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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-12-01

DEATH IN FLAMES
Georgia School House Was
Burned Yesterday
SEARCHING BODIES
One Teacher Seriously Burned
AS Were Also Numycr other
Little Students

ASSOCIATED PreSS DlSpatchl
covington, Ga, November 20.
Two dead and thirty eight
injured was the toll taken in the
burning of the High Point COM
munity school house near here
yesterday afternoon when the
structure in which 80 children
were ensaded in studies, was
destroyed by fire. A careful
check today showed that all the
others had been accounted for
and identified. The dead were
James Steele and the eight year
old SON of Charles Bachelor.
Covington. Ga, November ca
Search among the debris OF the
High Point community school house
near here was continued today for
the bodies of twelve children re-
ported missing following a fire yes
terday afternoon which destroyed
the building and cost the lives of at
least three children, burned fifteen
seriously and injured thirty five,
according to school officials One
teacher was also seriously burned.
The three bodies already recov-
cred from the ruins have not been
identified.
In addition two daughters and a
son, were missing from one family,
three daughters from a second and
three sons from a third. One father
sought his two sons, another. Ills
daughter.
Practically all the children, it was
said.- most seriously burned are
under ten years of age. Two Of
those who are believed to have lost
their lives were eight years old
Started From Stove.
When the fire, which is believed
to have started from an overheated
stove, was discovered the hall way
was in flames and the stairs had al
ready crumbled, blocking the only
door to the second floor room in
which were forty children.
Mrs. Oscar Grant, the teacher,
ordered the children to line Up and
Began dropping them TO the ground,
thirty feet below, her own child
among them. The flames entered
che room and engulfed the teacher
and three remaining children.
Mrs. Grant said she tried to save
the children but failed. When SHIT
jumped her clothing was in flames.
She was seriously injured.
The school house was two story
frame building. Authorities say the
building had been condemned as a
fire trap more than year ago and
funds mad been provided for a new
fire proof building. The erection of
the new school was delayed because
of a dissension among residents as
to its location.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

reception forbade her making the diff
cult and hurried journey to New York.
The letter continued with an EXPIRES
sion of her belief in poiitica! work for
women and party loyalty. 1t said in
part:
From point Of view much wider
than that which embraces merely party
considerations there is utmost need for
effective and unremittlng effort at or
ganization, education. and civic train
ing among women. They have come
suddenly into mighty Responsibility
for the national interest. 1t is re-
sponsibility which must be discharged d
i'll larger than merely partisan way
and yet that, | feel very sure is best
to be dealt with through the instru-
ments of party loyalty, conviction and
devotion. If ! did not feel that the ia.
tlon could, and in the long run must,
be served best through parties should
not he partisan Republican. But 7
DO feel this and therefore am convinced
that the maintenance Of effective party
organization and unremitting work IS q
duty second to none.
These arc times when the tendency
Continued on nsxt paqc)
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Pact Pledges
British Aid
To Bel ggium
Premiers Agree ON Defen-
sive Treaty, but Sign
ing Depends on Anglo
French Developments

PARIS, Jan. IA (By The Associated
Press).-Forcign Minister Jaspar Of
Belgium announced this evening a ten
tative agreement for a British Belgian
pact in which Great Britain promises
her aid to the full against an attack
upon Belgium or the violation of her
territory.
The announcement came from M. JAS
par in an interview he and Premier
Theunis gave to the correspondents on
the train en- route from Cannes to Paris.
M. Jaspar said the draft of the pact
had been completed and that the terms
agreed upon required the approval Of
the British and Belgian Cabinets
NJ; Jaspar said the pact also was de-
pendent upon the consummation of the
Franco British agreement. "Geographi
cally, we are SO close to France that
her interests are ours" he said
'In the Broadcast Sense"
This treaty" added the Foreign
Minister, will bring us the aid of Great
britain in all her power in case of ag-
eression against Belgium or if our
territory is violated by foreign
power"
Questioned as to what he meant by
a foreign power" Mr.. Jaspar replied
that term was to be taken ain the
broadest sense"
The negotiations, which had been
reported previously to have resulted in
only a general outline being orked
out, were conducted with Lord Nurzon
British Secretary for Foreign Affairs
and Premier Lloyd George. and also
with Premier BRAND of France. M
Jaspar said.
Finances Are Eased
Premier Theunis, who also is Belgian
Minister of Finance, said that the
finances of Belgium had been eased b,
All agreement reached with Sir Robert
Horne, British Chancellor of the Ex.
chequer, that Great Britain would not
exercise her rights over. reparation
funds paid to Belgium, pledged by BEL
gium as a guaranty for loans after the
armistice. M. Theunis said other
reparation funds had been pledged also
for certain American loans and he
hoped Great Britan's action relin-
gushing her rights would come to the
attention of the Americans
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Brooklyn Thief
DrugsCouple in
'Heig igghts' Home
Heirloom Ring With Cluster
of Seven Diamonds in
Loot Taken From Apart
ment of Ripley Hitchcock
Chloroform Fills Room
Intruder, Who Forces Win.
dow, Frightened by DOG
and Overlooks Jewelrv

Mr.. and Mrs. Ripley Hitchcock jr., Of
l79 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn. we're
ch!oroformcd while asleep early Fri
day morning by thief who entered
their apartment through front win
dow. Jewelry valued at $500 and cur
rency were stolen The robbery was
revealed by the police yesterday.
The Hitchcock apartment is on the
second floor. Footprints were found or
the window sill by detectives
Mr.. and Mrs. Hitchcock were awak-
cned at O'Clock Friday morning by an
alarm clock. The room was filled with
the odor of chlorCform, and both were
aware of the effects of the drug. The
bedroom had been ransacked and an
investigation showed the jewelry to be
missing. wallet, from which bills
had been taken was upon the floor
Mr.. Hitchcock said that the burglar
took a green gold bar pin set with dia =
monds, Mrs. Hitchcocks eng cement
ring, which contained seven diamonds
in cluster and which was an heirloom
from Mr.. Hitchcock's mother, a wrist
watch and a mans watch.
Other articles Of jewelry in the room
were IOt SIOleH III is DcllcVeQ tnat the
intruder was frightened away by the
barking of the dog belonging to the
superintendent Of the apartment house.
Neither Mrs. Hitchcock nor her hus-
band heard Il sound during the night, it
was said.
Mr. Hitchcock is clerk for the Fifth
Avenue Bank. His father, who died in
May, 1918, was a noted editor, author
and critic associated with Harper
& Bros. Mr.. Hitchcock was gradu-
ated from Harvard, and saw service in
the war. His brother, Roger Hitch
cock, won dist notion in France
through his operation of bombing
plane.
Mrs. Hitchcock formerly was Miss
Helena Roosevelt Bleecker daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony James Bleecker,
of Englewood, N. j. She served as a
Red Cross nurse Iuring the war. She
was married to Mr.. Hitchcock at the
Church of the Atonement in Tenaf1y,
N. j.. October last.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Rates Increased SOP. C.
On Hold-Up Insurance
Crime Wave Responsible for
Raise Over Country of From
sd. 10 SO for 1000

u. L. Cluff. president of the Burglary
Insurance Underwriters Association,
has informed all the member compa-.
nies that the nationwide activities of
hold-up men have made it necessary to
increase the rates so per cent on per-
sonal hold-up policies.
The rate Of 81. per $1,000 fer insur,,
"~eir-t thefts NV pickpockets and
bandits when in public places has
+. raised 20 50. Personal hold~up
policies without residence policies,
which are now $40 per $1,000, will be
raised to SIS.
These new rates are effective all over
the country and, according to Mr.. Cuff,
the crime wave is by no means re-
stricted to New York. Where COM
panies have been paying. up to 40 per
cent of the policies issued, the losses
in the last year have aggregated 60 per
cent in many cases. The new rates will
90 into effect on February l.. Renewals
will be affected beginning March l.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
China to Make
U. S. Sponsor
On 2l Demands
DR.. Wang Issues Statement
Holding Rights of Other
Powers Are Involved in
Rules Japanese Impose
American Notes Cited
State Department Is Shown
to Oppose Claims Made
by Toxic, He Contends
By Thomas Steep

WASHINGTON. Jan. 14.-An attempt
to place responsibility for the fate Of
the twenty-onc demands at the hands
of the armament limitation conference
on the United States will be made by
China. This was indicated to-day by
Dr.. Wang Chung Hui, chief justice of
the Chinese Supreme Court, who made
public China's argument to combat
Japan's refusal to have the demands
reviewed by the conference. The prob
lem promises to develop one of the
most bitterly fought issues before the
committee on Pacific and Far Eastern
questions.
China's plea for the abrogation of
the demands, which she contends vlo-
late her administrative economy. will
depend upon the committees attitude
Mr.. Hanihara, the Japanese Vice For
eign Minister, has declared that the
demands, which give the Mikado's gov
ernment exclusive privileges in Man
churia, Mongolia and interior China,
are a closed incident. That this is
not the view of the United States was
intimated strongly to-day by the
spokesman for the American delcga-
ton.
Other Powers Concerned
DR.. Wang cited various diplomatic
notes from the American government
as showing that the demands imposed
in 1915 do not concern China and Japan
alone, as Mr.. Hanihara contends The
Chinese delegation has asserted that
grave consequences would follow the
conferences failure to consider the de-
mands.
ut cannot be denied that the twenty
one demands affect not only the indc-
pendence and integrity of China, but
also her obligations toward other pow
ers, said DR.. Wang in formal state
ment of Chinas position. "Further-
and interests enjoyed by the foreign
powers having treaty relations with
China.
ut was for these reasons that the
United States, during the negotiations
of the twenty-one demands, not only
declared that she would not surrender
any of her treaty rights in China, but
also formally protested against their
possible infringement. On May 7, 1915,
the United States in a statement to the
public declared:
This government has not only had
no thought of surrcndering any of its
treaty rights with China, but it has
never been asked by either Japan or
China to make any surrender of these
rights In the formal protest lodged
with both China and Japan the United
States declared: 1T cannot recognize
any agreement or undertaking which
has been entered into or which may be
entered into, between the governments
of China and Japan impairing the
treaty rights of the United States and
its citizens in China, the political or
territorial integrity of the Republic Of
China, or the international policy, COM
monty known as the open door policy
And it was for the same reasons that
China, upon the conclusion Of the ne
gotiaton, formally protested against
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New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
MRS. Harding Calls on Women
10 Serre Nation THROUGH Pnrt>,
l>a''onal "a Republican Club Receives What Is
p pe"eved Io Be First Political Document
'' issued ny the Wife of a President

"A letter from Mrs. Warren G u.r
o'ng' in which she urged the women
oi inc country to party loyalty CON
V'etion and devotion" opened tho
luncheon of the Womcn's National pc
puoacan Club at the Biltmore vcstor
day. sN''e'
ms letter is believed to be the fret
p4f,''eal w;f" al document ever issued by the
States. VI 'he united
v;sl Mrs; Calvin Coolidge. wife of the
slce-fre esident, represented Mrs uar- s,.
aing. She was given warm GREETING
m out she merely bowed and declined to +
make a speech. Mrs Coolidge was the
guest of Miss Laura Skinner, 20 East
siSty-ninth Street, last night
MRS. Arthur l.. Livcrmorc. president
OF the club, presided. and after intro
uuc'ng Mrs. Coolidge she announced
mat Mrs: John T. Pratt, chairman Of
the luncheon committee. would read
the letter from Mrs. Harding. 1t onennS
with an expression Of regret from the
mistress of the White House. saving
that fatigue following the diplomats
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
$26O,OO0Drugs gs
Found i'm Olive
Casks ON Ship
Custom House Caugers Dis
cover Biggest Haul Ever
Made ON New York Docks
in Constantinople's Hold
Cocaine OH Another Craft
Members of Mount Clay's
Grew Arrested as Mar
cotics Are Uneartlled

Narcotic drugs estimated to be worth
between $3.50 900 and $5OO,0OO were
found by customs agents yesterday
immersed in five casks of olives
aboard the Greek steamship CONSTANT
nople at Pier %, Brooklyn The
seizure is the largest ever reported
along the New York docks.
The seizure was taken to the Gus
tom House yesterday afternoon for
invoice and it was found that the five
casks, purportng to be shipment If
olives from Genoa, Italy, yielded 1900
cans of narcotics containing 12.70O
ounces, worth at least $50 an ounce at
street vending prices.
No arrests were made in tho case,
which was reported to Narcotic Dirccto
Ralph Oylcr for investigation. The
customs department absolves officers
Of the ship and shipping company and
charges that the smuggling Of the
drugs is the result Of a conspiracy be-
tween members of the ships crew and
conspirators on shore on both sides of
the Atlantic.
Cache Found by Gaugers
The discovery Of the drugs, not
an ounce OF which was declared. was
made by gaugers inspecting the ship
ment. The gaugers were poking abou.
gauges encountered cans submerged in
the olives and brine. These cans,
which were made moisture proof by
strips of oil tape wrapped about the
eams, were piled one on top of the
other in the casks and then covered
with the olives and brine.
In one cask there we're 800 cans,
in another 1.750 and in third LOO
Each can contained from two to five
ounces of drugs. The greater part was
cocaine of high grade, believed to be
of the newly discovered synthetic
manufacture. This product fails to re-
spond to the regular cocaine reagents
used by government chemists, but has
all the effects Of cocaine manufactured
from coca leaves. Morphine also was
found in the shipment.
ting a few thousand dollars worth of
drugs was maze on the steamship
Mount Clay at Pier SO, North River.
Two Of Crew Arrested
Customs officers here arrested Mi
chae Bozinch, a cooper, and Juan Bel
dram, a water tender. They were
charged with being concerned in a con-
spiracy to defraud the government
through the smuggling of cocaine into
the United States. United States Com
missioner Samuel M. Hitchcock held
both in the sum Of $4,000.
United States District Attorney John
M. Ryan said that Beldram last night
tried to smuggle nine bottles from a
shipment of cocaine from the Mount
Clay to the shore. He was arrested in
the act Of carrying drugs worth $3.50
by Customs Guard William E. Florence
jr., who seized the drugs. The pris-
oner said he was acting in conjunction
with Bozinch, SO Bozinch, too, was ar
rested. The ship was then searched
and more of the drug was found in a
clothes chest.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Dies After He Puts an
Entire Steak Into Mouth
,.s,rong Mans" Playfulness in
! Second Avenue Restaurant
Costs Him His Life

Diners IN the restaurant of Morris
:, tl,i~lmowltz, at Ninety-ninth Street and
Second Avenue, were thrown into con-
losion last night when March Miller,
OF sel First Avenue. who was known
a. the strong man of Rumania, walked
n' ne ploce and picked large steak
from the plate of patron
hen the diner, who was one of a
party of four men. protested, Miller
put the whole steak into his mouth. A
moment after attempting to swallow it,
ne dropped to the floor, where he rolled
about in agony. A call was sent for an
ambulance. Before it arrived, however
second man, who said he was Miler's
son son, entered and took him to a taxi
lhey drove to Mount Sinai Hospital,
"here Miller was pronounced dead.
Halmowitz said he thought that Mil
lrr r,l was under the influence of liquor.
The police have reported his death as
"suspicious."
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Chemist Is Sent to Jail
To Save German Secrets
Man Accused of Plot to Reveal
Dye Formula to u. S. Given
Nine Months Sentence

FRANKFORT, Germany, Jan. ID (By
The Associated Press).-Dr. Paul
Kappelmeier, chemist, formerly en-
ployed by the Rochester Dye Works.
has been given nine months jail
sentence and fined $4,000 marks for
attempted betrayal and sale of labora-
tory secrets to an American dye con-
cern. Two colleagues. alleged to have
been implicated in the plot, succeeded
in getting into Holland, where, it is
said, they subsequently were en-
ployed by an American firm, although
their trunk containing pharmaceutical
recipes and dye formula, was inter-
cepted at the Dutch frontier and re-
turned to the German company.
In pronouncing the verdict on
Kappelmeier the court accused him of
"contemptible double dealing" and
declared that timely intervention by
the authorities had saved the Ger
man chemical industry from serious
injury
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Harding Sends His Shoes
To Cobbler in E1nporia
kansan, Who Does Students
Work, to Give President New
Heels and Half SOles

Special Dispatch to The Tribune
EMPORIA, Kan, Jan. 14.-Next week
will be an important one in the life
of E. A. Spady, cobbler, who repairs
shoes for students in little shop near
the Kansas State Normal. Somewhere
between Washington and Empcria is a
bundle of shoes which President Har-
ding has sent to Emporia for Spady
to repair.
The President heard of Spady' s
reputation as an expert shoe repairer.
Homer Hoch, Congressman from the
4th Kansas District, told the Presi-
dent of Spady's ability. Spady formerly
lived in Marion. Ohio, the Presidents
home town.
81 don't care whether President Har-
ding pays me cent for the work, "
Spady said to-day. II only want to
show him that he can get as good work
done in Emporia a anywhere
Spady says he will put heels and
half soles on the Presidents shoes
that will last as long as the uppers.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
snecial pispatch to The Tribune

CHICAGO, Jan. IA Mrs. Edith
Rockefeller Mccormick will pay her
former husband, Harold F. Mccormick,
exactly 81 sos, 1850 for his real and
personal interests" in the palatial Lake
Forest home.
Mrs. Mccormick will not come into
actual possession of the home until
Monday. There are legal matters yet
to be settled. Mrs. Mccormick will not
pay the money all at once, it is under
stood, but by ceries of notes.
This brings to an end the post di-
vorcc settlement of the McCormicks.
Mrs. Mccormick already has acquired
the home at 1000 Lake Shore Drive.
The Lake Forest villa, MAGNIFICENT
place. cost between S5,000,00O and
$7,UoO,o00.
Psychological SURGERY" whereby
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Mrs. Mccormick to Teach Soul
SURGERY at Lake Forest Palace

minds are freed of unhealthy obses-
sions, is to be taught intensively at the
Lake Forest estate. Mrs. Mccormick
herself is to be the head of the school.
AS the most adept pupil of DR.. Carl
Jung, Dr.. Sigmund Freuds associate,
Mrs. Mccormick devoted eight years to
the study Of psycho-analysis and syn
thetic psychology. She intends train
ing others.
Psychologists studying at the Lake
Forest school will proceed on the as
sumption that most human troubles
physical and social, as we'll as mental
are caused by psychological disor
ders. They will become Surgeons of
SOULS" with the removal Of mental
disorders as their aim.
First steps toward establishment OF
the school have been taken. Mrs. Nc
Cormick has discharged all Of Mr.. Nc
Cormfck's servants and put in staff
Of her own.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
German War Criminals Shielded;
Surrender to Allies Is Urged

PARIS, Jan. IA (By The Associated
Press).-Surrender of the Germans
charged with offenses in connection
with the war to the Allies for trial is
recommended in two resolutions adopt
ed by the inter-Allied Commission on
War Crimes, made public to-day.
The resolutions we're adopted by the
commission at its sessions held here
or January 6 and 7, in accordance with
instructions from the Allied Supreme
Council last August.
The commissions first resolution
finds the conduct of the recent trials at
Leipsic unsatisfactory, except for few
cases, and that the procedure Of the
trials was not such as to elicit the
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

truth. There were acquittals where
there should have been convictions, and
light sentences instead of heavy, the
resolution says.
The second resolution holds it use
less to submit further cases for trial
by the Leipsic court. and recommends
giving effect to Article % of the Treaty
of Versailles, providing for Germany's
surrender to the Allies of any identi-
fed persons charged with war offenses
for trial by the Allies.
The two resolutions, adopted dNnnani-
mously by the commission, were trans
lnitted to the Cannes conference of the
Supreme Council for consideration, but
they were not acted upon. because Of
the Councils premature dissolution.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
[ 'Oincare Holds British
Treaty Is Unacceptable,
Bars Russians at Genoa
Personnel Of French
Cabinet Under POincare

PARIS, Jan. Is (By The Asso-
ciated Press Raymond Poin-
care tonight announced his Cabi-
net had been formed as follows:
Premier and Minister of For
eign Atfairs-M. Poincarc.
Justice and Alsace- Lorraine
Louis Barthou.
Interior Manoury.
Finance-Charlcs de Lasteyrie.
War and Pensions - Andre
Baginot
Marinc-M. Raiberti.
Agriculture-Adolphc Cheron.
Labor-Alexandre Berard.
Instructions-Leon Berard.
Colonies-Albert Sarraut.
Public Works--M. LIE Trocquer.
Commerce-Lucien Dior.
Liberated Regions--M. Rebel.
The first meeting of the min
istries will be held at NJ. Poin-
cares home at 8 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
100, 600 Armenians Seek
To Get Out of. Turkey
Cardinal Mcrcier Calls Upon
League to Furnish Ships for
Those Desiring 10 Leave

GENEVA, Jan. IA (By The Asso-
ciated Press Paul Hymans, presi-
dent of the Council of the League Of
Nations, presented to the Council to-
day telegram which Cardinal Mercier,
Primate of Belgium, had received from
the Protestant community and the
Armenian Catholic /Patriarchate of
Constantinople, stating that the entire
Armenian population had decided to
evacuate the country. The telegram
urgently appealed for vessels to trans
port 10000 persons. ss
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Croker Suffers Relapse;
Condition Alarms Wife
All Visitors, Except Few Close
Friends, Are Excluded; Ply
sicians in Attendance
Special Gable to The Tribune

Copyright, 1922, New York Tribune Inc,
DUBLIN, Jan. 14.-Richard Croker,
former Tammany leader in New York,
who is seriously i'll, had another sink
ing spell to-day, but hopes are still
entertained for his recovery. The first
relapse came a week ago.
The ex-cheftain has been i'll for
more than two months. Under the
care daily Of two physicians, he
seemed to gain ground steadily before
and friends decreased somewhat until
the serious turn of the last few days.
For more than a week Mr.. Croker
has been unable to see any one except
his wife and one or two intimate
friends, and even these only for a few
minutes at time.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Villagers All Vaccinated
Inside Barbed Wire Lines
Armed Guards Keep People of
Smallpox-Ridden Oklahoma
Towns Within Rarr;ers

FORT SMITH, Ark, Jan. 14.-Barbed
wire entanglements guarded by armed
men have been placed across highways
leading to Poleaux, Heavener and Wis
ter Okla. according to advices received
mere to-day in connection with the
smallpox epidemic. Compulsory vac
cination is in force in the three towns.
IhSee deaths, making a total of ten.
FeSe reported in Poleaux yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

Collins Nominal Head
DUBLIN, Jan. ia By The Associated
Press) First on the list of eight men
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