Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1922, Page 2

B J00,000 FILE PAST JBIER OF LATE PORE . Masses Sung—Prepare r for Conclave. By the Associated Press. ROME, January 24—The first of the nine pontifical high masses for the late Pope Benedict XV was sung this morning with grand solemnity in the basilica of St. Peter's. Simul- taneously, there were solemn ccre- monies in all the great basilicas, in- cluding the Lateran” and Santa Maria Maggiore. The time of the burial had not been definitely de- cided upon today, but it remains ten- tatively fixed for Wednesday after- noon. Meanwhile, the first of the cardi- nals are momentarily expected to ar- rive in Rome and workmen are bus- ily enguged in the Vatican, making ready the quarters for the conclave of the sacred college, which will elect & successor to the dead pontiff. Thousands Pay Respects. All the while, too, mournful crowds continue filing past the catafalque in St. Peter’s upon_which lies the body of Benedict XV. Thousands ‘upon thousands of persons were still aying their last tributes today. isumaies of the numover Of per- sons_who filed past the bier of the Pope vesterday ranged between 200,000 and 300,000, and it was ex- pected these figures would be largely exceeded today. ; The Vatican received telegraphic advices today from London, Warsaw, Posen and Budapest that Cardinals Bourne, Kakowski, Dalbor and Cser- noch were hurrying to Rome to at- tend the Pope's funeral and afterward the conclave. With the arrival in Rome of Cardinal La Fontaine from Venice three of the most prominently meéntioned cardinals as likely suc- cessors to the seat of St. Peter’s are on the ground, as Cardinals Mafl and Ratti already are here. Telephones Being Installed. Telephones are being installed in the apartments of each of the cardi nals, so that they will be able to communicate with another inside the Vatie n o Sl ernt o 3 however, has been cut off from the city exchange, so there will be no telephonic communication with the outside world. The work of walling in and trans- formin~ hin e votican in - nection with the conclave is under the immediate supervision of Marquis ! Sacchetti, who is personally directing the workmen. It is announced the office of the papal secretary of state will remain open during the conclave. The regular tenauts of ihe apart- ment overlooking St. Peter's’Square, where the conclaye will be held, al- ready have begun to move out to make room for the cardinals. Car- penters were busy making necessary alterations in the two four-story wings of the bullding, containing six- ty-one apartments, including kitchens, where the cardinals, each with one secretary and one valet, will live during the conclave. CARDINALS TO BE AIDED. Italian Government Takes Steps to Facilitate Journey. The ITtalian government has taken steps to insure complete liberty of action to the conclave, which will mgéet probably February 2, to elect a new Foo Italian embassy an- nounced tod: Tastructions have been issued by the government, the embassy said, that every facility for rapid transportation be.placed at the disposal of cardinals en route to Rome for the meeting. On their arrival at the Italian bor- der a special train-compartment will ‘be_ assigned to each of the distin- gyished - visitors, and officials along the route will give personal attention to their comfort and convenience. BENEFIT_SHOW PLANNED. National Assurance Society to Aid Hospital Service. An entertainment and dance will be tendered tonigsht the. National Union Assurai ociety for. the benefit of the Hospital Service As- sociation at the Pythian Temple. The entertainment will be in the shape of a musiral skit In two acts, entitled “The Heverend Dayton, Up- to-Date.” Amonss those in’the cast are Charles Kneippe. Howard Watts, Carl Cam- . Ivy Dixon, Lottie GGnn.. Inez Cameron, Miss Maude . Mrs. Beulah Lankford, Mrs. Verdie Edith_Beacl Mrs. Conklin and Main Coe. Dancin will_start at 10 o'clock.. William F. Ruckert's orchestra will provide the music. . The entertainment committes fin- Borland, chairman; J. vice chairman; J. A. A. W. Askham, D. L Leane, H. M. Gillman, W. A Joseph Jacobi, F. E. Fer- guson. S. Trupp, W. J. O'Brien, A. S Brown and Dr. 0. H. Coumbe. The iospital Association is com- posed of one representative from each of the foyrteen councils of the National Union® in the District. Its purpose s to provide free service for | members who require hospital atten- tion. Identification cards are pro- vided to all members to insure Pprempt attention in case of acci- dent. Members may select the Ca: ergency, org icorge Washington University .{to the statement of Senator Under- Crawford Bennie, tary: Samuel Trupp, treasurer, and Dr, O. H. Coumbe, medical examiner. ISSUE STYLE SHOW DEF.| x!ph School Man Teachers Would Have Fashion Contest. Woman's innate attractiveness, en- hdnced by the chic creations of Dame Fashion holds no terrors for the Baughty male members of the faculty € Business High School. if'he man teachers at Business have ed on the bulletin board -in the 0ol a notice challenging the iman instructors to stage a style w_competition, the date for which I be determined later. The chal- ge provides that the losers are to t the winners to a dinner party. 0 sooner had the notice been ed up than Allan Davis, principal, xed his signature, signifying that Jia wiing to match his sartorial ments With those of the most hionable of his feminine faculty bers. Several coy male teachers, t desiring to flaunt too publicly eir challenge, merely affixed th tials. Some refused to join w. others, either through fear of defeated or because of modesty. r none of-the.woman teachefs Bave accepted the challenge. Ap- rruy they do not take it seriousiy. PROBABLY FATAL. e Newsome, twenty-four, #% d 1. streets southwest, was sho obably fatally’ injured .about 2 ‘clock this morning at Hills Bottom, Arlington county, Va. The alleged assailant is Dan Beverley, thirty-five gars old. Newsome was removed to ergency Hospital here. ‘The shooting was the result of a g.l.rr-l between the two, according Sheriff Clemments, who, with iler Kines and Deputy Sherift Mar- , made the arrest. Py iBeverley is being held by Sherift ts 1n . the count He is employed by the Texas Company. of Arlington county. 3 fen] manager, Felipe Plumantes: o Castar Carbanio; New Director of Savings ' U.S. Treasury Department LI DIRE CAPT. LEW WALLACE, Jr., Of Crawfordaville, .Ind., Who wi cently mamed by Secretary Mellon. ns director of savings-of the Treasury Department. During the war Capt. Wallace served overseas in the field artillery. Upon his return in 1919 and throughout thé last campaign he act- ed ax one of Will H. Hays’ assistants on’ the nitional committee. He is a xrandson of the Inte Gea. Lew Wal- lace, author of “Ben-Hur. POWERS TO ACCEPT JAPAN'S PLEDGE IN SIBERIAN PROBLEM (Continued from First Page.) by the other - nations, or the good faith_of Japan must be challenged. The Japanese paved the way for tho prompt submission of their state- ment to the conference by circulat- ing copies of it among the delegations Sunday night. Ends Discusyion of Siberia. And so ends the discussion of SI- beria. The United States, Great Brit- ain and the other nations attending the conference will look to the Jap- anese to carry out the solemn assur- ance given in regard to Siberia. The acceptance of this declaration of Japan does not mean, however, that it the occupation of Siberia by Jap- anese troops should run on indefinite- ly, the question might not again be raised in the future. Incidentally, it may be mentioned that efforts are to be made by the Chinese, at least, te provide for the holding of future conferences on far eastern questions. The fact that Japan, in her state- ment_to the conference in regard to Siberia, apparently separated the oc- cupation of that territory into two distinct fields was commented upon today. The Japanese troops in Vlad- Ivostok, for instance, are maintained there for the purpose of protecting the Japanese nationals and the Rus- sians who are opposed to bolshevist rule. The.Japanese in Sakhalin, how- ever, are there not only for the pu pose of protecting their _nationals, .but also for the purpose of extracting from Russia, once a stable govern- ment has been formed in that coun- try, reparations for the massacre of Japanese in Nikolaievsk. The sug- igestion was hazarded today °that +while the Japanese might eventually be expected to remove from other parts of Siberia, their hold upon Sak- halin, at least the island, would be retained for a very long time to come. Jupanese and Chinese Confer. Thé Japanese and Chinese delegates will hold their thirty-second meeting on Shantung this afternoon. It is admitted by both parties that all of the details of the Shantung question have been handled, at least tenta- tively, except ‘the _all-important question of the Tsinanfu-Kiaochow railroad. Yet each side hesitates to say it is ready to proceed with that The Japanese, for instance, | say the Chinese have some further ! minor matters to discuss, while the Chinese say they understand the Japanese are not yet ready to go ahead with the railroad discussion. The reports from Peking, indicating a change in the Chinese government, with a supporter of Gen. Wu Pei Fu expected to succeed Premier Liang Shi Yi, have still further complicated the Shantung &ituation, it was said today, and may cause delay. Wel- lington. Koo, of thé Chinese delega- tion has declared that all possibility of the Chinese accepting “the Japa- nese proposal-that a loan be made to China for pcrchase of the rallroad has vanished since the matter has become a political issue in Japan. Mr. Undérwood Oppokes Delay. The first open expression in’ the con- ference itself of the desire of the del- egates to have the questions of the! far cast handled with as little further | delay as possible came yesterday, when Sendtor Underwood, a member of the American delegation, very frankly said that many people could not understand why these negotia- tions should drag out so long. While i there was no general debate in regard i | wood, there was much sympathy among the delegates with the position he took. Ho declared that China had lnlrendy been given a “magna charta” by the conference, and that he saw no reason for long delay in thede- liberations. - . ¢ | The conference is still waiting on i Toklo and London before considering | further the 19th article of - the | naval limitation treaty, -it was re. | vealed todey. The article relates to {the limitation of fortifications-in the Pacific. Two proposals are holding up a decision—one by the. British which would limit theé operation of the article to that section of the Pacific north of the equator as far! as 30 degrees north, and lying be- tween 110 and 180 degrees east Greenwich, and the other by the Jap- anese, which would permit the Jap- anese to fortify -the Bonin Islands, held to be part of the Japanese main- land, though close to the Islandof Guam, owned by the United States, which' this country is agreeing not to fortify. Not Pleased With British Proposal. The Japanese. are not pleased with the British proposal, which in effect would limit the application of article 19 to islands of the United States lndj Japan and leave Great Britain free to arm as she sees fit in the far east, Also, the .Dutch East Indles are left free to arm, as the Netherlands is not included in the proposed treaty. Talk of.a resolution propasing. lim- itatiop of land armaments, which it was sald might.yet come before the conference, was discounted today by spokesmen for hoth the British ahd Italian delegations, ‘who said they did not belfeve the. question of land armsments would be raised again, in view of the stand taken early. in the conference by France. FILIPINO CLUB ELECTS. regular election ‘held Sun t the Y/ M.'C. A. by the Filipino Club of Washington- the following were elected: President, Ricardo H. Sabella; vice president Alfredo Sam- son; secretary, Demdtico Suguitan: Alberto : Gusman use i H atoarms, ‘Benito Diag, | hé bestowed the benediction upon the day | Pormality has suboiitted his WENEED NONEY! “ISCALLEDSLOGAN Lost Sight of Rate Measure. Railroads have “lost sight of the economic measure for fixing rates— Wwhat the traffic is able to bear—and are doing business under one slogan, ‘We need the money,’" V. O. Johnston of Lincoln, Ill, declared today In opening the case of the producers of construction material at the Inter- state Commerce Commissidn's investi- gation into transportation rat As president of the National Asso- ciation of Sand and Gravel Producers Mr. Johnston declared that present rate schedules had put “both us and the railroads on the way to lose the capital invested in this industry.’ ““The facts as to the financial situa- tion of the railroads are not unknown to us,” Mr. Johnston said, “but we must analyze them with reference to the general situation in the- country. - If the roads had given the time and money to efforts in maintaining our industry by lower rates that they spent in fostering its early establishment, or that they are now spending in blindly opposing rate reductions, both the country and the railroads would be further on the road to normal than they are today.” Rate .increases during the war and in 1920, applied to the heavy lo grade materials used in constructién of all kinds, the witness said, were DProving to be effective bdrriers to the maintenance of traffic. LIBERALS OPEN FIRE ON LLOYD GEORGE Asquith, Grey and Others Launch Attack Against Coalition Government. By the Associated Press. l LONDON, January 23.—The Inde-l pendent liberals at a meeting in Cen- | tral Hall tonight definitely placed’ themselves on record as being 'op-' posed to the government of David Lloyd George. Herbert S. Asquith and ‘ Viscount Grey of Fallodon were the | principal speakers. Viscount Glad- i stone, who presided, declared amid loud cheers that “we enter ihe usis and take the fleld against Mr. Lloyd | George and his coalition government. Mr. Asquith eulogized Viscount Grey as the greatest peacemaker of recent | times. “The return of such a man at sucl a moment as this to our public life, Mr. Asquith declared, “is the restora- tion to us of a national asset of in- calculable value.” Foreign Policy Attacked. Viscount Grey, attacking Mr. Lloyd | George's method of transacting for- eign affairs by conference, asserted that the supreme council of the allies had destroyed trust and confidence between France and Great Britain and lately resulted in the regisnation of, a French prime minister. He said the re-establishment of good relations with t vital thing in European policy tod and until they. were restored no conference, or any. attempts to réconstruct Europe, would succeed. He advocated a return to “the more usual, quieter and'steadier methods.” v Mr. * Asquith vigérously' eriticised the government's policies. He de- clared among other thingh” that the Irish peace should have been arrang- ed two or three years ago. \Vhat the country needed almost as much as an administration with settled and co- herent principles was a vigilant and well organized opposition. < Viscount Bryce Eulogised. Viscount Grey was given an ovation when he said his reason for return- ing to public life was that.he felt it absolutely essential . “to restore wholesome and straightforward pol- itics in this country by.reviving the liberal party. d i All the speakers at the meeting paid tribute to the latée Viscount Bryce, whose death was announced Sunday night. i —— BRYAN HONOR GUEST. Mr. and Mrs. Milholland Give - Brilliant Dinner Party. William_Jennings Bryan was the guest of honor at a dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. John E. Milholland at the La Fayette Hotel last night. The | gathering, which was non-poiitical. | was pronounced by Dr. Freeman, rec- tor of the Church of the Epiphany, as i { retiring company. as “one of the most brilliant, interesting functions of the kind that I have ever attended in ‘Washington or any other city.” Can- on Russell of the cathedral declared the affair was “absolutely unique. Included among the guests, who as. sembled on a few hours’ notice, were Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cole of Califor- nia, Col. and Mrs. John Temple Graves, Miss Flora Wilson, Miss Dor- othy Parkhurst of the League of Women Voters in Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun, Minister Stepanek of Czechoslovakia, Mr. and Mrs. Orr of Connecticut, President Irwin B. Linton of the Presbyterian Aliiance, Mrs. Wells, the Russian Princess Lazarovitch, James T. Russell, jr,: Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Kirby, Dr. and Mrs. P. A. Potter and Miss C. L.} Dresser. 3 —_— PRINTERS’ CAFE OPENS. 1 Government Printing’ Office. Starts | Cafeteria for. Employes. The government printing office co- operative cafeteria opened yestirday for the benefit of the 4,000 or more employes of the federal nrintery. Coincident with the opening of- tie cafeteria was the announcement of luncheon hours for various floors and departments of the building.: The em- ployes will start the first shift at 11:30 and the last at 1 o'clock. The cafeteria is located on the eighth floor of the printing office and is equipped with the latest steam table apparatus, kitchen. utensils and -all modern facilities for a large eating place. « i Employes desiring to do. 80 ma; bring their luncheons ffom home and eat them at a table in the cafeteria, whether they order additional food theéré or not. but the custom éf eating homemade lunches in the various de- partmy nn; t;‘vlll be: ‘dl’uontfnu:‘d.i on accoul O & non-sanitary conditions this_is declared to entail. Z A “formal opening of the cafeteria with asreception and-entertainment iy being plahned for. the near future. RHUBERT WORK RESIGNS Assistant Postmaster General's Ac- _ tion Matter of Formality. Dr. -Hubert Work,. first ‘assistant stmaster. general, as & matter of tion aleng .with that of .M-be la‘r-. Postmaster General Hays, it became known t : | Dr. Work 1s generally: uwficaco 3 3 % Sonsrasration Tor b pos in succession Who March 4 11 vetire on P & position #ur privite busitiens. by long: '] eygning’s TRUCK:-IN COLLISION. WITH TOURING CAR, INJURING PASSENGER.. Overturning of a big truck of the Quartermaster Depnrtment of the Arn H street thix morning, resuiting in injury to Thomax Brodericl was riding in the vehiel ‘The truck overturned as a res: taken to Emergency Hospital NOTED MUSIC LEADER VICTIM OF INFLUENZA Arthur Nikisch, Former Conductor of Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dies in Leipsic. By the Associated Press. LEIPZIG. January Nikisch, noted orchestral conductor. dled here last evening of influenza. He was formerly conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Arthur Nikisch, son of a Hungarian bookkeeper and a youthful prodigy at the pianoforte and with the violin, developed in maturity into one of Europe’s most distinguished orches- tral conductors. In_hig lifetime of sixty-vix years he wielded th: orchestral bands of the continent, notably the Berlin Philharmonic and the Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestras. For a long pericd he devoted him- solf mainly to the direction of the opera. native city. Leipzig, where he made a name for himself the successful revival of many -neglected_operatic pieces. In the orchestral fleld he was noted for his advanced musical views as well as for both the smoothness and viril: ity of his readings of many of both classical and modern masterpieces. He was widely known in America. He was conductor of the Boston Sym. phony Orchestra from 1889 to 1893, and visited many American cities at the head of this noted band. He also was in this country. in 1912 for a concert tour at the head of the London Symphony Orchestra, which he conducted for some time before the war. Recently he was reported to be planning a tour in America dur- ing. the present year with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Band. * LABOR. PLANS TO ASSIST WEST VIRGINIA MINERS City-Wide Campaign to Raise Clothing and Other Relief for the Unemployed. A city-wide campaign by labor unions in Washington to obtain clothing and relief for West Vir- ginia miners and their families, who are impoverished as a result of un- employment conditions in the coal flelds there, was authorized at a meet- ing of Central Labor Union in Mus cians’ Hall, 1006 1 street, last night. Following a description of the co ditions there by members from the floor, who claimed that scores of children had already died and count- less others were ill and suffering from lack of proper nourishment and clothing, it was voted to authorize the executive committee to plan a city- wide campaign for relief work. According’ to plans already” made, each local union will constitute a r¢ ceiving center for the donatlons. Re- ceiving centers also will be located throughout the city. where contribu- tions for the relilef of conditions in West Virginia ‘in the form of cast-off clothing and other necessities, may be delivered. % A central .collection depat also will be. established where the donations will be arranged and classified before shipment to ultimate destination. Plans for the support of a local com- pensation law in industries also were discussed informally and the issue will be made the topic of a meeting in the near future, it is understood. Routine business occupied the re- mainder of the session. COLD FOR 36 HOURS. Hope for Skaters, However, Shat- tered by Officials. Washington will experience freezing weather at least for the next thirty- which the mercury touched at § six hours, and the 15 above zero mark o'clock today is expected to be low ered by 2 or 3 degrees before tomor- row morning, it was stated at the ‘weather bureau today. To 'blast the hopes of Washing- fonians who are sharpening up ice skates these days, though, the office of public baildings and grounds to- day announced that the coating of ice on the tidal basin was only one-fourth of an inch in thickness. It would re- quire -several days of a cold snap to bring the ice up to the requiréd four- inch thickness, which is necessary be- fore skating permission is given the ublic. . - v'l'hera are, on. the other hand, no prospects for warm weather, aithough the climate here is expected to moder- ate after Thureday or Friday. Fair weatber is in sight until.the latter part of the week., ’RéALTORS TO DANCE. Several Hundred Expected at In- formal Party Tonight. Several hupdred members of the Washington " real “estate: ‘board and eir triends will attend the realtors’ :l};;‘; at Wardman Park Hotel to- night, 9 to 12 o'clock.” Indicitions point to.the firat social function of its kind to be given 'by the board being a cothplete ‘success, ‘according to Frank A Gibbons, chairman of the ‘dance ttee. 2 3 O vent. Wil "be ‘lnformal. Tfie ing’s entertainment was pianined ‘means of getting the newer nrem- he board: better acquainted _&1i0 as®a r. A oreon . Schwab, W. L- King an “Barkley. H. Q. 18 2 Aseomt élm&lgn oF tiokdt. > x‘.’"f'v" i The driver, t | 24, — Arthur R. A. Whaley, 1749 § street, escaped of a_collision (The Star is publishing daily a summar- 1zed story of the developments of the arma- ment conference. By reuding it each day you will keep in touch with the outstand- ing events of the historic meeting.) The far east, committee today considered the statement made by Japan that she intended to remove her troops from Siberia as soon as a stable government was es- tabliched there. It was expected that all would take official cog- nizance of the statement of Japan WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE LAW CHALLENGED IN COURT C. S. Fairchild Declares 19th Amendment Was Not Constitu- tionally Adopted. The Supreme Court yesterday got down to earnest consideration of two cases of challenging the constitu- tionality of the woman's suffrage amendment. Charles S. Fairchild of New York, on behalf of himself and the Amer- fcan Constitutional Union seeks, in his case presented yesterday, to com- Del the Secretary of State and the Attorney General to withdraw the proclamation announcing ratification of the nineteenth amendment and to restrain the Attorney General from enforcing . the amending on _the ground that it was not constitution- ally adoped. Fairchild contends that amendmgnts affecting the rights of suffrage cdn only be given force by a vote of the people and not by ratification by state legislatures. The government in re- DIy asserts that the court should dis- miss the suit because it is mot brought by persons having any direct interest, and further because if the relief requested is granted the with- drawal of the proclamation announc- ing ratification would have no efféct upon the ratification. The second case the suffrage amendment is that brought by Oscar Leser and othefs from the Maryviand state cour which held the amendment cons tutional. In this case two women i cla were denied the right to ¢ as voters on the ground that woman suffrage “dilutes” and *nul lifies' male votes and that the amendment had not been constitu- tionally adopted. » The government questions the jurisdiction of the court to consider the case on the ground that the state courts had sustained the constitutionality of the law and that those making appeal have no righs at issue which justify the court in_recognizing them. J Solicitor General Beck declared the ratification of an amendment by the required number of legislatures is equivalent to the people’s votes, as the state assemblies are acting as the machinery of the people. {FRANCE WOULD.LENGTHEN PROPOSED PACT PERIOD Premier Also Sug:xosts Reciprocity in Military Action. by Treaty With Great Britain. B the Associated Press. > 3 PARIS, January 23.—Premier Poin- | care-has sent instructions to Ambas- sador St. Aulaire in London for con- tinuation of the conversations with Great Britain concerning the proposed Anglo-French pact. The premier's instructions are known to be directed toward a lengthening of ‘the' duration of the pact, probably a period of twenty-five years, and to-the. inclusion of reci- procity in military action, so that France would be abliged to go to-the aid of Great.Britain, thus establish- ing the basis of equality in the pact which the premier has indicated he desired. Discussion of the Genoa economic conference has not as yet been take up by the French foreign office. - : PLAN NEW HELIUM TESTS. World’s Supply to Be ‘Sent From " Hampton Roads. 5 NEWPORT NEWS, Vi ~—The world’s supply of helium, in. cased in the bag of the C-7 at the Hampton Roads naval base, ia to. be compressed and Eent elsewhere. Or< ders to this effect were received yes- terday, and the .C-7 is to be deflated before February 1. - - ‘The gas, it is understood, will.be taken mental -purposes. .The C-7. recently was- given ‘a successful test. 5 ANGIENT. PISTOL LOADED! Pre-Reyolutionary'’Gun = Found Charged With Powder and Shot, NEW YORE#®January 24.—Examin- ing -a~ pre-révolutionary “pistol that had been & Dlalhln't for ‘children for more thin a ent Clyde A.- i son today !u\.zli:n ’ The with ‘an eleven-inch ‘barrel and & halfeinch bore, &fl'm_b to- Gen.' Thomas W Mra in reference to| , January 24. to another statiom for'experi- g it ras Tosdod with |4 OVERTURNS, the intersection of Pennsylvania Y "’I"" years old, Cherrydale, Va., who njur: ith a touring car driven by R. W. Winfree, 1522 14th street. Broderick was pinned beneath the truck. He was rescued by policemen of the third precinct where it was found he had received a fracture of a wrist bone, BRIEFLY TOLD STORY OF ARMS CONFERENCE pedestrians, and and the matter of Siberia would Test there. The Japanese and Chinese dele- gates will hold their thirty-second meeting on Shantung this after- nhoon. It was considered unlikely that they would discuss the Shan- tung railroad matter, it was said, although that remains the principal issue. The naval limitation treaty still waits on advices from Tokio and London in regard to article 19, re- | lating to the limitation of fortifi- { cations in the Paci ITALIANS, SEE DELAY | IN GENOA CONFERENCE ‘Also Expect Very Little Success if U. S. Takes No Part in Session. By the Associated Press. Postponement of the assembling of the Genoa conference set for March 8 probably will be necessary, it was said in Italfan official circles today, because of the prolongation of the Washington armament meeting. |, Even if all other fac |favorable. it was said, I would me practically impossible to assemble so lIarl;e a gathering as that contem- j Plated for Genoa in the six weeks re- jmaining before the tentative date. The dificulty has not. been lessened, Itallan spokesmen said, by the delay on_the part of the United States to tormally announce its attitude toward the xlrgjpcled gatherin, Members of the Italian delégati do not hesitate to express the (‘KA!::Z: that the proposed conference could be Eexnou(nd to accomplish almost noth- {ing witkout the participation of the great creditor nation of the world, Close connection between the Wash- ington conference and that in Genva was seen by some delegates, who de- jclared there could be no effective pruning and rearrangement of Euro- pean budgets, considered a necessary preliminary to any succs sful read- {Justment of European economic con. ditions, until positive Steps have beer :l.’lkfin toward reduction of naval ar. | maments at least. Unless such redue- 'Hon is assured. by the Washington {conference, it was declared. it would k:(‘ useless to hold a conference in Genoa for economic reconstruction. i, Another consideration favoring de- lay in the holdi g of the Genoa con- ference is the necessity imposed upon the Italian government of finding suf. ficient accommodations in that small land ancjent city for the large number of persons whom- the conference would attract. It is estimated that no less than 1,500 people would be in attend. ance on the conference either as par- ticipants, attendants or observers, and the Italian government probably would be obliged to use suburban and nearby towns to secure necessary ac commodations for visitors, . 8 2° DELAY HUTCHINS CASE. Counsel Agrees-to Put Retrial of $4,000,000 Suit Over. There.will be no re-trial of th X of the con- test over the $4,000,000 estate of the late Stilson Hutchins this spring. ‘ounsél for both sid: 2 the case until-Octoner 5. nex Mr. Hutchins dlea in I!"lezllfind left jthreé wills. A contest over the latest tdated- "document was commenced shortly l({er rt-;ls death and has been pending in _the District & Court since that time. The fibr‘:lprter'lrfl SHORT-HAIRED WOMEN TYPHUS-RECOVERED, NOT COMMUNISTS IN RUSSIA By the Assveiated Press. MOSCOW, January 24.—Russia has become a nation of short- haired women. This to the new- comer s supposed to be a symp- tom of communist leanings, in a country, where the men formerly advertised their faith in the soviet brand of politics by wearing long hair, heavy beards, leather coats and top boots. As a matter of fact, the majority of short-haired women are not communists at all. They earned their short hair by surviving typhus. Typhus is a8 common in Russia as mumps in the United States. ‘Those who contract it. men or women, have their heads shaved, and the women who survive wear short hair because they have no other, and their own will not grow back for years;-if ever. SEES SENATE FIGHT OVER PENSION LAW Senator King Opposes Ex- tending Measure to Include Former Teachers. Prospects that the amendment to the retirement act for public school teachers in the District of Columbia, which extends the law to certain teachers who were separated from the service just prior to the enact-; ment of the original act, will mect with strong opposition in the Senate was indicated by Senator K&n‘ of Ttah. The senator said that he feared that the passage of this amendment would furnish a precedent to which thou- sands of government employes who left the service prior to the passage of the civil service retirement act would point as an argument in favor of getting them included within that act, which would saddle millions of dollars of expense on the American people. He sald that he had informa- tion that many employes were watch- ing this precedent in Congress with a view to making representations for themselves when it goes through. “1 have asked for certain informa- tion as to the effect of this measure and whether it would constitute a precedent under which many sepa- rated from the service of the govern- ment before retirement laws were passed would be entitled to pensions,” said Senator King. “On its face it a and has my sympath constitute a precedent that would cost the government hundreds of thou- sands of dollars of additional expense and place upon the retirement list thousands of others who have sepa- rated themselves from the govern- ment service, I can see an objection, not to the bill itself, but because.of }ih‘l precedent which it would estab- sh.” Senator King said that when he ob- tained this ipformation he would pre- sent it to the Senate, but in the mean- | time would object to consideration of the bill, which is on the Senate calen- dar. z eritorious bill ut if it would | —_— PLANNING FOR THE RELIEF OF DISABLED VETERANS | ‘Washington Post, No. 1, Arranges for Local Participation in Na- tional Convention Here. Plans for participation of local dis- abled veterans in_the national con- vention of the Disabled. American Veteraus were outlined at'a meeting of Washington Post. No. 1, of that} organization last night in the board- room of the District building. The national convention uled for February 1, 2, and 3 at the Hotel La Fayette, when a program of the organization's future activities and policies will be drawn up with the object of returning the disabled veterans of the war to situations ap- vroximating or improving upon those | which they held previous to entry in the service. Clarence Mitchell, William J. Pryor and John T. Hottel were selected to | epresent the post at the national con. vention, and were authorized ‘to con-! tinue an investigation into the present : condition of disabled former service ! men and to report the results to the national convention. An appeal for aid in shaping the pro- gram of the veterans was issued fol- lowing the meeting to all local disabled men, who were.-requested to communi- | cate with officials of Post No. 21, at Vermont avenue, and to suggest methods for reiieving present condi- | tions of disabled men. Representative Lamar Jeffers Alabama, himself ‘o former seryice | man and_at one time a patient at! Walter Reed Hospital, delivered short address at the meeting last| He urged his audience to make | effort to return to the normal | ions existent before the war, and to take every advantage of the opportunity for betterment offered by | the Federal Poard of Vocational Edu- | cation. _ Foilowing _ Representative | Teffers, Vice Commander Snitzer gave | a short talk former service men. and espec among disabled veterans. | Clarence Mitchell also gave a short | talk on the necessity of alleviating situations caused by lack of proper medical care of the disabled, which. he claimed. had resulted in the condi- tions of thousands of men becoming chronic. sched- { | of — WILL ADJUST CLAIMS. took five months and had -the | started today as scheduled for s Coe rial ordered by the Court of Appeals, IIght e OcchpIed Wit gt hay Aotices upled with if r ance of the court year. or il A e postponement of th, c?“thwul Kre‘nltlz llclutnu°m1:“t:§z‘l";: of the cour: crowded docket, Iy ke fll:]llr. Hl‘imhh;lso is ow, Mrs. Rose Keelin i two sons, Walter 8. and Lee fi::gl.‘;:; tand a granddaughter. 2 APPROVE JEWISH RELIEF. lsix Governors Ihdom Campaign to Raise $14,000,000. Indorsement of ‘the e fsh rellef committec's $11 000 as oo i aisn for. the deatitute a ¢ s of eastern Eur A ernors’ of &ix n.("_o%?rb mi"‘x%‘?fn | Carolina, Indiana, Rhode Island, Ala- announcement said’ that . Davis of Virginia and. Moreiaca: of | North Carolina have issued formal; proclamations calling on the ‘people of their states to support the appeai| with liberal contributidns, while the other four- governors have written 13?:::: of commendation to the com- mittee. : Josephus Daniels, former retar of the Navy, has accepted S?I:e '-lg» chairmianshih of the appeal commit- tees im North Carolina, it was alSo announced. e K 4 o BANKER NEAR TO DEATH. NEW YORK, January 24.—Hope was abandoned today for the recovery of ton He banker and writer, who was injured last Friday by & 5th'avenue bus.' According to his pg— siclan, - Dr. .*Aldnur» Lambert, Mr. Hepburn ered a double fracture of the apd a shock to his nervous ¢ is_seventy-five. years old: survived by. his and starving {Emergency Fléet.Corporation Calls in Thirty-Six Empiayes. Thirty-six employes of the Emes- -gency Fleet Corporation Who -were familiar ‘witn construction’ costs. of the fleet corporation and the Shipping Board during the war have been or- dered to Washington to asstst in liquiGaticn- of pending claims against the corporation, it was announced at the offices of the board today. Thé employes ‘will arrive in Washington within a few days. Consolidation of . the Emergency Fleet Corporation offices in Philadel- phia is proceeding, it was said.-and there is a possibility that only a skel- eton force will be maintained in Phil- adelphia. 5 ——— SCOTS TO HONOR' BURNS. Caledonian Club at Half-Century Mark on Poet’s Birthday. The 163d_anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns and the ftieth an- niversary of the founding of the Cale- donian Club of Washington will be celebrated by the club at a dinner to Pe given tomorrow evening at the Chimney Corner, 216 19th street ‘Wwilliam Jardine, ex-chief of the Caledonian - Club,- will address ‘the members. -Hugh Reid, another ex- ohief. will be the toastmaster at a typical Scotch dinner. Musical selec- tions will be presented by Mrs.- J. Robertson, R. Douglas. M. Cas- sels, Miss E, Duncan. M A. Graves, D. MacLean, Miss Foster and -Miss Rose MacLean. the ar- i Hugh Reld is chairman of rangements committee. " - (T So i Sk xico an : fco will be E SR i S by Pres {to raise on co-operation among ! a CHLEWILLBALK {F BOLIVIA COMES Foreign Minister Jarpa Says His Nation Will Decide Only With Peru. By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, January 24.—The proposed conference in Washington between representatives of Peru and Chile will become non-effective, as far as Chile is concerned, if Bolivia's re- quest that she be.permitted to par- ticipate in the negotiations is accept- ed by the United States government. This statement of Chile's position was given by Foreign Minister Barros Jarpa to the correspondent in discuss- ing the note sent to President Hard- ing last week by President Saavedra of Bolivia. Senor Jarpa indicated thar the question of the La Paz govern- ment’s intervention must be decided by Chile and Peru. He asserted that Chile had accepted the invitation of the Washington gov- ernment to a conference to deal with uncompiled clauses of the treaty of gncop, “which only affect Chile and eru.” . “Moreover.” he added. “the circum- stance that the Department of State’s invitation was declared only to Chile and Peru reveals that in the judgment of the United States these are the sole countries interested in the question.” The foreign minister declared that under the treaty Bolivia had accepted compensation from Chile amounting to £6.000,000 sterling for her coasta! territories, and added that for Bolivia to reclaim these after benefiting from" the compensation was “the same &s if Mexico reclaimed Texas.” A cabinet meeting s to be held to day, after which the names of Chile's plenipotentiaries to the Washington conference are expected to be given out. “FAIR TARIFF” LEADER OPPOSES U. S. VALUATION Declares His League Is for Proper Protection, But Would Not Hold Up Importations. Protesting against any American valuation plan in the proposed “per- manent” tariff bill, H. E. Miles of Racine, Wis,, chairman of the Fair Tariff League, told the Senate finance committee yesterday that this proposal was “simply a camouflage” and would offer no remedy whatever against im- portations from Germany, which alone disturb us. Pointing to what he said was the need of a “depreciated _currency use” in the bill, Mr. Miles said this would “end in a moment the entire element of legalized underval- uations and. remove the cause for nine-tenths of the agitation for a general increase in tariff rates.” “If a thing costs $1 in Germa $1.50 in England and $2 in the Unitad States,” said Mr. Miles, “the Ameri- can valuation proposal would make each importation pay. say 30 per cent duty on the American valuation of $2. being 60 cents duty. This would mak the Gerinan_ article, duty paid, $1. with the English article $2.10. American article remaining $2. “You couldn’t use a higher rate of duty without prohibiting trade with England and other good currency countries whose trade we must have. And vet-this 30 per cent leaves Ger- many 25 per cent below Engiand and per_cent below domestic prices. Mr. Mile# tgld the comuittee that the fair tariff league stood for the the ! principle of “adequate protection to American industry and labor, and is equally opposed 1o excessiva rates that prohibit or unduly limit ¥mpor- tation and encourage manufacturers rices and increase the cost of living. . —_— NAVAL RADIO VALUED. Petition for Renewal of Right to Transmit Press Reports. Renewal of congressional authority. permitting the use of the government's naval radio in transmitting news reports to countries bordering on the Pacific Geean, which expires June 30 next. is sought in a petition presented to Presi- dent_Harding today by Alexander Hume Ford of Honolulu, director of the Pan- Pacific Union. Extension of permission to send press dispatches through the govern- ment's wireless stations will “promote owledge of and acquaintance between the peoples of the Pacific, tending there- to promote friendship, commerce. peace and progress,” the request stated. The petition called to tae attention of President Harding, who s honorary president of the Pan-Pacific Union, the fact that rates now charged by private radio and cable companies are prohibi- tive insofar as the sending of daily concerns is that speedy transmission of news is impossi The petition was drafted in Honolulu signatures of Gov. W. & 10 is president of the Pan-Pacific Union, and offioials of the Pan-Pacific Press Conference, chamber of comumerce and newspapers of Hono- lulu. —_— REDS DRIVEN BACK. ! Karelian Troops Claim to Have keqognized Kimasjervi. COPENHACGEN, January 24.—Ka- relian troops in their fight against the soviet armies have reconquered the town of Kimasjervi, says a dis- patch from Helsingfors today to the Berlingske. Tidende, and are now ad- vancing on the south front. The soviet_troops also have been driven back on the north front near Koko- salmi, says the dispatch. FAVORS A COMMISSION. Abolition of the graves registration service and creation 6f a -.commission composed -of veterans of the American expeditionary forces to assume charge of military cemeterfes abroad s strongly recommended by Maj. Gen. John . O'Ryan of New York in a let- tter to Assistant Secretary Wainwright of - the. Wa2 Department. Declaring that the graves registra- tion_service is conducting its activities in France without due regard to the shes of the families of the dead. Gen. O'Ryan further asserted that plans for the cemetery at Bony, where many New York men are buried,"furnishes another example justifying the criticism that when official ' America undertakes to express sentiment, it measures its senti- ment -by “the mumber of dollars to be expended. PASSES DISTRICT BILLS. Tho Senate ymrday'stm two tills relating to the District of Columbia.-: One of them authorizes the District Com. loners te con- vey. o the ‘owners of abutting prop- erty a parcél <of . Jand at -4th and streets mortheast for not Tess, than 51.50 a _sguars foot.: The Tand’ jies between the tracks of the-B, & O. railroad’ and the warehouse of the Sanitary - Company. , _° “The ~ other -* measure the charter. of the' Potomac I ce Campany of the - of lumbia. 40 as to permit it to handle adfi- tional lines of- in 4y e