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TTPI' lH- TlFl( Call Clashed Dwell Here and Prosper" AM TT I MA Ad Daily Reach' 70,000 Peoplo AND MORNING HERALD. VOL. LXIII, NO. 112 ALLENTOWN, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1921 PRICE THREE CENTS THE ALLENTOWN COLLEGE GIRL MISSING ROAD LABOR BOARD RAIL u. s.

CHARGE $15,000,000 WORTH IG FIVE" HEADS FAIL OF RUM WITHDRAWN THRU 1RTTHREA TENED STRIKE ISSUANCE OF BOGUS PERMITS Two Ex-Officials in State Director McConnelFs Office Charged With Conspiring With Others to Defraud U. S. Government Day's Developments in Rail Strike Situation Following were Thursday's developments in the railroad strike ferred with President Harding over the rail situation. Eastern roads advertised for men to fill vacancies which would result from a strike. Central Railroad of New Jersey received so many replies that it announced no more be considered.

American Railway Men's Assocla- tion, with 10,000 members, appealed to workers not to strike. Railroads announced poll of employes to show how many will remain at work in case of strike. Strike vote ordered among Pennsylvania Line shop craft employes. Officials of Southern Railway announced It was not frepresented at recent Chicago rail executives meeting, where plans to see a new ten per cent wage cut were announced. Robert M.

Barton (Robert iM. Barton Is chairman of the United States railroad labor board which met in vain yesterday with the heads of the "Big Five" railroad unions in an effort to avert the strike which has been ordered to begin on October SO. GIVE HALF AREA OF SILESWTO GERMANY Paris, Oct. 20 The decision of the council of the League of Nations, made public today, on the Upper Silesian question, divides the plebiscite area into almost equal parts between Germany and Poland as to the number of communes, and provides administrative machinery for the gradual inauguration of the new regime over a period" of fifteen years. SENATE REJECTS PROVISIONS iN TAX BILL EXEMPTING FOREIGN TRADERS FROM LEVY OH INCOME Eleven Republicans Line Up With Solid Democratic Minority to Defeat Treasury Department Proposition Fears Virginia Young Woman May Have Met With Foul Play Gaillipolis, Oct.

20. Police today expressed the fear Miss Thelma Poland, sixteen- years old, pretty, Richmond, society and college girl, who has been visiting at Point Pleasant, W. Va, near here, has met with foul play. Miss Poland mysteriously disappeared four days ago and nothing has been heard from her She is the daughter of Mrs. M.

E. Ppland, who is In a critical condition as a result of her daughter's disappearance. TO KEEP HMD MOVING Belief That Commission Will Order Early Reduction in Freight Rates EXPRESSED AFTER VHITE HOUSE CONFAB Administration Stands Behind and Awaits Action of Labor Board Washington, Oct. 20. (A.

The note of optimism in official discussion of the threatened railrcad strike was more pronounced to-day. Several cabinet members expressed confidence that the "cooling off period," which has Intervened since the strike call, had served to lessen the danger of a national tie-up. Administration officials when' informed of the termination of the conference at Chicago between the Railroad Labor Board and the Union Chiefs to-night declined to make any comment, preferring, it was explained, to await a full report of the proceedings before making any decision. One of the definite developments of the day, however, was the announcement that preparations had been completed for the co-ordination under the commerce department of plans for transportation of essentials should the strike go into effect. After a conference at the White House between President Harding, Chairman Pritchard.

of the interstate commerce commission, and Acting Attorney General Goff, a decided impression was given that an order could be made soon by the commission putting into effect a reduction in freight rates. Secretary Hoover, in announcing that the department of commerce was prepared to serve as a focal point for efforts of state and municipal governments to assure the movement of food, fuel and other primary commodities in event of the strike, indicated that the motor truck and water transportation would be used to supplement any portion of the railroad left in opeiation. Traffic experts have computed that with the use of motor equipment the average American city can draw subsistence from continguous territory within a radius of fifty miles. Under this plan it was said, a community would not feel the effects of a national strike before several weeks had passed instead of a few days as would have been the case ten years ago. Developments to-day strengthened the impression that the administration would not move in the strike situation until the railroad labor beard had been given proper opportunity to function.

It was declared that4 the administration was behind the board and would lend full support. Pilgrimage to Farm School Doylestown, Oct. 20. The National Farm School, two miles east of this town, will be visited next Sunday by 2000 persons from Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore, the occasion toeing the twenty-fourth annual Suc-coth-Harvest' Pilgrimage. Speakers of national reputation, -will deliver addresses.

Little Girl Killed By Bonfire Norristown, Oct. 20. Elizabeh Nefenflnger, three-years-old, died in the 'Norristown hospital yesterday afternoon, from burns received shortly before, when, near her home in Con-shohocken, her clothing caught fire from a pile of burning leaves. WAR DEPARTMENT TO SELL FORT M'HENRY More Than 70 Other Tracts Thruout Country to Be Offered at Auction Washington, Oct. 20 The war department is preparing to sell at auction more than seventy real estate tracts over the country, regarded as useless for present or future, army purposes.

Among them is all of the Fort McHenry, Maryland, reservation with the exception of a plot to be retained as the site for a monument to Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star Spangled Banner." FOUR KILLED ON WAY TO GAME AT PRINCETON University of Chicago Students' Auto Struck by Train. Chicago, Oct. 20 A. P. Four students from the University of Chicago, driving to the Princeton-Chicago game next Saturday, were killed near Milford, to-night when an Elgin, Joliet Eastern train struck their car.

STAR CLEANERS 1 DYERS MOVED TO 25 N. TENTH ST. HOOVER ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF PLANS AND TO A Vi Tl HUM HUP PEACE WiTH GERMANY Framing of Commercial Treaty Will Follow Exchange of Ratifications Washington, Oct. 20 Formal restoration of peace between the United States and Germany awaits the exchange in Berlin of the ratification papers and will take place some days from now. The official evidence that the treaty has been made, signed by President Harding, and for deposit in.

German archives, is in course of preparation and will be forwarded as soon as completed. Re-establishment of diplomatic relations and the working out of a supplemental commercial treaty will follow the exchange of ratifications. It was indicated today that the treaty, approved by the senate contained about all commercial provisions that had occurred to American authorities as desirable to provide for reservation of American rights under the treaty of Versailles being viewed as accomplishing this result. There are certain reciprocal agreements as to German interests in the United" States, however, which the German government Js anxious to have written into a commercial pact, and it is expected that this will be taken up within regular diplomatic channels and at German, initiative when the peace treaty ratifications have been exchanged and diplomatic relations resumed. mittee in charge of the bill.

Tre Republicans were Borah, Idaho: Capper, Kansas; Cummins. Iowa; Har-reld, Oklahoma; Kenyon. Iowa; La-Follette and I.enroot, Wisconsin: Moses, New Hampshire; Nelson, Minnesota: Townsend, Michigan, and Willis, Ohio. Senator LaFollette led the fight and Philadelphia enforcement agents before they could be delivered. Others against the provisions and was sup ported by Senator Simmons, North Carolina; Hitchcock, Nebraska, and other Democrats and by Senator (Continued on Page 25.) DIRECTED AT any trace of the sender.

The post office is located in the workmen's quarter. In the meantime Ambassador Herrick received forty-six moro letters of protest during the day, culminating with the arrival late in the afternoon of another letter threatening the lives of American officials in France. The latest letter to the ambassador is signed by the Communist-Socialist organizations of Chalons Sur Marne and is stamped with the official seal of these bodies. Tomorrow (Friday) Is the day generally set for carrying out the threats and demonstrations and the French police are taking every precaution to prevent gatherings of any kind near the buildings occupied by Americans. CLEMENCEAU REPORTED IN EXCELLENT HEALTH Paris, Oct.

20. (A. Former Premier Clemertceau, who has been resting for some time at his native home in the Vendee, will return to Paris next Sunday, it was announced today. He is In excellent health, according to reports, from his home at St. Vincent Sur Jard.

Yesterday he made a trip from that place to Sable-donne, returning in the afternoon. TOM, DICK AND HARRY have left Milwaukee for Allentown. Come to the big Candy Sale at the Sugar Bowl, 920 Hamilton on Saturday; October 22. (( FORMAL RE WATIflM nc lUf MATTER 0 FEW DAYS FRANCE Views Exchanged in Manner ADJOURNMENT FINAL SAYS BOARD CHAIRMAN No Further Conferences With Labor Leaders or Railicad Executives Planned. DeA clares Robert Barton.

Union Heads Assert That Board Had No Tangibld Proposition to Present! Will Continue Preparations For Walk-Out. Chicago, Oct 20. (A. Efforts by the railroad labor board to avert the threatened railroad strike through conferences with heads of the five unions which have ordered a walkout effective October 30 failed wb.eE the meeting adjourned tonight and the announcement by the board that "while the discussions were beneficial, no definite results were obtained." "There has been a full and frani dlscussion of the situation, said a statement given out by Ben W. Hooper, vice chairman of the board.

"The labor board and the Brotherhood chiefs exchanged views in a perfectly pleasant way. The Interview was beneficial but we can not say that any definite results were obtained. The five -union presidents Imme diately went into a secret conference with the announcement that they probably would go back to Cleveland tonight. "The adjournment is final," Chairman R. M.

Barton, of the labor board, announced. "We do not plan any further confrences with the labor leaders, nor do we plan, at present, to car in the railroad presidents. I can no! say what our next step might be." While the board members came oui of the afternoon session smiling and in a Jovial mood, they left the nigh) meeting with solemn faces and refus-(Continued on Page 14) POET WEDS CO-RESPONDENT Lee Shippey Marr'ed to French Girl Named By First Wife San Antonio, Oct. 20. (A.

'Lee Shippey, Los. Angeles poet and newspaper man, and Mile. Madeline Babin, of Paris, France were married at Mexico City few days ago according1 to a special dispatch received by the San Antonio Light today. Mrs. Mary Blake Woodson the poet's first wife, recently obtained a divorce in Kansas City, naming Mile.

Babin in her action. Shippey met the French girl while serving with the Y. M. C. A.

in France dur lng the war. BRACKEN LOSES FIGHT FOR SEAT IN CONGRESS Bracken's Contest For Represents' tive-at-Large, Pennsylvania, Now Thrown Out. Washington, Oct. 20 A. P.

With out a dissenting vote the House to day threw out the claim of John Bracken, Pittsburgh, that he was elected representative-at-large from Pennsylvania to the sixty-seventh congress. Bracken contended Inasmuch as Mahlon M. Garland, one of the four representatlves-at-large, elected last November, died before the vote can vass was completed, he should have been declared elected since he received the fifth highest vote given any candidate. A House elections commit tee held Bracken was not entitled to the vacant seat which was filled re cently at a special election by the selection of Thomas S. Crago, Union town.

NEW MINISTRY IN POWER IN PORTUGAL Lisbon, Portugal. Oct. 20. (A. The new cabinet, constituted on a non-party basis, has annulled the leg islative elections of July 10, and all Judicial acts of the present parliament.

The president of the Republic signed a decree Wednesday night ap pointing the new ministers. The foreign, interior, war and ma rine ministers have already assumed their portfolios. At 3 o'clock this morning the Republican guard re-en tered its quarters. GREAT NORTHERN MEN ORDERED OUT OCT. 22 San Antonio.

Texas. Oct. 20. E. Goforth, manager of the International and Great Northern Railroad, was today notified at Palestine.

Texas, that the Brotherhood or. Kaiiroaa Trainmen on that line would strike ai noon Saturday, October 22. About 600 men will be affected by the strike order. THE WEATHER. Washington.

Oct 20. Eastern Penn sylvania: Geneially fair Friday and Saturday, not much change In tern Derature. WARRANTS OUT FOR SLATER AND BENNER High Dry Officials Claim Per-mits Galore Were Issued When It Became Known There Was to Be Shake Up in Penna, Division Stores Withdrawn From Different States Some Seized, Seme Enroute and Some Already Delivered. Philadelphia. Oct.

20 A. V. An alleged conspiracy ty which liquor valued at nearly $15,000,000 was withdrawn from distilleries in many states through the issuance of fraudulent permits, to-night was revealed by high prohibition officers who announced that warrants had been issued for the arrest of two former officials in the office of W. C. Mc-Connell, director of federal prohibition enforcement, in Pennsylvania.

The warrants were issued at the request of U. S. District Attorney Geo. W. Coles for A.

F. Slater, former secretary to Mr. McConnell, and Hiram v. Benner, formerly agent in charge of permits for liquor withdrawals. Both are charged with conspiring with others to defraud the U.

S. by means of fraudulent permits. According to prohibition officers, the permits were issued promiscuously when it became known in Washington that radical changes weie scheduled in the enforcement personnel of Pennsylvania. Stores were said to have been withdrawn from distilleries in New York New Jersey, Maryland, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania, some of which were captured by New York (Continued on Page 25.) 3,000 PERSONS ATTEND CHAS. F.

KAIER FUNERAL Mahanoy City, Oct. 20. Three thousand persons attended the funeral of Charles Kaler, executor of the Kaier holdings 'in the coal regions, yesterday. The por-vlces were held in St. Fidelis" Catholic Church, the Rev.

William 'Hammeko officiating. Elks and Eagles from all parts of Pennsylvania attended. PECULIAR WELCOME FOR GENERAL PERSHING Colored Troops Form Part of the Guard of Honor at Chsrbourg. Cherbourg, France. Oct.

20 A. P. Gen. John J. Pershing received a peculiar welcome on his arrival here this evening from Paris.

A colonial regiment, made up partly of colored troops, formed the guard of honor. Admiral Barthes this evening took Gen. Pershing out to the steamer George Washington in his launch, which was accompanied by the despatch boats Verdun and Epernay. Later the vessel sailed for New York. VENIZELOS HERE FOR AMERICAN HONEYMOON Former Greek Premier Arrives at New York Today With His Youthful Bride New York, Oct.

20 (A. Former Premier Venlzelos, of Greece, termed by his admirers "The Modern Ulysses." will arrive tomorrow on the Aqultania with his bride for his American honeymoon. The elderly statesman married Miss Helen Schilizzl, many years his junior, in London September 14. She is the daughter of a Greek business man residing in England's capital and a close friend of Princess An-astasia of Greece. ARBUCKLE LIQUOR HEARING POSTPONED San IFrancisCo, Oct.

20 A. P. The hearing of the charge of having violated Volstead prohibition enforce ment act, pending here against Ros coe C. Arbuckle, was con tinued to-day for one week by a S. commissioner.

Arbuckle arrived from Los Angeles and it was an nounced he would remain until after his trial in the state courts on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of Miss Virginia Rappe. MRS. HARTMAN VISITORS AT LEHIGHTON. Captain and Mrs. Howard II.

Hart-man and their two children, of Detroit, are visiting the former's aunt, Mrs. Eliza Clauss, at Lehighton. They are eiroute to Miami, where they will spend the winter. Capt Hart-man is a brother of Mrs. J.

T. Butz and Mrs. A. E. Barber, of this city.

Wear Young Qeiger Shoes. 18-4t ANTI-LYNCHING BILL Favorable Report Made on Drastic Measure by House Committee Washington, Oct. 20 (A. Dyer anti-Iynching bill, imposing heavy penalties on persons involved in mob action resulting in the taking of life, was ordered favorably reported today by the house judiciary committee. The measure provides any member of a mob which puts some one to death shall be imprisoned for life or for not less than five years, and that state and municipal officials who through neglect of duty fail to pre-, vent lynching shall be imprisoned more than five years, or fined not more than $5000.

Any county in which a person is lynched would be required to forfeit $10,000 to the family of the victim. SAYS-PITTSBURGH NOT AS WET AS PAINTED Mayor Assures Dry Agent of Police Co-operation in "Mopping Up" Pittsburgh, Oct. 20. John Exnicios, recently arrived from the Pacific coast to take charge of the local prohibition enforcement office, today paid a friendly call to Mayor E. V.

Babcock. The mayor is declared to have stated that Mr. Exni- cios could be assured of the co-operation of the police department in aiding him in his intention of "cleaning up" the district. However the prohibition agent is said to have declared that "Pittsburgh is not as bad as slie is painted," and that the government needed him (Exnicios) in California more than in Pittsburgh. LORENZ IS COMING TO AMERICA AGAIN Noted Austrian Surgeon to Treat the Poor Children.

London, Oct. 20 Professor A. Lor-enz, the Austrian surgeon, noted for his treatment of crippled children, will at the end of the present month make another visit to America. He went there some years ago and received huge fees. His present visit is intended to mark his appreciation of what the U.

S. has done for the children of Vienna. "I will offer my personal professional services to those children of poor parents who may require my attention and surgical help," he said. of their former prosperity and reduced to the very depth of despair, the people of Vienna are entirely unable to repay Americans at this time, but each member of the community will forever feel grateful to the Americans, and each of them in his own way will give expression of his appreciation. "It has occurred to me that, as far as I am concerned, I could best give vent to this sentiment by offering my professional services.

Great and overwhelming as such a task may be, my modest endeavor to tackle it will be a sign of how deeply I am impressed by the generous American charity." URGES BIRTH CONTROL TO ELIMINATE WAR Women Would Ban Arbuckle Films No Matter How Trial Ends. Pittsburgh, Oct. 20 A. P. Birth control is the best remedy to eliminate war and make possible disarmament, Mrs.

Ann Kennedy, of New York, to-day told delegates attending the annual convention of the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women. Mrs. Kennedy's address on "over population of the world" was one of the features of the closing session of the convention. Among resolutions adopted by the convention following Mrs. Kennedy's address, was one declaring that motion pictures are becoming more and more a menace to children, and another was unanimously adopted urging that no more Roscoe Arbuckle pictures be shown in the state, regardless of the outcome of his trial in California.

PATERSON MANUFACTURER HELD IN SILK THEFT. Trenton, N. Oct. 20 A. P.

A jury in federal court to-day found Julius Cohen, a Paterson, N. silk manufacturer, guilty of receiving stolen goods in interstate shipment. His bail was fixed at $20,000 In default of which he was committed to the Mercer county jail. Sillcus "There isn't anything worse than being disappointed in love." Cynicus "Oh, nothing is bo bad that it couldn't be worse. When a fellow is disappointed In love he doesn't stand so much chance of being disappointed in marriage." Conferences between the labor board and presidents of five unions which -have ordered a walk-out adjourned with the announcement from the board that no definite results were obtained and the union chiefs returned to Cleveland.

Eleven "standard" unions, representing nearly three-fourths of the country's railway workers and which have voted for, but have not called a strike, marked time pending conferences between the labor boardatd the "Big Five." Secretary of Commerce Hoover announces plans have been completed by his department for transportation of essentials in case of a rail tie-up. Chairman McChord, of the interstate commerce and acting Attorney General Goff con HEADS IN N. Y. Claim Many Workers Have Offered to Fill Any Vacancies New York, Oct. 20.

(A. P. Railroads entering New York today got down to brass tacks iri their preparations to meet the threatened rail strike. Executives put in a day filled with conferences as a result of which it was decided to take a poll bf the employes to determine the number who would stick to their posts. Officials of various roads expressed confidence that they would encounter no diffi culty in filling empty places.

They based their confidence in large part on the response they said they had received to advertisements for workers to fill any vacancies that might occurr. SOUTHERN R. R. DENIES ASKING FOR WAGE CUT Lexington, Oct. 20.

(A. H. C. King, district passenger agent of the Southern Railway, issued here this afternoon a statement from General Manager J. H.

Stanfield, denying that the Southern was represented in the Chicago conference at which requests for further reductions in pay of railroad employes was decided on. REFUSE BUILDING PERMIT TO I. 0. 0. F.

Pittsburgh Residents' Objection to Orphangc Upheld by Plann'ng Committee Pittsburgh, Oct. 20. The city planning committee today unanimously recommended that a building permit be iheld from the order of Odni Fellows which had proposed to build an orphange for the orphans of the organizations in Pensylvania, after hearing objections of citizens residing in the vicinity of the proposed site. The principal argument against the erection of the orphanage used by the residents was that the proposed site was in a strictly residential district and that the erection of the institution would cause property values to depreciate. GENERAL DIAZ VISITS GRAVE OF ROOSEVELT Italian Hero of World War to Visit Grant's Tomb and West Point Today.

New York, Oct. 20 A. P. An automobile trip of 125 miles through the hills and dales of Long Island, with a visit to the grave of Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, occupied General Armando Diaz to-day. He inspected the state asylum at King's Park, where thirteen shell-shock war veterans are receiving vocational training, and was a luncheon guest at the Piping Rock Club.

To-night the general, his aides, and the party of American Legion officials who accompanied him, returned to New York for a dinner tendered the Italian warrior by city officials. To-morrow he will visit Grant's tomb and then board a destroyer, which will take him -to West Point to review the cadet corps. In the evening Gov. Miller will be his host at a dinner here. KING GEORGE TOO POOR TO Fit OUT YACHT FOR RACES London, Oct.

20. King George has announced owing to the great need of economy his Majesty cannot afford to fit out the royal yacht Britannia for the yacht race next year. "This is a great disappointment," says the announcement, "as there is no erort he enjoys more. Wear Young Gelger Shoes. 18-4t PREPAR STR Washington, Oct.

20. (A. After a two. days' fight the senate voted today, 36 to 30, to strike from he' tax revision bill house provision defining traders and foreign trade cor-porationSj which under other sections of the measure yet to be aclo 1 upon wi tild be exempted from taxation on income received from sources outside of the United States. Eleven Republicans joined with the solid Democratic majority in defeating the provisions which -re origin-plly proposed by the treasury department and.

vigorously defended by members of the senate finance com MINIS! PLOT ALL IS. N. J. MAYOR ARRANGES COMMUTERS' TRAINS "Rutherford" Specials to Carry 2,500 Persons to and From New York Daily Rutherford, N. Oct.

20. 'A. Mayor Sheaf will act as general manager of commuters' trains from this point on the Brie lines to New York, assisted by three commuters 'who are employed in the New York office of the road, if the railroad strike materializes. Rutherford sends 2500 commuters to New York daily. Mayor Sheaf announced that train crews for enough "Rutherford specials" to move this number of people had been arranged.

CAMPAIGN STARTED AGAINST BULL FIGHTS Philadelphia, Oct. 20 (A. Initial steps were taken today by the convention of the American Humane Association to combine anti-cruelty societies all over the world in a campaign against bull fights. The delegates subscribed several hundred dollars as a nucleus to a working fund. The campaign will be in charge of a committee headed by W.

K. Horton, inanager of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who recently sent a representative to Mexico to establish a humane society. A prominent humanitarian will be asked to lead the movement in Spain and a petition will be pre sented to Queen Victoria urging her co-operation. The convention ordered a letter sent to the secretary of the navy, asking that sailors and marines be pre vented from attending bull fights when on shore leave. REJECTS MILLIONAIRE AS "TOO HANDSOME" Jake Hamon's Widow Wants No Mora Risk of Rivals Chicago, Oct.

20 Handsome men are all right to lunch and dine and dance with, but for a husband one fond of his slippers after dinner and homely enough so that other women won't be trailing him, is preferable. Thus did Mrs. George Hamon, widow of Jake L. Hamon, the millionaire Oklahoma politician who was shot by Clara Hamon less than a year ago, give her reasons for re fusing to marry F. Albeit Morrison, Sacramento millionaire who is in Chicago wooing her.

"He proposed to me yesterday," Mrs. Hamon confessed, "but I can't marry him. He is too good looking. "When I find a man I can care for. who is homely enough- to be a safe bet, I will marry him, perhaps." 23 COLLEGES ACCEPT INVITATION OF PRINCETON Will Send Delegates to Conference on Limitation of Armaments Princeton, N.

Oct. 20. (A. Twenty-three colleges, including Yale, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Per.n State, Dartmouth and Brown, accepted Princeton's invitation to send delegates to a conference on the limitation of armaments here October 26. Dwisht W.

Morrow( of J. P. Morgan Company; Franklin O'Olier, former commander' of the American Logion, and Major General John F. of New York, are among those who have accepted Invitations to address the conference. STAR CLEANERS DYERS MOVED TO 25 N.

TENTH ST. FOOTBALL NOTICE Head Gears ".11.69 to $6.00 Footballs 98 to 7.00 Pants 2.98 Shoes 5.98 Goldsmith Reach guaranteed. PHILIPS, Cor. 4th Ham. Sts.

Reds Threaten Revenge if Comrades Convicted of Murder in America Are Executed. Herrick Receives 46 Letters Paris, Oct. 20. (A. A plot by French communists to take retaliatory measures against all American officials in France in the event of the execution of Sacco and Vanaetti, the two men convicted in a United States court of murder, was revealed tonight when it became known that threats had been made to blow up the offices of the American reparations commission and the passport bureau.

Threatening letters, warning of reprisals in the event of the death of the two men, also were received today by the American consul general, Alexander M. Thackara. and the American consuls at Marseilles, Bordeaux and Lyons. In consequence of this, Btrong forces of police are guarding the new building near the Place De L'Etoile, occupied by the reparations and passport offices and also the consulate in the Rue Des Italines. The letters to the passport and reparations officials were not signed, but a letter received by M.

Thachara this evening was signed by the communist organization In a small town near Lille. It said that retaliatory measures would be taken against American citizens in France if the men were executed. No arrests were announced up to a late hour tonight by the French police In connection with the explosion of a bomb In Ambassador Herrick's home and the police say they have abandoned the theory of a plot and believe that the sending of the bomb was the act of an individual communist. The police have discovered the district from which the package was mailed but have been unable to find.