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' ENGLAND UNIONS MAY BUCK DERBY RECRUITING PLAN London, Eng., Nov. 12. British trade unions 'will convene within the next two weeks to decide on their course of action relative to the Lord Derby recruiting plan. Lord Derby announced yesterday that the government would take steps t,o compel enlistment if the young men of the nation do not enlist Telegrams have been flashed from the London trades jmlon headquar ters to every city and village in the kingdom. Government officials are anxiously watching the latest moves. Two months ago the Railway Ser vants' union, with a membership of 1,000,000 men, officially served no tice on the, government that if steps were taken toward conscription the labor movement would take the reigns of government into its own hands. Officials appeared to take as a joke this unprecedented action. To day it is being seriously discussed. o o ACTION OF U. S. IN ANCONA CASE AWAITS REPORTS Washington, Nov. 12. Serious conflict in brief preliminary and in conclusive reports regarding liner Ancona's sinking raised doubt among officials today regarding this gov ernment's future action. Even exact number of Americans who perished was still in doubt Sec'y of State Lansing today laid before Pres. Wilson and the cabinet reports so far received -from Amer ican Ambassador Page of Rome and from American consuls. It was stated several days probably would elapse before information complete enough to support action by U. S. would be available. London, Nov. 12. Belief that Ital ian centers are withholding messages dealing with important phases of the shking of liner Ancona grew here to day. Few fragmentary dispatches touching on minor details of torpedo ing or describing scenes' of terror unong passengers reached here! throughout the night and early 'to day. But news regarding more im portant circumstances about sinking of the ship was lacking. Latest dispatches from Rome said Italian governemnt had received no official reports on Ancona disaster. KEEPER LARKIN'S TESTIMONY HITS "CHICKEN" JOE Joliet, III., Nov. 12. The most damaging evidence yet offered against "Chicken" Joe Campbell, charged with the murder of Mrs. Odette Allen, was given yesterday by Keeper James Larkin, who was the only prison employe on the third floor of the warden's house on the morn ing of June 20 between the time the convicts were released from their cells and the time the firfl was discov ered in Mrs. Allen's bedroom. According to Larkin, the negro haa about fifteen minutes in which to commit the crime, sa&irate the bed with alcohol and set fire to it Lar kln's testimony was weakened con siderably by his manner in giving it fee shifted uneasily or answered an grily when cross-examined by Att'y Barnett, who found several loopholes in the testimony. o (A BITS OF NEWS Mayor Thompson going to Wash ington, Dec. 12, to try to land Repub- lican Nat'l convention for Chicago. Mayor denies that either Chief Healey or Com'r of Public Works Moorehouse would resign. J. F. Cole, butler of Mrs. J. D. Ber key, 116 B. Walton pL, who disap peared at time $4,000 in jewels was missed, arrested in Berkey kitchen while pleading with wife to return jewels in order to satisfy his remorse. Sam Ettelson, new corporation counsel, made following appoint ments: H. O. Pagels and A. G. Woods, investigators; Mrs. Anna Azzato, copyist; Edna Nebeck and Pearl Mesce, stenographers; F. A. Horri gan. expert board of local improvements