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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
Germans Are Still Considering
Their Reply to the Note of -
the Big and Little
Entente
tRY LIZ AssoeIated Pressl

GENOA, April 20-The economic con-
ference was tonight without a definite
settlement of the Russo-German incident
after day given over to private con-
versations. conference between the Ger
mans and Russians and all sorts of en-
tentes. and a great assembly of the
worlds press, called by Premier Lloyd
George, who addressed the newspaper
representatives of forty nations and an
nounced that the Germans would accept
the conditions imposed by the allies and
that the Russian attitude toward the
London experts report would be such
that further negotiations would be pos
sible.
After Mr.. Lloyd George had made his
statement, the Germans announced that
they were still considering their reply to
the note Of the big and little entente,
denying them admission to discussions OF
the Russian question unless the Russo
German treaty was rescinded. or at least
amended and approved by the conference.
The Germans are said to be divided In
their delegation, this is the reason for
their delay in coming to a decision for
submission to the allies. The Russians
also have withheld official publication of
their reply to the London experts re-
port, which had been promised for today.
In short the day closed with no definite
advance over the position Of the previous
day, but with general feeling that the
Germans will take an attitude which will
make the situation easier and pave the
way for a conference agreement on the
Russian problem.
One of the italian delegates said the
German answer was expected Friday
morning at which time Signor Schanzer,
the italian foreign minister, would con-
vene a meeting of the allies, together
with Rumania, Poland. Switzerland and
Sweden, for an exchange Of ideas on the
Russian reply. which may have been de-
llvered by them
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
ONE DAY STRIKE
BEING PLANNED
Labor Party and Trades Union
Congress in Dublin Demands
Dali to Assert Authority.
(ey The Associates Prsaa)

DUBLIN, April 20.-A manifesto IS
sued this evening by the labor party
and the trades union congress calls for
a one-day strike and demands that
the Dali Eireann assert its authority,
reunite the army under a single COM
mand and accept the responsibility OF
government or confess its impotence
and make way for the people to decide
the issues. -
The manifesto says the lord mayor
and the archbishop of Dublin have
been requested to invite the repre-
sentatives of the executive council OF
the dissident section of the army Chat
headed by Roderick Roy O'Connor) to
the adjourned session of the peace
conference between representatives OF
the free state and the republicans
next Wednesday.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
tny rhe AssoeIated prs,.,

WASHINGTON, April 2o-Ceremonies
at the tomb OF Washington, with Marshal
and Nine. Joffre and their daughter the
guests OF honor, were held today by the
daughters of the American Revolution,
who are holding their annual congress
mere. Marshal Joffre assisted .Anlbassa-
dor Jusserand of France in planting in
the grounds of Mt. Vernon a tree from
LaGrange Castle, the home in France of
Lafayette, and he also plnced a wreath
on the tomb.
another wreath was placed on behalf
OF the British embassy and Mrs. George
Maynard Minor, president general placed
wreaths on the tomb of Washington and
his wife, on behalf of the organization.
A tree from Sulgrave Manor, the ances-
tral home Of the Washingtons in Eng
land. also was planted in the grounds by
Major General Bethel of the British en-
bassy as gift from Great Britain
Mrs. Eleanor Washington Howard, the
last of the Warrington family to be born
at Mt. Vernon, also took part in the
ceremonies.
The Daughters of the American Revo-
luton were urged in an address by DR..
/. S. Howe, director general of the Pan
American unions tonight ito develop a
spirit of solidarity and community of In
terest with similar organizations through
out the American continents
THE great heroines of the Revolution
ary period in Central and South Amer
ica," he declared stand forth as ex-
amples which have been an inspiration
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
WOULD NOT HAVE
BURGLARS IF NO
MARKET FOR LOOT
Crime Wave" of New York Is
Discussed by District Attor-
ney Before Rotarians.
NEW JERSEY JURORS
BREAKING RECORDS
One Verdict Reached in Four
Minutes and Another in
Fraction Over a Minute.
(ay rhe AssoeIated pr.s,l

NEW YORK, April 2O.-The first
| ''crime wave" occurred in the Garden
| of Eden, District Attorney Banton de-
clared In an address today before the
Rotary club. His only hope in con-
nection was that he would be able to
obtain as high a percentage Of pun
ishment as that recorded in the Bible,
he said.
"The first crime wave" said Mr..
Banton, was universal. Eve stole the
apple and Adam was a receiver Of
stolen property. In that particular in
stance 1t was a case of 100 per cent
conviction and 100 per cent punish
ment. That is the mark 1 am aiming
at and won't be satisfied until 1 get
very near it.
I'VE wouldn't have thieves, robbers
or burglars" he said, "ff there was no
market for their loot"
Discussing the alleged crime wave"
in New York, Mr.. Banton said New
York in 1921 ranked twenty-fifth in
the proportion Of crimes to population
But that is not good enough for
New York." he added. 'SThose who
have been caught are going to pay
for it, and those who haven't been
are going to get them. Our system will
be to try them within three days
before any one has time 10 tamper
with the Witnesses
Mr.. Banton repeated his plea for
passage of a blue sky law providing
for the licensing OF stock brokers'.
"Can any one tell me-" he demand
ed, why there should be any more
sanctity for these thieves who take
your money in confidence than there
should be about your banks and in
surance companies, which are regu-
lated by law?"
Imbued with the spirit Of speed
which Mr.. Banton and the various
judges have been seeking to inject into
criminal trials, jurors began breaking
records today.
A judge in one court returned a first
degree robbery verdict against Peter
ODonnell of Long Branch, n. J., in
just four minutes. ODonnell, with
Jesse Tuby, held up and robbed a
ticket agent of the Clyde steamship
line of $544 last September.
The four-minute record stood only
a short time, however, as another juror
hurried in with a verdict of first de-
gree robbery against Joseph Fradon-
I'LL seaman in a few seconds over one
minute. He and another seaman beat
and robber william Slattery of $33
on February 10.
Arrests were not so numerous today
but one new brand of robber, known
as the "masher thief'' appeared in the
list
Samuel Stein, was held in $1,000
bail on complaint of Esther Horne.
who charged he stole a $3.50 diamond
ring while holding hands with her in
a darkened moving picture theatre.
Then he directed his attention to a
pocket in her skirt, she said. removing
a pocketbook containing $240, after
which he slipped away while she was
watching the picture and before she
realized her losses.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
(sy The. AssocIated Press)

WASHINGTON April 20.-The AM
ericar relief administration now has
Russian famine under control in all
the accessible districts, former Gov
[ernor Goodrich Of Indiana declared to-
day after comforting with President
Harding and Secretary Hoover upon
his recent investigation of conditions
in Russia.
Mortality among children has been
reduced to normal, he reported, and
deaths from acute starvation among
adults. are rapidly diminishing while
the morale of the people in the famine
districts has shown an extraordinary
change for the better.
Control of the Russian famine until
the next harvest. Governor Goodrich
asserted, was purely a question of
railway transportation, the "degenerat-
ed administration and equipment of
the railways, giving no certainty as
to the continued movement of supplies
He declared there were enough sup
plies on the way to Russia or storeG
in ports to control the situation until
harvest IL they could be delivered to
the famine regions, but added that con-
gestion at junction points, where as
many as so trains have been stalled for
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
TWO men TAKEN IN
BIRMINGHAM AFTER
BATTLE BY POLICE
Believed by Authorities to Have
Shot Policeman Earlier
in the Day.
THIRD MAN IN FIGHT
MANAGED TO ESCAPE
One of the Men Captured Posi-
lively Identified by Member
of Police Force.
lex The AssoeIated Press)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 20.-Fol-
lowing a gun battle today police, led
by Chief Fred .McDuff. captured two
OF three men who are believed by the
authorities to have shot Policeman S.
8. Crabtree; early today. The third
man escaped.
Claude Wilson of Atlanta, one of the
captured men. was shot once through
the breast, He was taken to hos
pital in a serious condition.
The other man taken prisoner,
Charles Wilkes who, officers say,
broke Jail in Roanoke, Va, June 81,
1921, where he was sentenced to S5
years in the penitentiary for burglary
and having burglar tools in his pos
session. He is in the city jail on a
charge of assault with intent to mur-
der.
Police A. L. Appling, who was work
ing with Officer Crabtree at the time
he was arrested, positively identified
Wilson tonight as one of three men
whom he and his partner attempted to
arrest He was not so sure about
Wilkes, but said he wore the same kind
of suit as one OF the three men.
When the posse ran across the men
both sides opened fire. Chief McDuff
and one or two of his officers were
equipped with. rifles and one of the
bullets struck Wilson.
The third man, who is believed to
have fired the shot that struck Crab
tree, darted across the creek into a
clump OF bushes and escaped. He
wore a light suit of clothes and a cap.
He was also distinguished by chubby
mustache.
Bloodhounds were placed on his
trail tonight. He was going in the
general direction of Bessemer The
Bessemer police were notified and a
squad of officers from the Birming-
ham office continued, on the lookout
for him.
When first arrested, Wilkes gave his
name as Walker and his home as Ring
gold, Ca He denied being connected
with the shooting Of Crabtree.
Comparison of his finger prints with
the records established that he was
an escape from Roanoke. Officers say
they are convinced. He was being
held in the city jail there pending the
outcome OF an appeal to the supreme
court.
Wilson refused to say a word about
his alleged part in the shooting Of the
officer ''I don't have to make a state
nent," he told the officers. Police
man Crabtree was shot once above the
heart about o'clock this morning
when he and Policeman A. L. Appling
stopped three men in the vicinity of
Eairxria auy tn Investigate a hundle car
ried by one of them. The men showed
fight and in the ensuing scuffle Crab
tree was shot. Several shots were
fired at Policeman Appling but he
escaped .uninjured.
The package which one Of the men
carried contained a full equipment Of
burglar tools and a supply of soap,
according to officers who believed they
were preparing to crack a safe. at the
time.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
MIDDLE WEST DEMAND OUTLET FOR FOREIGN TRADE THROUGH
GULF PORTS IN EXCHANGE FOR SUPPORT SHIP SUBSIDY PROJECT
RUSSIAN FAMINE IS NOW UNDER
CONTROL BY AMERICAN RELIEF
ADMINISTRATION IS DECLARED
Former Governor Goodrich of Indiana Says Mortality Among
Children Has Been Reduced to Normal Deaths From
Acute Starvation Rapidly Diminishing.

weeks, threatened the continued move
ments from the ports.
The former governor said there was
every indication that the seed provided
by the American Relief administration
would be sufficient to provide for the
next harvest. He spoke in glowing
terms of the work of the American
staff in the famine districts and de-
clared the members had organized
thousands of committees in the various
communities to a high point of effic-
cheney.
"The gratitude of the Russian peo-
pie towards America is unbounded," !"
Mr.. Goodrich said, 'The word Ara
initials of the American Relief Admin
istration which is the protective sign
on the whole distributive machinery
from cars to warehouses and kitchens
has been embraced as a word in the
Russian language expressing the gen.
erous action of America.
mo doubt poverty will continue in
Russia, more particularly in the cities
and larger towns, for long time to
come, but this great disaster of famine
from drought will have been overcome
after the new harvest in August. Ex-
cept for the amelioration Of enherent
poverty from economic Generalization
the work of the Americans will have
been accomplished"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
FLORIDA TROOPS
GUARD NEGROES
Held in DuvaI County Jail in
Connection With an Attack
on a White Woman.

JACKSONVILLE, April 20-Ap
proxinately 1000 national guardsnen
surrounded the Duval county jail here
tonight to forestaIl any effort at vio-
lence toward seven negroes held in
connection with an attack on white
woman in the Grand Park section of
the city yesterday morning.
The guardsmen were called into
service upon orders Of Governor Har-
dee. who acted in response to appeals
bv Sheriff Merritt of this county. At
the sheriff's office tonight it was said
the request had been made more as
a precautionary move than in antici-
tion of any trouble. Reports had
come to his office, however, he said,
throughout the day that a mob was
Manning to form in that section of
the city in an effort to take the ne
fsroes in hand tonight.
According to the wor1an's story. the
attack occurred when the negro had
asked for food and as she opened the
door to accommodate him. She lay
unconscious for an hour after the at
tack and then crawled to q neighbor. $
house.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
There Must, Be a Reduction of
Costs Within Reach of
the Consumers
POcketbOOks.
tsx Tho Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, April 2o.-Launch-
ing the administration tariff bill today
in the senate, Chairman McCumber of
the finance committee warned manu-
facturers, factory labor, and retail
ers alike, that protective tariff alone
would not bring revival Of business;
that there must be a reduction Of costs
to within the reach Of the consumers
pocket book before there could he a
return to ''old time prosperity
Senator McCumber said the way to
reduce costs was for the manufacturer
and the retailer to be satisfied with
most meagre" profits for a while and
for the factory employees to increase
their efficiency "to the highest possible
degree" In view of the present high
cost of living, he added, it would be
most unjust" for the manufacturer
to begin his economy by cutting wages.
This proposed legislation will open
the way to prosperity in the United
States, but it will not unaided bring
about this result, declared the senator
''The American people must do the
rest, and right here 1 want to say a
word to the American manufacturer
and the American laborer in our fac
tories. This bill is intended TO, and i
believe it will, sufficiently protect your
market against any excessive foreign
invasion, but just remember that over
80 percent of all your products must
be consumed right here at home"
"I think am clearly within the ac-
tual facts when say that two thirds
of the American people, the bread win
ners in the United States, are not re-
cetving an income any greater than
their pre-war income. The net earn
ings of the agricultural class are. on
the whole, below the pre-war income
When we deduct the rents, or in lieu
of rents the added taxes and cost OF
upkeep of the homes Of another one
third of our population who are also
bread winners, it will be found that
their net income is below the pre-war
income.
When I say that these people can
not spend any more than they earn
think / have sufficiently foreshadowed
the necessity on the part Of the manu-
facturers of bringing down the pro-
duction cost Of their commodities to
within the purchasing reach of this
vast army of American farmers and
American wage earners-a reach that
cannot extend one inch beyond the linn
1t OF their earnings.
1--WE have tried TO help bridge this
gulf between the production cost OF
ma anufactured articles and the con-
sumers ability to buy them by doing
what we can to increase the purchas-
ing power Of the latter and 1t is now
up to the manufacturer to do his part
to bring his cost down to meet the
size of the consumers pocketbook.
KNOWING that the principal cost OF
idle mills and idle men is this disparity
between manufacturers cost OF pro-
duction and consumers ability to pay
/ think I can suggest a course that
will do more for our national prosper
itv than can be accomplished by any
Continued on Page y
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
CITY IS DESTROYED
BY BIG EXPLOSION
Hundreds Killed, Thousands In
iured and Many Rendered
Homeless by Disaster.
lRY The AssoeIated Pressl

BELGRADE. April 20-Four hun
dred carloads of ammunition and high
explosives stored near the railroad
station at Monastir. southern Serbia,
exploded Tuesday at noon, killing sew
eral hundred persons, wounding thou
sands and virtually destroying the
heart OF the city One-haR of the
city's population was rendered home
less.
The victims We're mostly children
and soldiers. A church in which the
children were worshipping collapsed
under the detonation, while the bar
racks in which 1900 soldiers were hav-
ing lunch was destroyed
Immediately after the explosion, fire
broke out in various parts of the, city
The panic stricken Inhabitants fed tc
the nearby woods and mountains. from
which they watched their homes burn
All telegraphic and telephone COM
n1unication from Monastir with the
outside world was cut off, The first
news OF the disaster reached Belgrade
from refugees.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
STANDS COLLAPSE
DURING BALL GAME
.250 Persons Thrown to Ground
in Columbia Park Only Is
Injured, None Fatally.
fnu rhe AssoeIated Pressl

COLUMBIA, S. c.. April 2o.-During
Columbia rally in the second inning
of the opening game Of the baseball
season here between Columbia and
Charlotte this afternoon, a section OF
the bIeachers collapsed throwing about
$50 persons to the ground.
Fifteen were taken to a hospital, but
tonight only eight were still under
treatment there and it was said none
is fatally hurt The escape Of 50 many
persons from serious injury is consid-
cred remarkable It is believed that
the most seriously injured may prove
to be man who has probably suffered
a broken shoulder.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
EUROPEAN TREATY
WAS KEPT SECRET
Leaked Out Through Indiscre-
ton of Italians in Whom
Russian Delegates COnfided.
(ey rhe AssoeIated Preasl

BUENOS AIRES, April 20.-The
Russo German treaty originally was
intended to be kept secret, La Nacian' S
Rome correspondent in a dispatch to
his paper today says he has learned
from trustworthy sources. News of
it's signing, he says, leaked out in con-
ference circles through the indiscre-
tion of Italian communists to whom
the Russian delegates to the economic
conference divulged it.
Thereupon, the Germans, in order to
avoid suspicion of a disloyal attitude,
decided it was best to communicate
the treaty officially. .l.
The correspondent names the COM
munist deputies Grziadei and Bonn
bacci are among those to whom the
treaty was confided
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
TREE FROM THE HOME, IN FRANCE
OF LAFAYETTE EISPLANTEDI IN
GROUNDS AT MOUNT VERNON
ana Madame Jore and Their Daughter Guests of Honor
al ceremonies Held at the Tomb of Washington by the
Daughters of the American Revolution

70 the nations of this continent through
the century OF their independence I
look forward TO the time when you-the
proud professor Of an imperishable her
itage--will cooperate effectively and con-
structively with the descendants of those
VINO bore the burden of the struggle in
LATIN America for the perpetuation and
further development of that spirit OF
service for which your organization has
always stood and which is the watch
word of all the Americas"
Mrs. William N. Reynolds of Winston
Salem. N c.. chairman Of the committee
on International relations, in report
today, suggested that France and the
United States join in celebrating Febru-
ary 6th as international day" to COM
memorate the signing of the alliance be-
tween France and America in 1778 and
the signing of the treaties negotiated at
the recent armament conference"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
NO DEFINITE SETTLFMENTOF
RUSSO-GERMAN INCIDENT MADE
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GUNMEN AND POLICE
9 BATTLE IN BELFAST
(Hy The Associates pressl

BELFAST, April r20-The worst
fighting Belfast has yet experienced
occurred in the east end tonight when
several hundred men, all armed with
rifles, participated. The gunmen
came boldly into the open. lying flat
on street corners and shooting fran
tically. A hot encounter also occurred
in the Short Strand district, where po-
lice used machine guns freely.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-21
EARLY SETTLEMENT
STRIKE PREDICTED
'SSlapers SniN Says Operators Will
"T,Te Ts TO Confer With Miners
"nen They Stand Firm.

N. va" ~, YORK, April 2o,-A hreak 4
cpsratora a'0'N between bituminous coal
,,ttlemaS. and miners and a peaceful
v"'.I' vs,I," OF the strike within a. few
Sar. was vas Forecast here tonight by
Aa,s., Gompsrs, president OF the
oov'sn". o" federation OF Labor.
Eo,,,nt ".pent Intervention to prevent
sa SSsse Sssa OF fuel for the nation will
dsclarsSs' necessary, Mr.. Gompers
bu,,
nIr,r. n'a a. It 's demonstrated that the
DEed - Standing Arm, and are pre-
opss,on,. "o1o out" he asserted, the
tAsn ana WIZ agree to confer with
sA ~. ~ a new wage agreement win