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SAYS HOUSTON BONUS POLICY CLOUDS FACTS

American Legion Commander Calls Testimony ''Attempt to Muddv Water' ESTIMATE TOO HIGIP (;albraith Estimates Maximum I Cost of Soldier Bill .$1,878,800.000. By Associated Pre?: WA SHI XGTU N, Dec. IS mony by Sec'y Houston treasury before the senate . Te Allot the finance committee yesterday placing the f.ont of carrying out tho pending adjusted compensation or soldier bonus) bill at 12,300.000.000 was characterized by F. W. (hdhraith. national commander of tho American Legion, in a Htatement Tuesday night Afl a. "cuttle fish tklrmish to muddy the water so that the prln-j iiplo Involved can be clouded In ai lot of figures that mean nothing."! Mr. CJalbraith entlmatcd the I finvlrmiTTi fimninf f ri Knnno Kill t would cost the government at J TS, 8 00.0 0 0. "TetliiMmy Lbdeadiug.M "Sec'y Houston's whole presentation, of the matter," said the legion commander, "was misleading ami dinned to frighten the country into a repudiation of its obligations to ex -service men. Tho general impression was conveyed by its obligations to ex-serviee men. The general Impression was conveyed by his testimony that the paysag of tho adjusted compensation bill would entail tho Immediate appropriation of billion of dollars by tho government and seiouly c:1pple the financial condition of the treasury at th present time. Tho factH aro that appropriations necessary to cxrry out all features of th Mil except that of cash compensation would be negligible for this year and for several ear to com and that appropriations for cash compensation at3 not iwked, until July, 1921, and are to be spread ovtr a period of two ears." Mexican Who Killed American Put on Trial WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S. Tho trmrderer of John Berens, an American mining man. killed lat month in tho jslate of Mexico, Mexico, has been arrested and is being hebl for trial In tho state of Michoacan, the American embassy reported to the Ptate department Tuesday. H'GAHMON DESIES CHARGE OF MURDER State Closes Case gaint Cleveland Jndp;e Charged With Killing. ri.FAT.UVNl). ()., Dec. CS.Jiidg." William H. Mcdanr.on of the mu-r-.icipal court, charged with th sec- ' T.d degree murder oi Harold C K.iiry. tok tlio Htand In his own defn Tuesday and denied all of th accusations made agairvt him. II' w.-; the ".nst vritr.tfvs for tho defer.fe. The statt announced its case t loved but reserv ed the r'ght to call in reouttal James F. McCaffery, who t-stt!ied he was driving ,M! Marj Neely. chief witness for the Ktate. around th city In an automobile at the time of tb shooting. Miss Neetestified several da.- aco she .-tot d at Grew on avenue and Fast Ninth p. and "saw .MeCannen tikt s methirtr from his pocket. Simultaneously a ?hot wa.f tired and Kapy lurched forward." It I- exiecte.i the oo will pro tc the Jury Uto We dr fay. (aim in Denial Mcdannon a.ii!e1 Mis.s N"-. elv'j story almost to the lavt word. II" "Id his story' tiehi cr.itoly and (almWhen asked by W. H. r our.l for the drfen-.v klliid Kasrj". JudKe hief , if he had Mc !.mr on's OiC' -hook with eniotiov. as e ans1 did w,-r.-d: No. b:t. cf couin- : or." Thrrj w;ls a positive ring in Iiis voice as he replied: "I was tri fhi ! 'jest ion as t J reer .lud : a: the shotting. :e Ml Oinr. on v, rs c r amlned by Frcs.-cutor 1J.ikki for but any r.o hour r.n.i riftc-q; minutes. falle! to char, ire hi storv on material points. Judg McGannon testified that Miss dy hid prcpo-.i to him th.it fhe take the SUnii' fr the shoctli; and that he had d"-clin.-d h. r offer. This c.tme as a climax at the morning ssl n .'.rnied flatly th testlm his ftry r h" had :;y -f Jthn W. .Toyr. as : tlie:r irinkii.g oi ;he night .f The yh.M.tinc. He a!' ontrartieted M.s NV!'s t"v!i;iony that he had ofrrrd ht-r $.'.00 to -hmri' her stcrv- as given to Prov Ba-tking and tho grand jur;-.

Wilson Pardons Mother Of 13 In Indiana Prison

j I?jr T'riiN-I Trips: INDIANAPOLIS. Doc. 20. The leniency of Tres't Wilson opened the doors of Indiana Woman's rriijon for Mr?. Catherine A. Brauns, 55, of Peru, on Christmas eve and she spent the yule-tide holiday at home with her newly born twins and 11 other children. It was 1 earned k lucsu.iy. .Mrs. Jirauns was a. n. Hn-An-it'v.d June 2" by Judge df7wm f?v ,us,5nt-' the .ma.,ls in. ü sent me to ueirauu ami sine- mat time, her children have been motherless. Mrs. Braun ami her husband. John Braun, wrre sentenced to Impriaonment for the operation of a fake healing agency In which a "magi; handkerchief" was involved. At the time of her sntenrr slio told a government doctor that she was to become a mother, but tho doctor after a physical examination ported the contrary, it is .aid. reWANTS NATIONAL POLICE OFFICES TO CHECK CRIME!; Enright Declares Nation-Wide Inefficiency is Responsible For Wave. Hy AssH'ated Press: TUKNTON, N. J. Deo. F.s tabll?hment of a central national police bureau in Washington, tluoi:j,h which information cculd be llashnl around the world to keep a cht el, on movements of known criminals, was one of the principal recommendations mxulo at a conference here Tuesday of state, county and tnuni pal officials, called by lov. Edward to devie Forne means o? combatting tle present crime wave in New Jei -sty. Police Commissioner Knriht of New York, who suggested the estatllshment of a central bureau, declared tho United States was far below the efficiency of the. police of Kumpean countries, and that tho police of this country could not expect co-operation from foreign countries until a system, of checking convicts was adopted. He asserted criminals from Kncdand were entering the country daily through Mexico. 'o-opcrato With World. "Scotland Yard and ether ICnropean police departments are unable to HT'iro information reardint; criminals from this country,' he Fiid. "and until we can rive then; sonitient data we cannot expect co-operation from them. With a national police bureau, communica tion couid be Tnaintair.e.,1 with Scot- , land Yard and othrr preat jHilico a?incis of tbo t-orId. I-acIc of cooperation of the Tliee ?ystemM throughout thf world Is astonish - :onmwlonr Enrlt;ht crit;ci.vKMl ; hondini? companies for furnishing Kecurity for mri arre.strrl as criminals, riany of them, lie aid, obtained their freedom in this manner and thus hindered police investigations. He also Tm-'gted that NVw Jtroy adopt an net patterned after the Sullivan law of N'tw York state makinjr possessii-in of a revolver without a permit lib crab Gov. Edwards privii-mly had expressed himself in favr of ytiicter regulation of v,le of iKaUy wearons in X . . a I ..... . .-. ... .... r, s. 1 ..Mi '.li ICONTIM'KI) N l'A(5K THI'.Ei:.) PRESIDENT PASSES BIRTHDAY QUIETLY Family Present at Eighth Anniversary Celebration in 0 'hite House. A ' tntod Prs: WASHINGTON. Dec. 2v Pres't Wils a. who entered the white house at the ace of Tucsdiv celebrated tlie sixty fourth anniversary Mrth. his last hirthday b-fo: -e r tiring to the lift- i f a private c t izr. . All of the members of the president's im:r.d:ate family, with tb.e xception cf William G. McAd"-o, hi.- sqi-in-'aw. spent the day with hin;. Business engagements prevented Mr. McAdoo coming to Washington, but Mrs. McAdoo, Mr. and Mrs. Fr.ü-.ci It. Sayre. Mr. Wilson's cn-in-Iaw. and daughter, and Miss Margaret Wilson, the third daughter, wer present for an informal birthday party given by Mrs. Wil?on for presidt nt. I. A Vmgmtulatlons Itixidvod. . . Numerous messages .f oongratur. lions were n use du: int. f-rm King G. Mr. Wi'.sur. reCOUe.i i th. white th - d ay. Including one nrf'v oi Great Pntain. spent the day quietly and witn Mrs. Wilson entertained at I luncheon MUs Marjorle P.rown. cou i -in cf h is hr?-: Hill wife, and her lancet", 5T.j amia New York, whose Uedding took place Tuesday night at the home of th bride. Mrs. Wilsur.. together with Mrs. McAdoo, Mrs. iayre itr.d Miss Wilson, attended the wedding.

SEN. HARDING'S DECISIONS ON CABINET NEAR

Probable Appointees Named Bv Associates of Presi-dent-Elect. HAYS' NAME PROMINENT Hughes Seen as Leading Candidate For Secretary of State Office. Ily Associated Press: MARION', O., Dec. 28. After weeks of consideration and consultation, I'res't-ekct Harding is nearing a decision on several of his most imJ portant cabinet appointments. 1 It may bo said authoritatively that t i to far no such decision has been j made and that any suggestions he ' may have drojpel on the subject have been of a tentative and inI definite nature. It Is equally ceritain. however, that in his talks here i with leaders in many walks of life he has indicated clearly what mei are uppermost in his mind as lie asks for advice on the makeup ol his official family. Hushes for Head Those who have discursed the question with him intimately believ that aa,)ointments under very serious co. si deration includo the following: Charles K. Hughes of New York m cretar' of ttate; Charles G. Iawe9 (f Illinois, secretary of the treasury; John YV. WVks of Mrissachusetts, Kecretary of the naT: Will H. Hays of Indiana, postmaster general or secretary of tho lrterlor; Henry Wallace of Iowa, secretary of agriculture; Herbert Hoover of California, secretary of labor; and Harry M. -Paugiarrty, attorney genTal. How many of these, actually will be given the placea for which they now are most prominently mentioned Is a question that even Mr. Harding himself is not yet prepared to answer. Already several shifts have been made in his tentative appointment slate as he has worked his wny toward a balanced and harmonious cabinet pected and other changes aro exbeforo tho last decision is made. Others Considered It i certain that for several of th places mentioned the presidentelect has more than one man under consideration and that the list of seven possibilities given here Is far from complete. In regard to most of the cabinet posts, decisions may be deferred for reveral weeks. Mr. Harding's selections for secretary of state and seceretary of tho t re a s u ry, however, are expected to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE.) O'BRIEN MURDERED, SISTER BELIEYES Will Start Inve ligation of Death of War Hero, Pronounced Suicide. I?y Associated Pr-?.: MUMKNCi; 111.. Dec. 28. Delieving that hr brother, IJeut. Fat O'Brien, hero aviator who was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel ... . sister of the dead man. sail Tuesdny that an investigation will be made. Mrs Clcg said her brother, Merwin O'Brien and Virgil Moore, pn ! associate of the dead man. had sufflcient evidence to warrant an lni vesticatlon. She believes O'Brien . 1 . I. T i 1 uii not runiii:ii vuaiue. Mrs. Clgg said sho had been with htr brother in the afternoon of the day he was found dead and he wa? in gooi spirit?. She declared nat when she saw his body there were no powder marks near the wound. She also said she believed the note which was thought to have been written by the aviator was written by some one e'se. nrmiTTTi Turrn ttamti IS HMUi. XXXKf XlVlUXJi FINDS WOMAN'S BODY Coroner Attributes Death of Man A. Conklin to Heart Disease. Spei.il to New -Timen : GusHlIX, Ind.. Dec. 2S. The lifeless body cf Mary A. Conklin. 70. widow of John Conklin of thlj citv, was found In her horn? h?re nv John Heid, a neighbor, who, after receiving nc res pons-? 1o sx-veral knocks, forced a window to her house. It is believed that Mrs. Conklin j h.!S been dead since Christmasf nit:h hs she wo. not seen after that timr Indications are that "he fell dead from heart ailment. Hr body, fully clothed, was lying on the Moor. Coroner Ho'doman has rendered a verdict of death from heart disease.

Siamese Royalty Studied Here

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4 r Prlnco Mahidol, brother of th Kins' of Slam, accornpaniod by tho Princess, has returned to America to continue his studies of the Harvard Medical school and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ho la making a specialty of sanitation methods and the rublic health. ho he may be able on his return to Mam to take over the job of j.eepInz tho kingdom healthful. The pnnco is 2 8 and has been a student hero slnco 1916. BROWN TO PRISON FOR BEATING MAN Sentenced to Jeffersonville Reformatory For Two to 14 Year Term. Clifford Brown, 20 years old. does not believe In the old adage of the law's delay, and thinks that the courts move with creditable speed, lie came to this conclusion In cir cuit court Tuesday when Special : Judgo Yeagley sentenced him to serve from two to 14 years in the Jeffersonville reformatory for assault and battery with Intent to kill. The assault which Brown committed took place 12 days ago, the victim being William Kmappenberger, an employe of the Iceland hotel, 121 W. Washington st. Kmappenberger, who is 62 years old, refused to rent Brown a room; In the hotel on the night preceding! the assault, and the young man : called there tho next morning to apologize for the trouble he had caused, as he told the court. He said that when Kmappenberger saw him tbe old man started to call for the police, and that he hit him over the head with the butt of the revolver he was carrying, and then ran away. It was thought at flr.ct by physicians that the elderly man might not recover from the beating, hut he has refrained his strength. When arraigned in city court. Brown entered a plea of Kutly. and was bound over to circuit court for trial. not the Boat Owners Declare Pieiv Yo h City Strike i "Outlaw Affair' By Aftsoc1 1 I rcss : XLrV '.-It K IXt. 2S. The harbor strike, ;.(. iving members rf the Coalmen's T.'nicn and the Masters. Mates and I.' lots' unicn, which has been callel fcr Jan. 1, w.as termed an "outlaw affair" by Frederick A. Russell, presidt nt of ti e Hoat Owners' association, in an ultimatum to the union leaders Tuesday night. 'V ate through vith them for rood," he said. Afr TtiisRell declared that at last t Tuesday's meeting the majority of leaders of the boatmen's, engineers' anl pilots' orrranizations agreed to tho 6 0-hour wage scale and that tho strike vote last night was "similar to the action taken by them a year and a half ago." About 1,200 men will be affected and 40 ve-"cls tied up If the threat is carried out, he added. The boat owners will meet Thürs ! dav to consider the situation. Death Breaks Great j Chain of Grandmothers ARKADELPHIA. Ark.. Dfc 2S. A chain of grandmothers without parallel, in this section, at least, has been broken by the death of Mrs. Rmellne Eliza IU!e., S2. lit-fore her death, two small children of Mrs. Eliza Hansen, her gi cat-granddaughter, had six living fe-rarx! mot hers of whom two wen grt at-great-grandmothers. two wer? great-grandmothers, and two were Just plain grandmothers. The oldest of the Hanson children is 3 4 years of age. Thus there were at one time rive living generations with less than 11 years separating the youngest frcm the oldtst. The Hanson children had. besides their six grandmothers, nine uncles, four great uncles, two great-great uncles, four great aunts, two greatgroat aunts and forty second cousins, but no ftrst cousins.

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... TERRE HAUTE FIRE RUINS SIX STORES Business Block Wrecked Downstate City Loss Estimate $400,000. in By Associated Press: TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Dec. 28. Fire of undetermined origin deFtroyed the entire stock of two stores and badly damaged tho contents of four others, and wrecked a j block of the downtown business section Tuesday night, with a damage that probably will exceed $ 400, 000 and temporarily put 500 people out of employment. One fireman suffered minor injuries while lighting the Harnes. The fire, it appeared, started in the rear of the second door of the Jvederer-Meibelman .company store and ate its way to the front of the building. William Scott Iennis. fireman at No. 1 company, one of the first to gain entrance to the third floor of the burning building, suffered severe bruises and cuts when he fell through the floor. He was moved to his home, 307 Sycamore at in the Hunter ambulance. One $300.000 Stock. The entire stock of the LedererFeihelman company store, 660-662 Wabash av., on which a late estimate of $300.000 was given, was destroyed, while the Rainbow "Waist shop, 664 Wabash av., will recover little saleable stock. Thorman and Schloss, clothiers, suffered mostly from smoke and water, and the damage to its stock will run well Into the thousands. This store was destroyed In 1914. when part of the same block which burned tonight was destroyed. The Metropolitan five and fifty cent store, 655-658 Wabash av., suffered peverely from the flames, as well as smoke and water. The Menter and company store, 654 Wabash a v.. was damaged by smoke and water, while the loss to the Herz store stock was confined to smoke and will be small. Negro Found Guilty of Kentucky Murder After Jury Sits Five Minutes By Associated Tress: MADISONVILLE. Ky Dec. 28 Leo Ellison, colored, charged with the murder of Sheriff K. S. Hunter here on the night of Nov. 5, and on trial Tuesday for the crime, was found guilty by a Jury after live minutes deliberation, his punishment being fixed at death by electrocution. The court thereupon st January 31 as the date on which he should die. State troops who brought Ellison here this morning from Louisville, guarded against any violence at the trial after sentence had been pronounced, accompanied the negro to Eddyvllle. where he was placed in the death cell. Engineer Killed, Many Hurt in His Four Wreck By Associated Press: ANSONIA. O.. Dec 28 --- George Riester of Indianapolis, engineer, was killed, and a number of persons were injured when cast-bound passenger train No. 16 on the Big Four railroad turned over near here Tuesday night. Three passenger cars cars turned over The cause of the wreck has been undetermined. The train, a St. Louis to New York limited, left Indianapolis shortly after 2 o'clock. Wrecking and rescue crews were ent from Indianapolis at 7:30 p. m.

MINERS AGREE TO PARLEY TO ADJUST WAGES

Anthracite Workers Will Not Drop Demand For Increase, Says Head. SAY INCREASE WITHHELD Make Charge That Thousands of Workers Have Not Received New Wage. Ity Associated Proas: HAZETrON. Pa., Dee. 2?. Accepting the offer of tho operators to adjust inequalities and injustices within the present wage agreement, the genera! scale committee of tho anthracite mine workers late Tuesday instructed its sub-committee "to meet with representatives of the operators and endeavor to work out a basis of settlement that will bring satisfaction to the anthracito miny w orkers." Xone cf the demands of tho hard roal miners for wage- in:reaves will be dropped. Thomas Kennedy, chairman committee, announced, adding that! an attempt would be made a'aln to have the operators consider them ns "part cf the existing Inequalities." Construct ive Program. "Our solo desire is to wor out a i -'ji 'iLruciiN o prograjn, a?sriei i Kennedy, ;-that wil give generai j saiirfactlon to the great body of an-1 thracite mine workers and stability! in the region." rx A-..,.!... it . The operators a'.so uill be asked by tho sub-committee, it was learned, to see that all miners In the field get th3 17 percent increase reoontly gi anted in the commission's award. Charges have been made by rcpresentatlver of tho miners that thousands of miners in tho three anthracite districts never have received tho full increase. Tho action of the committee, which convened here to receive the reply of .the operators rejecting; their demands for additional wage increases o approximately 13 percent and a $6 minimum day iabcr rate, was unanimous. Chairman Kennedy announced that in accordance with the committee's Instructions, the sub-oommittt e would confor with tho operators at Philadelphia tomorrow when the bfarl of conciliation meets and begin negotiations for the adjustment of "inequalities and injustices. Want Interpretation. Tho miners abjo will a.sk the operators for a fuller interpretation of tho statement in their reply which states that "if there will be IndlvMual cases of inequality they (CONTINUIU) OS PAGE TIUIKC, ) MERCURY STARTS OH UPWARD CLIMB rri . T - l i 4 1 Iierinometer Kejristered II Decrees W armer 9 Hours fter Low Mark. Although "Old Man Mercury" forced citizens of this vicinity to dig up all the Arctic wearing"apparel they possessed early Tuesday morning by dropping: to six degrees below zero at 9 o'clock, he gradually crawled back until he registered eight degrees above by 6 o'clock in the evening, according to Charles Swain, local expert weather observer. Mr. Swain said that although this was the coldest weather experienced In this section of the country this year, the weather ao far has been comparatively mild. Despite the sudden drop in temperature, no ca.es of extreme suffering have been reported. The Associated Charities. Red Cross and Salvation Army and the City Rescue Mission were kept busy Tuesday, however, taking care of individual cases that required immediate attention. WATCHMAN BURNED IN FIRE AT FACTORY Wilson Smothers Fire From Clothing By Rolling in Snow. Special to Nep s-Tlraes: EUCH ART, Ind.. Dec. 28. C Wilson carrcwly escaped death nb.-ht, when his clothing caught . H. la-Ht lire whi e ho was attempting to extinsrj ul-h f.re In a sawdust pile in the factory where he is watchman. He rushed from the building with his clothing in flames and succeeded In extinguishing them by r oiling in the Frcfc .It hough ceriously burned he remained at work throughout the night. The origin of the tire is not known. A short time before Wilson had placed a lantern near the sawdust pile, and It is believed toTiave exploded.

Cameras 'Shooot ' Dry Army Raids On Hurley, Wis.

Prohibition Agents Arrest 57 in Clean-Up in Famous "Rum-Lands.'' By Associated Press: IRONWOOD, Mich., Dec. 28. According to reports received Tuesday night. Hurley is laughing over the raid by federal prohibition enforcement agents. Fifty minute after 48 federal agents with 57 prisoners left for Ashland, Wis., moonshine liquor was sold in Hurley. Tuesday night. it was said, any one who knew the ropes could buy liquor by the quart or case. By Associated Press: HURLEY, Wis., Dec. 28 --- Federal prohibition agents from Chicago visited nearly two score saloons, arrested 57 persons, and confiscated two loads of liquors in a raid that started shortly before noon hours. The prisoners and evidence were taken first to Ironwood, and thence to Ashland. Wis., where, probably the men will to arraigned before a United States commissioner on a charge of violating the federal

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of the i dircctlnn f Judge Kenesaw M. Landv thnt!1 of Chicago, and was planned by

Frank B. Richardson, newly appointed prohibition enforcement agent for this district. The raiding party of 50 or more, was in charge of Joseph Callahan. Cameras 'Shoot'' Raid. There was more of the picturesque than the sensational In the "Invasion" although the "movie" machines clicked merrily every time a federal agent drew a revolver, or a keg of liquor rolled into the street. A number of newspapermen also accompanied the invaders. The crowd that followed the agents down Silver street grew in a few minutes to more than 200 persons, but there was no demonstration and no audible hints of violent opposition to the raid. In fact, the crowd seemed more disposed to make It the occasion for a holiday. From the viewpoint of a surprise party, the affair was a complete sucfcess federal agent. agreed. While it was declared the saloors had been "tipped off last night apparently no great quantity of liquor had been e.;n'a'ed, according to Hurley nv oiis wl;o watcliod the "rnesh march" down Silver Mtreet. IJquor In Sleigh. Street cars wer used to transport' the agents,. their prisoners and the liquor from Hurley to Ironwood. A sleigh drawn by two horses followed . the officers in their cleanup and hauled the liquor to the street ears, In Ironwood a dray met the street cars and took the liquor to the speclal cars. Moonshine, according to observers who pretended to know, constituted the principal "wet" haul, although ther was a considers h'.e quantity of the kind that bore brands formerly familiar sights in (.-very salon::. Hut the "real stuft" was declared the minoritv. Tito and Half Million Leather Plant Fire Loss WP,MTNV JTON, Del., Der. Fire which broke out in th? pl.int of the Wilmington Iather company Tuesday night caused damagestimated by James I. Ford, treasurer of the company, at $-,5)0,000 and upset plans for employing Mi a men and women to relieve thj unemployment situation In this city. ine intense n? at ignited a row dwe211nK opposite tho plant a they burned quickly. ol '1 KELLER WINS IN PAY BOOST FIGHT Court Awards County Treasurer $1,332.32 Due as City Official. A judgment of fl.332.S2 was awarded Edward F. Keiler, treasurer of Ft. Joseph county, In his friendly suit for $ l.COO- back pay against the city of South I3"-nd, through John F. Swygart, city comtroller, by Judge Montgomery of the superior court, Tuesday afternoon. The silt arose from tho City Controller Swygart to pay Keller an Increase in wages authorized by tho city council In September. 1919 that time Mr. Keller's salary At was $2,0 00 a year and by the action of the city fathers this salary was increatd to J3.000. Onidttl Hiding Akexl. A divergence of opinion between the attorney general of Indiana and the members of the state board of accounts regarding the interpreta - tion of the state law authorizing th Increase and a statute of the state forbidding" the Increare while an official was in ofnee, cauned Swygart to hesitate In paying the ir.cieape until an official ruling was made on the case. Judee Monteomerv's ru'.lr.e" will ; f affect all county orhcla! f'f th state In cities cf the second clan who have been awarded increase in r.ay while they have been in office.

ITALY GRANTS PARLEY PLEA OF CITY HEAD

I Mayor and Director of Defen-e j Hold Conference With Gen. Ferra rio. TrfiJJJh31Ui0 1 1A 1 Ij 1A KUaH, Other Italian Cities Join in Display of Sympathy For D?Annunzio. By Associated Prers: ROME, Vr-c. 2S. Elrlng o-a I"ume bv the Italian blockading" fore s will be suspended, it was decided a: a conference in Abbazla TueHia;., according to .advices received here. The susperiHioh was requeste! by the iiircctor of national dtrfente a. Fi time and tho mayor of the rit.". who met (Jen. Perrarlo. corrvmaraier cf the blockading force, to ili--CU5-S the iKciibiljrj of rndinrj hostilities. At a conference in the morniüt tho general Informed th delegate-" that j)Ourparlors twero Im-pof.slbbb with(-ut xrior recognition of the treaty of Itapallo. Such recornltjoi having not been given, tne delegate, lecidetl to return to Eiumo to 11--ci! the matter and nJaed for ai: other meeting" in the afterm :i They lso requested a Ku:pt-nslon : which was granted. tiring Cities in Sjinpath.v. Pro - d'Annunzlo demonstration.-. some of which have resulted in disturbances, hae been held in all tbgrfat centers of Italy. Shoje .very, where hivo been ihut up. On the;; doors aro po.stera reading: "Closed as a ;gn cf nation.-1 mourning." Flags also have be on inast d. In Milan, Genoa, Spei.t and E lo-rna, the police liave been ,q i -pelled to inter!, Id to r-s'.or fif . No sc-rlous ittcidtnUs however, ba' been reported, although two prr-,n wrre wounded In Turin. Tho executive committee of t!,. Milan Nationalists ha passed i".-' -lutions pledging the natiorwi lists Immediately rise up) against t' government, "which alone b? i-i-:pons;ible for the aainfct Fiume." t . r 1 : n p c r i t : r a t 1 I"s? War Training i: Unlt-1 rres : HOME. Der. S. Navy officj thus far have refrained frum bombarding tha city except, for a fw shells thrown on the barracks f Fi am. 'a villa'H earbanlers found 'is..- for their war-time t rain i tig. Thy n forced to advance agair.s. mah;ne-c jn an.l fr.i pens' t:re to break through barl ! wire rT tangle-liif-nts rrir-erossir.g t!;e cobbl-rtone i Hire, t - i Seurts wound'-d w taken aboard ' in tl itt.nd r arr '. ' i' r 'ss t r-.r-r.t l.o.spifal coinprlled t') A!ri : i Til'- 1. t jxnnau.'ars we:9 w: hhold th .r nre evil, is i? i'y. f - j t in :r-ine th. -ir vanoe continue-d. '.ts b-:irr.fd that From r f;:ge D'Annunzio ii.ariy f.o-L. r epf--n;es within ')! ((' NTINCFI) OX I 'ACE T!illi;i;j HILDEBRAND HEADS LOCAL FRATERNITY Phi Delta ElecN Offi-rer-s Semi-Month I v I)i inner I'hi D it.- a::ir:; m-et:ng I-.a K 1 i ! c m th.M a ion - fr; r.ff:'-er.s at .. Wav r.e 1 11 ami Ilii -brand v-a .- ch Ken pre of eeremo: eeant at : treasurer: 'i er.l .1. J. U:irit. r..'i-t-r iies; William Fr: "k f -r-trir.K; Theojor.- Jtob. :t. Richard Curry, financial s cretary ; .c crt-tarr; Itaym Fred .nd rt-corujn-: 4 t 9--. r.i xi:.g i vr.'.Mr:1"! rf ;pcTh making faonti.ly y.nF. dinner h!J in tt;e ""h.tmVauG''vi;.e, tee iar.cl:.-, a:.d turel the r;.l-n of th fratr-rr.jty ber of C i T; .'-rce building Tu ln : nig!".'.. Alth "J i,'h some f...rm !. - I'." - idc d the Tt; brir.q jet, hii right's tr-rtainmt nt : bers at :ch 1 to gram was th' ing to Fr.-d F!!i v, a ever, nt c(,riisocial c '':nrr.!t'.' t-. College' -Mjti Attend I sides the rn- mbers who h.ve be n rrgularlly atf r.ding the meeting's, .-everal of the member j who are h-'-m for the holidays fr'ra j tho various unicr5itie wer? pres ent . Immf-'Jiatt ly following the dir.r.ethe boxing exhibition between " Young Toughy' and "Young Blende" was stared. Thvo tuo Foy S--o-jts pres. nted a (.It:? boxing exhibition. j "Duke" Staples, w ho has ; reputation as a comedian n l . n ( i a or.lv in this vi initv b':t a!o in the se e ra t i'ies in whir); he ap ptared as a m. moor : the tMrr at Iak("i R- ' view," entertain d with forrs and jjok-". Jim Itrynjbi. who Is he.ad- ; lining th.- Mil at !h rrpheum th rst half fi the week, als. kept the fraternity member j:ood humor w:th hl clever lir;e of songs aj-.d stories. Little Mir Maxlne Fator.. rix years old. gave a toe dancing exhibition that was we'd appreciated.