Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1921, Page 1

. WEATHER. probably rain tonight or warmer tonight; Cloudy, tomorrow: ture above freezing; colder tomorrow by_night. Temperature for twenty-four hours Highest, 62, at ;nded n: 2 p.m. today: oday: lowest. 34, p.m. today. Full report on page 28. , tempera- at 2:30 am. Closing New York Stocks, Page 28. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening Sfaf. Yesterday's Net Circulation, 94,325 28,026. No. WORLD AGREEMENT ON DISARMANENT IS CRY OF PEOPLE Henry White, Former U. S. Diplomat, So Tells House Naval Committee. STAGGERING BURDENS OF TAXATION CAUSE Believes America Should Take In- itiative in Movement—Sees Bol- shevism Menace Through Germany. Staggering burdens of taxation re- sulting from the world war have caused the people of all nations to favor a world agreement on disarma- ment, Henry White, former ambassa- dor to France, and a member of the American peace commission to Paris, declared today before the House naval committee, which is holding hear- ings on this subject. A “I think the world is crying for some agreement,” said Mr. White, “but I do not favor the United States being the only nation:to disarm.” The United States, he added, should take the initative in the disarmament movement and the conference should be held in this country. Any gather- ing looking to general disarmament should include France and Italy as well as the United States, Great Brit- ain and Japan, the former ambassa- dor said, but discussions looking to a reduction of naval building only should be limited, for the present at least, tp Great Britain, Japan and the United States. Seen Possible Chaos “I think it would result in chaos if all the nations of the world were to be represented at the proposed con- ferenc.. * said Mr. White. ‘Would not beneral disarmament open the way to bolshevism through- out Europe?’ asked Representative Britten, republican, 1llinois. “] think France might feel that way.” said the witness. “The keeping of Germany in a state of chaos over reparations is opening the way to bolshevism more than any other fac- tor right now, in my opinion. The present condition of Germany makes bolshevism a menace.” Advisable After Mareh 4. Mr. White said it would not be ad- visable to issue the call for the proposed conference_until after March 4, because a call by President Wilson ¥might riot be riously, as he is a retiring LY was their military "{! ‘White continug fhat he sa: e s e diaval hopaay" . while ussed. S ermament was being disc T abouid Ifke to n?bfi:a Grited States sea el equal to any nation in sea DOw: the reduction s Mr. te : “but questiong might be raised at the 'm‘:nee fi ‘would show the right of mation to a larger nsvy than the B e, | think the on of relative size ‘would be on.%orwthe conference to de- d%a former peace commissioner sald on; n convenants openly t,” was & beautiful theory, but ‘was impracticable because some nego- tiations between nations must be secret. He added that he had always been in- to the Mhr: that ""::dknowl yw,” and for that reason never %lblo to place his faith in The conferences. ‘Pershing’s views on disarmament will be sought by the committee next Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. UNCLE SAM FINDS MUCH LIQUOR IN HIS OWN BOOTLEG Uncle Sam has found liquor in his own bootleg according to evidence obtained by prohibition agents and detectives from the first police pre- cinct, who took a tonneau full of bottled goods from the house at 1423 D street northwest last night, the building being in a block owned by the Treasury Department. Mary Costellina, who lives at The foreguing number, was placed under arrest charged with violating the law, but the officials were at a loss as to how they should proceed with that part of the statute which makes the owner of real property responsible for liquor sold on the premises. Facetious _suggestions were made that the Secretary of the Treasury was responsible for what went on in property under his_control, but the prohibition officers have not yet de- cided to bring their chief into court. COMMUNISTS BOLT [TALIAN SOCIALISTS Defeated Radical Section Breaks Away From Con- . gress at Leghorn. By the Associated Press. LEGHORN,_ Italy, January 21.—The communist faction of the Italian social- ist party, defeated in its attempt to se- cure indorsement by the party of the third internationale of Moscow,' bolted the socialist convention here this morn- ing. Communist leaders who have been at- tempting to carry the Itallan socialist party into the Moscow internationale sulleredfi decisi¥e defeat in the ballot- ing on the question, which took place 1ast evening. - Opposed to the communist faction of the party were two wings of the or- ganization, one of which objected to adhesion to the internationale, and the other advocating membership with limitations. The last-named fac- tion, led by Deputy Teret, seemed to have the largest following at the con- gress. Break in Ranks Expected. Since the opening of the congress last Saturday a break in the ranks of the organization has been expected, jand Deputy Bombaccl, it was an- inounced early this week, made ar- rangements to lease a theater, in which the new Italian communist party would be organized. Latest returns from the voting show that the communists were outvoted by more than 2 to 1, each delegate casting votes for the number of so- clalists ‘in - his particular precinct. The count at present shows.the so- d:’:’x";n received lta‘o.ooo' l:“nd‘!cs. while the comum were b, Se000. ;omIRUDLs !? ut, E 3 2% RUSH MURDER TRIAL. Grand Jury Called. Back in Ad: napolis ‘Case. By the Associated Press. effort will be made to bring Henry A. Brown, negro sailor, who confesséd to the murder of Miss Harriet: Héva- naugh at Annapolis last Frida: to ‘lrlal next week. The negro i se !tried in the United States _district i court in this city. A call bhis been i sent to members of the federal, ln: jury, which has not been di; e i to reconvene today. - Brown now is in_irons in the brig i of the station ship Reina Mercedes, a | the United States Naval Academy, An- { napolis. He is under heavy guard. It | is expected that he will be kept there until the time comes to go to Balti- more for trial. . ‘Tuesday. ’ — FATHER OF CHILD VICTIM OF DIPHTHERIA ARRESTED Health Officer Obtains Warrants for Parent and Christian Sci- ence Practitioner. Warrants were served today on Joseph E. Gonzales, 607 Taylor street, and Mrs. Ernestine M. Adams, a Christian Science practitioner of 1129 Buchanan street, charging them with violating the health department regu- Jation dealing with the reporting of contagious diseases. Fourteen-year-old Evelyn Gonzales, | daughter of the man under arrest died on January 18. from what Coro- ner Nevitt recorded as diphtheria. Ac- cording ‘to_ Health Officer Fowler, no report of diphtheria was made to the health department prior to the child's death, which led him to apply to the corporation counsel at Police Court for warrants for the father and for Mrs. Adams. Mr. Gonzales and Mrs. Adams were brought to police headquarters to- day by Detective O'Brien and Phar- macy Inspector Saunders. Arrange ment were made for their release on $500 bond each pending a hearing in Police Court tomorrow. Inspector Saunders said both Mr. Gonzales and Mrs. Adams told him| they had no knowledge that the chill was suffering from diphtheria. Mrs. Adams also stated, according to the inspector, that had she known the case was one of diphtheria she would have complied with the health regu- lation by reporting the faci. —_— MONEY TRAIN NEAR CRASH Attempted Wreck on Michigan | Central Is Frustrated. KALAMAZOO, Mich, January 2]1.— County and railroad officers are inves- tigating what is believed to have been | an attempt to wreck and rob Mich- igan Central train No. 6, which left Chicago last night for Detroit. A number of rails were found across the track at Lawton, a village near here, where the train is due at 1:45 a.m., and removed. Officers assert that a money ship- ment was on the train. RAPS ARGENTINE STAND. Deputy Declares It Demonstrates Ignorance of Government. BUENOS AIRES, January 20—In a eech at the opening of the special session of Congress today, the action of the Argentine delegation in retir- ing from the recent assembly of the league of nations at Geneva was char- acterized by Deputy Sanchez Sorondo as demonstrating “the ignorance and presumption” of the present Argen- tine government. The session was called to consider emergency legislation, including the budget. state aid in the sale of wool and the national loan project. R — NEW TRIAL OVERRULED. Petition for Millionaire Lloyd Re- fused in Chicago Court. | CHICAGO, January 21.—Motions for ia new trial for William _Ambrose Lloyd, millionaire sergeant-at-arms of the communist labor party, and nineteen associates convicted with him of violating the Illinois anti-se- dition law, ‘e overruled in the Cook county criminal court today. BOY ADMITS 13 THEFTS. . Memphis Youth Commits More { Than One Robbery a Day., MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 21.—John ! Carroll, a youth not yet past ‘the age lof short trousers, has confessed, ac- ! cording te the police, to thirteen rob- | beries here within tea days. 1 { $25,000 GEM THEFT. PATERSON. N. J. January 21 Jewelry, cash and ‘bonds worth ap- proximately $26.000, were stolen here today by robbers who entered the | jewelry store of R. A. Caplan. |Today’s' News . . in Paragraphs Dr. J. J. Muir, pastor of Temple Bap Crnirch, elected chapiain of Benate >t harles M. Schwab den| oaeh Charles M. Schwab denies he 1260000 from U. S. Bhipping. Besea for personal expenses, . Page Will Hays, in city, says there will 1ull in republican political lc:vlflz: . Page 1 Communists. bolt congress of _Italian | socialists. Page 1 . O. P. senators may a; 'S democratic appointees. 0 Page™s ‘Harding journeys southward, packed in kit bag. s ttautise Secret treaties on trade rights ‘blamed for wars. , Page 1 | Attorney for_consolidation Coal 2 pany tells Senate committee no .Cr%':p Controls production of soft coal, . 2 Page ‘Wilson to ride to Capitol President Mr. Harding on March 4, it is now e derstood. Page Baltimore - woman correspondent, - Tested by reds as spy.in Moscow, has been released. Page 11 Gov. Harding of the Federal Board expects a revival of bu.fi?&"fi the spring. Page 17 Vote of confldence for Briand cabinet expected in France. Page 17 Police to keep card record of all arrested | autoists. Page 17 | Managers of pro d ball March 4 benefit of Child Welfare met todnyr?z discuss plans. Page 17 Washington has raised $10,000 for aid- ing ‘dighthouse” work in behalf of battle-blinded soldiers in France. Page 18 ~ BALTIMORE. January 2l-—Bvery|. ‘i needs of !ition w Counting of vote for national tree opens today. Page 13 WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1921 —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. TWO CENTS. . SECRET TREATIES ON TRADE RIGHTS BLAMED FOR WAR Harvester Company Manager Says Disarmament Will Not End Peril. CALLS FOR ELIMINATION OF UNFAIR PRACTICES Head of Leland Line Says He Has Seen No Evidence of British War on U. §. Shipping. | Secret treaties on trade rights are the basic cause of wars and even a disarmament agreement will ngt end the danger of another world conflict unless future commerce is developed on the broad policy of equal rights to all, Alexander Legge, general manag- er of the International Harvester Company, decared today in an address before the convention of the National Merchant Marine Association at the Washington Hotel. “We hear a good deal about leagues and world associations by which world peace may be established,” said Mr. Legge, who was a dollar-a-year man in Washington during the war. “None will be effective unless it is founded on elimination of discrimi- natory trade practices.” ~Senator Jones' charges, made at yesterday's session of the convention, | that British interests are endeavor- | ing to destroy the American merchant marine, brought a statement today from M. J. Saunders of New Orleans, president of the Leland line, gperat- ing American ships under the British flag. Mistake to War on British. He said he had seen no evidence of a British war on American shipping. It would be a mistake, he declared, for Americans to start a war on Brit- ish shipping interests, as a fight be- {wesnthetwo; would ‘b disastrousto oth. Frankly admitting concern for the future of the American merchant ma- rine, men high in the business coun- cils of the nation proposed practical methods for maintaining and devel- oping this newest and largest of American enterprises at today’s meet- ing of the sssociation. & Besides Mr. Legge, Frank C. Mun- son, president of the Munson Steam- ship Line; Walter Parker, executive vice president of the Migsissippi Val- ley Assoctation; J. Parker Kirlin. ad. miralty lawyer, and others forsook cess. stry lic be patient and give the v, ; fare: - chay ‘ed Imm i : s | Must Co-Ordinaté Interests. Mr. Legge sald that there mpst be co-opération between commerce and Neither will succeed he pointed out, a better work- be expanded. without the Olilaer. ul found to co-ordinate thelr Interests and build them up to- gether, he added. Presidént Munson said the merchant mariné must put itself in competition with the .mercantile fleets of other { nations, and proj as an important . step in this direction that the capital | cost of the American boats be brought down to the basis of English capital costs. The suggestion made last year to Congress by American shipping in- teres! at $100 a ton should be fixed as the sales prices for Shipping Board vessels brought ridicule, said Mr. Mun- ison, whereas, now, he continued, it would be impossible to sell them for anything like this price. The book. value of many British freighters show them to be listed at I not more than from $10 to $15 a ton, i he, declared. | Exemption from taxation as far as possible of the shipping industry; revision of Shipping Board prices to {a much lower figure and cqualiza ping with. that of forelgn competitors by the payment of a flat subsidy were among the suggestions advanced by Mr. Kirlin, who 18 genaral counsel of the American Steamship Owners’ | Assoclation - | Many Companies Fail. Stating_that many compunies hav purchased . ships at tne high piices asked by the Shipping Board, Mr. Kir- lin eaid that “pore than twenty have failed and and that other purchasers. unablc to receive than the earnings of the ships, are in financial difficylties. | He urged a legislative policy which would make it possible for ship own- {ers to absorb and assimilate, on a i profitable basis the tonnage alread; built. Mr. Parker, who is general man- ager of the New Orleans Association of Commercé, told the convention that Europe would attempt to “fill the Latin _America and the orient; in competition with American producers,” and urged that the poris of this country be developed in order that -we may find a market for our manufactured iproducts in Latin Amer- ica and the orient. May Investigate Charges. The Shipping Board today had in prospect an_investigation in connec. ith charges made against the International Mercantile Marine Com- any by Senator Jones of Washington | P Y address yesterday before the | National« Merchant Marine Associa- I ion, | Senator Jones, who is chair- man of the senate commerce commit- ifee declared the company had enter- led nment to pursue ‘l:r‘l‘z:“ to the interests of the British |merchantile marine or of British Chairman Benson of the Shipping Board announced to delegates to the Merchant - Marine Association con- vention that he intended to refer the | matter to the board with recommen- {dation that any action warrgnted be ‘taken. He shid later that he was 2 reiking efforts to obtain a copy of | reement which was referred to :‘r‘x‘d a:uoted by ‘Senator Jones and Which the chairman said he heard of only recently, i No Market for U. S. Ships. P. A. 8. Franklin, president of the International Mercantile Marine Com- pany, the concern naed by Senator | Jones in connection with his charge: of a British plot to .throttle the American merchant marine, declared in ag address last night at the ban- | quet of the association at the Wash- ington Hotel, that there is no market at present for the government's war- built merchant shi And there will be no market, he con- tinued,. until . “the Shipping Board | general W d_got down to - qac <the i FA el Dy m-e-' urged gendraliy thit the pub~ g t between them. Some | passed into receiverships. | assistance - from sources other | into an agreement with the British | o policy in- | SCHWAB DENIES ISays He Paid Every Cent With Shipping Board. By the Associnted Press. controller of the United States ping Board. to the effect that charged 1o the Shipping Board. Mr. h‘c}‘nanl‘l:“diclucd t ware.. ! )80 ely. wi | Matidiously Taise: sonally paid all during his term“of office as @i gengfal of the Emergency Fleet ‘poration. Ve Hves $1: Batary/ was supposed to receive.a dollai year salary, he did not even col | and Jid not want any. ias that charged by Col. Abadie | charged to ship construction. ! " His acceptance of the position | head of the Fleet Corporation, | told the committee, was only at jurgent request of the chairman the board and President Wilson. be handled by other members of board. Col. Abadie, who again took for connecting Mr. Schwab with cleared, er, Col. Abadie reiterated his previ ing it had been given to him by i tion of the position of American ship- | Morse of Perley Morse & Co.. account- 78 Board iants employed to audit Shipi 1books. He said the charge ‘was jtered us “overhead” in the main of ow |had been told, and said it concer {the Bethlehem corporation only. . spoke up and sald: desire.’ { that information if ypu | ""Col. Abadie, howevr. he would not repeat it. | Schwab to Testify Again. | Mr. Schwab was called before | committee at his own request, and mony to enter his denial. lowed in the committee. The chalrman also asked made clear, however, not being called in relation to voucher. be willing to appear at any time committee desired. to testify next week are Edwar Hurl Gatewood, head of the division Meredith Nicholson Contributes “Made in Mazooma™ One of the cleverest short gtories of the year, to the Magazine Section of Next Sunday’s Star Don’t miss this bit of fiction by one of the leading writers of America. ‘Order your copy of The Sun- day Star today. ABADIE'S CHARGES Personal Expenses While NEW YORK, January 21.—Charles M. Schwab appeared before the Walsh congressional committee this morn- ing and denfed testimony given yes- terday by Col E. H. Abadie, former Ship- Mr. Schwab said that, although he that, and for his travels from ship- the merchant marine if either is. to;yard to shipyard, while at the head of the Fleet Corporation, he assertéd,|. he never received any compensation | | have been paid to him, but declars it was not for the purpose claim by Abadie and no part of it wap In accepting the place, he declared. he imsisted that all matters connected with his own shipbuilding companies Abadie Hopes Voucher Is Krror. stand, sald he regretted the necessity voucher, and sald he hoped it was an error and that Mr. Schwab would be Asked further concerning the vouch- testimony that information concern- of the Bethlehem Company and $100,- 000 was charged to ship construction. The witness in reply to a question dmitted that Mr. Morse had told him the other $160,000 had been spent, but declined to repeat what he Schwab, who was sitting nearby, “You are at perfect liberty to give said it was given to him confidentially, and that | terrupted Col. Abadie’s running testi- Chairman Walsh remarked that it was the first time such a. procedure had been fol- Schwab to appear again next Tues- day to testify concerning matters re- |lating to the Shipping Board. 1t was that he was Mr. Schwab said he would Among other witnesses to be czlli;i former chairman of the Ship. ping rd; Charies E. Piez, former director general of the Emergency Fleet Corporation; Commander R. D. onstruction and repairs, and Robert Hague, his predecessor. Hague, B P ————— New Senate Chaplain Is Washington Pastor of |’ M | Bchwabriperaoaal expanses for Octs: | ber, 1918, smounting to $260,000, were mente | ] ra lect Mr. Schwab admitted such a voucher as he the of Pafstbf of Temple Baptist Church for 31 Years One of Five Candidates. Rev. J. J. Muir, D. D., pastor of the Temple Baptist Church, was today elected chaplain of the United States Senate. His nomination to be chap- {1ain had previously been agreed upon at a conference of republican sena- tors. Senator Lodge, republican lead- er, presented the resolution naming Dr. Mui is chaplain of (e Senm e as so0on as that body met, and it was im- mediately adopted. Dr. Muir succeeds the Rev. Forest J. Prettyman, who resigned to accept a pastorate at Knoxville, Tenn. The names of five other ministers the the the ous Mr. | ference this morning znd several bal- lots were taken before Dr. Muir was selected. On the final bailot he re- ceived 21 votes, and the next highest was 17, cast for Rev. J. Shera Mont- gomery, pastor of the lvary M. E. Church. Others who were balloted fo. ! included Rev. Harry D. Mitchell. p: tor of the Metropolitan M. E. Church, and Rev. Hugh T. Stevenson, pastor of the Bethany Baptist Church. Given Degree by University. Dr. Muir came to this city in 1889 as pastor of what was then the old E Street Baptist Church, and has con- tinued in charge of that congregation for the past thirty-one years. Several years ago, George Wash- ington of. doctor of divinity on Rev.' M 3 Co 4 1ecogniiion of his service in church work in this city." The' Temple Baptist Church, under Dr. Muir's pastorate became the vir- tual mother church for more recently establishcd congregations, and at present, although the church has not {-rown’so_rapidly as some of its of- Springs. it has the largest. number of members in its history. ADOPT SEAMANSHIP. PLAN. Report of International.. Union Seeks Increased Knowledge. PHILADELPHIA, January' 21—A comprehensive plan to Increase the knowledge of seamanship and the skill of American’ merchant mariners was adopted at the annual convention of the { International Seaman’s Union of Ameri- ca, Which unanimously accepted the re- Dort on the subject of its committee on polieies and education. o . “A merchant marine can be no bet- ter than its sailor men,” said President Andrew Furuseth. “It takes at least three years to develop a competent able seaman. America has_ the vessels, but there hasn't been ‘time to train the men properly. to_handle, them. h "SOLDIER IS SECRETARY. Miss Robertson ‘Had Applications From AH Parts of Country. ’ MUSKOGEE, Okla., January 21.— Benjamin Edwards Cook of Muskogee, former soldier, will bé private secre- tary to Miss Alice Robertson, only woman member of the new United States Congress, Miss Robertson an- nounced upon her return here from an. eastern trip. She said she had received applica- tions from throughout the United States for the position. e | ned the in- Mr. the the of were presented at the republican con- | University conferred the _title | ind serlously wounded by one of the oflh-fl. 2 3 ' 1 i | 1 i | i ! | l: I | P HAYS T0 KEEP PEP ING. 0. P. POLITICS “No Closed Season,” Na- tional Chairman Asserts. Silent on Cabinet Job. “There will be'no closed season in republican politics. The republican inational commiStee will be a going | concern right along.” This-is a state- ment made by Ghairman Hays of the republican national committee, who {dropped into town this morning for ln stay of several days, in which he Headquarters of the committee are to bé retained in Wasbington with | a< full branchosip New: York.. city. Chairman Haya 'vigited the -Capitol later in thé day and .hobnobbed. wi nymber-of. republican.senators.a! Pepuz:.nuuvex on general politieal : 5 iatls B the Indiand: 014-" tics fn the Hoosier te, Mr. Hays bad nothing-to ssy abbut cabinet ap- pointments, -but partied with ques- tions as to what thé newspapermen knew about possible séléctions, May Muld Two Offices, The belief fs strong' in republican circles that Mr. Hays is tp be a mem- ber of President Harding’s cabinet. and his name’is particularly asso- ciated with the postmaster ‘geh.rals ship. If he should take’ office in the cabinet pressure - will be brought to bear urging his retirement from the national comnmittée, although pinfon is divided on' that ~question ~among prominent republicans. It is pointed out that George B. Cortelyou remained as chairman -of the national -commit- tee for some time after being P jmaster - General under . Presi Roosevelt. The republican national committee ! will assemble in Washington March 3| for a business meeting, which will include the filling of a vacancy in the | jcommittee from Oklahoma, occasioned by the death of Jake Hamon. His {successor, Chairman Harris of the| |Oklahoma state committee, has been ! jrecommended by the state committee. | iand the national committee will be iasked to ratify the selection. | —_— {“MADE LAND” IN DISPUTE. | nt i Territory Is Claimed by Virginia ; and the U. S. Government. Suits were filed in the Supreme| Court of the United States today in| the case of the Marine Railway and | oal Company. against ' the United | 1 States on appeal from tnc Coure of i Appeals of the District of Columbia. ith ! ne-{ suepicion ot {The case involves land situated o: the western side of the - Potomac | river and the river front of Alexan- | dria, being the part of a large area | of “made -land” containing about | forty-six acres, ; | The brief recites that this made | iland s permanently amnex=d to.the: soil of Virginia, at Alexandrin, at high water mark, as il existed prior| | to the making of the ianu by filling in of what is known as Battery- cove, The United States in 1912 inclosed | the reclaimed area and made it a gov- cf’f!menl property. A REDS SUPPRESS REVOLT. Armenian Uprising Against Wheat | i Regulations Crushed. . | BAKU, Transcaucasia, January’20.— | An_Armenian uprising against wheat requisitions at Delijan, fifty-six miles east of Alexandropol, has been sup- |Pressed by bolshevik troops with | much bloodshed, according to advices | ifrom the affected region today. - E | DENIES MURDER CHARGE. iV7. P. Brines Pleads Not Guilty to ! i Two Indictments, PHILADELPHIA, January 21.—Wil- liam P. Brines, charged with the kill- . ing of Elmer C, Drewes here last fall, ! pleaded not guilty to two indictments in criminal court today. One charged him with first degree murder and the i other with voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. Brines' trial is set for next Monday. o ‘Although there are elght women on the panel of jufors, none will be per- mitted to serve on the Brines' jury because of the possibility of the yu- | rors being loecked up ail night. No ! accommodations have yet been pro- vided for women. i GET LIQUOR AND FO'II.R MEN. ANDERSON, 8. C., January 21.—In & rupning fight ' last night near Harle's bridge, on the Secneca - river, ten miles west of this city, between rural police and alleged blockaders, two auto- mobiles, * sixty-two" gallons” of * whisky and four men were captured. One of the men, William Miles, was shot ¥ ; { Langdon, U. Gen. Of, the Japanesé military com- automobile ;. here Suhr., who drove the car, surrendered to the police and was released on a bond of $1,000. The woman and her little daughter were going to a junior high school entertainment when they stepped off 2 street car and Mrs. Mat- thews was struck by ‘the automobile. She lived.about four hours. .The bod; will be taken to Macon, Ga., her former home,for:in! it | PRESIDENT SENDS NOTE TO HYMANS UPON ARMENIA President Wilson has sent another communication regarding mediation in Armenia to President Hymans of the | council of the league of nations, it was said today =t the State Department. The note may be made public tomor- row, and meantime official comment on it is withheld. When President Wilson accepted the 'invitation of the league to act as me- 1diato! % Ilndicau- some course of pracedure, but he requested the council to no reply has been made, and it has been suggested that because of the chaotic condition in Armenia the league may deem further attempts at mediation at this time inexpedient. Henry Morgenthau, former aml sador to Turkey, who has been named by the President as his representa- tive, is still in the United States, awaliting instructions. SOME APPOINTEES * MAY BE APPROVED Secret Conference, Held by G. 0. P. Senators, Takes Up Democratic List. Whether a temporary hole should be bored in the wal..of republican opposition holding up confirmation of |about 20,000 nominations made by President Wilson, so that action could be had in some emergency cases, wWas discussed today at a secret confer- ence of republican senators. Officially it was announced that no action was taken, but Some senators said it had been agreed that the re. publican membership of the various Scnate committees should go over the lists of nominations under their re- spective jurisdiction; and, reviewing them in the light of conditions in the govcrnment departments, - decide whether the situation was sufficiently urgent to warrant confirmation be: fore President-clect Harding is i augurated and can make his own ap- pointments. 5165000 MAIL LOOT 1S FOUND N RAIDS MOUNT VERN?N. I, January 21. —Virtualy™ all of the $185.000 ob- tained in the theft of thirty-one packages of registered mail here last Fridiy $vas recovéred teday by pes ‘érnan. One of four compltelty is the Rev. Guy Kyle. former rector Of;the Free M , Church. here. BOESH 1S BERLIN MAYOR. Communists in City Cousicil Stage Demonstragion After Eléction. BERLIN,: January 21.—Cémniunist members of the BErith “city council staged a noisy demonstration when; it was ‘anpoun: lasi bt - that br. Gustav Boes| mayor ‘ql_the, greatei oity, - They ac- £uged the majority soclalists of -be- traying socialism. = - . | Dr. Boesh received 144 votes, against 95 cast:for Dr. Well, independent so- cialist, recelving the solid support ot the majority socialists in all the bour- geolsie factions, except members of the uational people's party, who join- ed the independent soclalists and the communists in supporting Dr. Weil. The nationalists detended their union with the ultra radicals by declaring the bourgeoisie of greater Berlin had been asleep on election day. and therefore - deserved a radical lord mayor.” Dr. Boesh is forty-eight years old and has occupied the position of- city chamberlain. He has a record for ef- | ficiency as-a municipal'officer. WIFE AUCTION TALE FAILS. U: 8. Official Says Charges as to Armenjans Are Unsupported. FRESNO, Calif., January 21.—There is no evidence in the office of the United . States. immigration cominis- sioner to . corroborate ‘charges made public -last Monday - that Armenian girls were beinz imported into this'country and auctioned off to the highest hidder as' wives, accord- ing to s.written statement by United States Commissioner - ‘George = 'W. Moore. : The only evidénce hi office -posses- jses,’ Moore said, is that several Ar-|cine charges daily, cherked pig< as menian, womep came, to this .coyntry under hssumed names, Harry, Sel- vian, @ local rancher, Wwho is accused of bripging the women into this) cbun- try, .and the women are under sur- velilange. . Moore hus; asked for, war- rants for their arrest for -making false statements on ‘entry, but the i warrants have not yet been received. Moore’s statement said the charges. | made hy one Krikor Kenosian.and giver ‘puplicity - by Moore - had not]|. |Mrs. Hicks- and . Thres Children been. corroborated. B {RITES FOR LANGDON HELD. Gen. Of “and Othiei " Officials at| ‘Funeral at Viadivostok. VLADIVOSTOK, January S. bany, of which he was the chiet en- gineer, authorities atiended the obsequie: mander, Was pr : The coffin Was éovered With wreath: WOMAN DEAD, AUTOIST. HELD. | SAVANNAH, Ga., January- 21.—Mrs. Bratrice Mathews was killed . by un last night. John b4 id been elected lord ] is_moored. The Russian and' foreign military afficlals and the civil | and that of Margaret, aged five, on tir: other. |TAKEN BY.TURK_ RAIDERS. 1t was 'taken alongside the Albany,| moupted on a gun carriage. A salute In honor of the dead was fired. After| this a big flag was lowered, cutting off the view of the public. HARDING JOURNEYS SOUTH, HIS TRIALS LOCKED INKIT BAG |President-Elect Puts All Thoughts of League and Taxes Out of Mind. STRAIN OF CONFERENCES AT MARION TELLS ON HIM {Only Small Party in Special Car | Attached to Regular Pas- | senger Trains. By the Associated Press. ON BOARD PRESIDENT-ELECT HARDING'S TRAIN, January 21— With his troubles packed in a Kit bag that he intends to keep tightly locked for at least two weeks, Presi- dent-elect Harding turned his thoughts to golf sticks and fishing rods today as he journeyed southward for a vacation in Florida. The association of nations, ax re- form, the choice of a cabinet and aill the other topice’that have been keep- ing long hburs with him during the last six weeks in Marion are to be | put as far away from his mind as pos- sible until he has had a good rest. His Marion conferences fréquently have kept him busy from early morn- | ing until late at night, and the strain nd lack of exercise have told mate- rially on his physical condition. Hopes to Be Isolated. | Not once since his return from | Panama, early in December. has he | been able to visit his favorite play- ;‘round. the golf links. Walking has | been Vis only recreation, and he has | found Tittle time even for that. A fishing trip down the eastern shore of Florida is to occupy the first two weeks of his stay in the south. It is his hope to be conipletely iso- {lated from observation during the period, though he may venture forth once or twice to play golf. _Early in February he will take up his resi- dence at St. Augustine Hotel, where he will remain until just before his inauguration. x “Mr. Harding’s private car, which Jeft Marion at midnight, went south- | ward today attached to regular pas- | sénger trains and was to threugh Chattanooga late in the aft | ernoon and reach Atlanta during th | evening. He will arrive at St. Augus- | tine Sunday. 1 Mrs. Harding Coming Here, Two who have been his companions lon all the trips since his nomina‘ion were not included in' the party aboard o 387 aidgone s arcegted on- in the robbery | Washington Sawyer, | dent v A { Ing the campalign ahd the | is kept in Marion by business considera. tions, but may j:- the pariy before it leaves the soutl - e The party accompanying Mr. Harding south is the smallest with which he | b e-his nomination for the { presidency coasists only of the { President-elect, his secretary, Geéorge i B. Christian, jr.; Hurry M, Daugherty oi stenographers and ¢ men and newspaper { Columbus, . twi dozen seeret serv’ correspondents. Remembers Fellow Townssian. ! A stofy of Mr. Harding's‘devotion to owe of his feliow townspicn vusge to light by chance after it.had been kept a sceret for several weeks from some 0f / Yhove’ most_dirccily concerned. It in- |volved a financial guarautee by~ the President-elect fo enable his church to {contjnue salary -of .a pastor who has been incapacitated since last July. The minister is Dr. Thomas H. Mc- Affee of.the Trinity Baptislt Church, of which Mr. Harding is a trustee. Dr. McAffee was stricken with paralysis more than six months ugo, and the strain of paying his salary in addition to that of an acting pastor weighed heavily on the church treasury. PIGS IS PIGS. BUT— Here's a Case Whete Little "Uns _Took Place of Big "Uns. . BOSTON. January 21.—Acceptance of the maxim that “pigs is plgs” has cost the city’ masy pounds of pork and. officials in-charge of-the munici- !pal piggery on Deer Island have a new watchword, “Swinvherd, know th: | pigs." J THe penal” institation’s commissior { er» announced ;today the discovery of |a scheme whereby young pigs were brought * déwn ‘the “harbo-" M heats landed serreptitiously at Deer Island and substituted for' full-grown pork- ors, which were ‘taken’ away-to mar- ket. £ ’ The guards, in counting their por- pigs: without distinction of xige. The humber of noses tilfied~'but the poundage ~fell - off - treméndously. Young pigs succeeded old pigs until it seemea the inmates of the: piggery | fad found the secret of eternal' youth, but the plg-running plan-was disco ered and the substitutions stopped. FOUR IN. ONE CASKET. ,She Killed Burled Together. WINCHESTER; -V Janvary 21— The bodies of Mrs. Mary Glenn Hicks and three of her four children were | buried here today_ ip one casket., Mrs. 18,4 | Hicks, believed demented as the = = by t! of influenza. shot I military funeral for Licut, Warren H. | for toree childre o e N.. was held at the| Y. M. C. A. building. close to the dock | wheré the United States cruiser Al-!the body of Ste! the three children Tuesday and then killed. herself. In the mother's arms was placed aged three, the baby, af the family) The body of Wal ter. aged six. was placed on one side Earamusaral, on' Gulf’of Ismid,. * ' ' 1s Capturea.” ' - CONSTANTINOPLE, . -January- 20.:— e A ders have occupied Kara-s musursail, -en: of Ismid. Cineek regiments under command.-of Brl:.e Ge::‘l-l.lrrlnl’lon are éllilnvot- ing (to ‘surnound 5.000 natiopalists at Kandra, , about twenty-thre: mil north of Ismid. 5 'LONDON, January 21. (Jewish Tele- | geaphic Agency).—Lord Reading. ' ; appoiptment as viceroy of India; was announc: recently, . will leave for 'that country on March 17. His, ap- pointment . becomes ‘effective April 1. % W