Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1921, Page 1

WEATHER. oudy, occasional rains today:. to- loudy; no change in tem- m»er-‘tun for twenty-four hours ended-at 10 p.m. last n|t.’ht: Highest, 53; lowest, 32 Full report on page 13. Ne. 870.— No. 28,336. NUCLEUS OF NATIONS’ ASSOCIATION| SEEN IN CONFERENCES OF' FUTURE; Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. che WASHINGTON, D. C, EARLY 'ACTION ON NAVIES LIKELY Parley Plows Ahead on Subjects Cov- ered in Agenda. L3 FAILURE TO AGREE WILL BE REVEALED Great Optimism is Felt as To Final Results After- —_— ELEGATES FAVOR GIVING UP YULETIDE HOLIDAYS FOR SPEED By the Awmociated’ Press. Membern of several delegations te the Washington conference in- formally suggested last night that any thought of adjourning the sea- alons for the Christmas holidays be abandoned in the expectation that by adopting such a course the de- liberations could be definitely con- cluded by the end of December. The negotintions were proceed- Two Weeks. How the Washington conference may- provide for its owh perpetua- tion, with future assemblies of the powets, was indicated yesterday by an authority high in the councils of the American delegation, although there was no comment made on the actual ‘proposal for future con- ferences and an “association of nations” emanating from the White | House. It was pointed out the ‘Washing- ton .conference is_plowing ahead with the distinct understanding that all of the matters covered in the agenda preparéd in advance ‘of the assembling of the delegations here shall be handled. Each propesition is to be settled, if possible, as it is reached: Problems to Be Revealed. Those matters which jt is found impossible to agree upon will be an- nounced to the world. Furthermore, the reasons why they coul not be settled at the present conferéence will be given to the world.. The responsi- billty for the faflure will be definitely fixed. N The “implication is that.those mat- ters not settled now will be-taken up In the fiture, at other conferencés. So there may spring into being a defi- nite plan for further conferences, in line .with the proposal advanced at the White- House, and the leus. of the “association-of nations™ will be formed:* » ey 1t is not to be understood . from this that the hh.hui: b ..:- - ference has wa: ing accomplishments re: not-ts ‘Be expected before ap ‘adjournment 18 taken. In fact, affef two ‘weeks of steady work, srest optimism’is felt to the fir results. - "'3 ;:euun; 1t way- stated yestérday on the highest authority, the Wash- ington' canference ig giving its atten- tion to those qu¢stions ~which it was called to diecuss. No formal pro- posal for future meetings or for any kind of an' association of nations is yet before it, except that contained in the “principles” advanced by China. In fact, it was suggested that if there is to be an arrangement for future meetings and ‘an assoclation| it will be & natural outgrowth of the conference, a development that. will come as the conference progresses. The Chinese delegation has 1aid be- fore the conference, meeting in com- mittee on the whole, ten general principles to be applied In the de- termination of the questions relating to China. The last of these principles is as follows: «Provision is to be made for future eonferences, to be held from time to time, for the discussion of interna- tional questions. relative to the Pacific and the far east as a basis for the Yetermination aof common policies of the signatory powers in relation thereto.” Exclusive of Land Arms. This_proposal,. however, does not go. for instance, to the matter. of limitation of land armament of the Européan nations, a subject which Jooms large as 4 probable question for consideration by the nations _in any future conference. that is ‘the oftspring of the Washington gather- ing. 1t is belleved that if any plan is developed for_the perpetuation of the Washington conference,. it will go much further than the Chinese proposal. the naval experts now at werk on the program for the limitation of erma- ment laid down by Secretary' Hughes, will be able to report to their re- spective delegations. The experts themselves will be unable to make any agreements on these matters, but must submit the results of their work to the delegates, and they in turn will make such agreements as they deem proper. Teanage Question Segregated. 1n connection With the naval pro- gram, It was made clear yesterday that the question of capital ship ton- nage has been segregated from the During the coming week, it is hroped, question of auxiliary tonnage.! It 'is the aim. of the conferenge first to settle the question of the capltal shipe. After that has been dohe, it is be- . lieved. that 1 will bei a comparatively easy matter. to settle the question of auxiliary _ships, including . the sub- marines, eruisers, destroyers, etc. No indication has been given yet as to when another open session of the conference is to be expected. It is considered not unlikely, howéver, that * such & session will be held when the naval program has been threshed out, and the delegates are ready ‘to act upon that feature of the &onference. It was pointed out yasterday that the conference is now engaged, through committees, in research: and- disous- e I l ! BY 6. GOULD LINCOLN. 7 | Europe of the President's new idea? Are.they not going to think that it is ing so. smoothly, they pointed out, that the conference could be ex- - pected to complete fts work in a . much shorter time than was at firat deemed possible. For this reason 1t wan suggested that delegates who had pianned to go home for Christmas might well be urged to abandon this intention so that the sesaions could be continued with- out interruption. In such a cave it was said the conference might end by December 28 or 31. VIVIANI INDORSES FUTURE PARLEYS Terms President’s Idea Not | Only High Thought, But Practical One. By the Associated Press. President Harding's suggestion for a continuation of international con- ferences to deal with world problems result of developments at the Washington conference was indorsed yesterday by M. Viviani, head of the French delegation, .who said it was not only “a high thought,’ but a prac- tical one. “First, the initiative of President Harding is of very considerable.im- portance,” M. Viviani said. “It is a high thought and what is equally beautiful, a practical thought. This conferencé has already a great.ideal for Ite sim.* ‘If it is the beginning of ferences this is an histori- It shall' mot be for Must Selve Problems. Ships Resume Place of Predominating ‘Interest Here. EXPERTS FINISHING UP CONSIDERATION British and Americans Ready to Make Their Reports. By the Associated Press. The problem of naval limitation, left in the background while the far eastern negotiations are developing step by step the policies of the powers toward China, has been advanced to a point where it may soon resume a place of predominating interest in the arms. conference. It was indicated yesterday that both { the American and British experts had virtually completed their'work on de- tails of the American reduction plan, 2nd would be ready to report to the conferénce early this week. The Japanesé experts had no similar an- jnouncement to make. but it was as- jsumed they would not permit them- selves to be_put in the position of delaying seriously the progress of the negotiations. - Ratio Critieal Polat. ‘The crucial point in the discussions, as viewed by the American delegation at least, is the *5-5-3 ratio”. of capital ship strength, which forms the basis of the American plan, and it is upon this feature that the consideration of the conference are expected to center when it turns again to the naval question. It was said author- itatively yesterday that, in the opin- fon of the spokesmen of the American government, all questions relating to military craft are of collateral im- portance only, and can be settled easily once there is an agreement on capital ships. Conference officials are understood to feel that the attention of the dele- gates can be diverted from the far eastern problems to the subject of naval armament without conflicting the procedure of the conference, and the American delegation in particular has shown. a desire to get Finto the naval- discussions as goon ag the work of the experts’ will permit. "The American delegates are declared o de “Second, humanity for its happiness well satisfled with the progress made must solve problems of a universal character. Consequently, universali- ty ‘of means must be used. If any great nation should be missing in the cohesion of ideas and. in-the exami- | in the far eastern negotiations, but impatient to get the naval negatia- tions out of the committee for a more definite exchange of views among those who will actually have th nation of -solution that would make |decision. them most difficult. The initiative of President Harding will allow the whole world to take part. “Third, we have all to gain by these associations in which we continue to learn the law of equality among na- tions and we find what we are miss- fng in offering to others that which we possess. No nation has the ex- clusive gift of intellectual and moral power. Not In Cenfifet. “Fourth. What will people think in in conflict with the league of nations? 1 answér no! America has decided to ignore the league of nation® That was her right; she has no.account to render fo-any one. The league of na- tions exists. What Is to be deplored is that It should exist-alone. America through these conferences will come into contact with the rest of the world. Let the world be united in one way or in another way. There is no spectal protocol for that. Does Not Matter. “Fifth. T do not know If these con- ferences and the league of nations can associate their ends.- It does not matter. It is only for mathematicians that-parallel lines do not meet. Both thoughts will rest in different spheres, 1 am sure that for all great problems we ahall be together. Already Amer- ica has given her adhesion to the in- ternational court of justice, whose verdicts without her would have been weakened. It will be proven that dis- cussion may be a part when aims are in common.” PAY $21,400 FOR DEATH, | Owners of Truck Settle in Case of Representative-Elect. LOS ANGELES, November 26.—Dam- ages of $21,400 for the death of Charles F. Van'de Water, representative-elect, of Long Béach on November 20, 1920, against the owners of the truck into which his automobile crashed wer entered today by stipulation in the Los Angeles superior’court. PARLEY ALREADY ARMS BURDEN, BEATTY By the Astociated Press. OTTAWA, Ont., November 26.— Admiral Earl Beatty told the Ot- tawa Canadian Club today- that “it the Washington comference were _to close its doors tomorrow it would have _accomplished some- thing toward. releasing the world from the great burden- of arma- ment and the.taxation that it in-, _volves.! 3 o He -said ‘that his very presence. in‘Ottawa'today' indicsted that all goes well at the conference. The 'limits: jmpdsed. RPOR “VA~' 4 ih b S l1eave withdrawal to the discretion of iwas made in the .committee meeting, l 1 Near l’n‘!-.l Agreement. Another of China’s problems reached the point of a virtual “agreement in principle” during the session yester- day of the committee of the whole devoted to a discussion of the main- tenance of foreign postoffices and postal systems on Chinese soil. The delegates all agreed there should be a withdrawal of the foreign postal machinery as soon as condi- tions warrant, and a subcommittee headed by Senator Lodge of the Amer- fcan delegation drew up for later formal adoption a declaration of prin- ciple under which each of the powers would investigate conditions foritself and withdraw when it considered it practical to do so. The report Is to be presented to the tull committee tomorrow, and st the same time another subcommittee will present for approval a reésolution de- claring also for a gradual abolition of the extraterritorial rights in China as soon as China's judicial machinery | _ will warrant the change. It is ex- pected that the dispatch of an inter- national] commission of jurists to China to study the situation will be recommended in the subcommittee re- port and agreed to by the conference. In the discussion of the postal ques- tion yesterday the delegates of Japan are understood to have . expressed serious doubt whethér the present postal facilitles of the Chinese gov- crnment would fully meet the de- mands made upon them should the foreign systems withdraw. It was also said to have been suggested by some delegates that the Peking gov- ernment might find difficulty in en- forcing reforms which might .be agreed to here, in view of the un- settled state of the internal affairs of Chins. The virtual decision to each individual power was the re- sult. Presidents Plan Causes Interest. Although no formal mention of it President Harding's suggestion for a continuance of. the conférande. pian (Continued on Page 3, Colamn HAS LESSENED DECLARES rious countries under. the Hughes' proposals, he said, “aré not de- rogatory to the dignity of the great empire to which we belong,”: and added he was sure “that the empire on:the sea will be as safe _in the future as it has been in th “There are many questions still to be worked out. The great - achievements aimed at cannot be achieved in'a day. But-that.they.- will be-achieved ‘the spirit’ and - harmony which rules at Washing- * * ton today are a very.signal proql” " I e dents snd fascistl, paraded the prin- Sund SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1921.° ANTHFRENCH RIOTS SPREAD OVER ITALY Several Shot in Demonstra- tions—Consulate Attacked. Feeling Runs High. By the Associated Press. Naples) November 26.—Anti-French demonstrations; whi¢h broke out in Turin last night, following publica- tion of dispatches from Washington reporting a clash of words between Premler Briand of France and Sen- ator Schanzer, head of the Italian del- egation in America, spread to Naples today; where several -persons wer wounded in a revolver duel between the police and $he d¢monstrators. Enraged over réading published re- porte of Hixrsh words directed ‘sgainst the Italiag delegate by the French premier) A band of demonstrators, consisting for the most part of stu- v i | | King’s Party, Bavaria, Would Destroy New Teuton Constitution Bpecial CINQI;: The ll'ilr apd Chicago 1y Ne BERLIN, Ge 28—~The Bava rated ‘by the present Bav Tep a rexolution this week t “Welmar constitution must be overthrown decisively, fearleas- 1y and forcibly in order fo in- sure the future political unity of all the German states.” The federal government im Berlin repeatedly has asked the Bavarian authoritles to & s the king’s party because of its seditions character, but thus far the Munich government has don, ng to comply with the orders from Berlin. TOMBS OF KINGS BARE FTHIOPH, 80250 BL. cipsl streets of the city'erying “Down|gorward Men Discover Burial with France!” They then proceeded to attack,the French consulate here, but here they were faced with a special deachment of 300 troops that had been called to restore order. The most serious incident in con- nection with the demonstrations oc- curred when the mob found a French flag and burned it publicly amidst hostile exclamations against France. TURIN RIOTS CONTINUE. By the Associated Press. TURIN; Ttaly, November 26.—Anti- French . demonstrations, which were precipitated last night following newspaper accounts alleging~ harsh words were used by Premier Briand of France to Senator Schanzer, head of the Italian delegation at Wash- ington,” were continued - here today with such intensity that 300 troops had to be called in to restore order. 'THe most serious.incident in con- nection with the demonstration oc- ourred when the mob found a French fing and burned it publicly amidst hostile’ acclamations against France. Schasser Denies Reports. By the Associated Press, ROME, November 26.—Foreign Min- ister Della Tornetta today anndunced he had received & cable message from Senator Schanger, head of-the Italian [five Ethiopian monarchs who rul Places of Twenty-Six Genera- tions of Rulers. By the Associated Press. ‘CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 26. —Discovery of the tombs of twenty- six ‘generitions of Ethiopian kings and the recovery of. material buried for more than 2.000 years, which makes it possible for the first time to write were reported today by the Jjoint Egyptian expedition of Harvard Uni- versity ‘and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The expedition, in charge of Prof. George A. Reisner of Har- vard, was in Egypt ten years. Its findings in part have been reported from time to time. The discovery of the lost civiliza- tion of Ethiopia was made at Napata, now called Gebel Barkala. The royal cemeteries were found outside the city. At Nuri, to the south, on a low knoll near the River Nile, the arche- ologists exarined a group of pyra- mids which proved to be the tombs of the twenty kings and twenty-five queens of Ethiopia from 660 to 250 B.C., most of whose names had been lost.to_human knowledge. ~ Excavations gradually uncovered the burial chamber of Tirhaga, the King of Ethippia, mentjoned in the Book of Isaiah, who was one of the ed delegation ‘at Washington, emphati-over Egypt; and then, one by one, cally denying press dispatches from |uncovered the tombs of all the other the American capital alleging that|kings, queens, princes and princesses Premier Briand of France had used of- Ethiopia for a period of more harsh words to the Italian delegate | than four centuries. in & committee meeting at Washing- ton. “No such iInclent occurred,” ‘the message from Senator Schanszer read. “The discussion in the committee meecting was lively, but always cor- rect. M. Briafid expressed the French point of view. while I Vigorously maintained the Italian standpoint, M. Briand used rio language which could = LLOYD GEORGE MAY HAL PARLEY TO VST U By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, November 26.—The London in any way be intérpreted as offen- | correspondent of the Irish. Indépendent sive to Italy.s 3 BRITISH MAY DISPATCH WARSHIP TO MERSINA France Notified. of. Proposéd - Ac- tion "in’ Emergency, and Nations . By the Asscciated Press. % PARIS, November ‘26.—Baron Hard- {nge, British Ambassador to France, called at the Qual d'Orsay today and in- formed the government that Great Britain is considering the sending of = warship to the Asia Minor port of Mer- sina for the defense of British Interests if_the need arises. Great Britain, it Is declared, will act in tiis matter in concentration of British troops at.Cy- prus and the debarkation.of these troops at_Mersina, and’ elgewhere, says a semi- officia) nots on the subject,” have re- duceg the matter to its true propertions. Great Britain having shown that the at- titude of France not oply is friegdly, e R L correot, but :5’.", » today. ‘asserts today in'a- dispatch to his newspaper here that Prime Minister Lloyd George plans to adjourn or sus- pend the Irish conference until osten- sibly “a more “favorable opporunity shall arise to renew the search for a settlemént of the Irish question. .The regl. purpgse, however, the corre- spondent alleges, is to enable Mr. Liloyd George to go to the Washing- ton, conference and to insure for him- self a friendly reception in America by “goothing-statements”. that the Irish conference. is;still In being and that any questions that might be raised on the subject cf ‘an Irish peace agree- ment would damage the prospects of settlement. To this the Independent adds: “He will not be allowed to do this and it is safe to say that if the Irish conterence comes to an end he will never appear at the Washington con- ference.” . 'WILL HOLD WAGE PARLEY. OMAHA, :Neb., November = 36.— The Union Pacific railrogd system has decided to begin conferences between company_officials and resentatives of the '%r?ur'l on ‘the question of low-. es on December 21, it was stat.) eadquarters ef the system here | the history of Ethiopia |, REDS SFE EARLY TRADE WITH L. §. Dairen Conference Viewed as Possible Step Toward Negotiations. By the Associated Press. 5 MOSCOW, November 26.—Soviet of- ficials indicated today that they ex- Ppected official restoration of business relations with America in a very short tire, or at least the negotiation of Some sort of trade agreement be- twedqn the: United States and soviet Russ\e. The\ conference at Dairen between the fa) eastern republic and Japan is fegard\d as the paspible gateway through' which soviet officials may find admigsion to America. The Mos- cow gevernment js to participate in this cconference unofcially, and it links up so closely with the Pacific problems which the Washington con- ference is considering that the bol- shevik officials hope it will result in an invitation to soviet Russia to send representatives to Washington.’ Maxim Litvinoff is mentioned as & poraibility for the post of trade commissioner to the United States, or even ambassador. Ludwig Martens also is mentioned as a likely candi- date for the American post In the event a trade agreement is reached or America extends recognition to soviet Russia. Martens now is in charge of the ining sectin of the economic coun- cil in Moscow and has recently trav- eled widely through the mineral dis- tricts of European Russia and Siberia. U. S. OFFICTALS PUZZLED. Lacking Detailed Official Advices, Decline to Comment. By the Associated Prefs. Statements of soviet officials in Moscow yesterday indicating the im- minence of a. negotiation ®f some sort of trade agreement with the United States- phasled American: offi- cials who professed not to understand the reference. In the .absence of de- tailed official advices they refused to comment ol the situation. _THREE DEAD IN- WRECK. COLUMBIA, S. C. November 26.— Three men were killed in a wreck of Seaboard Air Line northbound freight train No. 86, two -miles south of Youngesville, N. C., at 8:15 o'clock to- night, according to -information reaching Columbla offices of the Sea- boerd. - The dead are: Engineer Ge- row, Brakeman Murphy, both white, and Fireman Jones, negro... Nineteen cars are reported to have been de- railed, while the engine, ‘according to advices received- here, exploded, cabsing the three deaths. All trains to Raleigh are being detoured via the - Southern -and - Atlantic Line railroads. WOMAN ELECTED MAYOR. BRENTON, Ga., November 26.—Mrs. H. H. Beall was elécted mayor of this town “of 250 people today, and five women were elected to the board of Coast Member of tke Associated Press The Associated Press is exciusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise eredited in this Paper and also thé local news publisbed herein. All rights of publication of wpecial dispatches bereld, are also reserved. || ; FIVE CENTS. German ‘Umiermken Promise Foreigners “Cordial Welcome” Special Cable to The Star and Chicagh Dally News. BERLIN, Germany, November 26—In almost every shop win- dow in Berlin there are signs reading “Sold out” or “Stocks limited. Foreigners please keep out.” This is the result of the low value of the German mark. Only ome business has mot been affected by Germany's Snancial plight, and that is the undertaker’s trade. In order to attract business and get nome- thing out of resent run on the shops, the undertakers hung out this sign: “First class cofins for sale eigners, toe, will receive a cor- dial welcome.” SPANISH OFFICERS ABUSE AMERICANS Men Fighting Against Moors Are Treated Like Brutes, London Reports Say. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 26.—Twenty Americans who foined the Spanita for- eign legion last summer still remain in a Spanish camp near Ceuto, Morocco, suffering from dysentery, sceptic sores and vermin, according to storles told to- day by two of their erstwhile comrades, members from the contingent of thir- téen Americans and forty-three Brit- ishers, who reached London vesterday after seven weeks of campaigning against the Moors on the Melilla front. These stories of their stranded “bud- dies” were told by Charles W. Brown, of 162 St. Annes avenue, New York city, and Charles Stephenson a native of New York whose home is now in Toronto. Among those left in the Spanish camp, they said, are C. B. Lioyd of 907 west Washington street, Petersburg, Va. a youngster under 17 years of age; Ben- jamin Margolis of Boston, Mass., who was wounded while on the Tetuan front, and George Corbett, of 6509 Bay Park- way, Brooklyn, N. Y., who paid his own fare from America when he joined the Spanish troops. Taey are now all des- titute, according to Brown and Steph- enson and their sufferings are bound to hecome worse with the rainy season in Moroceo just beginning. Brown and Stephenson confirmed earlier stories of hardships and cruel treatment -at the hapds of Spanish officers. They said they participated in eleven battles between September 17 and November 4, includiwg those of Mount Courougou, Nador, Zeluan and Mount Arruit. Both, having tought with the Canadian army dur- ing the world war, enlisted as British subjects with forty-five others, and salled from Southampton, September 1, on the steamship Almirente Lobo to. Ceutz, whencé they were sent to Mellilla by way of Malaga. Then, after three days, during which time they caught snatches of sleep along the roadside, they said they were sent to the front, having been given a loaf of bread and a tin of sardines. Their personal property had been stolen. Of their group they said four had been killed and twenty-two wounded. Being unable to understand the Span- ish commands led them to much ill treatment, they said. On one occasion they said they were beaten and sen- tenced to the hard labor squad. At another they were sent to the front with their arms tied behind their backs as punishment for trwing to obtain medicine at Melilla. Amerieans Refuse to Kill Greek. They told the story of a Greek sol- dler in the legion who was sentenced to be executed, but théy said the Americans in the firing squad pur- posely jammed their rifies. Eventually the Americans were re- Jeased; and they left the front Novem- ber 4, arriving back at Ceuta four dys later, Where they said they were well -treated for'the first time. They described a dramatic scene at Ceuta, where Col. Millan Astray, him- self wounded, harangued the Ameri- cans and Britishers, accusing them of cowardice and appealed to_them to stand by their chief. “Will you fight one more battle and prove yourspluck?” they quoted the colonel as asking. They consented to this request, they said, but were asked to sign a document which would have meant virtual re-enlistmment, and consequently they refused further service. Brown and Stephenson declared there was still much bad feeling against America among the Span- {ards, who were unable to forget the Spanish-American war. ‘The Americans here are being cared for. by the British Legion and the Y. M. C. A. JUDGE 0. K.S PLAN TO PREVENT ., MOTHER By the Associated Press. % "DENVER, _ Colo,, ' November “26. —LSittimg in the juvenile court here * today, Judge 'Royal Graham bof Georgetown récommerided for Mrs. Clyde Cassidente of Denver an operation that would make it im- possible for her to bear any more ‘chiildren. . _Mrs. Cassidente,’ who already is the miother of five, was Haied be- fore the judge on complaint of Denver “social workers to show cause why her children should not be taken from her, the complaint. " alleging that the family home was flithy apd. that ‘the children had- been neglectsd and were under- dourighed. * } BEARING MORE CHILDREN in the case, said he believed con- ditions at’ the Cassidente home ‘were the result of the mother bearing children too fast “What would you suggest as a remedy?” asked Judge Graham. “That Mrs. Casgidente submit to an operation,” replied Dr. Sunder- land. “I will continue this case until January 10, the judge announced, “and in the meantime I want the . doctor's suggestion carried out.” Dr. .Sunderland stated that the husband of Mrs. Cassidente, who " .is a notary public and an Italian intsrpreter, already had agreed to permit his wife to submit to such -'an operation. ¥ NAVY DAY IN MORE THAN ONE WAY AS ARMY IS DEFEATED . |Annapolis - Foot Ball Eleven - Plows Through Sticky Sea to 7-0 Victory. VICE PRESIDENT AMONG THOSE TO SIT IN RAIN Notables of All Big Powers in Crowd of 40,000 That Braves Elements. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 26—The spectacle of twenty-two mud-smeared huskies battling over a great lumnp of mud that was a foot bail, held a crowd of nearly 40,000 persoms spell- bound through three hours of biting, driving rain when Army met Navy at the Polo grounds today It was—as the Navy cheering sec- tion insisted—Navy weather. And with their indicators set at “full speed ahead” the midshipmen from Annapolis played through the sticky mud to a -0 victory. Brush stadium sheltered scarcely half the throng that followed the for- tunes of the skidding gladiators up and down the field. The others— among them Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge, and scores of notable, rep- resenting America, Great Britain, France, Japan and Italy—sat or stood out in the rain. Is Notable Gathering. The Vice President and Mrs. Cool- ldge were among the earliest arriv- als, taking their seats, for the first half, in a box on the Army side of the field and scorning proffered um- brellas. The Vice President wore a battered slouch hat and a heavy over- coat. Mrs. Coolidge was bundled in a heavy fur coat. In a box on their right were Secretary of War Weeks and Mrs. Weeks, while on their left sat bigh military attaches of the foreign delegations to the armament conference. The visitors, most of whom were witnessing their first foot ball game, included Gen. Lord Cavan of the British Army. Viscount Marshal Hig- gins of the British royal air force; General C. Vaceari and Colonel V. de Barnezze of the Italian general staff; Maj. Gen. Tanaka and Haragu- chi of Japan and Col. E. Requin of France. There were guests of Gen. Per- shing, but, as Pershing was unable to be present because of illness, Maj. Gen. Harbord, deputy chief of stafr, acted for him as host. Those on Navy Side. On the Navy side, to which Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge were es- corted between halves, sat Admiral Koontz, chief of naval operations; Admirals Jones and Eberle, com- manders, respectively, of the Atlantic and Pacific fleets, and Rear Admirals Glennon and Benson. Secretary of the Navy Denby was not present to see his middies win. Vice Admiral de ‘Bon and Capt. Frochet of the French navy were the only representatives of the foreign delegations on the navy side of the field. The stands were packed long be- fore the midshipmen, in their long blue overcoats, marched in behind a crashing band and circled the grid- iron before taking their seats in the rainy-side cheering section. Goat Leads Navy Team. They were led by the Navy goat, gaily caparisoned and prancing along as if he semsed the victory that was about to perch on the ban- ners of his team. The mud was so heavy that the midshipmen abandoned their drill, but they marched around the gridiron be- fore climbing into their seats and taking up their gilded megaphones. Scarcely were they settled when the Army players, heavily blanketed, trotted out on the gridiron, shed their blankets and began warming up. They were greeted by a great roar from the audience. A moment later the crash of Army's band was heard, and the long line of gray-clad West Pointers marched in behind their bravely decked black mule. Then the Navy team scamperedl forth, and with the opposing gladi- ators in sight the rival cheering sec- tions got into action. The crowd, made up in the main of present ond past Army and Navy mea and their fathers, mothers and sweethearts took a lively hand in the cheering, although its efforts ware almost drowned out by the great vclumes of massed rooting that rolled through the opposing megaphones. Crowd Is Enthusiastic. It was an enthusiastic crowd. a foot ball mad crowd, that surged (o its feet when play staried and re- mained tenseiy standing until the last whistle had blown. And, despite the weather. it was a fashionable crowd. That is. t was fashionable until the rain had gatten in its work. Then rich fur coais be- gan to wilt. Gaudy millinery hung limp. Pumps and silk stockinks were bedraggled, mud smearcd, Umly the crysanthemums worn by the iair rooters seemed to thrive or rain. But what did the crowd care? Nothing. A few of its membe's hoisted umbrellas and got themselve roundly called down by their neigh- bors in the-rear. Others improvised head coverings of newspapors. Lut the greater part, male aud. female, {Contlnued on Page 25, Columa ¥3