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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-26

miles east of the Dead sea- is the chief center.
 Sir Herbert Samuel, British high com missioner for Palestine, has just re- turned from a journey to the new ter rttory, where 500 represe Beduin sheiks and notables received with en- thusiasm the high commissioners as- surance that Great Britain did not pro- pose to bring their country within the present system of administration of Palestine, but would establish sep arate administration that would assist the people to govern themselves"
 Sir Herbert motored through Jericho to AIlenby brige on the Jordon where he was met by Majid Pasha, ex-general of the Shereefian army, and by the son of Sheik Sultan, the most influential chieftain of the territory. The Turk ish military road through the Shaib valley proved almost impossible even for cavalry, and riding along the precipices was extremely dangerous at times owing to landslides, but the party. headed by 200 Beduin horsemen, reached Els Salt without mishap.
 The Arabs extended cordial well come to the British high commissioner, whom they entertained lavishly in oriental style.
 III an duureSS, SIT HerDerJ eNplalneu to the chiefs that since the French had fully established their influence in Damascus, it would be necessary to separate the Arabs district from the Damascus administration. Great Bri- tain, he said, would help them to or ganize defense against attack from out side. Sir Herbert developed a pro- gramme of road improvement, the building of schools and the provision of medical aid.
 There would be, he promised, com plete freedom of trade with Palestine, and the people across the Jordan would be supplied with petroleum, rice. sugar and other commodies on the same foot ing as the people of Palestine. More over facilities would be given them for the marketing of the produce they might wish to sell bank would be established to assist commerce. and postal communications would be opened.
 Announcement was made by the high commissioner that as many as poSsl- ble of the future administrators of the new territory would be drawn from the people of that district under the dl- rection of small number of British officers. He also gave assurance that it was not contemplated to establish any system of compulsory military service, nor to introduce disarmament
 An amnesty was readily granted. at a prominent chiefs request, to two fugitive Arabs who had been charged with institgating the Easter riots in Jerusalem. Many Sheiks affixed their seals to the official document express ing a desire for British rule
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-26
CANDLE THROUGH WOOD
Marvel of High Speed Impacts Told
 of In Scientific Discussion

sLondon, September 10.-Thoughts of the boxing ring are aroused by the title 'The Laws of High Speed Punching" which belongs to a paper prepared by Captain Tresidder for the British war office. It deals, however, with a more formidable kind of struggle, as it inves- tgates what happens when projectile pierces armor plating.
 More than a military interest attaches to this question, as Captain Tresidder has found that the laws which apply to shell going through armor plate are the same those concerned 'in the or dinary engineering process of punching holes. The extraordinary interest of this problem is suggested by the fact that a candle fired like bullet will go right through wooden board without chang
 ing shape.
 Another striking fact is that a 12-inch plate must exert eo,00000 horsepower in order to stop a 15-inch shell at a range of ten miles. This enormous power is exerted only for one five-hundredth of second, but in that short space the plate does more than a thirty-three horsepower engine can do in an hour. Many results of grea- scientific and en- gineering interest have been attained by the author of this paper who has worked out an entirely new theory of what hap pens when a projectile drives a hole through solid steel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-26
NO REDUCTION IN STUFF
 CARS IS CONTEMPLATED

l. F. paw" Perkins, manager of the Stutz Company of Alabama, received q telegram from the Stutz factory al Indianapolis yesterday advising nm that there. will be no reduction in Stutz cars. The message reads as follows.
 Tn reference to price reduction an nounced by Franklin and Ford, wish to assure all Stutz dealers, owners and pro- spects that there will be no decline in the prices of Stutz cars. Instead, every irsdication points to an increase. Kindly be governed accordingly.
 Stutz Motor Car Company of America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-26

etc, that nave brought only ,lisappoint- ments, suppose you leave it to the won- derful action of calcium.
 There is but one way to remove pim- ples, blackheads and such blemishes- through the blood and skin. In Stuart s Calcium Waters, taken at meals, the wonderful calcium serves to supply the blood with one of the most remarkable actions known to science. This is it's ac- tivity in keeping firm the tiny flores that compose even such minute muscles as those which control the slightest change of expression It is this substance which acts upon the skin keeps it healthy and drives away impurities. Get 6O-cent box of Stuarts Calcium Waters at any drug Store-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-26

Members of the United Mine Workers in and around Pittsburg, Pa.. have raised funds to erect a monument to
 Mrs. Fannie Sellins, the labor leader who was last year killed in a battle te- tween the police and coal strikers at West Natrona, Pa. The monument, a
 granite shaft, will cost $2,500
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-26
BRITAIN REACHES
 ACROSS JORDAN Considerable Extension of Au- thority From Jerusalem By
 Sir Herbert Samuel
By Associated Press

Jerusalem, August 23.-British ad- ministration has been extended to a considerable part of tr.ns-J ordan ter ritory. of which Els Salt town of about 12000 inhabitants, situated some twenty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-26
Have Beauty
 Without Effort
Let Stuart's Calcium Waters Do the Work to Rid Your Face of Pim-
 ples and Such Blemishes.

Instead of those futile efforts of steam ing the face massage, creams, lotions,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-11

Berlin, Nov. 11-A call for help, directed chiefly towards the United States, goes up from Germany on the second anniversary of the Armlstice, which ended the fighting in the World War.
 Prominent and influential Germans were asked for expressions of opinion on conditions in Germany; on the progress of German affairs during the past two years of peace and on the outlook for the future. The declar- ations without exception are per meated with gloom. Armistice Day was not one of wild rejoicing in Germany. The sting of defeat still fingers.
 Following are statements on Ger many of today and the possible Ger many of tomorrow
 Count J. Won Bernstorf, former German Ambassador to the United States.-Since the World War has ruined the greater part of the Euro pean continent, the initiation of new political era can only be looked for from the victors. The vanquished can do no more than to affirm and prove by hard work that they are inn bued with a new spirit, but that, like themselves, the victors, too, will be drawn into the abyss if this new spirit does not overrun tn cold. The only way to save Europe Is through re- construction by cooperation of ali nations. This is our idea of the League of Nations. We all need American assistance, which may be private as in the case of the Ham,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-11
OUESTIONeRIGHT
 TO GIVE HUT

The right of Mayor Wilson to give the Food Hut, which has occupied space on the lawn adjoining the City Hall, to the Associated Charities is being questioned by those in a posi- ton to know the history of the hut and who are familiar with the laws controlling the disposal of city prop erty.
 The hut has been the scene of many war time activities but has lately been used for food displays and demonstrations of different ways of preserving food.
 It was erected by the War Bureau under an agreement with the city that the hut, when built, would be the property of the city and that the War Bureau would restore the lawn to it's former state when the hut was re- moved.
 The City Hall committee is com posed of City Clerk Robinson and City Auditor Heating. Alderman Me- Manus was the third member of the committee, but his term expired with
 The new Board of Aldermen have not appointed a successor as yet.
 This board has,, according to the charter-and ordinances, entire charge Of the City Hall and all property on the City Hall Park. It is claimed that Mayor Wilson has no authority to dispose of the hut or any other city property.
 City workmen today began to take the hut down in sections and the Park Department is to remove the sections to the Hall Home, conducted by the Associated Charities, soon as the work is finished.
 partment will grade and re-sod the lawn.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-11

Impressive ceremonies were held in London and Paris today, the people of the French and British nations celebrating the second anniversary of the closing of the world war and pay ing tribute to the men who sacrificed their lives during that titanic strug- gle.
 The body of an unknown British soldier was. tried in Westminster Aboey, K1ng George, governmental witnessing the interment. In Paris the remains of a French soldier taken from name1ess grave at Yer dun was laid at rest under the Arc and three French marshals-Joffre, Foch and Petain-stood by the >open grave.
 King George unveiled in Whitehall London; a permanent cenotaph dedi- cated to "the glorious dead" and in Paris, the heart of Gambetta, the French statesman who was virtual dictator during the troublous days empire, in 1870, was deposited in the Pantheon. No ceremonies of a national char acter were held in the United States, but men who served the country dur. ing the war, observed the day, which in some states, was made a holiday In others, governors issued procla- nations, pointing out the significance of tn eoccasion. The exenSfses con- | sisted for the most part o19 parades, memorial services and meetings at
 which patriotic addresses were de1iv- cred. | General Nive11e, one of the men who commanded during the French
 defense of Verdun in 1916, was the principal speaker on the program to
 be given at a great gathering of ser vice men in New York city. The United States Naval Department oh- served the day by awarding crosses and morals to men who did heroic work during the war.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-11
THE WEATHER

New Haven, Conn. Nov. lore cast from D. m., Thursday to p. m., Friday, follows:
 For New Haven and vicinity: Un settled, probably light rain or snow tonight and Friday.
 For Connecticut: Probably snow tonight and Friday; not much change in temperature. Increasing east winds.
 There is a slight disturbance cen tra1 over. the Lake region, but ;lo well-defined storm.-area east of the Rocky Mountains. There is a differ ence in temperature of about ninety degrees between the extreEnA south ern and northern sections and the mingling of the warm and cold cur rents is producing considerable cloud mess with light local rains and snow f1urries in the northern districts. The temperature is below zefo in Mon tana and freezing temperatures ex- tend as far south as northern Texas The barometric pressure is unusually high over the British northwest Swift current reported reading of 30.86 inches.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity unsettled weather and not much change in temperature.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-11
NEAR FATALITY
 AT STATION

Excitement ran high at police head quarters this morning when a 12- gauge shotgun. held in the City court room as evidence, exploded in the of flee of Captain Clayton l.. Smith and narrowly missed doing serious injury to the four men in the office.
 The explosion attracted the atten- . ton of all who were in the building, including Superintendent Flanagan, who investigated and found Edward Coffey of Walnut Beach, who had been in the court as a. witness to tes- tify to the character of George T. Barber of 133 Eagle street, had acci- dentally discharged the gun.
 Barber was arraigned in the City court this morning and charged with ieinr- drunk and breach of the peace. Judge Wilder imposed a suspended jail sentence of 30 days and the man was released, In company with Coffey be went to the office oS Cap tain smith to reclaim the shotgun which had been found in his home at the time of his arrest.
 The gun was lying on the desk at the entrance to the office and when Coffey went to pick it up it acciden- 1ally went off, the charge in the gun tearing a hole in a filing case about three feet away. The gun was load ed with No 6 bird shot and had been held at police headquarters since the arrest Tuesday night without being unloaded While the gun was in the court room it had been handled by court officials and seemingly only by a miracle it had not been discharged in the court.
 Close examination of the shot gun by Superintendent Flanagan and As sistant Superintendent Flood showed trigger" the trigger proper having become broken and left unguarded
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-11
Stricken Mother
 BeZieues Son Insane

''Then he was discharged and came home and almost immediately he was taken i'll with the flu and had to post pone going to work at the General Motors Company, where he had job. I went to them and told them he had the flu and they saved his job for him. Later he went to work there and stayed until slack business caused him to be laid off. He often told me to have his discharge framed and saved that and can't just find it now. He never got overseas with the other men.
 AOnce when he was a little boy he was attacked by a vicious dog which bit him severely above the right eye He was laid up quite a while with that And then he received his great est injury of all and for a long time I feared I would lose him entirely. That was when he was moan automo- bile accident after he came home St. Vincent's hospital with a fractured skull"
 "You ask me if I think my boy is mentally responsible. I do not. I am quite sure that the results of the auto accident upset his mind more than ever. I don't ask any favors of the law. Perhaps my boy might have been there. I am not able to answer that but I do believe as God is my judge, that if he was, he was not men tally responsible for his acts.''
 The records at the coroner's office show that at 1o:30 p. m. March 20, 1919, Max Edwin Kranz, 414 John street, Gold number) was passenger in an Oakland touring car with RIch- ard c. Osborne and his wife, the car being owned by Mrs. Osborne" They were driving at a rate said to have been 30 miles per hour on the Boston Post Road through Westport, when they saw a car approaching them with glaring headlights. Immediately after they saw another car at .rest Without stacking pace Osborne took the street car track and attempted to mass the standing car. He collided with it, his car capsiZed and Osoorne later died of his injuries. Kranz was sent to St. Vincent's hospital with se- were injuries about the head ana shoulders. The coroner's verdict was that Osborne died as result of reck- less driving.
 This is the story of the man who is held by the state police and in the in exorable pursuit of the law after the guilty ones in the midnight murder which claimed Arthur Donahue for it's victim, the officers sworn to it's ex- ecution declare they have the guilty men. Which of the two men now held in the jail fired the shot is not yet known to the public. If the police know, they are keeping the secret un- til the time to properly divulge it. In the m eantime their hearing has been postponed indefinitely while the po- lice seek further evidence.
 In her humble home as she goes about her multitudinous hoWehold affairs a frail and gra;y-hafred na6eher prays unceasingly that the best of fAe police are wrong and that when ef1e dread secret is given to the wkld that it will not be the name of Sser boy that is spoken to the ofhsero - the court /
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-11
l3 JITNEURS
 GIVEN FINES

Thirteen jitneurs who were booked at police headquarters on a charge of. overlooking their buses, faced Judge Wilder in the city court this morning and were given stiff fines for the v1o- lation of the state auto laws.
 Arraignment and disposition of the cases follow: Michael Lukazewski, of 6O5 Arctic street, fined $25 and costs, it being his fourth arraignment for ~similar offense; Fetah Chelio of 519 Laurel avenue, SIP and costs {; CheIio admitted that he had not serv- ed in the army, having had the dis tinction of being in Class 5. which type of young men Judge Wilder has not much use for; Harry Serrio, fined $5; Joseph Bergoal. $5; Reuben Aronosf, ST; Israel Truman, John J. Winslow and Alfred Jepson. each fined $5; Manuel A. Veigo, s11 and costs, Veigo having also been in Class 5; Benjamin Wilkins, Michael Fenk and George Hanym, $5, and Leonardo Calkborn, $10.
 Attorney William O'Hara who was in the court on another case inter- ceeded for the jitneymen asking that leniency be extended. The numerous arrests made yesterday were on North Main street above Wentworth street where there is no trolley service at the present time. He said the riding public was forcing it's way into the busSeS.
 Prosecuting Attorney Delaney re piled that leniency had been extended in the past but the bus operators had not proven grateful. Judge Wilder told Lawyer O'Hara the court was ir session to enforce the statutes and not to make them. He further ruled thai bus owners must see to it in the fu' turc that the law against overcrowd- ing is lived up to and enforced re gardless of the public's refusal to co. operate.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-11
Los Angeles Banker Declares
 Russia Will Buy Thirty
 one Billions of Goods In
 the United States and Pay > In Gold, Platinum, Furs
 and Many Other Commod- - ities.

Moscow, by Wireless to Ser lin, Nov. 1.-The Soviet Gov ernment of Russia has con tracted to purchase enormous quantities of merchandise in the United States in 1921, through the Syndicate headed Joy Washington D. Vanderlip, a banker of Los Angeles, Cal, 1t was announced iiere by MT. .Sanderlip, before his departure for Reval in a special train. The American financier said he was well satisfied with the result of his negotiations with the Soviet Government and this sentiment was echoed by Russian officials. The com mercial order secured here for fulfillment in the United States is the biggest in <he history of the world.
 Z The correspondent of the Interna- tionaI News Service met MT. Wander lip at the Foreign Office just after he had signed the contract for a long lease on @ gigantic slice of Siberia e]i empire. The banker was smilins and happy over the success of his deal. He gave the following signed statement:
 "For the foreign press and the American people: Tt has been brought to my attention that our Sec retary of State, MT. Bainbridge Col by, made a statement to the effect that I was in Moscow at the instigatfon of Senator (now President-elect War ren G. Harding, negotiating for rec ognition of Soviet Russia by the United States. I came to Russia TOT the Vanderlip syndicate and for com merciaI purposes only.
 "I have leased for the VanderliG syndicate on terms of sixty year: 100000 square miles of Russian ter 1.ftory rich in oil, coal and fish. Thi! acquisition gives the United State: control of the oil situation on tht Pacific. I have also obtained ar understanding whereby the Russian government will purchase in tht United States during 1921, merchan disc worth $31, 100000, offerint in payment gold, platinum, furs ,oil oil products, manganese, copper tinber. pulpwood, hides, grain anc other raw materials
 (Continued on Page Six.)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-11

Bent with age and broken by hard work; years added to her score in the last few days by the burden thrown upon her shoulders by the wayward- ness of her son; grief-stricken beyond comprehension, Mrs. Emma KranZ, of 514 John street, mother of Max Ed win Kranz, now held without bail in the Fairfield county jail as one of the mystery this morning, in broken words, told her story to The Times and denied emphaticaIly that she had ever talked to any reporter and given him an interview.
 "Oh, oh, no; as God is my witness, I never told the story that was printed yesterday. No reporter has ever talked to me except one man who claimed he was from New York and working for the American. did not let him in the house, but told him on the piazza that I could not talk to him. I told him nothing. My cares here, trying to make living keeping roomers, are surely enough for a woman of my age and a widow at that. I have tried so hard; I. have worked, oh, so hard, and now- tears streamed down her face and the mother, whose cup is now more than full, rocked back and forth in her rocking chair as she tried to control her grief-torn nerves.
 |'It is true that my husband was drowned at Danbury but surely I can be spared talking of that. There was always talk Of taint of insanity in his blood. Perhaps it has been handed down to my poor unfortunate boy. Who knows? have thought so for years; thought so when he was but a littel boy going to school and some times acted so queerly. He would have those queer spells and laugh so queer; a sort of silly laugh. It was just like his father would do some times and it made me afraid. I would draw him close to me and cover his face with my apron and beg of him not to laugh like that. After a while he would be quiet.'
 Another paroxysm of grief shook her frame. The room in which we sat and talked was a sitting room very ordinarily furnished but clean and comfortable. A divan, one of the one side of the room. On the other is a fine photograph and various ar ticles of furniture completed the room.
 ter a while That is his bed. Here he slept and there he would sit and work and study. My boy was draft ed into the army with other men and went to Camp Devens. I never was able to go to Camp Devens to see him because I could not afford it, but as far as I know he had a good rec ord there. He was of great me chanica1 turn of mind and would spend many hours tinkering with various plans for automobile parts and later invented some sort of an now no vvo I have p forgotten the e name of it, While he was at Camp Devens do know that he completed on a large scale a fine map of the United States, which became the property
 Y. M. c. A. in the hut at Devens..
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-11
Vanderlip Leases 100000 Acres Of Soviet Government, Which He
 Says Is Oldest In All Europe
Radicals Harass Germany
 Ar,aistice Day Is Gloomy

burg and Bremen shipping compan- ies-arrangements which are profita- ble to both sides.
 Dr. Ernest Dryander, formerly chief court chaplain to the kaiser-'At this moment the spiritual condition of Germany is difhcunlt to judge. II am convinced that the nations thinkers still possess the same ideals which 100 years ago, threw off the yoke of French domination and that they will not willingly submit to haTyng Ger many's spiritual level forced down waSd by the proletariat. The new re- ligious revival whose coming I believe I can perceive already, will help us greatly. With the church free from the state, the former will be able to deevlop her full powers. Both, how ever, will not enter their full fruits until material diStress-and poverty and the wretchedness that comes from all of these has been relieved to some degree.''
 Gustave Noska, former minister of defense and president >sf the govern meth of Hanover-"The future of Germany, especially the next few years, has a very sonbre outlook in my opinion. The last two years brought us a far-reaching democracy and a constitution based on the great est freedom. The people are not re- joicing, because of the great economic distress. Political radicaism is rag ing because starving misses are driven to the most daring experim ents. T am not yet sure that political and economic chaos can be aVerted. (Continued OF Page 6.)