Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 12, 1922, Page 1

VOL. RUSSIA'S REPLY ADISTINCT DISAPPOINTMENT TO FRANGE M. Barthou Claims ths Reply the Allied Proposals—England and Italy Regard the Document as Conciliatory and a Basis for Further Ne- w-; Notkufly an Answer to gotiations—France and Some of the Smaller States Fa- vor Adjournment of Conference to a Later Date—Lloyd George is Firm Against Adjournment Without Some Settlement of the Russian Problem. May 11.—(By the A. P.)—Rus- t allied memorandum, was presented today to president of the economic eon- egarded as conclliatory. At stion that all the tangied fin- sobmitted to a mixed of experts named by the Genoa rovides a means of escapc sent superheated atmosphere, arpears to be unfaworable for the of the myriad questions aris- »e Russimn situation. ems b glan nellatory: so also does Italy. (talian foreign minister has been working dav and night to prevent a break wholh sesmed Imminent through the opposition » and Belglum to the settlément cperty question, which ‘Great am and the iesser powers wil ap- e expressed grext disapoointment ply. ané Belglum is far from sat- M. Barthou head of the ' French <t declared after an exam m of the text that the reply did not ywhere nnd was not really an answer t all to the aliled proposals. Consequent- be certain until atter hes has ferred vith the government in Paris whether the Russian proposals will be ac- epted by the French as a dasis for con- invation of the discussion. Signor. considered a basis for further d regards the reply as moderate- The which it desires amd caniol consent to anything which mray be interpreted as limitation of its sovereignty. France, Poland, Caocho-Slovakia and some of the smalier states would like to have the conference adjourned, and re- convened laterf. They wiil undoubtedly take advantage of the Russian proposal for the teterence of financial problems to a mixed committee to suggest that this committee report.at a later date to an- other conference. Mr. -Lloyd George, however, Js firmly against adjournment of the Genoa sitting without some set- tlement of the Russian prebler, and will doubtless oppose M. Benes and other lead- ers who have been’ working earnestly for ancther conference. M. Benes wanted to have a conference called at Prague, but has received lit- tle encouragement. ~ Mr. Lloyd George and his supporters have _apaprently re- garded all the efforts at postponement as part of the French plan to delay any settlement of the Russian rroblem which did_not meet with their - approval. SAYS RUSSIAN REPLY 18 AN INDICTMENT “OF THE POWERS Genoa, May 11 (By the A, P.)—"It is 1éss an answer than an indictment of the powers, coupled with a flat refusal to reply to the questions put to them,” said M. Barthou to The Associated ~Press correspendent tonight, in commenting on In amtiwe, the future of the \ ~ % |the soviet' 1eply, He made this remark ference ts highly uncertain. Somé |, "y wa« entering his hotel where he the delegations believe that it will close precigitately, o rhaps it would be true: gave a dinner tonight in honor of the American ambassador, Richard = Wasn- to may thal they hope it wiil Other - F " burn Child, Signor Schanzer, Baron delegations predict fhat it will last.six | B S0 SO TN other allied woeks longer and go into the Russian leaders. fArancial ‘angle in grea detail. ‘The “ vi M. Burthou added: “T have telegraph- r seem to be in the majority, and In X Tomm tonight are that the sonter.|®d the document to Parls and expect to ~ may be prolonged indefinitely. The Russians and all the other dele- gations are saying many - things for some consumption, which it is belleved do net really mean, and underneath ! ere is undoubtedly a general desire to *ach some agresment which will make rope more peaceful. The Russians have appealed strongly to Premier Lioyd go 3nd the peace-craving populations - world in thelr support of the non- <sion pact and their gllusions to rmanent, other hand, they flatly refuse to allied proposals for the treat- nailonalized property, and pew proposed mixed arbitration com- ion 1o pass upon ciaime of forelgners tEAlnst the soviet govermment. rds, the Russians have sas- alned the basic principle of ecommun- Am an * to bave further discus- *he subject of natlonalization, Insisting that the bolshevik gov. may maintain any soclal sys. and any system of property-holding recelve iastructions from my government tomorrow moining.” Other members of the French delega- tion enid the repiy could only cause deep disappoiniment because it (nsistently dis- misses the past and concerns ltsd)f with the future, Its refercnges io confiscated property were declared to be unsatisfac- tory, as jt refused ¢ accept pointa al- ready raised in documents which had not been_ approved by Belgium or France. In the view of the French delegates the govist wshed reconstruction left in its own hapds; tnat was ifs right, but it wag doubtfui Wwhether foreigners wouid | yenturo {nto Russia on such terms. Com- menting on the idea of a commission of experts, the French spokesman said: “This has the effect of postponing defl- nite action and paves the way for hope- less quibbling.” M. Barthou conferred tonight with Mr. Lloyd George prior to the dinner, and other conferences between the English and French delegates will be held tomoc- row, FORMER EMPEROR WILLIAM HAS MANIA FOR RELIGION Ameterdam, May 11.—(By The A. P.) Former Emperor William's devetion to relig as progressed to the point of man Admiral Von Tirpitz, former min- ster of the German navy, is reported to Bave told a friend recentiy. The ex-kalser Is described as spending the greater part of each day in reading scriptures, commentaries, sermons and other religious books, and in prayer. His physical health appears to be good, but the members of his entourage at Doorn regard his mental state with some anxiety It is observed that his interest in European affairs has greatly diminished, even German pelitics finding him some- what uninterested. While emperor, Willlam was primate of the Lutheran state church of Prussia, #nd as such he always studied theology ivated expertness in defence of doctrines and thelr applica mind was often divided, In between the study of miii- tary and religious questions, but now he s sald to been enthralled in religious qusstions alone, to the exclusion of state craft. His mental outlook seems to have narrowed. and rare visitors find his wind shut In and closed to present Ger- the telations between and the rest of the Eurapean atheran man affairs and Jerman ~fILLS SEIZED IN A MX TRUST COMPANIES TO MANAGE GOULD ESTATE New York, May 11.—Acting with the concent of the six children of the late JNy Gold, Supreme Justice Delehanty today transerred the managemen of his estate, valued at $80,000,000 at the time of his death in 1892, to four trust companles. Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, formerly Miss Helen Gould, and Bdwin Gould will ‘con- ttinue to act as trustees of several of the trust funds established by their father. Justice Delehanty accepted the resig- nation of Howard Gould, who recently expressed his intention of remaining abroad. The Equitable Trust company was ap- pointed trustee for Howard in place of George ; the Bankers Trust company was 2ppointed as trustee for Edwin and Mrs, Sheflird; the United States Trust com- pany was appointed in place of Howard as trustee for Frank J., and the Farm- ers Loan and Trust company In place of Howard as trustee for the Duchess De Talleyrand. George Jay Gould, Who was vested by his father with more authority than any of the other children,-and who was permitted by them to assume practically the complete control of the estate for more than twenty years, was removed in 1919, N FIVE-HOUR CROSS-EXAMINATION FEDERAL RAID IN NEW HAVEN OF MRS. ANNE U. STILLMAN Sew Haven, May 11—Six stills were | | Poughkeepsie, N. Y., May 11.—Mrs. selzad ‘onight In a federal raid ‘in Wal. | Anne U. Stiliman was cross-examined for lace street. Elght, hundred gallons of | MOTe than five hours today.in the trial of defatured alcohol, nearly a housand cas- s of empty botsles, 16 empty barrels and 340 quart an alcohol preparation al- % were con! ed. Three motor trucks were used to take the paraphernalia to a warehouse. The raid was made by 16 federal agent charge of Jonathan Eno, pro- hibition enforcement officer for Connec- e of the stills were of 150 each, and were found rear of a bakery. The others were house across the street. No ar- ¥ sty were made Enforeement Offcer Eno sald that the. pants apparently were opersted jolntly and were distiiling denatured aicohol and producing clear alcohol, which reg- stered about 180 proof. The 240 quart vottles of the produce which were found Ul bore labels which describSi the con- euta “Alco Sponge, 93 per cent. al- *ohol FLIGHT RENEWED BY FORTUGUESE AVIATORS Pernambuco, May 11.—(By The A. P,) ~The Portuguese Aviators Coutinho wnd Sacadura started on thelr flight rom Fernando Noronha for St. Paul's tocks at §.50 o'clock this morning. The ser Republica reported at four” - ock this afternoon that it had find the plane at the appointed pi 4 When at 7.30 in the evening no word 34 been received of the aviators, the iraghfian destroyer Para left Fernando Seronha in the direction of the rocks to tearch for them. Hope of a successfyl ermination of the flight is not yet en " e temibers of the ortuguess colony la Sai i the Wviators fall in this attempt Telr. traus-Atlantic v wamed. the divorce sult brought against her by James A. Stillman, New York banker. The plaintiff's lawyers took her over the history o fher relations with Fred Beau- vais, Indlan guide, alleged by Mr. Still- man to be the father of 3 year old Guy Stillman. p Throughout the guizzing, which is to be resumed fomorrow, Mrs. §tillman held herself nnocent of wrongful conduct with Beauvals. Her feeling toward the guide, she- described ‘ as ““friendly-—such as woman would have toward a servant. Mrs. Stiliman- admitted that when Guy was born she sent a telegram to Beau- vals reading: “Black Bear arrived.” Similar messages were desaptched to her daughter Anne and son “Bud,” she added, explaining that when the four of them- were in Canada the previous sum- mer it was agreed that if the new-born habe was a zirl the messafes would. read “White Bear,” and if, a boy “Black Bear.’ TNCIPIENT REBELLZONS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF MEXICO Mexico City, May 11.—(By The A. P.) President Obregon 1s experiencing an- other flurry of rebellion in scattered dis- triets of the republic similar to that of last fall which he quieted down by firm || measures in which firing squads figur- ed_prominently, During the past fortnight in Tamau- lipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Durango, Puebla, Vera-Cruz, Tabasco and Oaxaca varjous small bands have risen. ~These baods are not considered seriously here, but they are causing irritation to the central government. Federal troops are | pursuing the rebel factions with indiffer- ent success, but ufi.um Heres that the next few days will witness a determined drfve against all Gostile groups. Princo of Wales Sgmior Grand Warden London, May 11—No aun vt it British Freemasonry coiid be of more in terest to hundreds of thousands all ove the world than that just!sent out fro. London. The grand master. the Duke « Connaught, at the annual festival of th grand lodge, ammounced, through Loru Ampthill, pre-grand master, that the grand master had selected the Prince of ‘Wales to be senmior grand . warden and Lord Birkenhead junior grand warden. The announcement was greeted with fin ‘cheers and salvos of applause. AN 11-MOUR DEBATE ON ican W, -{ ‘Mien’Tdin, May 11 (By the A. P).— orts. from:the two sectiosn of the | Although formall from the TARIFE 1N THE sExatE|Dall Elreann's peace committee; which | military ‘y.murfi.. of 'Manchuria, Gen- - announced yestesjay its inability 4o | eral Chang Tso-Lin, defeated near Peking ‘Washington, May 11.—The senate had | i1d: a5 Yea, a basis for agréement be-|last week Dy the Torces of General Wu another eleven-hour kession today with | (Ween the two factions in southern Ire. | Pei-Fu, apparently intends to attempt a the tarift bill, but égain made compara- | '2Nd, Were submitted ‘to the Dail to- | final stand at Luanchow, about 65 miles tively little progress. s most important | Y- s south of the Great Wall on the Mukden action was the approval, 35 to 24, of a| THe Teports showed that the .nego- | rallway. § committes amendment proposing to re- | Uations had broken down on the ref _The Manchurian gerieral is still trans- move nitrate from the freg list and to|Of the anti-treaty party to accept the | porting troops from Mukden to the point make it dutiable at one cent a pound. | Preamble of ' the proposed agreement, |and hi§ generals are sending trucculent Four repubiicans—Borah, Idaho; Cap. | Which would have caused It to admit | messages from Kalping saying they will per, Kansas; LafoTette, Wisconsin, and |(hat the majority of the Irish: peoplé | reat as enemies any foFeign troops that Norris. Nebraska—voted against the|Were for the treaty, and on the ex- [may actompany the Chib-Li forces to amendment, and two democrats—Brous- | PTéssed belief of ‘the antl-treaty faction | that region. Chih-Li troops are fow de- sard, Louisiana, and Kendrick, Wyoming | that it- was useless to continue ‘the ne- | tralning just this side of Tangshan, 70 | —supported it. . gotiations, “because the other side is | miles northeast of Tien Tsin, and are re- Explaining. the amendment, Senator | MOTe concerned with committig us to | ported to be preparing for-an enveloping McCumber, republican, North Dakota, i | 2ccéptance of the treaty than with work- | movement against Kaiping. charge of the bill, said ammonlum nitrate | ing_out the detailed scheme.’ The American missionaries at Chang- Wwas one of the items on which the com-| The Dail fifally adjourned until Wed- | Li were ordered to withdraw today. mittee had “wobbled,” proposing first|{nesday mext- to enable the- committee | The situation at Mukden was reported that it be on the free list. He explained | to contiuue its effort to find a solution. | quiet yesterday evening, but the news of | that this jtem was regarded as being in — s the mandate dismissing General Chang the “twilight zone” between the free list [ DAIL EIREANN IN SESSION (T#o-Lin apparently had not been re- and the protection list and told the sen- LESS THAN ‘AN HOUR | célved. ate that the placing of a duty on it would 2 & malke mecessary a compensatory duty on explosives. After the vote, Senator King, democrat, Utah, who led ‘the fight against the pro- posal, sald he wanted to congratulaté the republicans of - the agricultural tarift bloc “for standing by the farmers, road builders and others who use explosives and dypamite and tor making this pres- ent to the trusts.” X Senator Frelinghuysen, New Jersey, & republican ‘of - the finance committes, urged the amendment, declaring that the Quty was necessary.to protest from the German nitrate trust the nitrate industry bullt up in th!s country during the war. He added that tne 1ssue ‘would have a bearing on the Muscle Snoals project. At the suggestion of Senator S'mmons, democrat, North Carolina, the senate de. ferred action on ammonium phosphate and” ammonium sulphate. Senator Sim- mons said that consideration of these litems would open up the-whole fight over free fértlliger ‘materials and that time would be saved by postponing action uatil the senate reached the potash schedule with its proposals for duties on that commaodit; STRONG TESTIMONY IN CASE AGAINST WILLIAM BLIZZARD in, May U—(By Thb A P: Albany, following an attack He was 52 years old. : A Chicago, May 11 Federal agents, at the direction of In-leaders were l:ll::-i_-l=~u ternal Revenue Collector Haton selzed 47lat a speclal e barrels of gin in a New Haven warehouse | tonight in conneetion. to: collect federal taxes laid against the |of Ter ance 3 Tquor. Lybud, Cokeville, Wyo., once reputed a8 altorney. hang-out of “bad men elected Mra. Ethel Stoner for mayon Mrs, J. D. Nob- Jitt -and Mrs. = Richard - Roberts were named to the city council. The wife and three children of K, C. Elliott are dead and Elliott is fn a crifical <Condition as the result of a kerosene ex- plosion in their home on a ranch near Blush Springs, Colo. C. 0. Prest of Kenmore, - left Curtiss Field, near Buffalo, in a. biplane on a 5,000 gile flight to Afiska and Siberia. He pldns to follow the government mail Toute west to Chicago and Salt Lake City. Among those mamed'in” the trus Bifis, Muder, president of thé Hulldihg Councll,” “Blg Tir" Murphy, of the gas workers' union, and Corpelius . “Con” Shea. who directed the teamsters’ strike in- 184 All are now I the custody of the police, having been .czptured in- a raid on union headqcarters yesterday. The siaying of Lyons followed a series of bombings, blamed by the police on la= bor wurfare in_the buliding industry, An- other policeman_was slain and a third injured in a running plstol -bastle with four bombers in an automobile. ~ The_ killings . were followed by pokce Taids on unfon headquarters and saloons known as centers for the: gunmen and ‘borcbers. More than 150 'persons . were taken Into custody, of whom 36 sought m:s release toddy on WHts of habeas corpus, . Describing crime_ eonditions in Chicago as “a réign of terror” and “akin to trea- son in_time of war” Judges Kickham Scanlon ‘and Joseph David’refused to re- lease any of the prisoners, E “We are in a state of anarchy that ap- prosches in intensity the condition that ——tt NEWSPRINT PAPER STRIKE IS PROBABLY AVERTED Dublin, May 11 (By the &. P.).—The session of the aDil Eifeann today oecu- pled less than an hour. ‘The reports from| _ - the varlous participants 1o the peace| New York, May 11.—With seven of the conference revealed a -break on funda- |largest newsprint paper manufacturers in mentals. The republicans wiil not agree | agreement with fheir unlonlzec skilied to a settlement of the situation on any|Workmen upon & wage scale-for the com- terms which involve their admission that|ing year, the possibility »f a strike an the Anglo-Irish treaty Is acceptable to the indasery tonight restad upon the the people or that its endorsement by. uu] action-of the unskilied crafta. Dail Eireann has altere the situation. | '~ Three compaiiles; independeutly of-the There-was an almost complete agree- | “arbitration group,” today signed con- . ment in the Dail Eireann for an.adjourn- | tracts which include both skilled and un- ment for a week in order to allow. the| skilled labor.- Four others. nave indi- peace committee to try again’ to smooth | cated a readiness to sign. over the difficuity. Nevertheless the op- | The skilied and semi-skilled position to adjournment showed the re-| signed articles today with se: publican section itself divided into more | panies who remained in the “arbitration moderate and more extreme sections. | §roup” of manufacturers. The agree- Seamus ‘Robinson, who commands an im-| ment provided a minimum of 3§ cents portant part of the dissident army in|An hour for semi-skilied men, and rang- Tipperary, wanted the real issue faced|ed upward through the dozen crafts rep- tmmediately, while Harry Boland favored | resented in the industry, to a maximum 4 new attempt to bring about. ce. scale of $1 an hour for paper makers The attempt at army unification also | 20d power house men. has falled thus far, and pending the set.| All demands of the mahufacturcrs for tiement of the political situation it is not | general” wage ardit:tions were —with- intended to further pursue the unification | 4rRWn, when the unskilled and semi- negotiations. skilled workers agreed to eliminate the Nothing definite has been settled even | UnSkilled men from consideration in the concerning the true now in existence, but | ¢W contract - it probably will continue in force, 1t hag| A strike is still possible as a result of been agreed between the politicians o | Ull% action, according to John P. Lurke, suspend all public meetings until this| DCEident of the Internatlonal Brother- queston Is threshed out, probably next|Nood of Pulp, Sulphide and Paper Work- Wednesday. ers, representing 30,000 organized men SRy who are classed os unsilled. They have decided not to be dropped by the other BEO ROREMEN WoLXnES untons without physical protect, he BY A BOMB IN BELFAST | rerted. Mr. .Burke declared that such the manufac- Belfast, May 11.—A bomb was thrown | turer 'determinations’ to insert an open at a tram car depot this evening. Two|shop wedge In the Induztry by paying workmien were wounded severely and oth-| common labor accerdifig to localities, fore- ers slightly injured. & special constable | cast the end of the pulp and sulphide (nearby was wounded by a Tifle shot. The,| unis the ultimate disintegration of police and. soldiers were engaged - for M tion labor’ fo “the paper in- more than two hours tonight trying to| dustry. quell ‘persistent shooting in the Marrow- bone district. The only casualty report-|NO SERIOUS IRREGULARITIES ed up to midnight was a girl who was IN ENGRAVING BUREAU wolinded in the knee, P MERGER OF LACKAWANNA WITH BETHLEHEM STEEL Three prominent nlenistn prescribed “Isolation and rest' for Father Lorenzo Perosi, the noted composer of church music and conducter of the famous Sls- tine chapel choir in Rome. - The death was annoanced of Rev. T. Morris Tefry, 92, one of the oldest mem- bers of the New York East conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at his home In Brooklyn. unions cont. ‘A former hotel, known as the Windsor house, two tenement houses and a large garage were destroyed by fire In West Acton, Mass. @t a loss estimated at $100,000. , government s2ems to ba. broken down.” said Judge Davld in suncrior court. “If these men Wwoere a part of the conspiracy to take human-fife. they are as guilty as those wh) fired the guns and threw the bombs. They should te convicted and hanged.” ¥lat denials of any knowledge of law- smess wer: made by several of those Edward Benolt and Michael McOarthy, | Iaborers, were killed on the Boston wa- | terfront when they wore caught between cars of cement that were being switched in a dealer's yard. Charlestown, W. Va., May 11 (By the A. P.)—A new step In the state's case| against Billlam Blizzard, charged with treason, was brought into testimony td- day when S, P. Embry, of Clothier, de- clared more than 100 shots were fired in- to his automobile on the night of August 22, by @ group of armed men in the road. Alva Rowe, another witness on! the stand late today, testified that the armed men concerned in the march and flghting around Blair, “stemed to listen to Blizzard and seemed to..be under him.” Embry, besides testifying as to the shooting up of his automobile, which oc- curred on the road mear Clothler, also told of being forced as. conductor of a freight train to make a trip with his train gathering up men from Whitesville and cther points to be taken' to Jeffrey, one of the base points of the miners’ forces, during the fighting. Row coal mind of Blair, testified that Jmm Morrison, president of the local union, ordered him and others to guard the roads, about a week before the fight- ing began. - Morrison styled himself ma- jor and issued orders to all the armed men about Blair, he sald late ‘The £peakcr also sald that C. Frank Keeney and Fred Mooney, district officers, could take no part in the fighting and would | have to adopt a hands-off policy, becauss thiy were needed to “carry tnis thing on? afterwards. Granite cutters, on strike since April 1 because of a wage reduction, are now re. celving strike pay of $1.50 a day, Secre- |* tary George Evans of the Granite Cut- | HELD FOR COMPLICITY IN ters’ union announced. $500,000 BOND ROBBERY New York, May 11—Henry Hissch, a diamond dealer, was. arrested late today on charges of having acted in coneert with Arthur F. Chase, now-under artest here, and Mr. and Mrs. John W. Varde- man, held in Savannah, Ga. on charges ‘of robbing the Chase Nnm:? bank: of $500,000 in bonds. 7 ~ Chase, ‘formerly employed at the bamk, Wwas. said by. the poiice to have, confess- e stealing the bonds.as they Ayere about to be shipped-to_the National Shawrmut bank In Boston, and to have subsgituted for ‘them a bundle of- torn' newspapers. He implicated Hirsch and the Varde- mans in his confession, It wis assert- Four armed robbers attempted to steal | a valuable stock of wine In the cellar at Eden HIll, Stockbridge, Mass., summer home of Judge Charles Mayer of New York and Washington. The fiest European statue to a living American” has been erected by Hungary in homor .of James A. Pedl 1 Colonel Henry G. Learnard and Lieu- tenant Colonel Wilson U. Burt left Bos- ton for Concord, N. H., where they will sclect a camp and a range for the field artillery of New England & Moss iR St Hirsch's arrest foliowed several hours' o e ot wm;',‘.n'),f“::D::‘c::' (aska | questioning at police headquarters, wnere York that his company had completed | he Was taken by two detectives. 'megotiations with the - Dethlchem Steel | Meanwhile, Chase was arrdigned be- Corporaticn for a merger of the two|fore Magistrate Corrigan on a short af- Sacpovations: fidavit charging suspicion of grand ar- Detectives said that ali-but $89, After discussing the punishment or| 000 of the bonds had been recovered, but suicides in the hereafter Charles Rushton, [ Chase was held in $75,000 bail for a farmer, of Gasseits, Rolin Jacquitn, 40 | further hearings and went back to the of Walilngford, Vt., hanged himself early | Tombs. Wednesday in Rushton’s barn by means of a chain attached to a beam. ‘Washington,” May 11.—The repart of th; special committee named by Secre- tary Meilon to make an inventory of the tock of the bureau of engraving. ama printing. after & shake-up in the person- nel there by crder of President Harding. has beon virtually compleied, it was said tonight _at thc treasury. Accerdiag to treasury officials the. in- ventory ‘wili siow no serious irregulari- ties, although * is expected a number Af minor diserepancies in the milllons of dollars supplies charged to the sureau wili be revorted. The comyieted report. offictals said, which will itemize the stock of the great plant cuecked agamst the books, prob- ably whi be submitted to Mr. Mellon to- morrow Who Wil in turp transmit the re- sults of the inventory to President Hard- ing. 1o view cf the president’s absence from taw city over the week-end, it 15 belleved prchabie that the report will not be nade public for several days. While the compicted report is not yet avaliable, cfficiais declared It would bea~ out Mr, Melen's statement that minor isorepancies occurring in the bureau have not been »f sufficlent importance to substantiate rumere that the country was “ficoded” with duplicate govern- ment bonds and counterfelt currency and starups. New York, May 11 (By the A. P. Purchase of the Lackawanna Steel com pany of Lackawanna, N. Y., by the Beth- lehem Steel corporation, involving the use of Bethiehem 7 per cent. preferred and class B common stocks in payment for the properties, was announced late today by Eugene G. Grace, president of’ the Bethiehem organization. News of the merger, ‘which became known just before the stock ~market closed, gave Wall street a real thrill. Lackawanna Steel made 2 net gain of 7 points, closing at 65 3-4. There were 73 sales, totalling 17.100 shares, in the last hour, the largest sale of 1,400 shares be- ing disposed of at 66, the top price and a new high, record for the year. The pre- vious high was 61. The day’s sales were 22,600 shares. There was less activity in Bethlehem Steel, Which closed at 79, the top price and a net gam of 1 5-8 points. Of the day’s trading of 11,000 shares, 4,700 were disposed of in the final hour. Shares of the Republic Iron and Steel company and the Midvale Steel company, the oniy stocks in addition to the Lackawanna which were included in the proposed mer. ger of seven indenendent steel companies, and traded in on the big board also tions and radio cffices which Kept in com | FIO%ed Supstantial gains, RS raunication with the blimp. It was found| ;"% % - - ver, to despatch air- -2 planes or otaer himps to her assistance. Army officers refused to make public the names of the crew although it was said that Lieutenant Olmstead was at the wheel during the fiight. that Mrs. Vardeman went to Hirsch' office the day after the -robbery with Federal ngents in charge of Jomathan | $31,000 of the bonds and ssked him to Eno, pronlbition enfircement officer for | convert them into cash. She told him Connecticut, raided a Chinese laundry in | Chase said, that Hirsch had declared he North Haven late Wednesday and seized | didn’t have the momey but told her to equipment and materials for illicit liquor | come .back later. . making, One hundred gallons of grain| According to her story, says Chase alcohoi were confiscated. confession, she wemt back but was at- tacked outside the door and the bonds The report of the Massachusetts state | were stolen. board of parole issued, shows th: 23] Hirseh denied. the stody today. H men and women were released on le | aid he had known the woman both as | from prison during the year 1921 and|Mrs. Hollis and Mrs La Blanche and ‘mn the releases of 255 of these were re- | admitted she-had come to him asking | ‘tederll grand -jury charging ‘the com: ipany and the mayor as an individual voked subsequently. him to cash the bonds. with ‘sale of beer of more than the legai alcoholic content. The supreme council of the Maose ar- AEMY PLANE ADRIFT OVER OCEAN WITH ENGINES DEAD Hampton, Va. May 11—The army blimp A-4 arrived safely at Langley| Field late today after having drifted for hour and 2 half over the ocean off Cape Henry with .ier engines dead. The craft! drifted to sea before & four-mile north- wost breeze until repairs were made, when she turned her nose toward shore. | The crew of five were none the worse for their expience. The cngine trouble developed about 3.39 o'clock in the afternoon and for a time consideratie ‘anxlety was felt for the craft and its occupants py shore sta- State Forester Willlam A. L, Bazeley of the Massachusetts state department of conservation ordered the . stats forest ‘warden to cancel all fire permits and to issue no more untH further orders. —_— NEW JERSEY POLICE SEEK ASSAILANTS OF TWO GIRLS Newark, N. J., May 1l—New Jer- sey police conducted a widespread search today for a man, or two men, who at- tacked two girls on lonely roads mnear here yesterday. Miss Ethel V. Weidberg, a New York writer, who is a guest at_a hotel in Caldwell, reported she was kidnapped by a well-drensed man who drove an ex- pensive touring car. She was walking along a lonely road, she said, when the car came up Dehind her. - The man jumped out, selzed her and dragged her into the machine. For two miles he drove rapidly, she said, un- tll she finally got a hand free, wrenched the steering. wheel from his grasp,and sent the car careening into a swampy ditch. 275 WAR FRAUD CASES _ TO RECOVER $192,000,000 Washington. M2y 11.—Urging speedy action by congress on his request-for fund of $50) 00F for Investization and prosecutien of wer frands, Attorney Gen- eral Daugherty 101d the house papropru- tions comninittee todey that (275 camwe were pendiny and that the government stood to recover approximately $192.- 000.000, ¥ This total, larger_than thet givén by the attorney general In a letter to Presl dent Harding transmitted to the house carller in the week indicated, members said, the !mperative need of a proper force to handle the litigation, much of which will soon be ready for the courts. Mr. Daugherty indicates”that he pro- posed to set up a special “wir frasud ih- vestigation and prosecuting force” with orders to speed up cases. CONDITION OF NEW YORK FEDERAL RESERVE BANK The two masted schoomer, Grand Des- ert, owned in the Magdalene Islands, Que., and bound from there to Port Elgin, N. B., with a cargo of herring, is a tot: wreck at Bay Fleld, on the North Prince Edward Island shore. New York, May 11—The statement of condition of the Federal Reserve bank of New York, at the close of business May 10 shows: Total gold reserves 31.\30.034.‘& 6. Total Teserves $1,156,554,592.61. Bills discounted ‘secured by government ‘war obligataions: For members $30,067.271.26. All others $17,994)713.09. Bills bought in open market $41,904,- 264.32. Total bills' on hand $89,956,248.77. Total earning assets $362,511,698.17. < Uncollected items $99,752,465.78. She ran back to the hotel where 2 Due to members: Reserve account | searching party was organized. -The $734,316,278.46.~ searchers found thetracks of the car Tatal deposits $765,062,322.19. but the man bad got the machine free F. N. notes in actual circulation $619,- | and escaped. 313,799.00. A little later a nurse employed by Ratio of total reserves-to deposit and | Rudolph P, Compton of Montclair, re- P. R. note liabilities combned 83.5 per | ported she had béen attacked by a man cent. “|'near Cedar Grove: She was' picking 3 — flowers, ‘she sald, when the man, well- FIVE FOREST FIRES STILL dressed and S e sbeut 80, leaped RAGING 1IN RHODE YSLAND | from behinl some bushes. Bt o 2 he disappeared, Providence, .-T, May 11.—One man | After & short struggle he dlsapp was burned to death, six farm houses and | S1®-S2¢- many other bufldings were: destroyed and thousands of brush and timberland ‘were swept cver in five forest fires that are stil] raginz D this state tonlght. . Ap- o7y paratus frem central ‘mmnmn"u as-| Hartfora May 11. sisting rural forces in-widely separated|of New:Mliford, state bank commissioner, distriots. g today sent his resignation to Governor Late today the entire constractlon force | Lake, to be effective June 1. He is Lo butlding the Kent dam at the ~Scituate | become president of the Eastern Bankers' reservofr suspended work: to fight fires, | corporation of New York. - anl at Woonsicket a textile mHi clrsed Commissioner Sturges is 55 years old dovn while operatives turned fire fight-|and -has been in the banking business 29 ers. | years. . He was cashidw of the Pirst Na- An unidentified man Jost his life while | tional bank of New Milford when former asisting volunteer forces at Burrilville | Governdr Holcomb appointed him state this evening. 3 bank commissioner-in 1915. BILL FOR AMNESTY OF ESPIONACE LAW CONVICTS Washington, May 11.—A blll -granting AN UNUSUAL RULING BY COMPENSATION COMMISSIONER Walter B. Clark, an attorney of Boston surrendered on a New York indictment warrant charging use of the malls to de- fraud in connection with the promotion of the Century Consolidated Ofl' com- pany. Waterbury, May 11.—A precedent for compensation commissioners throughout the state was established today by Com- pensation Commissioner Frederic M. Wil- llams in the case of Vincent Masotta against the American Pin company. In a finding and award the commissioner sets forth that a laborer injured whiie at work shall be paid half pay during the perlod. of disabllity on the basis of six days a week, regardless of whether the | } factory he was empivyed in had been run- njng ‘on a six-day bass. “The American Pin_company is expeot- ‘ed. to appeal the case to the supreme court. At the time he was injured Ma- sotta was working four days a week and through counse] 'appiied for a half pay rating on: the basis of six days. The commissioner decided in his favor. DAMAGE BY FOREST FIRES DRIVEN BY HIGH WIND Charles H, Campbell, 57. for the last 16 years proorietor of Hotel Vesper at Ol Orchard, Me., and known to summer vis- itors from all over the country, dropped dead in front of the post office there. Because persons made sick by chesp liquors’ weré ‘ofowding the City hospital, Boston, ta the exclusion of other patients, Mayor Curley announced that such cases hereafter would .be . sent. to- the Bridge- water state hospital for freatment. Mayor Frank X. Schwab, president of the Buftalo .Brewing -company; - must stand trial on Indictments returned by-a dollar appronriation will be reported io the house Saturday, Chalrman Madden declared, and every effort made to pass it _early next week. PRESIDENT AND PARTY _ A TO VISIT SENATOR EDGE Washington, May 11.—President and Mrs. Hardlnig, actompanfed by a party of friends will go to New Jersty tomwre row by aulomodils ta be. the muests over the week-end of Semator Edge_at the ‘Sen’ View .Golt club. In the paFty. will e~ Secretary and Mrs. Weeks. Speaker and Mrs. Gillett, Senator and Mrs. Fre- nghuyseh, Senats {bps. “Mr. " and Mrs. E. B. Mclean of Washington ; Tirig- ader General Dawes Brigadier Genaral Sawyer, the. president's personal shysi- olan; Secretary Christian and-Jiobert A. Zachary, private seorstary 1o Senator Fidge. Attorney (General Daugherty -will join the party from New York atter their STATE BANK COMMISSIONER - Worbenter. Maky . 8 1L oDHven By STURGES HAS BESIGNED 2 high wind, forest fires, breaking out sgain and . agaln and still burning at midnight, caused damage estimated at from $75,000 to $100,000 in' Auburn, Rochdale, Charlton, Oxford, = Douglas, Dudley, Ashland and Pascoag. R« I, and Thompson and Wilsonville, Copn., to- night. One man was missing in Doug- las. & Fifteen square miles were burned over in the Connecticut fire. south of Dud- ley. : “At no time" Insisted Hirsch, “did she show me the bonds or handie them in my oftice” der has authorized the lease for two years with an agréément to purchase for $G0,- 000, of a winter resort property at Ore ange, Park, Fla, near, Jackscnvills for use as a home for the aged. 3 Mrs. Clara M. Gage, widow of Arthur N. Gage, wealthy resident of Pasadena, who_dled May 3, is forbidden to remarry for the. terms of Gage's will, filed in court in.Los. Angeles. It she dlsobeys, her share of the Jarge estate-will 'go to her busband's half-broth Gage. MES. HELEN JOY LEE GETS DIVORCE FROM “GOLF MANIAC” WORST BLIZZARD OF YEAR IN S Walter T |, g55664 BIBLES WERE WESTERN- SOUTH DAKOTA o CIRCULATED. LAST- YEA! Detroit, May 11.—Mrs. Helen Joy Lee, An elaborate plan to develop New York | New York, May 11.—A total of 4.855. daughter of Henry B. Joy, Detroit cap- amnesay to all persons held ifi federal | Deadwood, South Dakota, May 1l.—|city and adjacent territory in New Jer-|664 B'bles were circulated the past year. itallst, today was granted a decree of | prisons for violation of war-ttme~es- | With two feet of snow y_ fallen, | ‘se’ yand’ Connecticut, making it mose] 3 a e divorce fromr Howard B. Lee, whom she | pionage laws wi . _introduced in the sen- | following a 'terrific rain, hall, thunder i ate today by Senator Ladd, -republican, |and- lightning storm last night, western In her bill for divorce. Mrs. Lee as- | North Dakota, who: estimated that 113 |South Dakota today Was experiencing :ztegh lh‘;:l .;xer l\::&d nesl:‘c’zefl! !:r prisoners woplld be affected. He said ~one-of the worst bilzzards of the year, An I3 ren, nding.much of his | the bill will: not cover cases of The_storm was continuing with severity. Smegms e £plt oks " 7 Yor of communicating with the “lateteday. - . charged with being a “goif maniae. et o Aol REaNad by Runsell Sage foundation, was revealed at-a meetifix In New Tork of architacts, |1 Ording t annual report s pbie st v b it . where 2,362,730 were ’ s $ finkvmm? S 5 4. Mader, in ‘his innocence, dlm“ H Chase, in the alleged. confession, said | compi A blll providing for the half milion| for any Inf>rmation | Test and conviction of the twe polieemen, s 2 ‘Murphy. who it undér bond after | sentenced to seven in the tiary in.connecrior & $400.000 roltery, declarcd he had no of anx act ¢f volence. Although the cou:ts were with writs of habeas corpus arrested, in every instance | was asked for further I priseners were remanded to ana_ the writs contihued. Nine men discharged, however, when the ‘police ported there wag not sufficient to detain them, two others were opportunity to securs their releass $5.000 bonds and fourteen other were set for hearing tomorrow. e Among those discharged was James Conroy, secretary of the council. The case of m Eéneral organizer for ‘the American eration of Labor, was set for e the anthork- It was not contendéd by tles' that Mader, Shéa or Murphy ually had participated in the sla; theit’ arrest and the action by the jury are in the same course of dure followed at the time of the Ha market riot of 3¢ years ago. X the anarchists m«;:' convicted .‘nr' ed or sent to penitentiary massacre of policemen at that time wefe ever charged with actually -fi throwing the bomb which wounded policemen, eight of them dying when they were sent to break up an ame archists’ meeting at Haymarket Squase. The leaders of the anarchists found guilty of murder for having cited violence by their speechey or and for abetting either in secret atlon or by words the attack on the po- L, tor the poliss DAVISON ESTATE ESTIMATED BETWEEN $12,000,000 AND $15,000,000 - New York, May 11.—Frederick bée Davison, youthful T trom Nassau county, wiil be able to. tinue his political career with $4. 000 of the fortune amassed by his er. This sum wiil come to him e death of his mother. I This became known today, when the will of Henry P. D-vll-n—hm anthroplst, and head of the . Red Cross during the world filed hers for probate, placing the of the estate In a trust fund for the widow and her children until her death, when the residue after! the $4.500,000 4% equal shares. e~ Mr. Davison, who at Ms country estate in Locust Valley last Saturday Qurig nan operation for tumor of the brain, left no public bequests, as it explained he had given during his as much as he could afford for charitatiié Purposes. B Wiiliam C. Helkne!, the banker's | Tetary, who was left $20,000, said eider son would continue his duties Albady and would seek re-election the fall. A Yale graduate, he has eted a course at the Columbia school. . No one ofticially wauld estimate tHE value of the estate left by Mr. Davison, but in some quarters it was placed &t between $12,000,000 and $15,000,00. Those close to the banker. however, re= somed that the major share would be given to the elder boy, on the theory that his earning capacity mighe have been impalrc# by severe injurlég’ sustained when in an airplane sccident during the world war. L= THREE PERSONS KILLED BY Omaha, May 11.—Three persons are known to have been kiiled and & Injured as a resuit the tornado Holbrook, terday. Heavy damaze to farm and_livestock also is reported Estimates place the damage &t ington, Neb., at more than $i90,000, $95,000 FOR MEMBERSHIP - NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE New York. May 1 beruhip in the New Tork stoek exchiuats stlil are on the up grade. Willlam A. Larned, former -GJ tennis champion, today sod his seat Frederick F. Bach for $95.000, as pared witli the previous price of The record price for a stock seat, - $115,000, was pald during height of war speculation, GOVERNMENT 1S ASKED TO DEPORT LADY Passaic, N. J, May 11—The overnment was asked to depert Astor as an undesirable alien by fean War Veterans, in a od-tonight. - The actlon of the fojlowed a lvely discussion over that lNe members of the G. A. R. been Insulted.in speeches made. Astor during her viait to this —_— GLENY E. PLUM SUFFERS © ¥BOM AFPFECTION oF Washington, May 11 coinsel for the sixtéen iabor orzanizailons and ceiecrated. “Plumé plan” of frution and ownership. was Aay by his* physician to be bume here. He s teciicn of the heart. M. health caused him witis (i rafiroad labor : fey i mre S - omITU, David €. _ Beuth Ni Sanford, years N R TEAN