The Burlington Free Press from Burlington, Vermont • Page 1

mm VOL. 87. NO. 7. BURLINGTON, VERMONT, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1921.

PRICE THREE CENTS. WEATHER FORECAST! SNOW OR RAIX BRITISH SEA POWER BRITAIN ANNOUNCES REPRISAL PROGRAM JAMES HARTNESS IS INAUGURATED GOVERNOR OF ST A TE DOUBLES AMERICA F. D. ABERNETHY Head of Church Street. HARDING ENDORSES ARMY Heartily Approves Republican Plan or Peace Time Organization Long List of Visitors at Marion Saturday Business Hours: 8:30 a.

m. to 9 p. m. New Executive's Message, Only Read in Part, Contains Few Definite Recommendations But Pledges Best of Governor's Time and Thought to the State Pleads for Co-operation for the General Good and Use of True Business Principles Inaugural Ball Held at City Hall Is Closing Event of Legislature's First Week More and more each day as this greatest of Clearance Sales progresses, are the people in this vicinity becoming impressed with its real importance. A saving of half, more than half in many instances, over the former prevailing prices is assured and more than this these Clearance Sale Prices are4 below, considerably below, the prices that will prevail during the Spring season.

marked the inauguration ceremonies. The longest of these was well over a minute. THE MESSAGE DELIVERED Governor Hartness read only the first section of his message as printed. This dealt In a general way with the methods which the governor proposes to adopt in dealing with the people of Vermont and its spirit is one of co-operation and hope for the future. Something new la an Inaugural address was when he said: "I feel Impelled to thank you for your generous reception with which you have honored me.

I feel impelled to express my thanks to His Excellency, the retir To-day these facts may be sharply verified in our large basement store as elsewhere in all departments. Finest Printed Percales 22 Cents Best American Dark Ginghams 24 Cents Outing Flannel, light and dark effects 19 Cents "Washanrede" Krinkle Cloth 2S Cents White Outing Flannel, width 35 inches. 29 Cents Bleached and Unbleached Sheetings 15 Cents White Wool Blankets $4.75 and $5.75 Best Cotton Blankets. $1.75 and Fine Woolnap Plaid Blankets $4.95 Pair Bed Pillows. $2.95 Pair Men's Sweaters $2.75 and $2.95 Men's Canvas and Jersey Gloves 17 Cents Pair Men's Scotch Knit Gloves 68 Cents Pair Splendid Hosiery for Children 38 Cents Pair Women's Heavy Cotton Hose 45 Cents Pair Women's Lisle Hose 35 Cents Pair Women's Fibre Silk Hose 65 Cents Pair Ripplette Bed Spreads $2.25 Turkish Towels 15c, 18c, 29c.

(Main Floor) Men's Shirts Half Price Men's Fine Half Hose 35 Cents Pair Men's Fine Cashmere Hose 3S Cents Pair Great Stocks of Finest Woolen Dress Fabrics- Approximately Half Prices To-day Fine Corsets at 4.95 will be a great attraction. "Gossards" and other best corsets that were formerly sold up to $10.00. U. S. Government Now Has Complete Information as to the Relative Naval Strength of Principal World Powers "Washington, Jan.

7. (By the Associated Press) What officials believe to be complete Information as to the relative naval strength of the principal world powers Is now in possession of the American government. Whether It will be presented to the Senate foreign relations committee In connection with that committee's consideration of proposals looking to world disarmament has not been disclosed. The information has been compiled In the form of tables which show that Great Britain's sea power Is double that of the United States and. although the British preponderance in capital ships will practically have been overcome by the United States with the completion In 1923 of the American ship building- program the American navy will still be greatly Inferior In types of vessels which naval officers regard as extremely important, notably destroyer leaders, cruisers and light cruisers, cruising submarines and airplane ships.

The American navy to-day. according to this Information, has more than doubled the strength of the Japanese navy and this ratio will be maintained even with the" completion of the building program of the two countries. The United States will be far superior not only In capital ships, but also in destroyers and submarines. Japan, however, will have double the number of battle cruisers, now possessing four such vessels with eight others projected while the United States has none completed and only six building. Without reference to second line ships.

of which Great Britain has a preponder ance- in all classes over the United States and Japan, the British navy contains 26 battleships carrying at least ten guns each of 13-inch calibre or larger and displacing tons or more. The United States has 18 such vessels. Japan six. Franc seven and Italy four. Great Britain has no first line battleships under construction, while the United State has 11, Japan seven, France four and Italy four.

SAYS U. S. WILL NEVER dp TTro rr Washington. Jan. 7.

The United States never be literally dry. Prohibition Commissioner Kramar declared to-day, though he expressed the opinion that prohibition is here to stay. Sentiment throughout the country, he said. Is continually growing stronger for prohibition and practical prohibition will come -after the present generation, which is familiar with liquor Is gone," although there probably always will be some individuals who will make Intoxicants in their home. The sons and daughters of the men of to-day.

he declared, will grow up without a taste for liquor. The commissioner declared that despite evidence of law breaking in some sections', the country as a whole Is behind the amendment to the Constitution. New York and the East, he asserted, cannot considered as reflecting the attitude of the country at large, ar.d in general, west of Pittsburg, the country is dry-Difficulties experienced with prohibition agents were to be expected, he declared, but as a body they were doing their duty. Most of the enforcement agents, he described a men who could "take a in order to carry out their orders." but his best agent, he said, was a. Methodist minister.

SUPPOSED DEAD MAN REVIVED Valdosta. Ga, Jan. 7. Stricken with acute indigestion, the Rev. R.

P. Fain was given up for dead while attending a ministers" meeting at Hah Ira. yesterday and laid out In the church while his son went to inform the family. Meantime the Rev. John Standford arrived at the church and pouncing "on the "body" with his knees, violently worked the stricken minister's arms.

The Rev. Fain recovered and walked home. SUES PALMER FOR $100,000 New Tork, Jan. 7. The Italian Chamber of Commerce announced to-day that a $100,000 damage suit had been filed here In State Supreme Court against Attorney General Palmer and four other officials of the Department of Justice in connection with the death of Andrea Salsedo, who Jumped 14 stories to his death last May while under detention at department headquarters her In connection with the bomb outrages of June, 1913.

BUND CHAPLAIN RETIRES. Washington. Jan. 7. The Rev.

Henry N. Cow den, the blind chaplain of the House of Representatives, was retired to-day after more than 20 years continuous service. The House unanimously voted him an allowance of $125 a month for life and made nlm chaplain-emeritus. I READING ACCEPTS INDIAN POST London, Jan. 7.

Lord Reading, the Lord Chief Justice and former special ambassador to the United States, has decided to accept the post of viceroy of India according to the evening papers. THE MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK of BarIlKsta. Vt CORPORA! CD 1.N49. CssBrelal aad family aewult letted. pedal teller wladcw tmr ladle af depoalt fcoxea for real.

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E. PERKINS Tb X. Prospect Bmrtlrngfrn. Pkoae 1770. Houses Occupied by Known Militant Sinn Feiners in the Vicinity of Outrages Will Be Destroyed Dublin, Jan.

7. (By the Associated Dublin Castle to-day announced its intention to destroy houses in the vicinity of scenes of outrages which are definitely known to be occupied by militant Sinn Feiners. This action is to be taken as a deterrent to further outrages and as an example to other districts. It was also announced by the castle that owing. to the persistent interference with mail cars in Tipperary, Sllgo and Donegal.

the mall services in those districts will be suspended, effective Monday. According to the Castle statement, some mail routes have been raldd as many as 15 times. Throughout the country last week there were 35 raiders on mails, an increase of 15 over the previous week. Outrages during the last week numbered 73, compared with 43 the preceding week. With reference to the military reprisals, the castle's announcement says: "Although it is not yet possible to identify any persons actually engaged in attacks the military governor is of the opinion that it is impossible to effect preparations for such attacks without the knowledge of many local residents, who therefore are held guilty, at lest to the extent of having failed to give information to the authorities." The weekly summary issued by Dublin Castle shows that arrests for the week for outrages and political offenses were 208, an increase of 142 over the previous week, while 189 internment orders were Issued.

No further information as to the whereabout of Eamonn De Valera or any news concerning the peace activities was had to-day. The extensive raiding and searching of pedestrians continues In every part of Dublin. CONFLICT OVER O'CALLAGHAN Washington. Jan. 7.

Definite indications had appeared to-night that the state department might take Into its own hanjrls without regard to the department of labor the question of admitting to the United States Daniel J. O'Callaghan, lord mayor of Cork, paroled by the labor department after his arrival at Newport News as a stowaway. Conflict between the two departments was foreshadowed yesterday brought out into he open to-day and accentuate! to-night when it was learned that Acting Secretary Davis of the state department had called upon the department's legal authorities for advice on the question of his department taking the entire O'Callag-han admission matter into its own hands. The state department it has been indicated favors deportation of the lord mayor, while the labor department has been represented by those close to Its higher officials as favoring admission of the Cork official. TARIFF TALK SIDETRACKED Washington, Jan.

7. Consideration of the Fordney emergency tariff bill was sMpfrarkBd for a time to-day by the SAnntfi finance committee while its mem bers defended efforts of the government to force down living costs. The departure from the program came when a witness charged the government with responsibility for economic conditions confronting the country through encouragement of a buyers' strike. For an hour decorum was cast off and pointed exchanges took place When Colonel John P. Wood of Fhilal delphla, who appeared in behalf of the wool manufacturers, asserted that the government and particularly the department of justice has been "unwise" in promulgating a campaign against high prices met with the rejoinder by Senator Thomas that present conditions were simply those of "one man being willing to see another lose money but very anxious not to lose any himself." PACIFIC FLEET STEAMS OUT San Diego, Jan.

7. Headed by the flagship Birmingham, 18 destroyers of the Pacific fleet steamed out of the harbor o-day to join the battleship squadrons off Point Loma, preparatory to departure late to-day for Panama where the Pacific fleet will Join the Atlantic fleet for manouvers and target practice, following which will come a cruise to South American ports. The superdreadnoughts New Tork, Texas, Arkansas, and Wyoming, which sailed from San Francisco last Wednesday, and the superdneadnougbrts New Mexico, flagship of Admiral Hugh Rodman; Idaho and Mississippi, sailing from San Pedro last night were at the rendezvous when the destroyer fleet arrived. BAN ON POWDERED NOSES Zion. 111., Jan.

7. Hereafter women in the Zion Tabernacle will appear with unpowdered noses or Overseer Voliva will "lecture them and slap their faces," according to an edict he delivered today. "The Tabernacle is not a boudoir," the overseer proclaimed, "the use of the worldly powder puff is a violation of the sanctity of God's house. I have seen women right in this tabernacle dabbing away with powder puffs barefacedly. It Is a sacrilege, and a disgrace.

"You'll come here unpowdered and you'll cover your bodies as my grandmother covered hers or I'll lecture you and slap your faces Instead of powdering them." BRITISH CASUALTY STATEMENT New York, Jan. 7. The British Library of Information, an official British organization with headquarters in this city, to-day issued a statement giving statistics on "outrages committed in Ireland." For the two weeks ending January 1921, the statement placed the number of police killed in Ireland at six. and the number wounded at 12. During the same period four British soldiers were wounded.

"DEVIL" ANSE HATFIELD DIES Huntington. W. Jan. 7. "Devil" Anse Hatfield, noted leader In the Hat-fleld-McCoy feud of 30 years ago, is dead.

Word of his death last night in the Hatfield home at Island Creek, Logan county. West Virginia, reached Huntington to-night. Pneumonia caused his death. Marlon. Ohio, Jan.

7. The plan of Republican leaders in Congress to limit the peace time strength of the army to 150,000 men was given approval to-day by President-elect Harding in a conference with Representative Kahn of California, chairman of the House military committee. "Senator Harding is In complete accord with our policy," said Mr. Kahn after a long talk with the presidentelect. "He is deeply concerned about reduction of the burden now resting on the shoulders of taxpayers and he believes much can be saved by reducing the army strength to 175,000 as soon as possible, and then working it down to 150,000 as a continuing maximum.

"I am sure Senator Harding does not believe that the millenium has come, but I do not think he Is expecting trouble in the near future." The conference, at which Mr. Harding also Indicated his desire for a well organized reserve force, was one of a series he is holding with congressional leaders in charge of military and naval legislation. Soon he la to see Chairman Butler of the House naval committee, to urge retrenchment in that arm of the service and to shape a continuing policy for naval armament. Although the army occupied the President-elect's major attention to-day many other questions were talked over by him in the course of a busy string of conferences. One visitor who attracted particular attention was Andrew W.

Mellon of Pittsburg, publicly endorsed by Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania for secretary of the treasury. He had a long conference with Senator Harding at which, he said general financial conditions were discussed, and later he was a luncheon guest at the Harding home. The qualifications of Sherman P. Houston of Missouri for secretary of agriculture were urged upon the President-elect by a delegation from that State headed by Edward Forlstel of St. Louis.

They brought a formidable array of endorsements by Republican leaders, farm organizations and livestock men of Missouri. Again to-night Mr. Harding "walked the burning sands' of the Masonic order, receiving initiation into the Mystic Shrine at Columbus, where on Wednesday he was made a 32nd degree Mason. He made the trip to the State capital by motor, leaving here late in the day. CONCERNS INCOME TAXES Washington, Jan.

7. Arguments were begun in the Supreme Court in the invested capital case, characterized by Solicitor General Frlerson as "the most Important legal suit from the standpoint of government finances in a decade." "Whether the government will be forced to return hundreds of millions of dollars paid as income taxes depends on the outcome. The immediate cause at issue before the court is the appeal of the Labelle Iron Works from a ruling of the Bureau of Internal Revenue refusing to allow it to treat as Invested capital the value of ore lands which it had purchased in 1904 for $190,000 and which by 1917 had increased to $10,000,000. The government agents made that the increase In reality was profit and should be taxed as such. The company added the increase to its capital invested and claimed the normal deduction of seven per cent, paying under protest the additional tax of $1,081,000.

INSANE SOLDIERS NEGLECTED Washington. Jan. 7. Not a cent of the money 60 far appropriated by Congress for the care of war veterans suffering from disability or wounds in curred in service has been spent for hospitals for the treatment of insane, the House commerce committee was informed to-day by Dr. Thomas W.

Sal mon of New Tork. advisor on mental diseases to the Rockefeller Foundation. The statement was made at a hearing on the Rogers bill to consolidate Into one bureau the several government agencies dealing with relief for former service men. As a result of this failure to provide proper facilities, Dr. Salmon added, veterans suffering from mental and nervous disorders are in many instances being committed by the government to institutions In which criminal insane, drug addicts and vicious degenerates are seggregated.

FOREST FIRE FUND WANTED Washington, Jan. 7. A million dollar federal fund for fighting forest fires in co-operation with States was urged today before a House committee by more than a score of representatives of commercial organizations, forest conservation societies and others. Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester of the United States, said the amount of wood used was increasing every year and that with the constant loss by fire the problem of protection was one demanding prompt "help and solution." CARDINAL GIBBONS IMPROVES Baltimore, Jan. 7.

Cardinal Gibbons maintains the improvement which set In this week and he may be allowed to sit up In bed next Sunday If there is no set back, it was stated at the arch-Episcopal residence to-day. His physicians note a decided change for the better. Messages of sympathy nad good wishes arrive daily at the Cardinal's residence. Two came from Ireland yesterday and a card was received from William J. Bryan at Miami.

Florida. HARDING COMMENDS PRATER Bridgeport, Jan. 7. "Prayer Is a dominant factor for a successful life." wrote President-elect Harding to the Rev. Benjamin Root, rector of St.

Paul's Episcopal Church, in a letter received to-day. The question had been asked of Mr. Harding as to what he considered constituted "success." CROWDER IN HAVANA Havana, Jan. 7. Major-General -Enoch Crowder, delegated by President Wilson to confer with President Menocal on subjects affecting the Interests of the United States and Cuba, arrived here to-day.

Tondon, Jan. 7. (By the Associated Press). Lord Milner to-day resigned his portfolio as secretary for the colonies. His successor has not yet been, announced.

Smart Navy Blue Serge Dresses $16.50 (By the Vermont Press Bureau) Montpelier. Jan. 7. James Hartness of Springfield became governor of Vermont at 2:25 o'clock this afternoon at the bar of the Vermont House of Representatives and before the joint session of Senate and House and a host of friends and admirers gathered in the hall for this memorable occasion. The oath of office was adminis tered by Chief Justice John H.

Watson of the Supreme Court of Vermont. Mr. Hartness repeated the words of the oath after the chief Justice in a clear, steady voice which could be heard in every corner of the hall. "When the oath had been completed and he had signed it, he was escorted to the speaker's desk where he delivered his message to the assembly, a message filled with the spirit of cooperation for the good of Vermont. Governor Hartness reception was all that his closest friends could ask for.

Long before the hour set for the Joint assembly. Representatives' hall and the gallery were filled and there were many people standing In the doorways and others in the corridors outside trying to get close enough to see what was going on within. CONTINUOUS APPLAUSE. The popularity of the incoming governor was evidenced by the gTeat applause which arose when fie appeared In the doorway. It continued as the governor entered the hall and stood before the bar of the House.

As he stoo3 waiting, the demonstration seemed about to cease, then broke forth again with renewed vigor. The governor turned and bowed again and again in recognition of the tribute. His approach to the speaker's desk, where he was introduced by Lieut. Gov. Mason S.

Stone as "His Excellency, the Governor of Vermont." was the signal for more noisy approval. EQUAL SUFFRAGE RECOGNIZED. Recognition of the fact that women now erijey enual-s-ufrraoe rights with men was given special emphasis in the appointment of Miss Edna L. Beard, the lady from Orange, as one of the members of the committee to escort the governor to the Hall of Representatives. The other members of the committee, appointed by Lieut.

Gov. Stone, who presided over the joint assembly, were Senator W. N. Bryant of "Windsor county -and Representative H. S.

"Ward of Springfield. Doorkeeper Fred Cressy piloted the committee escorting the governor. Governor Hartness was not only cheered when he entered the Hall of Representa-tives, but four other demonstrations NO NEWS FROM BALLOONISTS Cochrane, Jan. 7. Another day of intense activity and excitement rarely experienced in this region of the bleak North has passed without definite news of the approach of the three United States Navy airmen battling their way out of the Hudson Bay wilderness.

Basing calculations on the assumption that the intrepid little band started from Moose Factory for the railroad two days after Christmas, native guides and weather sharps prepared Cochrane's population to-ntght to be inreadlness to extend a welcome to the adventurers by Sunday at the latest. Opinion now has shifted to the Mattice trail aa the most likely route from which the aeronauts and their travelling companions will emerge, since It is known from reliable reports here Is little open water on the Missanabi River while the condition of the Abitibi River trail into Clute is covered with unbroken snow and more difficult for sled travel. GUVL. PROHIBITION CLERK GOES "Washington, Jan. 7.

Searching investigation Into the headquarters office of the government's prohibition enforcement force was announced by internal revenue bureau officials to-nierht to determine if there is any connection between employes here and the alleged "whiskey ring" conspiracy In New Tork to obtain fraudulent permits for withdrawing liquor. Suspension of Miss Irene N. Richardson, a clerk in the permit division of the prohibition office, pending an investigation was announced to-day by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Williams, who at the same time declinedl to discuss reports of irregularities in the Issuance of permits by the prohibition units. Prohibition Commissioner Kramer declared he would make a thorough investigation of his office, but refused to comment on the suspension of Miss Richardson on the ground that the action was taken by Commissioner Williams. MARSH.

INAUGURAL MARSHAL Washington, Jan. 7. Major-Oen. Peyton C. Marsh, df.lef of staff of the army, will act as chief of staff for General Pershing, grand marshal of the inaugural parade here, March 4th.

At General Pershing's invitation also. Major-Gen. Peter Harris, adjutant-general of the army, will serve as adjutant-general of the grand marshal. The war department is making preparations for all troops within motor transport distance of the capital. Including the entire Seventh Division, now assembling at Camp Meade, Maryland, to take part in the parade in addition to the West Point cadet corps and the midshipmen from Annapolis.

ing governor. He has rendered me every aid since I became governor-elect. I know that you will be gratified for the concise and definfte statement of the views of His Excellency in his remarkable retiring address." The Governor recognized the coming of equal suffrage with the following words: "In this, the first General Assembly in which a woman has sat in the House of Representatives, it is well that I should begin by welcoming woman into an active part in the affairs of State." The message was a scholarly address, the part which was read containing few definite recommendations, but pledging the best of the Governor's time and thought to the work of the State and to Its people. TAKES OATH Fully as impressive as the inauguration of the Governor was that of Abraham W. Foote of Cornwall in the Senate chamber immediately following the Joint assembly.

A committee consisting of Senators Cady of Addison county and Blodgett of Orleans county escorted the new lieutenant-governor to the Senate chamber, where the oath of office was" administered by the secretary of the Senate. Millward C. Taft. Stone then presented the new lieutenant-governor with the gavel, making brief remarks. In reply, Lieut.

-Governor Foote said: "Senators: The people of the State of Vermont have selected us to represent them in this branch of the Legislature; we are their trustees and servants, and as such, "have an individual responsibility, for the constitution provides that 'no money shall be drawn out of the treasury unless first appropriated by act of legislation. (Continaed on pare- 2) WANT CUBAN INFORMATION Washington, Jan. 7. A proposal that the Cuban relations committee of the Senate be sent to the republic to obtain information Congress may need if the American government is called upon to act because of financial and political difficulties there, has been made by Senator Knox, re- publican Pennsylvania, and will be I acted upon Immediately. Senator John-j son.

Republican, California, an-' nounced to-day that the committe, which includes Senators McCormick, republican, Illinois; Underwood, democrat, Albama, and Dial, democrat, South Carolina, in addition to Senator Knox, would be asked for a recom- mendatlon on Senator Knox's proposal. "Grave accounts, first of the financial difficulties in Cuba and more lately of the political situation have caustd a g-ood deal of concern as they have been brought to the committee, who has been giving the matter particular attention, that in view of pending developments we follow up a study of -the conditions. CHARGE COAL PROFITEERING Washington, Jan. 7. Prices charged i the war department for coal last sum mer and fall would be investigated by the department of justice under a recommendation which Senator Calder of New Tork, chairman of the Senate coal investigating committee announced today had been submitted to the attorney general.

Disclosure as to the committee's action came during general debate in the Senate to-day on coal profiteering. Senator Calder announcing that the I evidence gathered by his committee as the army's coal transactions had been turned over to the Justice depart-Iment officials with recommendation that action be The committee chairman's announcement was followed by a statement from Senator Kenyon of Iowa, a member of the committee, that "if the American people were robbed as the war department was robbed on coal last fall the robbery ran up to hun-drews of millions of dollars." AERONAUTS IN HARD PLIGHT New Tork, Jan. 7. (By the Associated Press). Description of the desperate plight of the three American naval bal-loonlsts after they had landed in the Hudson Bay country December 14 and started working their painful way back to habitation at Moose Factory was received here to-day in a letter from R.

Thorpe, manager' of Revelllon Freres trading post at Moose, Ontario. The letter was directed to the chief Inspector of the company for the James Bay district at Montreal and forwarded to John M. Revelllon here. I The balloonlsts were in a pitiable con dition when found and two of them to be taken to the Hudson Bay post at Moose Factory on a sled, the letter said. Their clothing was torn to pieces and one of the men was found in his underwear, having ripped up his breeches to bind his feet.

TO ARREST PATERSON MINISTER Paterson, N. Jan. 7. A federal warrant for the arrest of the Rev. Cornelius Densel, charged with violating the Mann white slave act.

will be served upon him to-morrow morning, United States Marshal Albert Ettelson announced here tonight. The warrant grew out of the alleged elopement of Densel and Miss Trina Hannenburg, a choir singer, to Buffalo and other places In New York. Miss Hannenburg instituted a suit for $25,000 against the minister a few days ago for breach of promise of marriage. To-day Densel was served with notice that the girl's parents had filed another suit against him for $10,000 for humiliation and the loss of the girl's services. LEVIN SKY IN ENGLAND London, Jan.

7. (By the Associated Press) Pete Herman, former world's bantamweight champion, and "Battling" Levinsky, the former light heavyweight champion, who are matched respectively to meet Jimmy "Wilde and Bombardier Wells at Albert Hall, London, January 13, are in training at Thames Ditton, a London suburb, where English boxing enthusiasts daily watch them in their workouts. The Americans have been well received In England. Levinsky's long record for clean fighting has been especially commented on. Herman, however, seems to be an unknown quantity.

WEST POINT CADET DEAD West Point. N. Jan. 7. Dennis Tot-ten of Milford, 19-years-old cadet at the military academy here, was found dead on the reservation at nine o'clock this morning.

A board of officers Is Investigating the cause of death, which has not yet been determined. Milford, Jan. 7. Cadet Dennis Totten, who was found dead at West Point, was the son of the late Lieut. C.

A. L. Totten, who, prior to his death about 12 years ago, was military instructor at Yale College. "NEW AGE" PUBLISHER MISSING Chicago, Jan. 7.

Jacques Villanl, publisher of the New Age of St. Louis, a magazine issued in the interest of Poles in America, has been missirry since December 27 and police of all cities have been asked to look for him-the local police department announced last night. Mr. Villard, it was said, came here the latter part of December to employ an associate editor, an4 later disappeared. It is believed he may have been robbed, as he Is known tc have had $2,000 in his possession at th time.

Mr. Villard was a cripple, both legs having been amputated. YEAR'S IRISH CASUALTIES 261 London, Jan. 7. Two hundred and sixty one persons were killed and 445 wounded In Ireland in 1920 as a result of what ar described in an.

official report as "seriou outrages." These figures do not include S3 civilians who died as a result of the riot in Ulster from June to September. Th are divided as follows: Policemen killed, 165; wounded, 225; soldlerf killed, 53; wounded, 118; civilians killed death said to have been due to Sinir Feiners, 43; wounded, 103. INVESTIGATING NEW YORK New York, Jan. 7. The services of ei detectives from the detective bureau today were tendered the additional grand jury investigating the charges of gral'r and corruption among city and county officials.

District Attorney Swann announced to-night. In a letter to the foreman of the grand Jury. Mr. Swann offere the services of the detectives, leaving the choice of the particular men to he assigned for this duty to the grand jury. ROBBERS TERRORIZE SYRIA London, Jan.

7. The entire population of Syria is being terrorized by bands of robbers, says a despatch from Damascus to-day. So common have become the robberies and so serious their nature thaf train service In the Damascus region ha? been suspended entirely, the despatch states. Start the-new year right with a box of these famous clears. Thev dease the most Darticular Ji oia tverynnere TAYLOR a CO.

Bnrlingrton, Vt. WEST POINT INDIGNANT West Point. N. Jan. 7.

The Military Academy authorities to-day denied, in an official statement, published reports that they had made efforts "to Induce by Illegitimate means members of football teams of other colleges to desert those teams and to come to West Point for athletic purposes." FREE PRESS 'WANT ADS PAT BESt o. c. IS' 1 Jl.