Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 31, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIV—NO. 79 POPULATION 29,685 - AGREEMENT REACHED 10 ROMOTE PEACE INIRELAND Pact Signed by Representatives of the ’Provilionfl( Govern- ment and the Northern Parliament and Countersigned | | | by Agents of the British Cabinet—Winston Spencer Churchill Describes the Agreement as Most Satisfactory. Py— London, Marct (By The A, the imperial s announced to- of commons the terms ortant vet the representatives of governments peace in agreement reached with conference groups mperial gov- n importance between Michael provisional govern- es Cralg, the Ulster earlfer stage in the ne- It provides for the reorganization of » police in Ulster on a basis satisfac- he religions meaning of the the morth and the south; for he trial of persons charged with seri- flenses by a spectal court com- of the highest justices; for gen- -operation between the morth and of a most promising character, nd for assistance from the British par- lament to remedy the unemployment Aifficulties in Belfast, which rendered the sarrying out of the previous Cralg-Col- ns pact almost imposs! The terms of the agreement as an- unced" are as follow: First: Peace is today declared. Second: From today the two govern- undertake to co-operate in every heir power ith a view to the tion of peacelul conditions in the led areas. Third: T be organtzed he follow conditions 1—Special police in mixed districts to b composed half of Catholics and half of Protestants. All specials not required for these forces to be withdrawn to he! iomes and surrender their arms. 2—An advisory committes composed of Catholles will assist in the selection of Cathold: fefruits for the special po- 3—AIl polics on duty except the usual weret service men to be uniformed anfl sticlally numbered. 4—All arms and ammunition issued © the police to be deposited in barracks n chargs of a military or other' com- nt officer when policemen are not Guty and an officlal record must be of all arms issued and ammunition police in Belfast are to in general accordance with —Any search for arms is to be ear- cut by a police farce composed of Catholies and half of Protestants, ¢ military rendering any necessary as- ristance. . Fourth: A eourt s to be constituted for the trial, without 'y, O persons, “marged with serious . the court to sonsist of the lord chief justice and one: of the lords justices of appeal in north- »mn Ireland. Any person committed ftr trial for a serious crime s to be tried that court, (a) if he 80 requpesgs, or, 9) If the attorney general for northern reland so directs. Serious crimes are ¥oss punishable by death, penal servi- 2de or imprisonment exceeding six months. The government of northern reiand will take steps to pass necessary zislantion to give effect to this article. th: A committes s to be established Beifast, with equal numbers of Cath- # and Protestants, and with an inde- sendent chairman, preferably a Catholic a Protestant alternately In successive weeks, to hear and investigate complaints » intimidation, outrages, etc., such com- nittes having direct access to the heads o the gevernment. The local press is to be with & view to inserting only such re- ports of dlsturbances, etc., as shall have seen considered and communicated by this committee. Sixth: Irish republican army activi- ties are to cease in’ the six counties, and ereupon a method of organizing spe- 1al police in the six counties outside of Belfast shall proceed as speedily as pos- sible on lines similar to those agreed up- Wast. During the month approached immedi- confirming the constitution of the te, being the month within which = northern parliament is to exercise ts option, and before any address in accordance with Article XII of the reat s presented, there shall be a further meeting hetween the siznatories € the agreement with a view to ascsr: (1) whether means can be de- secure ity In Ireland, or, (b) \is. whether en agreement arrived at on the houndary ques- n ofherwise than hy recourse in the commission under the treaty The return their homes s governments, and the ad- . e mentioned in Ar- seught In cases of Nint!™ In view of the spectal condl- n4 comscquent on the politic n in Deifast and neighborhood, Rritish government will submit to par- men: a vote, execeding pounds sierling 500,008 for the ministry of la- r in Northan Ircland Vo be ex- Aed exclusively in relief work, one- for. the henefit of Catholics and wo-ttiirds for Protestants. The north- srn sigratories agree to use svry effort the restoration ' the expelled whe + this proves winz to trade depres- e afforded employment » movernments can. hetween i ease of politi 0 governments unite e i corned to- refrain apmators speeches and to ex- sreise restraint In the interests of peace. The - agreement was signed on behait ¢ the provisional government by M Eamonn J. Duegan and Ar- for the northern govern- James Craig, the Marquis f Londonderry and B A. Archdale, and mperial government hy Winston “urehll, Sir Jamine Worthington- ane and Sir Hamar Greenwood The paet that the representatives of Dubiin, Pelfast an? imnerial govern- thejr P to sjgnatores regarded in st significant seh an tical cir- and weighty .| REICHSTA! happening since the Irish treaty was signed. The conference sat throughout the whole.of the day, but there always was a most hopeful and cheerful spirit manifested by all thosé participating in it NOTICES POSTED OF THE BOYUOTT AGAIND BELFAST Tralee, March 30.—Notices were post- ed here today that the state of boycott against Belfast and other parts of the Ulster area would be more rigorously en- forced. Traders receiving goods from the area are Jiable to a fine of pounds sterling 100 for the first offense and confiscation of the gods for subsequent offenses. INVESTIGATING THE DEATHS OF THE “SIAMESE TWINS"” Chicago, ‘March 30.—An investigation of the deaths of Mrs. Josefa Blazek and her sister, Rosa, known as the “Sia- mese twins” was started today by Cor- oner Peter Hoffman. Following a conference with the doc- tors connected with the case, however, the coroner abandoned his plans for a Constitutional Guarantees in Spain. Madrid, March 30.—(By The A, P.)— Premier Sanchez Guerra announced in congress :this afternoon that King AlS fonso had signed a decree restoring co stitutional guarantees throughout Spains Italy’s Delegates to Genoa. Rome, March 30.—The Tribuna an- nounced today that Italy’s delegates to the Genoa conference' would be: Premier Facta, Carlo Schanzer, foreign minister; Giovanni_Bertone, minister of finance; and Luigi Rossi, minister of justice. Leave Granted British Chancellor. London, March 30.—(By The A. P.)— Lord Birkenhead, 'the lord high chancel- lor, was today granted a month's leave by the house of lords. In making his request for the leave Lord Birkenhead said his physicians had advised him, ow- ing to trouble with his eyesight to take a complete rest. Belgium to Keep Up Army. . Brussels, March 30.—The lower cham- |Assistant District Attornéy Warbasse, ap- Dber of parliament today by a vote of 87 to 64 rejected a motion introduced by M. Vandervelde, socialist, calling for a reduction in the military service to six months, Sixteen deputies abstained from voting. TESTIMONY FOR DEFENSE * IN THIRD ARBUCKLE TRIAL San Francisco, March 30.—Miss Vir- ginia Rappe, as a result of whose death Roscos C. (Fatty) Arbuckle s on trial, charged with manslaughter,” was de- scribed as “abnormal and good copy” by Eugene Presbrey, author and dramatist, testifying for the defense. . Presbrey, who said he Is secretary of the Screen Writers' guild of California and counsellor of the Authors' league of America, testified that Miss Rappe on one occasion had a sudden attack after “taking two drinks of French liqueur,” and that she “writhed, had contortions post-mortem examination and authorized |.and grasped hed abdomen and knees and the issuance of a death certlficate. Frank, Jr., brother of the twins, indi- cated that he would make arrangements for presenting the bodies to a medical college, The twins, according to their brother, left a fortune estimoted at approximate- ly $200,000 and a large farm in Czecho- Slovakia, to which the brother and the 11-year-old son of Wosa are heirs, as the twins dled without having made their wills, BODY FOUND ON BENCH IN HAMILTON PARK, WATERBURY Waterbury, March 30.—The dead body o Otto E. Liess, 50, was found lying on a bench in Hamilton park here ear- Iy this morning, by Caretaker Patrick J. McDonald. The man had shot himself through the mouth, and the weapon, 3 .38 caliber revolver, was found near his right hand. Acting Medical Examiner Charles L. Larkin viewed the body and pronounced death due to suicide. A nots was found in the man's pocket directing the pclice to notify “Barnum Whitford, My Oniy Friend,” with further instru tlons that the body should be turned over to a_certain undertaking establish- ment. Liess leaves his wife and two brothers, John and Harry, of New York city. Mrs. Liess said her husband had left home last night about 7 o'clock, re- turning about 11.30 and gofng out again about 3 o'clock this morning. DIECERTORS OF THE NEW BRITAIN MACHINE COMPANY New Britam, March 30.—When the annual meeting of the stockholders of the New Bntain Machine company was called this afternoon there was no op- position to the slate for the new direc- torate, which follows: - E. Allen Moore; A. W. Stanley, W. S. Rowland, H. H. Pease, P. B. Staniey and P, K. Rogers, New Britain; Leon T. Broadhurst, and E. M. Day, Hartford; John 1. Otterson, New Haven, and John H. Goss, Waterbury. As a result of today's meeting several former directors are dropped including Abram Buel, vice president and superin- tendent of the factory. Mr. Buel will leave the concern on April 1, after hav- ing been actively iientified with it for the past 27 years. EXTREME UNCTION ADM{NISTERED TO FORMER EMPEROR CHARLES Lisbon, March 30.—(By The A. P.)— The condition of ex-Emperor Charles, who is ill at Funchal, Madeira, is con- sidered go desperate that he has received extreme unction, a Funchal message an- nounces. A Funchal message Wednesday night sald it was rumored that the bishop of Funchal had been summoned to the bed- side of the ex-emperor to administer the last sacrament. London, March 30.—A despatch to the London Times from Funchal, Ijadeira, says that former Emperor Charles has developed pneumonia and that his con- dition is very ‘grave., MILD DEALERS PROTEST BOARD OF HEALTH RULING + Bridgeport, Conn., March 30.—Milk raisers and dealers in many neighboring towns met at Long Hill school house, in Trumbull today, and decided to protest against the ruling of the. Bridgeport Eoard .of Health that after May 1 onl milk bottled a its source, and only raw. ana pasteurized milk may be sold . in Bridgeport. The grading of milk would be ended. Some dairymen claimed that the ruling would put them out of busi- ness as the selling price would be high, some claiming as high as 20 cents. a quart under the proposed conditions. PROSPECTIVE JURORS WERE OPPOSED TO VOLSTEAD ACT New York, March 30.—The trial of a cafe owner charged with selling liquor was postponed today because all _the prospective jurors admitted they were opposed to enforcement of the Volstead ace. The clerk of the federal district court will summon another panel to- morrow in the hope of finding twelve men who favor forcing people to obey the dry law. VOTES THE REPARATIONS INTOLERABLE Berlin, March 30 (By the A, P.)—A resolution declaring the demands of the reparations commission are . intolerable press'ng approval of « Chancellor tements with regard to the demands was passed by the . Thé vote was 248 to S1. The majority soclalists and com- munists abstained from voting. 8 VOLSTEAD I8 UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSED FOR RENOMINATION Willmar, Minn., March 30.—Congress- man A. J. Volstead, representative of the seventh Minnesota district in con- gress since March 4, 1903, was éndorsed for renomination by the republican trict convention here today. The vote Was unanimous, s 4 whispered to me ‘doctor’.” The witness said he called a physician but first administered first ald by put- ting cracked ice befiween her lips. Mrs. Louise Lankershire, a new de- fense witness. today testified she had a room next 40 Arbuckle’s last Sepsember when his party was held, and that she heard no unusual noise and saw nothing untoward. BANDITRY AT POSTOFFICE STATION IN WEST HAVEN New Haven, March 30.—An armed bandit, wearing a blue handkerchief over his face, held up a postoffice sub- station in the drug stora of Robert Avru- tin in West Haven late tonight and es- caped with §48. Avrutin was in the store alone, he told the. police, when the man entered and thrust a..revolver toward him. The druggist put up his hands and the robber reached in and took the ‘biils in the postoffice drawer. As the bandit fled fram the store Av. rutin took h revolver from a sheif and fired six shots: The store windows were smashed by the buliets, but the bandit was not. hit. He jumped into a waiting automobile and drove rapidly in the di- rection of Bridgeport. & WOMAN HELD UP BY TWO MEN IN WATERBURY Wagerbury, March 30.—Returning to her home. in an outlying section after o shopping tour, Mrs. Arthur Dunne was held up by two . men, apparémtly -young tonight, and an attempt was made to rob ‘her. . She resister, and one of the men pulled a gun from his pocket and fired, but missed the woman. Shortly after, police arrested John M- Evoy. 19, on charges of breach of the peace and resistance, and stated they believed him to have been ome of the hold-up men. MRS. CLARA M. WOODWARD CONFESSES KILLING PEPPERMAN Philadelphia, March 30.—Mrs. Clara M. Woodward, former burlesque actress, arrested today in conmection with the fatal shooting of John Pepperman of New York in her _rooming house last night, has ‘admifted that she fired the shot, Detective Sergeant James Mulgrew sald tonight. She shot Pepperman, the detective stated, because he had been beating and abusing her and planned to leave her. ‘When Mrs. Woodward was first taken into custody she denied that she was re- sponsible.- She asserted then, according to police that. Pepperman had been shot Quring 2 quarrel over a card game with other men.- The man is reported to have lived in New York with his wife and two children, 2 NEW YORK-ATLANTIC CITY \*. -DAILY AIRPLANE SERVICE Atlantic City, N, J., March 30.—Com- muters between here and New York city can awid the rush and take the airline this -season. Dally- airplane service will e inaugurated Saturday. the Ritz’ Carl- ton management announced, adding that flying boats will be used so that in case of mishap they may glide safely on the water. The, planes will travel close to the coast line and at mo time wil as- sumue great altitude, it was said.” LOSS BY SHIPPING BOARD - Authorship of a Series of New York, March 30.—Olivia M. P. Stone, graduate nurse, collapsed this aft- ernoon on the witness stand at her trial on a charge of murdering Ellis Guy Kin- kead, former . Cimncinnati corpbration counsel. Two state alienists, after exam- ining her, said it would be inhuman to questiofi her further, and Supreme Courl Justice Aspinwall adjourned the trial un- til tomorrow. A series of letters demanding money from Kinkead, sprung as a surprise by Deared to bowl her over. Practically all of these letters, which he asked- her to identity, demanded money on ghreats of divorce or breach of promise suits Mr, Warbasse said. But when each was hown her, she stoutly denied the handwriting was hers. “Miss Stone, “A lie? A lie * would not.” As she spoke, she crumpled, fell heay- ily forward and lay in a heap almost at the feet of Justice Aspinwall. She was carried from the rom by attendants, and doctors were hurriedly summoned. Miss Stone was taken back to Raymond street jail in a taxicab. A From the first, when she tok the stand this_ morning, she had testified weakly and brokenly. most of the time weeping. Sevéral times smelling salts were aplied and frequent rests were given her so she could regain her comixosure. Clad entirely in black, her only jewelry two pins which showed she had been grad- uated from Cincinnati General hospital, she made a somber fizure as he told the judge of the love for Kinkead. She said he hdd .. -d of her, left her, married an- other woman, and then even avoided her to the extent of hanging up his telephone when she called him. But in the afterncon there was a slight change. The challenge of the letters in- troduced seemed to rouse her for a time Her tears ceased, and she leaned forward now and then. her eyes flashing, as she told Mr. Warbasse that the letters were mysteries to her. Then she slumped back and I a voice broken by tears, declared don't know whether I wrote that or She murmured, no It was after a letter written on Hotel ‘Vanderbilt statlonery had been shown her for the twenticth time that she collapsed. Only one other witness was heard dur- ing the day. - She was Mrs. Mae Allen, a stenographer of the ChalMont, Atlantic City, who testified Kinkead had introduec- ea Miss Stone to her as his wife RESCUED FROM A ROCK NEAR NIAGARA FALLS Niagara Falls, N. Y., March 30.—Jef- frey Wilson of Rochester, was rescued tonight from a rock in the Niagara Tiv- er, less than 200 feet from the brink of the American falls. A Shortly after nine o'clock tonight em- ployes at a trolley terminal station near the falls heard. crles for help. . They Investigated and saw a form™“clinging to- & Tock near the-middle of the American Mpper raplds -and -about 200 feet be- low the Goat Isiand bridge. . Police -and firemen were called and efforts were made to reash the man with extension Iadders, but ail were too short. Several ladders with ropes attached were lowered into_the water, but they lodged among the rocks before reaching Wil- son. ‘While the firemen were working _from the bridge Patrolman Charles Smith waded out into ‘the rapids. Fastened about him was a rope which was held by Patrol Driver Charles Radford on the bank. About 10) feet from the shore Smith was caught in the current and swept from his feet. After a struggle he regained his footing and worked ‘his way to a rock & few feet from that to which Wilson was clinging. Smith could be seen from the shore urg- ing Wilson to jump to his arms. After a few minutes Wilson ‘made the leap and the policeman caught him. The trip back to shore was a slow struggle against the swift curreat. Wilson was unable to tell much about his experience. He sald that he had slipped, into the water. and denied that he had attempted suicide, RATS FROLIC EVERY DAY IN HAVERSTRAW HIGH SCHOOL Haverstraw, ' N. Y., Piper, ressurect thyself. The mayor, the high school “marms” and the board of education want you, need you, yearn for yoif. Every day, so the board had been so advised, seven army corps of rats frolic in the high school rooms, driving the teachers to lofty perches and convulsing the 350 students with laughter.” Every night the rodents foray In the library, the desks, and t e gymnasium lockers, filling themselves with ' history, and the three R's. ‘In the Jast two weeks. they have gnawed all the Civil war out of 100 American history books and de- March 30.—Pied DURING FEBRUARY $3,060,459 | Stroved a store of information regarding Washington, March 30.—The shipping board suffered ‘a met loss on the opera- tlon of ships of $3,069,49 during: Feb- ruary, Chairman Lasker announced to- day. This, he said, was the lowest re- corded. since the government was en- gaged in the commercial operation of its Vessels. Tanker operations, Mr. Lasker said, showed a profit of $534,481, the losses being on the ocean-going freight and passenger vessels. The items of depreciation and return on investment which normally would be charged by ‘any privately owned com- pany, Mr. Lasker said were not included in determining the losses. $20 FOR HOLDING BOOK FROM LIBRARY 61 YEARS New_Rochelle, N. Y., March 30.—Six- ty.one years ago a’'copy of. “Walter Thornby,” a novel, was borrowed from the New Rochelle Public library = Today the librarian received a check for $20 in tart payment for the oyerdue charges on the volume and a note asking that the money be used-to purchase new boks. ~ * Enclosed with the note. written by a woman, was a frayed strip of nzoer dat- ed September 231861} and -f'cing the return fof the book at the “earliest conven- ience” of the borrower. JOHN W. TITCOMB TO SUCCETD J. M. CRAMPTON Hartford, Mareh . 30.—John - W, Tit- the’ parsing of ra sentence ‘and -stmple Algebra. B While the juniors were in’ gymnasium yesterday a squad of pests carried away all the money in thelr pockets—some- thing like $35 in currency. And, O, Pied Piper, the rats wouldn't be 5o bad if they weren't infested with fleas. » % One of the fleas got on teacher several days ago—and well, it,was awful. DID THE ELEPHANTS EAT YOUNG GERMAN STOWAWAY? New York, March 30.—A couple of in- disposed elephants ioudly trumpeted their misery today as the freighter Wuerttem- berg. brought them in from Hamburg. Just before the elephants fell fll elght days ago a young German stowaway dis- appeared. Some of the ice cream he stole from. the galley .was, found beside the pachyderms, Dut George, the stowaway, has not been found. , The crews semed worried about George, They didn't think ice cream by itself could make an elephant sick, but the cap- tain said he was confident George hadn't disappeared into the elephan nteriors. Besides the elephants, the Wuerttem- burg brought a ceritable Noah's ark as- sortment including several bearcats, 400 monkeys and more than 2,000 birds of as- sorted plumage. Ca SHOT HUSBAND IN THE T PEESENCE OF HER SON New York, March 3 .—In the presence CONN., FRID Fell in a Heap After Denial of |Miners Are Ready to Meet comb today was appointed superintendent | of her five vear old son, Mrs. Francisca j under the state board of flsher'es anl game. to succeed John M. Cramiton, re signed. Mr. itcemd has been in the em- ploy of the board for some time. He formeply was attached to the fish _and game boards in Vermont and New York. Maenzia, 26 tonight shot and kified her husband, Giovanni, on Second near Ninety-seccnd street. police her husband had threatened to |oy turn_her and the boy. adrift port. | court of’industrial relations fate today avenue, i issued an order extonding the present She told the fwage asrecment between the mizers and yithout sup-lpmofi,of thircy days after April 1, the | spring crocuses. At.midnight more than AY, MARCH 31, 1922 4 stoneCollapsed Statement on Eve o | Witness Stand| Great Coal Strke| Mrs, Theodore Roosevelt, widow of form- er president, arrived in New York on the Olymplc from a long trip which took her to lape Town, Africa. 5. 0. Whitman, superintendent of the s Oconee orphanage, at Anderson, S. C.. is in jail at Walhalla, charged with operat- the | ins a distillery at the institution. Operators Any Place, at| The Rev. Arthur Hamilton Baynes, bi- shop of_Birminghum, England, caled at Al'ly Time. 5 the White House and paid his respects to ‘Washington, March 30.—The wisdom President Harding. of asking President Harding to invite representatives of miners and operators Singers on vaudeville clremits nro pro- hibited from singing for radio tai=phones to meet here tomorrow in an eleventh hour effort to call off the coal strike was by clauses which now are being inserted considered today ‘by the house labor in their contracts. S{(nmltlee, but without action Deilg| Ajanson P. Hanghion, new ambacxndor en, Believing there still was hope of pre- to Germ:uvry, received final mstructions from President Harding. He expects . |. venting the shut down in all flelds, set|sajl Saturday fron New York. for tomorrow at midnight, two members of the committee proposed that the pres- ident be requested to take a hand, and for a time it appeared as if a resolution looking to this end might be adopted. Word had come from the senate, mean- While, that Chairman Borah, of the sen- ate labor comn.ittee, had such a Propo- sition in mind and the house committee went at once to suggest joint action. Chairman Borah explained, however, that members of the committee had mot been advised as to such a vote, that he SENATE HAS mity. ‘Washington, March completed its part of the arms confer ence program today oy giving its ap- proval to the last two treaties of the group of seven submitted to it for rati- fication. On the final ratification roll calls the affirmative expression of senate opinion was all but unanimous. Not a single vote was cast against the far eastern treaty. drawn to guarantee a new bill of rights to China and there was only one disscnting voice when the constitutional nate The Intest mews from Angors indicates a strong majority agains'. aceertance of the «'1.es’ proposals for a near east: seftivment. Fire caused $200,000 damage to the Outlei department store, Wilmington, Del. The Ligipincott store adjoining suffcred a loss estimated at $25,000 from water. There were 11,456 bales offered at the wool auction sales in London. The selec | togeie o3 e T 0% Eiven to the 219 hot feel at liverty to take up theltin was poor quality but it met with a | pac G, e e . estion alone and it probably would be| (s> Gemand at recent rates e tots ely, wi ixty-si best to let it go over. He intimated that The totals, respectively, were sixty- Siz Jobn Craig Eaton, K. B., one of Canada’s greatest merchant princes, died in Toronto, Ont., last night after a lin- gering iliness. he might call his committee to consider|. it later, Returning to its own meeting place, the house committee discussed resolu- tions presented by Represehtatives Lon- don, socialist, New York, and Upshaw, democrat, Georgla. Both similarly drawn, were laid on the table. The ald of the president in the task t> rothing and fifty-eight to one. The momentum with which the ratifi- cation program was swept to a conclu- sion exceeded the expectations of the ad- ministration leaders who had not hope t> end the debate before tomorrow nigh Py the day's accomplishment the senate a new record for actlon, four far- wching International covenants hawing The barge D. J. Mulqueen, Jr., of the | Hughes line, was aground yesterday near the breakwater at the eastern entrance to the Cape Cod canal. of trying to bring the miners and oper- o i o JeT S ators together was suggested after DI.| qu. sapanese preis comments favorabls > it Worth M. Tinpy, of New York, repre- Chradaemeial < V'rivally no difierence of op on the ratificati>i by the Unitel af the four power treaty. but gives the reservaticu adopted by the senats a mixed reeeption senting the Federal Council of Churches of Christ m America, had urged some effort by consress toward lasting peacs In_the coal regions. While John Moore, of Ohio, legislative agent of the United Mine Workers of America, was giving the union's side of the trouble, Chair- man Nolan asked if the organization would object if the president should step to the front and invite the warring fac- tions here. “If the president were to send a wire tonight asking the miners to come hers or.go anywhere else and meet the op- erators,” Mr. Moore said, “the first train out would find them aboard. W= have always been anxious to meet them.” Asked as to the union’s attitude to- ward a thirty-day suspension of the strike order, Mr. Moore said: “I am not prepared to .answer for President lewis. As I see it, there is little velsped over the far es though Senator Dorah expressed .a fear that it and the other far castern set tlements of the arms conference Le interpreted in years to come as gl Inx “moral assent” to all the acts of ag- prission that hay been committed in the past in the Orient. He was among ti:ose, however, who voted for ratifica- n tr Columbus.| Apn jncrease of nearly $6,000.000 in deposits made in savings departments of trust companies in Massachusetts was noted between Jan. 1 and March 10. Income tax payments in Massachusetts this year feil off $11.014,635. The total Teceipts were $26,578,373 as against $37 - 593008 last year. OFFICERS OF DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION Southington, Conn., March 30.—Mre. Charles H. Bissell of Southington was elected state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the state convention here tcday. She succeeds Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel of Litchfield, who retires after serving thirteen yea:s as state regent. Other officers were elected as follows: Every national guard outfit in New England will be suppiled with radio equipment, it was announced at First army corps area headquarters in Dos- ton. Customs agents will command the ships | of the new prokibition navy under ar- rangements completcd by Assistant Sec- likelhood of an invitation goingl g, the = ver, in charge State vice regent, Miss Katharine A. out. We do ot want government inter- | vg v utes Siioion, and. Probibition | Nettieton, Derby: recording _secretary, ference until we have exhausted all our | Gommissioner Haynes. : Mrs. Frederick S. Stevens, Eridgeport: efforts to settle the trouble. 1f the corresponding secretary, Miss Alce leg American people get all the coal they N. a, Miss | Coe, Winsted: treasurer, Miss Jennie L Th A ther Wi be. sotlahet, o | N Newre X, 3. gnve e 1 indsor;. consultne. regiaiTaE if the government estimate of 65,000,000 | o’ geierating only 25 minutes’ on her |Mrs. James K. Crofut, Simsbury; tons above ground is correct, there Will | preash of frcimive sult againet Jrving | torian, Miss Harriett 'P. Marsh, New be no suffering during the next month.| Pnielstein, 29, store. maunger. Haven; Lbrarian, Miss Jessie W. Hay- But we prefer to work out our own sal- % geiiioey den, Bast Harttord. Councilors elecied vatton. The ‘nsvy departmente's eatire lnvest. |incinded Mrs Frederick A. Strons, Knowing the operators as I do, I{mens in- Alaskan coal dands, principaily | Bridgeport, 1irs. Charies L. Beach, have every reason to believe they. will|tho Chickaloon mines: wiil be tranefer- | Bridgeport, and Miss Anna B. Jennings, yet signify an mtention of getting us.” Officers of the National Coal associa- tlon were. presert hut were not asked -as to how the saggestion of going to the president appealea to-them. They of- fered mo volumtary view. The hearinz. which is being held in connection with a resolution by Repre- sentative Bland, rcoublican, Indfasa, for appointment of an investigating commis- slon by the president, is expected to bring together the leading figures on the miners’ and operators’ side. Mr. Moore sald that Jobn L. Lewis, the union pres- ident, was too busy getting out strike orders to come here now. “But he will be here Monday if he is not fn jall,” he added. Moore predioted that _all non-pnion miners, who produce thitly per cent of the coal output, would quit work with the union men, “if zunmen are mot used in the non-union field: Fairfield. he convention endorsed Miss Flor- ence S. M. Crofut~ef~Hariford for nemt- nation in 1923 as historian-general of the national soclety. red 15 the interior department, effective aext May 1. Boston's fire fighting fleet may soom be dirccted by raido orders sent to the vessels in any part of the harbor from |- - fire department headquarters at Bristél { NO CHANGE IN CONDITION® e 01 LTRIKE IN LAWRENCE Lawrence, Mass.. dlarch 30.—A demon- stration and welcome for Thomas F. Mc- Mahon, president of the United Textile Alfred Myrick, a negro, was under a: rest in Boston, charged with shooting his wife, Mrs. May Myrick, who died at a hospital with five bullet wounds in her body. B Miss Rhoda Jack, 28 years old, walked into the infirmary of the Franklin Square house, Boston, where she had a room, and told the nurse that she had just taken poison. She was hurried to a hos- pital, where her condition was reported as not serious. Deportation of sllens who persistantly viclate the Volstead and narcotis night by leaders of the strike in seven tex- tile mills here which began Monday. John that President McMahon would establish headquarters here for the England textile strike area. whole men from the ranks of the strike sympa- thizers and a few workers came to blow: COAL MY marked a day of comparative quiet. Picl ERS TO CONDUCT SAPPRIVEDALL ARMS CONFERENCE TREA Vote Was Unanimous on Treaty Giving a New Bill of Rights ment For Revision of the Chinese Tariff Treaty—Five of the Seven Treaties Were Ratified With Virtual Unani- ion. Over the tarlf 1 several sharp exchanges took place, with Sena- tor Hitcheock, senicr democrat of the foreign reiations commitice, and Senator King, democrat, Utah, leading in criti— cism’ of American participation in the fixing of Chinese customs _schedules. Senator King cast the only negative vots on the ratitication roll call and Semater Hitchcock left the chamber and did not vote. In defense of the treaty, Semator Underwood, the democratic leader, and a delegate to the arms conference, de- clared all the powers aiready wWere in- volved in treaties stipulating China's tariff schedules and now were acting fo- gether to amcliorate the situation so far as practicable. ’ Final senate action on the treaties brought to an end a determined cam- paign of the administration leaders Wwhich has kept the sefito in recess from day to day for weeks and has virtually Drevented transaction of legislative bus- iness since debate began on the Yap treaty on February 21 A compilation of the results of the seven ratification roll calls shows that om five of the seven treatics the senate acted with virtual unanimity. The votes fol= lows: Yan treaty 67 to 22: four-power treaty, 67 to %7: supplemental four- power treaty, 65 to 0; naval limitation treaty, 74 to 1; submarine and nexious g£as treaty, 71 to 0; Far Eastern treaty, :‘s to 0, and Chinese tarff treaty, 58 to —— s TO PAY ALIMONY TO WIFE HE RESCUED FROM WRECK New York, March 30.—Marital squalls bave ended the romance of the sea that began for Captain Alfred 'W. Howard, skipper of the cup defender Columbia, when he fished his future wife out of the sea with a boat hook. Mrs. Emma Howard is pressing a sult for separation, objecting to her 11 year old daughter hearing the skippers language and charging that she, herself, received a beating in the Hotel Bos. sert in Brooklyn. The captain has filed a counter suit, and the pair now are dis- puting the matter of alimony. The veteran sea-dog met his bride, Miss Emma A. Deakin, in a shipwreck off Cape Race, Newfoundiand, in 1310 Howard's schooner, Eva, came upon tha shipwreck of a lumber vessel owned by Miss Deakin's father. The girl wag clinging to a spar. Howard fished her into a_ lifeoat, fell in love with her, married her and spent his hon with her on a ship carrying a cargo l!mT‘BTAGE OF FLIGHT & FROM SPAIN TO BRAZIK Lisbon, March 30.—(Ey the A, B.)— Captains Sacadura and Coutino, the tuguese nava! aviators. who started Lisbon this morning in_an _attempt flight to Pernambuco, Brazil, arrived Workers of America, on his arrival here | Safely at the end of the first stage of theis early tomorrow was being planned to- |journey, Las Palmas, in the Canary Is- lands, at three o'clock this afterncon. The hydro-airplane which the afrmen J. Dean, a leader of the strike, stated |are using made the flight from Lisbon to Las Palmas at the rate of approximately New |90 miles an hour. Prior to taking off from Listom, Pllot One minor disorder, during which young | Coutino said he was hopefal. of success of the venture, but that the odds were five to one against it. The hydro-airplane is fitted to carry Taws | G tive in the morning but in |fuel for only 18 hours flight. Portuguess THEIR WALKOUT ORDERLY | was urged by the prohibition enlyrei- f;‘e“iv:u‘xsn;?ewgwrre on the lnes at the | warships have been sent out the At- e ment cepartment s a means of breaking iil entrances. lantic to supply the aircr: with gas New York, March 30.—Disappointed |up the Lusiness >t the illictt d~ug deate: | ™ over its failure to avert the general coal strike set for tomorrow midnight, the anthracite miners' and operators' com- mittee on wage contract negotiations ad- lourned today. Union scale committeemen and mine officials prepared to leave at once for the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania, to insure that the evacuation would be without violence or damage to property. and bootlegger. The Pacific mills, the largest of the sev- more workers duriig the day. At other mills it-was stated that con- ditlons were unchanged. It was estimat- ed tonight that 17,100 operatives were idle. The Philippine Herald prints an apolo-" €y for a cartoon in last Sunday's edition which represented Gov. Gan. Leonard Wood thrusting 'a dagger through the heart of a Filipino woman personifying Philippine autonomy. LAST TRIP OF ENGINEER An Amerlcan engineering and ol if it should run shore, or to ren- en plants aected by the strike, iost a few |der other aid if it should be necessary. EXPLORER AMUNDSEN HAS ARRIVED IN WASHINGTON ‘Washington, March 30.—Captain Roaid Amundsen who discovered the south pole and who soon will start on voyage om company’s OF EMPIRE STATE EXPRESS |exploration to the North Pole, arrived They will reassembie at New' York|project to finance a twenty year ioan for in Washington from New York shortly Monday to continue the discussion of | the constmiction of a complete system of [ Buffalo, N. Y., March 30.—Screaming |before 3 -o'clock .this -afternoon in the wages, upon which the outcome of (he|crain Cievators throughout Bulsarin has | whisties amd waving flags, felicitations | metal monoplane which he plans to take strike will depend. been placed before parliament by tae Bul- of . railroad “officials and traveling men garian .government. greeted Edward J. Haley when he drove the Empire State express into the Buffalo station at 5.25 tonight, “on. time” It was the last trip for Haley, who has reached the age limit, 70 years, and is superannuated after fifty-two years of service. 3 The progress of the train from Syra- cuse was a continuous demonstration for the veteran engineer. Every station plat- form held its crowd of raiiroad men and ther citizens, waving their greetings to Ed Haley on his farewell trip. Every ‘Although the district unfon - leaders here were, emphatic in declaring that “the anthracite strike will be 100 per cent. and ‘without violence of any sort,” they announced that ‘practically every coillery was |, baing eurrounded with barbed wire -and barricades, at the or- ders of the operators. " Last reports at'union headquarters were that . the anthracit e- suspension would affect 4,500 mines. In District No. 1, surrounding Scranton, 50,000 men wil be affected; in District No. 7. at Hazle- Following recent approval: of spooning at church gatherings as the means of ‘at- tracting a . large attendance of young people, delegates to. the nineteenth an- nual convention of the religious education | soctety in Chicago. placed the 0. K. on dancing In church buildings. - Open diplomacy “Is one of the good things that necessarily must come with the control of forelgn affairs by, the ton, 25,000, and in District No. 9, at Shamokin, 77,000. A8 Tweive per cent. of the anthracite min crews ' are mon-union, district official said. They asserted, however, that these people themselves, but open diplomacy does ot Tean the exclusion of common sense” Elihu Root declared in an address at San Franclsco. 3 o s locomotive along the route had its whis- tle wide open and-its bell cranging. Tonight Haley was the guest of honor at a banquet attended by engineers of all* railroads running into Buffalo. non-union men are so scattered among| FExecutors and trestées of the estate of the 152,000 organized Workers as to be a ; the late Jay Gould began an effort to re- negligible factor in the suspension. strain George J. Gould, indtvuaily and es Special Agent Dewey of the- Pennsylva- | recefver~of the surplus income of the nia_department of reconciliation and me- | Duchess of Tallyrand (Anna Gould) and diation attached himself {o union head- |others, from proceeding with a suit for quarters today as the representative of |$644,304 which he claims is due from the Governor Sproul. The governor has taken | Jay Gould estate. no action to prevent execution of the b suspension order and will not interfere unless disorders arise which demand in- tervention by state troops, it was sald. The miners vigorously insisted there would be no.cause for intervention, as- serting that “the last few suspensions were carried oon €o peacefully that not| contributed. * The cost will be about $1,- an arrest was made.” 000,000, Today’s “conference of the miners and K -operators was marked by numerous shard| Deputy Sheriff Burke of New York, exchanges over figures upon which the was reinstated frqm his suspension for miners based their claims for a minimum | permitting Tex Rickard, sports pro- of $5.20 a shift for day laborers, M. {motor, to go to the 14th street cafe last Murray,” vice president of the United | Sunday while he was a ‘prisoner in the Mine Workers renorted. Tombs, on trial on charges preferred Exhibits-supporting the immediate es- |y o 15 year old girl. i tablishment of $1.800 a year as the min- SR imum living cost upon which.a ‘saving | wage” could be computed also were cha Jenged by the overators, it was said. The miners exvece to complete introduc- tion of testimony favoring thelr nineteen wage demands by next Wednesday, when the operators will begin to present their side of the case. RELIEF FUND FGE STRIKE OF TEXTILE WORKERS ‘Manchester, N. H., March 30.—Central trade unions and metal trades unions throughout the country will be asked to contribute to the relief fund for the strike of textile werkers-in New Hamp- shire, lt-was announced at the strjke héadquarters here today. A clrcu.ar letter now is being prapared appealing fir funds, and this !s to be broadcast to American labor unions this week. James " Starr, ~vice “president ‘of ‘the United Textile Workers, who is in chatie of the 20,000 st textile operatives here,-has adviss vorkers to join the “back to the farm” movement should the strike promise "o 1ast all sumnier. Farm ers, Starr_stated today, wouid be giad 1o engage the idle mill workers during the next few months. SIX INJURED IN HOTEL Among civil nctions placed on the = FIRE IN NORTH ADAMS Fairfield superior court docket was one ‘ for $20,000 damages brought* by the Greenwich Trust Company ‘against Frank E. Seeley, of Greenwich, based on an alleged unpaid note of $24,520. It s claimed only $7,320 had been pair on it. The. Foundation Company of New York announced it had been awarded the conract for rebuilding Louvain University” Library—a post-war task in Belgium for the performance of which nearly 1,000,000,000 American students North Adams, Mass, March 30.—Six persons were_injured in a fite which swept through the Richmond hotel in this place late tonight. The fire, which start- d in 3 wooden bullding which is a-part of the hotel, spread rapidly throughout the structare. Firemen were & AVOT. ing to save part of th night, but it-is- believed that the catire building will be destroyed.. The men who were finjured were George Forrest of Arlington, Richard Whitman and HaroM T. Bradley, both of North Ad- ams, Roliand Stebbins of Williemstown, Stanley-Moore' of Worcester and Mr. Biddle, whose address is not known. FOUR INCHES OF SNQW ° s AT MIDNIGHT IN BOSTON COAL MINERS' WAGE SCALE IN KANSAS EXTENDED Topeka, Kas., March 30.—The Kansas Boston, March 30.—With spring already ten days old, Boston tonight was in . the erip of a snow storm, covering wup the perators in the Kansas coal fields for a[grass already turning green and the first dpte Set for the coal miners' strike. four inches of snow blanketed the ground. with him on his Arctie trip. The flight to Washington was made in less than three hours. FOUR WALKING DELEGATES ORDERED TO PAY $5000 New York. March 30—Four walking delegates of the Walters' unfon, accused of having caused Michael Hegirty, “an jhonest head waiter” to lose his job at [ Healy’s in 1919, were ordered to pay him 1$5,000 camages by a supreme court jury today. Thomas Healy, restauratsur, testified that Hegarty had been an homest head waiter, and faithful, and that hé had caused the discharge of pilfering tlatter carriers, but that the union waiters didn’c like him and threatened to strike i he wera not fired. So rather than see his high class restau- rant converted into a cafeteria, he fired him. E The jury deliberated fiftoen mimutes. PRISON SENTENCES FOR VIOLATING VOLSTEAD LAW Treriton. N. T. March 30—0f & men convicted in the United States court here today on charges of conspiracy '3 vioiate the Volstead act, four were given prison sentences of four years each, the longest terms yet imposed by the fad- eral court here for dry violations. The others . received .two-year terms. The sentences were imposed by Federal Joséph L. Bodlne. - Peter Rulovich, Thomas Davld *Moon ‘and’ Frederick New Brunswick received the f terms at Atlanta: Thomas Schifl, Johs Miiler, Jacob, Brown and Nelson also of New Brumswick. and Andrew Gadlck, of Perth Amboy.were given lighter ‘sentences at the same prison. a appealed their convictiona . OBITUARY N George Gordon King i New York, March 30—George Gordon King, retired banker, died at his home sstelry at m®-|here tonight. He had been in fafimg o health for several months He was in Newport, R. I, 64 years ago. . STliliam E. Crockett __ Boston, March 30.—Dr. Wiliam Crockett, for many years & prominent ure in Boston amatewr tonight from the effects of He was 88 years old. bora " i