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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11
IRISH PRISONERS TO
 BE FREED BY ENGLAND

London, Feb. 11.-(By The A. P.)- The colonial office announced today that pursuant to authority granted by the British cabinet, steps were being taken to release the prisoners who were taken into custody for offenses committed in England from Irish po- litical motives prior to the Irish truce. Conflicting reports are coming out of Ireland concerning the attitude of the southern provisional government toward the recent kidnappings of prominent U1Sternen.
 '"The whole machinery of the pro- visioal government is being employed to secure the release of these men, according to the Dublin correspondent of the Times, who says the raids are dep1ored by every member of that government, especially by Michael Collins, its head.
 Gaelic Players Held.
 Meanwhile the U1stermen are still being held, their whereab outs un- known, and many people in Dublin are reported as convinced that they will not be free as long as the ten Gaelic football players arrested on January 15, and now in the Derry jail are kept prisoners, regardless of what efforts Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins may make. Those taking this view infer that the matter surely will lead to further and probably greater trouble between the north and south.
 Opinion in Belfast continues strong ly against release of the Derry pris- oners, who it is insisted, all belong to the Fifth Northern Division of the Irish Republican army. It Is al- legged they were taken while in the possessions of arms, which is con- trary to Ulster law, and are legiti- mate1y held for trial.
 Had Republican Uniforms.
 Moreover the opinion is expressed in Ulster that the men, who wore Irish
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11
State Law Aids Education Board To Win Big Fight

On the strength of a state statute the Board of Apportionment last night acted contrary to a legal opinion of City Attorney John A. Cornell, and dental hygiene to the Board of Educa- ton. A motion to appropriate opera ton and maintenance expenses to the school board was unanimously adopt ed after the introduction of a legis- lative act vesting the board with necessary power by pr. Alfred c. Tones who argued for educational control
 The statute in question was Chap ter 293 of the Public Acts of 1919, approved by the General Assembly on May 21, 1919, and follows:
 "Any town school committee, a board of school visitors or board of education may employ a dental hy- gienist to cleanse and keep clean the teeth of school schfIdren in at- tendance at the public schools in such town or district and the author ity therein authorized to appropriate schools in the town or district where in such hygienists shall have been employed, may make such appropri- ation as may be necessary for such purpose"
 City Attorney Cornell previously had rendered a decision that the Ap- portionment Board lacked power to appropriate money either to the Health or School Board for the den tai hygienists because the lewiston had never been created by ordinance. MT. Cornell's opinion, dated February 2, follows:
 MT. Augustus Leverty,
 Board of Apportionment.
 "You have submitted to me for opinion, the question of whether the appropriation for the operation and maintenance of the dental clinic
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11
Phelan Orders Probe
 or Johnson Girls Death

The Anu-Vaccination Medical League at a meeting last night passed resolutions declaring that the death of the Johnson girl was 'sacriflce to medical superstition They also passed resolutions condennitg the school board for their edict, favoring compulsory vaccination At an ln- formal meeting of the school board members last night it was decided to call off the order for vaccination of all school children on Monday The Anti ti-Vaccinationists also passed resolutions asking the health board to clean up all unsanftary local con- ditions.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11

Norwall1, Conn, Feb. 11-Coroner John J. Phelan today ordered Med ical Examiner Huntingdon of this city to make a thorough report on the death of Florence NJ. Johnson 13, who died yesterday of tetanus Oock- jaw) after having been vaccinated. Dr. Huntington thus far has discov- ed that the physician who vaccinted the child used a pill box to cover the wound, as is the custom. The medical examiner also says that a slight wound, even a pin prick, might have been the cause of the appear ance of tetanus. His Investigation is still in progress.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11
REDUCE COST OF
 ASH COLLECTION

Brigeport's ash collection will cost the city much less this year than ever before The cost of collecting will average approximately $1 a ton for the ashes collected from April l of 1921 against s1.51 for the proceeding year. This reduction is due to the lowered cost of help and to improv- ed methods of collection.
 In the year ending last April 1, 36OOO tons of ashes were collected and from April l until January 1. 1922. there were 1000 tons of ashes collected
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11

Milford, Conn. Feb. 1d-At spe- ciaI meeting Of the local board of education held last night it was voted to close the Walnut Beach school un- til February 27, because of the over whelning sentiment among the school children against vaccination. When Health Officer W. S. Putney went to the school with a nurse yesterday to
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11
(By A. P.)

(By A. P.)
 Los Angeles, Feb. 11-District At- torney Woolwine admitted today that he was devoid of all workable clues in his investigation of the n1ur- der Of William Desm ond Tayor.
 This announcement followed bong night session at his office, with more than three hours given to a ques- tfonins of Mabel Normand one of the last persons to see Taylor alive.
 Miss Normand apparently confirm ed the district attorneys belief in the importance of locating Edward F. Sands for he later said:
 Sands is the man we must find"
 Both Admit Friendship.
 Miss Normand was the second not ed film actress to respond to a sum mons from MT. Woolwine, the other being Mary Miles Minter, who was in the officials private office answering questions. while the funeral of the director was in progress last Tuesday afternoon. Both Miss Normand and Miss Minter have admitted close friendship with Taylor.
 When Miss Normand arrived at the district attorneys office, she was ac- by her chauffeur, William Davis, who drove her to the Taylor home the night the director was killed and who prviously has stated Taylor accompanied her to her automobile when she departed.
 Davis also was questioned briefly by MT Woolwine and his chief dep uty, William C. Doran, who is assist
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11
Million Women
 Voted In Canada

Ottawa, Feb. 11-More than a mill lion Canadian women went to the polls at the recent general election, the first time women have voted on equa1 terms with men in dominion affairs.
 In Quebec, where women have no voice in provincial affairs and the suffrage movement Is less developed, the woman vote was light except In a few urban Centers.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11
ODDOsitiOn To Vaccination
 Closes Milford School

vacctnate the pupils, in accordan nee win the order of the board of edu-- cation barring all pupils from school not va ccinated, 234 of the 419 pupils refused to submit to vaccination. It was, therefore, decided by the board to close the school The order for vaccination resulted from the appear ance of two cases of small pox among the school pupils.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11
JUDGE MILLER RESTING
 COMFORTABLY TO-DAY

Judge Paul L. Miller of the Probate Court was reported as resting com- fortably in the Bridgeport hospital this morning. He was operated upon yes- terday by Dr. Philip W. Bill for a severe attack of gall stones.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11

Fresnd Gal, Feb 11-(By Int. News Servce)-Sheriff w Jones' of Fresno County left early today with to surround cabin the San Joaquin where reported giving the of Sands and description Edward sought Taylor mystery had been living the past few days J. M Cobb rancher declared the the cabin answered the police description of Sands in all major particulars.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11
Taylor s Valet Is Objective Of All
 Sleuths In Case

Mabel Normand Ill, After Long Conference, De clares She Will Do All In Her Power To Aid In- vestigaton; Sheriff Of Fresno County Leaves With Aides For Lonely Cabin On San Joaquin River To Apprehend Man Thought To Answer Best Description Of Slain Directors Secretary Valet
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11
POST OFFICE OPEN MONDAY

The Post Office will be open all day Monday, Lincoln's birthday not being observed by the Post Offlce department.
 The Chamber of Commerce will be open all day Monday.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11
TIMES DOLLAR DAY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14th

will be the witnessed This DOLLAR DAY has been arranged by The operation with THE TIMES Every member of the association
  The ad emenfs of great Watch Mondays TIMES shop Tuesday.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-11
WEATHER:

For New Haven and vicinity: Cloudy and unsettled tonight; Sunday partly cloudy and colder.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity cloudy and rainy weather followed by fair and colder
Evening star., 1922-07-15
GEN. ROGERS TO LOSE
F0ST, REPORTS INSIST
Several Officers of General staff
Mentioned for Quartermaster
General.

Reports persist in military circles
that Maj. Gen. Harry l.. Rogers. whose
four-year detail as quartermaster
general expires July %. will not be
rcappointed to that office. but will be
succeeded by an officer of the line of
the Army now attached to the gen.
eral staff.
P Secretary Weeks declines to dis
cuss the reports at this time. but says
he may make a statement in short
time. Among those mentioned as pos
sible successors of Quartermaster
General Rogers are Brig. Gen. w. d.
Connor. assistant chief of staff; Brig.
Gen. C. V. H. Moselev, attached to the
office Of the director of the budget.
and Col. Henry c. Smither. cavalry.
of the office of the chief coordinate tor.
AL these officers. including Gen.
Rogers, were closely associated with
Gen. Pershing in world war opera
tiCns.
AS quartermaster general. Gen.
Rogers has the rank of major gem
eral. II he is relieved from that de-
tail he will resume his regular grade
in the Quartermaster Corps.
Protest against the reappointment
of Maj. Gen. Rogers for the good of
Evening star., 1922-07-15

the service and the national Treas
ury. has been filed with Secretary OF
War Weeks by w. o. Watts. former
officer OF the Quartermaster Corps and
for a time connected with the Depart
ment of Justice
Specific charges are made by Mr..
Watts of misconduct in permitting
the United States Harness Company
contract to be consummated, which
the President later voided for
fraud" and for permitting the sale
of d certain lot of Army duck" to
H. Miller without advertisement"
and which case has been found
fraudulent by the Department of
Justice"
Evening star., 1922-07-15
POST FOR MRS. sPRECKEIs.

Mrs. A. B. Spreckles OF San Fran
cisco has been appointed special
representative of the Department of
Labor to investigate conditions among
women in industry in Europe. The
appointment. II was explained, is
similar to that of the late Lillian Rus
sell Moore. who investigated immi-
grafton conditions in Europe for the
department.
Evening star., 1922-07-15
SELECTED FOR ADMIRALS.

Seven captains have been selected
to be rear admirals by the naval Sc
lection board. as follows:
George r. Maxwell, Henry J. Zieg-
meier, George w. Williams. Montgom-
cry NJ. Taylor. Carl 7. .-Yogelgesang
Charles Butler McVaS jra and John
H. Dayton. Thirty y-three-rommander
were selected for promotion to the
rank of captain
Evening star., 1922-07-15
WILL MAKE STOP HERE. !
Amy Airship Ordered From Lang.
ley Field to Belleville, Ill.

The Army airship A-4, under orders
published directing her to proceed
from Langley Field, Virginia. to
Scott Field. Believille, ILL.,, whe-e the
Gated, Will make stops at Boiling
Field. Washington; Moundsville, w.
Va. and Akron and Fairfield, Ohio.
The flight, to Scott Field involves
travelling a distance of LOO miles
the longest ever attempted by the
Army lighter-than- air branch of the
air service. Photographs and
sketches of possible landing fields
will :be taken zen route to furnish
data for commercial flying.
Evening star., 1922-07-15
OFFICERS ORDERED HOME.

Majs. Berkeley T. Merchant and
John X. Brown and Capt. Eugene A.
Regnier. United States cavalry, have
been relieved from further instruo-
tion at the Ecole de Cavellerie.
Saumur. France, and ordered to the
United States. Maj. Merchant is as
signed to duty at Fort Riley. Kan:
Maj. Brown to Fort Bliss, Tex. and
Capt. Regnier to the Sth Cavalry, at
Fort Bliss, Tex.
Evening star., 1922-07-15

The Mohammedan always faces
Mecca when he prays.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24

all these schemes have now been aban-
doned.
The Bolshevik experts not only
failed to start new electrical enter
prises, for which their predecessors
had left them all the data, but even
failed to keep in repair the electrical
works which had been established un-
der the old regime and had been work
ing well.
/ asked Karalas If the Bolsheviks
cannot change completely TO a capi-
talist system. but he says that though
they are trying hard 10 do so they
cannot. There must be a complete
overturn of the Soviet system. he says.
Even If they allow the old factory
owners TO return. those owners can do
nothing, for their machinery is rusty
and damaged and they have no money
to spend on repairs, while the Bolshe-
vilk Government has no money TO lend
them. Karalas accordingly thinks
that the recognition of its debts by the
Soviet Government and the return Of
all foreign confiscated property to the
original owners will effect no improve
ment in the Russian situation, as the
Soviet has no money wherewith to pay
its debts and the foreign factory own
crs have no money wherewith to start
their factories.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
The White Peril Already
Dreaded by Asiatics

Americans are exporting their ma
chinery and sending their money 10
China, where labor problems do not
interfere or internal revenue tap the
production OF factories as in the States:
hence the cry already goes up Of the
white Peril" in China, and Asia for
the Asiatic.'
Meanwhile. wide awake Japan IS
forging ahead. silently realizing that
her ascendency in trade will mean more
TO Nippon's wealth than Standings
political privileges. while hoary China
rubs her eyes after Rip Van Wrinkle
sleep Of over 1900 years Economic
difficulties are not signs Of decay In
China, but of awakening: she has
seemed changeless. colossal. for her
possibilities stagger conception.
II is a scene for study and surmise.
for no speculatlons as to the outcome
are worth the paper they are written
on. The population Of China Is 400.-
100000, which Is now double that OF
England, France, Germany, Spain and
Belgium. the Netherlands and Italy
combined. Not until one has pene-
trated the interior and seen the
llbidfo VI NtibN AdNtNf II IL DVNSlnAA
to realize what might happen IL ever
these people realize their strength.
But the wall Of Chinese prejudice like
the Great Wall Of China has given
way in places az a result Of the
Worlds War. The Allies transported
over 800, 900 coolies To work In France.
these men travelling mostly via Can
ada--hence they have brought back to
China a realization OF the big world
outside.
The old East, the Far East, Is lift
ing its hoarv head and blinking al
Edison's electricity. while Standard
oil has literally become the Light OF
Asia" The real China Of the pres
ent Is no papier-mache country but a
China where the Orient and Occident
meet now at the crossroads of com
merce; a China that is undergoing
great changes overnight, n China that
looms ponderous like a comical F-al-
staff blended with the dignity Of
seer; a China Of whlm America knows
The New York herald., 1922-09-24

the road TO economic recovery. Every
attempt to put things right will be in
evitably strangled by red tape.
There is a possibility, however, that
Russia has abandoned every trace of
Communism and that these disgrun-
tied Communists whom one now
meets with at every point on the Rus
sian frontier are simply the debris OF
a vast Socialist experiment which has
collapsed. When the great imperialist
fabric tumbled down the roads leading
to Russia were blocked with the frag-
ments-old land owners, Generals. Ad-
mirals and court flunkeys. When
Kerensky's democratic republic caved
in the outside fringe of Russia was
covered with rejected and furious
Cadets S. Rs. Mensheviks and Lib
erals.
Now that Communism has collapsed.
Reval, Riga and Kovno are full OF
furious Bolshevik extremists. who
have been kicked out For when Mos
cow takes to it's bosom-as 1t has done
capitalists like Mr.. Leslie Urquhart
and Col. Boyle of the Shell Oil, it can
not expect the old, hard bitten Boil
shevik fanatic to remain within the
fold. though when that type gets put
out II will naturally develop an ex
treme hatred of the Moscow Govern
ment and profess to be anti-Bol
shevik
The New York herald., 1922-09-24

shevik industrialism is the fact that
though few factories are now working
there is overproduction owing to the
fact that the people are too poor 70
absorb the very limited number or ar
ticles manufactured. The existence of
this almost incredible state OF things
has been proved not only in full and
elaborate statistics which were sub
mitted to mo in Berlin but also in a
series of articles published recently by
the Bolshevik economic journal Eco
H0niic Life. which has shown in com
parative tables that Industrial produc-
ton in every Injection, leather,
thread, iron, coal, etc.-has been delib-
erately cut down by the Soviet Gov
ernment because of this overproduc-
tion. Even boots accumulated In the
factories because the people were un-
able to buy them even at the low
prices demanded and the most indis-
pensable articles were similarly and
for the same reason left unbought
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
No Market in Russia
Now for American Goods

This knocks on the head the con-
tention of those who maintained that
Russia was hungry for every kind Of
American manufactured goods. Russia
cannot buy even her own manufac-
tured goods. so that If an American
manufacturer dumps down in Petro-
grad a cargo Of his wares. those wares
will never be sold. Russia is in the
position of q patient recovering from
a severe illness: she can hardly digest
even a spoonful OF milk daily so that
it is nonsense to think that she can
tackle large quantities Of solid food.
Consequently America might recog-
nize Russia de facto and de iure and
heavily subsidize American merchants
trading with Russia, but for many
years to come this will do no percep-
tible good. and the economic situation
will remain much where it is to-day.
Ii is certain that the economic recov-
cry OF Russia will be very slow pro-
cess. Why, at present Russia is even
importing grain, though. ten years
ago. she could export enough grain to
feed all Europe.
On this point the American State
Department has always been pessi-
mistic and right, while the enthusias-
tic Lloyd George has been invariably
wrong. Early In 1920 he even spoke
In the House of Commons about the
bursting corn-bins" OF Russia. but
the present famine and the present
import Of grain show that he had mis-
Judged the situation completely. Even
now he Is still too enthusiastic The
opening up OF Russia In the fullest
manner will have no effect whatever
on the general economic situation in
Europe for the next ten years. ON the
contrary Russia will, during that time
need to be fed and supported by tho
outside world. She will be hindrance
instead Of a help.
This, at all events. is the view taken
by many people including disappointed
American communists like Mr.. Ano-
phreus Karalas. There are well In
formed and impartial men who take a
more hopeful view. and | shall shortly
let them speak for themselves in the
columns OF THE NEW YORK HERALD,
leaving the readers Of that paper to
form their own conclusions from all
these pata.
The New York herald., 1922-09-24
Soviet Has Spent All
It's Hoard of Gold

The Bolshevik Government has now
spent practically all It's gold and has
only fifty million pounds sterling ESQ.,
900. .O0O) of platinum. and jewelry
Grown, Church and confiscated pri-
vate property, worth perhaps another
fifty millions. That will not go far.
and neither England nor any other
country can advance loans to Soviet.
England had undertaken at Genoa to
finance It's own merchants doing Rus
sian trade TO the extent of 30,00000
pounds, and IL has new agreed to raise
this figure to 90,000000; but this will
only be advanced to approved British
concerns and the Moscow Government
will get none of II. That Government
will therefore find itself in the awk-
ward position OF being penniless while
British firms establishing themselves
in the country will have plenty Of
money; and its strong and justifable
suspicion that under such an arrange
ment a Government must eventually
lose all moral and material power over
its own citizens accounts for the ex-
treme insistence with which at Genoa,
Tchitcherin, Litvinov, and Rakovsky
claimed a direct loan from Ga eat Brit
ain.
They thought then, and they still
think. that such loan is matter of
life and death to them as a Govern
ment. The only scheme OF theirs which
looks at all hopeful is the Cooperative
Scheme, but, unfortunately. these Co
Operatives are not independent organ
izations, being completely under the
thumb of the Soviet which appoints
tie majority of the members. The
Moscow Government has been advanc-
ing gold TO them for trading purposes.
and seeks through them to establish
a system of Government Capitalism" /"
Back to capitalism under the aegis
of the proletarian dictatorship" Is now
the cry.
A very curious development OF Boil
The New York herald., 1922-09-24

record shows him to be an opportunist
rather than the out and out conserva-
tive or liberal. In the late war Cyril
was commander of the Guard ma
rines. When the revolution broke ou.
and the provisional Government was
set up Cyril overnight sought TO
adapt himself to the new order Of
things. lie marched his marines over
to the Winter Palace and declared al
legiance to the new Government. This
was an act which many good Russian
monarchists, regard as am unpardon-
able betrayal of the Romanofts. Incl
dentally he was one of the few pas
sengers saved on a Russian cruiser
sunk by the Japanese in the early
part of the Russian Japanese war.
Dmitry, on the other hand, fulfills
most of the requirements of the Rus
sian monarchists. Many years before
the war. when it was uncertain
whether the son of the Car would ever
reign, Dmitry was regarded as pos
sible successor to Michel. Dmitry Is
popular as one of the conspirators
with Prince Yousoupoff, who partici-
pated in breaking up the fantastic
camarilla about Rasputin. sharing in
his assassination. He has never mixed
much in politics. but has let it be un-
derstood that he stands pretty much
for all the principles of divine rights
which the house of Romanoft and its
supporters have always represented.
Neither of these pretenders to the
crown Of All the Russas can be said
to represent a definite political pro-
gram which can be classified specifi-
cally as conservative or liberal. Alle-
glance is divided even inside the vari-
Gus monarchist parties.
In the Russian monarchist move
ment are two very distinct tendencies
which may be defined as absolutist
monarchist and constitutionalist mon
archist. In the circles of the 9abso-
lutists are the remnants of the court.
the old land owners who have lost
their property and most of the officers
of the old army. Their ideal can be
summed up as a return to the old or