for allied action Was | setural working conditions heretofors | I0%ed {0 see them except for purposes of ' and President John L. | joC0, fdentification, hut wives, mothers and told the con- a sympathetle date of the swethearts gathered about and a crowd was in evidence all day. The bodies were badly burned and identification in many cases was made by watches or articles of jewelry recovered with them Roth sides had agreed to abide by the decision which i to form the basis of a contract extending 13 months from Koyl et -ou March 1 next m cment, loined in by the offi- | The judge decreed that overtime pay fons, assefted the be made only for time actually apply Heretofore the union demanded ad- | 2nd received an hour's overtime for any min ¢ stventoen big R. I TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS MAVE DECLINED ARBITRATION Eoast! Guard Catter Ossppes in Chase Off the New Eng- land Coast. Salem, Mass., Feb. 22.—The coast guard cutter Ossippee tonight was in pursuit off the New England coast of an $alientified auxiligry sfaoner dydieved to be liquor laden. The chase was a se- quel to & daring attempt todav. nipped by eighteen customs officers and police, to Jand whiskey and gin valued at $70,000 by means of a large motor boat, which stranded on the flats of Collin’ Cove. Seven automoblles and two motor trucks were lined up on shore awaiting the liquor cargo. One truck was seized. Five sea- men from the motorboat scuried over the mud flats to elude the raiding officers who were In three row boats and one was ar- rested. Working on a “tip” that the rum echooner had left Naseau, British West Indies, bound for Salem, eight customs officers, aided by ten Salem lpolicemen, were statfoned on the shore to watch for the craft. From the motor boat the ralding officers took 1350 burlap packages of ponded Amerlcan whiskey, six bottles to & pack- age, ten cases of gin and two cases of beer. Meanwhile word had beem sent to the coast guard service ana the outter O: sipee wag sent in pursuit of the auxillayy schooner, which was believed to be en- gaged in distributing her eargo at various points along the New England coast. SOURCE OF TAXATION SOLDIERS' FOR BONUS DISCUSSED Washington, Feb. 22. The financing of the bonus by means of a manufacturers’ or wholesalers' tax was scussed in what was described as a general sort of way at two sessions to- day of the republican members of the house ways and means committee deal- Ing with this subject. It was announced that there -would be no furthre sessions until Friday and members Indicated that there was no disposition to hurry a decision. Representative Longworth, of O, ranking member of the speclal commit- tee, said it was his judgment that a general manufacturers’ and wholesal- ers' tax similar to that in force in Can- ada would be recommended. He thought the rates would be lower than those in Canada as treasury experts had esti- mated that the Canadian rates, if put in force in this country would yield $580,000,000 a Year, or more than $200,- 000,000 in excess of the sum which it heen estimated will be needed to fi- nance the cash payments to the former service men. Mr. Longworth sald he d!d not think the bonus bill would be ready for thef house this week or next. nection he In this con- stated that there was som disposition on the part of many house members to postpone action on the measura for a itme to await the open- Ing of the refunding negotiations De- tween the United States and the debtor rations. Calling attention that the res funding commission had been appointed hy the president, the Ohio member said there was reason to believe that before both the miners and | gru fotoN T O T July the United States would have some T workers, and it cre- The publisher is to have the sole rigl Providence, R. I, Feb, 22.—Rhode Is he refunded bonds in hand. 7 executlie commitiee to decide | 45 getarmine the mumber of men neces- |land textile manufacturers today refused The president. Mr. Longworth went action by the various |sary to operat the presses. In the past |to submit to arbitration the question o |on to say, undoubtedly would not be - er an r:w';'!‘v‘:' Ari®eS | the unlon designated the number, hours and wages involved in the opposed to the sale of some of the for- . es of any of the al- Press crews hereafter may be trans- | that have affected 15,000 operatives eign bonds in this country to obtain . ferred from one press to another, a prac- [cotton mills of this state. At a p money for the bonus, He added that : a does not become | icn previonsly forbidden meating hefore the state board of m: before this could be done congress - the varlous | ygages for apprentices wera reduced |ation and conicilation they also refused to | would have to enact a law glving au- J Some instances It |y, £450 a day for the first two years and | make public théir operation costs, but of- | thority to the secretary of the treasury eoliire the approval of | g5 for, the next three. Day foremen will [ fered to do so confidentially to the chair- [to so dispose of the securities, as the h most of | reqeive $7.50 and night ¢oremen $8. [man of the board. present law provides that he must use APPrOY- | Judge Manton held that there had been | Representatives of the organized strik- | them in retiring a part of the public s b0ard | 3 decrease in the cost of living, al- |ers agreed to arbitration of the wage ques- | debt. s, i g |tHONEH nat in rents tion only. ! The Ohlo member sald the president > # rall chiefs de-| “in gtretching the work-thme to eaght | A recent wage reduction of 20 per cent. | was opposed to the enactment of bomus ” s their meeting they were | hours, Judge Manton declared that the | and restoration of the 54-hour week led legislation without any provision for \o2ve favored: the pronesal f7om | eight-hour day had been established and | the strike, which now affects 15,000 per- | raising the fands, If the proposed sales S8 S iy Whethiar the aillance |} 0% udiversally recognized. A shift|sons. tax provision was beaten in the house, ; ved to s e e al of twelve hours Is established hy practice | The meeting of the board was the out- | he added, the bill then would simply . * Ihan a Dledge of “moral|in a-great many other cities. the declsion [standing development of the textfl situ|bh. a charge agalnst the tgeasury. It Timon” among the varieus groups, and | eajd, and in New York city alone has |ation throughout the state today. Black- | was his opinion that If & sals tax were s connection they sald that the | thare been a hour shift stone and Pawtuxet valley strikers were | reported the house would be given an n was i one for future d Under the mew ruling any eight hourd quiet under the watchful cyes of state mi- | ouportunity to vote separately on that o # ey period between 7 a. m. and T p. m may | iitia, who guarded mills ar Pawuicket, | oy 5 3 4 seventsen ore: ons that are | he colected for a workman by the pub- tige and Natick, where troubles ocour- . - vo! arties 1o the agreement are the 1'nited | jjcheq and 1kewlse any period between |red earlier in the week. A thousand sil h.,"\,,:',r,:;::: ,:," h:\'.b::" ‘lf.'.“m,',:,fl Mine * of America, Brother- | 7 p. m. and 7 a. m. for the night men, | workers, whose wages have not heen €Ut | (pen’ Tone o HEme tar s o way Carmen America, | axclusive of uneh time. walked out at Pawtucket. the fight which now is regarded on all of Rafiwax Conductors. the In- Leaders of both the Amalgamated Tx- | ideq ag almost certaln. Opponents sald ullty _"_:-V?hn_i Poothernoog % | CHURCH MUST ABANDON U!l \Vofr‘kers nd the United Textile Workers | 1ot {¢ necessary, thers wouid be a and Relpors, ITS “POLITICAL SNOBBERY |of merlc attended s‘g‘;g:emsz O ahe | fent all along line from the ways America, on of Machin- i of Rallroad Signal- Broth- Jerome H. Hahn, chairman, read a state ment eubmitted by the manufacturers in which they sald that in their opinion, Chlcago, Feb. 22.—The church must abandon fts “attitude of political enob- bery'” bafore it can hope to didense the and means committee to the party con- ference, than to the rules committee and | finally to the house. They did mot think b : O |the fignt would last that lone, but con- . Wokhs ot & | eoctal gost'el tn the workees, Bishop Pau! | “Would not be conducive to the best ul- | (i TERC would tast petlugmbu:_mon’ kern of Amer- | S0 Bl e the Felawetis of Be. |timate interests of either employers or | & 2 b Tenmotice ry of D S house members, ] 19, o | tiation. New York, said today in an e“?-p-r:y“'x Hich e 4 the 'Brother! 2adress hefors the council of clties of the e price at which our goods meust be the Brotherhood | {1 Aopal ohurtht sold s fixed by the open market,” the | OFFICERS ELECTED BY . the Rallroad Em- | MOOd\, plsoopalalurdh ' iate | statement sadd: “No' arbiteation. can POSTMASTERS OF STATE . e American Fed- | 'Yl snabbery, he sald, “in which it |Teach or affect this price. The adjust- e car aver' gomething in the »} by doing something for workare and thus winning their grati- | tnde and allesiance and begin in humity to |seek ways of working with them in the ishment of sound economic relations, %0 that the every day work of the world may be a field for the expression of real Tten Brother- of War Bmployes, |11 sideration by every manufacturers and a t Long#hore- our business and consequent idleness tc all our employes.” ATTORNEY PELLETIER TO BE ment of Wages to enable us to mest mar- ket prices is a subject of thoughtful con- Imfroper adjustment means the ruin of Lvents in Pawtudset today were large- ly concerned with the movement of the mi- CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION | brotherhood, it will have found the key to = the solution of the problem. won. Feb. 22— Joseph P. Pelletier, | “The church, by abandoning the protec- decision as characterized eclaion as vit at crooks and libert . and that » phase of the charges against him + found him gull ch Justies tn hava exon ated 8o nes in feeling give crede padle worthlessness of t N0 DEMOCRATS 0N ALLIED DEBT REFUNDING Taschington, Feb. Harding's appointment of ans and no democrats to retunding democrats and defended today In a lively tiit Earlier the ed favorab o Secret es Hughes an ators Smoot, republican, resentative Burton, Keen dissappoyitment that no democrats were com. ssion Sinmvons of North muate finance commfttes misconduct by supreme court ¥ ive candidate for re statement nes were quoted commission was attacked by in nate finance committes had the four nom! republican, were expressed by Carolina, Semorat and former chairman drict attorney sterday, | £ n whi unjust. he sald | g onee the socfal gospel, perhaps, but Uy i ;\m":.! better it will" live it.” e s at an end. b 3 il make theil | pERSHING AT UNIVERSITY the 1la ze DAY EXERCISES AT U. OF P. uperative ; maid o g Philadelphia, Feb, n the Emerson ¥ on the same Goft_of New was quoted ag sa; that e etin, | YeSterday that he was eelzed with & whim hat “”' e to ride In a dirigibl It Is nce to the pal- he testimony. COMMISSION 22.—President t four republi- the allied debt Washington. VETERAX ODD FELLOWS' by republicans the senats. 4 Hoover, Sen- Utah and Rep- Ohlo the fact for the Senator rauking of the " over chosen era: New Haven; tion of property vahies which nmow char- acterizes our political Jife, can, if it has faith enough to seek the Kingdom of God join the fanks of those who put hu- man relationships first and lose itself is seaking the life of the world, It will then 22.—General Per- shing attending the Unfvereity day exer- cises of the University of Pennsylvania, today, during an informal reception ex- pressed regret ai_the Roma disaster, and it was omly singular thing. the general is quoted as saying, that willle sitting in his office at Washington yesterday he saw a glant alrship cfrcling above and was seiz- ed with desire to ride in the craft. He had never ridden in an airehip, he %ald, and as he eaw the dirfgible he de- termined to take a trip @s soon as possfble. It was fortunate perhaps that this whim @44 not meize him sooner, he declared. General Pershing wiil leave tonight for ASSOCIATION ELECTS OFFICERS Naugatuck, Conn., Feb. 23.—The Vet- eran Odd Fellows' assoclation of Con- nectiont, In annual session here, tonight alacted the following officers: Chief ver- Henry H. Saquire, Naugatuck; vics veteran, Theodore Kassenbrock, Hart- ford; secretary, Willlam S. Hutchison, treasurer, Wildlam H. litia and with the starting of an investiga- tion into the death of Jose D,Aseuncao of Valley Falls, who was killed by riot gun fire in the disturbance at the Jenckes Spinning company plant yesterday. Gil- bert Marques, Portuguese vice consul for Rhode Island began an investigation into the man's death, and offickals of the Unit- ed Textil Workers conferred with counsel @8 to what steps could be taken against city authorities as a result of the fatality RECEIVERS FOR BROKERAGE HOUSE OF KARDOS & BUEKE New York, Feb. 22.—(By the A. P.)— Federal recelvers in pankruptcy were ap- pointed tonight for the stock brokerage house of Kardos & Burke. The firm of which John Burke, former treasurer of the United States and thres times govern- or of North Dakota, is a partner, main- tains branches in many eities. Liabilitles wers given as $1,500,000 and assets as $160,000, Undted States District Judge Learned Hand named Robert P. Stephenson as Te- cefver under $25,000 bond. Immediately following the announce- ment of the receivership Mr. Burke, whose home is in Washington, D. C., anouncec that he had resigned as president and a di- rector of the Progress bank of this city. —— OFFICERS ELECTED BY STATE POSTOFFICE CLERKS Darbury, Feb. 22.—The Connecticut branch of the Unjted National Amsociation of Postoffice Clerks met in annual ses- slon here today and elected the following officers: President, Charles Wilhem, New Haven firet vice prestdent, C. A. Laufer, Bridge- port; second wice president, Frederick A. Comber, Waterbhwry ; secretary, John . Nelson, Bridgdport ; treasurer, Michael T. Muphy, New Briteln. Bridgeport, Feb. 22.—P. L. Shea of Derby was elected president of the State Assoclation of Postmasters at the annual convention herg today. The other officers elected Included, M. J. Cheney, Milford, vice president and D. J. Teevan, Shelton, secretary and treasurer for his eighth con- secutive term. The speakers at the banquet were: ¥ Kent Hubbard, Middletown, president of the State Manufacturers’ association; B. M. Grant, director of the postal sawings department for the district; R. Wetherall, postoffics inspector from Washington ; Postmaster Phillp Troup, New Haven tmaster David A. Wilson, Hartford James OKeefe, newly elscted president of the Federation &f Rural Carriers and Port Collector James L. McGovern of Bridge- port. Th ebanquet opened with a toast to President Harding end was a patriotic in other respects. FISTICUFFS INDULGED IN AT CHARITY BALL IN LONDON London, Feb. 22—A - despatch to the Daily Mall from Rome asserts that there was an uproar incilent at a charity ball organized by the American and British mbassadors in behlf of the Anglo-Ameri- can private hospital. The newsraer al- leges that Prince Marino Tonlonia, who married Miss Mary Fisie Moors, of New York in 1907, and Count Lovalli, a sculp- tor, had words over payment for a piece of sculpture Prindess Torlonia 18 said to have ordered from Lovaill Blows are declared to have been exchanged between the two men, who were separated by the dancers. The despatch adds that a duel i expecte to follow the incident. > Count Lovalll married a Miss Kéen of Argentina. MacNIDER CHALLENGED TO DEBATE, BONUS QUESTION Mason City, Ta, Feb. 22.—Hanford MacNider national commander - of the American Legion today recefved a Chai- lenge to debate the bonus question before the City club post, American ieglon, New York. The chalienge was forwarded to him in Chicago. est Likely Over Treaty Reservation Senator Lodge Will Today As- certain the Attitude of Pres- ident Harding. Washington, Feb, 22.—The progress of the four-power Pacific treaty in the senate agaln was Interrupted today while administration leaders conferred among themselves and prepared to seek the advice of President Harding whethe er to accept the blanket reservation Dproposed by those who are opposing un- reserved ratification. Contrary to the expectation of sena- tors who had sponsored the reservation, administration acceptance of it Was withheld at today's session of the for- eign relations committee, and Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the republican leader and committee chairman, ar- ranged to confer tomorrow morning with the president. In the background of the committee situation Is the situation In the senate itself whera the administration senators belisve that no reservation, regardless of wheaher it bears the approval of & majority of the committes mentbers, will ever he adopted. It is possible that the administration forces will declde to acquiesceé passively in a reservation pro- gram in the committee without actaul- ly approving it, and then make a fight on_the senate floor to have it defeated. ‘While the committee continued its de- liberations on the fiur-power pact te- day the senate began debate on ths | separate treaty between the United States and Japan relating to Yap and other former German islands of the Pa- cific. Mr. Lodge explained the treaty at length, characterizing it as securing all the rights the United States ever desired In the former German possesslons and Senator France, republican, Maryland attacked it as a repudiatio of republi- an platform pledges and a part of a ‘league of nations plan” which would lay the foundation for a new world war. Tomorrow Senator Pittman, democrat, Nevada, is to address the senate taking exception to some of the treaty provise fons, HOOVER PRAISES RESULTS OF THE ARMS CONFERENCE Chicago, Febh. 22.—Looking at the re- sults of the arms conference solely from the American point of view, “we can con- tent ourselves in great accomiplishments Secretary Hoover told the Union league club here tonight, in a Weshington's birthday address. The jeopardy* of war,” Mr. Hoover eaid, “has been most assuredly driven be- yond cur gemeration. Naval rivalry with England has been storbed with all the im- plications which must follow from that rivalry. The Apglo-Japanese alllance has been abandoned. The points of friction between ourselves and Japan have been settled. The major difficulties between Japan and China have been adjusted eo that good will may replace hate in the Far East. “The tide of.foreign garession on the frontiers of China has been turned back The «en door to commerce and industry of all nations in China has at last tee made effective, With all these solution: 4 vast growth of malign political forces have been ubrooted wi , if unchecked, would have driven unalterably to war. The world could not go on in these riv: ries in implements to kiil, rivalries that were based on growing political irritations, without entering upon the job of killing.” The agreed limitations of armament, he said, however, “may not bring so much reduction in taxes as some have estimat- ed, but had we continued in our naval! rivalries and with the programs we had be- fore us, our naval expenditures would have been doubled within another decade.’ ‘With the exception of Russia, Mr, Hoov- er continued, all Europe has madeprogress since the armistice. “In Great Britain anc some other states reasonable hopes of cconomic etabiliny have been aitained. Yet all this progress is threatened by the steady degenration of governmental! ftmnance in some of the states on the con- tinent. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY BANQUET AT PLYMOUTH, ENG. Plymouth, England, Feb. 22 (By the A. P.)_Responding fe a toast to “The Brotherhood of Nations” at the cham- ber of, commerce banquet here this ev ning, George Harvey, the American am- bassader, said the foundation for such a brotherhqod had just been lald at Washington, “Our two hard-fisted, big-hearted peo- DPles got together in what I am disposed to surmise will prove to have been the nick of time" the ambassador declar- ed. “They are going to stay together. Acquaintanceship, supplemented by cir- cumstances and idiosyncrasles, have bowled us Britons and Americans into each other's arms. We &re uncomyro- misingly compromised. Let it go at that, “Here and now at Washington's birthday let us celebrate gloriously, but temperately, the happy first appearance of the brotherhood of Plymouth on natlons.” PBOTESTS MORE TAX ON ADMISSION TO AMUSEMENTS Hartford, Feb. 23. State Tax Commissioner Willlam H. Blodgett recently sent latters to Con- necticut reprasentativ in congress pro- testing agalnst the proposed increase of taxes on dmissions, which was duggest- ed In the way and means committee at ‘Washington ag one of the means of rais- Ing the soldiers’ bonus. Commissioner gett said Wednesday that the com- bined admission taxes in Connecticut, ten per cent. imposed by the federal gov- [ ernment, and five per cent. by the state, were all that amusement enterpriseg can bear. His letter to the congressmen was Just a brief message protesting vigorous- ly agalnst any further increase in the tax. Robbins B. Stoeckel, motor vehicles, also sent a letter to Connecticut congressmen protesting againts any fncrease in the taxes on automobiles and gasoline. The state now imposes a tax of one cent per gallon on_gasoline. Connecticut, go far as known, is the only state imposing a tax on admission. This tax covers all forms of entertain- ment to which admissions are charged, exemptions being granted only when entertainments are given for education- al or charitable purposes, and the entire proceeds are devoted to such a purpose. ‘When an additional tax was proposed on admissions, during the dellberations of the ways and means committee, protests were received from every part of the country, Admissions in Connecticut are now subject to a combined federal and state tax of 15 per cent. and this would have been .doubled if the proposed in- crease was incorporated Into the bonus b1l commissioner of It 1s never too late to mend, marry or get a divorce, 8 PA BRIEF TELEGRAMS The death rate in the United States de- creased to 1306 per 100,000 population in 1920 from 1496 per 100,000 in 1910. A Swiss engineer Charles Imhoff, has discovered a gold mine in the Austrian | | The retall price of milk In Springfleld, set at 12 cents last week, will temporarily. continue First Lieutenant Harold Hine, listed as missing in the wreck of the airship Roma, was a resident of Bridgeport. Dean A. K. Heckle announced that the faqulty of Wafayette college had unanimously to abolish junior week. voted The resignation of Detective Sergeant Thomas Hunt, for 27 years a member of the South Norwalk police force, was an- nounced yesterday. B The Rev. John H. Clewell, president of the Moravian . seminary and eollege for women, at Bethlehem, Pa., died in a Philadelphia hospital. He was 66. Installation of a screen and moving ple- ture machine in the senate chamber to aid senators in debate was suggested by Senator_France, republican, Maryland. ga Jacob §. Coxey, who once led al army President Harding a statement cavering |0 the exact effect on navy construction of | i the Washington conference treaties. i Miss Betty Eckelund, an American, has received 20,000 pesos as indemnity for the death of her father in 1914 by Carran- za. revolutionists. The Kenosha, Wis., city council joined in the movement for the return @#eer and light wines night when a resolution to this effect was adopied by a vote of 14 to 1. Ia in Fifty-four men and women were pre- vented from committing suicide in’ the |, last stx months through the efforts of anti-suicide league, at Zuich, Switzer! n The will of Mrs. T. G, Henderson, pro- bated at Sioux City, lowa, betgueathes $20,000 to Yale university and $5,000 Chief Justice Taft. an de: ha. Colonel R. G. Cholmeley-Jones, formerly director of the bureau of war risk 1 ance, died at the Presbyterian hospital in New York. He had been ill at the hos- pital since October 30 last. me Leglislation urged by the American Bar association to simplify court proceedings was presented to the senate and hou judiciary committees by committees rep- Tesenting the association. no tions from fellow officers of his regim. on his coming marriage to Mathide Mc- Cormick. its Two unmasked bandits, both armed, held up Harry Friedman in his je: store oppasite the court house in Newar) N. J., and escaped with $5,000 in diamonds and other gems. a; Spokesmen for the wage conference be- tween tne committee of managers of cast- ern raliroads and heads of the locomottve engineers and firemen, indicated that the sessions would continue for saveral da Three bandits in an automobile tonight stole $2,405 from John Murphy, a mes- senger for the Somerville Trust company one-quarter of a mile from the bank i Somerville, Mass. cot Maple trees in Fred Martin's at Bast Highgate, V¢, have ¥ sap at intervals all winte: old time theory that March is month for maple sugar product front yard ded sugar Calonel Arthur Dwight of N was elected (president of the Tica: Institute of Mining and Metallurgical gineers, in annual session in New York Willlam H. Bassett of Waterbury was named a director. Appreval of ‘John D, Rockefeller, Sr. to'the engagement of his 16 year ol granddaughter Mathilde McCormick, to Max Oser, Zurich, Switzerland, riding master was given upon condition that Oser become an American citizen. The Mlssissippl senate has pas ed a resolution requesting President Hanrd- ing and congress to take up with the al- iles the matter of securing possession of sufficlent lands in Africa on which to colonize the American negro. ot while siiing. She was making a stee Gescent with a party of friends when s! fell over a ledge, landing twenty feet be- [ low in deep snow. o themselves into the seat from the Matson | & liner, Buckeys State within two hours of each other while the steamer was ap-- proximately 300 miles south of Los An- geles. - Oppesition by the National Republican club to the granting of a federal bonu “to any soldler who cannot show a wound or who was not disabled in the serwice,” was recommended in a resolution submii- ted for action by the club's commities at ¢ the regular monthly meeting in New York. by A resolution protegting against the prohibitio namendment to the United States Constitution and appealing to con- gress to modify it to permit the manu- facture and sale of light wines and beer was adopted by the Cleveland city coun- el il e Admitting that she was kmown to the polios of Boston, Philadelphja, Worcester and other citles as “Sylvia, the shopiitting queen,” Miss Catherine Wilson, 3§, was arrestsd as she walked out of a large de- partment store fn New York with & new dress she had mot pald for. Alarmed at the diversion of Newfound- land trade from Canada and Great Britain to the United State, the board of trde of North Sydney, nearest Canafan port to Newfoundland, has petitioned the Canadi- an gavernment to take preventive meas- ures, 1d for 801 of th et Veterasn members of the three-links fratemity—the I. O. O. F.—gathered at Naugatuck yesterday as guests of Cen- tennial lodge. No. 100, for their annual reunion and meeting. Dinner was served to about 200 men who have been Odd Fellows for upwards of 25 years. James K. Hackett, the American actor ‘manager, dressed in a costume represent- ing Hamlet, and Mrs. Hackett dressed as Desdemona, will represent the United States at a gala performance at the cpera in Purls February 28 in celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of (.!I. birth of Moliere. sp! th th: Co COLUMNS : : ELEGTORATE OF IRELAND TO Agreement Reached at Sinn Fein Convention Between Frea g Dublin, Feb., 22.—(By the . P.)—Whn dramatic suddeneness a peace agreement. reached at the Free State and republican leaders, was sprung on the Ard Fheis, Sinn Fein convention, today, and the huge delay might endanger the treaty with Great Britain, gave It unanimous approv- tion can” be held In Ireland for the next sue will not‘simply be for or against the treaty but to determine the judgment of the tended throughout the trea ing al De Valera h ws quite satisfied with Arthur Griffith's emphatic iecided 1o hok! a meeting this evening in the Mansion House to Insist upon clarify ing dubious, ¢ | the leaders of the other eide. t | drafted by the provisional government on was it to be a final constitution which the Brit De ALTERATIONS IN FORD'S post of < pan members who are imve posal an view it from the government's standpoint, oth made more accaptable If Mr. Ford had al- clause from 100 fore the committee, Amerdoan Farm Bureau Federation, test!- fled that that organization had Qopsad” the Ford offer and had full con- fidence that th would = FATHER IDENTIFIES BODY George E. Hills years ago at Boston and had not been heard from sinos, his father said. Thers was a bullet hols in his head and state policemen had committed suicide. Coroner Calhoun has. not given his finding as yet. BANQUET OF SONS OF THE Bakewell of Yale quet of the Conneeticut society of the Sons of the Amferican Revolution held different cities in the state were present. chapter, President H. H. White of Hartford and Mayor Fred Atwater delivered addresses. PRICE TWO CENTS VOTEONFREESTATE TREATY State and Republican Leaders—Election is Not to be Held Within the Next Three Months—Vote Will De- termine the Judgment of the Irish People on the Actual Terms of a Constitution in Which the Treaty Will Be Embodied. no® been negatived by both sides, ¢ was R ane i By the terms of day’s azreement, A, thur Griffith is a stronely committed s Mr. De Valera not to appeal to the elee- torate excdpt with sanction of the Dail Eireann, and the miority falsoring the provisional government within the Dad is admittedly so small and so pecaric-s that no resolution promoting elections to which the De Valera faction would eleventh hour between or National thering of delegates, impatient that any and adjourned for thres months. The strongly opposed could be car of the unempioyed to Washington, an- |general fecing was that in preserving in-| As Mr. De Valera's «-:r;s:s.“ ey other chance to help the jobless. tact the party organization something Mke | country was undertaken in the expeciation 2 miracle has been worked, of an immediate election, there will mow Secretary Denby is preparing for | 1 '© Net result of the two days’ meeting | be no need to procend wi: it 0 vigorous- Iy. But it was made plain In the bygie? discussion which followed today's agree- ment that both sides were free in the in- terval to carry on propsganda freely tn favor of their own aims, ' There will be 1o cessation in the bl cation of the newspaper the Reacubiie of Ireland, which suppoyts Mr. De Valera, and jt is believed a similar paper to ad- VXOCate the vViews 6f the Free Staters is being prepared. Within the frameworic of the party ongani: fon itself, howarer, it is assumed that the Sinn Fein clubs as such will not engage in active political hostilities, and Mr. De Valeya recommend- ed that they devote themselves instead to other adpects of the national program. But If the clubs should choose to indulgs in_political désoussions there is mothing in“ie agreement to prevent them, Different opinfons were expresssd - night as to which section reaps the most advantages from the adjournment. On tha one hand, M,. De Valera's friends claten- #d he had atopped 2 stampede ana had ghe en the electors time to consider and ‘wote on & definite issue. On thT other hand, it wag pointed out that meanwhile the provision- al gavernment will have complets con- trol of the whole machinery of the Irieh admnistration. The provisional government will ba sulject to criticism in the Dail, but to- day’s agreement pyovides that a Dafl majority cannot put_the supporters of the And Fhels is to insure that no elec- , and when it is held the is- Irish pedole on the actual terms of a in which fhe teeaty will be Suporters of the Froe State have con- iy embles Tre d to frame for herseif constitution giv- essentials of freedom, but the re- ve denied this and have guot- rpretations placed upon the treaty speeches by Prime Mmster Lloy 8¢ and othe, British cabinet mini All the objections to the agreement ised on the floor today’ after Eamonn 1ad announced its terms em- m_prominent republicans, and M De Valera's asurances that he d fapefully considered every poin: nd ated declaration that mo election e forced upon the country during ng_three months, the republicans ust al points which they considered S0 far a3 was known late this afte noon similar meeting was contemplated by The points on w ich the republicans par- ticularly demanded assurance was what | the provielonal governiment out of office. the agreement meant by the Free State |I: s hoped the agreement will ch Max Oser, who ranks as & major in the | constitution to be submitted to the electo- | lack of discipline in the mmrmew Swies artillery, fs receiving congratula- | rate. Was it merely the conetitution ae and, regardiess of the views of the indi- vidual members, it is beMevsd the army will obey the high command, of which Richard Mulcahy, minister of defense i the povisional government, is the head. Mr. Mulcahy has Geclared that although he wes a supporter of the treaty he would maintain the army as a republican body, own interpretation of the treaty, or h government could mot alter? Mr Valera's estimate of the effact of the reement took the latter view. However, ¢ result was regarded by ledders s showing there could be no doubt that the [and it was he who was mainly - k and fll> of both sides were averjoyed | mental in bringing sbout today's peace > a division had been avoided. agreement. The Bri " government's hurry to pass lament suzporting the pro- it Y elected parliament which would lace the Dail Eipeann amd disestablish sh ic has been rendered fu- vas argued by those favoring the eement. The possibllity that elections held by British authority has How serious the position had besome reganding the army was evidencad within the last day or two by announcememts in newspape,s from certain brigades in Tipperary and Limerick, pre against the treaty, declaring the Fres State governmént Inimical to the estabe lished republic and repudiating allegiance to the present Dail Erieann, . ul do MOTION FOR ANNULMENT MUSCLE SHOALS PROPOSALS OF PICKFORD-MOORE DIVOBCH Washinston, Feb, 22.—Thres alterations sal made by Henry Ford for se of the governmen power projects at Mascle have been agreed 1o by the ufacturer. They are: © into the proposed contract nite guarantee to produce fertilizers finished form at a given annual 1 tonnage. izo ghe operating com- oh is to be created for the pur- pervising the Muscle Shoals op- Careon, Nev., Feb. 22—Motion of At- torney General Leonard B. Fowler of Ne da to have Mary Piokford's divorce from Owen Moore annulled was submit- ted to the Nevada siate supreme court here January 30. Miss Plckford was o~ worced from Mocre at Minden, Nev. March 20, 1920 and a shoxi time later married Dovglas Fairbanks. AilMhres are motion picture stars. Attorney General Fowler contended that Miss Pidkford's divorce was cbtained through “fraud and coftusiyn” and declar- ed the Minden court had no jurisdiction as both parties were bona fide residentg of Los Angeles, Cal’ ‘although Miss Picks ford swore she was a resident of Newada. The suit was predicated the complaint stated, on the principle that the state “res serves an interes: in all divorce actions.™ Gavin McNab, prourinent San Feancis« o attorney, who represented Miss Picke ford, in reply. declared that Fowler had no authority under Nevada laws to bring Ala, the language of the so-cali- clause in order to insure the from the producing to the consumers at a profit not ex- per cent. based on the cost manufacture. Mr. Ford's approval of these modifica- nnounced today by W. B gineer for the Ford com- return from Detroit, where he went last week to confer with the De- | hig action. There was no aggrieved pme- A whalebone corset stay caused the 0% WO s L T i young woman | troit manufacturers. Formal announce- | ty in the case and nowhere, McNab argued, death recently of a Zurich young woman | trolt manufacturers. Formal announce; does the law give the attorney general the ight to review divorce cases. If the law grantad that right, he said, dvery divorce granted in Nevada would be subject te tigating the offer congress will be made by Mr. Mayo as on as arrangemenest for him to testify are completed, probably on Frida; s While the three alterations were Te- | The case” McNab declared, “is with- irs. Alice M. Hills, Amherst, Mass., and kS , ) , s H:r;ll;l Holloway, colored, & walter, flung | §arded by some committee members a8 | out precedent in jurisprudenca, No lane Iy improving th adding form of the pro- they guage can be found in any law #het cam be tortured into giving excuse for this at« titude of the attorney general It is the first of its kind and should be the last o fits kind. District Judge Frank P. Langan of « Minden, who granted the decree, later, on June 25, 1921, refused to review the case and Fowler appealed to the state supreme court. to its value as members sald it would have been to a reduction in the lease to 50 years as suggested Secretary Weeks when he testified be- agreed The committes held only one meeting on account of the holday. Gray Washington representative of th TUNIDENTIFIED MAN KILLED BY EXPLOSION OF A STILY New York Feb. 22.—An unidentified man was kiliel tolay by the erplosiog of a liquor still he was operating behind barricaded doors in basement of & Brookiyn tenement. blast, he 1,500,000 farmer members of “unreservedly en- would get cheaper fer- izers, and other commodities which he nufacture at Muscle Shoals. Policemen, attracted by the broke down the doors and found the body beside a tub of mash. __Twenty families fled their mmehn& FOUND AT WAREHOUSE POINT Conn., Feb. 22— of Hartford tonight entified the body of a young man und hers last Sunday as that of his n, Charles F. Hills, 19. Carl C. Kulie Suffield corroborated the identification. Young Hills enlisted in the navy three Warehouse Point. in the same house, thinking a bomb gone off, but returned when firemen ase, sured them thers was no danger. The victim was said to have rented' the basement room abopt two weeks ago. A few minutes later & small still ex- ploded in a neighboring tenement, Where John Ontachek. its alleged owner, was arrested for violation of the state pro- hibition enforcement law. Ontachek was uninjured. i who have been working on e case said the young man apparently COMMONS PUZZLED BY ADJOUENMENT OF ARD FHEIS ~ - London, Feb. 22—In the lobbles of the house of commons tonight the adjourn- ment of the Ard Fheis at Dublin was regarded as puzzling and caused anxlety, It completely upsets the le of 5 Irish” events outiined recently Win-' - ston Spencer Churchilf, secretary for the - colonies, when he laid stress on the im- portance of an eany election, the moderates to maks their felt in Ireland. Many members of the house prolongation of the peesent Wil not improve relations bé: and Bouth Ireland. AMERICAN REVOLUTION Bridgeport, Feb. 22—Prof. C. M. was the principal eaker at the thirty-second annual ban« s moon at the Stratfield hotel. More an 150 members of the society from T. B. Warrgn, president of the local was _toastmaster, and _Siate