Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 27, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIV—No. 314 Pulletin rOPULATION 29,685 EIGHT PAGES—64 COLUMNS ~RICE TWO CENTS ALLIES DEPLORE TURKISH DISTRUST OF ARMENIANS Turks Refused to Attend Meeting to Hear Plea of the Armeni- ans for the Establishment of a National Home in Turkey —Representatives of Great Britain, France and Italy, Listened to the Armenian Spokesman—Turks Are Not Disposed to Do Anything to Diminish the Distrust Ex- isting Between the Turks and the Armenians. Lausanne, Dec, 26.—(By the A. P)— Armefia was the storm center of the Wear East conference today. The Turks refused to attend a meeting of tho sub- sommission which has arranged to hear the plea of the Armenlans for the estal lishment of a national home in Turke: and both Ismet Pasha and Riza Nur Bey tent strongly worded communications to the conference matesting against tho de- cison to allow the Armenians to state théir cage. _They declared that if the Armenfans, who had no officlal standingand repre- sented no Independynt govermet, were heard by the coference, thero Wis no rason why the Egyptians or the Irish should not be allowed to present their demands. The so-called irregular Bgyptian dele- gation has been walting in Lausanne for mere than a month fer permission to be heard by the conference and volce a de- mand for the independence of Egypt and complets withdrawal of the British arm Tho official meeting of the sub-con mission was postponed, and the repr sentatives of the Inviting powers, Great Britain, France and Italy listencd to the Armenian spokesman, who suggested that » home be established in the northeast vilayets of Turkey, which should include historle Mount Ararat. It was impossible, ho declared, for tho proposed Armenian home to amalgamate with the Armenian republic of Erivan, which had been taken over by the Mos- cow soviets. The Armenians would will- ingly accept the same relationship with Turkey as the dominions with England. In concluston he asked for exemption trom military service for the Armenians #nd urged, mdintenance of the OrthodoX | patrfarch in Constantinople. Noradunghlan Pasha, once Turkish foreign ministers, presented the Armenian lga. He- sald that the traglc events, of 1815 had widened the gulf betweeon the Turks and the Armenians. The Young Turk government-at time had not used unspeakable methods in dealing those Armenians who wore loyal subjects of the Ottoman empire, he as- yerted, but they also lacked the most el- understanding of tie interests thelr country. Although Armenians were serving in the Turkish army, there were many deportations of Armenlans and suppression of a great part of the Armenian population without the slight- est pretext. “We deeply regret that mutual distrust still exists between the Turks and the 'Armenians,” he continued, “and that noth- ing is being done by Turkey to diminish the gravity of the situation. It is 1m- possible for us to consider as a solytion that the refugee Armenians who dto in Toreign countries should return to Turkey, ay Ismet suggests.” It was only by the creation of an Ar- menjan home that the Armanian prob- lem could be solved, he Insisted. The Bulgarians requested that 160,~ 000 Bulgarians who had fled from Ori- ental Thrace should be permitted to re- turn to that country, which had become Turkish territory, and sald they were ready to accept the same treatment as Turkish citizens, Biblical history came before the mecet- ing wher. the representatives of tse As- syro Chaldeans arose. Their people live in Mesopotamia, between Mosul and the Turkish frontler!; they wish to main- tain their own language and customs and to be allowed to dwell in peose. Gen- eral Aghpitros, their chief spokesman, said with dignity that history had proved that Adam and Eve were born m their country, and the early chapters of early life moved about the Assyro-Chaldeans. Hopeful progress was made today on the problem of the Greek patriarch to remalin in Constantinople as an autonom- ous archbishop, with the understanding that he would in no way represent polit- ical or administrative matters, or voice the ambitions or incarnate aspirations of Greece ; he would exist as a religious fig- ure. The -French argued that, the brusque removal of the Christian leader would cause an unpleasant feeling abroad to- wards the new Turkish state. The Turks later will give their views on this sugges- tion. The straits problem still remains un- settled, and there is a general expectation, however, that the straits question will ‘be solved, although Russia's ultimate atti- tude remains a mystery. TEAR-OLD GIRL MYSTERIOUSLY MURDERED IN BEOOKLYN New York, Dec, 26.Teresa McCar- iy, an eight-year-old ‘Brooklyn g a3 found dead in the bathroom of her home with & bullet over her heart when her mother returned tonight after be- Ibg away most of the day. The mother had left the Key to the house with the child, and when she foud tie entrance door locked on ti fueids, summoned & policeman to force anentry. No weapon was found: An_ambulance surgean said the chila hat been dead about five hours. He fiscovéred no signs of Injury other thaa the bullet wound. / The pelice belicved it a case of mur: der, for the house door was locked on the inside and there was no revolver or snipty shell found after a careful searsh of the premises. The murderer could have escaped through a window. ‘As the child's mother told her story, the had gone away this morning, le ing the key with Teresa and telling er to be sure 1o keep the doot locked and mot to admit any stranger. When ‘he- mother received no Tesponse to kgocking upon her return tonight, etc thought the child had gono to her avandmother's home a short ~distance Away, The-mother went there first and atterwards asked a policeman to breait . wpen the door. Standing bexide the child's body was Eurley, her white poodls, a “goed watch fog” as the mother deseribed him, and the: littls girl's constant companion. Tereen wore only & thin night gown and high black shoes. Powder marks showed. clearly on the night gown abave the crimsén stain. over her heart, the golics sald. The flesh on the lnttle breast also discolored and A ed from the flash of a bullet fired « atigloss range. P — in the house. BROTHERS ENTER PLEA OF ' GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER Bridgeport, Dec. 26.—The trial of we and Frank Sclafanl of Stam- charged w'th killing their broth- s-ti-law, Ignatius Montagnino, _ended abruptly here today when a plea of yufity of manslaughter was entered aft- W ‘s conference between State's Attor- ey Homer S, Cummings and David E. 1d, counsel for the defense.. After the plea had bpen accepted Judge Newell Jennings, in_ the superior court, tentenced Gustave Sclafan! from 10 to |3 years in state’s prison and his broth- w, Frank, to nine months In jail. During the trial, which lasted five fays, it was brought out that Gustave fired the fatal shot. 1t was also tes- tified that Frank did not lknow his brother d & revolver at the time the altercation Letween Montagnio d bis brother-in-law, Judge Jennings, “n séntencing the brothers, said that he sad_shown leniency to Frank bacause of higjggatimeny. .0 B & Q. ORDERS 60 FAST ¥ _FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVES , Dec. 26.—An order for sixty ives of the latest type had for early spring delivery by , ' Burlingten _and ° Quiney Vice President E. P. Dracken riced_hers today, stating:the order ites $3,180,000. This Is in ad- o 2,000 re-conditioned steel cosl ‘500 new automobile cars, 500 re- box cars and 22 re-condition- £ :w‘mx cars - recontly recetvea, CAZWOLIC RECTORY RURNED L5 AT FASSETT, CANADA Dec. 36.—Word was recelved f_thit the tenth fire to skeep ol hmmhmrhu; L. B i MOVEMENT TO DEVELOP THE CITY MANAGER GOVERNMENT Lawrence, Mass., Dec. 26.—Greater. de- velopment of the city manager form of governments, which it advocates point out, centralizes _munieipal- responstbility and gives the citizens more service per tax- dollar will be the object of the National City Managers' association, which recent- Iy chose the University of Kansas as its national headquarters, A monthly mag- azine devoted to efficlent city administra. s tion will be one of the methods useq to {further this idea in. government, states John G. Stuts, secretary of the assocla- on. “In 1912, there were two citles with }(he manager form of government,” Mr. | Stutz says. - “Since that time, 287 cities in thirty-elght states representing & pop- uiation of 5,500,000 have adopted the plan. Among the larger cities with this form of government are Cleveland, Akron and’ Dayton, Ohio: .Houston, Texas; { Xashville, Tenn.; Wichita, Kansas; Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, Michigan: Albu- querque, New Mexico; and Sacramento, Pacadena and Long Beach, Califrnia, AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEETS IN CHICAGO Chlcago, Dec. 26.—Social research, rur- al soclology, tralning of social -workers and soclal theory and-. evolution are amang the subjects to be discussed at the annual meeting of the American Socto- logical society here tomorréw and contin- uing through Friday. The membership is composed of persons. interested -in" the scientific study of soctal problems, The rural sociology and soclal re- search section will discuss among other things, the distribution of poverty and philanthrop In & large urban community, a study in rural community organization, a survey of the farmers’ standard of life and the family as an environment for child development. A report on the study and preliminary organization of a nelghborhood of 30,000 negroes, will be hear dat the seesion on wfi’ll.l theory and evolutlon togother with a discussion on rural soctol - lege dlscipline. Gl st —_— TO INSPECT FLLIS ISLAND IMMIGRATION STATION ‘Washington, Dec. 26.—Secretary Da- vis of the labor department left late to- day for New York, and Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ambassador, will go there tomorrow night to. join him in a personal inspection of the Eilis Island immigration’ statlon. The ambassador twas invited last week to, accompany the secretary on his investigation because of /criticism of conditions at Ellis Island recently volced in the British parlia- m;.;" Davis ion r. s previously had announced that steps were being taken to deter- mine what improvement could be made there the handling and accommoda- tion of igrants, especlally with refer- ence to their segregation by races. HOSPITAL. ATTENDANTS HELD FOR SUPERIOE COURT Middletown, Conn., Dec. 26.—John H. ‘Walsh, James Morrison ani Thomas To- bin, attendants at the Connecticut State Hospital for the Insane here, were boura over. to the superior court by Judge Warner in police court today, on caarges of manslaughter in connection with the doath ‘at the hospital yesterday of Pietro Tallanelll, an inmate of the institution. Danlel Keefo, another attondant, was' discharged after evidence. was ' given, showing he was not present when Taila- ::“:hw“ alleged-to have been. beaten to ath. % ADDITION TO THF MOHAWK % STATE FOREST IN CORNWALL Hartford, Dec: 36.—At a spectal mest- ing of the state park.-and forest commis. sion today i was voted to_sccept the Bft from the White memorial foundation of & tract of 175 acres adfolning the Mo~ :;k- nl;:.‘f;:u in (i'mwfll‘ “Thig gitt % aren fofeat Tup:.to about 14004 bW gt e A by e 1 | maice_the race for mayor and during his CABLED /4 For Exi Paris, Dp' s Eists have a year f penses ~ —American archaeolo- a guarantee of $25,000 Jenyears towards the ex- ations in the ruins of Car- thage, he Echo, but acoording to the §: Ernest Babelon the govern- ment has-declded not to accept tne offer because of the officlal red tape involved. SECOND ARREST FOR MOREHOUSE ‘MYSTERY Bastrop, La., Dec. 26.—The gecond ar- rest in connection with the Morehouse kidnapping of last August came late to- day when Dr. B. M. McKoin. former mayer of Mer Rouge, was taken into cus- tody at Baltimore on the instructions of Governor Parker, who charged him with nurder. Tae physician was taking a post-grad- uate courso at Johns Hoplins university. He Is expected to be brought here within days to join a former deputy sher- g held on a stmilar charge. While the arrest wag being made, na- tional guardsmen. were reconnoitering long Lake LaFourche in search of evi- dencs that would-indicate who were Te- sponsible for the dynamiting at a ferry landing last week when the bodies of two men, belleved to have been tortured and murdered by masked and robed men last August, were blown from the bottom of the lake. The company was also Instruct- ed to'act &3 bodyguard for the sheriff in any atfempt as arrests. Adjutant General Toombs, suddenly called back from Washington by the gov- ved in Morehouse today to di- Tect the operations of the three compantés of state troops encamped here and at] Mer Rouge. | It was reported that preparations had been made to call out two additionai com- panies if necegsary. Soidlorg ate on guard duty at the fail here and encamped In the heart of Mer | Rouge, where the wituation is such that! the governor anrounced that he desired their presence. Many of the populace are armed. The guardsmen were also at the dis- posal of the civil authorities to arrest members of the hooded mob yhose identl- ty are known to the state,’according to department of justice men. i More Arrests to Follow. Attornc, General Coco yesterday an- nounced that at least six or seven mer arrests ‘Would be made before the hearing in_connection with the casd for Jan. 5 here. It Is Teported the num- ber of arrests will be increased should the identity of the dynamiters be established. Federal agents declare they have 'the nams of the ringleader and his arrest is immirent. The attorney gensral was expected to arrive at New Orleans tomorrow in prep- aration for the couference there Thurs- day, when plans for the hearing will be outlined ‘and" the report of the coroner’s f jury that conducted the inquest over the headless bodies ‘of © Watt Daniels , and Thomas Richards, found in the lake, will be diecussed. & % Citizens | were gathering on the street comers tonight -Qiscussing=the asrest of the two fofmer officfals. Tha arrest of the former/mayer, who resigned last Au- gust, came as'a surprise. Dr, ' McKoin was bormn and grew tu manhood at Mon- roe and later .movéd to Mer Rouge and practiced. His friends ‘induced him. to incumbeficy; they said, he upheld the law and attempted to rid the community of law-breakers, : On. Aug. 24 he reported assassins had fired two shots intg'hig automobile as he was answering & sick cajl. ' He later re- celved warnings to leave. and. he did. This event ded to to the tragedy of the 24th, in_the theory of the state. T. J. Burnett, thi¢ former deputy sher- Aff arrested iast:Bdturday, s denied vis itors except under military survelllance. Today he grew eéstless and repeatedly gripped the iron bars in which he fs en- closed. His attorneys spent several hours with him, Four Marders Charged. 1t was recalled tonight that four mur- | ders have been charged to hooded men since last May along the Arkansas- Louisiana burder. ; At Wilmot, Ark, T L Gills, a farmer, was lured from his home. shot to death and his body burned Following Lis death the Loulslana-Arkansas Law and Order | league was formed to obtain evidengs but no arrests were 'made. ® I The kidnapping of five. prominent Mer i Rouge citizens on @ highway last August Is believed to have resulted In the death of Danlels and Richards. ‘Two others were severely flogged, and J. L. Daniels, 70 year old father of Danlels, was near death for soveral weeks. An invasion of the Smackover ofl fleld of south Arkansas last month resulted, in the death of J. G. Woods, 25, a Misglssip- pian. He was riddled with shot after he had fired on & party of several hundred masked - and white-shéeted men’ who 'marched into the new ofi fleld to clean out alleged undesirables. One man was flogged, and a gembling’ house; a two- Fuel Administrator It is Considered Probable That President Harding Will Abolish the Office. Washington, Dec 26.—Conrad ¥. Spens prepared his resignations today as federal fuel distributor for transmission tomer- row to President Harding, to become ef- fective January 1. - Along with it will 80 a brief report on the work of the cmergency office, which was establishcd September 22 after the conclus'on a. the Chicago, Burlington aud Qulacy railread with headquarters at. Chicago. It is considered probabl * the fuel distribution office will be closed oo aft- er January 1, alt will be held together to czre for over details. Un the law creating it, ata its ac : witadrawing & praclamation declaring an emergency un- der which it Las functioned. REMAREABLE IMPROVEMENT IN CONDITION OF BERNHARDT Parls, Dec. 26.—(By The A. P.)—Th household of Sarah Bernhardt w)u ]n? bilant this evening over the remarkable improvement shown In the condition of the famous actress. The deep gloom vhich had settled down upon the fam- +1y” and faithful followers of the star Dbecause of her illness was almost entire- i1y dispelled by the continued optimism of her doctors, who have permitted Ma- dame Bernhardt to sit up in her room twicé, during the last 24 hours. Madathe Bernhardt had Christmas din- ner last night with the members of her ate a small piece of turkey and talked cherfully and hopefully of her return to the footlights. She was beginning to be- lieve, she said, that she would be spared to act ten years more, and she eon- fided to several friends that she expect- ed to assume her role in the new Guitry play which was about to be produced when. she was stricken, In probably three weeks' time, The physiclans smiled when Madame Bernhardt induiged in this threo weeks' talk, merely saying, ‘‘perhaps. They frankly stated, on the other hand, that the “Divine Sarah's” conditicn was very weak, her long years of hard work on the boards having told upen her, and that it was quite possible it would be many months before she was able to ap- pear in publis. There are not lacking, indeed, those who think Bernhardt may never act again. The few old and faithful servants who have followed Madame -Bernharat around the world through fortune and adversity presented- a touching picture xonolsix;; Tftx overoover-joyed at- the pr¢ of eir m! retus B Istress’ l';l to “Jugt_think, . Madame : Sarah-4sat” again “tonight” sald the old. batler, 1 will -make- a bet that Madame.-will be Back on the stage in a-month—and ‘such an: ovation as she- will -recefve.” Scares of prominent péople.continued to. éall at the Bernhardt: home. today to express. thtir happiness- over - her. im- proved condition, -and. there ’ was . unre- strained rejoleing among. the actors -and ctresses of Paris, many of whom went to_her. residence -with. flowers and . filled he r room with roses. Many. cable mes- sages -arrived from 'American . friends and admirers, including actors and act- Tesses ‘on the American stage. Madame Bernhardt was especially pleased with the American cablegrams. She sald she was ‘gure there would be plent§ of time for her American friends to see her on the’stage again, provided they came to Paris. 2 FUEL ADMINISTRATION NOT + DISPOSED TO SEIZE COAL "Bosto, Dec. 26—The suggestio of U. S." Senator: David L. Walsh, 2f Massa- state officers and distributed at cost to those in need of it; was received with lit- tie enthusiasm by fuel adminisirators here. The proposal Was made in a letter sent by Senator Walsh to his constitucnts. James J. Phelan, state emergency fues administrator, : declar«d- today that Sena- tor Walsh's recommeadations might jead to Considerable: hardship and expense to the peaple, it adopced. : President -Clark of the New England Coal Dealers" association, said today that 76 per eenr of the: dealers in New Eng- land woul only glad-to ssll out to the-state of they cosld do o witho Tn United States To Reor- ganize Salvation Army story frame structgre, #orn down. An exodus of ‘more than 2.000 persons from this region resuited. T REQUESTED ARREST OF DR. W'KOIN FOR MURDER Baltimore, Md,, Dec..36.—Dr.- B, M. McKoln, former mayor of Mer Rouge, La., Who is wanted by the department of jus- tice agents of that plage in connection with the Morehouse parish kidnappings, and the finding of two mutilated hodies in Lake LaFourche, was arrested here to- day ,at the Johns Hopkins university- Brady Institute, whers heis takiog & post-graduate course. The arrest followed Teceipt of a telegram from Governor John M. Parker of Loulsiang. requesting- the local police to arrest McKoin on a charge of murder. After questioning by police officiels, Dr. McKoin wag locked up'to awat farther action by Loulsiana author- ties. - ; Otler than requesting the local author- ities to arrest-McKoin, thers was nothi contained in Governor Parker's w’ It read: % s 3 “Important. munfer. - ¥o'1 him fop Lovisiana suthorl- 5 s Og e Dr. McKoix “denied knowledge. of the killing of the two men. - “AlLT know.” he declared, “is that both men who: wers killed were on the bad side—the side.of bootleggers, gunmen and - men who asso~ ciated with negro wamen.” - -~ The discovery o Dr. McKoin hare: and | his subsequent arrest came about purely by accident. | ‘Word. was. rectived here | several days ago that Dr. McKoin was a student at . Johns . Hopkins, .and depart ment of justice agents souglit to quest] him. However, university officlals dented McKoln was registered ax a post-gradu-| ate and stated several letters had been recelved there for hi e to locats him. the letters were turn r to the postoffice department ;ni‘ “Un- , all of which tias been foundation, g over | Arrest - Dr." McKoin for | ‘Comimnissionér David C.’ Lamib. of ' the Salvation Army, second only to General nwell Booth in Com- of - the, B. “A.," who.'ls . Reports_that . Ga Lamb. was o rej family and a few intimate friends. She | chusetts that coal should be seized by Spes to Resign as |Germany Defaults in WUofleliveries France, Belgium and Italy So Declare by Vote—Britain Ballot Against It. Paris, Dec. 26.—(By The France galned an important vl in the allied reparations commission today when the commission by a vote of 3 to 1 declared Germany in voluntary default in her wood deliveries for 1922 Franct, Belgium and Italy favor of the declaration, while Great Britain cast its ballot against it. The decision of the commission was immediately communicated to the allied governments for their action. It may have a vital effect on the reparations problem if France can regain the sup- Iport of Italy and Belgium when the i reparations guestion is discussed at the January meeting of the premiers. The lone vote cast against the declar- ation by Great Britain was in accord- ance with British policy, which has been opposed to declaring Germany in de- fault, in the fear that such action might have a disasterous effect on the already precarious state of German finance. France s considered to have scored an important point because the decision was by a majority vote. France had been alone for a long time in the con- tention -that Germany could be placed in voluntary default by a simple ma- jorlty vote. Italy's support of France in the balloting came as a surorice and as an indication that Premier Mussolini is swinging over to the French side in the reparations controversy. Germany has carried out more than sixty per cent. of its schedule of wood Qeliveries for this year. When the Ger- man experts were before the commis- slon several weeks 2go they announced that Germany had been unable to deliver more than she had and that the de- !’lel\'erics for 1923 must be greatly reduc- d. voted in There was much comment tonight over Great Britain's vote in view of the ap- proaching meeting of the premiers. Al- though the deliveries of wood in them- selves are of less importance than other matters connected with reparations, the French point out that today's decision is of real value to France's position on reparations since it reverses the order of things and places Great Britain in an isolated position on the issue. Some of the French observers affected |lerton and is pounding heavily during| BRIEF TELEGRAMS One man is dead and more than thir- ty persons are in hospitals in Boston as a result of drinking liquor sold s whiskey during the ~Christmas holiday. | ‘While police records show that Mon- day was the “driest” Christmas in New York's history, six deaths were attrib- uted by police to bootleg liquor. The safe of the Strand theatre In| Worcester, Mass., was forced open last| night, apparently by _professional cracksmen, and robbed of $2,000. The body of John Egan, 70, a retired contractor of New Haven, was found 'n the Cedar Hill yards of the New York New Haven & Iartford railroad. Lionel Trinque. 9 years old. was drowned jn Social Pond at Woonsocket, R. I, when the sled on which ke wag sliding, broke through the lce. More tham one hundrfed national or- ganizations of women have been invited to send delegates to a women's indust- rial conference in Washington January | 11 to 13. | . - — 1 The fishing schoomer Mary E. Hara,! heading iInto the port of Boston with; all sails set, ran aground on Point Al-| yesterday. Yee Wah Shue as mayor of Bosto Chinatown two weeks ago took up duties of Santa Claus for Ch dren in Boston and he strong. ed i The resizmation of Le Baron Russeil Briggs as president of Radcliffe coliege! was announced at the annnal busi meeting of the Radcliffe Alumnae asso- clation. ba Polsonous liquor obtalned over the: Christmas holidays was declared by the/ police in Detroit to have been respon-! sible for ome death and the illness of; ‘more than twenty persons. in in 000 in the district court in Mass., for hearing January 2 on der his brother Vincenzo Pelaggi. |sn hospital at Boston. facing a mad dog last August at S tum a dozen or more chifdren owe their lives. b it Fred Hesselgren wi without be bail. in municipal court in Boston fc tonight to see In the vote an indication that France, Italy and Belguim may present a united front before Great Bri- tain on the question of reparations at the coming meeting here of the premlers. CUNO RESUMES DISCUSSION OF REPARATIONS PROBLEM Berlin, Dec. 26.—(By the A. P.)— Chancellor Cuno, who had been spending the Christmas holidays _with . hi sfamily and friends_in Hamburs, zefused to the eapital today and at onéx’ wmsumid g cussion of the reparations problem witn the few ministers who were spending i Christmas in Berlin. : Although the government has not yet been_ officially_advised from Yarls that the entente premiers will be-prepared to receive fresh of amplified proposals the chancellor is determined to b> equipped with ammunition of this sort,-and he pure poses answering any -summons with am- plifications of his previous. propositions and also with a carefaliy-formulated ofter total based upon his present survey of Germany's econolmec and financlal ca- pacity. The chancellor, together with Fiiance Minister Hermes and Johannes Becker, minister of economics, ha: been oceupled during the past ten days wit1 ‘Iutimas conversations with industrialists, pank- ers, shipping leaders ani rspressntatives of importing and exportiag Indastries, and has also kept ths reicastag aders and the officlals of the ganeral federation of labor unions informed of the nature and progress of these conw:ltations. The chancellor also has ca'lad In the leaders of the natlonalist parties, and the government _ for the time belng may be sald to have parllamentary backing, even to' effect” an ultimate adjustment of the whole range of reparations problems. The internal situation has been thor- oughly .canvassed durifg the progress.of the current . discussions, “and th» chan- cellor believes he has sicceeded in raob- lizing every ounce'.of the matlon’s pro- ducetive energy in response to hiis agpeal for &o-operation. % The bulk of opinion, apepars to be em- phatically in favor of the final fixation of Germany’s reparations obligations. Until this 1s done tlie government it Is declared, will net be in a position to attack such urgent problems as tne stabilizazion of 1re mark, currency contractica and securing &an equilibrium in the budger “This reiteration of tha government's attitude has brought out decarations of undivided support from all the party or- gans, whish are urging the chancellor to ‘make It the pivotal point in his program. There . 1s- some doubt, nevertholess, ‘whether the present lateraational situa- tion is conducive to a final settlement. ‘This. i largely prompted by the indefinite Tesults being obtained a: the Lausanne conference and-the efect of this situation upon the relations betwsan London and Paris with respect to the continental in- terests. of France and Great Britain. The American attitude toward. the impending European decisions also is an enigma German political. circles, as the news from Washington and New York con- tinues to be obscured by frequent contra- 8. 4 sk Meanwhile Germany Is fas: rounding out her “year of trilions” har combinied; floating and funded deot having .a'rcady passed the thirteenth diglt mark, while the amount of currency cirsulation will also have advanced to that by the end of the year. A conservative estimate of her. 1923 budget &hov's this aiSo reach- ing 2 polnt above the trilliom.. ... " .. TO DEVELOP HARMONY - BETWEEN' SHIPPING -LINES ‘Washington, Dec. 26.—A. conftrence of representatives of steamship lines. in-the Gulf, South Atlantic: and- North ‘Atlan- tic. districts will be held January. 15-to disculs traffic matters with a view of and contin 13 sentatives _of foreign . flag lines a5 well as of . American. operators have been_invited to_attend the conference, it was said probably will be held stabbing to death Felix F. Lagg dur-| ing a visit by the latter at Hesselgren's home in the Jamalca Plain district on Christmas eve, A loss unoficially estimated at $150,- 000 was sustafned when the paint shop ! Ames falled generally chords today ington. Members of the Ameri commission took note of Mr. posal that the between the dollars loancd 1o £ the arimstic lion dollar: jan ea A martyr to duty, Patrolman Joseph tion occupied by Mr. Connor, of the Quincy police, died in adoes not speak for ti To his heroism in|the congress or for the Ame Kan himself woul VARIOUS VIEW IN THE PAPAL ENCYCLICAL FOREIGN DEBT SOLUTION BY KAHN NOT WELL RECEIVED Members of Congress Express Decided Disapproval of the Suggestion That at Least a Portion of the Debt be Can. celled—Flaws in the Proposal Pointed Out by the Mem- bers of the American Debt Funding Commission—New York Banker’s Views Meet With Disfavor in Wash- ington. 2 a on, Dec. 26.—The ricas foreign debt pro Otto 11. Kahn, ti to strike a 1 after ge differing and arra tent, hut pointed out that tne act icongress cr: permit > comminston no nkers su tion of the leaders cla the no mood to approv The views of Mr. a letter to Sen: pecple Kahn d he ould apprise foreign day of the anomalons com: Senator Smoot had not gec letter today and safd until he had studied it. rs of the commission, quick to could do nothing toward d!fereniiation the debt as suggested by the 1 of!i The commission, they m_proposed | per: Yorle banker, responsiy n official circles in Wash- | twen can debt funding | per cent. and to ahns pro- | interest along w letter to Semator |are held largely by comm?: governments at | Ferar continued, posi- and that he ixslon, 4 would not comm ne wpon ssien | ment banker. ut, was hingy with at of pay- itted to do only the debts—allow po nt of principal f r then y-five years, rate of in- | terest at not less than four and a quarter of the longer than The mos could do in line wi . it was said by presentativ ted 10 Mr. Ka were any such action. as presented | moot of Utah, & member of the debt funding commission, drew particular fire from Representative Gennarino Pelagsi was held in $20.- Frear, of Wisconsin, a republican mem- | Brockton,; ber of the house ways and means com- the mittee, who addre; charge of shooting with attempt tomur-i Smoot asserting that s forsign governmen:s as to the mer !in this country on the subjecta ot | “Possibly testimony before our come mittee (ways and means committee) that {Over $4,000,000,000 in foreign securities ternational bankers, and company,” Mr. be a factor in llation of the yment of these Loeb = for n | including Ku constant appeals nment’s debt ign debts to r customers can be government's pr! ; $11,000,000,000 fot has are not proposed * inor does he sugge should relin acauisions as an lation of their debt, reaty jand icement for caneele OF PASSAGES SEVERAL LIVES LOST WITH TUG CORNELL IN LAKE ERJS for the definite fixing of ‘ke reparation |\ | and bridge shop of the Central Vermont Railway- Company at St. Alens, Vt were burned and. other property was damaged. Cambridge, Mass, 67 John negro, charged with furnishing inmate was_discovered when o . -where he was a lend: ing merchant, having conducted Warren Dry Goods Company for yea: widow. pany's request for an adatement takes amounting to $157.000 was den! would- be sought in the superior court. seph F, Quinn in Salem, Mass. United States -Attorney Harrls would be taken today regarding th land Road Bullders' Assoclation. Declaring The escape from s pelice station In Langston, of the house of correction with druge. i ers went to bring him to the municipal court. . Pago died st his home In the He was 46 years of age and leaves @ The Amoskeag Manufacturing com- of by the assessors of Manchester, N. H. Counsel for the company sald action The trial of Vito Caruso of Lawrence, charged with the murder of his wife, ‘Marfe, at Lawrence July 2 last, was started at a special session of the su- perior_criminal court before Judge Jo- an- nounced in Boston that definite action whiskey served in nursing bottles at the annual dinner recently of the New Eng- fires had cost Rome, Dec. 26.—(By vergent views of th ant passages in the ¥ expsessed by various of the Kowme news- pepers in their comment today on the docoment, delay . inter- velng since iis publication. The Tribuna, emphasizes the passage construed 'as condemning the peace of Versallles, but takes the view that Pope P.)—Di- import- The al of s Pius_did not desire to urge its annul- ment, his hope evidently being, it con- cludes, that the treaty be given a con- clliatory and charitable interpretation. Regurding the passage alluding to the | reiations between the Vatican snd Italy., the newspaper says (his shows that while the pontiff feels no hostility against the present regime he thinks the eountry is not yet ready for a com- Pl reconeiliation. The Epoca, on the contrary, considers that an accord between the church and Italy to be a necessity of the times, with- out either party being obliged to re- nounce its own political or spiritual eon- victions, while the Giornale D'Italia con- siders the words of the pope “an invi- tation towards the conclusion of a defin- ite understanding with Italy, indicating the road to be followed. The Glornale D'Italla, nevertheless, thinks the most important passage in the enclyclical to be the announcement of the possible convocation of an ecumeni- cal council, which Pius IX and Leo XIII proclaimed to be impossible, an ac- count of the fact that temporal power was lacking. 7t recalls the fact that the Vatican «#® nenical council of 1870 was suspended m July of that year be- 3 Chicago more -than $1,000,000 annually,icause of the sudden departure of 150 John F. Fullerton, fire -commissioner, announced plans to crush an arson ria to which he attributed the increase of fifty fires each month for the past hall year. The herring fleet was frozen in at the {Bay of Islands. Seven schoomers, two of them American -vessels, thres Cana- dian and two Newfoundland, are caugh in the dce with little prospect of getting ‘With them are heid clear until spring. 12,000 barrels of herring. James Hea'y of D ticut - company on Glenbrook near shortly befors reaching Stamford hospi- tal. was almost instantly killeu yesterday when he was struck by.a bus-owned by the Connec-| ltlmf:g‘:. n';l’:‘"l]:: police traffic squads to help curb auto- French and 60 German bishops as a consequence of the Franco-Prussian war. “The resumption of the council now, immediately after another war which so profoundly changed the conditions of these two countries,” it adds, “might be dangerous to the serenity of the discus- cussions, and this, perhaps, was the thought of the pope in not taking a definite decision regarding the convoca- tion of the council.™ 2 it t ORANIZING SCHOOLBOYS TO CUEB AUTOMOBILE DEIVERS San Francisco, Dec. 26.—Schoolboys of San Francisco are t6 be organized into | mobile drivers who speed near school | nouses when the sreets are crowded with children. Older boys of each school ‘will be grouped into companies under commgnd tion and the Shoe Workers: Protectivs|Of the school principal, who will appoint Union draw up a new. ing agreement was made h Haverhill Mass,, by Oscar E. Gill, general agent wage and work- captains and sergeants to have charge of the squads. Positions will be taken up on streets near school houses befors and after schoo; hours. Lanes through 000, issuing as a stock dividend ax ad- ditional share for ‘each share held by ALBERT VOIGHT, AGED 61, SENTENCED FOR MANSLAUGHTER port, ‘Dec. 26.—Albert Voight, Erie, Pa, Alike Poytosh, a me of the mi —The mber of Cornell, of cred X o Cleve- t into port hers lax today by the tug Gilimare. T.. f:e: was scaided and marine men 4 the Cornell went to the bottom, “arry'sg the seven other members of the crew, after a boller explosion. 3 EXACT FATE OF THE TUG COENELL STIVL UNKNOWN Cleveland. Dec. 26—With the findin today of the lifeboat and the carpse o one of the eight members of the crew of the tug Cornell. which dissppeared Thursday, the mystery turrounding the exact fate of the Cornell rcmains um- solved. Search for the vessel and the other members of the cres will be con= unuflé tomorrow, Was announced by the Great Lakes Towing a night, o The lifeboat containing the body xifimol l;o’n-h‘ Sreman of the O nell, was found between Long Point and 1’};‘ Czo:vrne. &:1 the Canadian side of e Erie e searching Gl’lll.r:nre :o:n'y. . . e body, covered with ice, was lying face down and frozen to the planks of the lifeboat's bottom. Ice coated the Test of the hull. In order to remove the body, it was necessary to saw oft one of the seats of the yawl. ‘There . was nothing to indicate defi- nitely whether the tug sank after a boller explosion, burned, ran afoul of heavy ice floes or foundered in a heavy sea. Scores of motorboats and tugs and & mail airplane which conducted a sehreh along the America nshore of the lake Teturned late today without havimg found any trace of the craft. It was thought a seaman aboard the Gillmore had solved the mystery as the face of Poytosh was badly marked. These scars were af first belioved have been the resait were later said by an undertaker in' Erie to be probable bruises and the ag- termath of Dbitter cold weathez, Federal investigation Into the disape™ pearance of the tug will be started within a few days. d The Cornell left here Thursday after- body All of the members of the 7 crew lived in Cleveland. - VALERA DECLARATION ‘Washington, Dec. 26.—Published re= poris that Seeretary Fall of the interior