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BROOK? I FN DAILY EAGLE PASfilY CLOUDY TONIGHT AND SUNDAY; MODERATE TEMPERATURE. ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS COMPLETE STOCK MARKET Valimr 84 at K. 3RK CITY. SATURDAY, MARCH 22. 1924.

21 PACES. THREE CENTS, 3J (n in WALK DNDQNEHS Poincare Won His Victor By Threat and a Promise 2 20-YEAR TERMS GIVEN BY VAUSE TO HARRY SINCLAIR REFUSES TO TESTIFY; HAYS FLATLY DENIES OIL MAN GAVE STOCK TO MAKE UP G. O. P. DEFICIT BO CRIMINALS Harry F.

Sinclair on Way to Senate Oil Inquiry to Explain Contract Holder of Teapot Domtf Lease Declines to Plead' Fear of Incriminating Him-. elf Says There Is Nothing in Facts Relating to. His Lease That Could Reflect on Him. ft Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon. By GUY HICKOK.

Paris, March 21 You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. Vote for my bills In parliament and I will support you in the coming elections. It waa with this blunt combination of promise and threat that Tremler Poincare held together the majority In the Chamber of Deputies when he asked them to do that most difficult of a politician's duties, vote a heavy Increase in taxation on the eve of election. The situation was most trying for tho deputies. They had been elected to power in 1919 on a campaign slogan of "No additional taxes.

Germany will pay." They had maintained that policy up to and through the occupation of the Ruhr. And then, with tho elections scheduled for May, Premiere Poincare said to them: "Germany is not paying. Now we must pay. We must vote taxes, 20 percent all around. Polncarc's Trump Card.

For the last two years the Deputies of the Bloc National, who have been Poincare's staunchest supporters, had besought him to give them tome assurance that when the elections came he would be with them. But he had always refused to commit himself. He had refused to "play politics." This refusal left him with, a trump card In his hand when he came to tho crucial moment of his leadership. When after the panic-creating collapse of French currency In mid-January he asked the Chamber to vote a series of laws permitting him 1. To make drastic economies; 2.

To make laws by decree; 3. To levy a 20 percent flat Increase in all taxes, he waa able to say to tho Bloc National: "Stand behind me now and I will back you at the polls." In France such a promise means more than it does in tho United States. The whole French State Is highly centraMzed. The 87 depart-I ments are not like our 48 States, self-governing. Thev are enverneri "fatsos- Left to right arc G.

T. Stanford, Martin Littleton, Harry F. HUERTA MEXICAN TRAMS TIED UPBY STRIKE Tram Workers Go Out and Bus Drivers Join in Sympathy. London, March 22 (By Associated Press) Several thousands of London's early workers were compelled today to take unaccustomed walking exercise In consequence of stoppage of tho tramway and omnibus services. The shutdown was caused by a strike of the tramway 'niploycea for higher wages and a sympathetic walkout by tho omnibus men.

The first sufferers were hundreds or nlghtworkvrs employed by the newspapers, hotels and central markets, who depend on tho trams to reach their homes and who had to walk long distances to tho suburbs or wait for the tardy resumption of the rail services. The biggest tramwy system affected Is that run by the London County Council, which has 1(3 miles of track, but several privately owned systems also are Involved, and these are spread over a very wide area, serving districts far beyond tho immediate suburbs. 3,500 Busses Tied T'p. About 8,500 omnibuses are tied up. depriving not only London itself but many rural and semi-rural areas of cheap transportation, as many of the bus routes extend to places 20 or 30 miles outside the city.

It is estimated that the trams unci busses together carry nearly persons dally, and although this total Includes many sightseers and ethers who have alternative railway routes, there are many thousands, especially among the poorer workers, who depend absolutely on the cheaper road transit and must otherwise walk. The employing companies today Issued figures purporting to show that the state of their business precludes granting the demanded Increase in wages, while the strikers' leaders claim they are able to prove that the contrary is true. Wires MacDonald Attack on Queenstown Was Cowardly. Dublin, March 22 (By the Associated Pre3) The reverberations from, the mutiny within the Free State army are continuing and, if anything, growing louder. Two of the British soldiers were town, in which a detachment of British soldiers on leave was fired upon by men in Free State uniforms, with sanguinary results, created a sensation in the capital, and President Cosgrave Immediately telegraphed a denouncement of the "cowardly crime" to the British Prime Minister.

A reward of 10,000 has been offered by the Free State Government for Information leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons concerned in the shooting. One of the Erltish soldiers was killed and 21 were wounded, 4 so seriously that they are not expected to survive. The parly, which is reported to have comprised about 50 persons. Including some of the men's wives and children, had just landed at Queenstown from Spike Island, the British naval base, when a big motorcar drove up the pier and the four uniformed occupants opened fire with a machine gun. Men in Car Fled.

The car then dashed away, making resistance impossible and pursuit futile. The wounded were taken back to Spike Island, and Free Slate troops, in lorries, were sent in search of the assassins, who are reported to have shouted "Up Tobln!" as they drove away. General Tobin was one of the officers at the head of the Free Stato army mutiny, and is still at large. Gen. Owen O'Duffy, Free State commander in chief, Immediately sent staff officers to Queenstown for an investigation.

London, March 22 Tho Ipublic here was astounded to learn of the murderous onslaught by four unknown men upon a party of unarmed British soldiers and their wives and families last night at Queenstown. The attack, so far as can be learned, was entirely unprovoked. It is well known that strong anti-English feeling exists among a considerable section of the Irish, and it has been reported that the suspicion of official favoritism toward certain officers in the Irish army who were formerly in the British service is largely responsible for the mutinous spirit which has arisen In connection with the Irish demobilization. Former Defense Minister Mulcahy, questioned last night by the Daily Telegraph's Dublin correspondent, said the attack was "an isolated act of blackguardism, significant of nothing but that there were four fellows who were prepared to do anything." INSANE MOTHER KILLS 2 CHILDREN; ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Philadelphia, March 22 Suddenly becoming Insane, Mrs. Mary Sehultz, the police said, hacked her two small children to death with a I atchet last night and then gashed her own throat.

Her condition is serious. Neighbors told the police that the woman had been acting strangely for several days, refusing to answer questions and muttering to herself or weeping. A note left on the dining room table to explain her deed was confusing and gave the police clue. Torn the 14 If mt In ClnMlflmHoD Bit. heatfeU "Rudlo Equipment." into little wtvt workers for you todjr.

Adr, BUSES IRISH SCORES KILLING 0 SOLDIER HERE AND NOW Oath suggested for oil witnesses: "The untruth, the naif-truth and everything but tho truth." For tho second appearance in the witness "chair: "The near-truth, the synthetic truth and something more than the truth." THE TEAPOT DOME CASE. By A. Conan Oyle. While Holmes proceeded to disguise himself as a basket of fmit, I quickly changed into a suit of oilskins of spml-formal cut, and placing an otleander In the lapel of my coat I taxied to the Capitol. I found an unbroken line of witnesses moving in and out of the building.

It seemed that a witness, having testified that he didn't remember, went outdoors to refresh his memory, and, after again getting In line, went back for another try. One old fellow told me he was making his nineteenth trip and couldn't recall what kind of tooth paste he used in the fall of 1001. (Tomorrow, Watson's testimony.) N. H. The Feature Section of Today's Eagle Is Combined.

With This Section A. Y. DANKS GIYEN SUMMONS AT HIS MOTHER'S FUNERAL Son of "Silver Threads Among the Cold" Author Must Tell of Royalties. Just as he was entering the Lef- ferts Place Chapel yesterday after noon to attend funeral services for his silver-haired mother, who, 4n 1874, inspired his father, the late Hart P. Danks, to write "Silver Threads Among the Gold." Albert V.

Danks of 1920 E. 7th st. was served with papers In contempt proceedings. Process servers for more than a year have been, trying to find Danks in order to compel him, as executor of the estate of their father, to refund $5,617 to his sister. Miss Gertrude Danks.

It was osly by chance that Roderick Begg, of Begg, Begg Begg, learned that Danks would be present at his mother's funeral. Since 1922, when Justice John P. Cohalan signed an order for the arrest of Danks, process servers for Begg, Begg Begg have been con stantly searching for him. He has Been sought, but never served, at his E. 7th st.

residence. "If Danks falls to answer to the summons he will go to the Ludlow st. jail," said Roderick Begg this morning. "Me nas received $25,000 up to 1915 from his father's estate and since that time many thousands more have accrued at the publishers, totaling about $20,000 more. His sister has received none of this and we are determined that Danks must pay." Less than a dozen persons attended the funeral and the Interment in Beth-El Cemetery, Jamaica.

Mrs. Danks died in a lodging house on Kings Highway. She had been estranged from her son and daughter, it. is said, due to differences of opinion between herself and her children as to what share she should get from the royalties on the love song. CARMANIA FLOATED AFTER GROUNDING OFF LIVERPOOL Liverpool, March 22 The Cunard liner Carmania, which has been employed on the Clyde-Liverpool route since December, went aground on Askew Spit at tho mouth of the Mersey this morning, according to the Daily Courier.

The Carmania was due here today with passengers. The liner sent out wireless signals and six tugs have been sent to assist her. The Carmania was refloated with the tide and docked safely. F. JACHENS IS SUICIDE Mrs.

Mary Jachens of 102 Downing wife of Frederick Jachens, a grocer at 1031 Fulton left her husband busy In the shop when she went to the movies last night. When she arrived home, near midnight, he was not there and later she found him in the cellar of the shop, dead. He had hanged himself to a beam with a piece of clothes line. His suicide Is believed to be due to despondency. FIRE GUTS FLOWER SHOP Fire broke out from some unexplained cause at 2:15 o'clock this morning in the florist shop of George Desmones at 257 Duffield st.

The flames were brisk and before the firemen could control them the lower floor was gutted. If you nn looking for ffond real rotate Investment look flrat at the "Lots for Sale" Column In tho Classified Section of Herbert Mackie, Who Con fessed to Fifty Jobs, Gets Limit. Two criminals were riven flat terms of 20 years In Sing Sing today in County Court. Judge W. Bernard Vause sent away Herbert Mackie, 26, who con fessed to 50 Brooklyn hold ups and branded him as "one of the boldest criminals ever caught in Brooklyn." The other prisoner was Percy Jones, 25, of 526 Classon who was charged with a serious offense.

Muckie. who lived at 445 3d tola Assistant District Attroney Joseph V. Uallagher that during the five weeks prior to Feb. 7. the day Morris Diamond went on trial for his life in the Supreme Court, he had pulled on- so jobs with the assistance of two other gunmen now serving long terms in eing sing prison.

They are 1-aw-rence Heaney, 20, of 159 Garfield pi. and Benjamin McCullough, 18, of 304 lvin st. Mackie was brought here Wednes day from Rahway Reformatory at Itahway, N. where he was serving a term for violating his parole. The Urand Jury indicted him the same (lay, he pleaded Ruilty to robbery in the first degree before Judge Vause and late in the afternon he made his sensational confession to Assistant District Attorney Gallagher.

"I am convinced that you are one Of the boldest criminals that has ftver been caught in this boro," Judge Vause said today in passing sentence. "I told you when you pleaded guilty that I wouldn't do anything for you and I meant it. I am going to give you the limit. Sing Sing for 20 years." Mackie requested that Judge Vause grant him a 20-day stay in the Ray- mond Street Jail to give him the opportunity to wind up his affairs. The request was granted.

CHINATOWN CASHIER KILLED BY BANDIT AS SIGHTSEERS LOOK ON Two Men Held for Murder in Crowded Chop Suey Restaurant in Pell St. Two of five bandits who threw Chinatown Into a turmoil early this morning, when they held up the Oriental restaurant at 4 to 6 Pell shot struggled with them and robbed the cash register of $203, were caught red-handed by Patrolman Edward Hose of the 6ak st. station, who captured ono of the men as he waa about to leave. Pulling the man back with him into the restaurant, the patrolman found the other still bending over the each register, covered him with his revolver and ordered him to throw up his hands, which he did, trembling. The shot fired at the cashier re verberated the narrow streets of Chinatown and news that one of the oldest chop suey restaurants had been held up spread quickly, causing a rush of excited Chinese from homes and other restaurants into the street.

The slain cashier was Yee Wing Rone. 31. of 18 Mott st. The two men captured by Rose were locked up on charges flomiciae ana roooery. They described themselves as Robert F.Ianeh, 28, of 111 Roosevelt and Ralph Cukoo, 30, of 41 Oliver st.

According to the Chinese era-ninvees of the restaurant Questioned by the police, five men entered the restaurant snorciy otiors a There were about 40 patrons present including several fashionably dressed women and a number of tourists who had stopped off at the restaurant after a sightseeing trip, une oc me men, said to be Cukoo, drew a revolver and, according to the employees, walked up to the cashier and ordered him to throw up his hands. When the cashier put up a fight the bandit fired a shot and Bong dropped to the floor dead, with a bullet In the abdomen. Cukoo, It Is alleged, then passed the revolver to the man who said he was Blanch and, ordering him to "keep the crowo covered," walked behind the cashier's desk to the cash register, from which ho took $208. William Li Bu, proprietor of the restaurant, ran out to the street. where he blew a police wnistie wnicn summoned Patrolman Rose.

Several other patrolmen soon arrived and took the two prisoners to the Oak st. station. The three men who entered with the two alleged bandits were among the first to rush from the restaurant and no trace of them was found. STRAUSS AND WATTS QUALIFY AS JOINT SINCLAIR RECEIVERS Cheyenne. March 22 Rear Admiral J.

Strauss and Albert E. Wntts. vice president of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Company, yesterday qualified as joint receivers oi me Sinclair oil interests in the Teapot Dome Naval Reserve district. Both hied bonds of $50,000. Under orders of U.

8. Judge Kennedy the receivers are to operate all producing wells now operating in Teapot Dome; no new wells to be drilled in the district except those absolutely necessary as offset wells and these to be drilled only to preserve the value of the oil fields. WOMAN DROPS DEAD IN LOBBY OF A THEATER Mrs. Sarah Fink, 45, of 49 Chris topher went to the Liberty Theater at. 63 Liberty last evening, with her husband and two cousins to Bee a play called "Home Without a Mother." She dropped dead in the lobby of the theater before the play started.

FREE to BOYS and GIRLS Be the guests of The Brooklyn Eagle at a movie party at the Strand Theatre April 5. See coupon in tomorrow's Eagle. ROXIE STINSON WEEPS AS WHEELER Senator Brands Attack en Her Character as "Cow ardly Trick." Washington, March 22 Roxic Stlnson. divorced wife of Jess Smith "bumper und friend" of Attorney General Daugherty, resumed the witness stand today before the Daugherty investigating committee and brought with her letters to sup port her story of last week. Bcforo Miss Stlnson began, Sen ator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, In charge of the Inquiry, declared Mr.

Daugherty bad done "a airiy, cowardly trick" In making charges of blackmail against her in his recent statement. Tears streamed from Miss Stlnson's eyes during Senator Wheeler's statement. Heads Daiighurtjr Statement. Chairman Brookhart read last night's statement by Attorney General Daugherty and emphasized his comment upon the committee leaving the department's record of liquor prosecutions. "I got the record rrom the department- last night after the statement was Issued," Chairman Brookhart said.

"Has Mr. Daugherty seen fit to explain whbt official position Jobs W. Smith had In the Department of Justice?" asked Senator Ashurst, Democrat. Atizona. "He has not," Chairman Brook-hart responded.

"We oi'ftht to let that lie explained by the Attorney General, who has rot yet come to the stand," Henator Jones, Republican. Washington, put In. Former Senator Chamberlin of counsel (or Daugherty, complained that counsel had not been allowed to cross-examine witnesses, particu larly Kuxie Stlnson and Gaston B. Means. "Miss Stlnson Is here.

You'll have your opportunity today," said Senator Wheeler. "She has been sick and the reason Is that the Attorney General has stooped to the unmanly and Indecent thing of attacking her character." Demands CooUdgc Suspend Daugli. erty. Senator Chamberlain protested the Attorney General was being placed in an unfair position. "We have the whole power of the Department of Justice directed against us and this hearing," Senator Wheeler broke out, "with its agencies intimidating our witnesses by threats of prosecution if they appear.

I criticise the President of the United States for keeping this man in his place of power while this proceeding goes on. The least the President could do would be to suspend him from ofTlce." Miss Stlnson began by taking up Mr. Daugherty's charges in detail. First she denied that sho was a "disappointed woman," and declared Smith had never led her to believe that she was to be his soie heir. "Just utterly false," said Miss Smith of the Attorney General's charge that she had attempted to "capitalize her silence." Smith in Fear Months Before Ills Death.

A young man named Lylo Johnson, Miss Stlnson said, who represented himself as coming from Washington, offered her $1,000 for a lead on where to go to get information. Miss Stlnson said she refused to give any Information to anybody until after Bhe talked with Senator Wheeler. For six months before his death Jess Smith had been in fear. Miss Stlnson said, and the last evening they had together ho spent mostly In telling what not to tell and what bank books and papers to destroy. Some of Mr.

Daugherty's statements, she said, "were gossip, Incompetent and malicious." She mentioned this, she said, because Jess Smith was enmeshed in unsavory deals through his great loyalty to an unscrupulous man. "The last evening Jess Smith spent with me he cautioned me not to talk and spent the whole time telling me what bankbooks to destroy," Miss Stlnson went on. "The man was in fear he was in constant fear for six months. He warned me not to go out at night." Referring to Mr. Daugherty's statement that she registered at Cleveland hotel with A.

L. Fink as man and wife. Miss Stlnson said Fink telephoned her Feb. IS of a "big deal" she might be interested In and he made reservations at the Hollcn-den for her. Miss Stlnson said sho and Fink had dinner together In her room to talk over reorganization of a rubber company and also Teapot Dome and the "general oil situation." when told by Fink that he had registered her under a fictitious name, she said she was very much Incensed.

Declaring that Fink had left her room about 11 o'clock, Miss Stlnson said that the Attorney General's charge that she had occupied the room with Fink or any other man was "utterly false." Smith "Enmeshed ami "I hate to abuse confidence," said Miss Stlnson. "I am doing it to show you that Jess Smith was enmeshed and entangled." "Enmeshed and entangled by whom?" "By the man to whom he held his great loyalty," Miss Stlnson went on. "The man who is using bis great power to terrorlzo and Intimidate witnesses." "Who Is the man?" Senator Ashurst put In. "Harry Daugherty." she said. Tn controlled, but tearful language, she said she was being followed and that her telephone conversations at home were being listened to.

"I'll ndmit I'm nervous," Miss Stlnson said. Taking up the charge of Daugherty as to her conduct with Fink, the witness said Fink told her he registered her under a fictitious name so they could have a conference over an oil deal. Tho BON HOTEL at AUGUSTA. will remain open untA April toth. Golf, Horseback Riding.

Tennis, etc. Wlra for reservations. Adv. SCORES DAUGHERTY Will if. Hays flatly denied before the Senate Oil Committee today that Harry F.

Sinclair had given any stock to wipe out a $1,600,000 deficit of the Republican National Commit-tee after the 1920 campaign. Washington, March 22 llany F. Sinclair, who holds the lease to Teapot Dome, refused to testify before tho Oil Committee today on the ground that any evidence he may possess should be reserved for the courts. In a statement madu after the committee had refused unanimously to concede his plea against the authority of the Investigators, ho declared ho did not desire to plead that his replies might tend to in criminate him, because there was nothing in the facts relating to his Teapot Dome lease that was incriminating. "I shall reserve any evidence I may be able to pive," Sinclair said to the committeo, "for those courts to which you and your colleagues have deliberately referred all questions of which you had any Jurisdiction, and shall respectfully decline to answer any questions propounded by your committeo." "There is nothing," he continued, "in any of the facts or circumstances of lease of Teapot Dome which does or can incriminate." Five Times Before Committee.

The statement then recapitulated the operator's provlous appearances before Senate committees regarding the lease and added: "Thus It appears that I have been before your committee at five different sesions and answered all ques tions and produced all books and papers called for, and I was finally excused from further attendance." Sinclair called attention to the fact that th resolution authorizing prosecution In the oil lease cased had been passed by the Senate since his last appearance. The resolution In effect "denounces the lease between the Government and tho Mammoth Oil Company," he said, on the ground of fraud and coi rup -Hon. "This Is an assertion that under th'i 'rights and equities' of the United States the lund covered by the lease of Teapot Dome belongs to the United States," the statement said. Events in connection with appointment of special Government counsel to proceed with lease litigation were reviewed in the statement which then referred to the fact that the evidence Is to be presented before a special Grand Jury here. "It is perfectly, clear, therefore.

from the language of the resolution," Sinclair continued, "that your committee by reason of any constitutional power which It may possess or by virtue of the resolution under which it is acting, is not now engaged, nor oould it be engaged In any investigation 'with particular reference to the protection of the rights and equities of the United States and the preservation of it natural because the Senate, from whom you derive your authority, has unanimously passed upon all the questions embrace within that authorization and ex- hausted whatever power or authority it had in the premises." Says Probers Lack Jurisdiction. Sinclair then said he claimed that the committee was "without any Jurisdiction to question mo further re- garding, the procurement ofthe leaso i dr the validity thereof or any fact or I circumstance pertaining thereto." If' tho examination should be directed toward "eliciting facts con- i cernlng fraud or corruption," the i statement added, the committee would have constituted itself "a grand jury" on matters already submitted be; the Government to "the constitutional authorities of the country." When Sinclair had finished reading his statement Senator Walsh said he desired to ask him about the testimony of Frederick O. Bonflls, publisher of the Denver Post. The operator conferred with his counsel, Martin Littleton, and then replied: "I decline to answer on advice of counsel on the same grounds." Senator Walsh asked about Sinclair's purchase from the Pioneer and Belgo Oil Companies of their claim in Teapot Domo, and got the same answer. Then the prosecutor nut in long line of questions coverini; all of the important matters on which he desired to Interrogate him, and the oil magnate declined to an-' swer each "on the same grounds." Sinclair then was excused.

"Thank you very much, gentlemen," said Littleton as he accompanied his client away from the witness chair. Fcldcr Called to Testify. Whisky withdrawal permits continued today to engage the attention of the Daugherty Committee, which had summoned Thomas B. Felder. New York and Georgia attorney, for questioning about the alleged liquor "deals" whereby bootleggers got per- House Business? Fine, Thank You So good that Boy Scouts will soon have to perform a new type of service.

What day a mean? Holding back the crowds that respond to Eagle classified ads. When Mr. S. Borden of 199 Penn st. advertised for a houseworker to come to that address a large number of women immediately "Please Take Me." Any time YOU want a similar response just call Main 6200 and ask for an Eagle by prefects, governors appointed irum raris.

Ana tnese prerects and their assistants can have a powerful influence in the elections. Directed from Paris, they form the strongest sort of a party organization spread all over the country. They are paid by the government, notified in advance of the government's desires, and with the prestige they gain from holding all of the highest local offices they can be almost lrreslstable. Opposition Lacks Organization. The opposition must go to the polls with no such nation-wide organization.

All the opposition can have Is the best improvised substitute they can manage with the meager party funds that obtain In French politics. Many felt that Poincare was asking his followers to commit political suicide when ho requested them to vote thei-tnereasffd but they knew that the shift was probably a short one anyway, and that they would have a better chance at reelection with Poincare for them than against them. They accepted his offer. 130 AUTO TOURISTS STRANDED IN SNOW ON SANTA FE TRAIL Women and Children Reported Suffering From Exposure. State Rushes Aid.

Topeka, March 22 One hundred and thirty motorcar tourists, many 111 from exposure and without medical aid, are stranded at Kendall, blocked by the heavy snows that swept Western Kansas the past week. Kendall is a village of less than 100 population on the Santa Fe Trail 30 miles east of the Colorado line. The plight of the tourists, among whom are women and children, became known last night when a telegram asking assistance reached tho office of Governor Davis. The village is without a doctor or a drug store. Somio of the tourists are sleeping In barns, in a school house and In their cars.

Those receiving better accommodations are overcharged, tho message, signed by O. Garrett, said, and added that no effort Is being made to open tho roads. "We are In a very serious condition," tho telegram said. "The roads are absolutely impassable for motorcars. A bad blizzard is blowing.

Cannot explain our true condition, as you would have to be here to see for yourself." In all 35 motorcars are In the party, according to Garrett, who said practically all of the cars are bound for Kansas City and points east. The Governor's office immediately instructed Hamilton County officials to aid the tourists and to open the roads. Western Kansas has been snowbound for more than a week. Advices from Garden City, 50 miles east of Kendall, said that It took 50 men a week to open the Santa Fe Trail through Finney County. FRANC AT 5.31 SETS NEW HICH RECORD Covering operations continued to hamper the French Government in its efforts to stabllizo the value of the franc, and the rate advanced 7 points to a new high record for the year, at 5.31 cents, at the opening of today's foreign exchange market in Wall Street.

Other exchanges were irregular, with Belgian francs moving up sympathetically. DUNCLUTHA PROCEEDS; MACHINERY REPAIRED New York, March 22 The Bteam- ship Dunclutha, reported in distress 25 miles northeast of Barnegat, N. last night, Is proceeding under her own steam to Norfolk, according to a wireless message from the vessel received here today. Broken machinery, which caused the ship to ask aid, was repaired during the night. At the Irft nf the rolumn under "Auto-mohllea for Hale" In the Classified Section of today's Eagle are the alphabetically arranged name of the specially priced cars offered today.

Adv. Boy Drowns in Barrel' Of Vinegar Trying To Catch a Pepper (Special to The Eagle.) Inwood, L. March 22 Francesco 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Grillo of 15 Zavatt this village, drowned yesterday In a barrel of vinegar.

The barrel was a little over four feet deep and was filled to a few Inches below the brim. A num-bero of peppers were floating on the surface of the Vinegar and It Is thought the lad was endeavoring to get hold of one of those when he fell Mrs. Grlllo went to the cellar In search of the boy and found his body in the vinegar with his feet protruding from the top of the barrel, A physician was summoned but found the boy had been dead for over an hour. OLYMPIC CRASHES WITH ANOTHER LINE NEAR PIER The White Star liner Olympic leaving her pier at 11:15 today had a stern collision with the Ft. St.

George of the Furness-Bermuda line and the Ft. St. Oeorgu was compelled to turn around In the North River off of l'ler 68 and make her pier at the foot of W. 67th st. Damages to the Ft.

St. George have not yet been learned, although observed from tho water front, she had 45 feet of rail on her sun deck smashed, also the top of the main mast, a sectloln of 15 feet, torn loose. The wireless rigging ripped down and as observed from the shore the roof of her smoking compartment on the stern had fallen in. WHIZ OF BULLETS IN THIEF CHASE George Lane, 24. colored, of 115 Lawrence was held for the action of the Grand Jury when arraigned today In the Adams Street Court before Magistrate Dale following hit arrest last night after he had seized a handbag from the hand of a white woman.

Mrs. Marge Graham was about to enter a drug store at Myrtle ave. and Duffield when, she said, Lan-stepped up and snatched the handbag from her hand. Mm. Graham's screams attracted a large crowd and policemen took up the chase after Lane down Myrtle ave.

The police fired several shots and at Jnlinson St. and Ilatbush extension Johnson halted, after a bullet whizzed over his head. He was taken back to the scene where Mrs. Graham Identified him. CAN'T LOCATE L.

K. DRWG COMPANY IN THIS BORO Inquiries today fulled to revenl the whereabouts of tho L. K. Pru Company of Brooklyn, mentioned by John Crorlnl in the liquor bribe story told to tho Senate yesterday. Reputable druggists ncv.r heaid of the firm It was learnt d.

The Sanitary Cod and the Buildinn are included In the Code of Ordinances Just publtnhed. Amended to Jan. 1, 1934. At Eale offices and news stand, 75c; by mail, 0c. Adv.

REBEL 515 FOR I Flight Indicates Collapse of Revolution May Join Family in New Orleans. New Orleans, March 22 The gunboat with Adolto de la Huerta and other Mexican revolutionists, is headed for Galveston, Texas, it was believed today in official Mexican circles. This was based on intercepted radio messages. Tho flight of the rebel leaders Indicated the collapse of the revolution. It was said The Mexican government made no effort to apprehend De la Huerta.

but welcomed his departure to foreign soil. It was further understood that De la Huerta, after landing at Galveston, will come to New Orleans to Join his wife and family. COOLIDGE URGES FARM RELIEF ON HOUSE LEADERS Longworth, Outlining Congress' Program, Promises Income Tax Cut Effective This Year. Washington, March 22 The ability of Congress to dispose of Its most urgent work In time to adjourn for the June conventions rests largely with the Senate, In the opinion of Republican House leaders, who conferred last night with President Coolldge. The Executive plans to hold a similar conference shortly with party chiefs in the Senate and the House leaders expressed confidence that Congress would be able to complete its program, including tax revision, before the conventions.

The President, who earlier had sent a message to former Governor Hanna of North Dakota, manager of his campaign in that Htute, in which he promised "to ad vocal legislation and use all the administrative forces of the Government and organize private enterprise to give sound economic relief where it is impressed upon his guests last night his desire for enactment of some form of farm relief legislation. He is understood, however, to have made no specific recommendation as to the form of such relief. Representative I.ongworth. the Republican floor leader, outlined the program worked out in the last few days with a view to expediting pending measures, and the legislative situation was discussed generally. Work will be speeded up, the President was told, on the regular appropriation bills, the Johnson immigration measure and the child labor amendment proposal, with action also planned on readjustment of postal salaries.

Mr. Iongworth, predicting that the revenue bill would be disposed of before June, declared that, in any event, a 25 percent reduction in Income taxes payable this year would be authorized. FIND DEAD MAN IN STREET A poorly dressed man, about 38 years old, was found at an early hour this morning lying dead in front, of the house at 162 Fulton st. by a policeman. The body was taken to the morgue.

He was five feet five Inches in height and weighed about 145 pounds. BANDITS GET $5,500 Boston, March 22 Three bandits held up Paymaster William D. O'Brien of the J. Coleman Sons Company in the Rozbury district todav und escaped with nearly (5.500. How Ions sEUce you served Eatmor Cranberries? Make most delicious sauce.

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