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The New York herald., 1922-03-10
BONUS BILL FOLLOWS
HARDING INTO FLORIDA
Gets Wires From Congress
but Only Plays Golf.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW TeRK HERALD.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. March 9.-Presi-
dent Harding arrived here this after
noon for a vacation of a week or ten
days on the Florida coast, but was un-
able to escape from the bugaboo of the
soldier bonus. Having stated just be-
fore his departure his conviction that
Congress should enact q sales tax or
postpone cash bonus legislation. he is
now being importuned by Republican
members of the House. who want him
to say whether he will veto the pro-
posed "pawnbroker" measure devised by
the Ways and Means Committee.
While the President entertains these
positive views about the bonus he does
not believe that he should interfere in
the Congressional situation to the extent
of threatening a veto. Congress knows
his views. and as a coordinate branch
of the Government should. he thinks. be
left unhampered by any threats on his
part in taking action on the bill.
The President had a pleasant trip.
although he was unable to get entirely
away from the duties of his office. He
had breakfast about $50 A. NJ. while his
special train was passing through South
Carolina. He then spent several hours
going over records in about fifty pardon
cases, which he disposed OF before
luncheon.
Upon his arrival here he was met by
Secretary Weeks and other friends and
went to the Ponce De Leon Hotel. He
spent the remainder of the afternoon on
the st. Augustine links. He probably
VIII spend the forenoon tomorrow on,
the golf course.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10

the Paris conference on the Seyres
treaty. Admittedly delicate and difficult
as his position already was, Lord Read
1ng's telegram has now weakened his
hand tremendously.
1t is said tonight that he may be
forced either to deny all concessions,
hoping to preserve peace In the Near
Last, or TO go much further than i'm
tended in order TO placate the Near
East.
Officially it is now recorded that
the ashes Of discomfort In India are
nearest TO renewed conflagration at
Rfsj. 1t is possible that influenza may
have brought about the whole diff
Guilty, for both Mr.. Lloyd George and
Lord Curzon are i'll. If either the
Premier or the Foreign Minister had
been active in Whitehall yesterday. IL
is surmised that to-day MIR. Montagu
never would have published the tele-
gram from Lord Reading. But the fat
is in the fire now.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
SAY GERMAN STUDENTS
ARE UNDERNOURISHED
Physicians Thank Quakers for
Work and Ask More.

BERLIN, March (Associated Press).
The German Physicians Association.
comprising 10000 members. has issued
a resolution or thanks TO the Quakers OF
the United States for feeding German
children. The resolution urges our
American friends not to grow weary,
for need remains and your work snould
continue until the German people. par
ticularly children and students. receive
sufficient nourishment.'
German societies are now making ef-
forts to relieve the condition of uni
vcrsity students. many of whom. 1t is
asserted. have not tasted meat for
weeks. They go without breakfast and
eat thin soups for lunch and dinner.
These university students present a pitt
able appearance. Their clothes are
patched and they have holes in their
shoes. They are plale and look under
nourialed.
Health statistics issued to-day show
that out OF forty-six cities which have
more than 100000 population there was
increased mortality in thirty-six and a
decrease i'm eight.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
DEATHS BY FAMINE
IN RUSSIA 100000
DR.. SemashkO Estimates Total
Much Under That of
DR.. Nansen.

Moscow, March (Associated Press)
The total deaths among the famine
stricken people thus far should be 200.-
900 if the ratio of deaths in the Ufa
province. one of the worst stricken dis
tricts. is maintained elsewhere. says an
missar of Health. He said that in Ufa,
from the commencement of the famine
until February %, 1860 deaths from
famine and diseases emanating from the
famine. not including typhus. had been
registered
This report represents the first ap-
proXmately accurate figures of the
actual deaths due to the famine. IT
reveals a total much under the widely
quoted estimates of DR.. Fridjof Nansen.
DR.. Semashko placed the total number
of famine stricken at between 10000, 900
and 100000, and said that accord
ing to pessimistic estimates there were
25.000,000 persons affected. He added
that the province OF Ufa holds at least
one-tenth of the total of the famine
stricken and that IL the death rate In
Ufa is maintained or increased for a
year the total deaths would be between
]. 900, 600 and 100000. The distribution
of the American Relief Administration
food which had been landed would
tremendously aid the situation.
DR.. Semashko declared that typhus
was decreasing, but he added: I'VE fear
cholera and other diseases in the spring.
Cholera already has appeared in Kieff,
Ekaterinoslav and Voronesh. We are
taking all possible precautions 1t Is our
plan to isolate victims of the disease,
to watch the railways and rivers and to
vaccine. of which we have a
sufficient supply.
I'VE already have purchased S.000.-
000A gold rubles worth of medicines
abroad. This is about 25 per cent. of
our needs. Five million dollars worth
OF medicine would save the situation"
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
GOOD LIQUOR THERE,
BUT NO PLESIOSAUR
Best Drinks in the World, Says
Professor Who Hunted Mon
ster in Patagonia,

AMHERST, Mass, March 8 (Associated
Press).-If any of the plesiosaurian
monsters are still alive in Patagonia.
their forefathers must have had a busy
time wiping out their tracks and chewing
up their skeletons for the last 100000
years, said Prof. +. B. Loomis. geologist
at Amherst College. tonight in com
menting upon the reported discovery of
live plesiosaur down there.
Prof. Loomis conducted for Amherst
College the last skeleton hunting expedi-
tion of American scientists to Patagonia
in 1911. He talked with the many
traders and travellers in the lake region
where the discovery was reported. but
never heard a hint Of the existence of
the plesiosaur.
Prof. Hatcher OF Princeton. now dead
in book describing his discoveries dur
ing three years of search through Lake
Argentina, Buenos Aires. Martin and
Viedma never once mentions hearing of
the plesiosaur.
The plesiosaur was distinctly a marine
form OF life. Prof. Loomis said, and could
not exist in fresh water. The plesio-
saur's remains have been found almost
entirely in Europe, although some have
been discovered in deep sea deposits in
Montana and Wyoming, but none in
Patagonia.
The vagueness of the report from
Patagonia prevents any accurate esti-
mate of what Prof. Onelli of Buenos
Aires says was seen," said Prof. Looms,
but if anything was seen it must have
been the head and long neck of some
water snake. probably the anaconda,
common in that region"
New York scientists who attribute the
discovery to the potency of Patagonian
liquor may not be far wrong. Prof.
Loomis suggested. He asserted that the
best liquor on earth was to be found
there even before the days OF prohibit
ton in the United States.
Just before my arrival in Patagonia,
in 1910" he added, IAN English expedi-
tion, financed by Sir Arthur Pearson
and headed by II. Hesketh Prichard,
+. r. 6. s., spent about a year trying
to discover a mylodon reported to be
alive in the same lake region of Pata-
gonia. The mylodon is a big ground
sloth of the Pleistocene period, about
100000 years ago. In this instance a DR..
+. Amechino asserted he had seen the
animal, but the explorers could not find
single bit of evidence to uphold his
statement. About $4,000 was sunk in
this expedition"
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
MRS. OBENCHAIN TELLS
OF KENNEDY,S SLA YING
Accused Weeps Relating
Story IN OWn Defense.

Los ANGELES. March 9.-Nrs. Mada-
lynne Obenchain. faltering and weeping
to-day in testimony In her own defense.
told her story Of the Staying OF ]. Bolton
Kennedy. her sweetheart. for whose
murder she is being tried. Two shots
were fired at him from the dark in
front Of his summer cottage I'm lonely
Beverly Glen. she said. Then two per-
sons she could not Identify fitted past
her and disappeared. She and Kennedy
went TO the cottage at the latter's sug-
gestlon, she said.
This was In contradiction of the
States theory that Mrs. Obenchain per-
suaded Kennedy to go to the Glen and
that by arrangement with her Arthur
G. Burch, codefendant. lay In wait.
Facing q crowded courtroom Mrs.
Obenohain related her love affair with
Kennedy. She told Of meeting him five
years ago and OF her subsequent ac-
quaintancc with him. Interrupted for a
brief period in January. 1919, when she
married Ralph T. Obenchain. But she
communicated with Kennedy again
after few weeks and finally obtained
a divorce from Obenchain. She denied
however. that Kennedy refused to marry
her. asserting that he importuned her
to consent to secret marriage and that
shortly before the tragedy he threatened
to Kill her II she would not marry him
Mrs. Obenchain testified that during
the week after Burch's arrival they
we're together much OF the time She
said they took numerous automobile
rides together. In response to direct
questions she said they never went 10
Beverly Glen and that she never told
Burch where Beverly Glen was.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
BROWNLOW IS GONE;
HIS BAIL FORFEITED
Roulette Wheel Left Behind,
but $500 Stays Spun.

Again. yesterday, the clerk in the
West Side Court called Henry n.
Brownlow OF London To the bar to an
swer TO the charge OF maintaining
gambling house i'm his erstwhile apart
ment les West Ffty-fifth street. And
again as on February g, when he was
expected to answer to this charge,
Brownlow failed TO appear
Augustin Derby, his counsel. ad-
dressed Magistrate Sweetser. saying he
desired to retire as Brownlow's legal
representative since II seemed more or
less obvious TO him that Brownlow had
decided that he would not appear to
advantage in Magistrates court
Therefore Magistrate Sweetser ordered
Brownlow's bail OF $500 forfeited and
now it lies with the bonding company
to get its money back.
Brownlow. 1t viii be remembered was
the possessor OF a roulette wheel. Also
that one Nathan Goldfinger told the
police that this wheel had spun $500 out
of his pocket.
Mr.. Derby was prepared to argue
there was no evidence that his diffdent
client was common or professional
gambler. 1t was contendcd. too, that
the misdemeanor OF which Brownlow IL
accused is not an extradtable offcnse.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
BLAMES LABOR UNIONS
FOR BOYS GOING WRONG
Judge MacMohon Says Edu-
cation in Trades Is Denied.

The corner youth. whose vaerant ten
denotes often lead him TO crime, is partly
the product Of the autocracy of labor
unions. according TO County Judge j.
Grattan MacMahon in Brooklyn yester-
day. He said he would suspend sentence
Monday on Charles Raynor, 16 years old.
Of 234g Madison street. convicted OF
petty larceny. saying he was not "a bad
boy"
Referring 20 boys who go wrong
Judge MaoMahon said:
1T is because they are not trained
properly in skilled labor that in the win
ter they mvst stand on the street corner
and dance to keep their toes warm. In
the summer they stand on the same
corners without overcoats. Their fathers
are members OF trade unions that have
combined to withhold the knowledge OF
skilled labor from them. Indirectly. II
lis their fathers who arc TO blame when
finally they turn criminal"
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
SENATE FINDS FUNDS
TO FIGHT SMUGGLING
Story i'm New York Herald,
Read Into Record, Brings
100000 Amendment.
ACTION URGED BY LODGE
Big Reduction of immigration
Inspection Forces May Now
Be Avoided.
ACTION URGED BY LODGE
Special Dispatch to THE NEW YonK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.

Special Dispatch TO THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. ID. c., March 8. !
Defending his arguments by reading
extracts from THE NEW YORK HERALD,
Senator Lodge (Mass.) succeeded in
having an amendment adopted to-day
to the appropriations bill providing
100000 for immigration inspectors for
the fiscal year 1922.
1.-THE appropriations for the immigra-
tion service were so inadequate" said
Senator Lodge, that they would be
obliged, between now and the first OF
July, to lay off most of the force by
furloughing them for two weeks or a
month at a time. and 1t will reduce it
from force which numbers only 1900
men to from 400 to ZOO men.
"The service is now inadequate, and
this layoff can have but one effect-an
increase in the smuggling in of immi-
grants who are barred by law and an
increase in the number of immigrants
illicitly coming into the country.
II read an article in THE NEW YORK
HERALD because 1t expresses what has
happened"
Senator Lodge then read into the rec
ord the article which told of the order
to reduce the force of inspectors because
of restricted Congressional appropria-
tions. and of the activities Of smuggers
along the coasts and the Mexican and
Canadian borders. who passed along
word that "the lid was off"
Proceeding, Senator Lodge said:
THAT is the case, Mr.. President. and
it is very serious. OF course Boston is
one Of the large immigration ports and
| have heard from there as well as
from other points with regard to the
situation. I do not say anything about
the hardships to the men in the serv-
ice, which is very great, but TO break
up the service and furlough inspectors.
to take away the men from the
smaller ports, can result in nothing but
the admttance OF Illicit immigrants in
large numbers who ought to be eX-
cluded.'
Senator Smith (S. C.) interrupted
Senator Lodge to say that in his opinion
in place of laying og immigration inspec-
tors we ought to have an increased and
more efficient force.
Senator Lodge said that is absolutely
right. '"The present law instead OF
requiring a smaller force requires a
larger force" he said. II refer TO the
regular force. The regular appropria-
tion is altogether too small. This year
the estimate is s4.050,000. while the
bill allows $3,300.000, and here is the
force which is of the greatest service to
the protection of the country cut down
in a perfectly stupid. ruthless way"
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
DENBY WOULD CLOSE
NEWPORT NAVY STATION

WASHINGTON, March 9.--Concentra-
uon at the Hampton Roads, Va. naval
base of all naval training now done on
the Atlantic coast and the abandonment
of the Newport, r. L., station in the
interest of economy was urged by Sec
retary DENLY to-day before the Senate
Naval Committee.
He told the committe that enlistments
of approximately $4,000 men were ex-
pected in the fiscal year 1923, due 10
changes in terms of service due to the
war. He added this estimate was based
on a navy of $4,000 men.
Discussing further the concentration
OF the training work at Hampton Roads
Mr. DENLY told the committee that ia
cilities already exist there for the train
ing Of about 10000 men at one time.
while at the Rhode Island station per-
manent arrangements are available only
for $500 men. He further asserted that
while temporary quarters We're built at
Newport during the war to care for
$500 additional. no valid reason existed
for the Government paying two sets of
overhead expenses.
Mr.. DENLY said, in reply to questions.
that the department. however had no
thought OF the transfer of the naval
war college from Newport.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
Medical Corps Post
Again Opposes Bonus

@ADUCEUS POST. NO. SIS, of
the American Legion, on
whose membership rolls ap-
pear the names of more than 500
prominent physicians. surgeons and
dentists who served in the Medical
Corps of the army and the navy
during the war, at a meeting in the
New York Athletic Club last eve-
ming voted unanimously in opposi-
ton to any payment of cash bonus
or adjusted compensation to able
bodied ex-service men. This was
the second time within two years
the post has indicated opposition
to the cash features of the bonus
program OF the national organiza-
ton. The action last night was in
the reaffirmatiop of a resolution
which the post passed June 10,
1920.
George Brokaw Compton, who
resigned two years ago as chair
man of the New York county COM
mittee because of his opposition to
the bonus stand at that time, and
Irwin /. Rackoff. commander of the
Murray Hill Post and representing
State headquarters of the Legion,
presented arguments against and
in favor Of the bonus program of
the Legion.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
FORDNEY WILL RUSH
VOTE ON BONUS BILL
To Pass 1t, He Says, for 'Hu-
manifarian Reasons

CHICAGO, March g.--Declaration that
the soldiers bonus would be passed for
Humanitarian reasons and not az a
political measure was made BY Joseph
W. Fordney, chairman OF the House
Ways and Means Committee. In a speech
before a meeting OF the American
Wholesale Lumber Association to-day.
I'VE are going TO report the bill sat
urday morning, ask for a suspension of
the House rules on Monday morning and
rush It through before everything eIse,"
he said.
The bonus bill as we have II now
will pay the soldier 81 a day for five
hundred days Of home service or sf.25
day for five hundred days OF overseas
service. lie also can receive twenty
year paid up insurance policy on which
he can borrow so per cert. OF his COM
pensation from a bank.
During the war while these boys
were overseas $500 strikes werc carried
on. They were striking for shorter
hours and more pay, and they were do
Ing Il 50 successfully that up to Novcm-
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
WOMEN CLUB LEADERS
BACK BIRTH CONTROL
rs in Brooklyn Sign Call to
Coming Rally.

Twenty-slx representatives of Brook
lyn womens clubs met at the home
OF Mrs. William III. Greene, 124 Willow
street. yesterday and indorsed the birth
control movement. They signed reso-
luton calling on the leaders of religious
thought Of all denominations TO hear
Mrs. Mary Ware bennett director of the
Voluntary Parenthood League, speak on
the question at a meeting 90 be held
soon.
The women were not acting in an
official capacity. 1t Is understood that
tley will report back 60 their organlza-
tons the results Of the meeting. Mrs.
l.. v. y. Cameron and Mrs. Millard +.
Johnson were the chairmen OF the meet
ing and Mrs. bennett was che only
speaker.
Among the signers of the resolution
we're Mrs. William r. Earle. Mrs. Horace
Lockwood, Mrs. Harvey I. White. Mrs
Samuel Cox Hooker. Mrs. Edwin Moore
Cragin Mrs. George p. Chappell. Mrs
r. Mortimer Lloyd. Mrs. r. c. Talbot
Perkins, Mrs. Millard Il. Johnson. Mrs
Susan G. Davenport, Mrs. George Llewel-
lyn and Mrs. A. l.. Macdonald.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
DEFEATS BILL TO END
EVOLUTION TEACHING
Kentucky House Decides IL
Doesn't Make Infidels.

FRANKFORT. Ky. March 9.--The KEN
lucky House late to-day defeated tho
Ellis evolution bin by a vote of AZ to al
The vote came after five hours Of de-
bate, in which opponents pleaded with
the House not TO bring about q return
Of intolerance" and proponents charged
that students were being turned into
infidels and agnostlcs" by the teaching
Of evolution at the University OF KEN
lucky.
When the first roll call was com.
pleted only 3S had voted for tho bill
This was two less than tho number re :
quired for passage Then began "a
scramble In which missing members
were rounded un. The second vote rc.
suited in y tie, fi TO a. Bruce Cundiff.
who said he was against the bill because
he felt u was an infringement on per-
sonal liberty. had declined 10 vote. He
finally was induced 10 vote against IL.
his ballot defeating the bill
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
Dry Amendment at Last
Ratified by New Jersey

IT RENTON, March 9.-The As
sembly to-day, 33 to "a,
passed the. Senate resolu-
ton for the ratification by New
Jersey of tie Federal Prohibition
Amendment. This action makes
New Jersey, which in two success
sive Legislatures had failed to
ratify. the forty-sixth State adopt
ing the amendment. Connecticut
and Rhode Island are the only
States that have failed to ratify.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10
sLAyER's SANITY TESTED.

Sing Sing attendants reported yester.
day that alieniets have found Lawrence
Kubal sane and James Kelley insane
Both are in the death house Kelley
killed his wife at jamestown. ". Y
Kubai was convicted OF Staying Mrs
Minnie Bartlett, wealthy widow, al
West Hampstead. T.. T.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10

The "HERD BOOK NORMANn" Society
IL showing at the GRAND pABAIS In Paris
a herd OF PEDIGREE BOVINE STOCK for
breeding, and II constitutes one of the main
features Of the Agricultural Exposition. Vie
itors crowd IN front OF the representatives
Of this splendid Norman breed, whose quail
Ties unite for the production OF BUTTER,
MILK and MEAT. -ddu.
The New York herald., 1922-03-10

Der II. 1918, not single American shell
had been fired during the war.
You men sitting before me cheered
them madly and marched with them to
the depot-and you didn't get a damn
step further. Suppose Germany had
won won the war. What do you think
your taxes would have been? They
would have been twenty times more
than the bonus. During the war the
Ways and Means Committee authorized
the issuance of more than S51 900, ,000.-
900 worth Of bonds. Up to that time,
since the founding of this Government,
we had spent only $4,000. 100000
The New York herald., 1922-03-10

FOUND ANYTHING?
n so, sec M II II advertised IN the Lost and
Found COLUMNS Of to.days New York Herald.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-05-11
WALLACE REID AT
LIBERTY TONIGHT

Wallace Reds new photoplay, "The
Charm School," at the Liberty Thea
ter for tonight, is another big fea.
ture, of the same character as ''The
Dancin' Fool" and other recent light
comedy successes. 1t presents Mr..
Reid at his best as the young prin-
cipal of girls boarding school.
1t debates the age-old question as
to whether woman's business should
be to make herself charming or to
qualify herself for big business and
politics, thus subordinating her femin-
ity to lesser things of life.
1t provides romance a-plenty when
all of the girls of the boarding school
fall in love with the handsome young
principal. 1t is filled with delightful
complications and rapid-fire comedy
situations.
Lila Lee. is the leading woman and
there is an excellent cast of popular
and capable players, including Adele
Harrington, Beulah Bains, Edwin
Stevens, Grace Morse, Patricia Ma
gee, Lincoln Stedman and Kate Ton
cray, not to mention so beautiful
girls. all under 20, who make up the
class OF pupils OF the school, and
who show their skill as dancers, both
Grecian and modern. and as swim
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-05-11
ISLAND FOLKS ARE
PLEASANTLY SURPRISED
AT DANCING PARTY

One of the incest as well as the
largest private dancing parties ever
given on the island was given here
last evening by W. C. Smith of Tread
well. Nothing was left undone by
the host that would add to the
pleasure OF his guests, of whom ap-
proximately $50 were present.
The Natatorium hall, where the
dance was held, still retained the
beautiful decorations and lighting eff
fects that had been put in for the
High School Junior Prom of last
week; the floor, too. was in per
feet condition. At the west end OF
the hall a large letter S filled with
colored lights had been installed in
recognition of Mr.. Smith. j. G. Zim-
norman acted as floor manager.
AT about IL o'clock supper was
announced ready at the Eagles Hall
and from then on until after II
groups left at intervals for the dining
ROOM where fine lunch was served
After being served the guests re-
turned to the hall and the dancing
lasted until after l O'Clock.