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The New York herald., 1922-11-24
DEBATE ON SUBSIDY
| Brings HOUSE CLASH
Nelson of Minnesota and
Mills of New York
Show Bitterness.
TO VOTE WEDNESDAY,
Bankhead Charges Meas
ure. Would Give Millions
to Standard Oil.
PARTY BACKING DENIED
PARTY BACKING DENIED
Davis Asserts Republicans
Avoided Bills at State
Conventions.
Special Dispatch TO THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
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Specidl Dispatch TO THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau
Washington, ID. c., Nov. 23.
The fight over the Administrations
merchant marine bill began in the
House to-day. Debate will continue
until Wednesday, when a final vote
will be taken.
Representatives Greene (Mass.) and
Edmonds (Pa.). chairman and ranking
member of the Merchant Marine Com
mittee, fired the opening shots for
the Administration. Representatives
Nelson (Wis.) and Bankhead (Ala.)
opened for the opposition.
There was an unusually large at
tendance Of Representatives and the
galleries were pretty well filled
throughout the day. Two or three
near rows developed in the debate.
Representative Greene said the bill SIS
offered in fulfllment of reiterated solemn
platform pledges of the Republican party
to help and upbuild the American mer-
chant marine" Representative Davis
CTenn.) said he had examined the plat
forms of both parties for many years
and neither the Republican nor Demo-
cratic party has ever declared in favor
of it. During the recent campaigns"
said Mr.. Davis, "the Republicans avoided
committing themselves to the subsidy
bills at State conventions. At the Ohio
convention, though expressly requested
by President Harding to put in ship
subsidy plank, they declined to do So"
The New York herald., 1922-11-24

Critics continue 10 link Eugene
Bdgger's
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
u. $. WINS BIG WAR CLAIM.

WASHINGTON. Nov. ga claim OF
the Government growing out of a war
contract was settled to-day with the
agreement of the Derby Manufacturing
Company of Derby, Conn. 10, pay $780,
600 into the United States Treasury. A
controversy arose over the sale by the
Derby company of scrap copper left
over from the manufacture OF war muni-
lions. the Government insisting that the
copper so disposed of be replaced at
current market price,.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
PROSECUTOR LEARNS
HALLS HAD QUARREL
Rector Rushed From We'd
ding to Appointment Two
Nights Before Death.
HAD BEEN KEPT LATE
Mrs. Hall Reported Saying,
This Is One Night He
Won't Meet Her.
LEFT BRIDE IN FAINT
New WITNESSES Story ffered
to Develop Motive Needed
to Indict.
LEFT BRIDE IN FAINT

Special Dispatch to THE New York HERALD.
+ NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j., Nov. 23.-
Evidence to be given TO the Grand
Jury of Somerset county on Monday
will probably determine whether Will
bur A. Mott, Special Deputy Attorney
General, is to succeed in obtaining in
dctments for the murder of the Rev.
Edward w. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor
Mills. Mr. Mott is not sanguine as to
the outcome, but sAme OF his asso-
ciates expressed the belief tonight
that indictments will be found.
\ Having established the crime and
the relations between Hall and Mrs.
Mills, Mr.. Motifs next move is to show
that Mrs. Hall knew what was going
on. Evidence has been gathered to
this end. Witnesses to be examined
on Monday are to testify along this
line 1t Is probable that Mr.. Motifs
case will stand or fall on this testi-
mony.
Mr.. Mott expects that the two maids
in the Hall home. Louise Geist and Bar
bara Tough, will aid him by disclosing
a state of domestic turbulence. Some
of the statements made by these two
have indicated such state of affairs,
but neither has spoken under oath.
Tale Called Fabrication.
To-day it was ascertained that Mr..
Mott has at his disposal story of
wedding at the Hall home two nights
before Hall was killed. This story shows
Hall eager to keep an appointment of a
private nature, but held back by the
necessity of wedding couple who were
late for their appointment. His be-
havior is reported to have frightened the
bride who tainted and who was revived
by Mrs. Hall. Later Mrs. Hall is alleged
to have said, "Well, this is one night he
didn't get out with that woman"
Timothy N. Pfeiffer. counsel for Mrs
Hall. tonight characterized the story as
a fabrication, and insisted that Mr.. and
Mrs Hall never had a quarrel. Never
theless many statements in the story
that could be checked up have been cor
roborated and the records involved have
been studied The marriage license.
which Hall should have returned, was
sent to the office of the health authorities
unsigned. Detectives are trying to learn
when it was mailed. If 1t, was mailed
before Halls body was found that fact
will be considered of the greatest signm-
canoe.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24

and characters are endowed with
reality and life. mo one" says the
Post, will willingly lay the book
down unfinished" And that, after
all, is the real test, isn't it?
The rebellion of youth, as pictured
by Arthur Tuckcrnan in his novel
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
Eminent Europeans

with Strachey's Eminent Vic
torians." If there is u similarity Of
style, certainly neither volume suf-
fers by comparison. Mr.. Bagger
does with the ten leading figures Of
Central Europe what Clinton Gil
bert did with our own great inNhis
mirror" books. and the result is a
tremendously interesting work of
considerable historical and biograph-
ical importance. IL is most enter
training, often startling, and the per-
sonal and political phase, are OF de-
cided interest just now.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
Church to Pay Mrs. Hall
Pension of $500 a Year

TT RENTON, Nov 23. - Mrs.
Frances Noll Hall, widow of
the Rev. Edward w. Hall,
slain minister. will receive $500 a
year pension from the pension fund
of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
ii was announced here to-day.
The fund was created five years
ago as insurance for widows of
Episcopal rectors regardless of
their financial condition. 1t is
planned to increase benefits When
the fund is better established.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
Would Aid Big Corporations.

Representative Bankhead said that un-
der the terms of the bill the Government
would pay for at least ten years a sum
Of money ranging between four and five
million dollars to the Standard Oil Com
pany for the operation of its tankers,
devoted to the exclusive carriage, of its
own goods. The United Fruit Company.
the Steel Corporation, the Texas Com
pany and other companies would also re-
ceive cargo sums for transporting their
own goods. he said.
Representative Greene said the bill is
a result of careful study. ana was pro-
duced after ship owners, ship builders,
merchants, manufacturers, bankers,
farmers and representatives or the Amer
ican sea labor had been heard.
"First OF ALL" said he, "as a help to
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
THE GLORY OF
ENGLISH PROSE

contains the letters of Stephen Cole
ridge to his grandson. and expresses
the distinguished writer's concep-
tion Of the masterpieces Of prose.
G.. p. p.
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
PVJTsNAM
BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Innumerable personal reminis-
cences about the men who have
made history during the past thirty
years, and intimate sidelights on the
principal events of the period make
an intensely live and engrossing
narrative Of
The New York herald., 1922-11-24
BREATH OF LIFE

has none of the smartness or
cynicism popularly attributed to
the modern young man. On the con-
trary the emotions which prompt
the hero TO chuck his job and his
pleasures to search for something
real are likely TO strike a respon-
sve chord somewhere within you,
and prove a vent for some of the
reckless impulses which youth
creates and which age never quite
effaces.
Evening star., 1922-03-20
BELFAST aUNMEN ACTIVE.
Woman Among Latest Victims o,
Present Outrages.

By the Associated Press.
BELFAST, March 20.-Gunmen were
were again active in Belfast today.
4 number of carriers proceeding to
work were stopped by a man who
pointed a revolver at them and or
dered them back. In the ensuing al
tercation one of the carriers was
wounded.
An ashman employed by the city
was wounded in the jaw while work.
ing in the Ballymacarrett section,
The. police barracks at Maghera'
County Londonderry, were captured
during the night.
A "B. Special" constable was shot
dead at, Tobermore, near Maghera,
by raiders engaged In cutting wires
The police yesterday seized large
quantity Of documents in st. Mary's
Hall, which are alleged to give COM
plete information OF republican ac-
tivities here. St. Mary's Hall for
merly was the headquarters of the
Irish renubljcan army division. a
store of bombs. rifles and munitions
also was seized.
raiders entered house on Camb-
bell street and shot and killed the
occupant, MaTSeret MULTIPLY. Two
men: named Hardness and Rogan,
who were wounded recently, died
yesterday. A>bomb was thrown dur
ing the day in the home of John
Mooney. who was injured.
The garrison at the Maghera bar.
the regular police force and eight
speoials. who were surprised by an
Overwhelming force. Previous to the
attack the roads. had been blocked
with trees, trenches had been cut and
1continued on Page 2. Column a.
Evening star., 1922-03-20
Miners PREPARING
|. FOR STRIKE ACTION
Meeting of Policy Committee
Called to Plan Course
After April |.

The general policy committee of the
United Mine Workers Of America was
called today to meet Friday in Cleve-
land to formulate a policy to be fol-
lowed by the bituminous miners
when work is suspended April 1. The
call was issued by John L. Lewis,
ed here today.
The policy committee which was
appointed by the International con-
vention at Indianapolis in February.
has full and absolute authority to
conduct the affairs Of the union dur
as follows: Twenty-four members of
the international executive board
thirty-two members of the scale COM
mittee of western Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, the four states
composing the central competitive
field: three representatives from each
Of the nineteen outlying districts.
fifty-6even in all, and the three in
ternational officers.
The authority of the policy commit
tee to deal with all matters in con-
nection with the suspension and the
negotiations for a new wage agreement
between the bituminous miners and op-
orators Is contained in the following
declaration. which was adopted by the
convention:
For the purpose Of meeting in a~prac-
tical and constructive way all unfore-
seen emergencies which may arise a
policy committee. composed Of the scale
committee OF the central competitive
field, three representatives from each
Of the outlying districts, members of
the International executive board, and
the international officers, is authorized
to take such action for the protection
of our best interests as circumstances
may require. ard to advise the member
ship upon unexpected developments
which may arise and which cannot now
Evening star., 1922-03-20
CLAIM GIRLS RELATIVES
WOULD DEPORT FIANCE

NEW YORK, March 2o.-Allega
tions that wealthy and inf1uentia
relatives of a Pittsburgh society glr:
are attempting to cause the depor-
tation of August Probst, twenty-four
years of age. a Swiss. to prevent their
marriage. will be investigated to-
morrow at federal court hearing as
a result of habeas corpus proceed
ings.
Papers ordering Probst's appearance
for examination were served on Ellis
Island officials at the behest of two
Manhattan attorneys, who charged
Probst was being held at the immi-
grafton station on suspicion of in
sanity. The attorneys. Bernard Sand
ler and David Steinhardt, obtained
the writ on allegations that relatives
Of an unidentified Pittsburgh girl.
who seeks to marry Probst, plotted
his deportatio on insanity charges.
Details of the alleged plot will be
revealed by Probst at his hearing be-
fore Federal Judge Knox on Ellis
Island Tuesday. the attorneys de-
clared.
Evening star., 1922-03-20
STREET CAR OFFICIALS
AT SENATE HEARING
Express Views on Merger Bill In
troduced by Ball in Altered
Form.

Officials of the street car companies
were heard this afternoon by the Sen
ate District committee on the subject
of the new street car merger bill in
troduced by Senator Ball. which pro-
vides for a tax on the net operating
income.
Among those heard were President
George E. Hamilton of the Capital
Traction Company, ]. H. Hanna of
the same company, c. selden. jr.. rep
resenting the Washington and Mary
land Company. a subsidiary of the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company. and B. H. warner, jr., rep
resenting the Washington Railway
and Electric Company.
The hearing was granted at the re-
quest Of officials Of the Capital Trac-
ton Company. although the Senate
committee had already determined to
report the bill favorably. The bill has
not actually been reported. however
but was merely introduced in it's new
form by Senator Ball last week.
Evening star., 1922-03-20
RIGHT Of PENSION
GRANTED BY HOUSE
TO INELIGIBLE $4,000
LehIbach Bill Covering All
Presidential Appointees
Is Passed.
MEASURE NOW READY
TO GO TO WHITE HOUSE
G, 400 Receiving Annuities Illegally
at Present Included With
Affected. Employees.

The House today passed the Lehl-
bach bill, which specifically writes
into the law the pension rights of So
600 government employees. 6,4o0 of
whom are already on the pension
rolls, which a recent ruling by the
Attorney General declared were in
eligible for government annuities
under the existing retirement act.
The bill has been passed by the Sem
ate and now goes to the President.
The bill as passed provides that in
the administration of the civil serv-
ice retirement act. approved May %.
1920, the expression 'all employees in
the classified civil service OF the
United States" shall be construed to
include all persons who have been
heretofore or who may hereafter be
given a competitive status in the
classified civil service, with or with
out competitive examinations by leg
islative enactment or under the civil
service rules promulgated by the
President, or by executive orders COW
ering groups of employees with their
fled service or authorizing the ap-
pointment of individuals to positions
within such service.
In emphasizing the need for this
legislation, Chairman Lehlbach re-
ferred the members of the House to
the letter by Secretary Fall. un-
der whose jurisdiction the admins
tration of the retirement act comes.
which was sent on March z to Chair
man Lehlbach and Chairman Sterling
Of the corresponding Senate COM
mittee. urging the passage OF this
new legislation.
According to an opinion rendered
by the Attorney General under date
Of February 81. 1922. only those en-
ployes who came within the service
as result of a competitive examina-
tion- were declared to be within the
meaning of the term classified civil
service. as used in the retirement act.
Secretary Fall pointed out that about
6.400 already receiving annuities are
doing SO without warrant of law. ac-
cording to the Attorney Generals s
ruling and that the opinion of the
Attorney General affects approx
mately 30 per cent of the employees
of the government, or about $4,000
persons.
The bill was passed today, under
unanimous consent, just before the
House adjourned.
Evening star., 1922-03-20
COAL SUPPLY CLIMBS
AS STRIKE THREATENS

Stimulated by the possibility Of
strike on or after April /, production
Of bituminous coal in the United
States is climbing upward to levels
never surpassed except during, the
peak OF the waB boom and the fol-
lowing industrial expansion, accord
Ing to statistics issued today by the
geological survey. During the week
ended March II output Of reporting
mines was LOSS, 900 tons, or, 4, ,100, 900
more tons than were mined on the
same week of the previous year, and
only 100000 less than the greatest
total ever mined in a similar period.
Railroad car loadings reported for
Monday and Tuesday of the succeed
ing week indicated, the survey said,
that production was going still
higher.
The total is now much above con-
sumption" it was declared, and "the
excess is largely being accommodated
in storage by consumers" Exact
estimates of the amount In storage
were not available, 1t was added, but
since January l, when about 55.000,000
tons were on hand, stocks have in
creased every week.
Anthracite production also in
creased. the total. for the week Of
March II being fixed at 1.sS3,000 tons,
compared with. 1,s13,000 tons, the
previous week and 1.9sssoo0 one .yeaf
ago, - : : :, = y -.
Evening star., 1922-03-20
MANY ARRESTS IMMINENT.

Imminent arrest of a number OF
individuals, some of them prominent
in Florida commercial circles, was in
dicated in preliminary reports from
Col l.. C. Mutt Commissioner Haynes
said Here today. Mr.. Haynes said the
results obtained by federal prohibi-
'tion forces in Florida were the out
come of four weeks of intensive
"under-cover investigation" by a
large force of federal agents.
Col. Mutt was in Florida, Mr.. Haynes
said, as the personal representative of
the prohibition commissioner and was
in complete charge of the campaign.
I'VE are simply doing In Florida,
Mr.. Haynes said, what We have been
doing in other sections of the coua-
try OF course, the conditions have
been somewhat different in Florida
because of the proximity of the near
by Islands from which liquor has
been shipped. and there have been
problems peculiar to the locality to
handle"
Mr.. Haynes expressed satisfaction
of the reported outcome of Col. Mutt 8
investigation and indicated that the
federal forces would continue their
efforts until Florida dried up.
Evening star., 1922-03-20
GHOSTZY NIGHT FLIGHT OVER ICE
BY RUSS SCIENTIST WINS LIBERTY

and courage under terrible living
conditions. Every night for the last
eighteen months I carried my belong
ings from my apartment in small
bundles, which deposited with
friends, at the same time boarding
every ruble that came into my pos
session, exchanging the Russian
money occasionally into foreign cur
rency. Early this year I bargained
with Finnish smugglers to get me,
with my wife and sister, across the
About the middle of'February I was
informed secretly one evening that
we must leave the next night. When
the time arrived the three of us pro-
ceeded quietly to a little coast vii
lase, where we met the ugglers in
a hut near the shore: We waited until
mist arose after dark and then
bundled into a sleigh and dashed out
upon the ice.
"Whcn halfway across the gulf the
great searchlight at the naval base on
Kronstadt Island swept over us. but
failed to pick us out in the mist as
we were covered with sheets and the
sled and horses we're similarly pro-
tected. Further on, we narrowly es-
capped capture by the bolshevist guard
patrolling the international boundary.
The sentries are stationed . quarter
CONTINUED on Page Q. Column q
Evening star., 1922-03-20
BY HAL O'FLAHERTY.

By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1922.
STOCKHOLM. March 20. - Prof.
Alexander A. Maximov, the world-re-
nowned scientist. who has been con-
nected with the Petrograd Medical
academy for twenty-five years. has
Escaped from Russia and is now on
dis way to the United States. where
he expects to continue his research
work in the University of Chicago.
His flight from Petrograd was at
tended by continual fear of capture by
red guards and was accomplished
only after two years of careful prep
aration, eliminating in Wild dash
across the frozen Gulf of Finland in
a sled driven by smugglers.
Prof. Maximov on his arrival here
told the writer that there is little
hope of his fellow scientists in Pet
rograd surviving the ordeal Of hum
ger, cold and misery through which
they are passing this winter.
Carefully Plans Flight.
II escaped because I never relaxed
in my preparations" said tho pro-
fessor. "and maintained my health
Evening star., 1922-03-20
(ContinJed on Page
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOS ANGELES. March 20.-Dr.
James NJ. PEBBLES, who died fort
night ago, will be the guest Of honor
and principal speaker at his BIRTH
day party Thursday evening. mes
sage, of acceptance has been received
from that happy spirit land with
which his friends and former asso-
ciates say they hold constant COM
munication.
DR.. PEBBLES, an eminent scholar, of
Independent means, loved and re-
spected in this community. where he
had made his home for SO many years,
would have celebrated his Tooth
birthday anniversary March 2s.
His friends, and especially his fol
low members of the Longer Life Club,
had plans under way for a celebra-
ton. dinner when DR.. PEBBLES, fully
conscious that the period OF his
earthly dwelling was drawing rapidly
entered into the long sleep without
sigh or murmur of regret. His as
sociates, hastily gathered at his bed
side, did not mourn his passing.
Rather they rejoiced in the wider
freedom attained by his spirit
through the medium known as death.
Their one, concern was that his
passing had not been delayed for a
brief space that they might have
done him honor in the flesh at the
birthday party which would have
marked the century milestone in, a
life of calm and cheerful philosophy.
and to which a large number of
spiritualists had been hidden from
many parts Of the country.
1t was taken for granted that the
passing Of DR.. PEBBLES automatically
cancelled all arrangements for the
birthday party. But those who as.
sumed as much now find themselves
in error, for DR.. Guy>Bogart, execu.
tive secretary of the longer life or.
ganization. and one Of the most init
Evening star., 1922-03-20
Today's News In Brief

Miners. preparing post-strike plans.
Page l
Party leaders confer with Presi-
dent. Page 1
Constant firing between forces on
:. Ulster border1ine. Page /
President refuses to approve COM
promise bonus bill. Page 1
Detectives recover $4,000 I'M miss
ing Treasury bonds and make two
arrests Page l
Mr.. Hughes urges delegation to
attend Brazilian centenary. Page
Story of Miss Clark's suicide told
by student who also ends life.
Page 3
Gandhi cheerfully accepts sentence.
Page 8
"china's Sorrow claims thousands.
Page IL
New director of mint takes oath of
office. Page Is
Executive order permits aliens over
quota to remain in United States.
Page 13
Conditions serious In Mexican state.
y Page 10
Huas Jury in obenchain murder trial.
-. Page Is
Evening star., 1922-03-20
CONSTANT FIRING
|. ON ULSTER BORDER
Rival Forces Now Within
Rifle Range-Bridges Blown
Up and Roads Blocked.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 20.-The border
line Of Ulster is described as like a
battlefront by the Evening News
Belfast correspondent, who says rival
forces of the Irish republican army
and of Ulster special constables
were actually within rifle range and
continually firing at each other dur
ing the week end.
The combatants were too well con :
cealed for serious losses to be
was mainly intended to prevent the
springing of surprise attacks. As
an extra precaution the area between
the two forces was sprayed with
machine gun fire at intervals. The
rival armies, continues the corre-
closer to each other. and the first
collision is expected to occur on the
frontier near Caledon, County Tyrone.
Many Evacuate Homes.
1.-THE sound of the blowing up of
bridges on the Ulster border during
the week end could be heard miles
away" adds the dispatch. THE
northern forces were mainly respon-
sible, and as the result of their
activities every important bridge
leading from the Free State has been
demolished, while hundreds of roads
have been .trenched and closed with
trees.
1.-THE tension is already beginning
to affect the inhabitants behind the
battle line. The Unionists along the
frontier are much perturbed over the
menace of invasion. and have asked
that more protection be afforded
them. Many close to the battle zone,
which is no mans land, have had to
evacuate. their homes, which inn
mediately have been occupied by the
fighting forces"