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Short Chronicle of P**t Occurrence* Throughout the Union and Our Colonie*—Newra From Europe That Will Interest.

President Htrdlns signed the Joint reooludon extending for rweny-flve pear* the S24.OOU.OOu loan made to Austria for foodstuffs. The question whether kosher brandy can be regarded under certain circumstances as "wine and used for aacranental purposes" within the meaning ef the national prohibition law was answered In the nffirmadre by Justice Hits of the District of Columbia supreme court. Chairman Lasker estimates ship operation will cost United States $52.000.000 under subsidy law. Fight breaking In Senate over Hardteg's dedal on for United States to be | Reparation Conunia-

Ollvta Stone, acqolted of murder in Brooklyn gets wild ovation. Ceaeral Semenoff, charged with Siberian banditry, arrested In dvil suit In New Tort Military court wfll investigate Wiling of Lt. OoL Pari W. Beck by Jean P. Day In Oklahoma. Organised labor Is taking the great non-union cool fields of Southwestern Pennsylvania by storm. Approximately $29,000,000 will be spent by the Union Pacific Ballroad for Improvement^ new equipment and abort-line extension. Police Commissioner Enright puts 600 mote men on patrol In New York as dvic organisations prepare to combat crlm; conditions; retired official blames playtime activities for police

BO OIL MAN KILLS AIB OFFICER

ALUSTER M’CORMICK

ANGLO-AMERICAN ENTENTE SEEN

Fonner Oklahoma Jurist Finds Wife Struggling With Guest in Eariy Homing Hours.

TELLS HOW SHE FOUGHT

American Cotton Exchange pleads not guilty to bucketing. Dominic Ferlano, first victim of the coal strike, died at Scranton. Pa. Ferlano, who was a miner, was shot from amboab Saturday night. HU slayer has not been captured. Lieut-Col. Paul W. Beck, commander of Post Field, Fort Sill. Oklahoma, was shot and killed at the home of former Supreme Court Judge J. P. Day. No. 419 West Eleventh street Oklahoma City. Judge Day was placed under arrest Immediately khd charged with

murder.

Responsiblity for the suspension of work In the coal mines was placed on the operators by John L I*wla, president of United Mine Workers, at a Lng In Washington before the House Committee on Labor.

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dover U to have his way In wholesale laorgunlzation of the Internal Revenue

Efforts to reach a basis of settlement of Lusitania and other American eUlms against Germany will be among the first of Ambassador Houghton's labats upon Ms arrival in Berlin. Authority to construct 128 miles of railroad from Boulton to Bangor, Me.. ••» asked In an application filed by tba Eastern Maine with the Interstate Commerce Commission. The road will tap the Aroostook county agricultural

Following the resignation of Willla I> Carey as president of the Royal Baking Powder Company, William Ziegler, Jr. was unanimously elected to that office at a meeting of the Board of Directors on April 8. Mr. Ziegler. Jr, who Is a Urge stockholder

Jack Dempsey, world’s heavyweight ring champion, said that during his European tour be expected to fight Wills, Carpet)tier ana Beckett. Brooklyn Robins defeat the New Tort Yankees. 4 to S at Richmond. Vo. At Norfolk. Ya- New York Glanu blank Chicago White 8o_, 3 to (L Henry J. Tapping. Greenwich, end Philip K. Robeson are finalists In North and South amateur golf tourcey at

Ueut-CoL Back, Dead Officer, Was One of the First Four American Army Aviators—Struck Victim With Gun—Fired Itself.

active interest in 1U affairs.

Wage cuts averaging ten per cent Cor men's clothing workers In Chicago were accepted in a three year agree-

ment to become effective Muy L

John L. Lewis, president of United Mine Workers, established temporary strike headquarters In New York dtp to await the outcome of :M house labor committee's Invitation to bituminous coal operators to Join the miners In a wage conference at Washington. improvement la Industrial conditions are Indicated In the monthly reports at the United States Employment Serv-

ice of the Department of Labor.

Advances In the price of Liberty

bonds was Been at the Treasury in . Washington as the culmination of the t0( j.j

stagnation of business several months , ago. Gradually, officials declared. ! m.ney and credit have become more plentiful and with this condition In-

terest rates have fallen.

The federal government Attorney General Daugherty has again made dear, will nut Intervene In the strike •Mess it Is necessary to preserve law and order or until the fuel supply of

the nation U menaced.

The Australian tennis association. It was understood hat made suggesl to Gerard Patterson and James O. Anderson. Australian tennis aces, which. If accepted, will enable them to go to America to compete In the Davis Cup matches next September. Glams defeat Chicago White Sox.

I to 8, at Bristol. Tcnn.

TBden defends Richard's withdrawal

from national tennli tourney.

Brooklyn Robins win over the Yankees. 5 to 0. at Norfolk. Ya. In principal college games Princeton defeats New York University, 18 1; Bowdoin beets Penn, 6 to 2. ana Cornell shuts out Virginia, 8 to 0. Motwlch. nndlapmed two-year-old champion, will start in the Kentucky Derby and cot In the Preaknem, Ms

At Daytona Beach. Fla., all world's auto speed records were shattered when Big Haugdabl of Trondhjam. Norway, drove his Wisconsin special a mile In 19.27 seconds, ah average of

180.27 miles an hour.

Roger* Hornsby was born in Texas. So also waa Trla Speaker. George Herman Ruth Is from Baltimore. Ty Cobb la a Georgian. The south has its share of the stars In baseball and more titan its share, for where are the others who shine as these of the first magnl-

Oklatu ma City.—LieuL-CoL Paul _ Ward Beck, asutnant commandant of | Pom Field at Fort Sill, Okla, and one j of the army's pioneers In aviation, was | ahot and killed at 2B0 o'clock In the I morning after midnight party at the home of his close friend, Jean P. Day, wealthy oil man and former Justice of the Oklnboma Supreme Court, though no formal charges were lied. Day pm up a Mmd of $5,000 for appearance before a coroner-. J committee of army officers from Pom Field also will meet to invest!

shooting.

According' to' the ~mory'which - Day told the sheriff. Day struck Ootettei Beck over the bead with a after he had caught the arm. _ trying to force his attentions on Mrs. Day. The force at the blow discharged U»e weapon. Day saM. and Beck $eli dead. Mrs. Day corroborated this of the Incident. Tbe explosion of the gun so mutilated tbe army officer's oeud that tbe coroner expressed doubt whether It could Mu determined whether the blow or the shot had earned death. The o*! man told tbe police that be and Mrs. Day and Beck bad eatta dinner together at a downtown hotel and had arranged that the army officer should pass the night at their borne. After dinner Day was called away to attend to some legal business and his wife went with Beck to a theater. On the way home after the show Mrs. Day and Beck met a group of friends and Invited nil of them to go otfl to the Day home for a party. These guests Included t. H. Pritchard and bis wife, P. H. Anderson and Ms wife, both oil operator*, and Major B. R Pafidock. who is attached to Fort 81IL Day had reached home ahead of the crowd and paused More than an hour with them. When the guests marled to depart, about 1 o’clock. Day nsaatreted to take some of •hem borne In bk automobile They accepted and be drove off, leaving Ms wife and the army

neither Great Britain Nor United | States Wants France’s German Goods in Payment ol Debt

LITTLE CASH FROM BERLIN

British Debt Call Sent to All Alllee; France Worried—Asked to Pay Interest to England When America Presses Her on Lean

Latest photograph of

Cormlck, whose marriage don Baker of Chicago waa the church because of tbe Mlm Baker to appear. Mr. McCo*mk* la now in England. Tbe couple Intend to be married la that country

early in tbe spring.

London.—On the eve of tbe Genoa conference Great Britain has made tbe first open diplomatic move toward a new entente—at Anglo-American undertaking based upon a common economic conception of tbe world's future. That Is the Interpretation placed upon Great Britain's note to the Alwarolng them that she reserves right to collect the Interem oo war owing her. In diplomatic quarts taken as showing bow Prime Lloyd George and Ms dosem Iseri view America's final to participate tt Genoa.

SHIP SUBSIDY WOULD COST $52,000,000

Lasker Says Enactment of Legidation Would End *50,000,000 Annual Sluji-Board Loss.

Washington.—Establishment ol privately owned merchant ma through government aid, as proposed ~ resident Harding and the Shipping Board, would necessitate a maximum wry outlay of $S2MOfiOO annually, Senate and House committees considering the Ship Subsidy BUI were told by Chairman Lasker, of the board. Enactment of the legislation, however, would put an end. he contended, to the $50,000.00" yesrty loss. Pressed by Representative Pavla of Mmesaee. for an estimate of tbe probable coat of the Administration's prognat. Mr. Leaker gave general totals with an explanation thei experts would

give details later.

Suggesting that the chairman's eatlate did not take Into consideration "indirect aids" provided for In the bill. Mr. Darts asked what their money

Paris—The British Government has notified the Punch Government that 1 when the United states "alls on Great Britain to pay lnf r ®*t on her war debt to VTaahlnglon. London will call on Paris to pay intepst on the war debt France owes En^^d. Tbe note to the Preach foreign office advises that the three-yea’ arrangement between England and France, made In 1910. by which EngQnd ex ' cuaed France from any payment on the debt during that period, will ntf. be renewed at ita expiration this moMhThrough private conversations Rorianl has let France know that interest payments wUl be asked If

According to Day's story, be was returning borne after 2 o'clock, and aa he drove Ms car up the driveway caught a glimpse of the army off _ and Mra. Day through a window of the drawing room. Colonel Beck started toward Mrs. Day. the oU man said, and

grasped her la Ma anna.

“Bbe fought Mm." Day euetlnnad. "It waa an awful battle between then I passed only a moment, then opened tbe door In time to aee tbe officer fall backward through the curtain* that •eparate tbe drawing room and dlnb* room. I rushed to tbe stairs and got ■y revolver. Returning to tbe room. I commanded: 'You get out of barer

Winning only one fall Instead of taro within the time limit of 75 minutes

which be Led specified, Stanislaus .. „ _ . . . , —

plon, lust a handicap match to Charles

toward the dining

Benirop, who claims the middleweight ! trffWh! TT*** ^ wrestling title. In a bout at Little ! — ’ !.*££ 4-k dental discharge caused the officer"* Arthur Yates wins qualifying round I 1,ulU *

of amateur golf toumnment at Pine-

burst.

JMIdmJ U.M, pMla. mi AubU* j 0^ wIU Gnu< Utfltun.!, oU~rr„. B^t™. "■o'-raou *!<~t Ui DubU» Mew York oil p»oiuotera became * W ” Ke * ,uWlc * 1 “ and Free Ktatera.

known In Boston. The Indictments charge the defendant* used the mails In s scheme to defraud in connection With various oil stock maMpulatkms. At San Juan Capistrano, Cal., Mine

GalU-Curd, opera singer, was robbed ending the lockout, affecting

of Jewels and valuables wMch she , workers.

Poincare wins vote o

eighteen-months' military service is

Danish Federation jt Labor and tba Associative of Employers agreed uo

Tbe Soviet Russian delegation to the

Interna tlostal economic conference arrived at Genoa from Berlin. This la

the firm delegation to arrive. Impressive service marked the fu-

neral of ex-Emperor Karl at Funchal.

Five more members of the Royal

were worth $45JKI0 when two glrla Bed with a Jewel case which had been left by the singer's maid u> a

Csfe reat room.

Statement of Mary Garden's sacra tary lad'cates she will gnu chlcmgi

Opera Company for concert lour. . Tbe University of Colorado la tha Irish Constabulary have been killed •rat of the educational Ibnrituu-m* ! In ambush by Irish Republican gym-

about the country to discontinue *n pathlxerm.

athletic building program because cf Republican rebels attempted, un•nanciai difficulties. ; sucessfuUy. to Intimidate 100 recruits on the ground that through a con- for C* Irish Free Bute army passing ■piracy she wag herself detained la the through Mallow on their way to Dub-

Insane asylum, where she went to com- | Ls.

Sli her husband. Mrs Irene L Boesch “The Genua conference cannot d!s«f Newark. N. J„ has been awarded a j rogard the question ..f repemtiun*." verdict of $MSOO agains Emile F. Kit* Chancellor Wirth <,f Germany declared by tbs action of the at i>rem« court In «* the eve ul Ms departure from Berlin

affirming s prevl. a* decision. for Italy.

Governor Millar of New York dgns | toiernaflooal Socialist* fall to reach inr-une tax MU Invaf’datSfig tax dodg- agreement with Bolshcvlkl. although teg trust funds , Red? yield some ground. The unwritten "code of Oklaboa.*" | Deaths from starvation have virtualwill be ;evoked tc cieer Judge Jeaa P. !y censed In Russia wbmvrr the Dsj. miUlunalrr Ml taan and poUtletat.. American relief administration is at fron. .lame ir. tbe killing at Lieutenant work, former Govern.e Goodrich of In Coiuoei Paul W ard Berk, handsome disns said to Moscow ■m.luviulam of p.st Flying Field i The Brttlwh government has nddressPrimef«.. N J, will become aa sc- eh a not* to the allies dedarlug that rivet> intev-eted to p'-'Utos as It was owing to the fact that Great Britain wiH« M'wudro* U Usuti look to the tau to pay the interest her debt to bmeisgs H the iAm»vaU adopt Mayor the Usl'ed Htatas tlie reservt* to her-

that Dr. self the rigid to .wU upoti the allies to

f'tern d. pay the

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WSJ a stogie-act Ion Celt 88-40 re-

volver. Day notified the autbarltta* Immediately and was held to curtody by the sheriff until noun. He was released only ao that he might be wltfc Ms wife, who collapsed after the Incident. Mrs. Day h&a been unable to

Issue any further statement. Prohibition Enforcement Offiesr

Meadow* Issued a Staten ent say-tog that be would - ' * *— - “■

"IP# useless to try to eatlmj.'e." Mr. Laaker replied, adding that fund* for “indirect aldi" would net come from the government. Instead of tocre**tog the burden on the Treasury, be held, ■nch aid: would help increase the revenue* of shipping companies, which, under the LIU. would be required, when

10 p

to turn half the excess earnings back to tbs government until tbe full amount

of tbe subsidy waa retnrned.

eluding England, to begin Interest pvymenrs on the bonds to be a era aged for to the American war debt funding

France owes England 14.000,000,000 gold franca, or about $2,750,000,000, much of which England to effect borrowed from America and placed at France'* disposition. This Is aocnewrhat less than what France owes

“direct aid." Mr. Lasker said be allowed. for conversion Into the merchant marine fund $30,000,000 to be derived from customs receipt*. $4,000.000 to turjage dues. $5.900000 cow paid for tranaporta’Jon of certain cirsacs of foreign malls and $3,000,000

to construction charges.

The British Government has placed next year's budget the Item ot CO,000.000 to be devoted to payment of Interest on British obligations to the

United State*

Inasmuch aa England's demanding

Interest payments from France dtpends on America's demand on the AMes. including England. It Is very sppeent that the British notification to the French Internals the United States Government. In fart. It 1* probable that the French reply to England will aay something cbont general consideration of interallied debt* in this connection the European governments attach Importance to the bill recently P**vc<l by the American congress

creating s funding commission Doubtless the allied govemments

would wtob to enter into aegotirtlun* with America. There would be two great difficulties to tbe way of immediate success. Tbe first 1* that Atuerlean opinion and European opinion *Umt the payment of war debts is not the same. In the second place, from the European, and especially the French, point of view, the question of International debts Involves the reps-

Dzerjlasky. who has been chirr the cbeka of soviet Russia, the ec* ordinary commission which has « demned thousands to death, thoagt, tired by the roorginlutlon of &

office, that ef I wide powqa.

GIGANTIC 01 OF NATIONAL SCOff

New Y«t, Financier Accused in Petroleum Cocrwatien PrtSe.

Boston.—Aa alleged oil fraud ml to involve tbe loss of SLOOOXttj to I vesturi here and possibly mUlloai Other parts eg the country, wu i ek*sed by federal attorney* here at they made punUc elghte-m namra Charles M. Lodden, an attornrj. 0 John £. GUcresurt. aa official or « Exchange Trust Company, both of d city, dcat of tW Motar Bpodalty of Weitn*m, were anested oa a fk* act! rtti of tba Petroleum Oorpcraiioc of aj aot gaUty aad ea held to$2jp0 balk authorities gave cat fl foL’owtag *4**'**"“’' —ra o*

H. Francis Ft* Freak W. Bernard, Edward A CM utt of BoutonS Edward HL Bashno Bell. Jr, Edwi* CodweH, Chsrf et U. Flint, Gc rp I Gudebrtri. Bolund H. BUlsdel', Ol - Burt H. rr, John A. 3L8J __ Carlton, all of M lork rity. The ffeetraa est ellegee the r" leum torporstli -n, organixed und« t Uwe of Delaw -re, falsely advert* that Its capitoi ration was $00,cmj.« that the Stead ird Oil CumpoBy - inter.•ffii fi, tt, that It eonstltutri

cerns; that It had capltol *toei I «le ead that t had prepertle. r< ourtug | arrei. of rtl daily. «n susual teood e id $5 “Tbo defends its w,

Accounting for the ram nlng $10.- \ raUons quesUon. the French srgu<0.000, the chairmen explained It was “i*! Lelng that they can pay only If expected that deductions sn-< uatmg to ; Germany pay* There again tbe rethls figure would be made In Income i t ' rat report from VYoafalngiun that Amtoxes payable by stopping companies, planned to have an ufficUl repre- , sentativc on the Reparations Cummls-

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were ttMIlag l that they 4daeej fields; that P

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WORLD’S NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM

Bertt was out of the first four army artstors to tbe United States. His parents came to Fort to 1809. and the name of Beck has been associated with that army pest since Its twglntong. Colonel Bock hod been to the service store 1809 an 1 assistant commandant at Post Field rteoc July 1921.

FINOS OALLI-CURCI GEMS

Exprs

Driver Tree on Highway. San Diego. Cal.—Tbe Jewels valued at tifiyOOO rejx'ried lost by Mine Galllriurd. noted singer, at a restaurant at Ran Jean T'aplttrano. were ftund by an automobile exprassnmn and ret arsed to their owner, accord!j* to aa nanotanvm-rt made by her ru.tnager to the new»r**pera. Tbe Jewels were found to-neath a tree by tbe side of tbe hlgliway between tbls rity aad Los An;

WAR ON NEW YORU CRIME

Police end District Attorney Unite In

Nrw Move Against Banditry New Y-rk.—Urged by f:..ve!

JtLIler to make New York v safe rity to live In, I'ollr. romtnlssl-mer Enright and Dlstrl'-t * rtonte- Banton united to

make tblnr* ll"ely for the crlml abora daring "*d» rvcixfly |

startled the cltlsenrT Order* nave t^en Issued which, by substitute the .to^ptstoon *>»tem fur the tea wfll

M •« men poiltoaran avg^

HAMILTOM, Bormuda^—Parliament rejected local option by a vote of 16 to 12. This la the second time the question has been voted on. BROOKLYN—Aftsr dollboratlng ten boon, a Jury to tba Brooklyn Supreme Court acquitted OUrta M. P. Stone of tbe murder of Eilis Guy KinkyHfl Kl one Urn* Corporation Counsel of Cm-

fitwanls R.

Aldridge Issued a proclarcaUon railing upon Dallas Xu Klox Klac to disband. He Mac asked ail dty employees who art members to resign at once from

tbe Kikii.

LONDON^—Ocyd George’s InUrvsntloo in the enrineerlng crisis has been successful, and employers have agreed to susiwod lockout orders against ■*00000 worker*. TOKv'O^JspMws* and Rsd troop* of the CMto government of the Far Eastern republic have clashed near Habaroysk. Blbe-la.

•too which collects from Gennany la

toteresttog.

Whether or not :h* BrltUh Govern ment had the Genoa conference in mind in making Ur notlficatloo it i* bard Li ray. Inasmuch as the threeyear agreement expires this mont*> tMs month was the right time to speak about It. However, the effect of the British not* will unquestionably be to make the French Ml the more firm against any discussion at Genoa of the reduction of what Is due to Franc* from Germany. If France bad to pay interest on tbe debt to Britain tMs yrar. wMch would be about 1,000.000.. 000 francs paper, and to America, which would be another 1.000.000.00Q. it would make a serious different* to Government, which coca

loan to make

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-EV iNTS

• he Houss Coraaffi «a aa BanMne 1 Currency appro *d tee ^ •Irt farmer btU | ‘" m “ •limlnating the a

M MORE UNITED STATES JUDGES

Vou la 44 to 21. With Party Unas

Broken.

Washington—The MU creating twen-'-Vn-l Juax". iw„ am ! than were provided to tbe house hill passed by the senate and ^

NEW YORK.—An Involuntary p«t] conference with the house. The final 1 tlan to bankruptcy wat filed u, Utdied , voU tor ^ 10 2» Advocates of the I

district court ngslnst the Sw;n. m*«sure ray it Is designed

sure OU Transport Company.’li', i «««««'* to federal courto" ' ' - ,2" w an riS

trading as a steamship cmi any ,, bUhles were listed as $19,487,901. Ar-

tis were not given.

CHICAGO. — The east mine operator* planned a flat rejection of the gwveminent'* offer to settle miners' strike WEST PALM BEACH, »l*_^ ^ location of the Volstead set Is Inertt*. hie. according to Nurmaa r. Dsmocrntlc asUunM eoramltieemao of New York, who says that th - only per.

o«ns opposed to such

HER NAVY tATIgFIffg JAPAN

Tokl# Confsrsne# Approvsd | U R*. !

stnetod gtrsngth.

Toklo. Thf. Nsvy Department In • ' #tu.< ment to the local newspaper* a rontennre of the admirals hsv „ , elded that the strength of the Jspener*

and the “*">• •* restricted by the Wssnin^tun I

~oferan.e. „ .nffic^a, for do- 1

sf $a^ fmae ,.f tlir empire. ^

»y u< Lm bankhte teeOiaUrros Ip iagtt« ui-r,-. la-nt and a sia^sment to

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