Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1921, Page 2

< EASTLAKE IS CALM . ASTRIALBEGINS Navy Officer Denies Charge of Wife Murder—Securing of Jury Begun. _ From a Staff Correspondent. e . MONTROSS, Va., December 13.—Be fore several hundred stern-faced V'l(re &inia country folk, Roger D. Eastia 5 chief petty officer, U. S. N en-r;:‘_ Jointly with Miss Sarah E. Knox. timore nurse, with hacking his young wife Margaret to death in the early morning hours of September 30 nu{. pleaded not guilty at the ovanlnsdo his trial before County Court Judge Joseph W. Chinn. in the little West- moreland county courthouse at this place today. The prosecution is be- ing conducted by Commonwealth's At- torney Wat T. Mayo, Attorneys Thom- as L. Hunter of King George county and Charles W. Moss of Richmond. Trial Avouses Montross. Ordinarily quiet, Montross realized its responsibility today, and with hun- dreds of visitors from Baltimore, Fredericksburg. Washington and sur- rounding country, took the air of im- portance commensurate with the gravity of a crime that shocked the whole country at the time of its per- petration. Owing to the importance of the oc- casion and limited courtroom space, considerable delay was mecessary be- fore the trial was under way. | Scheduled to open at 10 o'clock. was 10:33 when Sheriff P. S. Grifith formally pronounced the court con- vened, and Judge Chinn, solemn and dignified, took his seat upon the bench. Another fifteen minutes were con- sumed by the lawyers on both sides . with_technicalities on the law before Eastlake entered the courtroom. Eastlake in Navy Untform. The accused man seemed perfectly cool. and, while somewhat pale, showed evidences of being In full control of his nerves. He wore the uniform of the United States Navy. He shook hands cordially with his attorneys, W. Butzner and Frank W. Chichester, both of Fredericksburg. ! Mr. Chichester of the defense imme- jately moved to quash the indictment, * alleging various irregularities in sum- . moning of the venire facias. He con- tended that the names of two members . of the grand jury had been written in Jead pencil and misspelled. Judge Chinn overruled the motion, and an ex- eption was taken by the defense. Mr. Butzner then moved to quash the indictment on each count. He refused to assign reason other than the specific ground entered by Mr. Chichester. This motion, too, was overruled by Judge Chinn. Shouts “Not Guilty.” Eastlake was then ordered to stand by County Clerk Alfred Steuart, who read the charge accusing the Navy officer with the killing of his wife by chopping her to pieces with a hatchet. Displaying no emotion what- ever, the prisoner fairly shouted: Yot guilty. Atterney Butzner then made a mo- tion to have certain letters now held by the prosecution turned over to the defense. The letters referred to were . those writtn by Miss Knox to East- lake and Eastlake to Miss Knox. Commonwealth's _ Attorney Mayo . agreed to turn the letters over to Judge Chinn for decision as to the propriety of giving same to the de- fense. i Mr. Butzner then asked that a cer- tain_ white collar and raincoat be available in court if required. He was assured by the prosecution that they would be avaflable. The lawyers for the defense then asked that the order summoning_the original grand jury be shown. This was done. Mr. Butsner then moved to quash the writ of venire facias on the ground that the writ was issued but no direct summoning of the venire has been made. This mo- tion also was overruled by Judge Chinn. Begin Securing Jury. The impanelment of the trial jury was then begun. Fifty men had been summoned for possible jury service. E. F. Purcell, farmer of Westmore- land county. qualified. as did E. W. English and Frank Hardwick, both of Westmoreland county. A. A. Parker, Mare Anthony, L. A. Washington. R A. Carruthers, Brainard Delano and J. H. Morris, jr., were tentatively ac- cepted for the jury. Fastlake was brought to the Mont- © ross jail late yesterday afternoon from the Richmond city jail, where he had been incarcerated since four days after the crime was committed. The transfer was was done in an or- derly manner with no interference. Miss Knox Still in Richmend. Miss Knox is still in the Richmond jail. There are many in the com- munity who claim that the woman will never face the trial jury. This opinion is strong among court offi- cials, who base their opinion on a declaration given out by the prose- cuting_attorneys that the trial of tlake will reveal sufficient evi- dence against the accused woman to cause her attorneys to enter a plea of guilty. Should Miss Knox's attorneys de- cide, however, that she should be ‘brought to trial, the proceedings will not be begun unti! the first week in the New Year, unless Eastlake's trial can be completed in the next few days, which, according to the first hours of the trial, seems an impos- sibility. w. . LIMITATION OF ARMIES, MAY GO OVER TO FUTURE ’ Italian Delegate Says Parley Pos- sibly Will Leave Issue to Later Conferences. Although the present conference may never actually get around to the subject of limitation of land armament, the exchange of "views and ideas on that topic which has occurred is likely to be of benefit in arranging the program for a future conference or conferences which will deal specifically with the question of strength of armies, according to a member of the Italian delegation. It is understood that members of this delegation do not know that land armaments will even be éonsidered, although these are in the agenda, but they feel that the exposition of the various points of view, as exemplified by the speeches of Pramier Briand, Senator Schanzer others. have been both inter 'sting and valuable: Ttaly is not so .auch concerned per- sonally over the reduction of armies as some other nations. Her principal military enemy no longer exists as an entity. She has cut down her own army almest to the minimum, but feels that from an economic standpoint the question of the reduction of all mil- itary land strength will of itself di- rectly make for world peace, also in- directly, through the reduction of war expenditures, and cohsequent eco- nomic improvement. ‘The Italian delegates have made no plans for going home. They are pre- pared to stay until the conference is K > :)l over. BOARD MAY TEST SYSTEM OF RUNNING 1-MAN CARS Utilities Commission Considering the Plan of Checking Up on Accidents Reported. In order to observe more closely the operation of one-man cars, the Public Utilities Commission in fu- ture may desigmate on accident re- ports whether the cars involved were operated by one man or two men. The accident records of the com- mission for the calendar year 1921 do not show how many mishaps in- volved one-man cars. Although the company submits @ report to the commission on every accident, these reports do not state directly whether the cars were of the one-man or two-man type. When a one-man car has & mis- hap the report bears the car number and the designation “pay as you enter.” The commission has the numbers of all one-man cars, but, unfortunately, many of these cars were operated part of the year as two-man cars and part of the time as one-man cars, making It difficult for the commission to determine ac- curately the percentage of accidents in_which the one-man cars played a part. An employe of the commission stated today that he would take up with the companies the question of RECORD OF SERVIGE HALTED BY DERIGIT Adjt. Gen. Harris Deplores Suspension of Work on War Data. Owing to lack of funds, says Maj. Gen. Peter C. Harrls, the adjutant general of the Army, In His annual re- port, made public today, his office was compelied to suspend the vast work of furnishing to the adjutant general ! of each state and the District of Co- lumbia a detailed statement of the military service of every man who served in the Army during the world | war. Up to June 30 last, he ‘said, 4,037,334 such statements had been; prepared, leaving about 472,000 cases still to be handled in addiiton to the 200,000 cases of men inducted into the' service about November 11, 1918. “It cannot be too strongly urged.” Gen. Harris states, “in the interest of the government as' well as of the s marking on accident reports whether or not a one-man car was involved. An official of the Washington Rail- way and Electric Company, which has thirty-one single-man cars equipped accidents. He said he was confident, however, that the proportion of ac dents on these cars was lower than on two-man cars. The Capital Trac- tion Company has only one single- man car. The commission at its next meeting probably will consider the petition of the North Washington Citizens’ Asso- clation for removal of one-man cars from the North Capitol street line. CONGRESSMEN SEE D. C. SCHOOL. NEEDS (Continued from First Page.) tures. It was pointed out, while a 8chool was needed in this vi ity to care for the children in the nelghbor- ‘!'mod. it was essential that a build- ing provided with play spuce be af- forded them. | g Condemned Structure Still in Use. The Abbott School, in the triangle between 6th and L streets and New York avenue, was next inspected. Dr. Ballou stated that this building was condemned in 1908, but is still in use. for service, said the company has not, attempted to segregate one-man car states, that adequate provision be made for the purpose of enabling,this office to complete a pliece of Wurk already so far advanced.” Gen. Harris directs attention to sev- eral important reforms initiated and carrted into effect during the last fiscal year by the board of officers convened for the purpose of consid- cring the present system of paper work of the Army and of making rec- ommendations for its reduction. He says that the volume of curent work handled by his office during that year was more than twenty-seven times as great as that handled during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, the last vear during which normal con- ditions prevailed, notwithstanding the ‘fict that the average number of clerks umployed in his office was little more than five times as great. Energetie pursuit and punishment of the more than 100,000 men who evaded the draft during the world war is ur- gently recommended by Cen. Harri: To bring those guilty to trial, he rec- ommends that Congress _appropriate $250,000 to pay rewards of $50 for each draft deserter delivered to the military authorities. He says the publication of the “slacker lists” by the newspapers *proved high- 1y useful for the purpose of straighten- ing out the records of a number of non- willful deserters whose names were in- cluded therein, despite all the care and effort expended in an attempt to include none but those of willful deserters.” He shows that less than one-half of 1 per cent of the names published have been found to be those of non-willful de- rerters and says these have been re- Lighting equipment of a satisfactory character was noticeably absent. Probably the outstanding example of an insanitary building which Sen- ator Capper's committee saw was the John F. Cook School, colored, on O street between 4th and 5th streets. Here they view a kindergarten in the basement near an insanitary toilet and with a coal bin just outside the ent-ance to the room. The building, which was condemned in 1908, houses an average of fifty-five pupils to each of its ten rooms. ; After stopping for a brief circum- the committee went through the neigh- | boring Armstrong Manual Training ; School. also for colored students, and were shown the urgent need for an ad- dition to the structure. It was the gen- eral agreement that this improvement Was necessary to relieve the congestion in_the building and do away with the seven portables now packed to capacity. It was stated that the total enroliment |ras 884, with accommodations for but Shown Overcrowded School. McKinley Manual Training School, popularly called Technical High School, at 7th and Rhode Island avenue, was thoroughly examined by the committee- nién. Here, they were told, a structure built to hold 1,100 students was forced to hold 1.450. The senators and repre- sentatives were manifestly impressed at the lack of athletic facilities at the in- stitution and over the impossibility of extending the building because of the fact that practically the entire block ready is filled by the main building and the three later additions. ‘The committee members were in- terested in a card prepared by the 'Ahlmnl Association of Tech, point- ing out that the school has outgrown three additions: that the enrollmens has increased 48 per cent in three years; that the 1.450 pupils have 933 desks and 660 seats in the small as- sembly hall. Dr. Ballou urged that Tech be given a new structure in a less congested section of the city at onve. It was imperative, he said. indicating that here was one of the greatest prob- lems in congestion which Washing- Iton faces. The present building, after . jabandonment by Tech, could be used f::‘d other educational purposes, he said. ‘The need for a new Business High 8chool in another location than that at 9th street and Rhode Island ave- nue. where the whole block is taken up by the building, was admitted in ooranwn!l by various members of the party. Other Sehools Inspected. Other schools inspected today were the Garrison. 12th street, between R and S streets, for colored, where six portables are necessary to care for the large enroliment, and where school officials want a $140,000 addi- tion erected, and the Garnet-Patter- son group, also for colored pupils, at 10th and U streets northwest. On viewing the latter buildings Senator King remarked with emphasis that both structures should be torn down ‘and replaced with “real school bufld- ings.” to which suggestion Dr. Ballou readily . The school authorities were pleased at the spirit of co-operation and sym- pathy displayed by the committee, and were optimistic over prospects for securing needed appropriations from Congress for the local schools. PLOT AIMED AT PREMIER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, TOKIO, Japan, December 13.—The police of Shinoyama, in Tamba province, have unearthed a plot to assassinate Premier Takahashi. They have arrested Skodachi, aged twenty, a sake distiller's apprentice, and are seeking ten others. reatening letters demanding the premier’s resignation gave the clue to the plot. moved from the lists. MODIFICATION OF DECREE IS PUT UP TO CONGRESS ‘W. Y. Durant of Trade Commission Witness at Packers’ “Consent” Decision Hearing. Congress should determine whether spection of the Dunbar Colored High |the five big packers’ consent decree School, at 18t and P streets norlhwegt.nfl\"“‘d be modified to enable the packers to resume handling unrelated Tines, such as groceries, W. Y. Durant, assistant chief economist of the Fed- eral Trade Commission, declared to- day before the special interdepart- mental committee Investigating the question of modification. Expansion of the packers' business in their unrelated lines was 80 easy and so tended toward monopoly, Mr. | case Durant contended, that the question was one of economic policy for de- termination by Congress. There must come in this country, the said, & showdown as to whether monopoly was an efficient economic principle, but even were it so found & monopoly contained such potential evils. that regulation would be mec- essary which could only be had by legislation. ‘This principle, he contended. ap- plied to other industries besides meat packing, but, he asserted, the packing industry is one in which the tendency toward monopoly has been clearly shown. Mr. Durant advanced the view that the whole question of packer activity in lines other than their meat busi- ness should be taken up by Congress as a new question apart from the consent decree which prohibits their dealing in certain lines. WO0D FIGHTS LEHLBACH BILL AT EVERY TURN Indiana Representative Retards Progress on Reclassification Meas- ure Before House. | 1 | Slow progress was made today on the Lehlbach bill to reclassify em- ployes of the federal and district gov- ernments in Washington. Representa- tive Will R. Wood of Indiana fought the Lehlbach measure at every step, endeavoring to substitute as amend- ments the various provisions of his own reclassification bill. He was uni- formly unsuccessful in these efforts. There was a flare-up on the floor when an effort was made to put through an amendment assuring for- mer service men a priority of con- sideration for employment through- out the federal and District service. Representative Wingo, democrat, of Arkansas characterized this as “all bunk,” and said that the Post Office Department had frequently and re- peatedly put out former service men to give their positions to republican party favorites. At the rate at which progress is now being made on the Lekibach bill there are strong indications that con- sideration will not be completed in the House this week. —_—— WARS ON INSURGENTS. By the Associated Press. RIGA, Letvia, December 13.—Russian soviet forces began on Sunday an active campaign to drive the insurgents out of Karelia, the border territory abutting on Finland. Stubborn fighting in the Repola district was reported in progress today. A soviet note was sent to Finland on ‘December 5, in which it was demanded nland wi that Finland w all support from the Karelian insurgent organizations, failing which Russia would consider herself compelled to take other meas- ures. BRIEFLY TOLD STORY OF ARMS CONFERENC tar i 1blis each day & sum- e e e o 2y armament confere; nce. By reading it each day you wil keep in touch with the out- ot events of the bistoric meeting.) g The new four-power treaty, re- lating to the istands of the Pacific, ‘was signed today at the State De- partment by the plenipotentiaries of the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan. The treaty, re- garded as of great importance in the preservation of peace in the far east, will be sent to the Senate for ratification when. in the judg- ment of Presdent Harding, the proper time has arrived. - Reservations relating to domestic questions and_ to the mandated islands of the Pacific, following out the statement Senator Lodge to conference when he presented the treaty on Saturday, ‘were signed also by the delegates. The treaty between the United Stal and Japan settling differ- ences over the Island of Yap and the mandated islands of the Pa- cific was being put into shape to- day for its signature by the repre- sentatives of the two nations. It will then be sent to the President and by him to the Senate. The Washington conference has Rmidad for a2 new committes of fteen to handle the questions re- lating to the limitation of naval armament. Both principal dele- gates and expert advisers will gompose the committee, which is expected to expedite the business of the conference The “Big Three,” Secretary Hughes, Mr. Balfour and Baron Kato, meet again. teday om the question of the naval ratio of the United States, Great Britain and Japan. The Japanese and Chinese dele- gates, meeting on the Shantung problem, are endeavoring to'reach an agreement by:which China will obtain control over ll’ w railroad. and Japan will be eem- pensated in money for the road, ‘which they took from the Germans during the war. y G _STAR, WASHI CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE STARTING OUT TODAY TO - INVESTIGATE ANTIQUATED SCHOOL BUILPINGS OF THE CITY |FOR VETERANS !N 90 DAYS, JOINT . Left to right: Senators Willinm H. King of Utah, Artl Millspaugh of Misse: PLEAS RENEWED FOR D. C. VOTE AND SEATS IN CONGRESS A. H. Walters (Continued from First Page.) gress haa lost their seats because of giving too much attention to District affairs. This fear hangs over many members, he said.. ‘Mr. Tucker referred to a member of the House from Indiana who was de- feated by an association of gas en- gineers because he favored a bill for $1 gas in the District. Taking up the matter of the Bor- land paving law, he said the citizens convinced the Senate committee of the viciousness of the legisiation, but it was replaced in conference. 5 was a deprivation of the right of pe- tition, he said. He also said that when a couple of pieces of land in the northeast sec- tion were wanted for parks the people were told that they would have to pay for them. This was discrimina- tion, because, when parks in the northwest were purchased, the prop- erty owners were not required to pay, he said. This would not have happened if the District had had rep- resentatives in Congress, he argued. Mr. Tucker gave a number of simi- lar instances of what he termed “in- justices” in legislation. He said. how - ever, that he did not intend to say that any member of Congress was unjust, but they had been misin- formed. ; By having representatives for the District in Congress, he said, the Congress could obtain full and fair information, and all the feats ‘in each e. The delay of some thirteen years in obtaining a new Eastern High School, he sald, was due to the fact that there were no representatives of the Dis- trict in Congress. The District, with a representative in Congress, would have been able to provide for its needs, and there would not now be a surplus in the Treasury of $5,000,000 to the credit of the Dis- trict. This surplus, he said, should be uged. “To enjoy the rights of-other citi- zens of the United States I must leave my home and friends; to vote I must leave; to exercise the rights of Amer- ican citizenship I must leave. ls that right?” he concluded. Belleves Delegate Needless. Donald McPherson, representing himself, argued a delegate in Con- gress for the District is unnecessary. “We now have three delegates in the persons of the Commissioners,” he said. He said he wanted senators and members of the House for the Dis- trict who would have power. Suffrage here and representation in Congress would greatly add to the efficiency and prestige of he District of Co- lumbia. They ceuld be required to respond to the demands of citizens, he went on. The District citizens now have 1> forum or right to a forum. said Mr. McPherson. He also referred to the need for District represenation in Congress in order to get the District's needs properly before it. He charac- terized the Borland paving law as bad, and one that would not kave been enacted had there been repre- sentatives of the District af Colum- bia in Congress. Mrs. Frank Hi*am Snell, represent- ing the nen’s City Club, was the next speaker. Speaking for suffrage. she urged that the committee make a prompt report. gave some time lopexpllinln‘ the pur] and the membership of the club. She hoped, she said, that some form of suffrage would be provided here. Questioned by Senator Jones as to how many members were present at the business meeting at which & reso- lution favoring suffrage was offercd, she replied about 200. Characterizing it as an outrage that 437.300 citizens of the District should be deprived of representation in Congress, Frank Sprigg Perry sald he was in favor of the principles of the Jones' resolutions and Capper and Poindexter bills. These bills to- gether, taking points from each, spell tehood, he ai - m‘naferfln‘ to the annual influx of altens into the United States, whom the government urged to manage their own affairs and become voters, he said it was an outrage that at the same time native-born Ameriean citi- gens in Wsshh;ston were deprived of t to vote. ‘hm‘hben solution of the suffrage problem here, he said, would be a provision for the state of Columbia. It was the solemn promise of the founders of the city to its people that they would be granted local self- government, he said. “No Reason for Rejection.” There is no good reason, it was as- serted, why Congress should not pro- vide local self-government for the Congress, said Mr. Perry, E:zn::ft' have s:;:y interest in local affairs. It was a matter purely and imply for the residents to handle. The only interest that Congress could have in the District as such was the protection of public property and the aistribution of funds. These were the only two objects. It statehood were provided, Teser- vations could be made in the enabling ct for these federal interests. ere would be no reasonsble con- fiiét between the federal government and e state, if the state of Columbia’ ‘were established, Mr. Perry satd. The inhabitants of the District, for the most part, are born here and do want some_partictpation in the local affairs of Washington, continued Mr. Perry. - is with us a wserious ques- o;r." ‘;o said. “We are willing to go to * utmost - e s _to convince 'C of what we want. We are tired of being the wards of the na- tion,” tre com - cluded. Mrs. "Mary the ‘W. Johnson _put epers’ Alljance and the An- g::';"l:“‘“e O;I record as in favor ‘m He -said it | No: ‘wished to -be heard by the future final requl hours more tha n l and to_ present lu‘l Theodore W. SR T R of Penn: [100 CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS IN YAP GIVEN NEW LIFE BY TREATY Original Mandate Guaranteed Religious Freedom, But Status of Educational l Institutions Was BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. “Missionaries shall be free to open schools throughout the territory,” is a sentence with a wealth of signifi-| cance in the agreement which Japan and the United States have just com- | pleted over the little island of Yap.| To the Christian world it means the| life of more than 100 schools in the | scattered Japanese mandate and the continuation of seventy years of American Protestant and thirty-five years of Roman Catholic missionary work in the islands. To world dipk macy it means that the terms of the mandate as drafted by the signatery | powers of the Versailles treaty have | been revised by two powers confer- ring outside of the league of nations. The precedent established may have far-reaching consequences. Schools tn Doubt. The original mandate guaranteed religious freedom for the natives and permitted missionaries to continue their work in the islands, provided they were of allied or associated pow- ers’ nationality. Nothing was said about schools and the question at once arose whether conducting a school was any more of a religious activity than selling a calico wrapper to & ‘buxom native might be. Before this was answered the leugue of nations decided that the laws of the nation holding the mandate should apply in the mandate. Under the laws of Japan religious instruction is forbidden in secular schools and no private schools can exist without a permit from the gov- ernment. With usual governmental| thoroughness, the Japanese educa- tional law was applied to the man- dated islands, buildings were erected, teachers were sent from Japan, the Japanese language was taught, com- pulsory education was enforced to fifteen vears of age, and the missfon- ary schools, which taught the native language and morality as well, were closed by the half Gozens as fast as {government schocts could be opened. The expense was heavy, but the Japa- nese government is proud of its schools and steadily extended its field of work. Most of the tcachers and clergymen on the islands are natives who have been trained in the Protestant or Catholic schools in earlier vears. In response to the protests of the three American and one Australian mis- sionary at the head of the work, the naval governor over the mandate ex- plained that there would be no inter- ference with their religious work, bu that under the laws of Japan educa- tion was a function of the govern- iment. Attention of America was first called to the situation in cables to this newspaper last March, after the Japanese navy had permitted me to make a voyage through the mandate. The official red tape, which made i practically impossible for mission- | aries or any other persons, except| Japanese, to travel between the dif- | ferent groups of islands, also is r moved in the American-Japanese re- vision of the mandate. The islands, whose chief commer- clal production is copra, are prac- tically closed to the commerce of other nations. The Japanese govern- ment has explained that this restric- ! tion will be removed soon, when a' civil administration replaces the pres- ent one under the navy. At present a special permit is necessary to visit {or trade with the jslands, and the jonly ones which have been issued are for a small American schooner to call at Saipan once a month and an Aus-| tralian schooner in the Marshall! Islands. - Several other modifications of the TOTAL OF $243,042,060 FINAL SUM TO RAILROADS i i It will require $243,042,060 to make final payments to the railroads of the country by the government on claims and adjustments arising out of war- time eontrol Director General Davis of the Railroad Administration re- ported to the Senate yesterday. The report was in response to a resolution introduced by Senator La Follette at the last session. ©On the ground. that it would ham- per the negotiations of the administra. tion in making -settlements the d! rector general refused a section of the resolution which r quested details and items of the set- tlements made with individual roads. He said that the administration had available cash credits with the Treat ury of $152,380,000 for use in the set- tiements, and likewise holds much larger sums in_securities. § From its instittion, in 1918, to De- cember 1, Mr. Davis, said, the central inistration had received iroad admi F3470a721620, this bewme exclusive of | Do.¢ the revenues of the railroads through their own offices. Direct appropriations of Congress accounted for $1,750,000,~ 000 of the central fund, and some $200,- 000,000 was the total of working capi- tal obtained in taking over the com- panies. In addition, the War Depart- ment paid $221,705,000 to the adiminis- tration for -transportation, the Navy $11,359,000 and the post office $65,575,- Various settlements made with in- oads on this acoount left & | ‘balaice on Devember 1, it was said, of 507,628,508, as 2 goveriment credit. “This balance must be disposed of in ‘msttlements,” the report Capper of Kansas yivamia, J.R. Weods of Virginia and Oscar E. Keller of Mimnesota. nd Representatives Frank Left in Doubt. league of nation mandate are con- spicuous in the two-party agreement. One applies the treaties between Japan and the United States to the Islands. For the present, however, the commercial and other privileges which Americans might enjoy in the islands under these treaties will be considerabiy curtailed by the fact that they are under naval administra- tion, technically on a_war basis. By another modification Japan agrees to furnish the United States with & copy of her annual report to the league of nations on her trusteeship of the mandate. These modifications in its mandate terms will be proper subjects for the league of nations and the powers which have signed the Versailles treaty. The mandate changes are interpreted as affirming the American contention that the league of nations cannot dispose of the rights of the United States in the former German possessions or in the fruits of the war. With this principle established. the State Department explains that the situation is different in regard to Mesopotamia with its oil fields, and Nauru island with its phosphate, because no cable stations are in- volved, and_the commercial treaties with Great Britain are different than with Japan. Informal Approval Indicated. That these modifications have not been made by Japan, a member of the league, and the United States, the most_conspicuous non-member, with- out at least the informal approval of the powers represented at the present conference is indicated by the terms of the agreement on Yap. The agreement confirms Japan's mandate over the pictureem=s little island of stone money as large as cart wheels wnd local Venuses garbed in bead necklaces and knee-length skirts of palm leaf anchored below the waist line. That was anticipated, but the agreement establishes “equality” in the Yap-Guam line of the former German_ cables which were the real bone of contention between Japan and the United States, with Holland and China lively seconds. The explanation accompanying the formal agreement is that the final disposition of the three cables radiat- ing from Yap—to Guam, Shanghai in China and Menado in the Dutch Celebes—is 1o be settled at a meeting of the five allied and associated pow- ers. One contention is that each of the three countries be permitted to operate and control the Yap terminal of the cable from its shores. Another proposal is that the Yap cable station be internationalized. Japan's conten- on is that opration of the cables is implied in the mandate and that she can do it alone. Can Be Advanced Again. Though the agreement accords with America’s disapproval of that conten- tion, it can be advanced again at the meeting of all the powers concerned. Unless it is finally rejected there, the present agreement in some respects is as valueless to the United States as a blank check on a bank without de- posits. It gives the United States the right to establish a radio station on Yap, but suspends that right as long as Japan maintains a station there. It puts the United States on an equal- ity with Japan in the operation of the present Yap-Guam cable and glves Japan the same rights in any cable which the United States may lay in_the future. Amcricans connacted with the communications service are to have the same rights of residence and taxes as Japanese subjects, and if an American cable is laid, it is to be operated by Americans and without censorship. The ownership of the present cables remains to be settled. (Copyight, 1921.) PENALIZES THE ISSUANCE OF BAD CHECKS OR DRAFTS The issuance of*bad checks or drafts in the District of Columbia is to be penalized under a bill fathered by Representative Zihlman of Maryland, which has already passed the Senate and on which the House took favora- ble action yesterday. This measure was urged particularly by the Mer- chants and Manufacturers' Associa- tion. It provides that any person who, with intent to defr: , shall issue bad checks or drafts, shall be punishable by imprisonment for a vear or by a fine of not more than $1,000, or both. The House also approved a bill fa- thered by Representative Williams of Illinois, which would amend the char- ter of the Masonic Mutual Relief As- soclation of the District, 50 as to per- mit disbursements of benefits to mem- bers and families, in case of sickness and to maintain & hospital or sani- tarium. It also increases the num- ber of dirsctors so as to permit one to be elected from the Grand Lodge of state. The House also passed the bdill per- mitting reinterment of bodies in the cemetery of White's Tabernacle, No. 39, of the Ancient United Order of Sons .and Daughters, Brethren and Sisters pf ‘Moses, in the District of Columbia. This bill is put through in order to allow the property now used for this cemetery to be used for other purposes. The first inter- ment in this cemetery was made in ast in 1910. The great- .{h, h:' District wmore than ten Commissioners ¢ approved the proposal. : \ 4 RES A B AR Zow COMPENSATION PLEDGED MACNIDER ANNOUNCES By Amociated Press. NDIANAPOLIS, Ind., December 13.—Znactment of the veterans' adjusted compensation bill will be completed by Congress within ninety days, according to informe- given Hanford MacNider, national commander of the American Le- gion, by Senator McCumber, author of the bill in the Senate, and Rep- resentative Fordney of Michigan. Commander MacNider wired lem- uel Bolles, national adjutant of the legion, this information today. QUICK BONUS ACTION SEEN. Senator McCumber and Mr. Ford- ney Make Predictions. Regarding _ his conference with American Legion representatives, Senator McCumber today stated that he believed the bonus measure would be passed in ample time to make the law effective on July 1. This. he said, was the assurance he gave the com- mittee. Chairman Fordney of the House ways and means committee said today that he had told American Legion representatives that he expected to take up a bonus bill in committee shortly after the holidays and that a report would probably be made from the committee to the House be- fore the end of January. He an- ticipated that it would not take long thereafter to get final action on the measure in the House. BORAH OPENS FIEHT ON 4PONER PACT Declares Moral Obligation Exists to Use Mili- tary Force. Indications of an impending fight in the Senate pact proposed to the conference on limitation of armament were given late yesterday, when Senator Borah of 1daho fired the opening gun for the opposition on the floor of the Senate i in the first skirmish. As at the opening of the long fight | on the treaty of Versailles and its league of natioms covenant, practi- cally all of the new quadruple treaty was read into the Congressional Rec- ord in advance of formal submission. The attack came from two “irrec- oncilables” in the Versailles covenant controversy—Senators Borah, republi- can, Idaho, and Reed, democrat, Mis- souri. Attitude Provisional. Mr. Borah explained that his atti- tude toward the treaty would be gov- erned to an extent by progress of the conference toward “real disarma- ment” and settlement of Chinese ques- tions. The work of the Washington conference, he said. would be “dis- couraging” if it adjourned without barring, by terms of the treaty, the use of submarines, poisonous gases and other “barbarous” weapons of warfare. Defense of the pact was conducted largely by .Senator Poindexter, re- publican, Washington, who told the Senate that some seemed unduly alarmed about the pact and declared that article 1T could not be construed as_the equivalent of article X. Senator Reed, breaking into the debate at this point. said Senator Poindexter's statement meant that the new treaty was worth little as a binding agreement. He added that if the United States was not going to observe its moral obligations, such as he contended were contained in the treaty. the country would become “the ughing stock of the whole ‘world. Likeness to Article X. Mr. Borah said he regarded the moral obligations of article 11 as compelling the use of force as strong- ly as did article X of the league, and in this was supported by Sena- tor Robinson, democrat. Arkansas, who declared that, taken together. ticles T and JI of the treaty were Robinson added. however. was entering no objection to the pact. Continuing, Mr. Borah said that while sponsors of the treaty declared there were no provisions to use mil- itary force “lurking in or about the treaty,” the moral obligation remain- ed. - He contended that while Amer- ican delegates to any conference pro- vided for under treaty could not legally bind the President or Con- gress. the obligations to. carry out the decision of the conference still remained. “In the language of Napoleon. then. Senator Stanley, democrat, Kentucl interrupted, “these four powers that he in- tend to have peace under the treaty even if they have to fight for it.” Senator King, democrat, Utah, in- quired of Mr. Borah whether the four- power agreement did not contain more possibilities of war than did the lcague of nations covenant. Promises Later Discussio discuss that and some other provisions of this treaty later,” Mr. Borah replied. The work of Secretary Hughes in presentation of the American naval reduction program was commend- ed by Mr. Borah. who said that by the “concise and bold” methods employed by head, he had won the right to be placed “among the great premiers and Secretaries of State of history.” The program of naval reduction was de- scribed by Mr. Borah as worthy of praise, but he added that the confer- ence “so far as the public has been informed has not dealt with the weapons with which the next war will be fought.” DELEGATES GET PETITION ASKING RACE EQUALITY Copies of a petition requesting a hearing before the arms conference *‘to show the menace to world peace from the present inequality of races” are being submitted to every delegation at- tending the international conference for limitation of armament, it was announc- ed today at the second session of the second World Democracy Congress being held at the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion 'Church, 14th and Corcoran streets. Colored delegates from twelve states are now attending the conference. Com- mittees were authorized to prepare data to submit to the international arms con- ference, when a hearing is accorded. A tition was forwarded to Secretary wzhe- vesterday urging that the col- delegates be given a hearing with a ‘view to their recognition of the equality of races.” CA rnmon is now being prepared seeking congressional support for favorable action on the Dyer anti- lynching . bill. The delegates also made preparations at today's session for the open sessions of the con- ‘which will be held tomorrow, hnndn{t and Friday nights. M. A. N. Shaw, president of the Eq Rights League, presided at the meeting today. Among those at- tending the sessions are: James L. Nelll, record! secreta of the & congress, of this city; M. W. Spencer, treasurer, of Delaware; William Mon- roe Trotter of Boston: Rev. Tanner, financial secretary, city; Rev. J. T. Moppins, first vice resident, of Missouri: Rev. J. R. L. Blm of Maryland, second vice pres- ident; Rev. E. J. Watson of Illinois, chairman of the executive committee; 'H. B. Mayes of Indiana, national ; Rev. M. C. Allen of Connec- ; Rev, A. (i ?'"Yl fl;&"" Ygrh ril Briggs of New York, president of the African Brotherhood and Rev. J. B. Mullins, president the Tennessee State League. of this against the four-power | 1 ven stronger” than article X. Mr.| the State Department | um& CRAIG SPEECH STIRS UP LLOYD GEORGE Ulster Premier Told Corre- spondence Will Be Pub- lished. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, December 13.—Prime Minister Lloyd George has informed Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier, that in view of Sir James' statement in the Ulster parliament yesterday . on the correspondence regerding the Irish conference he proposes to pub- lish the correspondence immediately. BISHOPS MEET IN DUBLIN. ‘Will Not Try to Influence Dail by Making Action Public. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, December 13.—Presided over by Cardinal Logue, all bishops of all the Irish dioceses met today at noon in University College to con- sider what attitude they should adopt toward the Anglo-Irish agree- ment. Preliminary conversations among the prelates disclosed that there was a strong party opposed 1o Cardinal Logue's views that they should make a pronouncement on the subject at the present on the { ground “that the dail eireann should be allowed to come to a decision without an attempt being made to influence it. In addition. many of the bishops ex- pressed belief that whatever action might take would have little in- fluence upon the dail and that they should reserve any expression of views until the question was put up to the people.. which they thought probable would be the case. The executive committee of the Gae- lic League also met, but any action by this body, it is thought. will have little actual effect on the vote in the ail. The dail session tomorrow will be held in the council chamber of the National University instead of the oak room of the Mansion House. It had been announced that the press would be barred from the session because of the smaliness of the osk room. The chamber is much larger and it is con- jectured that the change means the newspaper correspondents will be ad- mitted. ULSTER FEELS INJURED. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 13.—Notwith- standing the bitter feeling in Ulster against England, the great majority of the people are against going un- der the Dublin parliament, says the Belfast correspondent of the Morning Post. This follows a dispatch from the same correspondent on Sunday reporting a remarkable change of sentiment after publication of the treaty terms. The business community and peonle generally, he says, are “smarting un- der a sense of Irreparable injury.” to a degree not experienced for a period of 150 vears. The toast to the king has been expunged from the pro- grams of impending functions, as w done at several gatherings Saturday and the correspondent adds that thi is symptomatic of the change in thc temper of the people. The admiralty announces the ca cellation of the decree issued unde the restoration of order in irelan regulations preventing eastboun passenger vessels from _enterims Queenstown. It is understood that th: original order, which was issued Octo- ber 10, 1920, was designed to prevent the importation into Ireland of arms from the United States. VIVIANI SAYS FAREWELL TO PRESIDENT HARDING Rene Viviani, former premier of France and head of the French dele- gation to the armament conference, called at the White House today say farewell to President Harding, preparatory to leaving Washington later in the day for New York. where he will sail tomorrow for home. He was accompanied to the White House by Ambassador Jusserand. “I am most happy at the reception.” M. Viviani said through Ambassador Jusserand. after the call, “and most touched by the expressions of good , will President Harding extended to | France and to fne.” i ; i SEES BETTING INCREASE. Horse racing and betting is getting a serious grip on the young men of the Capital city, Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts of the international reform bureau told the subcommittee of the Senate committee on the judiciary today. The committes was hearing evidence on the proposed law to prohibit the trans- mission of racing information through {the mails and to bar from the mails {newspzpers which print this informa- i tion. WIND-UP OF ARMS SESSIONS IN SIGHT (Continued from First Page.) | from every section of the land com- mending the course of the conference ianl supporting the action of the administration registered by the American delegation. From the tenor of these expres- sions of approval, officials are in- duced to believe that a veritable 1andslide of public opinion will start if it becomes apparent that resist- ance to the agreements of the con- ference is to take stubborn form. and shortly assume such momentum as will sweep away all obstacles sought to be opposed. It is the fashion to colloquially refer to the opponents of presented policies as “irreconcilables.” In official circles the question is being asked, “Irreconcilable to what unless it be irreconcilabliity to a plan to promote peace, ich, it is con- tended, does not controvert any American cherished doctrine of inter- national relationship. The thought occurs as to how long any faction can expect to maintain a position of opposition. once the coun- try gets the idea that it is threatening the fuifiliment of the desige of this and other peoples to mitigate the likelihood of future wars and to re- duce the burden of armament, as well as to inculcate the spirit of friendli- ness between and among nations, sup- planting suspicion, jealousy and hatred. Businesslike Spirit. The businesslike spirit of the cou- ference. as shown in the methods of procedure which are bringing such quick and substantial results is the t favorable comment in con- :::2::: cmd other circles. The latest manifestation was the creation of the committee ?f fifteen to handle the naval questions. 'l‘hll“lnllol is regarded being an “pcross-lots” procedure, vividly in contrast with the course followed in international conferences of the past. It is held to_ be strikingly consonant with the guiding thought of the lead ers in the conference, which has been to suggest simplicity and naturalness in the handling of all the work. From the start, a forceful and e fective element in the conference h: .dominated the proceedings—the idea that there are certain desirable ends to be accomplished which are easy of effectuation If the will to do so Is es- tablished and logically carried out. Attending circumstances have not lacked complication and perplexyy, n way befors the dofni- nating effectiveness of the all-pervade ing motive and Intent.