Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1923, Page 2

* % 2 LAUSANNE PEACE - HOPES RISE AGAIN British See Treaty or. Proto- col Assured, Following Talk With Pasha. RUSS STIR STRAITS ISSUE Allies Refuse Request of M. Tchit- cherin for Reopening of Question. By the Associated Prées.’ 3 Follow LAUSANNE. Febrifry Ing private conyersations' this, morn- ing between Marquis Curzon xu)d‘ ismet Pasha, the British delegates at the near east conference announced that they felt more hopeful for the signaturo either of a peace treaty or protocol at Laugagne. © The gréafest-obstacle (g peace r mains, a ever, the question of jud!- clal guarantees for foreigners in Turkey, and it appears that further concessions must be made by the allies to satisfy the Turkish national dignity. Although such action had been ex- pected. bolshevic Russia’s refusal to- day to sign the n ©@st peacd treat sefting forth conditions for tue opoy ng of the straits of the Lardanelles and the Bosporus, and the demilitare ization of the siraits z ('A\IS!‘AI depression in near east conference vircles. M. Tchitcherin, the leading Russtan delegate, urged that the whole question with regard to the straits be reopened. - Request Refused by Allies.. By doing this, the bolshevik fereign minister declared, the ullies would repair their fault of geeking to im- pose upon Russia a treaty which Rus. Sia had not had sultable opportunity to discuse. His request was refused by the allies. The Turks <o seized the nhp}\rllihv\- 9 jections. Isinet Pasha, Ity to raise objections. : their chief representative ained that the straits conve: stantinople practically since the entire stri be demilitarized. T ordinary Turkish forc i hould ia o 20,060 me right to establish i gar & l:;yn, Ismet warned the eren: (hat Turkish aceptance was connected with acceptance of the gencral peace treaty. The Russiun delegation distributed the -exts « dresses 1 *he confere the Moscow straits convention negotia son &t Ga last the two ad Vi before Russia onciliation ession to make hnportant in Black Nea. The origiral project. M. Tchit said, was the total o foreign warships permit the straits should be equ he strongest fleat in the Russia deemed that dangerous cause any fleet on the could be artificially strengthe if forelgn fleets united with it then the equilibrium of the Black would be overthre What Russta wanted was that the total forelgn tonnage should be restricted to one- fifth the total tonnage of the B sea states, including Turkey When the Russian request to open the discussion was refused Tchitcherin charged that th all had imposed their views n Turi by an ultimatum and the menac var. And as r Ru he the allies asked sign a blank did not even some clauses affected her commerce Continuing. M. Tchite that the convention jeopardiz interests of Russia, rendered Sible the establisiment of & Stabls peace in the near east ®nd would m- pose on Russia and other countries supplementary nata) armament which would create an obstacie to the estab: lishment of international peace. - “The Russian delegation sald the nolshevik foreign minister, “places on record its unchangeable opposition hoth to the treaty und ulso. to the policy of domination uRd violence of which this project is an cxpression.” MRS. LAURA 0. TALBOTT DEAD AT SANITARIUM Widow Was Well Founder of Young Ladies’ Danger that M adde Russia ort of which daclared Known As Seminary. s Mrs. Laura Oshorne Talbott. widow of Thomas Morgan Talbott of Washington and Auburn. N. Y., died at Carroll Spring Sanitarium vester- day. She had been an invalid for sev eral vears. The fumeral will take place ‘trom T.ee's u t 2:30 o'clock tomorrerw Mrs. Talbott came in 1870 and was the S teacher after the civil establish a - young ladies’ seminary in this city. and man Washingto- nians will remember Miss Osborne's seminary at the corner of M and 1gth streets northwest. ;. ik Mrs, Talbott. with Mrs. Asaph Hall, Mra. Page of Cornell University and Mixs Mary Booth, a sclentist, started a &Nas tional Science Club, which had & na- tional reputation. ~Mrs. Talbott was for many years & member of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, and of the American Historical Society DISTRICT STILL SHORT ON ALLOTMENT OF FUEL northern war to ‘Washington still is 6,260 tons short of its' 60 per cent gllotment of hard coal, Walter C. Allen, secretary to the Public Utilities Commission, an- nounced today. This'is some Improvement, however, over the previous report of the com- imission, which showed the city to be 10,000 tons short on anthracite re. ceipts. During the week ended January 13, the latest period for which the Com- missioners have figures, the:District received 14,986 tons of hard coal, the largest amount to reach the District in seven days since mining was resumed in September. From September to January 13 the District should have received 191,034 tons of anthracite, but actual ship- ments have aggregated only 184,774 tons. B PHIPPS COMMITTEE . WILL MEET ToDAY he joint congressional committee vestigating the surplus revenues of the District, has been called by Chairman Phipps to meet at 4 o'clock this afternoon to econsider further Lt report which 1% wHl file by, Monday. ?h. expert *\c.@.unllml employed by the commlttee -are expected to furnish to it some gdditional infor- mation in regard to expenditures by tho federal government and by the District, which - will' be’_ considered by the committee along with the data already eollected. Chairman Phipps said today that the committee has made no decision: n to the surplus vet. He that the committes hopes to be able, R Feport on time. t ! attention cea! vital | mpos- | ertaking establishment at NEW POLICE JUDGE ASKED BY OYSTER (Continued from First Page.) traffic that there are 100,000 motor vehicles in the District. Traie Court Would Al “It has been repeatedly suggested in the past that the creation of a traffic court would assist materially in the en- forcement of traffic rules and the re- duction of accidents. opinion that this is true, and should be provided for by the appointment of an additional judge whose sole duty shall be to preside in all viola- tions of the trafic regulations. T am of the furthér épinion that Wwith the increased pumber of motor vehicl in this city, Congress should provide for a greater number of traffic offi- cers and the necessary traffic equip- { ment.” . Consider Recommendations. Commissioners Rudolph and Keller | 8F theirmeestng today gave prelimi- inary consideration to | setVof gehéral highway rvegulations recommended by Willlam P. Eno. chairman of a committee appointed by the Commissioners to study traffic. No definite action was taken. The Commissioners declded to confer this afterncon with several District of- fielals who are members of Mr. Eno's committee to obtain their views on the proposed general rules for action. Tt was Mr. Eno’s plan to have these general recommendations for avold- ing accidents printed in the form of & folder and clrculated among all | residents of the District. Seek Passage of Bill. Commissioner Oyste letter 1s in line with the provisions of the Zihl- iman trafic bill, which covers all his requests except the oue for the jemployment of additfonal policeme i Police officials and motorists today idirected to Congress an eager appeal {for passage of this measure. In the Zihiman bill pector Al- bert J. Headley. chief of the tratic bureau, sees the solution of the Dis- trict’s menacing traffic situation The measure, which bears the name of the representative from Maryland. its author, probably will be reported out by the District committee in a few @ays. It not onfy provides for the creation of a traffic court, a judge to praside over It and an assistant corporation counsel to devote his un- divided attention to traffic cases, but it puts ‘teeth” In the laws Rovern- ing the conduct of motorists without ‘ne-rrnc" ik one iota from the r of driver Would Pat Punch in Law. Make that.bill a law and we will aake Wastington the best and safest lefty to drive in this country has ev | seen.” declared Inspector Head “Tt he punch. It gives the motorist privilege he wants, but unalls {the “wiid' and careless driver up where he belongs. And it gives “ommissioners and tie polics the sup- Iport they must have to better conds- tions nere.” Firsi of all. to create a t fdistinet from fprovides for ! judge - who ‘o the measure sets out surt. separate and police the appoi 1 would devote his studying and dec To assist the judg 1 corporatton counsel This prosecutor wd traffie prohlams + traflic court we o regulatic the s trafl ddit appointed. ke a study lak duty Would Reginter Carx. . *he law would compel all Dis- torists to register their This would not only make steal automoblles a decidedly dangero and unprofitable busines, but it we help.the police to break up the prac uthorized persons driv friendv and relatives registering their cars. Was motarists ec tually utomobile thefts, because no pers: thout showing the District certified ownership paper. The Zihlman bill confers upur ‘ommissloners the right lissue registration paper automobile which, “1s S0 _constructed or adition as to be. wher a menace to the safely loccupants or the public W s of unreasonable dan the pab i highways” Under this oty wonld {fall the man who. drives around in a with his fenders or other parts ready to drop off in the path of ap- {vroaching traffic. | . 'Fo Note Warnings. ! The present method drivers' permits and license tags changed. Mr. Zih an's law wo |leave o Space on every permit for officer to make a note of a wa {he jssued to the owner or the tru eourt to mark down a conviction, licemen would {three warnings to persons who {bréak comparatively mi [ tions, ch time, however lwetld Lave to make a note of warnings on the driver's permit jan officer found three such o« {tlons on the permit he jobliged to arrest the oife jevery subsequent offense. Persons applying for new operator's {licenses would first be reauired to take out an instruction card. which ! would entitle ‘thent to drive a motor vehicle, when accompanied by a fully licensed driver, for the next thirty days. As soon as the beginner had | satisfled himself he could pass the police department’s requited test he could apply for the regular permit. Could Make Rules. The act ‘would authorize the Com- missioners. *ta make such regulations with respect to the brakes, horns. lights, mufllers, and other equipment, and the speed and parking of vehicles diverting of vehicle traffic, closing o Streets fo such traffic, rules of the Toad, and euch other regulations In respect to vehicle traffic in the Dis- trict as they deem advisable.” These regulations must be printed in one or more of the dally news- papers, and no penaity may be en- forced’ for any’ violating occurring cars o of issuing gh they It tat- A be H tion. An exception to this rule, ho er, is made in cases where the Commissioners consider it necessary to make new regulations effective im- mediately. This, however, would only cover parking. closing of streets for special_occasions and similar regula- tions. Under such circumstances the Commissioners would be required to POSt explanatory signs in’conspicuonus places. The present system of posting col- lateral, under which many habitual offenders get off by paying minimum sums, -would be abolished The Zihl- man act makes {t compulsory for per- sons who have given bond or collat- eral to appear in traffic court for trial. Failure to do &0 would result in a warrant being issued. At present the desk sergeants at police precincts are virtually made judges by being per- mitted to set the collateral of a pris- oner who may never appear in court. One of the most important points in the Zihlman Dill is that it does not | prescribe a’penalty-for each offense, but sets a blanket maximum to cover all cases except those of persons | charged with driving while intoxi- {cated. The maximum penalty for violation of all cases except,the lat- ter would be $500 fine, imprisonment for not more than a vear, or both. This permits the court to axercise its own judicial judgment. It may fine a man $1 or $500, or may send him to jail if the evidence in the case war- rants it regardless of whether it was a first offense or not. “In addition or in lieu of any such penalty,” the act continues, “the court may, in its discretion, revoke the privileges of the operator's license and order the surrender of tags or markers.” Such a permit may not be restored to the operator without the congent of the court. These penalties werd particularly ‘applanded hy motor- 15ts.. They pointed qut that it enables "the Tourt to-gjve thé Violator of a comparatively umimportant statute a 1ight fine, maviac but “slam” the careless Experiments in West Australia in- dicate that paper of good quality can be made from the common eucalyptus. Government and private interests have raised capital ¢to build a modern plant wad machinery, 1 am of the| the proposed | tha | be permitted to give | regula- | Within thirty days after such publica- | THE KVENING IACTION ON STREET CAR CASE DELAYED |Committee Fails to Make Move on Legislation for Lack of Quorum. The House District committee failed today to get action on legislation in- tended to relieve the street car situa: tion in the National Capital. Repre- sentative Fred N. Zihlman of Mary- land, supported by Chairman Focht of the District committee and Repre- sentative Sproul of Tllinois, endeavor- ed to get @ favorable report on the Senate bill ‘fathered by Senator Ball and amended by Senator Jones of Washington. Action was prevented, however, by Representative Lampert no quorum, and by Representative Underhill of Massachusetts, who with- drew from the committee, thereby breaking all possibility of a quorum. The Senate bill, it was explained, would permit a merger and the Jones amendment would protect the public interest, it was clalmed, because it provides for excess profits tax of 50 per cent on the net return above 6 }per cent and 75 per cent recapture on net returns in excess of 7 per cent. Amendnent Sought. Representative Ham er of North « rous effort to arelina ihave the lis provision which would allow any street car company to purchase the shares of another company. but was 80 worded that the Washington Rail- way and Electric Company would not be “able to acquire the stock of the Capital Traction Company. Representative Hammer made re- peatell and emphatic charges that the Washington Railway and Electrle Company has for twenty vears been throttling all etforts to secure legis- lation, and he sald that interest in the ¥enate bill Lhad died as soon as the Publie Utilitfes Commission had let it be known that it would op- pose that lexislat ative Hummer said that nate bill is tantamount to per- witting the Washington Railway und cotric Company to merxe smac Electric Power Company use the borrowing power of that fitable concern In order to make arther mortkages, Representative Hlunton said: “1 3 not in favor of giving the strest ( companies anything. If we lie people of the incubus of th {lie Utilitles Commission we 1w back to & -cent fure Representative Hummer tribute to the knowledge Kutz, formerly Engineer sioner, had of the street ra. uation’ and ¢ fin Solution m ar relfave et paid thut way sit high Comn; Hoeal he Lis work to study and hax had sald that if was abol went back to the they hises it Lack to a Repregentativ T Sproul Teili Commission striet ntract street Were Representative t the only was througi his anie stice thut un ake some pro Hammer to get dment £ the com. Pt action insisted wcton n A served of Wisconstn meeting endeavor n propositior Pubiie Utilities Commis- fix any street car fares cess of those provided for in the inal contraci with the street rail- ompanies. and fetting aside any Tares e established. Representative Zihiman chajrman of the suhcommittee th {reported two biils to Congress, the 3 the calendar and s returned the explained the car legisla- imittee has than three accomplished hing and pwes it us a solemn du the car-riding public to give re- ief at this session of Congress 1f pos- sible. e laid particular stress on the fact that the so-called concessions to the street car companiés in proposed legislation to relieve them of the 4 per cent gross tax and of the main- tenance of crossing policemen and paving charges, which would amount to ahout $700,000 a vear, really does not affect the earnings of the street {car companies. because thess ex- penses are charged up against the street car riders. Profits. Tax Plan. Representative Zihlman insisted that if there is to be any action to ;Y‘l—]lr\fi the situation at this session of Congress it must be had through the Senate bill which is now await- ing action in the House. Representative Underhill of Massa- chusetts emphasized that the excees profits tax plan is the same as adopt- ed in most of the cities of the coun- try, and. Representative Zihlman added “and by the government it- iself.” Representative Sproul of llinois urged reporting out the Senate bill, predicting that it will pass the House, and saying that if this was not done, no action could be had at this Con- Bress. Representative Blanton pointed out there were 66,000 school children in the District who are charged full fares, whereas in most cities of the country the children ride for half tares. SENATE. REBUKES HEFLIN FOR WORDS STARTING FIGHT (Continued from First Page.) il Wednesday put way ng history fon. He o w str of lette, Wisconsin, and Norris, Nebras- ka, almost all farm bloc colleagues of Senator Heflin—voling Wwith the minority, = Settlement of the dispute came over from yesterday's session, but there was little debate today pre- ceding the vote. Senator Robinson denied that Senator Heflin had im- pugned Senator Wadsworth's motives and thus violated the Senate rules of debate. He urged the Senate not to set a precedent against free speech. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the republican leader, replying briefly, reiterated that Senator Heflin's in- ference against Senator Wadsworth was plain.’ . Fight Continues. The vote, however, did not end the matter. Senator Wadsworth took the floor after the roll call and re- newed the argument by charging that | Senator Heflin had in seyeral in stances revised his remarks before their publication in the Congressional Record. . Senator Wadsworth read from the stenographer’s notes these remarks made by Mr. Heflin in discussing a phase of Wisconsin, who raised a point of | with the | SIAR, WASHINGLON, ‘Zoo Row Keeps Up Late; No Shadow, But Tt's lucky for Washington that Mr. Ground Hog was among those present at the annual meeting of the Zoological Park Resident-Citizens’ Assoclation in Rock Creek valley last night. Otherwise, he'd have gotten to sleep before 4 o'clock this morning and might have awakened' early enough to let his shadow scare him shortly after ‘sunrise, when old Sol weakly poked his round red face through the clouds. A debate on the need for representa- tion of local zoo residents in the national congress of finned, furred and feathered inmates of municipal parks, menageries and sideshows, re- |sulted In a fllbuster started by a &Toup of radical hyenas and support- ed by sea lions and the farm bloc of prairie dogs. The meeting adjourned suddenly when a number of hawks, eagies and owls attempted to dispel opposition to representation by 8Wooping down on hares, mice, rats and chipmunks attending the sesafon. No Sunshine Decree, Be that here or there, it is advanced today only for the purpose of explain- ing the excusable lateness of Mr. Ground Hog in rising at 11 a.m., from Wwhich time forward the sun did not shine. The weather bureau today de- 'D. G Ground Hog Cold olared that there would be no sun- shine today, as far as indications went, but that rain would probably reach Washington toward the close of the day. , Now, the groundhog may he a true prophet and his failure to fun away from his shadow today may indicate pleasant weather henceforth and a cessation of the reign of King Win- ter. But the weather bureau disa- grees with his verdict in at least one point. Evidenoe of friction between weather solontists and the groundhog came out today, when officials at the weather bureau forecast a cold snap, starting In tomorrow night and con- tinuing for three or four days. Stoke Up, Is Advice. Utterly disregarding the verdioct of the groundhog they advised Wash- ingtonians who haven't any coal in their bins to get some or shiver in the coolest weather Washington has yet experienced for any length of time. The cold snap is swooping southeastward from northwest Canada and Washington thermameters will not be exempt from a drop in mer- eury. Tt will last, it seems, from Saturday night through Sunday and Monday, with Tuesday possibly winding up the the cold spell for a short time. The cold wave will hit the lower lake region and Ohlo valley states shortly and is reported this morn- ing moving rapidly at Lepas Mani- toba at a temperature of 28 degrees below zero. prettiee M e ol e bt Aol Lt i . L D NS RN of the honus question in reply to in- quiry as to why the state of Ala- bama had not voted a soldiers’ bonus “When the people of Alabama give anything to the soldier they give it to him quietly and say nothing about it, but everytime you (other states) give him a dollar you stand {on the housetop and crow like a rooster.” Senator Wadsworth said the origi- nal notes showed that Mr, Heflin had in his own handwriting Inserted the word, “laughter,” after h!s remark. The New York Senator also declar- ed that, according to the sten- ographer's notes, Senator Ieflin | bad said @t one polnt that! “New York does so much devilment, L have no time to remember what she does,” but that Mr. Heflin had cromse that sentence out before the Record WS sent to the printer. Senator Wadsworth further charged t Senator Heflin had caused tfo be ted in the Record other senten, | which he (Heflin) had never said o the Senate floor, and had altered a | reference to Chief Justice Taft which | as considered objectionuble by some senators so as nof to make It so ob- Jectiorable “This {3 satd at shows that what a senafor say Congressional Rec: Severul times dur) worth's di ] tried | { o it | tell '8 by reading the ug Senator Wad of the matter Sena- tor Heflin 0 interrupt, but Vice | President Coolidge refussd to recog- nize him, holding that he was not In order until & motion was made to let Lim proceed fn order 1ator Len- {root,” repubiican, Wisconsin, made i =uch a motion. bt demc 5, led by | Senators Robiuson and Senator Cn derwood of Alabama, held that no inotion was necessary. This led to an- {other long parliamentary wrangle | Heflin Openx Gun ‘e President Coolldge finally re ognized Senator Heflin, who procesc riticize the Vice President's ard the republicans who had romised reprisals, | very republican on the list | ght to be beat,” and satd he wouid | their states in the next elec- | Fuch an effort ding his references yesterday | ator Hefi! { #aid the stenographers had made mis- take 10t 10 blame because of fuston at the time. | orrections. make eurrection n enntor Hetlin continued. “In of debate we do it every tone down our remarks n added that he had asked if Sen- | adsworth, Taft, and inafst- ~d thst the stenographer's record to the contrary was erroneous. “I committed no other oifense, but, to declare that I did not represent Wall street,” Senator Heflln said, add- ing he did not understand why other Senators were not “called dowrn™ vee- terday. He declared the Vice Pres- “never batted an eye” when an, Wisco ' against Sena ublican, Towa, yes- terday, and Imputed Russian sovie purpoeses to Mr. Brookhart Apology Asked. The Alabama senator further as- serted that Senator Lodge had told Senator Robinson he would drop the matter if Senator Heflin would apolo- &ize to the Senate, but, he added, he would “see them further than the hot reglon” before he would apolo- gize. He insisted that the roll call today showed he had “stepped on the toes” of Wall street, and he promised to keep it up. Y “There has never been a tim the Alabama senator sald, “when the money power was stronger than to- day in the Natlonal Capital. It is entrenched in the Capitol and flourishes on every avenue. The man of the big purse is the man of power in the republican party.” Several of the senators who voted | to support the ruling had been recommended to him as progressives, Mr. Heflin said, adding, that he “had had_his doubts all along. “There's Mr. Couzens, my good triend from Detroft,” he continued, “who came parading here as & progressive. This morning he walked right up and took his place under the whiskers of the senator from Massa- chusetts.” Immediately after Senator Heflin concluded, Senator Couzens rose to a point of personal privilege, asked that the transcript of Senator Heflin's remarks pertaining to him be brought in and read, and then moved they be ! expunged from the Record. i “I 'do not propose” said Senatorj { Couzens, “to let the senator from {Alabama again go In the nightine and ; change his remarks respecting the i senator from Michigan, myself, before they are published in the record. want the changes to be made now in the open Senate and before the gal- leries, to which the senator from Ala- bama plays, and therefore move that that portion of the senator’s remarks be_expunged from the 2 The language of Mr. Mr, Couzens took exception was as follows “And how did some of the others vote—some of those who have been | classed as progressives. 1 was toldi one of them was a progressive, but a millionaire many times over. I said. that again, and _ say it They sald it again. T said: ‘Tt will erop out on him. He will vote some time when the big interests are attacked. He will then go over and take his place among the bell wethers of the standpat party. Senator Johnson, republican, Call- fornia, broke in at ihis point.. say- ing he had voted against the ru IRE of the vice preaident on the basis of the record, and at the time he voted he dil not know that Senator Heflin had “changed” the record to suit himwelf. Senator Johnson added that he voted because he was under the apprehension that the matter in- volved the principle of free z but that now he stood with Senator Couzens and “did not belleve the Senate should sit supinely by and let these objectionable remarks remain.’ Heflin to which Absolute’ @tvores is asked in a suit filed in the District Supreme Court by LA. J. T. Maurer against hts wife, Helen B. Maurer. They were married at Cos lumbus, Ohlo, March ‘7, 1913, and. no children. Maurer says his wire de- serted him last September. He is rep- resented by Attorney John Murphy. I 1A J. T. MAURER SUES WIFE. | worker. {only jto a degree of timidity MEDIATION BY U. S. IN RUHR INVASION . ASKED BY GOMPERS ‘ontinued from First Page.) Not only are the German and Kuropean economic systems des- troyed, but unemployment for mil- lions of Germans is threatened. The workers re-afirm “that because of America’s positive promise that right and justice shall prevail, they sub- stituted democracy for autocracy, submitted to complete disarmament, and gave unqualified expression of their desire to work for peace and in- ternational reconciliation.” The me:suge asserts that the appeal not “an attempt to induce the d States to take an attituds i - other of the op- is signed by the boards of Tostng parties” It chairmen of the executive the ral Federation rade Tnion the Kederation of istian Labor Uiions. the League of Clerica Empioyes und the lundependent Fed- eration of Liberal Trade Unions. OMciul Action Avoided. “We decided to go straight to the official representatives of the Amer: can people with our appeal and pre- ferred to dispense with official or dip- lomatic intervention,” Taul man. of the general vice chainman federation’s executive board ed the Associated Press. “The m sage was drafted at a joint session of the executive is of the fou federations, and it represents tl of ‘alarm with which is contemplating tion after thres weeks of the R occupaney. There ls something more than the fate of the Rubr basin at stake. If Germany is still a land of apparent order and organizgtion it it because the dozem coo! a xS inform- abor he Head men in charge of organized labor's ranks have prevented the workers in| 1gerously es from becoming dw ive. The situation, however threatens to go bevond control.” Herr Grassmann belt that lab radicallsm s n phus. that it ger ever there is lution.” He belleve ¢ sase of the brain brought on ditions which the humblest hand & the best trained head worker grad- ually find intolerable Wage Scales Flactuate. Labor wage scales, he points cu which wers formerly fixed for perivds of from one to five years, are now being upset and revised every four- tesn days, a condition which auto- matically results from the effects Auctuations in German money as re- flacted in the current dollar rate all {40000 marks and over. The men who signed the appeal (o Congress admit that they sre not cquainted with American parlia mentary procedure. and even confess i over their undertaking, which appears to have been inspired by perfunciory report. of the Senate debates on the Luro- -pean situation printed in the ¢ rmnan wspapers. P One ot the federation leaders de- clared that “such a minor detall as possible violation of parliamentary otiquette will not prevent us from Jetting your senators and representa- tives know that the eves of millions of men and women workers in Ger- many are turned toward America Text of Message. The message is as follows “To the United States Senate and Flouse of Representatives: The un- dersigned federations of labor unions. representing twelve million members, who with their families constitute more than half Germany's population, again afirm that because of Amer- jca's positive promise that right and Justice shall prevail, they substituted democracy for autocracy, submitted to complete disarmament and gave ™ unqualifted expression of their de- sire to work for peace and interna- tional reconciliation. “The German loves the pursuit of peaceful professions, but he is equally opposed to being made a slave in- definitely or to having the coming generations of his fellow citizens committed to a_system of economic bondage. The Ruhr occupation and {that ac } ernment of | ibodied the Versallles treaty, however, make | such a_condition of ‘servitude’ inevi table. They permanently destroy Ger- man and European economies and fhreaten unemployment for millions of German workers. “An impartial, but authoritative, survey of the situation will readily ‘establish this fact and will, in addi- tion, be able to confirm that in the midst of peace, men and women— young and old—are forcibly being evicted from their homes and deport- ed merely because they have refused to become traitors to their country. “We have been reduced to a na tlon which is chronically hungry; our infants are wrapped in paper, instead of swaddling clothes, while our wom- on and_ children are succumbing to physical misery. “This appeal is not at attempt to induce the United States to take an attitude in favor of one or the other opposing parties; it' is an_appeal to the traditional American honor and appreciation of fair pl America, we are sure, did not enter the war for the purpose of annihilating the Ger, man pople, American honor assert. ed at Y. is time can save Europe and the world from inevitable disaster.” — THREE 'CHILDREN . PERISH. MONTREAL, P. Q, February 2.— The three little, children. of Dr. and Mrs. -Louls Vaive were asphyxiated by smoke ‘when fite destroyed their home tod: ‘The children ranging in age from elght years.to four months, were agleep on the top floor. When the ;mother was awakened she was unable to mount -the stairs -leading to the bedroom on account of flamel and smoke, Dr. Vaive was not at home. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1923 RADICALISM DRAW FIRST SENATE FIRE Lenroot Attack on Brook- hart Shows Divergence of Views Among Progressives. OLD LINES ARE ERASED Revolt 6f Farmer and Demand for Better Credits to Continue to Influence Congress. BY DAVID LAWRE Radicalism, terially i CE which sweeping helped ma- into office m €0 n like Senator Brookhart of Towa last ] autumn, has drawn its first fire in the United States Senate. The revolt of the farmer and his demand for bhet- ter credit facilities in the marketing of crops ‘has influenced the entire course of Congress this session and will continue to be of paramount im- portance until the sesslon ends om March 4. But it was not expected that Sena- tor Brookhart's doctrines would compared o th of 1 Trotsky by & member of th prozr group ate like Mr. ere be nin and in the Lenroot of Wiscon sin and lowa senator: damental, however, und they i that the alignments of the moment are not between t ives or old guard” or ‘“reactionaries,” as western folk are wont to term sena- tors and representatives from indus- trial and financlal communities of the #ast, but between westerners, tween friends of the farmer, belween a varlety of plans. Shows Diversity. Senator Lenroot's speech out that Senator Rrookha Posirg the establishment of co-opera- tive banks is only a phase of rural credit legislation. but illustrates e diversity of view in Congress, Mr Brookhart wants “all business in in- terstate and £n commere acted under cderal el terms of the dale co-operative A consumers laws repealed Under this batks exemption which i N Ve conser pointing e trans- o ch the plan ould b would regardle Mr. Les i inve exist ng while worked afeguard 1 Lenroot Bill Opposed. ething Hard ing ber of think im Secretaries and indorsed s Secretary Melion, vut openly against t His views are more in the end. He feel root bill ates a of banks agricuitural and he feels that since the ment is to make the initial sovernment w the Hoover $120,000.000, the e res dministyatior stances he bel rve systen stead of Mr a rival s pr dtioral fu T capital investment government, shall xemp Just for the sption of a mend to prohibit of all tax-exern an excepti people. the favor of cue class ¢ Present System Hest. con 3.7 s “that banking ed, will Iture far stem built upen goverr 1 and under goverr, rural credits program n substance ir 4 draw capital an available sources for 1 ed by the agricultural industries, and would »mplish this on a business basis without depend- ing on government money and tax emptions. The Capper bill, which has passed the Senate, now is before the House and will be adopted in a few da It provides for extension of agricultural credit paper to nine months and makes more elastic the powers of the federal reserve banks. It also e tends the life of the War Finance Col poration for another nine months until the transition period in rural redits from the present practice to the operations under the new liws adopted at this session is on, Couzens Overruled. Senator Couzens of Michiga to get the Senate to recommit & pending farm measures except Capper bill and appoint a joint mittee to study the whole que of the relationship of state banks and private banks to the federal reserve system and take action at the session of Congress, but the farm bloc, which is behind the Lenroot- Anderson bill, wouldn't brook delay. Before the measures finally get through the House and conference they will-be materially changed, as it is evident the administration feels it can do more through the federal re- serve system than through encther banking organization for agriculture alone. “1 am Meilon, present tried 1 the the (Copyright. 1923.) COL. RIVERS DEAD. Cavalry Officer Was Commended for Service in War. Col. Tyree R. Rivers, United States Cavaliry, recently serving as inspector general of the 2d Corps Area at &overnors Island, N. Y. %died at that post Wednesday afternoon. His body will be brought to this city and buried in Arlington. national morrow afternoon, at 2: Funeral services will be Tield at Fort Myer, Va., of which post his brother, Col. William C. Rivers, is commander. Col. Rivers was from Mississippi und graduated from the Military Acadens T the class of 1883, During the worid war he served as a origadier geveral, and was commended in order for loyaity and devotion to duty. He is survived . by his widow and one Qaughter, Miss Myra Rivers. RITES FOR G. A. WISEMAN Burial Takes Place in Harmony Cemetery. The body of George A. Wiseman was interred in Harmony cemetery Wednesday _afternoon. Funeral serv- jces had been held Sunday at the Church of Our Redeemer, Lutheran, at Sth street near Barry place north- Vet Wiseman was the brother of Rev, D. E. Wiseman, pastor of the chufch in which the services were held. ‘Mr. Wiseman was born on the island of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, now known as the Virgin Islands. He was an employe of a summer camp for choir boys of the ‘Episcopal urch for twenty-five Fears, was pro- | o-operative ! | i regarding ne. t| Soviet Uncovers French War Plan In the Ukraine BY the Associated Press. MOSCOW, February the French, together with Gen. Simon Petlura, the Ukrainian leader, and the Rumanian army still contemplate military intervention in the Ukraine is alleged to have been unearthed in Odessa in the discovery by the state political police of a new espionage organization. An Odessa dispatch reports the ar- rest of forty persons charged with operating in that district in connec- tion with the French intelligence d partment, officers of Gen. Petlura and the Rumanian 3d Division. Those taken into custody are also alleged to have furnished their superiors with information regarding the soviet army, the military defenses and the railwax transportation. Several “members of the Odessa postal telegraph administration are also involved in arrests made on the Ruman frontier after armed re- sistanc Proof that —_— LOADED COAL CARS CHOKE RUHR LINES Continued from First back to nearby industrial plants or 1o the mines for unioading before thelr loaded cars could be seized by the French and Belgians eded in German official ters that the Franco-Belgian au- {thorities might succeed in taking a Lew « s the line and send 1 over the Rhine as first fruits of the orcups tion, hut v nerally belicved that: most of bhlocked r would have t some time at r the n ary pilo Lomew: he wait frontier for persc pled ¢ Conl Blockade. The Germans referred to the situa- tion as a “coal blockade” agalnst un- cupied Germany rather than the erection of a customs line, They al contended that despits the statement of the cccupying authorities that they would not interfere with food ts such interference W count o Lucnen and line across of soldiers t ting ¢ Toop Bra the strategie railway lines 1d toward such the “main t of Dortm Oldenburg Halle, cente over, Hamburg, drew on this % throw of rondside, stood a nch officers poring over Lappiug the Wwere th Emsc w nap of e of t water: h fr district sm this point biished to the proceeded to their operation how does ar t Jus tetermined 2 [ r on this section of the Then proceeded to laughed. lair there are several waye Freight Trains Inspected. as to the extent of the commandant said that had been stopped several but only oned the frelght tra for a fifteen-minute 1 jwhich they were allowed to proceed Now, all are held and tho with cargoes other are al lowed to provced igation a days, however, thar after coal whether effective and point eral loade Stood vards ited toward Ber- 1 the way med in a com- “the o up to the rear trains th less hund Their heads were po lin, but sentries biock “The other night | pany commander {sneaked a locomot of one train of sixty loaded coal cars and hustled it back into the Ruhr be- fore we could uct. It got completely away from us, and we had to stand and watch it fade into the di g Troops Fire on Train. by al- without quest All Ited. Trains carrying re permitted to co after Only passenger trains ng al lowed to leave others are 1 ordinary goods tinue their journey tion proves that th The officers said celved by them ind experiences were be the entire cordon Reports received from Essen yester- day said that troops had fired on a train that attempted to disregard the signals at Hacheney, near Dortmund. Bullets ruck the cars, which came to a standstill. Fears are expressed in German cir- cles that fires soon will become prev- alent in the dumps at the mines. It is said that many mines at which there is mot much room to pile the coal will soon have to cease their ful Production, being manned only with ‘{an emergency personnel large enough to keep th tal machinery going. No general strike is contemplated in (he Ruhr, it is believed in this part o the occupied zone, but fears are e pressed that the new blockade soon will force laborers out of work, since the only important outlet for coal un- der the control scheme would be to France and Belgium. The population’s determination to resist such efforts is said Lo be as Strong as ever. BLOCKADE OF RUHR COMPLETELY CUTS investiga- t reports re- icated that their 1g repeatd along the tax on tobacco at Essen or Dues- geldorf. disregarding Berlin's orders to remit direct to the capital, Should the tobacco men pay the tax at Ber- lin such payments would be consid- ered void and payments will have to be made again here in the valley. Bochun Police Chief Arrested. The chiet of police of Bochum was arrasted and expelled today. The Duesseldorf Nachrichten, which was suspended January 21, will be allowed to resume publication to- | morrow The printers and other ! workers pleaded with Gen. Degoutte, the French state, representing they were being deprived of their means of earning a living. A company - of French soldiers quartered at Bodelschwing had been using the shower baths intended for the miners of a nearby pit. The pro- prietor of the mine objected to this, upon which the captain commanding the company Informed the magnate straight | v do not bear coal. | OFF GERMAN COAL: PINCH OF HUNGER FEARED IN RUHR Food Supplies Getting Low. Cities Complain to the French. INVADERS STAND FIRM | Dr. Gruetzner Reported on Way to Berlin for Consultation on 1 Situation. | Br the Associated Press | DUESSELDORF, February 2.—Many Rulr cities and towns are complain to the French uthorities tha their food supplies are getting lower The burgomaster of Recklinghausen to cite instance, has informed hLeadquarters that his peopl have only enough potatoes to last ten days. This vegetable, together with cabbage and other garden products, forms the chief diet of the Ruhr workers, few of whom have meat more than once a day. The directors of the four n the Dortmund-Gelsenkircien who were ordered to resume liveries to F beer n tu one ares has reach an agreem dire tora German work as soon as't drawn. However, n reparation shipments ated. Coal will resum: soldiers are with traing carrying will be oper production conti crease, while the empty for the transportation mined bas vanished. SUPPLIES HOARDED? d to de ars needed of what Food Enough for Three Weeks' “Rations™ Reported on Hand. LONDON., i patches fr | Febm m Du don newspapers etzner. president of RI has gone to Berlin for with the government food situat ary 2.—Special dis Dr. Gru Prussiu sultation enish garding th g muc nan Ruhr author . howeve that t considerably belicved ®eneralls rations of i ] and groupin i bodies of Fr died Gor soldiers beir The exhumati lation the a tre k to Franc. as been dis per of the popi: nterior Germar b as to prevent essing further. WARNING TO GERMANS. the French May Take Attitude. More Severe be obliged a attitude toward the German government it continues to tolerate the mol of Frencl subjects such as occurred at Koenig berg the last two days. The French consulate ject of a mob attack, being smashed, whil ians made deémonstra French officer: allied control ¢ STINNES GOES ON MISSION g ORG News. € . Feb, Wiesbaden, severe was the oh the windows German ciy s agair tached to the in mmissior WITTE. 1 1 Huzo Sty Star and wgs Da BERLI 2 has gone to months ago he concluded constructive reparations Louis Loucheur, to meet represer tives of the Comite des Forges (French League of Iron and Steel In dustries), the writer learned today | from a source close to the Stinnes in {terests. It is said that at first he re [fused to leave Oberhof, where he had been resting, but finally vielded t the urgent pleas of the pvernmen and cut short his vacation mee {the French industrialists, the treaty man fire witl Anxious to Learn Demands Though no confirmation o sort can be obtained in Wilhelmsrrus . t is nevertheless understood that t ! government is most anxious to lear [ the exact nature of M. Poincare's de mands In regard to withdrawing troops from the Ruhr. The corresponden also learned that the effort to get Great Britain to act as a mediatory power to settle the Ruhr dispute was | rejected by Downing street. The German version of the situation in the Ruhr distrlct on the first day of the application of new thumbscrew measures by the French is us Of 20,000 earloads of ipment when work be sne-third were started on (heir | ¥rance and Belgium, afier ¥ | Gtors hud threntened tha railtoad. e With violence i they failed fo oley {ders. So far the German auth | also have given orders to of avoid clashes with the French wherever 1 possible. Food Up 50 Per Cent. No attempt has yet been made by the French to cut off food shipments, vet food prices have gone ©p 50 per cent since last Wednesday. There is a marked shortage of milk in Essen Dortmund, Muhlheim and other new 11y occupled cities. In Essen, for ex 22,000 gallons of milk were ily before the occupati 000 gallons reach t with the rexult that the price of {has = up per eent. an children of the poorer people are suf i fering under the shortage. There are plenty of potatoex and a suflicien supply of fresh meat in the Ruhr. dis tri however, to last the population for fome timé to come, even if tha French should try to put into effect a food blockade. t al ready f neh so the