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-y . trict committee today, strongly urged WEATHER. tonight and probably tomorrow; no change in temperature. ‘Temperature for twenty-four hours, ending 2 p.m. today: Hi; 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, today. Full repox on page 9. ghest, 40, at 33, at 4 am. Closing New York Stocks, Page 20. " No. 28,015. Entered as second-class matter post office. Washington, BN COMMITTEE URGES INAUGURAL BALL BE . INPENSION OFFICE No Other Place in Washing- ton Is Adequate, Lead- ers Claim. BORAH WOULD PUT END TO NEW APPROPRIATIONS | Says $50,000 Is Sufficient—Norris Moves to Bldck Effort to Bring Troops. With y four votes in opposi- - tion, the House this afternoom passed the joint resolution, which has already passed the Sei ate, appropriating 350,000 for in- polic- ing at a vote of 285 to 5, the Houne re- jected an amendment offered by Representative Blanton to cut thin from 350,000 to Members of the inaugufal commit- 1ce, appearing before the Senate Dis- | that Congress permit the use of the Pension Office building for the pro- posed inaugural ball. They frankly admitted that no other adequate place ‘was obtainable in Washington. - Senator Borah of 1daho, immediately following the meeting of the Senate today, introduced a concurrent resolu- tion declaring that no further funds ‘beyond the $50,000 allowed under the XKnox resolution should be appropri- ated by the government for the in- auguration. His resolution also pro- vides that no public buildings may be used for an inaugural ball Senator Norris of Nebraska offered gn amendment which would inform the Secretary of War and the Secre- tary of the Navy that Congress would not authorize the use of any funds for bringing any of the military e tablishments to Washington to take part in an inaugural parade. The Borah resolution went over until to- morrow for consideration. . It recites that there are more than 2,000,000 men and women in the| country, many of whom are in need, | and that 3,500,000 are on the verge of | starvation in Europe; that the United States has a debt of - §24,000,000,000 and faces a deficit of $2.000,000,000. It is also declared that plans were un-. der way for the most elabbrate -in- augural celebration ever held. | House Judiciary Committee | Present petitions and briefly state the SAYS LAW CALLS FOR DEPORTING OF O’CALLAGHAN TUnder the law. Lord Mayor O'Callaghan of Cork should be de- ported for having entered the coun- try without a passport, according to an opinion presented to Undersecre- tary Davis of the State Department today by the solicitor of the depart- ment. Secretary Davis expected to confer during the day with Secretary ‘Wilson of the Labor Department, and pending that conference no an- nouncement was made as to the de- cision of the State Department. There appeared little likelihood, how- ever, that an exception would be made in Mayor O'Callaghan’s case. to apply the law as construed by the solicitor, the procedure would be to request the Labor Department to return Mr. O'Callaghan to the cus- tody of immigration officials at Nor- folk, to await deportation, or to ask against him. D.C. 10 BE HEARD FOR NATIONAL -~ REPRESENTATION' Arguments Tomorrow Before | { in Favor of Amendment. Tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock the House judiciary committee will: hold a hearing in its room in the| House Office building on House joint resolutions 11 and 32, proposing a constitutional amendment empower- ing Congress to grant to the District of Columbia national representation in Congress and the electora] college. These Tesolutions were introduced, | respectively, by Representatives Bur- roughs and Olney. .Representative Bur- roughs will be in charge of the hearing and will ‘open the argument and pre. sent other speakers. The citizens’ Jomt committee for national representation will appear as the principal advocate of the amendment through its sub- committee on brief, for which Henry B. F. Macfarland and Theodore W. Noyes will speak. Representat:ve Burroughs, will present the repre- Sentatives of various organizations appearing in behalf of the amend. | ment. Most of these organizations of c.tizens are co-operating or in- tegral members of the Joint citizens® committee. Their representatives will records of their repective organiza- tions on thé subject of nationai repre- sentation for the District. 2 - i Mamy Are to Be Meara. It is not khown ut present How much time will be granted-{o° the citizens -who are urg:ng the passage Weould: Lise Ouly T? Days. The Senate District cominittee was | informed that the pension office files, ‘which in 1909 were kept in the court of the building, where thebail would be held. have been moved to the hird floor. For this reason it will hot be necessary now to move all | of these.valuable records out of the building, a8 was done in the past. The chief clerk of the pension office. A. D. Wilkingon, told the committee that in his opinion it would be pos- ble to permit the use of the pension fice for the inaugural ball this year with little or no ifterference in the actual business of the office. He pointed out that the building would be turned over to the inau- gural committee for decoration the Monday before inauguration and would be returned the Monday fol- lowing inauguration day, which falls on Friday. - He estimated that only three real working days would be lost. Among those who appeared at the committee meeting today were Ed-} ward B. McLean, chairman of the in-; augural committee; Charles J. Bell.| John Joy Edson, Samuel J. Prescott, Wilton Lambert, Milton_ E. Ailes, Frank J. Hogan and Jesse C. Smith. Go Over Resslution. embers of the inaugural commit- et oment over in detail the New reso- lution, introduced Saturday, provid- | ing for adequate police protection and | arrangements for viewing the inau- gural parade. Corcoran Thom estimated that it! would cost $5 a seat to erect the stands along the court of honor. He!} ointed out that many of these seats | are given to officials of the govern- | ment, of the states and_members of | the diplomatic corps. Those which | are sold, therefore, must pay for the | erection’ of jthe stands. Four years | axo, he said® it cost $1.75 per seat to crect the stands along Pennsylvania | avenue. It would cost, he said, more | ihan this to erect them now. Charles J. Bell told the committee | that if the limitation proposed by | Senator Phipps of Colorado—that no | seat in any stand should sell for more | than $1—there would be no stands | (Corunued on Page 2, Column 2) | N Today’s News in Paragraphs i Activities of Non-partisan League in | Kansas arouse opposition of American ! Legion. Page 11 Conference arranged to better fire pre- | cautions at Waiter Reed Hospital, | Page 1 storm sweeping across trail of ! aeronauts en route back to] civilization. Page 1, Inaugural committee renews fight to get | pension office for ball. Page 1 S. to abandon council of ambassa- dors at Paris. Page 1! Rent commission denies owners’ plea for ' Possession in submitted cases and de- v Cides rent controversies Page 2| Public hearing on Great Falls power | project set for January 20. Page 2| elegates meet here to prepare national , traffic code. Page 2| Attempt made” to assassinate officers | riding in Dublin suburb. Page 2 % of %000 starving children of . lurope await D. C. giving. Page 2] Allics again to protest Greek requisi- Tiomng of fund. Page 3 Legion head declares thou- { veterans are suffering great hardship through guvernment’s faulty | niethods of rendering aid. Page 3! Secretary of league of nations cites | work accomplished by organization | first year of its existence. Page 3| Blazing plane falls in river; brief tele- | _graphic news of U. S. Page 12| Senator Johnson \turns guns on forces which he declargs are trying to take direct primariey away from the people. Page 13 Famous herd of bison on Antelope fsland to be exterminated e can'be used for domestic cattle Page 13 T. S. expert to aid cengressional com- dittee in reorganization. Page 13 . | Situation of Government Em- | b possible date.” . eral reclassification. of the joint resolution. The hearing may run over to a second day. Numerous organisations and in- dividuals have applted to the judiciary commiittee to be heard in advocacy of this measure of Americanization for the people of the District. Among the organizations that will be represented at the hearing, in ad- d tion to the joint citizens’ committee, of which neearly all are constituent or co-operating members, are the Board of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ wAssoci- ation, the Federation of Citizens' Asso- tia.tlflnl. the Bar Association, the Wom- an’s Bar Association, the suffrage group of the City Club, the Woman's City Club, the District Delegate Asno- clation, the National Press Committee for District Suffrage, the Federation of Federal Employes, the Central Labor | Union, the Anthony League, the Fed- eration of Women's Clubs and several individual citizens’ associations. | NEED QUEK ACTION ONCLASSFICATION ployes Is Imperative, Says Representative Wood. . | Imperative need for reclassification of government employes at the earli- est possible date was urged ‘upon the House today by Representative Will R. Wood of Indiana, in charge of the legislative, exeeutive and judicial ap- propriation bill. “The bills offered to Congress to Should Secretary Davis determine | the Department of Justice to proceed | | ter directly to the attention of the - @he Zoening Star, WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1921 —-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. CLOSEST ADVISER T0 HARDING LIKELY 10 BE DAUGHERTY President-Elect’s Manager Almost Certain to Be | Member of Cabinet. | REGARDED AS COUNCILOR ON PATRONAGE REQUESTSi As Attorney AGeneral He Would Have Privilege of Constant Con- sultation With President. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. MARION, January 10.—Word comes to Marion that the part Harry M., Daugherty of Ohio, is to play in the next administration is a subject of| widespread discussion and speculation. | Some have it that he is to be a ‘Col. House to President Harding. Others insist that a return to normalcy will find Mr. Daugherty in the role of a Mark Hanna. The truth of the matter is that Mr.| Daugherty on March 4 next is sched- | uled to step into the troubled shoes made vacant by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. That he will accept; this cabinet post there no longer seems room to doubt. - His closest friends are urging him to do so, and Senator Harding is showing in.more ways than one that he is dependent upon the political wisdom and the warm personal friend- | ship of Mr. Daugherty. In Charge of Candidate. The latter_generally is referred to as Senator Harding’s pre-convention manager. As a matter of fact, he con- tinued in the capacity of manager throughout the entire campaign. Na- tional Chairman Will H. Hays had charge of the party machinery, but Mr. Daugherty had charge of the candidate. * No imy-crtant decision was made by Mr. Harding until Mr. Daugherty was consulted. It was Mr. Daugherty who passed judgment upon and consented | to several short trips the senator made away from the front porch. It was to Mr. Daugherty that party when they wanted to bring any mat- candidate. Mr. Hays seldom saw Senator Harding unless Mr. Daugher- ty was present at the interview. His O. K. was essential in the campaign from first to last. Since the election, Senator Harding has shown the same disposition to consult Mr. Daugherty on all impor- tant matters. His confidence in Mr. Daugherty's judgment and integrity | is.ope of the highest compliments one | man, can pay another. v “c s we W Many of the “best minds” of the conn(rz/ have paid but a single visit to Marion. Mr. Daugherty comes and | goes at will. The latch string is al- ways out for him at the liftle offiee | in Mount Vernon avenué. Just now | Mr. Daugherty is acting as a sort df “liaison officer” between Marion and | Washington, and there Is every rej- son to believe he will continue to | served since March 4, {in yeaterday, on. might be taken by the new republicant - HARDING AND SHARP HOLD LEAGUE TALK Ex-Ambassador to France| Visits Marion—President- Elect Resigns Senate Seat. By the Associated Press. L g MARION, Ohio, January 10.—With his resignation as a. senator on the desk of | the incoming gevernor of Ohio, Presi- | managers all over the country turned | dent-elect Harding today was looking forward to six weeks as a private citizen before taking up the responsibilities of the presidency. The letter of resignation set January 15 as the date of Mr. Harding's retire- ment from the Senate, where he has 915. It was sent action so that prompt offite today. 3 Willis. Succeeds Hardin; Appointment of former Gov. Frank B. Willls of Delaware as United States senator, to fill the unexpired term of President-elect Warren G. Harding, was the first official act of Gov. Harry L. Davis, following his inauguration as governor at noon to- day. > governor, Harry L. Davis, who “tak be the medium of confidential ex- s Demogcrat In Conference. changes when Florids later I mhe| Today another democrat, William G. suppla: > o ational interest. Mr. Daugherty | Sharp of Ohio, was callued into confer is regarded in Washington as the one | accredited _representative of Mr. Harding and his word is accepted as | a bond. i Senator Harding is desirous of heing ' able to make confidential use of Mr.| Daugherty throughout his administra- | tion. At the same time he does not want | to create a situation which might readily be compared to the one-time intimacy between President Wilson and his man- of-all-work, Col. ‘E. M. House. Senator Harding can best make use of Mr. Daugherty’ advice.and personal serv-! ices if the latter is an official of | his administration. Mr. Daugherty does not want any other office than that of Attorney General. Hence it is figured here to be as certain as anything can be certain in the present situation that | Mr. Daugherty is to be Attorney Gen- | eral. All of Mr. Daugherty's close: friends speak of the matter as if it were | for his determination alone. They take | it for granted Mr. Daugherty can have, anything he wants at the hands of Sen. ator Harding, and most every one agrees | this is so. . i Would Have Run of White House._ ! As Attorney General, Mr. Daughterty | would have the official privilege of con- stant consultation with his chief, !’renl-‘ ence by Mr. Harding on the plan for an association of nations. Mr. Sharp is a former ambassador to France, and from his contact with European statesmen was in position to tell the President- elect much about the state of official opinion abroad. Another caller was Col. F. W. Gal- braith of Cnicinnati, national commander of the American Legion. It was under- stood that the conference was for the purpose of discussing préparedness and soldfer relief proposals. Harding and Smoot Talk Taxes. Tax revision, appropriation meas- ures and reorganization of the execu- tive depagtments of the government Were ‘diacussed by Mr. Harding yes- terday- with Senator Smoot of Utah, who has made a close study of all of, these subjects. Afterward Senator Smoot said he believed the President- clect had definite ideas that would Jeaa to practical economies and. re- | forms during the coming administra- tion. 3 The Utah senator predicted that $200,000,000 would be saved annually by reorganization of the departments | dent, and should be called into consulta- : cess-profits schedule would have to be | tion before important decisions were| .quced, however, and gave it as his| dent Harding. He would have the run an efficiency basis, and that many of the White House. If, however, Mr.| 37 fe Durdens of taxation would be Daugherty should continue in his pres-ijie g by the revisions of the next ent confidential but entirely unofficial | (g1 ogy. > S ationship with Mr. Harding as Presi- | CO15 S50 the higher rates of the ex- n any subect, politicians generally | o,injon that the head cf that class of | Teat e course would, arouse Jealousies | {Zres’Wwould be fixed at about 40 per in the cabinet circle. { cent. believe this Jealousy might easlly ex-i "y o Talk With Clergyman. provide for reclassification are abso- lutely impossible,” said Representa- | tive Wood. “Reclaesification is need- | ed and should be had at the earliest “There areinconsistencies and in- | congruities everywhere in the service. There is no justification for the pres. ! ent salary list. There are so many | injustices as to require a general re-| classification not only in the interests | of the citizens who are paying taxes ! into the federal Treasury. but in jus- | tice to the employes of the United States. i “In one department we find clerks | doing a certain grade of work for one | salary. and in another department | another group of clerks doing practi- | cally the same work at an entirely different salary. To do justice to these unjustly | treated would require gen- | Jectazsi This committee unanime agrees that NET should take action looking ::o el | entific reclassification. By pt- ing to do justice in any specific cases | the committee felt that in such pateh. | work ealary reforms it would be add. | ing confusion to confusion.” —_—_— | SEAPLANES AT LA UNION. ! i Naval Aircraft, Bound for Canal | Zone, Reach San Salvador. AN FRANCISCO. January 10.—Four seaplanes of the navy squadron, flying from San Dlego to the Canal Zone, | reached La Union. republic of San Salvador, late yesterday, according to a message received by the Navy radio here today from the supply ship Kanawha, which was stationed near La Union. The ships landing at La Union were Nos.! 8, 10, 12 and 15 of the F-5-L group. EX-RAILWAY MANAGER DIES. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. January 10— tend to the Senate and in the end un- M X et iy would seriously prejudice the| Senator Harding ale ong 33::3[:?0;kwhl;n dDaugherl)' is capable of | talk with Dr. C. E. Brooks of New | istration, and { questions again.” [PLANS PERU-U. S. FLIGHT. | York, whom he invited to his home qoe, after llstenfag to him preach here at | For the Dast Lan IO e o ive time | the Trinity Baptist Church. The ser- has devoted his entire time Daughierty rosts of Senator Harding, He fought for his nomination at mo- ments when all others, including the Senator -himself, thought the cause was Tost. May Ald in Decision. s services to the candidate and !oh:hT party Mr. Daugherty undoubt- edly has first claim upon the new ad-, Mministration. Mr. Daugherty is a close | personal friend of Edward B. McLean, Phairman of the inaugural festivities at Washington, and is in frequent Aonsultation with him as to the char- Soter and scope of the civic cere- | onies. It is said out here that in dis- | Posing of the vast amount of pksi- | dential patronage Senator Harding would like to lean upon the judgment | of Mr. Daugherty. Taken from almost | any angle, Mr.lnthllsh‘erty ’it‘emxdto[be ble to the incoming admin- | o his best services can be rendered to it only if he has an official capacity. “What are you going to do after March 47 the writer asked Mr. herty recently. P factice 1a he sai | «As Attorney General “Now, there you go asking to many (Copyright, 1921.) —_— Chief of Seaplane Service to Come Here Soon. SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Sal- vador, January 9—Juan Leguia, chiet| of the seaplane service of the Peru- vian government, Is planning a flight | oficially recelved Ohio's twenty-fou ! here, | Cerving Cootidge for Vice President. {mon was on the spiritual consequences the Versailles peace, and it was for O further " discussion of the subject that Dr. Brooks was invited to see the Pre: ent-elect. OHIO ELECTORS CAST VOTES. Harry L. Davis Also Takes Oath as Governor. COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 10.— President-elect Warren G, Harding r votes in the electoral college today, when the Ohio presidential electors, cast them for him and The electors were sworn in by Chief Justice Marshall of the Ohio supreme court, and after organizing, proceeded %o ballot. The resuit of their ballot- ing will be delivered by messenger | to the President of the United States S and one copy to the judge of B nited States court at Cincinnatl. With the roar of the governors salute of seventeen guns still re- verberating in the air, Harry L. Davis. Cleveland, republican, ~became the forty-fifth Governor of Ohio today, taking the oath of office on the west steps of the state capitol before a ithrong of Ohioans, that made a surg- ing sea of faces before him. Harding Declines Invitation. ATLANTA, January 10.—President- elect Harding, in a letter to Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Consti- tution, representing the Atlanta Newspaper Publishers, declares he is forced to decline the invitation to ad- dress the Southern Tariff Congress here on January 27 to 29, when more Aty editors of the south also Henry F. Houghton, sixty-one year: formerly general manager of the Big Four raillroad, died here suddenly this morning from heart disease. Burial will be in Deflance, Phio, the family home, Trom "Peru to the United States the | ‘rews invited to be present. latter part of this month. Cest Electoral Ballots. formation as to his plans was re- celved here In the form of a requesi| NASHVILLE, Tenn. January 10.— from the Peruvian government to the | Republican electors met here today Salvadorean government that he be|to cast the vote of Tennessee for permitted to land on Salvadorean soil | Harding and Coolidge and name during the fiight if it becomes neces- | messenger to carry the vote to Wash- srys 2 & 5 , ington. “ CONDITION OF PRESIDENT. Can Work Two Hours Daily With- out Fatigue, Says Dr. Grayson. cian, said today in discussing the Presi- dent’s health. He added, however, that the President was not yet ready for a full day’'s work. | Commenting on the visit to_the White House yesterday of Dr. Francis X. -Dercum of Philadelphia, Dr. Grayson cause he feared that he himself might have gotten “stal | of the executive's condition. E It 8o happened, he said, that on the occasion of Dr. Dercum'’s visit the Pres- illnegs. KANSANS AROUSED Legion' Plan to Check i League’s Activities. | By the Nssociated Press. SALINA, Kan.. January {Kansas of the non-partisan league | movement. | While A. C. Townley. head of the ileague, was conducting mass meet- | ings for those interested in the move- | ment, }away, Legion representatives of American posts from all parts of the the movement, were iaying plans for {a state-wide organization to check the league's activities and bring about the departure from the state of those i behind it. Program Not Discloxed. Plans of the opposition were not ‘announced definitely, but it was stat- led that a campaign of “education” | would be the basis and that the anti- state, especially the rural districts, with literature attacking the league's principles and its allegel unpatriotic conduct duripg the war. | Townley afinounced that invitations {to attend the meetings had been sent ibroadcast and that speakers would {discuss league principles and show what the organization was trying to {do. { The Non-partisan League controver- sy came into existence ten days ago, {when Townley, accompanied by sev- eral assistants, arrived here and an- mounced that efforts would be made to organize in the state The local post of the American Legion adopted resolutions asking Townley to leave the state. Communder's Orders Not Heeded. Late last week O. A. Kitterman, post commander, anounced orders had been received from Comander F. W. Galbraith, national commander, that the local post must drop the fight be- cause the legion's constitution forbids members from participating in poli- tics, and that the Non-Partisan League movement had been definitely lclassed as political. Announcement iof today's meeting to organize an |anti-league body followed. BALL BILL AMENDMENT. Senator Proposes Aid to ‘renants Threatened With Eviction. An amendment to the Ball bill w! i designed to ald tenants In the Ho trict of Columbia threatened with gvlc!tlon Fwas lnlr&duced today by enator France of Maryland. - vides: . ) “Whenever an owner of a house who {desires to get possession of 1t for hiy own use and occupancy secures Judg. ment for the possession of the house in any court,.and in case the tenant appeals and gives the required bond, the owner of the house shall have the right to immediate possession by filing a superseding bond conditioned to pay any damage occasioned to\the tenant in case the judgment of the law court is reversed. This act shall apply to all cases now pending, as well as to cases arising after the passage of this act.” tinued tomorrow. The unusual values offered and the bad weather make this announcement of special significance. The Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association President Wilson is now able to work two hours daily without fatigue, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his physi- said he had -ealled in the specialist be- ! * in his assessment 10.—Lines | were drawn sharply here today in the | contest arising over the entry into | Missioners. | Chairman Campbell said that the at another building not far | state, together with others opposing ! | 1eague organization would flood the | MORE FIRE PLUGS AT HOSPITAL LIKELY Walter Reed -Authorities to | Confer With D. C. Officials on Bettering System. At the request of the rules com- mittee of the House, following con- ident had one of his best days since his | ferences on the McLeod resolution lasking an investigation of the fatal ifire at Walter Reed Hospital, the District authorit’es and the authori- ties at the hospital will confer at once for the installation of additional fire plugs and fire alarm boxes, sp that ithe 1,400 war heroes may be given imaximum protection in their inflam- mable brracks. Y NUN'PARIMNS |corns, “commanaer 3 °‘w3&r"iz"§§‘£|} was before the rules ittee this morning on their suvitation,. He toid I4he committee that be ezpeits a re- ‘Dofl m _the constructiou quarter- ‘tmast(r on how the inflamable bar- rgcks can be made more safe, and sa'd that these recommendations will be carried out at once. He also as- !sured the committée that the office: {in charge at Walter Reed are ready to co-operate with -the District au- : thorities, and that during the last 1few days a_ special survey has been lmlde on which he expected to con- fer at once with the D strict Com- Ready to Take Up Plans. At the close of the hearing today Houss committee- will notify the District Commissioners that the hos- pital organization is ready to take up immediately any suggestions in regard to improved fire protection. The committee went on record as stating “what we want is results,”. :and is confident that conferences be- i tween the Commissioners and Col. { Glennon will bring about the desired results. Emphasis was 1aid by Chairman | Campbell, by Representative Pou of i North Carolina, Representative Snell of New York. Representutive Fess of Ohio and other members of the com- mittee that Congress is eager to do -anything in its power to afford the utmlost protection to the war heroes. | Representative Pou said that he:had j received telegrams from American { Legion posts showing that a propa- Eanda had been started in support of the McLeod resolution. He laid con- i siderable stress on the fact that the jmembers of Congress are unanimous- ly eager tado all that they can for .the war victims, and that this re- | flects the unanimous opinion of every [ American. He said he was answer. ing these telegrams with such an assurance and saying that any to yisit Walter Reed Hospital and | make any constructive recommenda- tions. . Col. Glennon, in his testimony, denied that there was any delav on the part of the hospital authorities in turnins in the alarm for the fatal fire on De. cember 12. He said that about 100 | Member of the Associated Press ‘The Assotiated Press is exclusively eatitled to the use for republication of all mews dispatches credited to 1§ or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published beraln, All rights of publication of special Qiepatches herein are also reserved. = Saturday's Net Circulation, 90,042 Swunday's Net Circulation, 89,330 TWO CENTS. powteR TALED [AR) SNOWSTORM BY SPIES ON HIS! JAPANESE TOUR | - NAVAL AERONAUTS tional commander of the American Legion, has just returned fromatwo- month vacation in Japan, where, 1 iVeterans of Canadian Out- i post Fear Blizzard May i Prove Severe. ] during his travels, he was trailed continuously and his baggage and personal papers frequently and surreptitiously examined. Mr. D'Olier was informed this was the work of Japanese government agents, who sought to investigate the report that Mr. D'Olier came to Japan to “organize American re- servists” residing in the istands. Mr. D'Olier related the story with a good deal of amusement to the members of the board of directors of the American Legion Weekly. a meeting of which Mr. D'Olier came to New York to attend. Every time he and Mrs. D'Olier left their hotel, the former com- mander said. he would discover, on their return, that everything they had had been examined. Finally | he ‘adopted the policy of leaving his trunks open and his papers WHEREABOUTS OF HEROES SECRET OF WILDERNESS }Tnyper:, However, Say Continued Absence Suggests No Real handy, where they could be in- spected without undue trouble on | Cause for Alarm. the part of the inspectors. el z At the conclusion of his sojourn. | BY the Associated Prexx. Mr.DOlicr told his“guide"he would | MATTICE, Ontario, January 10.— be glad to explain anything the |Mattice, e s e Ceufie” had not undersood In the | Mattle the small settlement on the papers he had examined. i Transcontinental railway toward Mr. DOlier said the apparent |Which the three stranded American cause of the suspicion which 2 : A cause of (he suspleion which |naval balloonists are believed to be mushing from Hudson Bay territory, today was in the grip o owstorm which old-timers thought may prove severe. The wind was sweeping across the country from the west, and this, a cording to trappers, usually pref: ! s, y prefa 4 heavy fall of snow at this time the action of the legion national convention which voted to support the California exclusion laws. PREMIERS' COUNCIL ABANDONEDBY U1.3. Government Not to Be Rep- resented at Paris Meet- | | ing Next Week. i Immed ate withdrawal of the United States from further participation ' ln' the council of ambassadors in Europe ! was reported today to have been de- | cided upon. State Department official declined “to"discuss the report, but | they did say that the American gov- ernment would not be represented at the meet:ng of premiers next week, at which France and Great Britain will discuss ways and means for en- forcing the terms of the treaty of Versailles affecting particularly the Iwndluon. in the Ruhr valley. Representat on on the council of ambassadors has been the most im- | portant link connecting the United . of year. If this weather prediction holds it is bound to affect traveli * the Mifl!infllhl trail. Slipeown This morning—fifteen days after the aeronauts had announced they Wwould start from Moose Factory, near their landing place—the corps of newspaper correspondents, who had rushed north on word that the balloon had descended safely, ill were knocking about the Hudson Bay post, three houses, billiard room and sta- tion, ‘A"l'llch £0 to make up this ham- let. Not a report had been re eived of the aeronauts’ Progress, nor, in- deed, assurance that they had started on the day set. Correspondents were beginning to believe that, because of the exhausted condition in which Lieut Stephen A. Farrel reached Moose Factory, th start may have been postponed. par- ticularly®as snow has fallen several times within the last two weeks. Reporters Haye Hard Lot. Meanwhile, the newspapermen were finding that reporting in the north land was different from® reporting New York, Chicago or other cities from which they had come, and motion picture men also were having their difficulties. = ©One movie man started out this States with the post-war situation in; TOIDIIE With two assistants and ten ETODe o Tacre reinplng thin. connec- | . 1e siong 'the: rallwdy cracks when e Thap ine roparations comm 8810 | one of the sled’s runners caught in sion, but officials regard both of these | 2 SWitch and was smashed. ~ Back ;came the party. SratieTine)Sanes In Which the United | “\anwhile, the representative of a e s { Buffalo paper was nursing slight but i irritating injuries received when a { #Officials of the United States are | sledge dog sampled his flesh while he {known to regard representation on | was stooping over to adjust a snow- the council as the maintenance of an |shoe_strap. e nibble was serious anomalous position, in view of the|enough, however, to force the news- failure of the Senate to ratify thepaperman to abandon his plans for | peace treaty. The council was creat- going up the trail to meet the airmen. ed largely for two purposes—settic-! Dawn today brought no tidings out of ment of armistice questions and the . | the bleak north of the progress of the consideration of those guestions re- | pilgrims. | garding the treaty itself, which still|~ Continued absence of information, require treatment. The first has been ! however, did not alarm the experi- practically disposed of, and both the!enced trappers in this section. They President and officials are reported to ! said the Americans and their Indian have taken the position that since|guides mndoubtedly were slowed up con- the United States is not a party to | the treaty it no longer can join in! consideration of questions arising un- der it. siderably by the established fact that Lieut. Stephen A. Farrell, the eldest of the trio, had to be carried on a sleg, his feet having been badly frostbitten. } American Legion officer was welcome | i Under ordinary circumstances the air- ———— men might have made’ this post two 1 days ago. | The weather today was unusually mild | for this season of the year. | scouts sent out by them had returned { tonight. | “official documents from Washington for the naval areomauts are in care of {a member of the royal Canadian mount- |ed police. who was ordered to wait at | this point. Factor Mavor. of the Hudson Bay Today’s Sales Continue Tomorrow Owing to the bad weather today, sales advertised by the various stores in The Sunday Star will be con- bed-ridden’ patients were already in a ward in the main building, and that [all the other patients are able to take | {care of themselves in case of a fire. | jThe bz brick barracks building. he | said, would -have to be remodeled in order to, house any of tne patients | ere. There is no plunibing above the first floor, he said. o In reply to ‘questions he explained that: the wooden buildings.had been built only one story, so that the pa- tient coulé get out much more easily. and he believed that they were really | safer there than on the second floor| of. the brick building. | Col. Glennon emphasized that the quartermaster report will 1probably : advise the removal of all paper board | partitions and replacing them with plaster boards, making the building | of slower combustion. He explaineq | that the buildings are very inflam- mhable and that they have grown more So with the use of steam heat, which has made the light construction al most tinder-like. P | Col. Glennon said that there was fio lreuon why all the patients could not | be quickly removed frem the wooden buildings in ‘case of fire. He explain- ed that at the fire on December 12 it was thought that all patients nadl been removed. The insane man who | started the fire in another patient’s! room, he said, had hidden himselt. | Col. Glennon also said that the post maintained a well drilled and efficient department which is capable of han- dling a fire in its initial stages. | .———A_\ The Missinabi trail | ests in exiending cable facilities,” . While the actual route selected by |"the men is not known, by common con- sent this town is now believed to be > . president of the West I;;,;‘;:g,.?" e menm ""'“"] Newspaper correspondents who gave Mr. Carlton declared the Department [uP hope that the party would arrive Britain, Mr. Carlton refused to “answer | Company, said that Oliver Marks, the categorically, because it would make Indian guide leading the Americans trouble.” The witness said~the State:out of the frizid wilderness. is an ex- its news reports to FPorto Rico.ipglice would “arrest” the three Amer- Hawaii, Alaska,and Mexico.” he said.|joan naval balloonists on their return vand has gone very extensively into; ¢, civilization in a friendly action to i May Arrive Before Night. INCUBA CABLE ROW | the_trail’s end. f was_“pursuing to the point of persecu- 4t Cochrane over the Abititi trail ar- Department had the facts and Senator | ceptionally capable man, and owns South America. Our reports on the! 3,2, un explanation of why they Some of the more optimistic watchers emerge from the wilds before nightfall. According to general calculations by this army of newspapermen and pholog- : raphers. the long-awaited partygprob- {Western Union Head Claims | they, campea iast nignt. 2 George MacLeod, one of the Indian Opposes Permit There. . | dispatches here from Moose Factory, Charges that the State Department |said eleven days, the time consumed government” to prevent the isguance of |along the Missinabi from Moose Fac- permits for Western Union cdble land- | tory, was a record. It usually takes Senate committee today by Newcomb Have Best Malamutes. n" its differences with the company |rived here early today. None of the Barbados which, he said, would estab- lish a new line of communication with Questioned as to alleged supervision by English autherities of official dis- ican diplomatic representatives in Great Kellogg, chairman of the committee |some of the finest and fastest mala- r this afternoon. s open in many .x;‘?re:derl(‘l( Roy Martin, acting general | places and the party will be compelled the committee that any increase of com- | Deny ~Arrekt” Rumors. munication facilities aided the dissemi-| GprAWA. January 10.—Official de- ““The Associated Press'is furnishing|iorjes that the Canadian mounted Pacific are sent by radio, and inci-|iecnnically violated JInternational air 5 | regulations by landing in Canada to Japan and China. This is an un- a formalities. Drofitable field, and we are keeping | Without due fo e police asserted Sergt. L. MacLaughlin in the connection between the| P 53 t Difted States and its possessions.” | Was waiting for the airmen. rushing them official documents from Wash- South Americaw readers, Mr. Martin | ington. His forces had no intention States and the only diffitulty in the |he said. Seatice was in the lack of cable taen.i Senator Kelloge asked if the gov-' RAILROADS ARE ACCUSED. ernment could assist news distribu-| COnly by facilitating private inter- Mr. | Given Outside Aims at High Prices. does mot want any government sub- ! sidy. We should like to see direct| . air work to outside companies at countries. | “extortionate” prices will_ cost the government censorship during the | ters of a billion dollars annually un- last few vears. I will say for our|jess the railroads are restrained from o narrower than our own. Only |tjon submitted today to the Inter- ::-‘:‘ Saturday we found that the Navy ] state ,Commerce Commission by the from San Francisco. { ists, who urge an immediate investi- Tells of London Conmtract. ig-non. "The commission has already i izations. find that American cables to | plaint of labor organ 40 o, “America. could not sive us| While the primary motive of the here believed that the airmen would tiny town's population and the smail ably was forty milcs northward when | U. S. State Department | runners who brought the aeronauts’ was “making threats against the Cuban by his party in covering the distance ings on the island were made before a |two weeks to make the trip, he added. over the attempt to land the cable from | South America. patches sent from Washington to Amer- asked Undersecretary of State Davis to|mutes in this country. manager of the Associated Press, told { to make numerous detours. nation of American news. nial was made here today of published dentally_ copied_for free distribution | ~ ioner Perry Do e patriotic motives to main: | Commissioner Perry of the mounted {down from Hudson bay to deliver to South American Demand. sald, desired news from. the United |of demanding any kind of explanation, ities. | tion. |Machinists Claim Repair Work Martin replied. “The Associated Press | Assignment of locomotive and freight cables to Italy and the Scandinavian | “We have had our troubles with! smerican public at least three-quar- English friends that their censorship | the practice, it is asserted in a peti- Department was censoring a dispatch | Internationaj Association of Machin- «“It has been a keen disappointment | ordered such an investigation on com- sufficient facilities, and have been |roads in farming out their repair 4d to contract with the English {Vettern Company, at London. to carry a million. words a year to our South American papers.” states that merchants generally will co-operate. % T e 'S BN George T. Hargreaves, representing the Universal News Service said lack of_facilities limited press serv- ice, and also told of /difficuities en- ocountered in reaching South America. the petition declared, is to “se- k. Arefitable returns on certain equipment companies co; by the same financial intereg@lf con- trol the railroads,” anothe® L it said, I8 to “disrupt” railroad labor or- genizations developed during the war by closing their own repair shops and throwing men out of employment. r O 7