davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
2 CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE
NEAR M'ALPIN ESTATE

Alexander Bell, 3, and his sister,
Katherine. 2, were burned to death
yesterday afternoon after being over
come by smoke in their home near the
estate of DIR. ID. Hunter McAlpin. near
Morris Plains, N. j.. The children were
trapped in the house after Mrs. Marie
Bell, their mother. had discovered the
fire, supposed to have started from an
overheated pipe. and had run to the
home of Mrs. William Cool about 100
yards away to get aid in putting out
the flames.
The children had been playing in the
dining room. BY the time Mrs. Bell
returned smoke was pouring from the
windows and the kitchen was aflame.
She went in the front door, calling to
the children, but they did not answer.
Part way down the hall smoke swept
over her and she turned choking into
a front room on the first floor and man.
aged to reach the window.
Mrs. Cool who had remained outside,
saw Mrs. Bell fall on the window ledge
and pulled her out and away from the
house. Firemen responded from Morris
Plains. but the house was wrecked In
the ruins OF the dining room were found
the bodies of Alexander and Katherine
under charred couch to which they
had fled In fright as the flames and
smoke swept from the kitchen Their
father Is employed on DR.. McAlpin's
estate, "Brocklawn Manor"
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
SEES LLOYD GEORGE
VICTORY AT GENOA
Soviet Foreign Minister Says
Farley Is Triumph Aso for
Brands Policy.

Special Cable to THE New York HERALD.
Copyright, 1899, by THE New YORK HERALD
REvAL (via London), Feb. 3.7At
the meeting of the Russian Sovie
Executive Committee. which selected
the Bolshevist delegation to th'
Genoa conference. Georgevitch Tchit
cherin, Foreign Minister, in a Ions
speech on the Moscow foreign policy
said that the Genoa conference i'm
piled victory for the policy of Prem
Ter Lloyd George, over the policy o.
Winston Spencer Churchill, and vic
tory for the Briand policy over thai
OF Poincare.
ITALY is sympathetic. but Italys poll
cy is not an independent one." he con-
tinued. American has no indepedent
policy. Indeed, the United States poll
cy is a mysterious paradox. All cir
cumstances in America should make
for a friendly policy towards Russia
but foreign influences there. including
the iunuence Of the Russian refugees
tend to make America unfriendly. Many
United States journalists are now In
Russia, and 1t seems that Americas
policy Will soon change. prominent Sena-
tors. like Mr.. Borah. urging an agree
ment with Russia and trade negotta-
tions.
American relief has accomplished
great humanitarian work in Russia
and the American Government Is send
ing bread to feed the starving"
AS Russia has refused to accept the
League of Nations as intermediary in
the Karelian question. the League has
asked Esthonia to act as intermediary
between it and Russia. Following this
tho Esthonian Government has asked
Nikolai Lenine Bolshevist Premier,
to discuss the Karelian question at Gen.
oa with a representative of the League
who will be sent there especially for
this purpose
The choice of Lenine as the chief OF
the Soviet delegation came as a sur
prise even to the Bolsheviki, for Karl
Radek had written humorously that II
Lenine went to Genoa, Poincare and
other heads of States also would &C
there. The general impression was
that Lenne would not leave Russia
both because OF possible internal troubles
in Russia and because of the personal
danger to himself.
An article In the Isuestid says that
foreigners evidently are mistaken re-
garding his powers. He is only the head
of the executive department of the
Soviet Government and can do nothing
without the approval of the Pan-Rus-
sion Congress of Soviets, in which there
is much opposition to paying Russia's
foreign debts Another article, evil
IDENTIFY inspired by Lenine. appeals to
Communists of every shade of opinion
all over the world to close their ranks in
an unbroken ring around the Soviet
delegation at Genoa, as the conference
Is the capitalists last weapon against
the Soviet Government, all other
weapons having failed them. This
means an attempt to compose the diff
ferences between the different interna-
tionales.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
BRITAIN WOULD CONFER
BEFORE GOING TO GENOA
Willing to Attend a Preliminary Meeting of Powers
but Will Not Abandon Her Viewpoint in
Regard to the Rhine and Russia.

made plain that the British viewpoint
must be maintained at Genoa, namely
that no real peace conditions are pos
sible until the threats of war are re-
moved from the Rhine and the Russo
Polish border.
The Near East negotiations are rap
idly assuming the character of a test
of Frances willingness to cooperate
The same may be said of the nego-
tiations regarding an anti-German
pact. 1t is stated on good authority
here that Lord Hardinge, British Am
bassador to France, has been In
structed to make clear in his conver-
sations with Premier Poincare that nc
agreement is possible which could be
translated into a military treaty bur-
densome to Great Britain.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
ARMS COLLEAGUES
PRAISE ROOSEVELT
Lord Lee Con,rnerds Assistant
Secretorys Work.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-(Associated
Press) The official communique cover
ing to-day's meeting of the Committee
on Limitation of Armament contained
an appreciation of Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt, voiced by Lord Lee. of the
British delegation.
II do not like the proceedings of this
committee to be closed" Lord Lee said.
without referring to how much we owe
as a committee to the labors of one
individual. a gentleman who is not here
this afternoon. and of whom ! may
therefore speak more freely. l refer to
the American chairman of the Technical
Sub b-Committee which has prepared the
ground for all our decisions. i refer to
Theodore Roosevelt.
Perhaps / am entitled to speak of
him especially becuse l have been con-
tinously associated with him in the
arduous and most successful work he
has undertaken in preparing the ground
for us and / am able to testify at first
hand and at short range to how much
we as a committee owe to him."
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
GIBBS GOES TO EUROPE
TO STUDY EPIDEMICS

Col. l.. c. Gibbs. who made a study
OF epidemic diseases in Europe last sum-
mer, is to sail to-day on the steamship
America as the special emissary of the
European Sanitary Relief Expedition
which was organized Thursday at the
office of DR.. Royal S. Copeland, Health
Commissioner. He is to obtain informa-
tion regarding epidemic diseases. par
ticular typhus and cholera in Poland.
Plans for lending assistance to Polish
authorities in checking such diseases and
preventing the departure for this coun-
try of emigrants, who are disease car
riers. will then be undertaken.
Darwin +. Kingsley. Herman A. Metz,
Archbishop Hayes and other prominent
persons are interested in the movement.
DIR. Copeland said that the danger of
formidable epidemics in this country
from emigrants from the sections where
typhus and cholera abound has become
SO serious that preparations to cope with
the menace cannot be delayed.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
HARDING ORDERS WORK
HALTED ON SCRAP SHIPS
No Destruction Until PoUerS
Ratify Treaty.
Special Dispatch TO THE NEW York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Mnshington. ID. C.. Feb. 3.


New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. G., Feb. 3.
No American naval vessels will be
scrapped in accordance with the terms
of the five Power naval treaty. which
has now been adopted formally by the
international conference. until the treaty
is ratified and approved by the proper
authorities in Great Britain, France.
Italy and japan. and by the United
state Senate. This was made known
officially at the White House to-day.
President Harding. however, after
conference with Secretary Denby gave
notice that the work on those capital
ships now under construction. which are
not TO become a part OF the American
fleet under the treaty, shall cease at
once. This win save che money that
otherwise would be spent to carry that
work along until such time as final
ratification OF the treaty by all Powers
takes place
Nothing will be lost by stopping the
work of construction. because In the
event OF failure of the treaty--which the
Administration considers inconceivable
the work could be renewed at any
time and carried 60 completion
Only after all OF the nations have
ratified the treaty and arrangements
have been made in accordance with it's
provisions for scrappng the vessels
marked for destruction I'm each OF the
navies. will the United States take any
steps TO get rid or impair the efficiency
of any Of the vessels now IN commits
sion.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
BRITISH DELEGATES
TO LEAVE FEBRUARY 2.
Bdlfour and Others Engage
Passage on Aquitonia.

spectdt Dispatch to THE NEW York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. c., Feb. g. (
With the conference practically over.
tne homegoing Of the delegates is be-
ginning. Arthur j. Balfour has engaged
passage on the Aquitania for February
T. Practically the entire British empire
delegation is going with him. including
Sir John Salmond of New Zealand and
Senator and Mrs. G. +. Pearce Of AUS
tralia. who will return home by way of
England.
M. Albert Sarraut will leave Washing
ton on Monday for New York. He Will
visit Toronto, Montreal, Quebec and Mi
agara Falls before sailing from New
York for France on February 81. Prof.
Gustav H. Camerlynck. official inter-
prefer to the French mission, also will
leave Monday for New York, sailing a
few days later for France.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
LAFAYETTE FLIERS
TOHAYE CEMETERY
France to Give a Burial Place
for Americans Who Died
for Her.

Special Gable to THE NEW York HERALD.
Copyright, 1923, by THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris. Feb. g.
The Americans VINO fell while MEM
bers of the Lafayette Flying Corps will
lie in the same cemetery The French
Government has decided to provide a
plot and the necessary transportation
for more than forty-odd heroes. scat
tered over Europe. leaving the MAIN
tanning of the graves and the erection
nous Escadrille.
The ground that has been selected lies
across the roadway from the memorial
cemetery erected by the Farnsworth
family of Boston in commemoration of
their son, who died in the French For
eign Legion during heavy fighting in the
neighborhood of Souain, on the road
from Rheims to Chalons, in the autumn
of 1918
The arrangements for the new ceme-
terry were concluded by DR.. Edmond L..
Gros, chief physician at the American
hospital in Neuilly, one of the founders
of the Escadrille. and Lieut.. Edgar
Gerald Hamilton Of New Castle, Pa.
who is the only American officer now
in the French Foreign Legion.
OF the 1856 members of the Lafayette
Flying Corps who went to the front
sixty-three were killed. The bodies of
six of them have not been recovered:
They are Lieut.. Manderson Lehr of
Illinois: Sergt. Schuyler Lee of New
London, Conn. Sergt. Donald Stone Of
Mexico, N. Y; Sergt. Victor Chapman
of Boston, Mass. Lieut.. Clandrom Ov-
ington of New York and Paris and
Sergt. Arthur Ash, Iowa.
Among the bodies which will be
brought to the new cemetery are those
Of American flyers who fell In the
North Sea, ir Salonika, and in Italy.
The Lafayette Escadrille was formed
in Paris in 1915 by Americans who
wished to fight for France. Among the
originators of the plan were Norman
Prince. William Thaw. Elliott c. Cow
din I'd and DID, Edmond Gros.
Among those who were killed before
the Escadrille was virtually taken over
In 1917 by the A. e. f. were Norman
Prince, Victor Chapman, Kiffln Rockwell
James Mcconnell. Ronald Hoskier, Ed
mond Genet and Douglas MacMonagle OF
San Francisco.
Among the other early members of the
formation who fought for France were
Raoul Lufbery of Wallingford. Conn.,
Dider Mason of New York, c. Chouteau
Johnson of st. Louis. Mo-; Willis Havi-
land of Minneapolis. MINI. Robert Rock
well of Cincinnati. Ohio; Robert Soubfrar
of New York, Edwin c. Parsons OF
Springfield. Mass; Stephen Bigelow OF
Boston. Walter Lowell of Concord, Mass.
Kenneth MARI Of San Francisco, William
Dugan OF Rochester, N. Y. Ray Bridg'
man OF Lake Forest, ILL.,: Henry s
Jones OF Hartford. Pa. David Peterson
of Honesdale, Pa: Andrew c. Campbell
of Chicago, Charles Dolan of Boston
James N. Hall of Colfax. Iowa Ralph
Doolittle of Chicago, Harold Willis Of
Boston, who was captured but escaped
from a German prison camp; Bert Hall
and r. Balsley
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Ice Brings Peaches
from South Africa-

Refrigerated ships brought lus-
cious peaches from SO ~ t h
Africa last week. From Cuba,
eggplant and okra; from the
Bahamas, beets and carrots;
from Bermuda, romaine and
new potatoes; from Denmark,
cabbage, and from Belgium,
grapes and endive. And ice not
only brings you the choicest
food from the markets of the
world, but keeps it fresh and
wholesome when it reaches
your home.
And you can hare pure, clean KnicEer-
booker Ice delivered TO your zee bor a.
cost Of only 81 Is Of cent pound IN
Manhattan, Brooklyn and Bronr.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
FAMILY OF SIX DROWN
nv WRECK or YACHT
Seattle Resident, Wife and
Children Are Victims.

SEATTLE, Feb. 3.--August Anderson
Frojendahl. former Alaskan capitalist
and resident of Seattle. his wife and
four children. were drowned when their
yacht, In which they were cruising the
South Seas was wrecked two months
ago, according to advices received by
Andrew Chilberg. Swedish vice-ConsuI
to-day
The message gave no details and did
not mention the name of the yacht
Mr.. Frojendahl made his fortune in
the Klondike shortly after he arrived
there in the rush of 1898. He later
returned 60 his former home in Sweden
but was connected with trading ventures
on the Pacific coast for several years.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
URGES LATIN-AMERICA
BE INVITED TO GENOA
Paris Temps Says Their In
terests Equal Others.

PARIS. Feb. S.--"why are not the re-
publics Of Latin America invited TO the
Genoa conference when their interests
in the reconstruction of Europe equals
that OF the British Dominions?" asks
the Temps in an article on the subject
to-day. II recommends that France re-
main faithful to Democratic methods
at Genoa. These methods are defined
as embracing no exclusions and no coups
d'ctat
The paper says further that each ma
tion represented ought 20 have time 70
reflect and liberty to make up its mind
and should not be dragged into eauivo-
cal dangers.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04

Special Cable to THE NEW YoRK HERALD.
Copyright, 1929, bv TIE NEW York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
London, Feb. 3.
Ambassador Harvey saw Lord Cur
zon, British Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, this afternoon stimuli
taneously with the announcement
from Paris that Premier Poincare
wants a conference of the Allies as a
preliminary to the Genoa meeting.
Mr.. Harvey's call was recognized as
significant. in view of the fact that
he had conferred with M. Poincare
just before leaving Paris.
Unofficially it is intimated in well
informed circles that Great Britain is
perfectly willing to attend a prelimi-
nary conference, but it will there be
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
BRYAN GETS LIQUOR
PATROL FOR FLORIDA

MIAMI, Feb. 3-Orders issued in
Washington to-day for a concerted drive
against liquor and drug smuggling along
the Florida coast are in conformity with
request made several weeks ago by
prohibition workers headed by w. J..
Bryan, who went to Washington to lay
before the authorities summary Of
conditions here.
The Island Of Bimini is only forty
miles from Miami, and shipments of
whisky and other intoxicants are said
to be landed daily by schooners and air
ships at various points along the coast
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
FORD OFFER UP TO-DAY.

WASHINGTON, Fep. 3.-Henry Ford's
offer for the Muscle Shoals project will
be taken up tomorrow by the House
Military Committee. to which the report
of Secretary Weeks was referred upon
submission to the House.
Chairman Kahn said to-day the COM
mittee meeting, which will be behind
closed doors, had been called to deter
mine procedure. Every effort will be
made to expedite action.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Dynamite on Truck
Plunges Far, Intact

w WINCHESTER. Va, Feb. g.
M A motor truck loaded with
" more than 1000 pounds of
dynamite skidded on ice. plunged
over a retaining wall on the
Shenandoah Valley pike to-day at
Fishers Hill and rolled nearly
sixty feet TO the bottom of the hill.
The dynamite did not explode,
but the negro driver. who is said
to have escaped unhurt, has not
been seen since the accident.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
ExEcuTIoNERs ASK INCREASE.

BERLIN, Feb. 3.--The public execu-
TONERS at Karlsruhe and Baden, follow
ing the lead OF their confrere at Mann
helm, have notified the Ministry Of JUS
tice that they will 20 on strike unless
their pay Is increased. They declare II
impossible TO behead criminals at the
present prices -f-t
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
q. 4. To. =. n.

n you want TO know what goes through
the air tonight by wireless telephone, read
she RADIO DEPARTMENT OF THE
Al ODE. cents at all newsstandsr-Adr.
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
Assures His Aids He Will
Stand Behind Them in
Economy Campaign.
DAWES PRESENTS REPORT
Gives Details of Interdepart.
mental Reforms and Assails
His Critics.

Special Dispatch to THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. C.. Feb & +
The New York herald., 1922-02-04
POINCARE FAVORS
FOREIGN COMMUNISTS
Will Grant Passports to At
tend Socialist Congress.

Special Cable to THE NEW YoRK HnxALp.
Copyright, 1929. by THE New YoRK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
d.. ~, a
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
Fourteen Rescued, Three
Injured in Brooklyn s';rc
Pairo'.neu Catch ',cvcya! Per
sous Dropping From y in
do~s of Aparll,,fn,

Fire yesterday morning ~ ihc three
stor3 apartment at 3"ti Fulton street,
Brooklyn. endangered fourteen lives.
caused damages of $4,000 aud resulted
il the injury Of three persons.
QuicN vors by Patrolman Matthias
kinnayy. Of The ClasSor AfoNuo sta
ton. VINO vas on his uay home. and q
brother Officer saved the lives Of thos-
endangered. lie aud Patrollnar Nathan
Gree house. Of the Miller Avenue s}a
ton. ran 70 the rcar. climbed 20 az .
tension roof and caught several rcr
sons s. td6y jumped from thc window
abo,c
Among those rescued IN th,g manner
were Mrs. Lstho- holder and hor
daughtor. Esther fourteen vea~s old
Harry u. Morris. hoardcr IN Tho
Holder apartment: William Laws to-.
his wife. Edith. and lhcir two daurh-
ters, Jhe'ma. fourteen years olG. aud
esther, ten years old Tironen Tho,nac
Lewison and William Wasner carried
two women down ladder Five other
uremsn rescued as NAM tenants
jhyee were treated for minor lriuriee
Eight families were driven 10 tho
street in scant attire when firc started
early yesterday IN }ho apartment Of
Samuel Brietman or the top door Of
3T4o Third Avenue The damage vas
placed at s. 600.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
~ 500 is Awarded
For Body Of Wife
Lost ia Cemetery
Damage Suit Crews Out Of
lnnuc''za Epidemic Of
1913. When s,ra>c,Iig-
gers ~svii>r su; Burials

Trustees % at. EaNmond's Cemetery
viii have Co pay Charlie Srrrist, Of
lS3. Amsterdam Avenue, $500 because
they can't toll where in The cemetery
his vfc j. buried TIL, verdict waa
returned yesterday in The Trial Term
Of the Nrony Supreme Court when u
Jury handcd 4 seated verdict 10 Justice
licrncI
Noigrist testified that his VITO died
in Tho influenza crldcmlc Of l9ls. ON
October s the body was taken to the
cemetery Tor burial. EccauHc Of y
strike of grave di@gcrs ihc BODY rould
not be buried immediately aud 1t was
placed With largo number Of others in
> vanli
lhe defense introduced testimony
showing that there we're acvcnty o.
eighty bodir ~ Che same vault. and
each was to lc buricd III turn. II was
testified also that thc normal arrival
at the cemetery waS five or six bodies \
day, hut tla' thc epidemic had ia
creased this number to forty or fit,
thus dclavlng the burials
During tho trial it was shown that
some ouc told five RroNv Health Com
missioner OF Che condition existing al
tho ccmctcrr and that Dr Arthur T..
OLcary ordered tho burial OF all bod /
forthwith.
\ steam shovel was employed TO die
trenches instead Of individual grave =
~ an effort 70 comply with tho ordc,
An cmrloNc Naa assigned 10 mark each
coffin bud to assign \ araco for its
burial. In doing this tho bodv OF Mrs
SoiErisl MAS lost track cf Twenty
five graves had bccn opened in a search
for tho hodv.
In his Charge TO the jury Justice
fierncr said that it va- not a cues
tlon Of negligence IL buryinc the BODY
but : question Of whether or not the
cemetery officials and suhordrates were
negligent in the keeping Of rroper rec
ord
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
I0udiS Senate Critic
To Press .Iudic;uI BIZ
Dioj 10 Continue Efforts for
Legislation TO Force Judges
70 Giue Whole Time 10 Duties

70, 7t- yr,e.re's Washington Bureau
WASHlNGTON. Feb. II - RcsiSna
tic Of Federal Judge Neresaw Noun.
tam Isndis announcod " Chicago to
dav, served 10 BRING forth considerable
connert - Senate circles.
eenator Dial. Of South Carolina, who
repeatedly has attacked tho course OF
ludge Lands in taking position az
arbitcr of hss ehall wnlc citing on
TO Federal bench. announced that he
ould continue his cForts to bring
9nout the passage Of bill 70 require
'rdges Ia give all their TIME to their
lliclal du'ies Senator Dial pointed
ct that tic action Of Judge lands
in accepting another salary while or
lie bench net the disspqrovel of tho
nerlcsp Bar Sssoc ation aud said he
belle, ed Il ~as disapproyed b. the ma
iority cf the American reonlc-
senator Nelson, chairn,sa Of tic
Judiciary = Committee. expressed salts
'sction thst judge Landis had resigned.
No said:
4 thint Judge Lands was wise in
- s,g0lrG. fer 10 man can serve two
MASTER eficiently ] nope first class
Judge Will be aruointed in his place,
The Illinois Senators both expressed
their admiral on fer Iudge Lands and
their regret - his resignation. Scna
tor Mccormick SAID
'T sincerely regret that Lands has
found it necessary 10 retire from the
bench, wherc he has done tremendous
aWourt Of Good His admirable quail
fications as jurist are too we'll known
II require comment 7 have no idea
Who VIII be appointed TO succeed him
Doubtless there viii soon pc number
O. aspirants''
Senator Mckinley said
81 am genuinely sorry that Judge
landis is leaving the bench. thins
he has done q great and valuable work
had no iNtimation that he even con
templated rescnlng."
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
PLAN 10 Extend Work
Gf Eastern Church Here
Education Of Children in Or
,hoeaoS Faith Of Russia Ono
Ail7, Of Movement

rans FOR the extension Of F.a astern
Orthodo7 Church education IN the
Un'ied Statea amorg American born
ndulto and children 81 Eusslah end
tastarN descent. we're discussed rester~
day at the first annual conference Of
the American clergy and la,tv OF this
denomination. The sessions Will con.
tinuo through today and are being
held IN the Cathedral House of 81
Nicholas in East Ninety-sevcnth Street.
The work OF tho church, which had it's
origin with the Bizan1ine Empire and
iorbids statuary and other symbols Of
7doiatry in its places Of worship, was
begun on an organized scale in this
country t0o Years ago. The nucleus
for the work row being conducted was
the desire to keep within the fold the
young people Of orthodox faith.
The plans include the foundation Of
what will be known as the American
Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church. a
place Of Worship will be erected in this
city Archbishop Alexander of the
Aleutian Islands and North America. i
presiding at the conference, which will
continue through to-day