Arizona republican., 1922-04-03

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ROSToN, April 2-Police were called
tonight to quell an anti Irish
free state demonstration In Faneuil
hail where General Pierce BeaslaI
and other members of the Irish free
state commission spoke at meeting
planned as a welcome to the visitors.
The meeting was thrown into a
turmoil and a still greater disturb
ance was created in the streets out
side the hall. A crowd of several
thousand persons gathered and set
up a bedlRm of booing against the
free state representatives inter-
Spersed with cheers for De Valera.
Due TO the intercession of General
Beaslai no arrests were made.
At the conclusion of the meeting
the following cablegram to Griffith
and Collins was read and approved:
Citizens of Massachusetts in mass
meeting assembled in Faneuil hail.,
Boston, the cradle of American
liberty, to welcome commission rep
reSenting the Irish government, eX-
tend greetings and best wishes TO
Collins and Griffith and sincerely
hope that their efforts TO build up a
free and prosperous nation VIII be
crowned with success.
RROoKLINE,, Mass, April e.-The
Rev. Edwin Curtis, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Brook
line sat in the congregation today,
listened to a sermon by minister
assigned by the Boston Presbytery
and heard one of the church trustees
read from the pulpit call for a con-
sregational meeting on April II TO
decide whether the church withdraw
from the Boston Presbytery. The
meeting also will consider changing
the name of the church TO the First
Independent Presbyterian church OF
Brookline.
The church has been split for some
time over the question of retaining
Mr.. Curtis as pastor and recently the
Boston Presbytery compelled him to
retire from the church at the end of
q his years probationary period, which
expired yesterday. At the meeting of
the Presbytery at which this vote was
taken, witnesses told of the pastor
having baptised a dog and of having
asked what they considered frivolous
blessings on food served at the lodg-
ing house where he was boarding.
NEW YORK, April 2.-Raidins an
apartment house in Chinatown
early today. detectives of the mar
cotic squad arrested a white woman
known as the queen of Chinatown
and her Chinese husband and seized
drugs valued at many thousands OF
dollars, cached in a secret closet of
their expensively furnished house.
They found ten white girls living
as the wives of Orientals in the house.
The raid revealed, they said, an i'm
portant distributing center for opium.
The ''Queen of Chinatown" ques-
toned by DIR. Carleton Simon, chief
of the narcotic squad, disclosed a
marriage with Chom Gnu seven years
a ago, when she was Is years old.
Pretty and expensively attired, she
told DR.. Simon she maintained three
apartments but denied knowledge of
the drugs found. She and her hus-
band were held pending q hearing.
pATTEN, Maine, April 2--Wildcats
have wrought havoc with the
deer in Maines north woods this
winter. big John" Mitchell. chief fire
warden of Penobscot county. said
after an extensive tour, where evil
deEces Of wholesale slaughter by the
bob cats were found
Deep snow has sealed the doom OF
hundreds of deer. according to Nit
cheI. In trying to escape from the
cats, the deer broke through the
snow and floundered helplessly while
their pursuers of lighter build,
travelled on the crust and overlook
their quarry.
BOSTON, April 2.-While doctors
patched up his injured back and
hand today Thomas LAWN of East
WaIpole. related how an empty au-
tomobile hearse had chased him ~
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