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m VOL. XXV. NO. SO SOUTH NEW BERUN, CHENANGO CO., N. Y., SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1922 TERMS;—$1.50 PER YEAir LATEST. NEWS IN ABRIDGED FORM Events That Concern the Two Hemispheres Recorded So as to Be Read at a Glance. FOREIGN AFFAIRS EPITOMIZED Paragraphs Which Picture Executive and Legislative Activities at the National and State Capitals. WASHINGTON Unanimous agrooment to outlaw the use of the submarine against mer chant and passenger ships was reach ed at a meeting of the conference committee on limitation of naval armament. House Appropriations Committee in reporting the prohibition bureau bill reduced funds $750,000, making the bill $9,250,000. Senate adopted a resolution direct ing an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission of the house fur nishing goods industry in this country. State Department was advised that Americans who joined the Spanish Foreign Legion are stranded in Madrid without funds. The nomination of William O’Toole of West Virginia to be minister to Paraguay was announced. The five power naval limitation treaty, which will explicitly define the agreements reached by the Washington conference, is nearing completion and soon will be ready for presentation to each of the signatory powers for ap proval. Kecent railway rates rednctlons will amount to approximately $90,000,000. The United States, Japan and The Netherlands fall heir to Germany’s former Pacific cables, under a tenta tive Six-Power treaty brought forth in the arms negotiations. » --------------------- ---- - ----- - — ----- « \ NATION’S BUSINESS \ The Great Southern Steel Corpora tion is planning to erect a $500,000 plant at Birmingham, Ala. A country-wide drive, beginning February 1, 1922, to build business up to 100 per cent of home consumption, headed by a group of leading indus tries with investments of upward of $15,000,000,000 within the United States, is outlined in a plan submit ted to President Harding and to mem bers of the cabinet. Chairman Elbert H. Gary of the United States Steel Corporation be lieves prospects for peace, progress and prosperity are better than ever. In an important decision affecting many different lines of business the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a ruling of the Federal Trade Commission that the resale price main tenance policy of the Beechnut Pack ing Company of New York constituted an unfair method of competition. Attorney General Daugherty an nounced that he will shortly take up with Secretary of Commerce Hoover the question of the- legality of trade associations gathering information for publication by the Commerce Depart ment in the light of the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the hardwood lumber case. The department’s investi gation is continuing in various parts of the country. - ------------------------------------ — GENERAL According to report from Rome, there is little danger of a general financial crisis in Italy, despite the closing of the Banca de Sconto. Pennsylvania crude oil was reduced 50 cents a barrel to $3.50, it was an nounced by the Joseph Seep Purchas ing Agency, known as a Standard Oil affiliation. A majority of 11,316 physicians in nineteen states, replying to a question naire sent out by the American Med ical Association, assert that they do not regard beer, wine or whisky as necessary therapeutic agents in the practice of medicine. Senator Borah declared in the sen ate that there would be an immediate investigation of reports that American shipping interests and the United States Shipping Board are interfering With the shipment of $20,000,000 worth of grain to Russia by this country. A new proposal for the lease and operation of the government’s nitrate plant and water projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala., was received by Secre tary Weeks of the War Department from Frederick E. Engslnm of Wil mington, N. C., president of the New port Shipbuilding Company of that * City. Two thousand persons are reported homeless at Hartlepool, England, where fire destroyed 80 acres. The fire is believed to have started in the dock district. Opponents of the Irish treaty were heartened at the arrival in Dublin ol Harry Boland from the United States, who has several times declared his opposition to- the pact. A compro mise, however, will be attempted be tween the two factions in an effort to reach an agreement. During the year of 1921 the mints of this country coined $10,782,845. A reduction of 20 per cent has been made in the wages of 10,000 unskilled paper mill employees. During 1921, 2,355 petitions in bank ruptcy were filed in the Federal Court of the Southern District. Count Laszio Szchenyl, recently ap pointed Hungarian minister to this country, was received by Secretary of State Hughes. Seventeen deaths resulted from al coholic poisoning or wood alcohol dur ing the holiday celebration in New York according to reports from New York hospitals. Wood Heelmakers’ Union, Haver hill, Mass., rejected wage cut of 10% per cent. The men have been instruct ed by the union to walk out if they found notices posted announcing the reduction. Senator Norris introduced a resolu tion to abolish the electoral college and providing for the election of the President and Vice President hy di rect vote of the people. SPORTING The University of Oregon football team outclassed the Navy eleven, champions of the Hawaiian Islands, at Honolulu, winning 35 to 0. Big league fans have seen the last of Greasy Neale, whose Washington and Jefferson football team made such an envious record during the past gridiron season. Cincinnati has ten dered Greasy his release. Duncan, Roush and Burns are expected to play the outfield for the Reds next season. More than 75 colleges and univer sities will be represented in the Fifth Annual Relay Carnival of the Uni versity of Illinois, March 4, it was an nounced at Urhana, 111., by Coach Har ry Gill. Practically 250 contestants compete in the indoor games. Johnny Wilson of Boston, world’s middleweight champion, and his man ager, Martin Killelea, were indefinitely suspended at the meeting of the New York State Athletic Commission for al leged repudiation of a contract. As was to have been expected, Wil liam T. Tilden, Jr., once more heads the national ranking list in lawn ten nis. This is in accordance with the of ficial ranking for the season of 1921 made public by the United States Lawn Tennis Association. The University of Florida was an nounced as the opponent of the Harv ard football team at the Stadium at Cambridge on November 4. Filling of this date completes the^. Crimson sched ule. Charles Brickley, former Harvard University football star, has been of fered the position of head football coach at Northwestern University, it was learned, Brickley is said to have indicated to the Purple officials that he would accept the place if proper in ducements were made. Texas A. & M. College defeated Centre College at football at Dallas by the score of 22 to 14. One of the rookies booked to train with the Chicago Cubs next spring is George Stueland of Sioux Falls, S. D. Stueland', pitched for the Sioux Falls team in the South Dakota League last season and his work impressed Cub scouts. He’s a right-hander and husky in build. George Cutshaw, Pittsburgh Nation al League ^second baseman, has been purchased by the Detroit Tigers. FOREIGN Lloyd George, at Cannes, has agreed to a Pranco-British defensive 'alliance proposed by Premier Briand, provided France will meet Britain’s requirements as to disarmament, the Paris L’Intransigeant declared. The total number of probable deaths in the Russian famine area this win ter is placed at approximately five million by American relief workers. This is regarded as a low estimate and some go as far as to say that the famine will claim ten million lives. In many places in the area frozen bodies are piled high awaiting burial in trenches. Central postofiice at Tokio was de stroyed by fire. Unofficial reports place the total of 1922 French budget ut 2^,606,286,000 francs. Honduran State Legislature began its regular session in new capital at Comayagua. Germany has started a commercial colonization of eastern Europe and Is on the way to success. President Ebert and Food Minister Hermes received delegation from the service committee of American Friends headed by Alfred Scattergood. INDICTMENTS IN LIQUOR SCANDAL Former New York State Dry Di rector Under Charges for Crooked Dealings. OTHER SLEUTHS ACCUSED Politicians and “Drug\ Firms Included In List by New York Grand Jury— Former Secretary to Gov. Whit man Named in Sensational Bill. New York.—A bombshell was ex ploded in New York Federal prohibi tion headquarters. Cracking of the seals on a secret indictment returned someiweeks ago by the Federal Grand Jury investigating enforcement of the Volstead act in this city revealed the fact that Harold L. Hart, a prominent Binghamton attorney, who formerly served as Federal prohibition director for the State of New York, headed a list of a score of defendants charged with conspiracy to defraud the Gov ernment through liquor withdrawals. Immediately public attention, which has been focused on poison liquor con sumed during the holidays, which to day claimed its .nineteenth victim, switched to the flood of real alcoholics which were \alleged to have been loosed through putative fake drug concerns. Indicted with Hart were two other high enforcement officials, three poli ticians, and a number of the “drug” concerns and their officers. The list of defendants included: Thomas Reddy, formerly allied with the Post Office Department and the Department of Justice, and who later served as Hart’s assistant before the latter’s resignation last fall. Michael J. Lynch, a clerk in Hart’s office, 'with a key to the cabinet con- taing the serially numbered withdraw al permits. William A. Orr, private secretary to Charles S. Whitman when the latter occupied the Gubernatorial chair and now engaged in the insurance busi ness. Owen B. Murphy, treasurer of the Bronx county Democratic committee. Thomas F. Duffy, Bronx politician. The following “drug” concerns and their officers: Central Drug Com pany, S. & B. Drug Specialties Com pany, Alps Drug Company, Reliance Distributing Company, Herman Levin, Max Gordon, Barney Brauston, Louis Billoon, John Gorin j, Charles J. Stein berg, Bonfiglio Venusti, John A. Penna, Nathan Feld and Arthur The indictment, returned after an investigation of several months, con ducted hy Assista. t United States At torney Maxwell S. Mattuck, followed complaints of lax enforcen^ent of the Volstead act and frequent shifts in Federal prohibition headquarters. When Federal Judge Knox ordered the seals broken, it was found that the defendants had been charged with defrauding the government by is suing false and fraudulent withdrawal permits, whereby liquor exceeding vastly the amounts allowed any one defendant for the compounding of drugs had been withdrawn. The of fense, alleged to have involved whole sale quantities of liquor ranks with a felony and, upon conviction, the de fendants would face three-year prison terms. The indictment contains but one count, with overt acts cited in sup port of the charge. The method al leged to have been employed parallels that charged against post office clerks recently asserted to have issued fredu- lent money orders far’‘in advance of the current number which legally could be issued. As in the case of money orders, the withdrawal permits are made out in blank and numbered serially. The drug corporations, the indict ment charges, were organized not for the purpose of engaging i;; the drug business but for the illegal handling ©f wholesale quantities of liquor for beverage purposes. Or^, Lynch and Duffy appeared be fore Federal Judge Knox recently and entering tentative pleas of not guilty wei'e released in $5,000 bail each. Counsel also entered not guilty pleas for the drug companies indicted. No additional bail was set in. these cases, as all were under bail in con nection with other charges. $9,250,000 FOR PROHIBITION Attempt to Compel States to Bear Expense is Defeated. Washington.— Approval of an ap propriation of $9,250,000 for enforce ment of the liquor and narcotic laws was given by the House. An in crease of $1,750,000 in excess of last year’s allowance will provide for more than 800 additional field agents asked by Commissioner Haynes. Only feeble opposition was made to the large Etem carried in the Treasury Departmeikt’s appropriation bill. IVIME. SHOEM UEMURA Greatest Woman Artist in Japanese Empire Mme. Shoen Uemura, shown in the photograph working on a huge canvas to be exhibited at the annual Japanese Imperial Fine Arts exhibition, is con ceded to be the foremost woman paint er in Japan. ™ifiTOERr~ GAUEDTOSAVEEUROPE Conference in Genoa In March to Devise Means to Restore Fi nances of Continent. Cannes, Franco.—The Allied Su preme Council at its opening session here decided to call an international conference to meet the first two weeks in March in Genoa, Italy, to undertake the solution of the prob lem of reconstruction of Europe. Russia is invited to the conference under condition that she gives strict guarantee of proper relations with the Allies and her neighbors. Ger many also is to be represented and an invitation to the United States to give its co-operation and assistance was cabled to Washington by Ambassador Harvey. The resolution incorporating the de cision of the council set forth the con ditions which must be adhered to by the nations interested in order to ob tain representation at the Genoa Con ference. The conditions were: First—The nations must enjoy freedom of action; one nation must not attempt to dictate to another re garding the conduct of its internal economic and political regime. Two—Foreign investors must be given guarantees that their property and profits will be safeguarded. Three—This security can be-^lob- tained only by the nations engaging to recognize their obligations, indem nify persons whose property is con fiscated and uphold the sanctity of contracts. Four—^Nations must make proper provision for the payment of obliga tions, incurred in trade. Five—Nations must refrain from every form of propaganda against other governments. Six—Nations must refrain from aggression against their neighbors. WORLD’S NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM LONDON.—More t^tan’TOO were ren dered homeless by a fire in West Har tlepool, causing damage estimated at $10,000,000. The fire raged ovem a large area, with hundreds of firemen in a desperate effort to check it. The fire started in a timber yard, ROME.—Archbishop Bonzano, p^pal delegate to Washington, will be cre ated a cardinal at the March consis- ^^^CLEVELAND, Ohio.—L. G. Fedor- man Company, fourth largest depart ment store in Akron, Ohio, was placed in bankruptcy In Federal Court of this city. DUBLIN.—Eamon De Valera made public alternative proposals to treaty. YOUNGSTOWN, O.—The ringing of cash register hells resounded through out City Hall here. Mayor George L. Oles ordered the registers installed in offices where moneys are collected. NEW YORK.—A mandatory injunc tion ordering 2,000 union milk wagon drivers to return route books they used before striking seueral weeks ago was issued by Supreme Court Justice Dike in Brooklyn. Without the books the company that employed the men said It would be unable to collect bills totaling $ 1 , 500 , 000 , BANSUBAnACKS ON MERCHANTMEN Five Largest Naval Powers Act to Purge Sea of Hidden Men ace to Noncombatants. ASK WORLD TO SUBSCRIBE Invite Other Nations to Agree to It as New Principle of Internationa! Law. Expend Those Governing Warfare on Water to Cover Submersibles. Washington.—The five greatest naval powers of the world decreed as be tween themselves abolishment of sub marine warfare against merchant ships. To purge the seas forever of this hidden menace to peaceful folk and ships, the world is asked to sub scribe to the decree as a new principle of international law. As adopted by the Naval Committee of the Arms Conference, the resolution proposed by Elihu Root and amended by Arthur J. Balfour, to become imme diately effective between the five sig natory powers, runs as follows: “The signatory powers recognize the practical impossibility of using sub marines as commerce destroyers with out violating, as they were violated in the recent war of I9I4-I9I8, the re quirements universally accepted by civilized nations for the protection of the lives of neutrals and non-combat ants, and to the end that the prohibi tion of the use of submarines as com merce destroyers shall be universally accepted as a part of the law of na tions they now accept that prohibition as binding as between themselves and they invite all other nations to ad here thereto.” Action of the committee is final so far as the conference and the five naval powers are concerned, the con ference merely will give formal rati fication to the anti-submarine pact when the five-power treaty in which it will be incorporated comes up in open session. The Naval Committee also adopted the first Root proposal fb declare in simplest terms to the rules of interna tional law applying to merchant -ves sels their full application to subma rines and the invitation of the five powers to all other nations to join in the declaration. This proposal already had been tentatively agreed to, but as returned to the full committee by the drafting committee headed by Mr, Root, which put it in final shape, it was divided into two distinct parts and thus approved for incorporation in the five-power treaty as follows: “ ‘One: “ ‘The signatory powers desiring to make more effective the rules adopted by civilized nations for the protection of the lives of neutrals and non-com batants at sea in time of war, declare that among thos5 rules the following are to be deemed an established part of international law: “ ‘One—^A merchant vessel must be ordered to submit to visit and search to determine its character before it can be seized. “ ‘A merchant vessel must not be attacked unless “It refuses to submit to visit and search after warning, or to proceed as directed after seizure. “ ‘A merchant vessel must not be de stroyed unless the crew and passen gers have been first placed in safety. “ ‘Two—Belligerent submarines are not under any circumstances exempt from the universal rules above stated, and if a submarine cannot capture a merchant vessel in conformity with these rules the existing law of nations requires it to desist from attack and from seizure and to permit the mer chant vessel to proceed unmolested. “ ‘Two: “ ‘The signatory powers invite all other civilized powers to express their assent to the foregoing statement of established law, so that there may be a clear public understanding through out the world of the standards of con duct by which the public opinion of the world is to pass judgment upon future belligerents.’ ” When the Naval Committee adjourn ed, the third Root proposal to declare violations of the rules laid down by submarines acts of piracy for which submarine commanders couId.be held to account personally, regardless of orders they may have received from their governments, was pending. FIGHT ON FOR OPEN SHOP Building Council Rejects Landis Wage Award. Chicago.—^Rejection of the Landis wage award by almost the unanimous vote of the Building Trades Council Indicates that the fight is now on to make Chicago an open town in all lines of industry. The bricklayers were the only ones to abide by the award. The Citizens’ Committee will pro ceed at ohde to bring in artisans of evhry branch from^.i)ther cities. DEXTER S. KIMBALL President of the Society of M echanical Engineers Dean Dexter S. Kimball of the col lege of engineering, Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y., who has assumed office as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the largest engineering society in the country. MOBILIZE FOB WAR Communists Cal! Two Classes to Colors, While Finland Concen trates Her Rolling Stock. London.—A Reuter dispatch from Riga quotes a Moscow wireless . dis patch received there saying that tha central committee of the Communist, party has ordered the mobilization of all Communists throughout Russia who were born in the years 1899 and 1900. Preparations Along Frontier' Riga, Latvia.—Extensive military preparations along the frontier be tween Russia and Finland are known to be under way by both the Russians and Finns, and diplomatic tension Is high. Both the Bolshevik and Baltic missions at Riga, however, expressed belief that there would be no war. A Helsingfors dispatch to the Riga Cewodna said the Finnish government had prepared an answer to Soviet Russia’s last sharp note on the Kare lian question, in which Finland re iterates her previous position that tha Karelian question was one for tha League of Nations to consider. A wireless dispatch from Moscow de clared that Finnish rolling stock had been concentrated at junction points and that the Finnish reserve officers had been warned to be in readiness for war. According to official Latvian sources, the Bolsheviki have an army of about 150,000 in Karelia and guarding Petro- grad. It is under command of General Sergius Kameneff, the commander in chief of the Bolshevik armies. While prepared to expel mutineers from Karelia, the army of Kameneff, according to the Bolsheviki, would not cross into Finland unless attacked by the Finnish forces. LATEST EVENTS AT WASHINGTON An open clash between President H arding and the agrlcwlturai bloc is in prospect as a result of -the latter’s attem p t to force the appoint ment of a representative-'of the agri cultural interests as a member of the Federal Reserve Beard at a recent conference. The m easure of American participa tion in an international economic . conference will depend upon the ex tent to which European nations are willing to adjust their own finances and budgets, according to announce ments made by administration offi cials. A p p r o x im a tely 38,000,000 gaifons of w h is k y are stored in warehouses throughout the country, according to testimony of Millard F. West, deputy commissioner of internal revenue, at recent executive hearings of the house Appropriations Committee on the treasury appropriation bill. The National Agricultural Conference will be held at Washington beginning Monday morning, January 23. It is expected that President Harding wiif open the conference, invitations to attend the conference are going out daily and acceptances are %fting r4K ceiYed. . ' '
