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Balletin VOL. LXIV—No. 311 «UPULATION 29,685 FRENCH GOVT GALLS FOR RATIFICATION - OF THE WASHINGTON NAVAL AGREEMENT NORWICH, CONN. , SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1922 12 PAGES---92 COLS .ZICE TWO CENTS Premier Poincare Informs Chamber of Deputies That the Gov- ernment Will Stand or Fall o( Their Decision—Indica- tions Are That the Chamber Has Practically Agreed Up- on Rétification—Poincare’s Recommendation Includes the Brandegee Amendme: ment of Arnted Force, No Any Defenses”. Parts, Dec. 22.—(By the A, P.)—The Ftench government today committed it- selt through a recommendation made to the forelgn affairs commission of the chamber of deputles by Premier Poin- care to stand or fall on the question of ratification of the Washington naval agreement. y ‘Aristide Briand former premier, sec- onded the stand of M. Poincarc on the question, which = also embraced the four powe treaty as amended in the United States senate by Senator Brande- gee, of Comnecticut. The premier declar- »d that the reservation of Mr. Brandegec would in no way “entall military partici- pation.” y & ‘That the . chamber was practically agreed upon rafification was shown when M. Briand, leader of the left, and anare Tardieu, head of the Clemenists, #ath announced their support. Georges Mandel, former chiet of the cablinet under Premier Clemenceau, alone wasreluctant. M. Sarraut, who signed the figal documents i Washington as a mem- ber of the Poincare cabinet, although ap- pointed by M. Brlend, staunchly advocat- ea ratification. Yremier Poincare's recommendation rarried the provision that the Brandegee .mendment in the American senate, stip- ulating in effect that the acccrds did not convey any intimation of military partic- ipation, be accepted. The premier insisted especially upon ratification of the Washington accords concerning the Pacific océan, wmoc. perhepa, he sald, “will mot” please Ja- pan, but will place us in a supericr po- wition in our relations with the United States. Charles Guernier, general reporter tor tha forelsn affairs commissioh, ds- Rgréed completely with the zovernment puinc of view, and complaimed of the Bailurc of tita Amerean authotities to oduce the Prench translation of the gl‘fl'hm negoflations until four days ago, when “the immense volume of 2500 pages” was delivered to the com- m. "r’:‘: have hesn very well treated by Ington,” . Premier Poincare told the commission with Teference’ to the nawal o R ey oo OF HOQDED MEN IN THREE STATES EXPECTED ARRESTS Mer Rouge, Ta.. Dec. 22.—oBdies df \wo men blown from the bottom of Lake Lafourche early today by unidentified dynamriters, and belisved to be those of 1wb men sald to'have Been slain last Au- gent by robud men; were tving at an un- “aptaking -eetablishment here -~tonight, Tugedad by soidiers, pending the arrival ” i d 825,000 shares. ont of the 1,100, 4 \tional troops from Alexandria and !mobile, one rainy morning in April, 1913, | “Wne % 3t e le ared here today by the | A Wocld-wide search by awomotive trade | V00 shares of the Magnolia company, or | axsociations and the Masonic order, of SXty-elght per cent. which he was a member, followed, but It | th® stock .was purchased by the Stand-| Nw Orleans, ords Mutant sen srork. The todies, badly mutilutod and bouns whh w;re, are be! who feared an out- d RY: g of five Mee Riegr eibizens ¥ho-wera kidnopped last Aayuat by white-robed and hooded men. Fer the past thres days the lakes of Mbrehonse parich have been dragzed by natlonal guardsmen, federal agents and profegsioni divers ; Authoriticn here siate they aee satis- fied tho tedles were the ones sought. Rel- atives and cl lends of the missing men_ vieyed the bodies during the day and tonight, and it was reported bits of elothing found on the men wers recos- nired. - The coromer anmounced tonight an fh- fquest would be held over the bodies, prob- ably tomorrow. The arrival of-ths at- torney gemeral of the - state and two nt That “There is No Commit- Alliance, No Obligation to Join ratios agreed upon at the conference. “We could not bulld any heavy ar- mored ships, before five years, . any- way,” he added. M. Priand, chief of the French dele- gation to Washington and now a mem- Der of the foreign affairs commission, spoke in favor of ratification declaring: “Without in any way endangering the French interests in the east or west, but with the best intentions for the general welfare of France, we must ratify the Washington treaties.” M. Guernier declared France had been put in the same position as Italy by the Washington accords, 50 £w oS fa- val armaments were concerned. “We must have smore ships tean Italy,” he argued, ‘because we have more’ colonies and longer seaboards. she commission decided to refer the matter to 4 sub-commission, which will report back immediately after the New Year's rocess. M. Guerntwr ed%lained to The Associated Press, however, that there was “little chance of the Was: ington javal agreements coming before the chamber for open discussion bese: the ‘fifteenth of January, as we have ot jmportant matters to attend to in- cluding the budget.” armament WASHINGTON VIEW OF POINCARE'S RECOMMENDATION Washington, Dec. 22.—(By the A. P.)— The Brandegee “no alliance” = reserva- fion referred to by Premier Poincare in Paris_today, in connection with ratifica~ ition of the Washington conference treaties apparently is the reservation proposed to the four power pacific treaty by Senator Brandegee, republican, Connecticut and AUwsequently reported and sponsored by the foreign relations committee after changes had been. made in the test. It was adopted by the semate without change as reported by the committee, the vote bemng 92 to 2. Its text follows: “The United States understands that ander the statement in the preamble, or under the terms of this treaty there Is w0 ommitment to armed: force, no- alli- unve, To obligation .to join' inany de- e SO NS SLE 8 1w'm'dw OF JOHN W. LYMAN CANNOT COLLECT INSURANCE — New York, Dee. -22.—The widow of 1John W. Lyman, well known Philadeiphia © dealer, cannot collect from the Com. mencial Travelers’ Mutual Accident asso- tion of America the amount of a policy issued to Lyman. the appellate dvisien, Aupreme court. ruled today. !, Lyman was Jast seen driving s auto- | was not untit 191 plunged { drowned. . Three of the judges today upheld a over an' embankment iclause in the jpolicy contract requiring ' notice to tne insurance company within ' |tem days after death and “afirmative and {positive proof of death” within six i months. Counsel for Mrs. Nellle D. Ly- imaa the widow, contended that in the ! ciroumstances 1t was' impossible for her to meet these eequirements. Conceding the majority opinion said: 4 Vet when a person by express con- ‘rect engaged absolutely to do an act not impossible or unlawful at the time, neither inevitable accident nor other un. | forseen agenoy not within his contract | AFFAIRS OF OIL COMPANIES BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE Washington, Dec. 22.—Affairs of two oil companies, the Prairie Oil and Gas| and the Standard Oil of New Yorl were delved into today by the senate il investigating committee, with the re- spective presidents of the two corpora- tions, James E. O'Neil and H. C. Folger, as_the principal witnesses. Inquiry into the identity of the larger stockholders of the two concerns was pursued at length.through questions by Gilert E. Rowe, attorney for the com- mittee and brought from Mr. O'Neil that either {nterests owed 37 per cent of the stock of his company and fro Mr. Folger that ‘four interests held ap- proxifnately 35 per cent of his corporas tion’s stoc] Mr. O'Neil gave the eight stockholders of the Prairie Oil and Gas company with the percentage of their holdings to the total outstanding stock Edward S. Harkness, 3 per cent; Northern Findnce corporation, four per cent; John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 12 per A. M. Harkness,-three per cent; trustees of the Henry H. Houston es- tate, a little more than ome per cent; General Education Board, about eight per cent; Laura Spellman Rockefeller| Memorial, three per cent: and the! Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re-| search four per cent. The larger stockholders of the Stand- ard Oil company of New York, with th percentage of their holdings as com- the entire outstanding stock were given by Mr. Folger as John e Rockefeller, Jr, per cent; A. M.| ess, ‘about three per cent; Ed- S. Harkness, three per cent and orthern Tinance corporation four principal 2 'Neil was questioned closely by committee attorney and also by! Chairman La Follette as to the reason! at prices for crude ofl posted fn the | mid-continent fleld by the five leading| ouying companies had risen and fallen armost simultaneously durin 1921 and 1922 but declared that it could not be: considered unusual and was a natur proc He asserted emphatically se 1 times that “the rise and fall of prices was not preceded by any con ferences between the competing com- panies. < The Prairie Oil and Gas company oresident declared in the course of h <cstimony -that production of crude ofl mn the United States had reached fis peak and that within 10 years Amerl- can refiners would be forced to get at least fifty per cent of their supply from foreign countries. Cash dividends amounting to 385. 050,000 and stock dividends of four awundred per ‘cent on a. capitalization -of 375.000,000 have been declared since 1911 by the Standard Oll of New York uccording, +o & compliation presented t¢ the committee by Mr. Folger who addsd that during the samé period his com- pany had paid $75,000,000 in-taxes. The ngures did mot take account of th ntock dividend of 200 per cent recently declared and now being paid. Mr. Folger denied that the Magmolia Petroleum company was a subsidiary of he Standard Oil of New: York, but in 1 when his automobile | 470 company from himself_and the"lase| | by the authorities | was fourid at the bottom of the Delaware | John B Archbold st Deniels and Thomas | river, that his friends concluded he h: o these of Wait Drnlels and e I SENATE. DEBATEs ExTENSION | under the circumstances to be ag represented, | Pton, Tesponse to’ questions by "Mr. Roe, said| that the Standard Oil of New York Defense Opens in Herrin Murder Trial| ~ Becoming Sullen| Were Incited by Ruthless- ness of Guards. Marion, IHs, Dec. 33.—(By the A. P.) —The killing of the first of three union miners slain during the Herren riots was ‘described today by Edward Cren- shaw, one of the first witnesses for the efense at the trial of five men charged with murder in connection with the slay- ing of twenty non-union workers during «ne outbreaks. The defense began introducing its tes- timony after formal motions asking that all the evidence introduced by the state be excluded and that the court direct that verdict of “not guilty” had been over-ruled by Judge D. T. Hartwell. A number of the first witnesses testi- ed that the territory surrounding wwe mine was peaceful and quiet until after union workers had been discharged and non-union men and armed guarus sent into the pit by the coal compaany. Several of the witnesses testified that the guards had ridden up and down the public highway near the mine in a motor truck, each, each one carrying two pistols i and a rifle, that they held up and search- r peaceful travelers, shouted at women ind warned everyone to stay Off tl road after sundown. Other witnesses told of hiding in tidir cellars when the shooting began at the mine between 1.30 and 2 p. m, the aft- ernoon of June 21 and of havis vees' stock killed by shots from ihe mine. It was during this shooting that Ed ward Crenshaw, who testifled that he was | Turks at Lausanne Decline to Agree to Exempt Christian Minorities in Tur- key From Military Service. Lausanne, Dpc. 22.—(By The A. P.)— Christmas threatens to be a stormy time at the Lausanne ~ear East confer- ence. Thursday was a bad day;: today was worse for temper which did not seem to harmonize with the usual spirit of the Yuletidn pervaded the session of the sub-commission on minorities. Efforts were made to get Dr. Riza Nur Bey, the second Turkish delegate who formerly was accreditad by the Ango- ra government to represent it at Mos- cow, to agree to the exemption of the Christian minorities in Turkey from mil- Mary service. But he refused flatly and ingly sullenly. 2oy reason for this and several other declinations. 3 M. Laroche, of the French delegation ‘made an appeal to Riza Nur Bey on ‘military exemption saying, “Come, make the allies a little Christmas present on this point.” The Turkish delegate re- torted angrilly, “we don't believe in Christmas presents.” Riza Nur Bey also refused to agree to a provision for the preser\-auonfl 9! ‘nristian cemettries in Turkey This caused much surprise as the Turks or- dinarily are extremely careful to pro- tect all cemeteries. § The sub-commission ended the session seemingly with a feeling of utter dio- t at the attitude of Riza Nur Bev, Eich several members described as e —————————————S—— “The High Court of Public Opinion Worthy goods are’the only one: at the high court of public opinion. and sentenced to oblivion. The merchant or manufacturer his merchandise on trial. makes publicly, certain claims, on his commercial success. not dare to advertise. For advert: He inv] s that can successfully stand triai All others are quickly condemned who advertises, deliberately places ites. your critical inspection. He the fulfillment of which depends If he were not sure of his goods he would ising would put him to a test he\ could not meet, and thus hasten the end of his business career. Advertising protects you against fraud and inferiority. 1t saves you money by pointingiout for your consideration only the best products. Well informed buyers seek news of good merchandise in the ad- vertising columris of, The Bulletin they find there. and are guided by the messages Read the advertisements in The Bulletin and get the -benefit. In the past week the following ‘Bulletin for twelve ceénts a weel "BuMetin Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, = Totals a former union miner and had lived nalt mile from the Lester mine all hll; life, .sald he -saw the shooting of Jardy Henderson, , the first union man_ killed. He explained that, | Washington, Dec. 23.—Extension of | naval disarmament among .world pow- ers was discussed in the senate for se eral hours today but without action apd an adjournment was taken over Christ. mas, . A brief session will be held tombrrow a “‘gentlemen's agreement’” reached yesterday to meet and adjourn| until Wednesdey. | The calling of an international con- ! ference to curtail “construction of naval vessels of less than 10,000 tons and aircraft not covered by the Washing OF NAVAL DISARMAMENT armament _pass her home several times a day on the Crenshaw said he was standing in front of his home when he saw Hender-, son, who was unarmed, and bullets be-1 gan to come from the direction of the mine. “Did you see any one shot?’ | “Yes, they said his name was Hender- | #on, and he fell about 100 yards from my | house. He must have been killed in-| mEn;‘ny: Conroy testified seeing uum! ioaded with armed guards wearing stars public. highway. The witness declared she had esen 3 neighbor, J. Hugh Gibbs, held up and searched by the guards in the highwagq. She said she/saw Superintendent Mec- | ell in the mine with a gyn strapped | to his back several days before the riots. Mrs. Mary Conroy, mother of ll.'.dnll Conroy, testified she lived near the mife |. and had seen the trucks filled with arm- Telegraph news matter has appeared in The General Total 9% 312 107 Turkish delegation has lastructions that no agreements” oy oo made on economic questions, which are to lie over for negotiations at some later time. This has-created dissatisfac. ton among the allles, especially the French, who are anxious Questions should be settl - o led at this con: Control of the straits still considered in private sessions. e nttalons of the three great powers have made it clear to Ismet that if they give the special guarantees Turkey seeks to protect Constantinople from artack, Turkey in turn must give thé allies jur- ldsdh:_:gon ln:der the straits and the entire lemilitar] Zone. Ismet consideration. i The intransigeant position of ‘the Turks on, capitulations, straits . control and the rights of minorities is generally Tegarded by the aliied delegates as be- ing due, at’least, in part, to their de- sire to hold as' many questions as possi- ble in reserve for future trading, and He declingd to give | that economic | BRIEF TELEGRAMS | Q Burglars In three fur and cloth rob- beries in Boston got $15,000 loot. Walter 3. O'Hearn, K. C., of Halifax, was sworn in as attorney general I the Nova Scotia provincial government. Sir Edmund Robbins, manager of tho press Association from 1380 to 1917, died at Bognor, Sussex, England. st been Ten requerts of bootleggers in no c {Paul for Christmas sparoles bave Provincial Legislature Deplores refused, A billl urging the political emaneipa- fion of Panama's women has been in- troduced in the national aAssembly Henry Likly, 52, president and tre: lurer of The Henry Likly Company, | makers of baggage, is dead in Roches- lter, N. Y. | oaresens) in| Misicepotie! sttediia xe- ‘dio head set to a patient, a local anes- thesia was applied and a Caesarian op- | eration was performed. i Fens | Russia will have a shortage of at ! least 1,000.000 tons of cereals this win- ter, according to the international com- mittee of Russian relief. Had Been Seen Prowling Quebec, Dec. 22—The series of fires which have skept Catholic institutions i Canada recently, culminating early to- day in destruciion of the historic $1- 1000,000 Notre Dame church, was brought Christmas day In Bethlehem will beito the atiention of the provincial legis- : marked this year by an unusual pil-|latura this afternoon, with the sugges- | grimage of children to the Little Church |tion that all might be the work of in- of the Nativity. cendiaries. Taking the floor after Premier Tas- | chereau had expressed to Cardinal Be-, gin the regrets of the legislature at th, famous basilica, Arthur Suave, leader of the opposition, said: “Would it mot be well to question whether this fire is not the work of a criminal organization? That is in the air, and I call the attention of thy at- torney general to the fact that withim 2 year we have had to deplore losses of that kind every mionth.” A short circuit in the electrical wir- ing was first held accountabl, for to- day's blaze, but later Monsignor La- flamme, cure of Notre Dame, presented 10 Danlel Lorraine, chief of provincial police, the following letter postmarked {in Montreal: “I will burn your church down on De- cpmber 28th.” James Jlugh Keeley, Jr., of Washing-| Suspicious strangers also ton, D. American vice consul inported to have been seen Constantinople, was married to Miss around the church. Mathilde Julia Vossler, of Wellsville, N. (Y., and Richmond, Va. Chief Justice Taft, who underwent a minor operation last Sunday at a ho pital in Washington, is said to have tually recovered. Nominations of Charles C. McChord and Joseph B. Eastman, interstate com- merce commissioners for additional terma were confirmed by the senate. The New England Shoe Wholesalers' association ‘in annual session in Bos- ton elected E. Walter Smith of Worces- ter, president. Plymouth Thursday observed Fore- fathers’ Day .in_memory of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock 302 years ago from the Mayflower. were re- prowling tion. The Catholic orders had come to {view th, series of fires with suspicion {was made evident recently when an- {nouncement was made that bloochounds and armed. guards would be employed Senator Reed of Ponnmylvania was ! among a group of officers and former officers of the army decorated by Seci tary Weeks for exceptional service in war time, PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES TO TEST THE EINSTEIN THEORY San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 22.—Huge photographic - plates bearing pletures which may prove or disprove an angle of the Einstein theory of relativity, were found unbroken today when opemed at the Lick observatory on Mount Hamil- ton, Calif, by members of the W. H. Crocker expedition which took the pic- tures on a western Australia beach dur- The ship subsidy bill was endorsed and its opponents in the semate criti- | cised by Bishop Homer C. Stuntz of the | Methodist Episcopal church in Cedar Rapids, lowa, John E. Macomber of Boston and Dr. Payson Smith of Brookline, Mass., state commissioner of education have been clected life members of the trustees of Tufts college. ° Lady Helen Mary Fraser, wife of Sir| John Foster Fraser, the widely known lecturer, was granted a divorce from her husband in London on the grounds of misconduct. The Little Andrescoggin Water Power! Co., proprietors of the Barker MIN. Au-| burn cotton goods manufactory, Auburn, Me., has declared a stock dividend of 100 per cent. U ing the September eclipse, Dr. W. W: Miss Eleanor Bosrdman. the lesding | Clinpbenl, director of the observatory woman of a mation 'pleture €OmMPany (gng head of the expedition amnounced working at Indio, Calif. was severely : bitten by one of the camels being used 18 | “Scientific men do mof.cate one way or the production. {the other regarding the findings” Dr. T Campbell said, “we only want to kuow Efforts of police ¢ rid Bofton of ua- {the truth. It will be several months desirables ih a campalen to stamp out our measurements and comparison and hildups and other crimes resulted in 15 |arrive at a conclusion regarding the additional men beting taken' into €us- | Einstein theory. tody: downtows. Pictures taken by the Crocker: expe- — dition are to be exchanged and com- The department of ecommeree im ®'jared wih pictures taken during the statement lest night estimated that the eclipse by the Adelaide observatory, per capita consumption of meat in the |which sent an expedition to Ceiral Aus- TUnited States will exceed 150 pounds |tralia. 24 this year. The pictures take were of stars near the sun and they will be compared with photographs of the same stars, laken at |night from Tahiti, in an effort to prove the correctness of the Einstein theory that the sun's gravity attracts or “bends” rays of light traveling toward the earth from stars millions of miles beyond the sun. - If the stars do mot ap- pear in the positione on the night and day photographs then the theory is cor- rect, it is claimed. STAE WITNESS SUFFERS ' The 1919 race riots will east Chicago NEEVOUS PROSTRATION more than $500,000 in addition to its share of the expense of maintaining 5.000 state troops nine days, it was es- timated. Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. .—Mrs. Re- witnéss for the state in the trial of her {two bréthers for the murder of her hus- Lady Ehondda was granted a diverre ;ang Ignatius Montagnino, was absent {in London from her husband, S'rifrom court today and was reported at Humphrey Mackworth, on grounds of|\her Stamford home suffering from pros- misconduct and desertion. ‘The su't &ina Montagnino, expected to be the star SACRILEGIOUS PYROMANIAG ' CONTINUES WORKINQWEBEC the Destruction of the Histor- ic $1,000,000 Notre Dame Church—Expression of Re- gret is Communicated to Cardinal Begin by Premier Tas- chereau—Monsignor Laflame, Cure of Nctre Dame, Had Received a Letter Stating: “I Will Burn Your Church Down Decersher 28”—Suspicious Stringers Around the Church. to protect church :rope: manuscrips and relics in coment vaults The church was considered one of the finest and most artistic charch iuildings in Canada and the inicrior had been re- newed recently at a cost of $90,000. was first _established in 1647. It under- went a restoration in 1745 and sincn that éate had been altered and renewed a number of times. The rectory ade- joining the church aiso was destroyed. The flames leapad the narrow streets and caused slight damage to the offices of the Tefegraph and the Chronicle. Art treasurers and documents dating back to 1674 and famous paintings by Van Dyke and LeBrun were lost From all over the country, and from persons of the Protestant as well as of the Catholic faith, expressions of syme pathy for the loss of the historic chureh and its priceless treasures have come to= night. Offers of help and assistance im rebuilding the cathedral, a work whieh is expected to begin soon, were as mum-~ erous and as widespread. " Among those who expressed sympathy was Dean Shreve, of the Quebec Anglie can church, wWho offered the use of the cathedral to the Catholic authortties fer observance of the Christmas midnight {mass. Arrangements had been previousty The police then began an investiga- | made, however, to' celebrate the mass in the seminary chapel, and Deen Shreve's offer was declined. Small bursts of flame, leaping fitful- ly from the top of the wrecksd tower of the basilica, could be seen tomight. —_— e . 5. ATTITUDE ON EUROPEAN REPARATIONS SETTLEMEXT ‘Washington, Dec. 22.—(By the A. P)— The situation relative to extension ef American ald toward a European repara~ rations settlement continued today o present a badly beclouded picture , on which little light was thrown from amy quarter. « American officials reiterated thelr @o- nials of government backing at the pres< ent stage fof the American commission plan sponsored by commercial leaders and of various published statements regard- ing tne direction in which American of« ficial opinian was. tending. But there wag no clear cut denfal that high officials in Washington had discus- sed the commission propossl earnestly among themselves and with othcrs, State department autlorities seemed most anxious to deny thai the govers- ment itself, despite the close touch it 1 maintalning with the situation, was in 30y Way & part st the precent time to the plan for a survey commission, sug- gested first in this couniry by officisls of the chamber of commerce of the Unit~ ed_States, It was said flatly the: (he Amerfesm government, at present stage of the dis- cussions, has no connection with the commission plan, which contemplates cre- ation of a body of experts to inquire - to the ability of Germany to pay repara~ tions. Purthermore onme official ndie cated that if the commission plan ever came to the point where a proposal for its acceptance could be made through alp+ lomatic channels the United States would not be ‘the proper power to make that proposal. n;n::l; out that treaty rights are involw reparations &1 24 that 1o formal ofter to media-s would b2 in place from any governmen: ewteph ©on the soilcitation of the governments fn- va;v_;.dlllhh:nnl:ovufl. only inkling as to the hopes of the American government in its efforts & conference agreemen |was urged by Senator Borah, republi- can, Idaho. He deferred . discussion, road bringi {that they may yieid man: guar brifnging water to y. moot ques- B via thet the haa shouted | £onS If thes are able to get srong at her and her ghugl guarantes which will pretent the inva- was not defended. Orange growers in Californis hare prominent. pathologists of New Orleans | o m.mu-mmuxfi 3 was prediction made today that « Although witnesses in the third day of |ver Bicame possible (o announcs w"d- the trial of the M wijl excuse him; for he might have pro- Gusiav 22d ! ficial plan, it would be found to vided azainst them by his contract.” Frank Schiawani, of Stamford, strength- the mext move on the part of the stat was mot known, but it was the consensus of .opinion the inquest’ would be followed by the arrest of at least twenty persons, alleged ringleaders of ' the August mob. Their namep will be presented to the mil- jtaey or civil authorities by the four de- nt of justice agents who, for four months, bave been conducting secret in- vestigations, it was stated. Mcr Rolge citizens expressed thef- telves tonight as bolieving martial law would Do declared here and the arrests made by troops. V It 1 generally believed open hearings will be instituted following the anticipat- d arrests. Al persons will be free to some Into this court of justice, under the Loulsiana laws, and ‘teéli what they know of the case. Mississipp!, Arkansas’ and Louisiana persons are believed by the state as hav- ng been members of the hooded mob. Arreatg in ‘all three states arc antici- e THREE MEN PARDONED i BY PRESIDENT HARDING ‘Washisgton, Dec. 22.—The doors of fedéral prisons were ordered opened by President Harding today for the release at Christmas time of three men serving loo gsentences for - violation of reassat hose sentences Were commuted were mas Parker, sonvieted of manslaughter in Texas: John ‘Willard Detaney, sentenced jn California of conspiracy to forge, and a charge Carl, a Canadlan, sentenced in second degree murder. De- > is to be released on December 24 ' snd- the others on Christmas day. ¥OR TOLITICAL o4 PRISONERS IN ITALY Al crifmes up to and including“the time of the recent selsure of the government by 0 CLUES TO BANDITS AT LARGE IN COLORADO Demver. oo (D 12 night nt! are facing the same blank wafl which confronted them their investigation of Denver's Federal Reservo bank truck. robbery before Thursday evening's wild chases over gpuntry roads in northern Colofado, sup- Dosedly ‘ou “the heely .of the four men blamodl for ‘the $200,000 theft and the -Authorities fo- Federal Reserve -bank guard, <F suard, in a gun battle in frent of the United Stat here Monday. o ‘Tonight two - detective agencies hers claim: to have definite clues to the identi- ty and probable location of the bandits. Rsland K. Goddard, operative in charge &1 Zigeral gecret servioe agents for the orado district, is absent St on a secret Chief of Police H. R. Wiiliams of Den- | ver believes the status of the man-hunt Is substantially thie same as it was before Sheriff Frank Hall of Greely sought the aid of Tocal police yesterday. —_—— YAUERICE W. SOMBORN IN !?lcl!'!ll STATE HOSPTTAL Worcester, Mass., 'W..Samborn, onos an in Germany's wis %mumr‘ n“ “l’.nl‘m ate hospital. Sombo: - ured prominently in the exposs vy Ars: bassador Getard M his book, “My Four Years in Germany,” it being detailed by the ambassador that Sombom made a practice - of ‘l:lwt f;’mnn place to place at- | tacking President son and - oy the United Somborn, according to brain speciatists is subject ¢o delusions of his own impor- tance and believes ho Is Being persecuted: Dec.. 22 —Maurico international figure antl-American an inmate of BURIAL OF ABSASSINATED PRESIDENT OF POLAND Warsaw, Dec. 22— (By The A; P.)— |00t from them as individua Gabriel “Narut shooting to death of Charles T. Linton, | H ‘Tepresentation of dip- coffin was ‘lowered all the eity tolled D guns was fired, and the pres- | the auto repair yard of Decker's friend, however, of his amendment to the na val appropriation bill requesting the president to call ‘an internatlonal con: ference to deal with economic problems | and with land and sea armaments. Senator Borah, declaTing a - new na-! val building race appeared imminent, | cited the heavy expenditures and taxes | of this and other countries and deplored any increase through construetion of armaments, Senator - Poindexter, republican, Wash- ington, in charge of the naval bill,i which “was “given temporary right o way over the administration shipping Dill, declared the provision in the bill, as passed by the house, proposing . a conference on limiation of small ves- sels and aircraft was designed . to cor- i Tect the conditions emphasized by Sen. |’ acor Borah.- He agreed that competi- ton was reported between naval pow- ers in armaments not covered.by the Tecent arms-eonference naval limitation treaty.. Senators Poindexter, and Stan-| ley, democrat, Kentucky, declared sub-. santial tax reductions would not he iwought about even by abolishing tgs navy. Senator Stanley said - the in- sistent demand for lower . taxes mignt be met in part by abolishing useless government. commissions and ~ boards. Among these, he said, was the railway labor board, which We described- as “a wolitical eunuch,” without power to ene lures its decisions, e VERLICT AGAINST THE BUENS’ DETECTIVE AGENCY ‘White Plains, N. Y., Dec. 22.—A jury ‘before Supreme Court Justice ins, returned a verdiet against Randill W. Burroughs, assignee of the William J, Burns detective agency, who sought to collect $4,206.88 from former Mayor Wil- son and ' former Police Commissicner Stanley of ‘Bridgeport, Conn., for the agency's efforts “to rid- Bridgeport. of gambling and other forms of vice. - The former officials contended that the agency. already had been paid more than lla/ services were worth, and that even it ‘any further ,sum were due, it should be collected from the city, and 15, BECEER FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER OF HIS WIFE New York, Dee. 23.—A firy eariy t day convicted Abraham Becker, a chauf. feur, of the murder of his wife, Jennie, missing l‘hmo last April, whose lime- cased body reécently was found bucied in i firing -at the ‘mine began about i hour later he saw two men firing ipit near: the flag. John G. Conroy, 68 years old, sald the guards in the mine trucks, each carried two pistBls and a rifie across their knees and that some of his stock had been kill- ed by bullets. -~ Asked how many shots were. fired- fired he declared: “I didn’t stop fo_count them.” “What did you do”" umes I jumped into a ditch.” On ‘cross-examination - the ~ witness said he had been a miner for 50 years before becoming a farmer and had held betting officers in_the miners’ union. “Have you any feelings against these men in the min?” " . “Sure I have. Didn't they kill my The elder Confoy then testifisd he had not “se¢n ‘a’single man firing into the ‘mine or going toward it John Conroy, . son, testified that :.he wo on the afternoon of Jume 21. He rred e aw & whits Sag raised at the mine about stx o'clock and that an from the The witness said n spent the night family ers’ defense in clared he bad witty statements made in Chicago . Cnarles E. Dawes, former director of the budget bureau, that a bajance sheet sworked out for the postoffice department had been “submerged.” Postmaster Gen- eral Werk today issued the following formal _statement: : “in 1921 Mr. Hays (former postmaster institute some inquiries among the -rec-|{ Pope ords.of the ‘post offic edepartment looking | toward a stock -accounting or- balance' Sheet perhaps. Nothing has come to me, Shuos;thes < mluly _from * such General X nat time; slon of Turkey. 3 The outlook for a satisfactory out- come, however, is far from bright. The | prominent delegates are 5o uneasy about the situation that few of them are planning to leave' Lausanne for P the tide. Meetings will be held | again tomorrow, but Christmas day wil | be a holiday and the sessions will re- Sume next Tuesday. Rear Admiral Bristol, of the American delegation left for Paris today, but Am- basador Child and Joseph C. Grew will remain. in Switzerland for Christmas. BUSINESS CONDITIONS 'IMPROVED IN NOVEMBER , Washington, Dec. | 22.—Business con- ditions during November showed furth. er increases in both on_and: dis- tribution, © a_statement to- night by the department of commerce. Mill consumption .of cotton for Novem- ber_totalled 577,561 “bales, the for any ‘month sinve July, 1917, accord- ing_to. department records. Exports. of cotton also increased to $58,337 bales, or approximately eight per cent. of the en- tire_crop. Incredses were reported in the pro- duction of pig iron, steel ingots, zme and coke and In leather. A slight decline in the uifilled-orders of the United States Steel Corporation was attributed a great movement the increase in ' the price of farm products together with the improvement in relative purchasing pow- er. : There appeared to be little in Eprdpean pusiness. eonditions. A sio the made A ' briefs to. appealed to Lloyds for "insurance for their crops against frost, according to officials of the California Fruit Growers' Sixtcen year old Madeline Robustel- Exchange, il, occupant of a fiat above the Montag- Physicians attending Masdame Sarahinino establishment at the time of the Bernhardt in Paris insist- that she re-|igurder, told the court she was certain {main in bed at least ten days more 10[the cries she had heard were not those recover fully from the fainting meli|uf a.babys—that she saw the victim | with which she was meized on Monday. |staggering out of an alleyway between the houses, step three or four feet, and tall faco downward. She did not hear any shots, she said, but saw the Scla ened the circumstantial web being spun by the state around the pair, motive was not indicated. Daisy Pitts, 18, “cuh-n:;’m ale school vieaded guilty .. 0., to mmflfugmer in connection with ‘*he|fani brothers:standing mear by, two or killing last August of Tonsy Marcells,|thre feet apart Walter Lee Johhneon,'a her puitor. She said she chot-Marcella |mechanic, in testifying of his race to | because he had .threatened her. life. the scene followed revolver shots, iold of Keeping, three guards cornered by !Tevoivers in their bands. barrage of pistol fire; bandits attacked: |the I W. Samuels distillery in Bards- town, Ky., broke 1ocks and escaped with i i i regiittie ¢ i | ! | a i i ) 4 ll I 1] | 5 ¥ ] practical proposal, lacking in sational quality. Anything that is mmmhmnydm clear understandirg of governmestal FAVOES RECONSTRUCTION OF NIANTIC CAMF GROUND Hartford, Dec. 13—A recommpndation state milltary eamp grounds at Niantic be thoroughly to 8o sway with bulldings that T feature of