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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-07-22

Special Gable to THE New York HERALD.
Copyright, 1891, bv The NEW Yonx HERALD.
New York herald Bureau.
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-07-22
DOMINION PREMIERS
TO DEMAND HEARING
Will Send Message to Har-
ding Insisting on Confer
ence Representation.
PACIFIC TASK CRUCIAL
Australian Prime Minister
Says Disarmament Rests
on Problem.
LLOYD GEORGE HECKLED
Defends Building Of Capital
Ships as Necessary to Re-
place Obsolete Ones.
LLOYD GEORGE HECKLED

Special Cable TO THE NEW YoRK HERALD.
COPYRIGHT, 1871, by THE NEW YoRK HEsALp.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
New Swedish Minister
Arrives Aboard Olympic
British Naval Attache, ]. III.
Thomas, and Vincent AS
tor Also PASSENGERS

Axel Wallenberg, the newly appointed
Minister from Sweden to the United
States. accompanied by Mrs. Wallen-
berg, arrived yesterday on the White
Star liner Olymp C. He was met by
Olaf H. Lamm, the Swedish Consul
General in this city, and will go to
Washington at once to assume his new
duties. Mr.. Wallenberg prior to his
appointment was connected with one
of the largest iron and steel concerns
in Sweden.
: Another diplomat to arrive on the
Olympic was Captain S. R. Bailey, who
is to replace Captain Godfrey Blake
as naval attache at the British En-
bassy in Washington. Captain Bailey
W S accompanied by his wife and two
daughters.
DR.. Arthur W. Woo, assistant di-
rector of the Rockefeller Hospital in
Peking; ]. H. Thomas, vice-president
of the International Mercantile Marine
Company, and Vincent Astor, wh1 went
abroad six weeks ago to visit at St.
Moritz, Switzerland, were also first
cabin passengers on the Olympic.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
Lunacy Board Named to
Examine Millard Ross
Anxiety Over Son Who Went to
War and Income Tax Blamed
for His Breakdown

A lunacy commission has been ap-
pointed by Vice-C Chancellor Backes, Of
Newark, it was learned yesterday, to
examine Millard r. Ross, of New
Brunswick, N. j., pres dent Of whole
sale coal company in that city and head
of the Ross family of Middlesex
County. The comm ssion was ap-
2ointed on the application of Miles
Ross, son, who says that for three
years his father has been incapable of
attending to his business or personal
affairs.
In February, 1918, he was sent to a
sanatorium in Philadelphia, where he
was under the care of DR.. Francis x.
Dercum, one of the special sts who was
called in consultation in President Will
sons illness. About December /, 1919,
he became an inmate Of the Phipps
psychiatric clinic of Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Baltimore.
Anxiety concerning the departure of
his son for the war-an event which
took place in 1917--his inability to sup
ply coal to his customers and HRS in
come tax return are said to have COM
bined with his delusions to plunge him
into profound melancholy. 1t is set
forth in the affidavits that he could not
attend to his interest in the cual com
pany Of which he is nominal head or
pretend to control his other interests
which include real estate valued at
100000 and personal property of great
value. a
The commission appointed to ex-
anime him consists of Judge Adrian
Lyon, DR.. Frederick l.. Brown and w
Parker Runyon.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
Benkards' Paris Divorce
Surprises N. Y. Friends

Acquaintances of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Philip Bernhard, formerly of 1876 East
Fifty-fourth Street, learned yesterday
for the first time that they had been
divorced. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Bernhard
are we'll known in New York society
and Mr. Bernhard, who is member of
the Stock Exchange, admitted yester-
day that his wife had taken action and
had obtained q decree in the French
courts.
Mrs Bernhard, who was Miss Julia
Olin, went abroad about year ago and
established residence in France. At
that time, friends Of the family say,
there was much gossip in regard to
marital difficulties, but when the
divorce proceedings were instituted in
the French courts they were not made
public. The decree, it is understood,
was handed down last winter.
Mrs. Bernhard is sister of Mrs.
Tracy Dows and Mr.. Bernhard is a
brother of j. Gerald and Harry Hous-
ton Bernhard He served in the A. E. F.
in France and for time was on the
personal staff of General Pershing,
with the rank of captain. He later
served as a liaison officer on the staff
of General LIE Conte, commanding the
33d French Army Corps at Verdun.
Captain Bernhard received the deco.
ration of Chevalier of the Legion OF
Honor from the French government.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
Composers to Get Prizes

The Harry Harkness Flagler prizes,
amounting to $1,000, for original or
chestral works by American composers,
have been awarded, and the names of
the winners will be announced Sunday
afternoon at the concert of the New
York Symphony Orchestra in Aeolian
Hall. The sealed envelopes containing
the names of the winning composers
will be opened during the intermission.
Last spring Mr.. Flagler, president of
the Symphony Society of New York,
offered first prize of $1,000 and sec
ond prize of $500 for the best compost
tions of symphonic structure. Leopold
Stokowski, George W. Chadwick, John
Alden Carpenter, Franz Kneisel and
Walter Damrosch agreed to act as
judges and have just completed the
task Of examining some eighty-odd
scores. Each score is identified by a
motto, and the composers name is
sealed in an envelope bearing the same
motto.
The composition winning the first
prize will be played by the New York
Symphony Orchestra at the first con-
cert next season in Carnegie Hall.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
III. w. Taft for Return to
Common Sense Normally
Favors Early Peace, Sales or
Consumption Tax, Restricted
Immigration and Economy

Henry W. Taft told the members of
the New York Republican County Com
mittee last night at Bryant Hall that
in order to get back to common-sense
normalcy the nation should conclude
an early peace with Germany, adopt
sales or consumption tax, restrict
undesirable immigration and stop
squandcring money on Injuries. He
described the Administration at Wash
ington just closed as zone of the most
inefficient beauracracies the world has
ever known"
He said that while the country
should not surrender the protective
tariff principle, still it would not do
to exclude the goods manufactured by
European countries, for if we did we
would not be able TO collect interest or
pr ncpa of the ten billions of dollars
owed to us.
Chairman Samuel s. Koenig Of the
County Committee called the meeting
to order and introduced Miss Helen
Varick Boswell, president, who
presided.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
Crafts Asks Interstate
Commission on Films
Plan Suggested to William A.
Brady Following Conference
on Ceusorsg,in

WASHINGTON, March l7.-Creation
by Congress Of an Interstate motion
picture commission RS substitute for
Federal censorship of films was pro-
posed in letters from DR.. Wilbur F.
Crafts, of the international Reform
Bureau, to film producers, made public
to-day by DR.. Crafts. His plan follows
his recent conference with flm- makers
in New York, at which the producers
agreed to undertake censorship them
selves and the bureau head to abandon
his campaign for Federal censorship
act.
The commission, Dr. Crafts sug-
gested, should be appointed by the
bureau of education and kept out Of
politics" 1t would pass on licensing
Of film makers to distribute pictures
in interstate commerce and condition
Of the licenses would be agreement to
abide by the thirteen standards upon
which DR.. Crafts says there was agree
ment at the New York conference.
The proposal was addressed to Will
liam NJ Brady, president of the Ma
tional Association Of the Motion Pic
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
Constable Slain
In Reprisal for
Irish Hanging
Cx7k Forces Kill One in
ch for ASSISTANTS;
Oldiers Attacked in
Dublin Shoot Civilians
Many Clashes in Capital
Shops Looted in Riot Near
Belfast; Station and Cars
Burned i'm Orange Center

DUBriN, March II (By The Associ-
ated Press).--As reprisai for the ex-
ecution Monday Of Thomas Whclan in
Montjoy prison Constable O'Kane was
shot dead in Clifden, County Galway,
last night, and another constable was
wounded. Crown forces made searches
discover the authors of the shoot
ihgs and shot to death John Med
Who is alleged to have attempted to
svade arrest.
Several serious shooting affrays oc-
curred in this city last night. and a
humber of persons were injured in en-
counters between military forces and
police and civilians. A number of SOL
diers riding in a motor iorry were pro-
seeding along Redmond's Hill Street,
On the north side of the city, when a
Homb was thrown st the machine. The
soldiers returned the fire and wounded
two persons.
Another lorry wns bombed and fired
upon from windows of houses along
Camden Street. The soldiers returned
the fire and some civilians were wound
"a. Three more civilions were wound
Cd when.a bonb exploded in Aungier
Street. During melee near the Ship
Street Barracks many shots were fired
and three persons we're wounded.
Merchant Slain
W. NJ. Kennedy, merchant, was shot
ind killed and his solicitor wounded.
They had taken q case involving land
ownership to the Carlow Assizes.
| For the first time si:ace disorders
broke out in Ireland identification disks
we're given to the troops.
Five prominent Irish women in q
message transmitted to-day cali on Mrs
Warren G. Harding to appeal to Amer
acsn women for emergency relief for
Irish women and children. The sig
Aatories to the appeal include Alice
Sophia Green, the historian, and Lady
Augusta Gregory, playwright.
BELFAST, March II (By The Asso-
dated Press). -Dallymacarrett, across
Che River Lagan from Belfast, where
disorders have occurred in recent
months, was again the scene Of serious
riots last night and this morning.
Crowds looted the spirit shops and be-
came so menacing that the police had
to call on the military, who are patrol
ing the district with armored cars.
Several baton charges occurred.
The railway station at Rich Hill.
County Armagh, an Orange center, and
twelve loaded cars were DESTROYED by
Are this morning. They had first been
soaked with petrol. A train proceed
ing from Portadown for Armagh also
vas lootAd.
Burglar Shoots Constable
Constable Boyd was shot to-day by
burglar named Gordon at New
towards, County Down, when the
eenstable was endeavoring to arrest
Gordon.
Gordon barricaded himself in a room
Snd with two revolvers fought off be-
sieging force Of constables and special
officers who surrounded the house
where he had taken refuge.
A bomb was thrown by the besiegers,
lut did no damage. Later another
bomb was hurled and Gordon was in
3cred in the explosion and surrendered
During the siege constable Boyd was
taken to hospital in q dying con-
Gition.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18

turs Industry. New York. Expen.. s.
the commission plan under ca 81
would be met by tax Of $s.2S on sssl ~
original reel produced for intstst..ss
commerce..
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
Clara HarnOn
Acquitted on
First Ballot
tconsInued from paca ons)


cause he died as he lived. cursing,
swearing and in debauchery."
The defendant at frequent intervals
wept during the attorneys charges.
~ tell you the bullet which caused
Jake lannon's death was the just ex-
ecution of the sentence of God"
Mathers cried to the jury.
w. P. Mclean, leading counsel for
the defense, taking the floor after the
recess, explained the law of dying
declarations" saying that they should
be accepted with great caution.
The attorney said only on one point
keeping out of the courtroom all girls
and boys under sixteen.
81 think every child able to under
stand facts and able to understand the
relationship should hear this trial." he
said.
my contention is that God Almighty
took hand in this affair. When a
man deserts pure wife, boy and girl
as that man did he ought to be killed.
II say God did it."
Attorney General Freezing began the
final argument in the trial just before
p. m. He said:
IL coui0 get tHc CoHSeHt oi my Col-
science would ask you to acquit her.
"Mr. Brown, the special prosecutor,
and myself, are acting under orders we
canno- disobey. Nobody wants great
penalty for her.
"God knows it is costing me more to
ask you to convict a woman than it
will cost you to render a verdict
against her
"Don't cruelty a man who is in his
grave and cannot defend himself.
"Let Jake Hamon take the great bur
say that Clara Smith had no RESPONSE
bility.
Explains His Part in Case
~ think never participated in the
trial OF any case where conditions just
| such as here have obrained.'
The Attorney General explained his
activity in the case and the situation
making it necessary for Governor Rob-
crtson to send him here.
II hold no brief for the Governor
but when he is assailed and wrong
construction is placed on his motives
mu uphold his hands," he said.
This is a time when the hands OF
all public officials should be upheld, and
any man who attacks them damages the
entire structure of state.
"lnnocence needs only a very weak
voice, but in this case innocence needs
| louder voice and goes to Texas fol
it's greatest criminal law firm to plead
the cause of purity.
"If the Hamon millions were inter
ested in this prosecution, would not
they have a lawyer here?h
The case went to the jury at 4:2s
p. m.
AS the jurors filed from the room
the crowd swarmed about Clara and
she burst into tears. The other mem
! bers of her family also cried. but re-
mained seated
! Mrs. Jake L. Hamon, her son. Jake
L., her father and Frank L. Ketch
administrator of the Hamon estate,
left the room.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
Confedcrates of
Boy, Alleged Slayer
OF Double, Sought
''We Have Enough Evidence
10 Convict Virgil Decker
Statement of Sheriff After
Night Talk With Prisoner

WARSAW, Ind, March 17.-While
holding virg;! Decker, eighteen years
old, ou charge Of murder in con-
nection with the death of Leroy Lovett,
a youth of Elkhart. county officers to-
night said they were trying to ascer-
tain whether another person might
have been implicated in the alleged
Staying of Lovett.
ficers this afternoon were centered on
learning something of an alleged ac-
complice who assisted Lovctts slayer.
They believe it would have been i'm
possible for the person who is be-
lieved to have slain Lovett to have car
ried out all the efforts which we're
made to cover up the crime. These
included the changing of the clothes
of the slain boy, the placing of a
buggy on the railroad tracks near At
wood, Ind, and attempts to make it
appear that Lovett was fatally injured
when train hit the buggy.
No new motives For the crime were
uncovered. Those already advanced by
the officers include an insurance plot
to obtain money on policies taken out
by Virgil Decker, said to be Lovett' s
double, through false identification of
the body and a quarrel between, mem
hers of the Decker and Lovett families.
The thory of the insurance plot is
la ed on attempts by members of the
Decker family to identify the body of
the dead boy as that of Virgil Decker.
Virgil, the officers point out, bears a
strong resemb ance to the Lovett lad.
"We have enough evidence to con-
vict him." Sheriff B. c. Moon of Kos
ciusko County declared to-day, follow
ing an all-night questioning of Virgil
Decker. He declared, however, that the
investigation would continue until
every knot in the tangled mystery is
Strengthened out
While striving for confession from
Decker, he was held incommunicado at
the country Jail. Sheriff Moon, as
sisted by Detectives Henry Stahl, J. A.
Jones and IL. L. Stout, questioned the
boy for hours, but apparently failed
to gain the information they desired
regarding details of the crime.
Interest in the case here is intense
among the townspople, but there is no
evidence Of ill-feeling toward the
Decker boy.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
Milk Price Unchanged

4 ITHACA, N. Y, March 17.-The Dairy
mems League to-day established the
milk Wice for April, the same as that
prevailing this month, which is S21O a
hundred pounds for 8 per cent milk at
ehe 200-2l0 point zone. This is said to
yield the farmers .0503 per quart, which
is declared to be IN cent below cost of
production under present conditions.
1t is also announced that Albert Man.
Aing. Of Otisville, who has been over
seer of the State Grange, has been ap-
pointed master of the grange, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death last week
Of WI. N. Giles, Of Skaneteles.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
Community Wives Too Much
For Mormons, Who Expel Ii

Gated, as result of two Church trials
held in the case, are Gudmundson, j.
Elvan Houtz, David White, Gerald H.
Lowrey and j. Leo IIafen. Those dis
teIlowshiped are Mrs. May Metcaf
Houtz, Mrs. Della Hafen White, Mrs
Minerva B Wright, Mrs. Lucy Warren
Metcalf, Ralph B. Wright, Thomas d.
Nisb'. and Levi G. Me calf jr.
1t Is understood that the irregulari-
ties in the colony were first brought to
the attention of the Church authorities
by disgruntled members, who withdrew
because 'too much time was spent in
praying and meeting and too little time
in farming"
One of the fundamental principles
prac.iced by the colony required the
sale by all members of all earthly pos
sessions, the proceeds being placed in
the name of Gudmundson, who de-
voted these funds to the purchase Of
supplies for the community life. Prac-
tically all of the members had entered
homestead applications for land in the
vicinity Of the colony itself, where
rough homes have been constructed to
form a simple village.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
spec'a, Dispatch to The Tribune

SALT LAKE CITY, March ia
member of the Mormon Church who
dared to claim revelations from on
high" which included the doctrine Of
making wives community property, has
come to grief. With him twelve mem
hcrs OF the Church, men and women,
have been accommodated or dis
fclowshined.
1t was strange story of life In q
distant village, off in the mountains,
tar from a railroad, where a zealot
ruled by the power Of his "revela-
tions," that was revealed to-day with
the announcement of the discipline in
voked by heads Of the Church.
The founder and leader of Jericho, as
the colony was called, was Moses S
Gudmundson, talented violinist, for
mery professor of music at Brigham
Young University.
Ine persons who were excommuni.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
Weeks Chooses Army Officers
To Be Made Major Generals

WASHINGTON, March 17.-Defnite
selection of number of general off,
GERS Of the army for promotion to the
by Secretary Of War Weeks, and recess
appointment Of the selections is ex-
pected to be made by the President next
week, it was disclosed to-day at the
War Department.
In the list of officers who have been
definitely picked for promotion, it is
understood, is the name Of Brigadier
General Clarence r. Edwards, who COM
manded the 26th New England Division
in the war. General Edwards was passed
over by the former Administration,
whose selection Of eleven major gen
rejected by the Senate in the closing
days Of the last session.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
DENLY Wants Congress to
Pass Pending Navy Bill
Favors Completion of 1916
Program and Opposes Reduc.
ton Until Agreement. Is Made

WASHINGTON. March 17.--No dras
tic change in the naval appropriation
bill, which failed to pass at the last
session OF Congress, is to be sought
when the House and Senate resume
sessions April IL. Secretary Of the
Navy Denby announced to-day after @
series Of conferences with bureau
chiefs.
Congress will be asked to speedily
pass the bill, with only few minor
changes, Mr.. DENLY said. Authoriza-
tion to continue the work on the 1916
building program will be sought, and
work will be pressed on the completion
of the capital ships provided in that
program without reference to any dis
armament conference that might be
called by the President.
Tohe naval Secretary declined to dis
cuss the possibi ity that an agreement
might be reached between the powers
to delay naval building. He said the
subject was one in which the Presi-
dent had complete authority, and until
some definite program of reduction in
armament had bee agreed upon it was
his intention to continue uninterrup-
tedly the work already started on cap
ltal ships.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
Committee Named to Choose
Sites for Soldier Hospital

WASHINGTON, March 17.-Appoint-
ment Of the committee Of physicians to
survey the country and locate the sol
dier rehabilitation hospitals provided
for by recent legislation was announced
to-day by Secretary Mellon. The mem
bers are DR.. William C. White, Pitts
burgh, chairman; DR.. Frank S. Billings,
Chicago; DIR. Pearce Bailey, New York,
and DR.. j. G. Bowman, Pittsburgh.
The committee will select and rec
ommend to the Treasury the sites for
five hospitals to be operated under the
War Risk Insurance Bureau. The cost
of the new hospitals permitted by the
law which was passed in the last ses-
sion Of Congress may be $12,0OO,OOO.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-18
An Investment Principle

Some people think they are investing
their money when they are simply betting
with it.
Very few are patient enough to ac-
cumulate fortune by saving their earnings,
putting them at interest where the principal
is sure to remain intact and reinvestins the
interest.
The Guaranteed First Mortgage or New
York real estate is the investment for the
patient fcw-or many.
Title Guarantee & Trust Co.
I76 Broadway, New York City
US Remsen Street. Brooklyn
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-01-11

aloft for half an hour Flssiiy neigh.
hors. attracted TO the scens. shot the
maddened animal. y
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-01-11
NEARLY 200 WILL
TAKE PART IN FI-FI

Nearly 200 young people have been
busily engaged in rehearsals for the
last two weeks in preparation for the
famous musical spectacle, "Fi-Fi of
the Toy Shop" which will be staged
at the high school auditorium Thurs
day and Friday evenings of this week.
The production has been staged
more than 1000 times by amateur tai
ent throughout the country and press
and public everywhere have been
most enthusiastic with their praises,
declaring "Fi.Fi" one of the most bril-
liant and fascinating entertainments
ever presented.
The story is unique. 1t deals with
q dream Of the toymaker's daughter,
Bonnie, and the coming to life by the
use Of smelling salts Of considerable
number Of toys and dolls in the shop.
Al sorts of adventures await the
newly animated creatures and what
they do, and how they are finally
restored to their proper places in the
7
toy shop is to give a most agreeable
entertainment with the aid of Mt.
Vernon's most attractive and talented
young people.
There is an interesting plot in
which the love affairs of the firta.
tious Fi-Fi, the finest French doll in
the shop, who leads the Toy Soldier
and the Toy Prince merry chase for
her affections, and then finally elopea
on a moonbeam with the Man in the
Moon, furnish much enjoyment.
"Fi-Ff" is story like Peter Pan
in which older as well as younger
people take keen enjoyment, Ar
elaborate costuming and scenic equip
ment will be provided for the local
presentation.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-01-11
BASEBALL LEAGUE
MAY BE FORMED HERE

Messrs. Stull and Stacy Of Coshoc.
ton and Newcomerstown respective
ly. will be in Mt. Vernon Jan. 23 to
confer with Manager Dale Barre of
the Mt. Vernon team about the for
nation Of baseball league OF Knox
and Coshocton county teams.
The visitors will represent the
strongest teams in Coshocton county
and, according to Mr.. Barre, there 10
little doubt that the preliminary ar
rangements for an inter-county league
will be made at this conference.