Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature, Tem- perature for twenty-four hours ended yesterday; lowest, 59, at 6 Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 16 Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. G. No. 28,498. Tf T CITIY WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1922—_TWENTY-SIX PAGES. Member of the Associsted Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dlspatches credited to ‘it or mot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published bersin. Al rights of publication of special dispatches, herein are also reservid. Saturday’s Net Circulation, 88,056 Sunday’s Net Circulation, 90,702 TWO CENTS. BILL TO PROLONG | 74000 NOW HOMELESS COMMISSION URGED IRUSSIA PROMISED * LIFE OF RENT ACT IN MISSISSIPPI FLOODS 40,000 Cared For GVEN APPRDVAL House Committee Formally . Votes to Report Out ¥ Measure Tomorrow. DOUBT IN APPOINTMENT OF PRESENT COMMISSION R Realtor Invited to Confer Declares He Has Been Advised Acts Will Not Stand. The House District committee, With # quorum present, formally voted to- day to report out a rent bill to con- tinue the life of the Rent Commission after the present law expires May 22. The committee expects to make its yeport tomorrow. In the meantime the bill already passed by the Sen- Rte will be changed by a number of mmendments, a representative of the Jegislative drafting bureau sitting with the committee in rewriting the bill. The vote in favor of reporting & rent bill was 11 to 1. Serious question as to whether there 3s now a de facto Rent Commission was raised at the meeting today. F. T. Lee of the legislative drafting bu- reau, who was called into conference, Baid that there was a grave doubt &s to the validity of the appointment ©f the present commission. 5 Believes Act Illegal. George R. Linkins, a Washington yoal estate dealer, who was also in- Yited to confer with the committee, told -the committee that he believed, and had legal advice on this point, that no act of the Rent Commission performed since October 22 would stand ip court, and that they were not de facto officers. Mr. Lee also emphasized the neces- aity, in rewriting the bill, of making clear when the life of the present commission ends, and when the pro- posed new commission of five mem- bers shall begin to function, and also a provision for covering the gap in time which will probably elapse be- tween the expiration of the present law and the time that the new com. mission begins to assume jurisdictio also legalizing what the present com- mission has done. Bill Is at Stake. There were only eight members present at 10:30 o'clock. Representa- tive Sproul of Illinois sald that the Bill is too” tmpoftant-tembe repo %0 the House without consideration by a quorum. Representative Zihl- man of Maryland emphasized that the matter is of great importance to the District. Representative’ Wheeler of Iilinols yuled that the committes could not transact any business until the quo- rum was established, so the eight members present sat around waiting until 11 o'clock before a quorum was present. A Leftwich Sinclair, chairman’ of the Rent Commission; W. F. Gude, Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor, other mem- bers of the Rent Commission, and Chapin Brown, attorney for the Rent Commission, were present. Representative Lampert of Wiscon- sin sald the first question to be set- . tled was whether the committee in- tended to report any rent bill, and it ~vas on his motion that-the commit- geo voted to report a new rent bill. Mr. Lee of the legislative drafting bureau explained the work of the bureau as being merely an instru- ment to advise the committee and to put into proper legal form the decisions of the committee, having no suggestions of its own to offer. He discussed first the Caraway samendment in regard to hotel prop- erty and it was the decision of the committee that this Senate amend- ment _should be stricken outand that the definition of rented property should be rewritten. He pointed out also that the present bill places the enforcement of at least part of the proposed new act in the District Commissioners instead of in the Rent <Commission and pointed out other discrepancies which the committee | maid should be corrected. New Commission See: It seemed the opinion of the com- mmittee today that the new bill shall be so drawn as to direct the Presi- Went td appoint an entirely new com- mission of five members and specific- ally writing into the law that the powers of the present three rent commissioners shall expire as soon ps the new five commissioners have Yeen qualified, > Represcntative Millspaugh of Mis souri, who has been fighting the ex- tension bill, said today that he would be willing to compromise oii-the bill prepared by Levy David, a Washing- ton attorney, and offered to the com- amittee by George R. Linkins, which Sould give original jurisdiction in RIl rent cases to the Municipal Court of the District. FIND CLERK AND FIANCEE | SHOT DEAD IN WOODS { stol Beside Man—Girl Grasps Flowers as Bullet Pierces Her Heart. MAMARONECK, N. Y., May 8.—The bodies of John C. Kane, jr., aged thirty-four years, and Miss Elizabeth Dunn, aged thirty-two years, were found in the woods of Alton Wood Park near here today. Miss Dunn had been slain by a ‘bullet through the heart. Kane was killed by a bullet through the mouth. An automatic pistol was found at his gide. ¥ Kane, clerk in the Mamaroneck post office, was reported to have been engaged to Miss Dunn, a school teacher. Her home was in Weedsport. | Police reported there was no evi- dence of a struggle at the spot where the bodies were found. A small bouquet of wild- flowers, lutched in the dead girl's hand, was ill unwilted when the double tragedy as discovered, 5 = in Refugee Camps And 30,000" More Are Reported In Dire Need. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, May 8.—Approxi- mately 70,000 men, women and chil- dren are homeless in Mississippi and Louisiana as the result of the Mis- sissipp{ river flood, and of this num- ber 40,000 are being fed, sheltered and clothed by the Red Cross and other organizations, it was officially announced today by various relief bodies. No provisions have been made to aid the 20,000 persoad who have not reached the refugee €amps, it was further ahnounced. The victims are almost equally di- vided in the two states. 'An official report submitted to Gov. Parker of Louislana yesterday stated that 18,564 victims were being rationed in central Louisiana, where several thousand square miles of land are inundated by the brgak in the Missis: sippi *river levee Ferriday, La., which aggravated the situation pre- viously caused by backwaters from the river's tributaries. To this will be added those being succored in southern Louisiana as the result of the breaks in the levees at St. Ber- nard and Plaquemines parishes. 20,000 to Be Fed. The Mississippi flood situation com- mittee announced it is facing the task of feeding 20,000 persons in the Yazoo basin of western Mississipp!, where backwaters from the Missis- -sippl have covered an area of more than thirty-five by fifty miles The commission declared at a mass meet- ing that funds were “pitifully in- adequate” and adopted a resolution to draft a prayer to President Hard- ing urging him to *issue a nation- wide call for contributions to the re- liet fund. Refugee camps established in Loui- siana and Mississippi are being taxed to capacity and additional refugees are arriving daily as the flood waters continue to reach out into new terri- tory or increase the depth of the area already flooded, making untenable the homes where.many are making a determined stand against the waters. Rations Being Supplied. In Louisiana rations are being sup- plied to 6,000 persons at camps in the area of Rhinehart and Harrisonburg. It is expected this number will be increased to 10,000 soon. Around Fer- riday 5500 are being maintained. Four thousand are in distress in the Avoyesses camps: Forty-five thou- sand rations have been distributed to the needy in St. Martin’s parish. At Jackson Barracks, the clearing sta- tion for southern Louisiana, the num- i)enxauot refugees has ranged up to H. B. Conner of Vidalia, La., nem- ber of the state relief commission, declared that he would make'a per- sonal appeal to organization head- quarters at Baton Rouge in behalf of the flood victims of Concordia and Tensas parishes, who, remaining at home instead of journeying to refu- gee camps, are not being helped. He declared the policy of the rellef or- ganizations is to extend relief only at the camps, which excludes thou- sands who remained at home, most of whom are in dire need. The relief work is being carried on by the Red Cross, state organizations and individual volunteers. NATIONAL APPEAL EIKELY. —_— e Red Cross Manager Says More Funds Are Needed. By the Associated Press. NATCHEZ, Migs., May 8.—1In a state- ment given to the Associated Press Joseph C. Logan, a: t manager of the southern division® of the Red Cross, says that there are now in Mississippl and Louisiana not less than 70,000 who are homeless from the Mississipp! Yiver flood, and that he regards; a national appeal for as- sistance as essential. The statement follows “The R Cross has supplied the ‘west Mississippi river sufferers with 327,500 for emergency relief, of which, in round figures, $12,000 had been spent four days ago. “1 personally regard a national ap- peal through the Red Cross, probably supplemented by a congressional! ap- propriation, as essential to the secur- ing of sufficient resources to relieve the destitution caused by the flood. ‘Officials of the Red Cross at Wash- ington are on the job, and something ‘will probably break in the next forty. eight hours.” D.G. HEADSIN DOUBT ONBAYLIGHTSAVING May Not Order Change Ap- proved by U. S. Departments. Postmaster Perplexed. Although the federal departments, mercantile establishments, traction companies and raflroads will begin operating on the daylight-saving plan next Monday, the Commissioners to- day strongly Intimated that the Dis- trict government will not adopt the new arrangement. The Commission- ers, however, will reach a definite de- cision in the matter at their board meeting tomorrow morning. The public schools, according to Supt. Frank W. Ballou, will follow any decision made by the Commis- sioners for the District government. Therefore, if the city heads do not favor the plan, the District govern- ment and the schools will be virtually the only large local units not Tunning under the system of opening and osing an hour earlier. ‘Commissioner Rudolph, chairman of the board of Commissioners, said to- day that he was heartily in favor of daylight saving by means of turning back the hands of all clocks, but that he is not in accord with the plan of merely starting work an hour sooner without changing the clocks. Business Firms Approve. Practically every large business es- tablishment in Washington definitely agreed today to adopt the daylight- saving plan, in a resolution passed unanimously by the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association. The as- sociation represents virtually all the {1arge mercantile and industrial estab- lishments in the ctly, employing ap- proximately 5,000 persons. At the same time orders were is- sued by Secretaries Hughes, Weeks and Denby advancing by sixty min- utes the hour for beginning labor in the State, War and Navy depart- ments beginning.next Monday morn- ing, In_accordance with suggestions received from the President. From that date until otherwise ordered the employes of those departments will report for duty at 8 o'clock a.m. and be excused at 3:30 p.m. It is expected that the usual Sat. urday half holiday in the federal de- partments, formerly effective at 1 o'clock p.m., also will be advanced, to 12 o'clock. That weekly holiday' is based on executive order and will be put in operation the 17th of June of this year, unless & change is made in existing orders. Position Taken by Merchants. The resolution adopted by the mer- chants set forth that the association heartily inddrses the request of Presi: dent Harding for the opening and closing 6f the government depart- ments an hour earlier, and stating that all the merchants affiliated with the organization would open their stores an hour earlier, beginning next Monday, and closing’an hour earlier, making the final closing hour at § o'clock. This means that the depart- ment stores, which now open at 9:15 o'clock and close at 6, will open at 5 and close af 5. The meeting of the merchants’ association was at- tended by representatives of all the large department stores, speclalty stores, jéwelers and others. Gen. Anton Stephan, president of the as- soclation, presided. Prior to the adoption of the reso- lution many of the large stores al- ready were arranging their schedules to fit in with the daylight saving plan. . Ofclals.of the Capital Traction and Washington companies said today that the sched- ules on their respective lines would be rearranged to meet the newshours of employment. City _Postmaster Chance today de- 90 Pags Rallway and Electric FISCAL PLAN READY FOR SENATE AGAIN Change in District Tax Sys- l tem Expected Up ‘Today... Fight May Delay Actiong The District appropriation bill and the conference fiscal relations rider, as reported from the Senate appro- priations committee, is expected to come up for consideration in-the §en- ate before adjournment today. The supporters of the new fiscal relatiens plan hope to have it approved. Op- ponents of the plan, on the qther hand, will seek to have th 11 and rider recommitted, with instruc- tions that hearings be held. Senator Jones of Wasnington, one of the conferees on the District biil, who aided in drawing, up the mew fiscal relations plans, today intro- duced s bill to make one-half of the taxes on real estate and real personal property payable November 1 and one-half payable May 1. The purpose of the bill is to make some of the revenues of the District available early in the fiscal year. In this wa it will be possible to bring the Dis- trict to a cash-paying basis 4n accord- ance with the new fiscal relations plan, without laying up such a large sum of money in surplus taxation as was originally believed necessary. ‘The Jones bill, which was referred lto the Senate District committee, | provides that, beginning July 1, 1922, land annually thereafter, one-half of the tax on real estate and real per- sonal property in the District shall become due and payable November 1 and one-half May 1. If the install- ment of one-half is not paid before December 1 the bill provides that this installment shall ‘be held to be in arrears, and that & penalty of 1 per ¢dent per month shall be charged against the delinquent taxpayer until the installment is paid. The second installment must be. paid before June 1, or a similar penalty will run against it ~ The fight in the Senate over the fiscal relations plan and the contention that the people of the city should be given an_opportunity to be heard in regard to it may cause action, to go over for another day, it was said. Resolutions adopted by the Board of Trade, protesting against thé new fiscal relations plan, were laid before the Senate today by Vice President Coolidge. DENIES SEEING MOTOR. NEW YORK, Mey 8.—Arthur West, manager of- the power engineering hem Steel Company, issued a state- ment denying that he- had inspected and approved an automobile engine designed by H. H. Elmer, treasurer and general manager of the Globe Malleable Iron and Steel -Company of Syracuss, as announced from that city two weeks ago. At that time the claim wi made that. the engine would run 300 miles on\a gallon of fugl costing 5% centa. “Ag_Mr. Elmer well knows,” said Mr. West's statement, “I have no knowledge whatever of this e and have never been to’Syracess 3o elsewhere to inspect it. I regard his claim as entirely impossible.” * 70,000 homeless {n river flood. Page. 1’ Floggings quell jail riot, Page 1 Commissioners. indicate ‘doubt of or- deri daylight-sayin > Dlatrict government, © oS for feat of Senator Reed. open conventlon in this city. Gen. Wi '3 n. Wood to prolong dut; : Sihes until Januars, Auty in ;hmp. Pattergon, cash register founder, dies. SR > age 7 Central Mission bui and sales department of the Bethle- | & Today’s News in Brief. guarant Page 1 e co. Bx-President Wilson again urges de- ::! o e ge 1|an Owners of moving picture- theaters o Inws lding fund_passes { Si) Pegeds 10 SPEED PLANS T0 RECOGNIZE MEXICO { u. s. Goverfiment Ready to Agree to Move Is Asked —hy Obregon BOTH SIDES DISSATISFIED WITH CONTINUED DELAY Matter Taken Before President Today—Property Guarantees Insisted Upon. Appointment of an international commission to consider all thé issues involved in American recognition of the Obregon government in Mexico has been suggested in some official quarters as a solution of the contin- ued faflure of the United States gov- ernment and Mexico City authorities to agree on a recognition program. Although the United States still in- sists that a positive guarantee against confiscatory provisions of the Mexi- can constitution of 1917 must pre- cede recognmition, it was intimated today that a commission to continueé the negotiations would be agreed to here if it were suggested formally by Gen. Obregon. No such request has yet been received. Both Sides Dissatisfled. ‘There have been indications that both sides were dissatisfled with the trend of the present negotiations, which have been in progress through the ordinary diplomatic channels for nearly a year without concrete re- sults. A commission of limited scope ‘was suggested several months ago by Gen. Obregon, but at that time it ap- peared that adoption of that method might not be necessary. Since then, however, repeated exchanges of views were sald at the State Depart- ment today to have taken place with- out materially altering the principal points of difference. American officlals have not aban- doned hope that the present method of negotiation may yet be fruitful, but there are indications that they would welcome any development which might lead to better progress. The suggested commission, if created, would be expected to take as & ba of négotlation the proposed treaty of commerce and amity suggested by the State Department on -May 27, 1921, and the many notes which have been exchanged since regarding it. It is not the understanding of thos: who suggested appointment .of s ‘commission that the body would take up in detail American claims in It.would be expected to con- ex1co, ne its work to settlement of the involved and probably to of other internaticnal principles the creation Taken Up With President. The whole situation was discussed with President Harding today by Senator Bursum, republican, of New Mexico. Although no official would comment, it was indicated in admin- istration circles generally that some step to hasten the course of the ne- gotiations might be expected In the near future. The American government is stand- ing unalterably for the guarantees re- quested of the Obregon regime in Mexico nearly a year ago, and so far Gen. Obregon and his advisers have given no definite assurances that these guarantees will be given in or- der to make formal recognition of their government possible. Many Intimations that the Mexican authorities. might be favorably dis- posed toward the American request have reached the State Department, but officials here will not be satisfied with anything less than a formal pledge by the Obregon government it- self. It was said at the State Department loday that consequently the situation remained just where it was when the terms of recognition were submitted to Mexico City in June, 1921. Must Give Protection. As on that date, the Department's attitude still is that the Mexican su- horities must give absolute protection. against confiscatory actlon in regard to foreign property. Beyond this, of- ficlals say, this government has not gone. It is declared there has been no attempt by the department’s rep- resentstives to add any' demands which would interfere with Mexican internal affairs. or would require spe- cial concessions to the United States in_the future. nSneh information as the department has encourages officials to believe that the formal pledges they require may eventually be given. It is pointed out, however, that although perso: letters and some press dispatche from Mexico have quoted the Obregon authorities as willing to accede, the State Department has'no official in- formation whatever to that effect. A formal ~government _pledge ajnst confiscation, such as this government will require before it ex- tends recognition, might be given; it is believed here, in any one.of several way! Emphasizing that none of these methods has been adopted, of- ficials stated today that Gen. Obregon ‘him had given no assurance to the doplrgnenl. that the Mexican con- gress has no law_to meet the situation and preme, court at the Mexican su- delivered only one decision on the subject. Present Status Ambiguous. This court decision is regarded by some American officials as ambiguous in itselt, and it is further pointed out that under. Mexican legal practices five opinions by the supreme tribunal of the land are necessary before a precedent s considered established. xplad their position, State Delll:‘nftflunt offictals also emphasized that the United States. government not and would not for any tees for American capi- ‘The American uest, as said, was simply that hts -acquired under Mexico's tm”flnmm b: rl:.mtad.“d‘ = it guarantes is gran o 'i.i:ent ‘was said to take the po u;’m-t,Anmm\u italists th could compete in the Mexican fleld, it they desired, under an open-door arrangement _ without asking special favors. wi d Ex-Secretary. Lansing gives reasons The teeling of the tflminl-trit(o» Tor United Statea entry into Haltl | pere {s that it has taken évery pos- Jle means to make it easy.for Gen: (Continudu-pn £ MISS CULBERSON'S SUITORIS DEFIANT Asks British Embassy to Aid Him in Pushing Kid- nap Charge. MISS MARY CULBERSON. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, May 8.—A request that the British embassy send an agent to escort him from-the station to- morrow, so- that he would not be molested, has been made by Alexan- der E. Robertson, British war vet- eran, who plans to go to Washington to press his‘charges that private de- tectives attempted “to railroad him out of the country because of his efforts to win the hand of Miss Mary Culberson, = daughter of * Senator Charles A. Culberson of Texas. This became known today when it was learned that Robertson, who lives in Bloomfleld, had written a special de- livery letter to Morris Peterson. sec- retary of the British embassy, sup- plementing & telegram sent yester- day. Robertson is seeking to have the embassy assist him in obtaining the arrest of John Rhuland and T. G. Anderson on charges_of imperson-. ating federal officers. He already has caused the arrest of John F. Ellis, another lf.ec(l'!, on a charge of kidnaping. The fricndship between Robertson and Miss Culberson was said to have started at the University of Texas three months ago, where they weae students. The two met again recenf ly in Washington, where Miss - Cul- berson_was entered in. the -Holton Arms School. . Anxious to Prosecute. Police Recorder W. H. Rawaon of Bloomfield, before Whom Robertson appeared and secured the warrant on the Kkidnaping chirge, . sald ‘that Robertson had appeared very anxious to prosecute Ellis. “He didn't say anything about a senator until after Ellis was ar- raigned in court,” said Judge Raw- son. “The first I knew about such connections with the case was when Ellis told some people at Bloomfield police headquarters that a Ullloll States senator was behind him and that Robertson and the senator’s daugh- ter wers friends.” Detective Sergt. J. J. Huddy, who accompanied Robertson here - and went with him. in the company ‘of a Newark detective to the hotel where Ellis was arrested, described : how Ellis, atter his return in custody of Bloomfield, called up the 'secretary, of the senator in Washington. After Ellis talked with this man in Washington, according to .Huddy, James R. Nugent, New Jersey's dem- ocratic leader, who is practicing law here, got in touch with Ellis, “told him to plead.not guflty and give bail for grand jury action. Detective Furaishes Bafl. - - Court records show that Elli§ dia this and was held in $3,000 bail, which was furnished by J. I Rush of East Orange. ATe Judge Rawson 'sald that, as, the grand jury was very.busy, it might take several weeks before it could reach a case of this sort. Court records show that Ellis gave it his address as 511 16th street so; east, Washington, D. C., and hid cupation as detective. At the British-American ‘War vvé- erans’ Assoctation ' roo: York .it was .sald .that, s in - New other Mr, ‘the T e BOMB FOR U. S. LEGATION, SOFIA THREAT TO SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI By the Assoclated Press. SOFIA, BULGARIA, May 8.—A threat to blow up the American legation here unless the United States brings about the release of Sacco and Vanzetti, communists under conviction for murder in Massachusetts, has been received at_the legation. The threat is contained in an ar- ticle in a clandestinely published anarchist newspaper, which, en- cased in a red wrapper, was sent to the American minister, Charles S. Wilson. “The second bomb will not fail,” the article says, referring to the explosion of an infernal machine at the legation on March 11. The building is being watched day and night by special agents. FLOGGINGS QUELL CHIGAGO JAL RIOT Physicians Called as Woman Prisoner and Babigs Collapse. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 8.—A four-hour riot in the Cook county jail was quelled early today when Wesley Westbrook. warden, and thirty guards removed the ringleaders from their cells one at a time and whipped them. Dis- pleasure of the prisoners over a change in the method of admitting visitors lead to the outbreak. The riot started on the fourtl tier. Flaming blankets were dropped to the ground floor. Dense smoke almost suffocated many inmates. “With steel strips torn from their bunks the ‘pris- oners beat upon the plr! of their cells, the bedlhm being heard for blocks. Crowds thered at the jail entrance and police were called drive them away. The women’s ward is just above the fourth tier. Four babies who were locked up when their motkers and two other women were committed last Thursday on a contempt of court | sentence three yers old became hys- terical and jail physicians were called to quiet them. One woman, about to become a mother, was reported to be suffering a severe nervous shock. ‘Warden Westbrook said that, after | each of more than 900 prisoners h: a visitor on a recent visiting' day, packages left mounted so high it re- quired the entire jail force nearly all night to sort them. “The result was that guns, saws, files, drugs and all manner of con- traband came into the jail” he said. The warden then decided to divide the jail into four sections, and permit only one-fodrth of the prisoners to have visitors at a time. PELLETIER DISBARRED BY BAY STATE COURT Deposed District- Attorney Makes No Defense to Conspiracy and Conduct Charges. ‘BOSTON, May 8.—The disbarment of Joseph C. Pelletier, recently re- moved as. district attorney of Suf- folk county, was ordered by decision of ‘Judge Carroll of, the supreme court today. Pelletier had entered no defense, contending that he was fore- judged by reason of his removal. The charges were the same—conspiracy to extort money, and improper action ‘in_ securing and in quashing indict- ments. The order for Pelletier’s disbarment comes within a short time of that for disbarment of Daniel H. Coakley, an attorney long prominent in crim- inal practice, who, in the trials on which Pelletier and, Nathan A. Tufts were removed as_district attorneys, was. shown to have been involved in obtalning the quashing of charges in return for large fees. In each case Attorney General Allen {introduced records of bank transact ROYALTY VISITS ROYALTY. King George and Queen Mary to Be *Guests of Belgian Monarch. By the Awcelated Press. and Queen Mary of Great Britain, ac- companied by a sulte which ingluded Field Marshal Earl Halg and Admiral . , arrived here this afternoon for a_state g AN Znd. Gaec Biizas onldt' to Vi Deth; K s in an ) WILSON NOW CALLS REED A “NARPLOT” Asks Defeat of Senator “to Redeem Reputation of Democratic Party.” By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, May 8.—Referring to United States Senator James A. Reed as a “marplot,” former President Wil- son, in a letter to former Gov. Lon V. Stephens, made public today, asked the defeat of Missouri's senior sen- ator to.“redeem the reputation” of the democratic party. It was Mr. Wilson's third letter on the subject of the democratic nom. ination for United States senator, sought by Mr. Reed and -Breckinridge Long, former 'third assistant secre- tary of state, in the Wilson adminis- tration. The letter was in reply to ome by Mr. Stephens in which the former governor referred to a letter the for- mer President recently wrote the St. Louis _ Globe-Democrat _attacking Reed. Mr. Reed replied to this letter, in which he questioned Mr. Wilson's memory. N Latest Wilson Letter. \ The_letter, under date of April 27, to Mr. Stephens follows: “My Dear Gov. Stephens: “Your letter of April 22 has gratified me. Iam glad to be sustained in my own judgment of Reed by your own closer knowledge of him ang I shall hope and confidently expect to see him repudiated by the democrats at the primaries. Certainly Missouri cannot afford to be represented by such a marplot, and it might check the enthusiasm of democrats through- out the country if their comrades in Missour! should not redeem the reputation'of the party by substitut- ing for Reed a man of the true breed of democratic principle. I am sure your own.great influence will con- tribute to the desired and expected redemption. “Please accept assurances of my entire confidence in the Missouri democrats and believe me, with best wishes,. sincerely yours, < “WOODROW WTLSON.” In a letter last week to John C. Higdon, a local attorney, Mr. Wilson asked Mr. Higdon *not to compli- cate the contest in Missouri” by be- coming a candidate for the nomina- tion. Mr. Long recently opened his cam- paign at Cape Girardeau and Mr. Reed opened his Saturday at Moberly. The primary is August 1. In his opening campaign address Senator Reed defended his course and asserted. Mr. Wilson “was the boy who is conducting the éampaign in Missouri for the other side.” AT T et o PACIFIC NAVAL BASES OPPOSED BY SENATORS Announcement was made today that the Senate naval committee would refuse to add to the pending naval appropriatfon bill legislation re- quested by the Navy Department, pro. viding for development of new naval bases on the Pacific coast, including a fleet base at Alameda, Call aviation station at S8and Point, Wash., -n(ll tl.‘l\lhml.rll’le base at San Pedro, Calif. > The announcement was made feor the ommittee after Rear Admiral Greg- ory, chief of the bureau of and docks, had renewed the department’s request. . The committee took under advise- ment Admiral Gregory's request for an additional appropriation of $200,000 for new storage buildings at the San Diego, Calif.,, destroyer base. PRESIDENT IS PLANNING OUTING IN NEW JERSEY, GUEST OF SENATOR EDG President Harding has made ten- tative plans to leave Washington Friday for a visit to New Jersey as the guest of Senator Edge of that state. The President, it was leatned to- day, has in mind the obtaining of = short period of recreation on the golt links. He plans to go first to Seaview, the home of Senator - Edge near Atlantic City, and may so be the guest of Senator Fre- nghuysen, also of New Jersey. Although nothing has been given out at the White House on the proposed trip, it is understoed the itinerary calls for about five days' absence from Washington. The President, it was said to- day, also expects to go to Pfince- ton, N. J., June 9, to unveil a mon ument on the revolutionary bat-' 3 s l LOAN FOR AGREEING T0 ALLIED TERMS Assured of Getting 300, 000,000 Gold Francs for Reconstruction Work. LENIN SAID TO OBJECT TO ONE OF PROPOSALS Opposed to Clause Forbidding Bol- shevistic Propaganda Abroad. France and Belgium Denounced. By the Assoclated Press. GENOA, May 8—Prime Minister Lloyd George of Great Britain and Foreign Minister Schanzer of Italy addressed today a strong appeal to the Russian representatives at the conference here urging them to aec- cept the allied memorandum ip its main points and promising Russia an international loan, with the under- standing that the lending countries would thus provide'funds for the re- construction of Russia. The allies would claim the right to make sure, however, that the money loaned was actually invested .Sn the work of reconstructicn. The Russian delegation had pre- viously issued a statement denounc- ing the efforts it alleged France and Belgium had made to wreck the con- ference. The statement called atten- tion to the fact that these powers, which were predicting that Russia’s refusal to accept the memorandum would break the conference up, had not themselves signed the - randum. i e it Wait for Quorum. It was asserted that altogether the proposed loan would amount to 300,- 000,000 gold francs. It has been de- clared that the Russians were asking for 3,000,000,000 gold rubles, or twen- ty-five times as much as the allied offer. M. Tchitcherin, it was learned, has receiyed instructions from Premier Lenin which are reported to embody {an emphatic order not to accept clause one of the allied memorandum, which forbids bolshevistic propa- ganda abroad, virtually restricts Rus- sia to her present boundaries and asks Russian neutrality between the Turks and the Greeks. Lenin's contention is reported to be that this clause infringes upon Rus- sian sovereignty, attempts to prevent Bessarabia_from -effecting a .reunion with the Ukralne and seeks to inter- fere with the friendly relations with the Turkish natiol st government of Mustapha Kemal Pasha established by the Angora treaty. = Note to Facta. According to the French delegation here; the Russians sent a note to Premier Facta, chalrman of the con- ference, today discussing certain ar- ticles of the memorandum submitted to them. The French representatives characterized this note as “the first installment of the Russian reply.” Vice Premier Barthou, addressing the newspaper correspondents from the states which are members of the little entente, reiterated with empha- sis what he told the American and English correspondents yesterday. He declared that France, for one, would never stand from the Ruasian dele- gates at Genoa the same “dilatory tactics” employed by the representa- tives of the Far Eastern Republic dur- ing their negotiations with the Japa- nese at Dairen, which were finally broken off by the Japanese. If the Russians do not give a cate- Aflml affirmative answer to the memorandum that has been submitted to them France will not go on with the negotlations, and if no arrange- ment is made with the Russians the non-aggression pact becomes impos- sible, M. Barthou emphasized. Facta Back in Gens Although the Itallan parliament is in session, Premler Facta returned to Genoa from Rome this morning, ac- companied by Signor Bertome, the minlster of finance, and Signor Shar- ba, the minister of labor, called here by the gravity of tHe conference sit- uation. g Foreign Minister Tchitcherin _of Ru: was the first delegate Sig- nor Facta saw. The premier in his conversation with the head of the Russian delegation emphasized the necessity for all Europe, but more particularly for Russia, that the con- ference prove successful. He asked that the greatest effort be made by the Russian delegation to find such a compromise as would be accepta- ble to all. N “France, like the United States, de- sires the policy of the opéh door in Russia strictly observed,” declared Camille Barrere, the second.French plenipotentiary at the economic con- ference, in a statement to The Associ- ated Press last night. M. Barrere, who has the reputa- tion of being France's leading dip- lomat, compared Russia’ with a coun- try endowed with natural resources. in which all countries should have equal opportunity in development in the interests of Russia herself, as well as the other nations. END OF PARLEY PREDICTED. BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. The Star and Chicago Daily News. By Oable o T righ, 1822, GENOA, May 8.—With the French threat to leave Genoa unless the Rus- * slan reply to the latest allied mem- orandum is fayorable, the conference atmosphere is becoming more elec- tric. Many persons are predicting that it is approaching its end. The French program seems to be this: To meet a negative Russian answer with im- mediate withdrawal and to reply in- stantly to an obscure, inconclusive or partial reply with an immediate itimatum. = No Frenchman here believes that the Russians will reply with an unquali- fied yes. But this yes is exactly what the British and Italians are trying by all means in their power to extract from Foreign Commissioner Tchit- herin—a yes which will almost if not Quite fulfil Europe's demands and which will place the French here in a position where they must continue to Pegotiate, using their influence to carry ' with_them Belgium,’ Czecho- slovakia and Jugoslavia, It is known only to a few that only prompt action on the part of_ the British experts Jast Tuesday prevented the Czechs and Jugoslavs from withdrawing thelr edhesion to the memorandum to the