Twin Falls Daily News from Twin Falls, Idaho • 1

THE ONLY ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER IN TWIN FALLS COUNTY .1 FALLS OA VOL. 4. NO. 265. TWIN 1'ALLS, IDAHO.

MONDA if, FEBRUARY 20, 1922. PRICE FIVE CENTS CHICAGO'S BOY "P0NZI" AND SOME OF HIS VICTIMS Auto Bandit Secures Twenty-Two Thousand from Bank Messenger REVIVAL OF BUSINESS IS ROBBERS TIKE GOODLY SUM i siTirani i ADDED TO LIST IN IRISH IIS NEW YORK, (JP) William A. messenger for the Greenwich bank, was robbed of $22,000 iu currency today by a-i automobie bandits, who boarded the truck in which he was' trans- porting the money to a downtown NEARLY HERE BDLDHOLD UP M. F. Rice of Twin Falls, 68; Relieved of Cash to Amount of $150; Money Saved to Buy Tombstone bank.

The robbery occurred on Nineteenth street, njuar j-Vventh avenue. Shooting Follows Criticism Offered as to Social Hours Annual Report of Federal Reserve Board Lends Strength to View That Worst of Present Depression is Past I I if'' 1 i 1 Attaclrtrom Ambush Costs the Life of One and Results in Wounding of Second; Condition at Boundary Quieter BELF.V&'T, (JP) Lieutenant Mead of the army service corps was shot dead and a staff surgeon was seriously wounded as a result of an attack from an ambush along a road near Dublin this 'afternoon. NEW YORK, (JP) Lena Russo 18 years old, was arrested today' charged with shooting her 21-year-old brother, Alfonso, during a quarrel which started when he upbraided her -for letting her beau stay late. The say she fired five shots. Members of the Irish republican WASHINGTON, D.

0. (JP) Bus-ineqn throughout the country, pro-gresscni? through well defined circles, is neartng the point of the upward swing of the economic pendulum, according to the annual report of the federal reserve board transmitted today to congress. "There are those," the-report said, "who believe that the beginning of revival is not far dis-tant. When it does, definitely eet in it will be followed in due course by a new era of prosperity." army football team, captured at 'Dro- more last month, were released from the LoniloiHjcrry jail today in conform ity with The order issued last night by Viscount Fitzalan, the viceroy. The released men were conveyed in motor cars across the Irish free state border in Donegal by British troops.

AllillBllillli' Two unidentified men at 4:30 o'clock this morning held up and robbed M. P. Bice, aged 68 years, of $150 which he had saved to place a tombstone over the grave of his wife whom he lost a year ago. The robbery occurred on Third street west between Fourth and Fifth avenues. Mr.

Rice was on his way to work at the Poppy confectionary and lunch room own-: ed by his son-in-law, P. F. Var-ney. Mr. Kice was not injured by tha hold-ups.

He watched them running in a westerly course from the scene of the robbery and then notified police, headquarters. Police officers have been detailed to investigate, the case, and hopes are exprssed that the robbers will soon be taken in custody. Discus-ring the occurrence this morning Mr. Rice said, "It was dark an i I could sec either of the men who stopped me. In fact, I did not see cither of them until they were running away.

One was a tall man. He wore a soldier's overcoat. The other was of average size. All Previous Top Prices of Wheat for Season Beaten CHICAGO, (JP) Steep new advances in the wheat market took place today. All previous top prices this season were surpassed.

i In some cases the market showed a rise of 6 1-4 cents a bushel. rTV They were accompanied on the of their journey by Commandant Shields of Donegal, Sinn Fein liaison officer. SITUATION QUIETER IN NORTH IRELAND. The situation in northern Ireland is considerably calmer than at any time during the last week, and the fear of a clash on the southern, frontier has dwindled. The rival forces, however, retain their positions along the border and hope is expressed that the next few days will see them withdrawn.

Meanwhile, the joint liaison commissions are -understood to have begun Businns, in one of its long swings" from prosperity, the report said, has followed its usual rotations. This rotation is described as follows1; Business activity and increased production, excessive expansion and speculation followed hitherto by panic and forced liquidation; a long period of slow liquidation, business depression aud stagnation and then revival. "Tn the light of recent experience the report warned "we should remember when we again enter into a period of full prosperity that a reaction will follow sooner or Liter; and if the flow of the incoming tide can be controlled so that he crest may not be reached too rapidly nor rise too high, the subsequent reaction will be less severe and the next period of industrial and commercial activity and general pros SoBLEII PONZI'S BOSTON OPERATIONS for "get rich quick" pale beside those of Raymond J. Bischoff of Chicago, who is charged with victimizing 3,500 persons out of $7,000,000. He was not perturbed by the situation.

Shortly after his arrest his office was besieged, by Investors. The photo shows police keeping back the mob Special Sub-Committee Now at the door. In the insert la Bischoff, their operations. Two British officers apd two officers of the Ulster special constabulary form the northern commission, with headquarters at' Cloghe'; the southern commission comprises two British and two provisional govern aged twenty-five. perity will be marked by saner meth-j THREATENED HIM WITH REVOLVER.

upon me from behind just as I reached the alley. The smaller mjan caught me by the coat collar and -held the muzzle of a revolver against my neck. He said, 'Put up your hands and not a word out of Thfln he spoke to his companion and -said, 'Oscar, go through "The larger man. standing behind Has Before It Entire Matter of Soldiers' Bonus ment officers, with their base at Mon aghan. The', will apparently instituie Wide Variety of Subjects Covered by Views of Famous English Woman a sort of patrol, keeping in touch with each other and using their influence me, put his arm around my body and where it may be needed in the interest of peace.

ods, greater n'bevemenT, aiong constructive lines wd by a longer duration, than any which we have had EARNING A8SET8 OF LARGE AMOUNT. The earning assets of jill federal reserve the TepMrioiCmou5ted on Deecmher 23, 1921, to $1,53.1,851,000 compared with $3,263,027,000 on. December 31, a reduction of 53 per cent which wqg accompanied bv a steady mcretasc in gold an almost continuous decrease in federal reserve note circulation. Gross earnings of the federal reserve banks for 192L the report continued, WASHINGTON', D. (JP) Majority members of the house ways and means committee referred back today to especial, jta sub-committee the whole pr.iblem of how the soldiers' bonus is to.

be financed. It was announced the. sub-committee would meet tomorrow and would go into the question of ft sales tax among other things. Coincident with the meeting of the committse, the was made by a White House official that many letters and telegrams had reached nfter finding -that I had- no he put his Land in my pocket and took out the which I had in a tobacco) sack and a. buncbj of keys.

There; were six twenty-dollar bills, two ten dollar bills, one five dollar bill, one dollar bill, and four silver dollars. 'I had ta'ten the money from my bunk where I had been keeping it Saturday 41 There is no such' thing as free-" dom in Americfi. America has not trcat-ed her wounded generously. Main Street is well written but somewhat tiresome and futile. "I like American men' bette than American "Of course, -1 know of.

Adams. I mean that I did not know her personally." Upon her arrival in America Mrs. Asquith wig quoted as having said she did not know the Chicago jsettlotiiKUt worker. (JP) Mrs. Margot Asquith, wife of England 'a former premier, here to lecture tomorrow night, made the following observations of America and Americans: 1 American railroads are an abomination.

Flapptrs aro only a result of the war. "All the participants in the war should caned their war debts. "Hughes is your greatest national fipurc. "Americans are polite. WED HORSEMAN to buy postoffice monev orders.

I was pected to get them the first thing this President Harding opposing enactment at this time of bonus legislation, while Miss Mathilde McCormicck, 16, to Get Man of Her Choice, Whose Age is 57 amounted to $122,865,000, compared with $181,297,000 in 1920. Member bank borrowings, according to the report showed a continuous decline from at the, end of 1920 to about $1,144,000,000 at the end of 1921, due to. a reduction of over $900,000,000 in the volume of federal reserve notes In circulation. On December 28, the report continued, the federal reserve banks held- gold reserve of $2,870,000,000. pected to get them first thing this morning.

"When, the larger man took the keys and motley' out of my pocket, the -other one asked if he had found anything, 'Oscar, said he, you "bet did. Here is a- bunch of The other one told him. toput the keys back. "Then they gave iiie a push "and fell and slid along on many hands bcndv knees. When I got up they were a half blocK away and running toward CHICAGO, UP) Mathilde McCor- the legislative committee of the American Legion made public a telegram to the president from the legion's national Hanfdrd MaeNider, asking thp.i the legislation le no longer KORB A3AINST THAN IN FAVOR.

The ictters reaching the president opposing enactment at this time of bonus legislation greatly outnumbered those favoring immediate legislation, it was said' at the White Jlonso, Some of the opposition letters, it was added, showed, however, a similarity in form. mick, 10 years old, today had permis sion of ur father, Harold F. McCor-mick' to marry Max Oser, a horseman Sixth avenue. They ran like younjr ISP TREATY HME 0. 1 Committee Sets Seal of Approval Upon Japanese Agreement men, and had talked like young of Zurich, Switzerland.

Mr. McCor; mick announced the engagement last night in a 33-word statement. He said it whs 'hastened a few weeks by the fact of tlie recent newspaper publicity." The romance of the young grand Mr. Rice's voice broke and ho choked back a sY as he said, "What hurt me the most as that they took the money I had been, saving to buy a tombstone for 'my wife whom I lost a year CANNOT LECTURE 1H JUPilfJ Joined in Death After Separation of Thirty Years Early Interruption of Domestic Life Healed Only with Fiat of Grim Reaper GENEVA, (JP) A couple named Stalde-, separated for 30 years, have joined in death at Kussnacht, nwr Lucerne. For reasons) tlie.v never told, they parted a month after marriage, bowing to each other on the street but never speaking.

v- Recently the wife died. The bu: band Wrote a note asking to be buried near her and an hour later he was found dead. Doctors found no indications of suicide ind friends said he died of a broken Commander Mac Aider, in hig tele-gTant declared "the negligible, minority in opposition fan traced in nearly every rase to certain selfish interests intrenched in great financial centers." The commander said the Legion did not understand, "first com Sirs. Margaret Sanger May Visit but Propaganda Will Not Be Permitted daughter cf John D. Rockefeller was characterized by Emil L.

Burgy, Cbi-eago interior deeorator, who says he is a first consin of the Swiss equestrian, as a love of spring and winter. "Mr. 0er is not three times Miss MeCormick 's age as the newspapers have stated," said Mr. Burgy. "H3 is older, he is 57 years old, not 48.

He is just my age. am his and should know." WASHINGTON, D. (JP) President Harding, replying today to the senate on the Hitchcock' resolution mittment and then retraction" on the bonus question. i TOKIO, UP) The instructions of the. Japanese foreign office to the Jap anese consulate San Francisco that Opponents of.

the sales' tax began to lay tlunr plans today for a fight against this proposition. Represent! Plans Under Consideration for Effort to Stamp Out Traffic in Liquor asking for information relative to the negotiation of the four-power Pacific treaty, stated it was impossible to fur inish the requested information because most of the negotiations were conduct tive Dickinson, republican. Iowa, a leader of the agricultural bloc, cal'ed a meeting of republican opponents for late today. WASHINGTON. D.

C. (JP) Use of Friends of the MeCormick said last night MeCormick 's announcement must have followed eonent of Mr. Rockefeller. None had definite information but all stated that even so determined a girl as Miss Mathilde has been said to.be, would r.ot dare go It was said that aside from referring airplanes clong the Florida coast in a war on rum. smugglers was understood WILL HOLD INQUEST TO ed without the maintaining of a rec- ord.

The president said it would not be compatible with public interest to disclose th confidential negotiations of the treaty but -he declared that "there were no concealed under- the finance question to the sub-committee, the majority members discussed the Fordney bill as originally introduc torVy to be under consideration by-prohibition headquarters. through with such an engagement un it refuse to vise the passport of Mrs. Mfcurgaret Sanger, head of the birth control league, were on the ground that propaganda along' the lines it was understood she proposed was illegal in Japan and an improper subject for public discussion. iThe foreign office's action, however, it jsas stated, by an official today, did not mean that Mrs. Sanger would be denied admission to Japan.

Tusuke Akamatsu, chief of the immigration section of. the" foreign office, said today the action taken was intended a warning to' Mrs. Sanger that she would not be permitted to lecture and to forestall any complaint that she did not know the Japanese attitude in Plans for. the use of airplanes against ed and s.oproved some slight changes. It is indicated that further action by less Mr.

Rockefeller sanctioned it. GROOHr OP NOBLE ELOOO. rum runner were understood to tie part of a gigantic progranvboing: worked out by prohibition authorities in standings iand no seeret exchanges-of the majority would await a report fron the tax sub-committee. Responsibility in Case of Dnal noeS volving activities in the air, on the Almost coincident with the arrival That Oser is possessed of noble blood water and on land to stem the tide of FIGHTS FORD FOR PROJECT and also has a reasonably (large inde Death to be Subject of Of- ficial Inquiry illicit liquor flowing mto the countrv of the president's letter at the sen ate, the foreign relations committee of i that body by a vote of 10 to 1, ordered pendent income, also was stated by Mr. Burgy, Mr.

Burgy believes that from West Indian jand other, islands. Head of Air Nitrates Company Declares Officials would not discuss the re the estimate 'of the ridmg income at 10,000 a year is erroneous. ported plan to form an anti-alcohol favorably reported the treaty between CHICAGO, UP) An inquest into the the United States and Japan regard-deaths of Joseph Horan, 65, and Joseph ing the island of Yap. Hussey, 42, who locked in a struggle- The action followed a two-hour de- Statements that she would not be navy mibuiV.ed with former sub-chas-- Acceptance of Offer Is Violation of Law D. UP) Accept "Max Oser 'a right name is Max von permitted to land in Japan were in era.

Der Muelit," Burgy said. "His fa correct, he declared. On the contrary, for the possession of a pistol, crashed bate in the committee and was taken ther was a German nobleman, Count through a window and plunged four after several republican and democratic ance by The United States government of the1 offer by Henrv Ford for pur she would undoubtedly receive permis sion to enter the country upon the com voa Der yuehl. His widowed mother married Sebastian Oser aftter Selms- stories last night, will, toe nem today, senators had indicated they would ta. chase "and of the Muscle Shoals dition that she would not attempt Such was the impact when -the bodies vor reporting the treaty to the senate tftm returned to Switzerland from BISHOP IS OPPOSED TO EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT Episcopal Dignitary Telia Audience he Pavors Modification of Volstead i Lav propaganda.

struck that a first floor plate glais but reserved the right to further (lis- America in 1865. Sebastian Oser has nitrate and water power project "would constitute ft violation of the solemn binding agreement entered window was broken, although neither. euss it oa the. floor. The single nega spent many years in America.

STOCK BROKERS SUSPEND body touched it. tive vote was cast bv Senator Pittmsn, Mr. B'lrsrr then recounted Sebastian into with our eompany, under date of June 8, 1618, J. C. Hammitt, Oser's wanderings in A said XEW YORK, IP) Suspension of Kohler, Bremer and company, stock The fight began in the apartment of democrat, Nevada.

a woman friend of Hussey. Horan, -r "--ier, was said to havo taxed Hus-l WILL BE- CANDIDATE. that he had amassed a president of the. Air IS urates corporation, notified the house military com which he took back to brokers, was announced from the ros. trum of the Consolidated Stock Ex- chanjre today.

mittee today. i rwpoMiDiiny lorno egecuouj WA8llTNGT0N, D. (JP) Burton otuer' I E. -Sweet, republican member of the Burgy. hazarded the bc'Uf t.

i 1 Oser had inherited a considerable portion of t. CHICAGO, (JP) Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, presient of the National Council of the Episcopal church, in an address here last night savl that, he be lieved "the eighteenth amendment was a He also said that he believed in the modification of the Volstoid law. am in favor of he An involuntary -petition, in bankruptcy, alleging that the company had house from the third Iowa district, an PREACHED CCr3 ON; STRIKE. jnounced today he would enter the re BLACKPOOL.

(JP) The Rev." publican primaries in June as a can The witness asserted that, despite the opinion of Colonel Hull, acting iudrc ad'ocate general of the army, the agreement was "null and yoid" he believed it would 4 hold in the liabilities, of $500,1100 assets was filed In explaining his retationship to Oser, Buigv stated that his father Henry Burgy, -was the brother of Max Oser's Diother. Adam Hamilton, the pastor of one of didate for the senate. The office at in federal court art hour later. Judge Learned has named Arthur F. Gotthold the Congregational churches here, haT'gtake is -he unexpired term of Senator where it would be tested if receiver in $25,000 bonds.

announced his intention of going on Kenvon, strike for two weeks. He said empty said, "and I personally observe the Volstead law, but I am opposed to putting sumptuary laws of so drastic a COBB IMPROVING. the government insisted upon violating its pledge. rOH BENEFIT OP PRESS WASHINGTON, T. (JP) The house resolution extending privileges pewa in his church showed that there was something wrong, either with his sermons the church.

MANY ORDERS REPRESENTED CHICAGO. (JP) Delegates from many fraternal organizations were here BOSTON, (JP) The of Irvm Cobb, humorit and GETS HER FIRST PPESENT. LONDON UP) King George's principal wedding gift to Princess Mary is a handsome piece of jewclrv, which has already been given to her, says th Daily Mail. She, will receive another present from her father before her marriage to Viscount LaseelJes. writer, whose lecture tour was inter character the constitution.

It partakes of the old philosophy thrt matter is inherently evil, I am uot speak ing in the interests of underworld but in tha interests of 1 today for the annual, convention of the 'National Fraternal congress of America. The convention will end Wednes- ruptcd here by an attack of flu, was of naval radio service to the press for five yews was adopted today by the IDAHO wzATnrs. Tonight and Tuesday fair; reported today as considerably lm proved. senate..