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COPPER PRICES Average month of October 13M2 Average week ending 11-1-22 13.rni2 Average week endi if; 11-29 22 .13C2 Close WPek ending 1121)22 .12iJ2.", Average for November- .l.V.ItS VOL. 26 NO. 287 BISBEE, ARIZONA, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1922 Price Five Cents CALLS ON TAFT TO SUPPORT IMPEACHMENT METAL MARKET NKW YOU K, iVe. 1. Lead steady spot $7.10fi'7.".-; zinc firm; sj.oi East St. Louis delivery $7.0"(fl7.1.r.. Ititr silver foreign .fi-l'V Copt or steady; .ISTstfi.H. 1 1 " New Group Limes Up Behiftd LaFollettelKSr" BLOC MISTERS E ESS Senators and Representatives and Members-Elect Meet Behind Closed Doors PROMOTE LEGISLATION! Open Meeting Will Be Fea ture of Progressives' Conference Today WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. Another un official 'bloc" in congress was born today when Progressives, Republicns and iDemocrafs, called into session by Senator La Follette, Republican of Wisconsin, and Representative Huddleston, Democrat of Alabama, formed a progressive group for pro motion of progressive legislation dur ing the present and tlie next con gress. About forty senators, representa tives and members-elect, meeting be hind closed doors In the senate agri- resolutions unanimously declaring, their pur'tose "to drive special priv-j ilege out of control of government" and outlining a general program of liberal legislation. Politics were declared to be banned and it was announced officially that no third party movement was con templated. Republicans, Democrats) and a Farmer-Laborite joined in the' conference, which was declared to be bipartisan and legislative, bur not political. Organ iztfn of the Ti-w bloc -which" is similar to the unofficial senate farm bloc and includes many of the latter' members, is to be followed by two oiven meetings tomorrow of Progressives from all parts of the country. Between 100 and 200 are expected for a morning meeting and the progressive conference will close tomorrow night with a dinner, for which accomodations or 800 have been made.. The speakers at the dinner, it is announced, will include Samuel Untermyer, New York at- j torney; senator La Toilette and Ror-! mer Senator Brlstow of Kansas. The j morning meeting win be an open forum" for exposition of Progressive opinion , and the speakers will be (Continued on Page Two) Uncle of Burge on Trial Charged With Attempted Bribery PRESCOTT. Ariz.. A motion of the defense for continuance of the case of D. O. Dunn, charged with attempt ed bribery of a state witness in the murder trial of Thomas W. Burge, was blocked in the superior court here to- i day and the entire day was spent in selecting a jury. The defense sought a continuance on the ground of personal prejudice and inability to get important witness es. Dunn is alleged to have bought James Todd, a witness against Burge acquitted yesterday of a charge of murdering Iver Enge, a ticket to Gal lup, N. M., in an effort to get Todd out of the court's jurisdiction before Burge went on trial. Dunn is an un cle of Burge. Taking of testimony will start to morrow. Weather Report ARIZONA: Saturday unsettled, ex cept extreme southwest portion, possibly snow flurries north east portion. Sunday generally fair not much change In temper ature. NEW MEXICO: Saturday and Sun day generally fair, slightly warmer extreme north portion. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Cloudy LOCAL WEATHER REPORT Readings made at 7 o'clock Inst evening for preceding 24 hours: Lowest' temperature 39. Highest 60. Direction of wind: S W. Weather: Clear. Lowest temperature this month 30. Highest 60. Total precipitation to this date last year 16.77 indies. 401 I NEW Further Rioting in Mexico City Looked for; Federal Troops Held in Readiness to Quell Outburst I Demonstration of Thursday Night Resulted in Death ! 17 Persons and More Than 60 Wounded; Killing of 1 Comrades Rouses Ire of Labor Organizations MEXICO CITY, Dec. 1. (By the As sociated Press) The federal troops were held in barracks today in antici- pation of another demonstration Sim- ilar t that of Thursdaynight when ; 17 persons were killed and more than 60 injured in consequence of the po lice linns uiiuu a uiou nicn was ai-1 tempting to storm the city hall in an-! ger over the shortage of water. 1 staged it 'I tia Ann fail y-twn I r lr, ..- . ... ... " an me sociaieu tress; in. explanation oi against the aldermen held an extend- j killing of theid comrades has aroused), he statement regarding the scrap ed meeting this morning and imraedi- the labor organizations to high pitch j ping of warships made in the house "- . '":u i. in auuci run iu numc j Girl and Man Sole j Survivors of Ship Wreck; 15 Drownedj SAN DIEGO, Cal., Dec. 1. Fifteen persons were drowned when the motorship Isabella was wrecked in a tropical hurricane October 15, according to a report .brought here by the Mexican steamer Guerrero, which ground ed during the s?.me hurricane. The Guerrero was towed to San Diego by the British wrecking steamer Algerine. Both depart, ed to day for San Pedro where the Guerrero will be repaired. The Guerrero was the first to flo. ashore and th Isabella fol lowed soon after. The latter ves sel was engulfed by heavy seas and of the 17 persons aboard only a young oirl and a man were saved. The Guerrero was salvaged after a months work and the Algerine took her In tew. ST. LOUIS TO GREET TIGER Elaborate Precautions Taken J to Insure Safety of Aged French Statesman ST. LOUIS, Dec. 1. (By the Asso ciated Press) St. Louis was gaily be decked in French and American flags tonight to do honor to Georges Clem enceau. Tiger of France, who arrived here this morning on his American tour. For miles through the business sec- tion, where he will ride in a parade in the morning, prior to his address at 2 o'clock in the Odeon, every trolley wire support had been draped from ! sidewalk to sidewalk with red, white) and blue of the two republics he hopes j i to wpM Hnsur But Clemenceau, restingt the coun try home of Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, was under heavy guard. Plue coated po licemen, with riot guns on their shout ders walked post about the hduse. In- side, two plain clothes men kept vigil. Chief of Police O'Brien insisted the 1 , precautions were merely the usual 1 ones. j The Tiger's defense of the Bervice j of black troops In the war in connec- tion with his controversy with Sena ' tor Hitchcock about presence of ne ! groes on the Rhine, brought a reaction this afternoon that pleased him great ly. Not long after his arrival, delegates of the negro citizens committee of St. Louis called at the Pulitzer home and left him a hugh bouquet of American Beauty roses. The card read: "In honor and esteem of your life of service to your own peoile, and for your noble sentiment fearlessly expressed as to the meritorious serv ice rendered by negro troops. "Vive la France." "Splendid, I am deeply touched." the Tiger said when Louis Lefever, his secretary, showed him the bouquet jarvl read him the card. of I as a sign of mourning for eight of its members who were killed during the disturbances. The strike will contin ue until tomorrow noon. ine radical elements which com- prjsed the bulk of the demonstrators j Thursday night, assumed a defiant at - i titude today. Small groups of them i m.nonro.1 in mh, o,... appeared in various sections of the city and shouted investives against the city administration. ' It was not ... ... 1 L-(By the As - oi resentment. Eleven Members of Crew Perish When Steamer Piles Up HOUGHTCN, Mich., Dec. 1 Eleven men members of the crew of the Canadian steamer Maple hurst, lest their lives early this morning when the ship went ashore at the upper or canal en trance to the Keweenaw water way. Nine others were heroi cally saved by Captain Charles A. Tucker and the members of the crew of the coast guard sta tion at the Canal. ' Not r. single life would have been lost, Captain Tucker de-. dared if the men on the steamer had acted promptly and jumped when he told them' to, into the coast guard power boat as he brought it alongside the Maple hurst. SAY WITNESSES Naval Inquiry Into Alleged Drinking Scandal Fails to Uncover Improper Acts ANNAPOLIS, Md., Dec. 1. The first day of inquiry by the naval board or investigation, appointed by Secretary Denby of the nay to in vestigate the alleged drinking scan dal and disgraceful conduct by mid shipmen after the Army-Nevy foot ball game at Philadelphia last Sat urday,' showed no testimony to sub stantiate the report that any of the midshipmen acted in other than a gentlemanly manner. The board adjouri.tJ alcv Ms ses- sion .toduy aml wi" n i f . .a rocv.v.'iie again "uy It developed that tin: administra tion ut the United States naval academy are virtual on trial as the result of the -tilt ,v ! i;:isco-:l.:ct of students at the naval ball on the niicht of the Tomb. ill gam. Pear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, ( superin tendent of the acadomv was the first witnet,s to be call h1 before the board. He testified thai vi ha I direct supervision ovr 'arrangements for the trip of the mtdsnipnien to P.i:ai;elphia, but rials I lie knt-v nothing of the reported drinking at the ball. He also stated that he was unable to attend the ball and returned to Annapolis immediately after the game owing to the illness of Mrs. Wilson. He said it was the duty of any naval officer present, whether on duty or not, to report any acts of improper conduct. Others called as witnesses before the . board today were Commander Thomas W. Kurtz, commandant of midshipmen and head of the disci plinary department, and Midshipmen George Castera. chairman of the dance committee. Commander Kurtz testified that the midshipmen had leave after the game until Sunday afternoon. He said that all midshipmen reported on time and in good order. NO I N T STATEMENT IS MADE BRITISH SCRAP VESSELS I Embassy Takes Exception to! I a .ct- ai j Destroyed 'Obsolete' LIST VESSELS SCRAPPED! j Eignt Warships Sold and in! j D rn i it rrocess ot breaking Ud: ; Process of Breaking Up; Eight Others Named jof commons Wednesday by a repre : sentative of the British admiralty, j the British embassy tonight made ! public a list of eight capital ships j "already sold and removed by ship i breaking firms for breaking up." j Eight other vessels were named as in the first stages of scrapping as ' defined in the Washington naval treaty. The embassy statement declared that "none of these vessels were Obslete in the sense of the Wash ington treaty," and R. Leslie Craegie secretary of the embassy, said that "had it not been for the Washington . . . , . . , , 1 have Both the embassy statement and Mr. Cragie took exception specifical ly to a dispatch of the Associated Press, sent from Washington on Wednesday, sayjng that 60 far, the actual scrapping of warships in the j United States. Great Britain andi lino n nl.bA Vw i A n f f aci ckA nnl v l-ia f,maii .ii-i hv ves' ,o. . Whiw n0i fnr! power as naval purposes." The information on which this dis Great ained patch Was based, so far as i Britain was concerned is contained 'in a "return" to the house of com-! taUves r Greece, Turkey, England, j assuming the garb or Chinese, lived ! session in advance" of the prospec imons made by the British admiralty ! France and Italy under the presidency i i. China town, anticipating reprisals j tive jurors who were to be called in land printed in Julv, 1922 showing of an Italian delegate. j for the death of Ko Tow, national the trial of Jones, and placed opposite 1 the ships which comprise the fleet In addition to the Greek population j president of the Hip Sing tong who ' their names a notation as to their so !of the British empire but ' ommit-l in Constantinople, it is estimated was shot in the doorway of the ! called fitness from a prosecuting I ting obsolete ships of all classes." Copies of this return are in the hands of government officials here. None of the eight ships enumerated in the embassv statement tonight as sold for breaking up are Included in the admiralty's "return." ....... These ships . are the battleships Dreadnaught, Bellerophon, St. Vin - cent. Temeraire, Hercules, and Nep - tune, and the battl cruisrs Inflxibl and Indominabl, all armd with iz inch guns wre inferior because of world war lessons to those carrying heavier calibres, and in that sence all 12 inch gun ships .were classified during the treaty discussion as "ob- (Contlnued on Pag-e Two) BE AT FUNERAL! Simple Rites Will Mark Ser vices Over Body of Veteran Member of Congress I WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. Funeral services for Representative James R. Mann, Illinois,, who died at his home here last night will be held tomorrow arternoon in the hall or the house or representatives where he served, in peaceful and stormy days, for more than a quarter of a century. There will be no eulogies by his as sociates. The rites will be conducted by the Rev. Janjes E. Freeman, rector of Epiphany Episcopal church. Wash ington, which Mr. Mann attended and Dr. J. Shera Montgomery, the house chaplain. Late in the day the body, in charge of a congressional escort or honor will be taken to his old home at Chicago for burial Monday. The president, the cabinet, the su preme court, the diplomatic corps and the senate and house have been in vited. President Harding said he hoped to attend because of the "very great rev erence, personal and official," h had i for th Illinois veteran PRESIDENT II GREECE TO ASK i BARS LET DOWN 1 HANTS United States Especially Will D a i j x r i on Immigration ' Laws OVERCROWD COUNTRY Asserts Proposed Exodus o - itr T i yii Ureeks frrom lurkev Would f Greeks From Turkey Would Swamp Refugee Centers , LAUSANNE. Dec, l.-(By the Asso- ciated Press) Greece must ask the great powers, especially the United States to relax their immigration laws and admit Greek subjects, M. Venize los informed the Lausanne conference today, if the project to send Greek res idents in Turkey back to Greece was so framed as to include Greek resi dents in Constantinople. He said that bis fellow countrymen in Constanti nople number about 500.000. and that j Greece, already' overburdened with refugees, was in no position to take j care 0f them- Lord Curzon, supported Vtjiizelos and declared that it would be a great i misfortune if the Greeks, who were j doing so much for commerce in Con ; giauiiuvuiu ifau iu it't- tun l v i v J There was a general discussion of the subject and references to the Ameri- can immigration kuota law. A report compiled by Dr. Pridljof Nansen, ouUfning a scheme for the! exenange or urecian ana Turkish pop- ulations, was read. It was based on the idea that the future happiness and . ! peace or both countries lay in the send ! in cr rf tlio f!raolrn in rTiit.L-if hartlr in of the Greeks in Turkey back to Greece and the Turks in Greece back jto iin-Key. - i The entire nroblem of nrisoners and Populations was referred. to a special) ' sh-commission composed of represen- S cumpoaeu ui represen - i tnere are u.uoo Moslems in Grecian j territory who would be affected by the I exchange project, and about half a mil I I,0.n Greeks in Asia? Minor. The Greek v ' " "i me lums ? estimated at 30.000 and the Turk- M V. 1, ,1 .. - a 1.1. - rr i j -uua u, uie I r.rnuba of in AAA TVr ITv, .. .... ru..uo 1 j ed that 100,000 Greek males had been 1 sei2fd ' the Turks during the Smyr - i mierior i . i .i WASHINGTON, Dec 1. The admin istration believes that the achieve ments of the American delegates at the Lausanne Near East peace confer- (Continued on Page Two) BURIED ALIVE ' ' Taxi .Chauffeur Indicted, fori wucs muraer; rina aoay in ; Quick Lime5 Filled Grave : I NEW (YORK, Ded. 1. Abraham Becker, taxicab chauffeur, was Jn - dieted Upday' for the murder of his Wife, Jennie, who.' authorities believe. was buried alive In a ntiick lim filleil grave from which her body was taken 1 Wednesday. The ofrtcial theory that the woman! was buried alive was formed after the report of Dr Karl Dennard, assistant! medical examiner of Bronx county,' BELIEVE WOMAN had been submitted to the district at-' i ' torney. Dr. Dennard said that while! WHITE CLOUD. Mich., Dec. 1. ; PfisOll GlKird Held she had been dealt a heavy blow oni Mrs. Alice Dudgeon was convicted in the head, it was of a nature that circuit court here tonight on a charge , Q- jIUr(Cr Cliarre would have stunned her, and not1 of having murdered her son-in-law,' ended her life. ; Romie Hodell. 1 Her hands and fet had been bound The aged defendant was visibly af-i SANTA FE. N. M.. Doc. 1. Torihio and a coat had been placed over her rected when the verdict was read huti Sanchez, guard at the state peniten face. The body bore other evidences, declined to make a statement. She ia tiary here, was arrested today on a he reported, that the woman had re-j to be sentenced by Judge Joseph Bar-j charge of murder on complaint filed gained consciousness in the grave in ton on December 11, along with her; by A. M. Edwards, assistant district a vacant lot and then fought against! daughter, Meda Hodell. who was con-, attorney, in connection with the kill death. victed three weeks ago of slaying her! Ing of Martin Baldanado, a convict Ruden Norkin, a welder, who led thej father-in-law, David Hodell. A charge j who was slain during the food strike district attorney to the grave and as-j ot murder peuding against the daugh- at the penitentiary July 10. In addi serted Becker had told him she was: ter for the death of the younger tion to the killing of Baldonado, five burled there, was held in $10,00 bail Hodel, will not hn prosecuted, it -vas convicts were wounded whn fired s a material witness. i unnounccd j npon by the guards ! Advance of Flames About 200 Buildings Envel oped by Fire ; 1 200 Home less; $1,000,000 Damage NEWBERN, N. C. Dec. 1. Approx imately 1200 persons, most of them I negroes, were made homeless, about 200 residences, two churches, two warehouses and several small stores i e'!l,ltroyed and emated at ! $1,000,000 was caused by fire which late today swept 20 blocks in the west ern section of Newbern. The flames, starting in the neern ' - 1 sertion' K3ined reat headway before iri r- i ! oecause me ujiaiiuinii mas eiiftiiKeu oil ; the opposite side of the town, fighting a fire at the Roper Lumber Company's i sawmill, where. $300,000 damage was ! estimated to have been done. The wind tonight had diminished j and firemen expressed, the opinion i that they had the fire under control ! though several dwellings still were ! burning. ' - . ' ' . D V m . . rt revolvers, Munitions, Brass Knuckles and Opium Are Included in Seizure NEW Voru- nr. . ' 1 3 " 41 l",r":iH;u lon ar, special Deputy Police Commissioner Simon and detectives toduy raided Hip sing tong headquarters in Chi- natown, arrested the president. Lee )Vo. Mrn . , - ', . , lei Hon, and confiscated la pistols, box of daggers and a brass kituck- i lf siTlil Qniniii.iitiAn les and ammunition l Simultaneously another scinad con j ducted a raid on a shop near the h tn Airier har,1.iitf.l-n .l.,'nU ted. four prisoner drugs. Por. five isoners and quantities of 1 arugs. Kor. five w eeks detectives, ; Chinese Delmonico's last August 8th. ; They note(l tnat Lee yee Hong, j state president of the Hip SinS j never W(,nl alone for wherev TONE RAIOITS COPS BIG HAUL appeared, two otehr Chinese were accept as jurors men to whom other beside him; that the door at 13 j wise he would have ohjected. Attor . PeH 8treet a foot from the farnous I 1 tongr buiietin board, where tong wars c.t.utered years ago. did not 1 exist for Hon;, and ttlthouRh it was ithe nearest entrance, he climbed the roofs and entered his quarters by a secret opening; that by night, fur tive groups of Chinamen scrambled over the same roofs, all lowering themselves into the tong headquar ters, carrying bundles. Today the detectives, stationed at strategic points on the roofs, watch ed while Dr. Carleton Simon, head of the narcotic division, William H. Williams, special treasury agent, and police officers, went up the narrow hallway to the tong rooms. In the presidents rooms, they say,; were. Hong's two body guards, smok ing opium. Both were arrested, Olaf Lempbeke, safe expert of the i imlice' nu:ul nnpTiwI tun ilenosiinries I nthem were found the pistols, all blue si eel, the brass knuckles and ammunition. i In a lartre hollow idol in' the as scimblY" room, the smiad say they j found fourteen packages of opium jand 100 poppy heads from which the lru? is extracted. More opium was .'found, upon ripping the floors, ! value. Dr. Simon stated, was Its! in i j ; thousands of dollars. . A rrorl Wnmnn PTvillirl j i kVU I T UllUIII UUIIU Guilty of Murder jDAUGHERTY IS ! UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE, KELLER IS BOD! Would Also Summons Gom pers and Former Attorney General as Witnesses 14 SPECIFIC GROUNDS j Formal Demand Is Made for j Papers Keller Asserts ier sserts in i usioay or department ! WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. Represen- ! tative Kellar, Republican of Minneso- i ta' in a statement today to the house ! J" committee, named Chief J tice Taft as a witness to be called in support of the Kellar demand for the Impeachment of Attorney General j Daugherty. Testimony of .the chief ljtice was desired, Mr. Kellar wrote j in connection with the latter's charge. that Attorney General Daugherty had r appointed to high office "untrust wor I thy, corrupt and dangerous men." j Other witnesses he intimated he. I would Biimmon include George W. J Wickertham, former attorney general. ; Samuel Gompers, president of the Am erican Federation or Labor and Guy ; Oyster. Mr. Gomper's secretary. j In his charges, formally filed. Mr. ' Keller set forth 14 specific grounds ! for the impeachment, alleginj' that Mr. Daugherty had practiced "fraud and i deceit" on Mr. Taft while t.rsi!..nt .to obtain the release of Charles W , Morse. . 1 - The reason why Mr. Keller desired to have Chief Justice Taft and Mr- i Wickers ham testify were set forth in i his . bill of part iculurs. He cited the , -,, . . , . . ( fn 1907 for aneged lan(l frauds against ' . . . . v 0r ji it miaul iivuroi I viu i ii.irii I me government in uregon anu sunse ; quently pardoned by President Taft. He alleged that William J. Burns, now . stliif rf (Ka knvaun rf Int'auf i.FOl If.n t.C the department of justice and then employed by the government, "got pos standpoint.' rnrougn-tne tnnuenre or a secret I I tong, ; service agent associated as a delend ,r ),e ant, he said, "Jones was induced to ney General ickersham after inves tigating the circumstances reported to Mr. Taft as set forth in the Keller bill, that he "could not countenance the methods employed in the prosecu tion of the'se cases by requiring an enforcement of the sentence imposed in the Jones case." On receipt of the report by Mr. Wickersham, President Taft promptly fConttmied on rape Two) Italian Ships Race Across Ocean to Be First to Discharge NEW YORK. Dec. 1. Immigrants from Italy will not he permitted to enter, the United States until after June 30, 1923, it was announced by immigration officials, who said "that 1,455 immigrants who arrived on the Italian steamers Giuseppe Verdi and Contereoso early, today exhausted the yearly quota and exceeded the Decem- I ber quota by 355. I The vessels raced across the Atlan- tic to get immigration preference, but their race ended in a tie. both ships splashing their anchors in American waters one minute after midnight. The monthly quota was divided pro portionately between them, the Giu seppe Verdi being 150 in excess and the Contereoso 196. ,