Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 1, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXW—NO. 211 $4,000,000,000 PASSED BY quest for a Conferen . Greeted With Applause in the Galleries. Washington, Aug. 31.—The four bil- Won dollars soldiers’ bonus bill was pass- | ¢d. ®d today by the senate and now goes to conference. For bonus Republicans: Brandegee, Bursum, | faver of the bill, Cameron, Capper, Colt, Cummins, Cur- tis, Goodinz, Hale, Jones of Washington ; | measure, Keliogg, Latollette. Lenroot, Lodge, Me- | returned to the house wth a request for |others who survived the wreck. He swam a_conference, Representative Mondell, of {ashore; without rest after his struggle in the storm--ashed sea, he walked to Petropaviosk, where Cormick, McCumber, McLean, McNary, Nicholson, Oddle. Rawson, Shortridge, | Wyoming, republican leadey, said Stanfield, Sutherland, Townsend, Wat- | house would sendAt to conference tomor. son, of Indiana : and Willls—27. row under a speclal rule. Democrats: Ashurst, Brossard, Cul-| The senate conferees named are those Serson, Fletcher, Geary, Hitcheoek, Ken- | Who are working on the tariff bill and McKellar, Pittman, Pomerene, | the house is expected to appoint its man- Ransdell, Reed, of Missouri; Robinson, | agers on the tariff measure. Sheppard, Simmens, Smith Trammell, |is no serious dispute between the two Walsh, of Massachusetts; and Walsh, of | houses on the bonus th econferees are Montana—20 expected to Total 47. enough to agree to a report on the bon- us. drick, Against the bonus: Republicans: Ball, Borah, Dillingham, Four hours of debate preceded sen- Edge, France, Frelinghuysen, Keyes, Nel- | ate action. won. New, Phipps. Reed, of Pennsyl-| Nelther senators nor spectator¢ mani- vanla; Smoot, Sterling and Wadsworth— | fested particular 15. ceedings as the discussion proceeded, Demoerats: Dial, Glass, Myers, Shields, | but just before the vote came at 3 p. both senate chamber and the gal- ‘With the anriounce- Swanson, Underwood and Williams—7.|m., Total 32 terfes filled quickly. These senators were present and un- | ment of the result there was applause able to vote because of pairs, and 24 |from spectators, particularly from one senators, 16 republicans and 8 democrats. | section of the galléries where there was were absent a good numer of service men. No effort Pairs were announced as foilows was made to prevent this demonstra- Harreld for, Dupont against, tion. Stanley for, Ernst agalnst Government experts estimate that to- Jones of New Mexico, for, Fernald |tal cost of the bonus at $3,845,659,481 against. on the basis of 76 per cent. of the vet- Harris for, Page against. erans electing the certificate ‘lan, Newberry present and not voting. Overman for, Warren against. 2% per cent. (Warren present and not voting.) Johnson for, Watson of Georgla Vote Was 2141 Party Lines Were Disregarded in Ballot—Brandegee and Mc-| CABLED PARAGRAPHS | - Lean Voted for the Bonus—Analysis of Total Member- ship Discloses 33 Senators Against the Bill, a Sufficient Number to Prevent Its Passage in Case of Presidential | ™™ Veto—Bill Has Been Returned to the House With a Re- ment, by Agresing to Accept Treasury Bills From. French Approval is Conditional Upon a German Gold Deposit Sufficient to Guarantee Deferred Payments— Obviates Question of a Moratorium—Averts Threaten- ed Break in Franco-British Relations—Releases” Ger- on of the Law to elgium is Given the ary 1, 1924, ‘Washingion, Aig:’ 51. — The admi iatration. bill -for control and distri tion . of coal during the mining and 7 The Fearth Atlantio Natiensl bank of acquired the assets and goodo Earthquake in Santiagoe, Cuba. Boston earthquake was. felt here at 7.52 o'clock will of the People’s National It lasted about half a this evening. transportation e ‘was passed today by the house, 214 to 61. and sent| to the scnate with assurances of early Only one change made in the measure as . 4 framed, an amendment by Representa- tive Sanders, republ § Th ican Legion, department: of = Massach setts, opened in New Bedford in the high school auditorfum, Enropesn Continental Paets. Geneva, Aug. 31 (By the A. P.). Cecil's plan for regional agree- nental pacts for -mutual guanintees of security and simmltaneous reduction of armaments was approved day by the Jeague of nation’s sub-com- mittee which has been considering the against; Wilson, positlon not announc- |armaments question in 'preparation for the meeting .of the league to begin next week. consideration. e of the Measure Was | ments or cont publican, Indiana, Entifieation of the Palestine mandate iding that the life of the law. should|was commemorated in Washington a2t 924, or a few weeks|a mass meeting attended by more than session of the[5,000 Jews. end January 1, after the first regular | next congress, beéing passed, 122 to 77. In the senate, as soon as the soldfers’ bonus “bill ‘had’ been disposed of, at- tention was turned to coal legislation, the Borah substitute for the house bill 5 . A assem| of Al This lineup showed 33 senators against ik 3 the bill, or a sufficient number to pre- vent its passage in the event President The vote was 47 to 22 with party lines | Harding vetoed it, as many belleve he wiped out. will. The roli call follows showed one morethan a two thirds m: The Fort Wayse Press, started one year Journal-Gazette Company, will suspend 4 last week ereating 2 fact-find- publication tomorrow. ing commission being taken up. Two hours 'of debats, howevcr, showed’ the “impossibility of action on the measure |lieved to be republicans, were captured ‘went over for further con- The big fight of the day in tae Howse was in the séetion of distribution ‘measure, president the right, aft Herolo Japanese Bluejacket. {By the A, P.). Japanese bluejacket, ome of the\crew of jority of those present and voting in {the lll-fated cruiser Niftaka, which sank Aug. 26, when a violent storm caught it Immediately after the passage of the |off the coast of Kamchatka, was the agent who brought rescue to the eixteen The roll call Seven hundred Belfast /refugeos, be- Paris, Aug. 31.—(By The A. P.)—The| by national troops In Castle Monaghan, | reparations commission has relieved Ger- many of the necessity of making any further cash payments In reparations for Amerlcan tourlsts attempting to see | the remainder of 1923, but defers its de- which gave the |Ireland are returning to Dublin deeply | cision on the question of a moratorium ter iksuance of 8| disappointed and stfong in their con- demnation of conditions in the provinces. today and it near Castleshane. the senate directed that it be the control and until raadical reforms in Germany's fin- ances are carried out. balancing of ker budget, reduction of Germany’s foreign < igations, currency reforms and the issue of her foreign and internal loan presidential proclamation, .declaring the present emergency mo Jonger in existence to proclaim the existence of such emergency without asking leave of congress. The action was voted out in in committee of the whole, elghty-five e to sixty-five, but w, s . ly completed; was put befare the house proper, Chairman Winslow of the inter- state commeree committee, in-charge of it. demanded and obtainéd a record vote, Japanese de- These include the stroyer Maki was stationed. Four persons were ‘drivon from thely beds and through smoke to the street yed the bullding at GREAT BRITAIN HAS CLOSED AN AMERICAN CONSULATE. London, Aug. 31.—(By the A. P.) — The American consulate has been closed and the consular auth- ority suspended by the British 'govern- It is asserted that the Washing- ton government has been furnished with proof - that consular officials castle abused their position to the dis- advantage of British interests, among other things having refused British passports to the United States on trivial pretexts unless the holders of to travel on Ameri- below when fira des In rendering jts decision, the repara- tions commission takes into account the E. M. Feaster sad Reedy Pooth were | fact that “the German state has lots its the bill, as final tual tea: lay aside the tarift long £ sailles. § The question now passes out of the hands of the reparations commission and becomes a matter of negotiation b#ween Geérmany and Belgium. the latter agree- ing to accept treasury bills from the Ger- man government, payable in six months in lleu of cash payments to which Be gium(is entitled, under a priority ment. 3 The commission took the view that the proposals of the German govermment re- specting deliveries of coal and wood ‘in 1922-23, which involved private between the German government and German industrial interests, was com- ditional on granting a full moratornum, and therefore the commission did mot feel justified in accepting it, but reserv- ed the right to accept the offer if present arrangements for the delivery of eeal and wood were deemed to be unsatis- factory. It is belleved that this offer will be accepted within a short time. shot and killed while guarding the South- ern’ Railway -shops at Hamburg, near Augusta, Ga, The assallants escaped. credit and the mark has depreciated con- and the section was retained 148 to 123. Announcement of the commission's ac- tion was made by Sir John Bradbury this session lasting an hour and twenty minutes, The decision was immediately communicated to the Ger- man_delegates and the various govern- ments by telephone. that Premier Lloyd George personally approved the settlement by telephone this The senate discussion developed more into exchanges of opinion causes and possible consequences of the Robert Marler of Bridgeport, accused of obuhingmmnuy from several Derby 2 merchants under false pretenses last Sat- predent yll na-cokl MMAGR Hien o :;ay was sentenced to thrée months in evening. after the Boran bill. It brought also from Senator Frelinghuysen, republican, New Jersey, a statement that had the senate acted on bills, which he introduced two years ago and & year ago and which he claimed: were desizned to serve the same | farthest north college on this continen the|the Alaska . Agricultural been | School ‘of Mines. It Is understood Shi paassirts Weraen ANl is In readiness for the opening in Fairbanks, Alaska. September 13 of the The decision came as a surpri: | some circles, where it was -expected that representing France, would vote against any solution other than one compiying with the original demands or Premier Poincare, 3 As accepted the settlement constitutes a modified form of the Belglan ‘compro- mise proposal, and Belgium s given the ng brought about the last minute agrecment, when a break in ‘the commission scemed inevitable and the STATEMENT BY AMERICAN CONSUL AT NEWCASTLE present emergency could have Senator Frelinghuysen sald he lieved the Borah bill should pass, be- cause of a conwviction that After trying out in the Vatican gar-; dens the automoblle presented to him by conditions | the Milan Archdiocese, similar to- those now before the country [had it. duly reglstered would have to be faced mext spring. He argued, however, that the fact- finding commission could be made Londori, Sept. 1.—The Daily Chroni- cle says that Fred C, Slater, the Amer- jean consul at Newcastle, in an inter- view last night said with regard to the per cent. the farm and home aid- and | withdrawal of bis exequatur: “The only . reason I know for the drastic step tak- This total is exclusive of any appro-{en by the British government is that priations that would be made under the |1 was suspected of favoring the Ameri- against $350,000,000 1and reclamation provision, (Watson present and not voting.) !but underthat provision the government Harrison for, Moses agdinst. finally Poindexter for, King against. total of the certificate plan is placed at|SUSFECTED OF PROMOTING Norbeck for, Pepper against. $3.564,909,481 ; farm and home aid $412,- Absentees who were without pafrs|425,000; vocations training $52:325,000 were Caraway for: Elkings, for: Ladd, |and cash payments'to veterans receiv- for; McKenley, for; Norrls, for; Owen, |ing §50 or less, $16,000,000. Pope Plus has by the Italian honor of havi vocational tralming. The Metropolitan line stesmer Calvin permanent government. tribunal and not| Austin, with 350 passengers aboard, bound from New York to. Boston, was senator declared | held up for twelve hours off Stratford, that many large coal companies had|Conn, by engine trouble. been guilty of taking extortionate mnd outrageous profits and -read a long list of ‘dividends voted -by several. be limited to onme investigation. The New Jersey This I deny.” UNWRITTEN LAW PLEA would recover those costs. FOR SLAYING OF BERGEN The state of Masgachusetts and the BUSINESS OF THE U. Tnited States are engaged. in 2 I The lists, he said, Were public Prob-|tle over the custody of 26 cases m?&d by the police of Manchester, Mass., J., Aug. 31.—The un- pped up today in Jersey's ‘Washington, Aug. 31.—It stood that the basi of the 'British goverament against :the nd had heen compiled of the complant { yshed ‘by well ki ‘pubijshers. ton yrh!: weres termed VIOLENCE AND SABOTAGE SEIZURE OF LIQUOR ON PHASES OF RAIL STRIKY Aug. 31—The disclosure of to blow up a train, the burning and dynamiting of bridges and other rall- ©of workers and other acts of law- less violence, marked the strike of the raliroad shopment throughout the coun- try today. A glle of debris heaped in the path of Lake, lowa, was reported to have re- hand car on which the were riding in and Alton train near, I burning of seven bridges on t “'eot- FEARS DESTRUCTION OF THE ANTHRACITE CONFERENCE PRINCIPLE OF RECIPROCITY ADJOURNED TILL SATURDAY Philaddiohia, Aug. 31.—The anthra- eite operators, upon adpourning thelr conference teday unti] Saturday, gave cut @ statement that “if the public nec- of public authorities are such as to in- & mandate.” other reason would impel us to enter|, into an agreement which will continue foar Jonger than the present emergency coa! tion has already been mad Turkish nationalist altack along a wide front, was understood this morning (o be sttempting local counter attacks, follow- img the wrrival of reinforcements in the battle area. e o of the front. SUCCEEDED IN SUICIDING slowly {falling back on.th second de- fensive positions between Afilum Karahie-|are: A. J. Northey and Grase s 3 AFTER A FUTILE ATTEMFT | s and Kkitayah, west of the: Bagdad|son: 23nd Qlstrict., Thomas T Cesror: Mary L. Lynch; 23rd district, Arthur F. Connor, and Edith Pearce. - No instrue- y under heavy |tlons were given the delegates. B. H. Gilman, Alice I Smith, Robert itzeroy and Lula Hopkins were ciwoaen and | for the congression: The enemy has triod unsuecess- fully to penetrate \the region and cut b the raillway at Ushak. Hackensack, N. J, Aug. 31.—Arthur Ftemeyer, proprietor of a taxicab agéncy, beat himself over the head with & hammer this afternoon until he fell un- affernoon by swallowing poison, which cised his death within an hour. : . SURPLUS SEAPLANE TO BE BELEASED TO WALTER HINTON '#*‘Ahhm. Aug. 31—~The navy de- seaniane to Walter Hinton at Fim. 14 repiace the wrecked | committee when with which he was flying from New The commandant An indication that a plea of this na- ure - would - be made: by Gearge Cline.] ‘with -murdering of the movies, in : consuls “wab: the activitiey the two American officidls in promoti the business of the United States ship- It is charged that of attaching withholding visas to passports of persons who intended to sail from Newcastle to the United States and influenced the passengers to go on the American rather than on British vessels, The state department’s is ‘intended to determine the extent of the activities of the zonsul and his as- sistant as well as {5 ascertain whether they acted within the bounds of official A decision on. that point, it was said, could not effect the right or the British government to Objact “threats” 'of ‘Senator Frelingbuysen, w: S entered by Semtator Wi s Burges o the Cline home here last glven by State Senator Mackay, couasel for ‘the defense, in a formal statement issued after Charles . Scullion, had been arrested this! morning, on_a charge of proeuring for Cline the revolver with which Bergen A BRITISH SCHOONER |ping ‘oard. New York, Aug. 31.—One of the gib- % new train wrecking plot, an attempt|gest bootlegging rings squadron: of war- senator x and mine wor ipmen of the fieulty now, so' far as Ohlo cerned, was tran: formed the senate ps. bearing 1700 midshi in the country Nayal Academy returned. to Annapolis. was smashed tg'ay, Prohibition tor Appleby declared, with the arrest of way property, greasing of tracks, slug-| Mannie Kessler and Morris m} In connection with the {liegal withdraw- al of more than half million worth of liquor. The arrests came hard on the heels > of | of the capture by aquatic prohibition en- &n expected Chicago ‘rain near Spring|forcement agents of an excursion steam- er with a floating bar, a rum laden Brit- yulted in the death of one man and thel, @ Snjury of three others when & mMotor| jsme one 204 rum-running motor Mr. Appleby said a third man was in- “"‘"?n- Of the trein struck the ob-|yoiveq in the big Jand bootlegging-con- sLruct; spiracy and that he was expected to sur- B e T8 ‘3"‘::: render tomorrow. The two men arrest- of & bridge in Wilminigton, Del,, and the | $9, 31d business ostensibly as real es- ton belt” lina 4l wors roported simul.| According to Prohibition Director Ap- taneously with the arrest of three men | DIeDY. in Chicago charged with a plot to dyna. | fraudulent permits and posing as pro- mite and wreck the New York Chicago|Nibition agents, withdrew 4,000 cases of “Western Express” of the New York|DiEh Erade jmportédd Scotch Culiteal Hinew. and 200 cases of equally good cham- New York Central lines. The latest|Paign, from a warehouse of the Repub- arrests followed the holding of four|llc Storage company. Instead of beinz other men accused of wrecking the “Nl. | removed to Philadelphia, as the permits | Jom Dollar” Express on the M#higan|authorizfied, the liquor was diverted in- Central near Gary, Ind, a little more ;0 lloczl bootlegging channels, Appleby than a week ago by removing thirty.|declared. woven spikes Sitie the Flile casng the] esmler and Bwestweol Seeie arralgn- death of two enginemen, and efforts were | ed before U. S. Commissioner Hitchcock, Being made by federal and state officl- | waived examination and were held in als to determine whether there was any |$1,000 and $2,000 bail, respectively, connection between th two grouns, await calling of a grand jury. hat coal was being Cline's ‘brother, piled at the mouths’ of mines in that state, but-that it ‘was not being ‘moved. The debate then turned to. the sub- ject of government regulation of the ooal industry and Senator Sutherland, republican, West Virginia, protested that the country had had anakxfldu! govern: lation of an: 5 "'E'L;.ii‘i“mu. domosrat, South Carolina, | Mailins, British ayiators, arrived In Cal- gald the measure would create another [cutta from Chittagong, where they under- the|went hospital treatment following their rescue from. thear wrecked seaplane, on which they drifted at sea Antonfo Malzon of New York, over ; 4 investigation year ago, was. arrested in Waterbury by Captain of Detectives Thomas Colasan- Counsel for the defense, which claims that Bergen was killed when he sud denly attacked Cline as tl upstairs in the latter's duel over an gHeged assault which the actor was alleged to have made on Mrs. Cline, had this to say of the case: ojme from what I have al- 2y were going ome to fight a and Lieutenant is apparent t ready ascertal Jack Bergen, took advantage of a sit- vation at a time when Mr. Cline had placed implicit confidence in him and naturally expected it woul dont be vio- It is universally recognized that a man is given the right to protect his and children- at all times.” The relationship of man and wife is one of the most sacred, solemn and binding contracts in the %oyes of The law glving every man and woman the right to protect the home and fire- side should be inviolate. the unwritten/ law which defense and agency to which cannot be questioned. ever, it was understood, affect in a de- clded way the future of the consular ofticers who have been withdrawn and probably would closure of the Newcastle consulate shall be permanent or tempor. It would, ho OHIO COAL OPERATORS OBJECT TO PRICE. FIXING Viscount Lascelles, A.|Serious injury in the paddock at the 2| York race course in London from the kick of 2 horse. The three-year-old Backwood, who was on the way to the post lashed out both feet as he passed Lascelles, catching him on the chest. rrowly escaped Colymbus, O., Aug. 31— P.)—Efforts of he Ohjo Fuel administra- tion and coal operators to agree upon a fair price to be ®ald for coal at the mine failed today and Governor Davis asked Attorney General Price mediately advise him vested under the constitution to prevent alleged bootleggers It was said at the state department that it was the duty of American con- sular officers to afd. American shipping and the only point invelved was wheth. er the activities of the two officials were within the limits of official proprivty. It also was stated that no quesJon fecting the application of the Volstead act was involved in this ease. The body of Mrs widow of Commander James Spott! woode Taylor, who disappeared after the commander’s death on Sunday, was founa in the Delaware river off the Philadel. Barbara, Taylor In many cases includes self- Justifiable omicide, been recognized in this and other coun- STEAMER IN SAND STORM IN MIDDLE OF THE RED SEA |phia Navy Yard OUTCOME OF VARIOUS Prosecutor Hart soon finished his ex- CITY CONVENTIONS amination of Scullon, to the county jail after he had pleaded not_gullty to murder and had been hetd without bail, The prosecutor satd that Scullion had told four different storles about a cer- taln phase of the events leading to the who was taken New York, Aug. 31.—A story of a Michael Barke, a special sand storm in the middle of the Red|for the New York Central Railroad and sea in which the sands of the Sahara|James Wallace, a negro whom Burke ar- New Haven, Aug. 31.—Three of the four senators from this district were nominated to succeed themselves at the republican city convention held here to- night. In the tenth district Nathan J. Reback was unanimously nominated for senator to take the place of Senator Hugh Were transported across 75 miles of 0pen | rested for trespassing, were struck and water and jlyea ankle deep on'the decks,:killed by “the “Westerner,” was brought in today by the crew-of the [ Gentral express as. they fought on tne Barber line steamer Jadden, returning|tracks in Chicago. from a cruise to the Far East. The impending 'phenomenon -say the eailors, was. forcast by a flock: 00" 63| ner reserve to this conntry in Tepara. birds on a bright, sunny morning ‘@bout | tion ‘for the Interest . payment. due. on the British war debt to this country in London, Aug. 3L—(By the A. P.) — Legislation now being considered in the United Statgs would Great Britain is shipping geld from NURSE SENT FOR DOCTOR, THEN SHOT HIM DEAD Professor Charles M. Bakewell was re- nominated in the eighth district. James ‘H. MacDonald in the ninth and Lorenzo C. Furculo in the eleventh. Isaac M. Ullman will head state convention. Th. four state central committeemen were not named. They will be elected on the first day of the state convention. entirely destroy the principle of reciprocity on which the rese; A o for coal am the urgent request|Dresent relations between the mercantile circuled - the 2 month ago, ship and alighted on the decks, they remained huddled -and oblivious of the crew. Soon after, the sailors averred, thef, sky clouded over and fine sand ‘began |, to drift through the portholes and gang- | ways. Followed a terrific sand ‘bilzzard which lasted for four hours, subsided for a few moments, and then was renew- ed with such intensity that the vesssl, sounding fog signals and Florence, Ariz, Aug. 31—Dr. W. G. Randall, 46, was shot and killed here by Miss Katherine Encinas. 26, 2 nurse at the Florence hospital, who, officers said. claimed she acted because of remarks by Miss Encinas- after the shooting walked across the street to the courthouse and surrendered She is being held in jail pending "'."""22’ of the British empire and the Init tates are founded, accordi duce us, to continue the old wages be-|(; §ir Trederick W. Lewis, president n-";r yond April in 1923, this demand m:l!‘t the Chamber of Shipping of the United come toll' us iIn the form of a public Kingdom, speaking tonight at the an- mandate. nual meeting of Farness, Withy and We will conform our actiom 0 such | company, the ehipping concern he heads, % According to The Times, Sir Frederick The statement continued, “Dut nO|gaiq that the legislation * e inconsistent with the wspirit of the Washington conference.” o . 8ir Frederick pointed out that Brit- to which erpohatic objec-|igh ship-owners claimed no right to ex- press an opinion on the direct subsidy proposals ‘wh/ch were contemplated for GBEEK TEOOPS ARE MAKING the benefifit of the American mercantile LOCAL COUNTER ATTACKS |marins. but, when these proposals were nmded to the point of discrimination Broyrna, Aug. 31 (By the A. P.).—The | &gainst British and other shipping in e army in Asia Minor, which has|United States ports, then “different con- Been falfing back before the forcs of the | Slderations arose The damage ocaused by Saturday’s fire the commercial quarter of Solonica, eece, has proved greater than at first estimated. The total loss is estimated at 500,000,000 drachmas, most of which is covered by insurance. the delegation for the doctor's — Bulkeley Heads Hartford Deelgates Hartford, Aug. 31-—Senator Morgun G. Bulkeley will head the delegation to the state convention from this citw He was elected tonight at the city convention held to name delegates to the five repub- lican conventions. The bedy of Thomas Bivers, & negr wn | 25 years old, who confessed he was th, assailant of a young white woman of as it had | Shreveport, La., was found hanging from un came | the limb of a tree near the Shreveport- feathers| Bossler highway 1in re|about 12 miles from Shreveport. Miss Encinas told the officers she tele- phoned Dr. Randall and asked him to call at her home. When he arrived he seated himself in a cocking chair-in the living room. Then, ‘Miss drew a revolver and shot him. let pierced the doctor's heart and he was Killed instantly. Dr. Randall {s survived by his widow, one-son. 14. and a daughter, 12. Sherift Thurman last night removed Miss Encinas to the' state penitentiary for safe keeping when excited orowds began to gather on the downtown strects to discuss the killing of Dr.. Randall. the teeth of the gale was slowed to 5 knots an hour. The blast ceased as quickly gun, sald the saflors. The s Encinas said, she t 'the birds preened - their :.:d flew off and the sand dunes we: shoveled from the del::;‘ rml‘ LI\: ?hl:;r declared, part of by u(:l until it was washed off mid-Atlantic, two weeks Klett Reelected in New Britain New:. York, Aug. 31.-—George W. Klett was re-elected to represent the sixth dis- trict in the republican state central ccm- mittee at the city convention held here tonight. He is the first mamber of the New committee to be chosen and is count- ed as a supporter of J. Henry Roraback. Wilbur A. Leonard, who has been s member of the board of burgesses yes- terday_accented the office of warden of the boroughi of Woodmont . to John H. Clark, who resigened a faw cargo of san in a squall i — TURES> REPULSED ON THE ESKI-SHEHR NORTHEREN FRONT Smyrna, Aus. 31, —_— TWO MURDERERS EXECUTED AT SING SING LAST NIGHT That a man can maintain. normal weight on 50 cents worth of food a day was demonstrated in Warren, Ohio, after a week's test by Dr. E: J. Maguire. He weighed 176 pounds at the start and the scales shoied no decrease in weight after the week of abstemious dlet. Bridgeport's Leader is King Aug. 3L—John T. King, J. A. H. Robinson, Ella G. Fleck, and BElolse Peabody were chosen delegates at (By the A. P) — These isolated counter drives were |An unsuccessful attack by the Turkish #qon to be fol'owed by a general counter | Nationalist forces against the Greeks on oftensive on the part of the Greeks, the | the northern, front at Eski-Shehr has advices from the front reported. Generalized the offensive along the whole|large to the state convention at the re- The Greek line has begun | publican city convention here tonight. Delegates from the 21st senazor district CHARGES PROPOSED MERGER ©F STEEL COMPANIES 18 UNFAIR r of Willlam Miller ey, two New York city erbert Smith, convict- ed for the killing of Postmaster Lewls Johnson, at Nineveh Junction, N. Y., In 1919, paid the death penalty in the elec- tric chair at Sing Sing prison; tonight. Boddy was the first to be put to death. | Y0ogi" wnich . was ch He was placed in the electric chait 8t'| Gloucester recently, 'mwhm‘id i bail when arvaigned before’ & United States commissioner. in Boston, charged with conspiracy to import liquor. P. R Nicholson of Cleveland, O. whe in company of Police -Frank W. Smith entified ‘Jack Homer last .week, as . Boddy, ‘negro_sla and Francis Bu Washington, Aug. 31. — The federal trade commission, In a farmal complaint lssued today, charged that the proposed merger. of the Midvale, Républic and Tn- land Steel companles constituted an un- competition violation of the federal trade commission act, Captain Edward Seely and Mats Baxter railway, | On the Afium Karahissar sector the battle continues obstimatel Turkish pressure on oapscious. A physician revived him. To. | foo 35 Koo Lo loubunar sta- | tion. 85 Icilomet Aftu night he fnished the task began in the | Oloudfak, 25 miles n:::;el:lt of o bunar, fair method of d was pronounced dead -five ] Smith ‘was placed. ‘mi .09 and was pronounced deas i 1;muh‘s electrocution made the two hundredth execution: in -Sing- Sing.| prison since the electric. chair. firs| introtnced Tl 1. SRl 5th ‘men appeared 3 e they were led into: the. ith, who ‘attracted ‘wide at-| tention as a sketch artist the, er- | death house, spent: his last ‘Worth "of three | 'Wh had’ bsen “placed | he WHI Not Halt Negotlations. ‘mountainous minutes later. L Yodé‘ oy Chadbourne, counsel for “the Republic-Inland Steel combination, de- clared tonight that the f commission’s report, disapproving merger, would not-halt negotiations, 31.—Thomas Ja 1 convention. - — L RB. T. PAYS INTEREST ON 38,000,000 WORTH OF NOTES New, York, Auk. 31— The Interborousn Rapid Transit Company today announced that money for the payment of inte year e:tefld lection to the | with - J. B. Morgan known holders t Was | arrived in. GRIFFIN WINS MIDDLETOWN: DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS Middletown, Conn., 3 = ment today ordered the release of a |Central Cmumm-mui&'i"hu:’.‘. F. 7.1':::‘- fin, was assured of,his. re-clecti delegates " | MEXICAN DEPUTY KILLED IN GREEN ROOM OF CHAMBER Mexico City, Aug. 31 (By the’A. P.).— Le ! W chamber member ‘of, a gang ha; 60 at Miami, the | Torouato. many of Cash Payments for the Remainder of 1922— Payments Due in 1923 Are to be Discussed and Decided Later in the Year. % members of the commission felt that the very existence of the commission was &t stake. 7 Premier Poincare gave his upon conditions that s 2 gold deposit sufficient to guarantes the deferred payments involved. The threat- ened breach in the Franco-British rela- tions has thus been averted by _the French premier, who was only prevalled upon to withdraw his objection to the compromise after it became independent action by France would e Interpreted by Great Britain as a vir. 1ing up of the treaty of Ver- IN CELL TNDER INDICTMENT IN THE HEREIN MASSACRY into custody this aftermoon. He is the first person caught in the inet of investigation and. is charged with having ‘slain C. K. McDowell. crippled superintendent of the Lester strip near which the massacre oceu! Clark appears to be well educated, ht is of dark complexion, about the average man’s height. For some time he has been president of the local miners’ or- ganization at Weaver, Ills, and check wtightman at the Old Ben Coal Com: pany’s mine No. 20. He spends the off mining season farming at Goreville. He Is the father of five children and about 35 years old. cia’s to become suspicious hestened. discovered and stepped. Late today Judge Hartwell announced that K. W. Kerr, chief counsel' for the Illinois mine workers, had filed 2 pe- tition for the release of Clark on bail. With the indictment and arrest of Clark, citizens of Williamson county are prepared for other indictments in the future. Just when .these dictments will be returned, hastened by the force of according to Mr. Duty. BIRTH RATE DECLINING; first quarter of the year. The birth rate in the states from which | comparative figures were available show- e dan average of 23.3 for each of popylation in the first three of 1922 against 25.3 in 1921, meetality averaged regist: the first quarter this year was 3189 against 12.6 In the same period last year. North Carolina. with 29.2. reported the highest birth rate for the three monthy year, and the state of Washington, ‘:?:h 16.5, the lowest. The District of Columbia had the highest mortality. rate, with 17.6, and Wyoming the lowest, with ~ son county. Muilen was- last seen on Saturday friends at Manhattan beach ' where was, believed to have been drownd &f- téer a suit of his clothing was 1 a bath house locker. Later- vealed, according to the o false entry of $3,535.60 made on H and he is charged With larceny in that - gL amount. TUBE TRAINS i Jersey City, N.°J0 Aug.. persons wers injured today collision between two. tube | Hudson and. Maphatts accident occurred between - cre- ' The injured were -this city, wher, Marion, Ilis., Auz. 31.—(By The A. —Confined in' the same narrow -cefl, it which Settimi Desantis, who pre the riots at West Frankfort, tars ago, spent the waning days of hif life before ascending the gallows, s vt Clark, the first man indicted by the grand jury investigating the Herrin riots which took 22 lives. Clark was takes ‘The sale of a mowing machine, for one dallar and a half, and the sale of other farm implements at equally low priqes ' was what caused county offl- contemplated leaving the vicinity, ana a3 a result the indictment against him was: A leak, which State's Attorney Delor Duty declared gave Otis Clark advance information of his indictment has bees expected in- could not be lcarned, as the first was circumstances, DEATH RATE INCREASING ‘Washington, Aug.'31.—The birth rate is declining and the death Tate increas- ing, according to stitistics made public today by the census Lureau, covering the O SRR TR T MISSING HENRY J. MULLEN CHARGED WITH LARCENY Jersey City, N. J., Aug. 31.—A war- rant charging Henry J. Mullen, assist. | ant paying teller-.of the Title Guaranty and Trust company, grand larceny was issued today Instance of Prosecutor Garven New Jorsey with 20 PERSONS INJURED WHEN _