Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 13, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIV—NO. . 62 ATLEAST100PERSONSKILLED IN FIGHT AT JOHANNESBURG Upwards of 100 Were Wounded During Disorders Saturday Afternoon—Fighting Was Conducted in the Form of Sriping—Strikers Are Reported to Have Burned the Po- lice Station at Fordsburg—Strike Has Had Little Success Outside of the Rand—Airplanes Have Dropped Bombs POPULATION 29,685 on Revolutionary Commandos. Johannesburgh, Union of South Africa, arch 12.—(By the A. P.) undred persons are At least one believed to have Vveen killed in Sarurday’s fighting here, and "e wounded will reach a much larger num- Deeperate efforts are being made by the umandos :» gain control of the town fore the forces under Major General J. L. Van Deventer and Brigadier eral Conrad Brits can arrive. Only orthern part of Johannesburg is free the commandos. o fighting for the most part takes the srm of sniping, thére be only occasional 3. The only government forces to seen are thoee guarding the city hall. o striking miners are reported to have od the police station at Fordours. A communique from Pretoria says large ber of trops will be avatlable shortly ecruiting is going on at a sa y pace although many evident o realize the eriousness of the sit- Town despatches say that outside general strike has bad a At Durban a meeting at- t hundred persons, mostly Ra success wtrikers, d in the formation of a mando of three hundred men, who pa- without (violence. stmilar meeting at Bloemstein a rmation of commandos, but a r o the dispersal of the € the decision could be AIEPLANES DROP BOMBS ON REVOLUTICNARY COMMANDOS ath Africa, March )—-Almplanes have twice revolationary com- severe caguaitics, and a of strikers have tack agal iie Park, says_& communication fs- infli = number ndsd have ben burning houses at Benomi and Boksburg, apparently in retaliation for our All our airplanes now carry bombe in order that every advantage may be taken on the discovery of revolution- Two instances occurred today where commandos were successful- ly borried. Direct hits were attained, and bambings.. ary commandos. the revolutionaries suffered severely.” The communication then describes successful resistance of 130 men of Imperial Lignt Horse against an attack of I strikers at Ellsi Park in which many of the strikers were killed or wounded. Five. killed and fifteen of the soldiers were wounded. The communication admits strikers have had initial that successes, the government are formidable. TROOFS HAVE CAPTURED 1,500 REVOLUTIONISTS | Johannesburg, March 12 (By the bt says the forces now at at the disposal ot CABLED PARAGRAPHS To Form Greek Cabinet. Athens, March 12 (By the A. P.)— King Constantine has charged Nicholas Btratos, former minister of marine, with the formation of a new cabinet. Twe Indian Rioters Killed London, March 12.—A despatch to the London Times from Lucknow, dated Sat- urday, reports the first fatalities arising from the troubles in the agridultural dis- tricts in the united provinces. These oc- curred in the Hardol district, where two oters were killed and other were wounded- in addition a sub-inspector was wounded when the police fired on a mob. The po- lice officlals were investigating alleged -outrages against a local landlord when Tioters attacked them and also burned the landlord's house. Uprisings in Lisbon Lisbon, March 12—(By the A. P.)— Plans for an uprising, together with quantities of ammunition and explosives, have been discgvered In raids by govern- ment agents at the headquarisrs of the workmen's syndicate. As a consequgnce the syndicates have been closed and dras- tic steps are being taken to preserve or- der. About,one hundred notorious agitat- 08 have beeh arrested. The raids followed various acts of violence by stiking work- men, BUNNING DOWN CLUES OF THE JOHN T. BRUNEN MURDER the the Riverside, N. J., March 12.—Scores of possible clues were run down today without furnishing a solution to the mystery surrounding the slaying of John T. Brunen, circus owner, who was shot Friday night while sitting at the window of his home reading. By a pro- cess of elimination, County Detective Ellis Parker sald tonignt that he had cleared away many of the ciréum- | stances in Brunen's life, what at first had appeared to be clues to the slayer. the AN b k) d s _A-| None of them, however, had given the P).—The troops have captuied 1500 getectives anyihing definite to work on, revolution Sophiatown a1 Brixton | Barker caos : Ridge, sides clearing the neighboring | ‘ positions wer strong and the rebel | cupation presented grave menace. pianes dropped thirty-two bombs on ro olutionists surrounding a party of police in the Brixton ai causing numerous casualties and scattering the others, many of whom surrendered. The government isfactorily and rapidly converging. SHOT FIRED AT AUTO CONTAINT ed today giving a record of ances growing out of the str o revo saye onaries still are ue MOMAMMEDANS SEND PROTEST TO PREMIER LLOYD GEORGE the A. P.)--Twen. rs of the Indlan re have sent to Prim hatle. pro- nst the British government's ‘de- action” in conmection with th, tion of Secreatary for India Monta- express acpreciation of the efforts Montagd and the Indlas govern- behalf of the Khalifat, and a he secretary was sacrified in t alifat cause. The lcgislators' pro- eclares that the Indian govern- < representation, publication brought about the virtual dismis- scretary Montagu, contalns the Moslem demands. ess of the legislative was prefaced by an Dr. H. SA. Gour ex- of the assembly 5 over the resignation he characterized as the Indian reform friend cf india. iharl wai he Loped Mr. | be able to withdraw legisiative coun- tribute to Mr KELLY, NEW20, PARONED BY PRESIDENT HARDING —Kid Kelly, for 18 years, rce the te thout even of the aiarding at the who eniten- pa- discavered the negro's plight According to prison officils thee has neve been any au- noiding Keily behind the walls on. e prisoner’s status resulted from fferences between federal and state over jurisdiction in the case. Kelly st ted in a fedral rourt when Ok- ma was a territory. Then came state- nd on subsequent appeals both fed- | and state courts disciaimed jurisdic- He was convicted of killing Jim Dilling- am, another negro, in 1305. V.yen the was brusght to light a yea: ago, a vement immediately was instituted to Kelly or set the date of execution of ence. The matter was brought fo the tion of President Harding and the xecutive pardon today settled the ques- ARECKAGE OF BOAT WASHED ASHORE AT CAPE MAY, N. J. e May, N. J, March 12. Wreckage Ashing toath with a net attached, be- 4 by coast guardsmen to be one of the « England mackorel flcet, was washed wro today by a hewvy northeast tide. stern of the craft bore only the word Boston." * The flest of about 250 boats is now fish- off the Virginia coast and is due here month S CANO WITHIN THE CRATER OF POPOCATEPETL Mexico City, March 12.—A; small vol- which is showing some signs of ac- has een formed within the crater i Popocatepet], which is situated 26 miles weost of the eity of Puebla. Persons who feturned from an exploration trip ccptepet] say the new Wolcano has 4l the characteristics of lts parents. ave OBITCAR Dr. Momer B. Smith. Lancaster, N. H.,, March 13.—Dr. Ho- mer B. Smith, a practicing surgeon of this towd who served With the rank of major in France during the war, died sday. After his return from overseas Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, A German cook, discharged by Bru- March 12 (By the A. P.)—A shot was | nen, after a quarrel, was located by dc fired at the automobile containing Gen-| tectives today in New York. He con- eral Jan Christian Smuts, the premier, | vinced the oificers that he had been i today as he was being driven toward|that city at the time of the shoot the Rand near Potchefstroom. The pre- | and had no knowledge of the case ex- mier was not hurt, although a bullet| cept what he had read in the newspa- struck the car. P Neither could he furnis a pos- sible motive, the detectives said. “ How the slayer knew .that Brunen| DE VALERA ADHEDENTS INTE . March (By the ne, head of the addressed a hug :de of the Ang! A, meet -Irish e was subj nce of adherents of E who in large groups tok ) positios the platf from w others spoke and int vy firing shots, semingly to create excitement. © A numbe ghts occurred during the meeting. v monn De J. J. Walsh and John J. McKeown were o refused to “Blay lins charg- among the speakers. all of w! frightsned by what and tan” arguments. Mr. De Valera w! ment and decla termed Mr. h a campaign of in- discredited faction. There was a demonstration jast night the anti-treaty adherents against the Thousands of by reception of Mr. Collins. an important achievement, as the Alr- issued 2 long com- munication this afternoon declaring that the operations were proceeding very sat-! that strong forces were RUFT SPEAKERS treaty, cted to considerable interfer- néar h Mr. Collins and rupted the speeches in an endeavor of Tee d that the tactics be- ing pursued were those of a defeated and County authorities, including _Prose- cutor Kelsy, said tonight that develop- ments in the case would make necessary a long examination of Mrs. Brunen and her 18-vear-old daughter, Hazel, prob- ably tomorrow, Trey would mot disclose what the " developments were. Willlam Parkson, a iion tamer, who married Hazel Brunen in face of her father's ojposition, sent word to the au- s that he Would be glad to give formation he could regard- i He was attending a dance | at Perth Amboy when Erunen was shot iy someone outside Who fired through | the windpw pane. The circus man had ithe mariTage of Parkson and his daugh- ter annulled. oc- them any ing the case. was in the habit of sitting by the win- dow to read is ome of the points to which the detectives have given much thought. They argue tuat the use of hot gun Indicates that the a: in was familiar with Brunen's, home life, and used the gun to make sure of the mark. Mrs. Mary" Walker, a neighbor, told Getectives that on the night before tre circus man was killed she had seen a man knocking at the kitchen door of his house. She said that she had seen Mis. Brunen, her mother and Hazel leave for a theatre and that she knew Brunen was alone in the houss, Whether Bru- nen had met the man the detectives could not learn. He was said to have made no mention to his family of havs ing had a visitor. The questioning of Mrs. Brunen, De- tective Parker later sald, would be di- rected toward the clearing up of her statements regarding two men, who, sha sald yesterday, she had seen after find- ing her husband dead, run across a v cant lot on the east side of the house persons congregated in the streets and dis- | 2nd_enter an automobile, ~which had mantisd the platforms that had ben erect- | been driven away by a third man. In- ed and threy them into the river. Anti- | Quiry also would be made, Parker said, treaty literature was liberally distributed | into her statements that the report of it e okty Aoy the slayer's gun had startled her. The THE THIRD TRIAL OF AKBUCKLE TO BEGIN Arbuckie, will go to trial tomorrow for third time- on charges of m'.(nsl.x.ughw(} growing out of the death on September 9, 1921, of Miss Virginia Rappe, a mo- n plcture actress. Miss Rappe's death | wed a drinking party in Arbuckle’s | 1t is ex- that the process of selecting a| ater part of no change on ! the lists of opposing counsel, but it is| suite in the Hotel St. Francis. pected jury will occupy the week, The trial will s expected that more witnesses will called than in either of the two previ- ous trials, The jury in the first trial voted 10 to ! 2 for acquittal and in the second 10 to| have 2 for conviction. Both ~sides TODAY Francisco, March 12.——Roscoe C. motion picture come- report of a shot gun, the detective de- clared, so closely resembled the di: charge of a signal torpedo on the rail- road directly in front of the house that neither he nor neighbors were able to detect the difference. The 'discharge of these torpedoes, it was sald, was of fre- the | quent occurrence. Two were set off to- Gay while Parker was ati the Brunen home. The discovery of a third shot gun shell, discharged, on the path the slayer i3 believed to have taken in his flight across vacant lots to a Wwaiting automo- bile was one of the developments oday. The car, Parker said, apparently had been parked in a lane several hundred wards from the Brunen home and on the west side of the house. Fresh foot- prints in the moist earth led from the a be mwindow through which the shot was ¥ired directly to this lane. No footprints could be found, the authorities said. near the course Mrs. Brunen was said promised to introduce evidenco in the 4o pave told the detectives the men had forthcoming trial that was not intro-| o) duced in either of the othe; “If Mrs. Brunen’s story proves true.” PINCHOT A CANDIDATE FOR GUBERNATORIAL NOMINATION Philadelphia, March 12.—Gifford Pin- chot, state forestry commissioner, night announced his candidacy for republican gubernatorial the May primaries. He announced decision to run in a letter addressed to a group of men and Women Who March 10 asked him to become a cand!- | nomination at Detective Parker said tonight, ‘“the three men whom she described as riding away in the automobile were undoubt- edly mixed up in a conspiracy to take the showman's life. Just how they were concerned remains to be solved. They might have been enemies Who hired the assassin. It is tolerably certain, how- ever, that they did not commit the mur- der.” to- the his on father had been a friend of Willlam date. Desmond Taylor, motion picture, dlrec- Mr. Pinchot was national forestry|tor recently slain in hos Angeles. She commissioner under President Rooss-| said, however, that he had been closely velt. assoclated with Willlam Fox, president Others who have announced that they would be candidates lor governor at State Banking Commissioner John S. Fisher, Lientenant Governor Edward E. Beldel- and State Treasurer Charles A. the republican primaries are man, Snyder. —_———— 18 YEAR OLD GIRL HAD NEVER SEEN HEE FATHEE! New York. March 12.—Mies Catherins ‘Erbach, 18 years old, who had never seen her father, Simon Erbach, a farmer at Pomona, N. Y., arrived today from Ham- | eamship Oropesa to maks her home with him. She was met at pler by her stepmother and was recog- burg on the nized by a photograph. Brbach came to the Unjted States alone, shortly before his daughter was mother's death interrupted his plane to bring them here, and the] baby was given to the care of Erbach's mother, who died recentiy. The father born. The then decidde to send for her. SAYS ARREST OF GANDHI WAS A GEEAT BLUNDER of the Fox Film corporation, and that tel had jointly owned concessions at Coney Island at one time. Her father, she added, had bought out Fox's Inter- est in the concessions. - Detectives said that _investigation showed that Mrs. Mary Bernardi, of New York, had bought on March 4, an interest in the Great Doris-Ferrarl Shows, in Which Brunen was the chlef stockholder, —_— FOMB EXPLOSION IN THE U. 5. LEGATION AT SOFIA Sofia, Bulgaria, Marck 12 (By the A. P.).—An explogion occurred in the Amer- ican legation hers early this evening. Nobody was injured, but several of the windows were shatered and some dam- 2ge was done to the building. Charles S. Wilson, the American minis- jter, expresses the beMef that the explo- { ston was due to 2 bomb. ‘The bumb was thrown shortly befors 8 o'clock in the evening and sended in the garden of the legation. The fact that this part of the legation was without 1ights and that no one was there at the time seems to indicate that the perpe- Hazel Brunen tonight denled that her Car £%%¢cked When One Wheel Burst Several Persons Killed and Sixteen Injured Near Union City, Ga., Sunday. Atlanta, Ga., March 13.—Seven persons were killed and 16 injured idoay when a passenger coach on the Atlanta, Birm- ingham and Atlantic railroad was derail-- ed near Union City. The car went off a trestie nad fell fifty feet. % Thirty persons were in the coach, the last of the train, when one of the wheels burst. The trestle was reached and almost crossed when the car suddeniy turned over, tearing away ¢rom the one ahead as it fell into the shallow creek. Six men and one women were kilied and several of the injured are not expected to live. For hours rescue parties worked: the wreckage, teleasing those imprisoned and removing the dead, the injured being removed to hospitals here. ‘The following list of dead were issued by officials of the railroad tonight: C. T. Blmore, cashier, local station A. B., New York city. W. E. Molntosh, Imperial Hotel, New York city. B. C, Driver, Roanoke, Ala. R. W. Lanie, operator,, Senoia, Ga, . Mrs. 1. H. Etheridge, Atlanta, Ga. W. M. Broks, Western Union Tele- graph company, Manchester, Ga. KILLS CASHIER IN A NEW YORK DEUG STORE BANDIT New York, March 12.—Accompanied by a woman who drove with them to Charles Friedgen's drug store, Amster- dam‘avenue and 120th street, four ban- dits tonight held up the clerks in the place and frightened by the screams of two women who were eating ice cream at the soda counter, shot and killed Samuel Hadas, the cashier., They es- caped in the waiting machine. The drug store is opposite the Colum- bia University campus, and is located on the ground floor of Whittier Hall, a dormitory for several hundred girl stu- dents+ of Barnard College and teachers’ college. Three men alighted from the car hen it stopped at the curb, and went into the store, which was brightly light- ed. Tre fourth -man and the woman re- mained in the machine, which was driven around the corner into 120th | Street. The engine was kept running. garding the women at the soda robbers ocovered the ordering them to ir hands. us the bandits however, the | { 1 | throw up As soon their weapons, flourished women g Screamed and: ran from the store, This confused the robbers, particularly the one who confronted Hadas. He thrust his gun forward and pulled the trigger. The bullet passed through Madas' body and imbecded itself in the wall twenty | feer away. e dropped dead without a | sound. The three robbers then dashed for | the strect, got into the waiting cur, sped | off towards Broadway and were ‘sWal- | lowed in the crush of traffic. The shooting drew an immense hrong and the excited sHouts of the | clerks who ran from the store brought | hundreds of Columbia University stu- | dents from dormitories in the.vicinity. The uproar in the street alarmed | scores of girls in the dormitories of | Whittier Hall who crowded windows in their eagerness to learn what had hap- | pened. Hadas, who was 24 and unmarried, was a mcdical student at Columbia Uni- and only Work- sity during the d ed in the store at night. RELIGIOUS PROCESSION IN THE STREETS OF ROME Rome, March 12 (By the A. P.).—For the first time since the fali of the tem- poral power, fifty-two years ago, a great religious procession traversed the princi- pal streets of Rome today in honor of the three hundredth anniversary of the can- orization of St. Philip Neri, founder of the Congregation of the Oratory. prelates, members of the “black” aristoc- racy, headed by Princes Massimo, Bar- berini and Lancellotti, and priests and monks carying lighted candles and torches, together with all ~the parish priests of Rome and large number of children of both sexes, singing as they marched, participated in the procession. Immense throngs of the populace crowd- ed the streets, clapping their hands and | shouting “Viva St. Philip!” as the pro- cession passed. Simultancously another demonstration, made up of members of about 100 repub- lican_associations, paraded with red flags and bands through the Corso, the leading thoroughfare of the city,/to the capitol. where honor was paid the memory of Giuseppo Mazzini, the Itallan patriot and revoiutionist, who died at Pisa March 10, 1872. During’ this ceremony shouts of “Lorg live the republic” were heard. | There was an escort of carabineers to hoth the processions to prevent disorder. The only unfoward incident was a fight between Fascisti and republicans, Which was stopped by the police. PROFESSORS OF UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA DECLARE STRIKN Sofia, Bulgarfa, March 11—The 1- ty of Sofia university today declared a strike and declined to hold classes until the ministry of education assures it liber- ty of action. The dispute over the at- i tempt of the ministry eliminate one let- ter from the Bulgarian aiphabet, which was announced some time 2go, 18 mow developing into an orgutized protest by the intellectuals against alleged olass distinctions by ‘the government. The sit- wation is causing the cabinet much anx- tety. The attitude of the university pro- fessors is being supported by mass meet- ings throughout the country and by or- ganizations of professional workers. FIFTH AMERICAN INFANTEY RETURNING TO UNITED STATES Berlin, March 12 —Accompanying the Fifth American Infantry regiment for Antwerp last Friday on the first stage of the voyage to the United States were thirty-one German brides of soldiers and eight bables bern under the protection of the Stars and Strives on this Ririne. It is reported hers that the town of Mayen, fifteen miles west of Covlens, in n sector, will now reced 500 French troops. — OVERTURES TO SPAIN BY THE FINNISH GOVERNMENT Helsingfors, Finland, March 12—The Finnish government has made overtures to Spain for the arrangement of a commer- cial agreement in view of the fact that CONN. MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1922 Archbishops, bishops and other high'| GompersPledges il To Textile Strikers -A.F. of L. Will Stand Firm- Iy For Strikers. Providence, R. I, March 12.—The American Federation of Labor will stand firmly behind the textile strikers of New England in their fight against wage re- ductions and increassd working hours, Samuel Gompers, president of the fed- eration, declared here tonight, addressing a meeting of. several - thousand persons at a local theatre. Speaking to an audi- ence of 3,000 in Pawtucket this after- noon, Mr. Gompers, who is touring the textile areas of New England where strikes are In porgress, gave a similar pledge on behalf of this organization. “Come what may,” said Mr. Gompers, “the.United Textile Workers of America can count on the American Federation of Labor to stand behind them to the fullest extent of its power. The Ameri- can Federation of Labor will exert every effort ungrudgingly, cordially and enthu- siacticaily to, help the textile strikers to at least get bread during their struggle.” The_labor leader declared that textile workers knew, if few other people’ did, that abou. a year ago wages in this in- dustry were cut 22 1-2 per cent. They knew that the cost of living had not been reduced when that cut was put into ef- fect. Today a further reduction of 20 per cent. was offered, the mill owners thinking that because the first cut was accepted with little more than & mur- mur, the second would be accepted “in actual silence.” In addition to the new wage reduction, mill owners proposed Lo extend the 43 hour week to 54 hours. “Mill owners say that under existing conditions it is impossible for them to compete with the mills of the south,” sald Mr. Gompers. “Much aiready i been £aid in reply to that claim. The fact that the textile industry 1In the south s largely owned and controlled by northern capital is incontrovertible. No attempt yet has been made to dispute that fact. If the textile workers accept this 20 per cent. reductlon, is it not reasonable and natural to suppose that the textile mills of the south will meet this cut with a similar reduction in wages there? 1t that cut is made, will not the same com. pet again prevail? It will, and the miil owners of Rhode Island will again de- mand 10 or 20 per cent. reduction. Then each side will go on competing and de- pressing downward. What then will be- come of the textiie industry in America? Let this competition contmue and there will be no textile industry left in New England. Thank God, there are enough industries in the United States to allow men and women now employed in the textile business to find a livelihood.” Nobody disputed, said Mr. Gompers, that industrial depression existed. Gov- ernment agencies estimated the number of unempioyed in the country at 5,000, 000. These.unempioyed were unable to consume because they Wwere unable t industry wouid mean reduction by 20 per cent. of the comsuming power of thou- =ands, and this would affect thousands of otter industries. Replying to the published statement that, in accepting a 20 per cent. wage re- duction, the textile workers wouid be getting more than in 1914, Mr. Gompers advised the gentleman making that states ment to “go back to the time of Adam and Eve and compare their earning pow- ers of their time with those of the pres- ent day.” “That man forgets we are Jiving in the year of grace 1922, he declared. “The great world confiict was not merely war against the kaiser. It was a war against a system, and we did not make all the sacrifices we then made to ex- change political autocracy for Industrial autocracy. “It is the plain duty of the mill owners to call upon the represeritatives of the textile workers to meet in conference and try around the table to find what is best to be dome in the present situation and present the result to the whole industry. They should not act like autocrats. They should not, without consulttion, issue thelr proclamativa that wages are to be reduced and hours of labor lengthened. That might have gone in the good o times, but it don't go now. I would like to impress on the minds of the mill own- ers that they are not monarchs of ail they survey.” _Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers of America, and other labor leaders spoke at both meet- ings. Mayor Gainer of Providence ex- tended a welcome to Mr. Gompers at the evening meeting. e TALE OF LIQUOR TREATIES WITH GREAT BRITAIN AND CUBA Washington, March 12.—Negotlation of “liquor treaties” with Great Britain and Cuba, as aids in putting an end to rum smuggling into this country, was said tonight by high internal revenue of- ficials to haye been advocated by Prohl- biton Commissioner Haynes. Treaties were desired, it was explained, to handle the Canadian border situation and to better control exports of lguor from Cuba, the Bahamas, Bermuds, and. te this country. Prohibition officials also have under discussion & proposal for declaring rum running vessels to be pirates through negotlation with forelgn nations looking. to the cancellation of the registry of such ships. Many of the larger liquor ships carrying illicit cargoes of alcohol, it was s2id, anchor just outside the limit of customs jurisdiction and send the cargo ashore in smaM boats. The war upon these craft is belng successfully waged, officials assert, but the cargo vessels are beyond the reach of the law. If they sailed without proper registry papers they would be branded as pirates, out- side the law, and' the lawful prize of every navy in the world. - state department it was said no Proposais for negotiations of this sort are under consideration as yet. International discussich of American prohidition would invilve many different diplomatic ques- tions, it was deciared — ety | LITTLE LIKELIHOOD OF . MARTIAL LAW IN BELFAST Belfast, Mach 12—(By the A. P.)— The prospects of a desleration of martial W grew less today when the lord mayor anncunced that the military authorities considered: the existing reguiations suf- ficiently strong to take care of rioters without curtafling the liberty of Jaw abid- ing cltizens. The city ws quict Satarday night. The campaign to bring about a cessation of oceeding. Various houses fon between the north and the south | buy.. Reduction of wages in the textile| EIGHT PAGES—60 COLUMNS Earth shecks are being felt in the Nic- araghan department of Granada, Carazo and Rivas. 5 —_— : New Hampshire college and Colby col- lege will ‘meet for the first time in inter- collegiate debate tonight. The bank of France has lowered its discount rate from five and one-half to five per cent. Robert J. Wynee, postmaster general for & year in tho cabinet of President Roose- velt, died in Washington, aged 71 years. The Swiss Press expresses keen regret at America’s refusal to participate in the Genoa conference. The Grek government suffered & de- feat in the chamber of deputies when Premier Gounaris was refused a vote of confindence by 161 to 156. A reduction of 781,000 acres in the cul- tivated land in England and Wales Is shown by ministry of agriculture’s statis- tics for 1921. . The declinntion by the United States of the invitation to participate in the Genoa conference: caused no surprise among Itallen officials. General Gerardo Reyes and stx of his men were killed in the state of Vera Cruz during an encounter with the rebel leader Miguel Aleman. Twenty-one members of the yleague of nations have not paid théir subscriptions for the last year, according to an an- nouncement in the house of commons. The new Follsh cabinet to sueceed the ministry which resigned March 3 was com- ipleted Saturday, with Antoni Ponikowski retaining the premiership. Indication of fmprovement in the gen- eral industrial situation was seen by of- ficlals in the report of February postal savings transactions. Alreraft as well as submarines should' be suppressed not only in war but in peace, according to Colonel Charles C. Repington, EngMsh military eritic in an interview. King Victor Emmanuel has decorated Vittorio Rolandi-Ricc!, Italian ambassa- dor to the United States, with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Maurice and Si. Lazarus. Four persons, two young women and two youths were drowned at St. Auglustine, Fla., when a small ciosed car ran through the open draw of the bridge between An- astasia island and St. Augustine. Four armed men Saturday held up and robbed J. W. Bishop and R E. Malone, paymaster for the Bernard Gloeller com- pany in Pittsburgh, and escaped with the company pay roll of §10,000. The ceremony of conierring the Pallium upon "Archbishop Curley has been aban- aoned because the Baltimore cathedral is 1madequate to hold the throng the desirea to attend. . Major Jumes L. Carter, a messenger at the Boston custom house whose duty it is to bring registered mail from the post of- fice, was arrested charged with embez. zlement o0f $1837 in cash. Mrs. Anna Rassell, widow of Genera! Charles Russell, who served fn the Civil war, was found dead in the home of her deughter, Mrs, David Bispbam in Stam- ford. Orrin W. McFarlane, manager of a South Boston stare that deals in buriap bags, not only stood off three holdup men, but pursued them down the sireet until they disappered. Gerard and compony, dealers in invest- ment securities, New York, znnounced an assignment for benedt of creditors. Har- old G. Hanney of Brooklyn was madv as- signee. Will H. Hays is named a director with 17 others, many of them widely known mo- tion plcture producers, in a new member- ship corporation chartered “to foster the common interests of those cngaged in the motion picture industry.” The appenrance of communist elrenlars in the strike districts of RhoGa Tsland fiad the textile centers of Lowell and Law- rence, Mass., and Manchester and Nashua, in New Hamphire, was reported by federal | authorities. Demand by the United States for reim- bursement to the extent of $241,000,000 for the expenses of its forces in the Rhine- iand before any reparations are paid has provoked surprise in French official cir- cles. = Appreciattive, but non-paying. wireless amateurs who have been sitting at home and Jistening to world famous entertainers are confronted with an edict of the Actors’ equity Assoctation that such performers must be paid for ther work. Leonid Krassin, commissar for foreign trade in the soviet government is quoted =5 declaring that an agreement had been “prapared with the Guaranty Trust com- pany of New York for banking relations with the state bank of Russia.” The British tug Granville, with a large quantity of liquor aboard, is at the Dela- ware breakwater under ' the watchful eyes of customs officers and coast guarde- men. She is sald to be bound from Cuba to Portland, Maine. . Former prohibition officisls who eon- sented to the agency method of industrial aicohol distribution adopted by the Fleischmann Company, Inc., of New York, did “a foo! thing” but in absolute good faith, Commisgioned Blair of the internal revenue senvice, sald Saturday. Dismisal of complaints charging the Western Electric company of New York, with unfair competition and violatlon of the “tying contract” of the Clayton act, ‘was announced by the federal trade com- mission. Favorable repert to the bouse was voted by the military committee on the bill pro- posing to give the city of New Haven, Conn., jurisdiction over Fort Hale and the mliltary reservation at Lifghthouse Point, which would be named into a park nam in honor of Nathan Hale. % Authorttles are sttempting to learn the whereabouts of Aktred D. Mitchell, former city treasurer of Salem, N. J, who I3 ac- cused by Warren A. W. Grier, city selic- tor and other officials of appropriating n cancelled $80,00 bond issue of the city to his own use nine years ago. Declaring President Harding had “strongly expressed the wish" that he re- /main in _the cabinet, Secretary Hoover in- formed Mayor J. Hamipton e of Phil- adelphia he couid not accept the director PRICE TWO CENTS PROPOSED BONUS BILL 15 DANGEROLS AND UNWISE™ Fordney of the House Ways and Means Committee— Bill Makes No Provision For Raising Additional Revenue' to Meet the Cost of the Bonus—Mr. Mellon Declareq “misNoWaybyWhidltheAmefianTupayel Can Avoid the Burden of Taxation. Washington, March 12.—The new sol- diers' bonus bill as drawn by house re- publicans was attacked tonight by Sec- Tetary Melon as involving “a daagerous @buse of government ~redit.” Replying to a request for the treas- ury’s comment on the new bonus bill, Mr. Mellon In & letter to Chairman Fordney of the house ways and means committee, made public tonight by the treasury, sharply criticised features of the proposed measure providing for loans by banks upon adjustl servise certificates as indirect and “forced” borrowing by the government. He sug- gcsted that the “direct and regular way"” to provids for a paid-up endow- ment Insurance feature would be to au-|direct policy loans on adjusted serv. ¢ thorize fusurance certificates with pro-| Certificates from the outset. It congre d visio nfor direct policy loans to be fi-|conciudes to adopt a soldjers’ bonud nanced by the government. Mr. Melion| With paid-up endowment . iusurance af blg- value unless pledged with banks, & which event the obligations becume, : effect, two or three year notes, whict the government would be obliged to pas Off in 1925 upon default by veterans. Weaknesses of Certificate Plan. “Tida practically means §al wasi Payments on adjusted service om: cates would be financed for the me three years through a forced loan fr the banks, ® * * *. From the poimt 4 view of the banking system and the geas eral financal situation, it would be fum better it a bonus is to be financed LA borrowing, for the government to < to direct borrowing and o provide fux contended that “it is both dangerous|its ‘chle? feature, the direct or reguise and unwise” to attempt to avold the| WAy would be to authorizs cost of the bonus for the time being. certificates with provislons for “There is no way,” he said, “by which |Pollcy loans and the amortization the American taxpayer can 0id «the| Other reserves that would be requl -l burden, and if a bonus is to be impos:d|as @ matter of sound business jolieyy it is far better for all concerned that it|A certificate plan on this basls, if chosery be placed upon a direct and definite|by &ll ex-service men elighle to slect basis and paid for each year out of cur-|It, Would, according to the best avalla< Tent revenues. To do this at this time|ble estimates, mean an aggregate lla- will necessarily mean the imposition of |bility of about §4,500,000,000 and om the additional taxes for the purpose.’ basis of a twenty year maturity would Cost Under the BIIL involve the following current chargss each year for the mext twenty year The secretary estimated the cost of| (1) the payments necessary emch year the bonus under the bill, considering|,n gocount of the matarity of certifie] each of the possible choices offered 10| categ by death, averaging about $40.+ veterans, at more than $1,200,000,000 bY | 09 009 g year; (2) amortization pay< Jaguary 1, 19 What form the bo-|ments computed at four per cemt. com< Dus measure might take, he asserted,| .. ded annually, calculated 1o Pro< Wwould mean & cost to the government of | \1a. within twenty years for the Whold from $300/000,000 to [$400,000,000 for | yioviiies " overaging mbout $123,000.000 & the next itree or four years and possi.|year; and (3) provision for dizect poid o continuing lizbilities thereafter . government on aboutt more than $200,000,000 e Jow- 1943 . itte insurance companies, in an Accompanylng his latter, Mr. Motion | % 27 M0 IRTIENCE SO averacel transmitted statistical tables prepared not less than $200,000,000 a year for the: by treasury experts showing the vars- oy e R vl Ing cost-of 2 bonus according to what|ore. t¥O, O ;= — Deroentags of veterans might choose the§ (100, Of the PSS different pians of payment oftered. Mr. Mellon called atention to the faet that the bil! makes mo provision for raising additional revenue to meet the cost of the lunus and recalled to Mr. Fordney . President Harding's letter of February 16 in which it was suggested that a genéral sales tax be enacted to provide the necessary funds or the bo- nus legislation be postponed. Secre- tary Mellon's lstter, in _part, follows: No Provision For Sinking Fumd. “The bill makes no provision what- ever for sinking fund, amortization or other reserves against either the Mt fty that would be thrown upon the gov- ernment in 1925, or against the ifabil- ity on the ccrtificates at the end of 20 vears, nor does it make any provision for the payments which would accrue in ordinary course from Yesr to year on account of the death of veterams. “The direct cost to the government of a blli carrying these provisions for anout 4,500,000 ex-service men is almost impos<ible to estimate because of th ertainty as to which of the plans be chosen, and in what propor- . *'But the government act- vary hes prepared tables of estimated cost on the assumption that seventy per cent will choss the certificate plan, 23 per cent, the farm and home 4 plan, five per cent, the vocational tralning plan and two per cent. the land settle ment plan. In the calculetions as to the cost of the certificate plan, it is assumed that half of the voterans will borrow on their certificates from banks and defauit on their loans, in view of tha attractive provisions for cash redemption in case of default. * * ® Figores of Interest. “It appears from these tables that on the basls assumed by the actuary the total dircet cost to the government in the fiscal year 1923 would be $289, 000; in the fiscal year 1924 $218, in the fiscal year 1925 $128,013 000: and in the fiscal year 1926, for the most part by ctober 15, 1925, when tha adjusted service certificates used as se- curity for bank loans would have to be redeemed, §615.822,000. This Would mean total payments with! nabout 3 1-2 years of, over $1,200,000,000. These mates take no account of amortization or other reserves against certificates to remain outstanding after the fiscal year 1926, which would 2dd at least $40,000.- 000 a year to the current charges, or of possible additional costs under the land ttlement plan if the reclamation jects thersin authorized should be car- Tied through. It fe estimated that about $100,000,000 per annum would be re- after 1923 if these reclamation projects should be pressed. ¢ ¢ © “If all the veterans should choose the certificate plan the total face value of the certificates would amount to over $4,500,000,000, aistributed over 20 vears, and that if all the veterans should choose the farm and home aid plan the total cost would amount to $2,093.000.- 000 within the mext two or three years. Bank Loams Provision Serious. “Apart from the direct cost of the bill, a most serlous feature is the pro- vision for bank loans upon adjusted ser- vice certificates during the period, be- tween its passage and September 30, 1925, The effect of this provision is-to transfer the cost of policy loans from the government ‘o the banks, and lo place in the banks, and to the -extent that the cx-service mem are able to ob- tain loans from them, a mass of unli- 4 quid, non-negotiable paper upon which . > the banks will be unable to realize un- il 1925. The result ,would be frozen bank loans and inflation of currency and credit. To the extent that the banks are obliged to make loans on adjusted ser- vice certificates, their abllity to take f the demands of business and in- will be correspondingly reduced, and even though the paper accrued by the certificates may not be eligible for rediscount at the federal reserve banks, the indirect result is certain to be in- creased borrowings < by member banks from the federal reserve banks, * * ¢ °, “From the point of view of the treas- ury, the most serious mspect of these loans on adjusted service certificates Is the fact that the loans would be float- insurance dire of a \year umtil the same basis as is customarily minimum about the next few years. “It is clear from these estimates thati whatever form the soldier~ bonus maz take it will cost from $300.000,090 to 460,000,000 for the next three or four years, and may Involve comtimuing la< bilities thereafter over $200,000.000 ¥, year until 1943/ et TO HASTEN VOTE ON TOUR POWER TREATY IN SENATH Washington, March 12 —1¢ efminigtra— on leaders socceed with the plaa om which they haive agresd, censte consifera . tion of the four-power Pacige treaty wilk reach the stage of action during the coming woeit. ebate to & conclusion. the republican leader.| s eernen: is prepared to hoid the senats in senglon. until late hours eo that the storm of era- tory over the treaty may apend el aw posstble. ! e coponents of rrtification are met n-i ed to assent readily to such & umaxl 1':“ consent agreemnt a8 Mr. Lodes sug- MMMMWIMM'an intention of mduly prolonging the debats. They hsive given notice taat asy atiemps to “force” results will be followed by the adontion of vigorous mesdures by the “ir- renconcilable bioc”, which for the pasu week has kept at least ono of its members on tch senate flor constantly to observe developments and shut off any move for premature tons will degin e e, s L8 even helieve that a final roil calt fication may be possible by the end of They assert that pledges given themy make it certain that meore than the neces. Tty two-thirds have decided to vois fir Tafifcation with the “no sMtance” Tese:-| Yation of the foreign retations commmities ind they declare that a majority weul fika to clear the way for the arms conler e treatics and gemeral legisiation. Th treaty agatn will thke the of fensive &t tomorrow's session, Sepato : Johnson, republican, California, leadir off with & prepared adiress agaioe: n. Senmator Pomeren o o favors Tatification with feser Oatiom, and Sedator Shieils, demoers Tennesee, an opponent of i treaty, sisx may address the eenate tomorrew trict Attorney Banton, m—ma: g ) taken to a hospital «3 Taunten. His injuries were not comsid- Fotilivan was on leave of absencs from Danzlg, Germany, where for nearly & year he had besn ennaeud“-l;;x. :“ United States consular serV’ = in the awation service in France during the war, | — ARCHBISHOP HAYES YA ARRIVED IN NEW YOR! sniping is trator of the cutrage had no intention o | Spain has placed maximum duties on Fin- | have ben kiling anyone, nish products in retaliation against Fin- ‘The king and cabinet have expressed |land for barring Spanish wines because of deep regrets to the American minister|prohibition in this country. The Spanish and gratification that he was not injured. | government, howeys 3 Bulgarian public opinion strongly con-|ement in demns the act. generalship of the Sesqui-Centennial ex- position to be held in Philidelphia in 1926. and surrounded by barb- ed wire. The tenants of these places are being' accommodated elsewhers. A woman weunded during the shoot- ing on Friday, died this morning, making the twenty-second Geath due to the dis- was head of the government hospital n the Roxbury district of Boston for some time, Dr. Smith was a graduats of the Har- vard Medical school and had studied soroad. FHe was 44 yoars old. . Delhi, March 12.—In the course of a speech here on Friday, the bandit Mavla- via declared the arrest of Mohandas K. Gandbi, the non-coperationist leader, was @ great blunder en the part of the Iodlan . overnment ed at the banks on the credit of the United States. therefore, invol the government's credit, for it contem- plates the issue of a vast amount of government obligations which are nom- negotiable and have mo present reaiiza- opened & mew r [4 |/ §.5l New York, Mirch 12 —@&rchtdshon Patrick J. Hayes of the Rowan Cathol: diocese of New York rcdsned today o an_offieis’ ‘There should be mere leisure for men of business and more business for men of leisure. L S