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T M I W E A T H 1
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Confessions
Link 45 in
Klan Murders
?i|Df d Statement* of Mob
Mfmkfr* Reported as
Given to la. Offieials by
S. Seeret Agents
Expect Informers
To Get Immunity
^ itnewe* and Men Who
furne?. State'** Evidenee
Protected by Troops
SA5TB0P. I? ? Otse. 2S ( Be Th? As
Mrfiitrtt Pre?? i Fnrty-flv. person?
?ere i?P**<?t*<i in th. Morehouse kid?
? - tnd murders of lsst August, ?c
t te two confessions reported
* isj s? delivered by th. Depsrt
mmt et Justice men to state authori
,. *f?a Orl.?n?. The authorities
ve.'d ?either deny nor affirm th. rr
sert.
Tie cenfessioni will not be made
,?11* sntil the open hearing? begin at
lut-ep in January, it ?as said here.
It ?at ttated the signers of the con?
fetti?? h?v? been granted immunity
p. m? ?t?te and are being ?ecreted
?Jisgwifh other witnesses ?nd will be
mMo? up''", to testify.
Bit r-gnrded here as probable, how
mot, that the arrests of some or all of
m? a?n ramed will occur before the
met httr.ng begin?.
Tie ?u*p<*rts are reported to be
tant surveillance of Secret
l?r?i*?
.-d? of former Mayor Dr. B M.
Iflein of Mer Rouge, under arrest at
liKimore on a charge of murder in
! aae-rlion with the ca?e, are raising a
fm' in thi? and adjoining parishes to
tx tied in ??efrnse of the phytician.
It the meanwhile a deputy sheriff
traed with s warrant charging Mo?
iti? with murder waa enroute to Bal?
da? r*.
Troops Guard Jail
Btriff ( arpenter said to-dsy he ex
MrKoin would join T. J,
Ivrn-tt. former deputy sheriff, arrest
?eittt Saturday, in the parish jail here
?it T ltd Th?* jail is being guarded
UMte troops and machine guns are
' -.rttofd
XtV 0RLEAN8, D??c. 28.? Reports
Uittthad been learned on highest au
tktritr tint two signed confessions
eta Vr men who participated in the
ter Itsji murders had been brought
by Secret Service i gents could
??wed tonight. Attorney
i to discuss the
id H'imitted, however, that
grant im
I'articipant? who
Parker. Attorney General
Cseo .nd Assistant Attorney General?
Hts?n end Walmsley conferred for sev
?rsl house to-day with four Federal De
pirtm?nt of Justice ?gents in the At
-.eral's office over the evi?
dence in the Mer Rouge murder.
Governor Has No Comment
Governor Parker boarded a train late
e afternoon for Baton Rouge and
{inference? WOT? again resumed to?
by the other officials. Governor
Parker's parting words on the Mer
Rouge horror were:
'I hev* nothing to ?ay Thi? case
tai phased out of my hands into those
?f the Attorney General and anything
ihou'.J come from him."
BALTIMORE, Dee. 28?Warnings
'r?m Bsltlmore went out to-night to
'.??ernor and Attorney General of
Lenitisna to "go slow" in dealing with
Dr. B M McKoin, former Mayor of
M*r Rouge, I.a.
Metnah:?- Dr McKoln, charged with
mutd?t and le?derthip of ma?ked
?ob?, rttniiins in a cell in th? Bslti
??rs city Jail, having lost his first
*!?? f?r freedom in the Baltimore
f-urti. R?, attorney, Robert R. Car
?u, fermer United State? District At
teraew. declared tonight hi? next
?or? to free Dr. McKoin would be a
?Ja* of hi.beaa corpus in the l'nit.d
?tote? District Court from which the
m?y be carried to the Supr?m?
?<>d St?te?.
Tb? wamng? to Govenor Porker and
Attorney General Coco of Louiaiana
tame from Dr. Hugh Hampton Young,
?Jlrector ?( the Bradv Clint? of John?
Hepkin? Hoapital. Dr. Young was Dr.
McKoin'? teacher and mentor in a post
frtdutte courte in urology.
Or. Young's telegram to Governor
P?rker was as fol
"Wr?-known physicians and basiacse
?si of Monroe fumif.h positive alibi
?JtoMcKoin. Will you not investigate
9m oefore forcing him to return to
?esiiiana* 1 am absolutely t-ure he is
ta?c?nt and you will, in my opinion.
?? a ?rreat wrong in taking him from
i ???Ition with m? at John? Hopkins
it.l. Investigate and then act.
? ? reasonable request. The
rr.?;ral profession of the ?'ived States
1 eld you responsible."
.
Cliureh Drops Haywood
\fter Klan Activities
Rev Dr. Oscar Havtvood. grand
Uk?*! i,t ?he Ku-Khix Klan in New
yfc City, has been dropped from his
Wtion as general evangelist of the
***? Baptist t'hurch. it became
Bftlast night. The action removing
?_*ln> 'rom the church calendar was
??? Wednesday night by the Church
?T ?n a unanimous resolution which
r*r'?u*]y had been pasted by the
?**fd of deacons.
?_j* resolution said that Dr. Hsy
??d? present activitie? on behalf of
? ?l?n were incompatible with hi?
duties, and made no reference
*??_? dispute with the pastor of the
h? Rev. Dr. John Roach Rtrat?
**f "> which Dr. Haywood said the
or"*}'* ?*??? afraid to make known
?*"? luywood's connection with the
????eh. and that the Klan klokard had
J***-? dor,, w.ll by the church, while
*??d ?uff?red irreparable harm at the
***** at Dr. Satraton.
?'nee 1818 Dr. Haywood ha? been
S _VJ W!,th th* Calvary Church,
ye before that was pa?tor In other
?J'Jork churche?. On December 1
^?turn?d to hia home in Mount
ail! ??^l** Vr R*raton, the klans
J" '?id that If H came to a vote of
??d n c *" ih* '?'*ri?" "' him?e!f
?ton he would be upheld
- mutter last night
g? Ptraton aaitli "He ha? receive-i
Greek Army Opens
Drive Into Thrace
Athens Calls Reservists to
the Colors; War Minister
?s Commander in Chief
LONDON, Dec 28. A dispateh to
"The Daily Express" from Ath?i 11
th? entire Greek army t? moving tu
ward Thrace, war being considered in
evitable.
The dispatch add? former Premier
Vrnix?*lo? telegraphed the revolution
ary rovernment advising it to ?en<l r?
inforcements to the Thrarisn front
and asking to he informed of the num?
ber of troops there. A meeting; of the
t'ab'net followed and the armv movetl
The reservists of the 1920 ant
claaae?, the dispatch continues, hitv?
been railed to the colon. War Mm
inter P?ngalo? ha? been appointed
commander in chief in Thrace and ha?
left with his ?ecretary for Sal?nica.
News Summary
WASHINGTON
Defeat of Borah reaolutton calling
for an international ?conomie con
f<rence is virtually conceded after
President openly opposea it.
Preaident Harding'? letter on
Borah amendment raises doubt in
mind? of Senators whether he de?
sire? Congress to enact legislation
Ifiving* funding commission power to
cancel Allied debts to Unit?d State?.
I Representative Hill, of Maryland,
to ?'demand Congressional investiga?
tion of charrge* of drinking and
bootleggng within the Capitol.
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States will not name commis?
sion of American business men to
determine what Germany can pay
until Allied premiers meet.
DOMESTIC
Two confessions are reported, in?
volving forty-flv? persons in th?
masked murder of Daniel? and Rich?
ard? at Mer Rouge. La. Dr. McKoin
loses habeas corpus fight at Balti?
more.
Muriel McCormick announce? her
mother will become bride of Edward
Kremm. Swiss architect, to-day.
Three thousand brave blizzard to
;jt?pt Smith at Albany; Miller quit?
futive Mansion ahead of time.
LOCAL
Negro, confessing he murdered 0'
nnge woman in cellar of home,
speedily indicted and booked for
trial.
New York City, in rrip of ?ever*
storm, haa but two days' supply of
coal.
Boarder's rev?|v?r killed ten-year
old Theresa McCarthy, poaaibly by
accident.
Load of granite reveals Poorhouse
Plait Anchorage, lively spot in IRK?.
Nyack citizens' committee seek?
to recruit whole community for
churches.
Fifty injunctions aimed at wet
spots to make dry New Year?
Fttinger, scoring Ryan'a part-time
investigation, darea Hylan to pro?
duce "Rockefeller crov.'!" in schools.
British Ambassador inspect? Elli?
; Island as Davis ateta complaint? are
? minion propaganda."
Transit commission to name to?
day publics repr?sentative? on In
terborough board.
Willie Kolehmainen. distance run?
ner and brother of Hannes, facing
trial aa draft dodger.
I'ix not giving business away, but
selling it to employees on
terms, he insists.
Two indicted in Federal investiga?
tion of Bosch magneto sale.
Executors demand removal of
temporary administrators in Booth
will controversy.
Laundry arson hunt spreads aa
association aecretary is called maa
ter mind of plots.
FOREIGN
Lausanne peace conference on
verge ot a break-down over Turkish
courts ??sue. Mo?lems adamant
I againat Ambaaaador Child'a plea.
Bonar Law, Britain's Premier, to
take the initiative nt conference in
Paria Tuesday, and offer new repara?
tions settlement plan France con
liders invaiion of ?he Ruhr in
evitable.
SPORTS
John Whitbeck reaches semi-final?
in junior tennia tournament for na?
tional title.
Don Pepe, at 60 to 1, win? at Ha?
vana.
Six favorites are beaten at New
Orleana.
Jay Gould defeats Tom Coward in
aquash match.
National Intercollegiate Associa?
tion adopts new constitution and dis
cusse? reforms in athletic?.
MARKETS AND SHITS
Stock prices, cotton and wheat
lower.
Directors of I?/? Van Sweringen
road? approve consolidation.
Car loadings at high record for
this period of the year.
I. P.. T. increases number of di?
rectors from fifteen to eighteen; de?
ficit smaller.
Typewriter Weifrht? Ounce
Mass.. Dec. 28. A type?
writer weighing cne ounce and fitting
in a vest pocket was brought by Dr.
H. E. Wetherell, of Philadelphia, to
the meetings of the American Associa?
tion for the Advancement of Science.
He devised it for his own use.
Held between the fingers and upon the
paper, the machine writes by means of
a wheel equipped with rubber letters
which special device? bring in contact
with th? paper. Dr. Wetherell aaid
that operation of the typewriter wa?
slow in t'.ip hands of a beginner, but
that an experienced writer could attain
? ?peed oi seventeen ?sards a minuta.
It, 1? alraoat noiael???.
Negro Admits
He Murdered
Mrs. Brigham
Jersey Grand Jury Indicts
Youth 19, After Confcs
xi?n of Attack and Slay?
ing in Home at Orange
Stran^lr?. Virtini
In Dark ?Cellar
Woman Had Gone to His
Aid, Believing Him In?
jured in Fall on Stair.??
An indictment against William ??.
Battles, the nineteen-year-old negro who
w?s arrested following the diieovery of
the body of Mm Charle? F. Brigham.
atrangled, bruised and bearing evidence
of a criminal assault, in the cellar of
her home, at IM Fuller Terrar
ange. N J., Wednesday night, charging
him with murder in the first degree.
was returned la?t night by th? mBBBB
County grand jury, which sat late into
the evening m Newark for the purpoa?.
Judge Sticke! ?et next Thiir?d?y for
the ?rial.
Battles is said by the police to hare
admitted his guilt yesterday, I
i have maintained an almost nonchalant
.coolne?? in ?pite of the fact that sucn
an admission connect? him with a
; crime that was hideous in the cold?
blooded manner of its commisaion.
If Battles maltreat?d and killed Mm
Brigham. he selected a? his victim s
woman who was hastening to his a
, sistance in the belief that he had faller.
; and Injured himself while working in
! the cellar
Then Joined Children's Pia??
If Battle? kill-'l M?* Hr.gham. he
went straight from his crime, the po?
lice believe, to an upper room where
jer three children were playing about
a Christmas tree, admired their pres
joined ?n their play and put off
queations about their mother with the
remark that ?he had gone out en an
errsind.
Whoever killed Mrs. Bigham util
ired, in an attempt to choke her cries,
?"our.t.v Physician Warren believes, a
lencth of rope which he toff from a
child'? swing in the cellnr.
All Orange was discussing the crim?
yesterday and in all Orange ther?
seemed to b? no one who h?d ?ny
doubt a? to who committed it. Group?
gathered on street corner? and waied
I so indignant in their discussions, sorne
. time? talking of lynching, that Cap
1 tain Ryan gave his man order? to allow
? no such trat! er.ngs to remain, and sev
! eral wer? bivken up by ??he police.
It wa? not long after midnight when
1 Battles was arrested at his home, at
: 500 Madisor Street, aa the result of
?tatemeats made by seven-year-old Vir
; Rinin Brigham, who is confined to the
i house with measles, that the negro had
1 been there Wednesday afternoon wash?
ing windows when her mother disap?
peared, and that when ?he asked l.im
where her rrother was, he replied that!
I ahe had gone out to get a loaf of bread.
Scratches on Negro* Far?
It was noticed immediately that
Battle's right cheek waa scarred by two
deep scratches, apparently freshly
made, and that there was another on
i the left aid? of his upper lip. Asked
about them he is ?aid to have replied
that he inflicted them himaelf while
-having Tue*day. Dr. Warren declared
, that not only were the ?eratche? in
I flicted later than Tuesday, but that they
! were not such cuts as a raxor would
make.
According to the confession the pris?
oner is said to have made after hours
of question nit by the police, Mr?.
Brigham sent Battles to the cellar
| about I p. m. to put coal on th.
; In descending the ?tain he ?tumbled
'and clattered heavily down thi'
four --tep? to the Cellar floor.
Brigham, alarmed by the sound
of the fall\ hastened down the cellar
atairs, it i? ?aid, inquiring whether he
was hurt. Battles is ?aid to have re?
turned no answer until she was within
arm's length, peering about for him in
I the gloom of the cellar.
Then he i? said to have seized 1
the throat, dragged her to the ?ule of
the baaement where the child's swing
, hung, pulled down the rope and drawn
| it taut about her neck. According to
the statement he is alleged to have
' made Battles denies that he inflicted
the. numerou* bruise? which scarred
! hlirvictim's body, ?ome of them on th?
head being so severe as to indicate to
Dr. Warren the use of a club or some
? ?imitar weapon
routed by photographs of finger i
print? taken from the door of the pre- ?
? serve closet in which the woman'? body
! wa? locked, which are said to be identi?
cal with hi? own. Battles i? alleged to
have admitted that he flung the body I
! into the cle?et, aliening that the in- ,
! jurie? found upon it were due to drag- [
! ging U across the cellar floor.
On reaching the ton of the cellar
?tair? after the tragedy the negro is
aaid to have told the police that he
wa? met hy ?;even-year-old Virginia, i
who asked him where her mother wa?.
a query which unnerved him to ?ucb '
lOktinu?! ?a 141? t*w?t
Onlv 2 Davs'
tJ o
Coal Supply
Left in City
Reserve Stoek*-* Dvundle
a? Emergency Demand
Rise?; Fuel Frozen in
CarM Haapeil D?lit er\
Drop in Miiie Yield
Factor in Scarcity
Woodin and Driinitnond
?Cited to \ppear in (oiir.
on Brooklyn Protc-t
The storm which fuel ?dministra
tion official? have dreaded ?ince the
beginning of the coal ?hortage came
yeiterday and found New York I???
prepared than ever with reserve ?up
plie? of fuel. Barely two da>? i
?erve ?took? are available, including all
eub?Mtute-, such ?? ?team ?ite ?nthr?
clt? and aoft coal.
Figure? en available supplies of all
kinds of coal for household i.?
New York ?howed that the total wai
?lightly in excel? of rit.OOO tor.?,
against normal requirements of ap?
proximately 30.000 ton? daily. Thi?
total Include? 19,000 ton? of buckwheat
and 15,000 ton? of ?oft coal, ?
mended a? a substitute for domesti.
*i*e anthracite; J300 tons of pea coal
and about 2.1.0O0 ton? of egg, ?tore and
srd coal.
(Ml Distribution Hindered
'I h? full effect of the slonn on coal
?hipmentt will not be felt for a day
or two at leait, it wa? ?aid at the
u?l adminl?tr?tion office, but th
. ffect will be serious II ined.
In addition to throwing another burden
or in? coal hau.irur road?, which are suf
f?ring from run down equipment, each
step in the distribution of the coal ha?
been made increasingly difficult. All of
'. 1.? cual in the cara during the storm!
wa? ftr?t water ?oaked and then fl
tight, ?o that it will be found impos?
sible to ua? ateam acoops and other
unloading machinery when It reaches
the Jersey terminai?. ? oal in barge?
on its way from the Jersey terminals
to New York dealers ha? suffered in
the same way a? did the ?oft mm
ing brought by water from Hampton
Road?.
With new shipment? thu? retarded
the ?hortage o: reserva ?locks i? con?
siderad a ?er?on? one. Little mor?
than a month ago Mayor ! I ?*. - r. Il
a ?tatemen? calling atten'ion to the
fact that the city had only four daya'"
reierve of eoa and ?'.nee that time
thi? riierve ha? been cut in half. Th?
dwindling of the ?oft coal reserve
aince that time i? a fair example.
William H. Woodin, State Fuel Admin?
istrator, called attention then U
large stock? of ?oft coal and ?team
size anthracite which were awaiting
buyer?. In th? ?ucceedmg four week?
Um ?eft coal ?tocks of 100.000 ton? had
dropped to 16,000 ton?.
Price? Are Increased
The dimini?hing ?tocV? brought about
increaalng price?, and it is feared now
that unless receipts are materially in?
creased a runaway market will i*
The eagerness of domestic consumers
for substitutes for anthracite has al?
ready braucht about a runaway market
in coke, it w?s lesrned. Coke, which
was ?old for $6 a ton. ha? Jumpe i
and is being used almost exclu
by householders at that price. Blast
furnacea in the Pittsburgh and
Y'oungstown steel districts have
forced to shut down, it wa? reported,
becauae they were unable to buy coke
in competition with dome?tic users.
The advance in the price of ?oft coal
ha? been comparatively ?mall in und
around Kara York. Production ha? been
reduced during the last two or three
weeks, so that the entire output of all
bituminou? mine? i? now about 10.000.
000 ton? weekly, ??? afainst 12,000,000
ton?, which hs? been the average pro?
duction ?ince mining w?? returned fol
lowing the strike.
Th? Allied Civic Committe? of Brook?
lyn, which ha? declared open war on
Samuel J. Drummond, di?trict fuel ad
mini?trator for that borough, obtained
yetterday an order to ?how cau?e
which will bring Mr Woodin and Mr.
Drummond b?fore Supreme Court Ju?
tiee Gannon to-day. Both officials are
cited to show hu?.? why a W1
mandamus should not be i??ued against
them requiring them to c-rry out the
provisions of ?he emergency fu?T law
which the Allied Civic Committee con?
tends they have thus far failed to do.
a
Buffalo Traffic Storm.Rmi.nl
Hl'FFAI.O. Dec. 28. For two hoirs
to-night street car traffic- here was
virtually at a standstill and thousand?
of person? were compelled to walk
home in a biting wind or ?eek mean?
of tran?portation other than ?treet
can.
Mayor Frank X. Schwab declared an
emergency exi?t?d and authoriied the
operation of jitney?.
Century-Old Chart Finds Lost
Barge of Courthouse Granite
A bergeload of gr?nit? from Ston
ington. Me., arrived yesterday for th
new County Court House, but was no
discovered by official? for several hour
owing to the fact that it? destinatioi
was marked on the bill of lading si
Poorhouse Fl.t* Anchorage, a ?po
which has not been designated or
maps as such for s century.
.! H. Adams, secretary of th?
Court House Board, realised as soon
as he perused that bill of lading that
it might bi? difficult to find the barge
He ha?, been familiar with city affair?
for a good mar v year? and he never
had heard of that anchorage.
It was not marked on any ef the
city maps b?* could find. River and
harboi men had never heard of it.
Mr. Adam? began telephoning to th.
oldest city employees he could find.
The mo?t venerable of them n.ter had
heard of Poorhouse Flat? Anchorage.
An employee of the Dock Department
thought he had heard once that there
used to be a poorhouse near the site
of Bo'levue Hospitsl and Mr Adam?
undertook histories) research werk
which involved inspection ef dim sad
dutty reap? and retord?.
When he got back U 1*10 light wa?
thrown on hie ?earch. In that year th*
poerhouie, moved from City Hall Park
to make room for the preien*
Hall, wa? ?ituated on the Bellevui
Farm near Twenty-eighth Street an i
the Ea?t River and off Twenty-eighth
Street lay Poorhouie Flat? Anchorage.
Scout? were ?ent there. They found
a barge, deep-laden with granite and
a granite-faced Maine skipper in oil
akin? smoking hi? pipe on the rail.
"I supposed you folks knew all about
this place," ?aid the barge ?kipper.
"It's marked plaia enough on the maps.
I've known about it for year?, though
I couldn't plot a courte through your
street? aa well a? ?ome, maybe."
There are 1,300 ton? of the granite,
making 2,fl0fl ton? th at have arrived,
the earlier ahipment having come by
rail Another ?hipment of 1,500 ton?
i? on the way. Steel will begin to ar?
rive at the rate of 100 ton? a day next
month, ?nd the Fuller Con?truction
Company, contractor? for the super
structure work, expect to have it com?
pleted by Jaaaary 1, IM4. unie?? ?ome
downeaat quarr;man thinks up a more
obscure anchorage than that at Paar
Hou?? Fiait.
Harding Condemns Borah Plan;
Would Give Debt Funding Board
Free Hand; Bars Cancellation
lu I .et rommimini
in Modifying IVm
Utted l\t\mcnt to
No Move to Seal
Total? Says \a)
^ould Affeet Only
of Inter?*?! and '
IaiViix?oii. Etc Kxp
f">m 'i.pton S
tion whether rre?ident Htrdii
eacal l?sri?lat
provide the Debt Fund; .
with power to cancel all or part
Allied indebtedness w.? m.rm
b?ted in the Senate today.
In hi, letter to Senator Lodge
mg the Borah amendment the
dent informed the Senate that \
gres* really meant to facilit?t
task of ( ongre.?, in dealing wil
F.uropean situation the rtrat pri
?tep wouid be to free the h.n?U
Funding Commi*?ion "*o
helpful negotistlons | s
taken "
This was at first taken by Se?
to :mpiy the President ??ote?
Debt Funding Comm.-siun to
authority to cancel part of the ,
indehtedlir,?. Hut Senator l,udg
?erri|??*..l hv Senstor Borsh. d
the President had ?ny notion of
cellation and said he drsir.
mission to be allowed latitude i
ipert to intrr.lt rat?l and ?irr
**a*rase
Inasmuch ?? |1m nding
?I??!?? ? soon to meet here the
ikelihood ef getting the en
l.w changed before it? delibere
begin. It ha.? not yet been mid.
whether the Adminiatration will
auch change? in the law aa those
I by Senator Lodge.
Borah Kear? ( anrellstloa
Senator Borah charged in the c?
of the ?irla?? t:i?t trails talk o:
caneellstinr. ii indulged, s ?situ?tic
being arranged that will mean the
?rill not be paid.
Borah and Senator Ixiilg?
changed view? on cancellation a
Senator MeCormick held th. t
Senator Borah preised Senator Mr
mirk whether he knew the natun
the negotint:on* now being carried
"Doe?, the S?r.?tor know what
pur?n,rt "f these negotiation? i?, ?
thev includ?*** Senator Bor.h at
"The Senator doei not." .senator
Cormiek taid. "but if the S.nator
been here a few daya longer he c?
have learned, no doubt, by going to
Urpartment to alk."
"If the Senator would take orea:
? tac Blata Department ar.y t
aoon," S.nator Barak repli?d. "I wo
he greatly pleaird to ha*? him ad'
'.'.eagij.s whsl the negotisti
include."
"in regard to the question ?tked
the Senator from Idaho about w
nrgo'.istions include." Sena
Lodge interposed, "I am not in a p?
tion to state precisely ??hat they
elude; also I think it la very obvii
to every one ?xh.t their limitatii
might be I ran aay what they do i
include. They do not include the ?i
cellation of a debt.
Harding Opposed. Sa?? I .cadge
??I * ; ?estion of th. Pr.
dent, .nd he said: 'This Adminiat
tion ha* been ateadiiy against th. C?
cellation of the debt. It is now.'
"1 sis? a?ked in that conn.Cti
about hi? reference to a greater la
tude to lie given to the r?,m:ni?linn a
he raid that referred to the questi
of time ?ir the aniort;x?tion of t
r to the question of racial i
.*?!?.." *?>d Senstor M. ? 'orm;<
"The negotiations by the Stst? Depai
ment, like tho?e bet**e?n the Kuropei
nient?, have ?ought to find
basis of agreement upon which t'
usel? conference rould !
followed, because, as publie!
press, none of the governments b
possible to hold I
econon. eace tt Brussels
that conference were ?1
in sdvance by reason of the unwillini
neis of government* to .?t.bli.h
baii? upon which they could negotiate
Iri-.t." ?aid S? nntor Bora
*.hat while ?
Department ha? contended that U
question of the debt? should be con?ir
para-te and apart from the qu.i
tion of reparations, the foreign goverr
ment* contend otherwise, and that th
two propositions apparently ar? inte?
iCeoloaW ee aaal o?4?
Yonkern Woman Jii*tic?*
Would Abolish Own Jol
Justice of the Peace Carrie R. Thorn?*
of Yonker?, who I? ?aid to be the firs
woman to be elected to that office ii
thi? ?t?te, announced yesterday ?h?
was going to :*'* th. legislature t<
abolish the post in citie? and substi
tute a court of arbitration in whicl
minor disputes might b? settled with,
out attorneys.
She ha? three year? of a fpur-yeai
term to ?erve. In the year ?he hai
held office ?be ha, accepted no fee?.
"My plan i? to got the Legislatur?
and Governor-elect Smith to provide t
liatlon court," ?he aaid. "In thi?
litigant? would not require lawyer?.
Ther. would he tome one in the court
to. advise them legally and try to get
them to ?ettle their difficulties. If not
satisfied with the decision they could
?fo to the higher courts. Conciliation
court? of this kind exitt in Cleveland
and Chicago.
"I believe in abolishing my office. I
wish to h??e the justice of th. p..ce
cr.urt* abolished In eitle? and concilia?
tion court -.I. I have mad.
no money in my office I am entitle?
to fera, but a. most nt the people
who hav. been in my court are poei
I hav? taken non?,"
Text of President's Note
Opposing Borah Proposal
WtiSHISOTOS, l>rc. ?8.?President Harding'a inte,
lease, ?getting the ??agUta of the B?trmk ?,< ?</ far ??*?
infanuifioii?;/ tttmom r con/trance, follows:
My Dear Senator I.idge:
Replying to your inquiry relativ?
to th? proposetl amendment to the
pending naval bill, authorizing and
requesting the President to call an
economic conference to de?l with
condition? in the war torn n;.tion? of
getagt. I I know of
no prohibition ?gainst such an ex
pr???ion on the p?rt of the Congre*?,
but I do frankly question the de?ira
bility of ?uch an expraMloi I ?hink
undesir.ible becau?? of falle im
?onveyed
th?reby to Kurope, and even more
unde?iralile bec?u?e of the wron,
pre??ion it conveys to our own people.
On the face of things it is equiv?
lent t?1 saying that ?he exec .
branch of 'he government which i?
charged with the conduct of foreign
reluit n? is not fully alive to a world
situation which is of deep concern to
the tinted St?'
Aa a matter of fact the European
situation hits been given most *
ough ami thoughtful consider,
for many month?. Without ques'
ing the good faith at the proposal, I
am very ?ure it would have been
more seemly, and the act.on of th?
?'or.gress could be taken much mote
iigently, if proper inqjiry had
been made of the State Department
relative to the situation in which we
are trying to be helpful.
Of neceisi* r.munication?
of the St?t? Department relative to
delicate matter? among nation? can?
not be bulletined from day to day,
but the ?ituation I? rever withheld
from member? of Congress who
choose to inquire fur confidential In?
formation In a spirit of co-operation.
Such inquiry would have revealed the
futility of any conference cull until
It I? underitood that ?uch a confer?
ence would be welcome.( by the na?
tion? concerned, within the I i m i ?
??Ion which the expressed will
of ?ongre?? compel? this government
to impoie.
In ratifying the treaty of peace
with (?ermanv the Senate made a
reservation that the I'nited State?
' he repre?ented on the
et/p?' "liaaion without con
lent of 'he Congre??, anil no ?uch
conient has he?n given. Moreover.
in erecting the World War Debt
Funding <om*ni??ion that body was
restricted to explicit terina for rute?
of interest and ultimate tune of pay
It Congiess really mean? to
facilitate the task of th?
in tooling with the European situa?
tion the first practical ?tep would be
the hands of tkl
helpful negotiation? may be
undertaken.
generally accented that
the adjusttnen of the question of
rehabilitation of Europa, ?ml
repara' ' be lettled without
? sen of the government? con
The Cnited States cannot
aisume to aay to one nation what it
shall pay m reparation? nor to an?
other nation what it shall accept.
In tliseussfbns with forain ,
monta the previous Administration
and th- I : Ion have
in?iit?d that the djOOOtioo of Euro?
pean debt? U?. States is
luestion
of repartition*, bu' nation*
inry view, ami it is wholly
tent to invite a conf?rent e
for the consideration of questions in
dealng with which the irovernment
'I authority by act of
i- as the limitation of land
arman ?
to be at thi* time no ma
prospect of accomplishment than
when the conference was held in
Washington n year ago Here, again,
I \ enture to warn the Senate against
the lOffOOtion to our own prop
a gesture of pi
the
nations directly concerned express
their re?u
an end.
i h limitation of
auxilihry type? of naval craft, which
.?re aol limited by ? ?vul
trea' . h an
agreement I? ajorh to ne tleairod,
WR?I
. ptMtpon?
i e a- trg
of all g
U AR REN (. H ? l:lM \?;
One Killed, 50
Hurt as City fe
el
Gripped in Ice
Street and '\" Traffic
Tied Tp: Fcrri?'?* Hin?
dered: Storm Hurl*? Tic?*-.
Across Path of ?Growdl
Sw?pt in from the lea by a
mil? g?le. a itorm verging on n blir
zard enveloped New York in a cloak of
rain, fleet and ?now yesterday and last
night, caused the death of one man
and injurie? t? more than tifty per
ion?, and repeatedly tied up Ml
traffic on ?treet :. i car line?.
\Vi?hin h?lf an hour after the pour?
ing rain had turned to lashing hail by
the ?udden drop in temperature
city wa? clothed in a skin of |#a that
made footing precarious, if not dan
geiou?.
Fin? bits of ice, blown in ?wirling
circle?, bit viciously at exposed face?
and blinded driver? and pedestrian?.
Ah day the hail laated. ?hifti: .
time? to rain, then to ?now, b
wayi keeping the city in a white fog
and ?erioutfy interfering with
?chedule?.
Late and crowded elevated train?
traveled in a ?pot light of flashing blue
flame? a? the contact ?hoe?, ?eparated
from the third rail oy the coating of
| imped and aixxled
th hardly an Indication of abate?
ment, the hail continued fur in:
night. It la the heaviest hailstorm in
yean, one and three-tenth? inchei.
While the wind played tag with th?
hail through all the streets and people
were congratulating themselves on bo
ing out of the fury, a two-alarm tire
drove sixteen scantily clad fon
'he cold when a blaie wa* dis
ed in the five-story tenement at
7*19 Second Avenue. The fire itur'.
the cellar and mushroomed up the air
?haft. One person was slightly in?
jured aa the panic-stricken tenants
??rambled over the ice-coated fir?
eirape*. ?lipped ?nd fell to the ground.
With hi* head buried in his I
overcoat. Salvatore St. Angelo, of IM
Bool Thirteenth S'.ieet, ?tailed acrot?
Lafayette Street, not ?eeing an ' ap?
proaching mail ?ruck. Thi? driver,
Charles Logan, a negro, iouId not >.e?
through hi? windihirld, made op-iqu*
M ice, and ran the man down,
Killing him insta: ?river was
arrested on a technical charge of hjnn
>? Florence Weeks and Mis? Anna
Clarke, attached to the Bellevlue Hos?
pital corps of nurse?, suffered frac?
tures of their left arma in identically
the ?ame way when they ?lipped on
the glaring pavement?. Both
crossing East Twenty-sixth
while going to the training school,
though hours elapsed between their
trips. Th? accident? occurred almo?t
at the ?ame ?pot.
Numerous traffic and pede?trian ac?
cident? were reported to the police,
seventeen necessitating hospital treat
?nent. Blindly groping their way from
?treet corner to >olley
car? earromed off each other, and in
many ea?e? taxicab?, their brake? fail?
ing to hold, akidded into aurfaee cars
? nd truck*.
The lowest temperature during the
?tarm wa? 2? degree?. The W
Bureau predict? cloudy ?kies for to
dry, hut ?? ? lorn? to blow on
?? way 1" ght. Th
we?th?r will continue until Saturda-,
when th? temperature will gradually
lelink
?
Britain Draus
Plan for Cut
In Reparation*
lloii'ir I a3? to I ak?* Initia
tiw at Pri'iiiM'tV Con
frrrn?*?': Cahiiirt Meeti
I n?<la\ to I i\ 1'oM?iiun
By Arthur S. Draper
up*, lal <"<?bi? ie |
: vrl.tlt 1???
LOI 1er Bonar
Lav, it ha? been definitely ?Iren:.
going to take the initiative i?
crucial conference of the Allied
piemier? in Pari? Janu?
To-morrow the ?'.bind will meet
?i.l put the final touche? on the repa?
ration settlement plan which, drafted
kg the Premier with th? assistance of
Stanley Baldwin, Chancellor of the
quer, ?n.l Sir John Hmdbury,
British re-treeeaUtiv? ?para?
ission. will torse Ike
ncrstone.oi the Britun position.
? plan calls for i .,? the
.n debt through c?ncell?ti.,
pen?, ?nd ?.partition allow
- putting the tot.il ?if ??erm.n in
at approximate!.
pieviDusly i.inned by British ?X|
? rn the Kepaiiot :on Conimisiion ?a ?
raaaai
vision would be po?i
?if p?n?ltic?, ?Ci'niil.iig lu the
British progi
Seek? International ( ?...in.,*
?ai Law al?o will suggest th? ap?
pointment at an international com?
mission to work for ?tabtllsetio? of
th?* miir? and vhe baluming at
inuny'k budget. lie- will repeat,
what hv ?aid at the Lornlm.
about th?- present negligibility of the
Bulfour note on the subject of i
pean finances and Will reaffirm (ireat
Britain? willingness to accept the C
bonds v in payment for Al?
lied debt? to London, provided all id.a
of occupation of the Ruhr or exuetion
nom u- gu.rantie? from Germany
is abandon'
The British determination to take
the initiative with these proposals and
Calls?.* as e?>: **m)
Keily Silent After Long
Conference With Weeks
WASHINGTON. Dec. toe Secretary
- ? announced to-day after ?
longed conference with Governor
of Porto Rico that h.
?lid not know what the Governor's in?
tentions were with respect to his ?on
tinuane?* in office at h?ad of the Porto
government, although he as?
sumed Mr Reily would return there
...N-rnor. Mr. Reily refused em
Fhaticallv to comment on his plsns
urther than to say that he would visit
his home in Kansas City. Mo., when
business in Wa hitigton was
brought to a close.
??mor Reily visited the White
Houte executive offices late to-day,
but It i? understood did not seek an
appointment with th? Pre?id.nt. He
?aid he expected to ??? Mr. Harding
rfore leaving Washington.
led no
?tentent woil'.d be fort
the War Depsrtment
M from Mr. Retly at to P?rt? Rlean
affairs.
Parley Project Itelieveil
Doomed a?? Lodgf KeaiU
Leiter From l!\cculi\?
Bra ml in ?:1t "Deceptive"
Expect VinriHlnirnl
To Fail b) 1 Voir*
President Seofet lilalio
Pro?j*re?**?i>c fur Vctinj:
Without lull laqulriw
ITA8H1 I
dent Harding, m ? !?
t, Kepuhlnan Nailer '
at?*, to-day condemn? d
and ill-advised the Borah on
m<?nt callinj? for a world i
lent warned the
only that action by tin? Senate -
!>?? futile but that it would ?in *
by raisins* false hopn in I"
in America. H
Borah fur no?
and
Anding oat what ??.
tion wn- m
tion of Kur
Th?
Um .Senate and, in th
ato loaders,,ha? help? i
a of th?* ?
wan reached this afterrv??)? .
not certain one will h
row.
beaten by at lea
Bei
tually con?
ever, he made it plain tha'
the amendment will I
lie will introduit?
i tion ami
|i i ?
recur fron?
the pi on.
Bor.h Kc?. m- '
Senator Borah, i| ?.
?ent? the ail |
to going to i
Informator, II.
the I' was an it
effort to read out of the par'
him hut ?i Republican
tors who will not go along wt?
Admni-tr.v
Debate over
tinued throughout the
tors M
H .ruh ?poke for the a
Banaler Mi
? peeci.
Johnson ?i
the an
Although ?
assured it hud t
S.nator Borah - i
lield. of (?"
and France, uf ' !
Urans, sligned Inen
th? si
all are exp.
re wil
M? Sars -r ,.r, | I .. I ,?
Seaatoi M
the le*'
and advoci
?cored the isola1
t'ng "su[ni.
Kurope grea
he coulii ?a?.
propo? : -itor Born'.
commitments o< ?
II" h. Id th?
aid the fa
"In a large way
tuna?, plight of
..t that he is smothering in
a surplu? of agricuHural *
? aid. "A ?t
.... MaaLa* a.I.?!, ?. I
wher>
laborious work and
After a ?tudy of rura!
ber? o/ Congre? from
state? legislation demgried
farm credit? will *o?n
fore Congre??. Rut the "
needed by our farming
market*, and the?e ra
will be ?in
ttabillzed and It
made sate and round
ter the ter
minatiou of the
icy at isolation has
for the giood of ourselves a?
far. of tb
that thi? belief will arou?. '
iion o? the internal.onal ?late
bloc, found among th
?ioubt, however, that th* great major
ity of th? farm*-? a'
business n.en of '
with favor upon any
to bring ab
tion of world affair?.
"I ?hail never know wh<i
th? ?tuhbomneis of ?
President. Woodrow v.
versitv of the abl? sen:.
from Massachusetts i M
eloquence of the irrei
tors that prevon*.
the Verseilles treaty, yet I sha
ways think, as a mild ret ?
containing th. coven?' '??ague
of Nation?, with thf
?inn? had been ...