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jf 1 jll '1- WEATHER: Increasing cloudiness tonight; probably rain or snow tomorrow NUMBER 1823 PRICE TWO CENTS r'ublished Every Kvenlng Except Sunday by The Patriot Company HARRISBURG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1923 Entered at the retary Legislative Leaders Eyre and Goodnough Are New Presiding Officers; To Reconvene Jan. 15 The 1923 or 12-th general assembly of Pennsylvania met hero today to organize and to listen to tJovernOr Sproul's final message. Itoth parties having selected candidates for House and Senate cfllcea in party caucuses la.st night, the Republican majority formally elected and Installed its nominees today, and the session was on Its hand! T. Larry Eyre, Chester, was elected president pro tem of the Senate, and V. Jay (ioodnough.

Cameron, sneaker of tho House. At the suggestion of Lieutenant liovernor licldlcman. the joint nesslon took a recess so that members could greet the The joint wefcsion lH'forc adjourning computed the November vote for Ciovernor and other State officials and' Glfford Ilnchot and his colleagues on the ticket were declared elected. The House at 2.45 o'clock took a recess nntil 3.15. Roth houses were to adionrn Intc this afternoon until o'clock Monday night, January 15, the day before the Inauguration of Gifford Plnchot.

MAN AND WOMAN HURT IN LEAP PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 2. Their clothes in flames, Stanley Rosic, 40, and his wife, Frances, 40, hurled themselves out of a third story window today to the roof of a shed fifteen feet below when fire trapped them in their home. Their condition is serious.

B. 0. LOSES STAMP TAX SUIT WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company lost in the Supreme Court of the United States today its suit to recover stamp taxes on deeds of conveyance alleged to have been illegally exacted. RACE WAR FEARED IN OKLAHOMA TULSA, Jan.

2. With 400 white men, heavily armed, patrolling Sapulpa, a small town twenty miles west of here and reported prepared to wipe out the blak belt following the ambushing of five policemen there by negroes last night, in which one officer was killed and four wounded, the situation continued tense today, McCONNELL DEMURRER OVERRULED PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2. Demurrers filed by William C. McConnell, former state prohibition director and forty-six others to an indictment charging them with a gigantic conspiracy to allow the withdrawal of whisky on fraudulent permits, were overruled by Judge Thompson in the United States district court here today.

GERMAN PROPOSALS FAIL WASHINGTON, Jan. failure of the German proposal for ah international pact to preserve the peace of Europe, through a provision calling for national plebiscite before declarations of war, was announced officially today i by Secretary of State Hughes. S. TO PAY DENMARK SHIP AWARD WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.

The $14,000,000 award to Norway by The Hague tribunal for Norwegian ships i which were taken over by the United States in American ports during the war, will be paid in full without further I protest by this government, it was announced at the White House today. If r'Vs Vy' I fjt7 WW T. UXltllY EYR12 President. -Pro Tent, of the Senate Mi monk Care in Making Plans for Reorgan izing Governmen Urged in Sprout Message ARTS CURATOR LEARNS PLAN FOR PARK EH AL Eyre Outlines Senate Duties Pertaining to Prohibition Measures Amid huge banks of flowers which almost obscured the members, tire State Senate began its 125th session shortly after noon today. The session was opened by Lieuten-snt Governor Ucidleman, who after the invocation, read the call for special elections issued since the close of tho 1921 session to fill vacancies by resignation and death.

Secretary of the Commonwealth Bernard J. Myers was introduced by the sergeant-at-arms, to present the official foturns of votes from districts where State senators were elected -in November. The1 count of each district was.read by the -reading clerk. Forty-seven Senators' responded to roll call, Senators Morris Einstein, Allegheny, and William J. Nichol, Turn to Pago Twenly-ono QUITS CONGRESS SENATORIAL OATH William S.

Vare, Philadelphia, today resigned as a member of the Sixty-seventh Congress, which ends next 4, so as to be able to to take his oath of office as a State Senator at noon aa the successor to his brother, the late Edwin 8. Vare-. He did not resign as a member of the Sixty-seventh Congress, to which he was elected in November, because he said in a statement that to resign now would mean a special elec tion that would cost the city of Philadelphia 30,000. He would not become a member of that Congress until December, 1923, Turn to Page Thirteen FOUR-YEAR CASH MORATORIUM, IS BONAR LAW PLAN PARIS, Jan. Premier Bonar Law today proposed to the conference of Allied premiers a four-year cash moratorium for Germany and a reduction of the reparations payments to 50,000,000,000 gold 'marks.

Great Britain also proposed a system of cancellation of allied debts. France, under the scheme put forward by Bonur Law will receive the first series of German bonds. The second series will -be pooled and distributed among nations Indebted to the United States, in ratio of their debts to SEEK PHILLIPS IN SLAYER HUNT LOS AXGELES. Jan. 2.

Officials renewing their search for Clara Phillips today turned their attention to locating Armour Phillips, husband of the escaped "tiger woman." Phillips left here with the announced intention of going to Texas. Advices from that state today were that he had not arrived at his announced in El Paso or San Antonio. Search for him was started when authorities declared they had information that a man closely resembling Phillips had purchased groceries in Beverly Hills during the time Clara was believed In hiding in a cabin there. The cabin, officials later announced, was within almost a stone's throw of the bungalow where J. Bulton Kennedy was murdered while In company with Madalynne Obenchaln.

In the Jatl Clara Phillips and Mrs. Obenchaln had been close friends. Mrs. Obenchaln denied rumors that ohe was directing Mrs. Phillips de-fonsc wlille the latter was on trial.

as Second-Class Matter Poet Office at Haxrlsburg it a In in In P. QUITS HARDING CABINET AFTER ARGUMENT OVER FOREST CONTROL ALBERT FALL T1i Vnitcd Prexs WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. Secretary of Interior Fall will retire from President Harding's cabinet on March 4, was officially announced at tho White House Ha will lie the second member of the cabinet.

lp resign during President Harding's administration, Will Hays having rttired to become head of the motion-picture Industry. The President offered Fall a post tlon on the Supreme Court succeeding Justice Pitney, it was said, but Fall declined to accept this position. Itrlurun to Du.slneaii At the White House, it was stated that Fall was Insistent upon retiming to his private business interests, which he has long neglected because of public service in the Senate and the cabinet. It was believed, however, that President Harding's recent decision to support the conservationists In their fight against Fall's plan to gain control of the'; forest reserve of the country by having the forestry bureau transferred, from, the department of agriculture to the department of interior- played some part in the secretary's determination to retire. There was no indlcatlbn today as to who would succeed-Fall as secretary of President Harding lias madono decision as to his successor, was said.

ilfetel Men Considered Cartnl recently defeated for the governorship of Ohio. Senator Harry aew, defeated for, the senator-ship in Indiana, and Representative Mondell. Wyoming, defeated -for the senatorshlp in Wyoming, are among thoee most prominently mentioned for the post. Fall will have rounded out exactly two years of service in the cabinet when he retires March 4. Previous to that he served nine years as a senator from New Mexico.

CELEBRATION OF NEW YEAR TAKES BIG DEATH TOLL New Year's celebrations, motoring parties and poisoned liquor took a country-wide toll of. life, over the week-end. Chicago led cities in its death list, nine being killed in automobile accidents and ono shot to death. Eleven persons lost their lives In Ohio as result of holiday accidents or shootings. In New York two were shot to death, in Detroit two.

In Philadelphia three, and in Wilmington one. Automobile deaths and injuries wcro numerous, three being killed in this way in Philadelphia, one dying from injuries in New York and one Chicago. Three were killed in accidents In western New York state. Three were drowned in boa-ting New Jersey and one in Detroit, skating. Poison liquor was responsible for Turn to Page Thirteen Two Held for Court at Hearing Before Mayor Charles StambH.

who wmb i the arm while attempting to rob a city store, was held for court late this afternoon by Mavor Hoverter default of J1500 ball. The same pmiiunt hail quired of James L. Keid, colored juuui, nuia xor attempted Holdup at 8. Pomeroy store He was held for court trial. I- I THOROUGH CITY COMMISSIONER Is getting to ho a real bug on going to fires.

Me hiked himself out o' bed Sunday morning and siepped into a temperature of twenty-eight degrees above zero to the lire at Second and Chestnut streets. The boss of the city's finances weed with Fire Chief that the fire was a stubborn one, and he kept on the job among the specta-uns, closely observing the smoke-i ill trs who battled for hours before tint last flicker of flame was i'ni In the early stages of the lire, the wind from the south penetrated through the thickest of "homespuns," but Burtnett bothered about nothing 'cept the fire and his "Don't you mind the cold?" asked mi inquisitive bird who was shivering one shake after another. "Cold: No, the cold doesn't oother rie. I've got on my pajamas, a heavy suit, Mrs, Burtnett's sweater, mil woolen socks beneath this gum lent and these boots." The Finance Commissioner needed only a rubber hat to make his fire-liiiui's outfit complete. RESOLUTION THE REV.

DR. GEORGE PRESTON MAINS, In response to TUB EVENING NEWS request for' Suggestions for New Year resolutions, submits: "To cherish life's higher Ideals; to live on the upper rather than on tho lower planes of thought and motive; to exalt duty above self-interests, appetite, or greed: as an individual to be true, dutiful, noble and pure in all life's relationships; ns a citizen to bo loyal to law, conscientiously dutiful in discharge of civic obligations; as a public official to discharge his service with hands absolutely unstained by any bribe, and to bo a man at whose core there may always be cherished an honest contempt for any man, no matter what his political station, who will so far betray his trust as to augment Id's private fortune by even the slightest graft from the public trens-ury; to once in a while remind one's self that he lives in an ethical universe in which God holds final reign, in which life's supreme meaning is moral, and in which the most tragic bankruptcy of the individual is to be content with uprighteousness; to be not forgetful that we are in an existence which calls for a serious diagraming of life, that we are in a world where service is a synonym not only of the only true achievement, but also of the only enduring character; to remember with a regulative touch upon both motive and conduct that God has neither ordained the earth as a mere playground, nor human life as simply a play-day." MORE ATTRACTIONS A L. ADERTON, superintendent of the Sunday Schools of the Market Square Presbyterian Church, has always believed in the potency of the appropriate church hymn. But his belief was shaken' to its foundations last Sunday during the devastating fire at Second and Chestnut streets." The fire was at its height when the opening hour for Sunday Schools arrived. Superintendent Aderton was fully cognizant that at that moment burning buildings were holding a greater appeal than "burning bushes" to the Junior and Intermediate, departments of his Sunday Schools.

Hoping that an early quenching of the blaze would send the Sundrfy School deserters back to their pews, he delayed the openin? hymn as long as politic. Finally in one last appeal to the youths he announced: "The opening hymn His morning will be 'Come All Ye But they came not. City Police Stop Auto Drivers With 1922 Licenses Motorists driving machines with 1922 license tags were ordered from city streets by patrolmen today, unless the drivers could produce affidavits showing that they had applied for a license prior to December 28. All motorists stopped were ordered to report to Chief of Police Joseph P. Thompson in the police station on Walnut atreet ana all but one obeyed.

More than fifty law the chief before 11 o'clock this morning. If the drivers could produce! an affidavit, the chief permitted them to continue operation of their cars. If ilny couldn't produce the affidavit, the law was enforced. Goodnough tikes Fiea for Co-operation; Sarig Candidate of Democrats The 1923 session of the House of Representatives opened trornptly at noon today, when Chief Clerk Thomas H. Garvin rapped the gavel for order.

Prayer by the chaplain followed, and then the official returns of the election of the assemblymen were presented by Bernard J. Myers, secretary of the commonwealth. Upon motion of Representative Armstrong, the House at once proceeded to compute the a detail actually attended to weeks ago. The roll call confirming the vote ahowed 204 of the 208 members present. Judge Fraak'B.

Wlckersham, Dauphin County; tho oath, he being requested to appear by motion made by Representative Hall of this cityv More than half of the members sworn by uplifted hand. But Turn to Page Twenty-one UNANIMITY MID HARMONY MARK PARTY CAUCUSES The caucuses held by Republicans and Democrats at tho Capitol last night were without excitement, the programs prearranged went through with harmony and unanimity. The Republicans, with assurances that Governor-elect Plnchot would approve their attitude, backed the old organization officers of both Senate and House. The Democrats took a solemn pledge to stand together on all party matters and to vote as a bloch. For the first time in the history of the State, women attended the Republican House caucus aa members, eight being present Just as they were today when the House first met.

The Democrats have a potential block of forty-one members in the House; the' largest in -a decade, and their program as outlined last night was in agreement with the understanding reached here several weeks ago when State Chairman McCol-lough entertained them at dinner. Wilson G. Sarig, of Berks, was th unanimous choice of the delegation for nomination for Speaker. Hit nomination was made by Chester IL Rhodes, Monroe County, and seo onded by Ralph E. Schoener, ol Berks.

Other nominations for the majo Turn to Puge Four And Governor-Elect and Wives Attend Reception A former Governor, Governor and a Governor-elect of the State of Pennsylvania, and their wives, will be here for the reception to be held tomorrow night in the Executive Mansion. The reception is to bo given by Governor and Mrs. Sproul in honor of Governor-elect and Mrs. Pinchot, and, it was learned today, former Governor-and Mrs. John K.

Tenor will be here as tho guests of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Todd, 1007 North Front street, and will attend the reception to the Pinchots. Pinchot Is Expected To Remove Connelley Rumors are again In circulation on Capitol Hill to the effect that Governor-elect Plnchot in reorganizing- the Department of Labor and lndutry, will remove Clifford B.

Connelley, the commissioner. Connelley has been In conference with Plnchot several times since election day, but, friends of the new Governor say the present commissioner is not the type of man desired for the Job. Pinchot has also been in conference with organized labor men recently. SPOONS lKI TO BREAK JAIL LOQANSPORT, Jan. t.

I'alng two pewter spoons and a penknife for tools, Vern Perry, 27 years old, of Charleston. W. Va who was being held on a charge of highway robbery, ilug hii way to freedom from the county jail here early yesterday. C. JAY GOODNOrOIt Speaker of the House Some Highlights of Governor's Message "Until the sentiment of Hie I people earnestly Kupporls the dry laws their enforcement will be extremely dJflic-ult and their Reneral effect more harmful than benelfctal." "State employes are.

not all A. nr Hi, but the general results are very satisfactory on whole." "Even In plates which have hail prohibition for years there has been mncli more illicit trade In intoxicating liquors than before the passage of the l'edcral enforcement act." "A great deal has liecn said about reorganizing the State government. Having had considerable experience in several undertakings of the kind during the oast quarter-century and having more titan once approached the tak with the zeal and ontJiusla.sni of youth and high purpose, I trust I mar not be misunderstood when 1 say that much should not he expected at once." "The 'great deficit which was foreseen a few montjis ago will have been reduced to very inconsiderable proportions by the em! of the fiscal fear." The appropriation of in 1921 "was undouhir edly somewhat too high for conservative practice." 'No greater public service has ever lieen rendered Pennsylvania than that given by the devoted men and women who have reorganised and developed our system of public education." "Every forward movement in education in Pennsylvania has been vigorously fought but a step once taken in this direction hRvS never been retraced." "Probably no investment the people of the State could have I made could bring them greater results than the money which has been expended in building the splendid highways which now distinguish Pennsylvania." FUNDS FOR WORK IN HARRISBURG URGED BY SPROUL In discussing the activities of the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings, of which he is chairman, Governor Sproul In his message today expressed the hope that provision would be made for the completion of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Bridge at State street, as well as for the. starting of the second office building in the park. "The completion of this great project," he said, referring to the bridge and the general park developments, "will make our capital city one of tho moat beautiful In the world." The Governor said: The activities of the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings during the past four years have been of great importance.

In addition to the Turn to Page Tldrteen NEAR EAST WAR TO BE UNDER LONDON, Jan. 2. "War in the Near East; feared as a result of the breakdown of the, Lausanne, conference, may already have, begun, according to reports reaching London today. No official word of actual hostilities has been rocelved, but various dispatches reported a revolt in the Mosul Vilayet, where Kurds and Turkish tribes were said to have burned British airplane hangars. Mosul is the second most important British air base in Mesopotamia.

The Daily Mall today said such uprising against the British was reported from Angora, the Turkish nationalist capital. Officials suggested the reports might be nationalist propaganda, but admitted Mosul was seventy miles from the nearest rail head and that official confirmation might be slow in arriving. Uritlsh nationals and Maltese who have been living in Constantinople are hastily evacuating the former Turkish capital. Nearly 2000 departed for Malta on New fear's Day, and all others have been ordered out as a precautionary measure. Other reports from Angora declared the Keniallsts were agitated over the situation at Lausanne, and had adopted a more aggressive attitude than ever.

The Angora assembly was to hear a. report from Ismet Pasha today which was not expected to ease the bitter tension. Britain strengthened her Mediterranean fleet over the week-end. By Vniled Pros PARIS, Jan. 2.

Despite threats of war reported uprisings in-Sieso-potamia and defiance of the Angora government, Great Britain today de- Turkish demands regarding Mosul ana tne straits. Marquis Curzon returned to Lausanne at noon carrying Bonar Law's authorization for a firm "no" to. all demands presented at the Lausanfie parley by Ismet Pasha which the British delegate previously had rejected. The Turkish threats of war are to be met without the least sign of con- fliiinHnn It wna KtAted in British circles following a conference be tween Bonar Law, uurzon anu ineir advisers here this morning. Three Men Drown a ri is uury uueuurns DELAIR.

N. Jan. 2. Three men were drowned in the Delaware River hadp hrA late last nie-ht. whan a small dory overturned.

One man saved nis me cy Bwimming asnore. The drowned are: J. Owen Scott, 19, Philadelphia. Charles Hopkins, 40, Philadelphia. Michael 42, Philadelphia.

Harry ummuin, Aiinunessen, an expert swimmer aaved himself by swimming ashore in the icy water. Joie Ray Reinstated NEW YORK, Jan. 8. Joie Ray, National one-mile champion, has. been reinstated as a memher in good standing of tha A.

A. it was announced today. His reinstatement came after the receipt of a check for $100, which was tv allegred amount that Ray had received over and atiove expenses af an eastern last Winter. BELIEVED WAY Cautioning the members of, the General gathered in Joint session here fbday at the opening of the l23 session, to exercise care and caution in adopting plans to reorganise the State government. Governor William C.

Sproul reminded them that the government Is "very well framed under the limitations of the Constitution." It was the valedictory address of the Governor, who, two weeks from, today goes out of office, and he spoke from an experience of twenty-six years here as either a Senator or as Governor. "Undoubtedly helpful ideas will be presented," he said as he appeared In person in the hall of the House of Representatives, and'-then he added that some of these "may lead to practical, results in tho line of economy and efllclepcy." The Governor who, during his term, tried to bring a constitutional convention because he. had learned first-hand of limitations under which the government functioned, said that he hoped he would not be misunderstood when he said that "too much should not be expected at, once" through reorganization plans. An matters stand, he pointed out, "no-State has excelled us in constructive service to our people." Rome Overlapping The retiring executive, while he extolled the work of his administration, enumerating many achievements-which he said were worthwhile, did not claim that the present scheme of things at Ilarrisburg is perfect. "There is some overlapping of activities," he admitted, "some motion and some obsolete units, no doubt; but we must be 'careful to remedy theso things without impairing a fine governmental structure by illy-considered changes which may do Infinite harm by disorganization and confusion." However, the Governor said in another portion of his message, it was particularly reassuring to him "to know that the executive office ia to pass Into the hands of a high-minded, progressive and earnestly patriotic citizen whom I had the honor of calling into the State's service, and under whose direction the orderly development of the public business will bo maintained and am-pliiied." In speaking of the State's finances, the Governor said the State's fiscal officers are rapidly, working out a solution of the Commonwealth's troubles.

During the recent campaign there was widespread dissemination of misinformation relative to the financial condition of the State, he said, and he asserted as a matter of fact that the State has been poor, but that that condition was the result of abnormal conditions. The return of corporate activity and the collection of back taxes is resulting "in our plans working out In a most gratifying way." The Legislature may, he explained, by lapsing unexpended appropriations, caneol nearly all of the appropriation liability of the Commonwealth, but the Governor said "the State government is going concern and I doubt the wisdom of such a Btep." He said that in approving appropriations two years ago for approximately 118,000.000, the sum was "undoubtedly somewhat Turn to Page Ten WIDOW ENDS IJFi; MONTREAL. Jan. 2. While suffering from the hallucination that she would be abducted, Mrs.

Bridget MacEvoy. widow, of Philadelphia, committed suicide today lv inhaling tas. Donald M. Kirkpatrick, curator of the State Arts Commission, met this morningr with the Memorial Committee of the Volunteer Firemen's Association of thin city and with the Mayor and members of City Council and together the group inspected the sito ut Front and Verbeki: streets, where the firemen would like to have permission to erect a memorial, in front street park, to those firemen who saw service in the World War. Kirpatrlok was non-committal on tho question of approving the site, he said he was here merely in the interest of gathering information for the Arts Commission and that its up to the commission to pass on the site question.

This same stati! body also must approve the memorial before it can be erected, under an existing act of assembly, bur Turn to Pages Thirteen MINERS LIVING IN SQUALOR, PROBERS' REPORT NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Living and working conditions in the Berwind-Whlte coal mines of Pennsylvania, which supply the Interborough Rapid Transit Company with coal are worse than that of slaves before the Civil War," a committee appointed by Mayor llylan to probe labor conditions reported today. Women and children were found walking barefoot on the ice in the mining camps, their feet and limbs scarred and bleeding, the report said. "No Egyptian Pharoah rearing for his glory a towering monument ever drove his slaves harder than these miners are driven," the committee Turn to Page Four BUTLER SWORN IN AS JUSTICE Jan.

2. Pierce Butler, of St. Paul, whoso appointment as associate Justice of the Supreme Court, was bitterly fought in the Senate, was sworn in when the court reconvened today after tin-holiday recess. Chief Justice Taft administered the oath to Butler immediately after the court convened at noon. Tli vacancy was due to the retirement of Justice Mahlon Pitney, of New-Jersey.

Herrin Trial Resumed MARION, 111., Jan. 2. Trial of the five men indicted for murder during; the Herrin mine riots of June 12. was returned here this afternoon with the defense presenting witnesses to prove aggression, intimidation and assaults on the people In the neighborhood of the Lester strip mine by imported mine guards..