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I. C. C. And State Railways; to Co-operate for Greater Success
Secretary Denby
Surrenders to Him
Four Year Old Enlists:
fied Cross Member. i
(Mir:-
McChord of
I'ctiernl Body in Address
tfl \; a t i 0 n a 1 Body
Sounds Optimism.
••Within Realm of Com
merce, There Should Be
;<o Lines,” He Declares
to Hearers.
1 f, Mich-—Plans for co-
lv tween the Interstate
• Commission and state
* r- ict have been carried
y far to injure their ul-
ucccss, Chairman Mc-
t!i( i federal body declared
in an address before the
convention of railway
c utilities commissioners,
exercise of state and na
ty with elimination
tween them, he said,
• transportation util-
untry to their great-
uuihd
u* realms of com-
siiould be no state
•nan McChord- saia
ding up of symmetri
es tor the use of' in
intrastate shipper can
mplished beyond ques-'
mony of purpose and
c thy respective regu-
From 1,386 Candidates
Who Are Seeking Places
in House of Commons.
WASHINGTON.—Completion ot j
ai giant cannon-carrying airplane j
for night bombardment—claimed to \
bfe the first airplane constructed
tdr artillery materiel—was reported
td the commerce department Tues
day by Vice Consul Harold D. Fni-
ley at Havre. The machine :s
equipped with a 75-miilimetie gun
Cff the French air ministry. j
jThe plane is made entirely of
Eamon De Valera Has
Been Reappointed Presi-
Wisest Politicians Uncer
tain As to Outcome. Sev
eral Speculations Are
Being Advanced.
ni.it:!! and is propelled by lour-no- 1 'dent of Irish Republic,
tr*rs of 400 horsepower each. It is { -n . > , ^ ’
six metres high with a fuselage) Wlt/1 Powerful Council.
20 meters in length, has a v ing : ## . r
spread ot 30 meters an-; weighs j Political Situation in Eng
land Combined With
n be no conflict of
harmonious action as
i the present plan, and
.‘lopment and effectual
<f the plan we need
• authority or assist-
. t hi.nl explained that the
uiopted was that of hav-
!o commissions associate
ic interstate commerce
on's issue at necessary
upon matters affecting
i their own state,
ur with a common sub-
h but one justifiable end
the chairman continued,
1 rightly be adjudged fail-
ihe product of our labors
mi. Unrest and hostility
ad in the land, and should
i-d and curbed, not'stimu-
•' official example. It is
h upon all of us to be;
as the destinies of the
arc largely in our hands,
h our enormous territor-
Wcli nigh our national
i dependent upon
’a'inn by railroads, ours
:nus l < sponsibility.
T WORK AT
i’l KI’OSES
LONDON.—(By The Associated
Press)—The last words in Great
Britain’s election campaign will b>
spoken' Tuesday night. The elect
orate will go to tye polls Wednes
day afad pick a parliament from'the
! 1.386 candidates seeking seats in
. thp hmiBo of common*?.
ter. meteric tons fully equipped. The
plane calls for a speed of lfO kil
ometers an hour.
1’he machine is to be put through
series of tests by the engineers
of the air ministry.
the house of commons,
j Tn 373 constituencies the fight
j will be a duel between the candl-
I dates of two parties. In 242 'other
I constituencies the battle is tom-
tom- ; WASHINGTON—Cotton consuro
Secretary of theNavy Benby.vftJO oncox
'shown here.surrendering to the demands of lour-ye«M)ldJ ., .
'and enlisting in the-Hed Cross. Miss Beverly, daughter jOf
.MoffftU is the-yoyyst p*
work at cross
CHICAGO—Matrimonial agen
cies and undertaking establish
ments were fields of investigation
Tuesday in the alleged poison plot
of Mrs. Lillie Klimek and her cous
in. Mrs. Nellie Sturmer Kouiik.
The wojnen were arraigned on
murder charges Monday, but the
preliminary hearing was postpon
ed ten days while the police and
coroners office continued investiga
tions.
According to the authorities
there have been <en mysterious
deaths or cases of illness from pois
on among former husbands, rela
tives or friends of Mrs.’' Klimek
while Mrs. Kouiik is held as a
suspect in five alleged poisonings.
Detectives turned to matrimoni
al agencies and undertakers par
lors when they were unable to
trace the life of Mrs. Klimek dur
ing a certain period during which
the police say she was known as
"Mrs. Meyers.*
The search of records
rhe rectification
ualities between intra
e rates should be as
ty and concern of the
sions as our own. It
t to call upon us for
and assistance, and
hesitate to call upon
those spheres where
as are mutual, we
»tually one regulatory
> aggregation of bod-
co-ordination. Unity
• • <»f course, come only
f purpose, and that
•t muleviatingly corn-
good. of the whole.
i«l the foundation
ativc plan announces
and marks the begin-
;>och in railroad regu.
Extermination of
Boll Weevil Topic
ed in
LO§ ANGELES, Cal.—Acquittt 1
or at the worst manslaughter
Those are the ofily possible ver
dicts in the case of Mrs. Clan
Plicated - bv the presence Pt ^M^jJurUfg October amounted to
pr more i eontes tar.tr
Even the wisest political aeers'
are uncertain as to what the gen
eral result will be! Some newspa
pers, publish estimates of how thev
believe the ’ various -parties' ‘will
rank when voters have had their
say. but none of the forecasters ex
tress great confidence’in their own
claims. To the unbiased onlooker,
none has much value; as ©very cal
culation is tinted with the political
views of the man making the es
timate.
During the campaign. even these
have led to a revision of some of
iOCOTHl’21
That in Ireland, Plays
Prominent Role.
DUBLIN—(By the Asociated
Prpss)—The continuance of an ac
tively armed force, opposing the
Irish government Is attributed to
reunion of the political and mili
tary wings of Republicanism.
This, among other things, resulted
In the reappointment of Eamon De
Valera, as president of (he Irish
I Republic with a council of state
claiming sole legitimate authority
Much Alarm Is Felt in
South America Because
Another ’Quake Is Pre
dicted Dec. 4-7.
One Whole Town Disap
pears. Disaster. Severe
Economic Blow to Chile.
Damage in Millions.
533,950 running bales' of lint,
62,406.; bales of ; lifters, coi
with 494,317 .of,Jim .and 65
linters ila October last year.. j’and,
495;344 of lint anu >0,83?, of linters
-in September this yearv/the ’census
bureau announced, Wednesday.
• Cotton on hand ,October 3b, was
held as follows j In consuming, es
tablishments. 1,370,770 -bales of -lint
and 82,169 of linters, compared
with 1,389,138 of lint and 157,877
of linters a year go.
In public storage and compresses
4,329,902 bales of lint and 16,812 of
linters compared with 4,984.831 of
lint and 212,887 of linters a year
ago.
Active spindles numbered 33.-
859,076. compared with 34,206,179
in October last year.
Statistics for cotton growing
in - Ireland.
There is a wide divergence be-
When a health institute broad
casted a photograph of pretty Mrs.
Marion. Morton’ O’Reilly, - much
trouble arose. The picture which
showed Mrs. O’Rielly in tights she
says’ was noAfor public exhibition.
Now she has filed suit against the
{institute for $100,000 declaring that
because ofthe picture her husband.
kiui. A V... ‘UCCiiuse oi uie picture ner nusou.
inland bi .-wealthy New y^-k broker. I
omoa-ca the sevcrmASht -or’lta successes I*.,. ■ • ■• ■ V •
SS 'ttsulnsf.’tlte (irregulars and those ;•
‘Vi “_*A lMJt* out’by Devalera’s bartv. The ■' ' 1 '' . ■
Phillips on trial for tho murder ot Q m0re Ban?uin< , estimates. This
..tr.i. Albert*. y rc ™ a * ne ^ ca( *Q^ 8 » was notably the case in Glasgow,
according to Bertram Herring.on. an( | western Scotland where the states:
chief defense counsel, who, after ’ Jtpd frnnt pre gehted by the un- Consumed during October 346.-
taking up all of Monday s sessions , onigts and Uovd George liberal-*! 435 bale s. compared with 297,101
with his argument iQ tbt, jury was ori ^ nalIv j r .duced considerable r n October last yea>.
lMit* out’by Devalera’s party. The
go-vnernment claims to be winning
and gradually restoring oHer while
De; ValjbW^follqwers ! rt)cbiAl se^
vere lost^s-they 'are inflibting and
assert th^t sqe (ree stntpi is already
beaten.
Those assertions are made.part-,
ly in propaganda sold - over ’the
streets and partly tnrough the
inscriptions painted all over Dub
lin on Lamp posts, bill boards, and
bridges.
CIVIL GUARD
IS HELPLESS
expected to continue through much
of Tuesday.
Mr. Herrington pleaded With the
jury to acquit his client, however,
declaring it was Mrs. peggv Oaffet
witness for the state, and.not Mps.
Phillips \vho struck the hammei
blows, which brought death to Mrs.
Meadows. He nttackfed Mrs. Caf
fee's testimony, declaring she was
a “perjurer" and her story a “stack
of manufactured incidents."
complacency: But now a Glasgow
dispatch to The Times says tho
greatest concern is’ felt over seats
which were regarded as safe a
fortnight ago.
“Labor is making on the Clyde its
most highly concentrated efforts
and is nressinv the attack with in
creasing confidence,” the dispaten j y ea t*«
reported. “There is a general feel
ing that if the co-onerating par
ties escaped with the forfeiture
of only six seats; they will have
The civil guard and the Metro
politan police seem unable to check
these manifestations of Ireland’s
internal dissension.
Every day government agents
smear paint over tae inscriptions;
but the next morning they appear
Cotton on hand October 31 in aga | n
■consuming establishments was Thc intensification
85?,981, compared with 774,848. and
in public storage and at compress
es 4,124,598 bales, compared with
4,677,202. Cotton spindles active
during October 15,831,959, compar
ed with. 15,391,959 Jn October last
Ticket Agents in
Session Tuesday
THIRD WOMAN
RELEASED
Counsel also argued that even if, done welL municipal polls at Glas-
Mrs. Caffee’s testimony and that tow. unlike those throughout Eng-1
of other witnesses was true, the land, showing a significant growth! 1
Maying of the young wldo.v wa& a 1 of labor strength, and these results; SAVANNAH, Ga.—The second
case of manslaughter .and not of are responsible for the attack onj da >' 8 program of the annual con-
murder. Under the law, he declared nerves from which labor’s oppoa-1 vention ,°f the American Asso^ia-
Jiomlclde in the heat of conflict is ents are suffering." I tion of Ticket agents will be_very
not murder but manslaughter.
To
i.—Plans to ex-
Loll weevil and
f'htain an adequate sup-
liium arsenate to com-
11 >n 1923 were under dis-
i-oni'erences here Tues-
<un growers and farm ex-
A ' (, rkers in Tennessee, Mis-
Meantime a third woman ques-,
tioned in connection with the in
vestigations was released. . She
was Mrs. Cornelia Kosal, a sister
of Mrs. Kouiik.
Mrs. Kosal was brought into tho
inquiry on complaint of her son-,
inrlaw Nik Mitky, who gaid he had
been urged by his mother-in-law
to'take out life insurance on which
Mrs. Kosal paid the pr®n*i ums - A
short time after t*ie premiums
were paid Mitky said he drank
at Mrs. Kosal’8 home and since
“has not .felt nreli.”
While, the police mqured into
lives of the two women held as al
leged poisoners, coroners’ physi
cians were analyzing organs of two
former husbands and a cousin of
Mrs. Klimek and permits were is
sued to exhume three more bodies,
those of two children and a grand
child of Mrs. Kouiik.
Mrs. Klimek and Mrs.
were held without bail.
of activity
by the Irregulars is supposed to be
pattially aimed at the British poli
tical crisis, with the design of
bmging home to the British the
LAUSANNE.—(By the Associat
ed Fress)—As a spectacle, xhe
Turkish delegation to the peace
conference has been a keen dis
appointment to the people of Lau
sanne. Not a single member of the
delegation wears the red fez Most
of th.' delegates have even laid
a.Tide aslrakhau caps and are so
conventionally dressed in derbies
and European overcoats, and suit3
that the curious Swiss are unable
SANTIAGO, Chile.—(3y the As
sociated Press)—Chile was again
visited by earth shocks late Mon- ;j
day night. Severe tremors were felt
.at La Serna, capital of .the prov
ince of Coquirabo, at 11 o’clock, ' ,
and half an hour earlier the sea
port city of Constitution,' dlpital |
j of the province of Maule, was Hha-
, ken. according to advices received
here by the National Telegraphs. »
- The town’of Carrfizal; ctmBist-
ing mostly of underground dwel-: V
lings and copper mines, is reported- '' *
to have disappeared, but no men- ,
tion of the loss of life is made., The
-(inhabitants number about 200 ana '
there are other persons living ,
M the port of Carrizal.
Advfqes from Antofagasta filed
at 9*30 Monday night said a strong 1 .
earth shock had just been felt at '
Taltal, a seaport of several thotfr
sand population, only a fewj^miles
from Antofagasta.
La Serna was one of the citlest
reveridy stricken by the earthquake
of last Saturday morning which-
took a toll of more than 1,500’ Hvej<
in various parts of Chile.
COMMUNICATION
OUT OF ORDER
to distinguish the Turks from oth-
he extent of casualties and tho
property damage wrought by . the
tremors and tidal waves three, day 4
er guests at the p-.lace hotel.
The cnly Oriental touch about*
the Turkish party Tuesday ’
provided by .several Turkish news
thought, that the Irish question re- I^rer men- attending the eonfer-
shortage in the
lion ' of * a senate and the forma-
t °nUuet ri?T I \ ity or M n i»tions to
vil aioU f, r ht the weo-
1 amon* iK:,entiflc 1,nes w ©re
pbr.ur.rt for
Kouiik
Famous French
Aviator Killed
BEING EXPELLED
Although some doubts have been
j expressed regarding Bonar Law’s
; safety, in his campaign for elec-
i tion from the central Glasgow dls-
• trict, the correspondent says no-
• body seriously believes the premier
j "-ill he rejected. But it Is certain
I that his two opponents—Sir George
Palsh. liberal candidate, and the
laborite. Bailie Mitchel—will poi!
| more votes than it was first ex-
Ipected.
CONSTANTINOPLE. — French
consuls at. Mersina and Adana, in
Asia Minor, have beeq' expelled by
the Kemalists. They arrived here
Monday. They were’appointed un
der the Bouillion pact to insure
protection-of Christiap minorities
SIR ROBERT HORN
A SURE CHpiqfl * 4 .
. Sir Robert .Horne, who was chan
cellor'' of - the exchequer in Lloyd
George’s cabinet, is regarded as an
almost sure choice of the voters in
the Hillhead division of Glasgow
jbut’Sir William Mitchell-Thompson
The French consul at Brussa was ( ._ v
expelled a week ago', but another,is less safe in the Mary Hill dl-
consular official is returning *.o j vision, where Annie S. Swan Ip
that city accompanied by a Turk- making a powerful I appeal for the
tsh Nationalist officer to supervise. vptes of women with liberal Intor-
the removal of thirty French res- J est». Labor also has shown i?»-
Idents. j creasing strength against the rela
tion of Sir William.
The situation
A number of leading French mer • j
chants in Constantinople met at
the French embassy Sunday and
drafted a strong memorial to their
government declaring the French
economic interests are threatened
with ruin if the Turks are allowed
♦o continue their present policy
unchecked. f
From Khar Put come reports that
.the Kemalists are calling all; men
liable tojmilitary Service and send
ing them to Mosul?’
LEBOURGET, France.—(By the
Associated Press)—M. Poiret, not
ed French aviator, and bis two me
chanicians, werc> killed Tuesday
when bis machine crashed during
the competition for the Grand Prix
for commercial airplanes here.
The situation throughout poo-
ulous Lanarkshire I is much the
same, according to the correspond
ent, who believes that only unus
ual energy can defqat the labor-
ites in several placet;.
Everywhere the great puzzle per
plexing the organizers ia how the
women will vote. It is the experi
ence! of canvassers throughout th&
''ountrv that women are now taking
more practical interest in the olec-
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interesting. At ten o’clock Tues
day mottling the visitors were tak-
automonlle ride through
the SaVlannah Industrial district.
There was a business session
starting at 9 o’clock with annua'
addresses by the President and
other officers. The afternoon is
to- be spent»at,, the -Cquntipr ,<ylub.
where & barbecug ls/tp qe served.
A. dance at. jtlie .xJeSoto. hotel. .at
night will conclude the days social
festivities.
Ask That Slayer
Be Given Freedom
BOISE, Idaho.—On the conten
tion that his confession and turn
ing state’s evidence extenuated his
crime and that he rendered the
state a service at the trials of his
alleged superiors, prominent Ida
hoans Tuesday urged the pardon
board to free Henry Orchard, con
fessed slayer of Frank Stuenberg,
governor of Idaho, in 1905. The
application was taken under ad
visement until November 27.
TELLS HARDING GOODBYE
WASHINGTON—Monsignor John
Bonzanp, apostolic delegate to the
United State? paid a farewell visit
to President Harding Tuesday.'}».**•-
paratory to leaving Wednesday. fvi
Rome*, where ,at a consistory V uvt-
ing. December 11, be' lyi 1 ! be .ele
vated tq th*? cardlnajate.
mains unsettled despite the, treaty.
When the new uritisil parliment
assembles and the constitution of
the Free state is submitted for rati
fication, it is anticipated that the
activities of the Irregulars will be
further intensified.
Except in the South all large
bodies of Republican forces have
been dispersed, but small bunds
are able to inflict constant loss
and humiation upon-the govern
ment. Repressive power has been
granted to the government by the
ri8lf parliament. .But the republi
cans have never bedeved- these pow
2i 8 would be ably exercised and so
,’ar their forecasts have been for
.he most part accurate. The Free
State government has 30,000 troops
.uily equipped ana costing nearly
18,000^000 year. - ^
Tet thj> attacks of the Irregulars
fre made iii -confidence of escape
and with the thought that even if
they are-caught, they will suffer
nothing more than detention in
prison. , ’ *
’ If membe rB of the Irish parlia
ment, which resumes Wednesday,
expresses in public' what some of
{hem have been saving in private
there is sure to be searching criti
cism of the government’s ineffec
tiveness against the Irregulars The
lafter’s policy of dislocating rail
way traffic is witnessed daily In
the wholesale burning of signal
boxes some of them on suburban
lines quite close to the city, It .be
comes a common thing to seize a
train, and let It run loose at full
speed-, certain of a smashup.
Considering some/ arrests which
have been made £nd ^others which
have not been made, l$ c ls inferred'
that there are differences of opini
on in the Irish cabinet as to what
ought , to be done to put a stop to
the Irregulars. Apparently the Re-
CTum to page, 2.)
price. They still wear hrighn fozes,
Several of the Turkish delegates
are red-haired and so ur.liko the
stage Turk that curious observers
never suspect them of being
ago has not yet been fully leifrhod
as communication Hnes are stilt out
or order in many regions.
The mayor of Antofagasta‘has
received a message from the ma' T -
or of Vicuna, n village in the prov
ince of Atacama, giving the first
new* of the effect of the earth
quake in that town. There was no
loss of life at Vicuna, the mayor
said, but public buildings, churches
and the telegraph office were bad-
the Angora delegation. \Dr. Rir.a'fy damaged. The commercial qurar
Nur Bey, the second member of ter is ln ruinB and so are the
the delegation, and n well known schools. The hospital was damaged
physician, has light hair and Hue and the.dispensary dcstroved. ^.
eyes - Schools and public buildings at
Ismet Paslia, the Tarkiah Na- j Paicuano also are in ruins and
tionalist foreign minister, stated, neighboring villages in the prov-i
positively in a conversation with ince of Ooquimbo have beep greatty
the Associated Press co’Tuspm damaged. v i ,
«»nt that thc Entente is recognizing The Pacific ocean seems, not yet
the Angora delegation as the s !* f to have fully recovered its equin
representatives of Turkish .inter Ulibrum as the result of last week?*
eats. The allies will not. re el/e any i terrific disturbances, or else thdrh,
delegation from the Sultan or Id *. | have been some new moveipent? '
Consta ntinorde government should I under the ocean bed. Antofa£s&a
such a group come to Lausanne, i reports say that yesterday the s£J
ebbed and then came booming btgrlj:
Q_1 __i. | llwy upon tho shore three times, mtichdh
mvICvI JUry ror the Strange manner of the tidal
m a nn • | waves of last Saturday.
Massacre 1 rial • The entire diplomatic corps’
■> led on .the .foreign minister to
i der their condolences to the strings'!
•MARION, Ills.—With three ju-j’en nation. A mersage of svmp&t^-
rors accepted, selection of a jui,’y}' , r ^ received bv President Alass^p-
in the case, of five men charged I *ri. fr*'*^ Alavar
with murder in connection with j A routine Republic. ,3
the Henjin mine killings last June]
has made better progress than ^ r GNOMlC BLOW 'xl
expected, attorneys said Tues- TO THAT COUNTRY - .
day when they resumed question
ing veniremen in Williamson
county circuit court.
Indications are that the pros
pective. jurors, all farmers, finally
will be accepted by both the. de
fense and prosecution, according
to the attorneys and $ie jury is
expected to bq completed within
ten days.
DIPLOMAT'S FUNERAL
Paris—The funeral of Bellamy'
Storer, late American diplomat
who died here Sunday, night, will
be held Friday morning in the
church of St Phillipe, with Mon-
signor Cerrettr, the papal nuclo
In Paris conducting the services.
Property losses amounting
naillioim of dollars* which resulted
frota the earthqiake and tidal
waves of Saturday morning will be
a severe economic blow to tho
country, it is feared. The town, of
Valonar seems to have suffered Tho
most. Only three houses remain
standing there and 700 of the- in
habitants are dead. . L. . .
The list of dead throughout, the
country will probably reach some
where between 1,600 and •2,000, -
The dead counted at Coplapo r,o
far number 60 end the injured TlO:
There are no lights in the tnwn[
the inhabitants are camping
Even the telegraph is ooerating
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