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TEN PAGES TODAY. : PR1CE: FIVE CENTS
VOL. CXVII. NO. ?0.
TEN PAGES TODAY.
MEASURE STARTS
Senator Jones Threatens To
Have All Night Senate
Sessions
SENATOR OVERMAN MAY
VISIT NATIONAL PARKS
Congressman Pon Says Cram
. ton Bill ToSecure Infor
mation About Liquor For
Diplomats Sham Measure ;
Mayor Cowan Thanks
Solons
The News ami Observer fl(irra:i
4- Iis!rir Nattcm! Hunk ltblg.
By KI)WARl E. "BRITTON
(H.V Upoeinl lased Wire)
Washington, Kelp. IS. jt is now
p.. case of getting down to bras
tacks in Hut matter of the ship sub
aidy bill in dealing with the matter
in t lie Senate, and cvcrv ounce o
t-.reiigt'j Ilia. the Administration ran
muster M in ing; pill into piny i" i
"ldrivr 1h:it jritt Tf the pcoirlv's numeyj
to private inter, t into thi! logts-
lativu record of the guveniiiicti,'. I
in ii f 1 1 r m lu itiLT I'llt inlii 1'iiiy In
Mil'liin llin l-nsiiiit'' tun unkl tit
thing "Ttrijs '" tfsW" 'Tr: "'It' Mwtk4
t .r ,.,,L.. ,.1' I.., II, tli,. ni'V r
fcuralu -and the n t. Ibm is Mi'li
that :!' - lid !( b- I'iu f-Jijjl' '
; h,.i I4iif prt -m-heine vyi 1'rei
il'flt Jlniding to jp't on the statute
Tiook.'.
Senator .Inites, o!" S .i!,litntuii, (lit
vet itui'M of tli'J Harding lxisker
onp'iiitf. ii deyper:ile dot the otit
look. The mailer is gettini; on hi-.
1 -res. and he Hliwvfi it. I'mially i'l
the mild voiced tvif of speaker lie
ia showing the strain thnt is on him
by ;ettiu red in Ho- I'.n-e every
now and t!ien and ?,!ieiitiM ferlh
lii views and delei mi n i' ion to jje'
the tiling throuirh. Hi-i thrrtit of
i i'il sew-iona lias been made at
vari'Mx times and now he realizes
1H.it if -must be put into eflVet if
tliero is to be any ehan.-e. to jet the
bill to a vote. In less the forecast
Cis me all v.rons, the bill ill
TPliiere is ever a vo'.e on it in time.
linieiidiiients, eoneur in them. an. I
lioot (hit bill through to final pas-
ea'e. 'rmii Moiulay until Satunliiy
hsiglit two necks off, the calendar
l(,iiovv) but 1'-' drya, anil there is a
rinmmv per.piratioa on the brows
tif Senator Jones, Shipping Board
t'liaifBian Tjasker, and President
Harding a' they count the days and
listen to the talk that goes on in
the Senate.
Plenty of Talk In Sight.
Kor it is going to be talk that will
give t ho solar plexus touch ss a
knock out to the ship sulmidy bill.
Kor three and half hours on' Satur
day Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, de
livered a prepared speech attacking
the power of the Supremo Court to
declare -the acts of Congress uncon
stitutional, this lining fottOWed lip
by Senator Shields,' . of Tennessee,
with a speech of an hour and a half
in which ho attacked the lax cn
foreement of the prohibition law,
liitterly denounced the Anti Saloon
J-eaguo for its "insidious propa
ganda" chnrgin many enforcement
officers with themselves being la
breakers, swatted the bootlegging
forces and deprecated the growth
rf ilkpal boore traffic, with boot
leggerl'iiow in the mil!' lairc class,
and' Vaile'lPfar prohibition rrgent t
lie place J jvVr the -'"'1" aervlef
Ihw. that onlr decent men should
have such. jobs. Between Senators
Owen and Shields the day was con
sumed, the ship subsidy bill un
touched eiccpt for the Jones an
nouncement that night sessions, all
night long sessions if neeiied, would
be the hitter pill he was going to
administer to keep the a!iij subsidy
lull to the front.
Night siwsions, however, will
present another problem for the
ship subsidy forces to tackle:. Cyi
a quorum of the Senate be ltept at
hand during the night honrsf That
is a question that'' is debatable, and
if the opponents of the bill deliher
atelv determine to absent theih-
clve, the answer is that a quoroum
cannot be had, for with absentees
thero 'Cannot be kept on hand
enough Senators to anewer sugges
tions of "no quorum" and the roll
rjlli that will ensue. With talk
galore, and toil calls and search for
absentees the ship subsidy bill is up
against a bard row of stumps. This
week and next letters and telegrams
will pour it ou the Senators to pass
the bill, for the propagandists are
at work, the United. State Chamber
of Commerce leading the ran, with
President Harding culling for ficna
tor after Senator to see him at the
White House, and Chairman task
er writing for the paper, giving out
canned interview and running is
circles around the Capitol with war
Ing rnea tkat tins country i going
In Uie demmtion bow-wow if the
hip si)bsidy bill is not Bussed.
- r- P Say It' Shasa BilL
Congressman E. YY. Pon, speaking
f hi inquiry , to Representative
Cramtoo as to what would be doae
Secretary of the Treasury as to lhelnieanbeed"ad lrmbf,.VHe fdunffT
mount of liquor obtained by the
enhaasies aad legation her ander
diplomatic ctatua, . and hin' rote
agalnit the Cramtoa resolution for
thi to be furnished, says that be re
garded the bringing up of the reso
lution at thi time nerely play to
the gallerle, that the principle f
prohibition wa aot larulved ia the
natter at all. Kay in r that lor yean
he bad been a teetotaler, aad that la
' foagma be had doae all he eould
tot th enforcement, of. th Volstead
art, that aa'eae eon Id truthfully
(Confiaued Psj Tf.) ,
Hard, Cruel Winter For Most
Imposing Legislative Program
Forty-Three Major Pieces of Legislation Proposed At
Beginning of Session And Only One Yet Ratified;
Programs From the Governor Down Have Had Hard
Sledding And End Is Not Yet; Only Eight May Pass
Finally.
It has been a littri
tor
on program). .o less man virui
program). -o leas
.1 -
letter perfect programs' tBa"tvwaied
hopefully, deferentially, but none
the loss confidently for the coning
of the General Assembly seven weeks
ago. and now. they lie mangled, dis
membered, bruised and bleeding with
the (Sonera! Assembly's hack turned
coldly toward them. It hot t-en a
hard, cruel winter on program.
Almost everybody had a program,
from tlntiGovcrnor on down to Jpy
humblest o? depart merit heads, imn
altogether there were no less than
I ; piece of niajwr legislation in-cludt-d
on the calendar from ships
M prison bricks. And on the 47th
dav of the pension only one out of
t he 4.1 has been duly ratified, and
many of thrui have nut even been
introduced.
Thy Play Safe
Earl? in the session, nt that sea-
f'vou when memliers tvhile away the
! . . . . :
time liy inventing names iwr
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Evidence of Acceleration In
Revival - of Trade
.Accumulates
New York. Keb. 11-Uiy the As
social ed I'ress.l Ktidence necuniii-late-l
duriiij; the week of an ac
celer.ition i the paej? of Uie bu?i
uesa revival. Although anxiety still
exists ou r tlie potentialities of the
Kuropean situation, tho feeling ha?
grown that this country can enjov
prosperitv. for sometime at least
ithout rega to any inipioveunut
abroad. Some lilies of hisiiw.s. have
already been stiuiulated aa a result i
of the 1'reio h occupation
of the
Steel prices have stiffeue.1
mar
kedly within the past
week. Ac
tivity in steel
has contributed
lareelv to maintenance ol Record
iailroa.1 traffic for this season of
llie veer. With the building boom
nabated. with nueu eoal srllfi
waiting to be moved aad with a
heavy retail distribution of goods,
traffic prospects for the neat few
months at least are bright. The
grain movement has fallen off to
sune extent but thi has been more
than offset by lumVr, eoal, coke.
qcuient, automobile, and building
materials. An encouraging feature
of the railroad situation is that in
contrast with li20 the roada have
been able to translate Hieir in
creased business into larger prof
its. The showing of the leading indus
trial and public utility corporations
is no less impressive. The twenty
seven industrial companies which
have published annual reports for
made net profits of $12.00V
IKK) which compar e with $4,0MV
LriO in 1921. Leaving the report
of steel companies out of the com
pilation, protita aetually aeeded
thoae of 1920, and this despite lower
commodity prices last year. PuWi
eaitoo of then report haw ' Jvad
much to do with the increasing pub
lic participation" in the stock and
bond markets and the resultant for
ward movement of security prices.
In the commodity market the
feature was a resumption of heavy
buying in cotton, under the stim
ulus of a favorable report on Con
sumption issued by the census
bureau. The report shows that the
mill, consumed in January 610,375
hales, an amount wnien naa n-en
exceeded only twice heretotore. ine
price for the May futures moved np
to within point of the high 4r
the year, with some reaction later
on profit taking.
TWO ARE KILLED '
' IN CROSSING CRASH
Goldsboro. Feb. 18. Two men
were instantly killed here tonight nt
10 o'clock when a Etudebaker auto
mobile1 in which they were riding
waa (track by Atlantic Coast Line
train No. 42, at a crossing near the
ontakirta of this city. A third oc
rupont of the automobile who ii
thought to have been the driver is
lying In a local hospital ia a semi
conscious condition.1 He wa unable
to give anr aeenant of the accident
or to identify himself or any ottbe
other oeenpanta of the ear. The
lead men . are said to be . named
Register and Pickford. The injured
niss ia "Hup" Sullivsa of Clin ton.
The automobile which wan demol
ished by the train bore a lintoa li
eeoM tag and effort is being made
to eommnmcate with Clinton. The
survivor of the wreck is ayonng anaa
about 33 year old. The ether two
oreo naats were horribly .mangled.
The, head f one 'of the men was
more thai one hundred yard op
the track from the area of the ac
cideat. The clothing wa torn front
their bodies.
' ' Cbargea Cafilrary.
Yonkera, K. T, reb. 18. WUliam
H. Anderson, 8tat superiateadent of
tha Aati-Balooa Lretaa af New
York, eaarged today in hi aaaaal
pTMewtatioa at tha Ceatrsl Methodist
Epweopal Cbirrh that coaapiraey
waa afoot U "get bias aad the
Lfagae'a board aad reduce tha ar
canuatioa to ttattia ef a ."kept" eoa
? TONE IN BETTER OUTLOOK
. - . ai Ai ti aa . fa
BUS NESS VORLD SHOWN BY BANKci
somebody made the prophesy, that
this would go down in history as
lo . ."do .noAhing'.' .session of ' the
General Assembly. In a sense tint
much can be said of it, but actu
ally it has been anything but a do
nothing. It has been almost a
bethal aession, C devastating (session
that demands to know whore it is
headed, before it goes anywhere.
Seven week ago yesterday the
News and Observer set forth in brief
tabulation ths 4:1 measures thnt were
proposed as State wide legislation
by the several' departments or
groups of 'citizens. It is two weeks
before the aession ends, and a post
mortem is not yet at riot ly in order,
but most of the work of the General
Assembly If and it ran be
prophesied with somo centainty
what the outcome ia going to be.
Governor Heavy Laser -
First was the Executive program,
calling for a fleet of ships, rebabi-
(Continued on Page Two.)
Reports Show Best Condition
of Last Two
Years
YYasliiiigto.il, Feb. W American
N'atioiiaJ banks oceiiiicd a 'more
commanding poeitioii" at the time of
the last bank call than at any time
in ninre than two years, according
to a statement today by Comptroller
t'rissinger, of tho Currency. The
statement added that, asido from the
j.isition oC the National banks, the
last call indicated "greater activity
in industrial pursuita" in virtually
every lino Of effort.
The aggregate resources of 8.2ij
reporting National banks on the date
of tho call December 29 last, amount
ed to $21,974,957,000, an iacrease of
i;o;,s,wu WeT'ijir avgregaiw
eiinrces of the aam bank on Sep
tember 1.1 the date of the previous
I. auk call. The total reported an
increase aggregate resource for the
year 1922 of St',031 15,0U0 a figure
of itaelf regarded aa anftVient proof
of renewed industrial aid commer
ciat progress.
Thero ax approximately 33,000
hanging institutions in the country
bat the number of National banks
included in the figures given by Mr.
Crissinger report a much greater
proportion of the total bankiag re
sources than they do in number,
according to Treasury official. Th
indications given by statistics affect
ing those banks, therefore, Carry
mora weight in the view of officials
than would be the case were the ratio
of the resources tho same as the ratio
of the numbers of the financial
house.
T(vtal deposit were recorded De
cember 20 at 1 7.420,481 ,000 or an
increase in the year of 12,345,379,000.
While part of the increase obviously
iciaa. be traced to the steady growth
f commerce and industry in a
tion of increasing population, ome
of it. ia the view of Treasury offi
cial jieeessarily must result from
improved biuinesa conditions. There
has been nojesrtittater howeTeT, of
how much of the amount ean be at
tributed to each source.
LAST CHAPTER GRISSOM
TRAGEDY AT GREENSBORO
Druggist Who Was Drowned
In Florida Is Buried
Sunday 1
lirelKro, Keb. 18. The last
chapter in the Orissom tragedy was
ivriUcin here thi afternoon, "when
Hyatt A. Grissom, brought back
from Florida, after 27 days in the
'luggish water of Thomas Creek. 20
miles north of Jacksonville, was laid
'o rest in (Sreen Hill cemetery here.
The body, accompanied by his faith
ful friend and business associate, L.
W. Jenkins, arrived late yesterday.
From the morning of January 19,
when his automobile was found in
the creek, where it bad plunged off
a road, bridgelt-ss, a persistent
search was made of the stream and
the swamp on either side, lasting 10
days, with a lavish use of dynamite,
but the waters refused to disclose
tlieir secret until their owa titne,
when on February It a farmer, mak
ing bis semiannual trip dowa
Thoma Creek on a raft of logs
found the body floating on the sur
face. Mr. Grissom was on hi wy back
to (ireeasboro from a hort stay in
l iurida whea he ran into the treek.
POLISH ATTACK ON
LITHUANIA REPORTED
- Pari, Feb, la (By the A. I
date rrea.) Polish fate have
the
Litaaaaiaa tfawae, acemeaing lT"TJn worwa -re-
U a dhraatrfc from Iwh iaunw
by ta LKhnnnla legation hero.
Tkw dUaatch add that aWaa
r awtwana were nUbd aad han-
dreda waaaded.
Caaaing Eastward '
Chicago, Feb. !; Lower ,friM
rate to tha Pacific Coast via the
Panama Canal threatea to' fore
aiaay Middle Western eeaeera t
mava ta tha Atlaatie Coast or quit
batiaea. aeeording ta a statement ta
ued tonight by U. M. Calkin, rie
1preiilct of tha- ClvicagoIilwankee
4 . Pan! Railway.
SECOND DEGREE :
MURDER VERDICT
FOR MRS. RAIZEN
New York, Woman Prays
Aloud While Jury Delib
erates FATHER AND "BROTHER
WEEP IN CQlffT ROOM
Verdict Carries Sentence of
From Twenty Years To
Life Imprisonment; Killed
Brooklyn Physician and
Pleaded Unwritten Law Is
Justification
New Tork, Feb. IS. A verdict of
guilty of second degree murdej fai
returned by a Supreme, Court-jury
against Mrs. Iilliau S. Baizen, who
shot and killed Ir. Abraham Gliek
stein iu hi Brooklyn office, Decem
ber 10, 1921. '
, Mr. Raiien's defense wa that
the physician had ruined her life
and that the had been driven to in
sanity tlmmgh haunting teat of lilhi."
Tho jury, picked from epeaial
panel of loO men of '''supcr-intelli-tfenec"
and instructed to try tfie"
defendant "with their ifdi and nt
their hearts'' returned the verdict
after deliberating 12 hour an! j.'i
minutes.
Spends Resile Night
YVheu the jury was given the case
at 11 o'clock Saturday night, tho
defendant, sobbing nm led to the
prisoner's room.. She fell asleep, her
head resting on her aged father's,
shoulder. She spent a restless Bight,
however, awakening numerous times
and asking if the Jury had reached
.1 verdict, Receiving negative an
swers sho prayed aloud.
"My God,1' sho pleaded, "why do
you forsake met"
Then after the long wait, came
tho word. Mrs. Baizen seemed to
scita. tli- verdict, twice falling to
her knee to pray while on the way
tu the court room.
When the verdict, which carries
a aaittanea. t ti am UQ, yf t iifs
imprisonment wa apoken by the
foreman, the defendant stared
blankly, then crouched down into her
chair and shuddered. Hue mad nd
audible Bound. Throua-hoat her
trial ba bad been ubjeet to anell
ui viuieas weeping, nut there were
not tear in her eye aa aha stood
at the bar to anwer the perfunc
tory request of the eotirt.
Father tad Brother Waea
Mr. Haizen' father, CJinrlei
Schaeffer, and her brother, who sat
oa the first bench, wept bitterly
ith their arms about each other.
The defendant's husband, Charles
Baizen, arrived after the verdict
waa announced. He hurried into the
chamber, took his wife in his arms
and attempted to cheer her. She
wa then taken to Raymond Street
jail to await sentence tomorrow.
Mrs. Baizen waa placed on trial
February 13, after having under
gone numerous sanity test by com
mission of alienists employed by
the court and by her counsel. Some
of the alienists pronounced her sane,
othor declared he waa insane When
tha shot the physician. . '
Several month ago she expressed
a desire to stand trial, aying sho
had been cheered by the acquittal of
Mis Olivia 8. Stone trained nure,
who- pleaded the OHwritten'law for
slaying a prominent Cincinnati at
torney, whom she declared had ruin
ed her life. She received a letter
from Miss 8tone before the went to
trial.
POLLARD TRIAL WILL
ENTER 3RD WEEK TODAY
Richmond, Va, Feb. 18. Tlie trial
of'Thomai Pollard, prominent young
busines man, for the murder of hli
former stenographer, Mrs. Thelma
Hm Richardson, a pretty divorcee,
will enter it second week tomorrow
when the defense begin unfolding
it case to the jury.
The State had practically closed
it side of the case when court ad
journed late yesterday. Three wit
ncasea for the commonwealth, who
r ere unable to testify yesterday be
cause of illness, will be presented
later in the trin), according to
Commonwealth' Attorney Dave E
Satterield, Jr.
The jury hearing the case at
tended aervice at St. Paul Episco
pal chureh today ia chafg of two
bailiff.
General Cronkhite Hopes
For Congressional Probe
Waahingtoa, Feb. 18. Conference
had yesterday with Senators Olass,
Democrat, of 'Virginia, and Seed,
Republican, a'f Pennsylvania, were
declared by Major General Adelbert
Cronkbita today to have been "most
encouraging" iu tha effort being
tirement from th army, aad into
tha mysterioas killing of hi son,
Major Alexander P.- Cronkhite, in
1518 at Camp. Lewis, Washington.
, "Heretofora tha difficnltiee I bad
ia persnading anyone ta ga into, the
facta hava been very great," aaid
General Cronkhite la a formal fUt
eaU "Na Una would ga lata them
thoroughly. It la appareat, however,
that Senator Claai gad Seiator Keed
propoaa ta take ill-eowaidered
action aad I certainly da not wish
aot expect theas to act natil they
are thoroughly prepared.''
Both Senator 0Jaa aal aVnator
E
MORE HOSTILE IN
Increased Resistance By Ger
man Officials and Ruhr
Burgomasters
FRENCH PUT AN END
TO GERMAN BOYCOTT
Armed Buying Expedition Re
sults In Re-opening of
Stores To French and Bel
gians; FrencllSeize Nearly
Half Billion German Paper
, Harks
Kssen, Feb. IS. (By Tiie Assort,-
ated Press. Tha increased yieaiat-
anee of the German officials and
more hostile attitude generally by
burgomasters and other municipal
authorities throiighoo't the Ruhr have
been felt by theFreneh during the
past z hours. .
Breaking Boycott.
On the .other hand, the boycott
by the fore itiid restaurants in
Wfi,i elsewhere" appears' "to be
losing strength, apparently in eonse.
quence of the Strong measures adopt
ed by the French. On Saturday the
French met, tho, boycott in. F.5ea. by
sending-"but tivo motor tracks in'
charge of officers "Witti s delachmeut
of men. These trucks started by
making i round of the stores- At
the first place entered a soldier tried
to buy chocolate. Tim storekeeper
refused to tell. An officer then had
tho proprietor arrested. The trucks
moved on to two other places, where
the same procesa was repented.
Thso arrests were viewed Ivy
crowds of tho towiis)coplo and the
news spread quickly. Consequently
before the French expedition had
proceeded much further the boycott
seemed to have been suddenly called
off, for stores resumed jelling to the
Preuch.
The boycott , in Recklinghausen
ll lao has been called off.
Reaping Harvest.
Tho French are beginning to reap
a little harvest of German marks.
Yesterday when troops entered Cel
senkirchen detachmpnts occupied the
Kuthaua and railroad station, seizin
a total of 110,000,000 paper mark
out of which mm the Frnncb paid
tha fine of 100,000,0000 mark Im
posed upon tha town by tha French
s a penalty for the recent wounding
of two French gendarmea. Jn Trier
tha French seised the strike fund of
25010000 mark, supposedly sent try
German government source to aid
the German railroad men who are
refuting to work. Thi money will
be applied to the expenses of the
French and Belgian In the operation
of the railroads in the Rhinleaml
Bad Accidents.
Two of the worst aFctdent sine?
the French and Belgians undertook
Die operation of the railroad oc
curred early today. A locomotive a
Dnhlhaueea crashed into a passengor
coach carrying French civil railroa
workers, killing two and injuria
eleven of them. Three of those In
jured are in a serious condition, nOe
Belgian railroad wan was killed iu
a collision between Belgian and
French trains at Crefeld.
The French authorities today de
ii ted a report of the Wolff Burean
the semi official Ger-sn new
agency, thnt the French troop fired
on, miners at the Prince Regent mine
near Bocbunv The French ay the
Gfrmnn . locked" otlt', guard " (it
trench troepa Scut to supervise the
loading of coal cars. The rreneh
fired a few shots into the big wooden
gate), which the Germans immedi
ate!y opened
BURGOMASTERS DISAPPEAR:
GERMAN PRESS CRITICISM
Berlin, Feb. 18. (By The Assocr
ated Press.) Mystery is Voiced by
a number of the Berlin newspapers
over their reports from tsscn rc
gartling t lie whereabouts of Ober
brfrgomasTer Havenstein, of Ober
hausen, and Vice Lord Mayor
!?chaefer. of Essen, who are said to
have been spirited away by the oc
ctipatinn forces immediately after
they were sentenced by the court
martial at Bredeny on Friday.
The Boersen Zeitung seemingly
throw some light on the situation
by declaring that the mayor of
seven German town are imprisoned
in the cellar of the French head
quarter building in Bredeay.
Yoywaerts' Ruhr correspondent
takes-a.grave view of the manner in
wAich j the French military, forces
(Continued on Page Seven)
Reed remaiaed today, a yesterday
after the conference with General
Cronkhite, non-committal aa to a de
eisioa with respect to a public In.
quiry. Senator Seed, however, ex
pects to sanouae early thi week
whether be will introduce a resola
u rctirenfent of th Generaf
rement of the Gcacraf iuZ
th eircnmnraaces aorraunding the
killing of Major Cronkhite aad the
prosacutioa of Robert, Koteahluth
and Roland Pothicr In toanectioa
with tha killing. . .
Geaeral Croakbite, ia hi state
eat, replied at length to tha state
ent made several day ago by Sea
tor Calder, Republican, ef Sew
York, deaying (barrel that he bad
caused delay ia th proaeeittioa af
tae auegea murder af aiajor Cronk
hite.
Ei
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OCCUPIED SECTION
Senator Calder wa fl eel red by
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SIX THOUSAND INMA TES OF :
INSANE ASYLUM TERRIFIED
BY TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
Bishop And Rector Still
Carrying On Controversy
Bishop Manning and Dr.
Percy Stfckney Grant
Preach More Sermons
GRANT" IN ATTACK ON
SMALL TOWN ATTITUDE
Talks On "Religion of Main
Street"; Bishop's Defi
nition of Christian
New Turk. Feb. H Bishop Wit
liani T. Manning, of the Protestant
Episcopal Itiocese.of New York, and
the Rev. lr. Percy Stickney Gnat,
of the Church o.f the Ascension, to
day again came to grips over Chris
tian doctrines, .
Dr. Grant, preaching on "The.Jl
ligion" of Main btreet," att.-ickod the
attitude of the Americau small town
toward tin.', controversy which brjko
out behreen him and the l!iho;i
after the Rector, in a sermon, had
rjnestttmed tbo deity of t'hristi The
small tottn, he asserted, was narrow
in believinir that the durtritti-s of
the Christian Church comprised a.
clear cut and drifd proposition .
Bishop Manning, preaching at the
Church of St. Johu the Evangelist,
on "Called Into the Fellowship of
His .Sin Jesus," declared that doc
trine ns not tit bo "pooh powhed."
Grant' Sermon
Referring to newspaper account
of his controversy with the Bishop,
and the editorial comment thereon.
Mr. Grant said hn had found the
press for the most part very fair.
He thanked the newspapers of the
country for the "intelligent manner
in which the matter had been treat-
ed."'
But. said the Rector, has wa nr
prised to find that comment whieh
indicated a narrow and uuliberil
viw toward religion came mostly
frotn wtiniHer iilaiTs."
Referring to the aqjiU town, -D'.
Grant continued:
"Nobody caros about the theology
of minister. It's their, economic
opinions that court. Under the
eircamstaneea, what tha imall town
need is the fresh air of Independent
thought.
Small Town, Trasblca
"The country stores are complain
ing that their business i being taken
away by the houses that sell goods
by mail; tho country minister arc
complaining because people woul
rather stay home and listen to
sermon by radio.
"The country newspaper may like
wise take notice that the time may
eome when the city newspapers may
be delivered by aerojilane to every
ontry town.
"For tho most part these small
newspapers are stand pat papers
controlled by the interests that con
trol the town. Who knows, perhr.ps
the time will come when the news
will be transmitted by radio.
might not to he so difficult, for after
all its onlv a.few columns.''
Just at tho and of the sermon un
unidentified man in the eongre-ra
tion waa stricken with apoplexy and
rtmored to a-diospital. "
Bishop's Sermon
Bishop Manning, in bis sermon
leclared that . "being n Christian
mean more than being a pnilan
thropist or a humanitarian..'
It' nonsense, the talk we hear
of doctrinal belief," he said.
"Truth is important, aa it is tho
very Lord Himself. If we are to
have in intelligent religion, we must
know what we believe .and why wo
believe in it. Doctrine i not to te
nooli teU'lieJ. n e need to think
more carefully abont Jeau CbrUt.
"While doctrine has its necessary
place, it is not the wholo of being a
Christian.
Forms and ceremonies have their
place in religion, but that is not nil
religion means. All should be fol
lower of the Lord Jesu Christ."
"To be a Christian one must have
faith in Christ, knowledge of Chris
fellowship with Christ and obedience
o Christ. itbAut prayer no one I
n relation with God. Prayer is
simply speaking to God right OJ
of hearts.
All should worship and pay pub
ic tribute. One ef th. great help
of being a Christian ia tha help of
the sacraments Another isjthe oly
communion. These things are the
gift of heavenly help.'
SUICIDE POSTMASTER
SHORT IN ACCOUNTS
Maeoa. Ga, Feb. IB.The Macoa
Telegraph carries a itory in it mid
night edition to the effect that Pos
tal inspector .hve fonnd ffiat Post
master Hillyer Rudisill, who commit
ted suicide Friday, wa short ia hi
aeeenata ever $85,000.
Augusta, Ga, Feb. U. George
II.
v.'ateon. of New York, a member
of th Stock xebaage, died saddcaly
her today. He waa a gnest,t th
Bon Air Vanderbilt. He wa itrtrken
with heart failure while out horse
back ridiag with a party ef
frieada.
Measarial gereleee
Waahingtoa. Feb. IS. Th House.
In apeeUraeesinn today, bold memo
rial aervieea lor former Beaatora
Pearbee, Kaox aad Crow and Rep
resentative Connell. all Pennrrlvaa-
iaaa, who died witkla abont year.
MILLION HOLLAR IN
FILMS HI RNEK IP
IN NEW YORK FIRE.
New Yerk, Feb. IS. Properties
in hlma valued at II. WX.W were
dstred today lf a Are which
rated a three-story baildlng tn
Harl'Bi eetapied aa atndlee by
International Fllma aad th Ce
aaoBeliUB ProdBctiona, Inc.
Many valaable objects of art,
lerrewed from famoaa collection
by the Sim cwmpaaiea for ase In
ilaya ef medieval eaya, copies of
any costly 6.1m play and the
mtire wardrobe ef the actor and
ir tresses employed, were ' de.
it rayed.
SPECTACl'LAR FIRES IN
NEW YORK YESTERDAY
New Yerk, Feb. IS. New York
today aa a city ef (pectacalar
tn. ""'
A. nail of lh Manhattan State
Hospital far the Insaae on Ward's
Inland waa destroyed. With a loss
f :i live.
. A million dollars north f Sim
weire Incinerated ' la ;i " asevle
tsdle Are Jn Harlem.
A aemaa dropped desd from
heart fallnr at a Ire In the
Brunt after a Sremaa bad been
hasted from a track which had
ran late a snow bank while responding-
to the alarm.
Firemen ea aerial ladder re
caed a woman and her daarhter
fast aa they were going to Jump
from a foartk story ledge In their
heme in Harlem.
TARIFF DUTIES
mruafy " ColIecticEF
pected To Establish New
High Level
Washington Feb, li Prediction.
that a aew monthly record for eug
torn receipt will be established by
the February collection under thej
administration' tariff law, waa made
today at tha Treasury on the has
of receipts for the first fifteen day
of the mouth. In that time, 1 24,730,
i)."j in tariff duties waa collected and
officials declared aa analysis of th
receipts indicated even - greater in
creasea ovry collection under the
I'nderwood law thin ever had been
recorded.
. Attention wat called to the fact
that receipt for several day prior
to reliruary 13 had ranged well
alove the two million mark and those
o&nula in a position to study future
indication expressed the opinion
that average would be maintained
If their belief is substantiated by
collections, ia the remaining day of
the month, February receipt will
segregate nearly t55,000,m0. . The
neareat approach to, that figure ia
recent month record ahowa, were
last fcpteniner when receipt frort
tariff collection amounted to. slightly
over Bj3,nuu,')00. other month
however, approaches that amount.
Customs officials some weeks art
revised their earlier estimate ol
Ajtl,0u0JU ia collections for till
current fiscal year ending next J.'n
nary I0. and declared that govern
meat levenue from dutiea iwiii 1
at the customs houses would aggre
gate 1W,000,000. Home of the more
optimistic predicted receipt of half
a billion dollars. These latter offi
cials ar arguing that their forecast
ill prove good unless unforeseen
change occur ia international trade,
which may rut American lmporta
radically.
While the troubled European litua
tion may affect American imports
adversely to some degree, most gov-
eminent official who are acquainted
with foreign trade conditiona insist
that those nations striving hardest
to sell ia th Amerieaa markets aro
maintaining the world position they
held when imports into the laited
states began to creep upward early
hut year. The Ruhr aituation i aot
expected to have any appreciable ef
feet oa world trad insofar aa ah la
ments to th United State are eon'
cernedi On the contrary, it waa
said, ia aome quarter her that th
stoppage ia production in the Ruhr
may hava th effect of inerenaiag
Amerieaa export. It that be true.
it-wa argued, there is likely to be
a larreaaiag of import into the
L'nited State in exchange.
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE
WORKS EARNS PROFITS
New York, Feb. 1SV-Overcoming
ef. nearly
the first ia -men! he, tha America
Locomotive. Com posy and it af
filiated companies, tha Jktoatreal
Locomotive Work aad tha Ameri
ca Locomotive Salea . Corporation
showed a net profit of 1J00,47
for ' e twelve months which aded
December tl, IMS, th company's
a arol report disclosed today. Divl
dead of aevea per cent, amoaatiag
to IJJ0,0Uw en preferred stock, and
six per cent, er 100. ea tha com
mew aterk wer paid,- although thi
tout af S3 530,000 exceeded the 1923
profit d necessitated U ft af
tlfl "'1 ht umlui I
lytPl fr aurDlua.
EW RECORD FOR
Twenty - Two Maniacs and
Three Heroic Attendants
Burned To Death Jn
Fjerce Fire 4
HEROISM TJF KEEPERS : '
PREVENTS FAR GREATER
NUMBER OF DEATHS
Patients In New York Hos. .
pital Marched To "Break
fast" By Attendants While
Fire Rages In Rooms Be
low; Three World War
Veterans, Suffering From
Shell Shock, Among Dead;
Limited Fire Equipment
, Made It Difficult To Keep -Flames
In Check
New York. Fel..K-(,v tin Also- "
eiated Press.) A terrific lasf, ct
by dredirm' itr Hen't?at6 last '"'h2lffp'!"a
rucked the' building 0f the Manual
tan State hospital for tlm iusuno oil
Ward's Island in the EasJ river and '
set tho fl,;s::s inmates cowering and
wailing with a sense of inipeuding
Attendants calmed them nn.t
them to ld, l.ut bffiiro morutiig
the doom f.iiitasicd ,v the disordered
brains had como true, for 'Z of the
maddest. They had Leen burned W
death in tt fierce tire that swept the
west wing of the main building
Three heroic, attendant died Vvit'i
them; striving to tho last to rearue
them.
Blaal Causes fire.
Hospital authoritiea uud City Med
ical Kxamiaer Norris, who rushed
to the scene, said that in all proba
bility, the blast had been the im
mediate cause of the fire. According
to their theory, it caused a break
tn tho Insulation of clectrie wire
in the Jjuildiinf. " A abort circuit,
they thiukdid the rest.
The fire na discovered at .
clock by Michael Campbell, an at-
-uiiiiii m warn 4J, in which all the
worn, and that of Jamea Hill, at
tendant in charge, and Patrick Bit
bgan, of Hartford, I'ona, George A.
le Emo and George Freisa. the th
attendart. . who wer bnrned to
death, prevegted a far greater Jon
of life. .
Patleata March to "Breakfast."
Part of th attendant brought
thoe and fought back tha Ham ,
while the others, directed by Hill,
ran up and down the 200 feet top
Boor eorridor, rousing the patient
with the eonl order:
r "All up for breakfast."
A fat aa Hin maniac declared
Supt. Marcu R Heyman to have
been the most dangerous on the island-could
be marshalled from
their rooms, they were marched in
orderly procession to the fire proof
dining hall, far from the scene ef
the fire. Seventy of the 95 inmate
i ward 4,1 had been lost or carried
to safety when a huge water tank In
the blazing attie crashed thrnnirl. tl,.
celling completely blocking the cor- -
nuor mai ica to afety, and filling ; -the,
hall with rlame and moke. City ;
firemen, (ightinr their war rmmt ih'm z
biasing barrier, brought ont (ereral -struggling,
x-reaming maniac, aad .
several who had been overenma hr
amok while-dreesing for tha 'fbreak-
faet.'' Most ef the dead were fonnd
in the room and corridor beyond '
the fallen tank. Several k.- ' s
lieved to have bee buried
the debri when the floor gav wy. '
Seventeen bodle of inmatea mn f
one believed to be that of aa at- I
icnnanc had been recovered to-
night. In addition, a few hrt,l
lone had been found, whfch wr
believed to be all that waa left of '" '
some of those ttnarconnted for. ' '
laree World War Veteraaa.
Among the five bodle. which had
been Meet Med tcmlrht errr thnw
of three World War veteran who .
naa Been nrfering from shell ahoek. '
They were Vincent Del Berne, Frank
Kromberg nd Jamea R. Hinea, all af
New York. The other identified were
Solomon Applebaum and Nathan
Cohen, ulso of Na Tork. Attempt
to identify the other wa abandoned ''
lomgni. aioat or th remaialnf -bodie
wer badly charred and It v. -
believed many of them never would '
be poaitively Identified.
Th building In which th Ire a
enrred the -ao-called main baild-
ng" 1 in-ancient brick and wood
trncture, ihaped lik th letter -
) three atorie high, and had
accommodation for a maximum of
"200 pattenta. There were ahont -.
100 ia it thlt morniar. whe. th.
fir wa dieeovered and ef these.
abont 300 wera aerionaly aadaagered '.
by tha flame. They wer the pati- , -7
eata ia Ua wt wiag. ' ,
sMentlr ! leaeaew.
The 93 patieata imprisoaed in ward '
43, ea tha third Door whara tha -
flra took its toll wer described by '
Dr. Beymaa a "violent, homicidally
Inclined men any ana af whom
migM euddealy have taraed marder-
ly apoa hia reeener.
i eiFdry',ft!'wvtB "
were, that ealy la a half dosen
ease at the moat wer there iaatan
eea af atrngglea agaiaat, er attack .
oa.'th atteadaata aad firemen.
While . the raacn work waa he-
iag earried forward, th lUme bnret ,
throngh th roof ef th building aad t
lighted ap tha Ur Islaad.
Scree at af tha terrified patient
arareat th flansee roased the entire
nopnlntioi of th madn'ile aad
in twiakliag every wiadow framed '
maniac face.
Soma laughed aad cried ant ta glea ,
C (Crtttnne a Fag To.) .