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Boost Ogdensburg By so doing you will eventually make it a Bigger Ogdensburg Mir. Merchant For attractive advertising of the' \pulling powers\ variety use th« Republican-Journal TEN PAGES THIS PAPER IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE 3 CENTS St. Lawrence Republican, Est. • 183.0 Dgdensburg Daily Journal, Est. 1855 OGDENSBURG, N. Y., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 18, 1922. WEATHER: Cloudy, probably snow, Wednesday and ; Thursfiajji ^j SEVERE EARTH SHOCKS FELT AT LOS ANGELES MURDERS SISTER TO SAVE LOVE OF HUSBAND 'RANSITLAW IS UPHELD BY HIGHER COURT Envoy to Berlin? (State's Power in Regulating Roads Supreme—New York Plans Fight ALBANY, N. Y., Jan.. 17.—The I state's power is supreme in city trac- Ition matters just as it is in the main- Itenance of highways or the iteration I of any public utility, the Court of Ap-1 I peals decided today by a unanimous I (\vote in upholding the constitutional- i ^ of the transit law, passed at the I 821 session of the New York Legis- ' Tture, providing- for the reorganiza- j an of the New York city traction Ines. I. The court's decision was handed flown on the appeal of the New York fcity administration from two orders lot' lower' courts. The opinion was I written by Judge Chester B. McLaugh- Ilin'and was concurred in by Chief 1 Judge Hiscock and Judges pound land Andrews. Judges Hogan, Car- I dozo and Crane up held the validity I of the law in a separate niemoran- Jdum but reserved judgment upon the (question of how far the rights of the- I city of New York in railroads which jit owned, could be divested or modi- \fied by the state. Most of the objections as to the • constitutionality of the act raised by ITJ. S. Senator Hiram W. Johnson, as I counsel for New York city, were dis- I regarded by (Judge Mclaughlin in |his opinion, which said: \They do not seem to be of suffi- Jcieut importance in disposing of the •present appeal to be considered.\ |WILL CARRY CASE TO U. S. SUPREME COURT NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—The Hylan |Hdministraticm will cai-ry to the Su- |)7-eme court of the United States its Jfight against the act that created the IState Transit Commission, Corpora- Ition -Counsel O'Brien said today on [learning that its constitutionality liad Ibeen upheld, by the state Court of |Appeals. \I am confident we shall ultimate- lly win,\ he added. aUTAIN'SHELPJ* SOUGHT BY FRANCE LO'NDON, Jan. 17.—(By The Asso- ciated Press)—Pre-nler -Poincaire has |sont a message to Premier Lloyd George expressing the desire in belialt' at\ the French government to repeat assurances already given privately |that France; is eager to resume \cor- clial examination of the various Ques- tions at issue between the two ooun- |tries.\ He is convinced that the two peoples \who have been so closely al- |lk'd in the field of battle, should be j ible, with common interests, to main- jtftin peace in Europe and to assure B'xecutlon • of the treaties signed and •the reparation damages caused by the •invasion.\ , I Alanson B. Houglrton. Washington, Jan. 17—The German government has notified the American government that Alanson B. Houghton now member of the house from New York, will be acceptable as ambassa- dor, and the name of Mr. Houghton will- be sent to the senate this week. Representative Houghton's home is in Corning. U.« TO PROBE CHARGES MADE AGAINST G. E. CO. Attorney General Daugherty Declares a Thorough In- vestigation Is Planned WASHINGTON, Jan, 17.—A special investigation of charges against the General Electric company resulting from investigation of the Lockwood committee in New York, will be be- gun by the department of justice , within a few days, Attorney General | Daugherty announced today. Correspondence between the de- partment and the General • Electric company was published recently, the attorney general said, in which it was brought out that charges had -been made that the company had created a monopoly, extorted millions of dol- lars from the public, juggled its ac- counts to avoid payment of income taxes and violated a decree of a Cleve- land court restraining it from unlaw- ful acts. The company, Mr. Daugherty con- tinued, had denied that it had violat- ed any of the terms of the decree or committed unlawful acjts but inas- much as violations of Federal laws were charged, it had been decided to institute a special investigation sep- arate from the Lockwood committee proceedings. 9 SHOCKS FELT AT LOS ANGELES STRIKE OF HARD COAL MINERS IMMINENT OVER WAGE AGREEMENT Window Glass Shattered and Frame Buildings Shake on Foundation LOS ANGELES, Calif. Jan 17-r=> Severe earth shock were felt in many sections of Los Angeles tonight, shat- tering window glass in some quarters . and shaking frame buildings. There [were 9 distinct shocks between 7:10 I and 8:30 o'clock. HAVE PLACE ON FEDERALRESERVE Senate Passes Bill to Increase the Membership— Other Changes Made WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.'—The first step to bring about fanr/jr repre- sentation on the- Federal Reserve Board, was taken by the Senate late today in the passage of the Kellogg- Smith compromise bill increasing the board's appointed membership from five to six arid providing that the agricultural interests shall have a spokesman among them. The vote by which the. bill passed was 63 to 9. Sevpn ol\ those who opposed the proposition were Repub- licans including Senators Calder and Wadsworth of New York and rwx- Democrats. By the bill, which constitutes an amendment to the Federal Reserve act, the limited designation of the law is wiped out and instead oC the specific provisions for the naming of two bankers to the board, the sta- tute, if agreed to by the House, will direct the President, in making ap- pointments to the board, to have \due regard to a fair representation or the financial, agricultural and industrial and commercial interests :md geogra- phcial division of the country. The measure also provides that hereafter no Federal Reserve Bank may enter\ into a contract for banking homes ii' their cost is to exceed $250,000 un- less the consent of Congress is first given. TESTIMONY TAKEN IN AR6UCKLE CASE Doctors on Stand Report on Physical Condition of Victim SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 17. —Taking of testimony in the second manslaughter trial of Roscoe Ar- buckle for the death of Miss Virginia Rappe, got well under way here to- day, three witnesses being examined at the single session of court held. The 'outstanding feature of today's proceedings was the submission to the court of a report prepared by •three doctors.. This report was used at the first trial of Arbuckle which resulted in a jury disagreement. The doctors examined organs of Miss Rappe to determine if there was any evidence of weakness in them. The report S£|d there was none and fol- lowing its reading to the new jury the doctors substantiated it with ver- bal testimony. HARDING WILL LEND AID TO NEWWATERWAY CHICKEN'S HEART BEATS 10 YEARS AFTER REMOVAL NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Part of the heart of a chicken that never was hatched was beating today, the tenth anniversary of its removal from the ebryo and isolation by Dr. Alexis Carrell of the Rockefeller Institute. The tissue fragment is still growing and its pulsations are visible under the microscope, Dr. Carrel said. It grows so fast that it is subdivided every 4S hours. FRANKLIN HONORED ON HIS ANNIVERSARY NEW YORK, Jan. 17—Versatile Ben- jamin Franklin, printer, inventor, dip- llomat. preacher,and practicer of thrift land author of many a copy book |maxim, was lauded today, the 216th anniversary of his birth in ceremonies lat his statute in City Hall park once [called Printing House Square. A score of organizations .laid •wreaths at his feet. tNDING HOUSE HIT BY CRIME NEW YORK, Jan. 17—Crime in- 1/reases, dishonesty among employes land business difficulties throughout •the country, have forced the American •Surety Co., to pay the heaviest year's ims in its history, said a statement •issued today. SCAN DEFINITION DOOR IN CHINA-IS MOW BEFORE THE CONFERENCE Nine Leading Powers Would Bind Themselves to Seek No Special Privileges—British and Italians Have Accepted Plan in Principle—Debate Expected Today IWOULD MAKE COURT OF APPEALS PARDON BOARD ALBANY, Jan. 17.—A proposed con- Istitutioual amendment offered in The Legislature today \by Assembly- man Charles I-I. Betts, Republican,'of I Wayne, seeks to take from the gov- ernor his pardoning power and trans- fer it to the court of appeals which |vvould be made a pardoning board. Another bill introduced by Mr. |3etts is designed to abolish capital punishment. In commenting upon Assemblyman |3etts' pardon board proposal, Gov- •rnor Miller said the suggestion that he court of appeals act in that ca- pacity had never occurred to him. He <aid he favored the pardon board j dea. \Unfortunately he added, ['such a. body cannot be created dur- 1 ng my term of office.'\ WASHINGTON. (By The Associat- ed Press), Jan. 17.—An American proposal to redefine the open dooir policy in China and create an inter- national board to examine both ex- isting .and future concessions which appear to conflict with it, was debat- ed without decision today by the Far Eastern committee of the Washing- ton conference. The British and' Italians accepted the plan in principle, but the French withheld assent to some of its proh visions and the Jayinese reserved judgment pending communication with Tokio. The subject will-be tak- en xip again tomorrow with a long and interesting discussion probable. In brief, the American resolution, would bind the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, 'Italy, Bel- gium, Portugal and the Netherlands not to seek special spheres of in- fluence in China nor secure conces- sions or monopolies which would abridge the principles of equal eco- nomic and r ananercial opportunity. China, oi. her part, would agree to co-operate in maintaining that equality and tho nine powers-collec- tively would authorize establishment of a board of reference to review present and future concessions to de- termine whether they conflict with tin- open' door thus defined. Except for another inconclusive session on the Shantung negotiators and informal exchanges among the Big Five regarding the Pacific forti- fications agreement, the meeting of the Far Eastern committee constiut- ed 'the total- of conference activities during the day. At the Shantung con- versations the question of mines was discussed with no apparent progress and the fortifications problems re- mained unsolved tonight despite re- cepit by the Japanese of partial in- structions from Tokio. It was around the proposal for an inquiry into concessions now estab- lished in China, as well as those pro- posed in thp future, that most of the debate in the Far Eastern commit- tee, centered. By some of the dele- gates, it was understood, that such an inquiry mi slit open up the whole question of Japanese holdings in Manchuria, while in other quarters it was suggested that the resolution might, by indirection, lead to a re- view-by the board of the famous \21 demands\ controversy. In that con- nection it was pointed out that where- as the board's duty in , connection with future concessions would be con- fined under the terms of the resolu- tion to \investigate and report,\ it would be authorized to inquire into existing concessions,\ for the pur- I pose of endeavoring to arrive at a satisfactory adjustment on equitable terras.\ Diplomatic Negotiations on Treaty With Great Britain Expected Soon HARDING, Jan. 17—Negotiation of a treaty between tiie United States and Great Britain looking toward im- provement of the St. Lawrence river between Montreal and Lake Ontario so as to provide a deep waterway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic ocean may be expected to be under- taken soon, it was said today at the White House. The arrangement of such a treaty is recommended in the report of the in- ternational joint commission transmit- ted yesterday by the president to con- gress. President Harding it was also said at tlie White House, is much interest- ed in the project and intends to lend his influence toward early diplomatic efforts. NEW YORK EXPECTED > TO OPPOSE WATERWAY DULTJTH, Jan. 17—Satisfaction that the international point commission's report has found the Great Lakes waterways project feasible was ex- pressed in a statement today at the headquarters of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association here. The statement followed announcement from Washington that the state de- partment had submitted to congress the report of the international..joint commission. \Formation of a legislative pro- gram by the friends of this project in congress will be eagerly expected,\ the statement said. \It means a fight. Twenty-five years aso the interests which are trying to hold the country to a single gateway were fighting the same movement on the ground that the Brie canal was large enoug for our needs. They urged the west to wait till they deepened the canal from seven to nine—it is now almost 12—and they won for 25 years. They will try to put us off for another gen- eration. \Opponents o\f the seaway say we are attacking New York when we real- ly are fighting against economic waste. We believe that it will not hurt New York to have the country grow but that it will injure New York if the west is not allowed to grow.\ RUNAWAY STEER EXCITESNEW YORK Escapes From the Slaughter House and Runs Through Busy Section NEW YORK, Jan. 17—A hornless steef gave crowds in the theatre and shopping district a new thrill today which escaped from a west side slaugh ter house and ran almost to the East River, crossing Broadway and Fifth avenue, before being lassooed. The society for the prevention of cruelty to animals provided an am- bulance to take the big fellow back to the slaughter, house and preferred charges of cruelty against Rudolph Miller, who chased the runaway in a taxi and lassooed him. Magistrate Mc- Quade released Miller saying he had shown commendable resourcefulness and had protected the public. TO STRENGTHEN GO. P. IN STATE AIM OF LEADERS Campaign Planned to Offset Attacks on Miller's Tran- sit Program NEW YORK,- Jan. 17.—A resolution calling for an early conference be- tween Governor Miller and New, York city Republican leaders at which views on the conduct of the coining state elections would be exchanged, was submitted to the National Re- publican club for .action tonight by Robert C. Morris, chairman of the club's committee on state affairs. Although lauding highly the gov- ernor's record at Albany, the commit- tee's report declared the Republican party \must be strengthened through- out the \state if it is to enjoy con- tinued success,\ and asserted one of the most important immediate steps was to devise means of informing the voters of the \demagogic\ character of attacks made against Governor Miller in this city, especially as a result of his transit program. The report also recommended a later conference at which represen- tatives from all sections of the state would get together, \in order that a better understanding of the state's needs and of the administration may be brought before the people.\ John L. Lewis, Head of the Union, Outlines Policy at Meeting SEES A CONFLICT AHEAD WAS STEALING 'S BANKER'S WIFE IS REPORTS MISSING 17-Year-Old Chauffeur Is Also Said to Have Disappeared NEW YORK, Jan. 17—A. H. Bull of Ridgewood, N. J., assistant-teller of the Harriman National Bank in New Yorfl, who asked the police to aid him in finding his wife and 7 year old daughter after they disappeared Dec- ember 31, went to Philadelphia today to run down a report that they had been livingfat a boarding house there. Ralph Costa, 17 year old son of a wealthy fruit merchant who lived near the Bulls and wlio used to drive the Bull car, disappeared at the same time Present Agreements Expires March 31—Operators De- mand Lower Scale SHAMOKIN, Pa., (By The Associat- ed Press), Jan. 17.—-.John L. Lewis, j International president of the United Mine Workers, today told the an- thracite miners wage convention that there must be no backward step in their attitude toward the demand of coal companies to reduce wages. Delivering what the delegates in the convention regarded as la keynote speech for. the organized miners' of the country, Mr. Lewis declared: \When I say that we will\ take no i backward step I say it with an ap- preciation of wliat that policy means and ii' it requires an industrial con- flict to avoid taking a backward step, then the industrial coilTrict may corned' Mr. Lewis is presiding at the hard coal miners' convention which will formulate wage and other demands to be presented to the coal operators before March 31, when the preesnt contract expires. Wage agreements in the soft coal fields expire at the same time, for the first time in many years,, predictions have been made by hard coal miners that instead of agreeing to a wage reduction the an- thracite men will demand increases, among other things. After the convention adjourned un- til tomorrow, a representative of the general committee of anthracite op- erators gave out a statement that i \full time operation of tile anthra- cite mines oil the scale heretofore maintained, will not be possible in the coming year' without .adjustment which, S'M^- -permit „—neducmg- - the- price to the consumer.\ TO^IO PAYS TRIBUTE TO MARQUIS OKUMA TOKIO, Jan. 17.—Many thousand Japanese today paid tribute to the memory of Marquis Shigenobu Okii- ma, Japan's noted statesman, -who died here last week. Before the, fu- neral services were held today long lines of admirers filed past the body as it lay in state in a specially con- structed pavilion in the Hibiya park. SELDEN, INVENTOR OF AUTO, EXPIRES ROCHESTER, Jan. 17—George Bald- win Selden, inventor of the first gaso- line propelled vehicle and a pioneer in the present automotive industry, died at his home here today. He was president of the. Selden- Motor com- pany of this city. He was 77 years old. ROME TO PAY HONOR TO ITALY'S UNKNOWN DEAD American Troops, Who Will Participate in Ceremony, Arrive ROME, Jan. 17—Rome outdid it- self today in extending a welcome to the American troops • come to parti- cipate in\ tomorrow's ceremonies at- tending the bestowal of the congres- sional medal of honor upon Italy's un- known soldier. The American com- posite company from Coblenz, under Major General Henry T. A?len, was greeted on its arrival by the strains of the \Star Spangled Banner\ from the band of the royal carabineers in t^ieir brilliant uniforms by a picked company of the grenadiers as the guard of honor, by scores of generals, by squadrons of cavalry, by a bri- gade of infantry lining the adjacent square and by throngs of the popu-' lace, heartily cheering the arriving Americans. The display was the most spectac- iilar Rome has seen since the days before the war. General Allen was met at the sta- tion by Ridhard Washburn Child, the American ambassador, and General Diaz, who recently returned from America. GRAVES DECLINES OFFER OF CONSERVATION JOB ALBANY, Jan. 17—Henry S. Graves has declined to accept appointment as state conservation commissioner, Governor Miller announced today. \Mr. Graves is unable to. come .to the state,\ the governor said, \be- cause of the consummation of other plans.\ 61 PER CENT OF CONVICTS. SERVING FIRST TERMS OSSINING, Jan. 17—Sixty-one per cent of the 312 men sent to Sing Sing from New York city during the past six months, had never before been in a state prison and but ten per cent were \professional criminals,\ Warden Lewis E. Lewes declared today. He denied that New York city's crime wave was traceable to the state par- ole board's leniency in releasing old offenders. WAR DEPT. RECORDS SHOW DEATH MASK BURIED WITH VICTIM Negroes and Whites in Same Cemetery—Bodies Ship- ped Were Identified WASHINGTON, Jan. 17^-After pre- sentation of testimony by way of de- nial, war department records, submit- ted today to the Senate committee in- vestigating charges that American soldiers had been hanged without trial in France, showed that on the bodies of two men dug up in the little ceme- tery at Pazoilles the ropes and black caps in which they were put to death on the gallows, had not been removed prior to burial. , . Senator Watson, Democrat of Geor- gia, sharply attacked the burial of men hanged for \unmentionable crimes,\ alongside of soldiers who fell in bat- tle. Asking a witness if white men and negroes were buried in the same part of the cemetery, the Senator was told that they were—that they were all soldiers. Taking up charges that bodies ship- ped from France were handled with- out proper effort to establish identity officers and men attached to the grave's registration service insisted that not one body was brought home until identification had been positively established. CLAY PIPE IS A Shot Her as She Slept-^ Makes Calm Confession to Police LONG BRANCH, N. J., Jan, 17.— Mrs.- Hermione Rentcman, 30, arrest-' ed tonight in her home, calmly con- fessed to the police that she had shot and killed her sister, Gerniae Wes- sels, 27, as she lay sleeping on Sun- day morning because she feared the younger woman was stealing the love of her husband, Frederick Rentcman, a chauffeur. \My sister tried to steal my hus- band and I killed her,\ she told the police, simply, without a trace of emotion. All day Sunday and Monday, Mrs. Mrs. Rentcman sat by the bed on which lay the body of her sister. Last night she wrote her husband, who was in New York, telling him of the tragedy and; adding that she was about to kell their 14-toonths-old child and herself. Rentcman received the letter to- day and at once returned -with po- lice detectives who accompanied him to the house. They found Mrs. Rentcman in the kitchen, busied with the evening meal. On seeing the police, she calmly motioned them to follow her and led the way to the bedroom. Her sis- ter's body still lay on the bed. Rentcman explained that Miss Wes- sels came from Germany two months ago to make her home With him and his wife., She Imd been there but a few days, he told the police } when he noticed his wite seemed extreme- ly jealous of her sister. Three weeks ago, Rentcman took his sister-in-law to New York, where she planned to obtain employment. His work kept him from home for frejruent Jong, periods and Mrs. Rentc- man told the police tonight that last Thursday she could no longer bear the thought of her husband's \absence knowing her sister also to be in New York. So on that day she went for her sister, and brought her home. Early Sunday morning, Mrs. Rente- man explained, she was seized With an unreasoning jealousy when she saw he rsister lying in the bed. She. said she made her way quietly to a bureau, took a gun from the drawer aud shot, the sleeping girl. Mrs. Rente/man was locked up to await action of the grand jury, while her husband was held in $1,000 bail as a material \witness. TOMATERNITTUW TJTICA, Jan. 17^\To enlighten citi- zens of one of the ten looted states\ a committee was organized at a meet- ing toda yof leading business and pro- fessional men, of this city, to chrystal- Ize sentiment in this state against tlie Slieppard-Towner maternity law and the Smith-Towner educational bill and other legislation termed \paternalis- tic\ and \socalistic.\ It was' asserted that the north-east- ern states, which pay the bulk of the Federal taxation, received' no bene- fits from the legislative measures and that state rights are denied under their provisions. LILLIAN RUSSELL ON MISSION TO EUROPE RELIC OF OLD DAYS LONDON, Jan. 17.—The clay tobacco pipe familiar to many genera- tions is passing in England. The wooden pipe and greatly increased cost of clay are said to have killed the industry. Preparations have been made fur the closing down at Bristol, after an existence of 200 years, o£ a firm en- gaged in the making of these pipes believed to be the oldest house in this country, it not in the world. Many years ago there were\ 14 manufactur- ers of clay pipes in one parish of Bristol. One by one they have drop- ped out. SENATE CONFIRMS ' ' NEW NOMINATIONS ALBANY, Jan. 17.—The senate to- day confirmed Governor Miller's nom- inations of Dr. C. Floyd Haviland of Albany as medical' member of the state hospital commission; Francis R. Stoddard, Jr., of New York, as state superintendent *of insurance and Richard H. Curran of Rochester as a member of the state industrial board. Will Endeavor to Determine Cause of Sending Defec- tives Here NEW YORK, Jan. 17—Lillian Rus- se.ll sailed for Europe today as a spec- ial agent for Uncle Sam,\ commissioned I to look over the intended immigrants I to America and report to 'the secre- tary of labor on her return next spring. The American beauty, who is now Mrs. Alexander P. Moore, wife of the ! e'ditor of the Pittsburg Leader, was j accompanied by he rhusband. who is | also to investigate the' foreign immi- | gration situation. \Mr. Davis .wants me to look into the human side of the immigration problem,\ said the perennially fair actress of bygone seasons. \He has known tor a long time of my interest in those poor people who come here only to be turned back because of some defect. One thing I want to find out is why the passports of delinquents are \vised at all, why they are ever al- lowed to embark on' a journey that ends in disappointment. The fault lies on the other side, not here.\ ROCHESTER TO HAVE' THE LARGEST SCHOOL ROCHESTER, Jan. 17.—Plans filed today with the superintendent of buildings, provide for , probably the largest single school building in the world. It will cover three and three quarters acres, have 211 rooms and a stage twice as large as the biggest theatre building here. Its estimated cost is .$4,000,000,. > NEGRO LYNCHED BY A MOB IN FLORIDA MAYO, F;la., Jan. 17.—A mob over- j powered -officials here today, seized a >iegro Who was alleged to have killed; W. R. Taylor Saturday night . and lynched him on the outskirts of the town.
