Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-23
NEWS
BY A. P. WIRE

(By The Associated PreSS1 The six
United States army airplanes which
arrived here from San Antonio, Tex,
on Monday, took off on their return
trip to the United States at 1915
o'clock this morning.
WASHINGTON, March 2S.-The
United States Steel Corporation,
through its subsidiary, the United
States Steel Products Company, may
continue to operate steamships
through the Panama canal, under a
decision today by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-An
order was issued today by the Inter
Commerce Commission requiring all
railroads to report by May as to
thei earnings during the year 1922
and to pay over to the government
under the transportation act, one
half of the amount by which such
earnings exceeded a six per cent on
the value of the Investment.
, WASHINGTON, March 23.-Rail-
road rates on export and import
commodities moving between CEN
tral portions of the United States
, and the ports of Boston, Fall River,
| New Bedford, New London. Port
| land, Me, and Providence, are just
and reasonable in the opinion of an
examiner of the Interstate Com
nerce Commission. who filed his re-
port on complaints of the New Eng
| land cities.
| NEW YORK. Mar. 23:-Confrma-
| ton today of reports that the sup
| had written number of letters to
! Dorothy keenan, under the name of
| "Jack' served to revive the theory
! that back of the models murder lay
a plot to blackmaii her elderly ad-
mirer.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. Mar. % (By
| The Associated Press ):-William z.
| Fosters defense against charges of
i criminal syndicalism, growing out of
| his attendance at the Communist
convention last summer, opened to-
day with an attack on the reputation
and credibility of ''K-97," the gov
ernment agent who attended the
convention as a delegate.
WASHINGTON. Mar. ga re-
quest that the federal government
commence prosecutions against
J William z. Foster and eleven other
| alleged radicals" and investigate
the acts of Frank P. Walsh and eight
| others declared to have been associ-
ated with various radical movements
! in this country, was filed with the
| Department of Justice today by the
representatives of a number of or
!ganizations interested in law enforce
/ ment.
! DETROIT, Mich, March ga (By
! the Associated Press Official con-
| firmation today at the offices of
Henry Ford at Dearborn today that
/ the automobile Elanufa acturer had
| purchased 10000 acres of unde-
/ veloped coal land IN kentucky, was
coupled with the statement that Mr..
/ Ford intended to solve the country s
coal problems ''by using every piece
of coal twice"
MEMPHIS, Tenn. March 23 (By
The Associated Press) Clarence
Saunders, president of the Piggy
settle with New York traders who
sold the corporation short" on the
basis of 500 a share.
NEW YORK. March e8-Two
brothers probably VIII be a.raigned
! TODAY 5efS. United Stares Com
| missioner Hitchcock on a long list
| OF serious charges whose gist is that
they trisd and failed to b. be two
high prohibition officials to connive
in the release of ten million dollars
worth Ct whiskey from Brooklyn
! warehouse.
/ NEW YORK, March 23.-Omcial
/ denial that Miss Stella Larrim ore,
nineteen-year-o1d actress and sister
| of Franoine Larrimore, Broadway
| star, was guilty of intimate relations
! with Lou Tellegen. was made today
I by her counsel at a hearing in the
| divorce suit brought against the ac-
/ tor by Geraldine Farrar. former
/ prima donna Of the Metropolitan
! Opera Company.
WASHINGTON, March 2S. -
! Charges that there is a conspiracy in
/ the sugar trade to raise prices were
said at the department of justice
today to be of sufficient gravity TO
warrant a preliminary inquiry by
the federal governments legal Of
, ficers. A conference was arranged
between Acting Attorney General
Seymour and Secretary Hoover with
a view of joint action,
| CONDEMNATION HEARING
CONTINUED HERE TODAY