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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOV. 26, 1922
The   Only   Sunday   Newspaper Publisb^Hi-. In   Liueme   County
PRICE EIGHT CENTS
SCHEME TO OPEN MINES TO IMPORTS
UNITED STATES SPEAKS
Lausanne Conference Is Told That Open Door Policy Must Be Preserved
ATTITUDE A SURPRISE
Secretary Hughes Backs Up Demand For Equal Chance in The Near East
Anna Loughran Out Of Asylum
rhitadelpbia. Pa., Nov. 23.—Mrs. .Anna I.iOug}iran. eighty-eight years old, of Hazleton, I'U., was ordered released from the I'ennsylvania Hospital for the Insane in an order handed down by Judge Stern In court here. The aged woman's re¬ lease is to be given her immediate¬ ly. Two sons of Mrs. Loughran, James and Frank Loughran, Hazle¬ ton hotel men, admitted in court that they had managed to place her in the Institution by telling her that she was starting on a trip to Ireland. They claimed their act was Inspired to serve their moth¬ er's "best Interests." They said she had been living at one of their hotels but she became unmanage¬ able. They criticised "meddlesome relatives" who they said had never shown any intert>3t In the aged wo¬ man until the pre.sent. A sister, however, condemned the detention of Mrs. Loughran. Hospital phv¬ sicians declared the Institution is the proper place for her but they agreed to her discharge.
FIRE DRY AGENTS IN HUNDRED LOTS
MONOPOLIES OPPOSED
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T-iusanne. Nov. 25—The United f5tatos todjiy made a flat demand for the op«'n door imlit;^ and equal com¬ mercial opportunities tn the near ICast. Richanl Washburn Child, the Ameri¬ can nhserv-iiiK dcleg:ite, served notice of th(? American attitude, which had all the effecLs of a bomb.sheIl on the l.-iusani)c lonfi-renee. wV proposal wa.s afoot at the time wnercby Eng¬ land was to underwrite 50 per cent of a large loan to Turkey, in return for title to half of the oil in the rich MoMUl rcBTlorvB.
Tho Hriti.sh plan would have left only half tifte oil fields to all other allied countries and America.
"The entire American people backs up the i>oUcy of the 'oi>en door'", t'hllds, .\mbas.s:»dor to Home, told the lonferenee commission which was mertinK to fix,Turkish boun<larie.s and doal with British claims in the Mosul . rcgiop. "¦ Secretary Huches' note to the three I powers which dispatched the invitat¬ ions lo tho Ijiu.sanne parley, was read by tho .\ml>a.ssador. The .Vmerican Serretar>- of ftate as much as .said that .America did not consider valid the (iKrocment.s under which the nat¬ ions had tarv'e<l oul spheres of special economic piivilopes in parts of the formor Turkish empire.
"The .Americ.-in dolegaiion cannot hear." Mr. I'hilds Riiid. "of any terrt- torlal settlement which in turn may affect other territorial adjuatmenls without drawing the attention of the conference to certain traditional prin¬ ciples of .American foreign policy, out¬ lined in Secretary Hughe.s' note of tVtolwr SO to the three inviting pow¬ ers."
Ambii.s.«i;idor Chllds then quoted the note as follows:
•¦.\s the object of w ndlng .American observers to the l«iusanne conference Is to jirevrnt misundcrstundings. we consider it ;i|>propriate to call attent¬ ion to the attitude of the ITnited States rti.Htive to secret treaties und agreement*
"We c.innot feel that ngreement.s pre¬ viously roached regarding Turkish ter¬ ritory aud whiih provide for establish¬ ed zones of s|)ecial economics and Ocimmercial Influences such as the nco tripartite acreemenl are in har¬ mony with *lie principles of economic equality. We assume the allies do not fhtend to carry out previous arninge¬ ments of this nature. The United States docs not desire to take any ac¬ tion that mit.'lit ombiirrass tihc allies' efTorts 1.1 .secure |>eace. It desires nothing which conflicts wilh the in¬ terest of other nation.s. If the princi¬ ple of commercial equality for all na¬ tions is recognized from the start, the UnitM States does not inten<l to ^;eek for it.self or its nationals points of Kpeci.'U privilege, but dt'sires to protect lis rights and to assure the open door."
Supplementing this nnd drawing at¬ tention to American insi.>-tance on this point, the .Americiin .Ambuiiiiador cou- Unuotl;
"Th* conference may be glad to knokv that the entire .American people Itacks up this policy, not only as a na¬ tional I'liUcy. but cs a policy which, if fidopted liy all nations, would perhaps contrast with the pre.sent search for territorial and other special privileges on foreign soil and become a powerful clement for the establishment of ntablo peace and the foundutic n for O^ter equity between nations, a.s well a«|tbe basis for a more progressive ecoBioniic development of territories."
Turk Leader Puts Himself On Side Of United States In Present Debate
Washington, Nov. 25.—.A. shake-up in the federal prohibition enforcement system—involving .several hundred field %gents, some State directors and other officials—is under way, it was leamed here tonight. The present chiefs of the prohibition department hope, with this change, to meet the objections raised by President Harding in Increased prohibition violations, with widespread financial and moral corruption.
Further, It Is leamed that the pro¬ hibition department intends to press for an appropriation of at least $9,- 500,000 from Congress for the next fiscal year, in the hope that it may perfect a more efBcient army to battle j.rigantic tinderground rum running and bootlegging systems.
-Attomey Oeneral Daugherty to¬ night jolne<l the movement for stricter enforcement—the administra¬ tion program decided upon at a lengthy session of the cabinet Friday —when he announced that a sy.stem of conferences between federal and State attorneys had been arranged so that closer co-operation between the two groups might be obtained.
The conferences also will handle violations which might come under the Dyer automobile theft law, the nar¬ cotic act and the postal frauds law.
in the prohibition department shakeup, more than flfty agents al¬ ready have been dropped In New York and others In Chicago. Olher changes soon will be made in more than half a dozen other cities.
Prohibition Commissioner Roy A. Haynes declares   these   changes   are
being made In order "to   reduce    the
quota of all federal posts to normal.
More Money  Required
The present force is larger than ever before, there being more than 3.500 men actively engaged in the federal unit. This Is an Increase of 1,200 men over last year. This force, it is slated, cannot be maintained at the present appropriation of Con¬ gress, and appearances are that un¬ less President Harding brings pres¬ sure to bear, the appropriation bills which ire to be drawn up In Decem¬ ber for the next flscal year, wHl not carry sufficient funda to finance any big new expansion of the prohibition department.
There is a strong opposition In Congress to an expensive expansion of the force. Contention is if 1,000 more men in the department than this y«ar were unable to ^vercome the violations, there is no use for further expansion.
Attomey General Daugherty also made public a report of the division of the Justice Department in which it was stated 60,000 ne wc;ises under the Volstead, Dyer, narcotic and postal funds acts were bejrun during- the present fiscal year and that 53,155 were terminated.
"The failure of local self govem¬ ment dn parts of the country re.sults in insistence of the citizens in those communities that the federal govem¬ ment perform that function In which the local govemment has failed," Daugherty stated.
Evidence of the beneflts of the fed¬ eral and state conference plan are overwhelming."
WANTS STRAITS FREE
Hughes For Open Door
Washington. Nov. "5.—Secretary of Htate Huphes has m.ide the Near Kastern peace confctmcc at I.,;iusanne the iKisis for .» new and vigorous light for the "ojv^n door" principle ttnd commercial eqiKility throughout the world. The "open door" principle, one of the cornoi^tones of Sectrtary Hughes' foreign policy, has been prosecuted hy him in several interna¬ tional questions all over the world.
Now the chl»f of American foreign ' policies i.s concentrating on  the Near KaFt   and   Turkey,   where   clashes   of' Qm  powers  over   rich   lands  and  re-
fclxres of t>tcse territories long have n a cau.so of war aud serious in¬ ternational  friction.
Creat signi:tcance was attached hero to Anibas-s-idor Child's statement at the l..aus;inne conference todp'- ¦upplementing Hughes' note that "t^ entire American i>oople buck up thi.s policy," as indiciiting this govern¬ ment's determination to flght to the utmo.st for this principle.
.Among the more ,im!H>rtant speclflc nuv.stums which this i>olicy will be dln^c'ed again.st at Laasiinne. are:
1—The argeement of 1K20 between Gn-at Urituin, Franco and Italy, marking off special spheres of in¬ fluence and privilege in Turkish ter- ritor>'.
2—The so-called San Homo agree¬ ment between Great Britain and Krance for a division of the oil sup- plica of Mesopotamia, over which Kngland  holds a mandate.
The United States is opposed to bdth of these agreements and desires to break them. In addition the American statement at I.AU8anne to¬ d.iy mny iiidii'ale a fear on the parf of this government thai the powers (Coutiuacd on l^se 1, Third Section)
Editor's Note:—.American insistence upon an open door policy at the straits, voiced at Lau.sanne by Am¬ bassador Childs today, cdlncldes with Turkish determination that Great Britain shall not establish another Gibraltar in the Near Rist. according to an Interview granted Edward J. Ding by Ismet Pasha, head of the Ot¬ toman delegation. Bing, who arrived in New York >esterday with a record of notable news heats in the Near Elast, knows personally most of the Turkish leaders, and advise<l Mu.sta¬ pha Kemal, through Turkish repre- sentatlvi-s ,aa to the attituile tlu- .An¬ gora government should take toward open diplomacy at Mudania. Freedom of the straits and things America stands for today at the Switzerland conference, are Turkish alma, Pasha told Bing.
By Edward J. Ring. Copyright 1922.
New Y^ork, Nov. 25.—"While wc are fully prepared to open the Btraits to world shipping, we oppose any sugges¬ tion that the .straits should become another Gibraltar controlled exclusive¬ ly by the British," Ismet Pasha, Turkish peace delegate to the Lau¬ sanne conference and foreign minister of the Angora government, told me In an Interview at Mudania, on the eve of my departure from the Near East for New York.
Meanwhile, the decision of delegates at the Lausanne peace conference to open their meetings to world publicity, amounts to the fulfillment of hopes of the Turkish statesmen, aa expressed by Ismet I'asha on the same occasion, when the Turkish war hero and diplo¬ mat declared:
"Turkey demands th.at hor word be heard by the westem nationa and es¬ pecially by .America. We attach the greatest importance to the attitude of American public opinion, and we hope to convince Americjins that Turkey is always aWe to face the truth. We op¬ pose socroi diplo'macy. and shall de¬ mand thut ;he Near East peace con- feixnce deliberate in public."
Ismet I'asha. in whom the supreme confldence of his nation is vested, is a short Btockily built man, with eloqu¬ ent eyes und suave manners, which make him create more the impression of an artist than of a victorious gen¬ eral and flrm diplomatic negotiator. He speaks French almost perfectly, having graduated at the famous French Military Academy of Saint Cyr.
Triumphant Turkej'
During the worhl war, he was in charge of a Turkish division and later, of an army corps at Gallipoli and in I'a'estine. His military experience in the latter country stood him In good stea<l during his recent victorious campaign against the Greeks.
The big Turkish offensive, which led practically to the annihilation of tho Greek army in Xsla Minor and, of which Ismol Pasha gave a minute ^V^count. was conducte<l on lines close¬ ly resembling the strategy applied by Field Marshal Lord .Allenby <luring his victorious advance Into Palestine during the world war. In 1918.
"We know this waa a matter of life or death for Turkey," Ismet Pasha said iu his recital of what was one of the mast complete victories in mili¬ tary hi.storf. "Now that our country is saved from destruction, wo must lun^out attention to tho political ani economic que.stions concerning Tur¬ key. * Ours was a war of self defense against imperialist aggression, and our next task is the rcconstfuction of western Asia Minor, which the re¬ treating Greek army devaat.ited com¬ pletely, and the regeneration of our economic life.
"The freoilom of the straits must be e.Uablished In a for:n which should protect Constantinople f|rom a raid by a foreign fleet."
Ismet Pasha concluded: "An for the economic recon.struction of Turkey we should like to co-operate with the United States on a sound business basis. The natural resources of our country need rational exploitation. We give preference to American business enterprise because we know it is aim¬ ing at legitimate proflt without any ::ecrct intention to conquer u."-: politic¬ ally, as is the case with most of the ether powers."
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Convicted Of Murder In Shooting Children Who Quarreled While In Play
VICTIMS TOTAL FOUR
York. S. C Xov. 25—¦William C. "FiglitiiiR Bill" Furies, convicted today of the murder of Newton Taylor, aged 12, was sentenced to doath on Decem¬ ber 29, by Judge Puerifoy, after the defenses counsel's motion for a new- trial was overmled. Faries was found guilty bv a jury after an hour's delib¬ eration and the jury returneil the ver¬ dict without recommendation for mei-cy.
Judge Puerifoy was eleven minutes pronouncing sentence and all the time Faries stootl erect with his hat in his hand. He received the verflict of the jury and his sentence without a show of emotion. The State picked *:ie case of Newton Taylor as tho first of the li.st of four indictments, all charging murder, growing out of a campaign of annihilation of the children of James Taylor, a neighbor.
The trouble started over a series of children's quarrels. Just after the fatal shooting, according to the testi¬ mony, Faries' small son, Johnny, came to his father and said: "Pa, Newt Taylor hit me with a rock."
"I.might as well settle this thing now," Faries said. He went into the house and procured two shotguns and standing on his own front porch he opened fire. Newton Taylor, playing In his own yard acro.ss the slreet, was instantly killed.
Miss Lela Taylor. Fred Taylor and Claude John.son were al.so killed. Misses Gertie and Dolly Taylor were wounded, but not seriously.
Farle.s, following the shooting, was spirited to the State prison at Colum¬ bia for safe keeping.
He took tho stand in his own de¬ fense and today admitted killing the children, but added they were all armed at tho time of the shooting. No testimony to corroborate his state¬ ment was offered.
Many expected that Faries' counsel would enter a pica of insanity, but throughout the ca.se there was never a bit of testimony offered along this line.
The authorities took every precau¬ tion to prevent violence against the prisoner.
Faries is 60 years old and the father of a large family.
Louisiana Town Hides Wit¬ nesses And Makes Appeal For Protective Agencies
FEAR FOR LIVES
TIGER LE.WES NEW YORK
New York, Nov. 25.—Georges Clemenceau will leave New York for Chicago tomorrow where he will speuk Tuesday night.
The Tiger returned to New York from New Haven, where he was an Interested snectators at the Yale-Har¬ vard game. Plans thut ho should re¬ gain in Boston until Sunday were changed after Clemenceau evinced a desire to witness the &ist's gridiron classic.
The former premier is bearing the brunt of his many activities with no signs of fatigue and from Chicago will go to St. Louis, thence to Washing¬ ton, Baltimore, Annapolis and back to New York.
XEW GOLF PHE-NQM
IS BEING OBSER^-ED
Atlants^ Ga., Nov. 25.—.Atlanta is watching with interest the develop¬ ment of another golf phenom—tlene Cook. Golf is- made up larircly of phenomenal things — rr the e\i)t:cla- tion of something Ph.^nomeiiul and Cook's pi-ogress in the Scottish Na¬ tional . industry iu the year he has been following the gamo c;:u.se.'j hia cluh—West Knd—to look on him as a v.-orthy succo^ror lo Uob Jones.
It Is not so much that Jones needs a successor, but the rapid climb of Cook from a novice a year ago to "scratch," his play over strange courses, and the fact that Stewart "Kiltie" Maiden, mentor of Mi.ss .Alexa Stirling and Bob Jones, has taken an interest in Cook, shows that he has prospects, ac¬ cording to his frienda.
Baton Rouge, Ln., Nov. 25.—.Appeal for protection against what was term¬ ed a threatened "invasion" by the Ku Klux Klan" of the littic town of Mer Rouge In Moorehou.se Parish in re¬ taliation for information given detec¬ tives working on the mysterious dis¬ appearance and reported murder of two men, was received at the otflce of Governor John M. Parker here to¬ night.
Signed by a committee of four resi¬ dents of Mer Rouge, including W. E. Campbell, village marshal, the appeal contained the chargs that "insofar as Mer Rouge is concerned, the adminis¬ trative machinery of the local govern¬ ment is so broken down that It is practically impossible to indict mem¬ bers of the Klan for their violations of the law."
Signers of the call for aid assert that they did so at the risk of their lives nnd in the face of threats thatT "any more talking by Mer Rouge pto- ple will result in swift action."
Simultaneously with announcement of the appeal from Mor Rouge It was learned that federal operatives, co¬ operating with stale agents, have been in Moorehouse Parish several weeks Investigating the disappearance and reported murder of Watt Daniels and Samuel Richards on the night of Au¬ gust 28, when the two men ,together with three others, were kidnapped by a ma.sked band. Two of the men were released after being severely beaten, a third was released and told he was the "wrong man," while Daniels and Richards have not been heard from since.
Witness Threatened
One witness, who is said to have told detectives he was forced to carry water for the hooded mob aud saw several memtiers of    the    mob
Conrad Diets Is Hunter's Victim; Killed By Rifle Bullet In Woods
Conrad Dietz, Jr., 22 years old, of 280 Kidder street, was mortally wounded by a stray bullet from the gun of an unknown hunter while hunting yesterday on the P090- no mountains. He died while being taken to the General Hospital at Stroudsburg. "I've been shot" exclaimed Dietz while walking through some dense woods in com¬ pany with Elwood May of 36 South Hancock street. He sank to the ground unconscious with a rifle ball through his right lung. A search through the woods failed to dis¬ cover the hunter whose stray bullet caused the fatality. Early today the victim's body was being brought to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Dietz, Sr., by his brother, Howard Dietz, and Undertaker James F. Marley. Travel over the mountain roads was made necessarily slow by the season's first flury of snow.
Parents of Dietz were informed of their son's death yesterday aftemoon at 4 o'clock. The shooting occurred four hours before but the trip to the hospital at Strouds¬ burg was not completed until 3 o'clock and by that time death had occurred. According to May, who left this city yesterday moming at 5 o'clock with the victim in an auto¬ mobile belonging to the latter's father, the two j'oung hunters were passing through some thick undergrowth between Pocono Lake and Mount Pocono when Dietz was struck. There was no rifle sound although the bullet was evidently traveling wifh high velocity and was of heavy calibre. !May did not know his companion had been struck until he threw up his hands and exclaimed that he had been wounded. He staggered a few feet and then col¬ lapsed.
May hunied for help. The first man he met was Rob¬ ert Bush of Pocono Lake. Betwen them, Dietz was carried to the office of Dr. Charles A. LeCates at Mount Pocono, a distance of several miles. The physician stopped the flow of blood -and then commandeered a motor truck for the trip to the hospital. Before the joumey was completed the young man had died. Authorities of Monroe County were notified. They made a search of surrounding coun¬ try but no hunter could be found who could be linked up with the shooting. The weapons carried by several of them were examined. None could be found to con-espond with the rifle ball that caused the fatality. Belief was ex¬ pressed that the shooting had been done by some illegal hunter after deer, although the deer season does not open until December 1.
Dietz, it was leamed last night, laughingly referred to a premonition of trouble that he possibly had. While getting some sandwiches yesterday morning in a restau¬ rant on East Market street he told the restaurant proprie¬ tor that he would be back by nightfall "unless he was punctured." The victim was engaged in the plumbing contiacting business with his father. Besides his father and mother he is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Clarence, Detroit, Mich.; Hairy, Rochester, N. Y.: Cora, Rochester, N. Y.; Augusta, Newark, N. J., and Howard, at home.
SMEAIBUSS
their masks off. was taken from his home and is heing hidden for safe keeping. He is reported to have beeri removed to Baton Rouge under pro¬ tection of Slate and Federal agents.
Federal operatives are understood to huve been called Into the caae several weeks ago because of the be¬ lief that some members of the mob came from Arkansas.
'The safety of any one has been threatened if he even voices criti¬ cism of the Klan for kidnapping five of our citizens, beating and whipping
State Labor Agent And Coal Company Head Both Ask Men To Return
PROPOSALS REJECTED
Opposition to a eettkiment of the .strike called two days ago at the Bliss colliery of the Glen Alden Coal Company confronted Thomas , Davis, a representative of the State De¬ partment of Labor, and John Weiss, a board member of the United Mine Workers, when they advised the ^t'h I striking miners to   return   to   work.
The opposition was strong enough to prevent a settlement being agreed upon but another meeting will be hel<! tonight by the inlners.
The Bliss miners, comprising the membership of local unions No. 838 and No. 900. met in a hall at the cor¬ ner of Ridge and Noble streets, Nan¬ tlcoke Davis told the men that ¦yY_ -w. Inglis. president of the Glen .\lden, had promised to. meet a com
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others, whom we believe to have been foully murdered," the Mer Rouge ap¬ peal read
"For weeks Jier Rouge h.is been prepared, rifles and revolvers at hand, for the threatened Invasion of our village  by  the  Klan  forces."
Governor Parker tonight declared, "every effort will be made to protect citizens of Mer Rouge who have placed themselves under the Klan's displeasure by giving information re¬ garding the outrage of August 28, to our investigators."
"The investigation into the disap¬ pearance and reported murder of Daniels and Richards will continue," the Govemor added.
two of them and making off with two ¦ niittee of striicers provided they ended ..... V,.-,.       .-..__.-, ^^^   strike   at   once.     His   propositiol
was hooted down. The same kind of reception was given to a plea for settlement advanced by -Weiss.
The strike, which was called as a means of forcing the removal of Harry Goulston from the post of Inside fore- mon resulted in the Glen Alden Com- oanv announcing that President Inglls was ready to meet the strikers ycs- rerdav if they h.id retumed to work In the inoming. When the men tumed down this fir.st proposition, Davis and Weiss repeated the offer at a general
Following the unsuccefwful efforts of the mediators, some of the miners declared that seventy-flve per cent of the Bliss foree is willing to return to work leaving the terms of settlement to a "conference, but that cancellation of the walkout was blocked by a rad¬ ical element among the men. These miners declared there would be an¬ other  meeting   tonight  in   the   same
In the Pittston dlstrkJt, where the leaders of 10.000 miners employed by the Pennsylvania Coal Company threaten a general strike on Decem¬ ber 4. some miners have expres.sed themselves as being opposed to the leaders' plans. Rinaldo Cappellnland other chiefs have demanded the re¬ moval of all colliery foremen if the strike order Ls to be rescinded. One element of the |niners has already de- clare<l opposition to the plan. The llttston men Will Jioid another meet¬ ing belorfc the erder becomes effective.
Klan Denies Plot
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 25.—"A tempest In a teapot."
This was tho interpretation placed on the Mer Rouge, La., situation by F. L. Savase. chief of staff of the Ku Klux Klan, in a btatement here to¬ night.
"Blaming something or someone for their own shortcomings seems to be an easy way out for some people," Savage continued.
"As for the Ku Klux Klan being Implicated In the Mer Rouge kidnap¬ ping, a thorough investigation of the conditions surrounding the case have been made by operatives of the Klan ser\-ice—and it is only by the widest stietch of a fevered imagination that' any one could connect the Klan with these outRiges. (Continued on Page 1. Third Section)
Wife In Notorious Suit Says She Had Promise Of Re¬ newed Courtship
DOUBLE-CROSSED
South Bend, Ind., Nov. 25.—The divorce .secured by John P. Tlpman from Mra. Augusta Tiernan was ord¬ ered vacated by Judge Montgomerj- at a .special session of court late today. Rehearing of the case was ordered for December 11.
The order Invalidating the divorce decree was granted on complaint of Mrs. Tieman a few hours after the former Notr^ Dame professor was marriod to Mrs. Blanche I. Brimmer of Hansen, la.
Mrs. Tieman was plainly angered over Tieman's sudden marriage to Mrs. Brimmer today and immediately threatened she would not only revoke the divorce decree, but seek to annul the remarriage of her former huBband.
"He double crossed me," sobbed Mrs. Tiernan, who publicly admitted Infidelity to the professor during her recent suit in which she charged Harry Poulin, a South Bend haber¬ dasher, Wiia the father of her third child.
"He promised to marry me again and not thH widow from Iowa," she said. "He was to couit me all over and we were to have boen re-married and start life over again In some littic town."
Tieman wooed and won the widow- by mail, Mrs. Tiernan charge<l. "They were corresponding during oixr trial when he stood by me in my prosecu¬ tion of Hcrry Poulin," she said.
Tieman married Mrs. Brimmer at Crown Point, two days after his di¬ vorce was granted at South Bend.
The ex-widow's father, the Rev. K. 1.1. Rawn, was unable to explain his daughter's romance with the pro¬ fes.sor. "I am not sure whether my daughter ever met the professor be¬ fore her marriage to him." he said.
MA Y REPEAL LA ^ ON CERTIFICATES; UNION WILL FIGHT
Success Of Scheme By Legislative Lobby Would Permit Anthracite Operations To Be Conducted By Men Trained In Emer¬ gency To Ttike Places Of Experts
ATTACK ON TWO-YEAR CLAUSE
JOSEPH DEBONLS, SR.
The funeml of Joseph DeBonis, Sir., who die<l Friday of apoplexy aft»r only two hours' illnes.s. will be held tomorrow morning from his home at 238 North Washington street. A re¬ quiem mass will be celebrated In Holy Rosary Church on Park avenue at 9 o'clock. Interment will be In St.   Mary's Cemetery,  Hanover.
Mr. De Bonis was a re.sident of the city for the past thirty-seven years^ He was' a stone mason and for twenty-fivo years was a member of an organization composed of followers of that craft.    His age was 4.
Besides his wifo, the following chil¬ dren survive: Stephen. Cliarles. Joseph. Jr., Anna, Mildred anJ Jeanette,
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 25.—While operators of anthnicite coal companies refuse to confirm reports, and in some cases deny them, there is insistent repetition today of details governing a proposed plan by which the Penn¬ .sylvania Legislature at its next session starting in January will be induced to change the mining laws to such ex¬ tent as tp wipe out the licensinij plan v.'hich at present requires that a man must have had two years of actual ex¬ perience in the hard coal mines beforo he is qu.T.lifled to cut coal and given the certlflcate of a miner. There are two principal reason* for the desire to have the licensing or certiflcat<2 law repealed.
Because of the first rea.=on the United Mine Workers of America will be solidly aligned against tho cam¬ paign for changes. Elimination of certificates would mean thnt men who never before worked In the mines could be taken to them, given a <iuick course in training and passed on as qualified miners. What this arrange¬ ment would bring to the operators in the nature of support during a time of strikes may be readily Judged. So, the first reason for having the laws amended is clearly on the part ot the operators who heretofore have been barred from making any serious ef¬ fort to break a strike by having coal mined by non-union labor. The sec¬ ond reason is based upon a desire to fill up the vacancie.s in min'.ng jobs, caused by the reduction of practiced men or their removal from the* coal regions.
Indications pointing to an effort to change I'ennsylvania's laws have bee n many. The most pronounced Is the drive being made for the recruitintf of mine laborers in the groat cities of the East. By seeking as many as a thousand recruits at a time, the ci/or- ators have shown to the coal-consum¬ ing public that they are attemptin,-r to Incre.'ise prt)duction but are balVed by the ."hortage of competent labor in the coal fields, .\ttention is flxed upon the fact that only rough lal>or can le hir¬ ed for the unskilled work of the mines and the blame for a continued short¬ age among skilled miners Is fixed ui)on the Pennsylvania laws which forbid a man from quickly learning tbe miner's work.
Union On Guard
What such propaganda meana to the general public at the outset of the Winter season is a great deal. Already in Philadelphia and New York it is hard to obtain certiUn sizes of anthracite. In New England'0 large cities It has been neces.sary to use governmental force to pro r;tte shipments so that a fuel crisis may be averted. When the public Is tol(T that more can be mined if the law would permit the hiring of more miners it is n.atural that the weight of criticism falls upon the law. "fbe operators would have easy work win¬ ning the support of tbe public out¬ side the coal fields.
But the anthracite flelds aro thor¬ oughly unionized. In the recent elec¬ tions the unions showed their strength by carrying more than onif of their candidates against the oppo¬ sition of the regularly ordained po¬ litical parties. No insistent drive was made for the election of State Legis¬ lators but men mnning for Represen¬ tative places were careful to ;ivoid any clash with the union Interest.^ i and most ol^ those who succeeded in ' winning seats at Harrisburg will go to the capital with the understand¬ ing that they are friendly to Union , ideals. I
Denials by the operators when they were asked if a crusade Is on against' the prohibitive  mining  lawa  may  be | explained by the fact that a date so far advanced is a poor time to give • out plans or even to let It be known I that   plans    exist.    Most    corporation legislation has been   gotten    throu.gh! the Legislature without publicity and some of It has been passed In the last i
hours of .¦sessions when •confusion !.<i so great that a ple<lrred vote can bo taken and a bill sent through without letting the opposition know what it ia all about
Law is .Attacked
Operators huve declared that the law governing miner certlflcates In the hanl coal fields i.s unju.st. They have made reprrseiitaiions at various times to show that whatever skill is required of miners can be leame<l in a p^rio<I far shorter than two years. One leading influence In coal circles recently made tho statement that if the law would permit, hard coal min¬ ers could be made from rough labor¬ ers by six weeks of intensive train¬ ing, most of which would deal with the .safety measures and the use of explosives.
Just the Intimation that there Is danger of the mine laws being amen<led will be sufficient to mar¬ shal tbe entire strength of the Unitol .Mine Workers a.s'ainst any tentative pl.TU. It i.i recognize<l that the present wage contracts expire in the anthracite field next Septemlier and the wiping out of the certlflcate- plan would permit the operators to wield a mighty weapon in forcing their arguments for a new contract. At present the union miners have the advantage of the operators. It la impo.ssible to break a strike by hir¬ ing imported workers because such workers cannot obtain certlflcates. In the anthracite fleld the Union i.s so dominant that there are not enough-non-union miners to m.in one colliery of the vast number of such operations.
.Miners Must Ite Trained
Union miners declare the State law on certificates is just. The min¬ er's job, they .say, is hazardous, and one careless or inefficient man can bring inju!-y or death upon hundreds. Two years of preparation for the ac¬ tual work of the hurd coal miner i.s con.sldered to be as small a. probation period a.s coftid l>e aIlowe<l with safety. Therefore, the miners have two fundamental reasons for wanting to defeat any campuign that has an its purpose the amendment of tho certificate law. First, there Is the necessity of keeping out any in¬ fluence that might create. In a time of .strike, a mining force for the operators; .second, there is the matter of self-preservation again.st - the breaking down of  safety   regulationa.
There arc loboyi.st.s of loth Labor and operating alliances i.t Harrisburg, but the thought of diinger to tho min¬ ing laws will mean tho augmentation of the Union forces who will make It their busine.ss to see that every legislator goes on record If any blow is struck against tho minln;? laws, especially in their requirement of ex- perience<l and certified mon In the anthracite regions. The certiflcite plan Is one of the strongest defensive weapons of the hard coal worker and it may account for the fact tnat the anthracite miners are moro solidly organized thnn aro their brethren in the bitumlnou.s field.s.
Coal Rates Probe
Wa.shington, Nov. 25.—In ve.st igat ion of railroad co;:l nites might load to a r<duction in the price of coal to the consumer, the report of National Re¬ tail Coal Merchants stated when !«ub- mitfed to the U. S. Fuel Administra¬ tion oday. The recom.-nendatlons In¬ cluded :
Expression of opinion that the fuel administration should advise the pub¬ lic to buy quantities of anthracite and bituminous coal for the next few months to avoid di.sruption of indus¬ try in event of another strike.
Opposition to the proposition far standardlziition  of mines.
Oppo.sition to the proposal to limit letail coal dealers prices.
Oppo.sition to the proposal to staa- <!.'trdize wages for mine workers OB tho bfisis of the cost of livlni?.
BOY CHIEF ii\l TROUBLE;      SHOW-DOWN TO COME
ALSO CHICAGO'S MAYOR
Chicago, Nov. 25.—Resignation of Charles Fitzmorris 3s chief of Chica¬ go's police as a resni-, of an attack on the lack of enforcement of alws pro¬ hibiting gambling by the Thompson administration, was reported tonight In high city administration circles. The attack on Mayor William Hale Thomp.son came into the open Friday night, following a ceremonial at the Shrine Temple, attended by the mayor.
When Mayor Thompson attempted to answer* claims that othor organ¬ izations and churches were allowed to sell lottery tickets and raise money at baza.-irs through games of chance, although the camlvala .supported by Masonic Lodges were not, he was hooted dot»-n.
The mayor twice took the floor and tried to deny the charges made by liliuitrious Potentate Wade and the 1.000 fellow Shriners hooted him down and refused to hear him on each oc- ca.sion.      .
Chief Fitzmorris, who has just com- jileted his second year of 'idmlni.stra- tiqn of the police department of Chi¬ cago, refused to deny the reports to¬ night.
Appointment of Fitzmorrl.s to the position of superintendent of police has alv.-ays drawn flre against Thomp¬ son in political circles. Fitzmorris, a Democrat, was previously the mayor's secretary. He started as a newsboy and later was a reporter.
He was given the position aftor ap- polntees from the ranks of tho police : failed to bring the desired .-csuJt.s. Ho was only 35 whf-n i'ppointed, and was [ termed the "uoy Chief." i
IN HALL-MILLS CASE
Now Bmn.swlck, N. J., Nov. 25.— .Special prosecutor Mott tclay mar- slaled hi.s forces for a "show down" In the Hall-Mills ca.se next week. The gtand Jury will Indict two persons as an   "un.solvablo  mystery."
-Mott took advantage of the grand jui-y receai to<liiy to put flnl.shln» touches to the evidence he expect.s to pn-sent beginning Momhiy. Hi.s tmmp card. It Is unde."stoo<l, will be in the form of a new "star witness," aa yet uiiuamed. who, it is Ktated, wil! cor¬ roborate the .story of Mra. Jane Gib¬ son,  "pig farm"  womii i.
Alleged Intrigue, jealousy and petty bickerings of the fashionable con¬ gregation of Rev. Edward Hall's church will be di»cloBe<l nipidly before the jury in Itfi closing days, att.iches of Mott's omct declared. Detectives said that witno.s;4es to he .summoned Include V. M. CoiTdin. vp.stryman of the <'hurch of .St. John the Evangel- Lst; .Mi.sH .Agne.s Stor-r, organist; Eil- wln Cari>entier, millionaire cou.«-in and advi3<;r of the slain rector's widow: Mrs. Millie Opie. neighbor of Mra. MUiis; William I'hillips, a night watch¬ man at the New .Ir-rsey coll<-ge for Womtn, near the Hall home; Clifford Hayes, once falsely accuser] of the munler and a yoim-' -''•n"?"apher allege<i to have !•• jh an¬
other woman's hu-' • i,-- mur¬
der »c« ne on the nigiit of the killing.
AN AIXOHOL .MYSTERf
Although police officials on liuty at^ headquarters denied ;iny knowledge of the inddent. It is .siiil that on Fri<lay aftorr; on seven r;;n.s of diliitrd .ilrohol werr confi.-iuitrl on a truck ji; :,.sing tbroug.i tbe northern oni uf the city.