Arizona republican., 1922-03-29


valiss Contains Small Fortune
Noted Police Commissioner Dies
Railroad Strikers Ineits Hlot
CHICAGO, March st-Home sellers
are paying more attention to home
cellars this year than even before
according to exhibitors at Chicago's s
second annual .'own your own home"
exposition at the Coliseum. No 1922
collar is considered complete without
its work room
Every man who looks over our
plans evinces a lively interest in the
layout Of the cellar" one exhibitor
says "They all speak of needing
room in the basement for a work
room But when I ask them what
kind Of work they want to do. they
hedge"
Cellar plans, with the accompany
ing plans for higher floors. are only
one of the features of the exhibit. A
fun sized house. styled the beautiful
home convenient" has been erected
in the Coliseum, surrounded by a
formal garden. with real grass, trees
ard shrubs.
WAsHINGTON, March 2s-Secre-
tary Mellon has written Henry
Ford inquiring as to the reported
return of s29.000.000 in war profits to
the country by the Detroit manufac-
turer, IT was said today al the treas
ury.
Reports that Mr.. Ford had made
- on o.
were understood to have been in
veStigated by the treasury, which was
unable to late the reported fund.
Mir. Mellon. it was said. had re-
ceived an acknowledgment of his
letter from Mr.. ForCl's secretary juct
before Mr.. Ford left for the south,
but it was understood that an ex-
PLANTATION OF the reported transaction
had not yet been made.
OTTAWA, Ont, March IS s-Prohi-
bition advocates today called on
Premier King to make all OF Canada
bone dry.
The premier promised that the sug-
session for dominion wide measure
10 supp1ant provincial liquor laws
would receive careful consideration
BY the cabinet, but that no such
measure would be introduced at the
present session OF the house OF con-
mons
Explaining that his ministers had
hardly enough time to familiarize
themselves with their problems, the
premier added that for his own part
he did not favor prohibition in any
thing, although he fasvors temperance
III everything. He assured the dele
the government would do everything
it could to foster the temperance
move and in assisting the provinces
TO enforce the laws as they now stood.
ANs
NEW YORK. March ga small
~ valise left last Saturday in the
office Of the Editor and Publisher in
the Pulitzer building by John @. r..
Rainers. messenger and former sa
loonkeeper. who was found dead sun
day morning on the main floor, was
opened today and was found to con-
tain notes and securities worth nearly
$3.50, 900.
Reiners, who was past 40, jumped
or fell III stories. He shared an Of
flee in the building with G. A. Wick,
4 lawyer and an old friend. whose
death last week was said to have af-
fected him greatly.
When Reiners left the valise in the
office OF the Editor and Publisher.
he remarked If anything happens,
open this bag"
No particular significance. however,
was attached to the remark at the
time. Among papers in the valise
was Reiners will, naming Is bene-
ficiaries Maui NJ. Reiners of Jersey
IT~1n nd fer fxf
Newark. The will stated he intended
10 adopt Miss Ludwig rs his daugh-
ter when she became is.
The greater part OF the property
found in the valise consisted of rail-
road, mining and coal stocks.
BOSTON, March 2s-Police Com
~ missioner Edwin Upton Curtis,
who was generally credited with hay
ing fought the police strike of Sep
tennber, 1919. to a successful finish,
died suddenly this afternoon at his
home here. He had been in poor
health for some time but was at his
office this forenoon.
Commissioner Curtis, a former
mayor, was appointed police commits
Sioner in December. 1918. When the
police strike came,~ nearly a year
later. Commissioner Curtis immedi-
ateiy notified the striking patrolmen
that they would not be reinstated.
In telling Governor Coolidge. now
vice president. that he intended to
bar the strikers from further service,
Il was said that the commissioner
also gave notice that he wanted the
support of the commonwealth or was
ready to resign. Governor Coolidge's
famous claw and order proclama-
tion was subsequently made
Mr.. Curtis was born In Boston on
March 26. 1861.
LAGERSTOWN, Md, March rs
Rioting broke out in yards of the
western Maryland railroad late TO-
nirht. when an attempt was said 70
have been made by non union em-
ployes to turn an engine. Members
of the Federated Shops CraIts and
~ the maintenance OF ways empioyes
unions. who went on strike last sat
urday because OF wage reductlons
,rere said to have intcrfered with the
,an.,,l7ion workers and railway
-,Iards were declared to have dis
gharred rcvolvers in an effort TO quell
fbe disturbance. One man was re-
norted to have been wounded.
the rioting. however continued
u-ith no sign OF abating. Railroad
afficials were understood 10 nave
',a,oy y1,,nicated with their general Of
c,nes a. Baltimore with the posi-
bsIitv that state troops might pe
called for
HoFoyonS Bureau To