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The St. John's Daily Star Our Average Daily Circulation, September 9181 ' Newfoundland THE WE A 7 HER Probs Satnrday, Fair and CekL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1921. (PRICE: One Cent.) VOL. VII. . ($3.00 per Annum.) No. 28 U. S. Builders' President is Found Guilty of Graft Sinn Feiners Claim They Sunk British Sub. K-5 TURKISH DEMANDS Press of Turkey Outlines Subjects With Which Their Representatives Are to Deal. LONDON SCENE OF CONFERENCE fONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 3—Turk ish demands to be represented at the coming conference in London on the Near Eastern question will be In the number. According to the Turkish press, the demands are listed thus: First, abrogation of the privileges rr Greece in the Smyrna region under the treaty of Sevres. Second autonomy for Thrace. Third, maintenance of Turkish soy ereignty over Turkish territory. Fourth, modification of economic classes of the treaty which infringe upon Turkish sovereignty and independence.Fifth, modification of the military clauses, so that Turkey will be enabled to retain a defensive army. > i i MESOPOTAMIA MANDATE. That of Britain to be Submitted to League of Nations. London, Feb. 3—Great Britain's mandate for Mesopotamia will be submitted to the Council of the League of Nations at its meeting at Geneva, Switzerland February 21st, according to newspapers. The Times and Mail feature the announcement, and The Mail emphasises its great diplomatic importance. I—i » i TtfO VICTIMS Of FIRE Conflagration at Winnipeg Does $300,000 Damages Winnipeg, Feb. 3—The fire which burned all night gutted the interior of the Dingwall block, Albert St., resulting in the death of one of the firemen, and the missing of another. Approximately the damage is estimated at more than $300,000. A male bison outweighs a female by about 800 pounds. AUSTRALIANS FEAR ASIATICS Premier Theodore Pessimistic On Subject of Invasion. Brisbane, Feb. 3—ln a speech here today, Premier E. C. Theodore declared that anyone who doubted that Australians would soon be called upon to defend their homes against Asiatic invasions, were living in a fool's paradise. Asiatic ideals and aspirations, he added, were a menace to the ideals of the Australian Labor Party. ~m~. GERMANY TO SEIZE EVERY CHANC TO DEAL WITH RUSSIA Foreign Minister Declares Delay Has Been Due to Moscow HAND IS HELD OUT Barrier of Border States Created; By Alies Is Also An Obstacle. gERLIN, Feb. 4—Germany will< seize every oportunity to resume relations with Russia, Foreign Minister Yon Simons told the Reichstag.. Britain and America are making1 every effort to begin trade with Russia, he said, but declared they could i.ot do so without Germany. "We must watch their efforts keenly," he: said. "If our efforts to begin trade have not been successful," he said, "it is not Germany's fault, but Russia's, in not reconstructing her transportation system. Another obstacle is the barrier of border States erected between the two countries by the allies."Yon Shnons relations could not be attempted until Russia had given satisfaction for the death of Count Mirbach. "It is not our business to support or overthrow Sovietism, which of itself cannot hinder the Republic's business affairs. It is our earnest desire to extend our hands to Russia at the earliest moment. We seize every oportunity to do so." ■ m ■ Great Britain began repression of coolie trade in 1855. THINK "MAYFLOWER" CAN BE QUALIFIED FOR SCHOONER RACE , May Be Ready For at Least l One Trip to Banks in the Spring IS BARRED ELSE Halifax Committee Will Insist On Strict Adherence to Rules Drawn Up. JOSTON, Feb. 3—Boston men who vf are interested in the construction • i}f the schooner Mayflower as con-! Render for the international cup for Ashing vessels next fall, said tonight , ;hat they* had received word from ijhe committee at Halifax, N.S., thrt nhe Mayflower would be eligible fc» Hfeompete if she were completed in lime to start her for the fishing pbanks by the spring. _ \ jf The Gloucester Board of Trade j "recently received a communication j irom Halifax to the effect that the would be barred under Ja section of the cup agreement which, that in order to be eligible, ±a vessel must have been engaged in fdeep sea fishing for at least one season. i| It was explained tonight that the joshing season in Nova Scotia began ■an April and that it would be impossible to complete the construction of the Mayflower by April. The 'Halifax committee had agreed to ipeimit her entry, if she were on the way \o the fishing ground by April ,->O. The Boston syndicate has been 'assured by the builders a< Essex that this condition will be fulhii-id. AVIATOR IS KILL D. Minneapolis, Feb. 4—J. M Stewart, a Chicago pilot in the Minneapolis-Chicago air mail service, was killed yesterday when his plane fell, three miles south of Mendota. His mechanician was injured. « m i BRITAIN NOT SEEKING TO CONTROL THE AIR Huge Machines Capable of Carrying Enormous Bombs Are Being Tested lONDON, FeU 4--Great strides are being made in the science of aeronautics in Great Britain, it was learned today at the air miainstry. But officials deny that Britain is contemplating seizing control of the air, as stated by General Mitchell of the American aviation service. "Britain has not the slightest inclination or intention of entering the race for aerial supremacy." an oificer of the ministry declares. "Great strides are being made in the science of aeronautics, but I am not aware of any official desire to concentrate on gaining control of the air." Estimates Not Increased It was pointed out that the financial estimates of the air ministry, up to the end of 1923 do not call for any increase in expenditures in connection with the building of service squadrons. Also, the material which was being ordered is barely sufficient to keep the air force up to normal size. '<- However, European nations are known to be conducting important experiments with aircraft. Their air ministeries believe the next war will be bought largely above the clouds, and that the air navies may render fleets and fortifications obsolete as a means of national defense. Experiments are being conducted with huge planes capable of carrying large number of soldiers, as well as enormous bomb-; with enough high explosive to sink a battleship or blow a small town to atoms in one blast. Private Concerns Experiment With the League of Nations in existence and much talk of disarmament, in Europe and America; these experiments are being conducted on a small scale, and in many instances by private concerns with which the government has no direct connection. They are being kept in the background. If disarmament fails, however, and a new war looms, Europe lis likely to engage in an air navy [building competition, that will throw all previous armament races in the shade and fill the skies with fleets at manoeuvres and battle practices. Newsprint paper is now being sue-*. cessfully made from peat. l / SAYS SINN FEIN CRAFT SANK THE SUBMARINE K-5 - "Irish Republican" Paper Pubilshed in New York, Prints Strange Story of Disappearance of British Craft ■ ii j. i SEVERAL AMBUSHES ARE MEPORTEB IN IRELAND AT BEGINNING OF WEEK JJEW YORK, Feb. 3—Sinn Feiner, a local publication, today printed a despatch purporting to have been cabled from Dublin that the British submarine, K-5, which sank I in the English Channel off Landsend two weeks ago, was destroyed by an Irish seacraft. The destruction of the underseas craft, it is said, was brought about by an electrically controlled projectile recently jpvented by an Irish engineer. Another Ambuscade. i Dublin, Feb. 3—Dublin Castle announced tonight that another ambuscade took place this afternoon, near Ballinsarrig, County Cork, aj short distance southwest of Queenstown. Four constables were attacked, two of them were shot dead and one was seriously wounded. i! Major Carew Shot. Belfast, Feb. 3—Major Carew, am auxiliary policeman, dressed in civilian clothes, was followed into a restaurant in Dame Street, Dublin, this afternoon and shot in the arm by a man armed with a revolver. Carew was sent to hospital. Attack on Barracks. Dublin;' Feb. 3—Another big attack occurred Wednesday evening, when one hundred armed men attempted to rush the Rathcormac barracks, near Fermoy. The police, using rifles and bombs, beat off their assailants. No casualties have beer. j reported. J Nine Policemen Murdered. Dublin, Feb. 3—Nine policemen were killed and two wounded today when two lorries ran into an ambuscade between Drumkeen and New Pallas, County Limerick. APPROVAL OF BRIAND French Parliament En dorses Stand Taken Bj Premier on Reparations and Disarmament. FULL P A YM2NT MUST BE MADI DARIS, Feb. 3—The French Parlia ment Chamber and Senate gay its seal of approval to the govern ment's decision on the decision taken by the Supreme Council a Paris, respecting reparations, disar mament and other questions. It received Premier Briand's de claration with all outward and visi ble signs that promise a large ma jority in the vote of confidenc which the Briand cabinet will seel tomorrow. Germans Most Pay. Paris, Feb. 3—France still in tends to see that Germany is mad to pay her debt in full if he economic conditions permit of sucl payment. Premier Briand informs the Chamber of Deputies today, U presenting the declaration of hi ministry on the reparations question The caaing whale feeds chiefl] on cuttlefish. , m» I ■, ICELAND IMPORTS ICE FROM NORWAY Mild Whiter Causes Failure of Usual Local Supply—lceland's Winters Not; Harsh. £HRISTIANA, Feb. 3—For the first time in history Iceland has sent a hurry call to Norway for ice. The mid winter has caused a failure of the usual local supply. The people are not suffering from heat, but the ice is needed to preserve the herring harvest. Iceland of course has an unlimited amount of ice; the island is about the size of Ohio—4o,ooo square miles—and one-eighth of the entire surface is covered with glaciers. But under present conditions it is easier to bring ice from Norway, only 600 miles away, than to mine it and transport it at home. Ships have to go to Norway anyway and they can bring back the ice cheaply on the return trip s Nevertheless it is an old anomaly that Iceland should be importing ice. This is one more of the many things which have gone to show what a cycle of climatic mildness the worlc has been passing through in the last year or two. Iceland was formerly a dependency of Norway, but in the 14th cen tury it came under the rule df" Den mark. The people are very hardy, thrifty and well educated. The climate of the island is nowhere near so severe as most people imagine. The summers of course are short. The winters are damp, rather than intensely cald FIREMEN OF 'CLASS' Swedish Millionaires, Their Scions and College Pro-1 fessors, Man Liner's Engine {loom. ! ASKED TOO MUCH ■ MEW YORK, Feb. 3—The Swedish ! liner Gothenberg steamed into " New York today under power fur? nished by the brawn of millionaire I dubmen, college professors and the • general elije of Sweden. Siguard B. Jorkstrum, port engineer of Gothen. berg and director of the Swedish . American line which controls the yes . sel, was chief engineer and his twelve : stokers were recruited among the i aristocracy of Gothnberg. When the regular crew of fifteen struck for higher wages the former chief engineer of the vessel' had de , manded that his salary of 14,000 kronne a year be doubled. If his ! demands had been met the steamship [ officials said his salary would have exceeded by 3000 kronen that of the Swedish minister to the United States The aristocracy of the boiler 'oom tonight, removed their denims donned more f6rmal clothing and started out to see New York. SOLDIER DIES WITH WAD OF GAUZE IN HIS BODY It Was Left There Year Ago By Surgeons Who Operated For Aunendicitis. CREDRICTON, N. 8., Feb. 4— t Thirty- four inches of gauze founa t in his abdomen when he was operat s ed upon a few days ago at the Def partment of Sodiers' Civil Re-estab i Hshment hospital here caused the s death of Harry A. Larlee, aged 23 5 years, of Perth, N.B. i Enlisting with the 9th Siege Bat-1 tci-y he got as far as England with ) 'he Canadian Expeditionary Forces ; and there was detained with a con cert party which toured the Can- ! t adian military camps in the latter , period of the war. i ; Upon his return home he went to , ! the Pacific coast and at Portland, < 1 Oregon, was operated upon more 1 f than a year ago for appendicitis. It is believed at the military hospital here that the surgeons who perform ! ' ed that operation sewed up the pat- < • ient with the guaze almost a yard 1 (in length still in his abdomen. ; 1 After that operation the patient < » never recovered his health acid was : c forced to return to his home in this : province. < ■ m ■ HORSE BOLTS i This morning a horse frightened i ' by the street rotary, dashed up Water : ' Street at lightning speed, the driver i r of which could not gain any control < over the animal. The horse was $top- i ped near Horwood Lumber Co. by i 1 men from Reid's who were going to < dinner. ] 1 TAXES TO PREVENT DUMPING OF GOODS IN GREAT BRITAIN Announcement is Made at Birmingham by Austen Chamberlain no new Taxation Business Profits Tax Abolished Because Great Britain Does Not Need This Revenue Now BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, Feb. 3 —In the coming financial year there might be a new duty in connection with dumped goods or depreciated exchange, but there would be nc new taxes on business, declared Mr. Austen Chamberlain, in speaking to his constituents. He denied that the Government had any intention to promote and rush an election on a popu'ar bulget. None of the Ministers hac" my such idea, he said, and if the Government should wish to appeal U the country it would not be or: finance, that they would find an opportunity for the means for gratifying that wish. With reference to the abolishing .he Excess Profits Tax, Mr. Chamberan said that all business, except hose begun since the war, will pay ; :ax for a period of seven years, datng from their first accountancy period, but for all new business the tax :eases from December 31 last. Before making an announcement, ihe Chancellor explained that h< :aking an unusual course in announcing budget intentions in advace, and nothing but the present abnormal con ditions would justify such a course, ("he war had left Britain a debtor naion, but the country had made projres and transformed the deficit into a balance on the right side, and had . even begub-to redeem its obligations 'oward foreign nations. The Excess Profits Tax, he said, had many defects, it tended to encourage extravagance and discourage enterprise, but the conditions which made it necessary had changed, and its renewal was no longer necessary. 1 mm t RUSSIAN REFUGEES TOTAL TWO MILLIONS Are Scattered Throughout Practically Every Civilized Country in the World lONDON, Feb. 4—During the patwo years two million refugee? from Russia have invaded practical!} every civilized country, and thoustands continue to sweep through thr soviet lines and scatter themselve: to the four winds. An estimate of the distribution of these refugees k given in a report just issued by the. American Red Cross. The figures j do not include any of the recent Crimean refugees, pearly 130,000 in number, who are scattered over half a dcm near Eas'ern coun tries. Poland, 1,000,000; Germany, 560,000; France, 175,000; Austria, 50,000; Constat tinople, 50,000; Finland, 25,000. Laly, 20,000; Serbia, 17,000; England, 15,000; Latvia, 12,000; Hungary, 5,000; Egypt, 4,000; Lemnos, 3,500; Greece, 2,500; Cyprus, 1,500; Bohemia, 1,000; Sweden, 1,000; Norway, 1.000. Totcl 1,964,000. Recent Crimean rj fugees, 128,000. Total 2,092,000. | The Red Terrogp is only partly responsible for the hordes of Russian exiles. Thousands of war prisoners, who in the early days of the war fought under the czar's banner and were captured during Hindenburg's victories in. the » ismal Pinsk and •Pripet marshes, interned in prison camps in Germafy, and marched over the French crontier after the armistice, to learn for the first time| of the revolutiorEb Russia, have been the especial" objects of fortune's cruel practical jokes. The collapse of Wrangel. as of Denikin and others before him. added thousands, to $le Slav wanderers. Prince Paul E>alg< rukov, a social and t üblic worker .v letter I torn Constantinople, «rites that the position of the -:ivf an and military refugees in tha' city is desperate. He describes the conditions in which the family of a former vice pres. of the the Duma are. living. The fatherj and mother are "no longer young, and are invalids. Their former possessions are gone. They have found a dilapidated hufWri the outskirts of Constantinople, and almost roofless. Here they live* while a younger dauaht :r seeks such sm.il! domestic serviotijgjas pay enough o provide ecanty flod for the family. - I GRAFT INVESTIGATION UNEARTHS BIG SCANDAL Robert P. BrindeU, President of U. S. Building Trades Association, is Found Guilty on Charge of Extortion From the Builders. s MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY MIXED UP IN SHADY DEVICES OF LABOR LEADERS JJEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Robert P. Brindell, President of the Building Trades Council, to-night was found guilty of the charge of extortion from builders by a jury in Justice McAvoy's court here. Item by item the performances of the foul harpies of the New- York building trades have been revealed, until there is revealed an exhibition of sordid turpitude seldom rivaled in the annals of scoundrelism. The City Government and the individual citizen have alike been preyed upon, with impartial villainy, to enrich a gang of crooks of whom it may be said that they toil not, neither do they spin. As an example of the close relationship between these things and the lack of housing for the New York people, a concrete case in point may be cited. A certain contractor undertook to build 250 two-family houses, which would have given comfortable quarters to 500 families, comprising probably from 2,500 to 3,000 persons. He began the job, but was soon compelled to abandon it and to leave the houses unbuilt, because of the blackmail that was levied upon him in the name of trade organizations and labor unions. One of the worst of the evils was the increase of wages for workmen. Of course the workmen themselves did not receive a cent of the increase thus exacted from the contractors. It all went as a rake-off to some labor leader. Thus the men actually worked ior $8 per day, which was the regular union rate. But the contractor was required under threat of a strike to pay $10 for each cf them; and the extra $2 went into the pocket of the blackmailer. How the same general system affected important public works is shown in the experience of the schools. Work on a certain school-house was awarded on a bid of $11,345, of which $600 was a rake-off. Another responsible concern had put in for the same job a bid of only $10,003, but its bid was arbitrarily raised, hy the crooks through whose hands all bids were required to pass, to $12,403, in order that it might not conflict with the bid which had from the first been designed to be the winner. In another case, bids were tendered for $92,000 and $93,000 for a certain job, at which figures there would have been a fine profit for itie contractors. But when it became known that the Board of Education had an appropriation of $105,000 for the ptrrpose, all bids were "revised" so that the lowest was for $101,050. The catalogue of such scandals might be prolonged with monotonous iteration, almost to the crack of doom. And the blistering white-hot shame of the whole business is three-fold: First, that it was done in the name of "organized labor"; second, that it was acquiesced in and participated in by certain unscrupulous elements of organized capital; and third, and worst of all, that it not only went on unchecked under the very eyes and ears and nose of the New York City Government, but also that when an attempt was made to investigate, to expose and to stop it, the power of the Government was very largely exerted to balk, to discredit, and to defeat the inquest and to shield the evil-doers. Apart from this revelation of official incompetence and unfitness, the most striking feature of the case is the manner in which labor unions have been used as pawms in a game of graft. The veriest chattels purchased in the market-place could not have been more contemptuously manipulated than were the members of "organized labor" for the unclean profit of those who pretended to be their leaders but were in fact their despots. If anything could have made the case still worse, it was the persistent attitude of, Mayor Hylan in deprecating and resenting the investigation by a legislative committee, and insisting that whatever inquest was held should be 'conducted by himself or one of his lieutenants. Put into plain English, Mayor admitted that he had sent out as his own, to his most important colleagues in the city government, with intent to influence and control their official action, a letter which in fact had been written by the head of a monopolistic and grafting ring, intended to enrich the members of that ring at the public expense and to the detriment of honest business men who were bidding for public work of great urgency and importance. | The CRESCENT Theatre! | |fj The Cosiest Spot in Topn. f 3 j a I I = rim™ iiiih mm \mm\mm~mi aluj society. = I tRENE CASTLE Winter ™* «*«. *»* I I *tla ri'm\_:_*__ I :«A* and springtime. "And I I mThe Firing Line Irene £*£ ioving, | g—m»u G*nfr&m*d, mjng, dancing I Better | i come earlyl j I ADDED ATTRACTION: I RUTH ROLAND : ""V -.s I in the current thrilling chapter of Pathe's Big Serial: I II "THE ADVENTURES OF RUTH." 8 I MONDAY:—MILDRED HARRIS CHAPLIN in "POLLY | ! !OF THE STORM COUNTRY." Grace White's Great Story. 1 A FIRST NATIONAL ATTRACTION. = ■I ; = I NEW GOODS. o | V Water Power and Hand Power WASHING MACHINES Wood and Iron Frame WRINGERS Hand and Foot SEWING MACHINES Perfection and Florence OIL COOKERS, OIL HEATERS I - ACME and HOCKEY SKATES, I SKATE STRAPS, Etc., Etc. Bowring Bros., Ltd. HARDWARE DEPARTMENT. 'PHONE 332. __ -*- ' t
Object Description
Title | St. John's Daily Star, 1921-02-04 |
Subject | Canadian newspapers--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--20th century |
Publisher | St. John's Daily Star Publishing Company |
Place of Publication | St. John's (N.L.) |
Date | 1921-02-04 |
Year | 1921 |
Month | 02 |
Day | 04 |
Description | The St. John's Daily Star was published daily except Sunday between 17 April 1915 - 23 July 1921. -- Not published: 30 May - 09 June 1918, 11-12 July 1919. In process: January-March 1918, September-December 1919, July 1921. |
Location | Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--St. John's |
Time Period | 20th Century |
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Collection | St. John's Daily Star |
Sponsor | Centre for Newfoundland Studies |
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Repository | Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries. Centre for Newfoundland Studies |
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Title | St. John's daily star, 1921-02-04 |
Subject | Canadian newspapers--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--20th century |
Publisher | St. John's Daily Star Publishing Company |
Date | 1921-02-04 |
Year | 1921 |
Month | 02 |
Day | 04 |
Description | The St. John's Daily Star was published daily except Sunday between 17 April 1915 - 23 July 1921. -- Not published: 30 May - 09 June 1918, 11-12 July 1919. In process: January-March 1918, September-December 1919, July 1921. |
Location | Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--St. John's |
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Source | Microfilm held in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies. |
Rights | Public domain |
Transcript | The St. John's Daily Star Our Average Daily Circulation, September 9181 ' Newfoundland THE WE A 7 HER Probs Satnrday, Fair and CekL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1921. (PRICE: One Cent.) VOL. VII. . ($3.00 per Annum.) No. 28 U. S. Builders' President is Found Guilty of Graft Sinn Feiners Claim They Sunk British Sub. K-5 TURKISH DEMANDS Press of Turkey Outlines Subjects With Which Their Representatives Are to Deal. LONDON SCENE OF CONFERENCE fONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 3—Turk ish demands to be represented at the coming conference in London on the Near Eastern question will be In the number. According to the Turkish press, the demands are listed thus: First, abrogation of the privileges rr Greece in the Smyrna region under the treaty of Sevres. Second autonomy for Thrace. Third, maintenance of Turkish soy ereignty over Turkish territory. Fourth, modification of economic classes of the treaty which infringe upon Turkish sovereignty and independence.Fifth, modification of the military clauses, so that Turkey will be enabled to retain a defensive army. > i i MESOPOTAMIA MANDATE. That of Britain to be Submitted to League of Nations. London, Feb. 3—Great Britain's mandate for Mesopotamia will be submitted to the Council of the League of Nations at its meeting at Geneva, Switzerland February 21st, according to newspapers. The Times and Mail feature the announcement, and The Mail emphasises its great diplomatic importance. I—i » i TtfO VICTIMS Of FIRE Conflagration at Winnipeg Does $300,000 Damages Winnipeg, Feb. 3—The fire which burned all night gutted the interior of the Dingwall block, Albert St., resulting in the death of one of the firemen, and the missing of another. Approximately the damage is estimated at more than $300,000. A male bison outweighs a female by about 800 pounds. AUSTRALIANS FEAR ASIATICS Premier Theodore Pessimistic On Subject of Invasion. Brisbane, Feb. 3—ln a speech here today, Premier E. C. Theodore declared that anyone who doubted that Australians would soon be called upon to defend their homes against Asiatic invasions, were living in a fool's paradise. Asiatic ideals and aspirations, he added, were a menace to the ideals of the Australian Labor Party. ~m~. GERMANY TO SEIZE EVERY CHANC TO DEAL WITH RUSSIA Foreign Minister Declares Delay Has Been Due to Moscow HAND IS HELD OUT Barrier of Border States Created; By Alies Is Also An Obstacle. gERLIN, Feb. 4—Germany will< seize every oportunity to resume relations with Russia, Foreign Minister Yon Simons told the Reichstag.. Britain and America are making1 every effort to begin trade with Russia, he said, but declared they could i.ot do so without Germany. "We must watch their efforts keenly," he: said. "If our efforts to begin trade have not been successful," he said, "it is not Germany's fault, but Russia's, in not reconstructing her transportation system. Another obstacle is the barrier of border States erected between the two countries by the allies."Yon Shnons relations could not be attempted until Russia had given satisfaction for the death of Count Mirbach. "It is not our business to support or overthrow Sovietism, which of itself cannot hinder the Republic's business affairs. It is our earnest desire to extend our hands to Russia at the earliest moment. We seize every oportunity to do so." ■ m ■ Great Britain began repression of coolie trade in 1855. THINK "MAYFLOWER" CAN BE QUALIFIED FOR SCHOONER RACE , May Be Ready For at Least l One Trip to Banks in the Spring IS BARRED ELSE Halifax Committee Will Insist On Strict Adherence to Rules Drawn Up. JOSTON, Feb. 3—Boston men who vf are interested in the construction • i}f the schooner Mayflower as con-! Render for the international cup for Ashing vessels next fall, said tonight , ;hat they* had received word from ijhe committee at Halifax, N.S., thrt nhe Mayflower would be eligible fc» Hfeompete if she were completed in lime to start her for the fishing pbanks by the spring. _ \ jf The Gloucester Board of Trade j "recently received a communication j irom Halifax to the effect that the would be barred under Ja section of the cup agreement which, that in order to be eligible, ±a vessel must have been engaged in fdeep sea fishing for at least one season. i| It was explained tonight that the joshing season in Nova Scotia began ■an April and that it would be impossible to complete the construction of the Mayflower by April. The 'Halifax committee had agreed to ipeimit her entry, if she were on the way \o the fishing ground by April ,->O. The Boston syndicate has been 'assured by the builders a< Essex that this condition will be fulhii-id. AVIATOR IS KILL D. Minneapolis, Feb. 4—J. M Stewart, a Chicago pilot in the Minneapolis-Chicago air mail service, was killed yesterday when his plane fell, three miles south of Mendota. His mechanician was injured. « m i BRITAIN NOT SEEKING TO CONTROL THE AIR Huge Machines Capable of Carrying Enormous Bombs Are Being Tested lONDON, FeU 4--Great strides are being made in the science of aeronautics in Great Britain, it was learned today at the air miainstry. But officials deny that Britain is contemplating seizing control of the air, as stated by General Mitchell of the American aviation service. "Britain has not the slightest inclination or intention of entering the race for aerial supremacy." an oificer of the ministry declares. "Great strides are being made in the science of aeronautics, but I am not aware of any official desire to concentrate on gaining control of the air." Estimates Not Increased It was pointed out that the financial estimates of the air ministry, up to the end of 1923 do not call for any increase in expenditures in connection with the building of service squadrons. Also, the material which was being ordered is barely sufficient to keep the air force up to normal size. '<- However, European nations are known to be conducting important experiments with aircraft. Their air ministeries believe the next war will be bought largely above the clouds, and that the air navies may render fleets and fortifications obsolete as a means of national defense. Experiments are being conducted with huge planes capable of carrying large number of soldiers, as well as enormous bomb-; with enough high explosive to sink a battleship or blow a small town to atoms in one blast. Private Concerns Experiment With the League of Nations in existence and much talk of disarmament, in Europe and America; these experiments are being conducted on a small scale, and in many instances by private concerns with which the government has no direct connection. They are being kept in the background. If disarmament fails, however, and a new war looms, Europe lis likely to engage in an air navy [building competition, that will throw all previous armament races in the shade and fill the skies with fleets at manoeuvres and battle practices. Newsprint paper is now being sue-*. cessfully made from peat. l / SAYS SINN FEIN CRAFT SANK THE SUBMARINE K-5 - "Irish Republican" Paper Pubilshed in New York, Prints Strange Story of Disappearance of British Craft ■ ii j. i SEVERAL AMBUSHES ARE MEPORTEB IN IRELAND AT BEGINNING OF WEEK JJEW YORK, Feb. 3—Sinn Feiner, a local publication, today printed a despatch purporting to have been cabled from Dublin that the British submarine, K-5, which sank I in the English Channel off Landsend two weeks ago, was destroyed by an Irish seacraft. The destruction of the underseas craft, it is said, was brought about by an electrically controlled projectile recently jpvented by an Irish engineer. Another Ambuscade. i Dublin, Feb. 3—Dublin Castle announced tonight that another ambuscade took place this afternoon, near Ballinsarrig, County Cork, aj short distance southwest of Queenstown. Four constables were attacked, two of them were shot dead and one was seriously wounded. i! Major Carew Shot. Belfast, Feb. 3—Major Carew, am auxiliary policeman, dressed in civilian clothes, was followed into a restaurant in Dame Street, Dublin, this afternoon and shot in the arm by a man armed with a revolver. Carew was sent to hospital. Attack on Barracks. Dublin;' Feb. 3—Another big attack occurred Wednesday evening, when one hundred armed men attempted to rush the Rathcormac barracks, near Fermoy. The police, using rifles and bombs, beat off their assailants. No casualties have beer. j reported. J Nine Policemen Murdered. Dublin, Feb. 3—Nine policemen were killed and two wounded today when two lorries ran into an ambuscade between Drumkeen and New Pallas, County Limerick. APPROVAL OF BRIAND French Parliament En dorses Stand Taken Bj Premier on Reparations and Disarmament. FULL P A YM2NT MUST BE MADI DARIS, Feb. 3—The French Parlia ment Chamber and Senate gay its seal of approval to the govern ment's decision on the decision taken by the Supreme Council a Paris, respecting reparations, disar mament and other questions. It received Premier Briand's de claration with all outward and visi ble signs that promise a large ma jority in the vote of confidenc which the Briand cabinet will seel tomorrow. Germans Most Pay. Paris, Feb. 3—France still in tends to see that Germany is mad to pay her debt in full if he economic conditions permit of sucl payment. Premier Briand informs the Chamber of Deputies today, U presenting the declaration of hi ministry on the reparations question The caaing whale feeds chiefl] on cuttlefish. , m» I ■, ICELAND IMPORTS ICE FROM NORWAY Mild Whiter Causes Failure of Usual Local Supply—lceland's Winters Not; Harsh. £HRISTIANA, Feb. 3—For the first time in history Iceland has sent a hurry call to Norway for ice. The mid winter has caused a failure of the usual local supply. The people are not suffering from heat, but the ice is needed to preserve the herring harvest. Iceland of course has an unlimited amount of ice; the island is about the size of Ohio—4o,ooo square miles—and one-eighth of the entire surface is covered with glaciers. But under present conditions it is easier to bring ice from Norway, only 600 miles away, than to mine it and transport it at home. Ships have to go to Norway anyway and they can bring back the ice cheaply on the return trip s Nevertheless it is an old anomaly that Iceland should be importing ice. This is one more of the many things which have gone to show what a cycle of climatic mildness the worlc has been passing through in the last year or two. Iceland was formerly a dependency of Norway, but in the 14th cen tury it came under the rule df" Den mark. The people are very hardy, thrifty and well educated. The climate of the island is nowhere near so severe as most people imagine. The summers of course are short. The winters are damp, rather than intensely cald FIREMEN OF 'CLASS' Swedish Millionaires, Their Scions and College Pro-1 fessors, Man Liner's Engine {loom. ! ASKED TOO MUCH ■ MEW YORK, Feb. 3—The Swedish ! liner Gothenberg steamed into " New York today under power fur? nished by the brawn of millionaire I dubmen, college professors and the • general elije of Sweden. Siguard B. Jorkstrum, port engineer of Gothen. berg and director of the Swedish . American line which controls the yes . sel, was chief engineer and his twelve : stokers were recruited among the i aristocracy of Gothnberg. When the regular crew of fifteen struck for higher wages the former chief engineer of the vessel' had de , manded that his salary of 14,000 kronne a year be doubled. If his ! demands had been met the steamship [ officials said his salary would have exceeded by 3000 kronen that of the Swedish minister to the United States The aristocracy of the boiler 'oom tonight, removed their denims donned more f6rmal clothing and started out to see New York. SOLDIER DIES WITH WAD OF GAUZE IN HIS BODY It Was Left There Year Ago By Surgeons Who Operated For Aunendicitis. CREDRICTON, N. 8., Feb. 4— t Thirty- four inches of gauze founa t in his abdomen when he was operat s ed upon a few days ago at the Def partment of Sodiers' Civil Re-estab i Hshment hospital here caused the s death of Harry A. Larlee, aged 23 5 years, of Perth, N.B. i Enlisting with the 9th Siege Bat-1 tci-y he got as far as England with ) 'he Canadian Expeditionary Forces ; and there was detained with a con cert party which toured the Can- ! t adian military camps in the latter , period of the war. i ; Upon his return home he went to , ! the Pacific coast and at Portland, < 1 Oregon, was operated upon more 1 f than a year ago for appendicitis. It is believed at the military hospital here that the surgeons who perform ! ' ed that operation sewed up the pat- < • ient with the guaze almost a yard 1 (in length still in his abdomen. ; 1 After that operation the patient < » never recovered his health acid was : c forced to return to his home in this : province. < ■ m ■ HORSE BOLTS i This morning a horse frightened i ' by the street rotary, dashed up Water : ' Street at lightning speed, the driver i r of which could not gain any control < over the animal. The horse was $top- i ped near Horwood Lumber Co. by i 1 men from Reid's who were going to < dinner. ] 1 TAXES TO PREVENT DUMPING OF GOODS IN GREAT BRITAIN Announcement is Made at Birmingham by Austen Chamberlain no new Taxation Business Profits Tax Abolished Because Great Britain Does Not Need This Revenue Now BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, Feb. 3 —In the coming financial year there might be a new duty in connection with dumped goods or depreciated exchange, but there would be nc new taxes on business, declared Mr. Austen Chamberlain, in speaking to his constituents. He denied that the Government had any intention to promote and rush an election on a popu'ar bulget. None of the Ministers hac" my such idea, he said, and if the Government should wish to appeal U the country it would not be or: finance, that they would find an opportunity for the means for gratifying that wish. With reference to the abolishing .he Excess Profits Tax, Mr. Chamberan said that all business, except hose begun since the war, will pay ; :ax for a period of seven years, datng from their first accountancy period, but for all new business the tax :eases from December 31 last. Before making an announcement, ihe Chancellor explained that h< :aking an unusual course in announcing budget intentions in advace, and nothing but the present abnormal con ditions would justify such a course, ("he war had left Britain a debtor naion, but the country had made projres and transformed the deficit into a balance on the right side, and had . even begub-to redeem its obligations 'oward foreign nations. The Excess Profits Tax, he said, had many defects, it tended to encourage extravagance and discourage enterprise, but the conditions which made it necessary had changed, and its renewal was no longer necessary. 1 mm t RUSSIAN REFUGEES TOTAL TWO MILLIONS Are Scattered Throughout Practically Every Civilized Country in the World lONDON, Feb. 4—During the patwo years two million refugee? from Russia have invaded practical!} every civilized country, and thoustands continue to sweep through thr soviet lines and scatter themselve: to the four winds. An estimate of the distribution of these refugees k given in a report just issued by the. American Red Cross. The figures j do not include any of the recent Crimean refugees, pearly 130,000 in number, who are scattered over half a dcm near Eas'ern coun tries. Poland, 1,000,000; Germany, 560,000; France, 175,000; Austria, 50,000; Constat tinople, 50,000; Finland, 25,000. Laly, 20,000; Serbia, 17,000; England, 15,000; Latvia, 12,000; Hungary, 5,000; Egypt, 4,000; Lemnos, 3,500; Greece, 2,500; Cyprus, 1,500; Bohemia, 1,000; Sweden, 1,000; Norway, 1.000. Totcl 1,964,000. Recent Crimean rj fugees, 128,000. Total 2,092,000. | The Red Terrogp is only partly responsible for the hordes of Russian exiles. Thousands of war prisoners, who in the early days of the war fought under the czar's banner and were captured during Hindenburg's victories in. the » ismal Pinsk and •Pripet marshes, interned in prison camps in Germafy, and marched over the French crontier after the armistice, to learn for the first time| of the revolutiorEb Russia, have been the especial" objects of fortune's cruel practical jokes. The collapse of Wrangel. as of Denikin and others before him. added thousands, to $le Slav wanderers. Prince Paul E>alg< rukov, a social and t üblic worker .v letter I torn Constantinople, «rites that the position of the -:ivf an and military refugees in tha' city is desperate. He describes the conditions in which the family of a former vice pres. of the the Duma are. living. The fatherj and mother are "no longer young, and are invalids. Their former possessions are gone. They have found a dilapidated hufWri the outskirts of Constantinople, and almost roofless. Here they live* while a younger dauaht :r seeks such sm.il! domestic serviotijgjas pay enough o provide ecanty flod for the family. - I GRAFT INVESTIGATION UNEARTHS BIG SCANDAL Robert P. BrindeU, President of U. S. Building Trades Association, is Found Guilty on Charge of Extortion From the Builders. s MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY MIXED UP IN SHADY DEVICES OF LABOR LEADERS JJEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Robert P. Brindell, President of the Building Trades Council, to-night was found guilty of the charge of extortion from builders by a jury in Justice McAvoy's court here. Item by item the performances of the foul harpies of the New- York building trades have been revealed, until there is revealed an exhibition of sordid turpitude seldom rivaled in the annals of scoundrelism. The City Government and the individual citizen have alike been preyed upon, with impartial villainy, to enrich a gang of crooks of whom it may be said that they toil not, neither do they spin. As an example of the close relationship between these things and the lack of housing for the New York people, a concrete case in point may be cited. A certain contractor undertook to build 250 two-family houses, which would have given comfortable quarters to 500 families, comprising probably from 2,500 to 3,000 persons. He began the job, but was soon compelled to abandon it and to leave the houses unbuilt, because of the blackmail that was levied upon him in the name of trade organizations and labor unions. One of the worst of the evils was the increase of wages for workmen. Of course the workmen themselves did not receive a cent of the increase thus exacted from the contractors. It all went as a rake-off to some labor leader. Thus the men actually worked ior $8 per day, which was the regular union rate. But the contractor was required under threat of a strike to pay $10 for each cf them; and the extra $2 went into the pocket of the blackmailer. How the same general system affected important public works is shown in the experience of the schools. Work on a certain school-house was awarded on a bid of $11,345, of which $600 was a rake-off. Another responsible concern had put in for the same job a bid of only $10,003, but its bid was arbitrarily raised, hy the crooks through whose hands all bids were required to pass, to $12,403, in order that it might not conflict with the bid which had from the first been designed to be the winner. In another case, bids were tendered for $92,000 and $93,000 for a certain job, at which figures there would have been a fine profit for itie contractors. But when it became known that the Board of Education had an appropriation of $105,000 for the ptrrpose, all bids were "revised" so that the lowest was for $101,050. The catalogue of such scandals might be prolonged with monotonous iteration, almost to the crack of doom. And the blistering white-hot shame of the whole business is three-fold: First, that it was done in the name of "organized labor"; second, that it was acquiesced in and participated in by certain unscrupulous elements of organized capital; and third, and worst of all, that it not only went on unchecked under the very eyes and ears and nose of the New York City Government, but also that when an attempt was made to investigate, to expose and to stop it, the power of the Government was very largely exerted to balk, to discredit, and to defeat the inquest and to shield the evil-doers. Apart from this revelation of official incompetence and unfitness, the most striking feature of the case is the manner in which labor unions have been used as pawms in a game of graft. The veriest chattels purchased in the market-place could not have been more contemptuously manipulated than were the members of "organized labor" for the unclean profit of those who pretended to be their leaders but were in fact their despots. If anything could have made the case still worse, it was the persistent attitude of, Mayor Hylan in deprecating and resenting the investigation by a legislative committee, and insisting that whatever inquest was held should be 'conducted by himself or one of his lieutenants. Put into plain English, Mayor admitted that he had sent out as his own, to his most important colleagues in the city government, with intent to influence and control their official action, a letter which in fact had been written by the head of a monopolistic and grafting ring, intended to enrich the members of that ring at the public expense and to the detriment of honest business men who were bidding for public work of great urgency and importance. | The CRESCENT Theatre! | |fj The Cosiest Spot in Topn. f 3 j a I I = rim™ iiiih mm \mm\mm~mi aluj society. = I tRENE CASTLE Winter ™* «*«. *»* I I *tla ri'm\_:_*__ I :«A* and springtime. "And I I mThe Firing Line Irene £*£ ioving, | g—m»u G*nfr&m*d, mjng, dancing I Better | i come earlyl j I ADDED ATTRACTION: I RUTH ROLAND : ""V -.s I in the current thrilling chapter of Pathe's Big Serial: I II "THE ADVENTURES OF RUTH." 8 I MONDAY:—MILDRED HARRIS CHAPLIN in "POLLY | ! !OF THE STORM COUNTRY." 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