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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 17,  1921
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ROUT THIEF BEFORE JOB IS STARTED
Dares to Enter Central City Shop While Clerks Are StiH at Work
MAKES HIS ESCAPE
Pofrce Arrest Parsons Visitor Who is Alleged to be Wholesale Offender
WAS SHIPPING GOODS
A bold attempt to break Into Can- <)Tland on East Market street, near Pnbllc Sqnare, at midnight was fms- trated by the activity of the city po¬ lice. About the midnight hour a ytnrrtg woroan at Candyland who was assorting other workers in closing the shop after tho day. hoard an unusual noise in the rear of the building. She fjuietly stole to the rear to see a man attempting to force open a window. She called othor employes. In the meantime the night prowler had cHmbod a flight of stairs in the rear of the building and had hid himself in a dark comer. A call was sent to police headquarters and Motorcycle Officer Charles Bart was sent on the call, with other house officers in readiness for service.
Officer Bart had just gone Into the alleyway leading between the Strand Theatre and Candyland when the prowler ran down the stairs and leap¬ ed over a fence, making his getaway to Butler alley. The police made a •liligent search, but up until an early hour this morning no arrests were mado. The prowler was bold in his work and evidently operated without fear, for scores of people were on lOast Market street at the time and the Candyland shop was open wilh ejnployes still at work. The police be¬ lieve the intruder wanted to hide himself in the interior of the build- ins until the shop was closed when he would have marlf his haul. Important Arrest
Paul J. Zarkoekl, aliaa John Zus- kuski, 25 years old, who claims he is a resident of New Britain, Conn., ia being held by the police of Parsons on a charge of larceny, and under suspicion that he may bo implicated in several robberies in (he valloy within the last three weeks. The charge of larceny is preferred by Michael Wetarchick of .'>L'4 Main street, P.arsons, from whom the sus¬ pect is alleged lo have stolen two men's suits, .•^:h;rtr .shoes, stockings, a gold watch :mi' ibain. otber jewelry iiiid $.">•;. The arrest was mado by Constable Watkin.-- of Squire William K. Houser's office yesterda.v after- r.ooii.
filTicer Hinkle of the D., I.,, .nnd W. Kaili'oad Company. Captain Brown and Petoctivc Kittrick of the local police assisted, having given the pris- ,oner a gruelling until late last night. Zarkoski, who cjirries several alia.ses, came to this section about three| weeks ago. He secured a place in the mines at Parsons. He boarded wili' Wetarchick, who reports that Zarkoski was out jill night overy night since he cnmo here. A week ago he stole the money and a man's .•<uit, it is alleged. Yesterday he is said to have c^irried off the other men's furnishings and chocked them in a well packed lK»x at the Lehigh \allo>' station.
Articles Recoverad
This box was recovered late last night by the local and railroad police at the parcel room of the Valley sta¬ tion. Zarkoski was taken to the railroad station where he pointed out the shipping box. which when open¬ od at the detectives' room in the local station house, contained more than $200 worth of men's ftimish- inj.s. A traveler's valise was taken from the prisoner's room which con¬ tained "loaded" dice, new shirts and othor men's furnishings.
It is the belief of tUe police that Zarkoski impersonated a railroad officer, for. when he was arrested, a special officer's badge, similar to those owned bj- officers of a local railroad, a blackjack and a roll of money aggregating several hundreds of dollars were taken frotn the pris¬ oner.
Zarkoski will tell the police little or nothing of himself. A note book found on him. according to Oflflcer Hinkle bears the address of another party in the city, where the police think other stolen articles will be found.
The police are holding him in the hope of having him toll more of himself and in the belief that ho may be connected with other depreda¬ tions in the valley. Tomorrow he i win be given a hearing before Squire I William Houser at Parsons.
Raiding Parson Finds a Wet City
Unaccompanied by bis agents the Rev. R. E. Johnson, raiding parson, arrived last night in a vorj- wet city. 4.nd the pity of it was the reverend raider could do noth¬ ing to make conditions dry. Many times he has come to Wilkes- Barre and created much excite¬ ment as he raided here and there, confiscating "wet goods," and putting the fear of religion into the hearts of saloonmen. Wilkes- Barre has always boen made a little more dry by his visits, even if many jail sentences did not re¬ sult, but last night the re\-erend gentleman did not have the pleasure of blotting out the wet stuff.
Why? Because old Jupe Pluvious is loo much for the par¬ son and the only "wet goods' he saw in Wilkes-Barre last night was good old-fashioned rain. The parson went to nod in the Y. M. C. A. with the drops pattering on the roof .reminding him that in Wilkes-Barre there is yet "wet stuff, wet stuff and more wet stuff."
He will speak in the T. M. C. A. and various churches of the valley todaj'.
20 BILLION DOLLARS FOREIGN DEBT TO a S,
Wa.shington, April 16.—The world's debt to the L'nited States is ap- I preaching the gigantic total of $20,- j 000.000,000, a sum sufTlcient to pay I the expenses of the government for ' five years, reports of the Commerce I and Treasury Department showed to- ! day.
i The world is increasing its debt ' monthly through an increase in the trade balance. I'art of the money is due the I'nited States, while the re¬ mainder is on the credit side of American citizens, exporters and businessmen. Foreign governments now owo this government nearly $13,0000.000,000. The interest on the world's debt at 5 per cent, yearly amounts  to  nearly  $1,000,000,000.
This is the amount which the gov¬ ernment now is pa>-ing out yearly to holders of Liberty and Victory bonds. Despite this large credit in favor of the I'nited .States, mostly a paper credit so far, this country now has within its borders slightly more than $3,000,000,000 in gold. This is ap¬ proximately one-third of all the gold in the world. Businessmen are becoming alarm¬
ed at the tremendous stream of gold that still is pouring into the    United ; States.    Large accumulations of gold j tend to inflate    prices.    The    stream I began during the war. I
The gold is being sent to the United I States in partial payment of the trade balance which still is piling up in favor of the United Slates mer¬ chants at a rate of approximately $8,000,000   a  day,   including   Sundays.
The trade balance is the difference in the value of good exported f rom i the United States and the value ofj those imported. During 1920 the bal-i ance totaled $2,960,000,000, despite | the economic depression which .swept j all countries. |
The Young emergency tariff bill ( passed yesterday by the House and • soon to be passed by the Senate, ¦ may halt this flow of gold to and; from America, its opponents say. '
The world debt to the United' States adds up like this. j
To I'nited States government from! foreign    governmeni.s,   $10,000,000,000 in war loans and $3,0000,0000 for war, materials. |
To American merchants and ex¬ porters  about  $3,000,000,000. j
To American citizens who bought foreign securities, nearly $4,000,- 000,00.
Law Test Evaded By Ex-President
Albany. N. Y., April l.">.—An emergency bill permitting ex- Presidont Wilson to practice law in New York State precipitated hot argument in the State Senate today.
The bill was passed and Wil-son, without the formality of examina¬ tion, is free to join Bainbridge Colby in practice in New York. Senator Frank Wisner attacked the bill.
"The Senate can ma'ke no dis¬ tinction between ex-President Wilson and the country boy, who, by the sweaty of his brow, makes his own way and wins hi;.' way to the Bar," he said.
Senator Towner joined him and both were excused from  voting.
The bill is before Governor Miller, who had the mea-sure pre¬ sented.
DEATH AND WIDE DESTRUCTION SUMMED UP IN TERRIHC GALE THAT SWEEPS SEVERAL STATES
TOLL OF THE GALE
Dead—74.
Injured—200.
Property  loss —Several  millions.
Hundreds of families homeless.
Many acres of fruit trees up rooted and crops destroyed.
Railroad   traffic demoralized.
Telegraph and Telephone com¬ munication crippled.
Ijocal street car and interuban raffle impaired.
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Night of Terror is Spent by Survivors in the Devastat¬ ed Districts
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RED CROSS RESPONDS
STORY OF DISASTER ONLY BRIEFLY TOLD
Four Counties Dug Out of Snow—Crops and Ship¬ ping Suffer Greatly
CALLED TO TESTIFY imOERCASE
Auto Ride With Accused Man is Involved in Wakefield Tragedy
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Seniority Rights Prevail as; Firemen's  Bazaar Commit- Half of Total Number Are;    tee Have Hard Time in De-
Ordered Back
Wakefield. Ma.«s., April 16—The identity of the mystery woman who, the authorities believe, was an eye witness to the murder of Policeman John Preston here last Sunday night, is known to the police tonight.
Claude W. Loud, a young business man, is in jail charged with the mur¬ der of i*reston. The police l)elieve Loud shot Preston when tho latter was about to arre.st Ixjud and a wo-
man companion on a serious charge j f>"""-''>; '"'»''''»« .^^•"' P-;*"^""' '''"'J''^' when ho found l^oud's automobile > ^he men longest in service in each do- parked  on  a  lonely road.
Indioaticna   were   tonif;ht   that   thei     This   is  the   system  by  which   the woman who will .•ventually be desig- ! company would have the men return
GRADUAL RESUMPTION
After nearly two months idleness operations will be resumed in tho .Ashley shops of the Central Railroad of Xew .Ter.=ey tomorrow moming. One-half of tho 1100 men on the shop's payroll will return. The other half will be Liken back gradually. Seniority rights will prevail; that the men longest in service in e partment will return to work tirst.
cipiiering Penmanship
OTHER WINNERS
iiated as ihe "mystery woman" in the c;i.se is a prominent young society matron who lives here.
Mrs. Loud stoutly denies that her huaband ever look other women with him   in  his  automobile.    The  police.
aad   is  the  method   adopted  b.v     the nieii, after several days consideration. The car men,  machinists und boiler- 1 makers held a mas.s meeting yester¬ day    afternoon in    the Ashley Town i H.-ill and agreed to observe seniority :
Th<' experience of a man re.^iding at 68 West Jack.son street, this city. who may be Thom.is Thomas, should be a lesson to' people who scritible their names in an almost illegihle manner. IC the West Jackson street man wrote bis address as lu- wrote his name, in the contest fur a Ford car awarded at the firenien',« ba-/.aar. he would be minus the ownership of the Ciir today.
Not<^-Safety first always. Write your name plainly or you may be sorrv.
Hope, Ark., April 16.—Death lists grew tonight in the wake of the tor¬ nado that twisted through Texas nnd
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!     Latest reports from the devastated 1 districts were that seventy-four were i j killed,   with   the  fatalities   in   Hemp- J stead County, Arkansas,  alone total- ! ing 50.
I     The     death  list     in Liller  County, ; Arkansas, styod at 13 and 11 were re¬ ported killed in Texas.
Two hundred were injured in both states, according lo estimates.
Relief parties flocked to the stricken territory lo aid homeless res- Tacoma, Wash.. April 16.—Charges ' idents in finding temporary shelter that Captain Robert Rosenbl'iih di- j and in clearing away the wreckage, reeled Sergeant Roland R. Pothier to j An area a mile and a half wide be- kill Major Alexander P. Kronkhite at | ginning at F^llton. Arkan.<ias, and ex- Camp Ijowis, AVa.sh.. in 1918, are j lending forty miles northeast, was contained in extracts frum an alleged ithe bleakest of any of the storm-raz-
MILLIONS AT STAKE
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Private Lays Blame on Cap¬ tain Robert Rosenbluth of Camp Lewis Forces
MAJOR WAS VICTIM
Many Towns Are Still Count¬ ing  Losses  in  Life andT'^^!!! Property Damage
Birmingham, Ala., April 16.—Crip¬ pled telegraph and telephone com¬ munication tonight hid the full story of disaster incident to the storm which swept a wide swatlf through portions of Alabama this morning, but it is certain that there was a con¬ siderable loss of life and many injnr-
hameioss and injured.
Ijatest reports coming over badly •crippled wires from the devastated regions of  Tev-as  and  Arsas said
that more than 100 were dead, hun¬ dreds were injured and the property damage will  run into millions.
The   Red   Cross   has   arrangred   to
confession by I'rivate Pothier, given out here today by Couniy lYoseculor J. W. Sheldon.
i'rusecution of Prothier. who was originally anested by Provideni.'e, R. 1., officials, has been turned over to Sheldon  by  federal  authorities.
ed districts.
Il was thirty square miles of wreckage, death and sufferihg. Noth¬ ing stood before the fury of the ele¬ ments. Villages ajid town.s were a jumble of ruins. Searchers still hunt¬ ed   for   storm   victims.     Powers   and
ed and an enormous property loss en-.'i take   charge  of the  relief  work  and tailed. has  ordered  fxperta  into  the  regrion
hit by  the   tornado.
Colorado. Wisconsin, Iowa and Ne¬ braska, were snow bound. Deep snows made railroads practically im-
The town of Ralph, 20 mfles south¬ east of Tuscaloosa, is the heavie.«rt j sufferer f places heard from so far. There are four dead, flve fatally hurt, I twenty others less seriously injur»>d j and about thirty buildings razed by , the winds.
Reports   from   Albany.   Ala.,  about
.passable, tied up interrurban and local stree; car lines and demoralized telegraphic  communications.
Rain,   snow   and   sleet were  swept
The wind
Kronkhite was killed while attend- i other villages in Hempstead Couniy ing manuevers on the Camp 1 >ewis | were wrecked. Others were partly pistol rang'-. He was the son of Ma- dt-tnulished. The storm then veered jor Giiit-ral  Kronkhite. ! off into another direction.
Kosenbiulh.   the alleged  confession}     Indications  of  havoc  of  the  storm
said, a.sked Pothier four or five days] was   the   fact   that   great   trees   were
i before  the  killing,  if ho could  u.se a j "Pi'"otc<l and to.ssod across the Bank-
i pistol.    J'olhier said he told the cap-   head hif;hway.    Other highways were
i tain he oould. I «iniilariy blockaded.
In   Wiishington  curs  of cotton  in  a coinhinatioii    pas.senger-freighl    train \v« re  hurled from the  iraik. Damage  iu the deva.stated district.
7-, miles north of Birmingham,  indi-• "•" '*« P*^" of the blizzard.   'The w cated a \oss of seven lives and m.^nv   velocity  m Illinois   where  the  storm
injured    at   leighton   ,a   community   ^«f'""'^^ ''I pY'n*"'f^n   ^n ^or
near  Tuwumbia.      Property  los.,    in   ""«•"   •^"   ^o'-r.      Rain   fell   in   tor- surrounding  villages  is   described  as   '•«">"¦     Buddings   were   blown   down heavy.    In Birmingham there waa no   *"<*  '^''^^  uprooted, los.-^ of life, but property damage is j     The southe-n portion of the storm heavy.    .Many hou.ses werunroofed or
On  the  next  night,  the  confession |
I states.    Rosenbluth    asked    Sergeant i This is now the West .T.ackson street j j.Qthior to attend taigel practice wiih i man almost lost a Ford car;  because ; ,he sdiwl ol' reconnais.sance, because | he   did   not   take   time   to   write   his j
however, say they h.ave o\-idence to' rights, thus reversing tho decision prove that Loud freQuently bad wo-| reached by e.ach of these crafts dur¬ ing the week. The hKicksmiths voted on Friday to observe seniority rights.
men companions with him on his trips about the country. Ixiud is a connoiseur on colonial furniture .-md traveled about the slate collecting aiiii(}ues.
The police claimed today that, even wilhout the testimony of the woman in the case, they have enough evi¬ dence to convict Loud of the mur¬ der. The dead policeman has. in¬ scribed I»ud's name and that of a woman, who, it was shown, gave a fictitious name and had niiido notes as he Wii-s alHJUt to ai'rest them on a serious charge.
Loud's automobile wa.s found the day after the murder, abandoned in the woods on the outskirts of the town. Ivoud cluimud he had been held up and robbed and his car tak¬ en from him. He denied thai he had a woman with him on the night of the  murder.     Witnos.scs   who     heard
A committee which conferred with c. H. Chambers, superintendent of motive power for the company, re¬ ported to the mass meeting that Mr. Chaliibi rs desired to have seniority rights obsei-\-fd, rather than a rule whereby half of the men would work one week and half the next weel<. Ac¬ cording to the agreement between the comjiany and men. seniority rights must jirevail and rather than break the agreement and thus run the dan¬ ger of weakening their :irgunient for concessions when now working con¬ ditions are agreed upon about July, the workers decided to abide by the company's wishes.
It waf. stated that as business picks up it is possible that the railroad will have liiori- work to do and the Offi¬ cials will Iind it necessary to issue a call for more nun to return to work before July 1. What will happen on that   date   depends   entirely   on   the
the  shots  that   killed  the and arrived oa the scene a few min¬ utes after he wa-s killed told the po¬ lice they saw a limousine containing a man and woman speeding away.
Mrs. Dorothy Smith of Cambridge, was called to the office of District Attorney Nathan Tufts today to be questioned. Tufts declined to say what connection the girl has with the case. He declared, however, that he summoned her to appear before a special grand Jury  on  April  23.
policeman I "^'"^'^"^''¦"- adopted by Ihe men and comi)any before that time. The abro¬ gation of tho national agreement by •he Railroad Labor Board gives the shop workers an opportunity to work out their own problems with the com¬ pan.v heads.
Thoy expresaed the belief that tlie abrogation ot the agreement both in¬ jures and helps the workers and doesj the same to the companies. They hope for the best and local union heads  are   determined   that   the   new
name plainly.
The liremen of the city have been conducting a contest to rai.se funds to defray the expenses of the ,State Firemen's convention which is to be held in this city in October. .-X l-'ord car was to be one of ilie prizes awarded. Thousands of people en¬ tered the contest, the West ,lack.son street man being one of them. He scribliled his name on a blank and wrote his address in a. legible man¬ ner. La.st night as tho contest clos¬ ed a member of the firemen's com¬ mittee tried to read the name of the
he wanted bim-i Pothier.) to "get" -Ma¬ jor Kionkl.it^.
"1 asked him what be meant," the signed confes.sion states, "and lie re¬ plied. 'I want to kill him'I"
When asked for a reason.  Captain Ro.senbluth is alleged to    have    said j "becaus-e  we   wanted   to of the way.'
like the dea'h list, continued to grow. .Most aulhoritalive reports placed the damiiges between $7.">0,000 and   $J,.')0O.UUO.
The storm swept up from ihe southwest, il lashed the vicinity of Gilmore, Texas, injuring three or four
toppled over. I     Trees were laid prostrate in all sec- '
tions of tho city and vegetation    was
seriously damaged.
At   Rick wood      baseball   park,   the ' fence and ble;ichers were blown away, j I entailing a loss estimated at $30,000,   i
j     Sheffield,   Ala..   April     16.— Several j dead, many injured and heavy prop- . 1 erty  destruction   was   the  toll    taken '¦ ¦ by a tornado which hit this    section ; early  today.     Lines  of    communica- ¦
have    said j persons.       it     hit      more      violently i tion have since been paralyzed. el him outlAvinger, wrecking homes and killing      Meagre reports  to  Sheffield  which
was just out.side    of    the    tornado's
The confession then recites how the men discussed all the details of the proposed shooting and how Ros¬ enbluth was alleged to have furnish¬ ed  I'othier protection.
"I asked him where he wanted me
si'V.-ii. It arose, but lowered again near -\tlanta, then jumped .and smote into -Miller couniy, Arkansas, killing thirteen   and   injuring  at   least   fifty..
Three negroes were killed at Spring
path,  indicate  that  the    damage    to property will reach several thousand
winner.     He     deciphered     "Thomar" | to shoot him,' the    confession    .says.
after some difficulty,    but    the    last j "He -said gel him about here," point-,
name might have been anything   The j '"¦'? to :i. spot even with his heart.    I \ "¦*'"
city  directory  shows    that    Thomas i ^^--^ked  him  what  I  was going    to  do j     I-ast   night   was  a   night   of  terror
Thomas   lives at   6S    We.st    .iHcksnn I after I shot him and he    said:    -Vou 1 ""^    suffering    through     Hempstead
lis   maximum   was   veiite<l  in   Hemp stead, where the streak of ruin il left behind was bordered with  vegetation searsed a deathly black.
Dump, chilly weather tonight added to the suffering of the victims.    Tiie Cross is  to  lead  relief  work.
His entry
68 in
the contest was
stret. 3433.
-Mary Sauer of 284, North I'ennsyl¬ vania avenue was  awarded  the  pig, one of the big prizes for the Week.       j The   refrigerator was  awarded    toj Mrs.  Russ,  wife of  the  chief of    the j Nanticoke fire department. '
Yesterday  afternoon  there   was     a i confession
special matinee when everybody was: 	
admitted   to   the    armory     free.       A i number of features  were  introduced ' for the school children and  the high school    orchestra    furnished    music. More   than   three   thou.sand     iiersons
1 attended   last   night   and     everybody
j voted tho affair a complete success.
never mind. I will be somewhere around and when 1 see him fall I will run up and grab him. Then I'll yell for a doctor and get him    down i ^^ hand.
there and we will go ,iboul it just as j     ^  ^.^'^^  percentage  of  the  casual- if he shot himself accidentally.' " j ^j^j,   ^re    negroes.        .Some    weathy
Kverything    happened     mueh      as j white plantera and farmers and mern- piamied,  according    to    th.'    alleged ^ l'*?''s of their families are among  Ihe
1 County.     Men,   women   and   children, I dying and injured, were strewn with j i the   wreckage   about   and   on   top   ofl I them,   crying  for   help   that  was   noil
dead, however.
LITTLE GIRL VICTIM
OF FIEND ASSASSIN
PRICES REDUCED
Moline. 111.. -Vpril 16. Deere and Company, of -Moline, one of the big¬ gest manufacturers of farm imple¬ ments in the world, today followed the lead of thi- International Harves¬ ter Company in slashing the prices of its general line of implements ten per cent, effective immediately.
The company gave the recent cut in steel prices as the rejison.
RAIL UNION LEADERS
MEET IN CHICAGO
agreements to be drawn up will make'
working   conditions   as   good   if   not
better lh.ati al present |
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The workers in otber railroad shops- scheduled   to
swat-the-fly  campaign.
than  the Central  hold  the  beli.'f that i ponedr"\\ terrific blizzard\yas''rag'inl.
manage- | burying the city under four inches of
Pittsburir.    I'a.,    April    16. — Hight-
i year-old   Nadine   Kremei'.s   body,   the '
I victim of a fiend assassin was found!
NO FLIES TO SWAT i beneath the lloor of a stable near her |
Waukeiran,   111..   April   16. - Wauke-' ^'ome on the north side here tonight |
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the decision of the Central ment lo reopen the shops and the derision of the men to return grad¬ ually and await the new agreement will have a beneficial effect on work¬ ing conditions on olher railroads. They think that calls for men to re¬ turn immediately will be made, un¬ der the same conditions as exist at Ashley. Many shop men have been laid off at Coxton and other shops in thia vicinity.
snow.    -Vot a fly coiilil be found.
GOMPERS MARRIED
AT A RIPE OLD AGE
Chicago.    April    16—Four   hundred   GOLD   BY   MILLIONS officials of the rail unions of the na- < oi-»it   r-nnna   rtiiocM*
tion   are   to   moet   here   Sunday,   ac- ¦ ScNT   FnOM   RUoolA
cording   to    an    announcement   made j .	
tonight. Steps are to be taken in i landon. April 16—Russian gold accordance with the l^bor Boards I amounting to millions of dollars is decision that national shop agree- heing cached in the United States ments be abrogated and that new , f„r the use of Russian leaders, if agreements be entered into. The ; thev are driven from the countrj- by leaders will draw up the rules they i counter revolution, desire and those will be submitted ' when conferences are held later.
GIRL KILLED BV BABY BROTHER DIES REfUSING TO REVEAL CRIME
Concord,    Mass.,    April    16.—Peter topsy,  declared that a fall  could not
Ruggerio, 9 years old, confessed to¬ day, according to the police, that he killed his ,'i-year-old sister, Josephine, •with a carving knife.
When the tiny girl waa found crumpled up in the backy-ard of her home several days ago with a deep gash in her abdomen, she told her mother that she ".lest fell stairs."
A   few  hours later, juet before ah* died in a hospital here the child whis-
Informalion here tonight showed tho gold is pouring not only through the Scandinavian countries, but by way of Bolshevism's harshest critic, —France.
Figures here show gold imports to the United States during March ex¬ ceeded exports by $105,000,000. Of this lYance contributed $45,800,000. Fr,ance is believed  Incapable  of dis
New York, April 16.—Sam Gom¬ pers has organized a new  unioi*.
And the chances are he isn't goin.g to be the boss of it.
Tho union was the marriage today of tho American Federation of Labor president with .Mrs. Gertrude Ainslee Gleaves  Neuschelor.  .18  years old.
Gompers. who is 71. left here on his honeymoon, figuratively in his overalls. He isn't going to let bis marriage interfere wilh his work, even temporarily.
The coilple went to Toronto, Ont., where he will speak before the Em¬ pire Club. They will go from there direct to Washington, whore he will resume his work in the Fedei^tion's executive offices.
"A man is as old as he fells," Gom¬ pers informed the municipal clerk from whom he obtained his mar¬ riage license.
after city police, detectives and state troopers had conducted a wide search for the supp(jsed kidnapped child. Death was due lo slab wounds.
The body  was mangled almost be¬ yond   recognition.        Police   said   the crime was the wor.k of a degenerate,     j One suspect was arrested soon aft'T : discovery  of the  body,    .lohn uMiller, i whose name was in a notehtiok found near the hod\-, w;u5 the man taken in- | to  custody.       He  said  he    had   been 1 I sleeping in the building. j
''     Thp father, sleepless siwe the child j di.sappeared.   found    the  body.      The' child's mother lies in a serious condi¬ tion, unaware of the tragedy.
The    husband    fearing    the    shock might prove fatal, has withheld news of the crim? from her.    The mother . is clinging to the belief that her child was     injured   by     pa.ssing  molorisl.s. who,  fearing airost.  took  the girl   in '¦ their machine and an   having her in¬ juries cared for until such time as she is able to return home, j     Tuesday night  Nadine  disappeared ! from in front of her home.    Cunflict- , ing  stories  were  told   by   the  child's companions and police worked on the 1 theory that she had been kidnapped.
IN MEDIATOR ROLE
Valley, seven miles south of here. Physicians and Red Cross workers from here have hurried there to aid the large number reported injured by the twister.
At Lchighton, ten miles east of here, many were injured and large proper¬ ty damage wa.s sustained.
South of hero the transmission linos of the -Mabama Power Co. were twisted and torn to pieces. Tele¬ graphic and telephonic service to the south is completely cut off.
BODY OF EMPRESS
KEPT FROM CAMERAS
produce such a wound as was found 1 patching that gold  herself.    The in- |
In the little girl's body. While in¬ vestigating tho police found a dan¬ gerous looking carving knife in the Ruggerio home.
Tho  boy.   Peter,  then   confessed  to
Chief  of   Police   Craig   that   he   had
killed  his  sister.    He  described   how
down I he had wiped the blood off the blade
of the knife before it was hidden.
Peter was taken to the Psycho¬ pathic Hospital at  Boston  for obser-
pofod    again    tbat    slie    had    "fjtUen '• vation.      The   police   were   uncertain down stairs." whether  the  boy  killed  the  gjri  in a
Ptaysicians, wbo performed as ao- |rase or in a fit^ ot msanity.
ference was that the money reached her from Russia, perhaps by way of the Balkans.
The Bolsheviki lane of comm»iplca- tion lies through the Balkans and gold in transit could be so chv>sed that signs of its Russian' origin would be effaced.
It has been suspected for some time that much Russian gold poured through the Scandinavian countries, the Russian stamps being removed when coin^ and bars were melted in¬ to ingotj. _   i under arrest.
RAID IS CONDUCTED AT ALDEN;
SIX PERSONS ARE SENT TO JAIL
A squad of State troopers and county detectives swooped down on -AJden. Newport Township, at 11 o'clock last night and raided the house of Edward C. Lyon.s. 119 Kir¬ mar street. Several men and women were arrested as frequenters and in default of bail were committed to the dbtention ward  in  the county jail.
Lyons wa-s sick and was not placed
The
others    in    tli^Nanticolifi,
house were .loseph Walters, 42 New- | port street, Alden; Lewis Rishel, 55 1 West Grove stret, Nanticoke; Walter; Smith, Glen Lyon; Fran_^s Smith.; Philadelphia; Elizabeth Ballietl, UO Kirmar street, Alden. and Margaret j Casashe\-sy,      Wilkes-Barre. The i
Balliet girl was not committed.    The prisoners wore given a hearing    be- , fore Squire Alexander    Kozinski,    of
Berlin. April 16.—CJermany's efforts to have the l.'nited Stales named as a mediator in the reparations dispute apparently had failed tonight.
The negotiations which had been going on informally and quietly be¬ tween government representatives apd the American mission, were un¬ derstood to have been broken oft by the intter. Germany failed to obtain the American government's tentative approval of the plan, before official¬ ly laying it before the allies.
Refusal of 'the United States to consider the proposal was under¬ stood to be largely on the grounds of the ^ langlements which might en- • sue if America consented lo have Germany take over the allies debts. | eoilecting from Germany after grant¬ ing a temporary loan lo resuscitate German industry. Such a plan was reported to have brought up the pic- lure of Germany failing to live up to her contract, wilh responsibility for enforcement of the penalties under the treaty consequently falling on the United States. This would, of course, necessitate the increasing of America's force on the Rhine.
The initiative throughout, It must be understood, has rested on Ger¬ many, the American mission being passive until the moment came for a decision. It is now believed that Germany will send identical notes to England. I-Yance and Italy, offering the following to the reparations bill:
Cash from a proposed international loan: goods, men and materials for the reconstruction of the devastated regions in FVance.
In German official circles it is felt that the allies will not presn for im¬ mediate liqudiation of the payment of the money due May 1. For this . reason a request will be made for an- oHiuer conf erracet
Doron. April 16.—Arrangements had been completed at the Maarn railway station tonight for entrain- ment of the body of the former Ger- ma empress for Potsam tomorrow.
The imperial train already was ly¬ ing on a siding, ready to receive the body and bear it in state to the for¬ mer Hohenzollern residence.
P^laborate preparations wore made to thwart photographers and movie men. A camouflage of fir trees w.-us placed about the station to prevent them from obtaining pictures of the entrainmenl.
portion svi-ept over Misslsippi, parts of Ten¬ nessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Missouri. The wind blew a gale and fell in sheets. Iniured persons were reported from many citieo la the pulli <¦'. t'o be, vy storm. Crops Leveled
Cfops in southern slates were lev¬ eled by the wind. Reports reaching wheat crop experts here tonight were that the wiiU'r wheat had not been seriously affected by the storm. Th<» moisture in somo districts was badly needed and may help develop a big¬ ger crop.
The greatest crop damage was to fruit. Whole orchards were uproot¬ ed by the wind storm. And tonight the third freeze of the spring was re¬ ported in Illinois. Mi.ssouri, Kansas and Iowa. The fruit crop, heavily damaged by the previous freezes, was in darger of being entirely wiped out in  those stales.
Gardens weie frozen or blown out by the w nd. The gale that surged through the central states from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Rockies to the Appa¬ lachian mountains, originated in two distinct areas on Thursday. One dis¬ turbance .started in the western pla¬ teau of Idaho Hid the olher in Cana¬ da. The twii combined and within 24 hou^^; spread out over the central United Str.te.j like a  blanket.
Rain, snow or sleet fell in every state of the middle west. Wisconsin was buried iind"r a foot of snow,— Ihe heaviest fall  in spring in  years.
The storm, after covering the cen¬ tral states, veered off ovor the Great Ivikes, hitting Lake Michigan es¬ pecially hard. .\ umber 19, a Pere Marquette car ferry, was the only vessel still unaccounted for tonight. She left Ludiiigton. Mich., for Mil¬ waukee with I'O persons aboard and was due to arrive at noon Saturday. The storm also bit I..ake Krie and portions of Lake Huron. It was ex¬ pected lo spend itself over the great lakes, northern (Jhio, I'ennsylvania and may  reach  in  -New  York state.
CABLE TO IRELAND
UNPAID BY BOSTON
Boston, April 16.—A telegraph company was still trying today to get the city of Boston to pa.v^for a long cablegram, which counsellor James T. Moriarily, while acting mayor, sent to Lloyd George just before Mayor MacSwiney died, alleging that the entire population of Boston was pro¬ testing against English's treatment of the hunger-striking Irishman.
Mayor Peters, in whose absence Morarlty dispatched the mes.sage. re¬ fused to pay for the cable, declaring that Morarity. in sending such a message In the name of the city of Boston, was exceeding his authority.
Mayor Peters suggested that Morarity might pay the bill.
MOVIE STAR JAILED
FOR BEING TOO SPEEDY
Santa Ana, Cal.. April 16.-Bche Daniels of the films, inmate of cell Ni». a36 of the Orange County jail, spent a busy day today dolling up and r.'- ceiving callers.
It was the first day of a trn-dav sentence imposed on h»r for speed¬ ing.
"Believe me." said Beb* serioush'. "jail is no joke. Still it isn't as ter¬ rible as anticipated. 1 am not sur¬ rounded by murderei-s and bandits. Why there aren't any cooties even. I thought jails had "em."
The cell was all dressed up like a room at the Ritz.
AUORNEY AND ANOTHER ARRESTED IN INVESTIGATION OF MAIL THEFTS
Chicago, April 16.—Postal author¬ ities arersted Ruel H. Gruenwald, prominent     attorney,    and     Envald
Stevenson,   tonight     on   charges     of having money stolen in the Dearborn
bank Informed the authoritiea that they had been asked to change bundles of small bills for larger ones. When arrested .the men had in their possession six packages of money, alleged to be part or the $300,000 sto-
station mail robbery in their posses- ' Irn by bandits a few days ago af the sion. ! Dearborn slreet  station.    The money
Thq men were rushed to the jail at i was being sent from the Chicago F>d- Joliet.  Ills., and held  incommunicado | eral Reserve ank  to a branch in In- while they were put through thp third ' dianapolia. degree   by   government  authoriiiee.     I     Postal    inspectors    said    the    men
Suspicion was dire<ied to the men, i would be allowed freedom .on $14,000 postal autliorities said, w^ea a Loop i bonds.
1
Chicago. April 16—Freezing weath¬ er followed tonight In the wake of the blizzard and Tornado which swept man.v persons to death and left debris in its wide path east of the .Mountains.
The   gale   was   surging   over   the groat     lakes     tonight,     endangering shipping    and     lashi.ig    small     craft ~~~~~^~~—' I which  were  unable  to  reach  havens.
DAI I    TCAM   I ncrC   DADl^ ' ""'"'^'^¦''   '"   northeastern   Texas   an«l
DALL   I CAM   LUouO  r AniV. j >.vestern   Arkan.sus   from   the   wreck-
-  I age,   gathering   bodies   of   the   dead.