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e S TTSS—— Member of the Associated Press The Assoc'ated Press ix exclumively entited to the use for reprblcation of all news dispatches WEATHER. f Fair tonight and tomorrow; no g o change in temperature. Lowest tem- A perature tonight, about 26 degrees. b “ ny Staf. credited to It or not otherwise ecredited in this endan et S o, todny Eileneat, 41 at SN sk st i noon todey: lowest, 29, at § a.m. today. All rights of publication of special Yor full report see page 7. dispatehies berein are slso rescrved. i 1 i Closing New York Stocks, Page 17 . WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 94,710 No. 28426. 11THHOUR APPEAL FOR TROLLEY FARE OF 4 FOR 23 CENTS Clayton Claims Commission Has No Right to Discrim- inate in Rate. SAYS UNIFORM CHARGE WOULD END COMPETING Declares Capital Traction Patrons Should Not Pay Because W. R. & E. Co.’s Costs Higher. An eleventh-hcur appeal for a re- duction of the fare to four tokens for 25 cents on the lines of the Cap ftal Traction Company was made to the Public Utilities Commission to- day by William McK. Clayton, chair- man of the utilities committee of the Federation of Citizens' Associations. Mr. Clayton told the commission fn a memorandum filed this morning that it has no legal right to regard the two companies as one for pur- pose of fixing a rate of return or es- tablishing a fare. His petition ar- gued: The public utilities law nowhere ‘mits the commission to read into the law a matter of public policy as controlling the text of the law itself. Chartered as Competitors. “The two railway companies were chartered as competing companies and have always been so recognized by Congress. and have always claimed to be so when before the commission ~—any act of the commission tending to destroy the competitive character of the roads is against the interest of the public and against the spirit of the letter of the la “The law nowhere directs the com- ission to protett one company against the competition of the other. “The law expressly forbids a dis~ criminatory rate, and to fix a fare higher on one road than the evidaace and the law justify in order to permit the patrons of the other road to cb tain a lower fare than th rects is flagrant against one class of utility users in favor of another. “In the formal case now befor: the commission the Capital Tracti Company admits that it can du the year 1922 earn a rate of retura Justified under the law and the rul- ings of the commission and sell tok- ens at four for 25 cents. “The Washington Rallway and Electric Company, if it considers the uniform rate of Yare at this time more necessary and mord vital than its rate of return, can make its choice. Take the Capital Traction Company ra‘'e of four tokens for 25 cents, or tae a fare to produce a rate of re- turn the Jaw would sanction. Paild Between S and 9 Per Cent. “In 1921 the car riders paid a rate of return of between § per cent and 9 per cent on the valuations of $32.- 000,000 of the two companies—valua- tiors in part those of the commission and in part those of the companies. “In three successive vears, 1919, 1920 and 1921, the car riders paid not only war wages to the employes of the Capital Traction Company, but an average rate of return of-10 per! cent. Tre Capital Traction Company. under the present team work of the two companies for aniform fares, passes on to the Washington Railway and Electric Company the wages permitted by its inordinate rate of return.” A slight reduction in the rate of car fare to be charged on and after March 1 probably will be ordered by the Public Utilities Commission Mon- day. The commission had not reached & final decision today. In its forthcoming order the com- mission will declare its policy with regard to the future of one-man cars. Testimony of William F. Ham, presi- dent of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, showed that that company would save close to $80.000 this year by operating all of its one- man cars for the twelve months. The commission is understood to be agreed that there should be one rate of fare for both companies. R — WHISTLES FOR BLIND. Denver to Furnish Those Unable to See With Signals. DENVER, Col., February 25.—Blind residents of Denver soon will be as- sured of safe passage across busy Streets by means of commanding blasts on police whistles, whizh will be furnished to them free by the city, according to Jim Goodheart, head of the city's department of public wel- fare. When a blind_person blows his whstle _traffic officers will see that all traffic is suspended until the blind pedestrian is safely across, Good- heart said. Entered a3 second-class matter . post office Washington, D. LEE MANTLE, AGED 70, EX-SENATOR, TO WED GIRL GRADUATE OF 25 C. By the Associated Pre CHICAGO, February 25.—Lee Mantle, seventy, former United States senator from Montana, ad- mitted today that he and Miss Etta Daly, twenty-five, a recent sruduate from the University of Nebraska, will be married within the next few days. The marriage license was taken out here yester- day. None of Mr. Mantle's friends in Butte, Mont., his home, has been informed of the approaching wed- | ding, he saia. Miss Daly haa for- merly lived in Butte, where Mr. Mantle said he had knewn her and her family sinco she was a child. She had been in Baltimore until & | few days ago, he said, when he went there from Butte and the trip to Chicago was arranged. “It's going to be a shock to some of my old cronies,” he said. "I have a reputation as a non-mar- ;y‘in!r man. It's purely a love af- air.” LANDRU BEHEADED - FORMURDER OF 11 “Bluebeard of Gambais” | Fearlessly Faces Guillotine. Refuses Sacrament. By the Associa‘ed Press. VERSAILLES, February 25.—Henri Desire Landru, “Bluebeard of Gam- bais,” convicied of the murder of ten women and one youth, gave his life this morning in exchange for the eleven he had taken. The triangular knife of the guillotine fell at 6:05 | o'clock, twenty-five minutes after the time originally set for the execution, the delay causing many to express the erroneous opinion that Landrau was making a confession. Mysterious until death, Landru resented Father Loiselles’ query as to wirether he had any confession to make. “It is an insult to a man like me,” was his reply. “Had I any confession to make I would have made it long ago.” But never did he utter the word “innocent” as he had failed to utter during his thirty-four months of imprisonment and the twenty-one days of his trial. i Refuses Sacrament. He refused the sacrament, but con- verscd a few moments with the priest. “I shall be brave, never fear,” he told i the clergyman. i Althcugh plans for the execution had been kept in the utmost secrecy, crowds began to gather about the old Versailles jall a Mttle after midnight. The clatter of cavalry horses along Georges Clemenceau street, in which | the, execution took place, was_plainly audible in Landru’s cell, and when he awoke he heard the sound of ham- mers as workmen erected “timbers of justice” by the flickering light of two | Bquare, old-fashioned candle lanterns. The guillotine was erected only a few feet from the main entrance of the jail. At 6 o'clock the doors of the iprison opened slowly, revealing in the courtyard the procurator general, the warden of the prison and Landru's {two lawyers, M. Moro-Glafferi and M. ! Dutreuil. Executed In Twenty Seconds. Then Landru appeared clad in dark | trousers and white shirt. His beard. | which was one of his most striking | characteristics, and which had be- |come familiar to thousands through i publication of his portrait during the | trial, had been trimmed; his head was Ishaved, and his heck and face were {deathly pale. He walked exactly five isteps before the executioner’s assist- tant caught him around the walst and leveled him on the' table; the heavily weighted knife slid down and the whole affair was over in less than twenty séconds. Landru never faltered ifrom the time he appeared in the | door; he gave the guillotine one look. !squared his shoulders and walked | erect, uttering not a word. The crowd, which had been kept at i such a distance that it saw nothing of | the details, uttered no cry, and the | silence was only broken by the bugles i sounding reveille in the nearby bar- racks, and the Angelus bells. The platoon of cavalry, with sabers bared, saluted as the “mystery man” went to his death. o Bitterness Shown. Then the hundred or so newspaper correspondents and the few officials | who had witnessed the execution left the scene, while outside the lines of jcavalry the citizens of Versailles and many from Paris were asking: “Is it all over?” There seemed to be more pity than : bitterness, and never a word of in- | vective against the man who had just | paid the penalty for a series of the | foulest murders in the criminal his- tory of France. THOUSANDS ARE PANIC-STRICKEN WHEN EXPLOSION ROCKS CHICAGO By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, February 25.—Chicago and dozens of its suburbs today found out just what caused the explosion which literally shook them to their foundations and caused a frenzy of excitement last night. Thirty tens of dynamite exploded in a stone quarry south- west of the city shortly before 9 o'clock, but hundreds of thousands of alarmed residents went to bed not knowing just what had hap- pened to shake them up, damage property and give rise to rumors and reports of concerted bombing squads, an earthquake, a falling meteor and disaster to some of the major manufacturing plants. For an hour after the blast Chicago and its suburbs were in a furore. The smashing of glass in thousands of windows, the shaking of the buildings and the noise of the gxplosion gave rise to reports that. bombings were occurring simultaneously in many parts of the city. A. P. Gets Information. ‘While the police and newspaper offices were flooded with hundreds of inquiries and thousands of frightened persons were t find the source of the blast, Associated Ppess, through a curi- ous coincidence, was able to give the first authentic news of the ex- plosion. A Monon_rallroad signal tower at Dyer, Ind, received definite word of the blast, and this was relayed to the Monon dispatcher at Lafayette, Ind, whence it was transmitted to a Lafayette news- paper and the word of the ex- plosion on the edge of Chicago came back to the city over the Associated Press wires. The damage caused by the ex- plosion is estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. There is little to show the effect of the blast at the spot where it oc- curred. A great hole in the ground some 50 feet wide and 200 feet: long marks the place whare yes terday the powder magazine stood. Policeman Shot Down. Patrolman Michael Forgan of Argo, 1ll, was probably fatally wounded early today when he was shot through the head while standing guard in front of the Summit State Bank, the windows of which had been shattered by the explosion of dynamite fn Mec- Cook quarry mearby. The shooting was done by sev- eral men who drove up to the bank in an automobile and fled when Forgan fell. Argo police belleve they -intended to rob the bank, but became frightened. 20k WASHINGTON, D. .C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1922_ MANY LIVE INMUD, ALTHOUGH PAYING HIGH PROPERTY TAX Streets in Select Residential Sections Are Next to Impassable. SOME UNABLE TO DRIVE MACHINES UP TO HOMES No Immediate Relief in Sight Un- less Congress Awakens to Se- riousness of Situation. Thousands of dollars invested in fine homes on which the owners pay high taxes line streets out 16th street way that are muddy and in most instances impassable, it was apparent to The | Star man who is inspecting the streets of Washington. In many instances there is no roadway rellef in sight | for these people for at least two years, it was pointed out, unless the Senate awakens to the serfousness of the situation and the helplessness of the people. There are many streets in this gen- eral section for which no appropria- tion for paving or Improvement was asked, but in the few cases money was sought, and most of those were cut out by the bureau of the budget. When The Star man stopped at 16th and Varnum streets to view the con- dition of the latter street on either slde of 16th street, Maj. Besson, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, and assistant engineer commissioner for the District, came up in an auto- mobile. He, too, was inspecting the streets and was taking pictures of many of them. No Rellef in Sight. He remarked that there was no re- lief in sight for these people and ex- pressed regret that better roadways could not be provided for such fine homes. Maj. Besson pointed out that thousands of dollars were invested In thesc homes, on which high taxcs were paid. Varnum street east of 16th Is the scene of a building operation which is placing finé homes on both sides of the street. For an automo- bile driver to try to negotiate the red clay of this “street” would be folly, and people content themselves with parking cars at the corner. This street borders on the proposed Piney Branch parkway, the purcbase of which the Senate has approved. West of 16th street this-street has been graded to some extent, but there Is no firm foundation &nd traffic already is cutting it up. It will be & continuous task to try to keep it in condition until { Congress sees fit to give tnese people something in return for the taxes they pay, it was pointed out. The homes west of 16th street are occupled. Buchanan street west of 16th street has a fine mixture of red clay as its roadway. It is marked by deep ruts | and residents there do not even try to get their automobiles out. It would be useless. One resident of this street told The Star man that he had been unable to get his automobile out of his garage for three weeks. The Commissioners asked for, and | the estimate was approved by the budget bureau and the House, an appropriation of $3,800 for the pav- ing of Crittenden street from 15th | street to Piney Branch road. Inspec- | tion of this street. reached by way of Decatur street and Piney Branch road from 16th street, showed that it was of worn macadam, badly cut up in _places. The section of the Piney Branch road from Decatur to Crittenden ia a cinder roadbed, fast being cut into deep ruts. Occupied houses line the east side of this high- way. Drive Through Alleys. The next street whick apparently needed attention was Gallatin street from Piney Branch road to 16th street, and one has to drive around through fine, paved alleys in order to get a view of it. It is another one of those temporary roadbeds of cinders, and now badly cut up, walt- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) D.C. APPROPRIATION BILL PROGRESSING Senate Subcommittee Ex- pected to Insert Some Needy Items. The Senate appropriations sub- committee in charge of the District appropriation bill {s making con- siderable progress with its con- sidoration of that measure. The sub- committee met at 2 o'clock this afternoon and Senator Phipps, chair- man, hopes to have the bill ready for the full committee early next week. The subcommittee met yesterday afternoon, and went over part of the bill, making a number of amendments. The details of the changes are withheld from publica- tion ‘at present.. However, it is generally understood that the mem- bers of the subcommittee are in- clined to deal’ generously with the District, and that many of the needed items, not included in the House bill, will be inserted. . No action has yet been taken by the subcommittee on the proposed item of $3,000,000 for work on the projected additional water supply, but it Is uyndersiood that members of the subcommittee are convinced that something must be done witkout delay to meet the District needs for water and to make it impossible for the District to be seriously ham- pered in the event of any break in the present system. . Meombers of the subcommittee this morning visited the proposed site for additional parks, 'including the Pat- terson tract in'the northeast an Klingle Ford and Piney Branch tracts in the northwest. d the | [0 YEARS FOR MAN WHO SHOT SENATOR Grock Held in $15,000 When He Appeals in Henderson Case—OQusts Lawyer. Charles A. Grock, sixty-five years old, was sentenced today by Chief Justice McCoy in Criminal Division 1 of the District Supreme Court, to serve ten years in the penitentiary. Grock shot former United States Senator Charles B. Henderson of Nevada March 5 last, while in the senator's office, the bullet lodging in the arm of the legislator. The accused noted an appeal to the Court of Appeals, and in default of bail of $15,000, was committed to Jail. Grock discharged his attorney at the trial table this morning and ar- gued a motion for a new»lrlll. ru-uu; ing that his convictl o an assault to kill s.flmfl?&fli{m was flllenL He accused his lwwyer of colluslon with the . government Prosecutor, and muru'fim Chiet of Detectives Grant had kidnaped him and kept him in the asylum for thirty-three days. The accused even charged the chief justice with bias, fluenced by the fact that Senator Henderson once introduced a bill to l:‘u:reua the salary of the chief jus- tice. ‘The defense at the trial had been insanity, but Dr. D. Percy Hickiing. the District alienist, while admitting that Grock him legally Yesponsible for his acts. Grock had been confined in an insane asylum in Nevada some years ago, it wase testified. Result of 0ld Grudge. The shooting of Senator Hender- son was stated to be the result of a grudge of many vears standing. Grock got into financial difficulties in Nevada, where he had a sheep farm, and’ claimed that friends of Mr. Henderson secured all his pos- sessions He bl {kis loss, and charged that he had {been instrumental in having him de- clared insane and in his deportation from Nevada. ; Grock had been at liberty on bail of $5.000, but Assistant U. 8. Attor- ney Emerson asked the court to in- crease the bond to $15,000, which was done. GRAND JURY’S REPORT ON MORSE UNDISCLOSED Rumor Connects Name of D. C. Banker With Finding—Gordon, Refuses Comment. The result: of the grand jury’s in- vestigation into the war contracts of Charles W. Morse, the New York shipbuilder, with the United States Shipping Board was not made public today. The grand jurors late yester- day afternoon, it is understood, made | a private report to United States At- torney Gordon on which to base an indictment which may be reported to the court Monday. . United States Attorney Gordon to- day refused even to confirm the rumor that a presentment had been received from the grand jury, and declined to say how many persons were named in the grand jury's re- port to him. Rumors that the names of persons connected with prominent officials of the last admMnistration are to be in- cluded among those found to have ecn involved in the alleged con- spiracy of Morse fo mulct the gov- crnment by means of the shipping contracts could not be verified. A ‘Washington banker, according to a rumor, may be.named in the. grand jury's report. CLERKS TAKING OVER GUARDING OF MAILS, " REPLACING MARINES Mail cleris, aided by a specially recruited guard from the postal service itself, are taking over the guarding of the mail, it being ex- pected possible within a short time to withdraw the nearly 2,000 marines that have been on duty since last November. The marines have taught postal employes not to be afraid to shoot, officials intimated, with the result that it is feit that clerks from now on will be perfectly able to han- dle the situation. To aid them, however, a carefully selected civil- fan guard is being chosen. JUDGE CRITICISES POLICE DICTATION: ficer Must Have Regulations Backing Advice. ‘I do not think any police officer asserting that the court had been in- |has the right to stand out in the mid- | work are men who have specialized on dle of the street and tell a citizen what he can or cannot do, if there is not some official regulation covering the same or unless there is some &pe- cial emergency,” Judge Hardison, in s a paranoiac, declared |the District branch of Police Court to- { can be done only by the very best day asserted, iIn dismissing the charges against Percival H. Marshall, former first assistant corporation counsel, who was arrested, February 18 for refusing to comply with the or- der of Policeman Milfon D. Smith of the third police precinct. According to the testimony Mr. Marshall, with his family. was pro- ceeding to the theater on the night named, and approaching the corner lamed Henderson for|of Madison avenue and H street, was | accosted by Policeman Smith, who told him he could not go south on Madison avenue. Mr. Marshall re- tused to comply with the policeman’s orders, saying that he knew there was no regulation that forbade it. He was then arrested and taken to the su(lon{muse and required to put up $2 collateral far refusing to obey the orders of a policeman. - Practice o Test Case. Assistant Corporation Counsel Mad- igan ptosecuted the case for the g0 stated that while there was no regu- lation regarding the closing of traffic south of Madison avenue at theater time, the officer had the right to stop Mr. Marshall under section 1, article 12, subparagraph A of the police regulations, which state that a police- | man may issue such orders as he considers proper for the expediting of traffic for the safety of life and limb. He also stated thgt this was a test case and many discussions had iarisen over it since the practice was put into operation under the regime of the late Maj. Pullman. Dropped on Previous Occasion. Mr. Marshall, in defending his ac- tion, stated that the same thing had happened to him before, but ‘that the case had been dropped upon its ap- pearance_at the corpofation counsel's office. He also stated that if such a practice lawfully could be pu* in vogue, & person coming down town in the evening had no way to know in which . manner he could proceed, and probably would have to drive all around “Robin Hood's barn.” He main- tained that for a regulation to be ef- fective it was necessary for the police department to announce it thirty days before it became a law and publish it in the daily papers. : - FORTY MILLIONS STARVING! Bodies of Children Eaten RS Famine Condstions in Russia More Horrible Today Than Ever Before AXIMILIAN HARDEN, Germany’s foremost publicist, in-a cable dispatch to be published in The Sunday Star toniorrow, presents a terrible _ picture of the sufferings of the Muscovite people® \_ under Bolshevik rule. - And he adds: 5 i Weashington Is Their Only Hope vernment today in Police Court, and | TWENTY-TWO PAGES. CALLBAGKEXPERTS TONAYY YARD J0BS ;Gun Factory Officials Find { Skilled Workers Furloughed [ in Speed to Reduce Force. | In the rush to reduce the personnel and save funds on naval work the | Washington navy yard furloughed some jof its most valuable men, particularly { skilled mechanics anfl breech mechanism | workers. Now they are calling them | back, it was learned today, as it hgs Ibeen realized that the naval gun fac- | {tory would be seriously crippled with- | jout the services of these experts. ! The calling back of these men, it was ipointed out by those in a position to | know, is just a replacement of men who were kept on during the recent cuts. The furloughing of the men was done in such 2 rush tHat the authorities did not reafize that @ number of men whom they could mot very well get along without were allowed to go. No Change in Personnel. Those who are being called back to . big gun work and big gun breech mech- lanism. It was explained that this class {of worl®is of the ‘very highest order, land takes years of training to become | expert. It Is a class of work that | machanists after they have had vears of training. Therefore, these men have | been cailed back, and others who have been filling the places since they left will be furloughed in their places. There will be no loss gr gain in the personnel. In Destitute Clreumstances. In this connection. it was pointed out that many of those furloughed recently are in destitute circum- stances. In a large number of cases the men are without funds, and they are trying now to get from the government the 21 per cent of their wages which was deducted monthly for the pension fund. Under the fur- lough plan, they cannot get this, as payment is authorized only upon separation from the service. A num- ber of the men, it was learned, are resigning just for the purpose of getting this money, which they badly need. Just one instance will indicate the i difficulties in which some of the men have found themselves by the sudden lay-off. Bank Account Gonme. There Is the case of one machinist who has a wife and two children. | Fits home was in Minnesota. He had i enough money to send his wife and | chilaren back home, but it cleaned up his bank-account. He had nothing for himself. If he could get hold of the retirement money immediately, it would be more ‘than enough to pay his fare to his home. But he had to stay, and it is estimated that it will take two or three months to get the money. In the meantime, he has no money or job. Clerks and other office employes of the navy yard, who are to be laid off as a result of the reduction of the mechanical fore are recei ty to adjust their affaire which was | not given the mechanics. | Today’s News In Brief “Bluebeard” beheaded for murder of eleven. Page 1 Theaties ordered favorably reported 1 by Senate committee. Page Premiers Poincare and Lloyd George confer on program for Genoa. Page 1 Grackl!e!l! ten years for shot at Sena- tor Henderson. Page 1 Citizens paying high taxes live in mud. Page 1 New building code declared unneces- sary. age 2 House passes $25,300,000 appropriation measure. Page 3 Federal decree by union agreement expected to improve building condi- tions. Page 3 North Carolina governor slaps State Department. Page 4) Clerk admits he wrote letters threat- ening death to society women. Page ¢ School children show improvement with midmorning lunches. Page 4 Bonus defeated in chamber of com- merce referendum. Page 4 Congress now has all Muscle Shoals offers. , Page 4 Bar association adopts recommenda- tion for additional college!training of future lawyers. Page 5 Stefawnson cerrects misconception of arctic conditions. Page 22 LLOYD GEORGE PLANS LAND DISARMAMENT SURPRISE AT GENOA By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 25.—Land dis- armament is said by the Temps to be a surprise which Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain intends to spring at the Genoa confer- ence, propusing the reductions personally or getting another of the British delegation to make the suggestion. As disarmament is not on the program, the question will come up indirectly, according to the pa- per, but it can easily be raised by first binding European states not to attack their neighbors and then suggesting reduction of armies as a means of lessening budget bur- dens. The Temps concludes that the only way to reduce land arma- ments effectiveiy would be to adopt the French peace conference idea of giving to the league of na- tions an international force to police the world. Criticising the naval act pact signed al the Washington confer- ence, the Temns describes it as binding only in time of peace, inasmuch as article 22 enables the signatories to suspend its obliga- tions during hostilities. PREMIERS CONFER ONGENOA PROGRAN Poincare and Lloyd George Meet at Boulogne for Pre- liminary Work. Br the Associated Press. BOULOGNE, February 25.—Confer- ences regarding -the program for the coming international economic and financial conference at Genoa were begun here this afterncon between Premier Poincare of France and Prime Minister Lioyd George of Great Britain. The French premier arrived at noon to prepare for the conference. Mr. Lloyd George reached here shortly before 3 o'clock, and at once joined M. Poincare in the parlors of the sub- prefecture. The discussion between the heads of the two governments was in strict privacy. the only other person present being M. Camerlynck, the French offi- cial interpreter. The British premier, who had spert the night at Lympne, England, cross- ed the channel to Calais and motored here. He was followed into Bouloxgne by a large contingent of newspaper men, who had been awaiting his 2p- i pearance along the Calals-Boulogne rogd. Genoa is receiving less and less mention as the site for the interna- tioral conference, and the impression is gaining ground that the premiers may decide it inadvisable to hold the meetipg in Italy. Even until the arrival of the noon train from Paris Boulogne, although proud of the honor at having the premiers meet here, not at all sure of it, as M. Poincare was under- stood to have so arranged that he could change the place of meeting"if pressed too closely by the crowd of reporters trailing him. The correspondents began arriving yesterday, both here and at_ Calais, which had also been mentioned as the site of the interview, and engaged all available automobiles so as to be able to follow the premiers to their meeting place, wherever it might be. SENATOR EXPLAINS RESERVATION AIMS Brandegee Declares Purpose Merely to Incorporate Views of President. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Those senators who are offering reservations to the Your-power treaty are simply trying to put into the instrument of ratification itself the meaning and interpretation of the pact which' President Harding has given them In his public addresses, “I would be willing.” said Senator Brandegee to this correspondent, “to attach as & reservation the speech which President Harding made in submitting the treaties. He said it did not mean any alliance or com- mitment or any involvement. I want to see to it that all the nations iof the world fully understand that. There were people, you know, who caid that the United States welched when it failed to ratify the Versailles treaty, and they said they had dealt with the President and imagined that was sufficlent. I believe the honest thing to do is to notify the world now when there is no dispute on the horizon that if any rights in relation to insular possessions in the Pacific are threateried the Congress of the United States will ultimately decide the issue.” Partisanship Is Denfed. There is no partisanship in the controversy that has arisen as ‘be- tween men like Senators Brandegee (Continued on Page 2, Column TWO CENTS. — PONER TREATY ORDERED REPORTED WITH RESERVATION ;Senate Committee Also Gives | 0. K. to Limitation and Sub- marine Pacts. ' | | [VOTE OF TEN TO THREE AGAINST ANY “ALLIANCE” Otker Treaties Are Unanimously | Favored—Stand of President Harding Is Approved. The four-power Pacific treaty to- gether with its supplements and a reservation and the naval limitation {and submarine treaties were ordered | favorably reported today by the Sen- ate foreign relations. committee. The reservation attached by the committee to the four-power pact em- bodies the compromise suggested aft- er conferences with President Hard- ing, and declares that nothing in the treaty shall be construed as forming an “alliance.” It was approved by & 110 t0 3 vote. Division of 10 to 2. Also by a division of 10 to 3, with Senators Borah, Idaho, and Johnson, California, republicans, and Shields, democrat, Tennessee, voting in the negative, the four-power treaty then was ordered reported to the Senat. The vote by which the naval limitation and submarine treaties were favor- ably reported was unanimous. Several other votes were taken on proposed substitutes to the committee reservation, but the administration |leaders secured the defeat of all of ithem and the reservationists aban- doned all attempts to further qualify the four-power and other treaties in commiti They said their acqui- escence in favorable committee action simply meant, however, that the were ready to transfer their fight to the open Senate. Compromise Reservation. | As it will be embodied in the report on the four-power treaty, the compro- mise reservation approved by the com- mittee follows: “The United States understands that under the statement in the preamble or under the terms of this treaty there is no commitment to armed force, no alliance, no obligation to join in any defense.” A motion by Senator Pomerene to strike out the words “no alliance™ was defeated ten to three, only Sena- tors Kellogg, republican, Minnesota, and Willlams, democrat, Mississippi joining_the Ohio senater im its sup- port. Senator Pomerene then moved an entire substitute for the reserva- tion, but was voted down twelve to one. The original Brandegee blanket reservation, for which a majority ot the committee members are said to have indicated their support before the conferences with President Hard- ling, was offered again by Senator {Johnson and was rejected nine to { four, Senators Johnson, Borah, Shields and Moses, rcpublican, New Hamp- shire, voting in the affirmative. On adoption of the compromise reserva- tion Senators Kellogg, Williams and Pomerene voted in the negative. Sen- ators Hitchcock. Nebraska: Pittman, Nevada, and Swanson, Virginia, all democrats, were absent. Separate Vote Taken. | Approval of the declaration ac- companying the four-power treaty, signed at the same time, was in- cluded in the favorable action on the treaty itself, but a separate vote was taken on the supplemental treaty by which the principal islands of the Japanese empire were excluded from the scope of the ag: ent. It was (Continucd on Page 2, Column 2.). PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE 80,000 NAVY PERSONNEL States to Republican Members of House Committee Objections to Drastic Reduction. President Harding is understood to ! have told republican members of the | House naval committee, at a White House conference today, that while he felt some reduction should be made in the Navy personnel, the total num- { ber of enlisted men ought mot to be | cut under 80,000. > The President also is said to have strongly urged legislation for conver- !sion of two battle cruisers into air- | plane carriers. | "While the guestion as to whether | the 540 members of the first-year class ! at Annapolis, to be graduates in June, ‘ should be commissioned was not con {sidered in detgil, It was stated that ! the President advecated a sharp re- duction in the number of men to be | admitted to the academy each year in {the future. Sentiment in the committee has been expressed as favoring an ap- {propriation bill _carrying around $200,000,000, as against the $350,000.- 000 asked by the Navy Department, and provision for a Navy of 60.000 men, instead of the minimum of 0, 000 set by the departmient. S CR iR EC A M by i R L INQUISITIVE SCIENTISTS THREATEN TO BREAK By the Associated Press. HALIFAX, N. S., February 25.— A party of inquisitive scientists now threatens to break in upon the quiet of the Antigonish ghost, whose fame grows ‘With each new thrill it causes. The exclusive wraith will make the acquaintance of a small group of distinguished men, if plans being discussed today are carried out. Dr. Walter Frank- lin Prince, director the American Institute for Sclentific Research, New York, has declared his inten- tion of calling at the haunted house if he can arrange a leave of ab- sence. In the event Dr. Prince makes the trip he will be accompanied hy a member of the Montreal Spiritual- ists’ Society and & professor of science from one of the IN ON “SPOOK HOUSE” provinces, it was announced today. The Antigonish ghost has gotten to be quite an international affair since first heard of a few weeks ago. The haunted house is the home of Alexander MacDonald, near Caledonia Mills, in a little-inhabited valley deep in the mountains and woods. Mr. MacDonald, his wife and their adopted daughter fled the place in terror in the dead of win- ter, with weird tales of ghostly cattle tampering and & series of in- explicable fires. The tale‘obtained wide credence, and the provincial police sent a de- tective to the place. He was ac- companied by a newspaper man, the two taking up their residence in the MacDonald house for three nights, fieeing it, finally, with an eerfe tale of being slapped in the night by, hands that didn't seem to be ate tached to anyth! in particular. Now comes the for sclentists’ investigation.