Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1921, Page 19

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ALLIES WOULD DIVERT COAL ‘TO FORCE GERMANS TO PAY C, MARCH 27, By Seizures. Rich Teuton Industrial Mag- nates Could Not Escape Penalties Levied on Nation. By RALPH COURTNEY. By Cable to The Star and New York Tribuse. Copyright, 1921. PARIS, March 26—A plan for the payment of the German war bill by diversion of all German coal revenues into the allied coffers and main- tenance of international control of Upper Silesia for an indefinite period is being discussed in French official circles. The French realize that the German ‘government is working under great difficuities in trying to meet the al- lied demands on reparations. How- ever much Dr. Walter Simons, Ger- man_foreign minister, would like to pay large sums to the allies, he would be powerless to compel those persons in Germany who possess all the money to place it at the disposal of the gov- ernment. If the allies were to control all of Germany's coal supply it would at last be possible to bring pressure to bear on the great industrial profiteers in Germany. Plan No Coal Shortage. ‘The allles have no intention, under the plan being considered, of keeping German industries short of coal. On the contrary, they are interested to see that German industry thrives, pro- vided, of course, that a satisfactory percentage of profits goes toward paying the German war bill. With the control of all coal in their hands, the allies would be able to say to Hugo Stinnes and the other indus- trial magnates: “Unless you and your industries are prepared to help the German govern- ment in its efforts to pay the repara- tions bill you will get no coal.” Whether the present scheme actually comes to the point of open discussion between Germany and the allies de- pends upon many considerations, one of the chief of which is whether Poland can be brought to accept the possible proposals opposing the divi- sion of Silesia and to regard the prob- lem as one affecting all the allles. Great Britain Approves. The coal seizure proposal, which is said to have the approval of Great Britian_and the other allied powers, except Poland, has for its keynote the disregarding, at least temporarily, of the results of the plebiscite in Upper Silesia. 1t is suggested that for the time being _the allies refrain from dividing Silesia, as they have a full right fo do under the terms of the plebiscite 28 set forth in the treaty of Versailles. Strictly speaking, the allies have good grounds, on the basis of plebiscite results, for giving to Poland that part of Upper Silesia which contains the iron and coal mines and for alloting to Germany only a valueless strip of territory in the northwes The Germans. who got a majority in the popular vote, are pleading that the territory should not be divided, and it is understood that Great Brit- iain is not anxious to see such an e: tremely valuable territory as thi: , with_its mines, handed entirely to { Poland. The Germans argue that without Silesia they cannot hope to pay the war bill due the allies. DEFENDANT DENIES HE _SLEW FIVE IN FAMILY Edmund R. Bigham Takes Witness Stand in His Own Defense. FLORENCE, 8. C., March 26.—Ed- mund R. Bigham, defendant in one of the most sensational cases ever tried in this state, In which he is charged with murder in connection with the deaths of his brother Smiley and four other members of his family, ‘went on the stand in his own defense late today. “Preceding him on the stand at the afternoon session were his wife and his fourteen - year- old daughter, Louise. The testimony of the mem- bers of the Bigha) family, which had been expected’ to come today, drew an even larger crowd of spec- tators than had marked previous ses- sions of the trial. Mrs. Bigham told in much detail the story of the happenings at the Bigham home on January 16, the da: of the tragedy, in which Mrs. M. M. Bigham, the defendant’ Margie Black, his siste: Bigham, a brother, and Leo and John McCracken, adopted children of Mrs. Black, were the victims. She gave her testimony as if reading from a notebook and even under cross-exami- nation by Solicitor Casque showed no signs of nervousnes: Louise Bigh: the young daugh- ter, also told a atory that duplicated details. Her memory failed in some details vitally affecting her father defense. When called upon to reco nize Detective Eichelberger and say whether she had made certain state- ments to him she disowned evgs hav- ing seen the detective. Edmund R. Bigham gave a detailed story of his actions from January 8 to the time of the death of his rela- tives. PRINCETON WILL PROBE CLASSICAL EDUCATIO Three-Year School * Investigation. _ PRINCETON, N. J.,, March_26.—The general education board has appro- priated $60,000 to conduct an vestigation of classical education i the secondary schools of the Unite: States, it was announced here tonight by Andrew Fleming West, dean of the Princeton Graduate School and chair- the College Appropriates $60,000 for |cash, checks and jewelry. Another objection to dividing the province is that by this action new civil strife i{s likely to be let loose between Germans and Poles, making Silesia possibly the theater of a new war. In these circumstances France is considering conclliatory proposals that the status quo be kept for the present In Upper Silesla, on the u derstanding that the whole of Ger- many's coal supply shall be turned over to the allies as a pledge for the payment of her reparations account. Upper Silesia, under this plan, would continue under the local administra- tion of the allied powers and all coal UL S MAY RETURN 1921—PART T1.' Step Upon Cat’s Tail Reveals 36 Bottles of MAKES 119 MILES Whisky Hid in Piano NEARLY ALL LIQUOR Practically Four-Fifths of Seized Wet Goods Cannot Be Held by Government. Special Dispatch to The Star, NEW YORK, March 26.—Unless a recent ruling of the United States circuit court of appeals Is reversed by the United States Supreme Court | prohibition officials will have to re- store to the former owners millions | of dollars’ worth of liquor confiscated in all parts of the United States, it was said by authorities here today. Some estimates fix the amount to be returned as high as four-fifths of |the quantity seized by the govern- jment since prohibition went into ef- NEW YORIK, March 26—A cat fin search of a lost chord today led to seisure of thirty-six bot- tles of whisky inside m piane aboard the Trinidad limer May- are. A prohibition inspector acel- dentally stepped om pussy’s tall. Puss yowled and jumped from the deck through a port- Role into a cabln. She landed on what woul have been the top | of an upright planc had the top been clowed. But it wasn't, and amid n bit | of fellne jazs the “dry” agents caught the jangle of ! Dis- covery of the whisky followed. ARMED MEN TO BE SHOT ON SIGHT BY MEXICANS | PER HOUR IN RACE |Lieut. Strahm Wins Opening’ Contest in National South- ern Air Tourneys. | By the Associated Press BELLEAIR, Fla., March 26 —Finish- & 100 per cent, d with the leader ntaining an average of close to two miles per minute, the four de Haviland Army plane ent with | their Liberty motors. demonstrated complete superiorit n the 100-mile | Clearwater-Belleair Air Derby here {this afternoon. opening the Nation iSouthern Air Tourneys, Lieut. Victor D. H. Strahm, Bowling Green, Ky. winning with a time record of 51 minutes flat. The average speed was 119.6 miles per hour from the Silesian mines, as well a8 |fcct. It is pointed out that the bulk Right A that mined in the Ruhr valley, belof the contraband liquors taken TAeuE 7. e S placed under the control of the|charge of by revenue agents was 51.20. while thers of the entente. selzed in New York city. S s = nina star Capt 'll‘he allle? it is proposed, will fix The decision of the fourth United|Federal Fight Against Guerrilla: Ford and prices on the coal and receive pay- |States circult court of appeals, handed 5 Gilkerson, Sellarsy P ments therefor which shgll be “ap- |down on March 10, held that the Vol- Is Cited in Order Closing Bor- -‘,’,‘,,l,}.’:( e plied to the reparations account. On |gstead act nullified and repealed the i were forced out early in the fvi a basis of these conditions it is 5ug- |old internal revenue statute, under der to American Hunters. DY overheating motors—a Nieuport gested that the allies might offer | which much of the wet goods was| BROWNSVILLE. Tex. March 26— | furnishing the nearest thing to an Germany another plebiscite in Upper Silesia at the end of five years, as it Is argued that by that time it would be easier to decide the uiti- mate destination of the disputed |found. Under the Volstead act only province. liquor involved in the actual viola- The special advantage of this|tion may be seized, it is held. scheme is that Great Britain would ; Assistant United States Attorney not be forced to retreat from her | stand against handing all the Silesian mines to the Poles. At the same time allied control of the coal supply would prevent Germany from preparing for war and would assist her in the discharge of her obliga- tions. FRENCH WAR LOSSES. Enormous Figures Presented to Reparations Commission. Special Dispatch to The Star. in the war, as submitted to the allied reparations commission, amount to 218,541,596,120 according to a state- ment given out today in New York at the offices of the French commis- sion. Of this amount more than 13 000,000,000 represents physical dam- age to industry and property, includ- ing shipping, and the balance injurie to_persons. The tabulation of the French claims in paper francs follows: Damage to property To industry . Interest . Injurics 1o~ person Military peasions Grants to families of demobilized Assistance given war prisoners. . Insufficiency of salaries and wages Exactions by Germany .. Total . 400 Admirers Storm Ship Trying to Kiss Departing Musician NEW YORK, March 26 —Wil- Ham Mengelberg, Dutch or- chestra conductor, became so fiabbergasted today when 400 admirers tried to kiss him, slap his back and shake his hand before he sailed for Holla that he stumbled into his state- last night as lead: mirers refused to leave the boat without seeipg him once more. An mailing time approached ship officers persuaded the m: sician to unlock his door greet the erowd. He began to speak, but the enthusiasm of hiz listeners bubbled over and they tried to embrace him en masse. Four women kissed Mr. Mengelbers and two women fainted. Finally the conductor slipped away, the crowd went home and ed. HUNT BANDITS WHO SLEW 1 AND ROBBED 30 MEN that of her mother’s, except in minor | Three Masked Yeggmen Hold Up Lumber Camp, Get $10,000 and $6,000 in Checks. RICHWOOD, -W. Va. Posses of lumberjacks with blood- hounds are scouring the mountains north of here tonight, searching for three armed bandits who last night held up a lumber camp. killed one man and escaped with $10,000 in cash, $6.000 wWorth of checks and some jew- elry. The three bandits, wearing masks, appeared at the camp, thirty miles north of here, just after nightfall. ‘Thirty lumberjacks were lined up. and, while one of the robbers covered men, the others collected the One man refused to hand over $2.000 and he was killed. Feeling was running high tonight among the lumbermen of Nicholas and Pocahontas counties. The news of the hold-up and subsequent rob- bery of the men's winter saving in-|spread quickly, and tonight every " |pass from the mountains was barred by men armed with rifles. —_— Louls Moronis, chief of the military man of the advisory committee which | commissary department of Mexico, will pervise the work of the Ame; ican Classical League. The investig: tion probably will take three years, according to Dean West. Its scope will be to ascertain the condition of classical education, de- termine its faults, propose_improve- ments, consider a plan for beginning the secondary course two years earlier, compile statistics from 1915 to the present and devise a satisfac- tory plan for the future. Latest available statistics show Latin is being studied by more pupils than any other subjects except English, history and mathematics. The slump in classical enrollments during the war has been regained largely, chief- ly at the expense of German. Dean West said the investigation not only will reach all sections of the United States, but the American Classical League has in view the study of conditions in the classics in the secondary schools of England and France, and the reaction of the war upon them. 13 HURT IN WRECKS. NEW YORK, March 26.—Thirteen pér were injured in two rear-end collisions here tonight. Nine were hurt when a south-bound Third avenue elevated train crashed into another discharging passengers at the 42d street fon. One woman was taken to a hospital. A collision earlier in the evening between two Manhattan-bound cars on the Queensboro bridge, resulted in injuries to four persons, the mot f the second car bel in elevator to Blackwell's Tsland, beneath the bridge, and treated In a hospital there, - with the rank of a cabinet minister, is president of the Mexican Federation Low Cost Life Insurance for Chicks Give your baby S chicks Pratts Butterrn.ilk ——— and you fusure theirlives. Cuts ;"0" chick i losses; raises eve: ivable chick. - Prévents digen: tive troubles. @- . ““Your Money Back if YOU Are Not Satisfied” 1,00 230.000 | tions conference at Barcelona, who rch 26— confiscated. Enforcement agents have been seizing entire stocks from deal- ers and Individuals under this revenue statute whenever a violation has been Robert A. Peattie said today he was inclined fo believe that the decision | would hold. It is known that he ad- vised Ernest Langley. supervisor of | prohibition enforcement, today to postpone a seizure of $200,000 worth of | liquors already planned until he has | received complete information re- | garding the case from the supervi- | or. It is believed one of the immediate effects of the decision will be a great| curtailment in seizures of liquor, which often run into millions of dollars’ worth weekly, for the whole country. It is understood that United States attorneys are advising more cautious procedure on the part of revenue agents. An idea of the huge quantity of} liquor which may be returned can be obtained from an unofficial inventory | of the amount of whisky and red wine in the Knickerbocker warehouse. | i This inventory, made today, is of liquors seized in Manhattan and the Bronx only. It gives the quantities a8 62,000 cases and 5,000 barrels of whisky and 25,000 barrels of wine. { Much “miscellaneous liquor, such as gin, brandy, cognac, champagne and) other wines are stored there, but the amounts could not be learned. ALFONSO IS BETTER. | Spanish King Sufficiently Recov- | ered to Resume Audiences. { MADRID, March 26.—King Alfonso i | was able to leave the palace this| morning, having sufficiently recovered from his indisposition. He announced is intention of receiving the dele- {gates of the transit and communica- reached Madrid today to spend the Easter holidays. After visiting the capital the dele- gates will make trips to Toledo and Escorcial. {to hunt Warning that any person found on Mexican soil with firearms would be “shot on sight by federal troops who are seeking guerrillas,” and an order closing the border to American hunt- ers were issued in Matamoros, oppo- site Brownsville, today. The order and warning were signed by Gen. Lopez, commander of the Matamoros garrison, following a con- ference with Gen. A. R. Gomez. The warning said troops had been thrown into the Matamoros district down ‘“Cardenas’ ten-man revolution,” and had been ordered to “shoot down all armed men found.” It said Cardenas, whose identity is not known here, with nine men, had pro- claimed a revolution, divided into two bands and “taken to the bush Seeking recruits.” Gen. Lopez sald the “men: serious,” but that the Obre ernment’s policy is to stam border trouble remorseless order closing the border to hunters' was due to the fear that innocent | Americans might be shot, he added. URGE BABY’S RIGHTS. Greeks Want Marriage Legalized | of Late King and Mme. Manos. ATH March 26.—The govern- sk the national assembly e the marriage of the late King _Alexander and Mme. Aspasia Manos, who yesterday gave birth to a daughter, in order to establish the right of the child to inherit the late king’'s fortune, it was announced to- attendance on Mme. Manos and both she and her daughter are doing well. DR. SIMONS TAKES REST. BE! itzerland. March 21 Dr. Waiter Simon. German_foreign minister. who is suffering from an attack of grippe, arrived here today on the day to Lugano for a ten-day rest. LA when its motor froze on Lieut. J. D. Corkiile, San Diego, and compellad him to drop where he could. | The best spot he could pick out en | the spur of the moment was a garden ipatch at Indian Rocks. He made a utiful landing and did not damage machine nor receive a serateh. It was a perfect day for the derby and close to 10.000 people from all arts of the country had abandone { winter headquarters and business for t {trip here. For a mile along the Clearwa- | ter-St. Petersburg road bordering on the golf Tinks, which had been converted intc ithe landing field. wutomobiles were jammed just as close as they could b placed During the afternoon the two big Navy seaplanes arrived from Pensa- cola, after a six-hour Struggle against heavy headwinds all the way. Not a sign of the missing balloonists was seen. according to Lieut. Commander . P. Snody and other officers in the | party, though part of their flight was { over the expanse of waters, which are being combed for the missing men and their basket. The big Navy planes will partici- pate in a race Monday. In addition !to Lieut. Commander Snody, the two anes brought Licut. Commander B Brown, Lieut. Hugo Schmidt Lieut. G. Kirke, Licut. L. Hundt and | two mechanics and a radio man each The distance from Pensacola is miles and they lighted on Clear- water bay at 4:35 o'clock. |~ Tomorrow’s program includes bomb- ing a launch and parachute drop for accuracy. DISMISSED FROM FORCE accidont 1 | day. ! The palace doctor. Queen Sophie |Richmond Policeman Convicted ¢ and an American trained nurse are in Stealing Loses Position. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND. Va., March 26.—Ch Sherry of the local police today dis missed H. O. Goode from the forc following his conviction on the charg of stealing articles from the store: that were recently burned here. The man was given ninety days ir jail. He has appealed the case. The alleged stolen articles wer found in the home of Goode. Another ““Hahn” Novelty THE “REGGIE” A new Pump with diamond-shape tip and instep strap fastened with small buckle. Beige Buckskin, trimmed with Tan Calfskin. Light Gray Suede, trimmed with Gray Kid. Abso- . lutely new -and of high-grade Brooklyn workmanship........ $12.50 Suede Trim Pump Black Gun Metal Calf with Black Suede instep strap and “collar.” Black Suede band {orming tip. 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