Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 25, 1922, Page 1

Norewich Bulletin VOL. LXIV—No. 312 + UrULATION 29,685 » . CONN,, MbNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1922 EIGHT PAGES—56 COLUMNS «QUCE TWO CENT:S HATIONAL GUARDSMEN STILL O DUTY AT MER ROUGE, LA. Bodies of Two Alleged Victims of the Mob Were Buried Sun- day—Morehouse Parish Was Quiet Last Night—More | Than 200 Automobiles Were Parked Along the Roads Leading to the Cemetery—Crowds Started Quietly for Home After the Services—Only Qne Arrest Has Been| Made—It is Believed Other Arrests Will be Made After Christmas—Court Has Set January 5 as Date for Open Hearings. Bastrop, La., Dec. 24.—Morehouse par: 3sh was spending a quiet Christmas ev tonight In the midst of the startling in- westigations instituted by the state last week to clear up the mystery of the kid- ing case of last “August when five | Tuesday when he orderel Company G, m:m‘m Gitizens of Mer Rouge, were | Monroe National Guard to Mer Rouge. robed | sbducted by masked and white men. Lake Lo Fourche Thursday, identified as Watt Daniels and ‘Thomas JRichards, were buried in the Daniels family ground seven miles from Mer Rouge this after- nobw side by side in the presence of a wast throng of people. More than two hundred automobiles and other vehicles were counted parked along the roads leading to the cemetery. % The crowds began to assemble at the cem- etery hours before the funeral, The Episcqpal service was read and @ squad of National Guard escorted the 1 H ; bodies to the graves, sounded taps and fired a salute as the bodies were\lowered | into their resting places. Daniels was a World war veteran, hav- | ing seen service in the tank corps. He | } was unmarried, g fawo young chillrgn. o Both were members of families that }were pioneers in Morehouse. :'a\wds started quietly for home. There ;'u no demonstration or show of vengeful { teelips. 3 { Fearing that such a move might add to ¥ the danger of the situation, IGuard trogps here guarding the court /bouse and Jail square. L rnop feared to leave Mer '.?“ LIRS protection, i was an- mounced. 3 ! Stores and residences are generally re- ported as stocked with unusual supplics of 3o “Into- hostile camps since the-evenis fol- lowing last Augusi, it is admitted. and,_ ammunition and citizens are ! to be moving about in vehicles and foot with fire arms at their side. The . J. Burnett, the lone suspect to reach ; the pParish jail, discussed today with his | @ttorneys the charge of murder he must | face at thie open hearing set for January & by the attorney general. Visitors were denied admittance and the militacy pa- trolled the jail grounds which are flanked with machine guns. Burnett has-made application through Bis attorneys for a preliminary trial through regular ‘channels to thwart the state’s program, The attorney ggneral has ipstructéy the district judge not to @ct orf the petition fur the presens A former deputy sherift of Morenouse, Burnett is declared to have enjoyed a good reputation and his friends have come to his assistance and seated ha couid not Bave been Implicated in the alleged mur- “;:; further arrests were (fade today. Tt s now believed the others promised will pot be effected untll after Christmas. ‘At the conclusion of the open- hearing, Bodles of two of the alleged victims of :guard duty while professional divers un- the mob, blown up from the bottom of der the direction of department of justice Richarus was married and the father of | With the funeral services ended’ the | Governor | { Parker yesterday rescinded the order for | \the Monroe National Guard troops sta- | tioned at Mer Rouge to join two National ; r Rouge community has been devided ; | set January 5 as the date for open hear- it was semi-officially announced here the nen if indicted wiil be wmoved to some ther parish for trial.-most likely Baton Rouge. 7 Governor Parker’s program in sifting| the kidnapping mystery was st in metion ‘Wednesday a detachment was throwa bout two lakes in Morehouse parish for men_dragged the bottoms of the lakew for Ithe bodies of two men missing since the kidnapping last August. The next day |the state's principal efforts were dirested to Lake Cooper, 23 miles fom La {Fourche. Men and boys of tb surroand- inf communities joined the - . caers and lining hands waded throug. se swampy | portions of the lake, witbout wny sucress, | | Shortly after midnigat on Thursday a | party of eight or ten men was seen in.2 boat on Make Cooper in the area under military guard in which traffic was for- bidden, The men refused to answer calls of the guards and a machine gun was. turned upon them and 150 shots fired. The men to the scene of .the skirmish, but an in- vestigation after daylight revealed noth- g While the troops were rushing to Lake Cooper, a spot near the ferry landing on Lake La Fourche was blasted. The con- ! cussion shook the houses in the viciniy. Unidentified men had set off at least one thousand pounds of dynamite, cXpefls nave since declared. | The next worning when the ferry man went to board his ferry, he saw_it drift- ing aiong the lake. He saw a portioh of the bank biown in and hundreds of dead fish floating o nthe surface of the water. | Among the fish he saw two headless | bodies, wire bound and in a bad state of decomposition. It was believed ibe dyn- amiters had attempted to steal the bodies. The bodies were permitted to float on | the water until sunset during which time relatives and friends of the Daniels and 1 Richards families recognized bits of cloth- ng remaining on the men. With the first object in the program ' | attained, ernor Parker immeliately ine augurated the second phase, arresis of suspects of the ‘crime. During an infantry company at Alexandri a machine gun company at New Grieans were ordered to entrain for Bastirop, the ! parish seat of Morehouse. Attorney General Coco, and two rath- ‘logists accompanied the troops. | Yesterday the first of tia many ar- Irests promised by the attorney general | was made when a former deputy sherift | was jailed and charged with murger. { Two national Guard companiss cstab- lished camp In ground decupicd by the court house and jail' and trai machine |guns on the jail. The aitornsy general ings. An inquest was held after patholn- gists had examined the bodiss and an- nounced the men had been beaten and some bones broken berore they died. The | identification of the bodies was pronoun bodies were turned over to relatives for burial JUDGE CHATFIELD DIED WHILE DECORATING TREE New York, Dec. 24.—Federal Judge fhomas 1. Chatfield, of Brogklyn, died suddenly in his home today, while dec- orating a Christmpas tree. He was ap- pointed to the bench 15 years agd by President Roosevelt. / His death, physicians said, was due heart disease. Judge Chatfield was born in Owego, N. Y., in1871, and ‘as graduated from Yale in 1893, He took an active part | ty crew during his Benior year. He wu @ member of Zega Psi and was a y. s Fou threo ‘years After receiving Kis| iy taw degree from Columbia university in '1896, he served as assistant federal dis- trict attorney in the Eastern district. He appointed to the federal bench in A widow and two daughters and a son "HONORS MEMORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR NCE Patis," Dec. 24—France’'s homage to ouls Pasteur, chemist and biologist, on Occasion of the centegery of his th, began today with a ceremony in Pasteur Institute. Delegations from tific bodies, headed by Dr. Pierre president of the IntervAllied Red commission, and Dr. A C. Cal- tté, director of the Pasteur Institute Lille, marched i procession before the omb of Pasteur, which is a crypt in 3- instit ute. Dr. Pozerski of the insti- and scientist. He recalled that wr, at the age of 13 gave promise coming an artist and that he point- many excellent portraifs up to the he became ‘absorbed in scientific re- E STATESMAN FAVORS AVAL DISARAMAMENT . "Tok! ’mfie& 24 (Brnlhe A, P.).—In an d g, upper house of parliament murfveyipg the foroign policy of an, Viscotnt-Uchida, the forelgn min- Jsald that in the event of the non- pation. 6f tbe Washington confer- agreement by the powees concerned ‘hoped Japan would take the n aking 0.2 solution of the problem goncert \with Great” Britain \and, the s s * EARTH SUIDE 1N . "PANAMA CANAL FRIDAY Dec. 24.—A slide ' in the canal occurred Friddy morn- is officially reported that it Js | in. athletics and’ was a member of lhe‘T national president of the fraterni- | 1 yered a lecture on Pasteur as | AMMONIA FUMES ENDANGERED THE LIVES OF 63 PATIENTS New York, Dec. 24—Ammonia fumes escaping fro ma large tank that explod- ed today in the basement of tne Italian hospital, East $3rd street,, endangered 63 patierits “vho were saved from harm| by the presence of mind of Miss Larie' De Saovia, the telephone switchboard operator. % ! The young woman remained at her post, although affected by tne fumes, and ‘Succeeded in telephoning the head nurse in each ward to close ail hall doors and open the windows, -She then gave the alarm to fire and police head- quarters and fell from her chair in a n. The) fire deparment's rescue squad, equipped -with gas masks, arrived quick: ly and succeeded in stopping the leaks in the tank, The fivesstory building was thorough- ly alred and normal conditions were restored \Witiout remoying any of the patients, 2 GIVE UP HOPE OF FINDING BODIES OF AVIATORS i A 24—Hopes ‘of of Colonel " Francis Marshall and nant Charles Web- ber, missing aviators, in the Covertd ‘Wells . district, 75 miles west of here, vafished last mght when Roy R.>Stew- art returnéd to Tucson with John Blane, the Indian who first brought the report of the discovery. They said tha: after a search of the country around Covered ‘Wells and the Gray Mountains, they \had found that the report was un: ounded. _Two_army officers who left “Tucson at noon Friday, to go to tne Covered ‘Wells country had not reported to No- gaies. late tonight, MAN mcjl‘locn'rzn WHILE / “TAKING BATR AT HOME Tucson, ! Ariz. finding the Dec. Philadelphia, . Dec. 24.—George Hene- ker' was electrocuted -today while ing a bath- at his homg¢/ He 'attempted to tur nthe water! off in ‘the bathroom while holding . an . eleotrical massagi machine in his hand, the. full' forcé of the house current passing through his massaging apparatus is have been defective, believed- to NO MIDNIGHT MASS IN BELFAST THIS CHRISTMAS et el it ot al Logue, primate o to- day annofinced that he had abandoned his previously angounced purpose of ding his usual midnight mass to usher in istmas. His action was taken on learning that the governm: to throw a. cordon nt escaped. The entire company was rushed ed satisfactory to the authorities and the_preme court in Halifax, N. 8. jed on Jan. 4, for the |nouncements_from the promoters that a i from the Mexican “government ~ body. . The insulatin on the wire of ml 1 | | * BRIEF TELEGRAYY A daughter, Elizabeth, i a in Luxembourg to Grand Duchz 1o lotte, = , trolley Atified as €, aged 36, of Broad- A woman who was ki car in Newington has been‘.. Miss Annle Gahnber; view, Maple Hill. The Bridgeport police for time last week received a radgio ‘warning | of automobiles being stolen. Detroit | sent word of the theft of two machines, the first | Ragnhild Amundsen, aged 18, was | found dead from accldental gas poison- ing in her-room at 415 Hancock avenue, Bridgeport. ¥ Rev. Richard T. Elliott of Abington has accepted a call to the North Haven Congregational church, New Haven, which has had no pastor since October. The new exchange in the New Havea plant of the Southern New England Tel- ephone company is called “Pioneer,” and ‘was used first on December 15. William Chonlere, 14,, one of seven chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Choinere of North Grosverordale, was killed while ceasting. A radio signal sent by an amateur wire- station in Manchester, England, was | heard by A. B. Tyril, of Riverhead, N, Y and F. Kral of Washington, D, C. Three women and two infants were res- cued by firemen when fire broke out in an apartment house in the Back Bay district, Boston. . .Christmas gifts in the form of paroles to 169 inmates of Massachusetts institu- tions were granted by the board of pa- role, George A. Faunce and John Shea were burned to death when Faunce’s shack on the outskirts of Randolph, Mass, was de- stroyed. Their boules were found in the ruins. Bishop William T. Manning, intervened | recently to prevent Isadora Duncan, clas- sic dancer, from appearing at the Episco- | 2l church of St. Mark’s on the Bouwerle, | New York. Governor-elect Charles A. 'Eel‘lll‘)lehll‘l.l announced the appointment of George L. | Ayotte, of Waterbury to be his messeng- | er. Ayotte is a wounded veteran of the | 102nd Infantry. H Unification of sll the soviet federated ' republics with the capital at Moscow, is one of the principal question on the agen- da tof the all-Russian congress which opened in Moscow. Holiday crowds at the South station, Boston, were thrown into mild excitement Wwhen an unidentified man stabbed Undato Sansatino of Quincy in the neck. The injury was not serfous. The former German emperor has sold to-a London and New York com the :nrld rlxghh: in.what he describes as the rst official photograph of-bis recent we m e price paid was”$10,000; i Police of New York were directed ul search for Sidney Collet, a war veteran Who had escaped from Bellevue hospital | where he was under observation for hav- ing annoyed Mr? Raymond T. Baker. [l A report of a rald at Mars Hill, Aroos- took county; the arwest there of Doctors Kincaid and Pepper and the seizure of morphine, was filed in Portland, M, by Ralph A. Fry, narcotic agents, with Kis chief. The schoener Star which was towed to Boston with the Salvatrice by the coast guard cutter Acushnet, was allowed to sail affer the deposit of honds to cover any finds or customs charges that might : be imposed. A new trial was granted by the sa- ., to Ralph sentenced to be hang- tal shooting of Florence Miles, with wh‘gm lr had i‘)een Myles, a soldier, keeping company. With\ police guarding railroad termin- als in Boston, to prevent an influx of law breakers over the holidays, the cleanup ordered by Police Superxztendznt‘(‘,mwley ! continued yesterday in an effort to end holdups and erimes. — Bernard Kirk, star University of Miehi- gan' football plager and chosen as an all- American end this year, died this morn- ing at a hospital in Ypsilanti, Mich,} from injuries received in an automobile accident Jast Sunday. Surprise was expressed Dby United States Commissioner B. E. Lynch over the opinion of Judge E. S. Thomes in New Haven, which held as invalid certaln search warrants on which alleged liquor seizures had been made. The Devinne Press, New York, one of the oldest printing establishments in the country, is going out of business. James W. Bothwell, president, announced the firm’s décigion resulted from “inability to get the, type of men suited to our needs. Clark W. Davenport of Penn., 2 member of the Wesleyan Uni- versity basketball feam, died in'the Mid- dlesex hospital, Middletown, following an | operation for appendicitis. He was 22 years old and 2 member of the semfor | class, Inventory of the estate of the late Wil- liam C. Skinner, president of .the Colt's Patent. Fire Arms Manufacturing com- pany, Hartford, shows that he left prop- erty valued at $613,313, mostly in securi- ties. His holdings in the Colt company were _received at $201,000, Governor Albert 0. Brown of New Hampshire, announced Christmas pardons for Robert S, Aver of Manchester and Charles Brigham of Nashua. The latter had served 20 years of a life sentence for murder and Ayer had served seven months“of a three years sentence. The Los Altelu——‘fl;nn repbrted an an- group of “Los Angeles manufacturers, bankers and oil opérators has obtained “what amounts {0 a blanket concession on all government lands in the ofl district of the - east coast.” £ N Roscoe C. (Faity) moten picture-actor in. Los Angelés quoted the scripture—"As ye judge, so shall’ ¥¢ be Jjudged”—in ‘his first official t on the controversy which = followed - th Christmas, “pardon” granted -by Will o Hays, titular head' of the motion pic- ture industry. 3 it 3 . Arbuckle, Sarah Bernhardt's Acting Days Over |Suffered Another Fainting Spell . Sun@ay Morning— Strength Ebbing Away. Paris, Dec. 24.—(By The A. P.)—Sa- rah Defnhardt, the famous actress, suf- fered a relapse during the early hours this morning when she -had another fainting spell which lasted for a consid- crable time. Courage alone is said to be gustaining the actress. Her physical strength is declared to be fast ebbing away. The doctors who constantly are in attendance upon her expressed the opinion this ev- ening that onlya miracle could save Bernharat. , Christmas eve in Bernhardt's little mansion in the Boulevard Periere was a silent one. The servants and others in the household moved noiselessly through the semi-darknes of the halls, which usually at the Christmas tide glowed with brilliance. Bernhardt's seventy year old butler, Arthur, was sad of iand disconsolate. “Madam is very low, {he said with quivering was progressing favorably,” he added, | | lips, “Madame |of the bhgs, which contained chickens Christmas Cheer for New York ‘Puur More Than 17,500 Bags of “Goodies” Givgn Away by American Christmas Fund. New York, Dec, 24.—Josephine Brisk, , whose home is on the I nta Claus and a real FASCIST NEW THE POLT FFrom Santa he received one of 3,500 Christmas baskets distributed by the Volunteers of America, and because she was first in line, she also received a check for a new wardrobe from Prin- cess Anastasia of Greece. any notalles assisted and witnessed the distribution of the Eifts to the POOT, | canton in Jai among them Prince Christopher, Mayor | 8 Hylan and Brigadier General and Mre. ) was ridicuied as of mo importance, Cornelius Vanderbilt. ymads such rapid strides du Three thousand other East Side chil- | few weeks that hich ge dreén also received gifts from the, Child | now are re 2 Welfare board and more than 17,590 | tor to be r. bags of Christmas “goodies” away by the New York A mas fund in the 69th Regiment armo Mayor Hylan assisted in the distribution y. Dec. 24 (By the A. P.).— i movement, which =t its 1 dxo, has ng the past ment oficials as a po.iteil fac- th in the near fu- pa several months 3 .1‘Ld& w Reports from various ci in which the fasci iagainst the radicals 0V t is gaining im and all the trimmings of a Rive. not Christmas | >— CHRISTMAS The earth has grown. old with its burden of care; But at Christmas it always is young. { The-heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, And its soul of music breaks forth on the air When the song of the angels is sung. It is coming, OId Earth, it is coming tonight! -On the‘snowflakes which ¢over the sod, The feet of the Christ-Child fall gentle and white, And the voice of the Christ-Child tells out with delight That mankind are the children of God. On the sad and lonely, the wretcned and poor, That voice of the Christ-Child shall fall, And to every blind wanderer opens the door Of a hepe that he dared not to dream of before, With a sunshine, of welcome for alL The feet of the humblest may walk in the field ™ Where the feet of the holiest have trod. This, this is the marvel to mortals revealed When the silvery trumpets of Christmas have pealed, Fhat mankind.aré“the children of God. — By PHILLIPS BROOKS character. President Obregon there couid be no fascism in it was a movement I cisti organizations & scribed fascism as |and as “the against the Me er anded tl mere exotic plani co war cry an,_ people. ! fas | countries and iject the idea of fascism and not “commit | suicide.” | Fascist headquarters herel report that | the movement i= rece | new adherents daily and that prepa tions zre in progeess for a national con. vention whic is to be held i Mexico City during the second week of Janunry j Every state in the republic is to be repre- Thus far | n of a san-| | sm, and boishevigm did |s The minis- | m flourished in other | under cir- | it nor De La Huerta expressed it as beifef that the proletariat would re- | ing hundreds of | | FAGTOR IN 3 OF MEXICO —— — — When Started the Movement Was Ridiculed as of No Import- ’tance—Has Shown Rapid Growth—In Various Cities There Have Been Clashes Between the Fascisti and the Radical Element—President Amnesty for All Rebel Political Obrezon Recommends Prisoners. d eral hun’r a. L mpo- .ascisti has ton in which orgagization nal federation rters in Mex- NESTY URGED FOR ALL 3N REBEL PRISONERS granted all those already ng trial, was the chamber ident Obre- rged immediate measure 50 that it might ve Jan. 1. ardons for all revolation- ntral government are d in a bill puties last niz f de . Th ite prompted by the know- fexico is at peace and that e rebel prisoners will not ational order. The bill points t the federal armies everywhere Ia iumphant; that expeditions orig- |inating in the United States have been suppressed and the varioug leaders of them either have died in battle or before ring squads and that leniency should be shown the risoners because “either they showed a false conception of loyalty or were merely striying to keep promises which they could not break.” celease of Pt |ALL-RUSSIAN CONGRESG i IN SESSION IN MOSCOW Moscow, Dec. 24.—(By The A. P.)— | After six months of watchful waiting, at the conclusion that Soviet Russia was must be reckoned with, according to an assertion made by M. Kamenefl. presi- dent of the Moscow soviet, at the open- ng of the all-Russian congress yester- | day. M. Kameneff spoke in the place of M. Lenine, the premier, who, he announced, had prepared extensive report, but, owing to Lllhxk:e of ‘his_doctor, would {zjot be able to leave hi& home-for sev- jerat days owing to the fact that he was from over-work. Kemeneff sald it {was hoped that Lenine would be able to address the congress before adjournment. “ Reviewing the foreign relations of the real factor in world economics and | s 0 MOSTL OIL FIELDS BONE OF CONTENTION AT LAUSANNE Lausanne, Dec. 24.—(By the A. P.)— | Settiement of the Mosul dispute received the United States suddenly has arrived ! a setback today when the Turks notified the British delegates that they couid not accept the British contention thut Mosul is a part of Irak, and therefore of Meso- potamia, over which there is a British mandate. The allies and Turks have been trying to solve .this quesiion evey since they arrived in Lausanne by means of privaté discussions it will comae into the cohference in connection with the general fixing of Turkey's boundarizs. The Mosul oil_fields sad to be among_ the richest in the world Under the San Remo agreement England gave France 25 per cent. of the output, but Turkey came to Lausanne with the agree- ment that the Mosul villayet, conta‘ning mest of the 01l property; beloags to Tur- soviet, Kameneff announced that Ryssia was ready to enter into new treaties “until this relapse. Professor Obissier, chief of the med- ical staff attending Bernhardt, said to the Associated Press thie evening: “While we still hold hope for her re- covery,” it is jcertain that Madame Bernhardt never again will face the foot- lights. = Absolute repose and quiet for many long months are essential.” During the physician’s talk with the correspondent, several life long friends of Bernhardt ' entered the drawing room and stood beneath a large buffalo head presented to Madame Bernhardt during one of her trips through America. They desired to go into the sick room, but the doctor declined to permit them to do so, “Madame must see no one, saide “The least _excitement might prove immediately fatal.” Madame Bernhardt is being kept alive with consomme with the white of an egg beaten into it. - She is being given no sojid food whatsoever. She is gradually ‘owing weaker. ‘Her last Italian trip greatly fatigued her,” declared Arthur, the butler, who added somewhat bitterly, “and there was | no need foriit.” . Madame Bernhardt is said to realize the hopelessness of the situation biit to be meeting the crisis with the same for- titude as she has met many other cris- es in her 78 years of life. STRIKE OF NEW ENGLAND GRANITE WORKEES SETTLED Quincy, Mass., Déc. 24.—James Dun- can, general president of tne Granité Cutters’ International assoclation, an- nounced tonight that as a result of the conference last week between New En- gland gramite cutters, building grenite manufacturers and New York building contractors in New-York, a full settie- ment had been effected—by five leading New Bngluand building gramte thanu- facturers and their striking employes. The a‘ree&en(, Mr. Duncan said, called #6r a one dollar an. hour mini- mum wage and a 44 hour week, th2 ' contract to ‘run until Aprfl 1, 1925. He declared that estimates , was included thig latest settlement showed that b¥| January more than sixty per cent of the granite workers of the copntry who went, on strike early this year would be back at work. As a result ot @ wage and / hour , controversy many manufac- turers Chad ‘declared an ‘gfan shop™ in their plants but recently many settie- ments in Doth the building and monu- mental trade have been efected @t wages and hours demanded by the workers. Granite centers | in Rhode Island, Vj t, New Hampshi and Maine were ceffected by the sei- tlement, WO0OD ALCOHOL FATALITY AT A CHRISTMAS PARTY el = 5 Shelby, O., Dec. 24.—Ralph” Longley is dead, two other men are reported near death and a dozen others are ill here to- night 'a_sa result of a Christmag party at which wood aleohol is declaced by police to have been ufed as a beverdge in the belief that it was “corn whiskey.” | Police are holding one alleged member of | the party pending further investigation. AMERICANS SECUBE OIL - © 7 CONSESSIONS IN MEX! 1co . Mexico along the lines of theh Rapallo treaty. This alone, he declared, could save Rus- )sia from new wars and guarantee econ- omic deyelopment. dinner. Charitable organizations in all parts of the city were busy from early in the day until late tonight distributing pres- ents and food. The extremely mild weather. was reflected in the shortness of the lines of “down and outers” com- ing alms at the mission and community houses along the Bowery. “New York has shown today,” May- 4 e Hylan said in a statement tonight,|0f a meeting today between Premier ‘that she has not merely the Spisit of j Poincare, M. Revel. minister of liberated clvie pride, but she has a spirit of far Tegions, M. De Lasteyrie, minister of greater importance. She has the spirit |nance, Yves Le Trocquer, minister of of charity.” public works. Louis Barthot, president of The Santa Claus assotiation, which |the 1eparations wmmi-slq;_- and bther takes from all of the post offices of the | Prominent personages. he meeting country letters written by children to |lasted three hours. Santa Claus, and sees that each is ans-| An official -note issued at the conclu- wered, announced _tonight ' that 13,000 | sion of the conference specified that the children were cared for in Greater New |delivery of nitrates demanded fromi Ger- many was among the matters discussed. |1t added that officials from the ministry York this Christmas. The association stated that the letters received this year Indicated that the jof liberated regions gave an account of number of poor children through the |the recent mission to Berlin and the Giffi- country was ten per cent. less than last |culties they encountered. ear. - Donors had fallen off 30 per cent, however, the announcement sald, but through the use of radio, two thirds of this had been made up by placing letters all over th& eastern section. . HOLIDAY GBEETINGS FOR UNITED STATES SOLDIERS REPARATIONS DISCUSSED BY POINCARE AND REVEL REPRESENTATIVE KELLEx TNDER DOCTOR'S CARE Washington, Dec, 24 —Threatened with a nervous breakdown, Representa- tive Oscar Keller, republican, Minneso- ta, whose impeachment charges against == Attorney Gemeral Daugherty recently ‘Washington, Dec. 24—Holiday greet-| were heard by a congressional commi ings to_the rank and file of the army tee, is at his home here, unger a do: have been sent by Secretary Weeks, ' tor's orders to stay away from Wwork Geneceal Pershing and by Major General for a couple’ of weeks. Hs paysician Harbord, ‘deputy chlef of staff, who sig-|sald today that his condition was n nalized his approaching .retirement to | serious, but that on account of high private life by sending best wishes to his blood pressure ~and nervousness, he comrades. | would be kept at home for a time. “Yeu are the guardiance and preserv- | Friends of Mr. Keller said he had ers of that peace and good will which we | been under a seyere strain in connec- reverence -at this season"” Secretary |tion with the committee hesring. Weeks said. “None deserve to a greater | - degree the benafits of the peace We now | 4 POSSIBILITY OF CHICAGO enjoy, the security of which you guaran- BECOMING 125 MILES LONG tee by your personal service to the na~ tion.” cago, Dec. 24.—The possibffy of General Pershing in his message sald: 'Ch'f;'” Srowing Tt »" iy, macew thpe “You have materially contributed 10| 155 miles fong, strétching trom - Mil- the welfare of the American people dur- | oy (00 TR, TEC S pooulation ing the 7';'-" 5"";";2”";'*'“;“";" been | or yrty million persons was discussed a personal serv r the g your | a meeting of tne Wiscon- country which is deeply appreciated.” f:":'.,.,d’ k. of 1O it Oty General Harbord’s greeting was in the | Planters in Kenosha, W'~ - matur-. of a formal farewell to the ser-| wyijjam ; H. Schucharde, presiderT, vice he )u.d been;hl fl? more than thirty | warned the planners to conmder the lity ‘of Milwaukes becoming years. “As one of the last acts of my active military- service, I extend cordial holiday | jon that such. a city, - touching three greetings .to the army 'of the United ! gtates, was not merely a dream, but States,” he said. “My regrets‘at leaving | will be a reality in the “not &stant f: ‘Massachusetts, | @ Profession that is very dear to me, and | tyre.” | the interruptions the associations of a | {lifetime, are tempergd by the splendid | AN ASPRYXIATED IN willing anq_anxious’ memeries. of those years. 1 cease mili- tary duty. with a firm belief that our tion wlll enjoy both prosperity and a maximum of -peace so long as the army of the United States: endures and pro- gresses."” i / MERIDEN BOARDING HOUSE Meriden, Dec. 24.—James Kane, .53, ‘was\found dead ini his room In a board. ing e - dental, due to inhalation of gas fum-s from a heater a valve ‘of which had been cpened accidentally. .- PRESIDENTS MESSAGE TO DI ED-WAR VETERAN. ‘Washirgton, De(mm‘ Hard- ing, fn” a Christmas message to disabled war veterans -made; public tomigh:, de- clared they ,were “en titled to the ut; assurance that a_grateful people st t bbl:“ will ~ . The greeting of the h‘gm. which the Qisabled American veterans through its i pers | national ofticers hgre sent out to its mem- Paris, Dee. 24 (By the A. P.).—Repa-! rations and guaranteces were the subject’ key chiefly because the populatiom is Turkish. The Turks want England to recognize Mosul as Turkish, but say they will allow the British to work the oii fields. Recenily England sent a memorandum to the Turkish delegates arguing that on ehtnenical, historical, political and {economic grounds Mosul really part jof-Irak. Turkey's answer forwarded to- day, is a refusal to accept the Hritish arguments. In an 18 page Jdocament the Turks'insist that the Mosul vilayet should be considered separate from the rest of Jrak/villayet should be considered sepa- rate from the rest of Irak apd as a part of Turkey. ' Turkey's determined stand adds an other vital problem to the list which must be settled when the delegales reas- |semble after Christmas. The U. 5. has a | great Interest in the dispesal of Mosul be- i cause of the oil supply. PHILADELPHIA CELEBRATED THE PASTEUR CENTEFARY Philadelphia, Dec. 24. — President Harding today sent a message to the Philadelphia Centenary celebration com- mittee to be read at the exercises in the |Academy of Music next Wednesday which will mark the one hundredth an- niversary of the birth of Louis Pas- jteur, French scientist whose discovery of |lhe germ theory is considered by physi- clans and scientists as one of the world's |gTeatest benefcations. | The exercises will include a public {meeting in the afternoon and a dinner iat night, Eminent physicians, scientists and public officials from all parts of the, {country are on the programme for ad- jdresses. Dr. tinne. Burnet, special dele- gate to the Philadeiphia ocelebration, who is director of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis and the French ambassader Jules Jasserand, wili represent the French government. Both will deliver addresses. Wilson and Messages from Wodrow Chief Justicd Taft also will be resd at the celebration. NEING (OF MEDICATED ALCOHOL CAUSED DEATH Winsted, Dec. 24.—Reuben m‘“ years old, of Norfolk, was found dead today In a rooming house here where he had_come to celebrate Christmas - with ‘bottle DRI | l | triends. - Police reported that a !nm of “Chicago.~He expressed the opin-| drinks would not_hurt him. 14 NEW BRITAIN r;»ucx-'