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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1917
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THE W EATHER
Washington,    Dec.     22.—Fair!; \ \ Sunday  and  Monday;  continued \ ^ :old. i
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DEATH DRUG KIDNAPPER'S TOOL
GERMANS TO SEIZE
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Rule of Bolsheviki is Toppling and Union of Provinces is Foreseen by the Allies
ROYALTY MAY RETURN
DOWN GERMAN PLANE IN RAID ON LONDON
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l..iindon, Dec. 22.—\ Uerman aero¬ plane was l>rouj?ht down and its c-ew of three captured in one of two 'German raids announced by 1- d French, commander in chief of  the  home  defen.se  forces.
The first attempted raid was over the Kentish coast, the enemy flyers heini; sij^hted at 6 o'clock tonig-ht. Of this party of aerial bomb drop- pprs one machine, a Gotha, was downed.
Thf second raid occurred at 9.30 p. m. A few bombs were dropped over the Isle of Thanet.
".N'o casualties and no damagre was reported tonight," Lord French re¬ ported.
INTiiRKISHASSAUlI;
Stockholm. Dec. 22.—Proclamations were posted in the RussiaTi barracks today that German troops would soon arrive at Petrograd "in order to es- tat>lisili order.'' The news-paper Djelo XoaroUja .says there is growing agi¬ tation In Petrograd for restoration of ihp monar{:hy.
Proclamations   will   be   posted   Sun- • lay,   il   was   slated,   urging   that   thei (Jrand   Duke   Alexie   be   made   regent j and   thf   Cira'id   Duke   Aloxandrovitch i »icc rogfnt. j
Fighting in the streets of Petrograd followed demands by the Bolsheviki uoveriimeiii to withdraw four army lorps, suddei.ly turned anti-Bolsheviki, aciurding to word received here to- uiglit.
Kver;.- report seeping through the Ua.ximalist controlled censorship from TOTiblous Petrograd tonight indicated ili.^solution of the Lenine-Trotsky iTizime it at hand.
Letlisih (roops, heretofore main re¬ liance of the Pacifist government, were r<.'i)orled becoming shaky.
All Caucasus troops adopted resolu- lion.x demanding that the Bolsheviki surrender their power to the constituent assembly which they have prevented meet ing.
The Kabochaya Ganetta, once sup¬ porting the .Maximalists, in its issue today declared: "The days of the BolehevikI are numbered. They are unable to give the people either peace or l.»read. or land. They have given them only rfvilwai. The workers and ir .iM>Jitlere are beginning to awaken. They will swn\ show their mig'ht in behalf of Ihc  fatherland."
.\ manifesto recently issued by the •nglnil .soviet of all-Russian delegates Mid received here pleads with the i people to "arise and defend parliament :itialnst the usurpers who are seeking .1 shameful separate and imperialistic liracc."
New Crisis Reached.
I.ondnn. r)ec. 22.—Russia's Boshe- ¦ iki government tonight was facing its (.reatesl crisis.
Fighling on a large scale in the ¦streets of Petrograd was reported in t'nlled Press dispatches from Stock¬ holm, mutinous troops starting the revolt.
i;krainia backed up her declaration (if IndependeiKje of fSolsheviki rule by massing of formidable forces against the   Troisky-Lenine  combination.
Siberia was rei)orted on the verge of :i  separation movement.
General    Kaledine's    Cossacks    were
Artillery Units Busy on West¬ ern Front and Troops Await Arrival of Orders
FIX RATES!
101 BRITISH KILLED BY U-BOAT TORPEDO
London, Dec. 22—Six officers and X Then of the British steamer Ste¬ phen Furness, an armed ship used in boarding vessels at sea, were lost when a German submarine sunk that vessel in the Irish channel, the Admiralty announced late today.
The Stephen Furness was of 3712 tons, owned by the Tyne-Tees Steamship Co. of New Castle.
An Atlantic Port, Dec. 22.—The British steamer City of Naples, re¬ ported lost some time ago, reached port today. Her oflficers said she had struck a mine a short distance out from a British port and put back for repairs.
BABY STEALER ADMITS KILLING BY LAUDANUM; KEET MURDER REVEALED
Company Must Pay Hundred Dollars For Each Fatality or Lose Day's Production
•DEMAND  REFUSED
ENEMY ATTACKS FAIL
London. Dec. 22.—Capture of El Mal kratls   with   much   Turkish   war   ma terial and 330 war prisoners was an-! nounced in an official statement from the  Palestine  expeditionar.v  force  to¬ day.
Two thousand miners employed at the South Wilkes-Barre colliery of the Lehigh &¦ 'Wilkes-Barre <''oa! company yesterday issued an ultimatum to the company officials on the question of having the men remain at work while one of their fellov-workers is being buried. The miners informed the com¬ pany thnt they woulcattend every fun¬ eral, thereby closing the colliery un¬ less the company agreed to make an extra cash seltlement upon the families i of miners who meet death w'hile at work.
The proposition has been refused by the company, it was said last niglit, and the miners have announced their intention of attending funerals in the future as they have in the past. The question has caused relations between the miners and the company to reach a
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FRENCH GIVE PRAISE
Will Continue Operations to Force Allies to Agree to New Terms of Peace
German Power Surpasses That of Allies and America is Urged to Rush Supplies
SEEK WEAK PLACES
IN BAHLEIRENCHES
Nervous Stage Has Passed and Men Have Settled Down to Veteran Operations
Whole Story of Crime That Stirred Nation is Toid by Convicted Member of Ran som-Seeking Gang — How Child Was Abducted and Men Who Committed Deed
COMMANDER PROUD
MANY OTHERS MARKED
Washington,  Dec. 22,—Germany and J     "With     the  'French     Armie?  In    the the allies are at present playing a* game   Field,  Dec. 22.—.\merica can begin
FIRST PLANS LOST
Rome,   Dec.   22.—Italy's   offensive   i.^ j delicate   stage   and   there   may   be   an
making  progress  despite  ihe   enemv's I "^P^"  break.
Tho members    of Local     L'nion  Xo.
utmost  efltorts.     Rome   waa  jubilating
j 1407 met recently and decided upon a
¦Washington. Dec. 22. — Germany's war lords have abandoned hope .if starving England by the submarine terror. Such early dreams with which the German people were indulged ti buoy up their morale have given way to hope now that the shipping shortage will induce England to listen to peace suggestions sooner than would other¬ wise be reasonable to expect.
Count Persius, the German naval writer, made this plain in a recent ar-
of wits, preliminary to the much herald ed German offensive, according to re-
to
be a little bit proud of her first troops to take their "blood bath " on the long
Springfleld. Mo., Dec. 22.—Baby Lloyd Keet whose kidnapping and death last summer stirre<^ the entire country, was killed by laudanum poisoning, according lo an al1»ged confession by Claude J. Piersol's. mem- j ber of the kidnapping gang tonight.
Piersol said, according to Sheriff ' Mackey. that the poison was siven ^je baby to keep it from crying. An over¬ dose was inadvertently administered The baby's body was then thrown into a well on an abandoned faro> where it wa.s later found.
Pier.sol's   alleged   confession   is   said I to   have     implicated     several     others, I .Maxie Adams, youngest member of the I gang, already  has been   rearrested. Mackey said  Piersol's confession re¬ vealed    a    wholesale   kidnapping   plot, hatched   by   the   ring  lajst  winter and spring.    The gang expected to receive at   least   $11«,000   in   ransoms.   It   wa;;
defense   which     she     cannot j and  to  be  given   an   absolutely  frank!     ,1. Holland Keet. wealthy banker and
cently returned American army officers j French battle line.
tonight. i     In the trenches where flrst Americai:
Germanv .^Ihey declared, is trying to i blood was shed: at regimental h^d- find w-here the weak spots lie in the quarters in a liuy village under Ger- allied lines, while at the same time the | man bombardment at the rear; a di- allies are very  busy bring up reserVes ; visional   headquarters   at   a   village   a
to strengthen both the weak and strong i points. This hide-and-seek .s^hifting i.s ; the answer to the recent west front ' lull.
few miles away and at army headquar¬ ters in a town still farther back, the United Press corresponderi today ask-
As a result Germany is llksly to find i ^^ to have French politeness set aside
today over the second day's successes | pjai, ^f showing practical s\mpathy to' ^^^^*> '" the Berlin Tageblatt, a trans
an   Iron pierce.
Authorities say it is a certainty that even with her reserves from the east front. Germany will be unable to smash
and open French opinion of America's I father of baby K.3et, was himself mark- first soldiers under fire *<* ^'" ajjduction. Edward L. Sanford, All   along   th»   Hn.   ;,,,.   . _,_Jvice-presidentof the Holland bank and
the   line   the   expressions!
reported by the war office as achieved i families whose principal wage earners i despite   bitterlv   unfavorable   weather 1 '«'*''e killed in the mines, conditions   in   driving   the   invader   inj     The union officials decided that each
man     would      contribute    twentv-five the mountainous left win; sector. j ^.j^^^ ^^ ^ common fund to which the
Progress was achieved at Monte' coal company should also add the sum Asolone after bitter flghting and the j of $100. Every time a miner was killed gains held despite violent enemv coun- \ ""« ''""'^ ¦*'«« ^° ^^ contributed by the ter blows. Dispatches late today re-I """f "'^ ^"^, V'* company and the pro ported the battle still raging.
At Osterialepre, an enemy detach¬ ment attempted to break through Italian rifle fire. Around Monte Solarolo   another    such     attack     was I ^^ ^"''^ instead of attending the
ceeds would be presented to the strick¬ en  family.    The    union    officials an-
night hy the committee on public in¬ formation here.
He called Hindenburg's statement on July 2 that the war is won for us if we withstand enemy attacks until the submarine campaign has done it.s work. At no far distant distant date our enemies will be forced to sue for peace."
The only thing lacking, stated Persius,  is that the submarine cannot
! the western line. However, they point i wer* such that Americans may be out anew that her acquisition of fresh! proud. Simple pollu.« veterans of forces from the Russian line give heri,.oo»-    «f     .    i.
s   c  .1 i ! J ears    of   trench     warfaro.     said   the
American flghters were i little "jum-
I nounced thai    if the    company would j yet be said to "have done its work." 1 agree to do this the men would remain {     .-a reflecting man rejects any ques-
'"*   tion  of  the  starvation  and   overthrow driven T>ack after heavy hand tu hand i "•^''als. ^ ^f  England,"  said  Persius.     "For him
fighting. I     Officials of the company announced j the only question is ' can we, bv dimin-
  I their    decision  yesterday.    They    said   jBhlng English tonnage ii.duce them to
London,    Dec.   22.—Increased   enemy : that   the    company   cannot     afford   to
artillerying   between   Armentieres   and
I,angemarck and patrol encounters I killed. They pointed out that the com- south of Cambrai was reported tonight j pensation law now places a heavj- bur- by Field  Marshal   Haig. I den upon the company and in view of
  ! this   expense   the   additional   contribu-
Paris,   Dec.   22.—Mutual   artillerying I tion of $100 per death could not be con- in   the   Chaney   sector,   on   the   right | sidered.
upper   Alsace,   was   a'l j     ^vhen  the men  learned ..f  the com¬ pany's    attitude    they    al    once    an¬ nounced that they T-.ould  continue at- ",^  ,. ! tending funerals  of killed  miners
Italian  counter   ig..g   ^„e   ..^mpanv   would the  tenth   day regained a
show themselves inclined at no distant spend $100 extra every time a minfer is date for peace wliich will be accep¬ table to us?" It may liardly be assumed that a scarcity of food will induce Eng¬ land to sue for peace in the nexl half
a slight numerical advantage for the time being and that with such a sit¬ uation it is quite essential that Ameri¬ ca speed her shipbuilding, cul the red tape on war work and get more ships to ship more men and supplies.
chairman  of  the  state  highway   com-
VASSAR GIRL SUICIDES
Chicago. Dec. 22.—'I am sorry but I j
py" at first and inclined lo bang away over the parapet at swaying weeds in Xoman's   Land   on   dark they   settled   down   after j old hands at the game.
nights, a   week
cannot he^i jt. This-will en*-it All.'
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French   officers   .said
i pecially impressed    by
lhey   were eagerness
but llki'
es.. of
Dec.
Meuse,   and   in
the   flghting   activity   reported   tonighi
in the French official statement.
Rome, Dec. 22.—The offensive on Thursday of the Brente-Piave battle great part of the tectical advantages the enemy won on Tuesday. accordin;i to  battle  front   dispatches   tonight.
The Italian gains were in the Caden- na and Mont Asolone areas.
In a day long struggle, despite fierce enemy  resistance  between  the  Brenta
un-
company   would   change   its
viewpoint.   The leaders of the men said
that   their   plan   was   a   piactical   ono
j and would not impose any hard.«hip up-
lenortcd beins augmented dail\. I       ,   ,-,    .,, ,, ^._      .    ,.
censored    dispatches    fr„ni j'-"^d   «^^<'«>"a   valleys,   the   Italians   ad-   _, .     ..__ ....     vanced h  kilometre.    Night fall halted
Heavily IVtrograd ttild of discovery by the Bol sheviki of a plot by the Cadets,  (con- ptitutioiiiil  dcmociatst   to  inspire  mu¬ tiny  among     the     garrison   heretofore wholehearted pro-Bolsheviki.
Possiliiltty of nil tho forces opposing the Bol.<-lieviki uniting in .t national movement to restore rule of the people
In   Uussi.i  w.is  hoped    for  by  experts PROBE  RAILROAD WRECK,
here tonight, .\ppan-ntly the I'krain-] Louisville, Ky., Dec. 22.—Star chani- ians and Ctis.'^acks under General Ka-jber sessions marked the inquiry here ledine and Korniloff are aqt^g in con-Uoda.v   i>y   railroad   officials   and   rep
year. .Just as the German people does not allow itself lo be starved straight¬ away so it is with other peoples.
"It should therefore be clear to the thinking layman that our submarines have still a hard lask to perform and no sensible man would give any time limit within which it will be perform¬ ed."
PEACE  DELEGATES ARRIVE
Berne,     Dec.    22.—All    the    central
on the company.    Had their plun been
accepted the   colliery   would    be kept r powers delegates to the peace confer-
working     to     its       full     capacity     at, ence reached Brest Litocsk Friday, re-
the advance.
Since Xovember 1."), ten enemy div'- sions have relieved one another on the heights   between    the    I'iave   and    tho Brente.      Six    -Xustro-Hungarian    and I four German divisions were involved in I this fighting.
cert
To Prevent Split.
In view of those conversant with Hussian conditions, division of the urrat nation into half a dozen smaller I-f publics, each with more or less con- tlictirg desires and aims, would par- ^lyzp Russia's stronptli for evermore. Diplomats therefore were hopeful that .sorue f;rcai. force or some popular load¬ er would arise to cement all the vari¬ ous elements together.
Nothing has been heard of former Premier Kerensky tor several days. He was last reported near I'etrograd with a considerable force. Whether thi- former "Lloyd George" of Russia could shake oft the vacillation whicii char¬ acterized his course when he was in power before was considered proble¬ matical.
Petrograd has stated nothing offici¬ ally now for 48 hours on the peace neg¬ otiations at Brc8t-Lito\«k. At last re¬ ports from unofTicial sources, it wis stated thai the German delegates had flatly refused the Bolsheviki conditions for a seperate peace and that the Rus- .sian delegates were returning to Pet¬ rograd. 	
GERMAN SPY IS KILLED BY GUARDS AT BORDER
resentatives of the Interstate Com¬ merce Commission into the causes of the wreck Thuisday night at Shep- herdsville. Ky., which resulted m the death of 47 and the injury to 70 p.^r- sons. .Newspapermen barred from the hearinc were told that the full facts would be given out at the conclusion of the probe. A special grand jury will convene nexl week to make an Investigation.
TOWN   MOURNS  DEAD.
Bardstown, Ky., Dec. 2'J. - This town of 2000 inhabitants was in mourning tonight. At the order of Mayor .Iohn W. Sisco. business was suspended to¬ day and Christmas preparations were called off while the entire town turned out in a funeral procession to bury its dead, victims of the Shepherdsville. Ky.. train wreck.
all limes, while itie memory of the vic- tim.o would still be properly held by the miners through their act in contri¬ buting part of their pay.
Work  Extra  Hour*.
.\s present conditions are it is very likely that the South 'Wilkes-Barre col¬ lier;, will be partially tied up every time one of the miners Is killed. Th" jold custom of .sending a delegation of miners to the funerals will be'continued and thsi will result in the production of coal being kept down. The companv officials may be brought to a recon¬ sideration of the plan and further de¬ velopments of a more favorable na¬ ture may come of the situation.
The Anthracite Board of Conciliation yesterday issued a call to coal com- I)anie8 and miners alike to work on .Xew I'ear's Day and all other days except Christmas. In the call the board members also announced that they will meet some time this week for the purpose of discussing the ad¬ visability of working more than eight hours .1 day while the war continues.
The call from the Conciliation Board follows;
"To anthracite operators and mine workers:
"The anthracite board of conciliation considered the question of working in excess of eight hours during the pres¬ ent emergency.   This matter will again
ports here tonight said..
TWO DEATHS ADDED
TO EPIDEMIC AT CAMP
Columbia, S. C, Dec. 22.—Three new cases and two deaths in the past 24- hours was the report on the miningitis situation at Camp .lackaon today. Au¬ thorities at the camp declined to raise the quarantine, although the situation is  improving.
FOUR BELIEVED DEAD
FROM A BOMB PLOT
Newark. N. J., Dec, 22.—Four men are missing tonight following an ex¬ plosion in the Newark Rubber Co. which manufactures rubber coats for the army.
Plant officials suspect a bomb.
This note penned by her a short lime I
before she flung herself beneath a Clit- j -^'"^'"i*^" officers and men to leam and cago Northwestern train In Highland ! ^7 ^^^ attitude of being not saviors of park was the only explanation relatives i ^''''ant:*. but just men anxious to leani had tonight of the suicide of Elizabeth ''"*"" 'fioss who had been over the Schumacher. 21. jfirst lap in the race.
The theory    was   advanced that she!     Summarizing,   it   all   was   a   tribute
which   the   French
suffered a nervous breakdown from overstudy at Vassar college. She had just returned home for the holidays.
PRIORITY  ORDER   EXriNDED.
Washington.. Dec. 22.—Structural materials used in cantonment camp.-j were added to the prioritv shipping list today by Judge Lovett, priority direc¬ tor, .ludge Lovelt's order becomes ef¬ fective Sunday, Dec. 28.
SAILOR TAKES OWN   LIFE.
New York, Dec. 22.—Leaving fare¬ well notes containing Christmas greet¬ ings to his mother, sister-in-law. and shipmates, George Schneider, 31, a petty officer in the United States Navy tonight committed suicide in a room¬ ing house here by inhaling gas. It is believed he was despondent following a quarrel with his wife who left him.
TO   CONVERT   PLATTSBURG
Washington, Dec. 22.—The Platts¬ burg, N. Y.. camp may be converted into a barracks and quartermaster sup¬ ply department for a portion of the new U. S. guards. General Carter, in charge of organizing that body, has the matter under consideration.
STATUS^F AFRICA.
Amsterdam, Dec. 22.—Dr. Solf. Ger¬ man colonial minister, believes that Africa after the war should remain in possession of European states, but with adequate provision that "militar¬ ism should be kept far from the na¬ tives," according to a speech, quota¬ tions from which were received tcjTght from Berlin He urged a re-ariange- ment of the care of the Africans and there should be no possibility of na¬ tive forces sent to Europ*,
general   command¬ ing  headquarters   near  here  gave   the
l'nited   Press  today,  his  voice belra>,-
ing something of the emotion which he
felt  in the honor of having command¬ ed  that  part  of the  line flrst held  by I Americans:
"I   am   vei->-   happy   that   you   have
visited the very sector which was held
by  your  compatriots.     You  have  been
able to  live for a  lime the same  life
which   they   lived   in   all     its     details.
Tou have seen the spot where the firsl
American blood was spilled.    You have
seen the graves of the first Americans
killed.    They  died  in  the course  of a
hard fight.
"T am  convinced  that  the  interven¬ tion of the Americans in this war i3 of | ^en about the grounds
the very utmost  importance    for    the '
cause   of   justice   and   liberty.     1   am ! proud to have had the first .\merican
troops with my army when  they  had
their first experience in this war."
ONE DEAD IN COLLISION OF ENGINE AND EXPRESS
.New Haven, Conn.. Dec. 22—One dead, two seriously wounded and a number of others slightly injured was the result of the Springfield express ramming a switch engine in the Cedar Hill yards just outside this city to¬ night.    Two cars were derailed.
The f.reman ipf the switch engine was killed and both engineers badly injured.
AMERICAN ACES WIN
CONSCRIPTION DEFEAT        j OUSTS PREMIER HUGHES
Melbourne, Dec. 22.—Premier Hughe.<!
Hardly a family here was left un touched in some manner. One family, should work every weekday, including of three, that of Nat Muir,'local bank- N>w Year's,day. er, was wiped out. Altogether sixteen I "Because of the great hardships due persons from here were killed. More | lo the present lack of coal the board than a score were injured. | urges that every man at every colliery
———  j as a patriotic duly respond to this call.
•.Signed)   W.  L.  CONNELL,
be taken  up at a meeting to be held   ""as expected today to offer his resig during the coming week. Ination in view of the apparent defeat
"It  is the  sense  of the board that, i excepting    Christmas,      all     collieries
'of conscription in Australia.
MASSACRE OF JEWS
ATTEMPTED IN RUSSIA
Chairman. S.  D.  WARRINER, W. .1. RICHARDS. .IOHN T. DEMPSEY. THOM.\S KENNEDY. JAMES   MATTHEWS. "
i;i Pa.so. Dec, 22.—Charles Feige, of .New '\'ork city, believed to be a Ger¬ man spy was shot and killed tonight ton miles east of here by a Seventh cavalry horder patrol while attempting to ford the Rio Grande.
The body of Fiege was recovered and important maps, documents and other military information were said to have heen found in his pockets with a bank , book pliowing heav.\ deposit.'.^ 1 na New ] Vork bank. Names and addresses of iiei>ons in France, chii^ and Spain wrre in the pocket book.
Fiege was in this vicinity for some lime and excited suspicion by making "inop and taking photographs.
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Berne.    Dec.    22.—Rioting reigns In
Petrograd,   according   to   reports   here
tonight.     Wine   shops   have   been   de- '¦
molished and sacked, resulting in wild i p . , . /., , |p« -rfs DC A PC ; orgies and pitched fighting in the i uALL ALHto I U r CMUC 1 streets   with   rifle   and   machine   gun
fire.    .¦Xrmed cars were used in a bat-
i tie in the Marie Theatre square to dis- j " —	
I perse   mobs   intent   on   a   massacre  of|     Petrograd.   Dec.    22.—Reports
CONFERENCE IN RUSSIA
HEROISM OF MOTHERS
New York, Dec. 22.—Placing an ironing board across the space separating her third floor apart¬ ment from that of a neighbor, Mrs. Anna Shay today passed her baby across and then followed wilh her 5-year-old child, escaping from a flre that destroyed her home.
In the same building a woman struggled down a flre escape hold¬ ing her baby's hands around her neck with one hand.
WILL LEAD N.Y, POLICE
mission, was also selected as a victim.
Ten thousand dollars was to be de¬ manded for the life of Keet, who waa to be kidnapped as soon as he paid the $6,000 ransom for his baby. Sanford was to be held for $100,000.
Hew   Bsbe  Was  Stskn.
¦fhe Keet baby was kidnapped Maj 30. Its death and subrequent mis¬ carriage of their plans caused the. kld» uappers to abandon the idea of ab» lucting Uieir other intended victims, it was alleged.
"Others are more guilty than I." was the alleged defense of himself for "peaching."
.\11 those now under arrest,—Taylor .\dams. his sons, Cletus and Maxie and Sam McGinnis,—are said to be in'r Heated in the statements of Piersol. Seven others, not under arrest, are named.
Riley, the "mystery man" in the Ke->t case is named as the leader. Piersol says it was Riley who went into the Keet home aud look the baby from ii« bed. He admits that he was present. Piersol is said to implicate I'ick Cu'-- ter, .who lurned slate's evidence an^ testified against Piersol at his trial in October. He says Riley handed th'' baby out of the window to Carter. Dope Cauiss  Death.
Piersol is said to declare the p'ot to kidnap the baby waa hatched in ;i leading hotel here. He tells of how th" gang went to the Keet home. mask«?d themselves   and   how   Riley   statione<l
He says Ril>>y entered through a window.
According to the alleged conjession, the baby flrst was taker to a rabiri. twelve miles from Springfleld. I.,at<y- the baby was removed to the Crenshav house where on .lune 9. the baby wa-: found in a wall.
Piersol tells of taking provisions ouf to the guards for both the babj- and the men. He is said to bave admitted having the postal card in Kansas City and which waa the last coramunicatton sent to  Keet.
In his confession Piersol Ba>s lir- knew nothing of the death of the baby until after his arrest. He declared '< member of the gang not arrested camn to him and said that Riley had .sriveii "dope" to the baby to keen i* quiet and it died.
Piersol says Keet did not get his. haby because the abductors had bter "tipped off" that Keet was being fol¬ lowed by friends and that an attempt to rescue the infant and capture the gang was to be made. "Thlr Infomia- j tlon wa^ given the gang b>- one of iis I members who hurried to the spot where Keet was to meel the 'boya.' "
New Tork, Dec, 22.—William Flynn,!
chief of the secret service department,;
win resign and become pol'.f^e commis-' ; sioner of New York, according to re- j i ports printed  here.    Mayoi   Hylan  to- ! night refused to discuss the reports.    !
Transfers From French Forces Include Ranking as High as Reserve Major
BOY'S EYE DESTROYED
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j     Washington,     Dec.     22. -William   .'.
j Flynn,   veteran     chief  of   the     United
j States secret  service,  has resigned,  it
; became officially known here tonight. New   Yorl;   reports   thai   Flynn   re-
I signed to accept the police commis¬ sionership of New York CHy under Mayor  Hylan  could  not  hr  <onflrmed.
Flynn'was reported to be in .New York i J'i"'.'"^"J  „.,,   _li_i.. 'Lieutenant   William
Huffer,  and   Victor
SCORE ARE NAMED
.K snow ball flght among school bo;.'* resulted seilously yesterday ter Ralph Valentine, aged lo, of 355 Shawnee ave¬ nue,   Plymouth,   when   he  received  in¬ juries  which   may. cost  him  his  sigh, Ke   was  operated   upon   at   the   Mer.- Hospital  where  it  was said last  night a score  of American  aviators attach- | that the sight of the eye has b«en af- • ed   to  the  I^fayetle    escadrille     have 1 fected and  probably destroyed and the i been   commissioned   a.s  officers  in   the | sight of the oth>;r eye is also in danger I Unlteci   States   avialimi     reserve,     ihe jof be-.ng lo.--.. War Department    announced    tonight, j     \'alentlne   engaged   in   a   annw   hgi)
'     Washington.   Dec.     22. —On     special ! recommendation   of  General   Pei'shinp,
.Tews.    Many shops, dwellings and the ; ^''est Leiovsk tonight say
SLATE   ROOFER   WAlITED.
\     Wanted at once—Slate rrofer. Wages from] *3.oO a day.    Apply to W. W. Parry, 59 t had heeni^no street   Plymouth.
j Danish Red Cross have been pillaged.   I held  desirable from  thn  standpoint   of
The reports declared red guards had! principle  that   all   belligerents   partici
pate   in   peace   negotiations  now  bein.g held There.    Both jide?. il was stated, hac! ¦I'-tided to invit" Kngland. France, ItH'y  .Tnd  the   l'nited   ."^tatees to  send ^ delesat'i-. ;
The  German-'   consider   ii   nece»»ary I
arrested four members of the Ukrainia sta, that the Moscow so\ let had de¬ clared martial law and that the Gen¬ eral Kaled'ne Cossack military gov¬ ernment had resigned to ullow forma¬ tion of a Slrong popular ,;overnment.
The torch was applied t., the oice of a  pro-German paper.
HELP  WANTED.
; Resident and traveling solicitor— , Salary and expenses. General agency. I No investment. Three year insurance j of goods makes big salc^. Fairview 1 Nurseries.  Rochester.  N.  Y.
I tonight
1 The resignation was handed to the ! secretary oftlie treasury^ within the : past day or so,  .i   was staled.    It  will
be accepted. Since long befo.c ihe l'nited States i entered the war, F'l.vnn has played lead- ¦ ing roles in detecting German plottings ' Ihroughout the country, i While workings of Flynn's service • have boen carefully veiled, it h-An been ' generally  supposed   it  waa  the   L'nited
.States secret service which  bared  the
Thaw, .lohn F. j fight with a number of other boys of P.aoul Lufberry. I his own &ge. While the snow bal'a noted French "aces," are made ma.1ors j were flying thick he was struck in tt-% in theorder. ; left  eye by one of the ioy  projectile?
Those commissioned captains were: I He was knocked to the ground but in t'harles .I. Biddle, Plieips Collins, Ken-;a minute he was up again throwin- neth F. Littyuer. Wnlter f^ovell. David i back al his opponents. .^ few minut?:* .McK Peterson. Robert Soubiian, Rob- j later, however, his eye began to eri   L.   P.ofkwell  and   Kenneth   Marr.     ihim  much  pain  thai   he
.\s  first   litutcnriil.';:     Pmil   I'.   Baer  -go home.
give was forced  -..i
Don't mlts the fine skating today and to  receive  the  allies'   reply  before  go-   Christmas on Jones' Pond at 179 Carey
Willis B. ihnilun*], <'hirle« .M. .lones fJraville .\, Pollocli, Leland L Flound.'- .loseph »'. Sieplin George K. Turner. .Jr..   Frank  W.   Well.":   t.'harles   H,   Wil-
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famous    Lu.xburg coi respondeiico    andioox.   Chiirles   C,   .lohn.^ion    Charl-^s revealed   the  trail  of German  intrigue i Donal. .Ir . and Henry .lone; at Mexico City at the Ume of the Ger-j     .^p capinin  f«>r ."prvicr ;i.s  insMiicu man-.Mexico-.lapan pact. j r>udle..  L. Hill.
boy's ipff pye wa.i" complete)-, clo.-^ed as a result of the blon- and r., waa at ones taken to the .Merer hos¬ pital. At that in.stiiution it w.i,«" fou.>'7 ihat the e.^e hijcl hj^,, hj, ^nd hadiv iiViiii-ed. Al operation ^mia perl'oim i: ¦ >- linpe (,f sw.ing th • y.,un«.it»--« si; hf.