The Tribune from Scranton, Pennsylvania • Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1867, VOL. 115, NO. 1 PMEMBER OF" THE1 ASSOCIATED PRESS SCRANTON, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1921 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS BURIED WITH RITES OF PRINCE OF THECHURCH Cardinal Gibbons Laid at Rest Under Sanctuary of Baltimore Cathedral MANY DIGNITARIES PRESENT Requiem Mass Celebrated By Archbishop Bonzano, the Apostolic Delegate Here BALTIMORE, Md March 31. James Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore, was buried today with 11 the honors that the Roman Catholic church could bestow one one of its princes'. Into the Cathedral of the Assump ion of the Blessed Virgin Mary the great stone pile about which the cardinal's whole life revolved poured prelates of equal rank, diplomats and statesmen from Washington, high officials of the land and state he had served, and members of his own flock.

Tknuuli Mas Bareheaded. Outside, in the rain, were massed 'weheaded thousands who, unable to the church, stood reverent ly for three hours while the pontifical requiem mass was being sung. t. ine enrviee as Dicture fill as a tapestry of the middles ages suddenly became ammaiea bishop John J. Glcnnon.

of St. Louis, took the pulpit and looking down on the bier of a fellow churchman, eulogized the late cardinal as the great leader and soldier, the great legishv great patriot, the kindly, eentle old man. Services nd at One O'clock. The service ended shortly before one o'clock after the cardinal had been absolved of all sin, and the long recessional streamed of Then came dusk. Witn the fall of evening tender hands lifted the frail little body of the churchman from the reat purple catafalque on which had rested in state for four days and placed it in a simple coffin of cardinal purple.

Then the casket was borne to the white marble crypt under sanctuary, in which six other archbishops already were sealed. A simple ceremony witnessed only by the closest and dearest and then the door of the vault swung to. In this manner James Cardinal Gibbons was laid to rest beneath the cathedral in which he had been baptized, i. kinh i Vafl been consecrated to nt rind, in which' he had been named tfcs youngest Disnop his "me, and in which in later years be had been elevated to arch bishop and cardinal. Xqvmu Thing of eauy.

The last requiem was a thing of boauty a symphony of aound and color. The cathedral was half filled when the head of the processional entered the doors shortly before ten o'clock, i The laiety were seated from the rear of the church forward to the foot of the candle lighted bier on which rested tha cardinal In his archbishop's I vestments and mitre. The entire forward part of the cathedral was reserved for th clergy. The organ pealed, into the church filed a. double column of seminary ohoristers.

Behind then came priests almost without number. There were the whlte surpliced secular clergy, and then memDers of various religious orders Paulists and Redemptorists, 8ulpicUns and Jesuits, Passionists in their black cassocks, Diminicans in white, and sandelled Franciscian monks In rope gird robes. Bala Chung" Plans. Rain falling as the procession started caused a slight change in plans for the procession. Instead of marching into the cathedral from Calvert Hall college with the priests of lesser ranks as had been Intended, the abbots and sreh abbots, bishops and arch bishops, Cardinals O'Connell and Begin, and Arch Bishop John Bonzano apostolic delegate, filed in from behind the altar after having entered the church from the arch episcopal residence in the rear.

In the cathedral there filed also members of the faculty of the Catholic University in Washington, wearing their caps and gowns. The scfaol kara, with their hoods of blue and red, orange and gold, turquoise and green, and the dhurchmen of high rank in their brilliant ceremonial robes seated themselves with the white surpliced clergy. It seemed as if to the area behind the altar rail, a moment before a oanvass of white, there had been touched a painter's brush. In an instant it became a tableau from the oarly history of the Church. Continued on Page Two CONFERENCE ON PEACE WITH IRELAND REPORTED BELFAST, March 31.

Cardinal Logue, the primate of Ireland, was interviewed Tuesday by Sir William Goulding and three other Southern Irish Unionists, with the object, it Is undersood, of securing the opening ot peace negotiations between the Irish Republican parliament and the British The interview took place at Dun dalk, Countf Louth. Sir William Goulding is a prominent Irish railway man, a resident of Dublin. He is chairman of the Great Southern and Western railway of Ireland and of the Irish railway clearing (house. He was a member of the Irish convention of 1017 18 and is a former high sheriff of the county of Dublin. WABVXST MARCH IS 130 TEA BS.

PHILADELPHIA. March 31. Philadelphia experienced the warmest March this year it has had for at least 130 years. Records date back to 1790 and ihow nothing to compare with It. The daily mean average of the month has been 52 degrees The next warmest March on record waB In 1903, when there was an average of 49.4.

There Was a total excess in temperature of 897 degrees for tho first thirty days of the month, or an average of almost 15 degrees a day. NEW YORK FIREMEN, IN HOUR'S BATTLE, FIGHT BLAZE ABOVE CLOUDS NEW YORK, March 31. Firemen fought among the c'otls for more than an hour early today before subduing a dangerous blaze on the thirty first floor of the towering Equitable building in the heart of the downtown skyscraper district. It was one of the highest fires the firemen have ever bp called upon to fight. The blaze started in a bro) office and clouds of smoke pf through the upper stories an vator shafts of the massive ture.

The Sre was under beforo the building's 15.000 tants arrived. Firemen crawled along row window ledges at dir above narrow streets .1 smash windows and pi lines of hose. Thou Ions of water pourf elevator shafts and ridors. FINAL STREET GAh CONFERENCE TODAY Contract to Extend to April 1, 1922, Will Be Decided Upon at Session CALL SPECIAL MEETING Employes Will Hear Final Report of Negotiations Tomorrow Morning Negotiations for a new agreement between the Scranton Railway company and its employes, the members of Division 168, Amalgamated associa Street and Electric Railway Employes of America, will probably be completed at a conference to be held this morning, union and company officials announced last night. That an agreement has already been reached and that this.

morning's meeting is merly for the purpose of discussing minor details, many of the members of the union believe. Representatives of the men or their employers would not say last night whether an agreement had been reached or not. M. H. Kernan, president of the union announced late last night that a special meeting of Division 168 would ba held at 2 o'clock tomorrow morning when a linal report of the negotiations would be read to the members.

The meeting will be held inCentral Labor Union hall, 125 127 Franklin avenue. Company officials and union leaders intimated that the report will be satisfactorily received. In order to make the contract entored Into 'by their representatives binding, it must meet with the endorsement of a majority of the members of the orginazation. The old agerem.ent expired last midnight. CENTRAL CITY SCENE OF MOST OF "MOVING" TODAY Changes in Business Section and Offices Lead With' dwellings and apartments sacrce in every section of the city, todayApril 1 will find much of the lsual moving activities in Scranton confined' to commercial Duuumgs.

Draymen of the city have prepared for as great a rush as ever, and re ports last night, night were tnat au had sufficient orders to keep them busy for several days. The central city win De me scene of most of the changes, omce duhu ings will be affected in most cases, while many small stores and lofts throughout the business sections will also be occupied by new tenants after today. Fair weather has been promised for today by the weatherman, guarantee ing some degree of comfort at least, to the unfortunate husband whose job is to assist in the furniture jug gling where Juggling Is to be done. The observance of the eight hour day by the miners of the valley will also give the man of the house abundant opportunity to help out Committee of 100 Reports On Conditions In Ireland Moral Responsibility For Disorders Is Laid to British Government MANY' WITNESSES HEARD Committee Admits It Was Not Successful in Getting' All Sides of Controversy Br Aasnrinteil Press, WASHING TON, March 31. Moral responsibility for the present disorders in Ireland is placed upon the British government by the Commission of the Committee of One Hundred investigating the Irish question in a 30,000 word report made public today and covering the examination of witnesses at public hearings held by the commission in Washington last November, December and January.

Declaring that the commission was "under the disadvantage of lacking the official British side of the case" except as it was gathered from documents presented to it, the report declares that "the imperial British army In Ireland has been guilty of proved excesses, not incomparable in degree and with those alleged, by the Bryce report on Belgium Atrocities, to have been committed by the imperial German army." The Bryce commission, it Is pointed out, was similarly handicapped. British Viewpoint Not Rprntd. Thirty eight witnesses of alleged atrocities including 18 Irish, 18 American and two English citizens, testified before the commlarton. The commission admits that Its report is ex parte in spite of Its efforts to hear all sides. The testimony available, the report says, gives the case therefore, almost wholly from the Irish (Continued f)n Page Thirteen) ORDER RECALL ELECTION FOR STATE'S HEADS Non Partisan Opponents Name "irth Dakota Governor and Others ft SET BEFORE NOV.

8 rstTime in U. S. History That Recall Election Affects Such High Officials DEVIL'S LAKE. N. March 31.

Political factions opposed to the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota, in convention here today, ordered that a recall election aimed at certain state officials be held on or before ember 8. The recall election, as ordered. Is directed against Governor Lynn J. Frazier, Attorney General William Lcmke and Commissioner of Agriculture John N. Hagan.

Action follows Debate The action of the convention came after an all afternoon debate on a resolution by Treadwell Twitchell, of Fargo, proposing the attempted recall of the three officials named. This is the first time in the history of the United States that a recall election has been ordered against a governor or other high state official, delegates to the convention asserted. "The brain child of the Socialistic regime the recall having been placed on the statute books of North Dakota by the Non partisans has grown up in four years and threatens to destroy its parent," Theodore G. Nelson, secretary of the Independent Voters' association and a member the Anti Non Partlsan forces steering committee, said. HOUSE PASSES FINALLY TWO BANK MEASURES Permits Examination Where They Act As Fiduciaries Special From a Staff Correspondent.

HARRISBURG, March 81. The Walker bill giving the banking department authority to examine national banks where such Institutions are corporate fiduciaries, whether appointed by testators, courts or registers of wills passed finally in the house to day after its sponsor had explained that the purpose of the measure is to bring under State supervision by law national banks that now object to examination of accounts of fiduciaries. The Walker bill requiring banks, guaranty and Indemnity companies, savings institutions and building and loan associations to file of record names of persons authorized to make entries on records of mortgages also passed finally. PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON M'CURDY BILL Special From a Ktaff Correspondent. HARRISBURG, March 31.

A public hearing before the house committee on counties and townships will be held Wednesday, April on the McCurdy bill, which rips 5,000 second class townships officers out of office and places their duties in the hands of the county commissioners. The date of the hearing was announced today by Representative W. W. Jones, chairman of the committee. HARDING PLANS TRIP TO ALASKA WITH FALL WASHINGTON, March 31.

Presi lent Harding, if the press of official duties permits, may visit Alaska ejirly this summer, accompanied by Secretary of the Interior Fall. The president has a trip to the great territory in mind In order to make a personal study of conditions there and possibilities for future development. Secretary Fall has decided to go to Alaska this summer to r. a survey of the territory which is administered by his department. He is trying to obtain the president's agreement to join him.

REPORT IS BIASED AND MISLEADING That is Statement British Embassy About Report of Commission of 100 VIOLENCE NOT CONSIDERED British Government Has Suffered Most From Acts of Indiscipline WASHINGTON, March SI. General conclusions of the unofficial commission of. the committee of one hundred Investigating conditions Ireland, placing normal responsibility for disorders there on the British government, are characterized as "biased and wholly misleading" in a statement Issued today by the British embassy in answer to the commission's report. The report, the embassy statement said, was "entitled to exactly the amount of weight which should be given to any Judgment based entirely upon the evidence of exparte statements put forward for the most part by persons admittedly holding extreme views." "That the crown forces (in Ireland) under almost incredible provocation patiently borne during many months, have on some occassions broken the bonds of discipline and committed unjustifiable acts of violenco Is not denied," the embassy statement continued, "but to say that such acts have been ordered, encouraged or condoned by the British government Is absolutely false. The interests which suffer most by acts of indiscipline are those of the government Itself." i HAVE PHENOMENAL INTELLIGENCE INA.NCY AND EpWLN WOODWAlti).

Tears ago J. E. "Woodward, now General Woodward, of Flushing, L. passed the entrance' to West Point, probably the "stiff tests of the academic world, and was the youngest boy ever to matriculate at the United States Military academy. N'ow, to prove there Is "something inthis Inheritance theory, after aljl.

Nancy and Edwin Woodward, children of General and Mrs. Woodward, have just passed "intelligence tests'' that would leace many an adult floun LOCK MIXED JURY UP FOR THE NIGHT. Failure to Agree Brings About New Epoch in Court History TWO WOMEN ARE SERVING Tipstaff Keeps Lonely Vigil Waiting For Result of Long Deliberations For the first time in tho history of Lackawanna county, a mixed jury has remained out over night. Mrs. Leah Pollock, of 643 Adams avenue, and Mrs.

Ida Hoffman, of 301 Wheeler avenue, are members of the jury which was "deadlocked in the court house last and up to early hour this morning had failed to arrive at a verdict. They are lng in the case against John Mitchell and Charles Moore, two colored youths, who were indicted for the attempted robbery of an express car. Tho negroes went to trial in criminal 'court yesterday. They were charged with being the men who, on January' 27 last, broke into an American railway express car on Lackawanna train No. 11, and attempted to make away with a box of silk dresses valued at J1.500.

The silk was thrown from the car near the Nay Aus tunnel, but was recovered a few hours afterwards by railroad detectives. Moore and Mitchell were taken into custody the same day on suspicion of being tho parties who entered the car. Cas Hotly Coattsted. The case was bitterly contested from beginning to end. Attorney Stanley Evans, ivEp represented both defendants, charged 'hat they had been "framed' and were being "railroaded" to prison.

Robert Difeckman, of the American Kailway Express company, was the and the commonwealth renrenpntert hv Assistant District Attorney Joseph B. Jenkins. President Judge H. M. JBdwartis occupieu me bench during the trial.

Testimony In the case was completed yesterday afternoon and" at 3 o'clock Judge Edwards delivered the usual charge to the. jurors. The jurors, with the two women in the lead, then filed out of the courtroom in charge of Tipstaff George Patterson, of La Plume. No instructions in regara to the acceptance of a late or scaled verdict were Kiven bv the court and the jurors immediately commenced their deliberations. In jury room No.

1, on the third floor of the court house. Unable To Agree. At o'clock. last night the Jury was rtported as unable to agree. When a Republican man visited the court house at 10130 o'clock he was Informed by Tipstaff Patterson that the Jurors had been 'locked In for' the night.

The court attache predicted that no verdict would be arrived at before morning and a third trip to the building at an early hour confirmed that fact. The Jury was still hopelessly deadlocked at press time. Mr. Pollock, who is chairman of the Democratic Womens' City committee, has taken an active interest in court affairs since she was called upon for service' in criminal court on Monday. Mrs.

Hoffman appeared to be enthusiasyc over jury service and was one of the most attentive jurors dur inc the proceedings yesterday. Both women served on Juries earlier in the I week. I BERGDOLL'S "CAPTORS" RELEASED BY GERMANY MOSBAOII, Germany. March 31. Oarl Neuf and Frans Zimmer were released from Imprisonment here today.

'The sentences of Neuf and Zimmer, both attached to the American army of occupation and under confinement here for their attempt to arrest Grover ClevcJand Bergdoll, the American draft evader, have been remitted by the Baden government. The German authorities stated" that the release was effffected at the request of the German federal government, and that It was dependent upon the good behavior of the two Americans. The action of the Baden government In releasing the men was due to representations made by Brigadier General H. T. Allen, commander of the American occupational forces, made to the German government through a member of the American general staff, who went to Berlin last week, and conferred with the German government authorities.

dering. Nancy, eight yea old, made the phenomenal intelligence quotient of 188 on the Stanford ievision of the Binet test, which perhaps not one child in 100,000 could reach. She has a vocabulary of more than 10,000 words, nearly that of an average adult and passed several of th'o "superior adult" tests. Edwin, ten years old. showed to have a mental age of 17 years and a vocabulary almost equal to that of a "superior adult." PITTSBURGH MEN DISPUTE OUR BILL Commerce Chamber of That City Opposes Non Partisan Repealer OLIVERS DO NOT WANT IT Senator Leslie, Favorable to Rpeal, and So is Mayor E.

V. Babcock By HAROLD MYERS From Correspondent ot Republican HARRISBURG, March 31. Pittsburgh's Chamber of Commerce Is preparing to send a delegation to the capital Tuesday to appear before the senate commmittee cm elections "for the hearing on the Davis bill repeal ing tho non partisan election! of city officials in Scranton and Pittsburgh, according to word reaching this city. Xcad. In Opposition.

The municipal affairs committee of the chamber, headed by W. H. Stevenson, chairman, supported by a number of civic bodies, is taking the lead in opposition to the measure. The Oliver cty council has likewise adopted resolutions opposing the repeal of the law. To Scrantonians this may appear in the light of a united opposition on the part of Pittsburgh, but to those acquainted with political conditions in the Smoky City it is viewed more in the light of a factional quarrel.

At the present time in Pittsburgh the faction headed by George T. Oliver is in oontrol of the city council, while Mayor E. V. Babcock is friendly to Senatsr Max C. Leslie, who is heart and soul in favor of the repeal of the non partisan law.

War Brewing long Time The fact that Senator Leslie, regarded as the Allegheny county leader, is favorable to the repealer is the signal for the Oliver faction to start the opposition to the measue. Ollver LeSlie war has been brewing for some time and it comes as no surprise now to find the Oliver faction fighting any measure In which Senator Ieslie is in terested. JUDGE LINDSAY ORDERED TO COURT FOR SENTENCE DENVER. March 31. Judge Ben B.

Llndsey, of the Juvenile Court, must aappear In Criminal Court here Saturday for sentence on conviction of contempt of court. A fine of $300 and costs, or a year in Jail, Is the maximum penalty. The United States Supreme Court refused to review his case. Judge Llndsey was found guilty for refusal to reveal at a murder trial what a small boy In the custody had confided to CON6UI, AT MARSEILLES. WASHINGTON, March 31.

Wesley W. Frost, foreign trade adviser of the state department, has been detailed at Marseilles, France, It. was an nounced at the department. W. W.

Cumberland has been designated acting trade adviser. Use Republican Classified Ads. IF you want to sell anything you can dispose of it quickly through a result getting classified ad. in The Republican, When ordering a Classified Ad. inserted, ask the ad takers for three time rates.

Sell second hand articles and seGure employes quickly through The Republican. Look among the classified ads for your theater invitation. THE STRAND THEATER Pola Negri in "Passion'' THE NEW ACADEMY "Which One Shall I Marry?" Read Today's Household Bargains 4 FORCES UNITE IN EFFORT TO RETURNRULER Thousands Flock to Colors in Plan to Restore Former Emperor to the Throne H0RTHY QUITS POST 100,000 Troops From West Hungarian Garrisons Ready to March on Budapest VIENNA. March 31. It is unofti' daily reported here that Admiral Horthy, the Hungarian regent, has resigned and will let events take thoir course, but the report is not confirmed.

It also is reported that former Emperor Charles Is on the way to Budapest from the frontier, and that the army adhering to his cause is on the move. Seek Southern Contingents. Furth'er reports are that 100.000 men from the West Hungarian garrisons have rallied to the colors of General Lehar, reputed to be the military leader In a movement from Steinamanger to cause the restoration of Charles, Anxiety was expressed as to whether Adbmiral Horthy would be able to hold the southern contingents in line. Further reports say the majority of Hungarian troops are ready to move on Budapest. The resignation of Regent Horthy, it is reported, was actuated by growing disaffection in the army and its virtual refusal to support him longer.

Martial Law In West Hungary. Confirmation was received in official quarters here this afternoon that martial law had been declared in West Hungary, under the supporters of ex Urineror Charles. caused an intensified feeling of gravity in gov ernment circles over the situation. The Wiener Journal announces that thirty thousand Jugo Slav troops Have been massed in Varasdin, In Croatia, with the intention of marching on Steinamanger and preventing a restoration of the Hapsburgs by all means. The Hungarian charge d'affaires has notified Austria that former Emperor cnaries return to Switzerland.

The Swiss minister declares that Switzerland will agree to his return. GUEST AT DINNER Local Men Are Hosts to Cyrus E. Woods In Harrisburg Special From a Stuff Correspondent. HARRISBURG, March SI. Cyrus E.

Woods, secretary of the commonwealth who hat been selected by President Warren G. Harding as ambassador to Spain, was the guest at a dinner in the Harrisburg club Wednesday night given by a number of his close friends at the capitol. Lackawanna county members or the legislature were In attendance. The guests were C. B.

Connolly, commissioner of labor and industry; John Fisher, commissioner of banking; Thomas B. Donaldson. Insurance commissioners, James A Walker, chairman of the house banks and banking committee: W. C. Clyde Harer, chairman of the house mines and mining committee; W.

F. Stadtlander, chairman of the house municipal corporations committee; W. WV Jones, chairman of the 'house county and township oommittee; Hugh A. Dawson, chairman of the ways and means committee; D. T.

Francis Patterson; Representative M. J. Ruddy, Dunmore and Thomas O'Connor, Dundell. Several interesting talks were given by the various diners, all of a congratulatory nature. TAJtli FATAL AT 100.

PHILADELPHIA. March 21 Mlas Msther De Young. 100 years old, died today at the Jewish hospital, as the result of a fall last month In which she fratcured her hip. She was born Virglnville, Berks county. Fully Dozen Buildings Affected By Mine Gave Squeeze Peoples Coal Company Workings Affects Large Area In West Scranton.

Settlings biwving their origin, ac fc coramg to engineers, in the workings of the Oxfor4 ''mine of the Peoples Coal coijjpaiy resulted yesterday morning in one of the most seriouS surface disturbances in West Scran ton's cave zone in years, an area covering more than four city blocks being affected. Nearly a dozen buildings were damaged, one being wrecked so badly that city officials are to conJemn and order it razed Immediately. Other properties In the area were also affected, gas and wcter mains were broken, streets dropped slightly, and families were driven into the street. Keeling in West Scranton ran hib as a result of the cave and the damage it wrought, and a committee who called on Mayor Alex T. Connell yesterday afternoon to discuss the Peoples Coal company contempt proceedings considerable time to going over the situation.

Officials Visit Scene, City officials wei also on the scene shortly after the settling began, Director of Public Safety 12. II. Ripple, James B. Smith head of the bureau of mine inspection and surface support, Police Captain Arnold Roth and Building Inspector George Weiland being amonu those who viewed the damage. The area bounded by Jackson and Robinson streets on the rjctrth, Scranton street on the south, Ninth avenue on the east and Main avenue on the west, was disturbed by the subsidence.

Beginning yesterday morning at 'clock the settling, in the nature of a squeeze, continued throughout the day, and the next thirty six hours is expected to see even greater damage, the city authorities believe. Of brick construction, a three story tenement at 908 Scranton street, owned by Chris Colizzo, of 811 Falrview avenue, was almost totally wrecked, the occupants being ordered to vacate yesterday morning by police. (Continued on Page Two) BOULDER ON WHICH HE PLAYED WHEN A BOY WILL MARK BURROUGH'S GRAVE 'POUGHKEEPSIE, N. March 31. A boulder upon which John Burroughs played as a boy and sat In study of nature, as a man and world renowned naturalist, will form the headstone of the grave where his body is to be interred next Sunday, on his eighty fourth birthday.

The burial plot, selected yesterday by relatives of the great naturalist, who died suddenly while returning to his home, near here, on a passenger train, is high in the Cat ski 11 mountains In Roxbury. A few feet from the burial ground stands the old house in which Mr. Burroughs was born. A little distance away is "Woodchuck Home," the summer camp of the naturalist. Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and H.

S. Firestone are expected to attend the funeral services Saturday at the naturalist's home, Riv erby, a few miles up the Hudson from Poughkeepsie, and to accom Ipany the body to its final resting fpliree. DAWSON WANTS HALFOFTAXFOR COALCOUNTIES Declares For 50 Per Cent. Return From Proposed Revenue For Hard Coal Districts WILL RQUST DELEGATION Plans to Ask Mayor Connell to Send Representatives With Proposal to Governor Si.eei.i.i From Rtntf Correspondent. HARRISBURG, March 31.

Representative Hugh A. Dawson chairman of the ways and means committee, today declared himself as favoring a return to the coal producing counties of fifty per cent, of the revenue realized under the proposed Williams bill placing a tax of two and one half per cent, on the value of anthracite coal prepared ror mantel, Mr. Dawson announced that upon his return to Scranton he will request Mayor Alex T. Connell to name a committee to go to Harrisburg to meet Governor William C. Sproul ana en deavor to have the chief executive agree to the proposal.

Mr. Dawson and James A. Walker, chairman of the banks and banking committee, were guests of the gover nor at a dinner last night when the gffneral revenue raising program was discussed. At the dinner Mr. Daw son suggested the idea of a companion bill whereby fifty per cent, of the revenue realized would be returned to the coal counties.

"I believe," Mr Dawoon said today In discussing the tax, 'that the coal counties should receive a direct benefit from the tax on their natural resources which are diminishing each year. I hope that by a united effort we will be able to convince the governor of me justice or our cause. PBOBE OF ELWELL'S DEATH IS RE OPENED NEW YORK CITY. March 31 It has been learned at the Criminal Courts building here that the investi gation into the murder of Joseph Browne Elwell, noted turfman, whist expert and art collector, has been re opened. It is expected that some further interesting developments will fol.

low. It was also said at the court building that Charles S. Whitman, has turned his force of investigators loose. Assistant District Attorney James E. Smith is in charge of the new Inquiry.

Elwell's body was found early June 11 in a chair In the HvinK room of his handsomely furnished home by his housekeeper who let herself in by a pass key. It developed after the murder that Elwell had been a member of a. midnight party, at which some friends had been entertained, and after his death developments showed that he had had many affairs witn women. 202 RAILROADS LOST, $1,167,000 IN JANUARY 109 Failed to Earn Expenses and Taxes, Is Report WASHINGTON. March SI A deficit for January of $1,167,000 was shown for 202 railroads of the country in reports submitted to the Interstate commerce commission, the association of railway executives announced last night.

Tabulation of the reports as furnished them, the association added showed that 109 of the railroads whose reports were made available failed to earn expenses and taxes during the month. Of these 109, it said, 15 were in the eastern, 16 In the southern and 4S in the western districts. This compares, It was added, with 88 who failed to earn expenses and taxes in Decern ber. Operating revenues, In sanuary, according to the anouncement were 1468,834,000, an Increase of 6 1 5 per cent, over January, 1920, while the operating expenses were 8442,474,000, an increase of 6 1 5 per cent, over the corresponding period of a year ago. WOTB1 OBTC IT.OOOOO.

CH.KAGO, March 81. The bulk of the 17,000,000 estate of Robert Prln ple, who died a bachelor in February, 1919, went to his only brother, James, of Milwaukee, it became known when final accounting was made in probate court Wednesday. Pringle, one of the leading grain dealers on the Chicago Board of Trade, Is said to have made his first million dollars on the board at the age of 1 HARDING GETS RAIL PROBLEM FROM WORKERS Employes Lay Down Proposal For New Conference Between Labor and Roads WOULD SETTLE QUESTION Message From Jewell Asserts Parley Would Have "Immed late Salutory Effect" CHICAGO, March 81. Railroad em, ployes tonight laid a proposal befor President Hardin for a conference beJ twen labor and the railroads in an ad tempt to settle the whole tion problem now confronting th country, so far as labor Is concerned Tn a telegram, signed by B. Ml Jewell president of the railway employes' department of the American Federation of Laibor, the chief executive was asked to call a conference between the railway executives and the labor unions "to undertake to compose the differences on all points in dispute." Unions Have "STery Tsith" Mr.

Jewell declared the unions had every faith" that such a conference would be "productive of immediate salutary results." The message follows in part: "Two million railroad workers and their millions of dependents are vitally interested in your efforts to effect a solution of the railroad problem Obviously no policy or program that is unacceptable to them will be productive of thf much desired result of co operation, and accordingly, therefore we urge respectfully that we be given a voice in the determination of what is to be done." "Th first essential to peace and orderly progress in the transportation industry is a speedy settlement of the controversies between the riers and the railway employes over national agreements and "Accordingly we urge that yni uf your executive influence to bring about a conference between the railway executives as they are organized nationally the railroad employes as' they are organized nationally to undertake to compose the differences on all points in dispute." GEORGIAN TORNADO WREAKS 100 BUILDINGS ALBANY, March 81 Th Northern part of Albany was swept by a tornado late today that killed one man, a negro Injured elrty persons, half dozen seriously, and caused property damag estimated at several hundred thousand dollars. The tornado destroyed or partially wrecked approximately a hundred dwellings, but Its greatest damage was to a dozen or more large industrial plants. The storm swept a stretch of territory about a himdred yards wide and a mile and a quarter long. The industrial plants damaged inoluded the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company, unofficially estimated at 880,000. BODY OF W.

B. SHEPPARD BURIED IN HONOLULU PHILADELPHIA, March 31. Mrs. WiHlaei Bidcita Sheppard, whose husbami was Wiled when he was run down by an aatowobtte In Honolulu, H. last week, Is on her way to this city, where she will make her future home.

Mr. Sheppard, for more than twenty five years a prominent business man of this city his death while hailing a trolley oar, dyinf from injuries sustained when struck by an automobile driven by a Chinese. The body has been buried in Honolulu. Mr. Sheppard retired from active business about a year ago and sines then has spent a great deal of time in traveling.

He an Mrs. Sheppard departed for the Hawaiian Island in January. BRUSH COAL MINERS ARE OUT ON STRIKE RaHwaymen and Traruport Workers May Join LONDON, March 31. Success or failure for the national coal miners strike which has been ordered to begin at midnight tonight is expected to depended upon the results of meetings of the railway and transport workers called for early next week. The national union of railwaymen has called a conference of delegates for April at which it will be decided whether the railway men will support tho miners and transport workers wiil meet April 6 to take similar action.

If te statement Issued today or. behalf of the railwaymen and th transport workers influences the railwaymen and the transport workers actively to support the miners through a sympathetic strike, the outlook I ominous. Some persons point out that there Is an increasing likelihood of the entire triple alliance, nuborlnn almost 3.000,000 workers laying down their tools. WHISKEY ftVKXTER KILLED. CHICAGO, March 31.

Frank' Richardson, prohibition officer, wa notified today that Charles Slhllln was killed and Walter Wacho wounded iu a pistol duel with police in East Chicago, Tndlana. The men are believed to have been whiskey runners. Slbiliu is said to have lived in Pittsburgh. THE WEATHER WASHINGTON, March 81. Fore east for Slastern Pennsylvania: Partly eloudy and colder Friday; Saturday fair with rising temperature.

LOOAX MVOU TO SAITTOW (for the 24 hours ending at 8 p. Maximum temp, at 4 p. Minimum temp, at 12 a. 42 Average temp. 49 Normal temp 41 Total precipitation 27 8a.m.

12n. 8p.m. Dry bulb temp 46 52 48 Wet bul1 temp 44 49 4 Dew point ........42 4fi 46 Relative 87 82 3.