Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 13, 1922, Page 1

> . NORWICH / 3 0 MONDAY NOVB!BER 13, 1922 Bulletin TEN PAGES—70 COLUMNS T"RICE TWO CENTS T flUAKE WMMMI,NOMDMmChfles Ca- Mvpbe—MmyTbmlndl Are in. Distress, Needing oquiirnbx tbe'fidlleePlck edBlgShumenlndCurnedThemFmBlocksmethe Low Water Mark—Panic Was' lncteu«l Whenfl\e Elecs tmhglmetouthomerofdseTm "~ Conguimbo, Chile, Nov. 12.—(By The , wAfd and ‘came back in the shape of a A. P.)—The port of “Coquimbo was |gréat wave; flooding the sea ports and in #wakened pt 11.55 Friday night by.vio- | some instances sweeping away the water- i@t earth shocks, and in a few. minutes|front. ‘The violent effects of _the tidal the populace was running abolit the | waves were felt from Antofostoa. on . the streets in terror, only partially ‘cloth- \north .to Valdivia_on the south, covering pd and seeking the nearby . hills. :rha ut sixteen degrees of ldtitude, or panie was increased when the. elec than 1,200 miles. lights went ou( in some parts' of Il :.of craft lying in me vari- town. & olu barbors were swept on shore, wreck- Coincident wm\ the' shocks the sky |ed, OF lett high and dry, and at scores of was flluminated by -electric’ di 1 ports wharves and quays were and fire broke out. After the fish shocks | deatroyed. :Chilein naval vessels in-the the sea receded for a 'considerable dis-ihatbor 4t Talchuano, abodt: 300 miles I then swept back in an immense south~of..Valparaiso when they feit the xtending from Coquimbo tb- La fforce of .the waters, slipped their cables seven miles to the northeast;|and proceédéd on the open sea. figoding the town and the wholo coast | “PresidentAlessandri has ordered the “;'h doing muct' damage. various government departments to take k. dded. to-the terrors of al- fheasures mossible for. the- relief~of thé people, many of whom criéd out for |the sufferers in the stricken districts, ald. Agan the sea receded, for a dis- |those nitost ly' afflicted 'lying between tance of 300 yards heyond the low tide Coquimbo an# Copiape.. The navy. de- mark, then it sewed to gather force and |partment’ t ships along the coast came back in an immense wave esti-|to gid in the work. . mated as ‘50 meters in height, which| . The report of the Seismological insti- comparatively destroyed the- BW tite Sayis that the apparent focus of the aquarter. A number of big lighters were |earth’ shdok. 200 kilometers from picked up ke chips and Safried bey: Santiago. ' J‘:‘mamy of the move- * the railway bridge which is *five ka- ment. was ‘recorded between Numbers § from the low tide mark. tang-9 of the ofticial séale, which runs ————=%. .. . . lupte12. The total duration was 3 hours AT LEAST 1,000 DEAD; {'and 40 cminntéy and “the estimated .ra- THOUSANDS IN' DISTRESS dfi.""m:,:oz, fi“'fi,‘,{: ok T e e el The Met: ical imstituteysays that Santiago, Chile, Nov. 12.—(By The A Wna sarth shock colnoldes with the patsase P)-—With partial. re-establishment * ofl4f 2 sun:spat .over the central meridian eommiunications, Chile's” “earthquake fof the sun. The earth shock commenesd catastrophe is revealed in even greater|at ine termination Af 4 day of ab magnitude than first reports indieated. Jti}icat The sun epct referred to made its isiestimated. that at Jeast 1,000 are dead | appearance on Novembéer 5 and was the need- many thousands are in distres: e o6 and, shelter, !:r’qt oburyed this year. In addiflon to hnflzp alll‘ltlea of dead asd injured at Coplapo & Was repofted today that 500" were kill- 44 at Vallenar and the surrounding dis- iet. Vallenar was virtoally duv.roycd, ind the" survivors™ are “in”critieal” coni Tt-seems ocertain that -thers . hive ::Po" ANCE m“lc ?l!'ll? X 'TH . THE PACIFIC ‘PEN! * Valparaiso, Chile, Nov. 12 (By, The ~elirious feature of*the-garth- the’ tidal wave- which- nfinqenmed e | oteurrence’ ‘m e S haperions ot o 4 as. “Cob; u! 8- of Mereury iant The * winners, and>the sun. were | these, refugees present a protlem beyond | 5. L of HMer: . cpnjunction uitd- Jupiter occuirred- at 11.30. Sat- | the bed 'of- urday-motnisg, and the other some: hours feif. . ‘There must have heen such a tear- | fterwards. umm—fuflnnflnti.q fl» quantities of | water | were ‘suckéd 37 4 through, 2 ' tremendous 'recds- Buann-Mnm Nov. 12- ight distarb- jon of nu waters -along. m cmmnjlnqu ere again noted today by the sefs- < {ha “in” Buenos Aires.’ "They were ‘Several timea un ocean mu flul-lor Chllwn orgin. REFERENDUM RESULTS IN- BeAeNY g STRATION-OF NEW NORTHEASTERN RTATES| z SUPER-EX-RAY MACHINE New York, Nov. 12.—Defea! of thel” The fifst. public state prohibition enforcement ‘and of | demonstration o( Lolumbia - university's | Afother measure providing for state reg-|new .super-X-ray-machine with which jt ulgtidn; of.metion. pictures hy the \atm‘wm be poasibie to measure the Tay- used + of. Massachusetts, were two.- in the ue'lmtnt of cancer and other. dis- important referendum quuuon. d-:lded mflm i m:lv:: today. :) hDrUF;-anc:.s if the northeastern states at 'mufl. T rector . of the Wniversi- elections. y's Instiute of Cancer Reésearch’ as a The same state aito adopted an: sot | P8zt of Nationmal’ Clncer Week” which be- providing that . voluntary - associations :‘m‘y Might ‘sue, or:be sued,. which -was o'-‘ s pigs Miffering from tumors posed by Jabor unions, and an act-provid- ;.‘“" s l"’-‘"’lfld They m were ing m-lx &mr;c‘t attorfeys must’ be mem..| ¢S “ e with' lead save the port m‘ of' the bAr. which was/ passed’ by the lagisiatuse after the removal and dis- . e J B i 'fi"‘ Sarment of Disrict Atiarney Pelieier o W"\'F T e e wutd, et 2 the_bones of the hand may 00 féet dway. < - - Paflhtnunh adopted, by & largé (sha. | Dl jority, an amefdment to the state consti- » fution giving ' municipalities ‘the right to ""’. o ':;:”:flmm “”’wnfi“,‘: amend- their ‘own charters, the me: re'.'m be‘ -able to - stan: X-ray Velng pipilasiy known s the-“Nome Iile |treatment. This will be of great sefvice amendment.” to Physiclans the world over as at the Voters of Maryland acted f,ownbw OB | present ‘ time ‘thefe is no “fixed standard | several ‘améndments, incloding-one mak- [and the.amodnt of .ray necessary to-kill ihg ‘women -cligible to. hold .office by con- | cancer cells is largely a matter of Eusss structifig all words and pheases denoting | work. - miascaline gender to lucludé fgminisk gén- ’Whlt we u'e trying to do during an- der. . "WM!: 0 acquaint- people - with " the. ‘With 63 of New Jersey's 2,646 election | earty: symptonis of the: disease 5o that we @istriets, still unbsard from, jthe vpters |will get them in.tlme to cure them. of that state wplrunlly passed hvorlmy B e ———— on o proposal to issue $40.000,000- warth ml(lnnnm GREEE . T 5 ot bonds for, hishway impro t. The 5 Axerl!lxux onuvs tabulated thus far shows 23! 2 SE IR 2 and 234,168 opposed. o Coamxlnople.‘ Nov. 12. (B .the A. —_— —'l‘h Angora government’s failure to OCTOBER POTATO CROP IN m arantees for-the pro- NEW ENGLAND 29,900,000 ‘)um on b under’ Amerlm care ‘Wakefield, Il- Nov. 12-<The tw un-ed the Near ofticials te befln the transfer of Wireeks and Ar- yield of the New Ergland potato e% menia the month of Oi:th‘\"vuwu 2! 00 orphans from, the Constantinople of greater salety. Two L6 31166,000 the | ars orp fathe, New m A-hx.u:dde of the Bblnhomua. ot _agticulture aflcum today. ; mlodu Mof the same year the mnvu 49,191,000 bush- | n to~ m&'fmmgmu ’ g Mool |Turks Kill An Anti | Natonait E# Ali Kemal Bey’s Body Dng- ged Through the Streets of Constantinople :by an ln- [ furiated Mob. Constantinople, N Transmigsion—By The Kemal Bey, editor of the ti-nation- alist newspaper Sabah, who %as arrest- ed at-Ismid on the_charge of traitorous actions, #bas killed by a mob after hav- ing’ been pfficially . condemned to death. He was taken before General’ Nureddin Pasha, military governor of Smyrna. now on a tour of inspection of the natibnalist troops ‘at Ismid, :who pronounced the death sentence dramatigally: “In the name of Islam, in the name of tie Turk- ish nation, I condemn you to death as a traitor to the country.” Ali Kemal remained passl\c, uttering’ no word -of protest; his hands tied, he was leq to a scafford: Before he reach- ed the gibbet, . however, an angry mob of women peunced on him, attacking him with knives, stones, clubs, tedring at his. clothing_and siashing his body with, cutlasses. After a few minutes. of ex- cruciating torture the victim expiredy His body ‘was 'dragsed through the streets by the infuriated mob ahd exposed to public gaze on the scaffold for several hours. The editor's death has caused profound resentment and .emouon -in:-Constantine- ple, where he was Knuwn_ as. one:’ of Turkey's most ‘enlightened 'and most im- partial citizens, v 1 CHRISTIANS FLEEING IN 4 TEREOR FROM ASIA‘ MINOR Constantineple, Nov. 12.—(By The A. P.)—Reports reaching here show ‘the e {tire Christiah population of Sivas, An- gora, Cesarea, Konia and other centers in‘ Asia-Minor are in panic t towards the .shotes of the Mediter- ranean and Black Seas: Samsun, on the Black Sea, has ten thousand of its own Tefugees, and forty thousand - others, are “~Teported headed there in quest ‘of ships to” take® them away. Along every road,and in every mountain - pagc. are long, winding, ser- Dentine columns of men, women'and chil- dren, .goading sleepy oxer pulling wag- on loads of ‘worldly goods. People are abandoning' hemes, farms and _everything. Their hardships ‘have been jncreased by .inclemept weather, bringing sickness or death to thousands. ‘James.C. Rutch- er.of - Tuscaloosa; ‘Ala., ‘of the .American Near East relief, notified .Constantino- Dle by courier today that- the -waterfront at Samsun-was. crowded with;nervous or terrorized - refugees and - that -available ships will ;only, embark 2,000 persons.. He icves . only one-third-of -the. Tefugees ingthe- period. 80 by ‘the Tyrks in unlnt tite- Angora: government o ex Wfi om ; othe i 1he gnly "-women . and| Shildren" to 1 demett pemvem of their. bread the"eflorta of the American relieg agen- cies. . i _Rear Admiral Bristol, ‘commandér of ‘the ‘Amierican naval forces in 'Turkish is concerned’ 6ver the ;Turks or- der that.all Christians must leave the gountey and s strivips. to ‘have it Modi- [ ter “a._ million or Jmore of “the evxcted inhabitants are expected on the bleak, shelterless ~ oast of the Black Sea. No' one nation has facilities. to Tescue them ahd ft is’ admitted. the task is far too ‘great for the limited means of the leagune’ of nations. If in additfon to the miillion and ‘4 Kilf Christians in the interior~-and’ Constantinople, the 450, 000 \Greeks,” Armenians and other for- elgners are forced o0t of ‘the COWATF: it is believed ‘that there will *ho a ' sta: pede of tremendous proportions, ‘entail- ing- ‘endléss misery :and confusion. Al- ready “the’ hest of ‘the~British,: .<French, American und other foreigners have left stantinople, and the paralysis in bus- ines daily is' increasing, - “Riories ~They Near East ‘telief today sent. 'the ste-.mu‘l -Belgravian .to "Samsin, 0 be- sin_ the embarkation. of - 7,500 —Gruk and Armenian orphans: . She is”in charge of John D: Macy’abb of Washington, D. C.; and ¥ carrying'a cargo’ of relie plies. Relief ships also: are--being s’ .pnqhed to. Mer_Sina and Beirut,*which ve bécome _the two other extrémities v! the main lines gt Q-cht dn Asia-Min-| or. i + BRITISH ARE PRESEEVING large f BRIEF TELEGRAMS . réy persoms whe drank .lll froem = IW bhten by a mad deg.will take the Pasteur treatment in Wayne Co.,, N. C. Rudyard Kipling was eolested recter of St2 Andrew’s University, -Dundee, Scot- land, succeeding Sir J. M. Barrie. Bears have become se mumerous in .the Smokey mountains . forty - miles : from Knoxville, Tenn., that cattle are being attacked. Proposed federal .legisiation to estab- lish traffic regulations. for-the air above the country arc being drafted by the committee on the aircraft safety code. Five hundred heuses were destroyed im Saturday’s. earthquake -at -Coqnimbe, be- | tween Valparaiso and Anton‘nst- Cm!a and some lives were lost. —_— 7 The strike on the Great. Scmthern and | Western and the argest railway in Ireland which was called in the middle of Oc- tober was settled Saturday. < 'The destrover Childs ‘went agre ofr Montauk Point, on Long Island. ' She re- ported by. radio that stie was in nd immé- diate danger and probably would gct off without assistance. | The seighteenth amendment to the fed- eral censtitution, with the Volstead act, has ‘been voted a part of the California laws by a majority laws 'by a majority Of 29,621 votes. THe newspaper Measngero in Rome says’ that the situation in the Near East “is_not, only grave but alarming, and must be ’earnestly a.nd energetically considered.” King Victer' Fmmanuel's fifty-third birthdaw ‘was celebrated throughout It- ajy Saturdey with special ceremonies acocmpanied by demonstrations of en- | thusiasm, 1t seemed apparent that the number ot lives lost in the burning - oZ the * river steAmer Ta.Shing near Shanghal, esflmt- ed at 200- probably never WHI be learned definitely. The Easters ‘Telegraph /' company’s cable to Constantinople, -which- was cut jrecently by the Turkish nationglists in the_ vicinity of Chanak, has.been .restored and is warking smoothly. Licut. ames Hutchinsen, I-fl'i Jost in the West Virginia . or .Pennsyivania mountains was located.near Columbus, O., where he was forced to.land on ‘csount of short gas Buppl]. Ten. persons sustained ‘busns or cuts when a gas tank which: was-belag placad in an automobile ‘@t a sérvice ‘station in the Back Bay dm.rlct. Bomu cxploded Sa!urdly Mayei 4. C. w-lu-. ¢ _Oklahosma City, next, governor - of ' Oklahoma,’ his: an. Inounpsd plans for ‘a ,monster inauguri party, the features. of.which - will be-a] received ‘Sbfious injuries .in .am. aiutdnio- turned on”the ‘Dixle hi near. tgna, Fla, ... ' !plmded not guflty. to a my, It.is.alleged that while stil mar- ried, to Ethel Devine of Bri t, Gt he married, Mrs, ' Violar. L. Dean .of. v‘mn Springfield in September, 1920, - “girls _'h | participate escapade jShould be vublicly spanked, .along. h their erring offspring, accordihg to Judge Iawrencs: Jacobs, of the Cll(b‘o boys‘ court, The bedy ef Dr. Grahame D. shusen, of Reading, Pa., was found in (he’thnyl- Kill river, Philadelphia. . 1t had - been weighted down by means of bricks in.the pockets of “the clothing and . gag was found in - Lhe meuth, & A’ recommendation that & diverce be granted to Mrs. Kisie zee, . _ Harary ‘H.' Frazee, theatrical owner and principal owneér of the' Boston - Amrla.n ‘baseball’ club, waschiled in superior. court in Naw Ycrrk by Referee, AbraBam Stern, su::m m nefmmv et e es of ni " court of appeals for the eighth h‘:fi"t‘mm | compri. western “an.- dnorthwestern Etdtes, died suddenly of hemorrhage: his former home in Weshingtoh! oln!:n IN, cohs!‘nuuol’u E @ Cmnu.nunon\e. Noy: #2.—(By The A: P))——Gouunfinop!e may’ be likened ‘to ‘powder magazine, which the-Brit- lm are “striving in the face of growing iculties to keep * ignition. Gen- eral Harington ‘is- urging his government to- hasten -the peace conference to" avoid’ an open rupture, as._he belteves: that if lhe Turks can - be held *in Jeash ‘until te’ meeting begins,- the™ auuer‘ of hostilities will. be averted. The: exhausting pdtience-and- modera- tion of Gene?l H:flngmn in ‘view: of ‘what is held Ahe vmnuhnhg \and unconciliatory - attitude - of ‘the’ Angora gorernment. had qd ited the.admiration of Americans and ‘other observers., In their earnest ‘desire” for peace the British ‘are g every possible dqml-ld to. the The ‘latest concession is abolit r .nm} murul;? _of Turkish nm of supervision ayes the s:mnrwle-mn telegraph lines intérnal and civil s 4t Koulei and' Kadikeut, | Turks.” ‘He' dismissed. by Federal Judge Geirger.in .Milwdukee, &;uzmm,itmumsn- " Oscar )--fis wealthy . turer, in Chicago, was.’ by Nicholas. Schaeffer, who the affections of his wife, Schaefter, ware -.la-ma by mig;dy: semi-officially - confirmed Pope Pius will hold,'a setret: consistory on_ December, 11, o be followed: by . public consistory on on_Depepber: 14, which he will créate @ number of. qardmate, B S bl e All prisoners horvl.u time af the dl'y farm’ in Jacksonville, .Fla., . for meanors Were released with ' suspended tsem.encu upon order of Municipal 3nd¢. Bu*&.mmardermtthqu}tpc— have the Nevada’ “oontest re-. turng” tnud when' he arrived i wifi- Tendency of Wages Continues Upwards try the Bargaining Power " of Labor is Steadily Increass ing. New York, Nov. i2.-—Analyzing re- ports of wage changes made to the de- partment- of ‘labor, the ménthly econ- omic néws letter just issued by the Labor ‘bile. accident. when her:mu.hg[m atate. Bureau, Inc., notes that eighty concerns reported increases and 17 decréases in October. . Summarizing the economic sitnation from labor's point of view,. ths letter Rdds: “The_improvément of .inductrial condi- tions, noted in Tecent months continu steadily, though it is slowed up by sev- eral , factors. _More. workers ard con- stantly being emploved in most -indus- trial and labor Shortages, particularly in common Jabor, age reported by many em- ployers. As a result the bargaining pow- er of labor is increased and wages in more occupations have begn to move up. % “The prleea of grain to the farmer are nearly 'stationary, while those of many manufactured products tarc increasing slightly. = The cost of_living as—a whole has not yet shown any marked change.” FOUR MIDDLE WEST STATES " YOTED FOR SOLDIERS' BONUS Chicago, Nov. 12 (By the A. P.).—A division of opinion as to the adwisability of permitting the sale of béer and light wines was recorded in two states of the middle west &t ist Tuesday’'s clections, but all’ four states in which the soldiers’ bonus was uUp returned favorable majori- ties, according to figures available today. -'Qhio opposed a propoged constitutional améndment legalizing the sale of wine and beer, whereas lilinois cast a heavy vols in favor of a modification of state and federal liws to permit the manufac- ture, =ale and transportation of beer and light wine, The question of Sunday amusements was raised in only one state in the mid- dle west, South-Dakota, which, according to available figures, put a ban on Sab- bath festivities. The vote was about two to one, In Illinois. Jowa and Kansas an over- whelming vote in favor of the bonus was polled. In Oklahoma, the soldiers’ com- pensation proposal,” however, recgived €0 slight a majority that an official count be necessary o determine the issue. Questions of taxation, submitted in v Tious ways throughout the central states, nces of opinion. i d a state income, Ohio efeated a maximum one mill” tax levy, & Minneota- faYored 2 taxing of per- {ksams or{ gotpordtibns. éagaged. in mining sJoan; the -eredit_of the ‘state of Minnesota as aid: to devplop- \mpnt. of the agricujturak resqurces-of. the Aporoval. - given: for an % 7 Muu;‘.‘:,‘q- banking business. msin rejected .a neoposed. consti- tutional mendmem authapizing any city, 2d authorized indebtedness, {0 mr\mdehtodxu- for. public improve- ments. . Another proposal approved was that a valid jury verdict in civil cases may be based,op the.votes of a.specified | number. of: the “jury, not less than five- xths. ebrask, . according, to unofficial. re- (\lnu. indorsed an anti-picketing law, but refused 10. provide that delegates.te po- litical. conventions be selected by cau- ntions ln;lud of primary + The defeat, of the rrnmd wine and beer amendmetn -in, Ohio was by a much smaller majority than the vietory of the wét-referendum jn 1llinois. This was ex- plained by peohibition ldvoutea as due to the fact that they advised their ! adherents not to voté on the (‘lfiflm in Irinels. 4 - The pro-prohibition vote in Ohio was 899,404 against a negative vote of 712, 208. 5,890 ‘precincts “in ‘the state showed 929 - 521 in favor of prohijbition ‘modification | and 453,248 against any lopsehing oi the ! present restrictions: The: Illinois bonus proposal provided for a '$55,000,000 bond issue’ and’ dlreet tax to pay the bonus. ~Iowa Voted for the ismue of MQOO MW‘ bolldl fm' the same IN.THE BECOUNT .—Colonel William A. G ’Ww for U. S. senator from . gained slighi- }tmuunzm- murn- o u‘z‘ He . PR i lo:lndnwu’hnd;ouum the “electiou ~press ‘returhs Mtod in the with loflvfldln s in Easthampton tn.-m %: AnoLlei ¥ In lllinois returns from 5,121 of the. ARMY FLIER WAS KILLED IN RELAY RAGE AT HARTFORD Lieut. John Blaney’s Airplane Struck a Tree When Aboul to Land—Accident Was Due to Miscalculation on the Part of the Aviator—Hydroplane Nose Dived Into New York Bay While Engaged in Stunt Flying—Two Men Aboard Rescued. Hartford, Conn., Nov. 12.—Lieut. John Blaney, army flier, from Mitchall field, L. 1., was instantly killed this afternoon at Brainard municipal field here while tak- | ing part in-an airplane relay race in th| Hartford aviation meet. His plane struck | a tree and crashed when about to land. Lieut. John E. Blaney, killed today in an airplane accident at Hartford, Conn., served with the:army of occupation in | Germany and also in the Phillippines. He had been commander of the Fifth Obser- | vation squadron at Mitchell field since | last March. He leaves a widow, who lives in Long Beach, Calif. Lieutenant Blaney was completing the third lap of the race and flew close to the ground.on approaching the finish mark where a fourth flier was waiting to conclude the last lap. There is an uneven group of trees some hundred yards south of the field. The army pilot, flying about 140 miles an hour, miscalcuiated his - distance, struck, a tree, and crashed to the ground. His gasoline tank broke into flames and immediately . the plane was: a blazing mass, . Death had come instantly to the aviator. Officers from Mitchell field held an im- mediate . Investigation and decided that the accident was due to no fault of the plane or. conditions, but entirely to a miscalculation on the part of the avi- ator. Twenty thousand spectators at the aviation mect saw the crash. injuries, and ahis condition tomight was reported as critical Mrs, Chevalier, the officer's wife, &~ caped injury in a later accident while fiying from Washington after getting word that he had been hurt. The plane wis forced to land in Chesapeake Bay, tears ing off a wing, but Mrs. Chevalier and |others with her were rescued by navil launches. HYDEOAIRPLANE PLUNGED INTO NEW YOEK BAY New York. Nov..12.—While engaged in stunt flving over New -York bay this af- ternoon, in view of several thousand per- gons on the New York and New Jersey shores. a‘ hydroairplane with two mén on board fell into a nose dive and plunged into the water. The occupants, Arthur Randall, 26, pilot. and Theodore Bridgeman, owner of the plane, were res- cued the crew of the U. S. revenue cutter Manhattani and later removed te a hospital, where they were found to be suffering from contusions and shock. LOCOMOTIVE BOILER EXPLOSION KILLED FOUR MEX NS 12.—Four mek were killed and three injured at U o'clock last night as the result of the explosion of a locomotive boiler at More- land, thirteen miles from here. The locomotive on which the explosion occurred was the regular engine om & southbound New York Central freight train, to which another locomotive had been attached to help the train up & grade. The helper was in front of the regular engine. The boiler of the locomotive was thrown 400 feet ahead of the traim. It landed on the rails and the head engine crashed into it. Supt. F..C. McCérmack of the New York Central was unable to give Amy cause for the explosion other than that the crown,sheet of the locomotive had dropped. The locomotive Is gald to have been inspected bEfore going into serviee. Corning. ARMY AVIATOR INJURED WHILE SALUTING FRIENDS| Norfolk, Va., Nov. 12.—Lieutenant- Commander Godfrey D. Chevalier, rated as the ace of American naval fliers, was seriously injured in a fall today while |saluting friends as he sailed low oyer Lock Haven, near here. The officer - seemingly encountered trouble - with the steering gear. - After sweeping about in a- vain- attempt to effect’a.landing the machine crashed in- to the marsh and .Chevalier was pinned bencath_the wrec'4se. . He was remov- ed . tor 3 hocpim suffering from internal PRIOBITY RULE 5 REFUTES HALL-MILLS STORY SENATE SUGGESTED IN'T TOLD BY MES, JANE GIBSOX 'Washngton,: Nov.' 12.—Abolition of ‘the senate’s- seniority -rule’ by -which the chairmanship of-a committee goes to the member with-the longest continuous ser- vice , is - suggested by Senator McCormiek, Tilinois; —chairman - of the republican -senatorial committee. in a -let- ter -to Semator - Lodge, ‘the republican leader, made public téday. The letter, also urged that'the steering committee- of which Mr. MeCormick is & member, be made representative ; of all sections -and -thought on- the. republican iside 3nd disclosed.that Senator McCor- mick had discussed the question with sev- leral republiéan leaders and others. State_that the ‘seniority rule “served very well in thie old days™ and had result- ed generally in ~appointment of ' good chairmen, Senator McCormick ~wrote Seriator Lodge that ‘some “wers unfitted for_their posts, by reason of extreme oid age, or of failing health, or” because ot grave differences of opinion with the ma- jority of their republican associates. The senlority’system algo 'prevails In the_house. Notice already Has come. from senators of. the “ifregular’ republican group that | they intend to demand what they consid- {er adequate . committes representation. i”l‘hdr fight {s expected to ter about ; New' Bruaswick, N. J, Nov, 12.—f the .A..P.)—An affidavit refuting story of :Mrs. Jade Gibson, farmer, of what she saw on the Phillips farm on ths might of September_ 14 last, when the Rev. Eaward Wheeler Hall ind Mrs. Elesnor Reinhardt Mills, were murdered, has been obtained from a neighbor of Mrs. Gib* son's and. given to the authorities, copa- sel for the rector’s widow announced.to- night. Deputy Attorney General Mott, appoint- ed special prosecutor by Governor Id- wards to investigate the crime, was not in New :Brunswick today, and no official announcemen® of the receipt)of the af- fidavit which was obtained by Timothy Pfeiffer, Mrs, Hall's attorney, has been made. The. affidavit is signed by Mrs. Nellis Lo Roussell, whose home is a short dis- tance from that of the self-siyled “eye- witness.” It sets forth that on' the night of September 14, during the time that Mrs Gibson has t0i¢ the authorities that she was near the scene of the shoolng, she was at the home of Mrs. Russell, Mr. Pfeiffer said the affidavit had been obtained after Mrs. Russell had written to Mrs. Hall telling her that Mrs. Gib- son ‘was not on the farm when she -had said she was. Mrs, Hall, he said, recelt= eg- the, following lefter on November Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall ‘Madam: In regard to September 14 Mrs. Jane Gibson was not at the Phillipe con; farm at 10 o'clock. She came-over at 10 line for the finance committee chairman- or a little before to tell me she had taken ship ‘and Senator Sterling, South-Dakota, |my dog from a man on Hamilton rosd. for office. Senator Lodge, Is second | She sat on the steps of my shanty a while 'mAn ‘How om. naval, but he desries to|and I gave ber $1 for keeping my dog. continue at-the bead of foreign relations. | Then I went with her to her home &ud With- Senatr Poindextér . eliminated, | got the dog. We talked a while and Senator Hale; Maine, under th esenjority ithen I went horie at 11 o'clock.” - riile, / wopld” be in 1!119 Ior the, naval| _In the affidavit, Mrs. Russell m chairmanship.” - that her conversations with Gibson on thy On _the important fln;nea committee, | steps of her home 'was about a besides the cg:irm-nlhlu ‘there will be which Mrs. Russell had lost. Mrs one democratic and-three republican va- [son !came to inform her = that - in’ tHe cahcles in- the new ‘congress. It is pre- | morning, she had met a man on. ‘dicted by some tha® Senators Wadsworth | road who had a dog which she 4nd Edge, will succeed in the’ nwbucu: was Mrs. Russell's. Mrs. Gibson todk the ‘dog away from the man, the affidavit !said, and kept it at her house. She Mrs. Russell to take the dog, fearing, two_or three important ‘chairmanships. Chairman’ of at least three important senate ‘committee, finance, naval and post office,” are to be chosen in ‘the next * Senator - Smooth, Utah, is h)[ transportal . dmhaur Jai Six ' members must be!Then Mrs. Russell went to Mrs. Gflu? | replaced. | home. where she found her dog locked On ‘the- foreign rélations committee, |a chicken coop. | nlubu post is” re-| Mr. Mott was in conterence In-)(d garded as jcularly desirable and va- jark withofficials, it” was learned, ‘canciés alway: mmmbmatmmm“rormmamm ‘Angora, Nov. 12—(By the &~ P. it of the faading Turkish = *