Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 5, 1922, Page 1

Ch:l'mnMomeue Labor Committee Invites Represen- tatives of Operators to Meet Miners’ Union Leaders in Washington April 10—Senator Borah Asserts That “Drastic Public Action” Might be Demanded to Charge| the Operators With Contract Breaking to Cause the Strike—Administration Policy is Hands Off Unless the Public is Menaced With Coal Shortage or Disorder De- velops. Washington, N effort at settlement of the al strike, particglarly as it involves the bitumin. Ous flelds, was begun today when Chaire man Nolan of the house labor committee. was authorized to telegraph invitations o a mumber of representative operators and officers of Gperators' associations -in the central competitive coal field to ate tend & meeting with the miners’ union eaders in Washington, April 10, and ate {e3pL to resch an agreement. Al the same time, Benator Borah, re. publican, Jdaho, took occasion to say In the Senate that “drastic public action” Tight b6 demanded, and to charge the operators with contract breaking in pre- cipltating the gtrike. A possible devergeance between the views of members of congress and those of the adminisiration, however, was seen when Attorney General Daugherty is- wied & _statement reiterating that “the government a8 not undertaking to do anything inthe present situation 6f the coal matter, declaring that “men have & right to guit work and men have a right to employ other men” that the public was not menaced with coal short. =ge. and that it was the duty of local suthorities to maintain order. The government would mot look with favor [Gpon sl price dncreases, Mr. Daugherty &ald, adding that he “saw no veason at this time to believe that dise order need be feared, but asserting that the governmént “will perform whatever may be its duty in the premises” if local and state agencies cannot malntain ore aer, The house committes action came &fts r its members had svend two days list- WURDEREE CONFESSED TO ESCAPE ELECTRIC CHAIR New York, April 4—Crowds at the trial of Gussie n\.chlrnd with having perjured uring Joseph Libasel’s trisl for the murder of Harry today hekrd Libasec!, brought from prison, testify that ho had the murder, out of consider atien for his to make_sure of escaping the electrio 3 P He &4 not deny in so many words that he killed Garbe, but he was silent when after he had taken the stand, de- fense counsel asked if the person who shot Garbe was in the room. Then he #id he knew who shot Garbe, but re- fased a request for the name, Ho sald he was,coaxed to make 3 Written confes- sion. After making i, was al- lowea to piead guilty degree murder, and was sentenced to prison for 20 years to life. Harry Rica testified today that on the night of the murder last October he went with Libasci and Gussle Humann to Woodhaven boulevard, leaving Miss Hi- mann there, and proceeding with Libas- 1 to the sceme of the killing. Libascl denited today that he was Wwith either PRica or Humann at the places named. Jane Shuttleworth sald she saw Miss Fpmann the night of the killing in the company of two men on the bowlevard. The state charged that Miss Humann swors faisely_in testifying chat she did not see the shooting of Garbe. On this cround District Attorney Wallace of Queens sald he felt it Incambent upon the presscution to show during the present trial that thers actually was shooting, but the objection of the de- enme against the calliog of Medical Ex- sminer Nammach to testify to the death f Garbe was upheld. Accordingly, Rica was halted In congressional his testimony as moon as his story reached | the scene of the kililng. Libascl's apparent willingness to secve bis jeng prison term despite his avowed Innocence, astonished the court. “I am doing my bit,” he said, “and 1 mtend to do it - The party who did the thooting was a state’s witness at t Iast trial, and it fs to you to get him. Justice Lewls then ssked Libasci it be thought f was right for him to erve & 20-year sentence, whereupon he epiied : ‘I am that kind of a fellow." Cross-examined by District Attorrey Wallace, Libase! denfed that he had said | 10 wanted to kill Garbe, but only desired o beat him. s there to free any other reason’ why .you Gussle Humann?' Mr, is a petsonal reason He rémained silent when asked what t was, but.admitted that he knew the (ifl was to become a fubther. After court adjourned John K. Humann, fagher, conferred with Justice 4wis. It was reported the father tried o get permission for Libasc! and Miss Tymann to go to the barriage bureau to itain a lipense. IR JAMES CRA ARNEST TO BRING PEACE IN IRELAND Belfast, Aprlh 4 (By the A, P.)—Sir ames Cialg, premier of Ulster, speaking the morthern parliament today, said lie agreement signed in London last efk was an earnest attempt to bring eacs to the whole of Ireland. He said he agreement would sort out the sheep om the goats and that if the activi- 3 of the Irish republican army ceased here would be peace in LUlster. Sir James was hopeful that within a ear the Catholics would také théie caty in the northern parliament and as- ist in #olving its problems. He sald hy fmsit would mot lead Ulster into the ‘ree State parNament, because his whole. olitical career forbade, sush a move. # Several -members of the parliament ritielsed the ggreement,’ but there was o ademvt to force a division on the ubect. / e IBAT WOMAY CONVIOTED OF ILLEGAL, VOTING IN BUFFALO Baffalo, N. ¥, April 4~Migs Jessie rivatera, the first woman convicted of lezal voting bere, today paid i fine of| g gty oot Miss ::uum repeated” at ”m maries . Septémbez in o hotly waged contest i i iyt 151 ening to discussion of the strike from the miners' viewpoint by John L. Lewis, president .of the United Mine Warkers. Mr. Lewis assured the icommittee that Me would advise his associates to negos tiate with any “representative group” of operators. from the central fp'd, which includes Illinots, Indiana, ~Ohio and Western Pennsylyania, even though mot all the operators could be induced deal again with'the union. The union, he insisted, would not and could not- set. de the dispute in other states until thi basis had been established for & national wage le % Tho committee’ decided to appeal di- rect to representatives of the operators’ £roups In the states named and Mr. Low- is tonight declared it “has put forward & proposition worth considering” “However, I have no notion what the operators will do,” he sald. During the hearlugs today Mr. Lewis defended the miners' union proposal to establish a six-hour day and five day week, one of the demands originally made, soouting as “absurd” a calculation by Representdtive Black, democrat, of Texas, thatthis would occasion an extra annual ost of $244,000,000 to the public for coal. Mr. Lewis arranged later to ‘leave for New York, to continue the union's fe- gotiationa with anthracite operators. The reasonableness of the future wage Wwas the chfef issue he “M'l The house | committee "conemnfiates further inquiry into the coal-industry, wAth_ftekstimony. from both tors anl miners and is expected to continue its hearings tomorrow. PARTY ENDED IN KILLING OF LIEUT-COL, P. W. BECK Oklahoma. City, Okla., ‘April 4—A nid- night party In the fashionable home here ot Jean P. Day, prominent attorney and ol man, ended early today in the deaih of Lisutenant Colonel Paul Word Beck. assistant commandant of Post |Field at Fort. Sill, Okis., and widely knowa in army cirelés. Sa gz bos 3 the ploneer fieto of the . was killed by Day, who army officer ovir he head with @ revolver when he returned home and ¢ guest struggling with Mrs. Day. The gun was discharged ac- | cidentally. Day. geen was 8o badly torn that officiais said they were unable to determine whether the bul- let or the blow caueed death. Day is in der $5,000 bond to appear at & corone:” mest Saturday. . S oitics of officers trom Post Fiela ‘will comduct an Inquiry, it was announced late today by Forest Hughes, county at- torney. He said he would not conside: flling charges until after the coroner’s 5 quest, The shooting followed a party at the Day home, at which Lieutenant Colonel Teeck was guast of honor. = Beck fiew here from Fort Sl Day| had taken other guests home in hls motor car and when he returned to his home about 2.30 a. m. he declared in a statement to nswspaper- men, noticed through a window that his wife and Beok were seated on a divan. “Colonel Beck reached for ' her.” ~Day declared. “There was a struge] Thereupon, Day said, he rushed house and into ary #ot_ris_revolver. “Returning to ths dining room.,” he re- lated, “I' commanded: ‘Yol get out of here! The army officer drew back his hand as it to strike, I hit him over-the head; the gun went off; I never drzamed of its dissharging. 4 Day said Lieutenant Colonel Beck had Spent the evening with him and Mrs. Day. They dined at a hotel. Day said he hat invited Beck to stay at his home last night. Barlfer in the evening Beck and Mrs. Day attended a theatre together, ac- cording t§ other guests at the party. Day 14 not accompany them, Beck had long been a friend of tite Day family. He was 45 years old. Day iv 50 and his wife several years younger. They have a daughter who is a student at the State University. Mrs. Day wss unable to make any con- nected statement during the,day. Howev. er, she corroborated the story tol¢ by her husband. i Lieutenant Colonel Beck lived at Fort Sill with his mother, 77 years cid. His wwife died Jast year in Atlantic City. He 1s survived also by a son, who is a first lien” tenant in. the army ordnance department stationed at’ Watertown, Mass. i to the upstairs room ghere he BELL TAILORING SYSTEM LEAVES PATRONS SUITLESS Bridgeport, April 4—With fond hopes of their Baster suits shattered, a large gathering of customers of the Bell Tail- oring _system, with offices in Hartford and Bridgeport. listened to Edward, D. Moran, one of the partners in they con- cern, explain how it cost $18 to mal® one of the suits that were being sold to 800 customers of the concern, - throughout Connectieut. for $45 on @ $1 8 week in- staliment plan, With & lottery scheme on the side, in the bankruptey court betore Referee John, Keogh here today. When Moran had finished telling (he court that there Were no_finished suits on nand, ‘one of the spectators, giving his name a5 Owen J. McDonnell, 4 Hillside wvenue, this city, arose apd toid the court that he had invested in a suit in behait of & Dr. Anderson, “Ien't this a case of emheszlement, in- #ead of bankruptcy?'. asked, another, custome “It might bé, but it would be hard 1o , accordng 10 faw,” fhe judge an. "*ed, addine: - "You know /this is the home of Baraum. Aftorney Murray Reich, ofReici & Reich, was appointed trustes of the ck- tate. 7 v R Chacged ‘with having been megligent | about making firm a backyard ' clothes state pole which on Oct 28, 1920, feli and killed 11-year-old. Sam Du l!g‘ Morris ¥ er of, /|in the city election today and with him |of charges that the Anti- virtuzlly ‘the entire demogratic carried into er o Anson. T. McCook, flot be reached | ranty of 3,575, - Hearing on the New Haven's applica- tion for representation on the board of the Boston aad Maine, of which Tallrea it holds 28 per cent. of the stock, is s for April 8 before the court, Mr, Daugi- erty said. | The election of the board of the Boston and Maine will be on April 10, he added. | S _Mr, Daugherty smid he had conferred With representatives of the New York, New Haven and Hartford before their appiication was flled in New York, but it was yet to be determined whether the government l‘ho*‘m_ regard it as equable that the road shofid be’ represented on the Boston mnd Maine board on tlie dasis of Z8 per cent. of the stock, whether the government ‘should ;hold afioof and. aliow the' application to be decided without suggestion from Washington, or whethcr a stand should be taken against the re- quest. Gy | Ho ihdtated that he might send a representative 0™The departmrent of jus- tice to New York in comnection with the matter before his decision was an- nounced, declaring that he wished to the subject the, fullest consieration be fore definitely settling the government's attitude. ago,' but was defeat years ago by Dublican, ke present mayor. McCouik .De!rv'fd in the war as a captain the 76th | slon overseas. He is & son of fessor J, J. McC ek of controller. pudlican who has held the post for 24 years, ran abead of the rest of the ticl but was defeated by Bdwin ¥, L. Lamb, democrat, by a.margin of 1,061 votes. Others electod "include, - Chdrles H. Slo- cum, treasure tor ;" John A Gieason. town Clerk; Wit liam H. Siekles, marshal; William ~W. Cotter. registrar of voters; James T. Far- rell and. Wil Slocur, Hart’ an the republican ticket. ::Llng a high water mark in local poli- s, egainst TEP63 for McCook. Kinsella received 17,638 votes, elécted mayor four years for re-election two n C. Bramard, re- Kinsella, Cook of Trinity eollege and a graduate of Trinity and Harvard Law school. i The closest ace was that for the office Charles H. Robing, re- Otls J. X colles~ J. Rankin, asssssors. Gleason also were on The democrats elected § qut of 10 al- ¢ | dermen chosen, but the common counct] will re ia carried all of the 10 wards except emajn republican by 11 to~9. Kiutt;- tne the fourth and tenth. TESTIMONY COMPLETED IN ) » THE STONE MURDER TRIAL New York, April 4—The drial of Oliv M. P. Stone, graduate nurse. for the mur- der of Ellis G. Kinkead, {3Ther Cincin- nati_corporation counsel, Teached its jast stages this afternoon whm&<m-mtq and the defeuse rest- od cases mfter seven days of testi- mony. - Summing up by the ~attorneys wil begin tomeorrow and it is exipected tiic Jury wil: got the case in the afternoom. © For the first time, today Miss Ston went through ‘the court sessions with, no show of cmotion. Most of the time was =pent in gathering up loose bits of evi- dence by both sides. Herbert N. War- basse, assistant aistriot ,atorney ealle? two. Cincinpati _detectives who testifisd Miss Stone had uttered threats azains: Kinkead in their presence, but his main effort was confined to showing that th nurse was not insane when she fired six shots into the lawyer's body on August 5, 1921 Dr. Sylvester R. Lahy, a Brookiyn | ist said he Aid not believe she was Stone and the court. Mr. Rellly twice took formal exgeption to what he termed ‘“the attitude towards me” of Justice Aspinall but the judge asured him he was merely trying (0 speed up the trial, VATICAN NOT OPPOSED TO . - JEWISH HOME IN PALESTINE help, theAnewspapers want us to everybody’s house.” A ‘proposal to appropriate $1,500,000 for a new high school was carried in a referendum by 7,552 to 5,880. The provo- sition known as the South Meadows devel- opment plan was beaten, 10.588 to 2,445, and the proposad for school districts was defeated, 8,512 to 8- in Brookivn, [456. consolidation of DULLNESS OF EVERY DAY LIFE THE CAUSE OF MANY ORIMES New York, April 4—A_ sdggestion that planos be placed ‘in burglars’homes to check the crime wave was made, ' to Mayor Hylan today at a public hearing on a legislative bill which would pefmit the city to erect a building dedicated to| advancement of the arts to’ serve as a Deace memorial.), Everyone present favored the propo- sal and after Otto H. Kahn, chairman of ‘the Mezropolitan Opera company, had asserted the mayor had done more to bring music to the people than all his ‘Predecessors put together, Mr. nounced he would sign the -bill. an- Discussion of the crime wave many “was “Do you believe,” the mayor inquired. “that music might deter people from itting crime.” i . Kahn thought it ~ would surely “Of course, I'm fin favor “of keepl down crime,"” sald the mayor. "pnq.‘::‘l put'a cop in “I would rather put in a piano,” Mr. Kahn said. Rome, April 3 (By Jewlsh Telegraphic| Leonard Liebling, editor of the- Musl- Agency),—Dr. Chaim ~Weizmann, ~presi- dent of the World Zionist organization, was recelved by Cardinal Gasparri, the papal secretary, at the vatiean, on Sun-| day. In thé course of the . interview, Jasting over half an hour, the cardimal mssured Dr. Welzmann that the vatican was not opposed to the Jewish national home in Palestine, provided the interests| of thie non-Jewish communitoes were safeguarded and Jews were not granted = “privileged position” in"the country. The secretary is understood also to have taken exception to paragraph 14 of the draft mandate for Palestine, which provides for the appointment of a spe- ¢ial commission to regulate the clajms of | 3°T mayor. the” religious communities, and ‘exercise control over the holy places. $19,487,904 OLAIMS AGAINST SWIFTSURE OIL TRANSPORT CO. New York, April 4—Alleging indebted ness of $19,487,904, three creditors today filed an involuntary petition ruptcy against the Swiftsure Oil Trans- port, Inc. Petitioning “creditors were the North. Western Steel.company, With a claim of $1,260,000; Northwestern = Bridge and Iron company, with a claim of $313,197, and Callahan & Deery, merchants, wita a claim of $566. Franas R. Mayer, former head of the defunct UpMed States Mail ymehip lne, is president of the corporation, which is capitafized at $200,000. The complaint, filed in federal courf alieges the corporation recently. trans. ferred to the Emergency Flest cotpora- tign a half dozen ofl tankers T Sectre a mértgage of §$13,493,706 — WINDOW CLEANER FELL FIVE STORIES AND LIVES New York, April 4.—An automobiie top saved the life of Peter Gurnik, 26, a window cleaner, today, when he fell from the fifth story of an office building and landed on the ‘top of a ‘machine standing at the curb. He was taken in an uncon. sclous condition to a hospital, whree it was gaid he had a fair ghance for re- ‘covery. A polictman who witnessed the ' oo dent first had Gurnik rTemoved to the morgue. Just as he was placed in the ntuary he opened his eyes and asked ‘Where am I7” and was straightaway removed to the hospital. where surgeons said his worst injury was a fractated thigh, — e DOROTHY CLARK MARRIES KARL L. ELMS OF BOSTON Nashua, N. H, April 4.—Dorothy) Clark, -whose mothfr recentiy Brough uit £or $200,000 against Herbert Rawiin. son, motion picture actor, for an aleged attack on her daughter three years ago, was married to Kar) L. Eims of Boston here, totiay, Eims is a piano’salesman. The ceremony was performed by a jus tice of the pedce. . _ 3 Eims said he would seek to prove that || Mrs. Claric's suit was anwarranted, s iy g STATE POLICEMAN WAS . ABRESTED ¥OR EXTORTION Hammonton, N. I, April f.—Sergeant Baward Bastburn of the o pers lice. was' arrested today on a of * extartion. Bastbun c«wm with having takeh ‘Colerman. Pisco, o be !fiu’nfl»‘b« . of Ge! Irish Friday and the royal assent to the meas’ ure. putting into effecc’ the Anglo-Irish treaty.’ . . \ and $100. <cal Courler, then said that he would go A] tep further than Mr, ti the peop the ho hn's sugges- i that pianos be put xfihe homes of He would say, put them in i s of the burglars. “If wWe erect a bullding fo house mon- Xeys and give them parallel bars to ex- ercise on,” he inquired, * provide a bullding. for _musicians {and 8lve them y ercise on?” hy can'’t we Jusical instruments to ex- Dr. John C. Freund, editor of Musi- cal America, told the mayor that he was, on general principles, byt th republican, at he was thankful to have lived to see the day that such a bill was un- the consideration of a ‘Tammany Whereupon Mayor Hylan, who just the other day said he didn know much about art, halted. the speaker to ask if he realized that “Tammany progresses like everybod: o ks els 1 hope 50" said Dr. Freund. ~The nature of the conservatory was | outlined in a report by City Chamber- o A0 satn Berolzhelmer, ‘who pointed out that the blll was merely a permissive meas- ure. “The building.” read the report, “shonld contaln auditoriums for the production of opera, two separate auditoriums if necessary ; another other large auditorjum for the produec- tion of the classic drama and comedy; and small music and the intimate Practice rooms for both vocal and- in- strumental musiec, for. concerts; an-\ auditorjums for = chamber theatre, with “Provision might also be made, for a salon at which the native artist could exhibit his creations. The enterprise, in fact. would embrace every branch of ‘the — ORDERS TBANSFERRING POWERS, ' TO THE IRISH FREE STATE London, April 4.—(By the A. P)— The ofticlal Gazette today publishes the necessary orders in cou: ncil, given at the court In Windsor Castle Saturday, provid: ing for all the formalities in connection. with the transfer rights. of the British government to the provisional government ¢ the rich Freo te, of the powers and bis action follows, the pdssage of the State bill- b yparliament last $5,000 FINE, S{X MONTHS (INJAIL FOR RUM RUNNING Newark, N. J, April 4.—Morris Heutz: swner of the steamer Brockman, which as seized at Camden récently with a car- go of liguor valued at $50,000 was sen- tenced by Federal Judge Lynch today, to 2y a fine of $5,000 and serve six monihs in. jail for violating : t\lml law. %el. was givén @ four months' seatence'{’ nith Hand, a deckhand, was finea)f the federal [loh, il Martin Hoetgesang, calptain of the ves- GiANT LINER DEVIAT STEAM/TO NEW . Hoboken, N. ., Apr i g:rg-ml.evi_fl,hlp,. hich | New Jersey Afiefld‘nm,. ‘ REpanE peEt 3'3'?' ot Mr. Kahn sald he F e e Makine the charges Simselt, Mr. Tink: it would be “absolutely |~d to cancel her concart engagemen! by te control league athle” ‘to expect an the league had violated the corrupt prac- tices act by not making turns from 1910, the year of the Jaw's enaunent, vn- th 1920; by not giving the names. and address of all persons reciving = §10 or more In the returns filed by Wayne is. Wheeler, ‘its general counsel, ‘under pro- tgst” in 1920, and by the non-réporting Under the acj of branches of the leaguo in West, Virgina, Maryland, = Wiscoasin, Colarado. Oregon and Iowa. “Complete failure” also was charged by fhe Massachusetts house membes “to z —— e —— Ry R ey ewark, N. J., tuck e and escaped. » Lackawanna. station at Boonton, N. J., over Sunday and stele $1000 from the railroad com- pany’s safe. (~ e Madanie Amelita GallliCurel was ore.. a the cxposition auditoriufo in San Fran- clseo Lecause of a severe cold. “Bandits who held up n New York Cen- tvai freight train amgwm, it the. of the raj report. The body of ‘n young woman'found on the beach at Ocean View, Va., was ileati- fled as that of Mrs. Ruth Mercer, former- ly Miss Ruth Genevan of Chicago. ‘eurs, officials * Three hundred and elghty-two miners have been caught in & burning pit in the Anselm coal mine at Petereshof, near Patibor, Upger Silesia. Ninety-one persons have been siain He Alone Was Responsible For the Conduct of an E + % ficient Administration—No Possibility of Dismissed Of:| ficials Being Restored to Office. s “Washington, April ¢.—President Hard- ing’s dismissal of twenty-nine bureau of did not steal | engraving exeeutives was ‘the center of [, &nother storm of ‘democratic protest in congress today despite & ‘White “House explanation that the president ‘had mot intended by ‘his action to “reflect on the character’ of any of the discharged offi- ciala; In the Was-propose Senator . Caraway, demoerat, Arkansas, who declared the president’s unheralded dismnissal order had been ‘“inhuman and inexcusable™, Several other democratic) ith the clerk. of the house of | in New York since.the first of the year, | sénators joined in the attack, while in which recelved or disbursed money in con- nection with the congressicmal election in 1920, notably the states of New York, Pennsylvania_and Minnesota.” t “The records of the clerk of the house disclose a failure of the I and its subsidiaries 1o obey federal statutes,’" Mr. /Pinkham declared. : “Not only in one case, but_many. S s The Massachusetts member said he de- sired to “draw attention” to a leaflet re- cently l-no%hzy Parker shields, saperin- ent of Tenpessee Anti-Saloon ague agiing for contributions, which, he said, cont@ined this statement. “Apumber of consressmer who holl the balanee of power and pile up majorities in congress come i« ‘western states mbney for organi zation and educational purposes s scarce They always had to have help from the national league.”, ““Phis would clearly show.” the Massa- chusetts representative \de.flfim& the Anti-S in leagu-l s Systemar all and liberally SInc..y congressionu campalgns and placing ‘congresmen of the United States under obligation to vote in congross in aceordance with -its dicta- tion. Mr. Tinkham also read from the Ten- neeseo leaflet that fonds from that state also helped to provide for tie enar of the 1 o n_and for the cessful ent o Hongrahle Wayne B. 2L fl,‘:",““"" and_attorneys in Ameriea” 1 stated that “from this office aeedel legislation is initiated, a constant wa: kept on the actions of congress and wh osfposition. algpeais: danger signals arc flashed to every state in the union.” 4 Laying aside the publication, Mr. Tink- ham said; 5 ‘It usdoubtedly Will ba interesting tc the country to learn that legislation i Initiated in the national office of the Anti Saloon league of Ameriga In Washinston and not in the congress of the United States. ' “Think of it, to what degradation, to what debasement has congress fallen that its hame can be heralded to the warld. There, verfly, is an end of fnee instit tions and free men. Cowardice, indee has completed their destryction and di honor.” - 2 In conneotion with this general subject Mr. Tinkham said it was worth while no ing_that Rev. Sam W. Small. secretary the National Reform, assocfition had pledged financlal income of oger . two ‘million doilars annually,” and that it wi proposed. to spend it in the next congres- sionall election. The statements of Repraseniative Tinkham brought on somewhat extended debate and.a, statement from Mr. Whecl- er, who was seated in the galiery; whil: thg Massachusetts member spoke. Im- medlately Mr, Tinkham concluded his pre- pared adderss, Mr. Wheler issued his statement declaring ‘Mr. Tinkham's at- tack on the Anti-Saloon league in com- mittee and in the 'house is simply part of ‘the wet propoaganda for a_ beer and wine amendment.” 5 He aded that most of the stats branches of the league’ had not filed campaign ex- penditure reports ‘because the law does not require state ofganizatiors interested in the election of congressmen i1 only on state to file reports.” . Reprosentative Cooper, republican, Ohlo, asked Mr, Tinkham if he did not know that the natiopal association opposed to prohibition had been spending iarge sums to- bring about modification of the Vol- stead act and trying to defeat represent- atives standing by ft. + 2 “The representative of only the Anti- Saloon league appeared before the com- ‘mittee,” fald Mr, Tinkham, “and I have no knowledge as to what organizations are operating. But all, whether for or against the law should be Tequired to ‘report theiw, oxomditures”’ He asked M. Whedei,m i the gallery and calling him by name. Rép- resentative Hill, republican, Maryland, asked Mr. Tinkham: 25 *Do you think it prdper for a man who. acts ds treasurer of the league in.its ef- forts to clect congressmen should also be jts legislative agent in appearing befors congress for favors _ “TIt sems highly mnsmmw ““I ‘am not concerned with Wayne B. Wheeler, or the Anti-Saloon > sad M. “but with the ) this country who ask and stand for a® and order and: the 18th amendment.” Mr. Berkley said that the cross-exam- ination of Mr. Wheeler by Representative L Defore the apor com- iftes was conducted as If he “was cx- amining a crap-shooter” .~ |aRRESTS IN qoqi?c'im!! W) the southern and |° eler, one of -the greales:| Joranches of the league | according o records in the office of the | the house Representative B: chief medical ‘examiner. Miss Hose Coghlan, 71 years old, omt of the most noted actresses on the Eng- lish-speaking stage, is.. critically ill at her home in New York, by A protest against adoption of the | president could mot take the country into | adding that “certainly it was not done piece work system has been addressed to exgcntives of the New York Central | volving the whoie patronage policy of Lhe | House).” Railrdad. — A report presented in a specinl tdwn meeting at Southfield by a committee ap- pointed to avdit the ums of former Fown Treasurer Warran J. Wright sho; eda shortage of town Zunds of §17,4 Sun rays, canght by a hand micror, de- flected to a_magnifying glass suspended Dy a string, filtered to a silk umbrella and started,a fire in the show window cf a Bronx novelty shop. The mew coust gnard - cutter Modoe, built at Oakland; Calit., at a cost of § 000. is expected to arrive in Washington this veek for inspection before assigh- ment to the NortH Atlantic ice patrol. Co-operation, mot only with eark other but with eiti of their adopted coun- try, was thé Kkeynote of ~addresacs at the opening session of the Chinese Merchants' Association in Philadeiphz. The sm‘n: Stiver lm:'o“mh- inized at San Francisco, e an- nounced pu: of ve-standardizing the coinage ratio at mot:lgss than 15% ounc- 65 ot silver to one.ounce of gold. The’ A, B. Chase Pisno company, of Norwalk, has been consolidated with the Emerson Plano company. of Boston and the Linderman'and Sons company of New Yori’ : Two flousand harbers attending first annual New York Barbers' exposition greeted with applause & proposal ta raise, the price of lock-shedring in New York %o §1. Members of three locals at Manches- ter, N. H., ‘of the Uited Shoe Workers of /America have gone on record in fa- vor ‘of one big unfon for the shoe in- | dustrr~ { Mrs. Albert Huber, of Needles, Cal, aled at the Yosvital in, Stamtord of bums reckived learly Friday while she was in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cook of 26 Gregory. street. The third failure of a motary pub- lic who dabbled in high finance was rec- orded in Montreal when A. A. Mon- dou,” former ‘member Of parliament for Yamaska, Quebec. announced an assign- ment for the bemefit of creditors. Four passengers killed out of at total of 51,318,422 carried on Canadian rail- roads during 1921 was the report tn par- Hament' made by the board of railway commissioners for Canada. Passengers injured during the year mumbered 240. Locked in 8 room of their burning home in a remote section of West Springfield, two young children of 'Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Ivashko were rescued by a neighbor who <n passing the house saw that it in flames. 2 Tie Rev, ‘Archiball G, Brown, widely kniown Baptist clergvman, died at Faston Frgl He was at onc time president of the Tandon Baptist assocation, and was hs féunder of a number of Baptist tah /| trip last night. What else ernacles. Minotte E. Chatfield, manufacturer of New Haven, and a former state sena- tor, fell down an elevator’ shaft in his place of business. At first it was thought he was seriously hurt but it was found no_bones had been brokem. ve the clouds, staged m‘m"m““{;,?”m’n fiotd at Houston. Tex., resulted In the death of two army aviators when two pursuit planes collided in mid-air, both~ falling to *he ground. ‘one in flames. 2 : = » handful of red pepper into (e wen of Cornelius McMahon, & Tombs keeper, New York, Sidney Brown, 21, a kalesman, ‘escaped, swalowed vp in a Margittan crowd as his blinded guard groped after him. i, feultural appropropriation bill, caming 435,808,000 but without the item of $360.000 for free seeds was Teported to the senate. As turned over to the senate the measure is $116,300 larger than as It passed the house. yrnes, demo- crat, Tennessee, assailed the president’ act as “pothing short of an outrage.” Taking the lead in defense of the ad- ministration, Semator New, repubilean, Indiana, 10id the senate {here.were “am- ple reasons” for the dismissal, aithough unfortunately there were thmes when the i confidence. A - gemeral debate in- agministration developed lover Senator raway's réSoiution, but ft went over without action. At the White House, Seorstary Chris- tian, acting for the president, declared in a letter ‘to one of the dismissed officials jihat a full explanation was not yet op- portune, although the :chief executive regretted that ‘Insinuating publicity” was being given the incident. There had been no 'desire, the secretary wrote, (0 refiect ment_empioye. It was also said by White House ofll- cials that Mr. Harding felt he alons was responsible for the conduct of an efficient administration and that he propo to exercige the presidential appaintive powsr in a manier that accorded with his own ndgme: There was 1o ibility, 1t was 4 diared, thet any of tle dismiseed oflicias would be restored 1o office. The. sepate ‘debate - deyeioped into & genexal cross fire of political arsument on “Whethe, tie “Eevice T being enforced now and whether # had ever. been observed by either republica: or, democratic | administrations of (bl past. The discussion continued for mear- ly thres hours, during which Senalors Norriss, irépubiican, and. Hitchoock, dem- ‘ocrat, both of Nebraska, referred to post- office appointments in their state, — Mr. Hitcheock denounced what ne de- scribed as “deliberate cfforts to sabyert and desitoy the civil service’as applied to the-postoffices. of the country,” addifx that the ¢nftaving burcan dismissal ngt the ‘only eviderice of “hypucritica! orts 10 cbserve the law” on the part of the present administration. Mr. ' Norris in reply read from Congressional Record ' of eurly 1919 show . Mr. Hitcheock: he and party had done “exactly the same th with respect to getilug arker feliows out and the democrats in.” Mr. Norrls demied that republicans lmd spread the dootrine of a retin to)the spoils: system, saying that he believed the o [3 ‘on the character of any govern- | most of them were in favor of the eivil ce law. 1 preahed 3 return to the stem ” interrupted Semator Moses, pubiican, New Hampshire “I did it cause I beleved an administration & be surrounded by éts friends, believed ¥, and always said ‘Then the semtor cught to have beem defeated” retorted Senator Norris. | “But I wasn't"" replied Mr. Moses, got the biggest vote any republican got in New Hampshire, and that Is dence enough for me." Senator 8 democrat, Kentucky, broke in with mand that if the engraving buresw movais wére purely political the istration should say so. “The democrats will dis with y of llonor if you stand them up agaimat the potitical wall and shoot them,” he said. “But they object to sniping i they objest to this whining from the re= pubBcans who want their jobs. Senator Mosed answered with the Jaration that he never had been “c whining and knew of no one who the other end of the ‘@venue’ (the Wet," retumed the Kentucky tor, “I commend the attitude of the ator from New Hamgpshire to the dent then.” A ADMINISTRATION TO REO! GOVERNMENT DEP. Washington, Aprif 4.—Gradual ganization of government along the line/of effecting a m efliciency was said today in ciés to be the program of iminis- tration, akeady begury which il in change$ wherever the infusion of new blood is judiged necessary. Operation of the civil servics ot be zkiowed to hinfer effors 0 the pdmiistration of the go then ‘ighest. peak of service, advisess close to Presifent H belleve URE the president is o make whetever changes in . personnel may be -desmed 3 the “interest -of Uie country.at hy s necessary, enabiing may be obtained from congress. The president was p t ing the view that under the the chief executive is o duty of exercising the bes £ the administraton of the office to him. 5 In some quarters the view vanced that reorganisation ceed resardiess of party afi inciailation of new: personnel away all oid methods. now faulty to fake way for tie most ‘hrocédare. < i “Reorganization s plaghed. it was today, in the. interfial revemus and will involve, it was declared, a dozen fmgportant pizces. As' soon the internal revenue burean tion Is fimisned, the next given attention is expectsd 10 be profubition enforosment. Just how &y positions” are mvolved in U¥s Teau are nvi Lf But it I unders¥ they are contiderabie, } - ek S MRES. MARGOT ASQUITH. HAD 4 X0 FAREWELL MESSAGLH New York, April 4—Mrs. Margot As quith sailed back to Englahd tosay or the Mauretania, But the eager smile With which th wife of a former British prime minl ter came to America o lecture was i ing. Nor had she any farewell mes: to_leave with reporters, The diarist came aboard just about 1§ § ed ashore. “We hope you aré coming back,” said a reporter, dashing to her side. “I wonder,” was her only reply. Then she hurried to her state room where Princess Bibesco, her daughter and Prince Bibesco were waiting with their baby, and the cabin door closed bet hind her. Finally the door openea slightly again and/her secretary \said: “Mrs. Asquith eaia everything sha had to say-in her lecture last night. ' She won’t see”you and she wom't be photo- graphed. She concluded her American is there to | sy? 4 And again the door closed. Coldnel Charles Repington other British lecturer to Mauretania, The vesse] will try to lower her record of four daye and tem hours, was an- sall on the TESTIMONY BY MOTHER OF JANETTE LAWRENCE Morristown, Aprilt 4.—Though twice on the verge of collapse, Mrs. Le- wellyn Lawrence, -mother of 12-year-viu Janette Lawrence, ‘Madison school gi Who Was murdered last Octoberi, finished her testimony this afternoon at fhe trial of Jancarek, accused of the crime. Mrs. La broke . down at the session and adjournment was takep untli afternoon. Her voice wavered as he told of the last time she saw the girl—six o'clock in the evening when Jju- nette left. to take two children to & neigh- w-hmh.:nd-cund:wlzu_niu collapse as Bw ear] sounds, too in .to trace during the subse- City hospital, 10 the severence uf Jamleson ana Pres- e o i minutes before the gang plank was puil- | ‘undertaker, 3 ANTI-CATHOLIC PYROMANTAC OPEBATING IN MOXN Montreal, April 4—3fontreal polies & fday sought an anti-Catholic pyrom as the anthor of the fire which yestes 7 royed the Church of the with-a loss of $500,000. florte will be made to connect Niw, is found, with fires in other ch astitutions, including the Jisstrons gration iast week that destroyed at the famous shrine of She & De Beaupre. Crosseq electric wires are believed 1o be the prycinanisc suspect’s method of & conga ing the fires. Crossed wires caused the fires at Anne De Beaupre and in the Church the Sacred Heart, . Fire from the same cause broke ouf In the Church-of the Sacred Heart December, but. was extinguished slight joss. A fire in St. Vincent De Paul's was averted when an' electrician alscovs 4 £red crossed wires shortly after a visit o O a man posing as an electriclan, A week ago a man sought to the’ deaf and dump institute ax electrician, come to inapect the in the institute, The mother superior came suspiciois and refused to him. BETHLEHEM STOCKHOLDERS DID NOT DISCUSS DIV New York, April 4—Presillent G. Grace and Chairman C} Schwab, of the Bethlehem Steel tion said dividends were not today at the stockhoMers’ Newark. The directors sider dlyldends until the late ing, they said. Discussing current businees, declared March had been the for some. time, and it was I improvement would on Prices had grown Tow Jevels partly, he