Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. tonight and probably tomor- morning. Femperature for twenty-four hours pded at 2 p.m. today: Highest. 43, at 15 p.m. vesterday; lowest, 35, at 9 pan. ¥ “From Press to Home Within the Hour” _The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast | | ¥ull report on page 7. L &orin_g N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION — = = No. 28.737. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, P ©., ‘FRENCH SPURN BRITISH PLAN ON REPARATIONS: GLOOM AS BREAK NEARS ‘PoincareToldto tand Firm by Cabinet. - PREMIERS SEEK TO SHIFT BLAME Parley Split-Up May Come During This Afternoon. T the Associated Pross. PARIS, January 3.—~The allied onference on reparations ad- rned thix evening wuntil 3 clock tomorrow afternoon, thus avolding the immediate break which had been expected in many , January 3.—The allied con- rces met this afternoon for their ond session, with the delegates ap- in anything but a cheerful Prime Minister Bonar Law ned particularly depressed More than two hours after the epening of the session the doors of the conference room were still closed and on of the trend of the diccussions was available. Later it was learned that Premier Poincare had cecupled two hours in explaining the French position to the conference, after which tea was eerved to th elegates. The impres- gathered from Prime Minister 4r Law's opening remarks, when conference was resumed after tea. that he desired to avold a of the conference and was ed to be conciliatory s jon opened with Premier e in the chair, and with the ors and experts walting in oining room they were ves- The cabinet council’ of French min- ters this morning instructed Pre- \inr Poincare to move in the confer- th afternoon the adoption of French sninimum aceeptable to France. In Yo event the meeting does not ac- #pt that plan Premier Poincare was lirected to ask the conference to rgister formally lack of agreement i he allie e The which met under the Lairmanship of Prestdent Millerand. Aenied unanimously that the British tions plan was an abandon- of the treaty of Versailles. British Plan Rejected. Tremier Poincare after the cabinet Zveeting said the British vlan dis- vieased evervhady, not onlv the French. Tt the Ttalians and the Belgians, and <hat the npronosal that the Bank of * Tngland put its hands on the gold left there by allies as security for loans was alarming. The premier reiterated that the Trench plan was the minimum accept- able to France and represented the Tiaxtmum of concessions France would make. Premier Poincare after the meeting tinued to receive important mem- jora of the government. among them Touix Barthou. president of the re rations commission: M. Reihel. min- of liherated regions, and Finance er De Lastevrie, in preparation declaration to be made fo the ference at the 3 o'clock meeting. Tn this announcement the French yeemier is expected to declare that +he PBritish plan demands of France +hat she give up every guarantee she jas that anv arrangement adopted w111 be carrled out by Germany. British Make Plans. Tie British premlier planned to speak k2 mood. & no indi the allied meetine this afternoon and | Premier Poincare that the British willing_to discuss the French were vlan were discussed at the same time. 1f M. Poincare should refuse to ex- amine the Tionar Law. according to the present dactsion, will announce that the British Fea no need for further conference. Members of the British delegation ~aid after their meeting they had no talse hopes &s to the outcome of the conference. Tt was remarked that the Tritish and French plans seemed al- mhost hopelessly divergent The British delegates, in declding to accept the French reparations plan a8 a basis for discussion, provided Tremier Poincare agreed to discuss British plan, will séok to place o burden of responsibility for a hréak up of the conference on the shoulders of Premier Poincare. The atmosphero of gloom at the foreign office this morning was as dccp as, if not deeper than last night, and an abrupt end of the premiers’ erence, was freely forecast. Doubt cxpressed that the statesmen would even decide to hold another conference. The conferees. as Le Matin re- guarks, in showing their full hands At the opening session yesterday—a yroceeding never adopted at previ- ous_conferences—have made it ex- credingly difficult to bridge the vast pulf between the British proposals £nd those of the French and Italians. The British were understood to have proposed cancellation of to- day's plenary session in order that! he different plans might be sent to tho experts and ocommittees, but Premier_ Poingare opposed such a <tep. He belleved that the plans svere so radically different that they anuet be debated in the full light of Aay. Consequently, the Seeslon sched lied for this afternoon was expected | to assume capital importance. Parls Comment Moderate. The British prime minister begged Ahe correspondents to keep calm and jot aggravate the conference diver- fencies, by indulging in political com- ment. ' The French press, at least, romplied, with the result that the fiewspapers are moderate in their ref- erences to the outlook. The journals are of course unan- fmous In declaring that the British plan cannot be accepted. Le Matin #ptly sums up the views of all when “The moral which emerges » first shock of the rival views ¥s that there can be no understanding avithout mutual concessions, but the | n brought by Mr. Bonar Law to the nference yesterday represents a otable withdrawal from what other Eritish _ministers have suggested in Yhe past.” . The destiny of Turkey and the near ), wast is tied up to some extent with . 1this conference, because the French xovernment is disposed to subordi- nate the Lausanne negotiations to the ~ital importance of the future rela- 1iong of the allies with Germany. Mr. Bonar Law's reluctance to dis- {'_ (Continued en Page 3, Column 3.) reparations plan as the | | if the British and other plans | British plan further Mr. | AMERCASHAND SEEN AS GUDING LAUSANNE PARLEY While Conference + Marks Time, Influence of U. S. Conciliates Delegates. BY A. R. DECKER, to The Star and Chicago Daily N¢ Copyright, 1923.) LAUSANNE, January 'he Lau- nne conference is marking time and makin no decisions while awaiting decisions at the P: s conference. As a result, the crisis continues, with lit- tle upon which to optimism. However, if the America naims for fu- ture results with Turkey are founded upon Secretary Hughes' ald memoir of October 30, the United States has a monopoly on optimism, for many of the principles expressed in this docu- ment have been accepted by the Turks, and, what is of more importance, the allie either have not objected to them or have admitted the correct- n of the American point of view. ‘Without ‘offering to sign tions and make arrangements; with- out bartering, because, belng withou a vote or power to sign, the United States has nothing to barter; without threatening with naval forces and without intri the United States has gained most of its wishes Through its delegation the United (By Cable base | States "spoke first upon the general principle of the open door. The Turks were glud to accept the American view as to the open door, for they are learning that the United States is one of the soundest of the few creditor nations and that the open door ap- plies to the mandated territory. So far as known, the concession w. given to obtain consent to the open- door policy. Speak on Straits. Then the Americans spoke upon the | control of the straits. suggesting that a commission was unnecessary and today it is certain that the commis sion will not exist except possibly as an inspection body. The Americans likewise took a ktand against eject- ing the Greek patriarchate from Con- stantinople. This was to prevent the establishment of a precedent which would permit the Turks to expel American religlous workers or other powers to expel church leaders. How- ever, if the patriarchate remains it will 'be shorn of power. In private conversation the Americans asked the Turks as to thelr attitude to- ward American school and philanthropic tutions, whereupon the Turks called American correspondents and an- nounced the receipt of a telegram from Angora permitting American _institu- tions to remain in Turkey and reopen their doors. The Turkish delegation re- cently recsived Da Miller, head of the Young Men's Christian Association in Europe, and told him they under- stood that the Y. M. C. A. was included in the Angora statemént accepting American’ institutio The Americans asked that amnesty to be granted should include refugees and deportees, so they might return, but this proposal was resisted by the Turks, who, still under the domination | of the irreconcileables, led by Riza Nour Bey, refuse to permit Greeks to return. The Americans objected to the ex- change of populations, and today such an exchange seems distant and improb- | able. The Americans suggested that if the capltulations were removed, some- thing practical should replace them, but the Turks have not given their consent. Declare for Minoritl ‘The Americans asked for views on a homeland for the Armenians. This caused misunderstanding, for it was thought that the American movement backed the project. It seems now that the proposition was to invite plans, thus placing the need of re- patriating the refugees before the ! conferenca and encouraging crystal- lization of projects. The ~American delegation declared that the minori- tles should be protected, and the Turks replied that they would aceept clauses providing for the protection of minorities similar to the provisions on this matter contained in other European treaties. The forcgoing shows a balance in favor of the American delegation. It is a tribute to the prestige and moral influence of the United States and a compliment to the American delegation whose position has been and is exceedingly trying. In British quarters it is freely admitted that the Americans on several occasions have helped the conference by their con- ciliatory attitude and placing their welight on_the right side of the bal- ance. Undoubtedly the Turks imore than once changed their attitude when the Americans interceded. DENIES MOSUL REVOLT. By the Associated Prei LAUSANNE, To Write for The Star SERIES of articles specially addressed to the Americari people, to be published during his stay in this country. Beginning Next Friday the articles will appear ‘daily, except Sunday, and can be read in Washing- «ton only in The Evening Star conver- | Germans May - Not Present Proposals. “REVENGE WAR” IS RIDICULED U.S.-English Pledges to France Held to Be O. K. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, Januvary 3.—Germany’s rep- cesentatives in Paris word from the allied premiers before l | { i { | for a reparations settlement, no reply having yet been received to the re- quest of the German ambassador here that Dr. Karl Bergmann, the Ger- man spokesman, be heard by the con- ference. Dr. Borgmann said this fore- noon that a definite refusal to hear him would result first in his consult- ing his government before he could put the proposals in writing. It was said in German circles that if the conference broke up before the premiers replied to the German re- quest the proposals probabiy would not be presented at all. Germans Like Plan. The German officials are fra pleased with the British proposa but expressed little hope that the British plan, even in its main points, would be accepted by France. They expressed the fear that France was | determined to take independent ac tion unless the French plan were 3 cepted by the allies. A high German official, commenting on Prime Minister Bonar Law’s words in his statement last night, when he asserted that If an earthquake we to swallow Germany, Great Eritain would gain, not lose, since Germany was Great Britain's trade rival, had this to say: “If Germany disappeared thus, even if it were an economic ca am afraid th countries on the edges of Germany might be enguifed with her. | EXPLAINS TIME LIMIT. By the Associated Press. BERLI January 3.— Germany eould not interpose ‘the slightest ob- Jection it England or the United States should supplement or guar- antes its proposed anti-war pact by special promises or pledges to France, and it was with this contingency in view that Germany named England s a member of the agreement and | America as the custodian or trustee | of_the pact |, This statement W made by the | German fore minister, Baron von Rosenberg, to the Associated Pr this morning in the course of a d cussion of the German truce proposal | and Premier Poincare's explanation of France's rejection of it. “Neither through the power (the United States) which transmitted our proposal, nor through other channels did we receive back a query from the French government with respect to our alleged purpose in_limiting this pact to a generation,” Rosenberg declared. Only Minimum Term. “Any suggestion by the French gov- ernment proposing a longer term.” he continued, “would naturally have had our approval and consent. The mere adoption of the somewhat elastic con- ception impiied in the word ‘genera- tion,’ had for its primary purpose the provoking of a discussion over the period to be agreed upo A genera- tion does not indicate a sharply de- fined stretch of years and only pos- sesses significance as indlcating at {least thirty years; in other words. it was a restriction in respect to a mini- (mum but did not define a maximum. “The federal government was desir- {ous of relieving the Rhineland of its fifteen vears of allied occupation, and, therefore, desired to vouchsafe France security and assurances for a period Which would run considerably longer than the prescribed term of occupa- tion.” “The material and physical prere- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) ASKS FOREIGN AI IN WAR ON “DOPE" U. S. Would Suppress Nar- cotics by Co-Operation With Other Governments. Friendly co-operation of several for- eign governments is being sought by the United States in its fight to stamp out the use of narootics in this coun- lery. Recognizing the difficulty of pre- venting distribution of drugs after they have been successfully smuggled || |ashore, the fight 18 now to be directed toward a stoppage of lllicit. ship- {ments at their source, or, at least, to establish sources of information abroad which will enable American authorities to keep such a close check on wholesale dealers as to diminish the probability of large supplies com- ing through. Foster En Route to Europe. Col. 0. G. Forrer, former tant director of the prohibition bureau's narcotic division, is en route to Eu- rope in this connection and is sald to carry credentials from the State De- partment to officials of similar bu. reaus in several countries. He Is to confer with the authoritfes in Italy, Spain, France and possibly Germany, with a view of securing their co-op- len\iom Will Carry Campaign Overseas. Deciston to carry the anti-drug cam- paign overseas was sald today to have been reached on information obtained by the federal authorities with the recent selxure at New York of a rec- ord shipment of morphine and cocaine which had just been landed from a trunsatlautic stbamer, are awaiting presenting the new German proposals thquake. I Baron von| | | | BURSUMPENSION * WEASURE VETOED Author of Bill Will Move to Pass It Over Presi- dent. | President Harding today vetoed the Bursum bill providing an increase in {pensions to veterans and thelr widows! | of the civil and Mexican wars. | | An effort will be made to have Con-| gress pass the Bursum pension bill over the President's veto, Senator Bursum sald this afternoon. When the message had been read to the Scnate Senator Bursum asked that it be printed and that the message lie on the table. Later he said that he would move the passage of the bill, notwithstanding the President's dis- approval of the measure. 1f opportunity offers he may make the motion tomorrow. The bill when it was passed by the Senate met practically no opposition. Whether the necessary two-thirds vote can be mustered to pass it over the presldential veto is problematical. 1t is believed that it could be passed by the House over the veto. The President’s veto message said: “If the act were limited to its pro- visions in beha!f of the surviving participants ir the Mexican and eivi wars and widows of the war of 1812, it would still be without ample justi- fication. The commissioner of pen- sions estimates Its additional cost to the Treasury to be about $108,000,000 annually, and I venture the prediction that with such a precedent estab- lished, the ultimate pension outlay in the half century before us, wiil axceed $50,000,000,000. “The act makes no pretense of new consideration for the needy or de- pendent, no new generosity for the veteran wards of the nation. It is an outright bestowal upon the govern- ment’s pension roll, with a heedless- ness for the government's financial problem which is a discouragement to every effort to reduce expenditure and thereby relieve the federal burdens of taxation. ' | | i | | i Provisions for Widows. “The moro particular objection to this act, however, lies in its loose provision for pensioning widows. The existing law makes the widow of a civil war veteran eligible to a pension it she married him prior to June 27, 1905. “In other words, marriage within forty vears of the end of the civil war gives a veteran's widow a good title to & pension. “The act returned | herewith extends the marriage pe- riod specifically to June 27, 1915, and provides that after that date any marriage or oohabltation for two years prior to a veteran’s death shail make the widow the beneficiary of a pension at $50 per month for the re- mainder of her life. In view of the fact that this same bill makes pro- vision for pensions for widows of the FOREIGN AFFAIRS ¢ Foening Sfar as the papers L 4 are printed. Yest;rdly'l Net Circulation, 91,033 : WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1923—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. Not a Dry Eyein D. C. Building As Police Move All to Tears |Red-Eyed Clerks Weep Freely and U ‘! shamedly for Half an Hour, But-It Was Tear Gas, Not Pity. Tt the Commissioners had walked | through the District building this | morning and notified all employes that they were “fired.” they could not | have wept more naturally than they | did when Inspector Henry G. Pratt. assistant superintendent of police. accldentally discharged a tear-gas; he mopped tho rising flood of tears| be one of the “most drastic weapons” gun on the second floor. Within an instant the fumes had permeated the halls from the hp ‘Pockets of tHe men and | sleeves of the women handkerchlefs were called into service. For more | than thifty minutes tears flowed | like water from as many spigots. i Even Commissioner Rudolph could ; not resist the overpowering inclina- tion to cry until he threw open the ! windows of his private office. At first the puzzled city workers wondered what had suddenly gone! wrong with their eyes. One clerk, hurrying along the fourth floor cor- DIMLIGHTSPERIL LIFEIND.C. STREETS Motorists and Pedestrians Endangered by Shadows | in Some Sections. Life and property are nightly en- dangered on many of the streets and highways of the District because of inadequate street lighting. Dim lights, | in many instances casting deep shadows because of the fact that they are located close to large trees, make | it difficult for motorist and pedestrian | to ses far enough ahead to avold ac- | cidents. | Many automobile drivers are re-| quired to use dazzling headlights for their own protection and for the pro- | tection of those who are walking. The | District has a headlight law which | says that the beam of an automobile | headlight shall not shine higher than | forty-two inches above the ground at a distance of seventy-five feet ahead of the lamp. However, it is (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) { | Total Adverti: This tremendous lines for the year wa: Gain in Display Ad | { | | | Same day last year. ... Activity in Business As Reflected by Advertising in The Star sing, 1922... 21,659,650 lines Total Advertising, 1921... 21,032,405 lines vertising, 272,255 lines .Gain in Classified Advertising, 354,990 lines Total Gain, 627,245 fines " Circulation of The Star Yesterday’s Circulation........... 91,033 (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) ’ i Gain, 627,245 lines increase of 627,245 s divided as follows: Gain, 1,727 ridor, felt his eyes tears began to cheeks, pain and then trickle down his Tears Flow Everywhere, “Gosh! I better go down and see ‘Doc’ Fowler. My eyes have gone back on me at last,” he gulped, as from his face. But when he reached the second _ofices :and | loor, gu which beth the health ofiice | eral courts, hotels, houses, boats or and the police department are located, he found that the guardian of Wash ington’s health and his staff of as. sistants also were weeping pro- fusely. Then the cause of the epidemic of weeping began to dawn on the red- eved ecity servants, as the source of the fumes was traced to Maj. Sul- livan's suite of rooms. Even Police Weep. There it was learned that Inspector Pratt, who has been making a study of the use of tear gas by police de- (Continued on D.C. BILL MAY PASS INHOUSE SATURDAY Supply Measure for 1924 Is to Be Reported Out Tomorrow. The District appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1924 iIs to be reported to the House tomorrow and taken up for consideration on Friday, with the expectation that it will be passed on Saturday. While sources close to the commit- tee drafting this bill intimate thatit will show a cut of approximately $2.- 500,000 under the budget recom- mendations of $25,043,973, Chairman Madden of the House appropriations committee said today “the people of the District ought to be, and T belleve will be. entirely satisfled with the ap- propriations we recommend to the House.” Chairman Madden eulogized the government of the National Capital, pointing out that there is practically no indebtedness; that. current ex- penses are being taken care of out of revenues; that the water system is being extended out of revenues from the water system; that sewers and streets are being extended without speclal assessments, and that the city is catching up on its school needs. “The people of the District are the most favorably situated in the world, ald Chairman Madden. “They have a better and cleaner government, they have more beauty spots and they suf- fer less increase in taxes than other communities.” $125,000 Urged for Georgetown Postal Station An appropriation totaling $125,000 for the Georgetown postal station is recommended in a letter signed by Secretary Mellon of the Treasury and Postmaster General Work, sent to the House today, which urges appropriations totaling approximate- 1y $45,000,000 for post offices and in- creased postal facilities dn 140 cities throughout the country. The item for the Georgetown sta- tion recommends an appropriation of $13,000 for additional land and $110,- 000 for msion znd remodeling the buiding * Prince Miguel, Pretendey’s Son, Sells Insurance By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 3.—Prince Miguel de Braganza, son of Don Miguel Braganza, pretender to the throne of Portugal and grandson of King Miguel, who reigned over Portugal from 1823 to 1834, is sell- ing life insurance in New York. He 1s working on a commission basls for insurance brokers. William Rhinelander Stewart, Jr, the prince’s brother-in-law, is a mem- ber of the firm. According to the office force, Prince Miguel reports punctually every morning and observes the same rules and regulations that govern other business solicitors for the firm. He sald he went to work because “nearly every one over here works.” His marriage to Anita Stewart in 1909 at Tulloch Castle. Scotland, was a brilliant event after royal complications over the status of Miss Stewart had been smoothed out by a patent from Emperor Francis Joseph, which gave the American girl the rank of princess until the wedding was over. Miss Stewart was reported to have re- celved a wedding gift of $2,000,000 from her mother, Mrs. James Henry Smith. The Portuguese pretender opposed his son's marriage, but vielded when Prince Miguel re- nounced his rights in favor of his vounger brother, Prince Francis Joseph. “PADLOCK” DRIVE | ONRUM PLANNED | Department of Justice and | Drys Confer on Extend- ing Force of Writ. | TESTS ARE SUCCESSFUL | ;Hotels, Houses and Boats In- | joined for Year in Many Sections of Country. | officials of the Department of Jus- { tice and prohibition unit conferred | today on plans for further extending | throughout the nation the effect of! the so-called “padlock” clause of the national prohibition act, declared to |in the hands of the drys, by which, { through injunctions granted by fed- any Kind of business places may be closed and “padlocked” for an entire year. B Following the conference, it is un- derstood, official notice will be sent by the Department of Justice to dis- triet attorneys throughout the coun- | try advising them that the meaninzl | and power of the “padlock” section | is very clear, and that they may go ahead taking action accordingly. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. assistant attorney general, in charge of prohibition, represented the De- partment of Justice at the confer- ence this morning at prohibition headquarters. The prohibition unit was represented by Federal Prohibi- tion Commissioner Haynes, Assistant Commissioner Jones, Prohibition Counsel Judge James A. Britt and Col. L. G. Nutt, acting chief in charge of general prohibition agents. Declared Fully Effective. Tt was authoritatively announced at prohibition headquarters that this { “padlock” provision, which some at- torneys had reported they were hesi- tant to employ because of doubt in | their minds as to how far they could | go, was, in the opinion of the De- partment of Justice and prohibition unit, fully effective. The authority of the “padlock” provision is in sec- tions 21 and 22 of ithe national pro- hibition act, which provides that the| offending places, if proven before the | court to be a “common nuisance” on | account of having kept intoxicating liquor, may be closed by the order of the court for a period of one year. ‘While prohibition officials enforc- ing the “padlock” provisions to some extent at first took into consideration a further modifying clause in section 22, which provides that owners of such buildings against whom an in- junction has been ordered by the Court may operate part of it, under bond, during the prohibited yvear, the policy now adopted by the prohibi- tion officials, it was explained, is to carry out to the strictest interpreta- tion of the law allowing complete closing of the whole structure. The “padlock” has been actually “snapped” on the front door, and the side doors as well. “National Drive Warranted.” Courts already have granted such | permanent Injunctions in certain sec- tions of the country in sufficient num- bers, prohibition and department offi- cials feel, to warrant a nation-wide drive on violators of the national prohibition act, using tho drastic padlock clause. This procedure, simplifies to a certain degree, it was said, the operation of the dry forces against violators, because no search warrant |s necessary. ‘The search warrant and its use, where wrong addresses and other technical errors have crept in, have complicated matters considerably in various parts of the country, prohibition official said. A wide application of the “padlock,” it was believed, would materially in- crease the efficiency of the prohibition force already operating and would tighten up the reins of the government's machinery throughout the nation. SICK. MAN, TRAPPED, DIES IN BURNING BUILDING Four Children Rescued After They Had Started Fire in Their Home. CLEVELAND, January 3.—Michael Mpravchek, thirty-five, was killed and four children were rescued in a fire which damaged a house here to- night. The man, who was sick, was strapped in his room and was over- come by smoke before he could reach the door. He was dead when he reached a hospital. According to stories told the fire- men, the children had been playing with matches and stuffed some paper, | which they had lighted, into a cup- board. Mrs. Moravehek was at work downtown at the time TWO CENTS. SECRECY MARKS HARVEY PARLEY WITH PRESIDENT Efforts to Interview Diplomat at White House Foiled by Officials. AMBASSADOR EXPECTED TO CALL UPON HUGHES Joint Conference by Executive, State Secretary and Envoy Believed Planned. The case of Europe was the most Important subject before both the White House and the State Depart- ment today, with the former receiv- | ing personal report from Col. George Harvey, the American ambassador ta Great Britain, and the latter “listen- ing In” on the conference of premiers in Parls. Col. Harvey came to Washington last night and was in conference with President Harding virtually the en- tire morning. He is expected to ses Secretary of State Hughes either latq today or early tomorrow, and a con- ference between the President, the Secretary of State and the ambassa-~ dor s likely to be held at the Whitq House within the next twenty-fou: hours, Calling List Small. President Harding’s calling 1ist was kept virtually clear today, his first visitor being scheduled to arrive at 11 o'clock and the last at 12:30 o'clock, thus giving the Chief Executive prac- tically an entire day for conference with the ambassador to London. One of the few persons admitted to the President's ofice, however, was Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City Bank of New York Mr. Mitchell was closeted with Presi- dent Harding for more than 4 halt Lour, but upon leaving declined ta divuige the nature of his business laughingly putting off questions by saying: It ‘way merely a personal cu Extraordinary care is being taker to prevent the nature of the conver- sation between President Harding and Col. Harvey being published prema- turely. While in Washington, he wil be A guest at the White House, anc upon arriving here last night wen! direct to the President's mansion Maj. O. N. Selbert, military attache al the American embassy in London, and Chandler Cobb, assistant commercisi attache, accompanied the ambassador to Washington, and were registercd at a local hotel. i % Not “Officially” Here. Last night Col. Harvey declared he would not consider himself to have “officially” arrived in the capital un- til this morning, and that his pres- ence at the White House untll thei would have no connection with affairs in Europe. He is believed to have gone Into conference with the Presi- dent immediately after breakfast and remained with him until the exec- utive's callers began to arive. Efforts of newspaper men to get in touch with Col. Harvey while the President was engaged otherwise were block- ed, however. At the State Department it was an- nounced that Col. Harvey nad made na engagement with Secretars Hughes, but that he was expected “to call” either today or tomorrow. It would not be necessary, attaches said. for the am- bassador to make an appointment with the Secretary of State more than half an hour or go in advance. Neither has the Secretary of State an appointment with the President, the same sources declare, but a conference could be ar- ranged on short notice. Discuss Economics. While Col. Harvey is known to have been recalled to discuss European con- ditions generally with the President and Secretary Hughes, the economic problem is regarded as the paramount question to be discussed. His visit ap- parently was timed to coincide with t conference of* premiers in Paris. Although the American government may not be represented at that con- ference, Undersecretary of State Phil- 1ips admitted to newspaper men this morning that the United States is in a position to know what is going on. No reports had been received ecarly today, he said, but he indicated that the State Department has reliable sources of its own through which it will receive comprehensive reports on the discussion. The conference this morning be- tween Undersecretary Phillips and tha newspaper men was unusually short, the department making it evident that it thought the present time in- opportune for a discussion of Buro- pean affairs. Mr. Phillips remained with the correspondents less than five minutes, and when asked if the State Department had anv announcement to make on reparations he closed the meeting by repeating that no reports had been received. _— BANKER-PREACHER GIVES $25,000 BOND, LEAVES JAIL Victor H. Arnold of Wisconsin Accused in New York of Using Mails to Jefraud. By the Assoclated Press NEW YORK, January 3.—Victor H. Arnold, the banker-preacher from Wisconsin, who was arrested recently at Bayside, Long Island, on an Indlct- ment charging use of the malls to de- fraud investors in the Madison Bond Company, produced $25,000 bail late yesterday and was released from Ray- ‘mond street jail, Brooklyn, where he had been in custody. Arnold was accompained from tie jail to the office of the United States District Attorney by a relative and two deputy marshals. He signed his own bond, returnable at Superior Wis,, on January 23, in the sum of $25,000 in United States liberty bonds, serious of 1817, “It was a rather novel experience for me, this jail business” said Arnold_after his release had been accomplished. “I never was in one before.” He assured his attorney, fromer Judge Hal S. Corbett, that he would he in Superior on the specificd date, “glad to defend the charges” which he reiterated “were all a frame-up.