Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 7, 1922, Page 1

Balletin - 10 PACES—76 COLUMNS BRIEF TELEGRAMS The state bank commission has re- ceived a petition for the eswablishment of a trust company in Madixon == 1 « UFULATION. 29,685 ENTS 500 MEN OR VESSELS 0F THE .5 MERCHANT MARNE Fact Disclosed in Sixth Annual Report of the Shipping Board —A Larger Number of Longshoremen Employed in Load- ing and Unloading—During the Year American Vessels Handled 4,313,913 Tons of Exports and 6,634,381 Tons of Imports—Reduction of $1,043,075 in Salaries is Noted. -NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1922 ...CE TWO ALL COMMERCIAL NATIGHS FOR FREEDCM OF STRATS At Near Eastern Conference the Russians Received a Set-Back in Their Plan for Exclusion of All But Turkish Warships —A Strong Plea for Freedom of the Straits Was Made by American Ambassador Child—Ismet Pasha Considers Entente Proposals Suitable Basis for Further Discussion. Lausanne, Dec. 6.—(By The A. P.) A strong American_plea for freedom of velnd Now Ore o British Dominions " Was Conducted Without Hostile Demonstrations. Apuration o the_ Irign ¥res Staie a8 Washington, Dec. 6.—The -adminie-|one of the dominions of the British em- ltrlfion'x program for rural credits legis- | Pire took place today. The ceremony Appointments For Governor’s Staff Brigadier General Morris B. Payne of New London to| be Quartermaster General. | ‘Waterbury, Conn., Dec. 6.—Governor- elect C. A. Templeton tonight announc- ! ed his appointments for the governor's staff for the coming two years. With the exception of Brigadier-General Georme M. Cole;'all are new men on the staff: The “appointments are as follows: Adjutant-general, * Drigadier-General George M. Cole: Quartermaster-general, Brigadicr-Gen- | eral Morris’ B. Payne, of New London. Surgton-general, Colonel John S. Dye, L . DlAnnup- “ done, accord- ing to a despatch' /. F Central News L rom e - President Harding nominated Bl dier General William Lassiter to b major general and Colonel Edwin B. “Winans to be a brigadier general. V - New Vol m Ty, Rome, Dec. 8% ~ Dpoca :asserts that a new vol s been formed on Mount Torrett, . r. oPtenza, It !s belching forth flafbws -and the"people in |~ the district, panic-stricken; ‘are”fieelng. A dividend of $1 a share on new ¥ par stock was declared by directors of the Yale & Towne Manufacturing com- pany. PEOGEAM FOR RURAL ISLATION Tnnettled conditions In CREDITS LEGISLATION has caused San Francisco capita start planting high srade Turkish tobac- o in this country lation became more definitely ‘outlined | Was simple and unmarred by hostile today with thé simultaneous introduction : démonstrations from the republican mi- in the house and the senate of an amend- | NOFity. ed credits Dill with new featires ‘which | The oath was administered to Timothy were declired to have the support of |Healy as governor-gemeral by the lord Sccretary Wallace of the department of chicf justice at Mr. Healy's residence in agriculture as well as of officials of the { Chapelizod, .on the Liffcy, three miles treasury department-and - the , federal | west- of Dubln, and afterward the new Francisco's federal prohibition have adopted @ new slogan: 'Bm SUff, then Grab. the. Lis San agents “Scare quor.” Armless, legless or blind veterans of officials the World war would receive $50 per Child’s § that here Tates and’ requctién’ in the number of Washington, Dec. §.—Growth of Usit- ed States shipping in foreign trade, es- tablishment of extensivo pussenger ser- vices in_the North Atlantic, the Pacific and to South America, and stabilization of‘the government’y shippiug venture o | & strictly business basis, are poisted to ag_the year's outstanding® achievemen the_sixth annual report of the Ship. pig Board. j Reviewing at length t functions of ths boare since its inception to carry fotwgrd the natlon’s tremendous efforts transport food, troops, and suppliex ovéraeas during the war, and the various changes in policy incidemt to the arm- istice, o roport shows that the .exist- ing boa: tunctions relate mot omly:to the physical running of shipe, but range over the entire fleld of a patlon’ chant. marine. Labor, port faciliti commerce znd discussed in detail. “The board,? the Teport Eays, quived not odly to afd m ‘the develop- ment of ships and skipping colllp.xele‘!, but ‘aldg" to ‘assist ‘i planning the “im- provement and development of -ports and transportation facilities in connection with water commerce.” ‘Altogether the Shipping Board has had Quring its career 3,444 ships cotal- Ing. abouf 19,695,900 dead weight ton. These wgte obtafned from various sourc- . Sords have becn sold, and many. are now tied. up idle. The report shows Ihat notwithstanding depfession In_ ship- ping, there were at the close of the fis- cal year on June 30, 1923 approximately 50,000 men engaged on vVessels of the American merchant marine and a larger number of longshoremien employed in loading arid unloading. More than’ $10,- 000,000 ‘annuslly has been eaved in. the reduefion of marine and longshore - wag- es of Shipping. Board vessels alone. Re- ductions ‘were cftected afier atrikes -and negotiations ranging ‘from 15. to 36 per cent. < 3 The policy of the board regarding making wage readjustments, is -declared In the report to be based Wherever pos- sible “upon ‘collective . bargaining -which has Tésulted in_ allaying’ as far as. pos- wible the* - and. desentment ing.the"1ast-Beeal year, the report Steamers employed in the foreign trade routes, Due to this condition there was small opportunity for the establishment of new routés, thé report added. At the end of the year, however, the board had ia operation 327 passenger and cargo ships plying -to. Northern European. ports 1and 56 plying to Mediterranean ports, 46 jto South America and tme West Indies, 91 to the Far East, and 4 in the inter- cuasial service. SHIPPING BILL TO HAVE STORMY TIME IN SEX Wastington, Dec. §.—Storms awaiting the administration shippings bill in the senate were foreshadowed during initiad consideration of the measure today by the senato commerce committee. The storm center in the committee was the Madden amendment attached by the Ject tp annual appropriations by congress. ‘Advocates of the bill, as proposed by the administration, announced at the outset they_were determined to eliminate _the amendment, and in support of their stand Chairman Jones presented. a letter from President Harding in which the executive declared he “would rather the measure should fail entirely than to have ons en- acted which will bring to us extreme dis- appointment, because we have entered upon a program in a half hearted and rather indiffer’® way.” . Elimination. of the amendment was im- mediately opposed by a group of Tepubli- can committee members, composed ‘of Sén- atars McNary of Oregon; Lenroot of Wis- constn and-Willis of Ohio, who announced their intention of fighting in the commit- tee and In’the senate for some provision glving congresd a medstirs ot control over a fund from which shipping~ companies riay bs éxtended Idans amounting annual- 13°to ak much as thirty million dollars. Discussion strged ‘about this" qitestion throughtut be sessions held by the com- mittee and finalty the matter was put ove untll after the gommittce had con- ?d:d consideration of other séctions of the bill. Tato in the day the MoNarv- root- Willls' group put. forward a c § < l Fomise under WHich te approval of con- gress would ‘be required-only“for an'if- Gfease over the- amiotnt of government fixed n’ the contract efitered into between the ing board and the private companies. This compromise ‘re- celved Sednt fayar from Chalmiean Jones, Wwho announced tonight that Ne stood e Sontlbeation wes siven By th comittee today to-the section of the ill @ablishing ‘a, ‘construction - Toan fand wrhol to. DO more than. $125,000,000, from wiich “lowss for ion pus shipw, | Doses are 1o -be made (o shipping com. Dy tannsge; the but Tittle pFogress was ‘mad progress upsfi the ‘entire slow today “'that °committee members would not verituré a’ prediction when the Bill would be presented to tho. waiting Eénate. Gt T Stipporters of, the bill had expected that only 3 day or two would be needed for committee_consideration, but tonight it appeared . probable the legislation would ot reach the senate before next week. The president in his letter declaced the Madden amendment would “jeopardize the program by the threat of confiict in segur- ing dn appropriation from year to year,” and added “the thing is worth doing right and with_every possible effort for a defi- nke policy for dn amole trial, else it is :;-u!y worth doing at all” 3 In_ fact, ofaniont gomea ) iation. . Even with this legislation -the irapater of tbe flost to private hands, if it is to be accomplished as part of the bullding 'up of the American merchant marine, Mmust bé a slow process. “Perhaps one of the most favorable tactors that will help in the gradual working out ofthe problem is the fast \hat a large percentage of the world's iannage is now over 15 years of age and 's approaching that perfod when the cost of mAfntaining the highest classification beqcomes o serious- a factor .in. opera- tion as to Influendé operstors . to..pur- chage other tonnage rather than to pay the beavy cost of keeping upolder ves- vels. While a much-greater percentage of -forelgn tonnage is approaching. the ke when it will be,desirable to replace jt. with new tonnage, than s trug in the case. of American vessels, the difficulties of the present situation are largely caps- #d-by an excess of world tonnage. and any . absorption, - whether in_this market or. in foreign markets,. tends to remove ©1 P e e |'00D-0|JII JURY I8 DELIBEEATING ON VERDICT Burjington, Vt, Dee. §.—After delib- erating ‘mote ‘than 24 hours the . jur which” is trying the millioh dollar ali- house making the shipping aid fund syb-* enation sui ‘brought agalnst-'Mr. 'and; frm’ loan board. Introduced by Senator Lenréot, re- publican, Wisconsin, and_Representative Anderson, republicar, Minnesota;. author, and chairman of the congressionai agri- cultural commission, the bill would util- ize. the ‘existing federal farm loan system 43°a basis by creating within it a farm credits department through which, it.was declared potentlal credic facllitles would Dbe_provided for farmers’ short and long term loans to the, extent of at least six undred million doHars. Significance Was’ seen in the introduc- | tion of the legislation, because of the re- {cent White House conference. attended by Secretary Wallace, Senator Watson of Indiana, and a dozen other republican senators, at which the farm credits sit- uation was discussed thoroughly and an agreement reached to provide compre- hensive credit machinery for the farmers through, the federal farm loan system. The twelve farm loan banks at present have government subscriptions. - totalling only $12000,000 but under ‘the bill" in- troduced today they would be provided with a revolving fund subscribed, by the the government totalling $60,000,000 di- vided equally among. the twelve \banks. The banks would aiso be autharized to re- discount farm paper with maturities of from”six months to three. years. governor-general TREASURY DEPARTMENT Washington, Dec. sqnared- away- tonight ing, sxid the treasury faced treasury notes- ury . certificates of one-half per cent, dollars; ' COAL OPEBATOES AND Chieago,Dec. -6.—(E~ the A" P.)—O0p- erators -and miners’ representing the bi- tuminous coal industry adjourned their meeting - here, today without . arriving. at any basis for negotiation of a new wage agreement 1t a meeting £ all bitume inous operators and miners to be held next January. P A proposal presented by. the- operatars involving district ‘agreements arbitration of. differences and sliding wage scale was Tejected in-its- entirety by ‘the min- ers’ fepresentatives. G. W. Savage, & miners’ representative’ from . Ohio then Vroposed-a return to the old central com- petitive’ field as, a basis for negotiation and this_plan.was.in turn rejected by he operatars. ;. It was then-decided to hold- the Janu- ary. meeting to consider new. agreements in Chicago on January 3 instead .of in Cleveland as originally plinned. and the miners and_operators ,committee , which. journed “today will meethere on the same day previous:to-the- tall. mesting in 20 effort toTeach & bzsis for negotiation. Z B e S I'vxmupn' FATER MARKS TO _+BE IX CIRCULATION: BY DEC. Ber] A “al Dec, 6 (By - the. A,..P.)—4 trillion paper marks by Decerfier. 31 .1s| | the prospect held .out. by. the German they seemed to be 110 nearer to recaptur- panles with iriterest &% 4 1-4 pér cent, | MONCY Dresses, whose latest . mx-day’ ing,the missing woman. They continued the | to._express confidence she would try to easuré was go Dation’s. already swollen paper flood ot | make her way into Mexico. Armour L. Phillips, husband of the - 3 . |fugitive, who was detained at the sher- |- These figures. are shown by the latest iff's office all day was told.late in the { Teport .of . the- reichsbank, which -gives. afternoon he need remain no longer, but | the total notes in ecirculation up to the was tasked to keep in touch with the dep: as .754,000,000,000 uties, it was announced. Phillips said ihe had no idea where his wife cowsa ve, ‘but hoped she was in good hands and | race haf resulfed in an addition to 110,300,000,000 marks—this- during the! last week dn. November. of marks. : ” E The’ reichsbank’s, weekly returns have | continued to show an almost pyrotec | nic progressive increasé in the nation's! currency inflation since the . week September when the “weekly increasé was only -14,230,000,000. November HEARING ON THE WAYLAND New York, Dec. 6—Surrogate land, who died in October in a Rivérdale ' sanatorfum, leaving -an_estate to be Wworth $910,000, Wayland’s son, “Johin Elton - Wayland, ry | disipherited by- the will, should not be | appointed administrator of the estate. A hearing was set for’ December 15. ‘Wayland charged that has father was mentally unsound ; when _he: made " his uary” first, either by Test on- the public dept. The nine hundred million doltars. MES CLARA PHILLIPS REMAINS AT LARGE Los “Angeles, Dec. 6—Ed T. Johnson, "sportsman, was questioned late today at the Los Angeles sherifi’s office in _con- nection _with the escape of Ars. Clars from the county jail ‘last Monday night. He de- Phillips, convicted murderess, nied, all knoweldge of_ the affajr. Johfison was a prisoner in the jail last summer: when Mrs. for siaying Mrs. cording to deputie e Mfs. commanication with her recently. would not be recaptured. |FIVE MEN EILLED IN COLLISION OF PLAINS ~Newport, News, Va., Dec. 6.~ Major 4 {Guy L. Gearhart of Leavenworth, Kas., WILL MAS BEEN SET FOR'DEC. 15 Captain, Benton A Doyle, of St. Louls, and four enlisted men were killed today ; o Co- i ‘a collission betweena Martin bomber halan’ today directed nine executors of :and a Fokker scout plane 230 feet abave the will of the late ‘Chandler N. Way- | the Hampton Normal school farm, which ‘machine estimatéd burst into flames and were destroyed to show cause why ‘and several of the-men-who attempted 6 the men pinned béneath - the adjoins- Lapgley field. The Tescue e wreckage were severely burned. = The bember, piloted by, Captxin- Doyle, took ‘the -air ta lead of formation of six | airplanes - and . was - “banking”, when a; 53{d ' prospects” for the coming fiscal i The plans show a change, for the present at’least, from a basis of long term op- erations ‘to a short term program. : “The program Includes the issuing of about . three hundred million dollars in 0 run two and one-half years at four gnd a haif per cent. inte- Test, and a combined offering of treas-| indebtedness, series_to run three months at three and and the stcond to run_for one year at four per cent.. combined offering is expected to agare- #ate approximately four hundred miilion administered the oath “(Contizued on Page Seven, Ne. Four) REPOETS IMPROVED PROSPECTS —The treasury got to- take care of the heavy fiscal operations due to Dplace between December 15 and January, Secretary Mellon, in_announcing the De- cember program, which marks another step in the government’s post war financ- “improved year. Money received through the sale of ‘the- securities together with an estimatel 275,000,000 to come through December - tax callections and an equal sum already MINERS FAIL TO AGEsem |available, will be used to | part of the Victory note issue called for redemption and two issues of certificates of indebtedness maturing December 13. In ‘addition to those two drains on the government funds, the treasury must be prepared to meet about $625,000,000 in war savings certificates maturing Jan- sh ‘or exchange into the new treasury savings certificates and one hundred million dollars in inte: Victory notes and certificates- represent a com- bined ‘miaturity - vatue ot approximately retire Phillips was arrested ke became acquainf ips ahd aided her in securig” counsel, but had hot been in ‘Sheriff” Trager and -his assistants said of Waterbury. declarat month to hire attendants, instead of 320! taxe one The that Chief of _ordinance, Trumbull, of Plainville. Inspector-general, ‘Colonel William E. Allen, of Waterford. Judge advocating-general, Colorel Ar- thur F. Ellis, of Waterbury. Personal staff: - Aide-de-camp, Major John M. Burrall, of Waterbury. e-de-camp,” Major C. G. Hoerle, of | Torriniglon, Alde-de-camp, Tlajor ter, of Waterbury. Aide-de-camp, Major of Naugatuck Naval aide, Lieutenant - Commander Mark ‘L. Sperry, Jr., of Waterbury. The governor-elect announced that the places of assistant adjutant-general and assistant quartermaster-general are yet to be filled. Colonel Johu |as heretofore under a senate bill passed by the house and sent to the president. Tle soviet governmenmt of Russia ex- pects to recruit 5,000 steel workers from the Youngstown (Ohio) ict this month, according to L. S. Calvert, dent of the Kuzbas Industrial colon: Andrew MeLean, editor of the Brook- n Citizen died of pneumonia. He wa3 orn in Scotland in 1848 engaged in newspaper w 20 years old. Cliford Hollis- Manaweiler, Two Japanese destroyers are in the harbor at Kiao-Chow, China, as a pre- caution against trouble from bandits who, it is feared, may molest Japanese na- fonals. GOV. LEE RUSSELL DENIES ALLEGATIONS OF STENOGRAPHER An_exhibition of foodstuffs preparcd by Canadian manufacturers will be feature of the British industries fair, which will be held coneurrently in Lon- Oxford, Miss., Dec. 6. don and Birmingham early mext year. P.)—Lee M. Russell, governor of Mis- sissipp!, today denied in Yederal court allegations made by Mies Frances Birk- head, stenographer, which brough about the. suit for $100,000 damages against Mr. Russell now being heard. Miss Birkhead, testifying for nearly three hours, reiterated charges of s duction- and other allegations made in| her petition. 1: was the opening day of the actual trial Governpr ‘Russell, called by counsel for Miss Birkhead as an “adverse wit- ness” was on the stand a comparative- Iy short time, but is expected to be re-! called, He declared the charges were without foundation. Miss Birkhead, who Russell, was under when court adjourned. In a voice scarcely audible, she gave on direct examination details of alleged; Telations with the governor while she, cepted the was$ in his employ during his campaign i Sovereign of the Hedjaz, to for the governorship in 1918 and|Mecca. brought her testimony to a climax b declaring one of the papers offered evidence, was a forgery. [ The taking of testimony began this afternoon after- selection of a jury was accepted with unexpected rapidity. ‘Governor Russell asserted that he employed- Miss Birkhead as a steno- ‘&rapher in Jackson. He denied he talk-| ed with her in a Jackson drug s prior to" her employment, and in tumn, {‘declared ~untriie -various other alleged | incidents: < - “Did" you not admit in the preserice of " gormer Governor . ‘Theodore G. Biko that you were respomsible for. Miss Birkhead's condjtion and asked Mr, ‘BY Do to settle t! matter! ‘was one of the questions asked the governor. “I did not,” was the reply. Introduction of-a letter signed “Mary” brought a denial by the governor that he was the author and, as a test for, comiparison. as to handwriting, he wrote! thesame wording from dictation in the! ourt room. Both were submitted as exhibits. The letter, which Miss Birl head said she received while engaged in war work at Camp Jackson during the 1919 political campaign in Missis- sippl, urged the recipient “to get treat- ment . there.” Miss Birkhead charges that she sub-| mitted to an operation at the sugges- tion of the governor and as a resuk h health was permanently - impaired. S testified the letter was In Mr. Russell’s handwriting. Miss Birkhead, part of \the time in ears, was under direct examination for nearly two hours. : “The governor appeared interesting and he told me he loved me” she tes- | tified. “Each time I gaw him he ap- | peared. more interesting. He told me he ‘was getting .a divorce.’ “He_mnevor-left the ‘ssing. me (By the A. The American Radio Reiay League is prepared to carry a test case involvin he rights of cmateur transmitting sti- tions, to the United States supreme court. A. Wilson, » former elerk at the Adams House in Boston was believed to ba Sumped overboard from the steamer ernor Dingley on the Saturday trip £ro Boston to Portland, Me. Diregtors of the Natiomal Dank of York, declared an extra . dividend in addition to the regular 3 per cent. quarterly dividend on followed Mx.[&0tek- . \ cross-examinat'on invitation of King Hussein, reside A department of justice bill prohibiting mailing of threatening letters to the president or members of his family with fines and penitentiary terms as penalties, ted to the house. The presest sadministration, so lon; acceptance of mandates by the Unite States, it was stated at ‘the Whit House in connection with the ear East- ern siuation. A lecture on “How to Make Home Brew” illustrated vy a motion picture and the exhibition of a confiscated still ‘was an unusual feature of the fall con Christian Temperance Uniun. A recovery of $21,000 in Argentine Yonds stolen in a mall robbery in New York in October 1921, started the police as collateral for a West Side bank. loan at a Chicago Rales Iaid down by the Turkish Na- tionalist government provide that ail persong intending marriege must he after submit to medical examination. Vi- olations will result in severe punishment and annulment of the marriage. Dr. Henry Whitm: urn, 65, said to have been the owner of sanitarfums at Berne and Lucerne, Switzerland, died Los Angeies. It is understood burial atives live. An “oid fashioned ‘spanking week, | with careful, prayerful spanking” was | recommended as an aid In raising future . office . withont | citizens in an address by Mrs. Smith oodbye,” Miss - Birkhead Alford at the _eighteenth anniversary i { meeting of the Big Brothers and S! The London FPost's Caire correspond- ent says that Mohammed VI, the former | Turkish sultan, is reported to have ac- n was passed by the senate and transmit- {as it remains in power, will not favor vention of the New York county Women's in a search for a2 man who placed them | will be at Providence, R. I, where rel- |kish permancnt president. i | | | i 1 | 1 | | standpoint | world, and America would not be sat- ;ships of all nations, but the number of | warships could pass through under the {same restrictions. | straits® territorial zone prohibits fortifica- | | the Gallipoli | the conference, said that the international the srraits, with the right of warships t pass 1o and from the Black Sea was the outstanding feature of the Near Eastern conference today, which received from }the entente nations a definite project for the future control of this great worla waterway. The Russian plan for the exclusion of all but Turkish warships from the siraits received a bad blow by the ailied proposals. tichard Washburn n ambassador, adopt the broad that the very interests of the countries bordering on the Black Sca made it imperative to kecp the straits open. The United States in common with every commercial nation wished ac- cess to every free body of water in the might Washinglon ¢ program in d Child, the Amer-| In that connee Sea free as internati belligerent nations weil as in time position to the sanne relative % parently the object of statement, isfied it her ships of war could not pur- sue their peaceful crrands wherever American ciizens and merchant craft were accorded that privilege. The entente nations presented a com- prehensive plan for restricted opening of the straits, which was designed to pre- vent any one body from acquiring mas- tery there; they suggested demilitari- zation of the entire territorial zone and proposed the appointment of an inter- national commission to guarantee ob- servance of freedom of the straits. George Tchitcherin, the Russian so- viet foreign minister, ridiculed the allied proposals. saying it meant resumption of international rivalries, but Ismet Pasha, for Turkey, informed The As- sociated Press that he considered the entente propositions suitable basis for further discussion, which will be re- sumed Friday. In addition to the plan presentcd to- day, the allies are arranging for the Zormation of a_committee of experts to work out detailed regulations for pro- tecting Constantinople. Put briefly, the allied proposition for controiling the straits is as follows: In time of peace there shall be complete freedom of passage for the merchant peac n attitude at Lan- straits was ap- be ambassador's United States irol of the A provision effect is contained in the rejoct- ed treaty of Sevre: it it was writ. from the Washington government that it %0 undertake such a role The eatire content can delegation at Lau that there should for all mations in thought in Mr. Child's declarations as to the straits question, it js improba- bie that be is in a position as yet to 1l the conferemce precisely what the ashington aititude would be as to th suggestion that & bave i direct shar in controlling traffic tarough the strats GEOBGES CLEMENCEAU VISITS FOBMEE PRESIDENT WILSON Washington, Dec. § (I America’s war-time Fragce’s war-time premicr m day for the first time since t {the peace treaty at Versaille thre 8 street home of Mr. Wilson and lasted Just a little more than a quarter of an nour. M. Clemencean described his visit a8 one of the utmost cordiality and affection as between old friends, adding that he and the former president had talked a little about ofd“times in Paris, and also, wabout “the past and the present.” | Mr. Witson made no reference to the purpose of the visit of the former jremier of France to America, or the subject mat- ter of his addresses in this country, M. Ciemenceau continued, but seemed pleased when to} tion of his mame and of th points had elicited more applause from the French statesman's audiences thanm any other one thing. Describing Mr. Wilson as somewhat stouter than at the time of France, M. Clemesiceau said he appeared as mentally alert as ever and that there was no noticeable difference in his volce. Alzo he declared that the former presi- dent showed a great cicarness of view and precision of thought The former chief executive received hig istinguished visitor in the Ifbrary on the second floor of his home. Mrs. Wilson {was with him when M. Clemenceau ar- | rived, but cetired immediately so (hat the {two might be alone. Mr. Wilson remained seated throughout the viit, the former premier said, adding that he did not pro- long his stay as he had when be called on_President Harding, because his host States would be a member. The g e e procedure _whereby, the commisslon Will| opsyns incigene of o day that prove be constituted and whether it will work PPl ineidene of & da under the league of nations has not yet 329 O the busiest M. Clemenceas hay been decided. Ak threg weeks ago. His ac In king M. Tchitcherin's plan ‘ol“!l: an early morning visit Arlinzton closo. the straits to all except the Tmks. ! National cemetery and endd late tonight warships shall not be greater than that of the most powerful of the littoral powers of the Black Sea cxisting at the time of passage. 1, however, the Black sea powers should abandon all {heir naval forces, in- dividual powers would still have the right | to send through the straits a fleet of | three ships, but only one of these ships could exceed a tonnage of ten -thousand. 1t war occurred in which Turkey was cutral, there should be compiet Tty or the powers with the game limiation as to the number and tonnage of ships as in time of peace. If war should break out and Turkey was a belligerent, neutral The plan for demilitarization of the| tions on either side of the Dardanelles | and the Bosphorus. The zone includes veninsula, which was the| scene of the great English-Turkish battle in the World war. and takes in the islands of the Sca of Marmora and the group of ! islands in the Aezean which lie at the entrance of the Dardanelles. A significant feature of the demilitar- ization project is interdiction of af sub- mariges -in the territoria! waters of the| demilitarized zones and islands. As a speclal protection for Constanti-i nople, the project authorizes a garrisom not exoeeding ten thousand men, but no armed forces shall remain or move in the demilitarized zones. Lord Curzon, who lengthily explained the allied proposals in an address before commission of control would have a Tv Lord Curzon referrsd to the n home was un fme’ . lhig. excess. to establish . higher values tor All vessels. 3 “The increase in value. ot the vessels us to the demand that will come’ in the aext fow years as & result of the grow- g dge, of the world's tognage should, however, more than compenssié for, the cods of upkeep during the period - that B Panama | ‘scout ‘machine In:charge. of Major Gear- i h:be tfld tof l’n‘ln‘l;fi O;l:rd“ln: ot|in New York. rose: i - reside; at_ the - Russell - home e by Irsady in vhe ais | there. Governor. Russell had previous.| The Brasilian government favited Ar- | ‘maneuered out of the: ‘way -and eftected |17’ eXPlained” that Miss Birkhead aicom-;gentina and Chilel to attend a disa | safe landing, It was-announced. that s Panied him and Mrs. Russell to their Ment conference, to be held at Valpar: ! board of Inquiry’ would investigato the |home to'aid in_the sending of campaign Chile, January 15, as a preliminary to 3 Iierature—the purpose: for which, ne the Pan-American congress to be held at e z said, she was emploved. Santiago, Chile, in March. with an address to the Southern socloty bl T ki in Continental Memarial hall, where & few Dorri months ago the trealies negotiated at the arms™ conference were signed. Between times_he spoke to American army offi- c~rs. most of them overseas veterans, st the war college. and made a pilgrimage o Mount Vernom. canal: Under international lzw, he sa', Russian and Turkish warships have the right of free passige of the Pasama canal as well as the Suezx and Kiel canals and other straits. But M. Tchitch- erin wanted to deny these rights to other nations with respect to passage betwcen Mrs. Lorenzo L. Wobdhouse, of (New| York -and “Burlington, by their A e ; w, " Mrg. E w (ovember, 1921, leaving - his “en- Boue,: ihad falled to reach a-deciSion | tire fortune to the executors who Nve in | carl ythis, evening. % " | Stonington ‘and - other parts of .Conmec- | Shorlly after ‘six o'clock-{he jurors|ticut, for the erection in Stonington of , ent to- their. rooms for the night, and;& marble hotel and. for municipal -im-1 it. was stated by .Charles. H. Darling, of,Provement -in that city. - 4 counsel , fof - the’ defense that ‘evenif a decision . were réached -tonight it “would must slapse before-these factors become ¢ ; During, the year, the wooderi fleet Was rodticed By 236 vessels, and the cost: of e ‘npkeep of thie fleet was reduced by $41.000. The mal cost - gtlll stopd, howeyer, at an ' ahnual average of §19 per vemsel. i S peaecis pekEing, /1o 1o e projects” g sto .- Vokrd. during the year was §1:854,750, which had fbeen given a: “present wutoe" of $2,113,000.7 The report says thdt “in sccordance . with ~agreement mado with the office 'of the chief co-or- Eimator,” 2nd transters: were made ¥t prices 16 per cent. below. “present fair, vatue.” from ‘real estate brought fo' an sdditionsl $5093,722. /- Notakle. economies reeorded was.a 31,043,075 niot-be announced until .court convened Tow. morning.- The case which. had besn in hearing ‘since OctdSen -1, was glven to-the fury at b o'clock yes- térday afternioon. ~After a might of de- Iiveration the jurors: at 10, o'clock -this mofning appeared: in’ court to hear that part -of the. judge's charge dealing with the finding 0f a verdiot repeated, The plaintift -in ' her.suit ‘alleges’ that her: parents-at-law . sought to: *alienate the, affections “/of her husband, Doug-| las ‘Woodhuse, who is mow _secking ‘a divorce ‘at Reno. - - [ AMERICAN ‘CONFERENCE Waskington, Dec., 6—(By -the. A. day in effect postponed consideration of Wé]&;‘mfllni' 2 “Gniop entral America by debiding unanitmios;, cansent was, necessaty . to ke up any $578,131,517 FOR SBALE OF Waghington, Dec. ing the ‘war . brought #74,131577 up to - the fiscal ;year on June. 30; | Secretary Wains mmfl today- original cost: vatue he -placed at above $2,000,000,000. ““The *cdst “of 2 “on: Juns 30, 1932 was:$26) 112,502, the report said. 3 was' Js‘m! centr of the the property. sold. ceived from sales to June:39,'1931 $818,137,689 and the total for the cal year was $55,943,888, giving & total to June 20,1923 of last, 1 for | $1 z BE YARD AT BAY l"l'l,‘l.v\ KING-'GEOERGE MAY ATTEND SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL c. -6.—Sale - of “surplus war department material purchased dur- return . of- Dis ansual ‘repoft. of - the . Aaterial 0 “nhand tor “The. average | ~af _recovery. to June xc.i;u: ~cost of Tdverpool, Dec. 6—The g ot tho northern: fast “n June, 1921, that a similar ‘Cer: mony: might ‘be performed before lond be ‘surprisine. . IRISH PARLIAMENT OPENING suggestion -4 1 to i ey ohe ot pemiae | 5D i e opening onl ot ‘e dat 1L e e m,wl "ot the ‘demastreent | the Courier, which: recalls. the hope ex- Separtment | pressed in the king's spéech at-the open- t st Bel- southiern Ireland,” and says that the an- ssent that visit of the king to bad ‘‘been ; arranged would not “Mrs. Russell and I agreed that Miss Birkhead come- to Oxford under certain| Priceless historical records of the conditions .to heip her . out. ‘of. -some!early days of New France, removed to trouble she then was in” Governor:this vilage in 1821 for preservatioa, Russell testified, : | were lost in a fire that swept the Rest “He declared Miss Birkhead _at one!House of. the Gentleman of St. Sulpic, time made charges agaimt Dr. Henry | Oka, Quebec. Boswell, superintendent' of the tubercn- i losis. sanatorium similar -to those made| ThHe New Brumswick government in against him'and that she had threafen-|Session at Fredricton approved the con- ed to shoot the phys! |tract between the provincial electrical Miss - Birkhead - denled this assertio' DOWer commission and .the city of St and_declared her differences with Dr.|John for delivery of hydro power to the Boswell were over -authority given .a | ity from the Musquash plant. matron: at_the state - institution’ where she also was employed. Miss~'Birkhead was. shown a letter bearing hername, which asserted that she: Kad “no’ cause. to’ complain against Dr. Boswell and ‘declared it a forgery. Miss - Birkhead at “various times Sums of ‘monéy were paid her by men purporting to’ be emissaries of the er 1 declared that he Nad, never authorized- any payments w The body of Mrs. James Giymm, of South Windsor, who disappeared _from " her home early on the morning of Feb- Tuary 25 last, was found in the shelter (ot a tree stump mear Zelzer pond in | Soath Windsor. The discovery was made by two boys who were setting traps the Mediterranean and the Black seas. | = The address to the Southern society | { 1 He declared that the Ruseian scheme ! wag 1 mcsen for closing the Black sea would place the | south. . snee o Sormr e e other countries bordering on, that ses &t oblired to cancel his intended trip fnto the mercy of Russia, because Russia pos- | (hat section. of (iemencess wan sessed the strongest land forces. He in- . mented fo his, audicnes by Hagh C. Wale sisted that the allied proposals gave no | lace. former American. ambassador 16 epecial advantages to the allies. but Were | France. and was piven an ovation feamed to secure a duradle and equitable | On his visit to Arlinzton the former solution of one of the most vexed and , premier went directly to the tomb of the mflm‘c)’w problems of ;mmm.m‘ nknown Soldier. wron which he laid & . wrea - 3‘7&‘:““” thanks of the wgrld,” he 0on- ion his way back to his automobile to get’ a view of Washington from the Potomas’ The British and French military and | hjlis M. Clemenceau drove to the war :;v-.l ea;peru h;l.d‘{mml&h m-kemm at | college, there to give utterance to his first conference hall. telling the delegates ‘ ot ail the preg o -}“:r—m- since arriving at me-pmn-q g plan would work and answering a fire of <ol B ¢ questions concerning technical Aetans ‘The general impression tonight is SRSy, or siecey today's developmens have Fiven & dis- i A tinctly. hopeful atmosphere to . ; o the center- | Bogton, Dec. &.—The story of - 5 gan “Say W With Flowers,” the its & w8 stapces which prompted coinage, how it came into existence, and RS sub- sequent spregd throughout the is told by P. F. O'Keefe, its head of a local advertising ageney. OKeefe suggested the slogan to publicity committee of the American, Florists in Clevciand, Deceme h’"n 1917, was evident that a slogan w0’ | worded as to induce people o use flow= N WASHNIGTON ATTITUDE 18 IN OFPOSITION TO BUSSIAN recters increasing the capital stock from minety to one hundred and twenty mil- lion dollars by means of a 33 1-3 per cerit. stock dividend, pFoposal not listed in the| ~Bayense, N..J. Dec. 6 of am. The. conference . -adjournad| determined oriétn "‘am AR nz Sakarday.to give the. delegations| Kiln process mill in the- Jumber: fi‘m‘g i gpportuaity (to. comsukt. - thelr . govern-the /Consumers, -Coal and lee - company. sments on thé - question " whether _the| here late. today.causing damage esii- unlon: proposats” should- be discussed” by, mated by officlals - : Y gt M M ‘more “than $158,000. % | Horduras and..Salvador were .ander-|. .The entire. fire: degartment of the’city| stood * . today to move inciu- | was called <out to. fight” the: blaze which Eou of the’unlan’ proposal in' the agen-yat- one. time’ tireatened other buildings| - ok mmh%u'um;ma poget the Tide-atic. oni| Wik smenitted - 4 n:: of - ¥'s stotage. Seld “anen ot who was committed to 'the resumed” tomorrow. mg:', decision preventedfa mile away. - . + - trom Faifield counts” Angust 17| T 1% - <4 d F5 3 i o R ‘1918, 'had ‘been emiployed at ‘tlie “deputy ‘Warden's house ‘to ‘take- ‘cars 6t thn f:- "Fie: was® missed ‘at rofl ‘call for Miss ‘Birkhead and ‘#0 far as he knew none we: made _other ' than payment of the agreed upon at the time De she ‘was in’ his, employ. the . company . at| hou s Ving At the réquests ‘of “attorneys for th AN - Ave’” to “sen escaped plaintiff - an- attachment was in the from the stafe prison” at’ Wethersfied | hands of the United States marshal to- iate this affernoon after stealing a' suit! day- directing ‘former ‘Governor. Bilbo to othés:from the ‘home of the deputy | apmear as a winess, -Miss Birkhead warden. - 2 Wil be Tecalled to tne 3tand when tha Washington, Dec. §.—(By the A. P.) ~—Whether the Washington government is prepared to participate in an inter- national commission to. control the N, - SR e The bungled hanging of Bemnle Swim, at .Woodstock, (N. B.) jail two months ago, when two hangmen were used and the body was cut down before death came and had to be hanged again, was the subject of a rcport to the govern- ¥ i is a‘question still to be answered. ‘It can be said definitely, however, that so.far the United States-does mot stadd com- ie GERMAN FREIGHTER, WITH . “BROREN RUDDER, IN DISTRESS i R e i ) fi-%;hn;um thothardss suddenty Bave wa qi::z Works of the. loygds. stern of | the mwmnuz_‘mnmhu&;m"u T et o e “land, was un ‘ban of the