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St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-09

If some folks talked less we could
believe moe Of what they say.
Beauty is only skin deep, and
sometimes it is powdered on.
OF all the pests that walk the street..
Id like ic land blow
Upon the silly goof that says
Hello, Bill, whaddya know?"
Bobbed--Oh, dear, I've lost my
little pink bow.
Braided-How perfectly awful!
What did he look like?
Advice: Don't let a oaid-headed
drug clerk try to sell you hair tonic.
Doctor says face powder is dan
geEous. 1t certainly is when a man
wears some of it home on mis-
shoulder.
Negro Rookie-Td lahl to have a
new pair Q shoes, sub.
Sergent--Are your shoes worn
out?
Rook,s--Worn out! Man, the bot
toms of mash shoes are so thin ah
can step on dime and tell whether
it's heads or tails.
Rnsted Romance.
There WIS young lady named Stella
Whose beau was bow-legged fella,
When he asked her to sit
In his lap, whey she lit
On his ccrn, then how he did bella
A girl seems to think she has a
long skirt If couple Of ribbons
dangle around her ankles.
More Than Welcome.
1'Sir, would you give five dollars
to bury a saxaphone player?"
Heres thirty dollars. Bury six
of them.''
A girl never knows how quickly
the dinner burns until her mother
leaves the city for days play spell.
Marriages may be made in heaven.
hut comfortable porch swing often
delivers the goods, also.
1t Was "A Good One.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-09
1t Was "a Good One.

First College Widow-Have yon
the latest snappy Stories, Alice?
Second c. W.-Let's see, have you
heard the one about the travelling
salesman
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-09

More Than Welcome.
1'Sir, would you give five dollars
to bury a saxaphone player?"
Here's thirty dollars. Bury six
of them
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-09

A girl never. knows how quick,
the dinner burns until her mother
leaves the city for days play spell
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-09

Marriages may be made in heaven,
hut comfortable porch swing often
delivers the goods, also.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-09

A girl seems to think she has a
long skirt If a couple Of ribbons
dangle around her ankles.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
Blind Brony+ Recluse Taps on
Window to Get Help for
Deaf One.
rs HEARD BY SMALL BOYS
Policeman Breaking into
House Finds Untouched Food
and No Sign Of Heat.

A little boy and a little girl were
playing In Katonah avenue. The
Bronx, late yesterday afternoon when
they heard a sound as OF some one
knocking on glass, and then they saw
tho wrirkled hand or an aged woman
tapping on the window of the house
at No. 1880. 1t is a five room two
story structure, In which for many
years Miss Amelia Christensen and
her sister. Miss Losnde Christensen.
had lived alone. And during all these
years Miss Amelia. who Is So years
old. had been blind. and her sister.
who is 70, had been deaf.
The little boy and the little girl
thought It curious that the hand OF an
aged woman should be tapping against
the glass. The hand was all that they
could see. Other children Joined them
after n while, and the little group
stood on the sidewalk looking at this
window and the wrinkled hand. Then
Patrolman Smith Of the Wakefield po-
lice station came along and the chill
dren told him what they had been
looking at.
The policeman tried TO peer into the
window. but the pane OF glass was
dirty and he could see nothing. So he
went to the door and when he found II
locked he broke II down and went In.
He entered cold room. with no sign
OF there having been fire for long
time, and on a bed in "A corner. near the
indow, he saw the blind woman. Miss
Amelia. still raising her hand and tap
ping on the glass. She asked him who
he was.
I'm policeman" said Smith. what
Is the matter?'
II think my sister is Dead" the aged
woman said.
the policeman found the body OF the
younger of the two women. She was
dead, and when che was examined later
by Dr. .Warshaw of Fordham Hospital
he found that she had died OF stnrva-
tion. II was starvation. too. that had
made her blind sister 40 weak that she
could not call for help and could not
COOK food for herself.
She was sent TO Fordham Hospital,
where It wac said that she probably will
die.
knows how many years the two women
lived alone in the house They used
but one room. The four other rooms
were thick with dust and cobwebs. The
dust was so thick on the floors that the
shoes OF tho policemen were outlined
In II.
Inside the house the police found a
two dollar bill and si.tT In cash and on
a table a bottle OF milk, stlli capped.
and scrap OF bacon and q few pota-
toes. These had been bought for the
aged women early in the morning b.
Jack Byrne. the eight-year-old son OF
James p. Byrne Of 3i7 East 235th street.
who said that he ran errands for them,
but had never been inside the house
They handed him the money through
window. he said. And the police
could find no one who had ever been
inside the house.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
II. A. DIX GIVES BIG BUSINESS
TO HIS FACTORY EMPLOYEES
Lends Them $25O,00O on Which to Operate Plant With
$1,O00,000 Yearly Output and Outlines Plan
for Veterans to Control

Feeling that he and his sons had
made from their old established busi-
ness of manufacturing dresses and uni
forms all the money they ever would
need and that their employees were de-
serving OF something more than mere
wages when they had given a good part
OF their lives<to building up the business
Henry A. Dix of III. A. Dix & Sons. 11s
West Fourteenth street. the Dix Build
ing. yesterday turned over to their 400
employees business worth more than
$l.O00,000 a year. And In addition to
that act of striking generosity the Dixes
lent to their employees s250,000 with
which to continue business.
Mr. Dix and his sons withdraw en-
tireiy from financial control of the
business. though Mr. Dix has consented
10 act as honorary chairman of the
board of directors and to stand by with
advice IL it should be required. The
post Is entirely advisory and carries
with II no salary or emolument what
ever. Afr. Dix had been drawing a sal
airy Of $4,000 year. An elaborate sys-
tenn of transfer involving a large sum
for immediate running expenses was
put into operation coincidentally with
the turning over Of the business from
former owners to the employees who
now own It
veteran employees and as soon as other
veterans have put in three years OF
service with what is now their own con-
The New York herald., 1922-12-28

cern lis of them will be given class A
common stock of the company. Others
may expect similar treatment as their
service and loyalty Justify. In explain
ing the motives which actuated Henry
A. Dix and his sons one of the latter
made yesterday the following explana-
ton:
'It has long been In my fathers mind
that workers usually got nothing for
their services, however loyal and de-
voted, except wages He felt that such
a system was wrong. He believed that
workers who had devoted a. large part
Of their lives toward building up a busi-
ness deserved a share of Its prosperity
quite beyond and apart from the mere
wages involved My father has enter
tanned that belief for rather more than
twenty seven years.
Several years ago Henry A. Dix gave
his large country estate at Mount Kisco
as a summer home for working girls
and accommodations always are avail
able there for any working girl from the
city who Is able to present satisfactory
credentials. With the estate Mr.. Dix
gave 100000 as a maintenance en-
dowment and since that time has paid
rent on part OF the property which he
uses for his own purposes.
Mr.. Dix came to this country from
Russia just thirty years ago at the age
OF AZ. He began business In Millville.
n. T., but soon branched out with fac
tories In vineland and SomerviNe, N. j.,
and In New York.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
ALLIES PLAN ACTION
IF LAUSANNE FAILS
British Refuse to Give Up
Mosul, Which Turks
Demand.
DANGER IN PREPARATIONS
French and German Attitude
Not Conducive to Results
in Paris.
DANGER IN PREPARATIONS

specia, cable to THE Nrw YORK HEnALD.
Copyright, 1893. Dy THE NEW YoRR HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London, Dec. 81.
The British Government has been
advised that the allied general staffs
SHOULD consult immediately 70 find
some basis for common action in the
Near East, in view Of the probable
breakdown of the Lausanne confer
orce within a week. Reports from
Lausanne tell of extreme truculence
on the part Of the Turks, who are
insisting upon impossible conditions
before every subcommission. and fire.
quently repudiat!ng settlements al
readv agreed upon The British have
fatty refused to give up the Mosal OIL
area and will discuss the matter no
further with the Turks. steps already
have been taken, it IS said here. to
sound out the French on a common
program 10 protect their own inter
ests ana Christian minorities should
the break come.
Responsibility for the situation IS
divided in opinion here between an ex-
cess of respect shown the Turks III
Lausanne and the Vaccinations OF the
soviet delegates. who, despite apparen,..
snuhs bv Kemal. are reported to be stlil
influential. orders from AngcTa nave
MIA we'd 9 large part IN tnc recent mani
ye.tat;ons OF Turkish intransigen tism'
yhsn' last week. an agreement seem'd to
bo Imminent
The New York herald., 1922-12-28


Copyright, feee, bv THE NEW YosK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris. Dec. 21.
The reparations problem after three
years of wrangllng and successive
notifications as to the methods and
amounts OF Germany's payments
seems to have entered on decisive
phase when the Reparations Commits
sion by a majority vote declared Ger
many 70 be in voluntary default. there
by, according to the French interpre-
tation of the Versailles treaty. giving
France the right TO impose penalties
alone on Germany II the Allies are not
willing to join her in such a move.
This is the real Importance OF the
Preparations Commissions decision yes
| terdcy Although It was taken on
comparatively minor issue-failure to
deliver 10000 telephone and telegraph
poles and approximately 2S,ooo cubic
meters OF building timber-the French
are jubilant over the sudden change In
the attitude Of both the italian and Bel
eian delegations. which hitherto have
not shown any inclination to consider
Germany's default in payments suiii-
cfently voluntary" 70 warrant oilclal
authorization for any one or all OF the
Allies 20 punish her
The oflcial press announces that
Premier Poincare Is drawing up plan
OF action IN which he win ask the Allies
70 Join 70 punish Germany for this In
stance OF failure TO pay. Only one far
sighted newspaper suggests that GER
many may yet checlsmate Poincare's IN
,entions by either obtaining the cash
from some friendly bankers abroad
under special guarantees by German IN
dustriallsts, or by the American Gov
ernment coming out before the iPeeting
OF Premers on January with note
expressing disspproval OF isolated action
| by the French.
The Importance OF the Repsratlons
! Coinn1issson's decision cannot be over
estimated. once Premier Bonsr Law
1 at the coming conference admits the
! French have right 20 take sanctions
I In one instance OF default the whole
structure OF opposition which tho Lloyd
/ George Ministry built up ssainst the
/ French Interpretation Of The treaty OF
/ Versailles Will Immediately collapse and
authority Will automatically be given Tor
severe penalties.
I The Idea OF productive guarantees
( Is the only method In which France has
any confidence as n balance against
/ Germanys repeated efforts 10 delay both
/ reparations payments and her own In
I terror financial betterment." parlia-
/ mentary leader Faid this afternoon.
I Even offers from Berlin IN an attempt
I 20 get an external or internal loan no
/ longer are satisfactory unless accom-
I panied by Immediate collateral security.
/ Germany has lost the confidence Of the
whole world and must henceforth be
/ treated like any other had debtor
Much interest is being shown tn the
Berlin repcgts that Carl Bergmann. Ger
man finaucial expert, s. bringing 20
I Paris a new offer and 3, is evident that
~ this arrives az the end OF the week
{ there will be private conversations be-
l tween Mr.. Bonar Law and NJ. Poincsre.
as well as with Premiers Mussolini and
I Theunis IN which the general lines Of
/ the aliies's program probably VIII be
/ drafted before the official opening OF
I the conference.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
PRESIDENT BLOCKS BORAH
WORLD CONFERENCE PLAN
BUT MOVES FOR A PARLEY
ALLIES PRESS BRITAIN TO
ABROGATE BALFOUR NOTE

oNDON 81 dispatch the Times
dItdltd asserts that Belgium
communicated their formal agreement on
which Premier Muson submitted
Musson will not attend
similarly hs
implies abrogation of the Baifour note
adjustment of inteaied debts
surrendering
Premier Law
policy although previously ino
eating Government consider itself bound by it]
BBussEIs, (Assocated PressM Jaspar Foreign Min
impossible
moratorium simple guarantees Belgian
adopted Paris should be
Germanys nations. NJ said the
Belgium Begums
Allies Belgian
preserving the
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
NIXON SAYS HE ONCE
KILLED A PHYSICIAN
Attempt to Obtain Habeas
Corpus for Er-Mayor.

Special Dispatch 70 THE NEW IoEE HEaatD.
BALTIMORE, Dec 23.-Gov. John NJ.
Parker OF Louisiana wired TO Captain
OF Detectives Charles RI. Burns a second
time to-day. asking that DR.. 3. NJ. Nc
Koin. former Mayor of Mer Rouge. ar
rested here yesterday on a charge of
murder, be held for exradltion papers.
An hour after his wire the Central
Savings Bank and Trust Company OF
Monroe, La. wired TO DR.. Hugh II.
Young that II would deposit in a Balti-
more bank any amount OF money needed
for DR.. McKoin's defense.
This message was followed IN turn by
a telegram from Monroe offering to DR..
McKoin run and unlimited cooperation"
from Drs. J. T.. Adams. g. X. Mosely.
T. j. Newton, J. g. Graves and r. c.
BENNETT all fellows In the American
College of Surgeons
Efforts we're started here 10 obtain Or.
McKoin's release on writ OF habeas
corpus. Robert T.. Carman. former
United Sts'es District Attorney. acting
With Dr. IIuxh ~ Young, Johns Hop.
klns urologiEt. started proceedings Cor
the writ which were postponed until
tomorrow
Il don't propose 20 go back without a
tight on any such charge as this" said
DR. McKoin. referring TO Gov. Parker g
telegram. II have told the officials OF
the parish all know about the troubles
az Mer Rouge and have appeared before
the Grand Jury. They have all the In
formation that have. I could not tell
any more by going back there"
"Is there any basis for charging you
with murder?'
"No. / shot another physician seven
years ago. but ne had said that he pur-
posed 20 shoot me. and when We met
got my weapon out before he got his.
I was cxonerated for that Even the
mans own family said that they had
expected him 30 be killed. What was
the quarrel between ys? Merely that
had got some OF his patients"
Dr. McKoin denied that he belonged
a. .hn ~, l-Iux ISlav
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
WOULD STOP PAY FOR
BREACH OF PROMISE
Bay State Man Wants Law to
Preuent 'Holdups.'

3osToN, Dec. 27.--Breach OF promise
suits would be forbidden In Massachu-
setts by n bill 10 be introduced in the
Legislature at the coming session
by Representative Martin Hayes OF
Brighton
In giving notice or his bill Represen-
tative Hayes said II was designed to
prevent ''holdups."
"a man or woman, having decided
after period OF courtship that mar
riage 10 the other party would be un-
wise, should be allowed TO terminate tho
engagement without being liable to suit
for damages" he said.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
KILLED AS sHEAIDS BLIND MAN
woman riIotina Helpless one u
struck by Motor.

Mrs Fannie y. Truck. aged 5j. 9f %
Ifslsoy street. Newark. was killed last
night al Ogden street and Say brook
place. Newark. when che attempted 90
lead blind man. Edward Burpec. aged
q. through traffic which had been a.
vcfted That way hecs ugc or n fire
she was struck SO Violently by o motor
car that her body was cut IN two. The
blind man was Yelled but not seriously
hurt
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
. omciaIs Discouraged.

tsss,des the d!squieting news from
lausanne. Government officials are as
coura red over both the French and GER
man attitude on reparations. heports
,roy, paris tonight state that Sir John
radbury. British member OF the Rep
erations Commission. iIas resigned as
the result OF its decision 10 oeclaro
Germany in voluntary default over the
delivery OF wood as specified IN the NeI-
sailles treaty. 1t Is known that sir Johh
hos heon anxious 20 resign for a lonS
.,r,n and the resignation would furnish
excelIent evidence OF British weariness
a, hoth French and German spleen con-
cerninv reparations. This does not
augur we'll for tho spirit In which Mr.
Ronar Law will 20 70 Paris next week.
rha Foreign Office IS completely with
ont official information as TO what steps
n any Washington Is taking In the
renarations muddle. That Ambassador
I,.saernnd saw Secretary Hughes last
week and that Secretary Hughes mace
representations to the French Amnas-
sador ia understood. and Downing street
feels sure that the United States post
ton makes for moderation; but tho lat
90, news from Paris does not encourage
officials here 20 believe that Secretary
IJugbes,s advice to Paris was effective.
Orlciaily, Mr. Bonar Law VIII 90 70
paris next week 10 take up the thread
Of the conference just where II broke on
hera on December u. But the decision
of tho Reparatlons Commission 10 de-
ci,ro Germany In default ls regarded
here as threatening 70 upset the efforts
here aud IN Washington 20 induce NJ.
polncore 10 act moderately. II Is feared
mere ,hat Il will strengthen the hands
of the party favoring the most drastic
measures a. the price Of n moratorium
for Germany
One close ~ Cabinet develop
n,ente told r tw York HERALD cor
respondent hI tna nc DeneNeI y
Nr Roma rvu wf 20 Paris de-
tern,ined 1rE tr asonable final
eettien7er rIl chedue hut
should Ifftr'a Q adopt i1ut
schedule FORD 90 clvo ample
evidence lf hrf int.Mlo 90 carry it out
MIR. Bo r Law .I tell NJ Poincare
10 20 asa anH Nuat ho wanted. 70
do. Tntte s ,G. iihood Of British
particI .'or in French move. a.
the tlaof uaftv l would be almost
certa tu rrcy4 rltish participation
in a niur'Hni c- .flr demonstration.
III ell1ulns is taken Of the
Lau Hrrr comet The Turks are re-
por' cod a be 1e a fuss about almost
eve ntinL er re Of the chief MEM
bef ss boz delegation 70 respor-
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The New York herald., 1922-12-28
LIKELY Attacked I'm Cellar.

THE accepted theory is that Mrs.
brigham went into the cellar for some
purpose and was attacked and killed
there by man or men who had been
hiding there.
No clews were found that might lead
20 the Identification OF the murderers.
soon after the body was found the de-
tectives picked up two negroes who were
said TO have been seen In the reighbor-
hood. and took them to headquarters,
but II was said there that no charge
had been made against them, and that
they were merely being held until they
could be auestioned. Their names were
not made public
The three children. when they awak-
ened told their father that they had
slept most OF the afternoon and had not
noticed anything out Of the ordinary.
They were asleep when their mother was
KILLED.
Dr. George l.. Warren. County Physi-
clan OF Essex county. and his assistant,
Or William NJ. Bryan. began early this
morning TO perform an autopsy on the
body of Mrs. Brigham. but they said
that their report would not be ready be-
fore daybreak. They found. however.
that the weits on her throat indicated
that she may have been strangicd with a
rope. although there was no rope found
I'm the cellar.
The physicians also found particles OF
excelsior IN Mrs. Trighsms hair. There
was no excelsior IN the closet or In the
part of the cellar IN which the closet
had been built. but In another room was
n barrel of g. The police believe thst
the murderer may have fret tried 70
put the body into the barrel.
Mr.. Brigham collapsed soon after he
had found his wife's body. Neighbors
said that he and his family moved 20
Orange from California about three
months ago, and little IL known OF his
business except that he works for a firm
named Disbrow in New York city.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
How Captain, later Admiral, Jo

How Captain, later Admiral, Joseph Bullock
Coghian, u. s. ~, scared the diplomats of
two continents, when on the evening OF April
20. isa9 he rected the humorous poem
''Hoch der Kaiser" a. q dinner st the
sunday IN The New York Herald Reserve
a copy from your newsdeaier today.--Adv.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
KLANSMEN ACCUSED
OF TORTURING TWO
VICTIMS THEY SLEW
Attorney General Coco Says
the Men Were Mutilated
Before Death.
WARRANT FOR McKOIN
Said to Have Been One OF
Three Who Directed the
Sayings.
HE ONCE KILLED A MAN
Federal District Attorney Ac-
cused Of Favoring the
Klan in Inquiry.
HE ONCE KILLED A MAN

NES ORLEANS, Dec. 27.--"The evil
dence the State. has obtained concern
Ing the torture that was inflicted on
Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards
is without question. and when 1t is
made public will show a most shock
ing crime has been committed" de-
clared Attorney General Coco, who
arrived here to-day TO take part In a
conference of State forces tomorrow.
Nothing more horrible has ever
come to my notice" he added. land
the evidence is such as to show that
the mutilations Of the bodies were not
caused by explosion or dynamite. That
these men were tortured is without
any doubt"
The New York herald., 1922-12-28

FJ0RIDA-PE~N.-ATL COAST LINE
viii arrange your trip South. Expert lnfor-
nation al o;fice. 1896 B'way ts2d 5t.j.--Adv.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28

FLORIDA-s 30 Y. 81. sesboard Florida
limited solid Pullman Train De Juxe-NU
BOARD -ils W. sgd. lei. Bryan. 5fi3--Ads.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
ARr YOU Run DOWN.

Try DEwEY's "Dev-Vono" Tohlcs.
Sold only at i3s rgitoa ST.. N. v. c,--As-.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
FRANCE TO PUNISH
GERMANY'S DEFAULT
Poincare Holds ReparatiOns
Decision Justifies Taking
Action Alone.
OPPOSITION COLLAPSING
Productive GUARANTEES Only
Method French Trust to
Make Germany Pay.
OPPOSITION C0LLAPSING
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris, Dec. "a.

SPECIAL Cable 10 THE NEw YORK HEaAtD
Copyright, feec, bv TIE NEW YORK HERAtD.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
McKotn Called Leader.

Positive proof. 1t Is said at Mer Rouge.
Will be produced showing that Dr.. NC
Koln who was arrested at Baltimore by
orders Of Gov. Parker. was one OF the
leaders of the masked mob that muir
dered Daniels and Richards and that he
actually participated In the killing.
A warrant for the arrest Of Mckoin
was issued late to-day upon the request
of Attorney General COCO.
Three officers OF the Ku Klux hlan
were leaders OF the mob. according 70
the statements OF persons here VINO are
on the inside OF the States case. One
high Klan official the story goes. d.
rected the assembling OF the mob and
haa general supervision of its move
ments. DR. McISoin, II is said at Mer
Rouge. ~as the third leader and il ie
charged lie u the one who is directl,
responsible for the mutilation OF Dan
iels and Richards.