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JIarding Sees
benefits Already
f-oivt Jobless Meet
•'ashingloo. *.»<t. 14.—President
.] ;rdics told v. zjxr men at their
•i» • n' • c with hiiVt today
t . he rcgu.ded the results of the
; employment conference, which
< d l:erc j i s‘.erclay, :.s very bene
1
unemployment conference,”
tit'i Mr. ] la-ding, "has borne rich
r ••••r*u t>. th. unemployed o£ t|is
court-’y.”
i i • eonfo-enco already has siim
ulat- d an increase in employment in
V r,-- sections Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
i f Labor said tonight in a statement.
Tteprca-. ntatives of the "American la
bor movement” can readily give sup
port to the pronouncements of the
conference, he said, since all of the
many "proposals purposely hostile to
the interests of the working people”
which were offered were rejected by
the conference.
“The citizens' employment com
mittee of the District of Columbia is
sued a statement tonight advising
'Those seeking employment in the gov*
content service not to come to
Washintgon unless they are prepared
to maintain themselves until such a
time as they are'employed by the
government. They are warned that
they cannot 'expect employment in
apy other channel inthe interim.
'The statement pointed out that the
federal government had already dis
charged thousands of employes,
many of whom are still out of work,
“There is no assurance," it added,
“that the situation will be changed
for- months to come: rather, that
tl-v-re wil lbe still further separa
tions."
It-commendation was made to em
ployers of tlv district th.'it prefer
n»e be given to men and women of
the district, first to the needy and
second to those having dependents.
Strike Breakers
Ask Protection
at Rumford Mill
Ttumford, Me., Oct. 14—Three of
the 75 men who came here today as
strike breakers for the International
Paper Company tonight sought pro
tection at police headquarters. The
trio left the mill ya-d for a walk and
were soon pursued bv u crowd. They
ran to police headquarters and asked
for protection. Strikers will meet
Saturday.
Search for Dope
Find Hungry Chinks
New York, Oct. 14—Customs offi
cials searched the British freighter
Helenus today for smuggled drugs
but instead found 15 half starved
Chinese hidden in empty ballast
tanks, several of them afflicted with
beri-beri. A report that another
Chinese who had the disease had
been thrown overboard before he
was dead, either in the harbor or on
the voyage from Boston, started the
harbor police on a search for th*
body.
The 15 were taken to Ellis Island
and after they had been questioned
Pong Yow, known on the ship as
“Num one Chinaman” or boss, was
detained on charges that for $1,000
a head he had undertaken to smuggle
the batch into the United States
from a port in China.
Smith and Dartmouth
Team to Meet in Debate
Northampton, Mass., Oct. 14.—For
the first time in the history of either
of the two colleges, the debating
teams of Smith College and Dart
mouth College, will meet some time
in December. Final plans are being
made by the Smith debating union
and the Dartmouth forensis society.
Dartmouth will send a team to Smith
and Smith wil '.send a team to Dart
mouth on the same night. The Smith
faculty has approved the innovation.
SPORT NOTES
Miss Glcnna Collett, Providence, R.
I., and Mrs. IV. A. Gavin, New York,
will' meet Saturday in the final round
of the llerthellyn Cup golf ^ourna
nient at the Huntingdon Valley' Coun
try Club as a result of their vacan
cies todaj. In the semi-finals Miss
Collett defeated -Miss Edith Cum
mings. Chicago. up and 3 to play,
white Mrs. Galvin eliminated Mrs.
Clarence H. Vanderbeckrf. 7 and 5.
Reed "Wins Over Bonash
Boston. Oct. U.—Pal lleetl of Na
tick won the decision from Louis Bo
(rash of Bridgeport, Ot.. in a 10-round
bout here tonight. Both ar* middle
weights.
Shade Beats Keiser
New York, Oct. 14.—Billy Shade,
San Francisco, received the judges’
decision over Fay Keiser, Cumberland,
Md., after a fast 15-round bout to
night. Shade was the aggressor
throughout, ciosing Keiser's right eye
with a left hook in the ninth round.
The men are heavyweights.
McHugh and Farez Draw
•New York. Oct. 14.—Terry Mc
Hugh, Allentown. Pa.. 12$ pounds,
and Harry Farez. Newark, N. J.. Ill*
pounds, boxed eight rounds to a draw
in the first of four bouts at Madison
Square Garden tonight.
Eddie O'Dowd, Columbus, O., 115
pounds, and Abe Goldstein, New York.
118 pounds, also boxed an eight-rour.d
draw.
Gene Tuney. A. E. F. light heavy
weight champion, was awarded a de
cision over Jack Burke, Pittsburg,
after the second round of a, sched
uled eight-round bout. Tuney cut
Burke ever the left eye during the
secend round and Burke said he was
unsMe to oontlnoV
White Menlcey Thut Wae Net
Imagined
▲ mmkoy which is said tp be the
only white monkey in the world has
just been purchased for the Clifton
Zoo. It is called an albino vervet,
and wae found among a tribe of Zu
lus. They regarded the white mon
key as e&cred, hailed hint as a king,
worshipped him and decked his body
with beads and bangles.
— ■■ - e-*
Harry Gaughn. oh: Cleveland, O.,
forgot to collect hie pay envelope
last Saturday. He was glad he did.
for as he neared hie home two men
'Irish and British
| Conferees Adjourn
!Over to Monday
London, Oct» 1-1—(By the Asso
ciated Press)—The adjournment to
day of the Irish conference until
Monday afternoon 1. a no political
significance it Vvas understood to
night. The postponement of the sit
1 tings of the conference was attribu
! ted by the fc'inu L'cin delegates to the
"Englishmen's passion for week
ending."
Some of the Irish del«»gntes are
taking advantage of the interval to
visit Ireland in order to dial with
what was described by the Sinn
rein publicity deparment as "im
portant departmental business.” They
Will return Sunday night in ample
time to attend the session.
Considerable currency was given
today to a sensational report of the
ordering of uniforms for the Irish
Kcpublican army and the formation
of a company to come to Condon
for the purpose of escorting the Daii
[delegation back to Ireland upon the
conclusion of peace. The story,
however, was ridiculed by .Sinn l'cin
leaders, who ri\y no uniforming of
the army is going on and that there
is no question of any detachment
coming to London at any time.
Since the truce has been no inter
ference by the*military with the Irish
republican army, uniformed or not,
and its existence has been officially
recognized for truce purposes, with
the cooperation of liason officers of
the Irish republican arnty and the
llritisli army.
Girl Student at
Columbia Killed
Whin Hit by Train
New York, Oct. 1-4—Dorothy Wil
son, ;t student in the Columbia.
Schoolof Journalism, either fell or
jumped in front of a New York Cen
tral train at ll’oth street station to
night and was instantly killed. She
lived with Mrs. Henry P. Wall at
Tarrytown, X. Y. She was identified
by means of school books she had
with her.
Sons to Contest Will
of Millionaire Colt
Bristol. R. I., Oct. 14.—Russell G.
Colt and Roswell,C. Colt, sons of the
late Col. Samuel P. Colt, multi-mis
lionaire rubber magnate, through their
attorney today filed notice with the
probate court here they would con
test their father’s will. The grounds
for the contest were not stated ar.d
under the Rhode Island law need not
be for 10 days.
Colonel Colt died at his home here
on August fT. The major portion of
the estate went to his sons. Russelt
G. Colt's share was in the form of a
fund given jointly to himself and tv
Ethey Barrymore, his wife, to be held
in trust for their children.
GIVE FEDERAL JOBS
TO REPUBLICANS URGES
W. VIRGINIA SENATORS
Washington, Oct. 14.—Speeding up
of the replacement of democratic
federal office holders with Republi
can appointees was urged today by
Senators Elkins, Republican, West'
Virginia, who wrote a letter of com
plaint to every member of the aebinet
and later presented his views in an
interview with President Harding.
To the President Senator Elkins
declared that the Republicans of his
state were "expressing impatience
and disappointment that so little pro
gress has been made in the past eight
months in calling to the support of
the administration men loyal to it
and in full sympathy with it.”
A large majority of the important
positions in the government, th* West
Virginia senator said, arc still hi lrl
by ’deserving Democrats" whose par
ty members he charged with having
la'd a “thoroughly organized and ad
roifly handled plan” to keep their ap
pointees in power.
“In the campaign” said Senator
Elkins in a statement issued at the
Whit# House, "The Republicans
charged and ^believed and 'convinced
the American people to the effect that
these men were inefficient. The Re
publican party promised* to rid the
government of these appointees. The
Republican party was voted the re
sponsibility and to discharge it suc
cessfully. Its members should be
called In to help with the job.”
‘ ' Feet rot Fool-Proof
The human foot is one of the most
beautiful and useful instruments,
ever conceived, but. unfortunately, it
is not what a'motorist calls "fool
proof."
There is n great deal of misunder
standing about our feet. We treat
them outrageously, as either custom
or fashion may dictate. As a result,
about one-third of the population is i
splay-footed, another third walks
like a hen on hot cinders, and the re- '
maining third may 'be said to walk !
fUriy naturally.
The foot has a graceful arch run- |
ning;fore and aft. We take this
%ongi|jjdinal arch, turn the toes out
ward so that the heels meet at an
gle of forty-five degrees, and then,
put all our pressure in a skew direc
tion across the arch. No railway
engineer would dream of building a
straight-arch^ bridge to carry loads
’neither across nor along the arch but
Irregularly askew over it.
. We T>ught to walk with our great
toe pointed straight in the direction
of progress, as Indian runners do.
and "spring from the great toe." In
stead, most of us "take off" in a lum
bering sort of way from the ball of
the great toe.
The arch of the foot is supported
largely by the tendon which runs un
der the foor to the great toe itself,
and this neglect of use renders this
tendon weak and lax, and causes de
pression of the arch. The best cure
for a weak arch is the practice of
raising one’s-self upon the great toe,
that is doing as a penalty exercise
what you should have done all along
Naturally. If you will try when
walking to keep the feet straight, and
to end each stride with a little
“spring" off each big toe alternately.
!you will be rewarded by finding that
progress seems easier, quicker, and
more bouyant.—London Daily News.
I_
! H. B. Baker and his son, Edward,
| of Harlan, la., have been fellow stu
| dents at the University of Iowa dur
'lng the last year, but next year the
I son will teach and the father is to
continue his liberal arts course in
prepara tiqp for a teacher’s certificate.
..
Would Deny Islands
jD. £>. Capital iin
Status is Fixed
Manila, oct. 14.—(U; The Associat
ed Pressj—The AnkrUun Chamber
of Commerce today officially approv
ed a cablegram sent by its officers
i to John t?. Hold, the chamber’s rep
j resentaLive- ut 'Washington, advising
against further 'investment of Am
1 ericitn capital in the Philippines un
til the permanent political status ot
the islands is definitely settled. The
cablegram said:
"Give publicity to the fact that
further American investment in the
Philippines is inadvisable until the
political status of the islands is fixed
as a territory of the United States.
“The American community is now
fighting for fixed territorial status
and asks support of a lion-invest -
ment policy until the change can be
effected.”
Tli2* message of the Chamber of
Commerce brought a cabled protest
from the Swift, Parnee Company, of
New York, owners of the Manila
street railway, depreciating "author
ization of propaganda in the United
States against investment of capital
in the. Philippines.”
The reply of the American Chamber
of Commerce to this cablegram was
I dispatched today to its Washington
■ representative.
“Political conditions in the Phil
ippines,” the eablegram read, "and
individual and governmental antag
onism to American investments after
being made justify propaganda of
non-investment of American capital
until the permanent political status
of a territorial government is ob
tained.
"Pusincss protection is possible
only in the large business centers,
Manila, Cebu, Iloilo, Zamboanga.
The provinces no longer are available
for American investment or business
'operation owing to lack of protection
| from political antagonism to Araer
1 ican interests generated during the
! Harrison administration, which cause
! territorial government would eradi
cate;”
(fotton Broker
Philanthropist
Shoots Himself
New Bedford, Mass., Oct. 14—Pliin
eas C. Headley, Jr., for 25 years liead
of a firm of cotton brokers, ended his
life today in his home at Little Bay,
East Fair Haven, by firing a shot
from a revolver through his right ear.
Mr. Headley had been ill since last
December with neurasthenia.
A graduate of Amherst, he had been
identified with public movements
and philanthropic enterprise for a
quarter of a century.
SIMS SILENT TILL
RETIREMENT DAY
New York, Oct. 14—Rear Admiral
Sims has declined an invitation to
speak at the Armistice Day dinner of
the ew York Chapter of the Military
Order of the World War. Officers of
the chapter today attributed the re
fusal to the reprimand he received
for his speech in England in reference
to Sinn Fciners.
This officer quoted the .admiral as
Writing to the chapter: “A year from
now when 1 am on the retired list, 1
can say what 1 feci like and then I’ll
bo glad to talk to you.”
Counterfeiters at '
Work Along Coast
Boston, Oct. 14—Eleven men. be
lieved to be members of a gang of
counterfeiters working along the At
lantic coast, have been arrested at
Norfolk, Va.. and Charleston, S. C.,
within the past 24 hours. Inspector
Hobart of the treasury department
staff today informed Judge Hayden
in the Roxburv district court.
The inspector appeared in behalf
of Kirkpatrick Brown, charged with
passing a counterfeit $10 bill, asesrt
ing that Brown was the innocent tool
of men who had passed the false,
notes to him. Brown was freed:
One dollar bills, shaved down and
raised by the addition of a cipher at
the corners, are the spurious paper
mainly being circulated by the coun
tcrefit gang, 'Hoboxd said.
In Chelsea today Jake Gilman, was
found guilty of raising a $2 federal
reserve note to $10. Owen P. Mc
Kenna, special agent of the treasury
department, testified that 1,000 slips
marked "10” had been found in Gil
man's room.
A MAINE HERON STORY
Predicament of Bird Caught by Snake
on River Bank.
The plight of the young Heron in
the “Bedtime Stories" has reminded
a Bath man of the plight of a heron
he found being crushed by a ,snake
some years ago.
The big freshet of 180t). that car
ried away so many mills and bridg
es, he says, left quantities of wreck- ]
age along the shores of the Andro- ;
scoggin up river, so his son thought
he might build a camp from some
of it. Father and son set out and
they were towing some sticks of tim
ber behind a boat when the son no- j
ticed a heron on the bank that could !
use .only the right wing. They went
ashore to investigate. The bird had '
its head stuck into some brush, j
Herons are rather ferocious custom
ers. so they tied the bird’s l<jgs and <
wings as a precaution. When they ,
pulled him out of the brush they I
found a large snake coiled several j
times about the bird's neck and 1
wound about the left wing in such a j
way that the bird was helpless. Its
head was tucked in under the bound
wing. The snake seemed wise
enough to know that the bird could
not fly if his wings were not free.
The father took the small blade of
his knife and severed the snake, as
one snips a cord, inserting it with
the back to the bird's neck.
' When they came to examine, the
heron they found a place beneath
the wing about the size of a quarter,
all white and parboiled. They de
cided that the bird had attempted
to make a meal of the snake to his
sorrow and that the reptile was
sucking the bird’s blood. The
feathers were off the bird's neck and
if was raw. They put the heron in
a box. but he was so ugly he would
neither eat nor drink and they had
to let him go. It struck the slats
so viciously that one was split off.
Germany is now making dyes at
the rate of 5000 tone a week.
Pigs Dr ink Enough Milk To Float A Navy
The Three Billion Gallons of
Skimmed Milk Poured Into Pig
(«■ Troughs or Gutters Every Year
Would Float Our 773 Warships
and Then Some.
.
BOY. i rape General "Hell an’
Marla” Dawes!
Tel! him to let those official
spendthrifts in Washington come up
! for air. while he packs a few of his
most sulphurous cuss words for a
C'.lck trip to the farm. It has been
1 'earned that more than three billion
i gallf-ns of skimmed milk are being
fed to p:gs or thrown into gutters
annually. It i3 clearly a case for
the General.
Three billion gallons, more than a
third of the milk produced in this
country In a year, is turned back to
the farmers or poured into the gut
ters after the cream has been ex
tracted. The farmers get rid of It
in the easiest way. They feed It to
stock.
Now what does three billion gal
lons of anything mean to you?
Think of it this way—that stu
pendous lot of waste tniik weighs
13,000,000 tons, and if it could be
poured into one colossal pan It
would float the T78 ships in the
United States Kavy with plenty of
room for maneuvers. The total dis
placement of oar sea fighters is less
than two mijlion tons. So it ap
pears that we could increase our
navy to six or seven times 11s
present size and still find room for
its ships in that ocean of skimmed
| milk wasted every year.
While pigs and other farm stock
are feeding upon this milk diet,
men, women and children are losing
one of the most valuable foods
known. There is no more reason
for using only the butter fat in milk
than there would be in eating only
the fat in beef.
The Department of Agriculture
states in a recent bulletin that the
skimmed milk produced in the but*
ter-njakng industry ia equivalent in
protein value to all the beef con
sumed by the country in a year.
It contains all the body-building
elements of whole milk—protein,
carbohydrates and mineral salts.
Only the fat has been removed.
The Government has long urged
farmers to market thgir skimmed 1
milk as human food, either in the
form of buttermilk and ccttago
cheese or in soma other wholesome
form. Science has c#me to the front
in discovering a way of combining j
skimmed milk with the fat of the i
eocoanut, creating a new synthetic
food product. Thus enriched,
skimmed milk is used as an in
gredient for cooleing and baking and
its food value saved for human con- j
sumption. The ocean of human food
now wasted, can be utilized this
way to the economy of the consum
ing public and to the profit of the
farmers
BELIEVES ARMS
CONFERENCE WILL
PROTECT CHINESE
Peking, Oct. 14.—(By the Asosciat
ed Press).—Referring to recent state
ments which have appeared in local
newspapers that tlu> Washington con
ference merely would -'reach an agree
ment for the , depredation of China.
Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, the Amer
ican minister, in ad address before
the American Chamber of Commerce it
Tien-Tsin yesterday declared he would
venture to assert this prediction
would be proved erroneous, fudging
from what he knew of the confer
ence's history and purpose, and that
he could not conceive of any state
ment containing more misrepresenta
tion.
“A Jstrong. efficient Chinese govern
ment being the key to the whole Par
Eastern situation," he said. "The pow
ers should h nd the Chinese peopl"
whatever help they desire in 1he es
tablishment of such a goverrmttnt.
"The American government will
never be a party to a 'grab g,.me' m
China. The world's conscience today
tells nations and governments to 'seek
peace and insure it,’ and the first
condition for insuring the Orion*'?;
peace is respect for China's political,
territorial, administrative and eco
nomic sovereigns. It is America's
honor to be a leader in this high un
dertaking."
Dr. Soiiurrian spoke of the success
which cooperation by Chinese and
American private enterprises had
brought to the industrial deve’opmeii'
of China, and emphasized the neces
sity of "further increasing such enter
prises.
Mellon Promises
to Keep Down /*
Expenses Uncle Sam
Washington, Oct. 14—Federal ex
penditures for the current fiscal year
will be kept within the agreed limit
of $4.0:U,00CUXX) Secretary Mellon
declared tonight in u statement
denying reports that additional defi
ciency appropriations of S.'iTO.OOO.tKX)
would be asked. The program limit
ing expenditures to the above figure,
which had the sanction of the Presi
dent and the ways and means com
mittees is being carried out satisfac
torily, according to the statement.
Congress has been advised, the
secretary said, that it can provide
with the framing of revenue laws on
that basis, o.nd there now appears
no reason to alter the plan. The tax
program, therefor, is not affected, lie
added.
PRESIDENT MEETS
CATHOLIC WOMEN
Washington, Oct. 14—President
Harding today received L’.IO delegates
to the convention of the National
Council of Catholic Women at the
White House and expressed pleasure
at their report of the progress, made
in the campaign fpr a national ser
vice school.
Great Saving in Phosphate Possible
by New Process.
The United States owns the rich
est' and most extensive phosphate
fields in the world. Heretofore heavy
annual wastes of valuable phosphatic
materia! have occurred during the
mining and manufacturing process
es. A new method of. controlling
these losses devised by the United
States Department of Agriculture
consists in mixing the "run-of-mine”
phosphate with sand and coke and
srhcltinc tiie mass in an electric ot
fuel-fed furnace. In this process, the
phosphoric acid is driven off as a
fume and may be readilv collected in
concentrated form. Millions of tons
of phosphates previously wasted will
be saved potentially as a result of the
perfection of this new reclamation
system.
CHURCH SEXTON
HANGS HIMSELF
FROM BELL ROPE
Concord, N. H., Oct. 14.—John J.
Gatherum, employed by Stratton &
Co., and sexton of the South Congre
gational church, committed suicide
by hanging from the bell rope of that
church here today. 1,1 e left a note
; for his wife during the dinner hour
! which, she found later in the after
| noon saying he was going to hang
himself and his body would be found
in the South church. She notified
j the police who found the body hang
' ing in the upper tower.
T -
1 British Notables
| to Give Pershing
! Luncheon in London
! Condon, Oct. 14—(By the Associat
ed l’ress)—General Pershing will be
.tendered a luncheon on Monday next
by the Duke of Connaught, at which
a number of other distinguished per
sons will be present. The duke will
1 represent King George Monday morn
ing at the ceremony* of laying the
, Congressional medal of honor on the
grave of the British unknown warrior
in Westminster Abbey, while it is
not definitely known whether the
picked battalion of American troops
is cornin'-; from the Rhine for the
ceremony, arrangements have been
made for the transportation of 500
soldiers direct from Coblenz to Con
don by way of Ostend and Dover.
Press Can Bring
Prosperity Back,
Advertisers Told
New Haven, Conn., Oct. 14—If the
newspapers of the country “would pay
more attention to the psychology of
improving business than to murders,
scandals and th epetty details of life,”
the nation soon would get back to
normal condition declared John F.
Jones, of New York, addressing the
convention of New England Advertis
ing Clubs here today-.
"The real trouble with business”
he said, “is that the American people
and American business arc sick spir
itually and morally. If the newspa
pers would turn over their front
pages to booming business for two
months the country would be swept
by a wave of prosperity.”
Senate Sergeant
at Arms, Dies
Muskogee. Okla.. Get. 14.—F. M.
Bates. 73. for It years sergeant-at
arms in the United Stgtcs Senate, did
here last night.
S90,023 UNCLE
SAM’S SHARE SERIES
New York, Oct. 14.—The world’s
scries netted Uncle Sam a hansome
profit, but not so much as the Demp.
scy4Carpentier fight.
Frank K. Bowers, collector of in
ternal revenue, announced tonight
that the tax collected on! the eight
world's scries games antounted to
J9n,023. The fight brought in
994. 77 in taxes, he said. |
Twelve field inspectors the rev
enue department kept tally-on the at
tendance at the ball games and
checked off the sales of tickets with
the baseball management^.
r
Shortage Foodstuffs and
Newsprint in Mexico City
Mexico City. Oct. 14.—Ccmditions in j
the city of Puebla are imported as!
becoming more acute, the^e being a '
great shortage of foodstuffs of the
concerted protests against|the exces
sive taxation law recently ^enacted by I
the state legislature. Newspapers in
that city suspended publication yes- I
terday as a result of a shortage of |
newsprint paper.
1
Dock Fire Loss at
Charleston, S. C.,
Estimated at $1,000,000
Charleston, S. C., Oct. 14—Esti
mates of loss from the fire which
last night destroyed two-thirds of
the Columbus street docks of the
Charleston Terminal Company were
placed today at $1,000,000.
Most of the loss was in fertilizer
materials stored in wooden ware
houses, a northeast wind keeping the
flames from the more valuable up
per warehouses. Started, it is be
lieved, by sparks from the smoke
stack of a passing steamer the fire
raged fiercely for four hours nnd
| then was confined to dense smoke
caused by smouldering chemical ma
terials.
Marshall Field’s
Filly Victor on
Newmarket Course
London. Oct. 14.—'The Middle Park
. stakes of 1000 sovereigns for two
! year-olds, run over the si«-furlong
Bretby stakes course at Newmarket,
was won today by Marshal Field’s
filly Golden Corn. Sol Joel’s Polyhls
tor finished second, three-quarters of a
length behind the* winner. Kennedy
Jones'^Flying Orb was third.' Five
horses started.
Auto Bootlegger
Killed by Officers
Ogdensburg. N. Y„ Oct. 14.—District
Attorney William P. Ingran of St.
Lawrence county announced tonight
that he would resist any attempt by
federal authorities to take possession
of the large quantity of liquor seized
in connection with the investigation
into the death of Wilbur Hunt, al
leged bootlegger.
Hunt, riding in an automob:ie, was
being pursued by Charle.i Spink, a
state trooper, and Henry Hollard. col
lector of customs for the northern
district of New York, riding together
j in another car, when the shooting
took place. Trooper Spink has admit.
i ted firing the shots that killed Hunt,
hut both he and Collector Holland are
i under arrest on technical charges of
manslaughter in connection with the
shooting. Collector Holland declared
| tonight he volunteered to submit to
, arrest in order that a thorough inves
i tigation might be made of the affair.
Searles Autopsy Plans
to Be Made Today
Lawrence, Mass., Oct. 14—Com
municating with the office of Medi
1 eal Examiner George B. Magrath in
Boston by telephone this noon, Dis
’ trict Attorney Donnell arranged for
• State Officer Richard J. Griffin to
meet him in Boston tomorrow to dis
1 cuss the eomipg autopsy on the bodv
i of the late Edward, F. Searles of
j Methuen, whose death, it has been
hinted may have been due to poison
1 leg. It is expected that a date for
; the autopsy will he named as soon as
i Dr Magrath has been consulted.
Cabinet Crisis Is
Rumored in Spain
Madrid, Oct. 14—Rumors that a
cnhnet crsis prevails in Spain were
given considerable prominence by the
newspaper El Heraldo in its final edi
tion last night. Minister of Finance
, Fambo is said to he*onposed to a con
tinuation of the heavy expenses auth
orized by the government. The news
paper Insisted that the ministry
found itself in a difficult position be
cause of difference of opinion on
many uuestions between a number of
its members.
CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN
TO ASSIST IN CEREMONIES
AT ARLINGTON CEMETERY
Glov orsville, X. Y., Oct. 14—Rev.
Fiancis A. Kelley, chaplain of the
27th division durine the war. and
now pastor of the church of the Sac
red Heart, this city, has been named
by Secretary of W»r Weeks to per
form the ritual of the Roman Catho
lic church at the ceremonies incident
to the burial of the body of the sol
dier at Arlington National cemetery,
Washington, D. C., on Armistice day.
Father Kelley was selected from a
large number of other Catholic chap
lains who served with the army and
navy during the secent conflict. He
was formerly national chaplain ,of
the American Region.
Right Rev. Charles It. Brent,
chaplain in chief of the chaplain:;
corps overseas and bishop of the
Episcopal church will conduct the
Protestant services.
Penn's New Stale College
Head Assumes Duties
State College, Pa., Oct. 14.—Gover
nor Sproul in an alldress at a dinner
tonight made a plea tor disarmament,
declaring that a single shot fired at
the Aberdeen proving grounds would
send a Pennsylvania boy and girl
through the state’s free educational
syst* m fro mlhc primary grade to a
collegiate degree1. The dinner was
held in connection with the inaugur
ation of John M. Thomas as pres
ident of Pennsylvania slate college.
"Isn't it time we stopped such sin
ful. criminal waste'.'” ask'ed the Gov
ernor. "On the eve of the disarma
ment conference, let us all unite to
uphold the policy that will relieve ift
of this awful extravagance. Let us
stop it and turn over a new leaf. Let
ns make our fortifications in the
hearts and souls of our people, not
in wasteful armament. The forty
million dollar cost of a single battle
ship would provide a free state uni
versity and leave twenty millions for
its endowment.”
Dr. Thomas was formerly president
of Middlebury College.
No Pontoon Bridge
Across Hudson at Yonkers ,
New York, Oct. 14—The plans of
the Hudson River pontoon bridge
company to build a pontoon bridge
across the Hudson at Yonkers has
been abandoned, it was announced
today at the office of Colonel Kdward
Burr, chief of army engineers of this
division.
If is understood that the plnn was
given up because of opposition to
the project that developed during a
public hearing and because the ship
ping board was criticised for agree
ing to furnislwthe necessary ships at
91.000 each.
War Vets Seeking
Postmasterships
Are to Be Favored
] Washington, Oct. 14—A fixed pol
• icy giving preferential consideration
1 to postmastership applicants who are
I veterans of the World war was in
1 augurated by President Harding
today by executive'ordor.
The civil service commission was
directed to add five points to the
! examination rating of every pros
j pective presidential postmaster who
| hq,d been in the government war
| service. In adidtion the president or
acred that age limitations be waived
in such vases and that the period of
service during the war be. reckoned
as a part of the required length of
i business experience.
FRONTIERS SOVIET
RUSSIA CLOSED
' Mew York. Oct. 14.—Charles Recht.
attorney for the Russian Soviet gov
ernment. gav" out tonight a cable mes
i sage ho said he had received from
i Leonard Krassin. Russian Soviet rep
resentative vi London, warning trav
elers that the frontiers of Soviet Ruf
sia are closed. v
"Nobody will he allowed to enter."
the message added, “without proper
vise from Moscow or from a repre
sentative of the Russian Soviet gov
ernments broad. No steamship com
pany has been authorized by any
proper authority to accept passengers
for Russia. Woulbo immigrants are
warned to disbelieve all promises of
steamship companies in this respect.
Persons disregarding this notice must
bear all responsibility* and conse
quences of their action themselves."
PENN. STATE DRY
HEAD LOSES JOB
Pittsburg, Oct. 14.—Major Samuel
H. Wolfe, director of the field forces
of the prohibition enforcement agents
in Pennsylvania and temporarily in
charge of the Pittsburg office, was no
tified tonight by wire from Washing
ton that he is to be relieved of his
duties tomorrow. It is understood
that John Kxnicios. a general agent
of the Pacific department, will succeed
j Major Wolfe.
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes
is expected tb arrive in Pittsburg to
morrow to begin an investigation into
the situation in western I’cnnsv,vania.
Tipsy Mr. Possum
Gives Game Away
Chattanooga. Tenn., Oct. 14—Fail
ure of a ’possum to,play his game
resulted In the discovery yesterday of
one of the largest illicit distilleries
ever found in this section according
to revenue. officers. When attention
was first called to the inability of the
animal to pursue a straight line of
retreat, the raiders thought it was ill.
One of them, however, pursuing the
rules of investigation laid down in
best detective naratives, cantured the
' fugitive and smelled its breath.
| The still, erected on a concrete
| base, had a capacity of 250 gallons.
! ACCIDENTALLY KILLS
HUNTING CHUM, FEARED
HAS TAKEN OWN LIKE
Hewlett, N. Y.. Oet. 14.—William vr.
Hois, proprietor of Hewlett Inn. was
shot nml fatally wounded t< day by
Paul AA'eidman of AVoedmere, while the
two m n wore examining a revolver
before setting off on a hunting trip
, to the Adirondack.*?. The police say
that Gels in a statement before his
dentil exonerated AA'eidman. saying the
shooting had bjen accidental.
AVeidman. after the shooting, rode
away in his automobile, telling friendt
j he was going to do away with him
! self. His automobile was "found two
hours later abandoned on the road.
Friends, fearing'that be might commit
suicide, asked tile police to send out
a genera! alarm for him.
Revere Beach “Donkey
Man” Killed by Auto
Revere, Mass., Oct. 14—John Drum -
mey, who as owner of a suable of bur
ros at a resort here wag known to
New England children as "John the
donkey man” was killed by an auto
, mobile late today while leading one
of his animals on the Revere Reach
parkwav. John O’Braudls of Rostnn,
driver of the machine, was lidd by
the park police on a charge of man
slaughter.
Special Commission for
Foreign Loan Funding •
AVashlngtpn, Oct. 14.—Modification
of the administration's foreign loan
bill so as to place the funding oper
ations under the jurisdiction of a spe
cial comm'ssion, was agreed to by
Secretary Mellon today In a letter sent
to She ways and means committee wita
the approval of President Harding.
Find Prehistoric Corn in Tennessee
Stone Graves.
Corn that grew in Tennessee in pre
historic times, possibly before Joseph
put away his seven years’ supply in
Egypt, was unearthed recently by \V.
JO. Meyer, of the Bureau of American
Ethnology, and sent to the .United
States Department of Agriculture for
identification. During recent ex
cavations in Davidson county, Tenn.,
'Mr. Meyer came upon a number of
stone slab graves containing
mortuary Vessels. Some of these held
specimens of charred maize in fairly
good condition. From the size and
shape of the grains it Was possible
to identify the variety us Many
Bowed Tropical Flint, a form about
half way between true flint and pop
corn. . .
The same type of Indian corn oc
eurl in tlje West Indies, and there is
no question in the minds of sci
entists but thaf there was a very
| early communication between the
West Indies and North America,
Not only corn but beans, squashes,
pumpkins, and tobacco are of tropi
cal and subtropical origin. These
staples, now so important throughout
both hemispheres, found their way
into North America and were culti
vated beyond the Great Trikes in
Canada long before the discovery of
America. There is abundant evi
dence of communication between the
\\ cst Indies and Florida, and up the
Mississippi and its tributaries.
Bowditch St., New Bedfprd’s new
boulevard, the building of which has
been under way since ISO."], was com
pleted and opened to traffic last
week.
Jane the Great and
Sanardo*Take Feature
Races £t Lexington
Lexington, K>\, Oct. 14—The forty,
ninth annual meeting of/the'K«n
tucky trotting horse breeders’ asso
ciation came to a close this afternoon
with the 2.03 trot and the 2.01
os feature*. Each proved a good con
test, Jane the Great winning the trot
j after losing the first heat to Kilo
Watts and Snnardo taking th* p^
j after finishing third in the second
, heat, which was won by Ha! Mahone
; Summary:
2.03 TROT, 2 IN’ 3, $1,000
| Jane the Cfi-eat. by Peter the
Great (Cox) ..j 1 l
■ Kilo Watts, bm (Childs) .1 ; «
Peter Coley, bg, (Stokes) .335
! Wiki Wiki, bg. (Get s) .415
1 Charles Rex, brg, (Murphy) ... 844
; Selkan. ch m. (H. Fleming). 5 6 5 1
Time—2.03 1-4; 2.04 1-4; 2.05 1-4.
2.10 TROT. 2 IN’ 3. $1,000
Escotiilo. br g, by Atlantic Ex
press (Erskine) .
Petty. Thornton. b)k m, (Stokes),.
Rod Ron. b h. (McMahan) .
I The Proof, b g, (Mitchell) .
Utah, eh g, (Gers) .
High Knob Mary, br m. (Coerhne)
Time—2.07 1-2; 2.03 l’-2.
11
2 " !
3 3
4 4
5 3
C6
2.01 PACfc, 2 IN’ 3. $1,000
Sanardo. bg. by San Francisco,
(Murphy) .131
Halmahone. bg. (Cbilds) .
Sir Roch, bg. (Dean).4 24
Juno, bm. (V. Fleming) .3 33
Senator Wilkes, br g, (Orav) ..5 43
Time—2.01 1-4; 2.01; 2.03 1-4
3 YEAR OLD TROT. 2 IN 3, $1 (MO
Sakura, bf, by Atlantic Express,
(H. Fleming) .11
Eleanor Guy, bf, (Eagan).3;
Silladar, be (Murphy).2 3
Marge the Great, hr f, (Cox) .... 44
Time—2.06 3-4; 2.07 1-4.
AUGUSTA LOCALS
There will be a social and dance ia
G. A. R. hall this evening for mem
bers of Capital Grange and their
friends.
RUSTEM BEY FINISHES
FIRST IN ARMY TEST
Wa-shington, Oct. 14—Rustem Bev,•
an Arab standard bred, ridden hjr j
Captnin \V. R. Allen, finished first
here tonight in tty? 300-mile artny en
durance test race which started from
Camp Alfred Vail, N. J., last Mon
day. The others who finished of the
field of 17 which, tnade the start were I
j Cragmore, a thoroughbred and stan
dard horse; Crabbitt, Castor and
Pathfinder. The judges will deter- !
mine weight, general conditions and
appearances tomorrow and make the i
awards.
The race was held in connection j
witli the army’s program of deter-j
mining the type of horse best adapt !
ed for cavalry uses. Veterinariejj
who accompanied the horses on the j
I test declared that all those who fin-j
; ished came out of the race in splen l
! did shape. Most of those who fell[
, out, they added, had tendon trouble!
GOTHAM COPS TO
WEAR STEEL CORSETS
New York. Oct. 14—Steel rorsfjjg
for blueeoats is the latest fashion i«
New York.
T< n pairs. It became known today,
had been purchased after tests had
shn'-n them bullet-proof. They will
be distributed in emergencies to mem
bers of the bomb. Italian and loft
squads. Although they are intended
primarily for use when barricaded
criminals are to be attacked, they
later may be introduced generally
among the forre. They are made of
Norwegian steel and weigh about 5
pounds.
BARNES LEADS IN
ST. JOSEPH GOLF PLAY
St. Joseph, Mo.. Oet. 14—.Tim
I Bernes, natioral open golf champ1*?",
led tin* field of 45 players the first
day of the St. Joseph open golf
tournament which is being played
today ard Saturday at the St. Jo
seph country rlub. Raines had 74
71-145. Jock Hutchinson of Chicago.
holder of the British onen champion
ship was second with 76-71-147. The
scores were high as a result of a
stiff wind and fast putting greer.s
Bar for the course is 75.
Dean Brings Chairman
Harvard Athletic Committee
Cambridge, Mass.. Oct. 14—Dea°
Be Baron R. Briggs lias been re
appointed .chairman of the Harvard
Athletic committee, which ha; charge
of the regulation of sports , at the
university. The other faculty num
bers of the committee as announced
tonight are Dean Chester N. Green
ough and Rr. Roger I. Lee, professor
of hygiene. Henry I’ennypackcr, 8
Boring Young, speaker of the Mas
sachusetts House of Representative*
and H. H. Faxon were named as th«
graduate members and the under
graduate body will be represent^'
on the committee by B. Keith Kan1
of Newport, R. I., football captain
George Owen, Jr., Newton, hockey
captain, and A. K. McLeish. Jr.. Fort
Benton, Mont., basketball captain.
For Punishment
Deserters and Slackers
Washington, Oct. 14—Measures W
prevent escape from punishm-nt
deserters or slackers under the dm
law are provided in a war departnae11*
bill introduced today by Senate*
Wadsworth chairman of the Sen»te
military committee. Secretar\ Wi'fKs
wrote Senator Wadsworth that
deserters might escape as a result 0
the termine.lion of the military emfr'
gency through ratification of ,,e
German pea-e treatv. and that log!*'*'
tion to extend Jurisdiction over th(
deserters was desired.
When William Eahn of Beavert^
Oregon, captured Chief Joseph of tb«
Nez Perce Tribe of Indians some '
years ago. hr did not know of c
claim a reward of JtiOO that the 0°T‘
ernment offered. His friends recen1'
ly filed a claim for him and he m3)
receive the money.
At a recent dinner of the Bah
Head Club in I.ondon prizes
awarded for the barest head, war *
being given for “color" and "polish
In addition to "sparseness." I'ft***
wore also given for the best solltsrf
hair and for the best “fringe.”