Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 20, 1922, Page 1

Y /. o~ frhs I ’. Bulletin VOL. LXIV—No. 308. «UPULATION 29,685 14 PAGES—98 COLS. RICE TWO CENTS N & WICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922 " BRIEF TELEGRAMS Stockholders of the Delaware, Lacka- ALLES TAKE DETERMINED ekl |2, STANDONSTRAITS QUESTION % ¥ Wiz e - ok :; xm‘::‘gf:re;;ugl;;mo' was reported Chum Testified That the Ac-| seren men waro taken tato custod ; o cused Told Him That He|sy ot i Bowon s oo Have Uttered Their Last Word on Liberty of the Straits—| Had Hired Two Men for Turks Must Today Answer Yes or No to the Allied Pro-| $100 to. Kill Mrs. Becker. posal—Turkish Demand is Based on Fears of Subma- rines, and Military Airplanes—United States Remains Silent on the Question—British and French Experts Dg—l part at the Conclusion of tbe “Last Session” for Discus- New York, Dec. M.—Harry. Monsfein, for more than eight years the, chum .of sion of the Straits. Lausanne, Deéc. 19.—(By the A. P.)— Abraham Becker, on trial charged with murdering his wife and burying her inj a lime pit in the Bronx, testified that last June the defendant told him one Turkish fears of submarines, Turkish fears of swiftly fiylng military’ air- planes, laden with boms, and, general- 1y, - Turkish fears of aggressions from day in a restaurant that he had. hired two men for $100 to kill Mrs. Becker. without that will put’ Constantineple in danger, have tonight placed .the whole Monstein added that Becker, a chau’- feur, also told him that the men had Lisjanne conference -in-jeopardy. ‘tne Ut d States is silent on the sit- hit Mrs. Becker on the head and had buried the body “In’the woods near an automebile road.” The body of Mrs. Becker, who disap- peared last April. was found t! month in a Bronx lot near the welding shop owned by’ Reulen Norkin, also un- der indictment charged with murdes Monstein also testified that Becker had induced him to write a letter pur. uation, but“tne allied lexders say tonight that they have uttered ~their last word on the Question of the liberty of the straits. “Pomorrow the Tufks must say ¥yes or no to the allied project. The " British experts, Admiral Keyes and General Burdett-Stuart, already have left for Koeland, beleving their work to have beéu completed, and the French ex perts are preparing to departme tomor- row night at the conclusion of the “last|sanne which will assure the neutrality of session” for. discusston -of ‘the “straits.|the straits and prevent acts of hostility Wheéther a rupture will _come - on lhelxn ‘Turkish territorial waters. jtied he had visited the jail at the tn- straits. Whethier- rupture WHl:come on | . The Turks tonight seemed unruffled. | stigation of the district attorney’s of- the -straits problem depends chiéfly.-oh |They did not appear at all impressed by | fice, z whethér the entefite diplon’;;rtrmd thelr | the. witimatum " talk with which the Lau-| Monstein was a surpriSe witness. He experts . can -Temove -the THrkish :fears; | sanne atmosphere is charged. took the stand after: Miss Anna Elias S This they aré trying to do ‘tenight. Tt was pointed out tonight that fail-{had collapsed while telling the jury_shef v w® mff““"sdem vietims” apparently ot \The_diplomats -are = endeavoring -/ to | ure ot the straits negotidtions would not.|had lived with Beck New York | & gas conyince tiie Angora statesmen 'thati the |necessarily imply failure on other vital |+nd Cleveland. She was called by the|. straits project. i3 essentially *framed ‘to | matters of the Lausanne agénda, one of | State in an_ effort to show a motive fer mest ‘conditions in ‘times. of peace; and ! which is ‘arranging peace between Greege | the murder. = = that’ the. allies are not in-any~ sinister, { and Turkey and between Turkey and the When he met Becker in the restau- hidden -masiner ‘seeking facilites: for: war, | allies. = - 2 N T eter. Mamsteln asdespecially against Turkéy. ' “They! " Marquis’ Curson today informed M.|72i ehe chaffeur told bim he was go- sdy I Have only soughtthe” equality | Bafrere of the rench delegation that as a | 0% (0 BAVE IS VIS SIS adopted The of all fleets, pusolng through: the' Stralt | spirit of friendship. for France the Brit- ! FCAGEe 2NEC W0, MO HES FOLHE DS -nhmm-;x' SIS, iecd thet. they |1oh SOvernment had abandoned the Idea pymy, Y & . e hey | of having the Lausanne treaty written in | gy canfiot. accept the Turkish Téquest for 'tne English and French language. us!qu‘,?:‘; S sl i R s the suppression’ of submarines and m"'!lgraed that French alone should be used. | rojiows $100 to do away with her.” {tary -airplanes; especially they have|as France has made no request in !M" « When he saw Becker later in jail, been unable to accept.the Ottomon SUE- | connection, the English initiative creat- | Monsteln sald, the prisoner ¢old him geation that ombined -foreign fleets en-!eq an exceedingly pleasant fecling among | one man had done the job and named tering the Black Sea. shall:not exceed |ihe Frenchmen, who lke to have thelf | Norkin. Becker greeted him, Monstein In gtrength tho ficet. of the StoNEest NAY¥- | language regarded always as the lang- | said, with the statement: : al power of the Black Sea. ““That would | nage of diplomacy. | “Anna got me in here. She got me in make the Black sea forbidden ground,” ; B ST S troudie.” said a rench expert tonigit, { RUSSIA WOULD CLOSE BALTIC l Monstein said.that when he toM! As the' Russiins are here only for a-al SEA TO FOREIGN WARSHIFS Becker the police were searching for cussion of the straits question, tomorrow his wife’s body along the Southern boulevard Beécker replied: “They'll never find it there. Tt was Officials of J. P, Morgan & Company confirmed . cable reports’ that - the firm had purchased 220,000 shares of the Land Mortgage Bank of Vienna. Samuel _Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, arrived in Montreal to confer with Canadian labor leaders. . W. T. Reid, former president of the Tniversity of California, died at his home in Berkley, Cal. e was head of the university from 1881 to 1883. Mexicall, Lower Californis, just across the international line from Calexieo, be- gan ‘deporting Americans addicted to drugs as undesirable citizens. ceptable. - Tchitcherin made a dramatic plea to the world masses. He sald Rus-| sia was convinced the world’s people wers back of Russia in her attempts to secure international justice. He also bitterly condemned what he called “marinism,” adding “I mean the sea militarism which hopes to strangie Russia.” An additional fear of the Turks which the allies must calm tomorfow is that that with which they surround the pro- posed international commission to super- vise control of the straits. The Turks Haim the commission will be inquisitorial | In nature, that it may iofringe Turkish| scvereignty, and, finally, that it may be used as a club by some powers ¢o ¢! en Turkey. Hence their ambition to have | a generdl guarantee pact signed at Lau- Fire, believed to have been started when a still exploded, caused the death of two men.at Militown, near North Bes- semer, Penn, A plan to harness the winds and make them produce electricity for rural dis- tricts has been presented to the minisiy of agriculture in London. with" another man. The witdess s: he had taken the letter himself to P! adelphia and mailed it to Becker, wh) later displayed it to his ne'ghbors, curi- ous about his wife's disappearance. Monstein , asserted that after Becker had been arrested on suspicion, he had visited him in jail and that the chauf- feur had to'd him Norkift had killed 1Ars. Becker. Posing as Becker’s frienl he said, he had obtained from the pris oner information regarding where “the body could be found. Monstein. testi- Lumbering operation, which have béen heid up by bare ground, were given a boom in the western part of Maine, by the eight inch snow fall. _ Radio messages received said that the Greek steamer Melpo bound for Boston from Immingham, was in need af assist- ande, with her steering gear disabled. Mrs. Anna E. Connolly and Thomas F. Kenney, lodgers at a house in Waltham A slight earthquake, apparently center- ed in or near the West Indies, was re- corded-at the Harvard College- seismo- graphic station. The Reverend Henry Anstice, 80, prom- fnently identified *with = the Protestam. Episcopal ‘church for over half a cen- tury, died shddenly of heart disease on a train near Montélalr, N, J. A campaign to rid Boston of E. L. Dobeny, president of the Pan- American Petroleum and Transport com- pany; announced a 20 per cent. stock div- idend payable in class B stock to holders H of the common stock. may see the last of thém at Lausanue. | They stif are in. a fighting mood, how- | aver, George Tehitcherin wasin fine ar- | syote to gain adharents for the idea of |In the lower part of the Bromx that she sumentative form today. ' He irled t0{ aunverting the Baltic into a closed sea | Was -buried. She's good for a hundred win Amerféan sympathy for'the Russian |4y regards warships of all nations ex-|Years. She's been buried. eight months MERits project by inipisting that it incorp- | cept: those ‘whose shorelines touch the |NOW With a white powder to eat up. the the/ Ametican’ idea- of “beneflcent | Laitic, ' The Russians are. said to have [flesh and leave only the bonmes. '. . ¥ % w.ready. approached the Danish' governs oo ;elh.iml::tmrgoeo ‘onn:ev:?.m lmm with a proposal to call.a confer- Az o e ePes: (L taton JRIETSMAL. .. s, et A e I ot Son ¥ o , prevalent in the New Bugland 4 5 hm. Norkin had h's own car. Mine|states is recommended in the agricultural 3 3 ‘was broken down. Wé. got Mrs. Becker [Supply bill for the next fiscal year, re- llm’“"‘ NARLOTIO AGENTS, - |'\g;3 100k her for ‘s riis *and 'thex Nor- i . PLEADED XNOT GUILTY |sin hir her Monstein said Becker” told' him' to see London, Dec. 13.—The Russian soviet govermment, the Times learns, is taking Unemployment insurance was attack- ed as unsound by F. L. Hoffman of Wellesley Hals in testimony before the state unemplovment comuuission j hearing’ in - Boston. at & b $ i But the allies have agreed that the Uiobeow straits plan is absolutely unac- An ap) mprllfifl of $200,000 for pre- CLECTION OF OFFIC) T i BY. . to the MANU¥ACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION ‘ported to the house. N ~ New Haven, .Dec. 19-—A eries ' of analysis of, industrigl, copditfons in the atate ‘were made. oy . at the annual sonvention. here of the ufacturers’ As- Portland, Me., Dec. 19.-Dr. Erwin C. Ruth of Boston who had charge of federal narcotic agents in New Eng- land upsto last August, and Ralph A. * Beek. Annia Elias and haye her say she ha% gone to Cleveland with) a man named The freighter West Hardaway, which has been- adrift in the Atlantic, short of [ fuel for several days, has been pieked up by the steamer Argus, also a shipping fimperial Wizard of Ku Klux Klan Defiant | WORLD'S LARBEST WRECKING Joe o ND SALVAGING CONPANY agingly of Gov. Allen of Formed by the Consolidation of the T. A. Scott Company of Kansas. E New London, the Chapman Company of New York and nm“:‘ffh;fiamx}mDs:;gmlffi%:g:flmfi the Overseas Salvors, Inc., of New York—New Firm is to be Known as the Merritt, Chapman and Scott Cor- hie had yesterday with Governor Allen, of Kansas, Dr, M. W. Evans, of Dallas, poration—Will Operate Along the Entire Atlantic Coast —Capt. Thomas A. Scott of New London Will be Bresi- Texas, imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, said today he “listened to Mr. dent, With Headquarters in New York—An Office Will be Maintained in New London Allen two or three minutes in which he sajd ‘he Was in hearty sympathy wita the klan principles, but registered some objection to the klan regalia” The Xlan mask will never be taken off, he assected, saying it was part of the or- ganization’s lodge regalia and never would be abolished. “I came to Washington on important 3 business,” said Dr. Evans,’ and had no| 1 R ey et Sateilon of Sadtiug’ any, ks with M Daw (T ondon, GDec S13—Tho (oxma. Thie yarious offices of the company. in Allen, * % * Tt makes Iittle or no differ-|{tlon of what will probably be the largcs(l ition to New York, will be located at ] . = e 2 Boston, New London, Norfolk and Kings- ence what Governor Allen says, and |wrecking and salvaging company in the | ZOSt%n S jworld was consummated today when il The Was announced here that the T. A. |, T board of directors will be as fol Scott Wrecking Copany of New = 4 . don; the Merritt and Chapman Derrick | ¢ b J- Merritt, chairman: Thomas A- and Wrecking Company of New e e e ek and the Overseas Salvors, Inc., of New |bresident: W. L. Chapman, sccretarg; Sl : A 75 Merritt, assistant to the chair- York, have consolidated into a new firm 2 k- ; < H. M. Pendleton, vice president; to be known as the “Merritt, Chapman fibe: frossures . Riton o Tooe. and Scott Corporation. % » e a4 The new corporation, with a capitaliz- what he does means even less.” The new imperial wizard of the invt ible empire held confabs with klan offi- cials in his hotel here today, but no hint of what was considered was dis- closed. He was accompanied to Wash- Ington by a group of high, officials of the order. ation believed to be well into the mil- licns, will operate along the entire At- lantic sea coast taking in the field formerly - covered by them separately. The Scott Wrecking company had form- erly worked almost exclusively in the waters north of New London, while the Merritt and Chapman . Derrick and “The spirit of kian-kraft,” he said, “has enwrapped the U: i ‘Wrecking company was the largest south of New London. The. board of directors of the new corporation, as announced today, is com- posed of financiers and shipping. men well known throughout the country. Cap- tain Thomas A. Scott, of New ILondon, formerly of the United States shipping Other members of the board will be: R. H. M. Robinson, president of the United American Lines; S. F. Fales, di- rector of the Standard Oil company, of New York; R. L. Hague, manager of the Marine department of the Standard Oil company, of New Jersey; Paul H. Har- wood, vice president of the Pan-Amer: can Petroleum and Transport company ; G. P. De Wald, vice president of the George E. Warren company, of Boston; J. W. Van Dyke, president of the Atlan- tic Refining company ; Homer L. Fergu- son, president of the Newport News Shipbuilding company : Herbert F. Boys- ton, of the F. X. Hosiey company, of Boston; G. H. Walker, presizent of W. A. Harriman, Company, Inc., and J. W, Powell, of Boston. icians cannot break, and in a few brief years the in- flience of the klan will have so en- gulfed the thought of the country that we can ‘expeot intelligent legislation | from the congress of the United States. which wiil draz down the white flag of supine inertia from our legislative halis and raise in its place the militant flag of red. white and blue, which' means the things mearest the heart of every real American. * * * It takes a few men like Mr. to prove the justice of klan krast are profoundly srateful to Mr. Am-as for the sacrifice he has made in reie-|board will be president of the new firm, gating hitseld to political oblivion . in|making his headquarters in New York. the stand he has. taken to oppose those i men of America who have pledged their votes, their money, their sacred honor and their lives, i necessary, to maintain our national homor unim-| Deached. unstained, untainted ana wa-| sullied by the foul breath of alien In- Allen | we FURTHER TESTIMONY IN HEERIN MURDER TRIAL Marion, Itis, Dec. 19.—(By the i. P.) —Robert Officers, one of the survivors of the rioting in which 20-non-union men were killed at Herrin, testified today at the trial of the five men charged wilh their murder. Officer, 2 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, was a book- keeper at the strip mine where the troubie started. -He described the attack on the property the afternoon of Junme 21, when thres union miners were shot and NO CLEES TO BANDITS WHO 000 IN DENVER federal authorities n ight spent in_searc] who yesterday shot sole 2 consignment acral reserve guar: made their escape, In one daring and sensatonal hod taged in the west, were wi e olues as to y of never would | Charics $200,600 would become known and the! through the extension of cf \ of the klansmen. Asserting that the| lan had not been responsible for al-| laged criminal activ he added he was s in Louisiana, ‘willing- that the nhse of the Llan should stand upon | killed. scord of crminality in either| Colonel Sam Hunter, of tre adjutant or any of 15 other states In|generals office, at Springfield, another which the kian’s organization 1S 1arg-|yitress. testified thers were no agree- - ments between the non-union workers at the mine and local offictals of the United Mjne Workers for a thce and 2 safe conduct for the besieged workers Jout of the district. Officer corroborated Now York, Dec. 19 —Justice ~JShn,this. . Ford ot the supreme court today upheld| Colonel Hunter #a'd that he had tried ; mint, where a car, evidently left on tae the defense of the National City bank ;ta arrange such a truce which acting in alllrett by the bandits to be used in caso that it was not responsible for funds|purely personal capacity, having come|0f accident to their own machine dur- owed to depositors in .its Petrograd |gown from Springfield when he heard of | ing the hoid-up. was discovcred through branch, because the assets had been the trouble. ‘n:fi‘rmu»n 1 Ch_anhe;.d.‘);ex “:::fnn oR i? e car, whi e en, g Sl bt s x:‘:n::::ml.m"u Officer sald that Colonel Hunter. had | yeon jaried on the street by three men, The bank.tcrmed this defense talked to him over the telephone and said | gtout an hour preceding the hold-up. tration.”. in answer to a suit by Boris|that W. J. Lester, the owner, had author-) That the robbery was accomplished Police, spurred on by a reward of $10,009 £ dead or alive, by the cit or deat and county 1 reward Kansas d that they ¥OL RESPONSIBLE FOR FUNDS DEPOSITED IN PETROGBAD it dctectives are roommg. Lunre in the %n- inity of fthe govermment Fry, of Boston, one of his agents pleaded shatien ol Cons €.~ Thithe scotresi], ' Caiiéy “in’ the federal ,court ‘toga: af & report of the industrial = reiations sommittee, J, 4. Otterson; - chalrman, | said “Connesticut :mamutacturers ar: re- turning to the normal pre-war. bast The jndustrial . relations. committee {urther supported the ‘open shop princi- ple” and disapproved of government .In-|a «lerference - in disputes between employ- ws and employes. The association voted }5,000 to etend the work ofl the open thop conference.” Governor Lake addres- ted the conventiom. = 7 The flnance committes epressed itself as iisapprovi any incréase in taxation, ind co nded tha . comdition of tho Mate’s finances. ; The association voted to hold its annual 4 % eetings in the future either 1n October | jur tna pern oloeg . 5 000 28 2 'sr November instead of in. December. b L L Sy 'fl;_ g’“g:lnt vflzfl\f‘ W;l:' Ma ‘Nec:_- PREDICTS JAPAN WILL BE W ., Sargent, of New iven, lor for New Haven cotmty; C. E. Biiton, S WRTHIN BN TEARS ¥ Bridgeport, director - for Fairfield soupty; F. S. Chase, of Waterbury and 5, B, Whittlesey, of Hartford, directors at arge; E. Kent Hubbard, of Middietown, sresident ; John FL Goss, of Waterbury, tice president, and R. C. Buell, of Hart- lord, secretary-treasurer. to defraud the government of might have been collected lieged violators of the Harrison -narcotic law. r Dr. Frederick W. Tozer, proprietor of sanatorium here and alleged in aiding them, was not indicted, it was stated in the document, by’ reason fo his testimony given before the grand Jury. g Ruth and Fry were.charged with hav- lin‘ extorted $1,000 from Dr. Walter H. Baker of Hollis, $200 from ‘T. Richard Pye, a Westbrook: druggist and $100 trom Dr. L. H. Miller, a dentist at Fair- field. San - Francisco, Dec. 19.-Japan will be dry within % few years, declared Da- vid Starr-Jordan, chancellor emeritus of Stanford university, who just’ has re- turned after three months in Japan. “The people over there foresee the advent ‘of prohibition,” Dr. Jordan said. < “Magy of them are aiding to bring it ¥ H about,” 1o gy [ELLS OF FATLURE OF THE . A donation of $50,000 to endow a chair olic in" a-Japanese uni- % DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE|oOf Tesearchi & £ R i ity Wwas_ promised by Shyo Zu A 2 “retired . merchant _ of . Tokio, Mr. . Jor- described | Wichits; Kas., Dec. 19.—What V8 thé failtwe of the' dis dan said, after_he.. the achieve- b ment of & similar chair at Stanford uni- WMISKEY.TADEN BABGE : SEIZED . INSIDE - SANDY IOSK laden, with 4,090- cases of-heliday by incd y:lflqfinhy - prohibition * officials lo. Saridy. Hook..tonight by the far. mér “gubchaser Hanson of the: Drohib! sald by Zone Chief Ap- Mr. Daniels declared “there arte too many boards and commissions in’ Washington, | dleby. to have been. one.af .a. .fleet of vorking independently of.the cabinet.” Tum-smy craft: which left Nas- . ent | 4au, Behamas, three weeks ago 3@ ®- The prise was 15 been off the coast outside the three-wil> limit waiting a chance to run ' the " The seized vessel was towéd to Quar- 4ntine, where . customs guards toox The créw of the barge also was taken in’ custody by the customs guards, WILL M. MAYS VISITED - | ro. mvEsTIGATE STATE OF ACTOR WALLACE REID " /AFFAIRS” IN KNICABAGUA Los Angeies; Cadf, Dec.” 10.-Wi 1z |~ Washington, Dec. 19.—An investiga- Hays, head 'of the motion picture in-|tOn by ‘the sepate foreign - relations ) date | viited Wi cor 10 ascertain '‘the ‘true - state "~ Bollywood ‘dftairs” in Nicaragya, the facts con- cerning American’ occupation - of! tnai “the Tepublic’ in 1810; why American fore.: still’ are quartered. there, and “the con- X -between certamn New Yotk com- i ‘houses and ‘the Chamorro clan LSovernment of Niwcaragua? was. pro- uesd in”a resolution introduced today by Senator” Ladd, republican, North' Da- OF DOCKWORKERS = . ‘IN VEEA CRUZ SETTLED The- strike of the indictment ' charging them -with! In_ cross-examination,, Becker's law- yers sousht ‘to aitack Monstein's creai- ility. ‘ Mongtein testified ke had lived jn Bos- s Ebia L ion Bnd Nobfats, Ve bat oot he po SPRrLE. Mhat el ot * had g 5 Porto Rico, who arrived in New York for ihad lived with a gl mot his wife. } . i a ‘month’s stay in the United States, { “Mrs. Florence Bestegel. the mext wit-|%, WORNS Say ‘o cie Lnited States, {mess, testified that Becker, declaring his)yrsiion had been initiated by disgruntled | wife had been dead for two months, had | Fatlon had been Initlated b | maked her to care for his twin daugh-|°fice holders whom [ o | ters, but never had paid her. DaWeR: board ‘vessel,' and is being to Halifax, N. S. towed to The allotment of “preferemec” votes for members of the federal howse of repre- sentatives in last Saturday’s general elec- tions in Australia shows the nationalists, the party of Premier Hughes, second in standing. BETTER CARE OF MENTALLY i DEFICIENT CHILDREN New Haven, Dec. 19.—An increase in state facilities for the care of mentaily deficient. children was advocated here i today by Governor Everett J. Lake, in an address on child welfare work before the Rotary club. In the course of his tagk, Governor Lake deplored the entrance'.of politics into_questions of child welfare legislation. . . F Governor Lake said that he was in fav- or of the next legislature taking steps to 1increase the size of the “winsfield train- ing school. and hospital which he said ‘was becoming overcrowded.. He said | there were six nundred patients, all ment- ally defective children, nows in the insti- tution, while there. were 200 additional commitments ‘awaiting apprpval . As al- ternatives, -he suggested- the building of an infirplary. or. the use of ome.of the New York has found two wnusual per- sons, one a visiting girl from Oktahoma, ‘who, though deaf, sings plays the piano, and dances, and ' the other ‘an infant prodigy who-can point out on a map the more important cities of the world. An imvestigation te determine the cause of the deraiiment of .the Provi- dence express on the New York, New Haven and’ Hartford railroad near the Hyde Park station was begun by offi- cials of the road. A tentative program 'looking toward | the ‘proposed -merger- of the Brotherhood of: Locomotive Engineers and-the - Broth- h | county. homes to care for children needing ! erhood- of - Locomotive Firemen and Bn- attention. St Wi e ginemen has“been worked oitt to the sat- - The. governor also praised the. child {istaction of a ‘joint committee of the two that it was of -vital importance for the}. .=~ . .° s state to care. for.its' children.” - - émployes ot the - New" mpany ~at. Somerviile, THREE BAY STATE CITIES point “Saturday 'night, while Boston, Dee. 19.Thres " Massachu- | $1190 and: fiéd:pleaded guilty to-a-charge | setts cities—Lowell, Wakham and Bever- | Of rotbery. . He was: held in 330,000 Iy—elected mayors_and other officers to- | PONds; AT day, completing. the--list- of - -municipal 2 . - clections in the state-for this year. “Law- | The twe theasand cases of eloohel ear- ¢l and Walttam, boh balloting under a |25 1T, D12 FrePel, SEbOOREn. [EER new charter adopted at the recent state (WU D2 PUEOCC 1T 08 SUSOTS ";&’: slections selected full sets of .city offic- of ‘axte kel while* the -1t oy = ey i} vessel is hauled oyt to repair.the damage In Lowell, John J, Donovan, a patrol- Am:»d by storm om' the lemg trip from man of -the city police force -was elected | ARFeT>: mayor over Mayor H. former - patrolman, 10 10.533. In Beverly the youngest may- | lor in the city’s history was | George, H. ‘Whittemore, .26 years old, a ‘world war veteran and attorney defeated ‘which former Mayor James McPherson, §,158 to 3,730, In Waltham, Harty ¥. Beal, the present city manager, elected mayor over. former Mayor Patrick J. Duans, 3,~ 818 votes to 1,78, e - CORNERED BY DETECTIVES{ Uaited States Commssioner Hayes for ' - - hearing Dec. 27. D'Amico - pleadeq. not ' gun on himself, q The first shooting - accurred in -, the parlor at the gitls home. to her sister, who heard the 'shots and| - > bandits 5 and other criminals was lauched by Po- eclaring | the mask lice Superintendent Crowley be abolished by the klan, Dr. of recent series of holdups, Inciudir said the organization's @ murder. - N. Sokoloff, a Russian living in New York, to . recover $28.365 and imterest. Sokolof’s plea that the court throw ou® + e bank's defense before trial, was de- nied by Justice Ford, who ruled” that a jury would have to decide the case. | The decision, it is said. has an im-| mortant Dbearing on similar claims againet various New York banxs amounting to $100,000,000. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU WILL AREIVE AT HAVEE YODAY Havre, France, Dec. 19 (By the A. P.)—Georges - Clemenceau, be back on French soil tomorrow morn ing: The liner Paris, on which he traveling from New York, is expeqgted to dock at 9 a. m., tomorrow, according to wireless word from the steamer. The Tiger on his arrival will procee] to Paris by automobile, accompanied by Andre Tardleu, and the former pre- mier’s brother, Albert Clemenceau. The returning statesman informed Mayor Mayer of Havre by wireless that he did not desire an official greeting. His message said: shall be glad to shake hands with you, but prefer that there be no official reception. - Thanka.” BIG. BLACK BEAR IN : COLLISION 'WITH AUTO Rochester, N. Y.. Dec. 19.—A big bl bedr and an automobile came t‘:fih'-!’ 1ast . night. < -Bruin,” though . a ‘Dear . panishment, ‘when it stoppéd, at a curve. + Simons threw the machine into gear, caught the béar .several times.on the chin ;:‘anlynnflunwmmvo(m -, - - " Westport, Conn., Dec. 19.—A stafb>- born fire tonight was fought for two returning ! from his tour of the United States, will: ized the surrender of property. by Denver bandits is ‘he belief of Chief | Just before nightfail, the witness testi- | of Police H. R. Williams. fied, those in the mine raised a white flag, | Roads leading into. the mountaiss {but the sniping from surroundinghilis cu.- | Were thoroughly policed today. i tinued all night and the flag was'lewered - Es s at daybreak when the non-union men took refuge in some frelgnt cars. Then | the fiercencss of the attack increased and the besleged decided to surrender, rais- ing a white flag, he sald. After being assured of their safety, ac- cording to the witness, the 48 non-union men were led from the mine, C. K. Mec- Dowell, the superintendent limping pain- | her safety. fully along on his artificial leg. The Major General George F. Harries and crowd constantly increased and Officer | Mrs. Harries, who wished to board the quoted ene of its leaders, whom he couid | Berengaria on their way to London, ven- |not identify as shouting: *They're noth- | tured out at midnight during the height ing but strike-breakers and we ought to | 9f the storm on board a French admiral. xill them all” ty cutter. The trip was a dangerous omne, About a mile from the mine the witness | the cutter being badry buffeted, and some #aid, McDowell was led away by two men, | O her Windows blown out but she final- Othér witnesses have testified that the |1y made the Berengaria safely and placed [ crippler uperintendent was stain at this | GeReral and Mrs. Harries on board. upot. Then the crowd marched about two miles further whers the remaining 47 prisoners were lined before a barbed wire Ofticer THE LINER BERENGARIA DELAYED BY A STOEM Cherbourg, Dec. 19.—A viclent storm compelled the liner Berengaria, from New York Dec. 11 for Cherbowrg and Southampton, to remain off shore near this port throughout the night to insare TENEYCK PRIZE AT YALE WON BY CLIFTON 5. THOMSON sf fi v g §ie i v it timony, ‘were found i a a short distance away, down as tney fled. Six _tugluves were have gaid, driven’ i i i H i E E a o ifs B i g8 |3 i ! B HE g [ #h 2 h 1 i & i k £ g i; FEiE ?[EE :t {] o | ¢ i e 1 : | £ £8 | i i i i l §.E78%, !El{ it g ]