Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Fail freezing. p.m. today: Highest, yester l-‘ul?reperk on page 4. tonight and tomorrow; contihued cold: lowest temperature tonight fiear Temperature for 24 hours ended at ay: lowest, 40, at 8 4.m. today. at 2 p.m. Closing N.'Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 S Entered as s 28,694. >cond-class matter post office Washington, D. C. Bluntly Declares Aid Vital to Keep Flag A-Sea. PROMISES MORE HELP TO FARMER Bill Reported Out in House Before His Address. President Harding today called upon Congress to deal promptly with the merchant marine situation in which the country finds itself. At a joint meeting of the Senate and House, in the House chamber, the chief execu- tive bluntly told the legislators that government ald is essential if the American flag Is to fly overseas; If the United States is to save anything out of the $3,000,000,000 which it poured out in shipbuilding during the war, and if the country is to be nroperly prepared in event of another conflict. Faces Divided Congress. Facing a Congress that admittedly is divided over the administration’s proposal of govérnment aid for merchant shipping, the President de- livered a clear and logical argument in support of the ship subsidy bill. He admitted the distaste with which regard the term many ericans “~subsidy”"—the feeling that subsidies are granted only to special interest., He denied. however, that the ship- ping bill would result in aiding sp: cial interests. Rather, he insisted, it would benefit the whole of the re- public. The President confined his recom- mendations to Congress today to the nerchant marine bill. He alluded. however, to the distress which the farmers of the countr: and s: that in his message at the opening of the regular session two weeks hence he would deal with leg- islation to the farmers and with other subjects of pressing need. Talks in Dollars and Cents. Casting 1o Ameri special de for a moment appeals n pride, the President spoke of the saving in dollars and cents to the government and American ;ple if the shipping bill goes through. e pointed out that under existing con- ditions, with merchant ships operated by the shipping board, the government is £50,000,000 a year. Under the ed government aid plan, this loss aid would be cut in e The merchant marine bIYl, with amend- wients agreed to yesterday by republican niembers, was formally reported out by the House merchant marine committee today, without a record vote, while President Harding was arranging to go to the Capitol. CROWDED GALLERIES, MOSTLY WOMEN, GREET PRESIDENT WITH CHEERS The galleries of the House were packed to the doors when the Senate and House met in joint session. The doors were thrown open at 11 o'clock, | and an hour before the President was | scheduled to appear personally to de- liver his address the crowd began to pour in. There was a preponderance of women among the spectators. Among those in the President’s gal- were Brig. Gen. C. E. Sawyer, the ident's personal physician; Mrs. William v wife of the Chief Ju: Mrs. C: ident's sister. Mrs. E. B. Mc- Lean and Lieut. Commander Boone. In the diplomatic gallery were Am- bassador and Mme. Jules J. Jusserand, the Persian minister, Charge Lage; berger of the Swiss legation, the min- s of the ite, Dr. and Mrs, | gene Meyer and Charles C. Glover, nying Mrs. Frank W. Mon- wife of the floor leader, wore lenry Huntington of Cheyenne, Wyo. Mrs. B. B. Winter, Casper, Wyo., and Jrs. Rousseau of Cody. Some of the most prominent mem- hers of the cabinet and government officials were conspicuously absent from the gallerics. Old-time pollfical leaders were seen here and there, in- cluding such men ax James B. Rey~ nolds and Joseph E. Davies. Received by Mr. Porter. Representative Stephen Porter of Pennsylvania, chairman of the com- mittee on foreign affairs, acted as a reception. committee for the members of the diplomatic corps. After transacting routine business, the House stood in recess at 12:15 for twenty-five minutes awaiting the coming of the President and the mem- bers of the Senate. The President was | accompanied to the Capitol by his cretary, (ieorge Christian. When the President entered the House chamber at 0 o'clock the entire assemblage rose and applauded. - has the House chamber held ¢ persons. In addition to the members of the Senate and the House were high officials of the government. cupying a seat among the sen tors sat Mrs. WOH. Felton, who had magched over to the House from the Serfate chamber with the Senate, legy ing the question of her right to ‘be sworn in as a senator still-to be set- | tled by the Senate. i After the applause had died away, | President Harding began the reading| C his address. His voice was'carried great distinctness to every part e chamber by the big amplifiers, which for the first time are being used in the House chamber this session. The President read his message slow- 1y and distinetly. His audience fol- Jowed him with extreme interest, lis- tening closely to his argument. Words Bring Applause. The President had proceeded with his address for a quarter of an hour before he was interrupted with ap- plause. After pointing out three courses of action, the first, enactment f thé pending bill: second. contin- ance of government operation and are suffering | {be taken up, Text of Speech By President on Ship Relief Bill President Harding in his ad- idress to the joint session of Con- gress on the administration mer- chant marine bill spoke as follows: Members of the Congress: Late last February I reported to You relative to the American mer- chant marine, and recommended legislation which the executive branch of the government deemed essential to promote our merchant marine and with it our national welfare. Other problems were pressing and other questions pend- ing, and for one reason or another, which need not be recited, the sug- gested legislation has not pro- gressed beyond a favorable rec- ommendation by the House com- mittee. The committee has given the question a full and palnstak- ing inquiry and study, and I hope that its favorable report speedily will be given the force of law. Frank Recognition of Opinions. It will be helpful in clearing the atmosphere if we start with the frank recognition of divided opin- ion and determined opposition. It is no new experience. Like pro- posals have divided the Congress on various previous occasions. Per- haps a more resolute hostility never was manifest before, and I am very sure the need for decisive action—decisive, favorable action —never was so urgent before. We are not now dealing with a policy founded on theory, we have a problem which is one of grim ac- tuality. We are facing insistent conditions, out of which will come either additional and staggering government losses and national impotence on the seas, or else the unfurling of the flag on a great American merchant marine com- mensurate with our commercial importance, to serve as carfier of our cargoes in peace and meet the necessities of our defense in war. There is no thought here and now to magnify the relation of a mer- chant marine to our national de- fense. It is enough to recall that we entered the world war almost wholly dependent on our allies for transportation by sea. We expended approximately three billions, fever- ishly, extravagantly, wastefully, and impractically. Out of our eager- ness to make up for the omissions of peace and to meet the war emer- gency we builded and otherwise ac- quired the vast merchant fleet which the government owns today. To Deal With What We Have. In the simplest way I can say it, our immediate problem is not to build and support a merchant ship- ping, which I hold to be one of the highest and most worthy aspirations of any great people; our problem is to deal with what we now possess. Our problem is to relieve the public treasury of the drain it is already meeting. Let us omit particulars about the frenzied war-time building. Possibly we did full as well as could have been done in the anxious cir- cumstances. Let us pass, for ghe moment the vital relationship be- tween a merchant marine and a com- mercially aspiring nation. Aye, let us suppose for a moment the ab- surdity that with one $3,000,000,000 experience, and with the incalculable costs in lives and treasure, which may be chargeable to our inability promptly to apply our potency— Which God forefend happening again —let us momentarily ignore all of these and turn to note the mere busi- ness problem, the practical question of dollars and cents with which we are cénfronted. Losses Greatly Reduced. The war construction and the later completion of war contracts, where completion was believed to be the greater economy to the public treas- ury, left us approximately 13,200,- 000 gross tonnage in ships. The figures are nearer 12,500,000 tons now, owing to the scrapping of the wooden fleet. More than half this tonnage is government owned, and approximately 2,250,000 tons are under government operation in one form or another. The net loss to the United States Treasury—sums actually taken therefrom in this gov- ernment * operation —averaged ap- proximately $16,000,000 per month during the year prior to the assump- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) D.C. COMPENSATION AND MILK BILLS LEAD LIST If there is any District legislation considered in the House at this ses- sion of Congress, the first measures to according to -present plans, are the Fitzgerald workman's compen‘sl;llglh bl]lI and the Lampert pure mi ill, which is su rte the District health office. R The Fitzgerald workman's com- pensation bill is unfinished business on District day in the House. Repre- sentative Roy C. Fitzgerald of Ohio, author of this measure, said today attending government losses, and the third the sacrifice and scrapping of American ships, the President said: 1 have come to urge the construc- tive alternative. to reassert an American ‘We will." " At this point the applause broke out. Only on two other occasions was|mittee which held extensive hearings | this there applause during the course of his rémarks, once when he declared that he rejoiced that higher stand ards for labor on American ships h that he intends to press for action upon it as soon as Chairman Focht returns to the Capitol from the hos- pital, which is expected to be the lat- ter.part of this week. Representative Florian Lampert of ‘Wisconsin, chairman of the suboom- in regard to safeguarding the purity and grevenllnl’ profiteering in the distribution” of milk in Washingtony said that he has received assurances @ WASHINGTON, D. PRESIDENT PUTS SHIP BILLIMRS, FELTON TAKES| UP TO CONGRESS, OPENING BIGGEST FIGHT OF CAREER ~ Pasé It and Save $20,000,000, He Says in Plea. | | | [ .WRECK OF FLEET SEEN IN DEFEAT Aware of Hostility With- in Own Party to His | Program. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Harding today placed | | squarely before Congress an ultima- | tum—either pass the bill salvaging {the American merchant fleet from | further loss or take the responsibility jof a destructive alternative. The i message of the President is fraught { with the most dangerous consequences 1to the republican party. The party | | must stand by its leader or wreck the ! administration’s chances of succeeding i itself. Chooses to Fight. Mr. Harding is fully aware of the hostility of members of the republican party from the middle west to the ship | subsidy program. Courageously he has | chosen to fight. And the bombardment of facts which 'the President has started will not end with a mere| message. It will be followed by per- sonal conferences in a heart-to-heart | appeal to stand by the President, by | the administration and by the principle of a united republican party. - Insur- gents there are. Prejudices are numer- ous. But against them all the Presi- ldem arrays the facts. Attacks the Name “Subsidy.” Discreetly Mr. Harding attacks the weakness of the situation, the name of the legislation, “ship subsidy.” He { tries to convert this weakness, due to | prejudice, into a point of strength. He | argues that government appropria- tions for good roads are a subsidy, the {War Finance Corporation granted subsidies, the money spent for inland 'wa!erway improvement is a subsidy, }and so on with dozens of other ex ! penditures which appear to benefit a class, but on behalf of which it | is! claimed that ultimately the whole country benefits. Mr. Harding, it 1s conceded In ! Washington,-made out I”l his message the strongest case for’his bill that | might have been made. He epito- {mized and emphasized all the argu- | ments which for nearly a year have | enveloped the prejees-of.government | aid to shipping. But the keynote | .whlch will be taken ‘up by his party |associates was the idea of reducing | | government expenditures—the idea ot <iec§nomy rather than further spend- ng. Economy of $20,000,000. The President contends that the | |government is spending fifty millions a year and wearing out its own ships. | |He proposed by the new legislation | !that the government spend not mere | [than thirty millions, an economy of | {twenty millions. To overcome that largument’ the opponents of the bill |must show an alternative equally as {good if not better. Congress has jpermitted the shipping situation to idrift ever since the war. Under | {Chairman Lasker’s guidance opera- | {tions have become more efficient and | ibusiness-ltke, but even Mr. Lasker in- | 1sists that as a business proposition more money will have to be spent in the long run if the bill isn't passed than if it is. Pre-War Prejudice. The administration’s strength in| this fight lies in the fact that the opponents of the bill have revived a {pre-war prejudice against the prin-| ciple of subsidy without offering any concrete program to deal with the fleet, which was inherited from the| iwar. The case against subsidy | built largely on the idea that it will cost the government more money and /the farmer communities of the west | are represented as believing money should be spent to help them—they want a subsidy in the form of rural credit arrangements. Mr. Jarding must reckon with that sentiment and, the chances are he will come to an| understanding with the farm element in support of their proposals in the‘ December session of Congress. Biggest Fight of Career. For the moment the President is making the biggest fight of his politi- cal career. He feels his arguments ! and position are tnvincible, for tae re- 1 sponsibility of Congress will be def- initely fixed .if the bill isn't passed. 1+ Will the republican party in the pres- ent Congress, where the majority is more than comfortable, turn the President down? A group of insur- gents are already defying the party leader, but they haven't the votes to| defeat the bill if the regulars stick | together. It has looked dark for the merchant marine bill until this week. , Mr. Harding hadn’t put on the heavy artillery—a_square statement of the! issues involved and his readiness to fight for those issues. N ‘A special rule will have to be in- voked to limit debate in the House and push it through. Confident in House. — The administration is confident it can win in the House. Once the fight is won in the lower branch of Con- gress the prospects of passage in the Senate will be brighter. The pay- ckological effect of a victory by Presi- dént Harding on So complex a sub- ject as ship subsidy and one so full of hostile phases would be beneficial to the chief executive. It would help him in other tasks. He is, therefore, fighting not merely for government laid to merchant shipping—the first constructive measure of importance in this administration—=but fighting for his leadership of the républican party. (Copyright, 1922.) —_— COOLIDGE IN ELEVELAND. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Novefnber 21.— Calvin Coolidge, Vice President of ltha United . arrived in Cleveland to attend the anunal dinner o+ New England Society tonight, which he will* be the guest of honor and principal speaker. ‘The Vice President will attend a noon- n established and that “nearest|grom legislative leaders that the pure | day Juncheon at the Union Club given tice suggests that when Congress (Conilnucd on Page % Column 2.) milk bill will immediately follow the workinan’s compensation pill. -turn to Washington tomorrow, _ in his honor. Mr. Coolidge will re- ~ J ltake the oath.” + “Draw your own conclusions. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C, OTHASFRSTU.S WOMANSENKTOR Cerem'ony Follows Presenta- tion of Her Case by Walsh of Montana. APPLAUSE ON FLOOR - \WHEN SHE WINS 0UT Precedents Traced Many Years to Show Her Right to As- sume Seat. Mrs. W. H. Felton, the “grand old lady of Georgia,” won her fight to- day for a seat for a day as the first woman senator. She took the oath of office follow- ing a discussion by Senator Walsh of Montana, democrat, of her right to pre- sent herself and be sworn in. Senator Walsh discussed the prece- dents in cases similar to that of Mrs. Felton, where an' appointment\ was made by a governor of a state to flll a vacancy in the Senate pending the election of a new senator. Tracing these precedents from the earliest | days of the republic, Senator Walsh pointed out that the invariable prac- tice of the Senate has been to con- tinue in office the appointee of a gov- ernor until the senator-elect should presert, himself and his credentials nd tale his place on the floor. Sena- tor-elect Walter F. George of Georgia has withheld presenting himself and his credentials so that Mrs. Felton might have an opportunity of being sworn in. “1 do not believe there can be any doubt as to the right of this lady to her seat on the floor of the Senate,” said Senator Walsh, in concluding his argu- ment. He said that he had discussed the matter merely to show Mrs. Fel- ton's right to be sworn in, and that it was not merely an act of courtesy or gallantry on the part of the Senate to permit her to take the oath of office. There was scattering applause in the galleries and on the floor of the Senate when Mrs. Felton was con- ducted by Senator Harris of Georgia to the Vice President's desk to take the oath. The oath was administered by Senator Cummins of Iowa, presi- dent pro tempore of the Senate, in the absence of the Vice President \ In her capacity as a former sena- i tor Mrs. Felton attended the joint ses- sion, walking to the House chamber with senators on the arm of Senator Harris. Surprised by Action. The move of Senator Walsh, which was at first interpreted as leading up i to an objection, took the Senate by sur- prise. Senate leaders were prepared to have Mrs, Felton sworn in and did | not expect any objection to be raised. Senator Harris, in presenting Mrs. Felton to the Senate, expressed -the hope that no senator would object to her being. received and added that Senator-elect Walter F. George, had “very generously withheld his cre- dentials so that Mrs. Felton might Senator Harris re- cited the appointment of Mrs. Felton by Gov. Hardwick as the successor of the late Senator Watson. Senator Walsh immediately arose and said that he was very sure no senator desired to withhold recognition ‘from this estimable and worthy woman the Tonor of sitting if the Senate can do so consistently with a sense of duty.” ‘Wants to Be Sure of Law. “But it would do very little credit to this body or to her to admit her to mem- said Senator Walsh, “if the Constitution, which we all have sworn to support and to which she must sub. scribe if she takes the oath, forbids it. Silence was profound in the Senate as Senator Walsh continued with his address. Another overflow crowd, composed largely of women, was on hand, despit> the attraction of the President’s appearance in the House. Mrs. Felton arrived at 11:30, and, after taking her wraps to the democratic cloakroom, was given a seat, amid a ripple of applause from the galleries. The eighty-seven-vear-old ~woman wore a black dress with a large lace collar and black gloves. She was greeted by a number of senators and Representative Alive Robertson, the woman member from Oklahoma. Credentials of Senators Pepper and Reed of Pennsylvania, and Senator- elect Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware is| were presented to the Senate before Senator Harris brought up the case of Mrs. Felton, Says Doubt Is Raised. Senator Walsh, in his address, said that “very grave doubt” had been cast_on Mrs. Felton's title by Gov. Hardwick of Georgla in a public statement, and said the precedence ought to be considered before the Senate acted In Mrs. Felton's case. Referring to the election of Sena- tor-elect George on November 7, Sen- ator Walsh said Mrs. Felton's’ term might have expired on election day, of which the Senate should take ju- dicial notice. The case was important, Senator Walsh sald, as a precedent from which consequences of moment might result. If Senator-elect George had died the day after election, Sen- ator Walsh said, a very serious ques- tion would have been Dresented. Senator Walsh also referred to the precedents in the rulings of former Vice President Marshall in similar cases where it was held that terms of appointive senators expired on the election day at which thelr successors ! were chosen. ‘While Senator Walsh was speaking Mrs. Felton, who again had received applause from the gallery on her ar- |rival in the chamber, was an_ impas- sive:listener. She previously had an- nounced that if she were denied a seat, she proposed to address the Sen- ate. \ “PRESIDENT CHARMING,” MRS. FELTON DECLARES, AFTER PAYING VISIT “President Harding is a most charming and gallant gentleman,” was the way in which Mrs. W. H. Fel- ton oticeorgln expressed herself to- day after a brief audlence with the chief executive at the White House. Mrs. Felton said that her call was purely of a personal nature, and was for the purpose of expressing her ap- preciation of his attitude and ex- tending felicitations and renewing an old acquaintance. She sald that she had met the President on former occasions, the last time being in the winter of 1921, when President and Mrs. Harding were in St. Augustine, Fla., just prior to_inauguration. ‘When ~Mrs. Felton was asked whether the .President made any comment upon her appointment to the Senate Mrs. Felton replied that| he said he “wished me good luck.” As to' whether or not this remark implied that the President was in favor of her bel seated, under the circumstances. rs. Felton' sald, | < T ALLESFACETES OF THER PLEDGES Lausanne Conference Gets Down to Making Peace With Turk. MOSLEMS LESS CERTAIN OF UPHOLDING PROGRAM Feeling Growing That They May Abandon Efforts to Cause Na- tions to Quarrel. ~ By the Associated Press. LAUSANNE, November 24.—Rich- Child, American the plenary nession of the mear ce_conference today the of the observers for the United Btates. America, he stated, ‘was much interested in the r enxtern settlement, and fts ob- servers would attend the meetings and join In the discussions, but were mot authorized to be mem- bers of commissions, to sign re- ports or to vote on the decisions. LAUSANNE, November 21.—Dele- gates to the Lausanne conference, with the preliminary oratory concern- ing the close relations of Great Britain ain, France and Italy behind them. faced this morning the real test of the strength of the ties which spokes- men for the three powers have in- sisted existed among them. The conference meets in private session today for purposes of organ- ization and to start the actual work of making peace with the Turks. For centuries Turkey has been able to protect herself by getting European f over near eastern questions. The ri- valry of France, Italy and Great Britain for - supremacy in_the levant has been the protection of weak sul- tans in_the past, and it remains to be seen whether it will also be of serv- ice to Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his Angora associates. Turks Less Con! Ismet Pasha and his associates of the Turkish delegation to the con- ference appear less confident than when they arrived, and the feeling is growing that they will reduce their program materially in the hope of restoring peace and re-establishing trade relations with the outside world. It is becoming evident that they are beginning to realize that it was Greece and not the great pow- ors of Europe which they defeated fn their recent successful campaign bout Smyrna. b RKchudyWIshburll Child, American ambassador to Italy, and Joseph C. Grew, American minister to Switzer- land, who are acting as observers at the near east conference, oonferred with_Premier Poincare of France at the Palace Hotel this morning. Seek Other Viewpolnts. The American representatives, it is learned, have not confined their pre- liminary conferences to France, but in a desire to learn the viewpoints of the other leading nations and proceed in a general spirit of understanding, they conferred also with Lord Curzon, the British foreign secretary, and Premier Mussolini of Italy. Dr. Fridtjof :Nansen is in Lausanne in an effort to persuade conference delegates to include in the prospective treaty with Turkey guarantees for the protection of Greeks and Armenians in Turkish territory, framed in such definite terms that the refugee situa- tion in the near east -will not be further aggravated. Nothing Left for Greeks. “Unless the minorities in Asia Minor are protected through the efforts of the Lausanne conférence,” Dr. Nansen said. “there seems to be nothing left for the unfortunate Greeks and' Ar- menians. Gréece has magnanimously received both Greek and Armenian refugees up to the full point of its ability and they are being supported through American charity and the contributions of European countries. “Bulgaria hag received all the refu- gees she can be expected to take care of. Charity cannot support these hun- dreds of thousands of unfortunates indefinitely. The Turks have not al- lawed males between eighteen and forty-five to leave, conseguently the refugées are chiefly women and chil- dren and old men unfit for farm work. Dr. Hansen said that in his opinion the Lausanne conference should pro- vide for. the exchange of Turks In Gieece for Greeks -in -Turke®: i* /¢ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1922—_THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. KEEP THE FLAG AFLOAT! | | | Straps Kuehling To Self, Leading Him to Prison 1 Special Dispatch to Tle Star. ST. LOUIS, Mo., November 21.—Roy | | H. Kuehling. who jumped off a train | en route to the Jefferson City peni-| tentiary Thursday while Sheriff Thomas C. Church of Stockton slept and who was captured here Frldfl}'! jnight, was taken to the peni!enliar)‘l i vesterday by Sheriff Church. | The sheriff had a new pair of hand-g cuffs and a halter strap and seemed | wide awake. He paid no attention to| facetious remarks of policemen, but mmediately clamped the new hand- jcuffs on Kuehling. Then, taking the| i halter strap, he tied one end to the| ichain link of the handcuffs and! { wrapped the other end around his i wrist. “Come alonz, you,” he said to the! prisoner, giving the strap which held | {the prisoner a jerk. i i Word from Jefferson City last night | { stated that Sheriff Church had placed | his man safely behind the bars at the | penitentiary. 0., EADS DEIAND TAXONP EPLES duits, Total of Sum Be- ing $35,000. i | | i i ! | The District Commissioners decided | today to call upon the Potomac Elec- | tric Power Company to pay taxes on ! its poles and conduits on the ground | ithat such equipment is real estate. | It was unofficially estimated that| this tax will amount to $35.000 a vear. The action of the Commissioners was taken when they approved a long legal opinion submitted by Cor- nations to quarrel among themselves | poration Counsel Stephens, in which i Clemenceau may talk for two hours he held that since these poles and | conduits are permanently placed in the ground they are real estate and| taxable as real property. Proposes Immediate Demand. After studying this opinion, En- gineer Commissioner Keller recom- mended that the Commissioners ac- cept it and make immediate demand upon the company for the payment of such taxes. Col. Keller suggested, however, that the power company should be furnished with a copy of Mr. Stephens' opinion when the tax bill is sen! Samuel R. Bowen, vice president of the company, indicated this afternoon that the corporation would consider the question of filing “an amicable suit” in the District Supreme Court to test the validity of the Commissioners’ decision. - Mr. Bowen's Contention. | Mr. Bowen pointed out that when the power company’s plant was being valued by the <Public Utilities Com- mission for rate-making_purposes the commission refused to allow the com- pany's claim for the value which it placed on its easement to place the Poles and conduits in the streets. Mr. Bowen contends that it is in- consistent for the commission to re- | fuse to place a value on that right| in a rate-making case and then to place a value on this equipment for Durposes of real estate taxation. GOING TO LAUSANNE. Admiral Bristol’s Duties at Con- stantinople Taken Over. CONSTANTINOPLE, November 21. —Frederick Dolbeare, first secretary of the American embassy in Berlin, has arrived here. Mr. Dolbeare will handle diplomatic questions affecting {the United States during the absence of Rear Admiral Bristol in Lausanne. The Rev. Dr. William W, Peet, rep- resentative of the American board of foreign missions in Constantinople, and the Rev. Dr. Caleb F. Gates, president of Robert College, are go- ing to “Lausanne in a consultative capacity to the American delegation. WAR GUILT PLACED. Bulgarians, in Beferendum, Convict Twenty-Two Ex-Ministers. By the Assoclated Presa. + SOFIA, Bulgaria, November 21.— Twenty-two former ministers were apparently voted guilty by 75 per cent of the goters at the national refer- endum held Sundav to determine whether they were responsible for embroiling Bulgaria in war without sufficient diplomatic preparation. The ministers of the Radoslavof cabinet were s}!t {ncluded in the judg- i @ I 1 ment. Trial the latter for involv: | ing Bulgaria in the world war has been fv progress for more than & Will Greet America Formally Former French Premier Up Early {but he has given no indication that B NEWSPAPER COLP “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi-ion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 91,547 = i TWO CENTS. FLAMES SWEEPING - FRONT ROYAL, VA, TOWN MENACED Fifteen Buildings Already De- stroyed, With Water Supply Nearly Exhausted. FIRE EATS ITS WAY ALONG MAIN STREET Dynamite May Be Used to Check Progress—Aid Called From Other Points. Special Dispatch *o The Star. FRONT ROYAL, Va., November 21. —With fifteen buildings already con- sumed by fire, this entire town is threatened with destruction, as the water supply is nearly exhausted and the firemen are unable to control ti rapidly spreading flames being fanned by a high wind. The fire, which began in the cellar of the Front Royal Milling Company. has eaten Its way along both sides of Main street and at 1 o'clock this afternoon was just two doors from the Strickler Hotel. At this hour it was belleved that it was necessary to dynamite at least a half dozen buildings to check the flames. TRER GETSIN TR FORBIG ADRESS Flames Beyond Contrel. The entire fire-fighting forces of Winchester and SStrasburg have ar- rived and augmented the local fire department. but the flames still are beyond their control. The streams being poured into the fire are having little effect because of the low pressure. It is feared that the !water suppy will entirely be ex- hausted within & short time at the present rate of consumption. Among the buildings thus far en- tirely destroyed are the Front Royal Miiling Company, the Warren Milling | Company. Warren County Seed Com- Tonight at Metropolitan Opera House. PREVIOUS DAY ACTIVE pany, #armers’ Union Supply Com- Updike's garage, Universal | service ation, Warren blacksmitii, shop. Atwood's store, Dr. Roy's office. ! Lake's residence and the home of | Frank Ritchey. i All Men Fighting Flames. | Practically every man in town has {been pressed into fire-fighting service. ‘aiding either in directly fighting the 1. | flames or in some auxiliary work. The 2171 women have banded together and or- war- | ganized temporary community Kitch- Despite Weariness From Im- promptu Talks. YORK, November Georges Clemenceau, France's time premier, will deliver his first ad- | ens for the distribution of coffee and | sandwiches. dress to the American people tonight.; SIRAWICReS o L oy been He will talk extemporaneously, al-igefinitely determined. Employes of though he has spent much of his v.ime;lhe mill in which ‘the blaze be- " i = ran ieve that' an explosion was sinco Areiving ‘dn the United States (Bl [ 0 pecause of the rapid gathering material for use in the,spread of the Mames. The fire was no speech. i sooner discovered than it consumed Clemenceau exhausted last!the Front Royal Milling Company’'s night when he retired after a stren- | bnomae 10 SPread to = uous day which began at 5 am. and: The loss at this time cannot be csti- ended shortly before § pm. He|mated. However, it is expected to ex- | B leaned heavily on the rail -as he | c¢ed $3¢0.000. climbed the stairway to his third- he | floor apartment in the home o Charles Dana Gibson and he did not he crossed the Atlantic ocean to give | to America. Friends have warned | him to speak no longer than an hour, | Execumr Of E‘t‘u M S s‘i‘ he intends to follow this injunction. | : SR Yesterday it was: planned that ac' Brought by Widow—Motion in Partnership Controversy. was | Join the Gibsons at dinner, but had ar light meal sent to his room. | Arising early today. he seemed re- | freshed and eager for the coming of | evening and the first of the messages | should talk only fifteen minutes at| the gathering of New York editors | and publishers. He talKed for fifty- ! eight. Speaking without votes, as he wil 1L pdwin C. Brandenburg, executor un- if he finds an interested audience and 4¢r the will of George M. Oyster. jr. able to make himself understood | local dairyman. today asked the Pro- in the great auditorium of the Metro- | bate Court to dismiss the caveat filed politan Opera House. ! eci " - Nothing jelsaiivirs] planadl for tha| LY, M= Coclle R JGynter, uls twenty Tiger today. He was exp. ed to re. | six-vear-old widow, who by her recent main at the Gibson home, rating and | marriage is now Mrs. Cecile R. Shircliff, working on tonight’s address. against the probate of the will of her Faces Critical Audience. eighty-one-year-old husband. The Clemenceau unleashed his oratory COUTt'S attention is called to the fact yesterday before one of the . | that by a paper filed November 8, 1921, most | critical audiences he is likely to face | Mrs. Oyster renounced the bequest of in America. Appearing for a talk 1$25.000 contained in a. codicil to the before a group of newspaper editors | will of her husband and’ decided to take and publishers at a (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) | her dower interest in his estate. —_— CLEMENCEAU'S ARTICLES & | Graham, the executor savs that, ha jing renounced the provisions of the will, the widow is not now such a per- !son as the law considers “interested !in the estate ard having a right to file {a caveal” |~ Hearing on the motion to dismiss | the caveat has been scheduled for De- { cember 1. { _Attorneys Tobriner and Graham, for | the executor, also filed a motion in the | Equity Court to set down for trial th case brought by the widow against ! him and Henry W. Brawner, in which Mr= Ovster attacks the validity of an which Mr. Brawner be- came a partner in the faire husinds | shortly before the Geain of Mr. Oyster. Mr. Brawner exercised a provision of | the contract and purchased the inter- est of the deceased member of the firm. Hearing on this motion for an immediate trial was set down for Fri- day before Justice Siddons. QUAKE OPENS CEMETERY. Ancient Indian Burying Ground Revealed in Chile. By the Awsociated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, November 21.— The existence of an ancient Indian burial ground, within ten miles of Copiapo, was disclosed by a fissure opened up by the recent earthquake, says a Copiapo dispatch to the “er- today. O veral skeletons, different kinds |of pottery and domestic objects were jfound there. ——————— COAL CARS SEALED. - Shipped to West in Merchandise Carriers. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., November 21. _Anthracite coal 18 being shipped to tern cities in sealed box cars, ae- :fi-'dfinr;amn an oficial of the Philadel- his N eading. PR nin is necessary.” the oficlal said. “to assure full shipments reaching deatinations. Otherwine the cars may we with about one-half the orlgi- Bl shipment after \pussing thro i ‘_} ities wh’-o there is & Tiger of France to Reach Millions Through The Star and As- sociated Papers. agreeme:. One of the biggest enterprises in the history of journalism is the series of articles Georges Clemenceau is to write for The: Star and the seventy leading newspapers associated with it in the North American Newspaper Alliance. | Clemenceau had a message to deliver to the Americap people, and he has come to deliver it personally, despite his more than eighty years. A part of his message he will deliver by voice to the thousands who will flock to hear him, but the bigger part, the more vital part, will be delivered through the in- strumentality of these newspaper arti- cles and will be read by millions in this country and Canada. This series of a half dozen articles not alone will be the only ones he will write while on his viFit to America, but will be the first contribution Clemenceau has made to the literature of the war and its subsequent prob- lems. No other man, with the possible exception of Woodrow Wilson, could write on these subjects with such au- thority or in a manner to command such world-wide interest. These articles, the first of which will be published exclusively in Washing- ton in Thursday’'s Star, will not merely msplemenul;o C'f'fi"‘“‘{i. iblic resses. ppreciating e wv“nly greater audiente he will reach through these seventy mewspapers, his newsj articles will, in fact, consti- tute mm message. His public ad- dresses will serve mainly to arouse in- terest in them and to i t the in- fluence of his magnetic picturesque