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v LXIV--NO. 69 PRESIDENT T0 DISGUSS THE SOLDIERS' BONUS SITUATION Has Made an Engagement to Meet With Republican House Leaders at 9:30 This Mcrning—The Compromise Bank Loan Plan is to be Fully Explained to President Harding —Representative Mondell is Confident That There Will be No Development at the Conference That Would Cause Serious Alteration of the Plan to Put the Measure Through Soon. publtc oday by Representatives Treadwa Massachusetts, republican members of the ways and means n They declared their bellef that the Dill, {f enacted, into law, more harm to the the veterans themsel gagement toda Connecticut, apointments made m from Florida he was un thelr request for a confer- people of the countr: Sand their families uded, than it would do good to té tn- ual beneficiaries.” ves Mondeil, republican floor leader, ole situation should be laid ve. : ent and thut bank loan plan would be fully . Mondell would not venture to whether the bill would be 3p in the house Wednesday, uspension of the rules, but he 2 uld be no devel conference that would cause teratioh of the plan to put the ure through soon We have a bill qu g the president has exsl’aued 2n Mr. Mondell, ays no mlore burden on the treasury t year than does the forthcoming road for instance. suspended the rules two years ago first bonus bill and reason to handle the measure that Thefe are men who have 5ility in the matter who would come amendment, et for the pur- mproving the bill, If we have about the best bill get there is no reason to allow the nority to embarrass our people. Wo have the best bill we can get and wery good one and the sooner we pass it, their attack principally os the bank loan provision of the adjusted certificate titic and the land They asserted that the eems Lo us just about as ua- sound cconomically and unfortunate from every point of view at this time as could possibly be devised.” The land settlement offers untold opportunity for reckless ex- penditure is dangerous at the worst and uncertain at the best,” tha compro- settlement title. loan scheme an opinion as and they added there is a firmly grounded belief i the minds of many that this provision has been saddled upon this bill with the hope and expcflation of carrying through con gress on the sturdy backs of the veterans a measure so fraught possoilities and uncertainties that it would support it forced to stand alone in the apen on its own merits. Calling attention that the loan provisios has been disapproved by high fiscal officers the committee men with dangerous recefve scant of the government, asserted that “a seri bill was the “entire lack of amortization, taxation or refunding for anticipated pay- ment of the large sum will owe in three year: loan period would expire and the veterans holding certificates would be authorized to borrow direct from the government. They estimated that treasury would have o provide $600,000,- 000 for advances to basks on unpaid loans made to veterans and but to make government when the bank Among those who probably . will ac- company Mr. Mondell to the White House tomorrow will be Chairman Fordney of the ways and means committee Cambell, of the rules committs man Towner, of the republican house con- airman Fess, of the republican Representative to the weterans “Attention is called,” says the report, “to the significance of the date the certifi- cates are to bear, namely, Octaber 1, 1522 With a large force of clerks and the bes expert assistance possible, comparative: few certificates could be issued by that time, and it would be at least six monthe before any large number could be put out The reasn for the date, therefore, of tl« operation of the bill as October 1, mext, ose month prior to election, is very - essional committes; Longworth of Ohio, 2 member of both he way and means and stesring committees, and Representative Mann, of Illinois. who delivered an ad- iress today in his hame city of Spring- eld. Mass, was expested to arrive herc omorrow and to pres| Whther he would see the president before the house convened was not disclosed, but some administration officers sald today they were confident he would not en- n a motion to suspend the niiles and This question was ne that house leaders sald they would aice up with the executive. Soon after Mr. Harding returned here day he haé an hour's conference with White House. There was no official statement onference, but ft was understood, that the s question was discussed. An attack on the bonus measure was n minority views which were made Speaker Gillett, o over the house, “In estimating the political effeat of the support of this bill,” the report costinued, it would seem that a rank being done the intelligence and patriotism of the ex-service man. sumed that because each individual veteran {8 to receive a elight pecuniary rewnrd therefore he and his friends will in turn reward those who vote It and pustsh thoae who do not, regardiess of what the effect of the legislation upon the country as a We belleve this s unjust the bonus bill: It seems to be ag- whole may be. TEXTILE MILLS ARE TO REOPEN TODAY RECOGNITION OF MEXICO J. 8. PROBABLE vidence, R. L. were called out tonlght to guard s that are expected 1o reopen tomor- norning after belng closed wholly n part for two months because of the ‘Washington, March 19 (By the A. P.) —Personal exchanges between President Harding and President Obregon looking | to recognition of \.cx!:o by the United it was disclosed Siministration tes are in prog: have been gwarding the Jenckes nning company's plant at Pawtucket i a detail of special puties sent at the request of the miil mamagement of difference between was deciared, esident Harding o mal week, but has continued. it % sald, have been ut an end to it county offictals have placed mass picketing at the Interlaken works at Arkwright and announced three pickets wouid be 2 2 h the sig mg of a t:v.al) pledging the | extra police, 3 ‘whereas the president would 1i recognition to correspondence, going on for some time, Laving been of a most cordial character. were stationed the. duty in the morning. v detail of soldiers also would treaty form. five. decisions ith the Mexican pres- correspondence writien rcr:oxm. American pres! The mature of letters was not disclosed. LIBERTY BO TYROM BRANCH OF TREASURY 19. — Between gollaple Lib- the Liberty $170,000 and $200,000 nds became Lnown MEN CHAR : missing hud net bee ATTEMPTED BLACKMAIL Philip Argan Denter, Calo, widely known in minin country and {n Europe, u5 assoctatlon of Bronx coun: E STRUCK MIL Henry F. Smith. TRUCK AND home tocay, major in tae P for many years a ciudiictor on i \m Tork, New -Haven -and Hartford -Both legs were several and she dic 'I«ttnuL died at his homs here today, CABLED PARAGRAPHS Ralds Made by Crown Forces. Belfast, ' March . -19.—Crown ‘forees ded St. Mary’s ihall, the nationalist nheadquarters in’ Belfast, Saturday night. The police, barracks at Pomeroy, County Tyrone, were raided this morning. Fire at St. Nazaire. Paris,( March 19.—A ‘great fire at St. Nazafre today did damage to the extent of 11,800,000 frarics; Gonfldence In Greek Minlstry, Athens, March 19.—The chamber of deputies = voted confidence y in the Gounaris ministry, 164 to 86. Fifty-three deputies abstained from voting, ASSOCIATION FOR RECOGNITION OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC New Haven, March 19.—The state convention of the American Assooiation j for the Recognition of the Irish Repub- lic was held here today. The Rev. Mi- the ‘Dail ‘Bireann, was the principal speaker., Mayoer Fitzgerald welcomed the delegates, Simon Crehan of Bridge- vort was re-elected state president of the association and other officers chosen were First viee prosident, Purtell, ‘Hartford dent, P. J. president, mantic; Haven, Resolutions werd adopted on subjoots, as follows: Declaring against the four-power Pa- cific treaty; urging a hoycott on Brit- fsh goods; requesting that the governor of New York release James Larkin from prisin: pledging continued support to the “Irlsh republic;” congratulating the members ' of the Dafl Eireann who “stood by their conwiotions in the recent crisls;” attacking “British propagan- dists” alleged to have caused changes in American history text books; extending “hearty sympathy and assurance of sup- port” to Mohandas K. Gandhi and his followers, Miss second Edna vice presi- Hogan, Meriden: third vice Miss ‘Agnes Nelligan, Will treasuter, T. J. Sullivan, New variou: GANDHI PLEADED GUILTY TO ALL CHARGES AGAINST HIM Ahmedabad, British India, March 19 trate on Saturday, prior to being sen- tenced to &x vears' imprisonment, whether he pleaded gulity <o charges made against him by the advo cate general. Molandas K. Gandhi, non-co-operationist leader, replied in the affirmative. The advocate general pointed: out icles of Gandhi printed In Young the az 1y 3 part of the cam- that India formed merely palen to spread disaffection openiy, 1o systematleally render government impos- sible and to bring about the’ overthrow of the government. He contended that the writings of Gandhi of an uneducated or obscure man. was true that the articles insiste non-violence, but he asked what w value of this “if you incessantl h disaffection against the governm nd openly seek to instigate others to over- throw i7" Thereupon Gandh! made a long st ment in which he admitted that teact disaffection against the existing system of government had become almost a pus- sion with him. He declared he took ail the blame for the ‘disorders in Madras, Bombay and Chauvi Chaurs/, but he add- ed that If he were liberated he would keep up his work. first and last article of his faith; he bore no fl-will against any single adminis- trator mor any disaffection towards the king's person. 3 TO ASCERTAIN NUMBER OF PIGS IN 14 STATES Washington, March 19.—The ment of agricuiture, fural mall carriers, depart- through the heip Of will set up ma- neoted with 9. i cersus. As they sta: mail the e questionnaires on which will be obta reports from the farms on From these returns, perceriages | state totals will bo worked out and ! piied to the total of 2il farms in the states. The mail men wil supply information January 1 to June With the record for:the firet & year. The indivldual pig data w guarded as secretly as an income return, | The stat sus-are: Ohio, Ncbraska, Kans Wisconsin, Minnesota, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippl. NCHAIN JURY UNABLE TO REACH AN 500 postoffices, Wil tak out with th for Indiana, -Illinois, with the reported {0 J to © 3, Most of the jurors, Q:sehurged, ucwspapermen. sald the that the @ from - Judge Reeve March after they o favored oconvicti on had been 5n ih t bailot. re-set the case for ne when, he sai MORE PERSONS EMPLOYED 1IN March 1 per cent males grew oni per cent—from 14,743,000 I 33,059,000, WOMAN FATALLY INJURED ted 10 alight frem a en train as it moved out of Matewar ghs reached 2 bospital chael J. O'Flannagan, vice president of | (By the A P.)—Asked by the magis-| were not fhose | ity Non-violence ‘was the | early in May to obéain the prob- {able pig population of the fourteen | states leading in the™ production of swine. More than 24,000 earriers, con- tax to be embraced in the ccn-l S|x Persons Killed When Auto Skidded| Family of Five and Guelt'— Auto Slid Into Path of In- terurban Car Near Roches- Detroit, March 19.—Edward H. Ives, as- sistant superintendent of the Detrolt Unit- ed Lines of Detroit, his wife, three chil- dren and a_girl guest, were killed whe, their dutomobile skidded.into the path o! & Detroit United Railway Interurban ca:: near Roochester, Mich, 30 miles north ¢f here today. The dead are: Mr. Ives, 46 vears: Mrs ertrude Ives, 44 ; Clinton Ruth 4, an¢ Robert 18 months, children of Ives, anc Mies Clara Stashiewicz, all of Detroir £dith ‘Ives, 14, jumped from the car nc was unhust: MAN FATALLY INJURED WHEN AUTO OVERTURNED Saugus, Mass, March 19.—William Arcenault of Lynn was Kkilled and Charles W. Hands, also of Lynn was fa- tally injured early today when an auto- mobile struck the curb and overturned the outskirts of this vallage. Hands el in a hospital several hours after tie dent. Four other oocupants of the car escaped serious injury. MES. LEWIS WILLS CHARGED WITH MURDER OF HUSBAND Atlantic ~ City, N. J. March 19.— County Physlelan Souder today _a nounced that no inquest into the death of Lewis Wiils, the structural engineer. slain in his bed here by his wife early yestarday, wiil be held. ssistant Prosecutor Herbert Vooriess ' the charge of murder aga will stand until the grand jury cted in the maiter. Mrs. Wilis sobs almost continually in e city jail. T'm sorry, to m the wif I'm sorry. she o He must come ed all during the Mrs. Wills ogain related the story of shoolinz. The couple had . been ending the evening at the cafes and returning home he retired first. Ske sa her mind was a blank as to ed until she realized that ier husband. loved him and cannot & 4" she waiied. “It is a was jealous of me, e other on, the hand he was himseif gullty of attentions auarreled ang responsible - for to other women. When we ut these matters.he- struck me; his cruel” treatment v my nervous condition ' I'loved him and w I had him back The woman has hi to attend nér husband's \LL-RUSBIAN COMMUNIST CONGRESS OPENS TODAY Moscow, March 13 (By the A. P)— Contentiong thar R has ragehed limit of her retreat toward caphialism, but that uevertheiess it is needful to re move thousands of communlsts from im- portant posts and to substitwie efficent managers, will. be_made by Nikolai Le nine, the bolshevik premier, and other soviet leaders befors the Russian communist_congress which is due to open Bere tomorrow. ties in reconcillng these appar- zent _principles are expected bt rs are confident tnat the opyo- be Difficu ently diver {0 bring forth an fntercsting debate the le: sition which may. tarly from the radi untmportant. Ay Kronstast revolt, communist con- gress anproved the initiation of Lenine's new palicy. After a year, though a ma- jority of the fan public finds free- dom for individual efforts a reliet from g te of control, there r of communists who > become ginercagingly over the resurrection af the bourgeoise. Lenine himself n a recent speech said the change had gone too far, and tha congress would be asked to itic develos expected, particu- 1 be rigid ment. E. SCOBY TODAY BECOMES DIRECTOR OF THE MINT coceds Raymond T or of tne mint. old assets of the mist service institutions aggrez:te §2,000,000,000. The world gold supoly it i | as: i 5 P Judge Reeve |y 5, | sreq: | tie four inst were | re reluotant. to tall with | 1000 in paper currency and §3,000,000 in mi {wor coin, nickles and pennies. i gold coin 19—"0!’ the first {paper offices were deluged with th ated at approximately $9.000,01 s oath of office mmes supervision of the titutions and tedis il come under to a report compieted tonight iis gucessuor, the total stor: Denver the United - States York. Distrijuted am itutions there are 52,829,000 id builion and $280,000,000 $42,000,00 in silver builioa in siiver coln’; $280,000,- and ary New 0 in 2 Much of e enormous stock of gold is account. v by the tremendous influx of that pre- ‘cious metal into this country since:the { MONSTROTUS CLOUD OF SMOKE MADE CHICAO DARK AT NOON Chicagn, March 19, —A dark night de- seended on Chicago at noon today. Auto- YACTORIES THAN ON FARMS!uobilists turned on their headlights, stree. ie downtown districts were light- |- teiephone exchanges and news solved by the weat ich _ reported he ivinds bad ¢ smoke in on ol which no even w single sunbeam could “cuL ity The phenomenon lasted the lifting er the éloud the cppeara £ A sccond sunfife. . CIRCUS PERFORMERS ARRIVE EROM EUROPEAN PORTS | T Buropean hips: ar- ports wiay ¢ from signs of svring. dbury, from of fifly-ser Homburg, carried a’ cargo ron wild, tame and circus and one | POURED KEROSENE OIL T COAL RANGE; FATALLY BUR! mant of the European nu.' champiensh B Cilnes nine Sobals, amd e IARSO i of Siamese twins. living skeietons, | &t nob, catoion the i from Boulogne. B BR!EF TELEGRANS = SERATOR JOHNSONREVIVES THE BRANDEGEE RESERVATION Three Proposed Reservations to Four Power Treaty Are ta be Contested in the Senate This Week—Only One of the Reservations is Said to be Acceptable to President Hard« ing—Some Sharp Debate is Looked For When the Origi- . nal Brandegee Preposal is Called Up For Action by Sen« ator Johnson. Washington, Dosed reservations promise storm conters of t debate on the four-power Pach which enters 4ts concluding chagte Prosident Obregon of Mevico ! € o decrec resiricting emigtation of M. ivean laborers 19 the “Uniteh State: An_involuntary p was filed in Boston against Sargess, L stock brokers, Student ‘Otto Hokler Larsen Used Poison He Provided His Friend, Pauline Virginia Pope Pive appointed the Rer. Patrick J. Keane, tftular bishop Dishop of the diocese of Sucramento, C: A twenty:four hour general been proclaimed on 2!l the docks in Ital as a protest against the delay in the grievances of th 3 i Boston, Mareh 19.—Death by poisoa ended the fight of Otto Haldor Larsen, B semior at. the Massachusetts Institute from the gay party at which Pauline Virginia Ciark, ‘divorcee, rnded her life carly last Thursday morn- ing. His body was found today in tho behind the. Museum of Fine Apparently he had been dead only @ short time. Two [Tlters signed by Larsen, assert- dng that Miss Clark had 1o +o commit suloids t supplied her with polsoh, W m newspaper and Medles] Ex- aminer Magrath several hours after his In the “letter to_the aid that Miss ©f Technolo: The Rock JTsland rai radiaphones on its Pacific co r trains out of Chicago if the plan is fouac Harry Harght, 40 years old, ark, N. J., «died at the City hosp ton as a result of burns recel at a hotel there. ther days who wa 21l to the four-power tic b of Presilent unreserved ratification shual filled i possible. made a canvass re received James A Tant, aged 60, and ives in a fire that stroyed the old Grand Opera House in Au- was' found. imedical examiner, Larsen lark . requested - kim - sevéral weeks- ago “o prozure seme poison, for fier in_order the ‘ma:gin Tederal agents who raided a pigzer: on the outskirts of Kans, Pa they found the glace to be a ped distillery. nad ‘1onz before decided gn this course, she -toid him. . the letter con- extracting from her th e would not use it until her She game me her oromise and I prepared for her a solu- tion . of ‘stronz poison.” The ictter related how Larsen had met six weeks ago and they had Ttis £aid that Taly has sent a new note {o Greece de- manding reléase of ¢ and comzlete W. L. Mackenzie King, premi died at his hom B the author of imste friends. k.told him. of her excessi oression and of varfous: Inoldents in her McCormick, “I wondered necmcd a quarter a shore on comm Liow she resisted ‘so longd ation that death rea! then described how h Miss Clark was her word and take among her guests on Wednesday night and aithough sb she suddenly atal potion. dootor and the lester comtinued. e was dead, I left because myself up to be grilled for last quarter. Disquieting conditions (i the frontler betw mised to Qe- stood up- and sétempted to| Eisuer permits of 130 Chicage drucxis 1 would not giv by non-understan<ing was my property after Miss Clark was and ‘ormerly & ded to take noison before ¢ Northern ral She was the world's se Clark's apartment. - rot wild:revels, the purpose of killing {ths The_state supreme court in an opinfon in a case payers of St. board of that moroseness of In D¥s letter to the, editor ‘ot a/ Réston ine the printing o Louis agalnst e poisqn, becomes 100 co! , i you have on: was Larsen's friencs sald tonight. - fea in 1918 as one of ten stidents sent the Norwegn govern- American Jonginesring Tntil last Jenpary. he 1 appiled himself, dilig NEW YORK PRESSWEN T0 ABIDE BY EECLST AWARE PRESIDENT vessel's arrival Special honars w arch 20 of 1l ing the iast of the killed_in Frasc for burial at, to, America By Nlaric/and their at An_operation in whic: shin bone were cut from t year old ‘boy to repluce five spine, was performed in Philadelphia. ng woman'and rich frien: resulted, Lar- ver Larsén’s papularity sen’s friend: was: driven and Jove and rich she chose Larsen. Larsen was ‘takinga chem institute, He 7md been o expensively et apartment of A g a he was deeply friends ;and duxm King George of Great Kri 1, the Fritish 1 ing of Egypt March 16, their | 4 congratutations. Jehn Duval Dodge. guests ‘at a lively party | Sonfence at Detroit, Mick led coal in the hours of Thursday morn- It.was foun The shipping board's housing prej i3, Ohio, and W it Chotographed an army. airplaue an: used in advertising on remained, ran from the ment and notificd ? profects for saic of him was discov- was fonnd today Philadelphia, who also was at ered until his bod: Writing from Sorchinsky iam West, dau . now a mex the Frienas Russla, Mir- He said _also n..a' time racently, »\muxn Al in a few welkes from 1,000 to 70 peosie. appearad gay W The Greek government has declded {o liverate the Ttalian the Afl>azla, soized recer s by Greek was and -enzaged ‘an on's - iriterest! . ‘an: artist’s mod- eptember last Commander 8 Acquaintances said admirers 'and ¢ entertaining. lavishi o her death she: show- ol “after”his Miss . Clark, war for. the Furkish natlonalists. A colfection of guns, knives. chaps and cooking utc cauipment | r used. by Theod: (’0\\\)0}‘ days—was (he Teoosevelt Momior marking that use it when Police in St. ccovered & mambi Louis nnnovnced they 1,000 tickets which wssesslon of William Gard; man, who is ule after the body Opium dens and bases for Hhe nse and s s are being moved from thelr oid haunts down in the lower BOYS' PREPARATORY SCHOOL NED AT AUBURX, bution of nareotl he won by 5303 ¥ he was opposed , a state democrat- | TO BE OFE: Ann Arbor, Mich., March 19.—Estab- 2 a boys' preparatory school to be known as the was announced quarters in the upper West Side neis: at Auburn, Osborne Setiool, bY Thomas M. Osborne, author, publish- er. lecturer and penologist. The policics according to tihe nlans, formulated by the boys themselves, who fullest possible The Greek authorities have released ihe French merchant teamer St. Havre for Mersina, laden with aulomo- Diles and a gencral cargo, which was ca; tured by the Greek cruiser Ajax Thurs some fifteen new t POINCARE &UOTES MEALTH, COURAG IMPORTANT CASES DEFORT SUPREME COURT THIS WETL emount of control ance with the opinion often expressed by the former warden of Sing ‘Washington. Ma Prohibltion enforcement agents cratsiny importance wiil swift motor boats and Caranado Coal commany. st presented to the court of State Hughes was chief cou mine workerz. ounded by Os: the I’l((‘v‘r‘! The soviet govermment has sent un in- vitation to Latvia, to send representatives to Moscow a view to holding a coyference on Maich 22 for framing the policy in connection ivith the Genoa conference. ed by the Anglo-Saxon post— @ made the principal a1 Ith, courage and life” case seeis | obtain from the court a firal rul'ag wpon the question as to shether a labor_orgaal-| zation ecan be prose ten-acre. tract of monstrous scloud [ and_mother, of_the penologist. MISSISSIPPT RIV! FLOOD STAGE AT MEMPHIS -TO PAY BY CHE . ! Or ACTIVITY ov BANDITS of interstate commerce. courts keld that leaders who were o« following the coal in 1914, contend that toeh ing incorporated a Sherman att, and furthr their acts were comm! of restraining interstate commerce. The lower £ Colonel Timo! V d the Charter's la: Bigelow Chanter, st real daushter cf § was buried at Westhor 18—Warden & vrison, who believes cors betore ‘the horses|3 employes that stage on the Mis phis was passed toda: ssippi river at Men ted o this SO ‘When (e offict s ta A “trike in ArkRawe. r unions not be. t edbject to the inams. of Sing Sin locking \mln a river was rising rapidly, withha stage eet here and 4§ at Helena tho. United States latter part of pank to rrison days of banditry they wonld be paid by check. 2nd-—chal in the future COLLEGE EDUCATION BY TELEPHON wember of the New York Yaeht ch quor was estimated by offictals worth $50,000. ARCHING FOR EDNA WIRELESS TAYLOR OF NEW CANAAN New York, Ma: tions soon may be acquired at through the wireless New Yerk university annoumeed e cstablishment of & casting station at its W dlvision, from ~ourses will be tamford, - Conn. Flanerty, 1 18 —Michael dled in the Stamford hos- i pital Ints today from burps received this morning at his home here. " He poured tonists, * bearied: andi.fal dalies. Ketosene ol Into tiis coal range “after | oW ‘Anster- lisiarting a fire, and fames gnveloped bim. | Hs sister was fightly bursed Governor Miller of New York was sked by Samuel Untermeyer, in a letter madc public yesterday, to call ap extraordinary session of the legislature to give further consideration to the state trade comw slop bill and measures affecting {nsurance Chicago, Marchi ‘T9.=Search for i Taylor, an art student at the Univorsit Chicago, wio departed for her -home n New Canaas, Cosn,, last Thursdar, was 5e. gun by the police today on reques: fror: ber parents, who sald she had not arrived