Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 24, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIV—NO. 48 NEW BONUS PROPOSAL WOULD COST CONN. OVER §3,000,000 Bill Introduced in the House by Representative Andrews, Re- publican, of Nebraska Calls For Collection of Loans Made to 26 States 86 Years Ago—Amount Loaned Con- necticut Was $764,670 — Would Exact Repayment With 4 Per Cent. Interest—Balance of Bonus Fund Would Be Met With Conversion of the British Debt In- to Marketable Securities. Washington, Feb. 23.—During lon of bonus lagislation In the h day Representatives Andrews, repub Nehraska, came forward with a proposal finance a bonee partly through the col- lection from 26 states of 23.101,644.91 d them hy the federal goverrment discus- =hiv-six years ago. He introduced a bill to diract the treasury department ‘o call for a refund of the principal with S .00 at four per cent. from the date of This would yield a totai of Mr. Andrews estimated. The halance needed for mesting a sol- honus eould be met threeigh conver- Rritish debt into marketable according tosthe Nebraska o1 X Explaining the existence of the fund he o ould be coliacted from th Andrews sald that In 1836, of funds on hand and no ) store them, congress en- acted legislation transferring the funds to states on the basis of population with the stipulation that it was te remain with the states “until congress directs otherwis>.” Congress has authority, Mr. Andrews con- tends, to require re. nent. The amounts loaned the states which in each instance, if repaid with 4 per cent interest, would total more than fouw times the principal, follow Maine and Marvland $955.338 each; Alabama, New Hampshire and Vermont $669.036 each: Massachusetts §1,538.173 Connecticut and New Jersey $744, Mississippi, Missourl amd Rhode sach ; Island, $352.335 each; Naw York $4.014,- 520; Pennsylvania $2,867,614; Virginia £2,198.427; South Carolina and Georgia $1.051,422 each; Lonisiana and Illinofs $477,919 each; Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennesses $1,433,757 each; Ohin §2.- 007,260 ; Indlana, $360,25¢; Arkansas, Delaware and Michigan $286,751 each. PROBING FIFLDS' STORY OF THE MURDER OF TAYLOR MURATORE AND MARY GARDEN IN “MONNA VANNA" Authorities here ght as to the value Harry M. | the mur- | . Los An- | Irving | aj from o story served Fields' when he sear eadquarters® where charge he name of “Sam f $130 in a sad name red Feh. 2. Fields used sometimes the n eald tonight k had failed. As the committed the night sence in Chicago the d preclude his partici. | crime, officors said. today heid steadfastl efforte to te his ling. Sheriff Coffin stated, additional detzile. —He told | Chinese fired the shot that uried the pistol near th id Fields £300 in which and a woman than the one the crime was mplicat in the mur- ald. The feur wers motion | actresses according to mes h been given tors and es authorities men, Fields es prior to Their plan Jan on . when . n to act as chauffeur. he eomld n divuige the L) - r . \.u\w-g adding that the ATHER AND DAY BY SUITOR HTER SHOT OF THE LATTER Feb% was sh New Haven Cliquot station, near Kingston Jeffers, of Russell's daughter, old as also shot and wounded, Jeffers then er on himself and was to be dying. a resident 23.—P. an, Kill- and of West Medway, his daughter from was also a passenger, before the shooting had ap- the seat occupled by father and returning with Jeffere and attempted to engage in on, aceording te spectators. As the train pulled out of Clioquot, affers drew a revolver and opened fire, ng Russell with one ghot. The girl eaped from the coach and Jeffers p mied her shotting ag he ran. When Mins Russell fell, seriously wounded, Jeffers ot himself. He and the girl wers tak- o the Framingham hospital. Teffers was one of Miss Russell's suit- neighbors sald. Some troubls had risen racently, and it was alleged that Ieffers had made threats against the Tirl's life, FAVORABLE REPORT MADE TO WINCHESTER STOCKHOLDERS New Haven, Conn, Psb. 23.—8tock- iolders nf the Winchester Company, which held the stock ‘of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, were in an- ual mesting today. President J. E. Ot- won made a lengthy repert on oper- atlons of the vear, and pointed ont a fistinet improvement in export business. saying that last month was the best since lant April. He aleo sald that the sompany looked forward te steady Im- orovemsnt in bneinese eonditions. STCCEEDS PELLETIER AS DISTRICT ATTORNEY OBRIEN Bostsn, Feb, 25 —Thomas C. O'Brien, former penal Institutions commissioner of Bosten, was today appointed district attorney of Suffolk county to fill the va- sancy cansed by the removal of Joseph . Pellstier. The appointment was eub- mitted by Gevernor Cox and cenfirmed by the executive council. Mr, O'Brien ls a demoera. . OBITUARY. Rev. Frederick A. M. Brown. New Haven, Feh. 23.—Rev. Frederick A M. Brown, pastor emeritus of the Benediet Memorial church, died today niter a week's iliness, aged 27. He was * gradnate of New Vork university and U'nlon college and had pastorates at Par- sittany, N. J, Delhi, N. Y, Little Falls, K. Y. and Poughkeepsie, N. Y. prior o him eall to New Haven in 1880 to bhe sstor of the First Presbyterian church rhich later Becamg the Renedica Memo- dal. He had net been In active service br four yeesw, - | since | times after the second act, wi | appeared ! ot lto New York, Feb. —Wearing a great bandage beneath the dress of a Floren- tine general, Lucien Muratore, tenor of the Chicago Opera appeared tonight at tha ) era house in ¢Monna Vanna zivalle—the firs he has recently undergoinz an app noted company, as assur operation Tole or - ith ince their tiff In which he Indors as a d ner as ad T carance here | together this meason. Both got a tremendons re ing before the curta nich brought Hand clapping was f; owed hv bravos; the ncame ffower Muratora last anneared on January 28 “Carmen.” after which he was strick- He and Miss Garden to Have together following Mon- day night in “Monna Vanna but, stead the tenor went to a hospital, where he was operated the next day, and another opera was substituted Although he dnas make his ap- pearance in Fevri overa until the =econd act, he left- his dressiny room early and took hiz place in the win; anparentl er to try his voice before the _crow: The audience burst Into prolonzed ap- plause when curtain parted on Prinzivalle's tent and disclosed Muratore ceated at hiz desk. Thers was another burst of applause when Miss Garden, as Giovanna, entered his headauarters to sacrifice herself to his desires that. her starving Deo; the sunplies heen cut off b and which P return for her Muratore appear their first duet in en. were the not house might they had nz Florentines, a promised in o of Hhich from he hesei not to have spar- himself durinz tt act and at the showed nn i efferts. He was fin Mise Garden's voice seemed usual vigor and her friends < th A cnid from which she tering and which last night brought a slizht temparature. “Too ridicu'ous to deny.” was the only eomment that officials of the company would make on reports that Miss Gar- den was tn retire as general director at the termination of tha rwmrnanv's New York season Saturdaynight. Ne chap:e ave heen made, they added, in the tour of the eountry h the company had planned and in which both Miss Garden and Muratore are scheduled to apper. -— QLIET IN THE PAWTUCKET AND BLACKSTONE VALLEYS ed end fine voica attributed ¢ has heen st w Providence, R. I, Feb. 23.—Quiet pre- vailed today in the Pawtucket and Black stone valleys, where state militla are on guard to prevent possible outbreaks by etriking textile operatives, Assistant Attorney General Charles P. Sisson this afternoon ordered an inquest Into the death of Jose D'Assunaco, of Valley Falls whe*was killed iast Tuesday at the plant of the Jenckes Spinning com- pany, Pawtucket, when the police used ri- ot gus against a crowd. The inquest will be held by Céroner Thomas ¥. Vance. Marqules Gilberto, Portuguese vise con- sul for Rhode Island, has begun an inves- tigation into D'Assunaco’s death. The TUnited Textile Workers of America nave also turned their attention toward fixing responssbility for the fatalfty. Funeral services for D'Assmaco at Valley Falls today called out 6,000 friends of the aperatives’ cause in a procession to the cemetery. JERSEY CITY PHYSICIAN WAS FOUND ASPHYXIATED Jersey City, N. J.,, Feb, 23.—Dr. Au- gustus E. Ackerson, well known Jersey City physician, tonight was found as- phyxiated ih his Bergen avenus home by his attorney who called to learn why his client had not appeared in court to answer an indictment charg- ing him with performnig an {llegal op- eration on a young woman, The attorney told police Dr, Acker- son had a rubber gas tube In his mouth when he found him lving across a bed. Two months ago, following & com. plaint ‘made by Miss Withelmina Ferris, 24, of this oity, the grand jury return- ed an Indictment against the physiclan. He was arrested and released on bail Dr. Ackerson was '63 years old. STUDY VOLSTEAD ACT IF YOU ARE AN ALIEN Atlantie City, N. J., Feb. 23.—Owing to his inabilty to explain what consti- tuted the Volstead act, although his chi witness was a cafe proprie- tor, James Bispham, a British subjeot now residing here, was refused citizen- ship papers by County Judge Robert In- gersoll today, Questioned about the act by the court, Bispham declared it was the eighteenth amendment but pleaded ignorance when asked to define both the amendment and the measure. He was ordered to appear for re-emamination three months Demea, - |A Grievance Aired By CharlesW.Morse Not Permitted to Appear Be- fore Grand Jury Investigat- ing Charges Brought Against Him. ‘Washington, Feb. 23.—Charles W. Morse, New York, financier and ship- builder, declared in a statement today that United States District Attorney Payson Gordon had refused to permit him, his attorneyg or certain former of- ficlals of shipping board to appear be- fore the grand jury investigating charg- es brought against him. He sald he had a mass of evidence to disprove may of the charges mentioned in the war- rant upon which he was arrested, and he attributed the refusal to permit him, his counsel or his witnesses to be heard, to fear that their appearance would pre- vent his indictment. “For over ten weeks,” Mr. Morse sald, “T have come to Washington each week and endeavored to obtain permission to go before the grand jury but without suciess. 1 have tried to persuade the district attorney to place before the grand jury some of the attorneys who are famillar with the facts in the case, such as William A. Barber, of New York, who came to Washington yester- day especlally for that purpose, or Will- fam G. MoAdoo, George Burdette, Judge Norton, of Alexandria, Va., John Bar- ton Payne, Charles M. Schwab and oth- er shipping hoard officials, but so far none of these men have been permitted to testify before the grand jury. PERSHING BEFORE COMMITTEE ON ARMY APPROPRIATIONS Washington, Feb. nomic principle” maintenanca my, regulars, —A new to govern peace time of all branches of the ar- national guard or organ- ized reserves, was laid today by Gen- eral Pershing before the house sub- | committee on army appropriations. After pointing out that the regular army was ‘relatively smal at present’” and limited in numbers first by tie ex- sting army organization act and later propriations acts, General Persh- said that the following economi ciple might be stated as to the mil ‘eco- Ing organization that the count: mainta ng the peace establish- rfent should be maintained in a more expensive category if it can be safely and advantageously maintained m a less expensive category, and mo- bilized therefrom in time to meet the quirements of an emergenc The officer said that the cost of e group of the new army was different, the regulars heing more costly than the national guard, which in turn cost cost more than the organized reserves, Application of this principle, General Pershing satd, would “lay the founda- tion for a military organization at min- imum cost,” A cecond conclusion stated by the commander of the army was as follow “The primary mission of the regular personnel within the United States is to op the national guard and the or- es and to establish a na- nal training system.” In this connectio “the main obstacl this principle was e said that w] to application of that tary trai Ing in the United States ‘i voluntary.” ‘incre; interest w. Ing manifested in the national g ad the reserve as well as in the mi tary training camps. 5 i il another principle General Persh- ng, laid down was as follows: “In training the citizen army we should empl as many reserve officers and non-commissioned officers as po: ble as student instructors and staff connel in our training camps and other training establishments.” As to the future functions of the reg- wlar army General Pershing laid down this_principl hat portion of the regular army not required for general overhead purposes shall be formed into two separate force —one composed of training tions, distributed in the sev corps areas and the other an expeditionary force composed of regular army units at effective strength ready for immediate €ervice and stationed according to con- venience for service.” IRISH FACTIONS SATISFIED WITH THREE MONTHS' TRUCE Dublin, Feb. 23.—(By the A, P.)—In- quries today among persons favorable to the Anglo-Irish_treaty and the followers of Eamonn De Valera indicated taat both sides are equally satisfied with the thres months truce arranged hy the Ard Fheis The motives actuating hoth elements in arriving at the compact were to check the growing bitterness of the election cam- paign and to endeavor to consolldate the Irish republican army. One great ad- vantage to the provisional government er the action taken by the Ard Fhais i considered to be lts security against a sud- den defeat In the Dall Eireann, where, as- suming that the members remain of the same opinion as when Mr, De Valera was replaced by Arthur Griffith, a mere trans fer of only four votes would be sufficien to put the provisional ministers in the mi- nortty. FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS IN CONVENTION New Haven, Feb. 23.—Delegates of the Connecticut Federation of Women's clubs opened their convention today with a board meeting and a luncheon. M Sara L. Arnold, dean of Simmons col- lege, Boston, addressed the delegates on “The Imperative Obligation of the Wo- men of Today.” Miss Arnoid declared that obligation to be “the endeavor, in the midst of changing conditions, to w hold the traditions and ideals upon which the country wag founded.” XEW YORK JEWELER KILLED BY TWO HOLD TP MEN New York, Feb. 23.—Shot down by one of two hold-up men, Demosthenes San- tus, a wealthy jeweler, died tonight in the arms of a friend who heard the fa- tal shot and reached the jewelry store barely in tome to catch a glimpse of the fleeing murderers. A hasty exam- inatien of the stors failed to disclose def- Inettely whether the bandits had made off with any valnables. The safe was found open with several packages of d amonds in plain view. Santus’ shop is on Madlson street near New Bowery, on the East Side. SEVEN PERSONS KILLED WHEN SNOWPLOW HIT TRAIN Minneapolls, Minn.,, Feb. 23—Seven persons are renorted to” have been kill- ed and a number injured tonight when the Winnipeg Flyver on the Great North- ern Railway struck hy a snow plow near Delano, thirty miles west of_hera. i Value of the 1921 erep in been officially placed at $219,] Boston as a city yest ‘one hundredth milestone. Frederick Beebe, a m: York Cotton Exchang Beebe & Co., died at Bol years old. of Lucius He was 84 Nippon Yusen Kaisha, of Tokio, an- nounced & reduction of approximately 30 ter cent. in the passenger rates to Vic- toria, B, C., and Seattle, Wash. For the reconstruction of 3,000 churchus in the devastated area of France, a bond issue has been authoirzed by the French government. Federal reserve bank anneunces n new counterfeit $2 is in circulation . The biil has been drawn on the New York Federal resenve bank. N James Brown Potter dled at West Hampton, a suburb of Richmond, Va., aged 69 years He was a member of Brown Bros & Co., of Wall street. A resolutton introduced in New Yori legislature by Senator Katlin calls for an investigation of illegal, fraudutent and unlawful stock transactions. In his finding on the death in Bridge- port of Marie J. Casey, following, vac- cination, Coroner Phalen finds that death was caused by bronchial pneumenia. Mrs. B. L. Mott, who for several years was known in the state as president of the Congress of Mothers' clubs, died suddenly at her home in New Haven. The Employers’ Federation of London has given notice to the Amalgamated Engineering union that a lockout will be put in effect after March 11. Sews was received at Fall River of the death at sea. while en route te the Med- iterranean, of ward Higginson, a prominent attorney of New Bedford. Harold S. Martin, former treasurer of “hrist church at Hamilton, Mass, was nd guilty of the larceny of $4,600 of e church funds. Albert Bnshnell Hart, professor of gov. ernment at Harvard. address a Washin; ton’s birthday celehration in Boston. de- viared fhat the first president of t Unitex e 1ad red her, Approximately 12,000 miners in the Pan- arroya district, Spain, went on strlke as the result of announcement by thelr em rers that they intend to reduce wages Fmma Bissell Studley, r Mayor John: P. Studley, wite of of New died yesterday after a long ill- ness. Of three daughters ome is Mrs, Charles Phelps of Me Johh D. Rockefeller, §r, grandfather of 16 year old Mathild pective bride of Ma iding academy proprietor, consent to the match. * The Everett Mills, at Lawrence, Mass., announced last n ¢ that the plant, em- loyving 1,200 operatives, wauld be oper- ted only four s a week until furth- unsatistactory oods market. 745 not given er notice bec: condition of t Senator Heflin, democrat, of Alabama, demanded senate investigate hie charges that the federal Teserve hoard is jure him politically, because riticisms of its deflation polic Seven sehool chfldren in the Highlands one of the better residential lo- of Holyoké, Mass. were bitten mosedly rabid dog while on their e at the noon recess. According to a report to the Mexican government by General Estrada, chlef of military operations in the states of Mich- oacan and Jalisco, rebel bands hava been dispersed. According to a dispateh from Liverponl, sir Alfred Booth resigned the chairman of the Cunard line, owing to ill healt r Thomas Rayden, deputy chairman, succeed him. Another pay slash, this time hitting 10,000 railroad firemen and oflers, made by the United States railroad labor board yesterday when it announced rules effectlve March 1. Bonds valned at 82,500, part ef the $20,000 alleged to have been taken by Edgar Gilmore, clerk in a Lynn, Masa,, bank, were returned to the institutton by the police. i Chairman Madden of the heuse appro- pniations committee, after talking over the gemeral situation 2s to the regular appropriation bills with President Hard- ing, said the house would finish the ap- propriations program by March 25. The Martinside alrplane, with which Major Cotton planned to make an aerial mail trip from St. John's, N. F., to Hall- fax, N. S, will be used this spring in connectlon with the seal hunt. She will act as a scout. Charles Denby, Jr., of Washington, ne- phew of Secretary of the Navy Denby, won the class of 1876 prize debate at Princeton university’'s alumni day gath- ering. The prize includes a $50) schol- arship. The calling of & special sesslon of the New Hampshire legislature to consider the pessage of a law making 48 hours a week's work for women and minors In New Hampshire wes refused by the governor and council yesterday. Postmaster Philip Troup, of New Ha- ven, who had announced his intention to relinquish his dutles March 1 when his commission expires, yesterday pub- licly stated that he expected to leave on that date. The British tug Franvills, Nquor- laden, was under convoy of the coast guard cutter Acushnet when she left Newport, R. I, yesterday. The Gran- ville has 2,200 cases of liguor abearn, consibgned to Nuevitas, Cuba. Soviet Russia’s military appropriation for the first nine montha of 1922 totals 556,028,089 gold rubles, or about $228,- 000000. Its naval appropriations aggre- eated $36,000,0000 bringing the total contemplated expenditures for army and navy to about $264,000,000, Speaking at & Chamber of Commeres Iuncheon at Waterbury, Commissioner Robbins S. Stoeckel announced that in about two weeks the state motor vehicle department would open a branch office in ‘Waterbury. A lodging house fire in XYynn, Mass., early yesterday caused the deaths of two persons. [Edward Stowel, who jumped from an upper window, died at a hospital of “his injuries. Thomas ~Ryan was found dead in his room, where he R3d lief that Kard, firm | pay. late toda being sought to face charges 0f Brokerage Firms An Investigation is to be Made of Alleged Irregular Prac- tices of Brokers—Four Fail- ures Yesterday. New York, Feb. 23.—Financlal storms In speculative Wall street, which swept the brokerage firm of Kardos and Burke into bankruptey last night, hit four riore houses today. Involuntary petitions in bankruptcy were filed in federal court against: 8. S. Ruskay and company, liabilities estimated at 32,500,000 and assets: at $1,500,000, - J. W. Ball and company, liabilities es- ;lor:ll!d at $150,000 and assets at $10,- Rodney and Company, assets not given, The New York Curb Market an- nounced the suspension of Rasmussen & Company, for alleged failure to meet its engagements. A steady siream of failures for the last month, with resuitant heavy loss to customers throughou: the United States and Canada, recently led District At~ torney Banton to start an investigation of alleged irregular practices by brok- ers, the most common of which was al- leged to be the bucketing of orders. Of thirty 6dd firms that have gone in- to bankrupt since the first of the vear, twelve have been found by grand jurles to have operated in a manner to warrant indictment of some of their members. Nineteen persons are under indictment, and several of them are re- vorted to have disappeared from the liabilities and city, Unusual interest attached to the Kar- dos & Burke failure because of the fact that the junior member of the firm, John Burke, was treasurer of the Unit- ed States under former President Wil- son. He resigned that post in 1921 to g0 into business with Kardos, a 26- vear-old broker who started in Wall street eight years ago as a $10 a week messenger boy. Kardos, son of a wealthy Chicagoan, was reported out of the city today. said he understood his partne: had gone to a suburban town for a few days. “The whole thing reminds me of the old adage,” Burke sald, “that a cobbler shodld stick to hi ast. I am a lawyer by profession. I made a mistake go- Ing into the brokerage business, con- cerning which I find I knew too little, “I want the situation cleared up, all transactions of the firm opened wide to the public. I know such a process would absolve me personally, and I have not the slightest doubt but what it would clear up insinuations against the firm.” Burke sald his contract with Kardos had an iron clad proviso that neither member of the firm should engage in trading on his owri account, nor engage In any trading on the exchange without the other's consent. Although ad- mitted he had not followed the affairs of the firm closel be dec d his _be- had lived up to the let- ter of the contract. Burke said he had lost everything in tI crash. ‘As soon as this thing is cleared up,” he concinded, Buil “I shall start a new to my fortunes—but as a lawyer time." Burke Is 62 Complainants agad the presented clatms of §11,000, which declared the firm was unable to Judge Hand appointed Mark Hy- Ruskay they man receiver. The firm has branches in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Bridgeport, St. Louls, Boston and Chi- cago. James W. Ball and company was one of the b known firias of betting com- missio n the financial district, han- dling hundreds of large wagers on sport events and elections. Arthur G. Dal- | was named receiver under bond of $5,000, Petitioners pany p Rasmu signment s against Rodney 2nd com- ented claims of $2,420, en and company filed an as- for the benmefit of creditors naming George A. McLough- lin as assignee. In an attempt to stave off the Im- pending disaster, Mr. Burke, his attor- ney dsclared, had invested $20,000 in the last twa ks and some of hls friends added $200,000 to the firm's re. sources, but this had been dissipated by withdrawals, Another brokerage firm, that of Hig- gins and Dias, was name din a petition in bankruptcy filed by creditors with small claims. No estimate of the firm's liabilities and assets appeared in the pe- tition. Berpard J. Higgins and Samuel H. Dias are its members. LEGAL ACTION BY SON ONE OF THE oF “SIAMESE TWINS” Chicago, Feb. 23.—Declaring that ferences to him as the ‘“son .of two mothers” had caused him much embar- rassment and made him the subject of contempt, Frank Blazek today filed a petition ‘for an injunction against the manager of his mother, Rose Blazek, one of the Bohemian “Siamese twin: According to the petition, the twins, Rose and Josefa, Wwho are” naturally Joined together, entered into a contract In Berlin to appear in America for three years. Frank B. Blazek, the son of Rose, was not mentioned in the ocon- tract but accompanied his mother. He is eleven. When the twins appeared on the Btage, {t was charged, the manager forced the hoy to sit in the audience and would call attention to him during the performance. The petition recited that the boy had received nothing and asks for an accounting. COLD WAVE FORECAST FOR NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND Washington, Feb. 23.—A cold wave In northern New England and northern and centra] New York was forecast to- night by the weather bureau which re- ported the~ disturbance which centered last night over Northern Missouri as having moved east northeastward to a point near Montreal, progressing north- tastward. Storm warnings were con- tinued at and north of Cape Hatteras. Snow flurries Friday and Saturday were predicted for the Great Lakes re- gion with generally fair and ecolder weather east of the Mississippi river. BROKER DEFRAUDED SOCIETY WOMEN OF AT LEAST $500,000 New York, Feb. 23.—Allsged to have dofrauded thirteen or fourteen _society women of at least $500,000 Alfred E. Lindsey, a broker of South Nyack, is that he made off with the entire personal for- tune of Mrs. Lillian N. Duke, divorced wite of Jamse B. Duke, the “tobacco Mrs. Dike charges Lindsey got all her cash, 3325,000 and jewelry worth 150,000, . ~ Stream of Failures [S[NAT[ E[]MM“T[[ HELD TREATY SESSION STORMY PRICE TWO CENTS Senators Borah and Johnson Led Opposition to the Adminis- tration Move For a Compromise on Reservations—Im- pression Prevails That President Harding is Not Dispos- ed to Accede to the Blanket Proposal Made by Senator Brandegee—Senator Lodge Has Submitted a Revised Reservation Declaring That the Treaty Does Not Con- template an “Alliance”. ‘Washington, Feb. 23.—An administra- tive move for a compromise on ‘reser- vationa to the four-power treatyl failed of Immediate success today after it had stirred up a spirited debzte in the sen- ate foreign relations committes. Coming directly from a conference with President Harding, Chairman Lodge of this committee laid before his col- leagues a revised reservation declaring in specific terms that the treaty does not contemplate an “alliance”” It was rafted to take the place of the blanket earvation to which a majority of th committee members previously had indi- cated their support. Those who had sponsored the original blanket qualification immediately opened fire on the new reservation and the hour of debate which followsd was described by senators present as the stormlest passage witnessed in the committes since the days of the Versailles treaty fight. Senator Borah, of Idaho, and Senator Johnson of California, among the re- publicans, and Senator Pomerent of Ohio, on the democratic side, wers said to have led the oppositicn to the admin- istratfon proposal whila all the other reservationists have reserved final judg- ment. In his advocacy of the modified draft, Senator Lodge was seconded by Senators Kellogg, of Minnesota, and New of Indiana, hoth republicans Without taking action, the comm!ttee adjourned untfl tomorrow, and various zroups besan a series of conferences In the hope that some more satisfactory ground for eompromise might be found to prevent a long reservation debate dur- ing committe consideration. The precise attitude of the prestdent regarding reservations wag not explained to the committes hy Senator odge, but members galned the impression that Mr. Harding was not disposed to accede to the blanket proposal Introduced days ago by Sematyr Brandegee llcan, Connecticut. and now alting ae- tion. Tt was indicted clearly that the INVESTIGATING DISASTER TO ARMY AIRSHIP ROMA Norfolk, Va.. Feb. 23.—The investiza- tion by a board of army officers of the disaster of the semi-rigid airship Ro- ma was continued here today, but no word was permitted to leak out of the executive sessions concerning the char- acter of evidence presented. The board ia expected to complete its inquirr and report to Washingtan within a few days Meanwhile preparations were begun for public funera servicel for the 34 vietims at Newport News tomorrow. All business will ended here and in that city, while the brief gervice is held under diraction of army chaplains. Every vestige of the wreck of the huge craft removed today and parts were removed to Newport News, the final investigation will be held. Failure of the controls to function properly is belleved by some of thy sur- vivors to have been the immediat cause of the disaster, although Charles ‘W. Dvorak, superintegdent of alrship construction at MoCook Feld, Dayton, Ohlo, who was Injured in the crash, stated today that the faflure of the con- trols to work was an aerodynamic theo- ry and was not necessarily the cause of the trogble. Major John D. Reardon, another of the injured, on the other hand, sald that “the wrack of the Roma was undoubtedly due to failure of controlse.” Some of the bodies already have bheen nt to their homes but the funeral ser- vices in that clty tomorrow will be in honor of all those who dled in the wreck The services will be held at Casino Park at 3 o'clock. A chaplain from Fortress Monroe will read the service for the army; eivil rites will be carried out under the lead- ership of several local ministers and afesy brief tributes to the men, with music by military bands, will close the ceremony. The caskets will be placed side by side, each draped by the flag for whose henor the oocupant died and each cov- ered with the floral tributes of the ecity, the America Legion and friends and rel- atives, where THREE TRAINED LIONS SOLD AT AUCTION FOR $000 CASH New Haven, Feb. 33.—Trained llens went at bargain prices at auction h today. Three of them placed on the block were knocked down to Willlam F. Taylor, of Hantford, for $300 cash. It had cost $3,000 to feed the animals for the 333 days they were under attach- ment and Felix O. Rustand, a showman, with a judgment against Madame Adgie Castello, who had the trained lons, was glad to get rid of them although he had to pockst a loss. As the judgment had not been satis- fied a public sale motice was published on. the town post at East Haven town hall, today, the auctioneer, a deputy sheriff, on a soap box in front of the Hons' cagss called for bids. Six men began at $300 and Mr, Taylor got them at $300, A FEW DAYS OF GRACE FOR “BLUEBEARD” LANDRU Paris, Feb. 23.—Henrl Landru, the “bluebeard of Gambais™ who was to have been guillotined this week for the murder of ten women and a boy, has been given an additional few days of grace. This was brought about today by his chief counsel who presented to President Millerand further arguments. which the president is considering. He promised to render a decision within a few days on the appeal for commutation of Landru's sentence. Snffrage Diserders in Tokie. Tokio, Feb. 23 (By the A. P.)—Dis- orders broke out in Toklo this evening In connection with demonstrations in favor of the extension of the suffrage.| By nine o'clock tonight a total of ffty arrests had been made, and one hun- dred persons had bLeen more or less White House would Itke to see gll res- ervationg voted down, but failing that, would continue to seek whatever soften- ing appeared possible In the reservation proposal. In developing their position, however, the administration leaders are moving war! Senator Lodge not present his revised draft to the committee toda as an administration proposal acceptalls to the president, nor did he formally of- fer as a substitute gee reservation, He have a” mitting its support. The text of the new reservation also was held In confidence, and members of the committee ®ald they had promised not to make it public. It provides, brief« Iv. that the trea not understood by the Tn States ar forminz an “al- Qanee, as comm zovarn- ment to use exercisa of force, or as providing for the any power by this govern- ment except through the usual processes lald down in the Amer itution. Its language follows words of t t in laying the treaty be- fore the senate. While the committes elements wers reforming thelr lin a renewal the argument at tomorrow's four-power was_atta senate bv Senator TWatson Georgla, who nredicted that the prop: four-power arrangement would be an ex- pensive denarture from the traditions of preside treaty Meantime debate on tha Yap treaty between the T'nited States and Japan, which was to have been co day, was co shut off b senate dlsou: Senator Lodege ea o1 up the treaty soon after the day's ses< clon began and for more than four hours it remained technically before the senate la reference heing mafle ta flnor. 1 be drought uy it on the agatn tomorrow. MAX OSER SILENT ABOUT FORTHCOMING MARRIAGE Zurich, Switzer soclety may buzz Wi st, but Maz Oser simply does not about hig forthcoming marrtage Misz Ma~ thilde MoCormick, daughter of John the public learns of him grand- D. What 1y be gleaned from his fr who are willing to talk. “He {s ona of the finest horsemen in the Swi Oser lost his fa ago, and he now 1 younger n South America. relatives whatever in the T He is of studious and art and does not have many et Miss McCormick wh elght years old. According to the Sw! the bride-to-bs must res try at least three weeks before mar- riage. The couple must, have thelr full names, ages, professions and residences placarded in large p the wall of the town hall facing the street for threa weeks before the ceremony. The Swiss law which allowed marriage at forelgn consulates was repealed by the federal government in 1911, who is at He has na on MUSCLE SHOALS MATTER CONSIDERED IN COMMITTEN Washington, Feb. 23.—Coneideration was given today by both the war depart« ment and the housi military committee o the question of disposing of the govern« ment's power and ate projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala, to private enters prises for completion operation. At the war den: Secretary Weeks received the final e of- fer made um of Wilmington, . for completion of the Wilson dam and oper he nitrate plants for the fixation of nitrogen from the air and production of fertilizers un- der a proposed fifty year 1 The military committee sentatives of the Ame farm pureaus, who e cated the préposal m: for 100 year leasa Jof the Muscle Shoals nounced the offer y bama Power company for purchase of the Warrior steam plant. Muscle Shoals question also was dis- cussed on the floor iy the house today, when Representativ: uddleston of Al bama declared that 99 per cent. of the people of Alabama urged acceptance of the Ford proposal. heard repres can feders MRS. ROBERTSON CONFESSED THE “FRAMING” OF HOLD.UP Freehold, N. J.,- Feb. 23.—Breaking | down under the strain of long hours of questioning, Mrs. Sarah L. Robertson tonight confessed, County Prosecutor Charles F. Sexton -annou that she had “framed up” Saturda ght's hold- up at her Deal home, following which she reported the loss of jewels worta worth §50,000, Immediately after the confession, Mr, Sexton sald, a telephone message to a New York hotel associated in the recov- ery of all the missing gems which were eaid to have been locked up in the he- tel saf Throughout the hours during which the interrogation was taking place, de- tectives in the employ of insurance com- panies and the police here and in Long Branch were conducting an ensive search of safe deposit vaults in banks in this vicinity on the theo: elry had been concealed Mr. Sexton withheld Robertson's alleged confession, but sald he- belteved her statements would result n new charges against her. These, he tntimated, would include one of obtain- ing money under false pretenses cover- Ing a case some months old. Both Mrs Robertson and John Baj- ley. the Long Branch youth alieged ta bave been employed as the “robber” details of Mrs, battered by police reserves who were| remained in jall tonight in default el called {0 qpell Lhe digturbancen, hail.