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Bisbee daily review., 1922-03-25
|ND|CT FORMER
 DRY DIRECTOR
Prohibition Director and 46 Others Are Charged With
 Conspiracy to Defraud

PHILADELPHIA. Mar. 24.-Wil- liam c. Mcconnell, former federal prohibition director for Pennsylvania, and prominent in Pennsylvania poli- tics, and 46 others, including sever al associates of Mcconnell while he was prohibition director were fndict. led late today by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to defraud the United States government in the fraudulent issuance of permits to withdraw liquor from bond.
 The indictments were returned Rf- ter a grand jury investigation of the alleged release of 100000 gallons of whiskey and alcohol to bootleggers during the 70 day regime of McCon- nell as head of the prohibition law en- forcement staff in Pennsylvania.
 Samuel B. Wolfe. former chief of the Pittsburg prohibition office under Mcconnell, and JaEob Slonaker, chief group head of endorsements agents in Philadelphia under Leo A. Crossen, McConnell's predecessor, all so were indicted, togther with two score of alleged bootleggers and truck men charged with being ac- complices in the alleged conspiracy.
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P|CKPOCKETS BUSY DURING
 RUN ON BANK
Run on Chicago Bank Halted; Pickpockets Make Hauls
 Among Depositors

CHICAGO, Mar. 24--Pickpoekets plying thir trade in acrowd of 2000 deposltors who stormed the North. western. Trust & Savings Bank today, followirfg circulation of rumors that the bank was insolvent, robbed two aged women of their savings of q lifetime.
 Police reports say a Polish woman, whose name was not learned. lost $2,000 when a man snatched her hand bafi as he left the bank, and dis appeared in the crowd.
 One hundred policemen, % armed with rifles, who were on duty at the bank to keep order in the surging crowd of depositors, failed to find the man, and in the excitement the vic tim disappeared.
 Later, Mrs l.. Zukowski reported to bank officials that a pickpocket stole $700 she had just withdrawn.
 The run was halted this afternoon after the 2,000 depositors had filed past teller's cage in which $1,1OO,- 900 in currency lay piled on the coun- ters. The federal reserve bank and two local banks sent $1, $50, 1000 to the bank in armored cars during the day, and the Continental and Commercial Bank offered $20.00O.0 900 if needed.
 The clearing house and federal re- serve bank both issued statements de- claring the bank Is sound and the ru- mors false.
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would provide for an embargo against German dyes in the event of dumping in the American market or unfair prac tices by foreign manufacturers.
 The wool schedule in the bill finally has been completed A comparison of the rates agreed upon and those con tained in the Payne-Aldrich law is diff ficult because of difference in classi- fication. but some tsenators said the basic rate of 8. cents q pound. clean content. would afford greater mea- sure of protection to raw wool produ- cers than did the rates in the Payne Aldrich law The new rates on manu- factured wools, senators said, were in many cases lower than those in the famous schedule Ki
 After brief session today, commit tee Republicans heard several west ern senators, whot presented argu- ments for protection for dairy pro ducts, fats and ollss against what they characterized as Ideally" Oriental and South Seas competition. ~
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Ford Declares 40. Hour Week in All.
 Works of Company.
Employees Will Receive Same Minimum Wage; New Men
 to Start at Pre-War Scale

DETRIOT, Mar. 24.-Adoption of the 40 hour work week as a perma- nent policy at plants of the Ford Mo- tor company was announced tonight by Edsel B. Ford, president of the company Under the new plan. the factories will be closed on Saturday and Sunday, and, about 5000 men will be added to the force. The change wEIl affect approximately 5O,000 employees, who will continue to receive the minimum SC a day wage, but will work five eight hour days weekly.
 New employees, however. will re- ceive the minimum of Sc daily, the pre-war scvale.
 In making the announcement, Ford said he had reached the conclusion the 40 hour week was practical. that the additional day of rest would irove great benefit to the workers, and that the production schedules oi tho Ford industries could be SO ar ranged as to maintain the present output on the companys desire to afford It's workers every opportunity to develop their home fife and profit by steady work with ample leisure, as we'll as to provide work for more of the city's unemployed, Ford said.
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MINERS TO ASK N-UN|ON|STS
 ID JOIN RANKS
Unions Propose Complete Tie Up by Asking Non-Union
 Men to Join in Strike
STRIKE VOTE SOLID
Consent to Operating Mines Whenever Necessary to
 Meet Emergencies

CLEVELAND, Mar. 24.--A complete tie-up of the nations entire coal in- dustry by 100000 non-union miners joining the nations solid ranks of q half million union workers. was the program adopted tonight by the gen. eral policy committee of the United Mine Workers of America for the ne- tion wide strike set for April 1.
 By a unanimous vote of it's 115 members, the committee affirmed the policy of n general suspension of un- ion workers, which prohibited the con summation of single state agreements, and followed this by directing district union officials to ask all non.union men to join the strike. The unanimlty of action late in the day permitted . final adjournment tonight, although the committee had planned to con tinue sessions tomorrow.
 The resolution for an immediate cnll to the non.union men als provided that the international and district
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WANDERS INTO
 HOSPITAL; WAS
 AMNES|A CASE
Talented Musician, Linguist Is Stricken With Amnesia
 by Broadway Lights

NEW YORK, Mar. 24.-A mothers fearful recognition of her year old daughter today revealed to Bellvue Hospital authorities the Identity af Mrs. John H. Kirgan, talented musi- clan and liaquist, who was stricken with amnesia last night as she em- erged from a Broadway theatre and faced the glare of the Great White Way.
 The woman wandered into the Roosevelt Hospital about midnight and asked the doctors to help her find uot who she was and where she lived. She could remember every thing but her namo and address, she ssldi Hen case was diagnosed as amnesia and she was taken to Belle vue for observation.
 While her husband, a Brooklyn contractor, and her daughter, Betty, were searching frantically for her, Mrs. Kirgan played the piano at Bel uevue to prove that she was an artist and composer. Then she conversed with the doctors in English, French, German, and Dutch to verify her claims to mastery of those languages. Her son had sung her own version of
 AVG Mdrld aI St. fdlIlchb Cdln' edral last October 16. she said, but she could not recall his name.
 Whenever she tried to pierce the veil which clouded her own identity, Mrs. Kirgan would cover her eyes and shriek from the pains which, she said seemed to pierce her head. Remem. bering that his wife had been treated at Bellevue for amnesia % years ago, Kirgan and his daughter went there today to look for her.
 Not a flicker of recognition cross ed the womans face when her hus- band walkind into the room. But when she saw her daughter tears fill led her eyes and she cried: That's Bettyl And now. remember. 1 am Angelina Kirgan."
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CH|CO'S GHOST
 HAS PISSED UP
Missile Throwing Ghost Has Confessed to Being Inventor
 of Rock Throwing Machine

CHICO, Calif., Mar. 24-Confession of responsibility for the rock showers, which for nearly five weeks have mys- tified residents of this town, is con tained in letter signed Ghost" re- ceived by the authorities today, and considered by them as meriting some credence.
 q have little invention whereby l can shoot near he mark at 500 yards" the letter stated 'I elevate the rocks most of the time to about 200 yards. That is the reason they appear to come straight down.
 Tell the colored lady that she is mistaken" it continued, referring to negro woman's alleged spiritualistic explanation of the rock showers. "She didn't know any more about it than you did and that was nothing. Also that fellow Jones Ga psychic in- vestigator) from Frisco. l was stand ing by him when he was introduced to the city officials.
 T may drop a few rocks today as farewell token"
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HALT SENATE
 BUSINESS ID
 PRESENT BILL
Bonus Measure Presented in Senate by House Clerk
 in Formal Manner
GREETED WITH SMILES
Is Sent to Committee; Smoot Says Measure Will Likely
 Be Materially Changed

WASHINGTON, Mar. Scarcely had the senate finished It's fight over the four power treaty today when the house placed the long contoverted soldiers bunus bill in It's lap.
 Senate business was halted for the presentation of the measure which was accomplished with the usual for mality, Appearing in the midst of a controversy as to the time for taking up the nxet of the series of treaties, the house clerk was escorted part way down the center aisle by the clerk of the senate, who announced:
 MT. President, q message from the house of representatives"
 Immediately, recognized by Senator Wadsworth, Republican. New York. who was presiding, the house clerk made a deep bow.
 "Mr. President" ho said, q am dir ected by the .house of representatives to inform tho senate tlint the house has passed IT. R. l0,874, 10 provide
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MAID CREATES
 IMPAIRMENT BY .
 PERT REPLIES
Hotel Maid Furnishes Cause For Laugh During Trial
 of Fatty Arbuckle

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 24.-Nrs. Josephine Keza, witness for the pros ecutuion in the third trial Of Roscoe Arbuckl on a manslarghter charge furnished cause for laugh today when she told defense counsel in cross-examination: !" don't think I'll answer any more questions"
 "Who told you not to answer any more questions?" queried Gavin Mc- Nab, chief defense counsel
 CT told myself" replied the witness. "I don't speak the English language very we'll"
 Defense counsel suggested that an interpreter be secured to translate the questions into Polish, Mrs. Keza 8 native tongue, but as one was not available. the defense satisfied itself with a brief cross.examination. Hotel St. Francis, testified that she was a work on the floor which Arbucle's suite was located tho 6f. ternoon of the party which proceed cd the death of Miss Virginia Rappe, film actress. She said that between 2 and 2:30 o'clock, she passed Ar. buckles room and heard woman exclaim:
 "Oh, my God! No; No!" and a mans voice answer: Shut up!"
 Questions as to how she determin. ed the exact time at which she heard the exclamations eiicited the wit. ness mirth provoking announcement.
 She was followed on the stand by Harry Boyle, assistant manager of the Hotel St. Francis, who testified that when summoned to Arbuckle's suite Labor Day, he found Miss Rappe seni-nude and apparently un-
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NJ ALLIANCE
 RESERVATION
 INCLUDED IN FINAL DRAFT
All Amendments are Defeated Excepting No Alliance
 Declaration
BLOC STANDS s OLD
Ilrreconcilable Element Forces B Roll Calls During
 4-Hour Session

WASHINGTON. Mar. 24.-The four power Pacific treaty. the center of controversy over accomplishments of the Washington arms conference, was ratified by the senate today with no reservation except the mo alliance" declaration proposed by the foriegn relations committee. and ac- cepted by President Harding.
 The final vote of e to 27. repre- senting a margin of four over the necessary two thirds, was recorded after the opponents ratification had made moro than 20 unsuccessful at- tempts to qualify senate action by reservations or amendments dis taateful to the administration. On the deciding roll call, l2 Democrats voted for the treaty, and only four Republicans opposed it.
 Dying hard, the irroconcilable ele- ment, which had opposed the treaty on tha ground that it- establishes an alliances between the United states Great Rritian. Japan and France. forced 33 roll calls during a four and Q half hour session set aside for final action on the resolution og rntif'ca. tion. They made their best show ing on a proposed reservation to in- vito outside powers into Pacific "con. ferences" affecting their interests. mastering S6 votes for the'proposal. to 55 in opposition.
 The committed reservAtion was ac- cepted in the end by a vote of % to 2, two attempts to modify lt failing
 
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WOMAN KILLS
 HERSELF; HAD
 PLANNED SUIT
Attorney Says Had Refused to Act on What He Termed
 Alleged Blackmail Plot

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 24.-A dec laration that Mrs. Emeilly Britain, who killed heself here last night af- ter having been arrested in an apart ment where Arthur Bowen. oil oper- ator of Oklohoma. New Mexico and Texas. was found sick in bed. had planned suit against q prominent resident of this city, was made to- day by N B. Nelson. attorney.
 Nelson said Mrs. Britain sever al months ago had asked him to act for her in what he termed an alleged blackmall plot"
 "I did not like the looks of the proposed suit" said the attorney, "and I told her I would have nothing to do with 1t"
 Detectives said Mrs. Britain had police records in San Francisco. Frss- no and Los Angeles. and at the time of her death had pending in Fresno a suit for $15,O00 against William Hanke, of Sanger. Calf. growing out Fresno under the name of Emily Samb.
 Her arrest here was in the con- nection with the theft of liquors val ued at $5,000 from a Hollywood res dence last November
 Just before the detectives reached the apartment, Bowen told them, Mrs. Britain had been threatening bim with a pistol in an effort to se- cure his signature to contract to marry her when his wife, now in El Paso, had obtained a divorce from him.
 The police are holding Bowen pend ing conclusion of their investigation.
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2OO MEN HAVE MARROW ESCAPE
 IN EXPLOSION
Day Shift Emerges from Shaft Few Minutes Before; Have
 No Knowledge of Cause
? MINERS ARE INJURED
Helmet Crews Still on Search For Bodies of Missing Men;
 Big Crowd Gathers

TRINIDAD, Colo, Mar. 24.--Nine men are known to have perished and nine others are missing as result of an explosion which occurred at the Sopris mine No. of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, near here, late today.
 Eight bodies were recovered from the mine early this evening and were identified. The ninth body, rescued at g:l5 tonight. had not been iden- tified nt Q late hour.
 Helmet crews still were continuing their efforts to bring other bodies From tha mine.
 According Co company officials, there were iS men inside the shaft at the time of the accident, the cause of which had not been determined late tonight.
 Only few minutes before the ex- plosion. 200 men. comprising the en- tire day shin, had emerged from the mine.
 The bodies SO far recovered iden. titled are those of:; Rudolph Paska, Felix Masle. Guisseppi (Joe) Bouato, Pete Mural. Antonio Bertetto, Fran. rlsco Amatis. Odelon Serrano, and Miguel Candillo.
 The explosion took place in the lmain workings. 5000 or more feet in. and most Of the missing men are believed to be from a000 to 5000 feet inside of the mine. Two of tho four bodies recovered were found near the entrance of the mine.
 J. D. Cunico und Joo Brennan,
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Icause or spiritual Generalization of the community" and declared that tt could not be laid entirely to the war but to a tendency before that peoriod toward "a certan moral laxity, a shift. ing of standards, weakening of the sterner fibres." In his experiences of a year in the White House. he said,
 mere has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which exists a. mong many of our citizens"
 q hold it to be menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish" he asserted.
 Declaring his belief in the part which religious reverance has played in American achievement the presl- dent added:
 If I were to utter prayer for this republic tonight, it would be to con secrete us in religious devotion and make us aVluingly a God fearing, God loving people"
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FORMER VILLA OFFICER
 SURRENDERS TO TROOP

FL PASO, Tex, Mar. 24.-Rosalio Hernandez, former chief of staff for Francisco Villa. has surrendered to General J. A. Almazan, commander of the federal troops at Chihuahua City. Hernandez, with a small band of fol- lowers, revolted against the federal government six weeks ago following the killing of his two sons in a street fight between civilians and police at Santa Rosalia, Chihuahua.
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PRINCESS FATIMA IN
 TROUBLE ONCE AGAIN

NEW YORK, Mar. 24. - Another mishap today was jotted down in the dairy of Princess Fatima, who came to America, bejeweled, last summer, and who is now in secluslon with hardly a cent to her name.
 The latest mishap was judgment for $2.000. awarded M. s. Dave, jew eler, by Supreme Court Justice Finch. The judgment was to cover a promis- sory note given the jeweler last August.
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HOPE ID FIND
 WAY TO PATCH '
 CODE MUDDLE
Senate Adjourns Hoping That Time Will Find Way Out of
 Financial Code Muddle

PHOENIX, ArlE. Mar. 24. - The senate adjourned late today until Mon day in the hope that meanwhile some way might be discovered to extricate Senate Bill 43. the financial code. from the muddle into which 1t has sunk. i.
 No Indication of the tenseness of the situation was apparent until a mo ton was made to adjourn until tomor- row morning. Senator Sims offered an amendment to-the motion and pro-
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NECESSARY TO PATROL BORDER

WASHINGTON, Mar. 24-Necessity of adequately patrolling the Mexican border with American troops was em- phasized today in the house during consideration of the army appropria- tion bill by Representative Hudspeth and Representative Garner, Demo- crats, whose districts in Texas em- brace part of the territory contiguous to Mexico.
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COPPER PRICES

Av. month Feb. .... .12S64 Ay. week Mar. 1 ... .1251S75 Ay'se week 3-S'22 .1255625 Average week 6. 15. 22. l2629
 Average week end 2. %. 1922
 Close week end3.22.22. 12625
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THE WEATHER

Arizona: Fair Saturday Sunday; warmer Saturday southeast portions.
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hold a southwestern exposition where
livestock, automobiles AID various
products would be exhibited. 1t is
planned to invite companies in west
Texas, Mexico and Arizona to take
part, and for the show to be free to
the visitors.
W. w. Turney, former president of
the association, has been made a mem
Der of the local committee on enter
tainment, and announce a series of
trips down the valley over the city
land to Juarez and dinners and ban
quets for the delegates.
Cyrus B. Lucas, of Berclair, is pres
ident of the Texas and Southwestern
Cattle Raisers' association. Cattle
are expected here from Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona, California Colorado,
Oklahoma, Kansas and probably other
| states. ~.
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1906.
The experimenters set up an ap-
paratus, called the interferometer. to
register and trace the drift of the
ether current-if such a thing exists.
They failed to register any evidence
Of ether moving.
From this, Einstein drew the con-
clusion that there was no ether drift
nor any ether for that matter. From
this basis he worked on to his other
conclusions. He cited the experiment
as decisive proof of the theory of
RELATIVELY as opposed to the abso.
lute'''
1t was later suggested that as the
experiment was carried on in a room
close to the earth's surface, the. ether
inside would be carried along with
the room.
Professor Miller, who worked in the
original research, again performed the
experiment in 1920 and 1921, this
time On the top of Mt. Wilson, Cal, al
a height Of 5000 feet. The result was
opposite to the first findings, and
seemed to disprove Einstein's conten
ton. Other new and unexplainable
results were obtained
Professor Miller is repeating the ex
periments. He seeks by this review
to make an Interpretation for Oh
against the Einstein theory.
"At present, the conclusion should
seem to be against Einstein, thus dis
proving his theory" says Professor
Miller. But do not feel justified il
making this conclusion until am able
to explain certain new peculiaritie:
which have come to light in the
course of the experiment"
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1922-12-24
YOUN { ARTIST
WILL NOT TAKE
N|FE'S MONEY
Engaged to Girl With Forty
Millions, Says He'll Earn
Enough to Support Her
BY ROY ]. GIBBONS

ST. CHARLES, Ill. Dec. "a
Through an early marriage, Lester
Norris, son of the town undertaken
here, who's just turned % and
draws pictures for q living, hopes
to bridge the golden gulf of wealth
which stands between him and Del
lora Angel, 20, his s4O,OOeO0O heir
ess bride-to-be.
That's why the ceremony will be
performed early next spring, instead
of waiting several more years. until
Lucky Les" as the townsfolk here
call him, can advance sufficiently in
his art work to enjoy an increase in
his present "s5O-a-week more or less
salary" as he puts it,
Asked how it felt to be engaged to
the worlds richest girl. the young
ster declared that a love such as
theirs should no longer be permit
ted to further brave the perils and
barriers of money.
Other fellows with girls they are
planning to marry. should feel happy
that their sweethearts haven't the
wealth that my Dellora has" he said
Because of money, I almost lost
her-foolish that | was, We had
grown up in st. Charles together as
kids. We went to the same school
and church, and she was my girl.
l planned for the day when | could
make her my wife.
Then one day came the news,
that she had been made heiress TO
all the fortune of her uncle, Beta
Million John w. Gates.
Il was glad for her of course. But
my heart turned sad. How could 1
ever ask her to marry me, when she
had so much and l so comparatively
I little? \
1T was thoughts like this that
kept me from proposing TO her. and.
then when I did stir up enough cour-
/ age to ask the question, / die ic
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