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ROCHESTER. N. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 11)24. WEATHER FAIR TO MAV AND Tm'RSPAT.

TKMI'EUATl RE ABOUT THE SAME. AUTHOR-COMPOSER GIFT LEVY PUT IN TAX BILL BY VOTE IN HOUSE MRS. LYDIA A. COONLEY WARD, AUTHOR, DIES Severe Storm Predicted Along Atlantic Coast Washington, Keb. 2d.

(lie Associated Press! A severe s'ltnu is probable alony the entire Atlantic seaboard, anil heavy snow is looked for by the Weather Bureau lo-itielit anil Wednesday from (he upper Ohio valley eastward and northeastward to-the A 1 coast. There will be a general storm nloi'g POLITICAL OBSERVERS BELIEVE DAUGHERTY WILL SOON RESIGN ATTORNEY-GENERAL PORTFOLIO Coolidge Induces Party Leaders to Put Off Senate Action on Resolution Aimed at Federal Prosecutor. hyp 1 it tP vv' 1 CABINET MEMBER TO LEAVE OFFICE Chronid By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. -hitiKton, Feb. -'f.

(Special Dispatch tn the Democrat and c) The sitttation of the Administration and the Republican party in stage to relation tn Attorney-t ieneral Dattgherty reached a critical -day, and raised the political temperature to fever heat. COMMONS AIDS Tension at Hrenkinf Point. To iRht the tension i elose to th breiiliing jKiint. with a dtnniRtie of opposing force foetining on the figures of two men holding the tqiotlijht. One in President Coolidge who in he-lived heartily to wish that he might lie relieved of the political embarrassment him by Mr.

Hitugherty, t-hongb. MACDONALD DIES IN CHICAGO COONLEY WARD. HITLER DEFENDS HIS ATTITUDE IN BAVARIAPUTSCH Along with LudendorH, Faces Trial in Munich, Charged with High Treason. Munich, Ituviirin, Keb. LM(.

the A.ww.K'iutwI IYf'KH.) KrnKr KiiM -Marshal Adnlph I lit lor, udr of thp Havnrittn and seven ntlu'r wer? pla-ri on trial fr On'ir with the "I'utxrh" of last November. All rf thp (W-'mlajMH pxcr-pt ont art with high fr'nn. Thf friendly ut mosplipn in which thp trinl l-cpui won notirrnh). IlitJpr nd Hiattpd nntnuirpHIy tipthpr, wlu'Jp thp othpr Ht'CHNPd iiiph sromeil not takp thp trial At (lie morning srsnion thp imlirtmiMit ayairist the acruspd whs rpitd. TIip prpsi-fifiit of thp rMirt -ptl MulpniPnt of thp Ciirppr of Hitler, who simnl ittnl rpplip'l to fiu'vtiniiH put (tt him.

Th pi( sith'nt luiti stn-ss on Ilith-rN war enrppr saving lip hjol voluntarily jonel thp itamriiiu itrmy ami hn Immmi wuumlpfi twicp und gusspti nncf. lit If rrprtpo thp prpnnlpiit by dochirin that hi rp-MVP( only oiip wound. Thp aftrntion upssion up bhy I it I't'h Ntntpnipnt to thp court, in hirh hp rtdatpd his hun in thp "I'litsch," Up dfrlarpd )ip whs not guilly of trenson. iMiritij; hii NtHtPiiiHit Hitler dcnoiim-pd tho conduct of I octor Von Kthr, thp dirpctor at thp i in ntut icnpral Vint cunniiindpr of Hip bavarian Ivctchswphr. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY GIVES KAUFANDARIS REGIMECONFIDENCE Militant Republicans Resign Seeing Little Chance for Governmental Upset.

Athens. Keb. 2. I Hy The Associated Press! The N'alional Asscinbly today voted couliilence iu the Kafuudari government. 'I'he vole was 2'iH to Mr.

Yenizelo xoted in fsvitr of the government after tinding the Premier was unwilling to yield to his proposals. Interpreting the result of the vote as being against the prospecls of a republic, Condylis and Admiral lladjikj nakos, both in i I it nut n-ioibliciins, Kulunilted their resignations as deputies. PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL CONFERENCE OF STATE RETAINS OLD OFFICERS Albany, Keb. 2fi. The New York Conference for Progressive Political Aition openeo! its sessions here today with a business meeting at which the present officers were re elected.

The more than a hundred delegate present this after- noon attended the bearing st the Cap- itol on various bills directly affecting labor. officer re-elected were Thorns K. Ryan. Albany, chairman; John Kitngib-bons, Oswego, ii e-chainnaii Thomas A. Rodger, Albany, secretary and William Wbish, Albany, treasurer, v.i I i I -j I Widow of Henry A.

Wardj Expires After Illness at Home of Son. FRIEND OF ARTISTS Established Colony at Hillside, Near Village of Wyoming. Chicago. Kel. 2i.

Mrs. Ljdia Avery Coonley Ward, years old, author, newspaper woman and magazine contributor, died at the home of her sou, John Steward Coonley, here to-day alter an illness of several weeks. Mrs. Ward was the author of "Vnder the Pines." "Singing Verses for Children," "The Magic Hour," "Long Song." "Christmas in Other Lands," "The Mel-! ody of Life, I'he Melody of Love," "Washington and Lincoln," and numerous other musintl works. Home at Wyoming.

Wyoming, IVh. 2. Special Dispatch to the Democrat, and Chronicle). Mrs. Lydia Avery Coonley Ward," widow of Professor Henry A.

Ward, of Rochester, died to-day at the home of her son, John Stewart Coonley, No. 1.2-15 Astor street, Chicago, here she had been spending the winter. Mrs. Ward until last November resided at the Avery homestead, Hillside, half mile west of this place. Horn in Lynchburg.

daughter of Benjamin K. and Susan Avery, Mrs. Ward was educated in ihe schools of Louisville. t'tica and Philadelphia. She was married to James C.

Coonley in ilti. Mr. Coonley died in 12. In 1M17 she was married to Professor Henry A. Ward, world noted naturalist, Mr.

Ward was fatally injured when struck by an automobile in Buffalo in Mrs. Ward presented the village of Wyoming with its Village Hall twenty years ago. Always a palron of the arts, Mrs. Ward gained national note through her efforts in behalf of struggling artists, sculplors, painters and actors. Her home 'at.

Wyoming for several years during each summer was turned into an are colony where many slndenis from throughout the country were entertained ami schooled lenders in ihe arts. The Village Inn rami the Free Library ut Wyoming were sponsored by Ward. Women's (Tub President. Mrs. Ward was president of ihe Chi-i cago Women's Club from lo IslMl.

She also was a member of the Little Room Club. The Cordon Club and the of Midland Authors, of Chicago, and of the Authors' Club, of Itostou. Surviving Mrs. Ward are three sons, Howard Coonley, manager of the Walroth Manufacturing Company, of Boston John Slew-art. Coonley, of Chicago, nnd Prentiss Coonley, of Lake Forest, a daughter.

Mrs. William W. Davies, of Louisville, and a sister, Mrs. Itobiu-: son, of New York, Rev. F.

Milliard, of the Knited 'churches at Wyoming, left tonight for Chicago where he will officiate at the funeral services on Thursday afternoon. flurial will be made in Graceland in Chicago at o'clock on Thursday afternoon. FARMERS QUIT SOIL OWING TO SMALLPROFITS Senator Capper Asks Nation'3 Agriculturists to Organize Co-operative Societies. Springfield. Feb.

-I Ity 'he AssiH-iated Presst- The reason so mtnyj of Ihe farmers in this conn-1 try are going out of business is because they cling to the American tradition of individuality and refuse to organize. Sen-! ator Capper, of Kaunas, declared night in an nddie-s at Ihe' annual ban (iiet of the Fasten! States Farmers' (V operative Exchange. "When the farmer he said, "he sells to an organized market- a market: organized to take speculative prolils. When he goes into the market io ony, he buys from an organized market. "The farmer is the only unorganized group in a highly organized business anil! industrial community.

ISeoause he lacks organization: because he links a deter-i mining Toice in the sale value of his coin- modity. the farmer gets but fXHI for proilucis for which the consumr pays $22 For middlemen and transportation to collect a toll of St5.0ti0.tK0.(H)0 on that for! which the farmer gets but is a tragic absurdity." Senator Capper declared that atlboiish Congress "will go just as far as it possi- My can along sound and practical only a fraction n( the farmer' problem could be solved by legislation. Tne big remedy, he said, lay in the extension of co-operative marketing and buying exchanges and the gradual dc-clomient of farmer leader who rould hold their own in competition with leaden in the business world. Amendment Incorporated Amid Fury of Debate Involving Exchanges. FAGS LEVY RAISED Old Republican Organization Heads Threaten to Vote Against Measure.

Washington, Keb. 2U. I Hy the Associated Press) Two major amendment" were incorporated in the Keverute bill to day by the House amid storms of debate involving a series of personal threats of Republican organization lead ers to vote against passage of the entire bill, and a warning from Representative Mills. Republican, New York, of the pos- sibility of a presidential veto. The session ended a row over reduction of the automobile taxes, tina! action on these proposals going over until Thiirs- i day.

The House will devote its session' to morrow exclusively to the Harding memorial service. A gift tax implying levies beginning at one per cent, on total amounts of gifts in one year in excess of and run- ning up to forty was 1111 to The tux on cigarettes was raised from I So to $4 per thousand, by a vote of 117 to M. A provision of the hill granting exemp- I tion from the ten per cent, theater a I-' mission on all tickets of lily cents and; under, withstood several assaults to lower or raise this exemption. When adjournment was- forced an amendment was before the House nit which both lloproenlntive l.ongworth. the Republican leader, and five darner of Texas, in charge of tl'e i Democratic forces, they understood1 general agreement had been reached.

This 1 would provide for repeal of (he pe1--; cent, tax on automobile trucks anil war ens, the chassis of Inch for less lhan and for a cut in half of the five per cent, tax on automobile (ires and i accessories. GIRL FUGITIV IN TOILS AFTE PRISON CRIME Gladys Ellis Captured Soon After Finding of Body of Elderly Matron. Indianapolis, l-'eb. 20. illy The Associated Press) Gladys Kllis, alias Kath- erine Rodgers.

aged whose escape from the Indiana Women's Prison here was discovered today shortly after ihe finding of the body of Miss Louis Rich- aids, aged 70. a teacher and matron at the prison, hose skull had been fractured by a blow on the head was captured here to-night. The young woman was taken in custody by a sound of deiectives us she stepped frni.i a taxicab a downtown i corner where she had made an engage- i tnent to meet a young man. When captured, detectives found a bunch of keys to the prison belonging lo the slain i matron and also other property of Miss Richards. Miss Kllis was brought to I olice Headquarters in a hysterical condition and otlicials at first were unable to obtain any information from her regarding the slaying.

DAY IN WASHINGTON BT THE AMOriATKD TRESS. The Tariff Commission dosed its hearings on wheal and wheat products. The quarantine in California counties against the foot and mouth disease wan extended by the lepartnent of Agriculture. The Senate passed Ihe interior Department Appropriation bill, the first of the big supply measures. The White House that President Coolidge regards the niinieriiua hills in Congress calling for large appr-priations as disturbing to prosperity.

M'estern senators were informed by President Coolidge that the government stands ready to assist banks in ihe Northwest provided local conditions warrant. The House placed a gift tat ill the pending revenue bill and approved a sec tH- rejx'ttling the ten per cent, tax on theater admissions of cents and under. INSPECTION PICTURES' HEAD NOT ENGAGED TO MISS GISH, HE CLAIMS Chiracs Tilhune Foreign News Serrlwi. Paris, Feh. lit J.

Radio) Charles Holland fluell, president of the Inspiration Pictures, made an energetic denial to-day of the report of his engagement to Lillian Gisli. Mian Gish is oily one of the stara under contract with Mr. uel, he declared, and the utory printed in a Pari piiper that he ii ubout to marry her it untrue. LH.J the Atlantic coast. WATER BREAKS STATE CAPITOL Collapse of Peace Treaty in Albany Apt to Produce Legislative Albany, Keb.

(By (he Associated Press! The supposedly intact dike of "political harmony" which had been built around the Slate Capitol this year has been destroyed by water power. Introduction in the Legislature tomorrow of separate Republican and Democratic water power measures, seeking in general lo carry our recommendations of Governor Smith for a water power authority, but varying widely as to the methods which would he used to create and employ such an authority, will mark collapse of a tentative agreement between the Governor and Republican leaders on the subject. And with such strictly party measures before the two Houses, it is virtually assured that they will meet the inevitable fate of other legislation udvocaled by one or the other party, anil on which no agreement has been reached passage by the Assembly of the Republican bill, and by the Senate of the Democratic measure, with neither becoming law. Vesting in the state all powers over hydro-electric plants in New York state, with the same (lower over future construction, is essentially the objective of the administration bill, which will be introduced in the Senale to-morrow. Such supervision would be directly under the control of a power authority.

In the Republican bill, however, which goes to the Assembly, the only power which such a created authority would have would be that of investigation nttd report conducting a survey of the state's power resources and reorting back to the Legislature of While this purvey was being made, the, New-York Tower Commission and tlie'Vtate Water Control Commission would retain the power which they now exercise leasing of water power sites or lands to private individuals or organization. Expenditure of KM! and for a waler power resource survey is one of the features of the Republican measure and this the Governor to-day bitterly attacked as "useless and not getting anybody anywhere." Such an investigalion, would, tinder the terms of the Republican measure, include Niagara Kails, the St. J.nw-rence reservoir, and inland waters, especially Adirondack and lakes. To-day's developments in the water power situation were a direct result of CON TIN I Kit ON l'Alil: 2, COLtMN NURSE OF BUFFALO MEETS HER FATE AT 'SUICIDE POINT' Body of Missing Woman Found Above Brink of the American Falls. Niagara Falls, Feb.

2f. iBy Ihe Asso ciated Press) A few hours after police here had been requested to be on the lookout for Miss Nellie Connelly. 42 years old, a nurse of Huffalo who had left her home and was on the way to thin city, a watchman on the state reservation today found a woman's hat and a pocket book on the river bank at "Suicide Point," a few hundred yards above the brink of the American Falls. In the pivkelbook was note wh'ch read: "Please notify Jack Connelly, No. 12 Pn ss avenue.

In." Connelly in a brother of the missing woman. Iiela-tives in this city idenliited the hat as one belonging lo Miss Connelly. No trace of the woman has been found nnd reservation authorities believe she may bine giwie the falls. The lo.ver river is janlned with ice up to within a short ilistjnce of the foot of the falls. John Connelly of Huffalo came here and identified fhe hnt and pocket book as belonging to his sister.

Ifn said that she had been in ill health for some time and had been under constant surveillance of menliers of the family until yesterday when she evaded thrm and came to this 3 BUFFALO RESTAURANTS SCENE OF OPERATIONS OF BANDITS IN ONE DAY Buffalo, Feb. 20. Three restaurants were the scene of bandit operation to day. Nicholas Stier was held up by three masked men in hi restaurant in Abbott road. A short time later three armed men forced Walter Halyworth to hand I over th contents of Ihe cash register in hia Swan street restaurant.

The raids netted only a few dollars. Bandits carted away Ihe safe from the restaurant of Said Ali in Abbott road. It contained $700. HARMONY DIKE I I i i i I i i I I 1 LABOR MATTER Government Scores Victory in Division on Motion of Closure, 295-228. London.

Keb. -fi. By The Associated Press! The Labor government in the Mouse of Commons to-day faced a test of its strength, and emerged successfully. The question which gave rise to Ihe diMiisnion ill Ihe House had to do with lleallh Minister Mheatley's recent action in giving the popular guardians wJint prai tirally amounted to a free hand in extruding relief to the unemployed. This hid threatened to call down the wrath of both Conservative and Liberals on the I.nlsir Administration, hut when the Mouse divided at It o'clock to-r on closure moved by a 1 Conservative, the motion was defeated, to 22S.

Many Liberals voted with the I.abor-i ites, and thu the government was saved from delicate situation by tiie aid of the Liberal, much a it. was a few 'days ago when the Conservatives gave I Macilonnld their support on h-s proposal to lay down new warships, 1 The Liberal motion, fathered by i Frank Itriant. and the Conservative fltuetidincnt, of which Sir William Joynso'n-Hioks was sponmir. were talked lout, and the popular question for tiie is hardly likely further tf diK-: turh the Lnbor government. LACKAWANNA ROAD REPORTS INCREASE IN YEARLY INCOME Largest Revenue Gain Comes from Coal Shipments; More Passengers.

Vnrk, V-U. 4 Py thp A.o- (iiit'l Total n-vpunps I Mil whtp, Iirkn wanna nnd M'pstprn i ny in J0 wptp 'J-'f an ifur.a'sp of ovpr lit'J'J, thiip npt njrfTtiiK inornp totalr an imrpasp ut ufrnnlinc to thp annual rrport math jutltlif to day. TIip Inrgp-t inrrPHSP in rpvpnnp was i from tit'- trnnttnrt.atiort timl whi'h to- t.ilpfl nn inrrpasp of over li1--. Transportation utirvyp K)LMJ a nd in.tinlPi:irwp of fuiinipnt incrpnsptl Tlu parried 21). 2.1 1 pn-iprtspr.

(iurinsr thp o( TlS JlTl'. Thp rpvpnttp frpijht strrii i Iff I tons, an iiwrptM of 7.77n!!U. Th! in thp yp.ir totnlpd tif7. an ifM-rpfjw of l.tot.L'..l. FAIR COMMISSION OF STATE FAVORS HOUSE FOR SYRACUSE TROOPS Albany, Keb.

2i, The Stale Fair at a meeting here today, went on record in favor of the erection of" a dormitory for the use of state trooper assigned to isdice the state fair ground at Syracuse. Heretofore the tr-iers, after a bard da's work, have been for-ed to seek lodging in bams and other improvised alsides. The commission voted to transfer from Heme A. Pyrke, state commissioner of farm and maikets, to George R. Kitts.

of Mclean, the supervision of farm bureau and home bureau exhibits the fair- HOY I.OSKS APPKAL. Albany, Keb. 20. Lester Oerstern-herg. 17.

must go to death in the electric chair. The Court of Appeal today affirmed hi conviction of the murder of his stepfather, Marco Guerievri. near New Baltimore, Greene county, Novem-ver 5, tf22. The lad' only hope now is in executive clemency. hesitating to demnnd tin resignation of the Attorney Oeneral he inherited from ibe late President Harding.

T.he other i the Attorsey-General, who ai-cording to the. latent report tonight is still standing pat refusing to resign eieept upon sptciflc request of th Resolution Held I'p. (tn of the raiwt significant disclosure in that it was the President who brought about postponement for forty eight hour more of consideration by the Senate of the Wheeler resolution providing for nil invextigntioti of the AtUirnev-tieiierHi. Senator Idge, Republican, Mawacfaii setts, majority leader, objected at the in-stutn-e of the President to conaideratif.il of the resolution to da. now rannoi.

be considered before Thursday on BC-lount of the Jl'irding memorial gerriie ut t'apitol to morrow. The understanding uniotig Repuhlicsu le.nlera is that Mr. desired pol-poueineut of rotisideration of the resolu-lion in the hope that Mr. Patiglirrty would resign within the next forty-eight CONTINPED OS r.VOE TIXRKB. WHEELER ASKS PROTECTION OF DRY UW AIDS Senate May Probe Shooting of Greene During Pistol Battle in Washington.

Washington, Keb, The Aso-ciated Press). Senator Greene of Vermont continued to make prngres towsid recovery today. Attending physicians stated, however, that it could not yet be said that lie was out of danger, and tbut even shou'd his improvement continue it was problematical when be would be able to leave the hospital. The shooting of Senator Greene during a gun battle between revenue agents and suspected bootleggers ten days ago was the suhject of another resolution introduced in t.he Senate today. Senator Iale, hi Republican colleague, proposed Hint Ihe Judiciary Committee be authorized to investigate the circumstance of ihe shooting and recommended measure to prevent such occurrences in the future Senator Kdwards.

IVmocrftt. New Jersey, has announced that intends tn discuss in the Senate to-morrow or Thursday his pending resolution proposing an investigation by the same committee of prohibition enforcement practices generally. In a statement commenting upou tii.i Kdwards resolution, Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon league, said to-day that "the friend of prohibition sre not afraid to face tht facts but it dragnet investigation hy op-tsirents of enforcement can aciomplih no good P'i rpi.se.'' learn the truth about the shooting of Senator Greene." the statement added, "and to devise a proper method for the restraint of tJie Iswles armeil bootleggers is it praiseworthy purpose. Action never been suggested by Senator Kdwards to protect Agents charged with the enforcement of the Constitution, although 35 of tbeui have given t.heir lives in the discharge of their duty." DAY IN ALBANY BT TBI ASSOCIATED rBESS Governor Smith and Republican leaders of Assembly fail to agree on water power legielation, and party bills will introduced by Democrats and Republicans.

Speaker Marhold writes to District-Attorneys of state acking them to draft prohibition enforcement legislation. Assembly Way and Mean Committee will report favorably on bill to reduce tate income, tax twenty-lr per cent. MRS. LYDIA AVERY GIFTED SCHOLAR HINDERED UNDER PRESENT RULES Dr. Graves Appeals for Entire Elimination of 'The Little Red Chicago, Feb.

By the Associated Press Failure of theVmcrican Fduca-tional system to give special anention to the gifted intellect was chai-McleriKed tonight by apeakerK before the National Society for Ihe Study of Kducntion as the vitiating weakness of the public education. Only by the segregation of pupil-groups ao(srding to mental endow merit may the educational appropriations of the cities be made to yield their maximum returns, a number of speakers declared 4n the dis ciission of the problem of "The Gifled Child." The Society's meeting is part of the program of the annual eonvenlion of the department of Superintendence, Nn- tional Kducation Association. A committee report on the treatment of exceptional students suggested the classification of pupils on Ihe basis of CONTINI KP ON 2. 1ST COI.l'MS". frmCOMiSSN" WARNS OF DANGER IN AUTO COMBINES I Dealers Agreeing to Settle Price of Cars Apt to Suffer Prosecution.

Washington, Keb- Py the Aso-ciated Press) Automobile dealers who combine and cooperate to fix maximum prices nt which they will like in used t-nrs may lay thetniolve-i liable to fe-Ieriil prosecution, the Trflde Coiuniis-sion indicated to dy. A foruud citation whs issued ajainst the Itoitoit socia tion. charging tliein with following such! practices ami alleging them to be unlawfully engaged in iippr'sing i tion. The association will be giv-i "Oj days in wiheh to nutku eiiwcr to the citiniduints, Nearly all the automobile dealers in' the Hoston area are included in the eo-1 ciatioii, the trade commission said, ii'liliii'i! that tlie effect and object of the system i complained of is "to suppress oompeti-j tion especially in the sale of automobiles I in the territory served" by the dealer! member of the association. I MARINE NEWS STKAMKR ARRIVALS.

At New York, Keb. 2H. Westphslta, from Hamburg; Athenin. from Liver-pool; Columbia, from (Jlasgow; Veen-dam, from Rotterdam; Stuttgart, from Hremen, At Naples, Feb. 2fl.

Rotterdam, from New York. KTKAMKK SII.IC.S. Marseilles, Keb. 22. Patria, for New Tork.

Hamburg, Feb. 22. Thuringia, fur New' York..