Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 25, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIV—No. 287 - UPULATION 29,685 CLEMENCEAUREVEALSHS MISSION TO UNTEDSTATES French Statesman Declares He is Seeking to Draw the Unit- ed States Into the Conference at Lausanne for the Set- | prmm——————— tlement of the Eastern Crisis—Disclosure Made Before a Fashionable Audience in Tremont Temple, Boston— * Statement Was Made in Reply to His Critics at Wash- ington—Defends France SR Al “Sneritlien? Bostom, Nov. 24 (Bv the A. P.)—His Sghting blood up, the Tiger of' France tarmed from the sbstract to tho epecific today, answered his critios at Washing- ton with barbed phrases, and declared that what he really came to America for was to seek lo draw the United States nto the conference at Lausanne for the settioment of the eastern crisis. Spesking in Tremont Temple before a ashionable audience that had unbent sven to the extent of giving him “three rahs and a tiger,” 1sd by Governor Cox, Clemenceau mid he had not intended to tell Amcricans how to run .their own ‘ousiness. “But they have asked me to go fur- ther,” he said, referring to the assertions of semators at Washington that Nis ad- dremses were 100 vague. “They also dared me. 1am ready today. in Beston, to go & fitis forther. T'Tl give you not as ad- vios but what 1 think It .is the very shoplest thing in the world. “Thers is at Lansanne a conference whers Hngland and France are supposed to mgree with Italy, which might meet with eome difficalties. Let the Yankeo come and say, ‘Good day, gentlemen, is there a seat for me? They will give him an arm chair *“Never were circumstances better. Go there and you will meet the eastern ques- jon which i= troubling the wofid for the ast 500 years. And you will do more— you will settle it. because you can do it, besause the presence of America in Eu- rope again will te!l the Germans that they, won't go further than certain limits, 4nd because everybody will understand that thers is o moral and material power Whieh is to take possession of the world, not_for domination but for freedom. " “list my conclusion be this: Let us @Re. Let us be good. Let us be free.” "o aged war premier, looking a trifie woen, but full of enthusiasm, =spoke for mére than an hour. Severa] times he oft Colone] Stepben Bonzal,. con- ductor of his tour, when the colone| rose . whispered he had talked long enough. | jimousine and deove to the Boston Mu- “Let me say just a lttle more” he would insist, as thh sudience applauded, and suy more he did, wmtil ho had had his fariier 16 the day the Tiger had grant- American Interview, in which hich were so fiot that he mter asked that they be stricken out. ¢ paid his respects to ‘them again the “platform, without, _however, their mames. And his. defense of and of Franco against charges of “miliarism™ and “imperikliom’ hero were sald, ‘T hear I am an im- perialist because 1 have got a war budget of five billions and that I am a militarist because the French bave military service of eighteen months. “Well,' I hope #t we ars not too early surprised by a new war that this tme of ifitary gervice cag he shortened. 1 hope that the French budget of war can be lemsened. not_going to make ARTIST HENRY STORY. 87, DIED OF PNEUMONIA New York, Nov. 24—George Henry Story. who won fame a8 an artist through his pérteaits of Abraham Lincoin, died of neumoria here today. He was § MF. Stofy was born at New . Haven, Comn., and after serving a wood-carver in an spprenticeshtp to A career In art, he studied sainting under. Charles completing his studies in Paris. ‘While living In Portland, Me., in 1859, Stefy’s paintings begar to Attrast atten- Bo was awarded a modal by the maintatned a studis at 605 that. the young thes” {Hendship of ~ President ‘was credited with indgaing ¢he ‘president. to sit for fis Afirst official photo, and for numerous sketches from " smm;:'hm portraits ox e , A mnl Lingoin’ hangs. in W6 National museum at Washington, the 36 of. Mrs.. E.. H.- Haerimam Story also ‘was {or a time curator of paincings af the Metropoiitan “Art museum 4n this CONDITION OF BOLLING . 4/STOCKE OF NEW MAVEN 'BOAD Kew Haven, Noy. 24—C. L. Bando, géneral mafiager of the New York, New ‘today ga¥e out a statement ms to condition of stock on the system on Novem- 1 showing that 337 engines out of out of commission and wero ‘s to requiro more. than make - them : serviceable. 0 othets requiring minor a total of 36.6 per i {z‘zig i on April 1 2 per cont. t414 Against Charges of “Militar- that England and America have the right to complain, because they left me and obliged me to defend my country-in such & manner. I am not going to complain of you'\because you organize your military and naval defemses as you see best ac- cording to your laws and decisions ‘of congress. Therefore, why should you complain of me? Don't you think I rather humiliating? 4y “I would like very much to hear from amybody at what time we turned mili- tarist. It was not when we were fighting, because we never had soldiers enough. Was that militarist because we saved the whole of the world from the German dom- inating undertaking? Was that mfiitarist because our men had to fall and we had to find men to follow until . you . could come? “Well, can’t I say sdmething in that line when I ain. hot sure under what cir- cumstances a _new war can spring, for instance, in the cast, where America in just as well interested for a great many ceasons as we.are curselvesT” The Tiger rencwed his assertions that Germany was arming and preparing with Russta and Tarkey for a new war. Adding that he was very much surprised when he learned his statement that Germany was arming had been. questioned, he drew an official-looking. sheet of paper fromhis Ppacke. 4 “Herp is'a paper that was not. intended for you,” he said. -‘They say they don't fabricate guns, and.&:. course they don't fabricate guns as, you fabricate sugar and steel. openly. But if they don't fab- ricate, tell me why of the.15th of July in one manufactory that I know of the offi- cers of the,.allied armies discovered 150 groups of cannons,. 105 enough to arm two corps. . Here- i3 the list since 1921. Guns, four hundred -thousand and so many. 1 could spend all my time doing this, but!that is quite emough to judge trom. When Colemel - Bonzal -finally got the Tiger to quit, the andience gave him a long ovation. Then he ciimbed. into his seum of Fine Arts, where he spent a hal? hour on two of his et hobbies—remains of the prehistorlc creatures and Chinese and Japanese art. The- vist to the fitseom was his only sightseetng trip in Boston, He will leave at § o'clock tamorrow for New Haver to aftend the Yale-Harvard Saturday night sntpil ond m’" nigl It ail day there. Dusing the wait, before hs sarts for Chigago Sundsy svening “he will vidit Grant's tomb and lay a wreath onthe bier. ELOPEMENT PEOPOSAL MADE TO CLEMENCEAU Boston, No. 26.—(By the. A.: P.)—The Tiger of France received an elopement proposal today. An unsigned , missive received through .the mail read as fol- lows: . “It you with me will now elope return this bow of heliotrope, “Just ‘because I'm-only thirteen reason why I.can’t elope.” As the Tiger refused to produce the “bow of heliotrope” *“Colonel nsal laughingly expressed fear of an impend- ing elopement. is no AMATEURS ARE TO SEND ' MESSAGES ACROSS ATLANTIC Harttord, Nov. 24.—The first attempt over made by a British amateur wireiess station to send messages across the At- lantic will be made tomotrow night be- ginning at 8 o'clock and lasting” until 1 a. m., eastern gtandard time, when a new English" station tising ~ 1,000 - watts - of power will attempt to éstablish commuri- cation with Hiram Percy Maxim's station in thid city. . " Although American amateurs have been heard - in - England, governmesT regula- tions abroad have made replies !mpossi- ble. . However, ‘the: Wireless Society of, Marichester; England, has- just’ received specigl permigsion from the Epglish post- office department ‘to operate on 270 me- ters,. with the call - letfers --5MS. - The British station -will begin- calling. 1AW, the Maxim. station, at 8 o'dlock, .and:as soon s its sighals are acknowledged from this side it will begin sending mes- sages for this country, addressed to the Ameridan Radio Relay, league. = - OANADA ' SPENDING- $46,000,000 ON HIGHRWAYS. THIS YEAR Ottawa, Ont, Nov. 24—Forty million dollars is being. #pent on.good roads in . construc- scale this ‘year than ever. before and the appropriations; for work are_the higheat on_record, aceording to A. W. Campbell, commissiomer of highways. Of the total sum spent, $16'000,000 " will be used on.federal aidedhighways, of which. $6,000,000 “will ‘come out of . the dominion” treasury,” sald Mr. Campbell “Bxj s being” made By the prov- inces an deounties-on' roads*not recetving fedéral’ assistancs” will amount to about $25,600,000. = ere are now 1,000 miles of permanent paved road In Canads,.or suffictent mile. age’ to’ extend one-third of the ‘distance between the Atlantico and- Pacific -coast; according {oMr. Camphell, ‘who added that this mileage” in- being-incrensed ™ ay rapldly ‘a8 podsib] oA o e Tha Domindon KRS EppEo- priated $20,000,000% to “be- i eons struction ' of ' main -highways -and -mamket | roads, calculéted ‘to”"covef a-period of five years. -Phis isdivided—among the provinces ‘on the hisis of population. Un- deTthe texms of the grant the provinces carry out the road: buildiiig, and-the gov- ernment, on approyal of the plans, con-.| tributes 40 per'cent. of the .cost. This gusrantees ‘standardisation _of roadways ‘dplaces ‘only 60, per cent. expense on o S e Tk are of 3 2 CABLED PA" £RAPHS Soviet Bank f . London, Nov. 2 +he Times repor bank has susper In consequence 2 Curremcy. Riga message to 6 soviet state cyment of currency fortage of money. App & is by Pope. Rome, Nov. % 8y the A._P.).—Pope Plus has appointed Monsigndt P. G. E. Kussbauni as bishop of Marquette, Mich., -nd Monsignor John J. Swint as bishop of Wheeling, W. Va. GEEEK CABBINET RESIGNS; SITUATION CRITICAL Athens, Nov. 24.—(By the A. P.)— The Greek cabinet has resigned. The political situation is extremely critical. The military authorities are taking an uncompromising attitude regarding the former ministers who are on trial charged with treason. Since the defeat of the Geeeks by the Turks there has been more or less dissension in Greece, with the republi- cans and monarchists seeking supre- macy. The revolutionary committee which has been in charge of the situa- tion since the overthrow of King Con- stantine has ruled with a strong hand. In addition to proclatming martial law it as brought to trial 2 pumber of prominent personages _charged with treason in connection with the defeat of the Greeks. The present Sept. 30 with premier. cabinet was formed Alexandre Zaimis as —_—t e SEVEN-HOURS’ DEBATE ON SHIPPING BILL IN HOUSE Washington,- Nov. 24.—Salling along through peaceful and then through tur- bulent seas, the shipping bill held-its own in the house today as friends sought to speed its voyage and enemies fought to sink it by the head. Whether seven solld hours of debate. topping off a whole da¥ of it that had gone before. had changed many votes, leaders declined to say. ~But while the debate was still raging late in the day, with only a handful of meéinbers on e floor, Representative Mondell. .the repud- lican leader, went to the White House and.assured the president that the meas- ure wouid be passed on -the -eve of Thanksgiving, Foueieen members spoke * for and againet tho bill today. but only. two broks party lines. - Representative Gahn, Ohio, republican member of the merchant ma- rine committee which framed it. bolted, saying thatithe republican leadership that was attempting to pass the measure cost him-his seat In the recent election Tum- ing to the democrats, he said it would be to their advantage to let it pass; with the “certainty that it would mean the crush- ing of the republican organization two years hence. Representative O’Connor, democrat, Louisiana. spoke for the bill. The principal ‘attack was made by Tepresentative Davis of Tennessee, dem- ocratic member of the merchant marine committee. | o MopIFICATION O IMMIGRATION CONSIDERED gress a modification of the. act sharply limiting " immigration - to .the United States, White House, officials said. today. It was stated that while naturally the executive was cognizant of the discussion of ‘this question in the public press no definite proposals have come officially to his attention. Akmost - simultaneously announeement ‘was made [n the house Chalrman Johnson of the house tmmigration com- quotas of immigration now permitted. Mr. Johmson indicated that a plan was under consideration to restrict agnission of undesirables and deny permanent resi- dence to aliens not eligible to citizenship. Me. Johnson sald he had assured him. self that provisions dealing with the car- rying of immigrants on American ships were not capable of being*turned into an entering wedge for increased jmm tion. CHILD DISCLOSED FATHER HAD KILLED HER MOTHER San Francisco, Nov. 24.—A policeman found a nine year .old.child crying at a downtown street comer {oday and ac- compenied the girl to-her home. . “Papa put mamma into a trunk’ the child said while the policeman ‘led -her toward: home. At her house the girl, later Mentified as Helen Bannon, pointed- out the trunk which. when opened, revealed the doubled-up corpse of Mre. ‘Margaret , her mother. still bleeding -from Eimer-Bannon, her husband, was taken into. custody earlier. in_ the .day, a- few Dlocks from tife snot where. . his .lost daugheer was found, ‘after engaging in a fight, and was being held on.a, e of disorderly conduct when the. m his wife was found. G JAMES A, STILLMAN HAS FAILED IN HIS APPEAL New York, Nov. 24.—James A. Still- man, New- York banker, fafled ‘today in his fight to have set asiie the decision of Sugreme Court Justice Morschauser- con- Sieming the referee’s report upholding the legitimacy ‘of Baby. Guy. Stillman and de- nying the banker's.plea for a divorce from Anne U. Stillman. The appellate division of the eupreme court, in Brooklyn, today afirmed. the or- der-of Supreme Court Justice Seegér of Poughkeepsle. who on Oct! 28 denied the application of Stillman’s lawyers to va- I cate the Morschauser decision. DYNAMITE ‘EXPLOSION - MAY CAUSE i"ugnxzss South “Norwalk, Nov. " #i.—Leopold Schneider, a laborer, of this=city, will probably 'lose the sight of both “eyes, following a - dynamite -explosion”lere to- day-Schnetder was blasting-Toek;: and BENeVed that a fuse on a° mite cart- ridge “had not ' ignited. He ‘leaned” over the fase to look at it, whesisthe éharge went_ Off. - His -face wascut - by”ithe. fiying TocR™ and force of the - explosion and his- eyes-were birmed. ‘Robert O. Raymond, his employer,: standing: along- side’ of. him, cscaped without a scratch. | OBITUARY, 2. "/Cel. Willlam ‘E. Lanhders. Meriden, Nov. 24.—Colonel William &, Landers, 75 years old, diéd here the ‘guard. He war made adjutarit g :‘lmtlmmtfl.rlfl" rank in o tired duay. tasit general 1807 "and - re- | nine years ago from aitive |ance for the “accused, he stating that mittee that hearings would be started by |it was desired to ascertain the facts. He his committee subject to revision of the| NORWICH, CONN., SATURDAY, NOV. 25, 1922 Hard Coal Still A Serious Problem Federal Control of Distribu- tion is to be Continued Un- til January 1. ‘Washington, Nov. 24—Federal con- trol of coal distribution must be con- tinued untll Janvary 1, President Hard- ing decided today. C. S. Spens, federal fuel distributor, called on the president today to resign his office but after dis- cussing the situation agreed to remain until that date, continuing supervision or a modification of it. The president, it.1s understood, expects to declarc the ecmergency during which federal control operates at an end on Jamuary first, but considers that some degree of control must then be continued. By a series of orders, the last of which came out today and released by the bituminous coal mine operators in the district west of the Mississippi from eporting prices, Mr. Spens has relaxed original regulations created to insure distribution of the supply. . _ Developments, Mr. Spens lias announc- ed, have relieved fears of a shortage, particularly of bituminous. Anthracite, however, has presented & more serious ‘problem, Bulletin 14 PAGES 104 COLUMNS RICE TWO' CENTS “Dry” Law Violations| Become Alarming Government Officials Fear It is Undermining the Moral Sense of the People. * Washington, Nov. 24—Ways and means of strengthening the hands o fthe government 1n its determination to en- force the prohibition laws occupied the entire time today of President Harding and his cabinet, it was stated at the ‘White House. The discussion lasted for an hour and the executive and his advisers were rep- resented as feeling that the question was of vastly more Importance than general- ly has been given it. The interest of the government aside from the single question of law enforcement, was sald to be its anxiety about the undermining of the moral sense of the people by a con- tinued, flagrant and too ready violation of a statute. There was no final decision but a high administration official said there was the thought that some appeal would have to be made to the conscience-driven, gov- ernment-loving and_reverent attitude of the people of the United States. This ofticial declared that when men had respect for other laws sanctioned WHAT ARE YOU MISSING ? No one can want anything until he knows of its existence. That is why ancient folk managed to live fairly contented without window glass, soap, automobiles, stoves, toothbrushes. telephones and so many of the things we consider the bare necessities of life. Advertising has done more than any one thing to make this era of ours rich in comforts and conveniences. To advertising is directly due much of the multiplication of products and services which are now at the disposal of everyone. There is no denying the fact that advertising It has made life easier miechanics of existence. by bringing to our attention countl has ironed out the and more pleasant which years ago a less necessities king’s ransom could not baye bought. Folkss dress better, eat Detter, s leep better and live better because of advertising, and they get better advertising service than ever before because of the large and thorough circulation of The Bulletin. You owe much to advertising— and you miss much when you fail to¥ead the advertising columns of The-Bulletin. During the past week the follo Bulletin's news columns, for two' ce Bulletin Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. * 1 Tolegraph “101 wing matter has appeared in The nts a day: Local 130 121 125 101 102 % General Total 43 684 03 678 REAILROAD SHOPMEN'S AGENT EELEASED ON $10,000 BOND ew Faven, Nov. 24—Krmest Sch- leifer, of Watertown, Mass., a/ general organiger. of the International Associa- tion of Machinists, who was arrested last night on charges of inciting strik- Mg railroad shopmen to commit fel- onies, had his hearing in city court to- day postponed until December 4th, and his bail was made $10,000 instead of $15,000. The request for the delay was made by an attorney who entered an appear- made the request that bail be reduced that it might be possible for Sohliefer to be released and assist in preparing his defence. There was an argument and ‘the court reduced the figure by $5,000. The complaint against Schliefer was made by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, which issued a state- ment last night declaring that Schieifer had been in this state the past few days “resorting to Violence to cripple the mo- tive power an drolling stock of the railroad company, to hinder the- move- ment of trains in connection with the ex- cessive' traffic Here for the Y¥ale-Har- vard football game.” \ Schleifer wis arrésted late vesterday on a warrant-issued by City Attorney Whittaker. . - Bail was fixed at $15,000, in default of which Schieifer was lock- ed up. He is alleged to have made in- ! citing remarks in speeches to -striking shopmen at meetings held in this city and New London on Wednesday. Federal Judge Thomas yesterday is- Sued an order for the arrest of Schleifer on “charges of contempt of court, based on_a complaint from . the rallroad. The federal court order alieges violation of the injunction’ isued in the district court of Connecticut ‘against striking ralroad shopmen and also of the federal restrain- ing order isued in Chicago. It Was said that Sehleifer could not be arrested by thie federal authorities unless he obtained Bail ‘on. the lochl charge. ‘The New_ Haven road arrangements for the -Yale-Harvard game call for the op- eration of 41 -extra trains today and to- morrow-to handle the football traffic. At a_meeting of striking shopmen here Jast night, James I Martin of this city, announced the arrest of ®Schleifer was regrets that he would be un- able to Speak at the meeting. Martin said “there may be spies here tonight,” and spoke briefly, attacking the railroad policy on labor conditions in general. TICKET SPECULATOR ) FINED 340 IN NEW HAVEN New Haven, Nov. 24.—Robert Noon- an who was arrested last night on the charge of violating - city | ordinance which was drawn to stop speculating in tickets, the assertion being that he had sold’ two tickets to the Yale-Harvard football game &t 335 each, was fined $40 and costs in court today. He took-an appeal; his counsel- having argued that the ordingnce did not cover his case. It was climed by-the atogney that the ord- indnce forbids trafficing in tickets in.any “pulitic place .or .alley,” -and the point made by him was that the sale of tiok- ets wasifade in a-basement, whicli could not be. construed as a public place. The court did_not accept this view. The: eyidence offersd was merely that | fo prové a sale i a cellar. The inci. ‘dents leading, up to-the arrest were that the detective bureau having heard that tickets were being sold at certain places | serit an officer. to & cigar store where tickets were sald to be available at Migh | the Hllegai traffic in intexicating ' liquors. without a quaim, there was indication of a situdtion which inevitably would have serious “and “far-reaching consequences. The discussion, it was stated’ officially did not enter the field of modification of the Volstead act but was confined sole- 1y to the enforcement of that act.' The question of keeping the government en- forcement agents everlastingly at it oc- cupied some attention of the cabinet but : it was stated that there had been and Wwas no eriticism of the prohibition ad- ‘ministration. HAS PROFESSOR TIERNAN ASHAMED MARRIAGE LICENSE ‘Waukegan, Ills, Nov. 24—(By the A. P.)—A man who said he was Profes- sor Ralph Tiernan, of South Bend Ind., accompanied by an unidentifi:d woman, came here today and announced his in- tention of obtaining a license. ‘When he said that he had been di- vorced yésterday at South Bend,: Justice R. J. Pearsall informed. him that IMlinois law forbids remarriage of a . divorced person. within one year . after . divorce. As a result the man did not apply.for a license. o 5% : - Little Credence In South Bend. South Bend, Ind., Nov. 24.—While Mt- tle credence Is given the report that Professor Tiernan, principal in the fam- ous Tiernan-Poulin' paternity case, was the man who, together with an unknown ‘woman, attempted to obtain a marriage license at Wankegan, Ills, today the professor could not be found tonight to deny or affirm the report. A man seen by _nelghbors about -the Tiernan home today, who was believed to have been the professor and who answered a tele- phone call, from a local newspaper of- fice, could not be found tonight and doubt exists as to whether the man was Mr. Tiernan. . ol SUIT AGAINST GANNA % WALSKA IS WITHDEAWN New York, Nov. 24.—Withdrawal to- day of the suit brought in federal edurt by Mme. Luella Melius, coloratira so- prano, against Ganna Walska, opera singer who recently was married to Harold F. McCormick of Chicago, and Jule Dafber, her tour manager, to-re- strain Daiber - from handling Walska's ooking, will be followed quickly by an- other suit in the New York state courts. This was announced tonight by Sammel Hershenstein, attorney for Mme. Melius, in_denying a report that his client had settled the controversy out of court. “Mme, Melius informs me,” he said, “that shé intends to prosécute’her rights vigorously and that she will make every effort to enjoin Mr. Daiber from manag- | ing Ganna alska or.anyone else, in any part of the United States. Mme. Melius states that she.is prepared to bring, suit in ever city in the country; if necessary to preserve her right.” - ; BILL FOR NEW YDRK ASSREMBLY 3 ° AIMED AT KU KLUX KLAN New ,York, Now:-24.—State Senator- ¢lect Join A. Hastings of Brooklyn. is preparing a bill to bp“introduced in the state legislature in“January making it obligatory upon all secret and featernal societies to file sworn lists of their bership ‘Wwith the secretary of - Hastings annoynced. that the bill is especially aimed at the Ku Klux Kian, DavidHirshfield, commissioner of entire state. | | BRIEF TELEGRAMS Pemnsylvania 1s experiemcing one of the worst droughts in its histors. The marriage of Princess Dagmar, youngest sister of King Christian, (o | Licutenant Joergen Castenskjold, was celebrated in Copenhagen. Mre. Elsio Starace, n bride of four months, was shot to death in the hall- way of an upper East Slde, New York tenement by a man who escaped. The price of potatoes fell to 18 cents a busel at producing centers throughout northern Michigan, this being the lowest figure paid by buyers in years. According to the Westminster Gazetts Annie MacSwiney has been removed from the gates of Mount Joy prison in Dublin an dtaken to a hospital. The Military Order of the World War in New York made public a protest against the proposed lecture tour of Captain Helmuth Von Muecke, command- er of the German raider Emden. Serious disturbances caused by wnem- ployed men occurred in Amsterdam. A large number ow windows in the big warehouses in the center of the city were smashed. Work has been started on the new headquarters bullding in Washington of the board of temperance prohibition and public morals, of the Methodist Epis- copal church. Redondo Sutiom, West Point graduaie, and an associate of Alfred K. Lindsay, convicted stock swindler, was given an indeterminate sentence in the penitentiary for publishing a fals> prospectus. Conrad §. Spems, federal fuel am-u-‘ utor, s expected to give up his govern- ment duties shortly to resume activities as a vice president o the Chicago, Bur- + lington and’ Quincy railroad. A six day week has been "nled‘ Chicago policemen. According to Chief of . Police Fitzmorris the action virtual- iy nullifies the value of 1,000 policemen recently added. z Harry Orchard comvicted slayer of | tormer Governor Frank Steunenberg, of i Idaho, was denied a pardon by the Idaho {board of pardons. Commutation of sen- tence also was denied The Norwegian steamship Nordtjeld, Dbound from Sunderland for Gaspe, went ashors on Flowers Cove Ledgc in the | Straits of Bell Isle, N. F. The crew was saved. i Mre. . Alden Kilby, formerly Miss Belle Robinson of New York, died at a | hospital tn South Portland from the ef- fects of poison, alleged to have been self- administred. A world-wide crusade for prohibition will find expression in Toronto during the next five days, for some 5.000 delegates have assembled there to hold an anti- alcoholic conference under the auspices of the World League Against Alcoholism. Twenty million- dollars Is the estimate of the American Red Cross for this fiscal year.. Officers said this would be divided between the national orgianjzation and the active chapters on approximately an equal basis. President Herding has mo_comment to make on the addresses delivered in this country by Georges Clemenceau, former French premier, it was stated officially yesterday at the White House. Cloaring of wreckago frem Wednesday's $250,000 fire in the business district of Sydney, N. S., was begun. One man and one woman were in a hospital suffering from burns, The fourteen immates of Ohlo’s insti- tutions for the mentally defective, ap- { prehended in a spectacular midnight raid at Turtle Creek, Pa., are back in their old quarters, | A-neckiaco made of 200 pearls and | | weighing slightly less than 406 carats, which was sgquestered from an enemy citizen in Pafs, was sold at auction for 1,900,000 francs. The price included all costs taxes. Mrs. Adelaide Parker Bemnets, former- 1y a school teacher - in Seattle, Wash, has just beén released from prison in Russia according to word reaching Riga, after being arrested by agents of the Cheka and detained three days. Fifty students at the Presbyterian college, Montreal, marched out on strike as a protest against hash which they termed a ghost 6f a square meal. The faculty promptly posted a motice that there would be no more meals. A jury in the county court at George West, Live Oak county, Fexas, found EXECUTION OF CHILDERS HAS STARTLED ENGLAND Fear Expressed in Many Quarters That the Execution May Lead to “Reprisals”—Military Sentence of Death Was * How Execution Was Effected—Free State Courtmartial Passed Sentence on Childers For Having in His Posses- sion, Without Proper Authority, an Automatic Pistol. London, Nov. 24 (By the A. P.).—The tragedy of Erskine Childers has shocked and startled England efen moro than did the death of Michael Coilins. Well wishers of the Irish Free State, of whom therc are many in London. expect that the execution of Childers may mean the beginning of a new chapter in the turbulent history of Ireland. In many The sentence of death was esrried ouf at 7 o'clock. The condemned man had been brought fo trial on Nov. but when the verdict of the courtmartial wae rendered, and he was condemned to death, efforts were made in a civil court to over- throw the findings of the military ame thorities and mave the prisoner's Kfs. For several days arguments in habess - quarters toduy the fear was ecxpressed ; oorpus proceedings were heand before the that th word “reprisals” and that the reprisals may be bloodier and develop into intenze internecine warfare. Many peaple in England were shocked = news of the execution because they Childers; Lnew him when he bore the name of a British patriot who ren- dered his country good service in African war and when he was something of a hero in the British literary worid because he wrote “The Riddie of the Sands,” which was hailed not only as a work of great literary merit but as some- thing of a tract on patriotism. Nona of Childers’ old friends who were spoken to today seemed to know just when and why he underwent the trans- formation from an ardent British patriot to an Irish revolutionary. His mother was an Ieishwoman. The Childers family came from a distinguished line. The dead man’s father gained fame as an Orfental scholar. Childers’ wife is an American woman and traces her ancestry’ back to the American revolutionary days in the line- age of the Putnam family. She was the heroine of an adventure when Childers in 1914, a5 a retort to the Ulsterites land arms in North Ireland, hrought a consign- ment of arms for South Ireland to the coast a short distance north of Dublin. Mrs. Childers, who is described as a daring yachtswoman, is said ' to " have Steered the yacht to the coast in the darkness of the night. ERSKINE ‘CHILDERS WAS 5 EXECUTED IN DUBLIN Dublin, Nov. 25 (By the A. P.).—The extreme penmalty of military law was paid in the early hours of this morning by Erskine Childers: one of the leading mpir- its in opposition to the provisional gov- ernment of the Irish Free State. Childers was sent to his doom, pre- sumably at the hands of a firing squad, ip the Portobello barracks heve after con- viction by courtmartial of having poe- sessed without proper authority an auto- matic pistol, in violation of the order of the constituted government. NEW GEEMAN CABINET WILL BE GIVEN VOTE OF APPROVAL Beriin, Nov. 24 (By the A. P)— Despite its avowedly non-partisan com- plexion, and the admitted absence of a ciose working affiliation with any one party or group of parties, the new min- istry of Wilhelm Cuno on Saturday will, in all probability, be given the jargest vote of approval ever sccorded to amy German cabinet. This unusual pa mentary procedure is an outcome of voluntzey concurrence by all purties, except the communists, in the new government's far-flung program, 2s unfolded in the chanceilor's uaugurad | gpeech before the reichstag todsy. Outlinirfg the government’s policy, Herr Cuno deciured 1t would adhere fully to the memorandum sent by the late cabinet 1o the reparations commission. The united soclalists, as well as the nationalists, will ihe govern- ment's ‘pladfocm in a manner -which will not_exactly, constitute an outspoken vote of confidence,”as the action to be imtro- duced by the democrats will be so formed a3 10 express the reichsiag’s “approval,” whereby the . nationalists and socialists, with due reservation, propose to indicate their tacit consent to giving their minls- try reasomable vpportunity to pat its pro- gram into opersticn. As for the three middle parties, whose good . will was vouchsafed Herr Cuno in advance, they will vote as.a bloc, leaving the communists the only pronounced dis- W. J. Bugg,-itinerant preacher, guilty of criminal libel-and fined -him §1,000 -for. reading a bogus oath of the Knights of Colunibus to a congregation last Easter Sunday. as 2’ newspaperman and general’ man- ager of the Chicago Newspaper - Pub- lishers'. association, died in Chicago. He was formerly connected’ with -the New York World, the Detrolt Free Press aad the St. Louls Republic. £ Flectrification of rallroads for a dis- tapee of 50 miles from Boston and the building of a new union station in the Back Bay. district were provided in, a bill filed with the clerk of the house of representatives. Horrors connected with the ‘evacuiiion of Smyrma by Christians after the Turk- ish occupation were described by officers ot the British steamer Serbino, which ar- rived ‘at Boston from Alexandria, Egypt. The “veesel took 5,000 ° refugees -from Smyrna after the fire, The bank mccounts of two city coun- cilmen and of the wife of a third in. Bos- ton wero studied by the municipal fin- ance commssion - probing charges of graft in_connection. with the sale of the city of Congregation Beth Israel syma- gogte as a playground site. Twe members of the republican tewn committee of West Hartford have resign- ed, following— the _announcement that | Crairman _Charles E, Lord of the com- | mittee contributed §60 to the campaign fund of Sheriff Georgé IH. Gabb, demo- senters at the outset of the new govern- ment's career. ~ - Chancellor Cuno's speech failed to_pro- voke .an_over-abundance of - enthusiasm among the deputies. chiefly because is contents had been foreeast. by him impressed the deputies as being whofly suited to the subject under dis- cussion. the shipping leader's \::t.h as heard today would indicate he is hot given to ‘The _government's program as outlined is 80 variegated and comprehensive in ig attitude toward reparations. and - internal reforms that nefther the nationalists nor the Socialists could consistently oppose it in advance. . At the conclusion of the partisan debate voting on the motion of approval to- , the reichstag will adjourn for & week in Order to enable the new govern- ment to perfect its organization. ‘Thers were only a few absentees among the deputies. Ex-Chancellor Wirth oocu- pled biz old seat among the clerical depe- s —ria T EVANGELINE BOOTH NOT.TO BE TEANSFEERED TO ENGLAND - Chicago, Nov. 24>(By the A.. P.)— Commander Evgdgeline Booth of the Sal. vation Army hopes to work in the United States many years—in fact, the remain. der of her life—she said here today at the central territorial’ congress of the army, Miss Booth, .reiterated .her denials. of' recent Teports that she Was to be trans- forred to Bugland, chapter may be described by the | master of the rolls, but Thursday decided he had no yuris- diction and that tiercfore the prisomer could not obtain relief in his court. A though an appeal to a higher court was immediately taken, Richard Mulcahy, minister of defense, apparently had onty awaited the declsion of the master of the rolls to confirm the courtmartials death sentence. The official record of the exscution wag not issued until five hourw after Childers had met death. It constituted merely & citation of the fact that the prisomer bad met his fate. The etatement &id not even st forth how the exeeution was effected, but it is generally assamed that Childers was shot, and his friends are convinced. that he faced the firing squad Ifke the brave man he always&iad proved himself to de.: As nio detalls of the recent execution of four men for offenses similar to. that of Childers have ever boen published, it i assumed that, for the present, at lemst, nothing will be made publfc regarding the Childers case. The action of ‘the authorities in peo- Geeding with the execution befars the &p- i peal from the. decision of the master of the rolls could be heard has met with both strong approval and strong condem- nation, according to the political Jeanings of the people. Confidence ‘is expressed in government circles that the Free Stage army is able to deal with any situation that may arise in consequence of the put- tifg to death of onc of the staunchest members of the anti-government fastion. In these cirples It was dechared todxy, ‘when the ides was broached, thet the ex- ecution of Childers might make the inter- necine strife wilder, that .the irregulars already had shown 2 disposition to do-all the harm possible, and that they could do no worse. - - Seven of the eight men who. with CM1- ders. were principels in the babeas corpus Droceedings, have been sentenced. to terma ranging from five years' penal servitude to twelye monthy’ Impfisomment. The ecighth man was found not guilty. The names of these men mever have been made public. the master om BETHLEHEM HEADS MERGER OF STEEL COMPANIES New\ York, Nov. 24.—The Bethlehem Steel corporation has announced that contacts for the purchase of the Midvale Steel -and Ordnance company, excluding the ordnance plant at Nicetown, Pa., and the Cambria Steel company were author-, ized at a special meeting of the board {of directors today. - The Midvale company owns 97 per oent. of the stock of the Cambris com- pany, in payment for the two properties will issue aboui $97.6650.000 par value of its common stock, of which abost $95,000,000 will go to the Midvale com- pany for Jistribution holders on dissotuts . As a result was stated, the ! vale stockholders will receive for edech two shares of stock of $50 par .value, Bethlehem stock of $95 par value. ‘' The property and assets of the Nivefown plant'whill Be conveyed 4 to a Separate corporation, all of the shares of which will bo distributed pro rata amon the Midvale stockholders. The Bethichem company will assume the bonds and eth- er indebtedness of the Midvale and Cash ‘With the new issue of stock to pay-for the steel company purchases the Beth- lehem corporation will have commen stock ‘appregating $15,250,000 par n:. outstanding, - preferred stock $62.000, and’ a bonded dedt of §213 | Steel corporation. for. the. present. he initerests tors of the merged corpora The purchase pian, Mr. had been approved by Dangherty. —_— SUFFOCATED AND BURNED ? TO. DEATH IN DANBURY Danbury, Conn., Nov. ‘Woottedn; 18 years old, was and burned to death early this umn—;n«mm | i 5 i - | his: