Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 1

I METAL PRICES HEAR 99 62 COPPER irm Spot and nearby 1414c 14 LEAD irm Spot $725735 VOL LXXVII NO 271 NEVADA STATE JOURNAL ULL ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SERVICERENO NEVADA WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 27 1922 THE WEATS The highest temperature reached 'yesterday was 50 degrees lowest 41 Wednesday rain IVE COLONEL SCRUGHAM TAKES OATH OICE 4 SECOND ARREST OCCURS IN MEH YESTERDAY IN WASHINGTON in in tho was to NINE MEH ME HELD ON SERIOUS CHARGE a WORKER CRUSHED TO HUSBAND IS HELD MEXICAN AMNESTY BEITH IT COMSTOCK that the United OR WIE'S DEATH STAGE COMM to the COUNTRY HOME WELL KNOWN AUTHOR BURNED Cornell left here Thursday aft for Buffalo where she was to REMAINS MOTHER MRSJ SCRUGHAM ARE TAKEN EAST OR BURIAL MAURICE SULLIVAN WILL ILL TEMPORARY VACANCY NATIONAL GUARDSMEN SEARCH OR DYNAMITERS CHINESE1 GIRL IS AGAIN UGITIVE ROM HOME TO KEEP ROM BEING BRIDE confided to expected to new Guitry be homes Jftcob East today JACKIE SAVES ON jUEL BUT to strike a responsive chord in official circles ini Washing Strike of Railroad Telegraphers Is Now Threatening Country As the CALIORNIA BLACKSMITH DIES ROM GUN WOUNDS mainly effects of came 9:3 0 her dea with up Mission of Sorrow Will Take Incoming Executive Out of State Installation Day owler was seen that Governor apparently taken to qualify and be generally re LOS ANGELES Dec The coun try home of John Stevens McGroarty widely known author and dramatist was destroyed by fire today together with its contents It swas located at Tujunga about 20 miles from here Air extensive library and his own manuscripts were in a separate study and were not'5 de stroyed Mrs was discuss conges 'supporting Borah proposal conference of SAN JOSE Cal Dec 26 The safe In the office of the Union Auto Stages was opened and $1S12 taken from it early today according to a report to the police by Joseph Held local man ager for the Peerless Stage company The receipts of Saturday' Sunday and Christmas day were in the safts NEW YORK Dec 26 A delega tion from the Woodrow Wilson oun dation will wait upon former Presi dent Wilson in Washington Thursday to extend birthday greetings to him on the sixty sixth anniversary of his QUAKE IN NEW ZEALAND WELLINGTON Dec 25 A severe earthquake shock was felt here at 7 o'clock this morning It is feared much damage has been done Great fissures opened at the beach at Wai kuku military surveillance Today he grew sullen and restless His battery of attorneys spent several hours with mm It was recalled here four murders have been charged hooded men since last May along Arkansas Louisiana border MEXICO CITY Dec The bill presented to the chamber of deputies by President Obregon proposing am nesty for all rebel prisoners was ap proved' by the chamber today with only slight' modification' 8 Immediate freedom for all political prisoners including those serving sen tences for rebellion arid those await ing trial on such charges is provded for in the measure The chamber however requested that' exceptions bo" made in the case of those ersponstble for the tragic ten days in 1913 at the time rancisco Madero was assassi nated and for the dissolution of the federal congress in October of that year The bill now will goto the senate where its passage is assured With General signature all the prisoners affected by the law will be liberated on January 1 nbers of the American debt isr committee took note of Mr proposal of evidence was nothing to indicate defi jvhether the tug sank after a explosion burned ran afoul Of ice floes or foundered in a LABOR BOARD MUST CALL OR RE HEARING DECIS ION WHICH CUT WAGES WORKERS OR THEY WILL QUIT JOBS SAYS UNION HEAD ATE TUG IS STILL MYSTERY of four houses the Tombs for was unable to ST LOUIS Dec 2 6 (By the Asso ciated Press) Predictions of a teleg strike on some western rail roads unless the railroad labor board acts favorably by next January 1 on a petition for a rehearing on the de cision of the board which recently re duced the wages about $1 500000 here tonight by president of the Telegraphers Manion said he had appealed to President Harding to intercede in be half of the telegraphers on the ground that the labor board had been repudiated and that the president himself had suggested its there will be strike votes taken on some declared Manion He asserted that any of the Solution of Debt Problem Does Not Strike Responsive Chord LOS ANGELES Dec Eight men were taken into custody here to day and booked at the county jalil on statutory charges involving a 14 year old girl A ninth man was arested at San Bernartjino yesterday in connec tion with crime A Woman wife of ono of the arrested men was held as an accessory The girl herself was in the county hospital tonight The arrests followed a search for the girt She told officers she was kidnaped a week ago and mistreated but finally freed herself and made the complaint which caused the arrests All those Mexicans WILLOWS Cal Dec 26 The body of Charles Rider was found today at Young Bend with a gunshot wound in his abdomen Rider a blacksmith at Butte City 15 miles south of Willows left his home Sunday on a duck hunt and did hot return A searching party found the body It is believed that the wound was causedby the ac cidental discharge of gun Household of Sarah Bernhardt Jubilant Over Condition Of Mistress Courts However May Decide That Governor Boyle Will Hold Over Turks Refuse to Listen Plan for National Home or Race Governor In Charge of Case In Which Hooded and Robed Men Are Accused Battered Vessels Slowly Reach Port After ighting Storm At Sea inding of Body of Member Of Crew ails to Clear Up Sea Tragedy CLEVELAND Ohio Dec With the finding today of the life boat and the corpse of one of the eight members of the crew of the tug Cornell which disappeared Thursday the mystery surrounding the exact fate of the Cornell remains unsolved Search for the vessel and the other members of the crew will be con tinued tomorrow it was announced by the Great Lakes Towing company to night The lifeboat containing the body of Michael Paytosh fireman of theCor nell ivas found on the Canadian side Lake Erie by the searching tug A Gillmore today The body covered with ice was lying face downward and frozen to (he planks 'of the bottom Ice coated the rest of the hull In or der' to remove the body it was neces sary to saw off one of the seats 6f the yawl In this mute trace there nitely boiler heavy heavy The ernoon have been turned over to a Syracuse firm which recently purchased the tug from the Great Lakes Towing company for use in the Erie canal Marino merTare of the opinion that if the vessel had caught fire the crew could have got into the lifeboat which was designed for nine persons They also discount the theory of tho vessel having foundered inasmuch as no storms were reported Thursday riday or Saturday by the Erie weather bureau No ice cakes large enough to cause serious damage could have been encountered by the tug to sink it in their opinion LAUSANNE Dec (By the sociated Press) Armenia was storm center of the near east confer ence today The Turks refused to at tend a meeting of the subcommissionwhich had arranged to hear the plea of the Armenians for the establish ment of 'a national home in Turkey and both Ismet Pasha and Riza Nur Bey sent strongly worded communi cations to the conference protesting against the decision to allow the Ar menians to state their case They declared that if the Arme nians who had no official standing and represented no independent gov eminent were heard by the confer nce there was no reason why the Egyptians or the Irish should not be allowed to present their' demands The so called irregular Egyptian delegation has been waiting in Lau sanne for more than a month for per mission to be heard by the conference and voice a'demand for the indepen dence of Egypt and complete with drawal of the British army In consequence ofthe Turkish pro test the official meeting of the sub commission was postponed and the representatives of the inviting pow ers Great Britain rance and Italy sitting alone listened to the Arme nian spokesman who suggested that a home be established in the northeast vilayets of Turkey which should in clude historic Mount Ararat or a sec tion in Cilicia It was impossible he declared for the proposed Armenian home to amalgamate with the Armenian re public of Erivanl which has Seen takeh over bythc Moscow soviets The Armenians would willingly accept tho same relationship with Turkey as the dominions with England In conclu sion he asked for exemption from military service for the Americans and urged maintenance of the ortho dox patriarch in Constantinople WASHINGTON Dec Mildred Wenn 19 year old reared Chinese girl who returned home yes acc6rcling to the police after having disappeared 'for several" days in pique over the selection of a bride groom for her by her parents was re ported missing again late today Her wedding had been set for yes terday but her absence caused its postponement and the Chinese youth George Num Lee of New York came today to claim her She was permit ted ito accompany a friend to a the ater polices related while her uncle went to obtain a marriage license Shortly afterward she could not be found it was added and the wedding once more was postponed Mildred Wenn is the daughter of Wing Lim Wenn owner of restaurants is survived by a widow and six chil here and in other cities drenv Asso of this im tonight that to the Landlord ails to Keep lat Warm So Now He Will a Cell Adorn gigantic new liner at Halifax because NEW YORK Dec Charged with failure to warm the his 72 tenant families Solotoroff owner Side apartment was sentenced to 60 days when he pay $600 fine imposed by Mag istrate George Simpson The magistrate refused to en tertain' the plea that he had been unable to buy coal Health department inspectors testified that only seven tons of coal had been used for heating the homes of the 72 families this winter committees of the 11 roads affected by the wage cut who asked for permission to walk out get authority to strike from that she to act 10 years more several friends that assume her role in play that was about produced when she BASTROP La Dec The sec ond arrest in connection with the Morehouse kidnaping of last August occurred late today when Dr McKoin until a few months ago mayor of Mer Rouge was taken into custody at Baltimore on instructions from Governor Parker who charged him with murder The physician was taking a post graduate course at Johns Hopkins The former mayor is expected to reach here within a few days to join a former 'deputy sheriff who is now being held on a similar charge in the Bastrop jail Guardsmen Busy While the' arrest was being made a detachment of national guard was re connoitering along Lake La ourche for evidence to lead to the arrest of dynamiters responsible for the blast ing at a ferry landing last week the bodies of two men believed to have been tortured and murdered by masked and robed men were blown from the bottom of the lake The company was also to act as a bodyguard for the sheriff who was to make arrests in the event his sus picions justified them i During tlfgr'duyV Adjutant General 'Tombs suddenly called back from Washington by the governor arrived in Morehouse to direct the operations of the three companies of state troops encamped here and at Mer Rouge It was persistently reported during the day that all preparations had been made to call out two additional state if conditions warranted Bloodshed eared Soldiers are on guard duty at the jail here and encamped in the heart of Mer Rouge whqre the situation is such that the governor does not want to leave the townspeople to them selves in tho fear there will be blood shed because of the friction among them following August event Many of the poptilace are armed The military was also at the dis posal of the civil authorities to take in custody any members of the hood ed mob whose identity is known to the state officials according to de partment of justice men Attorney General Coco yesterday announced that at least six or seven more arrests would be made before the open hearing in connection with the case which has been set for Jan uary 5 here It is reported the number of arrestswill be increased in the event the identities of the dynamiters are es tablished ederal agents declare they have the name of the ringleader and his arrest is imminent To Hold Conference Attorney General COco was expect ed to arrive at New Orleans tomorrow in preparation for the conference there Thursday at which time plans for tho hearing will be outlined and the report of the jury that conducted the inquest over the head less bodies tof Watt Daniels and ThomasRichardson will be discussed The arrest of the man who had been theii mayor until ho resigned last Au gust camo as a complete surprise to citizens Dr McKoin was born and grew to manhood at Monroe and later moved to Mer Rouge where he was a practicing physician His friends urged him to make the race for mayor and during his incumbency he fearlessly upheld the law and at tempted to rid the community of moonshiners and other law breakers it was said On Amrust 2 ho reported assassins fired two loads of shot into his auto mobile as he was ansiycrtng a sick call He lateri received persistent warnings to leave the community and he did This event led to the tragedy of the 24th in the theory of the staet Burnett arrested last Satur day is denied except under of 11000 operators a year was made Edward Manion Order of Railway mo The roads affected by the wage re ductions are the Chicago North western Chicago Burlington Quincy Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Chicago Rock Island Pa cific Chicago St Paul Minneapolis Great Northern Illinois Central Minneapolis St Louis! Minneapolis St Paul Sault Ste Ma rie Northern Pacific and the South ern Pacific Manion added that the pay cut was announced by the labor board as ad justing inequalities but in reality was a reduction for all operators on the 11 roads when wages in other lines of employment were being advanced PARIS Dec (By the eluted Press) The household Sarah Bernhardt was jubilant evening over the 'remarkable provement shown in tho condition of the famous actress The deep gloom which had' settled down upon the family and faithful followers of the star was almost entirely dispelled by the continued optimism of the doc tors who have permitted Madame Bernhardt to sit up in her room twice during the last '24 hours Madame Bernhardt had Christmas dinner last night with the members of her family aud intimate friends She ate a small piece of tur key and talked cheerfully and hope fully of her return to the footlights She was believing she said vculd be spared She she the to stricken within three weeks The physicians smiled when Madame Bernhardt indulged ini this three talk merely saying They frankly stated on the Other hand that the "Divine con dition was very weak her long years of hard work on the stage having told upon her and that it was quote pos sible it would be many months before she was able to appear in public There are not lacking indeed those who think Bernhardt may never act again RIENDS WILSON TO GREET HIM1 ON BIRTHDAY IGHT SMUT NEW YORK Dec 25 ormation Of a society to protest suggestive song and dance music with the co operation of prominent orchestra leaders in New York hotels and restaurants has been started by Louis Chalif danc ing instructor Neither the senate nor the house was in The semi weekly meeting of the cabinet was devoted discussion of the new tariff law Advisability of modified form the for an economic world powers was considered by senate republican leaders Chief Justice Taft announced that senior circuit judges would meet here Thursdaj to means of relieving docket tion in the federal courts Administration leaders senate were reported opposed to the McKeller shipping bill amend ments which call for the abro gation of commercial treaties dis criminating against the States ormer Mayor of City Taken Into Custody on Charges Of Murder NEW YORK Dec Battered and scarred by heavy weather 14 ships plowed slowly into' quarantine from early morning until late today the skippen: of them all reporting a vicious never ending battle with series of lasting seemed to shake bottom One ship the Caronia put in she was steadily losing her fight withthe storm Another liner reported to her owners that she would be two days late A third flashed in with a report that she reach New York until tomorrow although she has apparently gone safely through most of the storm The center of the storms which have been ruling the waves for the last three appeared to' be about 1000 miles off the European coast Skippers of tho liners said they crashed into them at this point and fought steadily through terrific gales until within 500 miles of the United States 'AU of the ships which came into quarantine were freighters Some of them had parts of the bridges gone Small boats on their decks were crushed and torn' In one or two instances hatches were pound ed in all of them reported iheir crews had been in oib skins steadily for from Yfive to fourteen days Cable and wireless messages told of the ravages of the 'European side almouth England reported three ships had put in there broken machiriery and another jweut to St Vincent Capei Verdi islands en gines NEW YORK Dec Teresa Mc Carty an 8 year old Brooklyn girl was found dbad in the bathroom of her home tonight after being away most of the The mother had left the key to the housn with the child and when she found the entrance door locked on the inside summoned a policeman to force entry No weapon was found in the house An ambulance surgeon said the child had been dead about five hours He discovered no signs ofunjuries oth er than the bullet The police believed it a case of murder for the house door was locked on the inside and there was no re volver or empty shell found after a careful search of the remises The murderer could have escaped through a window it was said As the mother told her story she had gone uway this morning leav ing the key with Teresa and telling her to be sure to keep the door locked and not admit any stranger When the mother received no re sponse to knocks on her return she thought the child had gone to her home a short distance away The mother went there first and after being told the child had not been seen returned to her own home and asked a policeman to break open the door Standing beside the body was Curley her white poodle "good watchdog" as the mother described him and the little constant com panion Tcresaworc only a thin nightgown high black shoes owder marks showed clearly on the nightgown above the crimson stain over her heart the police said The flesh on the little breast also was discol ored and burned from the flash of cartridge fired at close range SAN RANCISCO Dec 2 Elmcr Bannon was held today to answer in the superior court on a charge of murder in connection with the killing1 of his wife in their apartment here on December 2 after a preliminary hear ing in the police court ci Bannon was arrested after his 9 year old daughter left in a down town store led a policeman who found her to the Bannon home where the mutilated body of the mother was found in a trunk Hannon according to the police said he had been drinking and when accused of the killing of i Mrs Ban non tsaid he remembered nothing about quarrel with her on that day Body ofjB Year Old Lass Is ound In Bathroom Bullet Wound Over Heart In keeping with the last wish of Mrs AV McCann mother of Mrs James Scrugham wife of the governor elect her remains were removed last night for car riage to Lexington Ky the place of her birth and the resting place of Capt Thomas McCann deceased who served as an offi cer in the Confederate army un der General John Morgan pic turesquely dubbqd "Morgan the during the stirring days ofjthe rebellion uneral serv ices will occur Satfirday at 3 in Lexington Mrs death occurred at her daughter's home 760 Ne vada street two years to the day and to the hour after she was first stricken with the sickness (that kept her an invalid most of the time since The end yesterday morning at Mrs Scrugham is only surviving child The ceased aged 65 had resided her daughter in Reno for wards of 12 years Born in Lexington Ky great grandfather General Johnathan Clark an of ficeron the staff of General George Washington during the She was a greaGniece of General John Rogers Clark and of General Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition fame No formal exercises precededthe removal of the body of Airs McCann which was supervised by the Groesbeck com pany Many floral tributes were sent in expression of sympathy WASHINGTON Dec The solu tion or foreign debt prob lem pronosed by Otto Kahn failed generaii tc 1 1 ton Me fundi Stales differentiate between the seven and a half billion dollars loaned to European countries before the armis tice and two and a half billion dol lars loaned after hositilities ceased and arrange differing methods of re payment bub pointed out that the act of congress creating the commission would permit no such differentiation even if considered advisable Members of congress generally ex pressed decided opposition to the New York suggestion that at least a portion of the debt be cancelled several leaders in both the senate and house declaring that the American people were in no mood to approve such action The views of Mr Kahn as present ed in a letter to Senator Smoot of Utah a member of the debt funding commission drew' particular fire from Representative rear of Wisconsin a republican member of the house ways and meanstcommittec who addressed a letter to Senator Smoot asserting that "the commission should apprise foreign governments at an early day of the anomolous position occupied by Mr Kahn and that he does not speak for the commission for the congress or for the American Special to the Journal CARSON Dec Governor elect James Scrugham today ap peared before Associate Justice Ed ward A Ducker of the supreme court who administered to him the oath to discharge the d'uties of the office of governor of Nevada for the term of four years from and after Monday January 1 1923 the time of his in stallation and until his successor shall be qualified Justice Ducker will come in as chief justice of the court on Tuesday January 2 Administered at 1:30 Tho oath was administered at 4:30 litis afternoon and was taken before the customary time because Colonel Scrugham was about to depart on the funeral train of Mrs Thomas' AV McCann Airs Scrugha mother who died in Reno yesterday morning and his rdturn cannot be before the Wednesday subsequent to the usual ihstallation time The oath of office will be filed with the secretary of state on the opening of official business January 1 1923 The procedure above outlined is re garded as in substantial compliance with the provisions of law governing the qualifications of officers and expected that after January 1 Hon Maurice Sullivan as lieutenant gov ernor acting governor will not only conimisssion the other elective officers but will function as acting governor during the absence of tho then Governor Scrugham from the state No Written Opinion tn attempt to obtain an opinion in writing from the attorney office failed because of the absence of both Attorney General owler and Robert Richards his deputy It is probable that Airs Bertha Co hen secretary to the governor will continue to officiate in that capacity until after Colonel re turn No matter of immediate moment awaits the action of the incoming governor Tho resignation of GeorjJO Smith as a member and chairman of the Nevada industrial commission while signed has never been formally laid before tho appointing board and in may he held in abeyance until the return of the governon elect Attorney General last night and said elect Scrugham had all practical stops would undoubtedly garded as the governor on next Tues day in which event Lieutenant Gov ernor Sullivan would discharge the duties of the office as acting govern or until the return within the limits of the state of Governor Scrugham In the event of any uncertainty arising out of the attestation of the signature and the authen tication of his acts tho secretary of state if he retains the official seal may appeal to the attorney general and the courts for a settlement of the question or the documents requiring signature may be signed both byGov ernor Boyle arid Lieutenant Governor Sullivan Special to the Journal VIRGINIA CITY Dec Rodiej Sheek employed by thc United Corn stock Alines company at Comstock was killed early Ahis evening while engaged in dumping aitrain at an ore packet at mjll In some unex plained way he ti'is taught between the car and device and his head crushed Sheek was 25 years of age and leaves a mother and sister in Macos Colorado A inquest will be held' Wednesday a hurricanes which the Atlantic to the iWorafE OBLIGATION ADMINISTERED TO LANDS IN JAIL GOVERNOR ELECT JUSTICE DUCKER WEEK AHEAD TIME sin: I.