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MICHIGAN TUESDAY APRIL 11 TWENTY TWO PAGES PRICE: THREE CENTS LOOD THREATENS TO WIPE OUT ENTIRE MICHIGAN TOWN HIGH TAX RATE SURE DESPITE COUNCIL CUTS Members Admit Reductions Made at Secret Meetings Will Not urnish Relief RESURACING MAIN ARTERIES DISALLOWED City Legislators Vote to Stand Pat Although Promising to Hear Arguments Action taken by the city council st secret meetings held last week became known Monday when the council decided to "stand on I the cuts made after it had voted to I grant Mayor Couzens an appor 1 tunity to discuss the city estimates I with it Tuesday morning The mayor returned to the city and asked for an apportunity to go over the budget with the object of presenting arguments on certain I items In view of the action of I the council in voting to "stand I however it was doubtful whether I the mayor would accomplish any thing by appearing before that body The council did not make good it promlee to cut the budget to such an extent that the city tax rate would not be higher this year It was freely conceded by He mem bers Monday that the action taken at the secret meetings had not re duced the budget sufficiently to assure a lower tax rate The city tax' rate Will not be less than 23 t'cr 11000 of assessed valuation this year as compared with a rate of 52167 a year ago said Henry Stef fens Jr controller Actual Reduction 7001)00 It was the contention of the coun cil that It had cut the budget 55 686 09952 but the actual reduc tion was approximately 700000 ac cording to figures given out by John Lisman deputy city clerk Mayor Couzens submitted the budget to the council calling for5186670397 To this sum was add ed In supplcmentals 658324874 making a total of 5344995370 The council returns the budget to the mayor calling for 5276585319 Two items contalned In 'ther supple mental were for 4000000 for a new power plant and 2000000 for house of correction addition The rouncll voted 1000000 for each purpose but by authorizing con struction committed the city to the total expenditure of 6000000 This money may have to be appropriated before the end of the year It was learned from lsman that uftcr the council had voted in a piibllft meeting for resurfacing on jiain arteries It had gone into se ttet session to rescind its previous vote The result will be that such streets as Grand River Michigannd Gratiot avenues and ort street will not be paved this year al though Joseph A Martin coinntls noner of public works says It costs the citv more to repair them than If would cost to do the resurfacing work which he contends would last 10 or 12 years Afloat After UnIn Storms On the main arteries mentioned above Martin states that following meh rain storm the creosote blocks I nnt blued on Pnwc Two' Column Three DEPARTMENTS GIVEN $26000000 House Passes Appropriations or State Justice Branches Special to The ree rees Washington April 10 The house lionday afternoon without a record tote passed a bill appropriating approximately 26000000 con duct of the state and justice depart ments it voted 102 to 56 to retain tn the bill an amendment providing that none of the money appropri ated for the justice department shall be used In the prosecution of any labor organization or farmers' organization combining to enter Into agreements to fix wages This amendment was inserted to specifically guarantee that coal op erators and miners might meet in joint conference fix wages and end the present coal strike without tear of proscution under anti trust law violation GALE CARRIES BOY 200 YARDS Youngster Uninjured After Landing in Haystack tn Th tp rrn Baird Tex April Sucked up in the vortex of a Texas cyclone battered and bruised by bits of flying debris while hurled through the str and then dropped Into a kay stack 200 yards away Little Monday waa ald welt father Lofton' with r1? ls' kegan a frantic search hl inlsslng son Sunday The finally went into the house "'rank Russell to telephone tor more help out he heard a voice 5lu' and a mo elmhJat''r hc koy in mud soiled lorn ald tattered hy the covers Cam! keneath the 1 knew papa" said thin1 lnK h1" "toiy 1 "1 'he alr "nd Ren'rcS nAC1VC4 REE Party at the pier Ballroom a HOME ber ciiWwh Certified Lums Adv for Toy Balloons Burst Hedges Quits Speech I CLASH ROCKS 6EN0WfltEY '7 1 Scores lee Homes GENERAL As Lost River Rages IS IN INDIANA ON Noted Life Insurance Execu tive Silent in Congress Here When Bangs Increase The manners ot guests who pro duced what was termed a dis courteous and annoying rat a tat by touching lighted cigarette tips to toy souvenirs caused Job Hedges nationally famed in humor and politics and general counsel for the Lite association to sit down abruptly during his address to sales congress ot the Detroit Lite association Mon day night and decline to speak farther Ills talk was one of fine wit and Irony and sentiment but the inter ruptions began In the middle of it They! had a habit of breaking out usually when Mr Hedges had de parted comedy for gravity and he talked through them without ex hibiting his irritation He capitulated however before a bV5j of banP just as he was concluding satirical comment on the platitudinous speechmaking of to day on such subjects as "vnee vs virtue with no one taking the vice end and virtue winning naturally and those talks In which we 'de scribe ourselves as the greatest people on earth with no one tak ing the negative" "We seem to forget that there STRIKE MISSION at EARLINANCING PLAN IN EECT lm fl above LATEST WIRE LASHES poll HARDING IS PAT IN BUREAU ROW ENTER POLITICS DOCTORS URGED HUNTS ACTS IN EORT TO TERMINATE WALKOUT commission thus up the appalling the United States speaker before the committee of the this continent and for the magnitude of the character ot Its and the Importance we are here to dls of de result poll fl ve You the PAYS $10 TO GET JOB CASH AND MAN VANISH DEMANDS STI CRMAl LAW Moral Aid Asked By Olivia Stone were The come ifty under This See Judge Anderton Officials Regarding Dismissal of Plot indictment Many Injured by Tornado Property Los It Esti mated at $100000 7 De Valera Desperate As Vote Draws Near Cemetery Bomb Bursts Kills 11 Careful Routine I Observed in Preparation to Capture ree Press Prize Preparation of Detroit school children for their eighth annual field day at Belle lale June 9 when scores ot medals and prizes will bo awarded winners by The Detroit ree Press indicates boys and girls in this city have survived the al leged wartime danger of physical decay over indulgence in competi tive athletics and exercises Workers in the health education department of Detroit public schools have built a system In the gram mar and Intermediate grades which bear out the contention for years of Miss Ethel head of the physical training division that ex ercise for children In the growing period should bo regulated Thorough and careful is the hu tlne work leading up to the annual romp rf the grammar and Inter mediate grade children Hut Loren I Post and his co workers Esther Hherman and Cooney who actively direct competitive athletics in this branch of the school system have taken care to make thia rou tine work Interesting to young sters Many of the practices of 1914 when 1600 boys and girls who aur A confidence man Induced Rob ert Wickes 1327 Maple street to hand out 310 on a promise that it wculd obtain him a job as a boiler inspector and then disappeared Monday Wickes was told to stand outside the county building while a license was being obtained for him with the 10 He stood outside un til he grew tired Then he began looking tor the man who had prom ised the job: He didn't find him Diiarm Proposal by Soviet Delegate Nearly Dis rupt Conference Standardized traffic regulations In all the cities of the United States is one of the objects of the Nation al Safety council and at its con gress here In August the co opera tion of the police departments and automobile clubs of the various cities will be solicited with that endIn view Captain Jack Robbins manager of the Detroit Safety council esti mates there will be between 5000 lind 1000(1 delegates for the con gress The national executives here ar ranging for the congress lunched with tlm managers of local councils and with the Detroit safety execu tives at the Hotel Statler and aft erward visited the Cass Technical high school where the congress Is to be held and the safety appliance to be exhibited IhSrDRY RAUD HIT BY MARGOT Dublin April 10 The sensation In Dublin Monday night was the shooting to death of Michael Swee ney 21 years old It was stated ho wan trying to' escape an Irish republican army lorry Belfast April (By the Asso ciated Press) Armed republican soldiers posted outside the IJrtord Donegal courthouse Monday refus ed admission to the Donegal county court judge when he arrived to open the crown session The soldiers told the judge only republican court could be held The judge then left Armed men arriving In a lorry at Greystones County Wicklow near Dublin burned the Trafalgar hall used as a meeting place for Orange men and by some Masonic lodges say a dispatch received In Belfast Munday The Orange hall at Bray a few miles distant was burned last week JOB HEDGES were a lot of decent people In the world before America was discover he said "Americanism didn't start here There must have been some decency before Columbus ever Continued on Page Three Column Two Storm Alo Sweep Western State Mississippi River Shipping Crippled Sprngfleld Mo April Two person were killed and many were injnrud in a tornado which struck Ashgrove Luck and Harold towns northwest of here early Monday Property damage is estimated over 1 100000 Training its Pupils for Real ield Tests Robbery Occurs Between Chi cago and Council Bluffs Special to The ree ree Council Bluffs Iowa April Robbery of mail car containing parcels post matter loss from which may be heavy was discover ed 'here Monday when an Inspector arriving to check the contents of the car found the seal on the door broken and the car looted The car was scaled In Newjfork officials advanced the theory that the car may have been entered tn Chicago the mall sorted and valuable pack ages tossed out along the route from Chicago to Council Bluffs to accomplices of the looters slide Nearly everyone outside of anti treaty leaders' believes that Ireland will vote for the ree State by an Immense majority The do Valaraltes are testifying to that belief by their attempts to suppress free speech to bereak up pro treaty meeting as at Cork and elsewhere to burn stands from which speaker are to addreis ree Continued on Page Two Column ire Mr Asquith Calls Volstead Law Unfair Southampton April 10 (By the Associated Ureas) "A wonderful wonderful was Mrs Mar got description of America as she disembarked from the steamship Mauretania Monday re turning from a lecture tour of the United States She declared she enjoyed every minute she spent In America although she did not con template returning Prohibition she assorted was the only fraud she found She declared the pro hibition law worked most unfairly tween the rich and poor When Informed that many people expected her to lecture on her ex periences In America she replld em phatlcally: "Well they will be jolly well dls appotnteo Asked if she was going Into tics she retorted "What Is my husband but a tlclan He Isn't a jackass been in politics all my life don't suppose I'm going on stage do you?" Paris April 10 (By the Associ ated Pres) Eleven rench sol diers were killed and 10 Injured tn the explosion Sunday near Glelwltz when a bomb was detonated In a graveyard by soldiers who searching for hidden arms guardian ot the church In the tery wa among the killed rifles were found concealed the earth of the cemetery Information was given out offi cially A commission of Inquiry ha been appointed orces ts Mississippi Rise St Louis April 10 A forecast that the Mississippi river here would reach 31 feet before Tues day night was announced by Mont rose Hayes meteorologist in the United State weather bureau A slight drop wad reported Monday night The Increase forecasted for Tuesday depends upon the amount of rainfall above St Louis Hayes said A rise of five feet In the 18 hour ending at 7 o'clock Monday morn ing brought the Mississippi to 308 reel or nearly iu inches flood stage Reports from Sedalia told layed train service as the of washouts and landslides Opening tonight Itntln neuiurnn inest Italian cafe in Detroit 2010 John 11 cot nets Adam Demin Nu cover Adv A SEE THE RADIO SHOW IN REE PRESS Next ree Press will contain a generous outlay of what you will w'ant to know about the big Radio Show scheduled for April 19th to 26th in the General Motors Building Special page have been set aside to field all the features about the Show news from "Radioland" so near to the heart of every fan who tinkers with the wireless To tell you all in store for "Radio in next Sunday's ree Press would be like telling the ending of your favorite book before you had read the first chapter Get next Sunday's ree Press turn to the Radio Show pages and you're in for a mighty interesting hour THE DETROIT REE PRESS Greatest Umbrella Walks Home It took just twenty four hour for the loser of a fine umbrella to connect with the finder through a ree Press Want Ad One lone dollar wa the sum expended to find the lost article That wa the experience of Mr A itzsimmons of the Michigan Mutual Liability Co ree Pre Want Ad will get the job done before the afternoon newspapers are even printed CALL AD TAKER MAIN 9400 or take your ad to any one of our 400 Want Ad Stations one in your neigh borhood Chicagoan Says MoIIycoddlers Are to Blame for Big In crease in Violence Special to The ree Press from Chicago Tribune Chicago April "Year of mollycoddling and misplaced sym pathy by misinformed and' ill advised meddler have resulted in the present abnormal volume of crime in all our large cities" Edwin Sims president ot the umcago crime tersely summed situation facing He was the first law enforcement American liar association Gathered In the courtroom of Judge Marcus Kavanaugh was a most dis tinguished company ot criminol ogists experts from various cities who make ludy ot crims lta causes sand cure He bunts Up Points 6 Judge William Swaney of Chattanooga at the first session Among some of the points noted by Sims are the following: "It seems obvious immediate solu tion of the crime problem lies with courts "Provide tor a bureau ot criminal records "Increase the penalty In all cases where the person committing the crime Is armed "Repeal statutes making juries ths judge of the law abuse ot the habeas cor pus writ A beparnte OITcnse "Make use of an automobile in the commission of crime a separate offense and increase severity ot the penalty a habitual criminal act providing for permanent imprison ment of persons convicted of three or more crimes "Withdraw from trial judges power to admit to probation us a law granting some one authority in the matter of selec tion and impaneling of juries so business men will not be frightened away" US MAIL car OUND LOOTED Irish Bar Judge rom His Court Storm lilts Tennessee Memphis Tenn April 10 A windstorm which at It hlght at tained a velocity of 42 miles an hour early Monday night tore the pilothouse from the Mississippi river commission steamer Missis sippi unroofed the building of the government tore a number ot barges from their moorings and caused' minor damage principally along the water front Storm Cripple Wires Bpeclat to The ree Pres Chicago April Ta'egraph and telephone communication between Chicago the Pacific coast wa crippled Monday by a severe now storm and wind storm centering In the great plain states 'The storm has been almost stationery for 48 hours" said Pro fessor Henry Cox veteran prog nosticator of the local weather bureau 'it centers tn western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming It will be attended by general precipitation and strong shifting No reports of heavy crop or prop erty damage had been received up until noon Trains were maintaining their schedules IWTEHTAIV ENVOIS London fpril George aIvey' Amcrlcan ambassador to Great Britain and Mr Jlar vey entertained at dinnir to night Henry letcher and Alanson Houghton now American ambassadors to Bel gium and Germany respectively postare tbcr WBy t0 tk'Ir Britain Plead for World Peace rance Urge Ac tion Not Word (By Cabl to ree Prtsa and Chios ro Tribune Genoa April HLltuola of ficially Joined the other Euro pean nntlnna Mondny accepting the four demand of the Cannen i conference and asking only minor change In those de mand Soviet oreign Min ister Tchltcherln replying to Lloyd George acceded to every thing The point in the demand area That Kuia can not repudiate her debt that she shall not wage war on the institution of other national that she shall not engage in aggressive military operations and that the nationals of one country are entitled to Impartial justice In the court of another (copyright in:) Genoa April (By The A sociated Press) A clash over a disarmament proposal by George Chitcherln Russian soviet foreign minister which took place between Chitcherln and Barthou of rance Monday threatened to dis rupt the international economic conference on its opening day Drlnnd la Quotrd Barthou said that rance cate gorically had refused to discuss dis armament at Genoa Chitcherln replied that Russia thought rance would be ready to discuss this ques tion because Briand the former premier had said at the Washing ton conference that arma ment nau made disarmament possible Lloyd George Henlie Replying to the welcoming ad dress of Signor acta Premier Lloyd George said tn part: "This is the greatest gathering of European nation that ha ever ainemiuea on having regard the assembly representation ot the tonic cuss the results of the conference will be far reaching in their effects cither for better or for worse up on the destiny not merely on Eu tpe but the whole world "We meet on equal terms pro vided we accept equal conditions enemy states we are not here av belligerents or neutrals we have not come together as monarchists or republican or sovletlsts "We are assembled a the rep resentative of all the nations and people of Europe to seek out In common the beet method for re storing the shattered prosperity of this continent Wq may each build up in hl own land each In hl own way a tetter condition ot things for the people than the world ha yetenjoyed But if we meet on terms of equality it must be because we accept equal condition Need Common (Tort need a uh to repair the devas wroKht by the most de structive war ever waged In this world That war came to an end ag0' vE'roPe exhausted with its fury with the log of hlood Continued on Page Three Column six Jackson Auto Plant Resume Volume Output Will Put on Night Shift Jackson Mich April Reor ganization plans for Earl Motors Inc declared operative by financial interests in Chicago Monday will enable the factory here to resume capacity production at once Clar ence A Earl president announced that his plant would resume acti vity in all departments on an im mediate production scheduleof 50 cars a day Under the readjustment there is practically no current indebted ness and the plant Is unencumbered the new iarrangeiqents enabling the4ompany to esrrrw manufacturing opTatlr a at capa city 4 As newly constituted the Earl Motor organization line up (a follows: Clarence A Earl presi dent Walter Mery vice president: George 8 Scobie vice president and comptroller 8 Wescoat treas urer Tie new directorate is composed of Rumsey 8cott vicb presldent of the Chemical National bank New York John vice president Chicago Title and Trust company Chicago arrell vlca presl dent and treasurer Sinclair Refining Co New York William Sparks president com pany Jackson Georgy Scobie secretary of the Hayes Wheel com pany Jackson rank 'Joyce vice president of the American Auto Trim company Detroit Clarence A Earl and Leon Wescoat Earl Motors now has on hand 2 500 orders with others coming in a' th rate of 100 a day and every effort will be made to rush out put A night shift will be employed STANDARDIZED TRAIC IS SAETY COUNCIL AIM WILL NOT PROSECUTE DAY Oklahoma City Okla April Jean Day wealthy at torney and oil man will not be prosecuted for tho slaying of Lieutenant Colonel Paul Ward Beck unless "something new develop" County Attorney or rest Hughes announced Monday He said he wa following the recommendation of the coron er jury which last Satui lay exonerated Day after Day tcstl fled ho had killed the army of ficer accidentally when ho found Beck attempting to as sault Mrs Day Haynes Point Way of Meet ing Enforcement Cost Philadelphia April Revenue from the national prohibition actpay many over for th1001)0000 appropriated for th en forcement Of the dry law during the coming year Prohibition Com missioner Hayne declared In an ad dr Monday night penalties and special tax imposed upon violators of the law in th first six months ot thia he said 'thy would more than pay two and one half times the estimated cot of enforcing the prohibition law for the next year These enormous figure do not in clude nearly I3000000 in bonds that are being forfeited to the govern nient or 3000000 that have been ottered in compromise by 31 of the large violators of th law and do not Include the iS90f0tK) in differ ential or prohibitive tax that have been referred to previously Mr Hayne declared that after ten months of renewed effort to re strict good liquor into legitimate channels the result "I perhap a near achievement as posrible" Immediately preceding prohibition he stated there was an annual con sumption of about 130000000 gal lons of American made whisky while during 1920 approximately 12500000 gallons of whisky were withdrawn from warehouse under permits and tn 1931 withdrawals were about 3500000 gallon Of the 500 breweries manufactur ing near beer at the beginning of thia fiscal year he declared that Hi had been reported tor violation of the Uw 95 plant were under seiz ure by the government and offer of compromise a high a 96000 had been received Menominee Mich April 10 Many culvert on every highway into Me nominee were washed out Saturday night and Kunday by the water of the various email streams that were flooded by one ot the heaviest rain In recent years The wooded territory along every stream still covered with several feet of snow and Ice which with the rain rapidly swells the rivers and creek Many small bridge also have been swept away and the dam age along the state and county highways will run into the thou sand of dollar There I not a road over which an automobile can travel more than five mile out of Menominee or Marinette AVIs until the bridges and culvert repaired The rain precipitation in Menominee Satur day night waa 192 inches beheygen Dam 8vei Special to The re Pre Uhebowan Anrll Danger point at Black river dam passed at noon Monday in spite of fact that water rose one Inch dur ing night and men were at work continuously since Wednesday to prevent dam going out Snactnl to The ree Pr New York April Refused re instatement a a nurse by the Cin cinnati General Hospital Nurses Alumni association spurning the movie and refusing offer to write of her experience Mis Olivia Stone acquitted slayer of" Ellie Guy Ktnkead former Cftclnnatl corporation counsel Monday ap pealed to the women of N'ew York state to aid her In gaining a liveli hood The Cincinnati? association is sued a statement saying that all members be of good moral character" One Man It Drowned a Citl ten Battle to Same Dam at Tower Special to Ths "Yes Pnwn Onaway Mich April ll One life ha been lost and the entire village of Tower is In danger of being awept away as the Lost riv er already at the highest point in it history rages behind the huge dam above the village It bank ar overflow! or mile and surrounding country 1 Inundated periling hundred of live Battle to Save Dam llrljg Scores of construction gang from nearby point ar battling madlv to keep tha water pent up and save th villag from destruction Guy Stanton 34 year old of Onawav aiding this struggle wa swept from the dam and lost in the swirl ing water Claud Post would have suffered a similar fate but for the bravery ot hi brother Alfrnd who tucceeded In rescuing him but only after what appearad for many minute to be a hopeless battle lu the foam ing current ive hundred feet of the railway track has been torn away and a huge water tower wrecked Railroad tie trees fence posts and other wreckage are belni? swept down stream adding to the peril of workers who are fighting to save the dam In epltn of the great dan ger a ceaseless fight Is bring waged for the safety of the village and there Is still hope that the water will be held back Damage Benches Damage already ha mounted to thousands of dollars In the sur rounding country and I Increasing steadily as the inundated area grows Heavy snow accumulations disap peared suddenly with the unusually warm weather and rain added to the torrent which suddenly poured Into the river course and rose rapidly above its banks Small buildings fence Immense tree and other debris wa wrench ed loose The 800 residents of Tower at first regarded it a the usual spring flood but with the Medical Society Memhet Told They ail to Take Advan tage of Opportunities Declaring that the Wayne County Medical society with a member ship of 1200 was practically as big as the greatest society of the sort in that in Berlin with membership of and should wield a powerful influence in public affairs Including politics Dr James Davis gave members a "curtain lecture" on Ihelr duty toward thefr organization at Monday night's meeting "AVs aro mailing out ballots for ths election of officers for th en suing year" he declared "Ths member ot thl association ought to give thl election serious thought and not vote for this man or that man on account of friendship but with respect for hl fitnes for office "We ought to have a president and secretary who would give their entire tlma to the work of thl or ganization and we ought to have on the executive board men who will give at least one evening a week and an hour a day three or four time during th month to their duties" ought to watch ths legis lature and the legislation that goes through It and we ought to have men In office in our association with enough Interest In th association to see that that 1 done "AVe are big enough to exert a powerful Influence but while I am not criticizing anybody we need men In office who will a to it that we exert that influence" TICK TO ANTr ltll ye New York April James wouh? banker the univ aJ 'hairman of tnQ Salvation Army's annual campaign fund committee In preference to withdrawing hla support from the antl pmhlbl tion movement he said tonight in a letter to Evangeline Booth commander ot the army MONEY SECHETARY GONE Special to Ths ree Pres and Ch I errs Tribune John Rockefeller gave 35000 to the constitutional League of Amer ica but the 5000 has disap peared along with Jerome A Myers secretary A bench war rant has bc en Issued for arrest Detective have been unable to find him either In Bal timore or Washington where he waa reported to have gone Now he la aald to be on the way to Japan Union Envoy in Houte Quiz Say rankly Digger Expect to Ue Their Power Indianapolis April with tha view of opening tho way for poa ible aetllement ot the nation wldu suspension of work by coal miners Attorney General Daugherty arriv ed here Monday unannounced from Washington and after a twohour conference with ederal Judge A Anderson declared he did not know whether dismissal "was pos sible or practical at this time" of Indictment charging 25 coal opera tors union leaders and others with conspiracy to violate the Sherman anti trust law In private conference with the Judge Daugherty discussed dismis sal of the indictments which action was raid would remove ground for refusal of nrw operator to con tinue Interstate wage negotiation with the union Judge Anderson who declined to discus what trans pired at th conference with the at torney general wa said to have re fused to approve dismissal of Pend ing cases Alerts ProsSeutora Daugherty also met with District Attorney Elliott and Ert 8lack special government prosecutor of the Sherman anti trust case dl culng the case at length and at ths conclusion of his conference de nrOTj "I1fay d0 nothing in con any 01 tho matter wnii here urther conference with official on the attorney Kenrrar program tor Tuesday and Luherty any proceedings here at thl did not meet with Joh the ot1 of America and said he would not ek miners' official oontsrence with Judge Anerson which continued untH Lt Daugherty A the Jr oomment on the purpose Trying to Get aets t0 ia cunnretlon wth hPte lnha wag ojeratora'': erty declarsd wa "trytSg to onllnued on Pugs Three Coloma eu SAYS LIQUOR INES EXCEED 10 MILLION Party Using Violent Means to Win Ballots of Irish Who avor Treaty Davis Says By ORREST DAVIS ree Press Correspondent (ARTICLE XXIV) Dublin April In this the final article of the series on Ireland I shall endeavor to get at the inwardness of the political situation The uppermost question everywhere in the 26 county area of south Ireland is will win Collins or de Valera?" The classic joke of the period one told and retold with infinite zest has those well known individuals Pat and Mike for its characters and runs like this: "I was after seeing the last of the military out of the district this yyou then? Begorra now we can fight it out in Query and jest arc related for indeed now that thesymbols of British rule have all but been removed from Ireland Irishmen of the contending sldeso are at each other political throats savagely anil there is that doubt about the conclusion that always goes before an election At the time thl Is written how ever the doubt IS small perhaps a much a existed in the UnitedState six weeks before the elec tion of November 1920 when Ameri can anticipated a Republican land AnsAver Critic of Ouster Act 'y and Say He Ha No Apology to Make II GRATON Special to The ree Preae and Chicano AVashlngton April President Harding spoke officially Monday with regard to hts recent dismissal from the service ot the director and division superintendents of the bureau of engraving and printing declaring hts sweeping action was necessary to give complete assur ance of protection to the govern Interests and that he had no apology to make for it The president also publicly de clared referring to crltlclam Of hl action a bearing on the civil ser vice he proposed to malnteln "every regard for the civil service law" but added: "It a responsible executive head may not take uch action a I deemed necessary for good of the public service then such ah Inhibi tion on power of the executive ought to be made very clear to con gress to government employes and to the American public to which all are answerable" Preaident Harding made hla com ments on the Incident which still I stirring the capitol In a letter to Luther Steward president of the National ederation ot ederal em ployes who had written a letter) protesting against discharge ot bu i reau ot engraving official In re plying to the president's letter Steward and M's Gertrude McNally I secretary of th Women' union the bureau of engraving and print ing accepted an invitation from the president to ah! him In securing the highest efficiency In government ser vice but reiterated complaint dis charged government employe were unfairly dealt with I The letter Included these statements: change made at tha bureau were ordered after extended delib Conilnued on Page 7 Column 7 I vlvcd the elimination contests In which 64000 participated were tak en to Sugar Island for the rirsit or ganized field day of Detroit public schools 1onglnco have been dis continued on Page 7 Celnmn 7 continued rise of the water they be came alarmed end call for help were rushed to surrounding pointe Carrying awey of the watertower and damage to the railway track added to the fears of the villagers and added vigor to the stntgglv id save the little community 1 Alpena aces iend Special to Ths ree Pesos Alpena April Ratns of th i last 48 hours have loosed the flood Kate of Thunder Bay river and Its tributaries until mile of territory thtmighou thi section are Inun dated i The water Sunday undermined the bridge at the Ox bow farm at the city limit causing the floor of tho concrete structure to cave tn On the Posen road the new main trunk line 10 the fill to the bridge nu washed out The Boyne City Gaylord and Al pena railroad bridge over Thunder Bay river reported unsafe and closed to travel greatly hampering traffic on tho road Trains north on the and could not proceed' beyond Holton Bunday because the I track were under water 4 I rj.