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Fascists Will Convert South Tyrol
From Natural To Industrial Paradise
BY LORIMER HAMMOND. (Tribune Press Service).
INNSBRUCK, Feb. 12.-The eyes of Fascist Italy see their new Alpine province neither as a summer resort for German and American tourists nor as a commercial vineyard. They see Alto Adige (old South Tyrol) as a réservoir of unclevelopcd water power. In the rapid fall of its five mountain rivers they see literally millions of units of natural energy waiting to.be transformed into electricity, then transmitted southward to serve the growing mills of Lombardy—mills with which new Italy dreams of capturing Germany's former industrial empire of central Europe.
This is the impression obtained by a représentative of The Tribune after a day spent with Sig'nor Guadagnini, the prefect of Trento—a modem type of pro-consul whose duty it is to carry out the dictums from the might of Rome over the disgruntled land of the Eidelweissv
Guadagnini is a dapper middle-aged Fascist functionary. He accorded lite. Tribune représentative a polite, if cautious, reception in the private apartments of the préfecture of Trento, the walls 01 which were adorned with oil paintings of German Tyrolese peasants. The pro-consul designated these with an eloquent gesture.
"I suppose you expected to find me in a dungeon torturing Germans," he began. "I know they say 1 am a regular Nero, but you see for yourself what a tyrant I üm." Then, painting to the pic.tures, he resumed, "AU those paintings by 'J'yrole>,;c artists show German types of peasants and roountaineers. T have no dislike for the,
German Tyrolese. On the contrary, I think they Mill make excellent Italian subjects after a while."
Taking up the subject of the Italian ban on German schools, the prefect of Trento said, "Italy is perfectly willingto permit the private schools in South Tyrol to teach German if authorizations are applied for in the regular légal manner." The Tribune3 however, has ascertained that such applications made in the regular legal manner by German Tyrolese from the towns of Auen, Eppan, Neumark and Monzon were not granted and riô reply of any kind was received from the prefecture of Trento.
Questioned about . this discrepancy, the prefect said he knew nothing about it and had never heard of such applications.
In Bozen four newspapers, namely the Lanclsman, the Bolksblatt, the Burgosler and the Wollcsboter, were suppressed by the Italians on the condition that the franchise would-^be renewed if the journals changed editorship, but, though new editors have long since been appointed, the permission to résume publication bas in aU cases been withheld.
The law courts present a case of injustice more serious than others. Lawyers, judges and jurymen are all required to pass sévère examinations in the Italian language before being permitted to participate in court proceedings. Consequently the .German speaking Tyrolese are unable to practice law in many instances and are unable to défend their clients. This ruling automatically creates-all-Italian juries before which Germans are tried without un.derstanding' the testimony
SENATE BALKS
AT LOW FIGURE
IN TAX SLASH
Norris Measure Frees
Inheritance From
Assessment
(Speciaf Cable To The Tribune).
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The Sonate was unable to reach a final vote today on the tax réduction bill because of the unexpectedly long time consumed in the considération of the- inheritance tax amendment. So far tlie Senate has obstinately held out againstthe administration's plan to keep tax réductions down to $350,000,000, dernanding a $450,000,000 eut.
Efforts of administration leaders to restore even a modified inheritance tax failed when the proposai sponsored by j s Senator Norris to tax inheritances and gifts was lost by a vote of 57 to 13. Senator Smoot announced that he would ask reconsideration of the repeal of the admission tax before a final vote on the bill is taken.
The Senate not only repealed the inheritance tax, which the House secks merely to rcduce from 40 to 20 per cent, but, by its later repeal of the amusement taxes and imposts on motorcars and trucks, had destroyed the sources of income upon which the repeal of the inheritance tax was justified by the Finance committee.
It is feared that when the tide of 1 American prosperity recedes Congress will find it necessary to restore many of the taxes whicli it is now abolishing. The question may bc taken up by the Democrats for their 1929 campaign.
FRENCH PAIR HELD
FOR MELTING GOLD
AND SILVER COINS
A laboratory for the melting down of French gold and silver currency was discovered by police yesterday on the fifth floor of a dwelling at 84 rue de Ménilmontant. It is estimated that the operators of the plant, M. and Mme. Balmer, have reducè^d gold and silver coins to ingots valued at more than 2,500,000 francs.
The raid took place immediately after the arrest of M. Antoine Billard, aged 29 years, who was seized as he left the dwelling with a satchel containing 20 kilograms of silver and 500 grams of gold. Within the labratory, which was in full operation, police found 110 kilograms of melted silver in a cauldron. Several boxes of 1, 2 and 5 franc pieces were stored in the room.
The operators said that they were paid 12 francs for melted 5 franc pieces, and from 450 to 460 francs for a kilogram of silver. Within the last three months they have melted down between 1,000 and 1,200 kilograms of gold and silver coini'j, brinking them nearly a million francs;
Plane Falls In Andes
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Feb: 12.- One of the three military biplanes sent to Buenos Aires to greet Commandante Franco, the Spanish airman, in the name of the Chilean governmen t met with disaster while crossing the Andes. The machine, piloted by Lieutenant Montecinos, was caught in a whirlwind, crashed on the rocks, and was wrecked. The pilot and his:mechanic were -badly injured.
FLAYS BRITISH
OIL MONOPOLY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-8enator Robert Ho.weîl (Republican, Nehraska) ehar&ed.Jn the Senate that England is" not. only rèstricting the world's supply of rubber, but is also iiiain.tain.ing the greatest petroleuni monopoly in the world.
He charged that England, in repaying the United States for the gold she borrowed during the war, took it back once more by the high priées she is charging for-petroleum and rllbber. -
M. BRIAND GAINS
CONFIDENCE VOTE
Crisis Of Financial Debate
Is Approaching
Premier Briand won a victory in tlie Chamber late yesterday afternoon when he posed the question of confidence on a matter bf procédure, the shutting off of debate on the inheritance tax bills, and^.gained his point, 326 to 183. The Sociaiists voted against him, so that his majority is a new lineup, politically.
The crucial debate on the revenue bills, in connection with which a much more far-reaching question of confidence may come up, is expected to- day or tomorrow.
Since he has promised the Senate that a substantial part of the financial rehabilitation program will be ready for the upper branch early next week, j the Premier can not delay the final j hazard much longer.
Another important development yesterday was the split between the Socialists and the .l=tadical Socialists over the question of the Cartel bill to require the registration of ail securities. M. Doumer and the finance commission having' agreed on a compromise, providing tb 1.t registration shall be optional and that a record of coupons cashed shall be kept for the benefit of the tax collector, the Socialists, led by M. Blum. attempted to upset the arrangement. The Radicals broke away from their fellow Cartel-
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ists and the Blum amendment was ! lost, 301 to 149.-
In the afternoon, the debate revolved around the Cartel measure to make the state part-heir to ail private fortunes transferred by will or succession. The bill was attacked bitterly because it was founded on a Communistic theory in practice in Soviet Russia.
Minister Doumer made another appeal to the Chamber for quick action in the matter of providing revenues. Later in the day he was joined by M. Briand, who insisted that the debate on the succession taxes be eut short in order to make way for the revenue bills.
M. P. IS FORCED
TO BORROW HAT
(Tribune Press Service).
LONDON, Feb. 12.-There was an amusing scene in the House of Commons last night when the secretary for 1 Scotland moved closure. Mr. Buchanan wished to raise a point ..of order.
To comply with ! the rules of the House on such occasions, the honorable member has to put the point of order while seated and with his head covered. Buchanan was at his wits end to secure a hat.
Neil Maclean appealéd in vain to the ministerial side for the loan of a hat. Two benches below was sitting Miss Wilkinson, Labor Socialist, wearing a black toque. "Lend me your hat, Ellen," shouted Buchanan, and Miss Wilkinson promptly did so ' Settling the black velvet toque on his ' shock of red hair, Buchanan proceeded to put the point of order amid uproarious merriment.
Parliament Relaxes Rule
Concerning Resignations
(Tribune Press Service).
LONDON, Feb. 12.—On the second reading, the House of Commons this afternoon passed by an overwhelming majority the bill abolishing the requirement that when a mau is appointed to an office under the crown he must resign his scat in Parliament and soek re-election.... ;
Prime Minister Baldwih, speaking in favor of the bill, said that as 9, man who makes cabinets he was impressed with the harclships of the present rule which made a poor man elevatcd to a cabinet office spend ail of his , first year's salary in contesting for an unnecessary élection.
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Roosevelts Reach
Marseilles After
Indian Tiger Hunt
Expect To Depart For
America On
Feb. 24
(Tribune Press Service).
MARSEILLES, Feb. 12.—Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt arrived here today on board the S. S. Kaisar-I-Hind, returning from a big game hunt in India.
They will stay at the Ritz hotel until tomorrow, when they will go to London for a few days before returning to the United States February 21, on the steamship Berengaria.
A series of articles appearing in the Metropolitan will be completed in America.
Mr. Theodore Roosevelt pronÓunced himself "absolutely satisfied with the hunt and the trip in general. Six tigers and three rhinoceri were killed by the party. While in Delphi they were entertained by the Viceroy.
EXCHANGE RATES
LATEST OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS
Dollar in New York Fr. 27,06
Dollar in Paris ».. Fr. 27.16 Dollar in Madrid P. 7.31 Dollar in Rome L. 24.78 Dollar in Berlin M. 4.201 n .
Pound in London ......... $ 4.8634 Pound in Paris ........... Fr. 131.90
GIBSON RECALLED TO U. S.?
LONDON, Fell 13.—Mr. Hugh S.
Gibson, the United States minister to Switzerland, is reported to have been called back from Geneva to Washington to confer with the American g'overnnaeut on the question of the disarmament conférence as well as to inform Washington on the policies of the interested nations.
FRENCH NET STARS IN U. S.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.— Sliowing no effects from their crossing from France, the French tennis aces, René Lacoste and Jàcqaaes Brugnon, who have jiist arrived, demonstrated their skill in a few practice games today and claim they will be in fOl'm. for the Dixie Tennis Championship which will start in Florida, Feb. 28.
ITALIAN LOTTERY
STAKES RUN HIGH
(Tribune Press Service).
ROME, Feb. 12.—Ail Italy is anxiously awaiting Word tonight from San Fernando di Puglia, where the crippled seer, Ignazio Torraca, will announce what numbers will be dràwn in the Italian state lottery at Naples tomorrow.
If the war veteran with the gift of divination fails in this supreme test, the government will have won enough to pay next year's inStalment on the American debt, for everyone in Italy is lottery mad.
It is estimated that more than 125,000,000 lire will be wagered. The state, playing the game, cannot lose, for it is announeed that not more than 48,000,000 lire will be paid out, even if Torraca's prophesies are successful. This, however, fails to daunt the gamblers. ,
i Torraca's previous successes in his uncanny forecasts recall the case of the priest who was driven out of Rome 75 years ago because he divined the winning numbers in the papal lottery, causing the pope to lose more than $4,000,000.
U.S. Still Bars Countess Although
New York Fetes "Man In The Case"
(Special Cable To The Tribune).
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Lady Vera, Countess of Cathcart, today remained in a small room a bit better than a cell which was allotted t" her at Ellis island, and saw no one except her faithful f r'end, Mrs. Gordon Carr, with whom she travelled from England àboard/the liner Carmania, and her counsel.
According- to the spécial board of three examiners who investigated her case, the Countess is guilty of the offense of "moral 'turpitude," but a strange anomaly was presented today because, while the Countess is held. 2t prisoner at the g-ateway to the New World, the Earl of Craven who was named co-respondent in the divorce suit brought by tlie Earl of Cathcart, is tpday being feted, together with his wife, by some of the best families in New York.
The Earl of Craven and his wife had no trouble with the immigration authorities when entering the United States a short time ago, and today they are occupying the luxurious apartment of the Bradley-Martins in Park avenue. A dinner in their honor was given two nights ag'o by the MoVganO'Briens, one of New York's most reputable and wea Itliy families.
The elopement of Lord Craven with Lady Cathcart to South Africa apparently has been forgotten by immigration officiais, and so far as the
officiai records are concerned, one finds j no suggestion that he also might have , been guilty-of "moral turpitude." To- j day one hears some criticism generally | of the ruling which apparently upholds the double standard of life, and once 1 more the cry is being raised: "It is I the woman who pays!" j Today being 'Lincoln's birthday, ail»; public offices were closed, and it is 1 questionable therefore whether a decision can be rendered until tomorrow at the earliest. Press photographers, reporters and sob sisters were present in great strength at the ferry today, ail anxious to take passage to Ellis island, but every application was refused.
Mrs. Carr stated yesterday when she left Lady Cathcart for the night that her friend was "making the best of a horrible mess." Mrs. Carr stated that the Countess, if she- lost her appeal, would approach the British government with représentations favoring reciprocity of treatment between the visiting' nationals of the two countries. and espeeial]y for a définition of "moral turpitude," which . would apply to American divorcées visiting England.
Lady Cathcart chatted pleasantly with reporters yesterday morning as the boat proceeded down the bay to Ellis island, and seemed under the impression that lier apçearance before the board of inquiry was a more formality, preceding her her.. prompt. release.
NEW YORK BANKS
PLAN BIG MERGER
Chase National Figures In
Record Combine
(Special Cable To The Tribune).
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-The- largest bank merger in the history of New York, combining the assets of two banks at a total of one billion dollars, will be effected when the Chase National 'Bank and the Mechanics and Metals National Bank, both of New York City, are united under one head.
The announcement of the proposed merger, made today, is the latèst chapter to the romantic business history of Mr. Albert H. Wi,-gan, who will head the merger.
Mr. Wiggan began his business life as a clerk at the age of 17 and in 12 years was at the head of a large Boston Bank.
FAKIR APPEARS
IN POLICE COURT
Tahra Bey, the fakir, faced the GOmmissariat in tho Clignancourt police court yesterday morning as the sequel to a little affair in a cabaret on the Rue Gabrielle the night before.
Tahra Bey, it was said, was enjoying himself immensely in the cafe ail night, but when he wished to leave near daybreak, he was tendered a bill fOtil' no small sum. Tahra became . indignant and insisted that he owed nothing, inasmuch as he had been invited there, and the proprictor had eatën at his table.
The argument waxed warm, and other guests took part. Finally the party got rough and someone landed a blow on the fakir's head with an ivory-topped cane. Then the police stepped in. ' ' •
A judicial investigation has been ordered, and the question of damages will be determined later. ^
POPE'S ANNIVERSARY.
ROME, Feb. 12.-A solem11 ceremony on the occasion of the anniversary of the coronation of Pope Pious XI was held this morning in the Sistime Chapel. Among those present were the cardinals, members of the diplomatie corps, menabers of the Order of .Mal ta, the patriarch, and relatives af the Pope.
Cardinal Locatelli cclebrated mass ' and the Pope gave the apostolic-'blessing. ,
U. S. COAL STRIKE ENDED
BY FIVE-YEAR AGREEMENT
Lewis Makes Concessions To Owners;
Miner s To Start Work Immediately;
Politicians Spar For Credit
(Special Cable To The Tribune).
NEW YORK, Feb.. 12.-It. was announced simultaneously today from the 1Vhite Ilouse, Pliiladelpdiia and Ilarrisburg that.
The arbitration board appointée! shall be obliged to make a decision on ail issues in connection with wages within ninety days after application.
The miners' demands regarding the check-off system, whereby ,union dues are collected by the employers, being , deduçted from the men's wages and afterward turned over to the union, will be adjusted in detail by the arbitration board, although the employers'îiave agix-eci: to the principlc:
Ml*. Jôîîn L. L6Wia -anîxouiîCHïd today that the settlement was satisfactory and assured stability and, continuons operation for five years, the longest agreement in the history of the coal industry. Arbitration will provide means whereby reason may be exercised in working out the problenas of the miners, he said. The employers also «xpressed satisfaction.
Davis Given Credit.
A by-product of the settlement was a politi'cal dispute which arose immediately between Governor Gifford Pinchot and the Fédéral authorities over the honor of having' brought the strike to an end. Secretary of Labor John J. Davis is generally oreditedwith having effected the compromise. It was disclosed today that he had discussed the terms finally ag'reed upon with Président Coolidge and several mèmbers of the Cabinet.
It is understood that Mr. Davis will run for the governorship of Pennsvlvania whi!e Governor Pinchot is after the Republican nomination for United States Senator.
Among the men mentioned for the arbitration board are: Former Secret- - ary Hughes. Secretary of Labor Davis, and former Governor William C. Sproul of Pennsylvania. It is also sug'g'ested that the latter wishes to bo Senator.
Préparations to open the mines aro alreadj- u nd er way, it i.s reporter. Maintenance crews have been kept at
' work, by mutual agreement, so - that no repairing or safeg'uarding' will hâve to be donc before the men return to their jobs.
One of the principal concessions made 'by the owners was the enlarging of the proposed arbitration board from three to seven members. With Mr. Hughes as chairman, however, this U not considered important.
tlie anthracite coal strike, which ha.s continued 165 days and cost more than $l,OOO,QOO,OOO, lias been'settled on terms providing for a five year >c(intract,' with no increase in .pay for tlie, miners and a modified check-off system. • .. - i
i
Billion Lost.
occasioned by the long- strike, whieh haH' resulted in almost nothing constructive, is conservativc. The wages of the men wou!d have aiuounted to a million each day, and the coal lost through non-production amounted to 226,000 tons a day. Foreign trade suffered tremendously also, many valuabl© I customers being lost to the .-\mG!'<can. \dealers.
]\fore than 830 mines were closcc?, and 158,000 men kept from work. - Great joy was expross('c1 today throughout the coal fields, where the. families of the strikers have been destitutc for several weeks and the prospect of a weekly pay envelope outweighs the ratller nnfayorable ternis.
Tlie tentative agreement will be submitted to the tri-district , , convention for approval. after which a contract will be executed f'ormally by both parties.. ^
Tlie. final convention which brouglit_.the controversy to an end ; opened in Scranton last Tliursday. The miners are to résumé work 1j within ten days, and are expected to reach the. peúk of production 1 bpfnrft thA end of the lllonth. i
The ternis are almost a'total loss to the miners, whose principaJ. c1aim for a ten per cent increase in wages was entirely dfsregarded. Even the suggested board of arbitration, which will détermine wage-s fi-orti year, to year while the five year agreement is in force, is headed by former Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, a man admittedly hostile to labor. and to whom Mr. John L. Lewis, président of the United Mine Workers of America, has objectecl strenuously since the opening of the negotiations.
The compromise was made on the following terms :
The Terms.
The striking miners will resume work immediately, "under a contract which will remain in effect until Aug. 31, 1930.
Once a year, either party may propose a modification of the wage scale, provided, how-ever, that no such suggestion is broug'ht forward' until after January 1, 1927.
Democrat Attacks
Italian Debt Pact
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—Rcprp- I seiitative Henry Rainey (Dcmocrat, Il- ■ I Unais) who uiîsuccessfully tried to N| balk approval of the .1 taJian debt ' | seUlement in the lIouse, is now direct- "| ing- his efforts to prevent ratification S bv the Senate. _ î The congressman charges that Mus. 1 solini, instead of reducing his militat'y I forces as was repi-esentccî to the Aroer- 1 ican debt commission, has increased S them and bas not given up the idea of 1 <:onquost. ' ï
flLLMANS. lN
JRIS, TO MEET
AU6HTER ANNE
olit Secm To Rcalizc
Difficult, " Ordeal - h Before Thenl
Iajid Anne Urquhart Stillman "^ot playing UP to .thé roles of lovers certainly stipulated ^rules for sueh elopements as paris, the seventh heaven of ail al neymoon.ers, they arrived night, an aging, retired banker his stiil extremely pretty wife both jjjo- tlioroughly ill at ease. noneymooners? Hardly, rallier, a and woman chastened, whose hint inner wounds,, and who are „ out a. marriage experiment mere honeymooning bears t tjie same, relation as differential lus to the jolly business of count^{ing-ers and toes.. gtiliranns put up, a brave front 'jjjv ' but they did; not hide what "|ie t rut h—that they hâve com^ themselves to an ordeal that, "3llits possible compensations, is daring and difficult as their Jongifl fend in and out of courts was I jn everthing they said and did j they said and did things grace_from the time they disembarked- ierbourg early yesterday morning they arrived "in Paris late yes,• afternoon and secluded the min a quiet hôtel near the mps-Elysées, they betrayed somea realization of a tough job
Bfe. Stillman has been saying things about you," reporters told Hf1 in her presence. And the iron Bp11 of the banking business, the insMor of certain much talked-of f ellarSes was uncomfortable and" in his I ^)an4ssment said, "I can say lovely I | her too—perhaps 1 already Ié/° was embarrassed to be told at the woman who has been his wife the woman with whom he was a most novel experiment, had saying nice things about him.
' r" and Mrs. Stillman are awaiting ^ Privai of Anne Stillman Davison, ' ïreat tie between them, who is th ected in Paris tomorrow from India husband. Mr. H. P. Davisoii, J0'!" pair in whose startling re-l'ation she is presumed to have l a major force. Their plans, they , are seant and when laid will have 'h to do with Anne.
toclt moved into Cherbourg L j,ea(^ before dawn 'yesterday bear0 reunited pair installed in comflar 6 suites on the same deck as [rs ^ Fuller" and "Ben Smith". l'el' s. h tiii an received her interviewers otah le el' .l)reakfast« nervous but with j» ® dlglllty. "Aren't you surprisiiKj v.e laughed a Httle feebly, "to lair 1rS" stillman- with neither blue yellow eyes ?
I ail' We are hore and everything iiceiy again. Our plans are te ^iiasue' Binee you ask, perhaps ïi°w -5° to Zurich. But I don't ïVe'i haven't planned it. I 'beII j. , , value of psychoanalysis. didn't^ during récent years 1 OeSll't be now.. Mr. Stillman iita, j l'Il îlot try to corivért >7—_f°uldn't want to make anv-
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Trip To Zurich Possible.
Have themselves psychoana]yzed iey may. Mrs. Stillman admitted as luch yesterday, saying- that she befrcd in the theories of Doctor Jung id that knowledge of them sustained ir mig'htily during the years when 1Y were flaying each other with half le world as their arena.
A trip to Zurich where Doctor Jung Ids forth is not yet' in their plans, ie said, but it might corne abo'ut. tr husband . bas no such belief as 13 and she will not attenipt to confit him.
IThnt they plan to do to get down platif orf mutusl 5 ïi.r ail the barri ers they have put itween them, they would not say. or did they say what they would do, is plane once reached, to keep the I on the poisonous cauldron of meries which they have filled to overrçrng in the last five years. They emed to quest these answers thenaIves when they spoke and . when fi looked at each other. '
IVe are getting acquainted ail over in," Mrs. Stillman said. "You know at in six years he had only seen me iiree times and 1 suppose that it's like «eiing a new lady for him."
She supposed lie had changed in ,3 time though she was not sure st how. "Everybody changes ; it . ould be strange if they didn't," she lained. "We move either backlij or forward. We don't stand still we sometimes learn from things at Have happened to us."
"Lovely Things" Are Said.
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VESSEL IN DISTRESS.
1 (''X ] 2.- TIl e Dan is h ves^Tordb has been disabled by the St°rrn shll tug raging over the Atlantic, 44, the 0i'Se from this port has 0r« to hf ' assistance. The Nordis ^J^oat a k of only 150 tons.
MEXICO SENDS NOTE.
h6r ' Peb' 12.-The ans^ °f the M :XlCan gove'rnmc'nt to the the maTter of the C c:)acan hlW in s on petroleum and J" law of r. ^roi)erty-holding for for^-rs Was l^'^sador tO<lay,sent to United States
'FORDIZE' IS NEW
RUSSIAN VERB
MOSCOW, Feb. 12.—"To Fordize" is a new Rus si an verb, derived from the name of the American automobile maker. A despatch to . Izvestia, announces with triumph that tlie Government factory of ag'ricultural machinery ot Pskoff, the largest in R us si a, is already "Fordi^zed" and produces 130 plows a day. The word has also been applied to other Government industries.
AMERICAN WRITER
SUES H. G. WELLS
Claims Celebrated Mystic
Called Him Bore
(Special Cable To The Tribune).
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Because Mr.
H. G. Wells called him a "bore" and referred to his look as "malicious twaddle," Miv Poultney Bigelow, an American author and lecturer., is planning' to sue the English writer for ten thousand pounds damages. The suit is to be started shortly in an English court.
The dispute is ail the result of a tea party given by Lady .Elizabeth Russell in her London home, where Mr. Wells and Mr. Bigelow met.
Shortly after this, Mr. Bigelow's biographical work "Seventy Summers," appeared, in which he said some things about Mr. Wells which the latter considered uncomplinaentary. Mr. Wells then said some uncomplimentary things about Mr. Bigelow.
Now the courts must decide who slandered who-jf any. 1-
WILL INCREASE
PRINCE'S GUARD
(Tribune Press Service).
LONDON, Feb. 12.—According to an exclusive article in this evening's Star, the personal bodyguard of the Prince of Wales has been doubled and placed [ under the personal .control of the chief | inspecter of the special staff of Scotland Yard. Thç change has been made during the last few days and no exr^te^àtioir has beeRi-gweii by
The addition makes the bodyguard of the Prince of Wales the strongest and most imposing of any members', of the royal family. The guard now consists of the chief inspecter, who has been specially selected for the post because 'of his intimate knowledge of the duties entailed, two Inspectors from the special br'anch, and three othera. all with distinguished service records. One of the officers is a secret service expert.
MEXICO TO SEIZE
CHURCH PROPERTY
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 12.—Newspapers here claim to have advance information that the federal attorney general is preparing to issue an order for the nationalization of ail property belonging to the Roman Catholic church in Mexico.
Several Spanish priests, it is reported, have been arrested here and sent to Vera Cruz for deportation, as a result of their agitation against the goverument. The government also is planning to punish, it is said, anyone hiding churc11 treasures to prevent their being listed by the state.