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Detroit Jfm GREATEST NEWSPAPER Pl KP SJ WEATHER INAL1 air EDITION RIDAY Woman Grandchild DAVIS TO MAKE HARDING URGES Mob Menaces Negro 2 CONESSIONS SENATE TODROP INVOLVE 45 IN AreBurned To Death NEW YEAR WAo Attacks Woman BORAH SCHEME MOB KILLINGS DRY AS SAHARA1 $300000 1 tempor 1 raffle AUlted today from but the beginning SAYSCOUZENS CLERK IS HELD CAR ACCIDENTS ASGIRLSLAYER PLAYS POLITICS KILL TWO MORE PLEA DENIED BY flon toolght Mosul to be Alexander has 2 ERIE BUILDINGS LATEST WIRE LASHES DESTROYED BY IRE Senators Atheists? irebug Hunt Widens A Lie They Retort ii the vamped the working schedule to academy announced Thursday I 4 Iamb nil laf'a roaf I lac 1 provide at least one full day's rest said Tonic and Laxative Effect of GENERAL WHO IS HONORED BY UNIVERSITY RAT opynght Paul Thompson) NATOR WILLIAMS weapons one of them lstul Sunday noon See amusement page HEADS NATIONAL BODY BUSINESS SCHOOL TEACHERS PARKER AND EDERAL AGENTS PLAN CAMPAIGN HITS GERMAN YANK AND BRITISHER Senator Lodge presented the pres letter immediately after the senate convened and the reading of Continued on Page wo Colunuv Three Gd River and 7 Mi road for reservations Redford 2 Adv Eight perMni Injured here damage to the Ohio Telephone 3 return to Angora Tonight the Turks are working on a reply to the Allies on capitulation A flat refuwnl Is Indicated most and sir said VOL 88 rog Chicken or Steak Dinner 1125 Also Chinese Dishes now serv ing Music and Dancing Reserve your table now for New Years Eve Ady (By Cable to The Tree rew and Chicago eTribune) Lnunanne Dec 29 2 ji nt DETROIT MICHIGAN i i JEW EVE at GRAYSTOJE Gayest crowd best music un and favors for dancers and spectators Big dancing party New night dnlte more than a down persons arrested and quantities of beer and whisky either destroyed or confls catrd It was the most thorough and spectacular selsure made In any of the down river towns NEW EVE CABARET At Arcadia Singers feature num bers and instrumental soloists a vors LOGO noiscniakerx DANCE TONITE Unusual features' Bal cony Greatest Dance Orchestra in Middle West Adv MARY GARDRX COMING Next Tuesday night at Arcadia Tickets now at Adv Key aliens States under specter William Osterhoudt aid he captured them near Mara thon la where they had been landed The aliens said the boat on which they had been brought to this country from Cuba immediate ly returned to the island Year's EVe Celebration at the CAE RONTENAC West la Dec 28 Twenty smuggled into the United were brought here Thursday arrest by Immigration In no ASKS MODIICATIONS ON DEBT UNDING Washington Dec 28 Charges were made in the sen ate late Thursday by Senator Borah that it was the adminis tration plan to in effect to can cel foreign debts through deferment of interest and principal payment 'the seven or eighth generation has passed over the Arcadia sinoo wager Arcadia wagers 1000 that It wilt entertain more people New Year's Eve than any other place of amuse ment in Detroit' 5000 Nolsemakers ree Horns Hells Drums Rattles Whistles Squawkers Adv The Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets will keep the system in a healthy condition and thus ward off all at tacks of Cold Grip or Influenza 30c publican of South Dakota voiced disapproval of Williams' charge "I believe the senate for the r1 Im a I i i 4 lli'j'i ji 13 iiiauv L'l vai ii'c'x Horro rhrieH'in 1 1 tvnt Sterling think that charge one of several things Williams In bad CONVICTED MIDDY RESTORED BY DENBY Traffic Is Paralyzed in When Sleet Storm Sweeps City and Exacts Toll has been employed by Lath a farm hand and with his his for With 40 Agents Seizes Liquor in 10 Downriver Places Arrests Dozen Persons ATLANTIC SHIPS SEEK HAVEN IN BLIZZARRD MANY INJURED AS GALE GRIPS EASTERN COAST ad verse Lu publication of their sen lirsents but senator Sterling Be THREE CENTS per company will commence oper ating on a flve day per week basis January 2 1923 and advance the pay of all hourly employes approximate ly 10 per cent The innovation was voluntary The company had not been in fluenced by any labor trouble or the suggestion of it nor had any gov ernment official requeted that it be done officials said These conclu sions supported by Commissioner Ethelbert Stewart of the department of labor and indirectly affirmed by the president through his suggestion to the steel industry formed the basis on which the company had re hld for al least one steamer the Heinrich Kayser bound from Sav annah for Bremen which was last reported In distress 500 miles off Cape May on December 6 Hardly had the weather bureau hoisted 'signal warnings of north east gales off the north Atlantic coast When Asbury ark re ported that the schooner Annie Belle of Baltimore carrying a small cargo of whisky had run aground in thick weather but that her crew had waded ashore Jersey coast guards also reported the fact that aiy abandoned cabin cruiser marked rK12090" had been driven up by the surf Early this afternoon the schoon er Madonna out of Halifax crashed on to the Long Island shore near Montauk point and was reported breaking up in the surf with a cargo of liquor Her crew Was landed by breeches buoy Up state there was a heavy snow fall and it was believed that the rain In New York would turn to snow before morning Crime Record Hared Police asserted that after several hours of grilling during which It was disclosed that the prisoner had a criminal record he acknowledged owning such a gun He is report ed to have kept it in a baby car riage at the McCarthy homo Confronted by experts from the gallery and flngr printing departments the postal clerk is said to have broken down and ad mitted that he concealed his record It was stated the signers of the confessions have been granted Im munity by the state and are being secreted along with other witnesses and will be called upon to testify It Is regarded here as probable however that the arrests of some or all of the mh named will oc cur before the open hearing begins The suspects are reported to be under constant surveillance of se cret service At New Orleans Thursday Governor Parker Attor ney General Coco his staff of legal assistants and the four department of justice men were mapping out the future course In the Invest iga tions into the death of Watt Dan iels and Thomas Richards What occurred at the morning ses sion was not disclosed At its con clusion the governor announced he would leave for Baton Kouge and would not attend the night session riends of former Mayor Dr McKoin of Mer Rouge under arrest at Baltimore on a charge of mur der In connection with the case are raising a fund In this and adjoining parishes tn be used in defense of the physician In the meantime a deputy sheriff armed with a warrant charging Mc Kofn with murder was en route to Baltimore Sheriff Carpenter said Thursday he expected that McKoin would join Burnett former deputy sheriff arrested last Saturday In the parish jail here by Tuesday The jail Is being guarded by state troops and machine uns are trained on it Washington Dec 28 President Harding informed the senate Thursday that action by it on Sen ator plan for an economic and disarmament conference was not advisable in view of what the executive branch of the govern ment already isr doing be help ful" Just what the steps already taken or in contemplation ny the ad ministration may be however the president did not reveal Ke said members of congress could learn if they inquhed in the proper wa? but that state department com munications on an delicate a subject obviously could not he from day to Can He Helpful If congress really wants to help he added it might well the of the debt funding com mission which under the act creat ing It cannot niter the interest terms or date of payment of the war debts The reparations question Mr Harding said was at the heart of the European economic situation but he added that the United States could not dictate the terms of rep arations settlement and that it would be futile to call a repara tions conference until it had been ascertained beforehand that a ba sis of agreement could be reached The views of the president wre Suspects Under Surveillance and Arrests Wait Word of Louisiana Governor Lausanne Dec 28 (By the As sociated Press) Ismet Tasha failed to persuade tho United States and the European powers that Turkish laws and Turkish courts afford adequate protection to the life and property of foreigners re siding in Turkey and the Near East conference stands in grave danger of breaking up on this ques tion Europe and America insist that special courts upon which foreign judges sit must administer justice to foreigners in Mustapna republic Ismet Tasha declares that such courts would be an infringe ment on Turkish sovereignty He reiterated this declaration so often at stormy meeting of th commission on capitulations that Lqrd Curzon retorted: beg that Ismet wrap up Contlnned on Page Three Column Two of the Navy of th Naval Thursday In Cha secretary' Avjj released from that he kept three pistols at th McCarthy home that he attended a Chrismas party there at which he trough out his guns: and thnt he threatened to slap Httla Theresa when she asked him for pretty pearl handled the 22 caliber one Prenderville also Is said by the police to have confessed that he was at the McCarthy home when mother found the girl's body and that he gave Charles Nell 13 cousin of the slain child 25 cents for going to a nearby drug store and telephoning news of the tragedy to the police Before the police arrived Prcn Geddes and Labor Secre tary Are Confused as Alien Plays amiliar Strains Special to The ree Press and Chicago Tribune New York Dec 28 Sir Auckland Geddes British ambassador to the United States today inspected Ellis Island to report to his government on complaints that British immi grants had been ill treated during detention He was accompanied by James Davis secretary of labor and Robert Tod commissioner of immigra tion hen the party was In this? regis tration hall a tuner worked on an organ in the building One of the party asked the tuner whether he could play "The Star Spangled Ban ner he replied 'How about Save Maryland Deputy Sheriff Ring Jail With Gun When Man Admits Crime Seven amilies Driven Into Storm as Theater Burns Erie Pa Dec 28 Seven fami lies were driven from their homes by a fire which destroyed the Aris Theater building Sixteenth and Peach streets and the three story Zuck building adjoining Every available piece of fire de partment equipment battled the flames tn the midst of one of th worst sleet storms in years which demoralized transportation and which put several fire alarm cir cuits out of ur ier The fire started at 6 Thursday morning irs Chief Cronin estimated the damage at about $100000 One fire man was Injured fl ill! What Would You Have Done? Just visualize Margie stand ing there my dears and tell yourselves everyone in her own way the answer to this question John Wallace has written an intriguing Story of a New Year Resolution You will find it on the first page of ree Press Magazine Section and on every succeeding page a variety of readins' No wonder The ree Press is called the best Sunday news paper tn Michigan People Are Getting The Book Section Habit They read it every Sunday because they find that It helps to keep them posted on Current Writers New Books Modern Ideas There is the column by HEYWOOD BROWN JOHN WALLACE reviews CHESTER book on America BERNICE writes' on continuation of the adven Hires of the notorious CAS ANOVA JOHN HUBERT GREUS EL reviews three books on HENRY ORD These and more all in Next Magazine Section 20 Aliens Landing rom Cuba Taken According tu a circulat letter is sued Thursday the Consolidated a "However they are vitally con cerned In improvement of the street railway service Such improvement in to their own interests as well as for the general welfare of the city It is with the idea of hastening such improvement in service that they are asking the city authorities of which Couzens no longer is a part although he falls to recognize that fact to hire an experienced com petent man to direct the operation of our $35000000 railway system It should not be a part time job for anybody Jt is big enough to command the attention of the best talent obtainable In the country "Couzens is a shrewd politician frequently has attempted to line up shop workers against executives and has played for the votes of the workers It was only a few months Continued on Page Three Column ive Leplata Md Dec 28 earing that angry crowds would attempt to lynch James Bean a Negro al leged to have confessed he at tempted criminal assault upon Miss Emily Wenk In her lonely farmhouse at Brentland this morn ing a cordon of deputies surround ed the county jail here tonight Sheriff John Simms announced he will remain on guard all night with his posse Miss Wenk who is 23 of age is in the care of physicians Her condition is described a serious During the struggle with Bean the latter Is said to have broken her arms and kicked her about the head and body before she finally succeed ed in beating him off She later fell unconscious and It was several hours before she was able to give the klarm Bean a 23 year nld laborer was captured after a long chase by a posse during whirh he was shot in the leg by Sheriff Simms eeling is high here and farmers from all parts of the county are swarming into town clamoring for immediate punishment of the Negro Unless the crowd disperses the sheriff will endeavor to remove Bean to the Baltimore city jail tomorrow Miss Wenk was alone in the house engaged in household duties and did not notice Bean as he camo into her home ahd seized her She fought desperately with her assail ant for several minutes and Anally was dragged into a bedroom where she was knocked down and kicked She managed to wrench a slat from a bed and on arising beat him so that he fled Bean readily confessed when brought to jail is said Mean while crowds gathered about the jail and demanded that betJff Simms give up the prisoners Tne sheriff pleaded with the crowds that the law be allowed to take its course Later a large number of citizens were sworn in as deputies and a cordon was formed around the prison Up to a late hour tonight the crowds are still about the jail and It is feared an attempt ill be made to storm the lockup before morn ing injured Her left at the knee and crushed A man believed McLaughlin 10 years old died in Receiving hospital Thursday fmm a fractured skull he received when struck by a telephone pole which had been snapped In two by th collision of two automobiles atWitherell street and Woodward ave nue Wednesday evening Clarence MrCnithy 145 Columbia street and Lester Cook of Plymouth the drivers of the colliding machines were released pending a Inquest a Mrs Lillian Hersch 29 years old 234 Medbury avenue suffered a fracture of her right leg when she was struck by an automobile driven by Harry Meyer 1309 Delaware avenue at Woodward avenue and Henry street Thursday afternoon She Is in Receiving hospital Meyer following hfs statement to police was not held He declared the woman stepped inti the street in front of bls car America Stands by Allie' in Demanding oreign Courts in Anatolia family home Karns was visiting there bcr the holidays The funerals of the burned pair will be held In Adrian set forth in a letter to Chairman Lodge of the foreign relations committee sent to the rapltnl to be presented at the opening of the second day of dbate on the Borah proposal which is embodied in an amendment to the annual naval bill The amendment also calls on the president to call another arms limitation conference but this sug gestion Mr Harding also rejected as useless in view of the position taken by som of the powers at the Washington conference a year ago DECEMBER 29 1 92 PAGES PRICE Ship Off Cape May Sends SOS Signal Philadelphia Dec The SOS of a steamer in distress off Cape Mav has been picked up the British steamer Niceto de Larrinaga in th Delaware river The name of the ship Is unknown arrordanc wltfx edict mureni was reieasea ironx arrest ix 11 is saiu uin' venuJii nnusaung circumstances moved department of ficlals to override the dismissal verdict in Laurent's case Laurent was accused of compel! ing Wendell Alien Jr a from Oklahoma to do certain phys leal exercises Snow and Rain Contribute to Tie up as Report Pile Up of Sea Disaster McKoin Extradition Case May Be Carried to Courts Attorney Say Bastrop La Dec (By I be Associated orty five per sons were implicated in the More house kidnaping and murders of last August according to two con fessions reported late Thursday as delivered by the department of justice men to state authorities st New Orleans The authorities would neither deny nor affirm the report The confessions will not be made public until the open hearings be gin at Bastrop ip January it is thought Artion to dry up every damp Ipot In Detroit and environs even the soaking wet down river dis trict started Thursday afternoon when ederal Prohibition Director Janies Davis "mopped up" Wyan dotte It waa the first move In welt defined P'aa to make De trailer welcome the net year with grape juice exhilarating only A A woman and a Ctiving hospital Thursday from injuries sustained In traffic acci dents A second woman suffered a broken leg when struck by an automobile Mrs Ella Stafford carJ old 4'73 Edmonton avenue who was Injured by a street car on Grand River near Mackinaw avenue Wednesday evening died In Hecelv ing hospital at IfiSO o'clock Thurs day ntKht Mrs Stafford la said to have walked from behind one street car Into the path of another when i nft Arr si aa eovarad her right fo(t lived in the latter's several months Mrs Say World Trade Parley Would Hinder Hi Ef forts in Europe Baltimore ML Dec AttorneyRobert Carman counsel for Dr McKoin former mayor of Mr Rouge La declared Thursday he would appeal to Judge John Rose of the federal circuit court of ap peals for a writ of habeas corpus should Governor Albert Ritchie of this state grant the request of Gov ernor larker of Louisiana fnr the return to that state of Dr McKoin fr McKoin who is beingiieid for the murder of Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards following the Morehouse parish khlnaplngs of last August was denied Immediate re lease Thursday on a similar writ obtained in city court Wednesday Three judges heard argumfflits on the writ it being the first time In Continued on Two Column our King? he returned So the party started on A few seconds later th first notes of rolled from the organ Secretary Davis began to sing "My Country of and then stopped in confusion hs he saw that bir Auckland had Interpreted th air as "God Save the Three Germans seated in the room stood up under the impression that it was a German patriotic air "We ought to get different said Davis Sir Auckland hazarded no comment Trapped in iery Debris as Roof of Blazing Dearborn House Collapses Mrs Mary Kearn 65 years old of Adrian and her grandadaughter Henrietta Pate 7 years old were burned to death in the farm home of Mark Lathers on ord road Dearborn township early Thursday morning Six other persons escap ed the same fate by jumping from a second floor window The fire caused by a disconnected furnace pipe was discovered by Lathers who awoke stifling with smoke lie descended to the first floor of the house and when driven back by the flames aroused his mother Mr nnd Mrs William Tate parents nf Henrietta and their two other children Mrs Kearn and her granddaugh ter were sleeping in a rear room which a moment later enveloped in flames As Pate aged son in law attempted' to rescue the imprisoned pair the! roof of the house collapsed burying them in flaming debris The charred bodiea were recov ered at 8:30 Thursday morn ing The home was a total loss Coroner Samuel On nf Dearborn ordered the bodies removed to the Howe undertaking establishment in Dearborn He said an inquest would be unnecessary Pate 1 Si Harvey Campbell Asserts At tack of Senator on of Was Inspired Couzens is making him self ridiculous in attempting to im press th public with the idea that the business men of Detroit through the Hoard of Commerce are seeking to wreck municipal ownership of the street railway lines and also in endeavoring to set himself up as civic dictator of Detroit" Harvey Campbell sec retary and one of the directors of the Board of Commerce said Thursday "As for the senator's claim that these men who are the leaflet's In the commercial life of the city want to wreck It Is too silly tp warrant a discussion These men are employers of thousands of others who must rids to and from their work dairy If Is wreck ed the city's transportation system would be demoralized nnd the greatest sufferers would be the In dustries and businesses of the Plead State Right to Conduct 1 Negotiations Navy Secretary Overrides Di Aj missal Verdict 1 1 Annapolis Md Dmc 28 The verdict in the case of Midshipman rancis Laurent of Wisconsin one of the six midshipmen of tha senior class recently convicted be fore naval court martial and recoin 4 mended for dismissal has been ust aside by eereiary Denby authorities WYANDOTTE RUD Bf MEN STARTS HUGE BOOZE CLEANUP ire Marshal Rutledge Directs Monroe Manhunt Mills Raise Wages Special to The ree Pres Monroe Mich Dec 28 State ire Marshal Homer Rutledge of Lansing arrived in Monroe Thurs day morning and took complete charge of the hunt for thc mysteri ous firebug who for four weeks has menaced considerable property and caused damage of $60000 With the coming ot the state of ficial the search for the tlrebug assumed a far greater scope Thurs day than heretofore during the four weeks of his activity Several more men were added to the in vestigating force'and while all of ficials were reticent it was alear they expected results shortly a irebug Not Maniac That the firebug is not a maniac who sets fires for the sole pleasure of seeing the blazes or to see the fire fighting apparatus make tho runs was indicated Thursday Evi dence gleaned during an intensive inquiry Is said to have proved al most conclusively that ne is a dis gruntled employe of the paper mills The threatening letters received by the heads of the five paper mills In the Monroe district now being investigated by postal officials hav not been made public but those who claim to have seen them say they were based on a demand fx a raise in wages On the other hand some of tho paper mill managers and owners declare they are confident this could not be so since they have no reason to believe their men are dissatisfied They declared th wages paid are as high as In any other mills in the district H4 II Waflhinrton tr Major lnral Peyton March retire! ar Ume chief of staff was elected honorary pr dent of the )t Kanpa Epeilon ootleKe fraternity uerwdlnx John lirln Utarke of Ohio formr juatire ct thr I'niie! States Supreme court tlenrra) March la a mem ber of the lafayette Ucneraity chapter and Mr Darke of the Western Reserve DRY RAIDERS ATTACKED Stevens Point Wis Dec 28 Resentment at prohibition enforcement in central Wiscon sin broke into open violence for the second time within 24 hours when an unknown assailant fired upon an automobile cn talning deputy sheriffs and a state dry agent today The at tack on the party which was returning from a series of liquor raids is attribued to the same motive that prompted the bomb ourage at Marshfield yesterday when James Chapman was mangled and his killed by an infernal machine revenge by moonshiners KLAX PREACHER LOSES New York Dec 28 Upon recommendation of the board of deacons the congregation of Calvary Baptist church has rescinded the title of evangelist conferred on Rev Dr Oscar Haywood in 1918 it was an nounced tonight by Rev Dr John Roach Straton pastor of the church Rev Dr Haywood recently was ordered before the board to explain his activities as an organizer of the Ku Klux Klan CANCEL' UTILITY BOOST Pekin Dec 28 (By the As sociated Press) Owing to the decided opposition of the vari ous provinces of China the cabinet today decided to cancel the postal and telegraphic in creases which have been in ef fect since November 1 damiil mcmillan Daniel tv McMillan PuhIpoks depart ment head of buuihweatcin high erhool was elected preahlmt of the National Com mercial federauon Tnureoay Thia federation which is compotted of lead ins business Instructors held Its conven tion in Chicago Mr McMillan has taught In the Detroit achools for 18 years and has been at the South weal er high school tor five year having previously taught at Western and Eastern high achonla He is the Prat Detroit man to bo elected to the presidency of the National Commercial federation and about Detroit Thera win her no orgies held in thia district Naw eve We wilt raid place where liquor has been obtainable and will carefully watch every res taurant and roadhnus where liquor might be served either by waiters or 'off the tip" Any person found with liquor New ev will to nwniuon uirevtor Davis made a cleanup of Wyandotte zt Thursday afternoon seised all tho hard liquor in sight destroyed all 's the beer and locked up (he propria tors or employes of about a doieit inns and soft drink places I With 40 men Including some atate police and deputy marshals Davie" 3 urove to tnsaown river etty in fleet of autos There were five mer in each auto and of these only on man the leader of tho group knew just where was gying The drlv era did not know that the men In their cars were dry officers and uft1 I one of them innocently asked an other is the i Lovely pnt Is Henitesroas CALL AD TAKER aMAIN SHOO SHORTLY ATER BREAKAST That's when scores of ree Press Want Afs EVERY' DAY find those they set out to reach And the day has only fairly gotten under way when hundreds of others find their mark ree Press Want Ads ACT long before other Want Ads are even printed That's something to be considered the Cleanest Body of Men in Declares One Member Special to The re Preen Washington Dec Are sen ators The charge of Senator John Sharp Williams Democrat of Mis sissippi that most of his Colleagues were raised a re ligious question Thursday which led to warm discussions in senate corridors over the religious activi ties of senators A majority of the membership disagreed with Williams characterizing his allegation as without foundation "I know that in the bottom of your hearts most of you do not believe In Christianity at all ex cept in a perfunctory church say" Williams told his colleagues dur ing debate Both Republicans and Democrats however contradicted the Missis sippi senator's charge Senator Sheppard Democrat of Texas grandson of a Methodist minister declared Williams was in his estimation of sena all members of the sen ate are church members and church goers and I think they are practi cal consistent Shep pard added "I believe they are Christians in their private livesfas well as in a professional way I don't know of any body of men in the world who live cleaner pri vate lives than members of the United States Senator Heflin Democrat of Ala bama who has two brothers in the ministry shared views: believe most of our senators are professed Christians and their conduct is of a high order pr 1y and publicly Heflin said Republican enators were The autos were scattered out un Hl the Eureka road waa reached and at a lonely spot they all drew LOKCiuer me wrwru waa given auu each group dashed off its own particular destination i Arrived at the place they were to raid the five men would line 74: up at the bar and the l3dr draw ing a paper from his pocket wouldx say: "I have a federal aarch war rant You people outride of tho bar get Ml The place having ben cleared and the doors locked the proprietor and the bartender if was would be escorted to a corner and 3 the search begun Into every corner 4 the officers poked bringing out bottles that had been shoved behind cases of empties pushed into holes in the wall and some that had been stowed away in tho pockets of coats hung tn a cupboard Two places on Oak street were well stocked with Canadian beer one having 27 cases and the other 4 IS but In the others only a few 3 bottles of whisky or pin and per 1 haps half a dozen of beer were found Cache Xot Dltur "They bring out just enough to last them until one of the prohibition officers explained "and then they go to their (ache for 1 more Our search warrant covers 41 only the buildings on the particular Jot and if tho liquor Is hldlen away i In a cellar or uondshed I we cannot go after It These tel Iowa know the law all Most of the places raided were on Biddle street just around the Wyandotte police station The flrat place entered by the officers was i the White ront cafe 35 North Bld die street said to be owned by i Joseph Sikora Eugene IjeBlanc 1 who seemedto be in charge waaJ arrested buCthe Chinese rouka and waiters were allowed to go 4 Lelilanc said he had nothing to do with the place and he would not even take the money out of the cash register so the officers locked np the plac leaving the money where it was The content jf four quar hi Brooklyn Employe Ad mit He Threatened 10 Year Old Murder Victim 1 New York Dec Benjamin Prenderville a clerk in the Brook lyn general postofflee tonight was arrested on a charge of homicide in the slaying of 10 year old Ther esa McCarthy whose body with the heart pierced by a 22 callbre bullet was found In her Brooklyn home last Tuesday Prndervllle bad been taken In ciutody earlier in the day on the Strength of an affidavit by Mra Ann Nell the little aunt that the clerk who boarded at the McCarthy home possessed several a 22 caliber New York Dec New York city tonight fell into the grip of a gale driven sleet storm which sent the mercury scurrying down ward and added hundreds of names to the police and fire daily record of accidents and fires One man was killed and more than a hundred were injured as a direct result of the storm JnNV Rollons Hail Rain in the early afternoon was followed by hail then snow with the result that before midnight a treacherously glazed mantle cover ed the city One car of a speeding elevated train was thrown trom the encrust ed rails 'but passengers escaped with only bruises and jolts In the Bronx Staten Island and other outlying sections which de pend on overhead cables for power btreet car and tn some rases elec tric light services were parttally or wholly crippled by the collapse of lines under the snow burden Scores of cases of damage tn buildings chimneys signs and wat erfront property were reported A tall power house smokestack buckled at Willard Parker hospital and dangled above the roof where 175 patients were confined A police guard was placed arnund the stack and emergency blankets were is sued to the shivering inmates of the institution Reports ile I The north Atlantic seaboard was clutched by gales such as have been raging off the shores of England and rance and sweeping ocean As the cables brought more stories of death and suffering over seas small vessels began piling up on the Jersey and Hog Islands shore The number of craft norm ally entering New York was re duced by ion The number of out going craft dropped anchor at to shorten the shift worked by each employe as soon as adjustment can be made The River Raisin Paper company of ths city has adopted a similar plan to be effective January 2 Both of 'these mills employ fully 2500 hands yond saying that he proposed to put forth every effort to bring the firebug to bay ire Marshal Rutledge refused point blank to say for publication what he had found in his day of investigation The fact that he personally has taken charge of the' inquiry is taken as an Indication that the Conttaued Three Column Three DESTROYS BIG STORES BEER TAKES RUM Other Attacks on Detroit and Suburb Planned Restau rant to Be Watched Aged Woman Victim of Trol ley Man Hurt When Auto Collide Die man died in Re State Takes Charge yr: iSi Imk ci OK5EHAI i iniOX WMl Y' A jyaaMliriil' Il 'I 1 1.