Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 63, 24 January 1920 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SATURDAY, JAN." 24, 1920.

T; P. A. WILL HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR DEAD MEMBERS

. Memorial services for the 46 memrbera of the Travellers Protective association .who have died daring the life of the local chapter will be held at Grace M. E. church at 2:30 p. m. Sunday. . ... . The Rev.- A.- H. Backus will deliver the address, and the Invocation and benediction will be pronounced by the Rev. J. S. Hill. The program follows: Organ ' -' prelude, Cantilena (Stebblns), Mrs. Irene Ryan; Invoca

tion, the Rev. James S., Hill, pastor

Reid Memorial church; solo. "I'm Not Alone," (Ackley). Mr. Thomas P. Wil

son; solo, 'cello, "Ave-Marie," (Franz

Schubert), Miss Catherine Gates;

solo. Eventide, "Holiest, breathe an Evening Blessing." (West), Mrs. Hugh

Fobs: Memorial address, the Rev. A.

H. Backus; solo, Howard Hits; bene

diction, the Rev. James S. Hill; organ postlude, "Jubilate Deo," (Silver),

Mrs. Irene Ryan. Departed members of the organiza

tion, 1895 to 1919 are: H. L. Ashley.

Lawrence H. Bertsch, Charles F. Brat

fett, Edward J. Brannon, Fred Brown,

T. J. Campbell, W. S. Clendenin, L. M. Coate, F. A. Gotfln, W. P. Cook, J. B.

Craighead, W. H. Cummins, D. S. Dibble, G. R. Dilks. George F. Doty, John B. Dougan. H. H. Engelbert, Clarence

H. Finney, Sam S. Ford, Perry J. Free

man, William Hastings, J. M. Hirsh

burg, Charles Holcomb. S. N. Jenkins,

A. L. Link. H. W. Loehr, L. A. Mc Neal, W. H. Martin, D. L. Mather, L.

H, Meyer, J. W. Minnick, J. W. Moore, L. A. Mote, Layton Myrick,

Rodney B. Nlles, M. J. O'Brien, O. E,

Oxer, J. H PalmeY, A. W. Rees, Wal

ter Rossiter. G. F. Smith, J. H. Stran

ahan, D. P. Whelan, William H. Quigg. Those who died in 1919 are Joseph

w. Lamson, Albert H. LeFevere. The memorial committee is compos

ed of C. H. Kramer, E. E. Lebo, A. C.

Jones.

Hold Mexican Suspects

For Killing Americans

(By Associated Press)

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 24. Several men suspected of being implicated in

the murder of Earl Boles and F. J,

Roney, American oil men, are under arrest at Tampico, according to re

ports from Col. Francisco Orozco In Chicago of military police there. One

of the prisoners lias confessed, but one of them is said by the police to have been wearing a sweater belong

ing to one of the Americans. This garment was bloodstained and the man, whose name is Castro, is alleged to have tried to get rid of it when

apprehended. 70 Unions Plan Flank Move on Gen. High Cost ROCK ISLAND, Idd., Jan. 24. Plans to reduce the high cost of living by co-operative purchase of staple commodities were formulated here at a conference of 200 representatives of 70 labor unions in Rock Island and vicinity. The conferees were unanimous in their approval of the plan as a means of reducing the cost of living of workers' families. A committee of 10 was appointed to communicate with various sources of supply and obtain full details as to markets where lowest prices prevail. Jesse Dewolf, president of the Moline Carpenters' union, was elected chairman, and Harry Haldall, secretary of the Rock Island carpenters' union, secretary. The report of the committee will be submitted at a meeting Thursday night.

HOLLAND PROTECTS EX-KAISER, BUT WATER MAY DRIVE HIM OUT

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How flood threatens Amerongen castle.

Although Holland hos decided to protect ex-Kaiser Wilhelm by refusing to turn him over to the illies, nature is makine things un

comfortable for the forme? ruler and may force him to move from castle. Recent floods have threat his quiet retreat in Amerongen

ened the castle and the picture, just received from Holland, shows the waters of the Rhine surrounding the kaiser's hiding place.

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FOSTER IN NEW YORK S. M. Foster, of Richmond, is registered at the Grand hotel in New York. WOOLEN MILLS SOLD The capital stock, business and assets of the English Woolen Mills company, of Cleveland, O., have been purchased by the Kahn Tailoring company, of Indianapolis. A local tailor handles the Cleveland company's woolens. LAW AND ORDER SUNDAY. Some phases of law and order will be discussed by many of the ministers of the city at either their morning or evening services Sunday, in accordance with the proclamation of Governor Goordich naming the day "Law and Order Sunday." LAWALL WILL MOVE. Announcement was made Saturday by L. C. Lawall, local jeweler, that he will move his store, now on North Eighth street, to the property recently purchased by him at 607 Main street. The store will move . to its new location about June 15. 200 TO GO TO LYNN. Approximately 200 members of the Whitewater Lodge cf Odd Fellows will leave tonight at 6:15 for Lynn, where they will be the guests of the Lynn lodge at a special meeting tonight. A special train will leave the Pennsylvania station for the lodge members, and will return following the meeting.

LOCAL NAVY MEN GO UP Word has been received at the local

recruiting office that two Richmond boys have been promoted. James L. Focht, from fireman third class to

REFUSE TEN MILLIONS FOR NAVY .REPAIRS

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. By a margin of one vote, the house appropriation committee today refused to include in the defficleney appropriation bill a fund of $10,000,000 asked by the navy department for repairs to ships. Naval officials had inform 1 the committee that unless the money was made available necessary repairs to many ships and destroyers could not be made and that 13,900 navy yard employes would have to be discharged next month.

French Speaker Stops Babel With His Old Top Hat (By Associated Pre.) PARIS, Jan. 24. When tumult prevailed in the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday durir.- speech of Premier Millerand th -s much speculation as to whetlur Ilaoul Peret, the speaker, could terminate the session in the traditional manner by placing a top hat on his head. With Job-like patience he endured the disorder until it seemed certain he would be compelled to suspend the

session. When he did not do so, face

tlous spectators said to each other: "Perhaps he has no top hat." But when the storm was at its height he went down into the recesses of a drawer In his desk and came up with an ancient, elongated hat, which he ':u.vd on the table beside him, threat.ing to. put it on If the tumult did not abate.

Asked why he had delayed so long

Nitti Re-Establishes Friendship With Allies

GERMANS PRAISE DUTCH REFUSAL

BEP.IN, via London.' Jan. 24. The Pan German press joyfully hails what is characterized as the "manly attitude" of Holland on the question of extradition of former emperor William. The B'ourgeoise journals and those of the radical and . majority socialist persuasion also express satisfaction with the Dutch government's note. The majority - socialist Vorwaerts says: "Holland does not bow to the vie tor's orders. Her refusal is courageous firm and definite. The entente rulers have means enough to coerce this small and upright democratic nation. The only questions is whether they dare use them."

Pre-Historic Flying Reptile May Disclose Secrets of Aeronautics

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(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 24. The skeleton of a huge flying reptile, probably the largest flying creature that ever existed, which in its prehistoric day was as wide ranging an ocean traveler as a modern seaplane, has been placed on exhibition at the American museum of natural history, it was announced today. Study of the mechanics of the creature's flight was planned by scientists, and may throw light on the pratical problems of aeronautics. It is declared. The clumsy, toothless animal, a pterandon, which flourished in the age of reptiles, many millions of years ago, had a wing spread of 16 feet from tip to tip, but because of its curious dimensions may not have been as heavy as modern condor, which 'sometimes attains a 13 foot spread: It was nearly all wings and head, small body, slender hind legs, and a mene stump of a tail. The specimen was found by Handel T. Martin, curator of the geological institue of Kansas university In the

Cretaceous chalk beds of the Smoky

believed to the the only mounted suecimen of a pterandon in any American museum.

liest relations have been re-establish

ed with the allies and that England, France and Italy can now work together for the attainment of mutual interests. The first result of this understanding is seen in the support given by the allies of Italy's latest proposal regarding the Adriatic question. It is believed here this question will

reach a final solution within a few sons who contemDlated a visit to the

days if France and England can make Zoo at Central Park were disturbed Jugo-Slavia understand it is impos- today to read in . the report of park sible to escape from the dilemma, and Commissioner Gallatin that "the Hon that she must either accept the com- house is almost "falling to pieces." promise suggested by Signor Nitti or "The bars of the cages are so loosehave the pact of London applied in ly held." says the report, "that the

Lion Cage About to Fall to Pieces, Says N. Y. Report (By Associated Press)

NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Timid per-

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iireman secona ciass, ana James . . in p-jducing the talismanic hat he re.

x.aaa, irom iiremiw ttrcmu l"i plied: "I hesitated to show it before fjreman first class. Both are on board an assembly composed for the most

part of after the war deputies." Such hats are today worth from 100 to 150 francs.

DEATHS FROM FLU DECLINE; NEW CASES SHOW INCREASE SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 24 That the influenza situation in South Bend is not necessarily alarming, but sufficiently serious to demand the careful attention of the locai health department Is the opinion of Dr. M. V. Ziegler of the state health department, who arrived in the city Friday morning. A survey of the city shows that the nnmhor of deaths resulting from the

disease, shows a slight drop, although the number of new cases reported in-

riOates a decided increase.

The local schools are crippled by the nhKAnre of scores of teachers. Many

rooms in the city's 25 school buildings

are closed. The absence or tJ gins from the local telephone exchange has nlmrmt dlnruDted the service. The

scarcity of nurses is serious. TYPHUS IN POLAND WARSAW, Jan. 24 Inferior sanitary arrangements on the Russo-Pol-ish frontier are said to be responsible for the alarming epidemic of typhus in Poland and the Baltic provinces. More than a million cases of the disease have been reported to Red Cross officials. Refugees from Russia cross the Polish border without being inspected by the health authorities and many are suffering from typhus or are Infested with vermin which carry the disease. BOURBONS GET NECKLACE (By Associated Press) PARIS, Jan. 24. The proud Bourbon-Orleans family has regained possession of a priceless pearl necklace which had descended from King Charles V, but which for some time has been fn possession of Viscountess De Termens. Some time ago Prince Alfonso of Orleans who recently renounced his Spanish citizenship, brought criminal action against the Viscountess alleging she had illegally appropriated the jewels but in her reply the defendant claimed the necklace had been given to her by the prince.

ANTI-SEDITIONISTS CONCLUDE. "(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Jan. 24. Opponents of pending anti-sedition measures before the House rules committee, were expected to conclude their case today with the statements of Buorke Cochran, of New York, and Jackson, H. Ralston, attorney for the National ' popular government league. Much opposition to the measures has developed among both Republicans and Democrats since tlie. hearings, began Thursday attacks on the bills being made on the flood of the House yesterday. The first operation for appedicitls was performed at Denver, Colo In " 1885 ' " V

the U. S. Destroyer Talbott.

Lieutenant T. E. Orr, chief recruit-' ing officer for Indiana, made an official inspection of the local office Saturday morning and found everything "shipshape". TO INVESTIGATE DEATH Investigation of the alcohol solution, which proved fatal to George McDermott will be made immediately, said Prosecutor Freeman Saturday. "This was evidently mixed for indusfVIal purposes," said Freeman. "All I can do now is to see what the solution was bought for, and I cannot say whether criminal action will be made." NO MEETING Weather conditions prevented a quorum of the county commissioners

and no session was held. The meeting will be held Monday. Re-appropriations for the Main street, Henley,

Meyer, Harris and Horton bridges for the year 1920 will be made Monday. Other re-appropriations for various county funds, including the tuberculosis hospital, will also be made. MRS. HOLE TO SPEAK. Mrs. Allen D. Hole of Richmond was to be the principal speaker at a county meeting of the Better Homes association in the public school building in Centervllle, Saturday afternoon. Routine business was to be considered. TO OPEN AGENCY. A. B. Chapman, of Waynesville, O., will open an agency for Franklin automobiles, in . connection with the Worley garage on South Ninth street, which was recently purchased from Home Shurley. WHY ASHES REMAIN Citizens are asked to refrain from complaining because ashes are not removed. It is Impossible to keep the alleys in first class condition at present, said a city official Saturday, because of the weather. Trucks and ash wagons are unable to make their runs as the result of the Ice which covers the city. WILL ENFORCE LAW Local officers, who received letters from Charles J. - Orblson, prohibition director for Indiana, asking them for their support against bootlegging, have not deemed it necessary to answer. Prosecutor Freeman stated Saturday that Richmond was doing its utmost now and will continue doing so to punish bootleggers and distillers.

Cripple Sees Outdoors For First Time in Life (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Harriet Sears, a fifteen-year-old cripple saw the big out of doors for the first time today when she was taken from the squalid east side room in which she

J was born, to St. Charles hospital for

cnppiea ennaren wnere specialists will treat her and nuns will seek to train her undeveloped mind. Harriet's parents admitted to welfare workers who found the girl that they had never permitted her to leave her room during the 15 years of her life. They thought it would be best for her to remain constantly indoors, they said. Physicians say the girl appears to be bright although her education has progressed only so far as counting to six and saying the first four letters of her "A. B. C.'s"

TOWBOAT MEN STRIKE. (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. Jan. 24. Predictions by towboat strikers that the port of New York would be tied up tomorrow were challenged today by officers of the New York towboat exchange, who declared the "strike is a closed incident." Arthur Olsen, president of the Harbor Boatmen's Union, said 3,000 men were still out and that an additional 3,000 would, strike today. "All of the strikers have returned to work" said officials of the tow boat exchange, which controls 95 per cent of the companies here.

Need for Cotton Spindles

in Japan Has Increased (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Need of spindles for the cotton manufacturing business of Japan Increasing by leaps and bounds since the outbreak of the war has become so great that in the last six months 50,000 working spindles have been bought from running American mills dismantled and ship

ped to Japanese firms for immediate reassembling and operation, it was learned here today. Most of these

purchases have been in New England and North and South Carolina. Since 1917 when the European market stopped delivering spindles on Japanese buying, some 500.000 new Fplndles have been ordered in this country, involving between $10,000,000 and $12,000,000 it was stated. Approximately 150,000 of these are still to be delivered. Keech Fukagawa in charge of the engineering deportment of Mitsui & Co., a large Japanese import and export Arm said it takes nearly two years to fill ordere for new spindles and that Japanese factories have found themselves faced with the necessity of buying second-hand working spindles to keep up with the volume or orders they have booked throughout the world. .-..jrfjit; II Fortune Attends Peace Treaty Framers

PARIS, Jan. 24 111 fortune has at

tended statesmen intimately associat

ed with the framing of the treaty of

Versailles in the opinion of Premier David Lloyd George, of.Great Britain, according to a newspaper article pub

lished here.

Mr. Lloyd George was so convinced Georges Clemenceau would be the

next president of the French repub

lic that he considered the race over.

Therefore when he heard of the election of Paul Deschanel as president he could not refrain from expressing

his astonishment - "Who could have expected such a reversal of form?" he ejaculated when the result was announced.

In conversation with a member of the Chamber of Deputies, the British

premier is said to have expressed an opinion that the "peace treaty was hard luck for anyone having had a hand In it".

"Yes", the deputy is quoted as replying, "Premier Orlando is out of office, Premier Clemenceau is again in

private life, and President Wilson has

met with reverses In Washington.

Only you have been spared.

"Yes ana in less man six months it 1 will be my turn" is the reply attribut-1 ed ' to the British leader.

Goodrich Grants Clemency to Wayne County Man

(By Asao'Jated Press)

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 24. Governor Goodrich today extended clemency to Martin Van Buren who was convicted of assault and battery In the Wayne circuit court, March 21, 1919 and sentenced to the state farm for 6 months and fined $500 and costs. Van Buren must pay the remainder of the fine In weekly Installments.

lions, if they felt like it, could push them aside and make their escape."

OFFERS PRESIDENT "JOB" IN HAWAII

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Alexander Hume Ford. Alexander Hume Ford, secretary of th& Pan-Pacific onion, has arrived in Washington from Hawaii to offer President Wilson job." Ford wants Wilson, when he lea res the White House, to become president of the Pan-Pacific union and live in Hawaii, described by Ford as "a land where there is no race prejudice and where, for twelve years, the representatives of the nations about the Pacific ocean have been meeting to Elan co-operative work that will rinsr leasrue of nations comprising all of those about the Pacific"

KAJHERII1E WINTERS MAY BE BURIED IN. FORT WAYNE GRAVE

(By Associated Press) 1 FORT WAYNE, Ind.. Jan. 24. Chief of Police D. F. Abbots has received from Mrs. W. A. Winters, of Newcastle, Ind.. a letter in which. Mrs. Win-, ters expresses the belief of herself' and husband that the bones of a fe male child exhumed from a shallowgrave In a barn In that city, Jan. 6, are those of their daughter, Katherine Winters , aged 9, whose disappearance from her home In Newcastle, March 20, 1913, remains an unsolved mystery. Mrs. Winters inclored a clipping, from a Fort Wayne newspaper detailing the finding of the child's remains, and said that the description given of the bones leads to confident belief by the parents of the missing Winters child for whom there has been a nation-wide search and th,e fruitless pursuit of numerous clews, are those of little Katherine. It is recalled that a year or two after the disappearance of Katherine Winters her father came to Fort Wayne In a clue that led to this city. It is probable that the bones exhumed here and later buried will be disinterred to verify certain details by which the Winters child could be Identified. No clue has been found here that, would aid in identification of the- skeleton dug up in a barn three weeks ago.

Bar Association Head Urges Industrial Board DAYTON, O., Jan. 24 Smith W. Bennett, of Columbus, president of the Ohio State Bar association, presiding

at the opening session of the midwinter convention of the association today, advocated submission of all agreements between capital and labor to a court of record for critical examination to determine whether they are "fair and suitable to all concerned," including the public. If found to be equitable to all, he said, the agreements should be approved by court judgment and enforced as any other judgment or decree during the constructional period. Bennett contended that this plan demands no change in principles of government or sacrifice of any essential element of the American system, although it may mean new machinery

to failitate collective bargaining and.

to meet the defects of collective dls agreement.

SEEKS ITALIAN LABORERS TO EXPLOIT CHILEAN COPPER (By Associated Press)

ROME, Jan. 24. Exploitation of Chilean copper and iron mines by

Italy and Chile In co-operation is be

ing urged by Senior Enrique Villegas, Chilean minister to Italy, in an intei

view published In the Messaggero. He

says the mines are very rich and that Italy can furnish the labor necessary for developing them. . 1 TEMPLARS Td DINE. An entertainment and suDDer will

be given by the Knights Templars at

the Masonic temple for members of the order and their families, at 8 p. m.

Thursday, Jan. 29, said Frank Benn,

Saturday.

INDIANA-OHIO COAL DISTRICT IS WORKING AT TOP SPEED Forty-six per cent more cars were loaded with coal in the Ohiolndiana

district during the first two weeks of

this month than during the same per iod a year ago, officials of the Cincin

nati office of the United States Rail

road Administration announced yesterday in reply to the complaint of

coal men regarding the supply of coal cars. From January 1 to 15 tfiere were 27,911 cars loaded against 19,051 in the same period in 1919, an increase of 8,860. Mines in the Ohio-Indiana Railroad District, which are located in West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, it is said, showed a maximum car rating requirement of 40,194, signifying that they were working at 100 per cent capacity.

CONGRESS MEMBER ATTACKS GOMPERS

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 Enactment

of anti-sedition legislation was urged before the house rules committee today by Representatives Blanton, Democrat, and Davey, Democrat, The Texas member vigorously attacked President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, for his opposition to such legislation and charged that the department of labor was "honeycombed" with anarchy. Asserting that Mr. Gompers had not been; patriotic during the war. Mr.

Blanton oharged that when Provost General Crowder Issued his "work or fight" order, the labor leader openly opposed it, declaring he "would call a revolution". Blanton added that 6,000 strikes occurred in this country during the war and that at times President Wilson had to "compel men to work". "Congress must either pass a sedition law which would squelch anarchy or else bear the marks of having bowed to Gompers," Mr. Blonton said. Attacks Department. Attacking the department of labor Blanton said he hoped the Republicans would be victorious in the coming

presidential election, if it is impossible

to obtain a Democratic cabinet officer who stands for Americanism.

"The Republicans will win anyway."

chairman Campbell interjected.

"Not if you vacilitate on this bill".

Representative Blanton retorted. "The people won't stand for you bowing to Gompers."

Representative Davey, who introduc

ed Attorney General Palmer's anti-

sedition bill last November, told the committee, he was a "friend of labor" until It Joins hands with anarchy. POPULATION OF JAILS SHOWS DECREASE IN 1919 INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 24. The population of Indiana jails continues to decrease and at no time since the board of state . charities began collecting statistics, twenty years ago, has the number of prisoners been so low, according to a statement Amos W. Butler, secretary of the board of state charities, issued Friday. The statement gives the total in Hoosier jails at the close of the state fiscal year, September 30, as 456. One year ago the total was 510, but for the twelve years preceding, the population

or tne Jails never was less than 1,000 and once, in 1914, it was as high as 1,459.

Aged "Lifer" Will Appear in Skit for Prisoned Men (By Associated Pre -, BOSTON, Jan. 24 Jesse Pomero) who has served 40 years on solitary confinement. Is to appear in public for the first time since he was a boy, at a minstrel show to be given by the inmates of the state prison. As the latest of the liberties which have come to him since the solitary feature of his sentence was commuted three years ago. the life convict will be allowed to take part in the show as a reader of his own poems. Pomeroy turned several years ago from plotting escape to writing poetry after his twelfth attempt to break jail was frustrated by a guard who found him with cell bars cut and armed with several improvised weapons Intent upon fighting for his free

dom. Since that time the prisoner has written regularly for the prison paper, his poems appearing under the name "Grandpa". Pomeroy 1b 60 years old. He has been In prison since his seventeenth year for crimes committed as a boy.

MRS. K, SGHWENKE, 75 YEARS OLD, DEAD Mrs. Katherine Schwenke, 75 years old, died at the home of her son, John Schwenke, one mile south of Richmond on the Abington pike, about 2:30 p. m. Saturday. She was born In Germany, but lived In Richmond practically all her life. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran church. She is survived by her husband. Christian Schwenke; three sons. John and George Schwenke, and William Hirshfield. and one daughter

Mrs. Louisa Englebert. Funeral a rangements will be announced later.

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150 CASES SEIZED (By Associated Press) CINCINNATI, O., Jan. 24. United States internal revenue collector McOrath today seized 150 cases of whisky at Hamilton, O., alleged to have been shipped recently from a Louisville, Ky., distillery.

NIBLACK SEEKS PLACE ON DEMOCRATIC TICKET VINCENNES. Ind.. Jan. 24. Mason J. Niblack, of this city, widely known among Democratic workers in Indiana, announced last night at a dinner of Knox county Democrats here, that he will seek the party's nomination for governor. His announcement was not unexpected because he had intimated previously that he would become a candidate. Mr. Niblack formerly was speaker of the Indiana house of representatives and four years ago was a candidate for the nomination for Lieutenant-governor. Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack is his brother.

REPUBLICAN LEADERS MEET IN REGIONAL CAUCUS

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REDS AT ELLIS ISLAND HAVE VERY GOOD HEALTH (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. Jan. 24. The Red colony at Ellis Esland today showed remarkably good health compared with detained immigrants. Of the 400 extremists at the inland who have not been able to obtain bail as nearly 150 others have done, less than a score were in the hospital. On the other hand more than 400 immigrants were being treated for various ailments, mostly measles, which they contracted prior to arrival at New York. The

total number of immigrants now held at the island is about 1,000. There have been few cases of influenza, according to officials, and the number is decreasing.

FAMOUS COTTON CASE SETTLED: ATE UP 5 TIMES DAMAGES (By Associated Press) MANCHESTER. England. Friday. Jan. 23. Trial of the famous Hare cotton spinning case ended here today when one of the principal witnesses confessed he had given false testimony. Attorneys for the plaintiffs thereupon agreed that judgment should be entered for the defendants with all costs. The Hare Spinning company of Todmorten sued John Leigh. Ltd., of Oldham, and five individuals, declaring there had been a conspiracy to defraud the plaintiff by sales of cotton waste to John Leigh, Ltd., and purchases of cotton from John Leig'JJ Ltd., at prices in excess of markef quotations. Although the damages sought were 20,000, the legal fees for the first day alone were in excess of that amount. Over 2,000 was spent on printing the correspondence read in the case and the briefs would make a pile 20 feet high.

Left to right: M. S. Carnahan, Will H. Hays and Raymond Benjamin.

Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican national committee, recently met with Republican representatives of six states of the west in a resrional caucus at San Fran

cisco. National committeemen, state chairmen and party workers met the national leader and talked over with him plans for the coming campaign. The men. shown

above with Hays are M. S. Carnahan. western director of Hiram Johnson's campaign, and Raymond Benjamin, Republican state chairman of California-

TO ATTEND SHOW A number of local auto dealers will attend the International Automobile and Truck show which opened in Chicago Saturday. Among them are Fred Bethard. of the Bethard Auto company, Robert H. Fetta and Will McClellan, of the Wildex company, Steve Worley of the Worley Garage, and Clem and Everett McConaha, of the McConaha Auto company.

SOUTH CAROLINA MAY BAR SMOKING IN RESTAURANTS COLUMBIA, S. C, Jan. 24. Smoking in eating places would be prohibited under a bill passed to second reading by the state senate. Restaurant and hotel keepers would be required to display "no smoking" signs and enforce the rule under penalty. -

DEATH FOR STRIKERS (By Associated Press) SALONIKA Jan. 24. Several railroad strikers have been sentenced to death by courtmartlal established In Bulgarian towns to try men accnalQ of blowing up railway bridges In that country. Bolshevik disorders are reported In advices from Sofia, which say that at Boudnltza one communist and one soldier were killed. Several arrests have been made at that place :