St. John's Daily Star, 1920-12-27

              The St. John's Daily Star VOL. VI. KMtICE: One Cent.) MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1920. " ($3.00 per Annum.) Our Average Daily Circulation, September 9181 Ngwfottndl»tt<f THE WE AI HER Probs-VM. Wmds, Fair and fold No. 293 THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS OF EAR THQUAKES FIRES DO BIG DAMAGE IN CANADIAN CITIES NEW YORK GANGSTERS ARE UNDER ARREST ==| TORONTO WIFE SHOT HUSBAND ON XMAS DAY WIFE SHOT HUSBAND Black Tragedy Overshadows a Toronto Home On I the Evening of Christmas Day. KILLING DONE IN SELF-DEFENCE JORONTO, Dec. 26-Black Tragedy drove the Christmas spirit out of the home of George Adams in this city Saturday night. Instead of peace and good-will and merry making that should have brightened Adams' household, murder threw its terrible shadow over the home and the day of all days to the children closed with two little tots of girls I left fatherless and their father dragged off to the police station on a charge of murder.Mrs. Adams claimed her husband was drunk and, that she shot him dead in self-defence. Appreciates the Help of Outsiders to Germany Berlin, Dec. 27—President Ebert has issued a proclamation of appreciation of the sympathy of foreigners for needy Germans and specially thanked the Quakers and, other organizations which have been feeding children and hungry students. Mi. Man Dies at Toronto. Toronto. Dec 26—Geo. R. EHis, of truY city, well known in municipal circles, is dead. He was a native of St. John's Newfoundland a son of the late Wm. Henry Ellis, M.P. CRIMINALS ARRESTED George King, Believed To Be Leader of American Robber Gangs, is Under Arrest. FORMER LEADER OF GANG KILLED . JjEW YORK, Dec 26—The murder j of Monk Easman, once a notorious gang leader, by an unidenti, fied assailant and the holding in a hundred thousand dollar bail of Geo. L. King, believed to be the , leader of a criminal band of nationwide activity, were the outstanding features today in New York, crime situation. King was arraigned in the Brooklyn court on a charge of assault and robbery. He is said to have confessed that he directed the hold-up and robbery several weeks ago of Henry Fettel wealthy retired real estate operator, in his Brooklyn home- King ingratiates himself, the police claim, with the wealthy persons, then informs accomplices who carry oul the job. Five men charged with the assault and robbery on Xmas night, of Jas. Kay, Brooklyn safe owner, were held in twenty-five thousand dollars each ito-day. Kay was beaten into insensibility when he fought the robbers, who rifled his cash register. Theodore Simmons, sales manager, stood in the upstairs bedroom of hie Bronx residence while burglars on Xmas Eve ransacked a room on the first floor and escaped with diamonds valued at three thousand dollars. Schx. Jean and Maty, reached port yesterday from the northward to finish loading for across.  CORK NEWSPAPER" OFFICE RAIDED (Machinery in Plant Smash* ed With Hammers Cork, Dec. 26—Thirty armed and masked raiders invaded the offices of the Cork Examiner on Xmas a Eve broke the machinery with f hammers, wrecked parts of the building with explosives and set fire to the property. They escaped before the arrival of the police. \ The fire was extinguished but other .damage was very extensive. The i aiders, who wore civilian clothing, said they were acting undei the orders of the Irish Republic. — « ■  THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS . Earthquake in Kansam > Province, China, With f Casualties Estimated at Two Thousand. 'ALBANIA ALSO t SCENE OF 'QUAKE * JOKIO, Dec. 24.—Shanghai des'' patrh to the Asahi Shimbur ree ports a terrific earthquake in Kan-8 sam province on Dec. sixteenth withi 3 casualties estimated at two thousand.Forty-Two Killed. - ' Tirina, Albania, Dec. 24—-Forty-5 two persons were killed, two hun-1 dred were mjured and five hundred c made _homeless by a »qr*k-5 quake in the Tepelini district, it was learned toaay. The small .number of casualties was due to I the fact that the district was thinly populated, since most of the popu'j lr.tion had left owing to the devestation suffered by towns in the district during the war between Albania and jugo-Slavia. GREECE FACES PUNISHMENT Will Be Penalised, If Tino Stays On Throne Paris, Dec. 24—The French foreign office expressed the belief today that a revision to Turkish peace; treaty would be almost inevitable if Constantine retains the throne of Greece. Officials of the foreign office also are of opinion that the recent speech of David Lloyd George, British Premier,' concerning the possibility of .changing the treaty of Severes does not close the door to such action, but merely delays it TINO BIT CYNICAL .  Restored Monarch Intimates He's Not Worried About Attitude of Allied : Nations to Him. 1 * i SAYS POLICY IS CONCILIATORY Dec. 24—1C',— Constantine, dressed in the uniform of a j General of the Greek Army, tailed in the correspondents of the United States newspapers today and gave j them his first interview since he returned from Switzerland to Athens. Constantine said that, as far as he understood the situation, the Greek Government would follow aj conciliatory attitude toward allies' and that he did not expect a! change in the cabinet at the present time. He smillingly shrugged hisj shoulders regarding the uncertainty as to whether the British and French ministers would remain Athens.- "hey don't kngw whatj , they are going to do," saict "Yesterday, they expectecf today they are uncerl Maybe, tomorrow they again change their minds." BIG FIRES IN 2 CITIES s" Half Million Dollar Blaze ij in Halifax Destroys ci Buildings in Business c Section. TORONTO IS SCENE ; OF ANOTHER FIRE "JjJAUFAX, N.S., Dec. -24—A half i million dollar fire in the business section of the city this morn| ing destroyed premises occupied by Wood Brothers, Limited, dry goods, W .A. Gates, . music, and Alfred Denigrim, furrier. The fire was first noticed about I six o'clock when flames were breaking through the roof of Wood Brothers' store and the efforts of the '. firemen failed to bring it under control till eight o'clock. I Big Fire in Control. Toronto Dec. 26—A fire Friday night destroyed, the five-story brick building of E. & Shuttleworth Chemical Co. Eight .firemen were trapped on staircase in building which collapsed and- before they; . could be rescued were overcome by fumes from chemicals. Suffering firemen were taken to \ St. Michael's Hospital. The total | . loss is roughly estimated at quarter million. _ HONORS LIST WILL BE SHORT I .. _ Hfo Order of [•■ ; British Empire •j tendon. Pec. 26—New Year's 'f&oiibr list is expected to be smaller 1 than usual and no additions to the British Empire Order are contem-S; plated. The Saturday Review is ' very scornful in its comments on this order, saying: "As there are about twenty-six thousand members, this fount of ridicule might cease to flow on fit and unfit, as our premier loves popularity and .the: common people believe in advertisement and entertainment. Other journalist mimes with their, managers have done very well. Shipment of Whiskey Seized; Town is Dry St. Albans, Dec. 24—Twenty-five barrels of Scotch whiskey were lost to the holiday bootleggars* ma-ket today when the customs officers seized the lot in a south bound freight car, billed from; Montreal. The estimated value of the goods is ' ] twenty-five thousand dollars. TINO IS SNUBBED British Admiral Refuses to Accept Decoration From the King of the Greeks. ATHENS PAPERS ARE RESENTFUL ITHENS, Dec. 26—A1l the newspapers devote one or more :olumns of comment to the recent ncident when Admiral Kelly, head of the British naval mission here, declined fthe Grand Prdh: of the Royal Order df the Savior, tendered him by King Cons tan tine. The Athene remarks that . is comic to ibserve grave ministers in the local Foreign colony "playing like little girls at a dance." The Khronos says solemnly that :he Greek people are perfectly calm md dignified and ignore the insult which, it says, wai intended by the British. Kenneth S. Patton, consul general }f the United-States to the Kingdom af the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, was refused departure by the Piraeus port authorities' when he attempted to go to Belgrade via Constantinople, .he action was taken on the ground that no vises were being issued for, 3onstantmopl Crete because of V enezih troubles. Planes Hunt Lost Balloon - ■§ ■ I - Balloon in Charge of LieutU. S. Airplanes Search for Hinton Army airplanes manned by navy fliers are searching the Adroinacks balloon wilh three officers aboard which Jeft Rockaway i feint for Canada, Lieut. Walter Hiifton, one.of the officers aboaid, was-j pilot of the N.C.<-4 on the first cross-Atlantic flight from Trepassey to the Azores and had many friends in Newfouod}and. HUNT FOR LOST BALLOON RECEIVE UNWELCOME CHRISTMAS PRESENTS I Factory After Factory Closed in America and Thousands of Workmen Get Discharge Notices On Eve of Ohri st Festival ; ;. •• i DEPRESSION, REACTION, READJUSTMENT FELT ALL GtVjSR THft UNITED STATES London, Dec. 24—The United Kingdom as a whole was facing too cheerful a holiday . j season when Xmas Eve arrived. , It is estimated that at least a million people are without work and London's east end. ; was looking sadly toward the luxury of the west end. Every-, where there were reminders for the well-to-do of what Xmas meant to the less fortunate. MEW YORK, Dec. 24-(By Canadian Press)—Christmas gifo of a grim and unwelcome kind fell this year to many thousands of families throughout the industrial sections of the United Ground belweeny the upper and nether rrfltfsio'nes ~oT i the economic "readjustment" lhat j, has been, dragging out its unp'easajtt j course for months, wage/e^Tiers who, can be counted by the hundreds of thousands passed into th»s -Yoiletide. season suffering from no wo:k, work on short schedules, or greatly reduced wages. Through some diabolio coincidence the date set for, drastic "cuts" in many textile establishments of the east wa; December 20, the Monday of Christmas week. From day to day ovsr a long period of weeks and na©tth'» brief news despatches have announced the closing of a factory here or -there, reduction in working sche lules. establishment of ncwwig; bases/Each one affected the de-li:iies of a few score or a few hundred workers. In the aggregate the r-ndjustmerit has become serious to mj,.y thousands, and only last week sweeping announcements from pcin's in ?<lew Enghtd foretold c Is in wages affecting, it is estimated, one-thned of the employees in the te-xtile trades in that great industrial cen*r,j of the United States. Santa Claus had nothing to do with In is Christmas gift.' The explanation in every ease has been the same—"lack of orders and stock condition in the te.\! ile industry." The Textile Trade The slowing dow-i in industry has f not beon confined to. the textile trades, | birt the textile and clothing branches j hare felt the full brunt of 'it- An. official statement in conditions in York stale just %b ed says: "Reduced,activity in nearly*every ; branch of manufac.'ring appeared i in October aiyHne lew iVicieases reported for Npyeiinfenri vfere usually ihe insult! of' seasons' gains in ac- The*m6se -tonepkuous rej (factions were,: in > the textile ai»d j clothing industries. /'Dteapitfcja deduction of nen in some railroad sbofV. empioyjnent'in the production of railway c ;uip;nent remained high whils increases were dlso shown in the cement and plaster, pottery,, glass, shipbuilding, fur goods, boots and shoes, .printing, bakery, and tobacco product*. "two hu*Jred thousand less workers apparently are employed in j factories in this state at present than fin -March -of The decline ijn employment in .October and No[ vember was the most widespread and ■ of since the first j evidence of a period of depression r appeared.last, .spring." The High Price Boom -The economic phenomenon vari- j re-; action, and readjustment in industry J has been dealt with by many authori- \ ties,, but the general understanding j of it is that the high price boom of war days has come to ah end and an era of lower prices, and lower production costs, is setting in. The process, it appears, cannot be carried out without the most painful consequences to many people. It is explained that trte clothing trades suffer most severely due to the reluctance of the retailers to stock up at existing prices when( there is a possibility that prices will go still lower and leave them with losing stocks on their shelves. Mills announce cancellations of old orders and paucity of new ones, most of this condition being traced back to the/ genera] public, now indulging in a fit of caution after some years of more or less reckless expenditure. New Egland felt die effects of the "readjustment" Christmas present more severely than other parts of ;the United States because the textile industry centres in tjiel North Atlantic stats. In one day, all the textile mi! in Maine and Rhode Island and a in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, affecting a total of about SPENT CHRISTMAS DAY ON THRESHOLD OF U. S. J More Than Twelve Thousand Immigrants Teld at Ellis Island During Holiday Season, Mostly on the Big Steamships THREE THOUSAND, HOUSED ON ISLAND, ' ARE LOOKED AFT ER BY THE OFFICIALS i. ,■**..) Recently immigrants have been ar- • jiving at the rate of more than 2000 daily and more than 20,000 have been in transit on the ocean at one time. Welfare organizations offered their co-operation to the island officials and helped to bring a bit of holiday cheer to the newcomers who were there Christmas Day. With the high-tide of incoming Europeans, there has also been a large emigration from this port during the past month. The outgoing are mostly persons who were returning to Europe for a visit and to pass the "holidays with the "old Folks." A small proportion announced their intention of remaining abroad, using their savings in the upbuilding of business under new conditions. JAIL IS DAMAGED. ' Believed Attempt Was Made to Release . Monte Sano, Wash., Dec. 26—An explosion which shook MonteSano, is believed by the police to be the outcome of a plot to wreck the Gray's Harbor county jailin which are incarcerated seven men, convicted last march of complicity in the Centralia, Washington, armistice murder.  New York, Dec. 24.—More ■ than twelve thousand prospec- L tive citizens, recent steerage j. arrivals from a dozen countries, today resigned themselves b spending Xmas on board ship at Ellis Island, through which all steerage passengers must pass, another three thousand were housed awaiting the action of the inspectors who would grant or deny them permission to land. The con- ; gestion was due to an influx of large liners. I MEW YORK, Dec. 25—Immigraj tion officials at Ellis Island had ! prepared for the greatest Christmas } rush of immigrants in the history of this port. Special plans were made to expeclite the movement of between 20,000 and 30,000 newcomers during the few days preceding the holiday. Thousands of immigrants timed their departure from Europe so that, they might spend Christmas with relatives in this country and the; j immigration authorities speeded up| the inspection machinery to make ths possible. Despite the extra efforts thousands | were disappointed. Christmas Day! found Ellis Island overflowing with ! immigrants and- several ships await- I i ing to unload their human freight. . . . ■ ■■■■ -*——■^——^——— (Continued on page five.) i j * '''*'* ' "««'■'*"> ■■' -  |{ SUGGESTIONS FOR 1 XMAS PRESENTS 1 READ DOWN THE LIST OF • SOME OF THE j GOOD and USEFUL ARTICLES J I TO BE HAD AT BOWRINGS . i| I ' 1J Gents' Ties in Holly Boxes Boys, and Youths' Orer\\ Gents' Soft and Linen Collars coats, Soils, Sweaters, ; * Gents' Silk Handkerchiefs Jerseys, Gloves, Hats and J Gents' Silk Mufflers Caps, Boots and Shoes, j ? Gents' Silk Front Shirts Rubbers, Etc., Etc. ; Misses and Children's Ladies' Handkercliefs in Fancy ; ? Sweaters, Coats, Caps, Boxes I Wool Sets, Pinafores. Ladies' Kid Chamois and Wool , Dresses, Boots and Shoes, Gloves Spats and Rubbers. Ladies' Silk and Wool Scarfs Gents' Lined and Unlined Gloves Infants' Boots, Gents' Chamois and Wool Lined Boots and Shoes f Gbves Bands and Socks ; GenU' Silk Wool and Cash Robes and Shirts \ Socks • Sleeping Suits I Gents' Jaegar Felt and Leather Dresses and Pinafores Slippers Bonnets and Overpants Gents' Fawn and Brown Goth Mitts, Bibs Spats . Waterproof Pants, j Gent's Velour and Felt Hats Etc., Etc i j , _J  A Good Selection Fancy Embd. Centre Cloths vunn T/vi/n Faßcy Cushion.CoTors, assorted YM&C TOYS Fancy Tray Cloths AlUflJ IVIJ Faßcy Embroide«4 Frilled and For the Kiddies I™"*^™ Plain Pillow Sluts LOW PRICES. Fancy Crib Quilts, Etc., Etc OUR SEASON'S GREETING FOR 1920 JI BOWRING BROS., LTD. ; The I Crescent Theatre -i he Cosiest Spot in Town- I LOUIS B. PRESENTS ANITA STEWART As Kate Prentice in Caroline Lockhart's gripping story of the open range "The Fighting Shepherdess,' 7 ACTS 7 ACTS The greatest woman's book in years. It has thrilled countless thousands with its story of the tireless, remorseless, implacable struggle of KateJPrentice, beautiful daughter of Jezebel, whose mothering is confined to running the bar in her roadhouse. The big, open range, desperate, hard riding, merciless cattlemen who recognize no sex in their efforts to drive' Kate and "her"flocks filwn their domain. They seek her life, her good name and bar her way to love—but she fights alone and wins her battle with man's weapons, but not in man's way. WEDNESDAY: - "THE LOST CITY,, FRIDAY: 'ADVENTURES OF RUTH,, and Big Special Feature Programmes. .