Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 27, 1922, Page 1

YITHESS NANES STEVENS AS LS AL MURDERE Statement Given Out by Attorney For Mrs. Hall—Mrs. Jane Gibson Has Informed the Authorities That She Had Wit: | nessed the Tragedy and Had Identified the Murderer and the Wi(man Who Accompanied Him—Prosecutor As- serts He Wishes to Wait for an Opportune Time Before Making Any Arrests—Says the Arrest Might be Made at Any Minute. o 26 (By, thet "Mrs. The dramatic story of a woman Hall was in her home Barbara Tough, one of the maids, was out that night and Louisa Geist, the other maid, was on the back stoop. There was no one elso but a little seven year old niece in the house with murders and and had identiied 2 woman ‘Who' ae- But there may have been one visitor. Mdentification- as one ceived J. P. Morgan of New York in private audience. - About Death of King Alexander. AthenB. Oct. 26.—A serisation has been created by the demand of the newspa- | per Vima for ‘a scientific _inquiry -into the cause of the death of’ Alex- ander of Greece, who dled two years ago after 2 monkey. had’ bitten ‘him. The newspaper ‘ntimates the possibility that there was criminal negligences between the time of the bité.and of the king's death. What it particularly - wants _to know is how the accident became irre- parable, 2 > : St L ie O FINANCIAL REPORT OF TRE DEM. NATIONAL COMMITTEE Washington, Oct. 26.—The democratie national committee in its financial report filed late today with 4he clerk of the house of representatives showed receipts to date of $80.512. Expenditures amount- od to nearly $20,000 more than receipts, vhich was obtained by loans, the largest being from Harrison Nesbit of Pitts- burgh, chairman of the finance commit- tee. The first senort filed by the commit- tee on Oct. 21 1920—a presidential year —showed teceinte of $677,934. Under the law another statement of the committee ©Of the puartet seen on the farm is also contrary to fact. Henry was at Lavel- lette, N. J., all that night.” in her statement, known, declared that she had seen four persons on the night of the murder un- der the crab-apple.tree where two days later the bodies of the rector and the a singer in his cholr, crab-apple trec on ing authoritie: ed a World war veteran finances must be filed with the clerk of the house a week hence, 3 M. L. Benedum of Pittsburgh headed the list of democratic contributors with $10000. A . statément -prepared by democratic committee officials and made public just prior to the presentation of Teeasurer Marsh's report nlaced B, M. choir singer were found. Mrs. Gibson also said in her statement that she heard the man, whom she alleg- es she saw firc a_series of shots at the be made; denied And ali the time one of ate murder mysteries that Baruch of New York as the.leading’ cor | tributor with $25.000. This later was corrected to $2,500, which was the same as reported by Mr. Marsh. rector and the choir singer, interest of the country by his companion. The ories of Mrs. Gibson declared at night,” had hardly echoed, the woman farmer said, when the second woman in creamed in' a terrifidd tone, | story made public| —Mrs. Jane Gibson | was strong in New Bruns- the climax, culminat- expected were eneral Wilbur | charg® of the case by [0 development sprang from The official list, as filed with the house, also diffcred in several ~other 'particu- lars from that vreviously given out by committee officials. The biggest contrib- utors, as listed in the officlal compilation, were the following: M. L. Benedum, Pittsburgh, $10,00 Harrison Nesbit, Pittsburgh, $6.00¢ Frank L. Crocker. K, . $5.000% Cyrus H. McCormick. Tilinois, $3,000; B. M. Baruch, New York, L. F. Crawford, he is said to bel edge of the circum- the' double ‘mur- ne @ witness for t newspapermen was. stated, before he gives the order two persons If the churchman is disinclined it was understood might be arrested. desired witness, widely known ‘n New Brunswick, is not his home here at er aMdavits, wished 1o wait for an op- g any arrests. to raise pige. unobtrusively Hayes, war veteran, ping silenee, it Is get cials expocted would be curtailed tomor- concerning him relisble quarters man who taok to Mre. Hall a packet of Mrs. Mills to the rector. owh_one of ths two cars, that were parked side by side s whom her story would impii- the t was learned today n the exeltement of Pittsbucgh, Thomas F. Ryan, Virginia | former Governor C. N. Haskell, Oklaho- For present, at least, prohibition Tt o Ruierioan indts lon' the high will be left largely to the in- /j dividual steamship companies. All liquors in which the fiavor or tasic aniseed predominates must disappear in French cafes and bars with- .ld" in three months. It s reported that a plan is on foot to photograph from an airplane the wed- !{ ding procession of former Emperor Wil- ‘{liam and Princess Hermine of Reu + of $2,000,000 Restoration to Pre-War Owners is White Plains, N. Y., Oct. 26.—Di tion of the American Bosch Magne . restoration of Its contral to owners, and damages of ‘$2,000 400, were asked in a suit filed in su- preme court here today by Albert Klein, a resident of Germany, through his coun- sel, Harvey Adams of New York. Mitchell Palmer, bt custodian as a defendant,i “% along with Arthur T. Murray and Mar-| officials of . the companys Klein alleges that the trio used Paimer ofticial position to defraud the pre-war owners out of their preperty. The complaint sets forth that Klein came into possession in April, 1917, of 90 of thu 250 shares of the old Megneto company, | brother, Gustav Klei Vigiia Skl Con poration. . i Alexandria, Va., Oct. 26—Attempts by counsel for the government to withdraw all charges of conspi: ‘against Charles V. Morse, shipbuilder, and his. various companies in the case now in progress here. failed to- day when Judge Waddill, in the federal| court for 'the eastern Virginia district, Tefused {o entertain : the motion. court upheld attorneys for the companies in their contenion that it would be mast unfair to thelr clients.to amend the bill 0 drastically at this late day after the charges had been so widely published. The' zovernment's motion was submit- ted by former Semator Edgar T. Brack- ett of New. York! acting as svecial as- sistant ot Attornéy General Daugherty in the case against the Morse companies. Earlier in the dgy Senator Brackettsince has been, he says, had moved to eliminate from the case all reference to the Groton Jron works Conn.. whith was named with the Virginia Shipbuilding corporation in the, government's suit to. recover about $18.000,000, advanced to cover construe- tion expenses. Objection was made on the ground that the “same charges ‘of/ fravd” lay arainst the Groton company as against the other defendants. “If that defendant is dismissed. it is dismissed as to every allegation,” Senator Brackett explained. Willlam A. Barber. chief counsel for Morse, then read in detadl paragraph 25 lof the complaint bill, which charged that the defendants had to defraud the United States government by obtaining large sums of money to were not entitled” manipulation of the stock and assets of the individual corporation. “We now have the government coming — ; is50-{ william G. McAdoo, former sectetary of the treasury, was unable to deliver "] his scheduled address because of {llness. y and_fraud laid {company, New . York | pre-war ~ Forces if the Cabinet Declined to Give Up P King Victor Emanuel Will Confer With Political ers Prior to the Formation of 2 New Government. The A. P.)— Premier Facta and his entire ministry resigned this evening following the hos- tile - attitude of the Fascistl against i and the ordering by the Fascisti of ¢ mobilization of throughout the country if the cabinet de- clined to give up power. The expectation in Rome tonight was that King Victor Emanuel turn to the capital tomorrow for confer- ences with the political leaders prier to the formation The situation was regarded peaceful in Delief prevailed quarters that either \ittorio Orlando or Lot former premiers, would ‘be requested 1o orgapize a mew A carge of 66767 boxes of dates, the | first big importation Christmas goodies came into New York he Umzumbi, from Bombay. of the. vear alien property’ The municipality of Lusanne has al- 5 | ready begun preparations to receive the Turkish peace confer- November 13. tin B. Kern, must be given peacefully tolthe o the Fascisti would take it “ollow a series of ag, delegates to the Eressive steps by ence, set to be held there Premier Facta recently offered “ascisti representation in his @ der to strengthen h chamber of deputie Lioyd Warren, head of the Besax Arts School of Architecture, New York, hds | fell to death from a windo¥ in his sixth l:_y Q}':I[: ;::thmfimq floor apartment in West 64th street. According to demanded the folios of foreign affairs, bor and pul he added, had offered out portfolio, i The French submarine Roland Moril- plaint_contimues, | lot abandoned by her crew in the Enug- lish channel, is safe {n the Guernsey Island. The governm Nevertheless, the com Palmer took over the plant, placed Mur- ray, then president of the ‘Bethlehem 'Mo- to company, and Kern, treasurer of the same co.npany, The. company then was_sold—iDesally. he claims—to Harry Griftiths, who,' he alleges, was acting for Kern. The ‘sale price, $4,150,000, was little more, than a quarter of the appraised valup i property and this low price, he alleges, was realized because of misleading ad- Vertising tending to depreciate the. value of_the plant. : Klein asks that a receiver be appointed to,take over and operate the plant pend- ing decision on his suit. government. greement with the Organic union of the six large Prot- estant denominations resolution adopted by the Détroit Assocl- ation of Congragationai churches. negotiations with former Premier G who was in power during the Turin s the negos - tiations with Giolitti failed the reached an accord impression was advanced Facta ministry fly for the purpose formation of a leader finally Harry Tebesherskr. hotel keeper ‘Hartford, in a bankruptcy petition gave hig debts at §11,871 and his assets at large part of which decided 1o retire ch of bringing. about strong admivistration which at the ap- proaching re-opening of the chamlwr of deputies would be’capable of facing the There was some speculation as to whether the Fascisti would yield to offers of portfolios in a cabinet headed Glolitti or Orlando or decide to pre- the standard of th lowing of the poet-soldie Whether the present Fascisti rovementh! is_political—carried_on in order 1o ¥ cure control of the cabinet, or di against the present governmental Eyse tem of Italy, is not yet elear. ago Mussolini declared him: But a few days ago, he spoke favorably of the Foroed Into debt by hibition, according to town of Gross Point, city hall was for sale the advent of pro- “conspired together | Ill, announced its and advertised for BELIEVE SUIT DESIGNED self a_repubes TO INJURE THE BUSINESS threats to seize the government. Springfield. Mass. 26.—Officials American Dosch Magneto cox pany, which is located in this.cit: tonight when informed of the’ filing of a suit ‘asking dissolution of the concern, President Harding’s celebration by the nation of Navy day saidq today, Is formally expressed in a letter from the president to Secretar: made public at the navy department. Recent events connected including the The strength of summoning of tary leaders and the bold utteran of Benito Mussolini, that either the government of the coun 400,000 andy t of these men have *° ‘We will exonerate one of the conspira- tors and will leave the others. It has not heen and is not the intem- restoration of its control to the pre- ma, former Senatcr Clarence W. Watson. West Virginia, $2.500 each: former Sen- ator Charles S. Thomas Colorado, $: /The city of Seattle has power to re- fuse a pawn broker's license to R. Asa- tion of the zovernment to offer in ihis{war owners and damages of $2.000,000 trial any evidence under the twenty-fifth | that they Dbelieved this to be an attempt SEVEN WOMEN, FIVE MEN 000, and Frank H. Dodge, Little Rock, Ark,, $1,230, Those contributing $1,000 each were: KING ISSUES PROCLAMATION paragraph of the bill” Mr. Brackett told | DISSOLVING PARLIAMENT “to get more publicity of a kind design- ed to injure the business of the com its present management. %ura, Japanese, on the ground that he is not a citizen of the United States, state supreme court holds. NELL MURDER JURY Judge Waddill. after a short consider- denied the motion pany under Cleveland, Oet. Heury Morgenthau, New York; Charles R. Crane, Illinois; Joseph M. Hartfield, George A. :MacDonald, acterized the charges as ° 26.—The fate o charged with Groton company and. that which would More than 600 students at colleges in dringham today sign= iph Pulitzer, New York; Birminghem. Ala.; C, C. Carlin, Virginia; George T. Bradley, New o fatal shooting in a restaurant Lere last have eliminated all reference to conspir- acy and fraud wherever appearing. “Unless counsel can give some special the United States and tered the contest for prizes for the best solving parliament, its constiutional LLOYD GEORGE'S LIFE ONE OF TEMPESTS AND STORMS which had 1i and summoning the new par- Yook ; Edward Hurley. Illinois; Ed- ward Wise, New York; Willlam A. Day, New York; Admund L & Mooney, New York; George McBowman and George E. seven women and five men today, three days’ effort to seat the ju persons were cxamined before jury was selected. reason” the court guled, “T do not think we should ston here to amend the bill” An exception was taken on the part of the government, indicating that, in case liament to meet Icohols i Against Alc country is now without a parliament, but . has plenty of candidates for the next November 20. London, Oct. 26 (By the A P.)— “There are some people who -are dooni- fcd to be in tempests and. storms,” be- More than 100 delegates to the State Christian Endeavor convention in Spring- Sweeney. New York: Percey S. Strauss, New York; Wayne Johnson, New York: Norman H. Davis and Vroonman H. Davis, New York. . There was one_contribution for $1,100 maeked “unknown." g Other contributors included: William the night |G- McAdoo, Calfforuia; ¥ance’C. Me- the headlights of, oy | COFmick, Pennsylvania; David R. Fran- the crabsapple tree on remembered the “pig | of them making it Glbson to. fee what she has the eountryride PIILLIPS SHOWS © the preservation of which sho | PROSECUTION ning’ every nerve to meet | Tt \then " was re- §.—Mrs, who had been an ayo-witriess time showed but it was not un- interbst In the attempt th olg,, Missaur! ; Daniel © Rover, Wasting- ton: John W. Davis, ‘West Virginia; Frank L. Palk, New York, and Dr, Hers man B. Baruch, New 'York. $300 each; A. Mitchtll Patmer, Penna., $300; Joseplt W. FoIk. Missouri; Hoke Smith, Geor- glu; Morgan J. O'Brien, New York, $250 each; Woodrow Wilson, Washington |Scnator Carter Giass, Virginta; Thomas Gregory, Texas, and George Creel, rosecution ié making to conviet her of Alberta’ Meadows, a young | New York were among those giving $200 wh1 with the mue- with had met the wom- rummage sale. ing, that she | « murderer at the time, | ¥h 1 met him again in | each Josephus Daniels of - North Carolina wis maong many of $100 . contributors, which list also included democratic sena- tore. The unofficial list given to the press mohtioned Jaséph K. - Willard, Virgink among the §$1,000 contributors, and Joo| seph P Tumulty in the list of thoso giv- ing $£230; but their nemes were not in'! Phillips rc~| Treagurer 72 raport. Newton D. in- Visit as fne was a friend had como. from Arizona | tormed ot her detectives her night of the murder Mrs. Meado only known Mrs. Gibson went out barn and enddlod the jenny mule, ahead of them down De Russy ness of the slaying, oupe driven by Mrs. Phillips headed in Baker and £. M. House were listad on- officially among $100 contributors, but their names were not on the official doc- | ument It was explzined that some names which weré given to the press might have been overlooked in the hurry | of preparing the treasurers statement and that they would appear in the mext the direction of Montecito drive, whers| filing. o one would take follow- wagon down used highway, Meadows' body yas found wounds found on the Mrs. Meadows were described jury by the county aptopsy Who testified that it appeared that Mrs. Meadows bad put up a fight for her ng a ramshack rain gullied, She turned about at Baston awenue, The detectives turned their automobile her and she pointed out the in the beams of its head- of the SUTEEOD, | PRESIDENT AGAINST Reports by the republican’ committes wil be filed tomarrow or Saturday, FURTHER ABMY REDUGCTION Jules Lucas, called to identify photo-| Washington, Oct. 26. *— President gainst which the man and the woman told' the 04, and the other automoblle. Gibeon went on up the road unail graphs of the dead woman, jury he had been her sweetheart. The prosecution announced that they Harding’s belief that the rogular army at its present Strength—12,000 officers and 125,000, men—is “as small as should be expected Mrs, Caffee would testify to.|COntemplated until there should be a kicked off 2 moccasin and got down, re- and remounted. Ono of the er and the ocher the crab-anple tree and fash archlight extended at arm's e 50 that it was certain Mrs, EMOTIONAL INSANITY THE DEFENSE FOR ROSIEE MLORDER Philadelphia, Oct, 26.—Emotional decided change in, *military conditions throughout the world” is stated in letter to Secretary Deeks, made public today by the war department in'order to correct any misapprehensions as to the size of the army, asked for In budget es- in-| timates for 1923. s recognition re was possibl id ome of the detectives after “that's enough for tonight, Mrs, Shall we £o home with you?” she replied, with a good- “Thank you, ne, I'm not afrald of the woman in il.¢ | sanity today was put forward as a de- fense by Jobn R. K. Scott, chief coun- for Mrs. Catherine Rosler, charged with the killing of her husband, head of an advertising agency, and Mildred C. Reckitt, in Rosicr's office last She s being tried first for the shooting. on trial January. iod or beast.” wn words in her nar. |, Afier the state rested ‘The letter was written in reply to a communication of Secretary Weeks, Sept. 21 explaining to the president that while estimates for 12,000 officers and 125,000 men were being submitted, the opinion of military leaders, regular na- tional guard, or reserve, was unchang- ed that the mifimum force to carry out the national defense act of 120, .was its case Mr.|13,000 officers and 150,000 men. Scott said that Mrs. Rosier entered her husband's office prepared to make a last|he did not believe the plea for his love, and, failing, to com- ‘What she saw there throned her reason,” and she turned the gun on Rosier and the girl, declared the ‘Dut her heels © Jenny hule and rode on hom 0 the darkness of the lane. Mott's last words tonight, before for his home in Newark, were: The time is not quite rive for an ar- “de- The defense also set forth that Mrs. Rosier came of family with a tendency | tional defense and forfeiting toward Insanity. Arthur Rosier, t Mrs. Gibson's fdenti- 4 sufficient ground for an arrest, but brother of the dead was severely criticised in the dress of the defense. attorney said, went to her husband’s of- finding & diary filled with stances it would be well to have Mrs, Rosier, her love passages lying close to th o stenogra- vher’s purse on a table. “We will show you,” petive visited the Phillips farm again to- fay. going carefully e mentioned in Mes. Gibson's story, said counsel, “that the defendant ripped out that page and later went out and purchased a pistol to end her life in the presence of the HALL AND MEE BROTHER |4frl and her husband.” Mrs. Minerava Mathewson, mother of Christy Mathewson, Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, | pitcher, & great aunt of the defendant, siain rector of the Protest- | Was the first witness for'the defense. She Church of St. John the | testified that ‘several NAMES MRS, New Brunswick, N. J., Oet. The A. P.)— vidow of the famous basebal ‘members of the Henry | family were similarly afflicted with Sycns. are the man and woman nam. | mental diseases. b in the sworn ut With a broken voice atement of Mrs. Jane |she said one of her sons’had .committed self-styled eye-witness of . the | suicide: double-Staying of Wheeler Hall and Mrs, hardt Mills on the nj During the address of her counsel and Eleanor Rein- | the questioning of witnesses' for the de- ght of September | fense Mrs. Rosier quivered, her face pillowed in her arms several times she The' defense expects to tomorrow night. ° This announcement he authotitles, ight through the ment by Mrs. Hall's attorney, Pfeifier, denying the facts was not made by |sobbed - aloud. became known to- | end its case by issuance of a state- ‘Timoth:; of Mra | TUBKISH NATIONALIST - FOBEIGN MINISTER RISIGNS Constantinople, Oct. 26 (By the A. P.) —Yussuf Kemal Bey, the Turkish nu tionalist foreign minister, has resigned -announced ' Lero today. s statements 'are wary 1o the facts,” Mr. Preiffer sald. In reply the president said that while government would be justified in cxoeeding its re- sources for the coming vear, ‘there are limits in reduction beyond whica we cannot go, even in the praiseworthy cause of economy, without destroying the excellent foundation now laid for our na. the ae- crued benefits of World war experience.” 300 AT DINNER TO BISHOP CHAUNCEY BEUCE BREWSTER New Haven, Oct. 26.—More than 300 clergy and laity of the Protestant Epis- his opening_statement for the de- fense, Attorney Walter D. Meals declar- “had no connection with any crime” committed on the night O'Connell was killed the man’s life was ended fired from Somewhere by Someone of appeal, the refusal of theicourt to permit withdrawai of the. charges swould be one of the points carried to the higher field had registered early vesterday and it is expected that the number will reach the total of 2,000. The only notable event of the day was. Premier Bonar Law’s This contained no remark- able surprises and the greatest part of to_enlaargement of his unionist meet- gan former Premier Lloyd George be- fore a large gathering in Whitfield ta- “My life is one per- petual crisis after another, and I had hoped that when I ceased to be respon- eible for . them I would enjoy 2 little leisure and _repose. _After paying tribute to 'the great movement led by ‘Whitfield . (Whiteffeld), 3 #cribed Whitfield .as the gfireatest Pop- ular orator produced by ‘the Bnglish the issuance of bernacle tonight. He conceded that v three shots booked on a charge of murder in Cleveland. charged with the brutal killing of his third wife, whose mutilated body was found almost nude in 2 shallow. grave. it was devoted outlined at the ing which elected him leader. poses to abolish the cabinct secretariat, Counsel for ‘the’ Morse companies de- clared tonight The aetion of the govern- ment in effect wib “a confession of er- ror” ‘and indicated 3 complete collapse of the case. They Tagked for early issu- aice. of 'a fecree f yirigine THiS phase o mal conélusion. counter-suits—that of against the Vieginta company for $1S. Vieginia _company against the government for $6,000,000 ai- leged to be still due on the shins con- structed under 'the emergency fleet con- Assistant County Prosecutor Cassidy, John Wesley criticised as expensive - aud-anconstitutional by the opponents of late “government, representation nations to the foreign He intends to ra opening “for the stat. characterized the “oms of 4he caldest blooded murders in the coy dopal; eourt | Georee cage to a for- There would remain the ‘fhe Turkish nationalist zovernment, it is learened, will not opject to the hold- ing of the peace conference in Lusanme, Switzerland, and is agrrable to the date ‘proposed, Novkmber 13. at the league of revolver from her hustand’s coateand “coolly and de- the : ex-premier said, “I had the privilege of talking on John Wesley at a Methodist gatbering. I pointed out the effect of the Whit- field-Wseley movement upon the politi= cal outlook of England and America, in comparison with the attitude of Conti- nental countries, “The training is the same. America responds to prac- the same appeals as Ensgland does; you could see it. recently in. the attitude America adopted toward th near -eastern question. country that was in complete sympathy with the attitude of England, and ' that was overwhetming and real. 000.000 and of conference to There was ho statement of policy in the management owing the opening arguments, the e with introduction of Gounty Coroner A. P. Hammond and Dr. physician _at hospital swhere O'Connell was taken aft- k Dr. Castoro testified that in a condition of shock land collapse and unconscious from the moment he was brought to the hospital by the police until he died, A $5,000 painting of Jeanme D'Ar an Amertcan painter, which reposes as an altarpiece in the little chapel of the Jeanne D'Arc hom2 for French girls in New York, has been statefbegan its ca Edward Rigny, Near East, and that manded by Mr. s lmely to ba de- A separate suit is pending in Connee- ticut' wherein geek to collect $13.000,000 from the gov- {ernment as balance due for construotion | jof a number of ships. campaign spee A warrant for the of the * Hungarian soviet government, which was dominant in Hungary for a short time after the war, was. issued in Geneva, by the fed- eral police department. had an enthusiastic WHAT CHURCH MEMBERS SAID ABOUT THEIR PASTOR It was the enly considered to have bearing on the case, in his_opening | Champion had been testimony wa Meals - declared spoke Dbefore fatement ‘that Mr. brought before the dying man at the hos pital, and O:Connell audience of noB- Pittsfield, Mass., Oct. 26, tabernacle 3n hls church committee made, humiliating vemarks about him, -Members of The steamer Maracaibo. from West Indian_ports, tine when one ‘of the men department was discovered suftering from a malady believed to by o | smalipox. it was entirely attributable to the fact that the moral training of America was identical with- ours—the old Pilgrini. f thers reinforced by the Whitfield: and ‘Weslev. “II'" don’t know had told the police as Dot the woman. who shot him Assistant Prosecutor {opening réfmarks sa in the stew- the day hawehd ang@iford Birkenhead were guesis at given by the. Rev. Walter C. Carroll, deposed pastor of the North Becket and Congregational the superior court today. great ideals o Colchester municipality. was supposed to be 2 non-partisan social affair, Lord Birkenhead made a defenss’ e members of the cab: Lloyd George. the - exact figures ocur debt to America; 1 am told it is a thousand - millions at ‘the present mo- It is nothing to the debt Amer- 1 should llke to write th: one thousand and John Wesley had been in restourant when street in front of the he heard someone Champien's automobile mention whiskey. nnell went over and asked for court uction he has k broughtagainstthe standing committes of the North Becke of the conservat inet who stuck by former premier made without bringing in politics baby in her arms, has by Judge Benjamin ¥. Bledsoe fo serve five months in the county jail for vie- }lation of the Volstead act. ica owes us. balance sheet—Debit, ninety millions and ‘George Whitfeld. “I am-not talking about Shakespeare. who are all in the and - Roger . Williams and I could run up was refused, Champion and her husband them went into the restaurant. « In addition to the alleged “humiliating remarks,” the defendants made damaging statements about his cnaracter, the wite nees said. ‘Mr. Carroll acted as his own BETH STEEL DECLARES college is made the RTEELY DIVIDEXD dury legatee by the will of Mrs. Mary Dana de Cordeva of Lincoln, was filed at Cambridge, Mass., disposing | o fan estate believed to represent a asked¥ Champion for & drink, said. “Champion gave it to him but O'- | Connell said it was not enough. A fight started and O'Connell hit Champion. It was then that Mabel Champion took out aimed it at O- The two then left the restaurant and entered their auto- patrolman who heard nvestigated and was told the as in the machine. a revolver concealed under her outer Burns and Milton, The defendants clalm that the pastot was ousted because ‘of the way he con- ducted himself in the- pulpit. Pilgrim . fathers.. h! a bill against America. which .would bankrupt even that rich country. Thay don’t keep those accounts in the exche- quer, but they are things which matter. Whitfield and Wesley brought America into the war instinct, which as a re- sult of their preacl ing moved America to come to:our aid. George Whitfield and John Wesley are soing to take America by the hand and New York. Oct. 26.—Directors of the Bethiehem Steel Corporation today de- clared the regular quarterly: dividend of 1% ‘per cent. on both A and B common stocks and a quarterly dividend of 1% Per cent on the new 7 per cent. : tive preferred stock issued in conmee- the purchase by Bethiehen of the Lackawanna Steel Company. MERGER OF NEW YORK BANKS WITH CAPITAL OF §17,000,000 A taxicab driver who pursued a pair of runaway horses in his machine on Beacon street, Boston stopped the hors- es in time to save five children who were crossing the street just ahead of the an- New York, Oct. 26.—A merger of the Irving National bank and the Columbia Trust company has been approved by the directors of both banks and will be recommended to shareholders, it was an- The consolidated institu- tion will be known as the Irving-Colum- Dia.Bank and Trust company with cap- ital of 317,000,000 and surplus and un- divided profits of $10,500,000. erate under a and their teach- * President Eugene G. after the meeting that while the earnings for the third quarter were not sufficient to cover dividend requirements, Grace declared lead her through the golden portals of STUDYING THE RAILROAD SITUATION IN NEW ENGLAND Shadow Breok, a mansion in Stock- proien Loid bridge, Mass., has been bought by the Society of Jesus, who will use it as a Jesuit novitiate. from the Andrew Carnegia es- the league of nations.” were substantially greater than - elther DE VALERA CALLS MEETING OF SECOND DAIL EIREANN Dublin, Oct. 26 (By the A. P.)—Ea- monn De Valera has just made a new move by summoning the second Dall Hireann, which constituted itseif republican government and nominated a council of state, De Valera always has contended that the second Dail has never been formally He refused to recognize par- liament as replacing it, especially chal- lenging the parliament's capacity to in- terfere in political funds in the United Tonight, the publicity department is- | sued an official statement which showed that the second Dail met in secret ses- sion and that the president appointed as a council of state, Austin Stagk, Robért C. Barton, Count Plunkett, Laurence Mrs. OCalla- ghan, Mary MacSwiney and several those of the first or second quarters.-- President Grace stated that the cor ‘poration’s steel plants are running at 30 per cent. of their capacity. improvement had been made in railroad service, he said, with better movements of coal and an increased supply of cars for moving finished materials. The growing shortage of labor, partie- ularly unskilled labor, he declared, was Hartford, Conn., 26.—Governor Everett J. Lake today issued a call for a meeting at the capitol on November 21, at 2 p. m. of the. railroad advisory | committee which he appointed last June. This committee is composed of E. Kent Hubbard, Middletown, E. O. Goss, Wa- Frederick L. Ford, New Haven, tional Jhas specialized in commereial banking *for more than its deposits in the last published statement having been given as_$240,000,000. The Columbia Trust company was or- ganized in 1884, and its deposits have exceeded $90,000,000. Lewis - Pearson, chairman of the board of the Irving National, and Harry E. Ward, president, will hold the same offices in the new compan: Paul I Morentz pastor of the Jewish mission of the United Lutheran church in Philadelphia, told the United Luth- eran church’s biennial convention that there are four million Jew of whom 1,500,000 are city and that seventy years, in New York “these must be Christian- becoming a serious matter to the steel industry, causing in many instances cur- tailment in operations and delays in come = 4 Hartford. This committec has_begun its work and in joint session with the committee of the other New England states has started a thorough study and investigation the railroad situation as it affects New is_to involve all the factors of transportation. including financial and operating condi~ tions of the roads. The Connecticut committee like the committees from the other New England states has been vested with authority by the chief executive of the state to call struction work. He attributed this com- to the present Pieas for early emactment of the mer- chant marine bill and legislation author- 1zing government purchase of the Cape Cod canal were presented to President Harding by F. the Maritime Association of the Boston chamber of commerce on behalf of the ports of New England. dition largel laws. He said he strongly favored m | selective system of would protect the country against (he admission of undesirables but would admit desirable workmen particu- lany those from the central Europeati immigration which JEWELER IN MERIDEN HELD UP AND EOBBED 'Merfden, Qct. 26—Held up at the point of a gun John T, Clements, pro- prietor of a jewelry store at 57 1-2 West Main street, was robbed of three dia- mond_rings. manager of Sean O'Kelly, ANTI-PROHIBITION James Mahan, once employed as house- man in the family of Clement Cleveland, copal church in Comnecticut were pres- ent tonight &t a dinner to Bishop Chauncey Bruce Brewster in honor (ot the 25th anniversary of his election to the bishopric. The conference on the three-year program .recommended by the general convention opened this af- ternoon. 58 Bishop Edward C. Acheson, suffragan bishop, of Middletown, Bishop E, 8. Lines of the diocese of Newark, N. ., and President-Emeritus Hadley-of Yale, were the speakers. g SPENCER SAYS VOLSTEAD LAW SHOULD BE CHANGED St. Louls, Mo., Oct.. 26.—United States Senator Selden P. Spencer de- clared, in a statement issued today, that “the so-called Volstead .law is not So fundamental” and that “it can be changed. by congress ‘at ‘any - time. “In my judgment it ought to be changed and " modified.” the “Sothé ‘of it3 'provisions’ are unnec ily hafsh -and, restricuve - of | rights.” * Mr. Voistead law, said that shortly he woud make suggcstipns’ for the “modification of 't}) R J = IN SESSION IN BRUSSELS public hearings, > ahd figures, to represent the state at all hearings of the joint New Eng- land commission on railroad consolidation and at all other hearings. The governor will meet with the com- mittee on ‘November 21. OBITUARY. Jr., of Greenwich, was arrested in the adjoining town of Portchester, N. Y., charged with forging four checks which had been drawn in his favor apparently by Louisa S. Cleveland, wife of his o'clock tonight, by an unmsaked bandit who escaped in an auto pursued some distance by the police. Returning to the store to claim a pin he left to be repalred about three weeks ago, the bandit, who appeared .to be about twenty-five years old, asked to see some diamonds for a broach he was intending to have made, prietor placed the Jewels-on a show case, the man grabbed them and holding the proprietor off with a gun fled from the store and entered a waiting auto. Brussels, Oct. 26.—(By the A, P)— Delegates from eleven countries are the third anti-prohibitian congress in session here. Senator Delannoy, presiding, defined the object of the gress as an energetic struggle the tendencies of modern legisiation = sacrifice individual and commercial M~ MAREBIAGE 'CERTIFICATE OF GRANDSON AND GRANDMOTHER Calais, Maine, Oect. 26.—George Eye, aged 18,and Mrs, Rebecca P. Eye, said to be 70, were married at St. Stephen, N. B, yesterday by Rev. W. A man giving the name of John Ryan, picked up_ in Springfield Saturday criti- cally ill from wood aleohol poisoning, admitted to the police that he is William ‘When the pro- New Britain, Conn., Oct. 26.—Chasles Glover, former president of the Cor- bin Screw Corporation, and one of the leading mant)acturers of the east, died last night after a long iliness. Mr. Glover, who was 75 years of age, one daughter, Mrs. Ida Peterson, of Woodmont, three brothers, George, of Windsor Locks, John and James of Shelton, and a H. White of Providence. Mr.: Glover was a director of the Amer- jean Hardware Corporation, president of the Corbin Motor Vehicle Corporation. Ppresident of the Skinner Chuck company president of the N. R. Walker company, president of the D. C. Judd company, a director of the New Britain National director of the North and Judd company, a 5 the congress were choa= en for the purpose of studying how fight of the organization could be ried on against the prohibition It was decided tha: al action must be inaugurated. The countries represented at the gress are Belgium, Canada, Spain, land, France, England, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzériand. had served 13 months of going to their home, where a O e thoutary was in progress, declared the was fllegal because of the relationship of the contracting partles. He seized their marriage certificate. - FLYING MACHINE LANDED ON' DECK OF MAN-0-WAR Norfolk, Va., 'assenger service between Boston and New York will be discontinued Eastern Steamship Lines several ‘weeks sion according to an announcement by NEW HAVEN EOAD EMPLOYES |the Portland, Maine, Chamter of Com- New Haven, Oct. 26.—About 2.400 men in_the transportation . and ,maintenance | of way and mechanical departments of |a the New Haven road have accepted the perconalfat a £peed of dbout six knots. A 30 mile{ group insurance plan, and about. $10, Spencer. wiio voted for the{wind was blowing from the northwest at jthe time and . the ,pl voloclty of 46 knots . arresting geal itaves a wido 26—The first at- tempt of a land type flying machine to land on the deck of a man- United - States navy proyed successful off the Virginia Capes today. * Lieutenant Commander Godfrey De C. flying . a -two - beats statement _sad. |landed on the: flight deck ‘of fhe essar- | Langley while the vessel was prdceeding| GEOUP INSUEANCE FOR ter, Mrs. J. FATALITY WHEN PLANE CRASHED IN CITY ¥la., Oct. 26. Wil hich ke aaid sbe 000,000 in_insurance 5 now in force. e landing. at.a | The insurance is on a contributory. director- of | tig s