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and lowest Rain tonight warmer tonigh bove freezing. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended ® p.m. today: Highest. 34, at ay: lowest. 26, at 9:15 pam. IFall report on tomorrow; temperature page 2 h ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ q Star. | | “From Press to Home" Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edit delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printgd ¢ I n 1 Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 91,235 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 post office Wasl Entered as second-cluss matter hington. D. C. FRENCH ABANDON ~ RUHR SEIZURE AS SHOWDOWN LOOMS 3ritish Planned to Align U. S. in Opposition to Oc- cupation. HUGO STINNES FORCED TO TALK STEEL MERGER Huge Monopoly by Paris Bankers and Germans May Stave Off French Action. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. £ Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Coprright, 19: PARIS, December 14.—Latest indi- ~atlons are that the French govern- mient has abandoned the ldea of oc- «upving the Ruhr basin. The government beliaves that an eareement with the allies for new wages, notably in the Khincland, is possible und that if it'is ebliged to take separate action. it helieves that | in the river ports of Ruhr- ort and Luisburg already under oc cupation. will serve all practical pur- | | for this wavering are as | 1. The French as a whole are favor- | ably impressed with the favorable atti- | tude of the British and Italian premiers | toward the French plight. M. Mussolini wemed to hold with the French that llml rman default vas larzely wilful and | ny must be forced to pay. If| allies can suggest other equgl effi- | e | Prime | timation that willing to ne German debt ed war debts ted on heie. ' | Reasons for Wavering. e sbtedly Minter ttain might be n of the the coni compensit vy 18 also tav i t i i | Reluctant to Act Alone. 2. More and more the French e Te- uctant to act alone, heir am ot annexation or sabotage, Mt political A economic pressure to make Germany . they infinitely prefer to act with i rench experts nearly all ' sear future due to the collapse of the i swirk and thE French do not desire to | Lo unjustly accused of having caused | hese perturbati by s ate action. | more, the question is being | 1 if the allies cannot exert all the ure needed by making more effica- . use of the gages they already hold, csprcially the river ports of IHuhrort Wl Dutsbers. | i i New Turn in Position. 1 All this means that the fundamental | | receiving med | pitals here. Can’t Pay U. S. Without German Funds, Says Law E¥ (he Associated Press. ONDON, December 14.—Prime Mivister Bonar Law emphatically rxued in the house of commons today the impossibility of Great Britain paying the American debt while receiving nothing from Ger- many, France or ltaly. He said he ‘wax convincéd such a policy would Teduce the standard of living in this country for generations. 1t would be a burden upon Great Britain, of which those who sug- &eated it had mow no conception, he belfeved. The prime minister naid public opinion abrond “assumes that we are able te meet our oblixations and help our friends. “In reality.” he Insisted. “we arc in no such position. We arc paying £100.000.060 yearly to the unem- ployed.” [4IN TEXAS WRECK DIE FROM SCALDING: Three of Dead Are White Men and Remainder Negroes. 17 HURT BEING TREATED IN HOUSTON HOSPITALS Official Investigations Are Under Way to Place Responsibility for Crash. Byt i Press. HO Tex.. December 14.—A re- | check this morning by railroad inves- tigators placed 1l Southern Pacific wreck at Humble, seventeen miles from lhere, at four- teen, of whom four were white men Three of the dead white men have been identified as W. A. Baber of Lufkin, Tex.: William Campsey, con- ductor, of Houston, and M. Clark, newsdealer, of Houston. Of the injured, seventeen were still ca! attention at hos- The majority ne- groes. All were victims of scalding by escaping steam. Investigations were under way by the railroad company {and local officlals to determine the responsibility for the accident Switch Engine Drifts. The wreck occurred when passen- ger train No. 28, bound for Shreve- | port, struck a switch cngine that had “drifted” 300 feet down across track Com- toil of Tast night's | French position has not been changed, | and out onto the main line. but merely that it has been a new | paratively little property damage and friendlier turn by the attitud: of { was done, but the escaping steam Great Britain and Italy. Frane: would | filtered into the front coach of the like to reach an ugreement with the | passenger train and took a terrible allies for common rather than sepa- | toll. rate action, if it is humar'y possible. | “Drifting” of the switch engine Friday. M. Poincare will ¢ to ex- | from near the depot to where the plain the situation before the cham- ! ber of deputies following @ similar | depate in British parlisment to- | day. In a sense the out-om: way be | said now to depend upon the vutcore Uf these two debates. | Premier Poincare’s threat to vecupy | the Ruhr basin apparently has had one definite result. It is forcinz to their Knees the German industrials who have opposed reconciliation with | France A meeting took place in Paris last week between French and German Lusiness men for the purpose of bringing about co-operation in the steel trades. Even the formation of a gantic trust for price regulation | discussed. liefore accepting the onditions laid down the Germans and talk st ne o home Hugo e with e that esumed Tables Turned on Stinnes. jules B rd and Hugo Stinnes discussed a steel merger last summer. But this is the fi me that the French stgel trust has lent official sanction to the project. Last week's | meeting, according to the corre-{ sponden information, took place at e headquarters of the Banque de | 'aris et des Pavs Bas. Horace Fin- v, president of the bank, is supposed to have acted as chairman Among the Frenchmen present are ! Schneider. de Wend Poncet and! Pinot. millionaires, and among the | Germans. Firmann, K verberg. the first two b of Stinnes. Schneider 2 are “steel kings® of The French have hesitated to dis- .uss _co-operation because they thought the Germans had the upper hand, but with occupation of the itubr in sight, they have lost their reluctance. The tables have' been turned and Stinnes knows it. If the ¥rench enter the Ruhr basin he will be worse off than it he comes into voluntary agreement. A Franco-German steel combine would virtually have a monopoly of ihe European metallurgical market, and probably would crowd out Great | Viritain. In the size of capital it might even rival the United States Steel Corporation. BRITISH WANT SHOWDOWN. mer and Sil- ng henchmen | Intend to Align Powers. Against French Proposal. BY HAL 'OFLAHERTY. Jiv Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1922 LONDON, December 14.—Some time before January 15, perhaps at the Paris conference of premisers on Jan- uary 2, British statesmen intend to bring to a showdown the question of the occupation of the Ruhr basin French troops. They intend to Jdizn, if possible. all the powers, it and small. either for or against the Krench proposal for further mili- ry action against Germany. \ establishing this alignment the British hope that -the Washington zovernment will lend the support of the United States to the side of mod- eration and thus make France un- derstand that in oocupying the Ruhr she would be acting alone and with- out her allies and associates in the world war. and_that_all_the respon- Continued on Page 12, Column 6.) o { rafiroad man { name, | pa ! tee today started work on 4 $46,000,- siding converged with the main line was Llamed for the accident. According to members of the crew of the switch engine, a watchman named Smith was t in charge while they went to a nearby restau- rant. The first they knew of the en- gine “drifting” came with the impact of the two locomotives, they said. Watchman Unnerved. Tre watchman was unnerved by the accident, and was unable to explain how his charge happened to “drift” from where it had been “spotted. | The passenger train, known as the | Nucogdoches-Lufkin “Rabbit,” ran | betvieen Houston and Shreveport ; Nonc of the passengers in the| slaeping cars was injured. All of thel dead and injured were riding in the | first and second coaches. To the bravers and presence ot mind of a| who refused to give his many sengers probably owed their lives. He dashed into the for ward smoker, then a seething cauldron. and stumbled the entive length of the car. breaking windows as he pro- gressed. As a result. the stcam pour. ed out and relleved the stifled victims. ONE KILLED IN CRASH. THORP, Wisconsin, December 14.— One trainman was killed and two s were badly injured and about | n passengers more or less seri- | ously hurt early today when Minnea- St. Paul and_Sault St nger train No. 3. Chicago neapolis, collided. head on, with freight train near here. T TAKE UP DEFICIENCY BILL The House appropriations commit- 000 deficlency appropriation bill for the cujrent fiscal year. Of this total approximately $12,000,000 is for re- fund on income taxes erroneously col- lected and approximately $4,000,000 is in settlement of war contracts and ar claim Erin Earnestly Seeks Peace As Yuletide Draws Nearer| By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, December 14—Further talk of peace between the factions in Irelasnd is heard as Christmas ap- proaches. Action taken by the new senate of the Free State Tuesday in appointing a_committee to work far‘ the immediate cessation of hostilities | has developed sorhe ‘indication that al considerable section of the republlcane party is willing to treat for peace and | that the rank and file is moving in that direction. The summoning of all the Sinn’Fein clubs in Dublin city and county to de- bate the question is pointed to as sig- nificant, especially as although the clubs are composed of _both treaty supporters and gepublicans, it is the; republicang who sent :ut the press WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1922—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES l TURKEY WL O LEAGE, SOLYNG LOTOFCARSTIANS | Decision Means Supervision of Minorities—Amnesty Also to Be Granted. ;WILLING T0 EMULATE | EXAMPLE OF EUROPE Pressure Brought by U. S. and Cur- .zon’s Menacing Words Bear Fruit. | By the Assocfated Press. LAUSANNE, December 14.—Turkey | will join the league of nations as! soon as peace is signed at Lausanne, Ismet Pasha announced at the near ieast conference today. As the league | exercises general supervision over | | minori populations, Ismet's an-| Inouncement was interpreted as meaning that Turkey will accept the | {leugue's supervision over the Christian | peoples of Turkey. i Political P | . | Ismet said Turkey was ready to ac- | cord the same treatment to minorities | as provided in the treaties exchanged inoners to Be Freed. between the various Luropean coun- tries. This, Tsmet declared, was not be- cause of the menacing words of Lord Curzon, the British foreign secretary, as voiced yesterday, but because the | | Turkish national pact required it { The Turkish delegate said Turkey aceepted the grauting of general am- inesty fo political prisoners. she | jwould declipe, however, to establish {a national home for the Armenians. Child’s Talk Vakes ITmpression. | I amb Psmet Pasha vesterday on the subject i of minorities residing in Furkey made a good impression in Turkish cireles jand exercised a calming influence on the entire Lau ference, which inervously saw dangers of a break- ; down of all the negotiations because [ of the threatened rupture over the i treatment of thc Greeks and Ar- menians by Turkey. : ! The friendly intervention of the il\ml‘ri:‘an ambassador at the right| moment has convinced the Turks of | the tmmense strength of world opin- | ion—particularly that of the United {States—on the need for a settlement of the minority problem. Ambassador | Child urged Tsmet to reconsider hi 1 position as jo the Armentans and | | other dislodg>d populations, pointing iout tkat American contributors to re- lief work in the near east desired to | know that their gifts would help the | refugees in Asla Minor to sett permanent homes. Child's frank talk with i | le in American Natural Arbitrator. Turkish spukesmen belleve that the American representative at the confer- ence was the natural arbitrator of this vexing problem. They contend that Turkey desires to do the right thing, but add that any measures designed to satisfy world opinion must not vio- late Turkey's soverelgn rights or force her to grant exceptional privileges to people within her borders whom she cannot assimilate. Ismet’s reply to Lord Curzon's vigor- ous denunciation of the Turkish atti- tude toward the minority question was awaited today, with many delegates predicting that Ismet. bowing to high humanitarian_consideration=. would of. fer new suggestions calculated to pre- pare the way for a satisfactory settle- ment of the Armenian-Greek difficulty. Poisoned Candy Sent to British Home Secretary By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 14.—An at- tempt has been made to assassi- nate Home Secretay W. C. Bridge- man by means of poisoned choco- lates sent through the mail. The candy arrived at the office yesterday. and the found it contained arsenic. It is understood the police at- tributed the act to the same per- on who recently poisoned Sir Wil- home police i i liam Horwood, head of Scotland Yard. in the same manner. Investi ons. it was said, today, have led the police ‘o the conclu- sion that the work probably was that of an unbalanced woman who has some real or fancied grievance against_Scotland Yard and the home office. s All the other ministers of the government have been warned to be on guard against similiar at- tempts. On November 9 Sir Willlam Hor- wood, chief of Scotland Yard, re- ceived a box of poisoned choco- lates through the mails. Believ- ing it to be a birthday gift, from a relative,” he-tasted of it and be- came severely il - notifications for Sunday's meeting. 1t sentiment in this direction dcvelops further, as the peace lovers hope, their efforts ‘will be centered on the point, which, tiey fear, will prove.the chief difficulty—the unwillingness- of the ir- regulars to surrender their arms. Their | friends_here point out that: peace be- tween the British ‘and the Irish was | delayed by the same difficulty and was only obtained when the British waived | their demand for the surrender of arms, such as is now made by the Irish gov- crnment. 1 Resolutions of public bodics being | passed in favor of peace are instanced | as indicating tbat public feeling is tend- | ing to favor accommodation between the | two parties. In.this state of affairs the senate peace committee hopes to intervene. by. establishing relations with men in fouch with the heads of the irregulars. There is no indication, how- ever, that the Free State government will consent to permit the existence of any armed force in Ireland except the unatienal /troops. E L —Erin Former PRESIDENT \NooDrow WiLson HAS WITHDRAWN FRom THE LAW FiRm oF WiLSoN AND COLBY- MORE INTERESTED N OTH EKTH!NGS. [} U. 3. IMPERIALISM™ CHARGEDINMEXICO Deputies’ Resolution Pro- tests Exclusion From Cen- tral American Conference. U. S. NAVAL BASES HIT Independence of Country Declared Threatened by America—Action on Measure Withheld. s 5 BY thie Assnciated Press. MEXICO CITY, ‘December 14.—A resolution protesting against the ex- { clusion of Mexico from the Central { American co: erence at Washington nd declaring Mexico's opposition to the establishment of United States naval bases on any Latin American coast was withheid from the chamber of deputies last night through the intervention of the co-operistas party leaders, The leader induced the framers of the resolution, who form a considerable group in the chamber. to postpone their action for a few days. Take Credit for Treaty. As originally framed the resolution points out that Mexico was in reality the moving spirit in the conference of 1906, which culminated in treaty of 1907, to which Guatemala, Nicaragua, San Salvador, Costa Rica and Honduras. were signatories. In view of this fact, the protesting depu- ties assert that Mexico, as “the neigh- bor and brother of all American republics, is vitally inter- ested in all questions affecting their welfare” and should be included in any congress in which these nations participate. Protest also made against “the danger to Mexican independence in the to is establishment by the United States lof naval bases on Latin American | { coasts, the creation of financial guar- the intenance of armed E | foreign forces in the Latin American iy ot< dianships. republics, and, in general, diplomatic, | financial, political or military interven- |ing received here. tion by the United States in any Latin country which has as its object the ex- tension of North American imperialism —all_of which is not being treated at the Washington conference.” Would Make U. §. Offender. The Central American republics and their’ diplomats now in the American capital. as well as the congresses of all Latin American countries and the Doniinion of Canada. would be informed fully of Mexico's stand. Numerous Central Americans now re- siding here are conducting a vigorous | newspaper campaign to place Mexico in the light of an offended and slighted nation. and the Cnited States as the offender. SHIPPING BILL LAID ASIDE N SEMATE Sidetracked Temporarily to - Consider Justice and State Measures. PR The administration merchant marine bill was laid aside témporarily when the Senate met today to give consideration t6 the bill making appropriations ‘for the Department of Justice and’State, but with the understanding that debate on the shipping bill would be resumed later in the day. Senator’ Fletcher of Florida, ranking democratic member of to continue his argument in opposition z0 the shipping bill. Senator LaFolleite of Wisconsin also' was expected to speak in oppo- sition to the bill. . Senator Jones of Washington, in charge of the shipping bill, planned to ask that the Senate meet at 11 o'clock’ tomorrow morning, an hour earlier than usual to expedite consid- eration of -the Shipping BillL ~ the the Central | Jinx Walloped ' By “13”” Club at Reign of 13s By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 14.-—After defying the jinx In every comceiv- able way the Thirteen Club started on its fourtcénih existence The club held its thirteenth annual dinner on the 13th of December. The dinner began at 13 minutes to S and ended at 13 minutes after 12. Thirtecn ables of dincrs with 15 at each ta I:xr‘d 13 at the speaker’s table, ate 1 i courses, served by 13 waiters. The idiners entered the banquet hall by walking under a ladder and sut with 13 open umbrellas and 13 skeletons in the room. H ery member tempted fate in some J= Every possible superstition was Igiven a tryout, from breaking a mir- ror to tipping over the sait, und then, as the banquet ended, two mien.- | bers took chairs {to appear and accept the ’.\: daybreak i two disgusted i tempters, tired hut happy, ‘snapped | their fingers at fate and left for home. | | FIGHT MAIL TIE-UP vear of i * Afraid of a great tie-up in parcels post movements throughout the coun- t next week, Post Office Depart- ;ment officials tada Legan making ! preparations to avert any serious de- lay in handiing the mails. Elaborate plans made by the de- partment for the use of box cars and | refrigerator cars in handling the greatest parcels post holiday busincss in the history of the country are be- ing frustrated, it was declared at ithe | department today, through delays in the arrival of trains and the failure of the railroads to furnish readily the necessary cars at desired points. Late trains are creating shortages fof equipment, it was stated., these delays resuiting in the loss of utilization of hundreds of cars {many hours. { A freezetup at an ‘terminal freight yard ‘next week would s cidedly bad. officials sa Already complaints of delay in daiiy delivery of the regular mails are be, for or a bad snow: e matters de- Schedules Disrupted. “This is duc to the failure of trains throughout the country to run on schedule time,” according to an offi- cial statement by the Post Office De- partment. Many _trains are arriving: at their destinations rrom three to eight hours late. Important connections at ter-' minals where mails are transferred to other roads are failing, this pre- venting_ the transfer of mail pouches destined for distant points and caus- ling delays all along the line. {"The trouble being experienced by | the postal service is not confined to ‘any particular road or locality, but = beecome quite general, officials i On oue road operating out of New York an iniportant mail train missed connections no less than eight times within the last month, delaying the delivery of mails in certain industrial centers as much as twenty-four hours. Despite this situation the Post Office Department is making, strenuous ef- forts to get the malls delivered reg- ularly, as well as to handle the holi- day parcel post traffic, which is now flowing in gréat volume. Unless bad, storms occur, between now and Christmas, officials hope that serious congestion will be avoid- ed, although delays will continue un- til transportation conditions improve. “Past cxperience,” sald Postmaster General Work today, in discussing the_ situation, “show that December 19 is ordinarily the peak day in the Christmas mailing." The public can help the department and themselves by spreading this peak over several days and by mailing early and often.” Smooth at Union Staf Officials in the office of A. A. Fisher, superintendent -of - the- third- diviso; rallway mail seryice,.with headquar: ters at Union stdtion, declared today that the mails are moving smoothly thare, with no material delay as yet. Nocongestion was apparent at the terminal today. ' The only train com- ing in at all late recently has been the 7:50 a.m. Pennsylvania train from New York, which carries all the news- papers from the north. it was declar- | the commerce committee, was expected |eq This train has been late occasion- ally. Mail trains are running normally, as far as the Washington city post office is concerned, Clarence Schooley, superintendent of mails, declared to- day. No congestion has, been met at all so far, he sald. A terminal has been opened in the concourse at Union station, and par- cels' are first cleared through this office - before being taken onto the trains and, preliminary to .taking them into' the Rost office after they are taken off the incoming trains. . 1 waited for jinxes' challinges. ! INCHRISTMAS RUSH, the | of the larger| PRESIDENT IN PLAN TOSEVER RED TAPE Executive Confers With Members of Congress on Changes in Departments. |DEFENSE IS CHIEF TOPIC ] Many Details Attend Proposed Merger of Army and Navy " Organizations. Hurdlug conferred with bers of the joint congres- ymimittee on reorganization !of the government departments at the wi House “today. preliminary to | submiseion of a complete report to i Congress as 1o realignment in the de- artments and burcaus ! The President expeets to have his report on the proposed program ready to submit to the joint committee in A short time, probably next week. Senator Smoot, speaking for the com- that “splendid progress” made on the plan. One of the main diffic has 1 Ities standing 1 | is the question of the consolidation of the War and Navy departments into |a great department of defense. it is | understood, The question of proposed transfers of several bureaus in the Departments of Agricuiture and In- terior also are proving troublesome. New Conference Planned. When the committee would be able to make a report to Congress, Sen- tensive hearings, at which full op- portunity would be granted for pre- senting ail sides of the questidn. Although splendid progress was re- ported to have been made by the President. Walter F. Brown. chair- man of the joint committer, tain cabinet member Ino possibility of enactment of the plan at this short session of Con- gress. Continuing his efforts toward more complete harmony among cab- inet officers before the reorganiza- tion plan is submitted to the con- gressional committce, President Hard- ing tomorrow at 2:30 will hold an- other conference with °Chairman Brown and certain members of the cabinet not as yet designated. Chair- man Brown sald this morning he did not know who the cabinet officers at tomorrow’s conference would be. It was a full meeting of the com- mittee this morning at the White House, lasting for about an hour, and upon the conclusion of the conference all members deciined to comment upon what had taken place, saying that Sen- ator Smoot~ had been designated as spokesman for the group. Senator Smoot declined to comment vpon the reported plans of the depart- ment of defense. “Obviously it would be unseemly,” said Senator Smoot, “to discuss the details of the plan before they have progressed further.” This, howewer, the senator indicated, was not to 'bé taken as -throwing cold water on his “splendid progress” re- port. i Committee Personnel. E On emerging from the conference with the Presidgnt both democratic and republican members of the com- mittee appeared in a pleasant mood (Continued on Page 2. Column 8.) e e WOMAN DEAD IN RIVER, WOOER TELLS POLICE Chicago Investigation of Suspected Murder Featured by Reading of Bible to Syllen Man. CHICAGO, December 14.— Arthur Foster told the police today that the | body of Mrs. Kate Mitchell Trostell, missing, since Saturday, whom he had sought *as -a sweetheart since child- hood, and who had rejected him, could be found in the Chicago river near Ashland avenue. For nearly an hour yesterday a woman sat in police station and read passages from the Bible in-an effort to break down the sullen silence of ' Foster, when the police were attempt- ing to qustion him concerning the disappearance last Saturday night of Mrs. Trostell. The woman who read the Bible was Dr. Edna Schaefer, em- ployer of Mrs. Margaret Koske, a sis- ter of the missing woman. Foster at first denied he had seen Mrs. Trostell, although he was sald to have been in the habit of calling for her each Saturday night at her place »f employment, 5 in the way of the completed program | ator Smoot indicated, is uncertain, ae according to present prospects it would be necessary to conduct ex-! and cer- . Senator Smoot | indicated he still believed there was | * |Million in Liquor, | Blocked by U.S., ! Dumped in Ocean i s the Associated Press | NEW YORK. Decenibér Il—Ak part of u liquor cargo valued & | $1,700,000, 8t bootleg prices. has | been dumped into the ocean off | Freeport.along Island. according | 10 4 report recelved by Frank J Hate and James R. Kerrigan, chief | | intelligence officers for the prohib- ition enforcement department. The whisky, brought here from the Buhamus, was thrown overboard Tuesday when members of the rum runner’s crew were angered at failure of the cargo’s owners in New York either t get water and : ship or to un- The vessel lay in the liquor mping grounds for several days, ording to ‘the federal agents, While small boats, operated by owners of the cargo, made futile efforts to run the government blockade and obtain the liguor. After dumping the liquor the ship started on the return trip to the ! Bahamas, it was stated RALSTON CHARGES HOUSENEWBERS WERE HADOWED Says Justice Men Followed‘ Woodruff and Johnson and Senator Caraway. | [ l i i | | 5 !ASKS FOR DAILY REPORTS | ‘OF JUSTICE OPERATORS | i Attorney for Daugherty Denies Al- © TWO CENTS. PRESIDENT URGES GROUP MARKETING BY UL 5. FARMERS Message to Meeting Here ‘ Says Qrganization Is Neces- ‘sary to Federal Aid. CANADIAN MINISTER WILL SPEAK TONIGHT Secretaries Hoover and Wallace Scheduled for Addresses This Afternoon. Government aid to the farmer c not Le made effective unless the farmers of the nation shall be organ- ized and alive to their responsibilit: o establish and use practical instru ments for the distribution of credits and the accurance of the most eco- nomical marketing methods, Pres: dent Harding declared in-a message to the council, read today the first session of the National Council of Farmers' Co-operative Marketing As- =oclations at the New Willard Hote The message was read to the counci by Senator Richard P. Ernst of Kern- tucky, and at the request of Chai man Bingham a unanimous risin vote of thanks was given the Presi- dent for his declaration to the coun- cil. - + No single movement promises more help toward the present 7elief and the permanent betterment of agricul- tural conditions than the co-opera- tive marketing movement. the mes- sage sald. The text of the message tollows: Text of Mesnage. Sevéral weeks . when 4go, you { { : | called my attention to the fact that ! Jegations, But Offers to i the National Council of Farmer: Produce Files. |operative Marketing Associations was . [to meet in Washington this month | Charges that operatives of the De- partment of Justice had shadowed members of Congress who attacked | ,Attorney General Daugherty were !made and denied today at the hearing before the House judiclary commit- tee on impeachment charges against | Mr. Daugher! 2 Asserting that Senator Carawar.| democrat, Arkansas, and Representa- | tives Woodraff of Michigan and John- ! son of South Dakota. rcpublicans. had \been shadowed by such operatives, { Jackson H. Ralston. counsel for Rep- ! rescntative Keller, author of the im- peachment charges, asked the com- , mittee to obtain from the Justice De- i partment the names and the daily re- | ports of the operatives. | “How impossible in the face of {our dentel that anything like that done. to produce. any such | i | i was Mr. When' Ralston ‘lared that the accuracy of the { denfal would be the subject of future | discussion, Mr. Howland repliel tha if proof were offered before the com- mittee any document and papers re- jating to it would be produced if | they existed. As the committee assembled it de- | veloped that the file of papers re- | lating to Willlam J. Burns, sent o | President Harding by A. P. Macauly, | {an American living at Toronto, Can ! ada, had been mislaid overpight. Mr.| Howland said he had been unuble to locate the file and the official| stenographers said it had not come into their possession. Fail to Find File. It was the recoliéction of some com. Daugherty. i | | {mitteemen that the file had been pass- ed ‘to Chairman Volstead vesterday during dispute as to its admission to he record, but a search of the chair- mah's desk failed to disclose it o ig Wi with the | The xmarin!;n“:;:‘r‘x‘:&ahel:a [itn the | | Agreed that in view of the hearing Flven Mr. Burns vesterday the papers | Should be admitted in evidence. | Whether the committee, which de- | voted yesterday to { papers =till the hearing of | testimony presepted by counsel for, both sides on ihe first two of the | specifications to be taken up, would| {reach the third specification today, | however. appeared uncertain’ Thc‘ committée. heard a wide range ‘of | testimony on the first two vesterday. | and it was during the hearing of witnesses on the second, alleging failure by the Attorney General to enforce compliance by the railroads {with the safety appliance act, at th ! night session. that Chairman Yolstead |broke in with the declaration that. ! judged by the character of testimony | thus far offened, he'did not believe it { possible “to make anything out of the i case’ against Mr. Daugherty. ' Complete First | i Previously the committee had com- pleted the taking of evidence on the |first of the fourteen specifications— that charging that Mr. Daugherty had knowingly appointed to office men who were “untrustworthy, corrupt and dangerous to the liberties of the i'people, of the United States. Most of the evidence relating to this spacification had to’do with charges| {against Willlam J. Burns, director of | | the bureau of investigation of the De- | ! partment of Justice, and a defense of Mr. Burns against those charges. As the fnal witness to be heard | { yesterday, Mr. Durns took the stand | in his own defense. Previously Sen- ator Johnson, republican, California, had been called by Paul Howard, per- sonal attorney for Mr. Daugherty, as | a character witness for the investiga- tion bureau director. Mr. Burns made a sweeping denial of any impropriety in his conduct as, a government agent in connection with the Oregon land fraud trials in 1905 and his alleged activities in con- nection with the drawing of & jury for the trial of Willard N. Jones in the fraud cases. George W. Wicker- sham, who as Attorney Genergl dur- ing-tHe Taft adminjstration had rec- | ommended the release of Jones be- {cause of these alleged activities by Mr. Burns, and Samuel Gompers, pres- | jdent of the American Federation of | Labor. who testified that he advised | Mr. Daugherty against Burns' ap- pointment for the same reason, had preceded him on the stand. Johnson Praises Buras.' Senator Johngon detlared ‘Re had known Mr. Burns intimately during the graft prosecutions in San Fran- cisco after the fire of 1906 and had urged his appointment to his present ~ (Continued on Page 11, Column ¢) | | | i term {of. discussion 1 was unwilling to deny myself the privilege of meeting with the organs zation, hoping it might be possibic 10 do so. T find now that, owing to PreEsure of many dutes, that is im- poseible. Hence, T am asking you to €XDPress to the gathering my deep terest in its work .and my hope that most useful results may flow from the present session “I know no single movement that promises more help toward the pres- ent relief and the pecrmancht bhetter- ment of agricultural conditions, than this one. Whoever has cd to read my recent message to the Congress will understand the depth of my con viction about the necessity to do everything possible to help the farm:- cr through his present era of de- pression. T am anxious that the gov- ernment do everything within reason and sound procedure: and 1 am still more anxious that the farmers shall themselves co-onerate to make government's efforts doubly cious. In the long run, g aid cannot be made effecti unles mittee after the conference, declared | papers.” said Paul Howland, counsel the farmers shall be organized and alive 10 their own responsibility to establish and use practical instri- ments for the distribution of credits and the assurance of the most eco- {nomical marketing-n«thods. This as- sociation stands preci v for th best. most intelligent effort to cs tablish such methods, and {0 teach the farmer and his friends to utilize themn. Because 1 am convinced of this, I feel that,this meeting is of u usual importance and significanc and 1 wish vou would convey this expression in the most emphatic Hoover and Wallace te Speak. The council is composed of repre- sentatives of co-operative associa- tions from all sections of the coun- try. Secretaries Hoover and Wallace were scheduled to address the after noon session today, and addresses were o be made at uet tonight by men con co-opera- tive market ning Dougherty, min agriculture of Canada. w hong the speakers listed for tonight. Chairman Bingh the message of the President as wise, stimulating and impressive, The one aim of the Amgrican farm- er. Aaron Sapiro of California de- clared in the keynote address opening the conference, must be to merchan- dise his crops instead of dumping them on the market. To accomplish this, farmers must be organized, not with the aim of fixing prices, hut to protect the farm industry from dump- ing of crops on a market made by middiemen Political efforts to better the condi- tion of the farming industry, M: Sapiro said. have failed. and it < ow time for the farmer to remed his industry from within i through co-operative merchandising The farmer, the speaker added. is the only man any great industry in he United States marketing individ ually, and he suffers accordingly. 870,000 Farmers Organized. More than 870,000 farmers in TUnited States are mow organized in merchandising associations. Mr. Sa- piro said. representing a billion do lars' ,worth of crops merchandised- not dumped on the market. The farm- er does not ask charity. nor does he contemplate a raid on the Treasur: Mr. Sapiro”added. He does dema however, that the government shall not discriminate against him. The program .of the council meet- ing includes a complete review b prominent speakers of the co-oper tive markeling movement in the United States. Other general toples will be co-operative financing and rural credits legisla- ir the | tion; common problems of co-operat- ive marketing assoclations and how to handle them: broblems of cach commodity group and co-operative education of the farmer and the public PLEAD FOR FARM AID. Meyer and Frazier Tell Senators Rural Credits Must Be Expanded. Spokesmen for the federal govern- ment and for the agricultural inter- ests of the country, appearing today in the Senate's double-header hearing on rural credits, joined in recommend- ing that Congress do something to relieve . the financial condition of the farmer. . ¥ Eugene Mever, director of the War Finance Corporation, told the bank- ing committee that although acute conditions in the live stock industry had passed, there must be legislation to expand the credit of farmers. At the same time R. H. Frazier, chat man of the republican state com- mittee of North Dakota, was testify- ing before the agriculture committee that unless the farmers of his state were given enough relief to enable them to pay thelr taxes, there would be a third party movement, “dis- agrecable to the government.”