Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 19, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIV—No. 307 BRITAIN 10 PAGES—76 COLUMNS e CE TWO CENTS Pending Adjustment of the Dispote Between London and| CABLED PARAGRAPHS Paris, There is Little Probebility of Any American Loan to Germany—Nothing Can be Done for Cancellation of French War Debt to the Reparations Agreement—It is Expected That the United States Will Participate in Premiers in Paris, January 2—J. P, Morgan Says No Loan to Germany Until Reparations Question is Settled. Washington, Dee. 18.—Adjustment of the reparations dispute between London and Paris is the crux of the Kuropean tangle, In the American viewpolnt, as stated here today on competent authority. Talk of any American ioan to Germany waa described as “idle” until such an ad- Jjustment had been made. It was also made clear that the ques- ton of allled war debts to the United States s not viewed in Washington as } volved in the Anglo-French difterences as to the amount Germany can pay. Be- yond this official spokesman refused to #0 in outlining what the Washington Fovernment had in mind. There was no hint as to the purposes sr progress of informal discussions with allied leaders which have been indicated both here and abroad to be under way. No answer was retarned to inquiries as to whether Germany had again sought American intervention in the reparations difficulty. With the field of speculation thus nar- rowed, however, it was evident in unof- fidlal talk today that administration hopes that American influence can aid in the European situation wero quite gener- Ally beleved to be based on possibilities that may be seen of bringing British and French into harmony as to Germany’s present economic plight and capacity to pay. Since time lacks for any lengthy pro- ssss of examination on that point before sxpiration of the moratorium January 15, there was a tendency to belleve that the Washington government had some hops of causing at jeast a delay in defi- nite action by France after that time, pending further light from recognized ex- pert authorities. In fhis connection it is known that in #dme diplomatic quarters an jmpression Prévails that American participation in Spme form when the counecil of premiers resumes its sessions in Paris January 2, is to be expected. The expectation ap- pears to be based on the conclusion that Danish Steamship Aground. Ronne, Island of Bornholm, Dec, 18 (1_5)' the A. P.)—The Danish steamship Lituania, which went aground on this e 5 island, has been re-floated and ‘s pro- United State in Advance of a |ceeding to Danziz. Incendiorism im Dublin. \ London, Dec. 13.—The Dublin resi- dence of Gordon I. Camybell, son ot Baron Glenavy, chairman of the Free State senate, was entered late tonmight by armed men, says a despatch to the Times from Dublin, The inmates were ordered to leave the building, which ‘was set on fire. The interlor was prac- tically destroyed. Some Form at the Council of tions problem to the Washington admin- istration. While no official comment was made conmcerning Mr. Morgan's’ visit to Hughes in Washington \last It is understood the financier merely gave' the secretary his views on conditions in Kurope, whence he recent- ly returned after six months’ visit. Mr. Morgan was a member of an interna- tional committce of bankers which met in London last June to discuss the ques- tion of financial assistance to Germany. Tocal international bankers are said to believe that before any loan is made by this country to Germany there must be not c=ly a settiement of the repaia- tions question, but a sincero effort made by Germany to balance her budget, re- vise her banking system and stabilize her currency, which has been enormoys- ly inflated. If these conditions are fiot met a small logn of short duration may be made through local bankers, but the possibility of such an undertaking is said to_be “very remote” at this time. While Presldent Harding’s cabinet is known .to have had the German repara- tions question under discu: cent meetings, local banker: lieve that the administration will offer its services as a referee on the repara- tions problem, in view of its definite re- fusal ‘to consider sudk action at the request of the German government some time ago.. The inquiry of Dr. Wied- feldt is believed to be the first direct pro- posal ‘made: to American bankers for as- sistance by the German government. In his report to the international committee of bankers, Mr. Morgan as- erted the American investor would be interested in German obligations only i it were satistactorily established: First, that such a loan should be at! the requestyand. would be for the bene-| fit, of the allied nations. t Second, that through the techmical se-! curity to be given by Germany and thei rehabilitation of its internal financial situation , Germany should clearly show. Bornhardt Had Fainting Attack. Paris, Dec. 18.—(By The A. P.)—Sa- rah Bernhardt had a fainting attack at the close of the last rehearsal this ernoon of Sacha Guitry’s new play, “Un De Roman,” which was to have been produced tonfght with Bernhardt in one of the principal parts. By reason of her indisposition the production was post- poned. The physiclan who attended Mme. Bernhardt said tonight that her indisposition was in no way serious. In- deed, after resting for a time, she ex- Dressed a determination to g9 back to the theatre and produce the piece as planned, and was only dissuaded wHh grtat difficulty by her friends. [ GERMAN MECHANICS IN EMPLOY OF N. H. ROAD FLACED UNDER ARREST Hartford, Dec. 15.—Three German mechanics ‘who have been employed the Eaht Hartford yards of the ew Haven” road, and who str ing shopmen have claimed are strike- § breakers, were arTested tonight by Immigration Inspectors Hurley and Clark of Providence, R. 1, on charg- =s of violating the immigration laws. Their arrest, it is reported here, is a result of an investigation recently instituted by Secretary of Labor Da- vis of alleged violations of the con- tract labor laws by several railroads in the country. The meh, Fritz Un- ger, George Zazonan, and Juamin Richter, are held at the Hartford po- lice station pending further federal action. the council meeting would afford natural and logical opportunity for a statement on American- Views, pressure: - of ‘thich might conceivably tend co bring the Brit wh and Freach to a better understand- .ng on reparations. l Presumably Germany is not only will- Ing, but anxious that the Washington | government join in the discussion.of rep- ! arations. It was only indicated In, Paris and Lowdon this month befors -the coun- ofl of premiers met, that an American representative to sit with the premiers officlally or unofticlally’ would be accepts able. This background and such additional favoruble atitude as recent Washirgton “feelers’ in the two capitals may have; developed presumably leave the road ! open for American representation at Paris. after the year end, if the Washington gov- | ernment feels that any good can be ac-| complished in this way. i o far as various proposals, both Brit- ish and French, for cancellation of the | French war debt to the United States as & reparations adjustment preliminary is voncerued, shéstlitade hers is that nothing oan be done In that connection, certatnly In altvance of a reparations agreément. As with the question of a private loan. by American bankers to Germany, an agreed basis as to what the present German seconomic position is, must underiay what- sver steps it may seem advizable to take to eorrect that position. The natural reply of France to over- *tures from across the Atlantic, it has been pointed out, either would be to ask ® favorable adjustment of the French febt to the United States, if not com- dlote cancellation , or to relterate that, iacking tho formal assurances of Great Britain . and. the United States to .come '6 her aid if she was again attacked, Franco must proceed toward ber own protection as seems best to her. It is such obstacles as this, apparently, * that must be overcome by delicate nego- Iations with French officials if the Wash- Ington government 15 to help clear up the reparations muddle. There is no hint that the Washington gavernment is contemplating either dobt cancellation or some form of assurancés to France. Both projects would require cougressional approval and there is no 10- dication that it could be obtained more saslly now than hérotofore. DBut Amer- iéan public opinion as to French propos- als to enforce reparations payments-in Germany might have (great weight . it presented by the Washington government, some diplomatio opservews here believe. It may bo in that way that it is ‘hoped 10 imtervens and bring about, through a jaint commission er oth a review of Germany's sttuation ecomomically as It s today. | ! NO GERMAN LOAN PENDING ¥ REPARATIONS s;‘ru.mxr New York, Dec. 18.—J. P. Morgan and Company tonight issued a statement declared they had notified -the German ambasador to this country “that it was impossible for us-to d or consider a-loan to Garmany and until the reparations question was settied.” This statement was isved, . learned, to set at rest what were de- seribed as ‘“highly fantastical stories” ‘which have been publizshed regarding the of the fiotation fo an inter- national loan to.Germany, estimated as Iifgh as $1,500,000,000, The stalement follows: “Dr. Otto Wiedfeldt, the Garman am- a large, mo-called - internation- Joan/to Germzny. In his reply, Mr. adverted 1o -the statement’ that bad made following the sittings . of bankers’ committee last June, ane wffect told the ambassador that our witlon_ was exactly the same 25 it “He informed = Dr. Wiedfeldt that, while we greatly desired to be of. ser- fand rust covured keys foumd. with the| POrtd to a desire to meet its obligations in the hope ‘that by the tulfilment of fhese ob- Hgations it would re-establish its credit a3 onc of_the commercial natiqs of the world. MRES. MADELINE M. GRON TO CHANGE NAME TO GREEN Portland, Me., Dec. 13.—Mrs. Made- line. Masters Grom, of Pohtlarid, former- ly of Chicago and New York, who was granted an absolute divorce from Niels Gron, Danish dipiomat, in. the superior court here today, will change her name to “Green” she announced tonight. The Anglicized form of the name was as- sumed by Mrs. Gron -when she came here two years ago, and was then adopted, she said, to conceal her identi- ty. Gron, testifying at the trial, said that the use of the name “Junior Green” by their nine year old-son in letters to his father was the final mark of disrespect. Custody of the boy was the chief issue of the contested hearing, awarded to the mother. In_expressoing her satisfaction with the findings of Judge Lauren M. San- born, ~which include the resiriction, that she and her son must live in this city at #ase nine month of vach year, Mrs. Gron sald that she welcomed with her fredom the prospect of regaining her American _citizenship. * On her -marriage to Gron ‘10° years ago she became a Danish subject. No right. of appeal was deserved by Gron's attorney. BRITISH CHANYELLOE OF EXCHEQUEE SAILS FOR U. 85 London, ‘Déc. 18 (By the A. P.)— Stanley Baldwin, ‘chancellor- of the ex- chequer, had a long audience with the king at-Buckingham -paiace today, prior to sailing for New York aboard the Ma- jestic on’ December 27. The chanceHor will be accompanied -on his ‘mission. which relates to the British debt to the United States, by his wife and daugh- er. There.is mo diminution of interest here in the possbility of America tak- ing a more active part in - European economic affairs and the coincidence of Chancellor Baldwin and - the American embadsador, George Harvey, being in Washington_ at the same time, but to- day the British press seems: rather re- luctantly Tealizing that the. large hopes of American participation in the rep- arations 'question and the possibility of & loan to Germany. are little mofe than an. imposing air castle built upon very slender foundations, and that specula- tion has travelled very far in advance of the facts. Those who have been largely respon- sible for erecting this edifice.out of the activities of Ambassador Child at Lau- sanne, the meetings of the American ambassadors in London and, lastly, the announcement of ' Colonel Harves’s visit to the United States, are mnow. engagcd in declaring that the situation is really little changed and that the -American policy 1s not altered. The' press ‘points.out that Europe 's sorely .in need of capital, which Amer- ica possesses in super-abundance, -but that ‘the conditions which would war- rant. America coming to-Europe's aid ne more exist now than they did at the time 'of the bankers' conference 12 Paris Jast June® and - that unless’ some quite unexpected development ~ should come of~the Paris conference In Jan. uary there will: be no hope of stabilizing | the mark or- fixing definitely the amount of reparations Germany will be required to pay. Therefore there is nothing to Jjustity ‘American’ bankers, let alone the American ‘government, in raising a loan in behalf of- Germany. Purthermore, it is feared that the 29- ‘herence “of “the Bonar Law_administra- uol? to the policy of the Balfour note will make the path of the Baldwin ‘mis- sion much harder. The utmost now which seems to be hoped for is that a new - international ‘conference at Wash- ington may be the outcome of the pres- ent. agitation and that such a confer- ence, if called, might ‘lead = to some change in ‘French policy which- would make American imtervention in' Europe youch * easter. - and was Lee Masters, the poet, brought action on the grounds of cruel and abusive treatment. Shelis a sculptress. TWO YOUTHS CONFESSED WEECKING OF A TRAIN St. Joseph, Mo., Dec. 18.—Alvin Mar- fon Clark of Easton, Mo., and William Kramer, both 19 -years old, = were ar- Tested- today and. confessed, according to the palice to_wrecking Chicdgo, Burl- Ington and_ Quincy passenger .train No. 16, east of Saxton, last_Tussday night, The train was derafled when a rail was removed and seven coaches and the en- gine left: the track.. Only two or three persons ‘were_slightly injured. The boys planned to rush in after the derailment and rob the mail car, they said. They expected that. the engineer, fireman and the trainmen in the bag- sage and mall cars would be killea-or badly hurt and that they would, meet With no opposition. When this failed to materialize, they they have been since, EVIDENCE OF LIQUOR IN NURSING BOTTLES Worcester, Mass, Dec. 18.—Prosecu- tion of the persons respensible for serv- [ Ang of liquor in nursing Dbottles at a banquet of the New England Road Bulilders' association in a Boston' hotel Thursday night, will take definite form within a day or two, Prohibition Dirkss tor Eimer C. Potter said tonight. “Plenty of ‘evidence has - been se- . cured,” sald Director Potter, “and ne- TAKING TESTIMONY IN tign will be taken within a short time. THE BECKER MUBDEER TRIAL|The prohibition agents who have been 3 .| working on the case -have compleced New York, Dec. 15.—Physicians, pho- | their investigations and the evidence is| tographers and police ' officers, - testified | 3bout ready for the federal attorney. in Bronx county court today at_the opening of the trial of ‘Abraham Beck er, ur, for the murder of his wite, Jennie, whoss body was found in Yy filled pit two weeks ago: CENTRAL AMERICAN CONFAB BEGINS REVISION OF TEEATIES ‘Washington, Dec. American “conference today disposed of troublesome - quetion of the pro- America by erence to. con- sider it in January, 1926, and proceed- ed to work on the revision of the 1907 treaties, A < sub-commitiee composed” eads of the five delegations was ap- pointed to study the' tresty establish- ing the court of arbitration.of Cartago, the proposed: reqrganization of ‘which .5 ‘have caused some disagres- ment amorig ‘the delegates. The con- fetence - then adjourned” to ' amait the sub-committee’s - repart. . It was impossible, however, to tell_bow long the woman lived after her. skull was' fractured, he said. Becker shifted unéasily in his seatas |y, the garmenmts taken from the pit.were shown, Lt by bit, to the jury. Identification ofthe body was impossi-- ble, physicians-testified. A'buneh of soil body were. alleged by the promecution to have been the keys to. the Becker flat." REFORT. OF THE CAPTURE The sinking ‘of the sl bmarine 548 in ¥ EAMONN DE.VALERA Lmt-hhal;::lmi Py . years , ago, recalied - in . Bridgeport Deg, 18,—The Herald this morn- | esterday when _William' Magner, 2 reports are. current- in‘ Uacls | mémberof the crew imprisoned in the “De Valera /been cap- | boat for 12 hewts, applied for compen. Irish Free State authori- sation for: dls@biitics, which, he claim. 5 4, résulted ‘from'-the cxperienes - Mrs. Gron, who is a sister of Edgar| returned to St. Joseph, they said, where | Providence Express DerailedatHydePa;k Locomotive Turned Over— Iron Fence Held Cars Up- right—Seven Persons Were Injured. _ Bostca, Dec. 18.—Seven persons wer: injured, several seriously, when _th Providence express of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad lert the rails at Hyde Park station late to- day. Miss Josephine Hadisch, of New Dergen, N. J., a passenser, and Firc- man Joseph A. McLaughlin, of Dedham, suffered the most serious injuries. The locomotive and tender turned over, but the ten passenger cars were held almost upright by the iron fence at the side of the track against which they crashed. Miss Hadisch escaped instant death by a hair's breadth. As the cars plung- ed from the track a section of rail was torn from its place and pierced the &ide of a coach, pinning the girl to her seat at the other side of the car. When help came it was found that the raf Tiad fastened itself in the woodwork of the car wall, and it was touching Miss Hadisch’s forehead. At a Boston hos- pital tomight it was sald her injuries might prove fatal. Raiload officials comd not explain the Jeraitment, wiich occurred g‘\u eght miles out from the South statiou, which the train left at 4.44 o'clock. Pas- sengers said that the cars bummsd heavily several times before the final suock, and expressed bellef that recemt heavy frosts had caused a section of track to buckle, The track was torn up for 150 feet, and tonight trains were buing routed by the Midland diviston ' the railroad Fngincer Wiiliam Stukey and Fire- wan McLaughlin went over with the ) tomotive. The former escaped with !b.yises, while McLaughlin had his leg broken. | A heavy metal fence beside the tracks kept the passenger coaches from over- | tuning and the passcngers while many | or them were cut and bruised, sufferea o serious injuries. PROHIBITION INFORMALLY DISCUSSED AT WHITE HOUSE ‘Washington, Dec. 18. — Problems of prohibition enforcement were _discussed informally today at a White Housc con- ference Detween President Harding, ihe federal departmental chiefs directly in- It was indicated that the discussion re- volved almost euurely upon the ques- tion of how the states could best co-op- erate with the federal government in executing the terms of the prohi-ition amendment. It was hinted that another meeting of state executives might be vass the subject more thoroughly. At the White rouse luncheon were, in_addition “to tnepresident: Vive Pres- ident Coolidge, Attorney General Daugh- erty, Secretary Meilon, Prohibition Com- missioner Haynes, Governors Cox, Mass- achusetts; Riichie, Maryland; Trinkle, Virgini4 ; Hartness, Vermont: McCray, {1ndiana ; -Kilby, Alabama;: Hyde, Mis- souri; Presus, - Minnesota; Alcott, Ore< gon: Allen, Kansas; Morgan, West Vir- gina; McKelvie, Nebraska; Davis, Ida- ho: and Campbell, Arizona. n many cases,” Commissioner Haynes declared afier the meeting, “the reports of the governors were of an encouraging nature. Numerous instane: es of lack of co-Speration were pointed out; many of the inadequacy of federal forces were suggested. “There was a preponderance of opinien that an earnest official appeal for rev- erence of the law and a more cordial {support of law enforcement by the press, {would combine to cure the west condi- tions reported.” 1 | conference which indicated belief - that |ing the present stringent enforcement | statute. To the contratry, it was 5aid, the pre- valent_opinion seemed to have been that imposition of more eevere fines and pris- on_terms. would - assist the ' enforcement officials in” their -work. Other suggestions, all of which were declared to have been “entirely inform- al” included a more careful selection of prohibition personnel, -larger .appro- priations for the federal bureau and ed- ucation of the general public to the nec- essity of Iaw enforcement. Governor Allen, of Kansas, said to- night the conference had indicated clear- ly that all the governors present whose entire sympathy with rigid enforcement. Governor Cox of Massachusetts, one of the two states lying outside this classi- fication, was quoted as of the opinion that “more money and more honorable men” were e .. _Since the law was on the sthtute books, he held, it must be enforced. > The majority of the people of Mary- land—the other state withont special enforcement lawé—believe that the Vol- stead act is impossible: of ‘enforcement. in the state, according to Governor Ritchi “Our people in the main regard it as an unnecessary and ‘drastic fedéral in- fringement of ‘their state and personal righhts,” he declared in a statement is- sued after the conference and which was “The lack of respect for law and act- ual-lawlessness which have resulted is deplorable. The only remedy I seeiis to recognize ' that the Volstead law is destructive of the rights of states and to. turn the whole question back to. the states so that each state may settle it in accordance with the will of its own people.” A 1 Wayne B. Wheeler, 'general caunsel for the Anti-Saloon League said. the moral effect of the conference undoubt- edly would be great. = “It emphasized the mecessity ifor' the law enforcement,” he said, “and the duty of the states o enforce thelr own -pro-| New - York, . Dec, - 18—Fifty subpoe- o hn.mmlmwflnm'flemm’mmmn hibition the ‘arm ‘of every, law em- bootlegger in the United, States.” BOOTLEGGERS' BATTLE IN sideration, to MOTT STEEET, NEW YORK % .New TYork, Dee. 18.—A pitched bat- 4le, “believed by fhe police to have beem took " piace the outskirts of- - Chinatown. S/ Twenty shots _ were-firéd--before the policg- ar- rived to drive off ‘tug- purticipants, ~One D way shot... Two othets were ar- reste FRESIDENT . SENDS MESSAGE. B oL Jme et esident . expri '/ the. me'dndnfem;‘:l th‘; . w&n §. “‘dtrocious. mun is . excellenoy, Gabriel Narut terested and governors of fourteen states. | Ithe situation might be helped by loosen- states have enforcement laws were ind called early in the coming year to cal- | us atempts to reach the side of the Re- 4 According to some who attended there | was no suggestion auring the threc hotr ! lance's crew amd. Regan was & forest- 18—The - Central| forcement official and *discourage -every | conditions in the BRIEF TELEGRAMS From three to 12 inches of snow covers New York state. Had Been Marooned ~on Lizard Isle Of 27 Missing From Tug Re-| liance 23 Have Been Res- cued—Fate of Four Un- known. Sault Ste Marie, Mich., Dec. 18. er being marooned for five dave on the barren Lizzard, Isle in Lake Superior, with the temperature everhanging well below the zero mark and apparently without food, 23 of the 27 missing per- sons from. the fll-fated tug Reliance have been rescued by the tugs Gray and F: vorite, according to a meagre wireless despatch received here this afternoon from the Gra Fate of the remaining four was not reveuled in the cryptic despatch and search - for them is being continued. Those rescued include Captain D. A. Williams master of the Reliance. Hope of finding any of the missing alive virtually was abandoned here earlier in the day when the Gray r ported .the finding of two battered lif: boats from the Reliance. It now is as- sumed. the boats were washed away from the island after the marooncd men had landed. When they left the sinking tug none of the men had food, fuel or firearms. The isle on which they landed is bar- ren and uninhabited. It is believed there are a few huts, however, left by the Indians and trappers. , probokly will he lats tomorrow be- fore the tugs reach this port with tne rescued, because of the ice in Lake Su- perior. Physicians and medical sup- Dlies, .together with food and fuel, were taken aboard the rescue tugs before they started to fight their way through the ice floes to the wreck scen: The wrecking of the Reliance, was the cholce of fate. = After lying to in a shelt- ered cove for three davs in the hope of riding out the storm that was sweep- ing the lake. Captain Williams found his supplies of food and fuel almost ex- hausted. The mariners elected to tempt fate and breast the blizzard rather than chancé death from starvation. . Four hours after an anchor had been hoisted the Reliance was dashed against the rocks and her wheel disabled. The | craft filled rapidly. Just before the wireless was put out of commission the operator flashed a single call for help. 1t; was this call, received her=, that insti gated one of the most thrilling rescue at- | tempts in the history of the lake All those on board took to the life-| boats as the tug began to rettla beneath. ven of the 36 aboard reached safety turday night, after . batt i the waves and a 16-mile trek over a white wildern Two_others, Mr. and Mrs. John Harten, cooks, were left at a wayside station when tho woman be- vame exhausted and had o be carried four miles through the snow drifis. The rescue tugs had made two previ- King George has definitely anmounced his intention of fitting out the famous yacht Britanmia for racing mext year. Kobbers held up Barnet Tillinger, s collector for the Greenpoint National bank, Brooklyn, and escaped with a bag said to contamn $12,000. Henry Ford is supplying fin: sistance to Hitler's “gray shirt” Bava- rian Fascisti, according to a dispatch from Munich to the Berlin Tageblatt. President Zayas of Cuba signed the official call for bids on the $50,000.000 loan recently authorized by congress. The bids will be opened Jamuary 12. al as- Aft- Funeral services for William S. Beech- er, well known manufacturers and public official, who died at his home in New Haven, will be held today. J. Boles Potter, of Bridgeport, trolley manager there, in a bankruptcy petition gave his debts at $37,375 and his asscts at $23,258. Directors of the Travelers Insurance company, of Hartford, declared a regu- lar quarterly dividend of 4 per cent., and lan extra dividend of 16 per cent. Mrs. Elias Michael and Mrs. H. Steedman are the first men to be elected to the a national bank. Edwin . Louis wo- rectorate of The board of trustces of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, yesterday accept- ed the resignation of Major General Leonard Wood as head of the inseu- tion, Hope is expressed in French official circles that the Lausanne conferen will finish its work In time for the sig- nature of a areaty of peace between Turkey and Greece befors Christmas. Dr. Stanley H. Osborn, commissioner of education, in referring to the scov- v of smallpox in . =al t showed that the dis- case still existed, Maine had its first real snow storm of the winter Sunday, 8 1-2 inches falling in the ne.~hborhood of Portland, where a blanket of four inches already covered the ground. Prosecutor Jeseph Woods warrant for the arrest of Frank Grampico, a_former supernumerary po- liceman in New Eritain on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. insued | G John J. Durkin, of New Y, braxeman empioyed by the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad was instantly killed in the East Bridgeport rrailroad yards. = H In recognition of the 25th ammiversary | of his ordination a iuncheon w. given by friends to Fr. W. P. Kennedy, pastor of St r's church in New Ha- ven. liance, but wers beaten back by a gale. Those aboard - the Relidnce cluded e captain, 13 members of the crow and 22 passengers. , Houston, Texas, bringing the toll of the wreck on the Houston East | and West Texas railway at Humble, h.ll, Wednesday night to 21. FOUR PERISHEDD IN WEECK g L OF THE TUG EELIANCE Eamenn De aViers braved the risk| of arrest and parrowly escaped It Wye Sault-Ste Marie, Mich. Dec. 18.—|he aticnded 2 morning mass Four persons lost .their lives when the| fashionable Catholic univer 8 tug Reliance was wrecked in a_storm|tn Stephen's Green, Dublin, according to on northern Lake Superior fast Wednes-| the London Dally Fxpress. day, it was learned tonight. A wire- lass message from the tug Gray which with the Fayorite, went to the rescue of the .27 persons aboard the Reliance, s2id all had been accounted for except the four, who were swept from the deck o fthe small craft as efforts were belng made lo launch lifeboats in the high veae. Five shoplifting cases were Judge Bisner in police court in H: ford. Mary Weschoski of Portland, y-eaded guilty to theft of goods from four stores. Shé was sentenced to jail for five days. — 5 Jonathan Eno, prohfbition enforee- Those drowned were Captain John!mept agent for Connecticut, has been McPherson of the Booth Fisheries, ajdropped “for the good of the serwice,” ! passcnger on the Reliance; Fred Regan, |according to a_siatement by Deputy | Gus Johns-and an unidentified man. Commissioner Jomes of the prohibition Johns was a member of . the enforcement office. The United States buresa of fisheries recently deposited 1,500 drift bottles in the waters along the North Atlantic coast in an effort to get data in regard to ocean currents to be used in study- ing the movement of fishes, . Re- T. 3,668 EMPLOYED PRI BUSINESS IN CONNECTICUT] Hartford, Dec. -13.—Statistics on - the printing and puplishing industry in Con- necticut pre; by Eugene F. Hartley, chief st for manufacturers in the Department of Commerce, bureau of cen- sys, reveals that there are 412 printing or ' publishing ' establishments in_this | state empl an average of 3,068 wage earners including an- average of $16 women. Three years ago 2,156 em- ployes worked' an ‘average -of 48 hours a week, as many as 179 had to be on duty between fifty-four and . sixty ‘hours _ a week. A week of forty-four hours or less obtained for 217 employes. Anthracite coal used ‘inthe furnaces of printing establishments “in the state amounted. to 3,713 tonst in - 1919 while 2975 tons of bituminous coal were burn- ed Tt is interesting to note that Mass- achusetts, . New York and: Pennsylvania are the only states in -the ‘union leading Connecticut - in the - amount -of . anthra- cite coal consnmed in one year in.print- ing establishments. Newspaper adver- tising in Connecticyt three years. ago totaled $4,335,651 while, $1,750,031 was id for subscriptions and sales by the public. . . In 1919 there were 36 dafly newspa- pers - published in the state, eight of which were morning and the remaining 28 evening papers. Exclusive of Sun- day editions the total morning and even- ings newspaper circulation in Connec- ticut ‘thrée years ago’' was 351,200, ev- ening - papers holding 73.1 -per cent. of the total. Thers was 75 wefl'lny news- papers published in the state 1318 with atotal circulation of 142,899 coples, which is 6,719 copies less than in 1914, -In addition to 13 weekly news- papers published in foreign languages there were four newspapers = published semi-weekly in English three years ago. 50 SUBPOENAS ISSUED FOE . BEOOKLYN' LIQUOE GRAFT The dress and morals of the woman of today were censured by Mrs. Grant For- sythe in the president’s address at the an- nual convention at Sydney, N. S. W., of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. “There are emough metor vehicles In the United States to take the entire popula- tion of the country for a ride at the {same time. At the beginning of 1922 there were 4.2 motor vehicles for each mile of road in the United States. After_conferring with Chief James Fisher Boston police said the uynidentified man who abandoned an automobilé at the fair grounds in Uxbridge, Mass, was a member of the gang that held up and killed George A. Willls, in Boston Friday. — The Japanese forelgn office has receiv- ed word from Washington through the American embassy here that Masano Han- ihara, recently appointed ambassador to the United States is persona grata to the American government, While s eclatm for compensation in Bridgeport was being heard before Com- m_sioner E. T. Buckingham, Giladys Conklin, daughter of the claimant, was summoned to return home where . her mother had just died. Vineyards of the United BStates duced a bumper crop - of grapes in 1922, Total carlot shipments from all sections up to and-including November. 17th were 51,254 cars an increase compared with 1921 of 14.053 cars, or about 36 1-3 per ecent. = 5 entertaining friends in his Brooklyn home when two young men entered, drew revolvers and ordered them to line up against the wall. Taking $1,500 in cash and jewelry valued at $3,500 from the /party, the robbers fled. v The -Anti-Saloon “league was charged with “deliberately resorting to falsehood to get money from the churches,” by and_others supposed to know of graft Brooklyn federal building where, it is alleged by Raiph Greene,” United Stafes - district ' attorney, federal agents have offered, for a- con- quash -pending -prohibition .. Mr. Greene today offered jmmu- nity-to,all who would come forward and Guilding “that has made a ot of mon- &y through its offers ..to 'quash these cases.” . MISTRIAL DECLARED IN CASE I - 7 < oF sTecK B . New -York, Dec. 18.—A mistrial was in the second trial of Ed-| - Girls ] sy 1 i ¥ “ge armed with sawed-off shotguns, today fa- | was shot by the leade {mint as they leaped from their automo- ASTOUNING HOLD-UP AT DOORSTEP OF DENVER NINT Masked Bandits Escaped With $200,000 in Currency of $5 Denomination—The Most Semsational Hold-Up Ever Executed in Colorado—Money, Fully Insured, Was the Property of the Denver Federal Reserve Bank—One Federal Reserve Guard Was Fatally Wounded—One of the Bandits Was Reported to be Bleeding Profusely— Every Highway in the State is Guarded and Federal Of- ficers Are in Pursuit of the Bandits. Denver, Col., Dec. 18.—Masked bandi truck at the hold-up's command and be of the bandies. emoved to 2 hospital % consciousness. ment guards were the bandlts for 1 members of the tally_wounded Charles Linton, guard of the Denver branch of the Kansas Federal Rescrve bank, stole $200.000 currency of §5 denomination at the door- step of the government mimt, and caped THG robbery cccupied less than a min- Linton was later y land died without re Employes and go afraid to shoot freel - i fear that they might reserve bank crew. | “Their work of transterring the cur- ute’s time. rency which they had taken from the Tonight cvery highway in the state is|guanis to their own car completed, the guarded and police and federal authari- | bandits re-entered their automoblle amid ties have despatched armed squads im|a rain of bullets from guards in the se- pursuit of an automoblic occupied by |ond story of the 1 sped toward seven men who were secn mpeeding | the iter of the city. northward shortly after the robbery. One| As the car gathered impetus the leader of the ‘occupants was reported 1o be |of the highwaymen, standing on the ren- bleeding profusely. mng board, turned toward the govers- TR rebhi rred while the money | ment budiding to fire a final volley. As wat Deing. Santerrad oo the wint o |Be @430, Deter Kistinger ‘s guari ok a federal reserve dellvery truck. Fity |led his rifie and the bardit crumpled up packages of currency of $4.000 cach was | Of the running board and was pulled in- seized by the robbers. Witnesses differ |%ide by his men. as to the number of men participating in | The money was the property of the the ol Denver Federal Reserve bank and Mag- Denver police declared it was the most [ 38T Burkhardt said tie entire amoust sensational hold-up ever executed in Col-|78® covered by insurance. Directar orado. yGrant announced that the pumbers of With sawed-off shotguns two or the |every bill in the consignment was on ree- bandits bombarded the front door of the | 7% So terrific was the sunfire during the ashes that forty bulist holes can be counted in the transoms above the maim aiarm bell, seized sholguns and rush-d to | €TAnee 10 the mint and ia the windows doors or windows, shooting at the hold- { °f the second story building. The granite up men, who returned the fire and caimly | ¥alls of the govermuent building lke- loaded the fifty packages of Yurrency | pped nto their own car. e s the: Sirest, shew i The four, men of the erew nsily of the fire of the guards. Wis- dows n various stores and apartment | houses were riddied and many narrow | escapes by thoes living ineide were re- 1 ported “I had just come out of the mint with a sack full of eurrency when the bandity’ awto drove up beside cur Wuck” seid William Havener. driver of the feferal raserve truck ‘Iands up! a ng. 1 dived under m¥ car to essape thy rain of buliets. It was 2!l over s quickly, though it seomed a long time™ bile. Fifty mint omployes, summoned br an transtereing | oward thel fre on of the mint . employes then rushed out upon the steps of the government buflding to shoot at the rob- bere. Linton ied to throw the momey into the gl lied compartment of the reserve COXDITION OF ACTOR REID 15 SOMEWHAT TMTROVED | STOCK BROKERS FAILED POR SEVERAL MILLIOY DOLLARN Los Angeles, Calif,, Dec. 15.—The con- | dition of Wallsce. Reod, motion plcture actor, ‘who recently. saffered -a nervous breakdown and who was reported to be on the verge of death last night. improv- ed somewhat tolay and his wife, known in the il world as Dorothy Davenport, said she was hopeful that the crisis was past. ‘Wallace's doctors have about made up their minds it s a case of influenza,” Mrs. Reid said. “The charts of the hos- | Stock Fxchange that the firm had been pital where he has been unde rireatment. | suspended was followed by an effort te taken during the past woek, show all |get W. R. Houston. exchange member of the symptoms of this disease. If.he|the firm. to explain. He refused to 4o can throw this off, he will be back at|s0 and left at onos for Chicago. work as soon as his strength i3 regain-| It was said here that the companye ed. which has its main office in Eanms City, “He weighs only 130 pounds Bow and |and does not operile an office bere, had he is six fest two inches tall” Mrs. Reid said. her husband's break- down which came about six weeks. ago, was, she Delieved dus to habits “pecu- liarly dangerous to ome of Wallace's high strimg temperament.” “Wallace always drank to some ex- tent’ she said, “and about two years ago began ¢o use drugr. He was very 11l at that time but there was a groat deal of work at his studio and he felt he must keep up somehow and he re- sortedl to the artificial means which have 0 nearly been his undoins. “Any talk of his having been com- necled with a ‘dope ring’ is absolutely absurd and untrue. - Nor aid ho frequent, ‘dope parties. 1 think he did go to ome or two such affairs, but he found them distastefnl and never wént back. He was making @ picture when the collapse came. He was advised at the studio to take @ rest and went under trestment. I am satisfied that he has won the fight.” New York, Dec. 15.—Fallure of Hous« ton, Fible and Company. one of the larg- ert’ stock houses dealing comoerns west of the Mississippi, today was followed by a marked falling off in the market, and a rather heavy seiling of oil stocks. 1t was estimated the company failed fon several miilions, although no mate- meats were given out here eithcr aste the amount of the cause for ihe troube. Aunouncement from the New -York that the concern had been hit by the fed~ cral reserve bank order in the middie west to reduce loans on oll stocks. The company was said to have been & beavy, dealer. in ofl stocks tn Texss and Oklny oma. PROHIBITION HAS CREATED BIG DEMAND ¥OR FLASKR New York, Dec. 18—If the Christmas rum fleet reported to be bound for New York {rom the Eahamas succeeds in rum- ning the blockade of the dry navy, # should find New Yorkers amply suppiied with receptacies for toting the forbidden liquo: veral mamufacturers declared foday (Hat the demand for flasks had trebled since the advent of jeohibition. Shop windows - with their Christmas decord- tiors featurs clandestine drinking vessels which in “wet” days brought s shudder wom soclety. Stores are selling thousands of fagks— large ones’ for roomy coat pockets and small ones gracefully curved for the hip; expensive comtainers of wvce and goid and cheaper 6nes covered with imitation Flasks are not the only drinking ap= paratus on display. Shown in ebundanch are hollow canes, decanters, glasses never Blown for milk, and elaborate cocktsl IBISH PARLIAMENT WELD BRIEF SITTING YESTERDAY Dublin, Dec. 18 (By ths A. P.)—The first act passed by sm Ivish parliament for more than acentury went formally the Free State semate at briet siting today. It was a ~Mghly technical ‘measure, entitied “adaptation of enactments BiL" It passed thronge the Dail last week and.was accepted by the senate withont discussion. The solemnity of the occamon was emphasized by Sir Thomas Esmonde, ment the senstors shopid pause and consider the sigmificance of what we have just dome. We have passed the first act by an Irish parMament for ome hundred and twenty-three years. “I think we may all thank providence that we have been allowed to take part in this work, We have marked a mile- be able to, do, and may all we have lived to eee this:dap.” RESIGNS AS DEPUTY STATE TAX COMMISSIONER Hartford, Dec. 13.Senator-elest Mal- |, colm D. Rudd, of Salisbury, resigned to- RUDD § £ E H