Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 7, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIV—NO. 57 ULSTERMENWALK OUT OF THE POPULATION 29,685 HOUSE OF GOMMONS IN HUFF When Closure Was Voted 182 to 31 on the Irish Free State Bill—Vote Cuts Out 14 Proposed Amendmeénts—Ulster Members Announced That They Would Take No Fur- ther Part in the Discussion of the Committee Stage of the Measure. London, March 6.—(By The A. P.)— Al t Ulster members present walked out of the houss of commons this even- ing, when, during discussion in the co mittes stage of the Irish Free State bill, . re was adopted on section 1 of e T, which ig the operative pro- of the bill, as it declares the treaty shall have the force of law. The closure » was 182 to 31. The closure, which cuts out 14 pro- posed amendments was vehemently re- sisted after it had been carried. The fir )-sectlon was added to the bill e of 13 to 30, after which there a series of strong protests from the rmen and the Die Hards against tion of closure, Captaln Charles Cralg, nnfonist member for South aeclired the government had re- alter a s'ngle line of the Fres bl at the request of the Ulster yet as soon as the Dublin peo- passed a resolution necessitat- the bill the government change. and others of the Tl- announced that they would part In the diseussion e stage of the measure, ey left the house. Ona e going ont declared it would liscuss the bill elsewhere. change in thy Cra SPIRITED DEBATE ON THE IRISH BILL IN COMMONS March 6 (By the A. P.).—A bate in the house of commons mption of the discussion today ee stage of the Irish bill, dur- con e of which all the Ulster walked out, was followed by ® of the operative provision of giving the Angio-Tr'sh treaty law, and the adontion of an nt dissalving the southern par- nd providing for the holding of ane Tave than four months passage of the act. commitice stage was eventually amid cheers withdrawal of Ulster mem- ement protests of the house to ap- the first sub-section of the operative provision eliminating fourteen This action was voted 182 the sub-section was added majority of two. 'The oved by Sir Hamar Green. the dissolution of 1 ament and the holding of s adonted 217 to 36, came i to TROUBLE FEARED ALONG COUNTY DOWN FRONTIER arch 6.—(By The A. P.)— ared along the Down gec- frontier ag a result of the ng due to the trials of re- which were concluded in Down Assizers court today with es being imposed varying from seven year aghan, local commandant publican army at Newry, seven vears' penal servi- en the senten protested *I e was pronounc- m an officer of the and as such I enced to twelve months Patrick to slx years of All three of these, res strong representations by the Dublin govern- to plesd when extracts cuments in their posses. : E Fein activities. i McVeigh, tried for having rms and explosives in his possession, three years of :penal | Morgan, another South | was gentenced to six | abor, having been con- A rifle at the funeral commandant, DAIL TAKES STEPS TO DEAL WITH LIMERICK SITUATION Johr March 6 (By the A, P.)—| ard Mulcahy, minister of defense in| Dafl B cabinet, today describ- staps that wera being taken by deal with the situation that in Limerick sald that James Slat- s as an Irish republican ar- who participated in the Eas- rising, In the gun-running at Jost an arm in the customs in 1921, had been appointsd charge in Limerick. The re- ver, anticipated events by -ann ente Limerick, where they com- " billets in the principal ho- ls an dalso in a vacant wing of the mental diseases, evening Quartermaster Hur- the mid-Limerick brigade, who = stater, was arrested by the but released on protest by Quartermaster Hurley to bs maturing plans @ republicans in possession of ha town. and some distance from the Sty had four companies of unarmed men under his command. The intention was, Mr. Mulcahy eatd, to Limerick and take one of the sty barracks. After a drill, the free Maters wara surrounded by the repub- 8 who arrested Hurley. When the news reached DubMn, it provolked some uneasiness in view of the seach at New Rose, Wexford, Sunday, - Charies Burgess, who, untl| Eamorn De Valera's defeat in the Dail Bireann. was minister of defenss with suprems tontrol of tha army. Mr. Burgess srongly protested against bringing Ire- and within the empire without giving the fighters under 21 years of age a ance to vote on the question. Ha Is reported to have sald among other ings: ‘“Those men are likely to make themselves heard In a much more stren- 1ous way than by reglstering votes.” Burgess s sald to be the man tb rhom tha section of the Irish repubk }an party favoritg De Valera would look for guidanes, FREE STATE COMMUNCATION SERIOUSLY INTERRUPTED Dublin, March 6.—Communication be- ween Formanagh and Free State coun- les bordering it was seriously ' inter- Foted during the week-end. The roads k the | e the jurisdiction | wo I ers. Michael anil Patrick ¥, w arrested at the same | with Managhan. Mi- were trenched and bridges were de- stroyed, It is pot known by whom ‘the destruction was done. Andrew Gilmore, - riding a bicyele to his home in Banbridge, County Down, last night, disregarded a demand by the special constables that he halt. The patrol therefore fired on him and he suf- fered a fractured jaw and an injury to his leg. HOSTILE MOVEMENT BY IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY Limerick, Ire, March 6 (By the A. P.). —Ten armed men of the mid-Limerick brigade of the Irish republican army | entered the liaison offices this evening and arrested Captain O’Shaughnessy, the ila'son officer. Havergar hall was commandeered this !evening by additional republican army | units who arrived in the city from out- €de districts to join the other troops who came into Limerick Sunday and commandeered the principal hotels. APRIL 10 SETTLED AS DATE ¥OR THE GENOA CONFERENCE Paris, March 6.—(By the A. P.)—April 10 has been definitely settled upon as the date for the opening of the Genoa econo- mic conference. Italy, from whom a re- quest for delay had been expected owlng to the extended cabinet crisis last months, informd the foreign office today that she would be ready on that date. The French government will have five razresentatives at the opening of the con- ference, one of whom is quite likely to be Premier Poincare himself, but for a few days only. The Italian note announcing readiness to proceed on April 10 caused mild sur- prise at the French foreign office, as it had been unofficially said that Italy would not be willing to enter the confer- ence during Holy Week, regardless of | whether she was ready, but the neews is greeted with satistaction, as it is realized that the problems to be discussed are mo- mentous and imperative. It was officially stated thatghould a request for delay come from quarier, France would ac- quiesce after Great Britain had agreed, but would not endorse such rejuiest previ- ous to his acceptance by Great Britain. TU The present French government feels it was unfortunate that #the French .del- egation as an entity could not remain at Washington throughout the conference for the limitation of armaments, and an en- cavor will be made to avoid similar sit- nation at Genoa. :The delegateswill be hosen from among prominent French tatesmen holding full plenpotentiary pow- . but whose public duties do not neces- state their presence in Paris during the period of two or yiree months, which, in French opinion, wil be the duration of the conference. N Premier Poincare will not be able to re- {main for more than a few days owing to ithe fact that President Millerand will be | absent on a visit to the French northern sossessions and protectorates. During the weeks of M. Millerand's _absence, Premier Poincare’h presence in Paris will e necessitated, but the regular delegates, | whoever they may be, will remain in Gen- ca throughout. They have not yet been chosen, The French experts will be readyl with their propositions in about two weeks' time, allowing of a sufficient (period for the premier to study the various points with the members of the delegation before they depart for Genoa. $20,000,000 SUIT OVER THE OF LEWIS MACHINE GUNS Cleveland, March 6.—A suit filed by Dr. Samuel N. MocClean, against R.-M. Mee, M. A. Bradley and the estate J. G. W. Cowles for $20,000,000 as his €hare in war profits from the sale of Lewis machine guns to the United States government was called for hear- ing in federal court today. Mr. Me- Clean alleges that the defendants frau- @ulently obtained possession of his pat- ent papers and also asks the court to decide who invented the gun. When the McClean Arms and Ordl- nance company of Cleveland of which Dr. McClean was president, needed mon- ey In 1907, the petitio nstates, the de- fendants, who were directors, advanced the money and took a mortgage on the patents of McClean's guns. In 1910 the defendants took title to the patents by foreclosing irregularly, it is alleged. The Automatic Arms company of New York was then formed and Colonel I. N. Leiws, U. S. A., join- ed the company’s staff, according to the petition, Colonel Lewis perfested a cooling pro- cess for a new gun which was bufit by a Utlea, N, Y., company, This gun, the petition states, embonles the invention for which Dr. McClean clatms credit. Dr. McClean savs he also has a clalm for a share in profits from $300,000,000 worth of Lewls guns sold to the allled natlons. The government, he sald, Is withholding payment unti the inventor 1s decided upon. of claimed to be due the plaintiff CHICAGO GUNMEN IMPORTED TO KIDNAP EDGAR C. FRADY Miam{, Fla., March §.—Acting on a “tip” that Edgar C. Frady, Chicago au tomobile man, who is alleged to have shot and killed his wife here a week ago, was to be kidnapped from the hospi- tal where he is recuperating from self- inflicted wounds and taken to Cuba aboard a yacht waiting outside the har- bor, Sheriff Allen iate today had Frady removed to the county jail and a special guard placed about the building. The sheriff received information. he said, that Chicago gunmen had been im- ported and that the plan only awaited nightfall to be put into operation. Fra- dy’s guards were to be overpowered the sheriff declared, and Frady was to be rushed to a speed boat lying in the Miami river. This boat was to transfer the accused slayer to another and larger boat well at sea. Two men armed with automatic shot- guns stood guard over him in the jall tonight, and an armed guard patrolled the grounds. The sheriff declared that when he went to remove Frady the latter begged tow b, permitted to spend one more night in tfe hospital. The grand jury which will in- vestigate the alleged murder convened today, ; % ToBeFirstAssistant Postmaster General Former Governor 'John. H. Bartlett Nominated to Suc- ceed Dr. Hubert Work. Washington, March 6.—John H. Bart- lett of New Hampshire, was nominated today by President Harding to be first assistant postmaster general. Mr. Bart- lett, who at present is chairman of the civil service commission, will gucceed Dr. Hubert Work, who on Saturday succeed- ed Will Havs as postmaster general. Mr. Bartlett was appointed to the civil service commission last June and sub- sequently became chairman of that body. He served one term of two years as gov- ernor of New Hampshire and prior to that was for nine years postmaster at Portsmouth in that state. He is a graduate of Dartmouth college and has for a number of years been prominent in political circles In New England. WOULD CENTRALIZE MONEY APPROPRIATING POWERS Washington, March &—Complete co- ordination of congress with the federal budget system was mprovided for by a change in senate rules adopted today by a vote of 63 to T4, centralizing all money appropriating powers in the senate ap- propriations committee. Heretofore the army, navy, past office, agricultural and other ampropriation bills have been con- sidered by respective committees. The jsenate change followed the house centralization money bills in the appro- priations committee at the last session, instead of enlarging the senate aghTopri- ations committee as in the case of the hause, however, the new senate rule pro- vides that three membsrs from each of the other aporopriating committees shall be ex-officio members of the senate appropri- ations committee. Adoption of the new senate rule will have the result of all an- propriation bills in both branches of con: eress being handled under the budget system. Power of the appropriations commit- tee was curtailed in making the change in that the new rule deprives the committee of authority to add new legislation, including “riders” which wold be subject to a point or order by a single senator. Senator Harrison, democrat, Mississip- pl and Reed, democrat, Missouri, led the fight against the change in rules, The lat- ter sald that instead of expedition the change would cause congestion of bills be- fore the appropriatiohs committee. Sen- ator Reed also said the vlan involved concentration of power In the president through the budget commissioner. Inci- dentally he referred to General Dawes, budget commissioner as “the man whose chief title to fame is that he came down- here and cursed a committee of gress.” Senator Underwood pointed -out that the 1929 demaogratic platform declared for the con- amropriafion centralization in a single committee 1)3t Senator Reed said the plank wi “slipped in."* After adoption of the new rules, Senator Harrison gave formal notice that he would make points of order as provided at every cpportunity to enforce the new rule abso- lutely. He carried out his declaration al- most immediately by objecting to legisl tion in the District of Columibia airproori- ation bill ,a wrangle ensuing which last- ed fo rmore than an hour after ice Pr: dent Collidge had ruled that the mew pro- cedure should not apply to bills previously reported from committees. PROBING THE WAR RISK INSURANCE BUREAU Asbury Park, N. J, March 6.—Twenty crippled _veterans of the war were ques- tioned Tere today by Raymond T. Grif- fen,. special agent sent by the United States senate to investigate charges by American Legionaires that the war risk insurance bureau in New York was “falling down on its job and adding to the sufferings of needy wounded men.” Paul Case, commander of the local post of the legion, declared that New Jersey dependents could not hope for proper attention so long as funds were distributed from New York. where, he said, “there is a condition of waste and negligence."” He added that New Jersey veterans would not rest until New Jersey men were handling New Jersey matters. Dr. W. G. Herriman, former field of- ficer here for the TUnited States public health service, saidl he knew the New York burean was “loosgly conducted.” RESULTS OF MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN MAINE Portland, Me., March 6.—Women who were candidates for mayor in two of the eight Maine cities which held municipal elections today were defeated. Dr. Laura Black Stickney, republican, lost to former Mayor Walter J. Gilpatrick, democrat, by a margin of 134 votes in Saco, with the total vote the closest cast in the city. Mrs. Lois T. McKiever, independent, was swamped in Bath, receiving only 338 votes to 1.339 for former Mayor Joseph Torrey, heading a citizens' ticket select- ed by a joint committee of iepublicans and democrats. Democrats won in ,Lewiston, Water- ville and Rockland, all of which cities had democratic mayors last year. The democratic majorities were Increased in Waterville and Lewiston and decreased in Rockland. There was no opposition to the republican candidates for mayor in South Portland and Xastport or to the non-partisan candidate in Ellsworth. REV. GOTTLIEB ANDREAE MARRIES IN TIST YEAR Jersey City, N. J.,, March 6.—Rev. Gottlieb Andreae, ‘71 year old pastor of St. John's Evangelical Reformed church, and his family tonight participated in a wedding. The minister himself was the bride- groom. Others took roles as follow Officiating minister—Rev. Marcus An- dreae, his second son. Best man—Dr. Paul Andreae, his eld- est son. Flower girl—Hope Andreae his grand- daughter. Miss Tosca Griram, 49, was the bride. Rev. Gottlieb Andreae is the oldest minister in active service in Jersey City. WATCH LOST TEN YEARS RESTORED TO ITS OWNER Vancouver, B. C., March 6.—After ten years' expogure to the weather, a gold watch recently found by a member of a mountain climbing club has been restored to its owner, who declares it to be run- ning and keeping perfect time. F. W. Johnson of this cify found the watch, It was on a jutting rock, at a height of 4,500 feet. From an inscrip- tion on the back he located the owner, Rev. Benjamin F. Bacon, of Yale univer- %! sity, who identified it as his property. The watch was given him by an Oswego, N. Y., church congregation in 1892. He lost it ten vears azo while on a.trip into the mountains near Glazier, B, - BRIEF TELEGRAMS President Harding appolnted hard A. Bading, former mayor, waukee, to be American’ min! | Ecuador. Cardinal 0’Conne vl.n:‘lfi!.d: "Cy 1, of Boston, Sunday celebrated low m?n in the American church of St. Susana, Italy, before three hundred Americans, Units of the Irish republican army from Cork, Tipperary and Clars, ar- .rived in Limerick early Sunday and commandeered the principal hotels. The Massachusetts leglslative com« mittee on legal affairs had under con- slderation today a bill to prohibit wo- men from smoking in hotels, A Dill to make church attendance compulsory had ‘a friendless fifteen min- utes 'before the Massachusetts legisla~ tive committee on legal affairs. The steamer Bormhoim, five days out from St. John's, N. F., for Halifax, is stuck fast in slob ice, about 70 miles southwest of Cape Race. *The $27,000,000 issue of Argentine government five-year, 7 per cent. gold bonds offered by a syndicate was quick- ly over-subscribed, Many important documents thought to have been lost when the Montreal city hall was destroyed by fire last week were found intact. The New Haven Chamber of Com- merce at a meeting last night went on record as opposed to all soldier bonue proposals which have been pending in ‘Washington. Funeral services for Ben H. Dawson, 48 years old, veteran vaudeville actor, Wwho died at a hospital at Los Angeles Saturday night, were held Monday. The body will be cremated. Merger of the Cielsea division of the Eastern Massachusetts street railway system with the Boston Elevated was recommended by Former Mayor Roscoe ‘Walsworth of Revere, Major C. S. Wadsworth, Hartford, the new commander of the First Company, ‘Governor's Foot Guards, has been given ;l month's leave of absence from March Albert Gerhardt of Westport and Jo- seph Godfred of Fairfield were fined §$50 and costs each in the town court for killing two deer in the woods back of Westport last Wednesday. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes sailed from Hamiiton, Bermuda, on the Fort Hamilto of the Furness Bermuda Line, for New York. The Fort Hamil- ton was due yesterday. Joseph P. Day, of New York, has been awarded the contracts to auction the Emergency Fleet Corporation’s housing projects at Larain, Ohios and Wyandott, Mich. They will be sold in May. Lawrence Goltra, 14 years old, acci- dentally shot his sister, Frances, 12, in the head at their home in Hartford, about noon Monday, with a pistol. The girl was taken to St. Francis hospital. Resignation of Fred K. Nielsen, so- tor of the department of state, will be announced shontly after the raturn of Secretary Hughes from ‘a vacation in Bermuda. Giovanni Caruso, brother of the lats Enrico Caruso, who has just arrived in Naples from the United States, states that the body of the tenor was buried intact. An appropriation of $34,078,033, to meet expenses of the agriculture depart- ment during the coming year is recom- mended in a bill reported by the house appropriations committee. Plans for Ineugurating a movement for the erection of a great national ca- thedral at Washington will be discussed at a meeting to be held in New York under the auspices of the National Ca- thedral Association. Nearly 128,000 American autos pass- ed the Niagara border into Canada last year, it is estimated. It is said that these tourists spent $57,000,000 in Can- ada. The 'crlvpln“ of baitleships has be- gun, The Virginid and New Jersey, which were among the ships of war which the United States agreed to get rid of at the conference on armaments, are being dis- mantled at tke navy yard in Boston. Nine of the men who manned the British schooner Grace & Ruby and the motorboat Wilkin II, seized last month as liquor runners, went on trial in Bos- ton federal court on charges of conspir- ing to import llquor into the country. Two men tled Max Cooper in a chair at the rear of his jewelry shop in Buf- falo and escaped with jewelry said to be worth $2,000. A traffic policeman stood 200 feet away at Main and Seneca streets, Burglars entered the Havemeyer and Coscob public schools in Greenwich, ob- taining a $50 Liberty bond, §19 in thrift stamps, and $10 in cash from tre of- fice of the superintendent of schools in the Havemeyer building. Running at top-speed a man was seen to go through a harbor front street in New Haven and jump off a dock, yester- day noon. Three witnesses agreed that the man was young and well dressed. They could not save him. Three German states, Saxony, Bruns- Wick and Thuringla, contemplate estab- lishment of a union to further their common interests without impalring thelr separate independence. These three states now have socialist govern- ments, Resolutions urging enactmemt by con- gress of the proposed five-fold plan bo- nus for world-wide veterans were adont- ed at four mass meetings of former ser- vice men, held under the auspices of the various veterans' assoclations im New York, Charles that T. L. Chadbourne, prom- inent New. York attorney, convicted with his client, George J. Gould in the improper administration of the $50,000,- 000 estate of his father, Jay Gould, will be made the basis of disbarment pro- ceedings. ‘What became of the Norwegian freighter Grontoft and her crew of about 20 men, was a question that con- cerned coastwise radio stations yester- day. Three days broadcasting of wire- less inquiries for the steamer that was sinking four days ago, brought only negative answer. A system of increased antomobile li- cense fees that would yield an extra $3,325,000 annually came before the Massachusetts legislative mittee on ways and means in the fc of a bill fl-ledn?y the state department of ‘public on May Cancel “Prohibition Navy” Arrangements For Submarine Chasers Were Made With- out Secretary’s Approval. ‘Washington, March 6.—Arrangements for establishment of “a prohibition navy” of nine submarine chasers to hunt liquor runners off the - Atlantic coast were made without the approval of Secretary Mellon and may be can- celled, by him, it was intimated today at the treasury. It was said last night at prohibition enforcement ‘headquarters that arrangements had been completed to borrow from the navy department nine submanine chasers not in servioce With the coast guard to be used in en- forcing the dry laws. Secretary Mellon today, however, was sald to have taken the view that congress had not author- ized the use of prohibition enforcement appropriations for upkeep of vessels and that dry law enforcers lacked au- thority to use them as liquor chasers. POLITICAL SITUATION IN GREAT BRITAIN LESS STRAINED London, March 6—(By the A. P.)—The impression is general tcalght that the po- litical situation has been relieved of con- siderable strain in the past 24 hours, au- thoritative reports indicating that the prime minister has decided to continue in office. Influenced by his unionist colleasues, particularly with reference to the interna- tional position as it would be affecter by a change in the premiership at this time, Mr. Lloyd George is said to be at least realy to hold his resignation in abeyance. It is understood that assurances of the Hupport of these leaders were given last night, at the Birkenhead dinner, at which, in addition to the prime minister and the lord chanceilor, there were present Mr. Chamberlain, Sir Arthur Balfour, Lord Curzon Sir Robert Stevenson Horne and Sir Worthington-Evairs. Meanwhile Mr. Lloyd George was con- fined to his room in his Downing street residence all day suffering from bronchiel catarrh; he received no visitors and is expected to leave Wednesday, on his doc- tor's orders, for a rest of a week or long- er at his old home at Cric Cieth, Wates. The conservative members of parliament are meeting proviately in the house of commons tonight to discuss the entire position, and it is reported that a meeting of the national executive of the Unionist party, comprising reprdsentatives (from all parts of the country is, to be called for March 14. While definite guarantees of the support of the rank and file of the unionists were not given at the Birkenhead dinmer, it is understood that assurances haye been re- ceived in the past few days that this back- ing will be considerable. A unanimous agreement is said to have been reached at last night gathering that, instead of the | coalition breaking up, steps should be tak- en to coalescs it into the taiked-of national party. Announcement of the policy de- clded fupon is awsited in Sir Arthur Bal- four's address to his constituents in Lon- don tomorrow. He is credited with usine his best efforts to persuade the premier to continue at least until after the Genoa conference, Mr. Chamberlain, replking to a question in the house of commons today, said that the premier could not possibly attend the sessions daily during question time at oresent. He had previously anmounced that Mr. Lloyd George was conflned to his house, and milaly reproved Josiah Wedg- wood, labor member as probably not hav- ing heard the announcement of the prem- er’s illness when the member asked wheth- er the failure of the premier to turn up at cjuestion time was not partly responsible for the state of the coalition government. One of the London evening papers de- clares it is quite clear that the premier's health is to be “the next card in the pack, and much may turn on it, adding: “Cin: cinnatus is returning to his farm, and it rests with the conservative section of the coalition to decide whether they will recall him to the senate.” S e e THREE NEW COMPLAINTS AGAINST BROKER LINDSAY New York, March 6.—Three new com- plaints against former Broker Lindsay were received today by Assistant District Attorney Richard Murphy. The names of the complainants were withheld but Mr. Murphy sald one was a woman whose estate was valued at $200,000 when she met Lindsay. she hasn't much left” he added. asked me if I would search Lindsay's home at Nyack for a valuable hand- painted puaque of a woman, surrounded by butterflles and blackberries, and for other priceless articles she had turned over to him.” Dr. Knute Arvid Enlind, under indiot- ment as an associate in Lindsay's ven- tures, was named by another of the com- plainants, a woman of 65, who sald she had given him a $§12,000 harp for safe keeping. The physician, whose arraignment is set for, tomorrow, told Mr. Murphy he had given the harp to a woman living on a ranch in Nebraska. SEVEN GIRLS KILLED BY EXPLOSION OF POWDER Birmingham, En| March 6.—Seven girls were killed and thirty severely in- jured today in an explosion of powder which they were removing from car- tridges at Tipton, a short distance north- west of Birmingham. The faces of the injured girls were blackened beyond reo- ognition by the powder. The factory, which recently purchased 160 tons of cartridges from the govern- ment, who were engaged removing the metal portions of the cartridges. The explo- slon blew off the roof of the bullding. FORD HALTS CONSTRUCTION WORK ON FACTORY IN CORK Cork, March 6.—All the construction work and the erection of the machinery and other equipment of the Ford auto- mobile factory here has been discontin- ued in consequence of the recent action of the Cork corporation in cailing on the Ford company to comply with the alleged conditions of the factory lease. Ome of these conditions is said to provide that the firm employ a minimum of 2,000 men for five years. The Cork corporation chrages that only 1,600 men are being employed four days weekly. OPERATORS AND MINERS - ARE TO MEET ON MARCH 15 Hazleton, Pa., March 6.—Announce- ment was made here tonight that the joint conference of anthracite operators and the Tri-district United Mine Work- ers’ scale committee would convene at the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York, at 2 p. m., Wednesday, Ma¥ch_15. The min- ers will formally submit their wage de- mands as drafted at the Shamokin vention in January, . " PRICE TWO CENTS employed more than fifty girls, | SENATE REQUESTS ATREATY EXPLANATION OF PRESIDENT — Of What Will Become of the Lansing-Ishii Agreement Witk Japan Should the Four-Power Treaty be Approved— Request, Embodied in a Resolution Introduced by Sena tor Borah, Was Made Without a Record Vote—Today Senator Kellogg is to Make a Prepared Address For Rati fication. ‘Washington, March 6.—Another gen- ate request for information about the four-power Pacific treaty was sent to the White House today concident with the beginning of a series of addresses by administration genators expounding the treaty and urging its ratification. Without a record vote and with the consent of the administration leaders, the senate adopted after a short debate a resolution introduced by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, a leader of the ir- reconcliables, asking President Harding to explain what will become of the Lan: ing-Ishil agreemeu: with Japan should the four-power pact be given senate ap- proval. Forecasting the president's Senator Underwood, of Alabama, democratic leader and a member of the arms delegation which negotiated the treaty, declared on thc senate floor that the four-power and other pacts resulting from the arms conference would “wipe out” the celebrated *gentlemen's agr ment” of 1917 entirely. His const tion of the situation was disputed, how- ever, by other senators, Just as the Lansing-Tshil agreement recognized Japan had “special Interests” in China, Mr. Underwood argued, arms treatles recognize that no nation possesses any such privileges or any oth- rept er right which might be construed af creating a special sphere of influence im the Far East. Senator Lodge, of Magss chusetts, the republican leader and an. other of the American delegates, indi. cated afterwa=d that his view coinclded with that ol Semator Underwood. Presentation of the Borah resolution followed an extended dlscussion of the treaty by Senator New, republican, In~ diana, who In the first prepared address to be made in the senate by the treaty supporters explained the four-power amr rangement as a loglcal and sound de- velopment of the long established Amer- fcan policy In the Pacific. He contraste ed it in detall with the league of na- tlong covenant, declaring that nothing was now proposed which would fmvolve the United States In an alllance or transe gress cherished American traditions. No general debate on the treaty fole owed the opening of the administration drive for ratification. but Senator Lodg( gave notice that beginning tomorrow he 14 endeavor to keep the subject bae the ate =0 that dsbate might as much as appeared prace Tomorrow's session will begin a prepared address for ratification Senator Kellogg. iblican, Minne- 1t s expacted that on the fol- lowing days o lon sena- tors will present by sota, an ADVICE FROM BRYAN TO DEMOCRATIC SENATORS ‘Washington, March 6.—It will be un- wize for the democrats to prolong the debate over the armament conference treaties In the senate because “e day's debate will tend to divert atten- tion from' the economic issue" in the coming congressional campaign whi democrats will be placed in the position of opposing “any steps toward peace,” Willlam Jennings Bryan declared in a statement here tonight. “The sooner . these treatles are dls- posed of the better,” Mr. Bryan declar- ed. “I do not mean to say that no reser- vations should be adopted. Any reser- vation that any democrat wants to pro- pose should be proposed and acted upon but there should be no unnecessary de- lay. We denounce the republicans for delaying the action on the treaty of Ver- the sallles. Why should e bring econ- demnation upon ourselves by relaying action upon thess treaties, especially when by dolng so we divert attention from the economic question which must be paramount In the fall campaign.” Mr. Bryan declared that the demo- cratic party had a splendid prospect of “gaining the next congress” which would enable us to lay the foundations for a winning campaign in 1924 as might have been expected, he added, the ‘“weakest point in this administra- tlon !s its economle polley. “This was to have been expecte explained Mr. Bryan, “because the re publican party is made up of twp dis tinct groups; the reactionaries who con- trol the leadership, and the progre: who furnish the bulk cf the vot The revenue bill cnscted at th session, Mr. Brrvan described as and that it “ought to be the lead! {ssue in the west because it was the western republicans who revolted against repub- lican leadership” when the DbIll was drawn. The four-power Pacific treaty, he con- tended “was upon the thirt treaties nezotiated by the last adminls- tration,” and when the democrats vote for this t: , he added, “they are stm ply approving thelr own policy the republicans have adopted.” which “OLD MAID” CARD GAME ENDED IN FAMILY ROW New York, March 6.—A general fight following a particularly vielous session of “Old Mald"—hitherto little !dentified with brawls owercards—tonight landed Louls Friedman, 50, in magistrate's court wih most of his family and sev- eral outsiders appearing as compilain- ants, From underneath voluminous band- ages, Friedman admitted to the judge, who could only see his eyes, that he was the defendant. | His wife, Moly, his son Benjamin and Harry Manes his step- son, told the court the head of house had broken up the game when “got the old mald.” ! exhibited ban- daged members in mute testimony te the heat of the fight that followed. Charged with felonious assanlt, the el- der Friedman was held in $1,500 ball for examination tomorrow. DRUNEENNESS NO BAR TO HOLDING OFFICE Little Rook, Ark.. March 6—The su- preme court today held that drunkenness was not sufficlent cause for removal from office and has issued a writ of pro- hibitlon forbidding Circuit Judge Sorrells of Pine Biuff from removing from office Sheriff John G. McClain of Lincoln county @s part of a punishment under a recent conviction on a charge of inebrie- ty. OBITZARY Robert Bolling Brandegee, Hartford, March 6.—Rgobert Bolling Brandegee, widely known as a portrait and landscape painter, dled at his home in Farmington, Sunday afternoon. He was born in Berlin, this state, April ¢ 1848. In his youth he studied art at Hart's school in Farmington. La- ter the same bullding became his stu- dio. As a young man, he went to Parls where he spent nine and a half years at the Fcole de Beaux Arts, On his return to this country he spent five years in New York, later going to Miss Porter's school in Farmington. Mr. Brandegee was a fellow student in Paris with the late Charles Noel Flagg of Hartford. Both men were for many years the chief source of encour- agement and help to many art students In Hartford. Mr. Flagg lent his studio for evening classes, and from these classss the Connecticut League of Art Students developed. He Jeaves two sons Robert L., and Paul Brandegee of Farmington, and two sisters in Beriin. The funeral will be held at the Porter Memorial, Farming- ton, Wednesday afternoon at 2.30, . e WAGE HEARING BY THE BAILEOAD LABOR BOABD Chicago, March 6.—Charges that the raliroads generally had not held propes conferences with their employes before bringing requests for wage reductiond to the railroad labor board and that only the lofer classes were named while tae roads eld “petting parties” with the big four brotherhoods were made before the board when wage hearings started to day. A short indictment of the roads, des livered by J. E. Manion, president of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, wae under a deputy's session of roll calls losed that 205 raliroad sys- tems and 25 labor organizations are on the board's docket to fight out the case, Mr. Manion's statement was taken to be a forecast of further charges of the same nature to e made tomorrow by other labor leaders The object of seeking reductions present was held out to the employes a desire to translate them into freight and passenger rate reductions, Mr. Man« ion declared his conference committes were told. Thers was No attempt by most of the roads, he said, to negotiate a new wage scale based on the transe portation act's prescription for a “just and reasonable wage. “It Is also a very peculiar thing thay the lower classes of railroad workers ard the only ones hit while the train ser vice men—the big four, if vou please— are invited to ‘petting parties in thq roads’ privats offices.” B. M. Jewell, representing the shoy crafts, whose case is first on the dock« et, aerved notice that he would have something to say when the session opens tomorro: on whether he considered a number of roads property befors the board, Regional wage conferances batwaen the roadg and the big four, referred to by Mr. Manion, petting parties” have been going on for severa: weeks, but no agreement has been reached. Meanwhile requests by the roads for reduction of train service wages have been excluded, from the hearing. PSR SO TN VARIOUS TEXTILE PLANTS ARE BEING REOPENEN Providence, March 6.—While strikers, thousands etrong, went on picket duty early today at more than twenty Rhede Island textile plants affected by the strike, three plants that had been cloged for six weeks resumed work, and anothey that had reopened last week continued running. No fizures were given out af any of the milis In operation today as te the number of workers reporting, but i each case it was stated that position was “satisfactory.” Strikers tonight professed to be satisfied with the results of thelr program of “intensified picketing” inangurated this morning. In the Blackstone valley two mills re« opened, Tamarack No. 1, at Pawtucket, owned by the Jenckes Spinning company, and the plant of the Crown Manufactur- ing company, located just over the Mas« sachusetts line in Attieboro. At Arke wright, in the Pawtuxet valley the Ime terlaken Print works resumed today. In the Pawtuxet valley, the Hope come pany’s mills, which resumed last week, were runming today in the filling and weaving departments. Notica has been served by strike leaders that a telt would be made at this plant this morn- ing of the right to picket on a public highway, but the plans of the strikers were changed at the last momemt. AN strikers from otnher villages wers stopped by soldlers at the outskirts of Hope vil- lage. ——— ey ANOTHER CONFESSION OF MURDER OF W. D. TAYLOR Los Angeles, March 6.—A lstter of tem typewritten pages and purporting to be a confession of the murder of Willlam Desmond Tayor, film director, declares that “we South Americans always take care of our womem" according to B. L. Adams, captain of detectives, who made public that much of the letter tonight. A newspaper was permitted to phote- graph the two lines in question, in order to make comparions of handwriting. Captain Adams said. He added that the name of & man prominently connected with the motion picture industry and who figured in previous police investiga- tion of the murder was signed to the letter. ssaasile St iats JUGO SLAV CABINET SENDS NOTE OF PROTEST TO ROMNE Belgrade, March 6 (By the A. P.).— The Jugo Slav cabinet, after a thor ough discussion of the eituation at Fluma, has decided to send a note of pro- test to the Rome government. The al lied cabinets are being advised that thig step is being taken, and that it alse has been declded to adopt measures to pres tect Jugo Slav interests. - 4