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New Britain herald., 1921-02-09
CARPENTIER AND MORAN.
Pittsburgh Boxer Agrees to Battle
 French Champion.

Paris. Feb. 9.-Terms for a fight between Georges Carpenter, heavy weight champion of Europe and Frank Moran of Pittsburgh, who now is in Paris, to be held before the Con- tinental Sporting club of Paris, have been accepted by the latter. Promoter Roth, it is said. is meeting with some difficulty in obtaining Carpenter s signature to a contract owing to the high terms insisted upon.
 The tentative date for the bout is given as July 14.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-09
JOE LYNCH TO BOX
Bantam Champion Will Meet Jabez
 White at St. Louis Tonight

St. Louis. Feb. 9.-JOe Lynch will his first ring appearance since win ming the batamweight title from Pete Herman December 22 when he meets Jabez White of Albany, N. Y. in an eight round bout here tonight. The contest will be a no-decision affair.
 Lynch will enter the ring at catch weight, while White has agreed to make 11S pounds at 8 D. m. They have met on two previous occasions. both contests having been declared draws.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-09
LOCALS LOSE POLO GAME.

The New Britain polo team sus- tained the first defeat of the season last night at Professional hall, the Wallingford five. strengthened with the Fusari brothers of this city, fin ishing on the long end of a to 2 score. The locals were handicapped by the loss of Swanson, who did not show up. Marty Bush essayed to fill
New Britain herald., 1921-02-09
SIGNS OF SPRING.
Pcnnsy Baseball Men Hold First Out
 door Practice of Season.

Philadelphia, Feb. 9.-The Univer sity of Pennsylvania baseball candi- dates had their first outdoor practice yesterday. More than 20 battery men reported to Coach Cariss Forty freshman battery candidates also re- ported.
 It was the earliest outdoor work out ever held at the institution.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-09

ONE-PIECES FOR CHILDREN ON1iY-Simple one-piece suits laced in the front for the children. and skirted suits for women are fashion's latest at Palm Beach. Social leaders this season are not favofng Scant form fitting suits for women and older girls. shown here is Mrs. William DeCamp of New York and her daughter in lat est suits, at Palm Beach.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-09
 FACTION ! |COmmiSSiOn is Second

S OUUUuu
 The startling te committed
 weltcrweight
 against Ted II. at Madison night. will bc Friday after s of tho Box License Com - btvea Britton s Of Lsewis'S sC- ed the second bf the cham hodman is the pact of Brit
 Secretary C. -nmission an a written re
 the commia- hd been mail pNing officials lg u complete xpccted incl pn yesterday
 by telephone DluntaTily be- he hearing to
 matter. Re t and Judges
 will be sub erct over the tributinE the lis temper in moment. The protesting tho ction which 1 and was in- hen ho walk 30
 Britton con %
 this mouth Ration of the lipport of his
 his inside forth q copy lntions Of the n. The cham !. or tho Rules and Civilian rol. lncorpor- Walker Law, covered tho
 This section ort 10 the di- clubhouse at
 entering the
 ring custom.
 all of which d previous to
 belt of tho id above the pnrci. except l be worn by ring except u b of grease or light handicap ed.
 Itself and his title, Britton. y, was disin- nner reflected nE Lewis was ring activity.
 Dan Morgan
 that Britton
 nights feat Except for a right eye, and Britton had no battle he went right hand in
 Britton said. st Of yesterday his manager. Iction of his tter of a mere
 planning a Champion, and greenbIe. Tho
 thrives on Manager Nor bouts against geport boxer: ewoight: Mike icweight title d, lightweight colored boxer. be accommO- c welterweight Morgan said. rooklynitC, who Est Chicago. ith M organ for at, tentatively ok in April. is eager to arr on Britton and 1nsed open air re under way h bout at the 2. and another Ar Morgan ha. is against q A Boston pro lnge the latter. " RECORD.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-09
YALE QUINTET WINS
Eli Basket Tosscrs Come Along Fast Townard End of Game With North Carolina.

New Haven. Feb. 9.-YaIe rescued last nights basketball game from North Carolina university in the last minute of play. The final score was 32 to SO. The visitors began the last ten minutes of play with a lead of 25 to 16. which they had acquired by a magnificent spurt at the beginning ot tha second half.
New Britain herald., 1921-02-09
the gap. Frank Ho0le and 4
 starred for New Britain.
BASKETBALL TONIGHl
By Briigg'

Two games are scheduled { in the Girls Industrial league Y.' w. C.. A, the Corbin ScrOf poration team meeting the s1 Rule and Level team. and the 1 Works five meeting an out
New Britain herald., 1921-02-09
" RECORD.

nwyor Swift. a nnd driven by made what is worlds record
 won the i've event of the
 E.. p.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Harding Takes Cabinet to
Lunch in White House
Discussions at Meeting Are So
Prolonged President Contin-
ues Them at the Table

WASHINGTON, March II. - Many
problems of departmental organization
together with various pressing ques-
tions of public policy. were discussed
by President Harding and his Cabinet
to-day at three hour meeting
The threatened strike Of packer en-
ployees and the selection of a new
Shipping Board are understood to have
occupied first attention, and after they
had been put aside the President asked
each of his secretaries in turn to re-
port conditions in his department as
they had revealed themselves during
the first week of the new Administra-
ton.
The replies started several extended
discussions, so prolonging the session
that Mr. Ha, ding took the members of
his official family to lnuch with him in
the White House
Departmental patronage is said to
have been one of the subjects left out
OF the canvass, and, although several of
the secretaries were ready to recon-
mend important appointments within
their departments, their uggestions
were put over, to be discussed privately
with the President at later dates
1t was said that few decisions were
reached, most of the discussion being
OF an informative nature.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
One Bureau for u. S.,
Defense Considered
President Said to Favor Pro-
posal; Smoot Wants Single
Govt. PURCHASING Agent

From, The Tribunes Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March l1.-One of
the problems which will be considered
by the Senate and House joint commit
departments is the proposed consolida-
tion of the War and Navy departments,
as we'll as the Air ServTce, INTO a single
department of the national defense.
Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of
the committee, said to-day the com
mittee had authority to consider this
proposition ana that it would do so.
President Harding has already been
urged by Senator New, of Indiana, to
take a stand for such consolidation.
Reports have been current that the
President favored the idea and was
committed to it, but they lack con-
hrmation.
Many other phases of reorganization
in the government departments are to
be considered by the joint committee.
1t met early this week, but only in
preliminary way, and as result Of
that meeting took steps to obtain Of
fees.
Senator Smoot intends to consult
each one of the Cabinet members about
reorganization. He has already con-
ferred withiSecretary Hoover
One of the primary and fundamental
steps in reorganization on which Sena-
tor Smoot insists is the creation Of a
single purcha sing officer for the gov
ernment. He holds the spectacle of
the departments bidding against each
other for supplies and material is in
defepsble.
The committee on reorganization will
advise Congress that reorganization
should be piecemeal and should not
wait until complete program is de-
veloped.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Bond Loot Traffic
Reduces Prices in
Legitimate Sales
Prosecutor Finds Harm Done
Market as He Searches for
Fence That Cleared Half.
Million Thefi in BROOKLYN

Efforts of District Attorney Harry z.
Lewis, Of Brooklyn. to solve rhe 1885,
600 bond theft OF Novem Der 50 we're
concerned yesterday with The question
ing of two men who were arrested
Thursday night with six others and
held on charges Of being implicated in
the theft and disposal Of the bonds.
Mr.. Lewis said that in seeking .
locate the clearing house through
which the stolen documents were sens
he had discovered that the sale ii arge
numbers CT stolen Liberty bonds at
greatly reduced rates had reduced the
market price in legitimate transac-
tions
The two men questioned yesterday
by Mr.. Lewis were Nathaniel
Wheeler who gave his address as the
Plaza Hotel, and Abe Cohen thirty
years old, Of III East Broadway.
Cohen, who was feld in s5009e bail.
was asked regarding a man who is said
to have brokerage Office in Blocker
Street. According 30 the Distric. At
torney, Cohen admitted that he had
handled $50 900 worth OF stolen bonds
which he said he obtained from man
called shorty" who. the police say. is
connected with the Blocker Street or
fee.
Cohen is charged with having turned
these bonds over TO Elmer r Seeiev
from whom Nathaniel II. Wheeler a
broker with Offices at 10 last Forty
third Street, is said to have obtained
them. Cohen, according to the Dis
fri cf
$4,000 for mis- par ir the deal, but
insists that to date he has received
nothing.
After questioning Wheeler yesterday.
Mr.. Lewis announced that ore Let #
the stolen bonds, valued a. $1,000
had been sold for $4,000 According
to the police, Wheeler had a portion
Of this lot in his possession when ar
rested.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Ziegfeld Loses 6-Hour Battle
With 3,O0O-Lb. Florida Fish
Giant Ray, Harpooned Off Palm Beach, Tows Two
Boats 80 Miles and Escapes With Bullets in
Body After Lines Are Broken

The ray got into the Gulf Stream,
headed straight for the Grand Ba-
hamas. With the aid of three strikers,
Hcigfeld, the guides and Herman Gray,
captain of the Sea Robin, the ray was
brought to the surface. Hiscock threw
a grnpnel directly in his path, hooking
the weapon in its gils, which started
the ray In mad rush for the open sea,
while the anchor line was snubbed up
on a cleat until the bow Of the skiff
was almost submerged.
The ray disentaglcd himself by turn-
Ing somersault and losing the an
chors, but again the men brought him
to the surface and shot bullets from a
heavy. rifle into his body. One of the
boats was dispatched to Palm Beach
for food and other boats took up tho
chase but dropped out.
The battle began at 11:45 Il. m.
At s p. m. one of the harpoon
lines broke. A little later another har-
poon pulled out and, strained from the
weight pulling against it, the third
harpoon chafed the bronze wire on the
iron and gave out, leaving one harpoon
and the ray still going. BY this time
the party was thirty miles north Of
Palm Beach, off Hobe Sound. The Sea
Robin was secured to the skiff, so the
ray had two boats to tow, but despite
the loss of blood the fish never weak
ened. All six mems hands were blis-
tered and cut and bleeding. At 6:15
o'clock the bronze cable on one har-
poon gave way and the ray, swimming
sixty feet under water, made away.
Five sharks followed the battle, but
did not offer attack.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Prosperity Waits
On Tariff and Tax
Laws, Says Penrose
Business Improvement Not
Here Yet, He Believes;
Urges Wiping Out of Will
sons Government Boards
rro,, The Trih,nc.a Hnshinntnr Burea.

From The T'ribrnc's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. March 11.-Senator
Penrose. chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Finance, said to-day that the
country need not look for improvement
in general business conditions until
taNasion and tariff legislation was re-
vised and government extravaganza
abolished. Senator Penrose said he
did not want to be put in the attitude
of pessmst but none of reports
he was receiving indicated improve
ment.
The Senator declared "the auto
cratic, irresponsible boards which had
been IN operation in recent years
would have to be wiped out.
II an in favor of abolishing all the
Wilson boards" said Senator Penrose.
He added that he did not alludc to
such bodies as the Interstate Com
merce Commission or the Federal
Trade Commission, but to the boards
and commissions which sprang up as
sudden growths under the recent Ad-
mlriStratiOn
AS to tariff revision and taxation
brought about with as little delay as
practicable.
What the public wants." he added,
sis an assurance of what is coming.
If the business world is given assur-
ance that there will be reform in re-
spect to direct taxation that will help
conditions"
Senator Penrose recalled that in
1897 the mere -omise to enact the
Dingley bill helped to restore pub
lie confidence
Judging from past experience" he
said, this condition is temporary and
Nvar sNxvx
governmental methods"
Senator Penrose is getting ready for
the joint conference Monday of Repub-
llcans of the Finance and Ways and
Means committees, along with Secre-
tary Mellon Of the Treasury and Chair
man Good of the House Appropriations
Committee.
The Senator reiterated that he hopes
for united and harmonious action by
the Republicans on the tariff, and
trusts that members will not mar the
program by undue insistence on pro-
tecting their local interests
e added that, if necessary, the Re-
p .bicans Of the Senate would hold
caucuses on tariff revision.
There are plenty of precedents for
caucus action on tariff bills" said Sem
ator Penrose. There will be no at
tempt to interfere with freedom of dis
cussion, of course"
One problem before the Finance
committee, as we'll as the Ways and
Means Committee, is to find out the
facts as to production costs abroad.
senator Penrosc said this would be
considered at the conference Monday.
Senator Penrose attaches little moment
to what the tariff commission says on
this subject. and would like to get data
from other sources.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Government Loses
w. u. Cable Suit
In Appeals Court
Order Denying Injunction Is
Affirmed Without Argu-
ment; Congress Has Sole
Right; To Rush Decision

Tho United States Circuit Court of
Appeals in nm opinion, concurred in by
Judges Ward Hough and Manton. ves-
terday approved the decision of judge
"A. N. Hand in refusing some time apo
to grant the government the prelimi-
nary injunction it sought against the
Western Union Telegraph COMPANY to
prevent the latter from landing its Bar
oados cable at Miami Beach. Fla. there
by completing communication with
South America via the lines of the
Western Cable Company, British cor
poration.
me Western Unions cable ship Rob-
crt &. Clowry, on it's approach TO the
caDle lying off the three -n.:ie limit a
Icw days ago, was ordered away by Il
united States sub-chaser, which fired q
shot across the ships bows
1t is an order Of ex-President Will
sons which is keeping the Western
Onlon from taking advantage Of court
aeclslons. The opinion rendered yes
tcrday says:
We think no practice has been
established sufficient to sustain the
contention that the President has such
power as Chief Executive, and our in
clination also is to think that the
Western Union Telegraph Company has
the right to land it's cable on the
beach near Miami under the post roads
act.
"Concdededly, the right to permit or
to prohibit the landing of cables be-
tween foreign countries and the Ameri-
can coast is in Congress, under it's
power to regulate commerce between
states and foreign countries
I'm point of practice, Congress on
several occasions has done so by acts
o. Congress, and sometimes the Presi-
aent has done so as Chief Executive,
ard sometimes cables have been laid by
corporations without any permit at all.
However. there is q necessity for
getting this important case before the
Supreme Court before it rises. The
order of Judge Hand is affirmed with
out further consideration of the
arguments of the respective parties"
Earl B. Barnes, Assistant United
States Attorney, said that all possible
haste would be made to get the case
before the Supreme Court
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
specio, Dispatch TO The Tribune

PALM BEACH, Fla, March IL
Florenz Ziegfeld jr., who is passing the
season at Palm Beach, had one of the
most thrilling experiences Of his life
Yesterday in battle Of six and one
half hours with II mammoth giant ray
whose weight local fishermen estimate
at more than 5000 pounds. The fish is
said to have measured twenty feet from
wing to wing.
Mr.. Ziegfcld had just concluded the
mornings fishing trip in J. Leonard
Replogle's boat, tho Sea Robin, when
Burt Hiscock, Florida's most famous
guide, sighted the giant ray within fifty
feet of hundreds of bathers 1t was the
largest one the guide had ever seen in
his years Of experience in Florida
waters. John Wcihc, another fisher
man, heard Hiscock call, and from his
sea skiff harpooned the giant as it
passed, pulling up anchor after his har-
poon struck.
Mr.. Zeigfeld was then on his way in
the Sea Robin and threw second har-
poon, Hiscock Joining in his sea skiff
and lodging a third harpoon in the
massive body.
The ray rushed for deep water, carry
ing the three boats after him at rapid
speed. George Lcary jr., in his dis
placement boat, Orlo II, then joined in
pursuit and stayed with the party,
though having no weapons.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Arbitrary Tax
On Investment.
Profits Invalid
Solicitor General Admits
Error in Assessing on Diff
ference Between Value on
Mar. l, 1918, and Sale Day
Court May Accept View.
Must Still Decide, However,
if Gain From Disposal
Can Be Called Income

WASHINGTON, Mrch 11.--Solicitor
General Frierson, in closing tho gov
ernment's argument to-day in the ."cor-
porate bond tax case" before the Su-
preme Court, conceded formally that
the Internal Revenue Bureau had
erred in assessing as profit the diff
ference between the market value of
an investment on March /, 1918, and
that on a subsequent date of sale.
If the court accepts Mr.. Fricrson's
view, as Associate Justice Pitney in
dicated that it would, thousands of
individual assessments upon which
millions Of dollars in taxes already
have been paid will be annulled.
The governments admis. on, it was
said, does not remove the necessity Of
the court passing upon he larse
question Of whether increased value O
securities purchased and held for in
vestment can be taxed as income WI Ell
this increased value is realized finally
by sale.
The case under argument was that
brought by the government on a writ
Of error from the United States Dis
trist Court of Connecticut, which up
held the contention of Frederick F.
Brewster that increased value of Sc
curItles, originally acquired and held
for investment, could not be taxed as
income under the Sixteenth Amend
ment.
Mr.. Brewster presented two in
stances of taxation to illustrate the
point at issue. In 1899 he purchased
certain bonds at their face value Of
$4,000. On March |. 1913, the mar
ket price had declined to S1b1 900, but
when he sold them in 1916 they had
again reached par $191 900. He was
assessed on $4,000 profit" The { C
ond case was of purchase Of bonds
for 1921, 900, decline in value on
March l, 1918, to $16d 900 and sub
sequent sale for $2760O0, an actual
profit of 900, but profit, as esti-
mated by the TreaSurY OF -112 900.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Japan's Note OH Yap
Protest Puts Next
Move Up to Harding
Toxic Recognizes Principle
of Use of Cable by All,
but Insists Control Rests
in Power That Holds End

WASHINGTON, March II (By The
Associated Press) s).-Diplomatic ex-
changes between the American and
Japanese governments concerning the
status Of the Pacific cable center of
zap have left the situation unchanged.
and it remains for the Harding Admin
lstration to dictate the next step.
Japan's reply to the protest against
Japanese control Of the island sent by
the Wilson Administration through the
American Embassy at Toxic is under
stood to have contained a reteration of
the Japanese claim TO exclusive juris-
diction by reason of the mandate
awarded by the Supreme Council.
AS to Japanese control of the former
German cables centerng in the island,
against which the American govern
ment particularly protested, Japan is
said to adhere to the principle of free
use of the cables by all persons, but
with operation and control remaining
under the power that is in possession
of the ends of the cables.
Japan holds that this arrangement
exists in the case Of the cable that runs
from the American-ow owned island of
Guam, in the Pacific, to Yokohama,
Japan. The American company which
laid the cable, it contends, admitted
the right of Japan to control the end
which was landed in Japan, with the
United States controlling the end in
Guam.
The Japanese view also is understood
to be that, since direct cable communi
cation between the United States and
Asia by way Of Guam and Manila al
ready exists, the line from Guam to
Asia via Yap is only an indirect over
flow connection unnecessary in ordi-
nary, times, and therefore settlement
OF the question of control is not ur-
gent.
Meanwhile it is suggested that, since
the League of Nations Council has re-
ferred the American protest addressed
to it to the Allied nations, a reply NAV
come from that quarter which may con-
tain the germ of basis for adjust
ment.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
J. A. Rafferty, Seriously
I'LL From Seasickness

James A. Rafferty,, forty-two years
old. lawyer and Chief investigator Of
the Civil Service Board, was removed
to st. Vincent's Hospital from the
steamship Lenape, of the Clyde Line,
when that boat docked yesterday morn
ing from Jacksonville, Fla. He was
reported to be in serious condition
last night, suffering from hemorrhages
when, it was said, were brought on by
prolonged seasickness.
Mr. Rafferty,, who lives with his
mother and sister at 175 West Seventy
eighth Street, recently toured the
South with James j. Hagen, Demo-
cratic leader of the 7th Assembly Dis
trict, and the latter's son, Roy. The
party sailed from Jacksonville for New
York, March s. Just after leaving
Jacksonville Mr.. Rafferty, fell victim
to seasickness~
Mr.. Rafferty, has been connected
with the Civil Service Board for
twenty two wears
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Irish Volunteers Duck
Salesman Before Throng

DUBLIN. March II (By The Associ-
ated Press)-Pedestrian proceeding to
their homes tonight witnessed a sensa-
tional incident in the hearteof the city
At o'clock, when members of the
Irish republican army ducked James
Magee, salesman for firm of Belfast
diapers, in the Grand Canal.
Magee was taken from his lodgings
Thursday by Irish volunteers and
spirited to an unknown destination.
He was held prisoner until this evening
when he was brought to the canal
pinioned in an automobile. He was
taken from the machine, dipped twice
into the water and then tied to a post.
from which spectators later released
him.
The ducking of the salesman is said
to have been only one incident of the
campaign OF the irish republican army
to tighten the trade boycott against
Belfast
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12

of colonel in the army. Chaplain John
I. Axton.
TO be military storekecper with the
rank of major inNthe army, Captain
Charles Patrick Daly.
To be a member of the Mississipri
River Commission. army engineers,
Colonel Gustave Lukesh, Corps Of Engi~
neers.
Dozen Are Confirmed
To be director of the United States
Coast and Geordetic Surrey, Ernest
Lester Jones, Of Virginia.
To. be brigadier generals of the
Marine Corps, Smedley D. Butler,
Logan Feland and Harry Lee.
or these the follows were confirmed:
Fred Morris Dcaring, as Assistant
Secretary of State; William S. Culbert-
son. as member of the Tariff Commits
sion; Walter Lyon, Captain McVay,
Emory A. Bryant, Ernest Lester Jones
to succeed himself as director of the
Goast and Geodctic Survey and Colonel
William j. Keville.