Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 29, 1922, Page 1

BORAH PROPOSAL WILL ENCOUNTER FORCE OF ADMINISTRATION N THE SENATE Pnfidmtl{nding,inn‘ {Fashington, Dec. 28.—Senate waifare evér the Borah proposal for edonomic conference reached a dran iatic turning point today when President H ard- Ing threw the full force of the_adminii:tra- tion against Senator Borah's plan as cantained in an amendment to the naval appropriations bill and, In a letter 'read in the virtually asked for Norwich Bolletin VOL. LXIV—No. 316 ~OPULATION 29,685 NORWICH, CONN,, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1922 10 PAGES—76 COLUMNS "RICE TWO CENTS New Year’s Holiday. senate, deteat. Another day's general debate foll¢ but action went over. for a vote tomorrow, but so many more ®senators desired to speak that, with forc- es favoring the sparring recruiting, Year's holiday appeared feat of the amendment was predicted positively by administration leaders and voriceded, upon the present status, of the at for Borah time delay in an over the possible. Battle, by its champions. The president’s as at home, ing Jress. toward letter to Nelther would White House or ' diplomacy and shrouded in doubt. light thrown - on the negotiations came loft from Senator Lodge during the yon of the forelgn debt was op A wuggestion from the president in B lotter that congress “free the hands" 8¢ the sllied debt commission, “so) that Aelpful ‘negotiations may be undert: #n", developed sbecial interest in the sen- Senator Lodge sald he was author- to stats that the president meant timg for payment of principal| and of foreign debts might be ex- / I¥FICERS ELECTED BY THE . _New Haven, Dec. 28.—While triends ot Koodrow Wilson were greeting him, to- lay !n Washington on his 66th birthalay AMEBICAN HISTOBICAL ASY'N Letter to Senator Lodge, Declared ‘That the Borah Amxendment for a World Economic Con- ference Would Create “False Impressions” Abroad as Well as at Home—President’s Letter Indicates That Ne- gotiations Are Now in Progress—Defeat of the Amend- ment is Predicted by Administration Leaders and Con- ceded by Its Champions —Vote May be Delayed Over the a world rider reported effort New De- Senator Ledge, of Massachusetts, the repubican leader, said the Borah amendment would sreate “false impressions” abroad as well to the embarrassment what the administration already was do- slding Europe. drafted with great care after conmulta- Hon with Secretary Hughes, however, the sommunication falled to give any dstails 3¢ the negotlations it hinted were in pro- Evidently state fepartment officials divulge any farther information on the_subject. They de- slared the affair was necessarily veiled , @evelop ments Virtually the only senate discussion, when he said that camcella- by nd was not included in its ed, Plans were ‘made of tended, Senator Borah, however, in briet comment on the ;president’s letter, charg- ed ‘that the administration proposed in effect to cancel the forelgn debt by de- ferring payments “until the seventh or eighth generation has passed over the Jordan.” Another overflow holiday crowd fol- lowed todayis senate debate, in which the principal speeches were made by Sena tors McNary, republican, Oregon; France, republican, Maryland; Heflin, democrat, Alabama; and Caraway, dem- ocrat, Arkansas, in ‘support of the Borah amendment and by Senator McCormick, republican, Illinols, in oppositior. Sever- al lively tilts occurred also between Sen- ators Borah, Lodge, Johnson, republi- can, California; Reed, democrat, Mis- souri, and others. Senator Borah sought to reply at length to' President Harding's letter but deferred an extensive reply until to- morrow when a half dozen senators are to speak on the amendment. Administrative leaders hoped to dis- pose of the Borah and -all related sub- jects tomorrow but the speech making plans made a vote doubtful, although possible. It was arranged that Sen- ator Poindexter, republican, Waghing- ton, ini charge of the naval bill, ghould make a polnt or order against the Borah amendment when it is offered but Sen- ator Borah today said he would not formally- submit it until all discussion had ended. Senator Borah today, how- ever, virtually conceded during the ‘de- bate, that the point of order that the amendment is not germaine to the house naval armament conference provision, would be sustained. Notlice of an appeal from such a ruling was given by Senator Heflin, but ad- ministration forces said a large margin to sustain the ruling and reject the Bo- rah amendment was assured. Senator - Borah planned, if defeated, to coritinue his fight by introdetion of his proposal as a separate resolution waich, however, would have to run the hre of a committes and the senate. with its congested programme to the end of congress in March. PROBING, PURCHASE OF BOSCH MAGNETO C NY'S "ASSETS' New York, Dec. 28.—Martin E. Kern, alleged “dummy” purchaser. of the ! bound from Savannah for Bremen, which lPirates Preying | on Rum-Runners Took $1,000,000 Cargo of Whiskey and All the Money Aboard the Vincent A. White. GALES WITH STORM ALONG NORTH ATLANTIC SEABOARD New York, Dec. 28—The North At- lantic seaboard tonight was clutched by gales such as have been raging off the shores of England and France sweeping mid-ocean . Small vessels began piling up on the Jersey and Long Island shores; the number of craft normally entering New York harbor was reduced by nearly one half; at least two out-bound Steamers dropped anchor in Gravesend ‘bay after passing out, and fear was entertamned for the safety of at least one steamer— the German freighter Heinrich Kayser, S|, New York, Dec. 28—A report received 204 | today from Nassau of a $1.000.000 liquor Tobbery on the high seas was taken by custom officials as proof of reports that pirates were raiding rum-runners off the Atlautic coast. “The Nassau report reaching the custom house stated that the Vincent A, White, which cleared from Nassau for Miquelon on Oct. 21 with 10,500 cases of liquor, had been boarded oft the New York coast and all the liquor and money she carried taken. Latest reports showed that craft had entered the rum-carrying trade along the Atlantic seaboard. for clearing trom Nassau with a cargo of liquor was tne Swedish auxiliary schooner Carnegle. Other craft bearing liquoe up the ‘coast include the British auxiliary schooner Athena, the Patricia N. Behan, a Cana- dign craft, and the August H. Johnson. Gales sweening the Atlantic coast were reported to be playing havoc with rum ships off shore. Two liquor-laden craft orashed aground today near New York. One of these, the Annie Belle, it is be- leved, was trying to reach a placid inlet when she ran afoul a mountainous wave and was washed ashore. Prohibition ea- forcament agents seized her small liquor cargo and gathered information which they said would lead to the arrest of lier skipper and orew. ‘1ne “K 12090, registered with the customs license office as the property of “sichael Laurio, of Brooklyn" is be- lieved by the enforcement department to be in the liquor running trade, although no evidence of liquor was found aboard her. was last reported in distress 500 miles oft Cape May on December 6. Hardly had the weather bureau hotst- ed signals warning ef northeast gales oft the North Atlantlc coast, when As- bury Park, N. J., reported that the schooner Annle Belle of Baltimore car- rying a small cargo of whiskey, had run aground and that her crew had waded ashore. Early this afternoon the schooner Ma- donna V out of Halifax, erashed onto the Long Island shore near Montauk Point and was reporte dbreaking up in t' with a cargo of liquor. Her cr ed by breeches buoy. Ashore the storm increased in ty as the day wore on. A cold driving} raln lashed into sheets by the wind, slowed traffic and caused many acci- dents. Upstate there was a heavy snow- fall, an dit was believed that the rain in New York would turn io snaw before morning. Swedish ALL NEW ENGLAND IS MANTLED WITH 8NOW Boston; Dec. 28.—All New. England was swept by northeast gales and thick- ly mantled with snow :oday. The snow= fall in less than 24 hours ranged from six inches in Boston to a foot in Port land, Me. The gale, according to weather bureau records, reached greatcst force at Eastport, Me., where the maximum velocity was 60 miles. Timely storm warnings minimized the danger to shipping off the New England coast. Vessels due to sail today and to- night were generally held- in harbor, Whlfle others due to arrive wallowed in safety out at sea. The situation was 9 w coal shortage when the supply already {monwealth of Nations,” traced the de- Aat atlow;ebb. g velopment of Canada into “autonomous In greater Boston, two fatalities were nationhood within the British league of attributed to the snow storm. David |nations” and held that essential politi- Hogdon, of Providence, R. I, a brake- [ca] unity was a thing of the spirit and man employed by the New York, New |not & bond of peachment. Haven and Hartford rallroad, was fatally | “I am ome of those who believe,” he injured at the South station when the |said, “that the essential unity of the driving snow prevented his seelng the | commonwealth has in no sense been di- approach of a locomotive. Patrick Tun-|minished by its development into an or- er, 4 bargeman, slipped on ice planks | ganization which is virtually a Brittanic and fell into coal bunkers at Neponset. |league of natlons. It seems paradoxi- lcal to affirm. that asits ties have in Iform become looser, they have in truth become._ ; et this was . demon- ‘strated Deyomd-question when the storm of war.broke upon the world in 1914 In speaKing of Canada as an autonom- ous dominion within an imperial com- HISTORIANS ADDRESSED BY SIR ROBERT LAIRD BORDEN New Haven, Dec.. 25.—Ties “light as alr but strong as iron” are holding the “free, autonomous and co-operating com- munities” of the British Empire In a closer unfon than any written document or formal constitutlon, said Sir Robert Laird Borden, former war premier of Canada, who addressed the session of the American Historical association at Yale university tonight. WIND REACHED VELOCITY 2 OF 43 MILES AN HOUB New Haven, Dec. 28—Snow, sleet and rain was sweeping over the state tonight on a gale whose maximuni velocity redch- 45 Implcated i Morehouse Murders| Two Confessions Reported to Have Been Delivered to the State Authorities in New Orleans. Bastrop, La., Dec. 28 (By the A. P.).— Forty-five persons were implicated in the Morchouse kidnapping and murders of last August. according to two confessions reported late today as delivered by the aupartment of justice men to state au- thofities at New “Orleans. The authol ties would mevee deny mor affirm the re- port. The confessions will not be made pub lic until the hearings begin at Bastrop in January, it was thought here, It was stated the signers of the con- fessions have been granted immunity by the state and are being secreted along with other witnesses and will be called upon to testify. It is regarded here as probable. how- ever, that the arrests of some or all of the men named will occur before the open hearing begins. The suspects are reported to be under constant surveillance of sccret servioe men. At New Orleans today Governor Parker, Attorney General Coco. his staff { of legal assistants and the four depart- ment_of justice men were mapping out the future course in the investigations into the death of two men—Watt Danlels and Thomas Richards—believed to have been victims of a robed masked mob. Friends of former Mayor B. M. McKoin of Mer Rouge, under arcest at Baltimore, on a charge of murder in connection with the case, are raising a fund in this and adjoining parishes to be used in defense of the physiclan. < In the meanwhile a deputy sherMt armed with a warrant charging McKoin with murder was efi route to Baltimore. Sheriff Car-onter sald today he cx- pected that —.cKoin would join T. J. Burnett, former deputy sheriff, arrested last Saturday, in the parish jail here by Tuesday. The jail is being guarded by state troops and machine guns are trained on ft. PREPARING TO FIGHT EXTRADITION Baltimore, Md., Dec. '28—Attorney Robert R. Carman, counsel for Dr. B. M. McKoin, former mayor of Rouge, La., declared today he wou & appeal to Judge John C. Rose, of 1 federal circuit court of appeals for a writ of habeas corpus, should Governor Albert Ritchie, of this state, grant the Tequest of Governor Parker, of Louls.a- na, for the return to that state of Dr. McKoin. Dr. McKoin, who is being held here for the murder of Watt Danicls and Thomas ichards, followiwg the Morehouse parish kidnappings of last August, was denied {mmediate releass today on a s'milar writ, obtained in the cit court yesterday. ‘A~ warrant charging Dr. McKoin with the murder, of the two men was issued late yesterday on an afdavit of the sheriff of Morehouse parish. In an exchange of telegrams betweemr Robert F. Leach, state’s attorney here, and At- torney General Coco of Louisiana. as to what procedure the former should take OF MEOIN 1 BRIEF TELEGRAMS The Bristol hospital is glven $6,000 by the will of Mrs. Mary S. Wightman. Stockiolders of the St. Louis Globe Democrat have voted a siock dividend of | 100 per cent. Walter ¥, Hawkins, former mayor of | Pittsfield, Mass., shot himself fo deatn | in his law offices there last night. % Colonel Rufus H. Lane was nominated { by President Harding to be adjutant and inspector of the marine corps. with | the rank of brigadier general. | The public schools of Weonsocket, K. 1., |1, will remain closed until January 3, 1923, the Christmas recess being ex- tended because of coal shortage. Railroad comstruction totalling 1,000, 000,000 francs for next year has been ap- proved by the superior railroad council of France, which has general supervision over all systems. -.A free public library for East Had- dam to be bullt in the village of East naddam is provided for in the will of Norris W. Rathbun. Rudolph Neeser, 10, of Morristow! J., died of burns suffered when the cos- tume he wore to a children’s Christmas party at the Morris country club last |Right. took fire from a candie. Lackawanna Steel corporation and the; | Consolidated Steel corporation, has been elected secretary of the American Irom and Steel Institute. Postmaster Gemeral Work in s state- ment thanked postal workers fe the promptness with whicih they handied the | Christmas mails, The accomplishment was remarkable, he declared. An organized band of incendiaries, em- ployed by two factions in a laundry bus- iness feud, has destroyed more tha. & dozen New York laundries during tbe past few months. Maxim Litvineff, acting Russian for- eign minister, has sent a note (o Great | Britain, France and Italy regarding the settlement of tne fate of the Memel ter- ritory. John S. Oviatt, who died in Orange on Saturday last, aged 86, was one of the last representatives of the Schagh- ticoke Indians who formed a settlement in Kent about 200 years ago. John Niws, aged 20, was bound over 10 the March term of the superior court e the New Britain police court after pieading gullty to a series of burglaries {in men's furnishing stores. Thirty girl scouts from New York, New Jerscy and New England opened Camp Andree at Briarchift Manor, N. Y., the new national camp presented by former Semator Willlam . A. Clark in memory of his daugter, Andree. i A splinter of wood sald to have beren part of the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified, was presented to President Harding by Archbishop Pantelelmon of lthe Orthodox Greek church at Neapolis in Palestine. Marcus Joseph Wright, aged 91, whe held the rank of brigadier general in the confederate army, died at his homs in | tional tribunal at The Hague, shal TURKS TOMAKE MOMENTOUS REPLY AT LAUSANNE TODAY To Answer Demand of Europe and America That Foreign Judges Administer Justice to Foreigners in Turkey—Is- met Pasha Holds That Such Courts Would be an In- fringement of Turkish Sovereignty—Ambassador Child Has Advised Turkey Not to Isolate Herseif as Russin Has Done. Lausanne, Dec. 28 (By the A. P.).— Ismet Pasha has failed to persuade the United States and the Buropean powers that Turkish laws and Turkish courts afford adequate protection to the life and property of forcigners residing in Tur- key, and the Near East conference stands in grave dan quesiion. Europe and America insist that special courts, upon which® foreign judges sit E. A. 8. Clarke, former president of the | must administer justice to foreigners in| Jsmet Pasha | Mustapha Kemal's republic. declares that such courts would be fringement on Turkish sovereign fact, he reiterated this decl: an = T of breaking up on this nus by Turkey. He urged the Angora states men to bring in counter-proposais, which would cecelve carefu: examination. The Turkish delegation had « long con- ference tonight to consider the latest s ous developments and frame the Tup sh reply, which may be ready for sub- on to the conference tomorrow. IRISH WOMEN, FREE STATE FOES, APFEAR AT LAUSANNE Lausanne, Dec. 28.—(By the A. P.)— Jrish women, foes of the Free State have In | come to Lausanne to plead the cawse of s0 ! “an Ireland that will be truly independ- often at today's stormy meeting of the i cnt” commission on capitulations that L Curzon retorted: “1 beg that Ismet Pasha place carefully away in a cupboard th question of Turkish sovereignty. which nobody wishes in the least to offend. Tu key is not the only country which enjo: sovereignty ; many other powers have it, and frequently greater powers than Tur kef submit questions to international tri- bunals without fear of impairing their sovereign rights. The woes of Erin were recited today by Miss Kathleen O'Brennan, secretasy of T4p up and | the delegation. who announced that she had come to the conference to bring be- fore the world “the appalling conditions in Ireland which have resulted from the | Angio- Irish treaty signed under duress a year ago.” It was Miss O'Brennan who recently appealed to the Turkish delegation fe8 assistance and succeeded In Inducing the “Turks to insist that the Irish delegation “The plain truth is, Turkish Jaws are | should be heard by the conference if the based on Moslem law and were drawn by | Armenians were allowed to present theif Moslem jurists and theologians. Tt judges are uneducated poorly paid and dilatory. The same 15 true of the police, and the whole mechanism of Turkish jus- | tics is defective. foreigners cannot Turkey key alonc to get the machinery, trans port and food necessary for her recon- struction and development.” Marquis Di Garroni, M. Bamrere, M. Bompard. Ambassador Child and Baron Hayashi all spoke in support of the pro- posed co fts for foreigners, upon which foreign jiiges designated by the interna- . Under Turkish courts, conduct business in Under this pian, Turkey ted to select Judges ted by The Hague tribun: Ambassador Child’s warmning that Tur- key will align herself witi: other nationa which have repudiated their obligations if ske wipes out all the capitul s and does not grant something instsad as a guarantee of her treaty pledges created a marked impression in the conference and was gratifying to the allied delegations, who regarded the address as advice to { Turkey not to isolate herself as Russie | has gone. apan, which-herseit was obiiged dur- ing a long period to accord tie same ex- tra and it will bo impossible for Tur- | permitted to appear before an official meeting of the conference, there ssem to be no likelihood that the women from Dublin will be accorded an official audi- ence. Miss O'Brennan _distributed 2 dosw~ ment signed also by Kathieen Lynn, & medical doctor of Dublin, and Mrs. Des- pard. sister of Field Marshal French, ia behal? of the woman's organization for the defense of Irish prisoners. It de- clares that the Anglo-Irish treaty, e stead of bringing peace, has plunged the country in civil war, for which England alone is responsible, and charges that at ouid be permit. | the moment when England was protest~ m ihe iist submit-|ing against the Creclan executions, she was ordering the execution Irish leaders solely because the ed to sell to En; Irish victory. The delegation petitions the confersaee to insist that Irish civil war prisoners ba treated in actordance with the rules of the Geneva convention and to call upon England to cancel her meace of “terridle immediate war upon Irelznd™ of 2us- d the fruks of the ENTIEE GREEK ARMY I8 MOVING TOWARD THEACR London, Dec. 28.—A despatch to te Bosch Magneto company’s assets at an alien property custodian sals in 1918, and Joseph K. Guffey, former sales di- Tector of the property custodian’s New York office, today were indicted by a tederal grand jury which has for sev- eral weeks been investigating com- plaints of Irregularities in connection with the Bosch sale. Kern was indicted for perjury and today’s dramatie n the role of mediator. Baron Hayashi counseled Turkey to be patient DDally Express from Athens smys B¢ entire Greek army is towsrd Thrace, war being considered inevitabia and conciliatory. He recalled the many| The despatch adds that former Pres long vears which passed before Japan |mier Venielos telegraphed the revalu- succeeded in freeing herself from capitu- | tonary government advising it to mémd lations, and vleaded with Ismet Pasha to | reinforcement o the Thracean fremf adopt an attitude stmilar to that” of | and asking to be informed of the' mum« Japan. He was certain Turkey would re-|Der of troops there. A meeting of the ceive every help as she entered into her | cabinet followed and the army monwealth, Sir Robert spoke of respon- sible and democratic government as a condition which was “not to be consid- ered as depending upon concession by a paramount authority, but rather to be regarded as having grown out of Inher- ent right.” Referring to the league of natlons, Sir Robert said: “The world’s unity for peace must be found in the realization g a ed 42 miles an hour, while storm warn- Number ot ‘istorie and memtrs o ings were hoisted at the United States weather bureau here. Although a fall of but 125 incheg of snow was recorded, the heavy wind whirled it in drifts that tied up trolley traffic-and kept imotor vehicles off the roads. Despite the unusual ‘ severity . of the storm, no serious accidents were report- ed throughout the state and railroad traf- W & “maker of history” his friends and solledgues of the American Historical as- Jocigtion in session here remembered him A8 & “teacher of history” and elected him first vice president of the associagion. Notice of his election was sent to the war time president with greetings from ' the historfans . gathered here Mr. Wilson, who Has been a member of the msoclation for_many years, was elect- in_delaying the habeas corpus hearng|number of histories and memoirs of the today, Mr. Coco sent the following Rt “In’ answer to your telegram of De- ; / cember 27, warrant has been issued for TR arrest of Dr. McKoin on afdavit of sheriff of Morehouse parish, charging him with murder of F. Watt Damies and Thomas F. Richards. Sheriff leaves immediately with necessary papers fir his_extradition. At least sixteen persons were Injured, none believed to be dangerously when a dust explosion followed by fire entirely destroyed the plant . of the Schrefber flour and cereal. company in Kansas City. 7 4 E »d second vice president at'the semsion it yeur. Other elections wereas follow: second Members of the lege, ‘Nominating ‘Bagtimore. comumnittes vice councll Carlton ‘on, University of Northb Carolina, The next session of the assoclation Pregl- dent Edward P. Cheyney, University of Pennsylvanid ; Charles M, Andrews, Yale; John Spencer Bassett Smit Uharles Moore, of Washington, D. C. Arthur L. Cross, Uhiversity of Michigan; Sidney B. Ray, Smith; Charles Russell Fish, Uni- versity of _ Wisconsin; Hayes, University of Colorado; Frederio L Pagsom, University of Wisconsin ; St. Jeorge L, Slouassat, Univedsity of Penn- iylvana; Henry P. Biggar, Canadlan Ar- shives; Mary W. Willlams, Goucher col- president, secretary, treasurer, < Willlam ~ E. Lingelbach, University of Pennsylvania; Nejife Nelison, Mount Holyoke; Williar L.' Westerman Ephraim D, Adams, Le- afd-Stanford; J. G. De Roulhac Hamil- " Guftey for embezzlement, but federal officlals admitted the indictments were nnrhmanury to the Bosch Imquiry ana did.not concern the alleged irregu- laritfe: The charge against Kern was that he took a false oath to get an American passport when he was technically an alfen last January. A series of embez- zlements totalling $406,001 were charged against Guffey, but it was made clear that these sums were received by -the allen property qustodlaxs office in sales. other than the Bosch transaction. Following return of the indictments, the grand jury was dismissed and it was stated Dby Assistant Prosecutor Joyce that Kerd and Guffey would e of public right and international jus- tice and in the understanding &nd co-op- eration that cen only be gained around a common council board: and these-es- sentials cannot be secured without a recognized system of periodical inter- national conferences at which represen- tatives of the nations shall meet upon equal footing. “Although denied the powerful aid of the United States, the league of nations has accomplished great things for tue world's peace during the last three years. 1On at least four occasions the league has prevented the outbreak of war in Europe. Never 1gore has the habit of interna- tional consultation and co-operation so impressed itself upon the natlons.” fic was reported at practically mormal. Trolley service in the citles was main- tained, although badly. demoralized, but suburban traffic was reported as tied up except for occasional cars. Telephone service between New Haven, New London and Providence, R, 1., was hindered by wire trouble and toll lines between Torrington and Canaan and Thomaston and Litchfield were complete- Iy tied up. HURRICANE SIGNAL WAS DISPLAYED IN PROVIDENCE Providence, Dec. 28 —For the second tlme in the history of the- Providence arralgned Tuesday, federal officials in- timated that should Kern be adjudged un ailen, the Bosch sale would be viti- ated, TO PUSH INDICTMENTS IN BOSCH MAGNETO CASE vill e held in Columbus, Ohlo, while tho 924 session will be in Richmond, Va. “The association also adopted a mem- wandum in honor of the late Sir James 3gyoe, former ambassador to,the Unit- 4 Btates from England, and at the time > his death the only honorary member of the assoclation. IBISH FREE STATES FOES BESIEGE N. Y. CONSULATE New York, Dec. 28.—"Competent Irish sapubllo military force puter office sof the Irish consulate here, it was admitted today by Robert Briscoe, ofticer in the republi- hold them until some bad been made as to who actu- should operate the office. Siege of night when'Lindsay over as Free State ‘widow of the form- s in command. Lau- aged Tepublican who to this country by no longer gives ord- declared he received orders iney and would act on -He refused to say principal 3an army, and B i 1 | i il 3 began last took them an will g ¥ § 13 i -3 f % should i i h : s e MacSw! Valera, | b = Y. keep_control. m-ua“ the oulm: o hours, declaring !;z‘x‘ however, insisted he would re- ‘Washington, Dec, 28.—Expectation | that the Indictments returned ‘in New York, in-the Bosch Magneto case would be pushed vigorously was expressed to- day by government officials here. U. S. Attorney Hayward had been Imstruct: to make every effort to bring the in- gima men to-trial as soon as practica- FRANCE PLANS SEIZURE GEEMAN STATE FORESTS have taken the Paris, Dec. 28.—(By The A. P.)—The French government has practically com- pleted its- plans for the seizure of' cer- tain German state forests as a result of the formal action of .the reparations commission - Jast -Tuesday in declaring Germany' in voluntary default for her fallure to deliver the specified amount of timber during the present year. _ BSome of these government-owned for- ests are in the occupled territory of Ger- sany, and others in Bavaria. It is authorittively stated tonight that apart from any general settlement that may bo reached at next week's confer- ence here of allled premiers, M. Poin- care has made up his mind to take these aorests in economic «reprisal for Ger- many’s “wilful default,” even though tne other allies refuse to participate in the operation. M. Poincaré will insist that has plan of seizure be the first item on the agenda of the premier's meeting, and will ask the approval of the allied powers. MUSSOLINI NOT TO ATTEND CONFEEENCE OF PREMIERS Rome, Dec, 28 (By the.A.P.)—Pre- mier Mussolini informed his cabinet to- day that he would not attend the con- ference of allled premiers in Paris next week, ‘The premler announced that he' would appoint Marquis Torretta, ami to Great Britain, as head of the Ithlian gel- egation to the Paris conference, with | uties surecunded the county Marquis Raggt and Signor Danielio, members of the reparations commission, as_assistants 3 Mussolini’s reasons for not going to Parls were, first, that thie internal sit- uation demanded his presence in Italy, &nd,.second, that there had not been such dipomatic preparation as to give hope o2 & speedy agreement at Paris, and he: fore- !“r' difficuities between Engand and ance, Sir Robert also reférred to the direct diplomatig Tepresentation of Canada at Washington and told of the discussion between the Canadian prime minister and the British prime minister during 1918 and 1919 leading to the appointment of 2 minister plenipotentiary by his ma- jesty to take charge of purely Canadan Tepresentatives at the disarmament con-} ference last fall, Sir Robert said: “Hav- ng regard to the importance and sig- nificance of the conference it was wisely declded. that the absence of a. special in- vitaticn should be overlooked, and that the Dominions should be represented at Washington by plenipotentiaries nomin- ated on their behalf. * * In discussing the Irish Free State, Sir Robert said: “hile the constitutional powers conferred ‘upon the Irish Free State are defined in several - instances ¢ e.+ it is not improbable that the: status of Ireland will have a certain in- fluence -upon comstitutional development in the other self-governing nations,” An appeal for,efforts to make history 2 more popular subject was made by [Robert Lansing, former secretary the Archaeological Tnstitute of America and the American Historical association. [He said: A “I am an amateur and ‘therefors un- qualified to teach you scholars, but it may mot be out of place to give you a thought. An amateur I am one of many thousands. We amateurs are desirous of station of the United States weather bu- reau, the “whole gale’- of “hurricane” signal was hoisted today. The signal was & warning of the coming of a sleet and snow storm which swept the whole of Rhode Island. In spite *of the terrific wind, estimated as blowing at a velocity of more than 55 miles an hour, in some sections, the state was singularly free of serious acddents, according to latest re- ports. * car_ schedules, telephione and | electric light service tn many sections of the state were demoralized, broken limbs from trees for the most part being re- sponsible for fallen wires and blockaded trolley car tracks. Accompanying the storm was a drop in temperature from 53 to 19’ degrees. STATE DEFICIENOY BILL WILL APPROXIMATE $350,000 Hariford, Dec. 28.—Deficlency an- propriations aggregating approximatély $850,000 will be asked .of the session of the leglslature which . is - to convens ‘ednesday, It was learned today. This is over $2,000,000 less than had to be appropriated by the session for - the Denefit of various state . departments ‘which had been unable to meet their ex- penses with the “appropriations granted them in the budget of 1919 session of th elegislature, An unexpected increase of’the state's courts is responsible for about $100,111 of the $350,00 deficiency. This is dus largely to the fact that there were a sreat many more court'days than wers anticipated when the budget was pre- pared for submission to the last .session | PUBLISHERS CRITICISE of the legislature. Nearly $1,800,000 PROFESSORS AS AUTHORS —_— was provided by the 1921 session for| - the judicial department, and at the rate| - phnadelphia, Dec. 28.—College profes- of present expenditures in the courts, Xk for in aver $1,900,000 Will be needed. | mormine and ineftective sentences. By - speakers today at a sympostum on the ‘Author, the Publisher and the Critic* held in ‘connection with the annual con- vention o‘f the &mm Language asso- clation of Amer! X La Plata, Md, Dec. 28.—Fearing that| John F. Brown, editor for-the Mac- angry crowds would attempt to lyneh |Millan company; declared that professors James Bean, 'a negro, alleged to have, not only falled /to present their manu- confessed he criminally assaulted Miss|scripts in acceptable form but that they Emily Wenk in her lonely farmhouse at |write few well organized hs. Brentland this morning, & eo;x;nkvt Tep- | Dr. Wil D. Home of Charles Scrib- ere to- | ner’s Sons also, criticiged professors as night. . Sheriff Johi Simms announced he |: There wWere very few who could will remain on guard all night with his [write for the public, he said. posse. President Frank Avrelotte of Swarth- more college, chairman of the committes on_the publication of rare texts, urged A findces wan prsnoineel by astnait |52 S ates to take un active part in ‘which - scholastie on Oct. 26 in Paris between Allan Tem-|rawtag money . with > vle White and his wife, who was former- | treusures might be printea. ly Nora Paulsen. The suit was brought in behalf of the husband. Both are resi £ dents of. Bostos,” technicalities, If you wish to keep the interest of the layman you must appeal 1o his imagination, to his sense of ro- mance and to his curiosity.” Ll CORDOXN OF DEPUTIES IS PEOTECTING NEGEO PEISONER hAik ;’t:ma 45 ey will entertain themsel Jhour by reciting theln woes. . helping but are not interested in the dry |- “The mutilated bodies of Danieis and Tichards were blown to the top of Lake La Fourche, near Mer Rouge, several days ago by unidentified persoms, who dynamited the lake. Assistant State's Attorney Genefal L. i, Tead a telegram in court from overnor Parker addressed to Governor! Ritchie, asking the latter to delay th: hearing, pending the arrival of extra tin papers. It is believed the court's decision was influenced by the reading of the message, Chief Justice James P. Gorter, in announcing the decision, sad: 2 - “We find thiat the charge is of seca serlcus character that we believe ths traverser should be held until the au thorities of Louisiana have an oppor- tunity to prevent the proper papers.” A deputy sheriff of Morehouse parish, who has with him an afidavit and the extradition papers, is expected to arrive here some time tomorrow. Meanwhile Dr. Hugh Young, with whom Dr. McKoin has been associated at the Brady institute of the Johns Hopkins Medical -school since his arri- val here last October, telegraphed Gov- ernor Parker and Attorney General Co- co, of Louisiana, protesting the -doctor’s innocence. BOMB EXPLOSION CAUSED EXCITEMENT IN DUBLIN Dublin, Dec, 28 (By the A. P.)—The whole city was startled this evening by a violent explosion, far exceeding the familiar detonation of a bomb. ‘The explosion oceurred in a shop oceupled 1y a Mr. McCullough, a dealer in musi- cal instruments, in DawBon street, where either a land mine or some other great explosive was set off. The fropt of the shop was blown in- to the street and the story above de- 1s0lished. The shop had been closed an hour previously, and, as far as known, nobody was on the ~premises. Three civilians, who were passing, were ‘wounded. ~MoCullough, who s not regarded as a political - partisan, ' was recently nomi- nated for the senate, but nmot ’elw:d-. GREAT SHOWING BY Sl FEDERAL LAND Springfleld, Mass. loans aggregating during the fiscal year ending 30, 1922, and with a total of $22,510,395 out in loans at present, the Federal Land bank of Springfield, which serves all New England and New York, has had in 1922 the greatest volume iness since it was organied in 1916, ac- cording to the annual report which will b6 made public tomorrow. In the recent fiscal year 4,308 appli- cations for $16,835,150 = were received, and of the 3,765 applications , passed upon by the executive committee, “14.3 per cent, were ‘rejected. - ‘bus-|n Nicholas Delazells, a shoemaker, said to be from Bridgeport, is under arrest 3. Newtown, and Held in bonds of $1,000 'on a charge of arson following a fire which badly damaged 2 two story build- {Ing in the center of Sandy Hook. Herbert Saxe Urmy, 24, Son of Rev. Ralph B. Urmy, pastor of Bellevue Methodist Episcopal cnurch, Pittsburgh, was found dead in his room in a board- ing house In Middletown, O., the silken cord of his bathrobe knotted about his neck. Baroness Rolando Relsman Stankovic, iwho was refused a marriage license to wed Dr Albert Lorenz, son of the famous Viennese- surgeon, on the ground that she had not shown proof of absolute divorce, announced that she would return to Vien na next Saturday to obtaln the neceseary papers. Supreme Court Justice Mullan ordered that a commission be. appointed -to_ques- tion Stephen J. OMara, now in jail in Dublin, regarding the $2,600,000 fund raised for the Irish Free State in this country, and now on- deposit im Nuw York. Two families were driven from _their homes in night clothes in New Haven when fire swept through a: three story | frame structure in a.residential _dicrict. Stairs on which they escaped partly col- lapsed shortly after. The fire caused damage estimated at 20,000, Marcus B. Campbeil was nominated by President Harding to be United States district judge for the eastern district of New York and Henry W. Goddard and | Francis A. Winslow to be United States district judges for the southern district of I Bz il i i ; F i ¥ il 2sd EEY }|E e i! 1 i i l,vE S 3 new relations with, the European powers, but such assistance necessarily was de- pendent upon a more concillatory attitude CONSOLIDATION OF FIVE RAILROADS IN MIDDLE WEST Cleveland, Dec. 28 (By the A. P)— Consolidation .of the New York, Chicago and St, Louls (Nickel Plate), the Chi g0 and State Line, the Lake Erie and Western, Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville and the Toledo, St. Louis and Western, (Clover Leaf) was approved here today by the boards of directors of the five rallroads, representiag an authoried capitalization of $105.500,000! and ting 1,695 miles of road, W. A. Col ice president and general counsel of the Nickel Plate, announced. The directors of the roads in the con- solidation, approved and ezecuted XN agreement for the unification of the Ave roads into & single corporation to be Xnown as “the New York. Chicago and St. Louls Rallroad company. ected submission of the agreement and articles of consolidation to meetings of stockholders of the several companles The consolidation “will make posseie July 5, 1922. Line railroad lease. The Clover 3 in the hands of a Portland, Me., Dec. 28—Dr. Erwin C. Ruth, of Boston, former chief of the New bureau, was found not The reservists of the 1920 and 1 classes, the despatch contimues, have Been called to the colors, HARGED WITH MUEDER OF 10 YEAR OLD GIRN ew York, Dec. 25.—Benjamin Preme rville. & clerk in the Brookiyn general pasteflice, tonight wWas arTested on'® of homicide in the slaying of 10 year old Theresa MoCarthy, whose body, with the heart pieroed by & .23 revelver bullet, was found in her lyn home last Tuesday. 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