Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 24, 1922, Page 1

Action Taken at a Modini in Dublin Yesterday—Agreement Cortains a Provision for a Coalition Cabinet — A Movement Has Besn Started to Purge Ulster of Hostile Malcogtgnts—Constabless Have Taken 300 or More Prisonets; Mostly Officers and Men of the Irish Republi- can Army. May 33.—(By Toies TR)— Fhelbat its mesting t con- business to approval of the De resment for _the elec- i a coalition cabinet. There was nderstanding’ between the leaders here should be no speeches, Mr. De that speeches could fundamental. differenc- The Ar -Collins endorsed this, but re- 1 great appk when_he urged the )¢ the agreement in creating stable tions in the Country, thus enabling Irish people to face any future sit- Sation De Vilers was careful to phasize that ¢ said on the Uljter situation, but, not- standing Mr. Ds Valera's request, some of the norShern delegates insisted on pointing out the serious-position of the northern Catholles. Eventually -Mr. De Valera undertook te permit i, state- ment revolting facts concerning the atrocities, but nothing must be _said sbout policy. because on poilcy the two sections which will form the coalition cabinet have not yet réachhed a common ground. No reference was made to to- Gay's mews from Belfast although the proclamation issued in that city makes Uable to_srrest évery six-county dele- gate who attended the conventlon. In the present circumstances the lead- s have agreed to refuse to grant in- terviews to the press, but the genmeral ession everywhers is that the north- action increases the diffi- and endangers the prospects of ALE ARRESTS OF MALCONTENTS IN ULSTER (By the A P.)— mdge prisoners were Ulster today. ¥ comprised for the most .part officers and men of the Ifish republican army. a8 well as members of the Binn Fein and other orgn:fll::n opposed to. s he: PATHER OF DROWNED BOY ~-@NARGED WICH MURDER Tuckerton, 'N. J., May 23 —John Behe-’ mi a tarmer, tonight was arrested on a charge of having murdered his ten year Henry Schémi, whoss body “was lake near hers today. He at his home near here, rush: stomobolis as crowds of ered, and ed into an neighbors g sounty jaf The boy's body was found after posses of officlals and citizens HEd gought n ¢ taken . to the swamps and woods of the sur- 1 country for a week An mutopsy performed tonight shoftly beford the ar- rest of the father showed that the boy. 14 not died by drowning, officials an- nounced. There wers marks on the-head and face. The anthorities declare that when last seen alive May 8, Henry was fleeing from home with his father in pursuit. The boy had been chastised following trouble he had had with his teacher at be local school of the arrest spread quickly surrounded the Tuckerton he arrival of the prisoner. The authorities fearing violence, rushed Sebemi to the county fafl at Toms River. —_— ey MANAGER OF MOVING PICTURE HOUSE IN MERIDEN ARRESTED Meriden, May 23.—Charged with hav- ne state theatre laws with he mile of admissions i excess awfully determined capacity..A. ders, manager of the Life moving theatre, was Srrested here tonight 1o state police. He is aceured. of haviug #old 104 admissions. more than s theatre seats, and is charged with waving failed to Have posted in a coh- spleuous place in the )y & notice show g the license and the amount of st ne 7 allowsd. In the licerise issued o siate police it is specified that no ng room may be soid at the thea- \ \ | ENTERPRISE OF PROMINENT ACTORS AND AUTRESSES Tork, May 23.—An ambitions the- nterprise. backed by two-score t actors and actresses with an nitial pledge of $33,300 for the oper- stion of a theatre in New York exciusive- I by members of the profession and he production of the best.plays, Was. announcged tomight by the Actors® Equi- y assoclation. It will be.undertak . Fquity Players, InE, organi h Francis Wilwon, president. Eighth Séfeet theatrs had been Jeased for a yesF from August 1. it was announced, and the season will begin on October 15. REDUCTION IN_AGENCIES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Des Molnes; da, May 23 (By_the A. P.)—After a Jomg debate, the remaindér of, the Stone-report, entalling & reduc- tion of the agencies of the Presbyterian burch 1n the United tSates of America from sixteen to four and the creation .of a general counell to take oyer the func- lons of executiye commission and the aw Bra movement. wis doptéd i its ¥ toddy by THe' 134N gensral ae- Macon, Gr., négro who was 1w county, s now being hunted by officers of several cagnties and by posses of oitizens. Later reports from Irwinton sail Len- won had been gutrounded In 2 swamp raur mles from that town, No details were given, however, em- the jolnt panel of -eandi- ates should receive full support from A1l sections of the Sinm" Pein brganiza- on disregarding all differences over the reaty. : *stention whs to allow nothing to had contemplated drastic action against the Sinn Fein, it wis the assassination ot W. J. Twaddell, a member of the northern parliament that really decided the government to act promptly. Many of the leading republicans lert Belfast, dreading reprisals, and thus escaped the police net, ? The prisoners will be interned. but the place of thelr interament has at yet been detefmimed. Ballykinlar c is not avallablecas ‘miiltary mup‘? at the present time. L Premier Cralg in pariiament today’ de- clared that the recent 8 rders made it clear that f ion was, necessary ; consequently issucd & new regulation mal mbership. in the Irish republican ap—offense The governmefit ¥ad further decided to arrest a mnuj “of persons long under observation “because it was impossible to allow “sush” Individuals in Ulster to carry on a @fAspiracy against authority. The government would not hesitate to employ fts full power to suppress such conspiracy. The* premier emphasized that, this ac- tlon was not due to- panic, but had been in mind for some weeks, He evidently anticipated. reprisals, for he_proceeded to speak of the military which would be required if there was an invasion In strength against Ulster territory. An arrangement had been conecluded with the British government, and he had re- cefved a definite promise that hé had only to ask for more regiments and he would get them, POSITION OF CATHOLICS IN ULSTER DESPERATE Belfast, May 23.—The Cathdlic pro- tection committes has gent the following telegram to Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary for the colonfes: “From the 13th to the 22d 'of May, 27 Catholies Mave been murdered. Of thes five yere women and two children. Forty-five were wounded and hundreds evicted. The position of Catholics fs desperate.” A series of bomb explostons occurred in Belfast tonight, but so far &8 known. without casualties. Oné bomb was thrown into the Galety theatre and sev- eral others were aimed agalnst private Mouses. There were seven small out- breaks of fire in the course of the ev- ening. y POSSIBILITY OF SPLIT IN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASS'N Et Lous, Mo, May 23.—The -possi- bility that a group of physictans and speclalisis of the rank and file of the American Medical Association in conven- tion here would withdraw and form a separate organization which would not Place restrictions on 'the practice .of “group medicine,” was indicated late to- day when a conference headed by one fmember of the house of delegates and a number—of specialists considered the. question_of withdrawing from the mem- bershi ‘Their actin was prompted by the re- port of thé comimittee on amendments of the constitution and by-laws which the decision of etfiical questions led to several amendments being proposed against certain classes of clinies and pposicians practicing group medicine. Under the constitution of the association, any amendments proposed must lay over for one year before being voted upon. HILDREN CRUSADERS” TO_ TAKE VIGOROYS MEASURES vashington, May 23.—Members of the seif-styled “Children’s Crusade,” com- prising children of , war-time offenders now serving terms in federal peniten- tlaries, announced after a visit today-to the White House that they would not re- turn there agaln “as petitioners” but would adopt “vigorous measures” to ob- tain executive consideration of their plea that the sentences of the war-time of- fenders be reduced “to & Dpeace-time basis." The announcement was made after the party had made their crusade ~to ' the White House without being received by President Harding and had been inform- ed that the president “had mot changed his attitude.” BUSINESS FOR NATIONAL LEAGUE OF MASONIC CLUBS Atiantic City, N. J, May 23.—The National League of Masonic clubs tomor- row will pass upon resolutions urging the establishment of a national home and endorsing the Smith-Towner bill Today four hundred delegates, repre- #enting & membership of nearly a half milifon, pledged themse¥es to American- lzation work throughout the cbuntry among foreigners and lald plans for wider influence in their respective com- munities. The annual parade scheduled for this afternoon was postponed until tomorrow night in order that the six hundred mem- bers of the Police Square club of New York may participate. phiariereianr £ i1 FRIENDS MAKE INQUIRIES ¥OR LEONARD WOOD ‘Washington, May 28—(By the A. P.) —Tte war department was besleged with inquiries today from friends of Leonard Wood in the hope that some word had been received of him since bis yacht was caught in a typhoon near the Island of Mindoro in the Philippines, but tho department had received no advices from Manila. Anxiety was expressed in official clr- - CABLED PARA Political Btorm '1i E: London, May 23 (By the ‘miier LIoyd George's decision to pu Sir. Laming Worthington-Evans, mi for war, to relate the results of the Genoa conference, reserving his own|’ speech uMtil he has heard all that m"fi crities have to say, seems to have rai & " Dittle politieal , storm. .The prime} minister's opponents contend that the country has a right to hear an account of hit wardship from the prime min- ister self and that by the ‘present maneuver he is seeking to gain a tacti- cal debating triumph, whereby he Hhopes: to make the opposition look ridiculous. The. labor and independent liberal par- ties took a step today to force the pre- mier to reconsider the maiter, They 7 5 decided /that “none of thelr: memvers| ' White Plains, N. Y, May 23.—Walter shall speak in the debate until Mr.|S. Ward, wealthy baker's son, who yes- Lioyd George has spoken, and it s re-| terds : ported thaf the eonsarvajives are inc| o ooy surendered Rimself —with - the clined to take a similar ‘coux e, in self-defense, Clarence Peters, an ex- SENATE HAS ADDED A NEW | marine, whom . he charged with black- PROVISION TO TARIFF BILL |mailing him nearly died from - poison about six weeks. This became known late today, when ‘Washington, May 23—A new provision written into the tariff bill today by the ‘hell stated that he had senate, carrics @ ualy of four Rt e i ot Sy S Bt I erpar CENLS | been summoned to the home of young asein or lacterin, a pro-| .rq, and found him writhing on the duct of skimmed milk, used largely in nm:’ Wiir wa empty bottle of poison couting paper. Thy duty was urged as|peside him. necessary to “fost wag represented b the industry whi ks » sonal nion that the r Senator Ladd, febu‘s@ IRy B s lican, North Dakota, as being of import- unce o dairy farmers generally. taking of the poison was accidental,” A committee rate of 45 per cent. ad Dr. Schell said.. ‘I do not know dif- terently and you must belleve & man in- roven Ity. r. valorem gn manufactured carbons, eiect- | Seceqt (o o, B 1% Proven gulty. A Tods and brushes for electric dynamos| ,cnco 2ud’ it Is an easy thing to. get was approved by the ‘senate atfer a mo- |70 20C U oS B0, SEOY VEE g a tlonlw s;mwr Sheppard, democrat, Tex- e : 5 as, to' r tarift, 2 e : o e B e oot IR Sl 1o nuthokitice ~Senator McCumber, in charg the. day checking up tarift bill, moved, and the sensie aerers, | t0ld by Ward, of & running pistol, fight to reduce the rate on optical glass and | With three alleged blackmallers with 45 per cent., an Increaso vr twen per cent,| :‘m o had held a rendezvous, the ni DProposed originally by the committee to|ture of the huia which they had upon ovtical Instruments from the 55 per cent, | him—and which was' alleged to have led over the house. The senate rejected a |t0 & $36.000 payment—remained secret. motion by Senator Sheppard to make the | /In this connection, it was learned that rate 25 per cent. AR shortly Defore the shooting, Ward had Senators McCumber and Frelinghuysen, | received from his ~ father, George S. Tepublican, New Jersey, stated that be.| Ward, millionaire heau of the Ward fore the war this country was dependent | Baking company, then on the liner Ma- upon German for optical glasses and In- | festic, a radio reading: “Not one cent struments and that-the American man- |for blackmail” This message replied ufacturer of optical glass “was’ an in-{to one from his son, telling him of addi: fant Industry” developed during the war. | toinal demands made on him. The committee rate of 30 per cent. ad| The young wife, seen today at her valorem on certain artists’ patnts, an|home in New Rochelle, where her hus- Increaso of § pericent. over the house |band is police {commissioner, professed rate, Was approved after the senate, with- | stoutly her. confidence in him. It was out a roll call rejected a motion by Sen- | evident that the spectacular @evelop- ator Simmons to fix, the ‘duty at 20 per | ments of the last few days had left oeet thelr trace gn her, but dn reply to ques- On motion of Senator Smoot the senate he replied prompt- Teversed its action in rejecting the house §‘,°“ i gt e i Tate of 25 per cent. on stronthum ln‘ mal;ing raliroad signais. The = mittec had proposed a rate of 50 but the.house rate 3o seand spent. aetall the story T have the utmost confidence in my usband. 1 do not believe any woman is_mixed up in the blackmail schem She stated that ghe did not know un- yesterday of the demands that had een made on her husband. She added bz ehe 814, necljow o, iy recevlng By letters from twc men, known onl demne Senate also adopted,”over & sharp | as “Ross” and ~Jack* who were allegsl £ s rotlc objection the committee rated to have been with Peters when he was Of 28 cents a pound on. vermillion reds, a | shot. i q:“l‘sul paints, in lieu of the house carch for the two men, which proved dowr, 81 ty aris & pound after voting | fiuitless in the tenderloin. last/ night. o fetatn pinoton by Senator Sim- |wag pressed today at the Jamaia race 2jn the Underwood-1aw Tate | frack and otler 1esorts af turfmen. : peragnt ad, valosemy It wis understood tnat a cueck was SRR made on a re] that “Ross” ant THE MORSES ARE RESORTING b;::‘k r!xireumlummnh'u 28 o TO OBSTRUCTIVAY TACTICH|nectsd Wich the. Quincy Stables, had in- ‘troduced themselves to young Ward at| Washington; May 23.—Martin J. Gil- 4 the trask. The owner and the trsfher o, former trustes of thie shipping board’ “fiie stables said they never had hear rgency Fleet cbrporation, > of “them, and Ward's .lawyer professed dictment with Charles W. Morse ana|ignorance of why the ftrack should others, should “abandon all'obstructive |NBVe been searched. tactics” and sibmit to a speedy triai, “Ward and Peters had ieén together he feels he has been unjustly indicted,|at @ race track, but Mr, Ward is not a Fletcher Dobyns, spectal assistant to the | habitual race-goer,” he said. Mtorney general, declared today in a| The —authorities of West Chester statement replying to Gillen's published | COUNty Indicated that they were taking accusation that teNimony favorable go|7Othing for granted in the case, but were him was suporessed-by Mr. Dobyns ang|Chetking up on every statement made General Counsel Elmer Schlesinger of the | DY Ward, Who is at liberty under $10,- shippinig board. 000 hail ‘hond. “I have. read the summaries which| They admitted that while many facts have appeared in the press of the state- tallied, they were at & loss to determine Thent of Mr. Martin J. Gillen addressed to| ¥hat had become of the pistol <ith b R b e M e R “When this 1s taken in sonnection with | 6@ the viotim of his alleged biackmail somewhat similir statements {stued iast |PIOt. ~Peters was shot in his tracks, T byt lbert iak M. Cipfioneyy 5 20 Wehiims ome to KL, accorting e sil it mind st hese Sefenaants mave. G| The Savest- wift'be held next wee. barked upon a cimpalgn wh The prosecutor, who nas preferred no Bope to create a public. sentiment nocis charge against 'Ward as yet, did not in- to the action of 'the government In con- | Jicote WHSt his action would be it the seives in four separate juylsdictions... zruum‘i! that he fired in self-defense, as Maine, Massachusetts, Connect; oscllme Washington—and are fightine semca| It beoame known tonfght that the proceedings. Barber and Gibboney. Gy formation that the 25 per cent.” sufficient. 2 statement thdt last week he had shot.| authorities are investigating Marious ton aud certain other defendants have| SLorles concerning Ward's immediate flled pleas in abatement and motions to past which ‘they belleve ‘may bring _a Quash and have resorted to other dilatory | DSATINE 0N the events that led up to {He and obstructive tactics. In the mean- shootine. One of the reports being fn- time they are floodin, St | vestigated is that Peters was present Propaganda 0% e mrees with | i Ward 1n. tho Intisr's Nome last Taws: “If Mr. Gillen and the other defend- d: zixhl a few hours befofe the shoot- ants feel they are unjustly accu ing 4t a “poker party” in which sev- this indictment, then the s’l’m)lests Tm:: &zl other men are sald to have particl in the world 1o do-is for them to aban pated. don all - obstructive tactics and come. g | The police also are investigating a re- | once to a court and jury and have their port that“Ward is indebted in a sum gUllt or innocence defermined. When tng| €X0eeding $40,000 to race frack bat- Dleas in abatement and mdtion to quagy|HNE commissioners. Investigation also were being argued in the federal eourt |!S Deing made of Ward's former activi- in N€w York on last Friday I announced | ties in Plttsburgh where. he lived prior to the court that I was willing to haye | ! M3king his-home in New Rochelle. his case ect down for trial on June 15| Mrs. Ward tonight reaffirmed her con- or July 1st, or any other date‘that was|fdence in her husband, reiterating that nxmeTble to the defendants.” | she did not believe a woman was con- ——— e oerried in the blackmail scheme, but ex- CITY OF BRIDGEPORT SUES pressed apprehension: concerning Peters' ¥ORMER TAX COLLECTO! alleged companlons. v " B SMITH | “ur can never rest in peace as long aa Bridgeport, May 83 those rats.are stfl allve she sald. | Smith, former ux’m,,e;ornu",“’"mfa | White Plains, N. Y., May 25.—John today was made defendantin an actioy | MUSCOWItZ, Who was asleep in the. ga- brought by, the city of Bridgepert to re.| 8% of Clarence W. Eckhardt, befors cover $85,300. In the complaint whose home Peters' body was found, to- to by Jokn A Cornell, commisstones ot | BIERt told-the authoritles that he had not the suberior court, it I alleged. thoy | eard any shots Tuesday morning, when Smith was short in his accounts gn 1919, | 274, claimed to have had a pistol bat- 1920 and 4921, . A writ of atta ¢ | tle with the three men. = Moscowitz slept for $100,000 was filed against property | S1E1LY yards from the scene of the’ sup- fraudulently misappropridted ang | PoS¢d” battle. embeaziod $85,300" while e was ay| M. Eckhardt's house, where ten peo- collector. The action is based .on an|PIc ¥Were @cleep, 18 within 200 yards of audit ‘made by City ~Auditor B-mm{" the scene. Nome heard any shots. Eck- Keating, the complaint says., Tax oy, |hardt declared that he examined the body lector Bdward A. Drew who took offies | °f, Peters the day it was found and saw in January, has used & new set of bm:: no bullet hole.in efther the coat or vest, ot ds ‘understood that the old books | Ly tUSF, WAS one i the undershirt, have been in the auditors hands sincs | V1N WIh the fesh, was burned, in. that tme. Smith was tax collector ., | UCAtINE & shot at close range. No pistol der four republican administratiog |25 found mear the scene and thers was here from 113 to 193 ’ = no glass in the road, although Ward Smith left there “on a vacation” 4n | Dad sald a window in his coupe had been January and as far as is known has not | attered By @ bullet. oniemie clty since then. His wite dald |y o s aat-he, £1077 told by Ward that night that she d o 4 eters accomplices had been R 1968 nk XKuow Whis bo ) sia chmasiine fitu: Tor pix amihe the " shooting are being Investigated by e M ey cles although the hope was held that the yacht had anchored in a sheltered place and that no harm had befallen the governor-general or-his wifs and daugh- ter. ————— OBITUARY. Rear Admiral Henry M. Denpiston. Dobbs Terry, N. Y. Mpy 23 —Rear Admiral Henry M. Deunision, U. 8. retired; died today a:_the home of daughter-in-law, Mrs. Robert L. Dennis- ton. 5 He was born in Washingiony: in June, 1840. Afis grajuating from Yafs univexgity he entsrc? the nited States navy and was retired June 13, N.Y., 1903, MARINE CHARGED WITH KILLING STATION AGENT Washington. May 23.—Orders wers is- sued today by Major General Lejeune, comamandant of the marine corps, for the return to Boston of John Lawthorn, ma- Tine corps private arrested yesterday at the Quantico, Va., marine station in con- mectfon ‘with the killing. of Ralph , W. Brewster, Boston and Maine station agent at Winchester, Mass. Lawthorn will be taken back to the Boston navy yard where he was detafied until recently “under a marine guard. he matier of his surrender to the L—mumu athorities will then De taken up.~ A, the authorities who said they had learn- ed that the ex-marine’s mother had re- ceived a postal vard from him post mark- ed Paris Island, C., only a month ago. It was also said that® Pefers did not Jeave his ).w in Haverhill, Mass., until April 25. postal card to his moth- er was mailed at Parls Island- thirteen days before Peters was killed. - The authorities also are checking the details of Ward's. alleged payments of $30,000 to the blalckmailers, declaring | that Peters' body was clad in clothes patched and worn. He had only §1.32 in his_pocket. S ‘Ward_tonight refused to permit néws- | papermen to look at his motor car. Ask- ed If the glass was still shattered from the bullet which he said had been fired in / (B8 v ' Contest Predicted With House, Which Voted 115,- 000 Men. ‘Washington, May 23.—Provision for a regular army- of 133,000 wien and 12.500 officers was made today bv the senate military committee in virtually =~ com- pleating revision of the annual army appropriation bill. House appropriations Were increas by the senate committee. about $36,000,~ 000. A contest with the nouse as p dicted in view of the house ilmitation the army to 115,000 men -and -1l 000 fricers. BELIEVE A FEDERAL ANTI- LYNCH LAW UNCONSTIRUTIONAL Washington,] May 23.—An _opinion that the anti-lynching bill/ d re- cently by the house is unconstitutional and should not be enacted by congress was submitted today to the senate ju- diclary committee by a _sub-committee headed by Senator Borah, repubiican, ideho. The Dill was discussed at length and the full committee deferred final judgment until tomorrow. e Senator Borah was joined in_holding <he bill wnconstitutional by’ Senators rverman, democrat, North Carolina and hlelds, Qewiiiar, Teunessee. The oth- er subiommittee members, Sterling, republican, South Dakota and Dillingham, - republican, Vermont, were ‘sald not to be in complete disagreement but believed the-bill might well be pass- ed and be sybmitted Ao a test before the supreme court of the United States. Senator Borah and his federal anti-lynching law was beyond the federal - powers, less to present to the court the question anew under the pending bill. tion' of procedure, a decision went over. The bill, introduced by Representative Dyeér, republican, Missourl, and passed by the house, would give the government power to punish members of lynching parties. OPPOSED TO THE RELEASE OF ESPIONAGE CONVIOTS Boston, May 23. American Uni- tarian Association went on reccrd to- day as opposed to a resolution calling for the release of prisoners convicted un- der the espionage act, but not until after 2 warm debate. A resolution calling for the outlawing of war was passed after elimination of a clause to the effect that war should henceforth be considered an Internatlonal crime. The committee on findings did not include in its report of resolutions to be considered the political prisoner reso- lution, saying it could not pass the reso- Jutionbecause of ite ignorance regarding the number of such .prisoners and the charges aginst them. Resolutions calling upon churches to provide for group - discussion and- study of warld questions and’ sending greet- Ings to foreign associations were pa: ed. Dr. Samuel A. Eliot was re-eleéi- ed president. S R NS 2 el Y HELD FOR ROBBING PHYSICIAN IN HARTFORD Hartford, Conn., May 23.—John Nam- row and Harry Thoroux, both of Springfleld, Mass., were charged before Judge Creedon in police court taday with robbing Dr. Ely Morgan, of this eity of $2,300 {n cash and $70,000 in securi- ties on the night of February 1. Both were bound over under $5,000 bail each to the criminal court. Complaint against Bolomon Schorr of New Haven, Harry Maxwell of Springfieid and James D. Swift and William O’'Brien of this city held on the same ccharge, were nolled. Swift was arrested on a charge of theft of an automobile owned by Fred- erick Gray, of Cohoes, N. Y. His case was continued to June Is under $2,500 bond. o i et SUICIDE LEAPED FROM 25TH Senators assoclates con- tended that the supreme court of the United States had decided squarely in 2 Iynching case from Alabama, that a Hherefore it was said that they asserted it would be use- The ques- however, was ques- tioned .by other committee members and federal The New York coffes and sugar ex- change voted to close the exchange on] R ' Casusl detachment 46, officers_and men, left United States Monday. One-thir 3 men are taking German wives. _ ' ‘Monday preceding Memorial day. William G. MecAdoo, Jr., & son of the former &ecretary of the treasury, was ‘married at the Municipal building in New York 'to Mollle Tackaberry Ferguson. - Word of the discovery of lslands it south Pacific hitherto unknown claimed in™the name of the United States was received in Homolulu, T. H. A coliision with an iceberg off Cape N, B was reported by the ship- Ding board steamer West Kebar, bound trom Rotterdam for Montreal. Ethel Kimball, who masqueraded s a,man, marricd another woman last yéar was in the police toils in Boston again ywearing men's clothes, ‘Basil Zacerkivny, of Newington, s to- bacca grower, in a bankruptey petition, gave his debts at $43,258 and his as- sets at $29.060. He is the sixth ‘grower to fall recently. 8T AN The modern flapper was di by the Rev. Almer Pennewell, pastor of -the Covenant church at Evanston, IIL, in a sermon in which he approved short skirts, Dbobbed hair and knickerbockers. The nomination of Monsignor Bermard J. Mahoney as bishop of the Gioeese of Sioux Fal's, N. D., by Pope Pinux was announced. Strikes in the four prinelpal local in- dustrial- plants in Perth Amboy which have been in progress several ‘weeks, were settled on the general basis of an in- crease in pay of five cents an hour. The public in New York, saved over $40,000 over the week-end because in- spectors of the health department refused to allow the sale of chickens whose crops were filld /with sand and gravel. Election of Mrs, Alice Duer Miller, au- thor, and Gano Dunn, engineer, to the board of trustee of Barnard college was announced “yesterday at Columbia uni- versity. % Death came to the housckecper of the late Judge Willlam Hawkins Woods, of Cincinnati, th eday after she Had in- herited his residuary estate amounting to more than $100,000. The Dempsey bill, authorizing improve_ ments for rivers and harbogs, was passed by the house, 209 to 18." Funds | for the improvements are yet to be pro- vided. The, Southern Presbyterian general as- sembly at Charleston, W_ Va., adopted 2 resolution of comity between its churel and the Associated Reformed Presbyteri- an church. A Jury to try J. Thomas Gettigan, of Rever, for the murdeb of his aunt, Mrs. ed in the superior court in Bm Tes- timony was begun immediately. | Developments in the strike of the boot and shoe workers in sixteen shops in Cincinnati, are expected next week, after 2 few days of quiet, one of the manu- facturers said. Two en were burled under twelve tons of Mliquid concrete, and three others narrowly escaped death, when a wood- en form into which concrete was ‘being poured in the construction of the Wa- nague, N, J., dam collapsed suddenly: Charles Donaldson, 19, of Andover, Mass., who disappeared from his home in February, is believed to be fdentical with the man arrested in Stamford charged with stealing a bicycle. Patsy Essat, n road worker, for the New York and Stamford Railway com- pany, was injured by an automobile of Frank C. Woodruft of New Haven, and is in the Stamford hospital. Charles Arkis . of Berkley, Callf., 14 years old, a cripple from birth, limped into the path of a runaway Rorse, seized the’ bridle and clung to it until the frightened animal stopped, after running a block. Margaret, wife of John McPartland, and John, the eleven months old son of STORY OF METROPOLITAN TOWERjthe couple, were drowned in Lake Quin- New York, May 23.—Suicides, leaping two crowds—oné on Park Row, the other in from sky-scrapers, _today _split Madison _Square. John W. Gastelger of Brooklyn, ertrance to heapital unconscious, wr.at. Earlier in t>¢ day Frank J. Parr Patchogue, Long Island, sesrezary the Parry company, leaped from the story of the Metropolitan Tower. 3 COURT VERDICT OF $131,000 AGAINST A MERIDEN CONCERN New Bedford, Mass, May 23.—A j a fecl merchant, jumping from an upper story of the Mumicipal bullding, at the Brooklyn ~ Bridge, struck Samuel D. Jones, who was laisen to the with & fractured of New York tile concern of John 1. 25th slgamond, Worcester, when a canoe in which the three were tipped over. paddling ~ / Secretary Mellon authorized federal re- serve banks to redeem in cash at par an daccrued interest before June 15 tres- Uty certificates of indebtedness of the series dated June 15, 1921, both matur- ing Jume 15, 1922 George Mubarek and Samuel Shala were found not gullty by Judge Heggins in borough court-in Torrington. 'They were charged with arson in connection with a fire In their Whole sale frult store on December 31. A new effort to release Fred Madei president of tho ‘building trades councll, and seven other labor leaders, indlcted recently in connection with the murder jury | of twd policement, on bail was made in 1n the superlor-court tonight returned a verdict of $131,000 in favor of Mrs. Men- ning Emery, Jr.. of this city in her suit Chicago Monday. After a chase through the streets of against the Lane Comstruction company | Hartford the police captured an auto- of Meriden, Conn., for 3250,000 damages | for. the death of her husband on June 25, 1920, N\ VALUATION OF CENTEAL VERMONT ROAD PLACED AT $2,665,000 Avashington, May 23—A tentative val- uation of $2,665,000 for the ' property owned by the Central Vermont Railway was found today by the Interstats com- merce commission. The company with its subsidiaries operates 568 miles of lines. Its capital account shows assets of a value of $26,070,000. S WELLESLEY STUDENT WAS DROWNED WHILE BATHING Wellesley, Mass., May 23.—Miss Bea- trice Christmaneof Joplin, Mo. nior at Wellesley college, was today while bathing in Lake Waban with several other students. The voung Wo<{of Worcester. man was thought to have fainted wk ie in_the water, as she sank without sound. TR SRR AR S i Sy B the pistol ducl, he replied that it had been repaired % “When did you have the car repaired?” he_was-asked. % “I don’t know,” he replied. want to talk about it ‘Ward, following a conterence with one of his attorneys, E. M. Rabenold, said: “I may have a statement to give out tomorrow.” He refused further to. discuss the-case. “I don't mobile n which was concealed 85 gal- lons of alcohol. Another machine belfev- ed ta have accompanied the one Sseized wa snot caught, The compromise wage cut - offer of five per gent made by the Patchogue Plymouth mill officials of Lawrence, Mass., to their 400 employes was rew Jetced by the workers aftef a two hours Qeliberation. i Ten leading clergymen of Montreal, Que.. five Anglicans and five Presoy- terians, have applied for ordination in both churches, their avowed object be- ing to haSten the movement towards unity of Christian denominatiots The Massachusetta legis: eommit. tee on water supply today recommended Teference to' the next session on @ $6 00,000 water development project for. the Metropolitan ™ district the city The New Jersay board of commerce and navigation yesterday announced it had rejected the application of the Cen- tral Railroad of New Jersy for prmis- slon to bulld a four-track bridge over Newark bay from Elizubeth to Bayonne. | Thousands watching a cirgts perform_ ance”In Buffalo, N. Y., were terrified when a big lon escaped from _its cage The Hoh ran out of the tent, through another tent and - into the street. Pursued by circus, employes, it ran three blocks before it was finally ocornered” - P B - 1900 to $2,000,000.000 for immediate fs- Elizabeth M. Cook, by poison, was select- [ rguni-_usaucuunm' Situation in Europe for "' Years to Come, Rather Than for Purpose of Investments —First Suggestions Range in Equivalents of Loan of | $500,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 for Immediate Use— .lduSembhaBi;lmanol‘ildM—-la-' May Call for Moderate Reductions in Expectations of Belgium, Great Britain and France. - Parlg, ‘May 23.—(By The A. P.)—A |FRENCH DEMeTY TARDIEU big loan to Germany or none at all ap- DISPLEASED WITH AMERICA Dears to be the first idea With which LR g W G P the bankers from many nations now as- m‘n",n"‘ of the chamber” of depatis to- sembling in Paris for thelr first meet- day Andre Tardleu, who a: one time ing tomorrow are approaching their | heid the post of high commissoner (6 work. g the United States, declared that, ca was largely responsible fir the prese Sic Robert Kindersley of England, M. economic truubles of Euzope. Vossering of Holland and Signor D'Am- mericans,” he added, “in trying tg 1ip ot Italy were among the bankers|make ‘aws for Europe makc as fug & who looked -into the oiices of the - allied | mistake as we should .f we trisd repafrations commisyion’ today in prepar- ation for tomorrow’s meeting. make laws for America. . One of the deputies, who interrupied The prevailing thought here is that the bankers are not caming together for 3. Tardieu, interpreted his spesch ag the purpose of finding inveStments, as advocating “a Monroe doctrine for com- tinental Europe.” To this imarprets- they will have under consideration at home more opportunities for cmploying tion, M. Tardlen offered no_abjectiom easing regret that K thelr capital than they have money. 16, | 5 eei tamr: e ens n mufl.n)“m" however, by arranging & Toan to Ger- | gnot Ve (08, Je80 17 SRUTE ot many they can settle the economic sit- He proceeded to review the Gehoa coms v roperty In Rusels, but iel uatich In Burope for some years to €ome | meiten 5o h A1 b reoreached Pre they will attet St Thelr attitude of fmie; Poincare for not having taken the mind s -described” as a conviction that | iiative In the refusal to g» to ThE nothing can be done with the equivalent | fiague, ut allowed the Unitsd States of $100,000,000 or $200,000,080 and there government to show the way. is no motive for lending Germany 0| “Thus France” he sald, “js always 2 small ‘assum for purely temporaty pur- tow of some other government.” poses.” Such a sum, it Is felt. would be | Premier Poincare, breaking in at thif spent on reparations or in other ways |point, explained that the goverm within four or ‘five months, leaving a wouid come before the chamber, fresh crisis on' the same problems un-|only afisr the chamber approved of it settled. would the government decide whether Consequently, the first suggestions | Fremoe would be represened &t The rango {rom the cyuivalentd: of 3500000~ |HO€RE L e roneous Anglo-Saxon conception of Bus rope” M. Tardleu said that England and America were responsible for the elimination of the inter-aliied organizas tions .eperating during the war for the stabilization of exchange and the dixe tribution of raw material. The Amesis can treasury depawiment's refusal to permit discussion of war debts at the peace conference, and its notice to the allied goveraments that under no ecir- cumstances could Amerieans continue advances to the allies. as well as Amer. ica’s threats to ask payment of France's debts and interest. hadl all heined, in the opinion of M. Tardleu, to make the economic situation of Europe difeult “They demand of us what we owe them.” he went on, “But fall to assisl us_to collect what is owed to pa” M. Pardiey lauded America’s spirit of eollaboration during - the war. saying that if such spirit existed no lomger 2 was America’s fault, not France's, “America was swept away from further sue. . The blillon figure appears 1> be the favored one but whether mny loan ‘s possible it is thought, could be decided only #f the governments concerned coi agree to some condition of immense and decisive. chharacter. In the first place, the Belglan govern- ment must surrended, partially at least, her priority on German reparations. The Beigigh. delegates at the Spa supreme council meeting in July, 1920, when an international loan was first discussed mong the allied governments, agreed fhat Beiglum would not block the way by insisting on her priority, It is as- sumed that the Belgian statesmen will still take this attitude. Belglum still has something lke a illion and a half gold francs due her. It is expected also that the_British government will reduce Great Brituin's proportion of 22 per cent. Of the repar- ations because she is more interested. in 'the economie a<instment and tranquili- ty of Europe than in her chances - cash from Germany, The French government, too, it is believed, will reduce her expectatlons of cash. payments if the carefully consid- ered judgment of the committee and of the reparations commission should be that this is necessay. The amount of time the loan lssue should run and the rate of interest are regarded a§ far less important’ questions and as much more easily solved than the larger policies involved. J. P. Morgan, the American repre- sentatiye on the committee. arrived from London late this afternoon. collzboration hy its high finance re- ounirements.” ‘he remarked. “Financlers know mo frontlers. The ressmption of the solidarity which existed hetween tie United States. Great Rritain, Franes and_the other alles during the war i "1:;1; only remedy for the present situa~ tion.” - Concerning the charges of mifftarism made against France in the United States and other countries, M. Tardien Aeclaved: “The French army is not only @ watch on the Rhine. but a guarantes of the political stabliity of Europe.” Coneluding that the Genoa prinelpley are all wrong, he sald: “We must nof seek collahoration with our late enee maies, but resume that with our allies.” ABOUT RATE AND WAGE PROBLEMS OF RAILROADS Washington, May 2 —Admlnll!rl(kml Intervention into raliroad rate problems, as instanced most recently in President Harding’s dinner conference with carrier executives, has disclosed the close rela- tionship between these gnd problems of rafiroad pay scales and ralirodd financing, it was indicated foday at the While House. \ Railroad managers, it was said, while voicing approval of the general proposal that rates be brought down in the inter- ests of general business betjerment and expanision of enterprise, have taken the opportunity to tell of their own troubles with-wage scales which they consider too high, with the financing of new equipment and Yepair of old, and the maintenance luu,m ASKED IN CHICAGO FOR 1,000 MORE POLICEMEX Chicago, May 23—An tion ordinance to provide $675,000 to pay for {an additional 1,000 poficemen asked by Charies Fitzmorrls, chief of police, asy result of recent outbreaks of crime A5d Iawlessness, was Introduced at a special meeting of the c'ty council today. The ordinance was referred to the finance committee with the promise of quick ace tion. While the council was comsidering the increase in the police force, the grand jury completed an investigation inte bombings, intimidation, sluggings and murders in connection with which seves labor leaders are under indictment. Roy Fairbanks, assistant state's attorney. ane | gicating & necessity for treating the rate nounced that preparations have beem madesfor return of additional indicte ments. ! The writ to obtain the freedom of Fred Mader, president »f the Building councll, and “Big Tim" Murphy, head the Gas Workers' unfon, both of whom were indicted in connection with the slaying of twompolicemen by bombers, was held up until tomorrow when it camg up in court today. The conlinuance wag gragted on the ground that Aew indiete nffnts involving the defendants may be Teturned. —_— "1 CONSOLIDATING UNITS OF l!!:tl!&l. REVENUE BUREAU and betterment of their lines. The result is said to leave President Harding hope- ful, however, that tangible ‘mmediate re- ductions can be obtained. Rallroad- exeeutives were told by the president and Secretary Hoover and the Saturday night conference if the wowid leave class rates practicall unchanged at existing levels the could go intb session with the liferstate commerce commission and at once cut sharply existing charges on coal, iron, ores, brick, paving matefials and other heay' tonnage dow unit priced commoditjes. This in the administration view would remove burdens which have acted \to retard the wheels of commeres and at the same time leave high rates on tarift which'can bear the burden, because of its high unit price. Man ralifoads re- gard the proposals with favor but others look with copcern on the plan as com- prising a reduction in thefr chief source of revenue. Among the latter are listed the “coal roads.” Tail earnings in the east have devel- oped a recent tendency to rise, it was ar- gued by ralifoad managers while western roads are still at low earning points, fn- Washington, May 23 —Secretary Mel- lon signed an order today dbolishing the accounts unit and the office of supers | visor of collectors’ offices and!consolis dated the duties hitherto performed by | thess two offices under & new unit 1o Be known as the accounts and unit of the bureau of internal re enue. Deputy{ Commissioner Charles R. Nash, of Minpesota, formerly assistant . fleld supervisor, will assume charge the new unit which comes infe being forthwith. Deputy Comvmissioner A Sumner, of lowa, who has been in of the accounts unit and C. C. Ohio, supefFisor of eollectors removed from office by virtue of consolidation. The consolidation was based recommendation made to the Drobiem regionally.’ - ~ OBJECTS TO CONDUCT OF “ K. OF C. PUBLICITY BUREAU Oswego, N. Y. May 23—Criticlsm ot the conduct of the Knights of C mblicky. bureau since the war and de- mand for a general house cieaning among the supreme officers are feat of the annual report presented by Dr. John G| Coyle, of -New York, state deputy, at the opening of the organiza- tion’s 27th annual convention here this afternoon, < Dr. Coyle cited ‘examplés.. of * the al- leged issuance of what he terms “fool- ish” “misleading” and “false” public- ity, In this connection, he referred at length to the ease of Joseph C. Pelletler, supreme advodate, who removed from the office of district attorney of St county, - Massachusetts, on a POLISH IMMIGRANT WINS PATRIOTIC ESSAY PRIZE A New York, May 23—S. Datjnski charges preferred by the - e PR L Sty ‘ JM&LPM:“ it as- Sailed Becauss " of. raalsl e bigotry™~ and declared there was ng evi- dente to show et this was trwe.