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Wje Gctroitjfw Jaw WEATHER INAL Unsettled EDITION i PRICE NEW YORK SALESMAN LEIPS TO DEATH ROM HOTEL WINDOW HEAVY STORMS US WANTS PART EDERAL MEN Had Asked SWOOP DOWN Police or IN PARLEY TO IX ON BLIND PIGS Assistance DEBI 1V PARISH DEATHS AROUSE KLAN the Sahara TRAIL IREBUG TOOHIO REPORT were receiv until 100000 I LATEST WIRE LASHES Com Man Sent to Prison Wife and Tots in Need he of the csfj4 the be popular Italian nt 3596 his the field doming here proves to be co DEAD 1 HIS HUNT OR DRY ACT LEAKS LEADS TO As for NEW ENGLAND BLIZZARD TAKES TOLL 3 LIVES on WILL MOP UP ALL WET SPOTS DECLARES DAVIS Raids of federal amily Children III Woman Put Into Snow 8 YEAR OLD daughter WAS ON WAY TO SCHOOL Cunliffe also stopping ere mystified as well the death i in a jolly mood MOVE STUNS CAPITAL I am your best believe anything you me Hemember me kindly ASKS TIGHT BAN ON POLITICIANS GIVES HUSBAND TO RIVAL DUE TO GREAT LOVE THREE CENTS tors Balcony Ladles 75c Men Adv' VOL 88 4 tions claims has been fixed futile to attempt to erect economic structure In Europe the foundation is laid sanitary New assumes office clock at mid and hie entire from that time of DETROIT MICHIGAN Dinee Out the 'Old Dance in the New at PALAIS with myriads of fun makers tons of confetti AdV Household Hour sketch by Jira nita Waves also were lashing the sides of the Giant Majestic carrying the British financial mission to the United States and Emile Cour pro ponent of auto suggestion bound here for a lecture tour Nearly 25 steamers which crept Into port riday showed the effects of the battering they had received The Manchuria reported three of Continued on Pace Three Column Six RICH REEZES TO DEATH New York Dec 29 Mrs Minetta Marsh 70 years old and according to her neighbors wealthy tonight was foucid frozen to death In her home on Morris avenue the Bronx The' body was found on a couch and as covered with blankets SATURDAY DECEMBER 30 192 TWENTY PAGES LASH ATLANTIC DISTRESS SHIPS Oh Dear! Oh Dear! what Ma Potter said But a said worse than that And you blame him when you read of the latest complications in the fa mous Potter family Magazine Sec tion ree Press duxdee Avins easily Milwaukee Wis Dec 23 Johnny Dundee junior light weight champion tonight easily outboxed Tommy O'Brien of California in a 10 round no de cision bout which went limit Washington Dec If Allied premiers at their Paris meeting January 2 fait to agree upon a set tlement of the reparations Issue this government will be prepared to formally propose an internation al conference of financiers and economists to determine by scien tific survey how much money Ger many is able to pay Already President Harding It was stated authoritatively on the Continued on Page IT Colnmn 7 BLAGKHANDERS STEAL ITALIAN CHILD Downtown Cafe is Raided Secret Stock of Liquor ound Agents Say Ted and Loving the NEW EVE at GRAY STONE Gayest crowd best music un and favor? for dancers and spectators Big dancing parly New night Adv Dancers and merrymakers will flock to Detroit's finest and largest ball room for their New Year celebrations He was always good to wen unm His night's labor done Harry Schwartz 11 year old newsboy 95V Rowena avenue was trudging across Woodward avenue near Park boulevard when a jitney bore down and struck him xThe lad was thrown several feet and land ed in a crumpled unconscious heap in the gutter He was speed ed to Receiving hospital where physicians said he may die He has several ribsf ractured a pos sible fracture of the skull and bruises and lacerations of the body The driver was questioned but ex onerated uf blame by police tie between himself and Lindke in which the latter filed suit to recov er 1400 he alleged due in back rents Pierce said he received notice to move the first week tn December and that his lease which he obtain ed in October 1920 specifies he shall have 60 days notice should the landlord decide to vacate the prop erty He had planned to move into a new home ebruary 1 he said but not contemplating an eviction on the eve of the new' year had made no arrangements for another dwel ling A squad of 10 men arrived at the Pierce home at 8 riday morning One of them told Tierce Continued on Pace Two Column our WINTER GARDEN SUNDAY Ballroom Circus Arena Dragon Caves un orest 1000 thrills and laughs See amusement page Adv HONSTER CELEBRATION DANCE and Revue New Year's Eve Dance all nigbt Adv GET MARY GARDEN TICKETS Today at Grinnell's Adv SWITCHMAN IS CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER CARS John Garner 20 years old 1575 Infantry avenue a switchman em ployed by the Michigan Central railroad was instantly killed short ly before noon riday when he was caught between two moving box cars The accident occurred at the Lonyo yards of the Clchlgan Cen tral NO 94 Baltimore Md Dec 29 Driven ashore by the gale yes terday the steamship Willsoio a freighter bound from Seattle to Baltimore sent out wire less calls for aid late this aft ernoon The United States coast guard received a wire less stating the ship had run aground five miles below Thomas Point in Chesapeake bay The coast guard cutter Apache was sent to the relief of the Willsoio A message was received from the Apache later notifying local headquar ters that the ship had been reached and they were standing by to give assistance Efforts to float the ship were made bythe crew which is command ed by Wilson inding it was impossible to float the ship calls for help were sent out (Copyright HIS by Underwood Un derwooi New York COLONEL YVHLIAM HAYWARD United States Attorney in New York City Mary was on her way to school with a little girl companion at 40 o'clock on the morning of De cember 21 when she was accosted by a strange man lie asked the child If she wanted to ride to school in his automobile Mary burst into tears and the stranger gruffly grasped her arm dragging her to a waiting machine at Goethe and Garland streets Two other men were in the machine according to police Information No trace of the child has been Keen since then Mary is described as an unusually pretty child with bobbed auburn hair Sheis about four feet tall weighs 75 pounds and has blue She wore a gray and blnck check dress a brown overcoat and a purple tassel nat The fathers bank is a institution among Detroit residents and is located Riopelle street Jazz Song Record Rouses Jealousy Ends in Gun Play Two Believe Slain Desperado May Prove Wayward Son Joseph Ryan alias Thomas Du gan youthful desperado and Jail breaker who died of his wounds indicted by police bullets will not ue iaia to rest tn a if the man who is from Cleveland today his father Telearanhte ndvirpa cd from both Cleveland and Pitts burgh police last night asking for descriptions of Ryan but the for mer wired that a Clevelander was certain Ryan was "his He he would come to look at the body today A saddened mother in Pittsburgh made inquiry to learn whether Ryan was her wayward long miss ing son But the description shegives does not tally in important points with that of the slain lad She sent a photograph In which there Is no resemblance to Ryan Ryan nr Dugan served a term In Mansfield reformatory and it Is possible his father may be a Clevelander police assert well as the building and loan monev and provided for us started Lured by Dice Sawicki who was the building and loan Newsboy Struck by Auto Is Dying Malta Dec 29 (By the Associat ed Press ormer Sultan Moham med Vf Turkey it Is under stood will leave fur Mecca next Monday aboard a British warship He Will' presumably be landed at Jeddah the port of Mecca on the Red Sea Shortly after me flight of Moham med VI from Constantinople on November 17 to escape threatened trial bv the TurKlsh nationalists dispatches from Cairo announced that the king of the Hedjaz had In vited him to take sanctuary in Mecca where he was' promised treatment in keeping with hla rank Jury Indicts 13 as Chiefs in Selling 30000 Gallons to Society Leaders New York Dec Investiga tion by a federal grand jury Into a bachelor's dinner at the fashion able Racquet and Tennis club on Park avenue at which liquor was alleged to have flowed freely brought indictment riday of 13 men Including four members of the La Montagne family promt nenj in society Two indictment were returned charging conspiracy io violate the Volstead and Internal revenue acts through which approximately 30000 gallons ot assorted liquors were al leged to have been Illegally sold Some ot those indicted also were charged with having forged liquor permits' and other papers 1 beads to High In a statemerit made publie in connection with the indictments United States Attorney Hayward as serted his office had followed the trail of alleged bootlegging even though it led to select circles arid exclusive places and charged liquor had been sold on a wholesale scale to exclusive clubs and homes of the wealthy edetal Judge Knox received the indictments on a day on which two other juries one in the court of general sessions In New York and the other in Brooklyn had handed up presentments urging repeal of the state prohibition enforcement act on the ground it was ineffec tive and wasteful of public funds In discharging the federal jury Judge Knox thanked its members declaring it had performed a high ly useful task if it had "brought people in high walks of life to real ization they cannot violate the Vol stead act with impunity any more than they ran violate other provi sions of the The principal defendants accord ing to Hayward were Montalgu La Montagne and his three younger brothers Rene Williams and Mor gan Kone l4g has been in the public eye as oni of the foremost Continued on Page Two Column our 1 SLIPS GUN TO WIE IS POLICE CHARGE an anti ood nt Allen's Althea Gardena New Eve Dec 31st Gd River and 7 Mt road Phone for reservations Redford 2 Adv Police See Veiled Threat in Letter Sent to Sleuth Who Shot Him Detective John who shot and killed Joseph Ryan youthful desperado when Ryan and three other jail breakers were trapped In an East Jefferson ave nue apartment received through the malls riday a veiled 'threat vritten in a feminine hand and signed '( Detectives who aided O'Keefe In the capture said they believed the letter came from one' of liyan's woman acquaintance in the under world They fear the writer may seek vengeance for the slaying Enclosed was a picture of Ityan that had been clipped from The ree Press The letter began with out a salutation and lead as fol lows: 'The detectives who killed this boy should have a feather In their cap It was a bravo act As you do by others so may they do to you 1 hope It haunts you the rest of your life Death Is a road we all have to travel I for one am tired of paying detectives for mur dering young boys "A TAXPAYER 'Peace On Earth Good Will' Toward Men" What a mock James Cunliffe 24 years old New York city salesman plunged to his death from bls room on the sixth floor of Hotel Toiler to the street at about 2 o'clock this morn ing He was here attending a convention riends of at the Tuller as police by He was throughout the evening and earlier had been on an automobile ride At 12:50 a call waa receiv ed from Cunliffe at police headquar Hardings Cancel New Year's ete New York Dec 29 After rank Dagote had shot and killed his 29 year old wife to i night he was killed by hid father in law Gfovanni Mag Rocco The shooting occurred in the Brooklyn home of the Dagotes in the presence of their four children Magliocco was arrested charged with murder DANCE ALL ARCADIA Greatest New Eve Celebra tion in Arcadia History 5000 Noise makers ree Horns Bells Drums Rattles YVhistles Squawkers etc The sight of a lifetime for Specta seats They are however European problems in the sense that they cannot be solved without the con sent of European government YVe consent for them The key to the settlement Is In their hands not in' ours' "The crux of th European altua 'v tion Ilea in the settlement of ren stations Thera will he no adjust ment of other needs however press Ing until a definite and accepted basis for the discharge of repara Jt la Louisiana Ku Klux to Outlaw Any oimd Participants in" Kidnaping are some men in my room who are' trying to frame me come tn room 639 quick Cunliffe told police lier crew men found Cunliffe and two men in the room The latter pronmud to spend the night with Cunliffe and the filer force left re porting at headquarters that Cun liffc seemed The call that the man had leaped to his death was received shortly after t)eir return to the station He left four notes They read: "Dear Mom and Pop "Dear Dell and Gil and Dan Please forgive me iriena hear of Jim" "Dear von till A fourth note read: I have to leave you" The name waa in distinguishable Liners Delayed Battling Way in Heavy Seas reighter is eared LosL DANCIXG AT EVEh ARCADIA Join the big Holiday crowd and enjoy the superb OrchesUSk au John Hubert Greusel'i editorial for the Year hat Would You Have a story of a New Years resolu tion by John allace Girls aud Boje Magas Lnclo 5MggJlyi New YearV Callers A New Year Custom New In the Andy Gump resolves to be more liberal with hie famhy Winnie Wmaje inveigles frry int maklnj a resolution but' Mr and watch the old year out Gasoline Alley Uncle Walter nd Skeesix look tne old year Dr McKoln under arrest at Bal timore on murder charge was a member of tha Ku Klux Klan( McKotn haa denied he was a Kiann man ormer Deputy Sheriff Burnett the first arrest in the case has also denied he was a Klanaman Governor Parker is an open op ponent of the Klan de nouncing the order on the stump and in the press He has directed the Morehouse Investigations nnd la said to have drawn neavny on private funds to defray much of Toledo Police Confident Mon roe Incendiary Will Be Taken in ew Hours Special to The ree rew Mich Dec 29 Toledo police were confident riday night they were about to bring to ft halt the activities of the firebug who during the last 6 has caused $60000 damage here and $1000000 In Toledo and ha A periled much other public and private property and many lives That the same criminal is respon sible for the fires in both cities was the belief of Detective Inspector Haas following his conference on Thursday with Officer Al Gessner representing Monroe authorities In their appeal to the Toledo officials for aid in what has become one ot the greatest man hunts of its type in the history of this locality Arrest Expected Saturday Safety Director Light of Toledo made it known late riday night that he expected to make an arrest early Saturday His statement fol lowed a lengthy conference with Detective Haas and ire Marshal Osterman The conference followed the grilling of a youth riday and the suspect sought Is said to be a friend ot this youth What authorities of the two cities consider as a valuable clue if for no other purpose than to definitely determine whether the Toledo and Monroe firebugs aro one and the same cropped out riday night In the form of a badly scribbled note to the Toledo fire chief Chief: Y'ou have only a taste of what you may expect In the future having the Milners and Delmar fires and the lumber also Put on the guards if you see fit as the paper reads but we will keep the guards and police and your men all busy for the next 60 days believe me or not but we will prove it YVatch January 2 and 3 and see Good bje get Plan to Conpnre Notes The note although unsigned and scribbled on cheap paper was in legible handwriting and the spell ing was perfect "No new was the word given the newspapers riday night by Police Chief Mlchetu uf Monroe when he was questioned as to the success of bls search for the criminal He declined to discuss his part of the investigation dr Contlnnrd on ae Two Column Three Day In and Day Out Hundreds of ree Press Want Ads bring people what they want in shortest order Not only are they on the job IRST THING IN THE MORNING but they bring RESULTS hours before other Want Ads are even printed See that your Want Ad copy for ree Press is in before noon to day the dead line Call Ad Taker Main 9400 can the United States help In thia matter? We are not seeking 7 reparations We are indeed asking for the reimbursement of the costs of our army of occupation and with good reason for we have maintained our army in Europe at the request of the Allies and of Germany and under ton agreement That its cost wltn like army costs should be a first charge upon the amounts paid by Germany Others Continued on Page IT Column Washington Dec 29 Unit ed Press) A long established New day custom of the White House will be broken this year There will be no public reception by the president and Mrs Harding The annual function which always hundreds Into the line which files past the president and his wife for a New Year's greet ing has been cancelled this year on account of the illness Mrs Harding Terrorized ather Reveal Kid' naping of Girl Eight Day Ago Ex Sultan To Take Refuge in Mecca By Mail and Telephone Thug Demand Large Sum rom Parent Mr Sawicki Deciare Dice Caused all Another reed Mrs Mary Sawicki 25C6 Med bury avenue Saturday will have to ask public assistance for the support of her two children Ter ence 11 years old and Adele two years old she said riday as in tears she watched her husband John Sawicki 23 years old taken from court after being sentenced to serve two to flve years at Jackson prison for epibeizle ment of $2015 from a branch of the Detroit and Northern Michigan Building and Loan association ot which he was manager have nothing with which to support my children" she sobbed gambled away all our savings Breaking an eight day 'silence under threat of death Nicola Gio vannangeil owner of the Banca Nicola Gfovannangeli and financial king In the Detroit Italian colony made a frantic appeal to police last night to search for his eight year old daughter Mary who was kid naped on the morning of December 21 while on her way to school The Giovannangclls live at 3542 Be wick avenue The wealthy foreigner has thus far received two demands for money to Insure the safe return of his child One of the kidnapers' Land telephoned on the morning of the kidnaping and called for $20000 for the return The latest threat came Thursday when the banker received a letter asking for $15000 and with the warning "It will cost you your life if you tell thepolice" inally Asks Aid inally in desperation the ter rorized father threw discretion to the winds and called for pollen aid The wealthy Italian haa decided to tit the cleverness of the police black hand squad against the cun ning ot the band of extonlonlsta Italians seldom go outside their own nsrrow circle for help when theyare marked by black hander hence move la seen as a i chl to the finish to regain posses sion of his loved orfe This letter came through the mails Thursday for the Italian fin ancier: "Banker Giovannangell Once you have refused us money Again we ask this time for $15000 if you fall to obey this time your house will bo blown to pieces and we will cut your baby In' pieces and send It bafck to you parcel post Tell the police of this and it will' cost you your life" It was signed ''Black hand'' and had the crude drawing of a skull and crossbonea Giovannangell de clined to say where the blaekhand rs directed the extortion moneyhould be placed amous Artist Blasts Screen Beauty Walter to Aid orce in Sewing Up Hip Pocket New Eve Carrying forward the movement to make Detroit a genuine Sahara on New eve the force ot James Davis United States pro hibition director for Michigan ri day afternoon inaugurated a' series of raids upon alleged blind pigs and resorts inside of the city limits It was a corollary of the mbvement started Thursday after noon when the Vdry law" forces started a sweeping attack upon the down river district or the first time tc the fed eral men announced with definite assurance that their plans for a dry New in Detroit has the active and allirmatlve assistance of the local officials particularly that of the sheriff's office Thia announce ment followed a luncheon confer ence riday noon between Director Davis and George A Walters sheriff elect at which plans and measures for law enforcement were discussed After the 'conference both officials assented to the state ment that they are to work to gether toward giving Detroit an ab solutely sate ano Happy New Year To Everybody! What could bo happlor int than a amUe that a raal? Amile (hat wlahea vou the beat of A Httle Detroit mUsrnlloe her brlzhfett at you from the froLt page of the Something the With Everyone Penrhyn Stan law Point' Out 'Special to The ree Preaa and Chicago Tribune New York Dec 29 Penrhyn Stanlaws noted artist who recently has been directing moving picture Is conceded by most feminine mem ber! of the film world to be decided ly handsome Stanlaws does not reciprocate in kind In a recent issue of Hollywood Screenland the artist turns his artistic eyes upon the famous of movie dom and observes anent them in dividually as follows: Ruth Roland has a "moon face" and her hip are too large Gish Bisters have imperfect noses and their lips are too large Deity is Muscle Hound Betty Bljthe Is muscle bound In the hips and she has "horse nos Phyllis Haver ha a face like a' diamond with too many facets It Is "over Norma Talmadge has a nose Nazimova's eyes are too small for her face and her head la too big Mary Pickford shares the com Contlnue'U on Pace Three Column ive ights Plan to Make America Arbiter in Solution i Rotogravure Section ree Press TN're entertainment for all the family Waa Being He Said Body Is ound Later in Line Withdraws Amendment on the tick of the night December 31 staff Is to be on duty In the enforcement amendment Make Pownfewn The enlarged force raiders began active operation in Detroit riday afternoon following their on Wyandotte Thur day They started operation in the "oft drink at the cor ner of Howard and Cass avenue where they appeared without warn tnp and awept through the estab lishment They found what Is de clared to be the real sort of old fashioned whisky in a glass under the counter and then one of the gifted sleuth nf th aquac discov ered a secret panel in a email room just back of the bar The opening of the cache revealed nine quarts of what appeared tn be whisky of the eort our grandfathers drank and grew merry upon McMillan said to be a bartender In th place was arrested The establishment is Continued on Vase Two Column Two Bastrop La Dec (By the anrintd Prwa1 With th dal the open hearing but a week away Morehouse parishioners are anx iously awaiting the passing of time which will reveal the Identity of those designated for arrest In con nection with the Morehouse kid naptngs and murders There was no Intimation of when the arrests promised by the state will be made Some believe the ar rests would not occur until after the open hearing had ben conclud ed While a deputy sheriff armed with requisition paper was en route to Baltimore to claim Dr AL Mc Koin for the state of Louisiana on a charge of murder in connection with the robed and masked activi ties of last August hi friends In this section of the state will en ocavor to raise a iuni 01 for his defense Heavy Snow all in North eastern New York i Blanketed Provincetown Mass Dec 29 High and dry on the off the Race Point coast guard station the two masted British schooner Annie Spindler out of Ysrmouth Nova Scotia was breaking up tonight' under a fierce north east gale while scores of Cape 'Cod folk waited on shore in the hope of salvaging part of her cargo Wife of 33 Year Get Divorceo Spouse Can Wed Then Kisses Bride Special to The re Press and Chicago Tribune Butte Mont Dec After 33 years of married life the union be ing blessed by a son and daughter Dr Witherspoon one of the most prominent surgeons in the northwest and his wife were di vorced A few days later Mr Robert Connochie nurse In the hospital where Dr Witherspoon is chief sur geon was granted a divorce and re sumed her maiden name Rita De Courtney That afternoon Dr With erspoon and Miss DeConrtney were married and among the guests were the former Mrs Witherspoon and the doctor's daughter The first wife was first to kiss the bride and the women appear the best of friends It Is said the doctor will build a splendid new home In which apartments ar to be set aside forhfs former wife The former Mrs Xvitherspoon said: "1 loved him enough to let him go I wanted only to see him happy but it was hard terribly hard to part with him" of World inance for Big Job New Orleans Dec Klan chiefs of Louisiana met hero ri day to consider action to bo taken in regard tow ports that have gain ed circulation that Klansmen were responsible for the Morehouse kid naping and murders reporter New Orleans newspaper was present and was au thorised to announce that agents ot the Klan would be sent to More house to investigate what had oc curred on August SJ date oj the kidnaping the Klan of Morehouse par ish Is In any way responsible tor murder Watt Daniela and Thoms Richards ths charter ot that Klan will be lifted and tha KIkh outlawed" it tas announced "it any IndlvIdflM members of th Klan are found guilty ot those mur ders not only will they be outlawed from the Klan but every bit of power the Klan haa will be used to help obtain their convictions be fore the criminal Courts ot the story told by United States department of justice agents that members of the Klan In black hoods formed the 'wrecking crew' for the kidnaping and murder ot Daniels and Richards is absurd There Is no such regalia In any part of the Ku Klux Klan or In sny of its degrees" Tha chief Klan scouted the tale that Clarence Darrow "or any other prominent lawyer naa ueen tallied by the Klan to fight In defense of men who might charged with the murders Governor Parker has charged The full text of Mr Hughes's dlq mission ot economic problem fol vi lows: The economic conditions In Eu rope give us the greatest concern They have long received the arn eat consideration of the admlnlstra tlon it la Idle to say that we are not Interested in these problems for we are deeply Interested from 4 an economic standpoint as credits and market are lnvolv6isj' and from humanitarian stand point as the heart of the American people goes out to those who are In W' distress We cannot dispose of these problems by calling them Eu ropean for they are world prob and we cannot escape tha in AB Jurlous consequences ot a failure to settle them THERMOS BOTTLE PRESIDENT IS Norwich Conn Dec 29 William Walker president of the Ameri can Thermo Bottle Co died at hl home In New London riday He was bom in Racine Wisconsin 55 years ago Insists on Sticking to Reparations as Sole Question Detroit rees Bureas 363 Metropolitan Hsnk Bldr Washington I Evicted Because of Dispute Over Rental Payments Taken in by riends A woman bedridden with in juries she received in a traffic ac cident was carried into tho street and a family of four "among them a boy' of five years and a 15 months old baby were driven from the warmth of their home at 28 Peter boro street riday by constables armed with a court' order to evict The property has been occupied since 1920 by George Pierce ex pressman his wife and their two children Harry and Charles Charles is the baby ierce declared ri day that the property Is owned by A Lindke Detroit dealer and that Lindke desires it vacated and razed in order that he might erect an apartment building The woman carried from the house by constables is Mrs Densler a roomer In the Pierce home She was given shelter in a neighboring home According to Pierce the eviction is the result of a Justice court bat NOTEMENACES 4 HELD RYAN'S SLAYER IN BOOTLEGGING New York Dec Gales ri day continued to whip the North Atlantic into mountains and can yons arousing fears for at least two vessels delaying and pending a few smaller craft crash sing Into the shore The chief anxiety was felt for the freighter Itretonla which sail for this port from St Pierre on December 12 and the German freighter Heinrich Kayser which last reported when she sent out SOS 500 miles off Cape May December 6 Schooner recked In addition a flutter ran through marine circles when the shipping board motor ship Munmotor bound for Norfolk from Boston radioed for help off five fathom bank light Tha Munmotor with a crew of 42 aboard reported a bad list to star board but a later message stated she had righted a little Mean while the coast guard cutter Kick apoo put out to her assistance from Cape May The most Important wreck re ported that of the schooner Annie Spindler out of Yarmouth which struck near Province town Mass sending her crew of six ashore a breeches buoy An un conjBrmed report had It that she was carrying a cargo of liquor Shipping offices in New York Halifax and other ports were bom barded wlthwlreless messages from liners reporting delays caused by midwinter storms Tne Rerengaria bearing Ambas sador Harvey back to Washington from London was one of the ves sels held up Due here riday she reported that she still was 817 miles off this port and did not expect to reach Quarantine until Sunday morning But Only One Shot Is Girl Baby in Apartment Under the Battlefield Archie Mcaritt never had reason to doubt the faithfulness of his spouse until the latter the talking machine at the Mearltt castle 1487 Mullet street last night The piece she played had a line in it something like this: "I got a sWeet sweet sweetie tho I'm mar ried mar was being entertained by the Mr and Mrs Mose Jenkins quoth Archie really believes has got own sweet When good right con nected with his lesser half's right ey Two revolver shots sounded Underneath the apart ment year old Catherine Crom well 1487' Mullet street felt a sting in her right ankle One of the bul lets plowed through the floor and lodged In Catherine's foot Catherine was removed to Receiv ing hospital vMrs Mearltt lefl detective who did the shooting because she Is blind In the left eye and her right was closed by the impact with Archie's fist he was taken to Detention home on the charge of felonious assault Borah Suddenly alls Hughes Urges Chiefs bv Kathleen Cynthia Halls YVatch for al! tha delightful holiday treats offered in ree Press New Haven Conn Dec J9 A xuggeatlon that an independent cotnmlsfon of men competent In financial affair could accomplah more than a general international conference toward solution ot the European reparations tangle wa put forward by Secretary Hughe utue xriuajr UIUI 1U uo urar puw He pronouncement on the economic crisis to come from responsible: officials of the administration at Washington Secretary Hughes spoke 4 before th American Historical association Hs said ha had "no doubt dlstln ulahl Americans would willing to sorts on such a commission he said "might welt be kept fre from any responsibility to fur etgn officers or snr duty to obey po lities! instructions' Once advan tage had been taken of the oppor tunities thus afforded he said avenue of American helpfulness cannot fall to open up hopcf Advises Against Burden Referring to suagestlon that the United States assumed the role of arbiter In the reparation dispute Mr Hughe said a sufficient an swer to that was the faet "that we have not been He went on to say he did not believe thia gov ernment ehould take such a burdrn of responsibility Throughout his discussion the secretary recognized the fact that the question of German reparations lay at th root of any economic settlement Th problems abroad he said are world problems 'and could not be disposed of "by tatting them European" He declared United State would "view with dis favor measures which Instead of producing reparations would threat en disaster and said no one could foresee the "serious consequences wheih might ensue if forcible means' were adopted to obtain reparations from Germany A Couple Arrested a They Sit in Movie Theater Police believe Elizabeth mandr IS year old bride slipped an automatic revolver by her husband YVilliam 25 years old and bid the weapon in her hand bag just before the pair were placed under arrest in a moving plctur show on East Davison avenue near Riopelle street She is held on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon and the husband Is locked up pending investigation Police' were tipped off that Com mander who has been under suspi cion of a serious nature had been seen entering the show Patrolmen Michael Whalen Charles YValton and George Rose were walking down the aisle to make the arrest when they charge Commander deftly whipped the gun from his hip pocket and handed it to his wife In office at East orest avenue and Dubois street and formerly a student at tne Uni versity of Warsaw pleaded guiityj Continued on Page Three Column our i I YEW Only Will have greatest crowd In history New Eve' 8000 Noisemakerfl Confetti Special Singers only real dance orchestra GOO spec tators' seats Dancing all night Adv 5 1 I Xi 8 Nfc i A 'j rmTfim LUTT iriTsrrrwr ftin' frlein mil Ljru "'MrriMTUTk Ilin 11 1 1 Itl bl rfki juifcrrTTWrWvtilu' I iffi1 i i 1 1 it I in rri iris'tj 'rliT iij'n ns ji suwmwtf' tt i i rw 1 1 1 1 A.