Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 329, 5 December 1921 — Page 1

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CUT ESTIMATE

HALF BILLION; NEW BUDGET

Under Four Billion Dollar Figure Which Has Been Estimated as Minimum of Government Expenditures.

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Dec. 5 A federal budget for the fiscal year 192:5 approximately $300,000,000 below the Tour billion dollar figure which had been estimated some time ago as the minimum of government expenditures

for several years to come faced congress when It reconvened today. The exact figures, as prepared by the newly created budget, bureau and transmitted by President Harding in a special message, were $3.ti56,754,727, including an estimated deficit of $21. "09.6fi; in the operations of the postal service. Decrease Shown This total represents a decrease of $162.1157.639 from the :?,967.922.M6 estimated for expenditures in the fiscal year 1921. It is heavier, $167,571. 977 in excess of the estimated receipts or $.1.3:;t.lS2.75i. while the outgo for the current fiscal year exceeds the estimated receipts of $3,913,4ti:!.fit: bv $24,468.70:!. Referring to the apparent deficit for 192:, President Harding wrote the congress that "ways are provided for the relatively easy adjustment without added taxation." of the discrepancy between the income and outgo. As one means he recommended legislation directing the reduction of the accumulated naval supply account bv $100,0011,000. Another Reduction Ac tun I appropriations asked of congrces for the various federal departments and agencies for re.'?, total $3,221.S7f..592. exclusive of postoffice department. This represents a reduction of $122,S0;(:jin form the original

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nrcnilW DRAFT12 killed, many hurt ! S 1 IN HEAD ON COLLISION OF QUADRUPLE trains are burning C! r TVmWTTmT By Associate.! Press)

MAI i npHIIHI PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 5. A head-i I I i It L I wll I on cllis!on of local passenger trains j . on the Newton branch of the Philadel-1 phia and Reading railroad between j SI r i t Woodmont and Paper mill stations. 16 UDStltute IOr AnglO-JapaneSe miles from Philadelphia today resultM- D ' ' P--,.: Jfl,nJ ' ert in the death, it is believed, of from lance Being Lonsideredlnjne t0 12 peraon8t and tlie injury o;j rw I Irnlrl 9rarc P.rpa f 1 more than a score of others. A snow Dy united otaies, ureal storm virtuay cut otf wire coramuni. Britain, Japan, r ranCC cations w ith the scene of the wreck. j The collision occurred on a single i

Ipwni I I nn nn nri lllra,-K 111 a tul Ulp 'rains lnvoir X r I nlN IflM llrl AY ved being a local from Philadelphia lor ILAI LnlllU JHI ULLn I Newton. Pa., and another from New-!

ton, for this city. The wreckage took ! fire and early reports were that a . number of persons were burned to! death. The place of the accident is! rather isolated. j

Doctors and wreckage trains w

Texas Beauty Wins Contest and Movie Contract

The fame of Mile. Beatrice Dart, now singing in comparative obscurity in the National theater of Zurich, has

reached American opera circles and it is rumored that the Swiss prima donna will make her bow to audiences within the next few weeks.

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. The draft of a quadruple entente, which woula serve for a substitute of the Anelo-

Japanese alliance, it was learned to-'sent out from near points and phys-!

icians along the countryside were sum- ; moned. i

it I f y

The injured and some of the dead ; were removed to a hospital at Abing-j ton. Pa. The iniured and known dead '.

'were mostly commuters living along j the Newton branch. ;

MODIFIED TELEPHONE CONTRAGT IS ADOPTED BY BOARD OF WORKS

Adoption of a new contract with the Richmond Home Telephone company, whereby the "sliding scale" of rates is eliminated, and the r0 cent increase for residence telephones is cut down to 2.1 cents with other increases granted, as requested, was th action of the

day from authoritative sources, is now under consideration by the governments of the United Statr., Great Britain, Japan and Fiar.ce. This is said to explain the delay ot the Japanese government in announcing its decision concerning the question of the ratio of naval tonnage, because it appears that the problem of warship tonnage is connected with na

tional policy, the two matters are be-; ing discussed together. I There was a growing impression today that if the entente can be worked, out satisfactorily, Japan vould not in-:

sist upon her request for a 70 per cent ratio of capital ships, as against the (Bv Associated Press) t50 per cent suggested in the Ameri-1 WASHINGTON. Dec. 5. President can proposals. j Harding announced to the congresThe inclusion of Franc in the pre-jsional committee, which notified him

nminary negotiations, mis attracted; of the convening of congress todav

HARDING TO ADDRESS CONGRESS TOMORROW BODY CONVENES TODAY

estimated as presented to the budget I board of works at tit1 Monday meet-

bureau, it is stated, but is approximately $27,000,000 more than thV appropriations for this fiscal year. Kxplaining the $2S0,S79.134 excess

ing.

i lie following rates winch were approved by both the board and the telephone company, will be submitted to

special interest. It has i:ot been disclosed whether the terras of the pro

posed agreement would bp of a nature ! morrow.

to satisfy France with reference to her situation in Europe. Not Day of Rest. While formal sessions of the arms conference and its sub-divisions were suspended today during the recess until Wednesday, for most of the delegates, it was not a day of rest so far as concerns the important "informal' discussions between individuals and groups which are becoming increasingly prominent as the negotiations reach a more advanced stage. In addition to these exchanges, the recess affords opportunity for speeding up the work of the several subcommittees appointed by the far eastem committee to study specific ques-

that he would deliver his regular an

nual message in person at 12:30 to-

Kathleen Collins.

SAN ANTONIO. Tex., Dec. 5 Miss Kathleen Collins, pretty lS-year-old high school graduate of this city, has

Having concluded the preliminarv exchanges of views with his advisers, ri-f 1 1 ft 1 n - UlrHinrr , 1 1 . . .' . .

ally all of his engagements todav and j been named wmner in ,he nauon-wide sat down to the task of writing his beauty and talent contest, annual message to congress. I Miss Collins was chosen in a cornGovernor Davis of Ohio, to make a ! petition in which thousands of girls personal call, and the committee from j from twenty-two American cities took

congress were the only listed engage-1

ments of the day for Mr. Harding. He

was expected to complete the message!

late today or tonight and send it to

the printer. j During the last 10 days topics of the message have been under discussion with congressional leaders, cabi-i net members and others whose views! Mr. Harding has sought. Its most im-;

MRS. TOBE JAFFE, 66,

ARRIVES FROM RUSSIA; PRAISES U. S. RELIEF

of estimated expenditures in 1923 overtlif city council in tlu form of an orthe appropriations asked for, budget, j dinance for adoption Monday evening: bureau officials explain that some of Three to four party line residence the funds actually to be put out will ; phones, $1.7.1 be carried over in continuing approp-j Two party residence lines $2.00. nations ;tnd by other means. They Three and four party business lines, say that appropriations for a given ! ?:.oo.

year do not accurately reflect actual Two party business lines, $3.50. 'xpensrs for that year, pointing out Individual residence phones, $2.2-1. that while the appropriations for this Individual business phones. $-1.50 fiscal year were $3.197,87.!2. the es-! Follows Recommendations, timated outgo will exceed this sum by! This contract follows the recomapproxlmately $770,000,000. j menda r ions made by Benjamin Terk, Of the total estimated expenditures an expert accountant, at a meeting of for 102::, approximately $2,900,000,000 is ! the. board of works, utilities committo pay for past wars and to keep up j tee of the city council, and city attortho fighting arms of the government, 1 ney. Thursday night, leaving only about $(500,000,000 for the ; According to the report made by peace-time "pursuits of the federal !-' !". Perk at that time, the contract as e.-tahlishmenf. The estimate for the! adopted by the board of works will al

arm- and the navy is $SOl.6r.6.107. a Mw- the Richmond Home Telephone

reduction of $5ti. -.0.1.299 as compared company an earning oi percent with this fiscal vear and $H.15.352. 74 1 ; annually on the property and plant as compared with the fiscal vear 1921 . j value. During the past five years the The navy estimate of $41.754.000. it , company's greatest return was seven (; oTnlainpit rioes nnt take into account ! percent in 191S.

anv nnssiblP reductions that mieht be! Letter Explains Recommendations

brought about as a result of the nrni : i a cnnfnreiirc tho total inclndins funds 1 'rney

for continuing work on the ships of - mummg, .r. r ern sain: Hip 1916 proeram most of which would I .'The proposed telephone rates will be scraped under th proposal made '"'1(J a return of S.S per cent on the to the conference by the American j (Continued on Pag Sixteen.)

government. Dawes Comments ccompaning the budget as sent to ennsrress is a detailed report from

Director General Dawes as to the opev. at Ion of the budget bureau since its! establishment fie months ago and! some pointed comments as to means j of continuing its efficient operation.; Disscussing the reception of the budget by congress. General Dawes says.) 'It is to be expected that since the preliminary estimate-; have been mad". , tinder pressure by the executive for; t. vrfrt 'incit- 1

proper reue, ' ,.,-.... ' V"" John .1 Ticert. commissioner of edu- I ent wuh e. .ciency , w, 1 nc be ne -1 . essary. as heretofore oongsj.ii (.()nnortion with the of make radical cu s upon he est Anlpl ic;in (.rtncation w eek." While no i

Of ine IlllUfcei " I Y ,hil,l t flenie,! cHliMtmn It. Amerlro 1

he said, the "opportunity In by no :

Were it not for the food supplies

tions relating to China, including the i portant portions, it has been indicated

tariii situation ana China's request tor j win aeai witn permanent tariff legis-, genl to RUssia -Dy America, many thou

vvnuuiawai 01 loreifjn troops on neri'nLHiii. 1 ne ure-siuem was couiempia:-

soil, and also the special conference between the delegates of that, country

ana japan on the Shantung contio

ing delivering the message in person.

Congress Convenes,

Ten days only had elapsed since the

iversy. Today s session of that, con-! adjournment of the extra session, and

ference will resume discussion of the ! it generally was predicted that the.

question of control of the Shantung ; resston convening today would not end

railway- upon wnicn mere was a preliminary exchange of views Friday.

until well into next summer.

THREE BOLD BANDITS RAID MURAT THEATRE; NOTHING IS SECURED

SAYS GREATEST NEED

IS SQUARE DEAL FOR CHILDREN IN COUNTRY

iRv Associ.i t et Frrs?0 WASHINGTON. Dec. .".The greatt need in the United States today is

quaic (IphI for the country child.

i By Assoi-iated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 5 Three masked men held up the office of the Murat theatre about 10:"0 this morn-

i ing but obtained nothing. Nelson l Trnuhrirfp-p maniip-er nf t ho theatre

letter to v. v. Reller. city at- j waa .struck'when he refused to obey which was read at the meet-1 u f.nTnmaH tr, nr.on a uf0

the robbers took his watch and purse, but returned them. Mr. Trowbridge was dictating to hU stenographer. Miss Grace Kline, when

the three men entered the lobby. One of them covered Frank G. Perry, j treasurer, who was in the box office.! another stood just outside the door!

of Mr. Trowbridge's office and the other approached the manager. "We want the money from last week's show," he shouted. Mr. Trowbridge explained that there was no money as the house was dark last week. Following this the men ran. after declaring they were going to hold up the Shriners' office upstairs.

i They disappeared from the building.

however. !

: The program for today was expected to be very brief, comprising formal conening of both house-;, appointment t of committees to advise President

Harding that congress was in session and awaited any communication he desired to make, and adoption of n resolution providing for a joint session to hear the executive message tomorrow. The first, national budget was sent

j to congress by President Harding to-1

day, inaugurating a new system of national expenditures, but consideration of the document is not on today's program.

10 what will be the result as it eltects

.ttieienev The liresuent 01 ne V imeu

KlaK-S. when he sends the

...-.nore-u f. nvesimii d to send It wi

f.11 the reductions in expenditures which can be effected without due impairment of governmental business proce.-.-es. In the preparation of the budget he has had at wcrk ;.n author- ; on,-v in the bureau not only ill

ertruniliK the reasonahl

a so

Mie.-s

desired appropriations, hut ;n cou.i.i ,.:illv imtiot-inc pres-ure upon the de

l.artniepts for a reduction in th

impairment of governmental Ceniral Daw cs says he feel

s fOI

budget to ...

jll .vsseiiinK mat iwo inirus or rne na

tions ..tin. nun senoois are nne room buildinss, Mr. Tigert said the average exjtenditure each vear for the citv cliild whs $to.r,n. ag-iinst $2.",.rl for hi-- rural brother. Crban schools, he added, were open 1S2 days a year, on an average, asainst 1)2 days for those in the country and the average city teacher received a salary of $854 against $179 for the rural teacher.

Kdueationa! advantages are the t-.ief ii'ikiim tnr tltf fll-ift frivm farm

to city, he continued, adding that, "the

GOV. SMALL, CURTIS OPEN THEIR FIGHT

LABOR HAS NO RIGHT TO INTIMIDATE BY PICKETING, IS RULING

(T,y Associated Prcs?) WASHINGTON. Dec. 5. Organized labor has no right to picket during a strike, when it involves importunity, the supreme court declared. The de cision was delivered in an appeal brought by the American Steel Foundries company, growing out of a strike at its plant at Granit City. 111. The court in its decision declared no broad rule could be laid down in the matter of picketing, however, but thit each case must be considered on it.-, merit, to determine whether the picketing constituted restraint and intimidation.

sands of Russians now living would have starved to death, according to Mrs. Toby Jaffe. 66 years old, mother of Sam Jaffe, of this city, who has just arrived in Richmond from Russia. Mrs. Jaffe spent four weeks in getting to this country, nine days of which were snent on the water. She

arrived at Ellis Island a week ago today. Sam Jaffe had great difficulty in "getting his mother off the island. Many immigrants are being sent back, he said. Although Mr. Jaffe's mother cannot speak English, her reports of Russian conditions were interpreted by Mrs. Sara Jaffe.

Scores ot innocent citizens oi uussia are killed by marauding bands of robbers, said Mr. Jaffe's mother. "I have known oi" as many as 25 persons being lined up an shot for no reason whatever, except that their possessions were wanted. Money is Taken. "Much of my own money was taken from me without cause. I would be

part. Last year Miss Collins won the beauty contest staged at her high school and now her friends are "thrilled to pieces" by her new achievement. The naturalness and poise she exhibited in her test film were remarkable as well as her beauty. She is five feet fiv inches tall and weighs 120 pounds.

BABE RUTH'S SHARE OF SERIES FORFEITED! IS OUT UNTIL MAY 20

(By Associated Tress) CHICAGO, Dec. 5. Babe Ruth's share of the world series profits in 1921 were declared forfeited and Ruth himself suspended until May 20, 1922, by Commissioner Landis, in a decision loday fixing punishment for the New York Yankee bail players for participating in a post-season barnstorming; tour. Ruth may apply for re-instatement on May 20, or within 10 days after thnt date. Commissioner Landis said. The 1922 besebail season starts out the middle of April, so that Ruth will be

prevented from participating for least one month next season.

MORSE IS PERMITTED TO EMBARK 5 HOURS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE

(By Associated Press) HAVRE, Dec. 5. Charles W. Morse,

whose return to the United States on

i torn tnat certain articles oi lunmuie h steamship Paris was requested by I in mv bouse were not paid tor when . , ... i.

- atnrnpv i.ijii i i i 1 i- i' is. i:ufii ru

they were, and in that way I was rob

bed of much of my money, j Mrs. Jaffe lived by herself. Her home was in a small town in the east

ern part oi Kussia, near ine vjki man border. Schools, streets, sidewalks, electric lights, and hot and cold water service in the homes are comparatively recent advantages Russia is enjoying, according to Mrs. Jaffe. Russia now-, however, she said, is in a chaotic condition. Most people were out of work in her section. Mrs. Sam Jaffe, who has been away from Russia for 17 years, said that

when she left the old country, street

the liner for his journey back to New-

York at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Other passengers were not permitted to go aboard before six p. ni. He had requested that, be be allowed to embark before noon, but the French line officials pointed out. that the stewards and other attaches of the vessel would not report until two o'clock, and that be would be cold and uncomfortable and unable to get lunchton before that time. Mr. Morse, whose return was requested In connection with investigation of the transactions With the ship-

sidewalks, electric lights and sanita- pmg board, said ne had been in mucn tion were' not known. There were no! of the night. A request that he be schools at Ihat time. I allowed to delay his e'eparture until

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that the

i By Associated Pi cs?) I WA UK EG AN. 111.. Dec. 5. Governor j T.en Small and Vernon Curtis, Grant j Park. 111. banker, todav opened their!

fight against trial at Springfield by the Sagamon county grand jury last July. Appearing In the court of judge C. C. Edwards, they asked that the indictments be quashed as illegal and insufficient.

Weather Forecast

192-!,, "will :

same tinancial support, consolidated schools and good roads,' should solve the dill'icu'tv. CARL ACKERMAN SAYS ! CONFERENCE CERTAIN

TO ATTAIN OBJECTS

estimate for expendnutf

,...,,n uhich the budget is based

not be increased except through appropriations initiated by congress or by the executive as a result of emergency or unforseen conditions arising after the preparation of the budget."

Wants Change C; it 'rating his recommendation that j congress immediately repeal all out-: standing eontinous appropriations and; "revolving funds" General Dawes says ( t ho me ;hnd nf annroDriat ing money

heretofore followed "has resulted in a; 7 . condition of things under which it; The Um-.tauon of armaments conferis aln.o.-t impossible for either the ' enee will attain its object, not as executive, confess r th secretary of; quickly as most of the participants ,he treasury to have before them a; hoped lor but u.tima.ely said Carl true picture" of the ti- al condition of ; Ackerman. internationally known as a he government at anv particular time, newspaper correspondent and author. "The ho'e habit "of making con- wo spent the week-end with his par i v.hich th. ents. Mr. and Mrs. John Ackerman. ttnous appropriations to h e discussing v?",.nlPnal f f "l ! the armament problem and the far

m ent to a lack of scrutiny of public

ED WASMUTH CONFERS ON G, 0. P. FINANCES

MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST Partly cloudy and fair at interva's tonight and Tuesday. Below freezing tonight. Partly cloudy to fair at intervals i? indicated for the next 36 hours due to the passing away of a severe storm which is now raging along the Atlantic coast. No immediate prospect of

i any very cold weather.

"The war has been a good thing for

Russia if it is relieving those old conditions." said Mrs. Jaffe. Value of the Russian ruble has depreciated from its normal value oi about 50 cents, to one cent. This aids greatly in making living conditions difficult, according to Mrs. Jaffe. Mrs. Jaffe's mother is to make her home here with her son.

M'CRAY SETS DEC. 14 FOR SPECIAL SESSION

work by he head of the department under which it is carried on. and an encouragement to shiftlessness and carelessness on the part of the subordinates more directly concerned in It. This system of preparing the budget will confine the attention of the executive, of congress and of the (Continued on Page Sixteen)

eastern question, the two paramount propositions before the conference, but also in private conversations are discussing the industrial and financial condtion of the European countries, Mr. Ackerman said. The correspondent is collecting data on industrial and financial conditions for the New York Times and also doing work for Scibner's Magazine. H3 departed for Dayton Monday.

(By Associated Prpfss) INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 5 Edward M. Wasmuth. chairman of the Republican state committee, conferred with

FredericK K. Shortemeier. secretary

of the committee, here todav. Fi

nances of the state organization and preliminary plans for the campaign next ' year, are understood to have been discussed. A deficit of $15,000 is said to exist in the organization's finances. Mr. Wasmuth had breakfast , with Senator New. Harry G. Hogan. Fort Wayne, chairman of the Twelfth district, was in Indianapolis today to attend the conference Senator New is holding.

Jan. 5, to consult a specialist in regard to bis health was refused by Mr Daugherty.

For Indiana, y the United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Tuesday; little change in temperature. Temperatures Yesterday Maximum "7 Minimum :U

Today

TO REPLACE STRIKERS IN PACKING INDUSTRY WITH OTHER-WORKERS (Ry Associated Press) CHICAGO, Dec. '. Plans for immediate replacement of union packing

house employes who obey the strike

IRISH PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

BREAK DOWN Dail Eireann Delegates Expected to Return to Ireland at Once No Immediate Hostilities Expected. TRUCE ISlrTEFFECT

(By Associated Tre?s LONDON, Dec. 5. The Irish peace negotiations have broken down, according to statements in responsible quarters today, and the dail eireann delegates are expected to return to Ireland tomorrow or Wednesday. The truce still remains in effect and no immediate resumption of hostilities is looked for. The crisis in the Irish peace negotiations held the exclusive attention of official circles today. Premier Lloyd George obtained an audience with King George and explained th situation to him, after which the British peace representatives held a conference. This was followed by a meeting of the entire cabinet. The Irish delegation of yesterday informed Premier Lloyd George that the government's latest, proposals were unacceptable to the Dail Eireann cabinet. Questions at Issue The big questions at issue between the British government and the repre-

j sentatives of the Irish Republican parliament have been: Shall Ireland bei come entirely independent or, if it remain within the British empire, shall

there be two separate governments in Ireland, one for Ulster and one for the rest of the country'' Prime Minister Lloyd George has refused to consider any proposal which would put Ireland outside the empire. The Sinn Feiners refused to admit that Ireland should be split in two parts. Ulster refused to unite in one parliament with the Sinn Feiners. It has organized a parliament of its own under the Government of Ireland Act. The Sinn Feiners refused to set up a parliament for the south of Ireland, as proposed in that act. They adhered to their own Irish parliament, called the dail eireann. which they had set up independently as the governing body of the Irish republic. That was the situation when ihe truce began last July, after King George had made a conciliatory speech at the opening of the new parliament in Ulster. Purpose of Negotiations The purpose of the negotiations, as defined by Lloyd George and accepted by the Sinn Fein representatives is "to ascertain Ik.w the association of Ireland with the community of nations known as the British Empire may be best reconciled with Irish national as-

al I pira.tions." I The conferences began in July. Both

sides have at times entertained higher hopes of a final and satisfactory settlement probably than at any timn since the Irish question becamr- a thorn in the side of the British Empire, but there have been several crises when the negotiations seemed doomed to failure. The first of these occurred when Lloyd George offered to de Valera at consultation in London a form of selfgovernment in Ireland something like that prevailing in the British dominions. The Dail Eireann utterly rejected t Lis proposal on the ground that

it did not afford even genuine dominion rule. Premier Balked Lloyd George endeavored to resum negotiations but this move seemed likely to he balked by de YaWa's insistence that the Irish delegates to such a conference must, be accepted as having derived their authority from a free and independent Ireland. Th British Premier refused to concede that point as, he said, it would constitute a recognition at the very outset of Ireland's claims for separation from the British empire. This obstacle was overcome by th two parties agreeing upon Lloyd George's formula that the purpose of

the conference bhould be to ascertain j how Ireland's association with the em

pire might tie best reconciled with Ireland's national aspirations Under that formula, meetings have b-en in progress since early October. The proceedings have been secret. It

has been reported, however, that. Bril-

Cy Associated Press) j INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 5 Governor I

McCray issued today the formal pro-1 were being carried out early today at clamation calling a special session of the 15 packing centers in the middle the legislature to meet. Dec. 14 at. 10; . .,ffFCto,i bv 1he walkout.

Noon Weather

Conditions Th Rockv

a. m. i ne oniy reason given in tne proclamation for the session was that "the public welfare does now require a special session."

south-In f I

eastward from the far west to Texas I rOSipOTlC J TlQl Of M Tain on Saturday and then north and east; f-.., WL to the Atlantic coast, was the cause! treiO InVOlVCd III Wreck

Mall Robber to Enter Insanity Plea at Trial ("By Associated Prssl FHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 5. Roy Gardner, escaped mail robber, was to go into the United States district court today on trial for two charges. He will base a claim of not guilty on a claim that he is nat normal mentally.

of the snow which fell Saturday night

and late Sunday night. Generally fair

weather now prevails over the western states, due to a large area of high barometric pressure over that district. There is very little cold weather of consequence either in the United States or southwestern Canada. Violent windstorms occurred Sunday -it Ijos Angeles, Calif., and surrounding suburbs.

Paid Circulation Saturday, was 11,759

(Bv Associated Press) VALPARAISO, Ind., Dec. 5. Trial of William S. Long. Jackson, Mich., and George F. Block, of Michigan City, Ind., under indictments on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of 37 persons in

the railroad wreck at Potter. Ind., last March, today was postponed until Feb. 8. Long was the engineer and Block the fireman of a Michigan Central train, which was in collision with he

New York Central interstate express last spring. Their indictments followed testimony before the city coroner by witnesses, that all signals were set against their train. Postponement of the trial

was granted when the state promised not to ask another continuance. The case has been postponed several times.

The" "big five" packers declared the organized workers represented less than five per cent of the total number of employes, while union leaders insisted they had gained the support of more than half the workers. The strike was voted by the Amalgamated Meat Cutlers and -Butcher

Workmen of North America two weeks after a wage reduction of approximately 10 per cent in all line.5 by the packers. This cut. th? packers

announced, was effected through the shop representation council where a committee of employes and representatives of the plants met to discuss wages and working conditions and inspect the books of the companies. The reduction went into effect last Monday morning. Six hundred extra policemen were assigned to the stock yard3 district

here this morning when a large percentage of the 40,000 packing house employes had voted to go on strike, according to union leaders.

isn representatives sumnitted a plan to give Ireland a status of "association'' with the empire and to allowj her an almost complete measure of

self-government to be exercised by separate parliaments in Ulster and South Ireland, respectively, and by a central council pointly chosen. This brought Ulster again into the negotiations and compelled Premier Lloyd George to defer his trip to farWashington conference on limitation of armament so that he could devote his tim to an effort to overcome Ulster's hesitation or objection to cooperate with the South of Ireland In any form of common government. The general understanding was tha1 the Sinn Fein delegates insisted that there must be no partition of Irclan''. into the North and South with different forms of government and different relations to the empire. To reconcile these conflicting viewpoints. Lloyd George invited Sir Jamea Craig, the Ulster premier, to come to London in the first week of November to talk things over. The situation was so delicate that Sir James desired

the support and advice of other Ulster leaders and finally all the membrs of the Ulster cabinet were called to London. Unionist opinion In England has been steadfastly against any "coercion of Ulster."

Mother of Sen. Underwood Is Dead Of Heart Disease BIRMINGHAM, A!a Dee. 5. -Mrs. Frederica Virginia Underwood, mother of Senator Underwood, of Alabama, died at the home of her son, Fred V. Underwood, Sr., early today of'hMtr" disease.