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entineL SEMI-WEEKLY yOL.LXVNO. 102 Pittsburgh, N*. Y., Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1920 WHOLE NUMBER 3S83 ITALY READY TO CLOSE IN / UP0NFH1E Combined Land Snd Naval Movement Is Planned REGULARS~PLANTOMAK£ D'ANNUNHO HELPLESS Cavlglia's Advance Without Firing Shot— : D f A.nnun/Jo's Aviation Field Captured. (By The Associated Press). UDINE, :Italy, I>ec. 26. — General tOaVtglia's regular Italian forces ad- vanced tjvvo kilo-meters this morning without fining a «hot in a combined land and naval movement to close (in upon Piu-me. D'Anii.unzio's .avia- tion field has been captured. ip Ian if? to gradually his grip uMil D'Ann.unzio i* to helplessnesa. < . DISTRICT IN SIXTH PLACE FOR IMPORTS Their Value in the Last Fiscal Year Was Nearly $200,000,000 • i The St. L-awren\co customs district, of 'whk'ih Qgdcnaburg- is headquarters, retains its place as sixth amion;? tho districts of the .-county • in poin of value of 'imports and thirteenth in the value of Vxpiorts, ^according to the figures for/the flffcal year of 1920, made :pu|bli:c \yesterday 'by ..Collector Henry Hollanid at the custom bouse here, says the Ogdensbufrg Journal. Tha imports -were valued ..at $ 199,- 716,636 and fihe exports ^11^,909.149, wHuile the collections were $776,532,- 57, and the expense of collection ex- i»cluisivo- of extra compensation now [paid, to ^ustioona officers was $88,689,- _ _„ _, • , 8G. The receipts at Ogadensburg am- Karly Taking of FUune Expected. l ounto d to ?26j | 69 . 08 > at ^ alone $134 ,- 473.98, orud at Rouses Point $51 4,143,- •45. Tiro value of -imports during the • TRIESTE, Dec. 2 6.—ItalLain regulars ihave reaxahed the factories on the edge of PiuTtve and a^e closing in gradually On the D'Annunxian strong- hold. It flls expected that Fiume will be taken this evening or tomorrow morn- ing. FIUME PEOPLE WORKING HARD *1OR CITY'S DEFENSE (By Tho Associated Pi'ess) TRIESTE/ Dec. 26. — Oom'munica- tion iwtith\ Phinie is most difficult owing (to the blockade.. The mayor of 'Fiutmk} has ad'dreiSsed a proclamation ito the people inciting Ihefm to ex- tre}m* reststence and announced he takes upOti Wimself the responsibility So thie (sihjciddiing of blood. . Ijate reports state that putting the city in & atate of defense ij past nine 'months was $141,307,105 \and of exports fof the. same period $99,457,000, ^Beginning wiitih the year 1.915, there has liecMi a great increase in the busi- ness in thiLs district. In that year the imports were valued at $2^,2-28,251 ad.the. exr>orts $32,435,331; the col- lections were $195,368.51 N and the ex- penses $94,028.41. • ' ' . Ogdensburg Ifras -aa many if not mjany of theim are non-dutiable while many others are entered free for im- mod'iate transportation and the dutie .•thereon are paiid»-in New York city, wlhich gets the credit for -the pay- ments, while the credit for the valu< of those goods is^ given- to Ogdens burg. While the volume of business HUGHES' BAIL FKEMT$5,000 'ase Adournetr Until Thurs- day At Attorney's Request DEFENDAPfTmTIFIES INMANSLAUGTHERCASE Hughes ia Also Charged in Comiois- % sioner's Court With Shoot- ing at Customs Officer. The hearing of the case of Warren, Hughes of Chazy on a charge o manslaughter-in the death of Gustavi VanMilbruke of Montreal, who was fatally injured in a motorcycle ac- ident on the afterhoon of Sunday, October 25, was held before City Judge Charles A. Barnard yesterday afternoo The case of the people was repre- sented by District Attorney Harold A Jerry and John E. Judge acted as counsel for Hugb.es. Two witnesses were sworn on behalf of Hughes, the defendant himself and Joseph L-a- Bombard, a cousin of ,the accused win alleges that he saiw the accident lin which VanMilbruke lost his life. Hughes, on his own behalf said tha' he wita not drunk on the afternoon o the accident. He admitted that h< had taken two drinks, one of beer and another of champagne, that he was driving in GANGSTERS GET MONKEASTMAN Picturesque Underworld Fig- ure Dies In Vendetta BODY ON STREET CORNER BORE FIVE SHOT WOUNDS going on ., han[dle d in . th6 strict .has greatly | increased, the dost of <-ollecUons. has j-been miart&rially reduced. Salaries I'have been dnoreased by the discontin jtiance.of small offices which did lit tie or no business.. . VERMONT MAN FOUND GUILTY MANSLAUGHTER Once Oong Lieader and Convicted Felon Had Citizenship Restored For Heroism in Great War (By Tlie Associate*! Pi«ess) NEW YORK, Dec 26.—Monk Earst- aiaji, once thic leader of a notorious gang, and convicted felon but restored to citizenship by Governor Smith i'->r (heroism as a soldier in the great war iwas slain shortly before daybreak. Thejbody ibearing five bullet wounds •v, a!s founid, on a street corner. In the \dead man's pocket was found $150, a watch and chain -and a Christmas card. Tho police .bai eve the killing prob- ably re.sult.ed from a vendetta. QUEBEC BAILIFF IN VERMONT JAIL Sherbrooke Official Held on Whiskey Smuggling Cnarge 60 GALLONi¥llQUOR SEIZED BY OFFICIALS Arthur Mudgett Accused of Killing Amy Shonso at (By The Asusociated Press) HYDE PARK, Vt., i)ee, 27.— A verdict of guilty of niaiislaiieh- tei 1 \ was'returned liy tho jury in Una case of Arthur Mudgett, charged with tl»e murder of Amy Shonio. The closing argument* in tVe case resulting from' a particularly br'uta iivurder—the tihokint: to death of ; mere girl after an illegal operation li'id been attempted—wf:v m;^le Fri- day, iw Attorney • G-?p<p.!v,r Archibalc for (he State -fftid David P ivr f-i the accused. Court adjournod Friday so that court officials could' reach their homos in time for Christmas. The jurors, however, had to re main in Hyde Park over the holi •day. Judge Moulton expressing his rogrets to tho men and telling them that the exigencies of the trial m it im para live <fo kee^p them there until a c.-alin and unhurried verdic could bo given. Canadian .Said He Was Bound For Ik>rlin, N. H.. to Dispose of Stuff. SLAVE TRADING OVER WIDE AIIEA IN ANGOLA (By Tho Associated I*rcKs) NEWPORT, Vt., \>v.v. .26.— Joseph A. G-eneMte, Vho tokl tho authorities .thaut he WM .buiUff af the Superior H'ourt of S'h'erbrooke, Quo., was lodged ( in jail on a churg-.o of Knni^^Hns- liquor ^JCPO«S >t!lw border after- the Customs Officers had stopped his au- bosmiOibile and •confuscated two hundred A quarts of iwSiiskey and ten g'allons of r.\ (Wine, which, it coniaineti. a, iGtew-sttes said hlc* \wa»s boiMud for,r> Berlin N. 1L, and rad ibe.en -giuaranteed ($2,250 if liquor were, delivered. It 'cost him $500. In jail at tttt. Johnsbury iwas Arthur 1i. Spinney of Brook line, Mass. The * (police seized his t'hree- suit-' •ENN RAILROAD REDUCES HELP Business Condition Necessi- tates Further Cut (By T\\e Aseoeiated Press) •JJONDON, Dee. L> 6.—Charges thai there flm-H h<?®u n, recrudescence o slave, tradfing* irraotices over •wud< area:* iti Ang-ola, .a Pointiuguese posses sion -in r\V;es*t Africa, had 'been present c-d to 'the. Assembly of the I-t\agu< of Nations to take cogndzanc^ of these IPH Proit edition. \Society. These rliarses are eonjtiained 1 ki the copy of a, memorial previously sent to the lii'iti-sh yovermmeiiit including 1 evidence from Pom ug-uese and other sources eon-cerming 1 alleged slave trading. Tho society nj,peah J to the League chargp-s aiul, 4i' possible, .secure an ex-- fUlecl h-ji-iiMtive Lnqutiry into ithe 'whole system of Portug-uese. labor in West Africa. He claimed straigh course at a speed of not over fifteen miles an hour. He contended. th£ the three Montreal men on the_ niO' torcycle which collided with fhe. ca he was driving <vas going at a spee.f of 45 miles an hour, so far as he could judge. LaBonrbard, the cousin of Hughes, who claims to have seen the acci- dent, swiore that he was on a visit to his sister's home and was standing in the door when the automobile am motorcycle caJme together! He al» testified tTiat the ear was driving a a moderate rate of speed T a«d thaf. th motorcycle was proceeding at a very fast clip. Attorney Judge asked for an ad journment of the case so that the evi- dence that had already been taken might be gathered in typewritten form. It is understood that the in tention is to ask for a writ of 'habea corpus on the ground that the cas does not come under the jurisdiction of City Judge Barnard or the Clt. Court of Pittsburgh. An adjournment was granted unti Thursday for the purpose of arrang. ing the evidence and the arrangemen of bail brougtit on a lively tilt betweei District Attorney Jerry and Mr. Judge The district attorney asked that th bail be fixed at $20,000. This wa asked' in view of things which ar alleged to have transpired since r,h accident in which the defendant i charged with having been involved and other matters which the distric attorney stated that, he had heard This was strenuously objected i.o b; Mr. Judge. After a conference _ be- tween the attorneys and the city juclg< the amount of bail was annnuncel a 'five thousand dollars. The bail bon was signed by Mr, and Mrs. M. O' Connell of Bridge street, this city, anc Hughes wad given his freedom, \unti Thursday. The appearance in Oily Court wa the second in which Hughes was th defendant during the afternoon. Pre viously to his arraignment befora Cit Judge Barnard Hughes was servei with a warrant by Deputy U. S. Mar- shall James Murray, and brought be- fore II. S. Commissioner H. P. Gil liland. The wamuit.was sworn out by AV K. Kennedy, Deputy Customs Oificei at Champlain, who. alleges that c December 5, Hughes and anoth were conspiring in the smuggling: of li- quor in bottles from Canada and th.it he attempted to resist arrest and did resist arrest during- which time ho ,s charged with having shot at s^red Monnette and another. It is alleged that one of the bullets went through the collar of M-onnett's eoac and nat- -rowly missed' his neck, It is alleg- ed (that the shooting was done with the intention of doing bodily harm This case was also adjourned &.->•] Hughes was admitted to bail of $.l'»l) which he furnished. POLICE GUARD PRESIDENT REA MAKES AN ANNOUNCEMENT Working ami Capital lOxpemlituros Must Iicduco Until Improve- ment Comes. POLICE FEAR ANOTHER GANG FEUD IN NEW YpRK Latest Strict Measures to Check Crime Wave — Search Made For. NEGRO KILLER PARADED IN STREET AND HANGED Arkansas Slayer of Policeman Taken From .Jail hiui Strung From Telegraph Pole. (By The AssociaUnl Press) .1OHNBOHO, Ark., Doc. 2ti.~Wiid Thomas, a negro, who killed a po liceman during a raid on a dice ganio was taken from jail to-night by a mo of 4 00 and after being parart.- through the 'husinesa streets of th town wjis hanged to a telegraph pol neat 1 the scene of the crime. (By The Associated Pi>es.s) PHIIiADKLPHIA, Dec. 27. - r Prewldfavt Roa, of the Pennsyl- vania railroacl, announced th?.t the present business condition, will necessitate further reduction in tlio numbe.r of employes and in working excuses ami capital ex- pcnditure.s un.t>'l the situation Im- proves. 12 MILLION PENNIES GIVEN BY CHILDREN (By Tho Associated Trpss) CHICAGO, 111, Dec. 27—Eleven million, nine hundred thirty-six thou- land, and four hundred pennies wore collected this year in the small paper mite bixos, thrive inches square, the Woman's home missionary society of the Methodist F.piscopHl church according to a statement by Mrs. H S. Earle, Detroit, Mich., secretary of the mite box department. The pennies amounted to $119,364 The gro. u R totiT of all^the receipts of the society we.ro $2,3 91,504, and this imount $111).364 were in pennies, —an increase of 300,293 pennies this year. Detroit is in first place with $7,9 West Ohio second with $6,502; North Indiana third with $6,017; North Easi Ohio fourth with $5,340; Rock River, including Chicago, fifth with $5,239 At San Francisco Training School $200 in pennies were put in service mite boxes. Forty*six dollars and thirty cents came from Honolulu. Tho mite boxes in Potto Rico collected $85 and the girls in the orphanage con- tributed $15 in pennies. Kansas City'Training School for Nurses ; Deaconesses collected $10.75. There is also an increase of 75,307 members, making a grand total mem- bership of 361,463. Forty conferences report that over $1,000 have been collected in pennies in each conference, by the wonaen The officers of the society are: Mra Wilbur P. Thirlciold. president. Cam bridge, Mass.; Mrs. May Leonard Woodruff; corresponding secretary, Allendale, N. J.; Mrs. D. D. Thomp- son, recording secretary, Evanston 111.; and Mrs. Ward Platt, treasurer, East Aurora, N. Y. ALLEGED CRIMINAL HEAD HELD IN $100,000 BAIL Holding of George IJ. King and Mur- der of Monk Uastman Out«tand in&\ Feature of Cnne Wave. (By The Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 2 6.—The mur der of Monk Eastman and the holding in ono hundred thousand dollars ba^ of (Joorsc T. King, believed to be the leader of a criminal band of nation- wide activity are the outstanding fea- tures of the crime situation. In Field Against Five Men For Mayorship of Massachusetts Town . inalo hor u elf ai Further Precautions HARDING WILL RESIGN SEAT To Leave Senate January 10 GOVERNOR DAVIS WILL TAKE OATH OFFICE THEN President-elect Discusses Matters of Domestic Concern With Con- Good. WOMAN KILLS PARTNER AND ENDS OWN LIFE Gruesome Find ID New York Beauty Parlor < PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE CAUSED FATAL QUARREL (By The Associated Press) NKW VORK. Dec. 27r — Placing every railroad, street car, ferry and lvway entrance into tlie city under spcciuJ i>olice guard and calling out 650 eanbrionic policemen for final training it was aimotuiced^ by Com- missioner Enright an latest measuiTs to cheek the city's outlawry. Meanwliile tlie police, fearing an- (>thtr i gang feud as a result of the murder of Monk Eastman, exerted hearwelves to establish tho Identity of, tho slayer. The tlieory Uiat EastJtnan as heaU of the wliiskey ring, mot deatli as a re- sult of a qnaiTol o\er tlie division of pi-ofits is being investigated. Lu tkl& (xmnoction the police in- stituted a search for a woman known \liottle said to have been one of Monk's intimates. (By Tito. Associated Press) ^ARIOX, Dec. 27 .-|- itarding will I w s-iffn hhs weat in tine Senate as soon I as. Harry h, Davis takes the oath of [office of governor, January Idth. ; Davis iimnediatety win Issue a com- mission to former Governor Willis. Senator Harding to-day took up mattgurcTbf domestic concern with dis- cussions with Congressman Good, chainman of the House Appropriations Committee, and with Max Kabinoff, • conductor of tlie Chicago Opera com- pany with whom the\ Russian trade. Good suggested that the best i^ss ble budget system be'secured at ontfe adn later it might be modified docaned necessary. * BETTER SERM ON RAILROADS Pennsylvania Trains Seek To Make Traveling Pleasant Perpetrator of Deed War -- ! - S7 .- coratod By French — Auto- matic Ends Two (By The Associated Pweg) KEW YOUK, bee. ' matrimonial lint'erest in a a feimtindne partnership to have been ithe cause «f a ween two Brooklyn ywurtg i- iwiho were faum'd 1 «dead in a lor today. , t* Anna Donegan, a nura by th« Pr©nc(h found dead 'with.* aft miatDc pistol in her hawctl -. was found PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27—Rail- roads; in this te-nyitory are returning to pre-war service so far as the com- fort of passengers is concerned. The Pennsylvania has issued careful in- structions for the heating ol caps. Coaches itf* through service, says an ostler, must be heated to a tempera- ture between 65 and\ 70 degrees; in suburban service, 60 to 65. Sleeping cars between 10j \p. m. and 6 a. m. must have temperature of about 60; in the daytime an,d temperature in sleeping and parlor cars should range between 65 and 70. Other orders Issued to trainmen in- clude: ' f Principal stations at which trains will stop must be announced in all coaches and diners before Jhey leave terminals. Approaching stations, the name of j the station must be announced at least twice. No baggage will be allowed in the aisles. In cold vveiither doors must not bo opened unless pasnengers are leaving [ the cans, and not opened before train stops. Trainmen must not turn scats until arrival at -terminal* I Conductors must report all cases, where passengers are obliged to stand , :md the reason therefor. j Conductors must make frequent trips through sleeping cars at night i to see that Pullman employees on guard in each ear in service. JJVooden coaches or wooden com- bined cars inut>t not be placed between rtleel ca.r, or between steel cars and the engine. Soliciting alms, distributing iiotel cards, advertising matter or literature not directly connected with tho busi- ness of the company, must be pro- hibited. BOATMEN'S UNION SPURNS AGREEMENT FROM INDEPENDD (By Tiie Associated XEW YORiK, Dec. 27. — The Harbor Boatemen union voted to reject (he now working agree- ment fr>r 1921 tendered by six hundred independent owners and to go (iSTiStrjlkc January 1st. Arthur Osloft; secretary of the union, declared 2200 men will be affected. Announcement wks also made on masters, mate and ' pilots of tho union boatmen claiming the membership to be more th-ui 2500 would join the Walkout. TO PROTECT PANAMA CANAL BY ARTILLERY (|$y The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—Adequate protection for Panama Qanal from attacks of enemies from air, land or nea is to jjg provided for in a bill soon to be drafted hy rtitoe House Commit- tee on ai)(pro(priations for fortifications and seacoasl idefeases. Tlhe plans involve sending the lar- gest ca lib red. artillery pieces to the Canal 'as soon as produced. HOUSTON IS DOWN ON INCREASED EXPENSES (By Tho Associated Press) WASH ING TOJST, Dec. 27.—Approxi- mately $2,300,000,000 is the estimate given by Secretary Houston as <th« coat of carryring: ou't the provisions of tho sloHiers' bourns ball. During 'his testimony -before the senate finance comlmittee it became increasingly evident ithat the present 'treasury adlmin'istration does not tle- sife either • to advise or recommend with respect to le^iisJakfin providing for greater governlmental. expendi- tures. MAYORS ASK CITIES NOT FORCED TO SPEND MONEY ESCAPING GAS KILLS TWO IN BROOKLYN TENEMENT ives Assurance to L*eg;islati\e Tliat Municipalities Will Urant N<?cd- cd Relief When Finances Permit. Boy and Girl Dead, MoUier and An- j other Child In Hospital — Gas j Tsed Because of Cold. (By Hie Associated Press) AbBANY, Dec. 2(3.—An a.ppeal to the legislarture to enact no laws at the coming session which .will compel L'lties to spend more public funds is L-on-talnod in a atatement st-nt to the Governor-elect and members of th« inooaiunu legislature by tne couter- ^nce mayors. The appeal assured Ahe legialatuie hat the ciUss tindn^dually will ffrdiit >u(>h n^oderl rehef and make such oret-sarv im.pi ovemenLs n* the man- (IJy The Associated XEiW YOI4IK, Dec. 26, — Gas es- caping from a Jieaier used last because of the cold in a Brooklyn •tenement caused t'he deaths of a one year old boy and a fifteen year olJ girl. The mother and ..another child are m a hospital. ihen hn.mcial i nnii.Uim will per- iC I.AitTUQl \KK rv rmxHSK Pitovix< (By Tho A^MK-iaU^I Pii«ss) , ONE AND INJURES MANY <By The Aseociatexi Press) NEW YORK, Dec 26—One boy was killed and several others wei'e in- jured IM the ex]>iosiou of .i bonib jn Hroolvlyn. The police reported that the bo\s found i/ie bomb nrrtt the ex- plosion oiiurred soon ..Her. in lit > lopon .i ic I I nic (MrihriiKike th*' Kan Su province, DctPinbor W> tt.li CdMiaUies csLimaied dt ^,000. ! DKLI1J, De<- 27 -(India i iforma- lakcn by the P.ritish Kovernnient in Northern India to arrest the loaders of the non-cooperation movement, of which CJanUhi, is the chief proponent. It is said thait the partnership), but dissolution boMmeas was threatened posal of Hague. BUG Nineteen-Year-Oid Ti Now Under Ami Claimed Boy Admits cendiary Blazes ff Lose of Million Dollart: (By The Associated UNIONTOWiN, Pa/p bert Smtth, agdd nsm hope, the son of s£ real Is uider arrest in con many mysterious fires in ithan one anillon dollars' property twas deatroyfe4» state itroopersito the scenes of fires. THo authorities say 'he has having knoiwledgre of all of Incendiarism X. PITTSBUBG, Dtoc. SSft.—The 'of incesnldiapiam -w'hidh months has been sweeping Weatmorlana «aid Wa»lhih«ft, •ties, made its ajppearantao ill eny county wfltieu a aqhool at Wilkinsbuiig, a subwtb of was burned to t; of $15O,opo. The fire was (discovered toy & man who firetd several fifliota at who (was running away. , FIGHT AHEAD ON TARIFF LEGISLATION INDICATED (By Tlie Associated Press) iWASHINGTON, Dec* 27. — 1 tiooos oi a fight ahead over tadW K>g- i.sUition was given In the Senate to- day, when several hours' spirited de» bate and two roll calls were required to effect the routine action' of refer- ring to the finance oonm*ltt«© tite nmergency tariff .biil passed hf the House. The Democrats split in the Opening. clash, five voting with solid republican' strength against a motion to refef title bill to the commerce instead of the fimuice committee. Tlu> House bill was aimbimced us i embargo bill and suicidal %y Sena- tor Hitchcock. GNL KILLED AND FORTY HURT INJAR ACCIDENT {By The Associated Press) PITTSBUBG, Dec. 27. — One man was killed and more than forty ])crttons were Injured, sev- eral seriously, when a trailer at- tached to a street car broke loose x - on a grade and crashed into an- other car here to-night. The object of a new game is to to follow, by looking into a xr in«?s and ancflos on rtrruvine it reflects,
