Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 28, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIV—No. 289 ~OPULATION 29,685 ko] 37 CHANGES PROPOSED I HOUSE T0 SHIPPING BILL Avalanche of Amendments to Amendments Were Put Through vWiflztbeAidongpub- lican Votes—One Prohibits the Sale of the Leviathan at a Price Less Than the Cost of Reconditioning, $8,- 166,000—The Bill Will Passage Wednesday Afternoon. ‘Washington, Nov. fired _at the administratio in the house today and more or less vital : At adfournment time tonight the bl had ‘coyered cxactly one-third of shipping x hit Repressntative Graham, of Tllinols republican, went home with thres of th Tl dozen amendments in his shootn bag, all of which were put with. the aid of republican votes. Parly IA the fight, Representative mondts, Pennsylvania, ranking repub! can of the merchant marine committes which framed the bill, formally an neunced on the floor that the sectio; under which the Standard Oil company, for example. would share in the govern: ment subsidy for transporting its own goods in its own ships, would be strick: en out bodily. This, in the view of western republicans, added to its chanc of passage. Rated as the most important amend- ment to stand up was the Graham pro- posal which cut out of the bill the pro- ision under which shippers, would receive a five per cent tax rebate, which In some instances, was charged in the house, would hav shabled some shippers to escape all PRymen! It was adopted by a vote of 56 to 47, after it had been character- ized by-Mr. Graham as “viclous and ex Iremely dangerous’ / . Stepping in unexpectedly, Represen tative Oliver, democrat, Alabama, pr tented an amendment, acceptance wieh virtually fixed an upset price f incom ihe dale of the steamabip Leninthan, the s proyided that the Leviathan, mow being a Mgwest of the government flest. seconditioned, should not be sold at Price less than the cost of respondition ing. Precise fignres obtained tonigh appropriations showed that this cost was $R.1%6 000, First deolared defeated, the Oliver proe| posal won, 3lto cownt 39 yiste, The fght to Tiddle the bill wis be giin ‘five finutes after the actual read ing started. On-his feet first, Mr. Gra pput forward an amendment o 00t 3. section: permitting- the -ship. ping: board to sell ships without adver tisement or competitive sale. - Decl 78, by A man to mar ng that the worst seandal in the gov- erament reached into the sale of vast surplus stocks ‘by negotiated. sale”’ Mr. Graham caled upon republicans to ta%e the section and’ thyow it ont. Bepresentative | Mondell, the republican - 1eader, asserted ~ tna: while he saw no reason why it shouid ngt rema'n, he. was not opposed -to-its eljmination. MT. Edmonds also took JCRY HEARING ON HALL- MILLS MURDER NEARING END Somerville, N. J, Nov. A, P,)—The Somerset county grand jury today approached the end of the long string of witnesses it has heard, in an- igipation of returning indictments nam- Edward i the murderers of ler Hall and Mrs. Mrs. Jane. Gibso Rev. eanor R. Mills. the . pig farmer, whom the prosccution has as its “star A tew sthers mey be called, soms of them new Lo"the proceedings and .some who already withess' will_testify .tomorrow, havo appeared before the grand jury. Then, with the evidence before 1t, ine grand jury is expected to fix 13 ‘ladors. Today's proceedings lost the method \cal trend of previous sessions, lollowing the murders were being por. ‘rayed in_ chromologieal sequence. In vtead there was a conglomeration of tes- timony, without regard to soquence; re capitulation of evidence upon which the prosecution pins its hopes ‘for ments, indict. Mrs. Anna J. Blerman who caused a Burry of real excitement 'when she en- teted the. court ‘house because of her marked likness to Mrs. Hall was' the first witnessfi vest’ Mrs. Hall' phia’ dyers, shortly after-the tragedy. Ralph V. M. Gorsline, néxt was called. her cousin, Bofore going into the jury room he held % dobg conversation with Katherine Ras- tally” the girl. whom he- drévo home the in the as, the “That was'easy. There was Dothing t of the murders. He er room: 35 minutes, saying, i N 0 Louise Geist, the Hall mald, was the ‘wpt. forencon witness. - Her testimony soeupled 50 minutes, following that of Mrs.; Henry McCabe, who claimed to have teard shooting the night of September It —Thirty-seven ‘hots In the shape of amendments were spots its témpestuous voyage toward the senate ] a through sending. their goods abroad in American vessels, o committee memBers marched down the o - Wyoming. 27.—(By the the date when it will announce the result ‘of when the prder in which witnesses were called in- dleated that events leading up to and It was she who dark cloak to Philadel- Come Up for a Vote on Final this view. A dozen members were eager to discuss jit, bat a vote was demanded and the motion -was adopted almost unanimously. The other Graham amendment In- creased the rate of inlerest on unpaid balances for ships bought from the gov- ernment from not. less than four pér cent to not less than four and one-quar- ter per cent. Rapresentative. Frear, re publicah, Wisconsin, sought to make it six per cent flat, but. failed, An amendment by . Representative Blinton, demacrat, Texas, providing that no government employe should " interested financial in the parchase of Sovernment thips was passed with lttle opposition. % Out ' of many offered, Representafive Davis, Tennessee, democratic —member of the merchant marine committee, got through an amendment providing that prospective ship constructors, borrowing from the shipping board revolving fund, should pay not less than four and ome-quarter per cent interest, instead of two per cent, as stipulated in the bill. Touching briefly on the plan to ilimi- nate the section dealing with subsidy fo rindustrial ships, Mr. Bdmonds said he was preparing an amendment to DProtect industrial ships. “It will take industrial ships, like those of the Standard Oil company,” he caid, “away from being the recipients of any subsidy. This matter was tal up with five or six republicans in the committee which drew the bill and,we fought two days over it. We comsld- ered it was absolutely vital for out war purposes that we shouls ‘haves ‘ those ships. However, it seems to be the sen- timent of the house that we are mot ing to have any more wirs and that we do not need the ships. So that sectlon will come out. Representative Dickinson, - republican, Towa. one of the farm bloc leaders, fail- ed in his. effort to have farmers ex- porting products put on all fours with shippers receiving an income tax . re- bate. His amendment was offered to \he income tax rebate section, which was later voted out, ‘The provision in the bill ipulating that one-half of the total number of im- migrants’ admitted to the United .States should ‘be * brought o¥er - in - American ships, was attacked, but it remained unédnged; There - was little the five-minute debiato. which' usually attemds the con- sideration of importent -houee bills, The. hin - bill leaders shut it off by mo- tions. % Meeting an_hour ahead .of time to- morrow - the- house: will plunge into the section - relating o direct governent aid to ehips.- -The Bill will: come up To: a.vote on final passage Weduesday. a ternoon, after which the house will qu over, Thanksgiving, 1 n 3 e e e i {3 t | n of t LEGAL FOE PEXNSTLVANIA TO TAX ANTHRACITE COAL ‘Washington, Nov —States may im- pose a tax upon products produced With- in theif borders before such products en- ter interstate commerce even though other states are large comsumers of such prod- | ucts and do not produce them, the su-| preme court held today The decision was lhanded down in a case challenging the constitutionality of the tax Imposed ‘by Pennsylvania ‘upon anthracite coal and was rendered by Jus- tice McKenna, no dissents being noted. The importanioe of the_decision was emphasized” by New York, New. Jersey, Delaware and the New England states denouncing the tax as giving Pennsylva- nia a_monopoly, and as levying a tribute upon those states which do nbt produce but must have anthracite as fuel. Two questions were rpresented, one whether Renmsylvania in taxing anthra- clte and not bituminous coal had not ille- gally discriminated in its classification, and the other whether I was not a-tex upon interstate commerce. tended by those opposing the tax that, if sustained by the supremescourt, wheat and corn_producing states could tax'such grains, the southern states cotton, and manufacturing-states could impose a tax on. manufactured products: The- tax in question, while - comparatively = a new method among states for raising revenue, apparently is growing in popularity and there 3 now pending in the supreme court a case involving an attack upom the tax imposed -by' Minnesdta upen ifon ore rined -within its borders. The, differences betwee nanthracite and bituminous coal the court’ found“to be*so great 4s to.be “a just basis for their dif- ferent. classifications.” They differ even £0-| his speech, predicted that within five Lions were held parliament coul mot.go 1t was con- | NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, NOV. 28, 1922 10 PAGES—76 COLUMNS “RICE TWO CENTS CABLED PARAGRMZ | . 27.—(By T The Irish Free State passed its second reading commons today by una No Great Redueti(®' Paris, Nov. P)— The representative of a Parish steam- ship company who attended the North Atlantic conference in Brussels minimizes the importance of the decisions taken at the meeting. The reductions in first and second class passenger rates will amount to only about § per cent. or so, he said, and are not intended to stimulate the passenger traffic but merely to adjust ths prices of the various companies. P)— ‘on bill house of | fote. Rates. —(By \She A. COMMONS PASSED” SECOND EEADING OF IBISH BILL London, Nov. 27 (By the A. P.).—The house of commons tonight without vision passed the second reading of the Irish constitution bill, after - debate in & single sitting without striking incidents. That it has fallen to the lat of a con- servative government to pilot through ament final legislative sanction -to ‘asures granting Jreland such complete autonomy is one of the ironies of political fafe. The conservative party for two gen- erations-has stoutly resisted the granting of self-government to Ireland in even the mildest form, and no political question duning that long period has provoked anything like the bitter animosities and conflicfs in parliament, on platform and in_the press, which accompanied the fight around’ Irish homo kute. Now the first apparemtly is ended, and parliament with a large conservative majority quietly acopts the principle of the new Irish constitution without even challenging division. This s - all the more remarkadle as it was mainly the Tevolt of the “die-hard” section of the conservatives against the coalition gov ernment for setting up a treaty with the Sinn Fein which led to the cebellion of the _conservatives. against the Lloyd George leadership and so overthrew the coalition government. Antagonism to the /constitution bl hardly took a serions form. Its rejection was moved by 2 newcomer in parliament, the laborite S. Saklatavala, who repre- sents John Burns' old constituency. Bat- tersea. He opposed the bill on the ground that the Irish treaty was signed under duress and was therefore a greater mockery than was the act of union. The communist, J. T. W. Newbol. sec- onded the motion, whieh was negatived without division dfter receiving no sup- port whatever from any quarter of the house. Mr. Saklatvala, in the course of years parliament would find itselt under the necessity of undoing this act. Colonel Wedgwood, one of the laborite leaders, appealed to’ Mr. Saklatvala not to press his.motion to a division, arguing that whatevr the circumstances of the signature of the treaty, parliament could net ‘go back on it. _ Premier Bonar Law in his speech dealt in' an interesting way with the question of the relations between the mother eoun- try_and the domimions. lie moved the seeond reading of the bill and s*t the pace for the house by the frank adoption of Uife ‘standpoint that no matter what opin- back on the treaty. - ¥ Ramsay MacDonld, for the laborites. and Sic J6hn Simory for the independents Iiberals. expressed complete concurrence In the nrime misister’s attitude. Thus all the sreat parties in the houss found themselyés on common ground'in favor of ratifying ‘the constitution. £ Colonel Gretton voiced the “dic-hard’ dislike fof the treaty, bat admitted it was £oo late to challenge its terms. He criticiseq_some points in which he be- leved the constitution did not comply with the treaty Ronald MeNeill, another die-hard, took the same position as Colonel Gretton that while he regarded the treaty policy as disastrous, he had to recognize that the m!sr_hle'f ‘Wwas done beyond repair and that parliament had no- choice but to carry it to @ conclusion, and that the treaty coald not be abrogated. Parliament's duty now was a'pure formalitv. The present parlia- ment and government had no option, and thieretore no responsibikity. The new attorney general, Douglas Hogg, in & speech dealing with the legal aspects, stated that the ultimate authority for declding any question as between the constitution and the treaty wonld be the Privy council. He eloquently..desoribed the Dl 25 2 message of good will to the people of Ireland. The bill th its second reading. o If.the Irish bills continue the smooth Drogress of today, they may be passed in allstages by Tharsday, for there appears to be practically no dizposition to amend SRS e BREEWERS BELIEVE THAT BEER 18 “COMING BACK” New York, —Simul! with. the filing of & document “?HS county: clerk announcing the increase of the capital stock of the brewing corpok- ation known as ‘“Jacob Ruppert” from $100,000 to- $15,000,000 Jacob Ruppert, olnle -‘;( t'h):hwo prifcipal stockholders, de- clares y. that “beer is. in_the’ United State e Mr. ‘Ruppert's' explanation of the in- crease of $14,900,000 agreed upon by hinigelf and -Anna -Ruppert, ‘trustees of the-estate of Jacob Ruppert, was -that it was “merely the’ declaration’ of a stock dividend.”” He ‘added, however, .that whes “congress. responds to the wishes of the: Deoplé, .as indicated by -the.-Tast: election, 3s “foeln” it abeerted, and they differ fundamentally . in’ - other particulars. Hence; following. this line of réasoning, it held that the state could impose a tax upon-anthracite which would be valid al- though bituminous was tax free. Whether amy state taw .or action im- we will be_ready, for expansion.” - ‘The .. corporation - s - now- engaged - in brewing near beer and ‘other soft'drinks. LOVER'S QUARREL EESULTS IN - TEAGEDY AT HUNTINGTON, N. Y. |dividena which will be | gTeat majority conducted themaselves with 900 Per Cent Stock | . Dividend Voted By the Directors of the Atlan- tic. Refining Company— Capital $5,000,000. Thiladelphia, Nov. 27.—The directors of the Atlaatic Reflning Company today declared a_stock dividend of 900 per ceht, onetMe _common stock to stock: holders of record at the close of business December 12.. “This dividend constitutes one of the largest distributions of stock made in this_country by a big corporation in a long time. The Atlan- tic Refining Company has an authorized common capital stock of $50,000,000, of which only 35,000,000 has been issued. A statement by the directors said that it is anticipated that the first quarterly payable next the . thén - outstanding. 000,000 of common stock, will be one dol- " re, the company has been xing “§$20 a share on the $5,000,000 capital issued. The Atlantic Refining. Company is one of the largest manafaeturers of lubri- cating oils In the world. It has plants in. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Franklin. Pa., and Brunswick, Ga. It was former- Iy Gontrolled by the Standard Oil inter ests, but_was separated from the Stand- ard Oil Company under the United States supreme court decision or 1911 BY TO INVESTIGATE “DRINKING” BY MIDSHIPMEN SEC'Y DEN ‘Washington, — Midshipmen from the Naval acedmy who celebrated over-indulgently after the annual Army- Navy footbail game Saturday were held up to public scorn today by Secretary Denby in one of the-most stinging rebukes ever administered by a secretary of the navy. Many members of the corps, Mr. Denby @eclared in a public statement, not only disgraced themselves and the uniform but | by their conduct as a ball which followed | the game in Philadelphia brought such shame upon the academy itself as.it never had known before. The secretary said he how many of the heavily,” | | i not know midshipmen “drank and was convinced that the propriety. But he added that enough of them had failed in their duty “to bring shame upon all.” He announced that an Investigation would be begun at once, and that steps would be taken to insure that “such an occurrence will never be repeat- ed. None of the guilty were named in the secretary’s indictment nor did it appear tonight that the department would find it possible to single ot any individual mid- shipman. for punishment. It was indi- cated that the inquiry probably would take the direction of a general! effort to establish what the conditions were that made the incident possible, and that any disciplinary action probably . would fall upén ‘the entire Annapolis establishment in such @ way 2s to keep the corps here- 4aftér Within nofe”stringent limitations. _Eoth Secretary. Denby and _Secretary ; Weeks of tliegwar department, 12 with many of the highest officers of -the army and navy, attended the game in Philadelphia, but.it was said today that} the ‘war department had no. information that any of the cadets from West Point conduxted - themselves improperly. The cadets 0id ‘not remafn for the cvening's festivities. ST anotlier spectator at the game was Acting Commissioner Jones of the.prohi- bition bureat. He likewise declared he had observed no violation of the Volstead law and had taken no steps to investigate reports that the statute had been broken. He'indicated. however, that State Prohi- bition Director Davis of - Pennsylvania probably would make an investigation on his own initiative. P Secretary Denby said in response to inquiries that he would not bring up at the cabinet meeting-tomorrow the ques- tion of the relationship between the mid- shipmen's conduct and prohibjtion. He drew a sharp line of demarcation and said that the - investigation - t6 -be - conducted would be based on a matter of military discipline entirely. ‘When_his attention was called to_the statement of the navy gecretary, Secre- tary Weeks declined to make any com- ment. The West Point cidet corps re- tuened .directly to West Point by special trains, in accordance with the practice of thes war department. The West' Point team and. substitutes werit fo New York, where they spent the night at a hotel un- der the eye of the coaching staff. WOOLEN AND COTTON CLOTH MANUFACTURERS AFFILIATE New York, ' Nov.. 27.—Officials of the American Woolen ,company and - several of the leadihg cotton’ cloth manufactur- ers-of New England today became iden- tified with - the : Consolidated - Textile corporation, wheh at a‘meeting of the organization William M. Wood, head of the *American~ Woolen, was elected di- rector-geeral and . chairman - of - the board of the Consolidsted Texiile, Andrew ‘G Plerce, Jr., tréasurer ‘oe the Pierce Manufacturing company, of New Bedford, ‘was elécted president ; and George L. Shepley,-and’ H. P:" Binney, of- ficials of the Amériean Woolen, were added -to the board,” with “William - G. Rockefeller -and -Sdmuel F. Pryor, chair- man of:the Bemington: Arms’ compans, MRS, NINA UNTERMYER ‘WEDS z - ADELBERT EITOTT DEXTER! Los Angeles, Nov. 27.—Adelbert Elliott | |tions wgre that Tiernan out plans outlined last night, that he court court actions, the professor withdrawing his divorce com- plaint and she withdtawing her appeal from the decision of Judge Ducomb in her paternity suit against Harry Poulin. Following the settlement of the case, the profesor announced jthat they planned to sell their household goods and move to Released on the 28th Day of Hunger Strike Miss Mary MacSwiney Taken| From Mount Joy Prison to Hospital. o Dublin striking leased toda: Her relea day of her hunger st; n Mount Joy rrison, e. Nov. 4, when she was seized during raid on a house in Aylesbury rbad nationalist troops who were Eamonn De Valera. Miss MacSwifiey was released at 7 p. m. and was taken in an automobile to the Mater hospital. Her sister Annie, who has been fasting before the gates of the prison in protest an attempt to see her but coilapsed and was against Mary's incarceration, made removed to a fursing home. RECONCILIATION OF 1S MOVING TIERNANS HARMONIOUSL Nov. 27. moving most South Rend., Ind, reconciliation is harmon and there are no changes in our Tiernan stated tonight over the telephone after ineffectual ef- forts had been made earlier in the even- ing to reach him for a personal inter- » John P. Vi ‘There is absolutely nothing to fessor Tiernan said when her. “Mrs. Brimmer,” he said, “called me on not told me that there were ents to the validity of {her marriage with me last & long _distance cally her. She no legal impped: phone today. 1 di a1 oncerned. “Mrs, from the Augusta Tiernan strain of the is very ti past few da but our reconciliation is most happy, and ough with the plans we we will go t made Sunda; Earlier in the night the harmony which was said to exist in the Tiernan ho hold was threatened with another split, wit hthe arrival of a sister of Mrs. Tiernan, Mrs. Anna Pulaski, of Chicago, take charge of affairs of the case in no un- Her first action was to bar a small army of newspapermen who who immediately proceeded to certain manner. were besieging the home. “There will be no more publicity in “Tiernan has held the whip hand over Gus always. He has given out interviews in which he alone it will be dif- ferent. T am here to see that Gus (Mrs. this case,” she said. starred. From now on Tiernan) gets a square deal and she goin to get it.” Following the arrival of Mrs. Pulaski Mr. and Mrs. Tiernan rerused to be i terviewed, Later, however, the professsor said over the telephone that the recon- iffation_was proceeding smoothly. Shortly after her arrival, Mrs. Tier- nan's sister called on Judge Chester Montgomery of the local superior. court who heard Tiernan’s cross complaint in the divorce action and granted ‘the lat— ter-a divorce and then later revoked the ldecre. She requested the judge to go to the Tiernan home and straighten out once and for ail the tangled legal af the famil Judge Montgom: ever, declined, and informed his visi that the case would have to come up in its regular order in the court. He added that he would take no judicial knowledge of the affair of the family, and suggested that she retain a lawyer. Before arrival of the sister. and Mrs. Tiernan would go into and dismiss pend New York. Arrangements had been ma to sell ‘the household furniture at a pu lic sale Friday. SECOND WIFE EXPECTS TO SEE PROF. TIERNAN WEDNESDAY Mashalltown, Jowa, 27, A. P) mer-Tiernan, here to establish the that she had a legal ov. announced tonight. “T had a long distance call from Mr. Mrs. Brimmer- Tiernan informed an Associated Press correspondent. “He told me he would be Tiernan this afternoon,’ here Wednesday morning.” “I am Tiernan's wife and I am going “There is no personal enmnity between Mr. He can’t go back 16 his first wite under the Indiana law, and I am going to fight any action to set aside the divorce if such action has to live' with him,” she declared. Tiernan and myself. been taken.” Mrs. Brimmer-Tiernan siid she did not beliéve the reports that Professor Tier- nan and his first ‘wife have settled their differences and agreed to live together burin vr 'AND ROBBED OF i 51,500 WORTH' OF LIGUOE (By the A. P.)—Miss Mary MacSwiney, who has been hunger- was re- e came on the twenty-third She had re- fused to take food since her arrest on by seeking | Scranton, Pa., was fined $50 in city court the Teport that 1 am going to lowa,” Pro- informed of Associate Press reports that he had told | asked for interstaic commerce com Mrs. Blanche Brimer Tiernan he would | sion authority to issue $250,000 |1eave here Wednesday morning to rejoin turday at Crown Point, as far as her previous ma 1 made cd indica- would carry (By The | Mrs. Blanche Hawn-Rash-Brim. fact sight to become Mrs. John P. Tiernan at Crown Point Satrday, expects the South Bend profes- sor to arrive Wednesday morning, she BRIEF TELEGRAMS George 1. Scidmore, cor the United States at Yokohama, there. ul-general of died Fleven hundred bales of cotton piled ow two lighters in the North river, New York, were destroyed by fire. The denth penalty for persons co: od of trafficking in -food is demand a motion introduced by thc middle par- ties in the Bavarian diet. ..dapanese exporters are trying to in- duce breeders of canary birds to go to business on a commercial basis stead of as a hobby, as it is now. Sharp reductions In first and second class passenger rates on vessels piying north Atlantic waters are to be announc- ed soon. a William T. Lewis, a Yale senior, of in New Haven, for offering two Yaie- Harvard football tickets at $25 each. The flour milling industry in Japan in common with ‘many other industries is | suffering from over-production and some of the mills are said to be in difficulty. The directors of the Baldhead Club of America, will meet at Hotel Garde New Haven, Saturday afternoon at I ¥ | o'clock. Word was received In Greemwich of the death of Hollister Hall, who was drown- ed while crossing ice at Northlake in the Adirondack mountains. Kate Eyan, for fifty years a charac- ter actress with Boston stock companies, died in Brookline, Mass., after an lllness of several weeks. The Banger and Arcostook railroud 1 equi ment trust certificates. The senate passed a bill to permit the retirement of Assoclate Justice Mahlon Pitney of the supreme court, who has been 1l for some time. A despatch to the Londom Daily Ex- press from Dubline says a sister of the late Michael Collins is taking the iead n preparing a petition for the release of Mary MacSwiney. s Unless unferescen obstacles arise at the last moment the conferencc prelim- inary to the Brussels conference on rep- larations and inter-allied debts will meet December 4. Earth tremors severe enough to break windows, shake buildings and rattle {and equality SUPPORT FORL OPEN DOOR Dardanelles. America's i economioully ast. which follows d for equal commercial priviieges i e Far East, was cited by Ituseian deicgation as suHpErting cial communication forwarded Russian delegation to th ing for the right of.speech on a before that body. ssia cbjects vigorously to limit her activites cussion of th nelles ; si in the traditionai to any pondent We are giad that the Ur made iis strong stand against treaties agreement: we hearti Ambassador Child spo of building up equity necess greater dishes were felt in St. Louls, southern Tilinois, western Indlana aad .western Kentucky Sunday night. Improved methods the refining and marketing of gasoline - and petroleum will be discussed at the third annual meeting of the American Petroleum In- stitute, ‘to be held n St. Louls. 13| YLouis Koretzay, aged 19, who was ps- roled from the.reformatory at Cheshire |last Wednesday -was bound over to the December term of the superior court in New Britain for burglary. of the Universalist church in Stamford_ has resigned, éffective -January 1. Hé plans to enter a divinity school in Cal- fornia. President Merill of the All Ameriea {Cables yesterday announced _that a spe- clal stockholders’ meeting had been called for December 15 to authorize an increase in capital from $25,000,000 to $40,000,000, s President Harding has granted a com- mission as major in the military intelli- gence division of the officers reserve corps to Irvin-S. Cobb, writer and au- thor, as a reward for his work during the World war. Felipe Carrillo Puerto, govermor of Yucatan and an avowed radical, has just been granted a leave of absence by his legislature to permit him to visit Russia and study bolsheviem at first hand. Fat, one of the chief cssentials of cook- ing in Germany, has come to be such a luxuryithat only persons with “fat” pock- etbooks can afford it. At the end of Octo- ber Jard was costing 1,000 marks a pound white butter was bringing only 750. A hearing on a petition for a recount of the vote for judge of probate in En- field was scheduled before Judge George E. Hinman in the superior court in martford,"but was postponed to Friday, lDecember 1, at 10 a. m. Mrs. Clara Phillips, convieted in Los Angeles of murder In the second degree for killing Mrs. Alberta Meadows with a hammer, was sentenced to serve from ten years to life In the state peniten- tiary at San Quentin. .- — In order to cheek thé spread of scartet fever, of which there are-now 30 cases, City Health Officer Dr. T. J. -Kilmartin of ‘Waterbufy, issued a. réquest that no more children’s parties be held in the city until-further notice. pany of Indiana, - yesterday called stockholders’ meeting for December 28 te Yote on a proposal.to. i tal stock from ‘$140.600,000 to. $250,000, 000 through a stock' dividend of 100 per cent. LIS their quarterly meeting here yesterday elamento the open doo: sented and amplified by Child, promises to produce in Europe as did the decla: tary Hay concerning the Far Easl, Such is the impression radi ing from the dipiomats of many countries grouped in Lausnne England, through Lord Curzon, is um- derstood to have ratified it completely and the French spokesmen have expressed approval of the American stand. Ambas: Speaking of the disputed Mosul ofl area, | a Turkish delegite announced ‘thet Tur- key would claim sovereignty over this rieh petroleum district “and ‘woéma tribute concessions on a basis of equality, probably favoring the United States, be- cause thé United States had no political designs In Turkey. Thus the American note would seem already to have borne fruit. ‘The ~atrance of the Russians upon the conference scene is certain to have im- portant bearings on the futore discus- slons. They have officially informed the conference that all matters affecting the independence of Turkey we: timatel; connected with the question of the straits, and therefore with Russia. Any decisions made without taking into consideratios the immense interests of Russia. which borders on the Black sea, were condemn. ed in advance as sterile. if a durable Ppeace was the alm of the conference. M. Rakovsky seems distinctly more | conscevative in utterance than &t Genoa : that was strikingly evident tonight whea he expounded Russia’s demand for adm! sion to the conference on a footing of equality. He brought a message of peacs and good will and tried to give th - pression that all boishevik Russia was of this view. He even chided an enterpris- ing correspondent from the DBalkans who wanted to know what Russia wpuld do it Jugo-Slavia adopted a menacing attitude. To this Rakoveky repiled: “That Is a false note to strike here, and gives rise to an undesirable senti ment. Why talk of poesible trouble . everybody in Europe wants Deace ™ THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS FLEEING FROM THE TURKS Constantinople, Nov. 27.—(By The A. P.)—Another human tragedy that prom- ises to rival the Smyrna fire is develop- ing In northern Asia-Minor. The tide of a quarter of a million Christian inhab- itants s sweepiig In full fiood to the tringes of the Black Sea and the Med- iterranean. These refugees are clamoring to be saved, the American naval base at Con- stantinople Is deluged with S. O. 8. calls from the flotilla’ of American destroyers patrolling the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts of Asia-Minor, which are crowded with Christians fleeing from tise Turks. There is a note of despair and tragedy”in every'message snatched from the air. ‘Appeals from land to “save our Bouls” are received almost hourly and are taxing the capacity of the Ameriean Tadiolstaft here. Appeals corfe from every part of An- atolia, where whole Christian communi- | 5. DEMAND IN NEAR EAST England Has Ratified It Completely and French Spokesmen Have Expressed Approval—Balkan States Regard the Demand as a Foundation of Greater Equality in the Re- lations Between Nations—Russia Objects to Any At- tempt to Limit Her Activities in the Discussion of the aave muty buy bread orphany the Over- t relief or- CONFIDEN(E 10K MUSSOLINI 3 P.)—The snanimous B had de- of depu assed a similar mea {peared to be tired and lacking in eonf- dence, namely, by tionary government within certain lm |its’ but the premier exclaimed. I hawe {not got drunk with my success. 1 might casily have closed parilament and in- stalied a dictatorship, as nothing could resist the mystic obedience of gy 3M,- 000 black shirts " “I trusted this spectacie would be suf- ficlent to induce the chamber to change its methods; but 1 was disillusioned when thirty-six resolutions were - pre- sented for a vote of confidence to the government. This convinced me that if it was not disillusioned the chamber needed at least a long vacation™ Mussolini explained that he had mo fetishes not even the fetish of lberty. “People forget that liberty is a duwy nd not a rightt 1 am not atrald of words. Therefore I proclaim myselt the prince of reaction. But I will net fel- {low an anti-proietariat policy; 1 will ot oppress the proletariat, but will ele- { {v { | !crux:d when workmen are obliged te \suffer from a low standard of living.” rring to his foreign policy, Mus- jsolini, said that Italy did not desire ad- jventures, but neither did she wish to irenounce what she was cntitied to. Noth- ting could be accomplished in a half hour's conversation which would bring abeat great results. This was taken to B8 n ailusion to the conversation Mussoliml d with Premier Poincare asd Leorg Curzon in Switzeriand. ¢ “Italy fdcal in foreign poiicy, the premier continued, “Is peace, and theres fore no imperialism. But there is (o b9 no renunciation of the possibility of bav= ing recourse to arms, which woull render, ds powerless, before negotiating® “If T fail I will pe a finished man, be= cause no one can iry the same experis ment twice,” the premier declared conclusion. “But It is not of myself am thinking, because I do not count; bt of the nation, because such a fallume would be grave for italy.” DIED FROM EXPOSURE AFTER BEING RESCUED FROM LAKE Utica, N. Y, Nov. 27.—Lyman H Hall, 22 son of Wiliam P. Hall, Coscob, Conn., died in a trapper’s from exposure yesterday after being ress jcued from drowning in North Lake, Ja {the Adirondacks. Hall was crossing the lake when the jce gave way. A goie which_he carried lodged across the hole and kept him from sinking. Falling te attract help by shouting Hall drew his revolver and fired scveral shots which brought assistance. He became unconsclous soon after be- ing rescued and died before medical as- sistance could be secured. His fatoer = Barbara Touch, second . maid . in.the Hall home, was' the first afterncon wit- tess. Millis Opie, who Ilves next door to the Mills home, followed her; then Mrs, Elsie Barnhart, sister. and confidant of - the fead cholr mnger, told bow EN® ive.eezd frozh Crarlotte Mills the package of . let- iers. which' the dead minister . wrote the shorister from Islcford, Me., last sum- - Providence, Nov. 27.—After buying $1,500 worth of - liquor and: while pro- ceeding in his automobile. along _the Narragansett Pler road in Narth King- ston, R. L, David Ryan, 46 Lakeview av- Seclarca s dividend Of $1,50 .00 common |ties are migrating and whers the Armer- e apable Janoacy 3 to stockholders {lcan near east relief s working. herole- | O T e s aer Jaity. 1o overodme™almost JperLoIe B T e a yans, ths higtiest yet deo- |Sthales, incimting the Tesoval for srpat clared by the corporation. APance 1o The e of tae cb sy radiographs received todsy in - dicated that a critical situscion. was developing with surprising suddenness; | MAYOR ¥ITZ the_wholo Interior js blanketed. with snow, adding immeasurably to the mis- ery of the exiles. A wireless from the destroyer Barry said: - “Five hundred- Christians are ariving at Samsun daily from parts unknown.” another from the Barry, relayed from Sivas, in the ‘interior of Apatolia, said: “Ten thousand Christians a weli-known New York business man with offices at 29 Broadwa: e is president of the and his eos Destex; known “in-motion pictures'as E jliott Dester, - formerly the , husband 1y Marie Doro, ‘actress, and Mrs. Nina Un- pinges upon interstate commerce, Justice Huntington, N. Y., Nov. 27.—John J. Mxeuna, desiared; abpends upom ihe law Lelioh of Nortiport was Lilled- or action and not upor what may be said | ane cee, 17° yeats “old, - ) rmer] & 4s to'the motive tor it. : Sandrisser, was hot, probably. fatally, to- | termeyer, New ¥ ork Atoterr B ol “A tax upon artiles in one stats that | WEHL a5 the resiilt of a lover's quarrel. |rieq here. tonight, enue, New- Haven, Conn., was held up are’destined for use in another-state,” he|'. J#ilch was shot through the keart by | The 'mony was performed’ at the |early this afternoon by robbers who hag said, “cannct be called' a regulation of | [°48ar Scuddey, who, with Lis wite, dis- :residence of -€ecil B. Dé Mille, ‘motion {Tollowed him in two high powered tour- Jaterstate sommerce, whether imposed in | oYered the ygung man staning over the | picture producer. sy B ing cars from an address in Providence the certainty of a return from a ménopoly | EIF'S Prostrate body. “Séwder told su-| ‘In ebtaining the marriage license to- where the liquor had been bought. When existing or in the.doubt and chances be- [LHOrities he fired because Leitch wwnaced | day,. the- bridegroom gave his age'as 42 | attempted to resist, Ryan was thrown caibe of competition. The action of ‘the {MrS. Scudder with his revolver. ~ _ {and the bride hérs as 32.- Only a few | (s the side of the road by the gummen, state '35 a regulation of interstate com-| Affer -summoning an ambulance and fricnds attended. ” . “|who seized: his car as well as its con- -merce does. not, Gepend:upon the -degree [ROUIYINE the neighbors that he “had, shot tents. an told the police that one of of interfercnce; it-is fllegal in.any de- |& man." Scudder was placed under arrest. the men shot at his feet when he of- greer e 1, 5 {'The -body" of * Leitcli Was' found, sitting fer resistence, He also said that he e length - the | MPTIZht; -in Nis-automsbile, which ‘stopd wandered about the vicinity of the hold- |cToss the Sahara question whether!the products of a. state| ¢ 2 up for several -hours hoping -that that have or ate! dsxtietd, to have s |} highwaymen. would ‘return with. his_ car riet (n. other ates are'subjects of in- as he;'sald, they promised when they: have. not : He reported the theft to the m'- t idence. police who are now ‘investigating the_cafe. Ryan red he had_bought the liquor for a in New Haven. GEEBALD TN HEATED ARGUMENT IN COURY Ttilising » new device for ring ocean depths by sound waves, the navy department, according .to. an . announce- ment by Secretary Denby,” will -shortly | witnesses followed in rapid suc- i Wililam _Phillips e ¥Bo gaw Mre, Hall 5o homé ffom - the a few hours after the murders 6" Tumulty, Mrs, Hail's chauffeu worgs : Kuhn, who talked to ““Wilie” . ., Mrs. Hail's brother, - affer the ; tWo: boyh who delivered clothes 40/ths Hall- home ; Mrs. Elizabeth Keiley, “ooctiples part ot the Mills /home {AVIATOR HINTON ARBIVES AT CAYEXNE, FEENCH GUIANA oo, s - Cayenne, French Guiana, Nov.42% (By. the A. . P.).—Lieutenant -Walter Hinton, lock to- ew York td Rio Sensiieai 5% e Another destroyer relayed a_dramatic appeal to the near east relfef at Con- stantinopie from James H. Crutcher, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., at Samsun: “Can you take 2 thousand mountain children? If not it_means, their end.” . ‘IOBN vuxnum_‘ I8 ) SUFFERING WITH A ER TURKISH SUPEEVISION | : !':. 1By the A E>—Th schools, Phil Nov: 27.—The ~comdition of Johti- Wanamaker, wim;: m::;}l; fering" with a heavy cold ai 7 S e e e ¥ in a Bntvhru‘-‘:li ‘physicians. " The 3 '(u said he “spent a - restful day ‘after 00d night- and now is resting Tondon, Nov.37.-—Mrs. “Alice -Meynell, | ' as-a poet and essayist, dicd ntz, nt