Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Increasing cloudiness and warmer today, followed by rain tonight, and probably tomorrow; much colder to- morrow. Temperature for twenty- two hours ended at 10 p.m. last night: Highest, 51.4; lowest 34.9. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier covers every city block and the regular edition is Full report on page b. No. PRESIDENT TO RUN -~ AND WIN IN 1924, SAYS DAUGHERTY Attorney General Optimistic Over Chances of His Chief, He Declares at Miami. 938.—No. 28811. M SEES BUT ONE OPPONENT | IN REPUBLICAN PARTY' Believes “Perpetual” Candidate Has i Little Hope of Winning Nomination. March 17.— ! Prediction that President Harding | will be a candidate for renomination, that he will be selected as the re- bublican standard bearer, and that he will be re-clected, was made here today by Attorney General Daugherty, pre-convention campaign manager for Mr. Harding in 1920, and since hen his chief political adviser. i “President Harding will be a candi- | date for renomination,” said the At- Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. Assassin Wounds German Leader; Kills Secretary By the Associated Press. COLOGNE, March Smeets, the well separatist leader, was serlously wounded today by an unidenti- fled assailant who escaped. His sec- retary was killed in the attack. The assault occurred in Smeets’ office, the stranger opening fire upon the two men as soon as he was admitted to the room. 17. — Joseph known German For several years Smeets has been a strong advocate of secession of the Rhineland from Germany. He has been described as president of the autonomist party and recent dispatches giving the Views of secessionists that a Rhine- land republic was not a remote pos- sibility indicated that those behind the movement had decided upon Smeets as the republ provisional president SLAYS 3 CHIDREN THEN KALS SELF WFE ALSD SHOT of the Rhineland, | WASHINGTON, ENVOYS OF FRANCE ORDERED TO HALT MEDIATION MOVES Ambassadors at Washington, London, Rome and Prague Told to Notify Nations. WILL ENTERTAIN OFFERS | FRON GERMANY ONLY | il‘oincare Willing to Discuss Pro- i posals With Belgium and i All Allies. BY WILBUR FORREST. | (By Cable to The Star and New York Tribune. | Copyright, 1923.) | PARIS, March 17.—Stirred by the Isocmlngn frantic efforts of the Ber- llin government to bring the Ruar Istruggle into the negotiation stage immediately and at the same time save its own face, Premier Poincare |today instructed his ambassadors at Washington, London, Rome and }Praguc to notify the friendly govern- |ments of these countries that any General. “There will be no ROANoke Man Believed Seized attempt at medtation would ve con- candidate st him t one is alway will ag: except ai- and a car date. He be renominated 1e country and the party Il demand it Statement Bears Weight. Mr. Beach Daugherty 3 recuperating from his recent tilness, his statement to the Dewspaper correspondents with Presi- | dent Harding's Florida vacation part for whom he sent. The regarded the tative informal announcement as to President Harding's intentions with respect to 1924 made, because ot the relationship between the chief exec and Mr. Daugherty With respect to political matters. The President and Mr. Daugherty d several conferences before the vacation party left Washington early this month, and they have seen each other two or three times during the former's three-day visit here. Sim- ilar statements have been made in the last few months by several re- publicans as close to the! President. Secretary Hoover some | months ago made such a statement ! in an address in California and only | last month Senator Watson of Indi ane in a speech in the Senate pre- dicted that Mr. Harding would be a candidate ‘and would be renominated. | is Miam: made statement is as by far most authori- clase utive regarded Belleves Worst Is Over. Asked if there was any contingency under which Mr. Harding would not seek another term the White House, Mr. Daugherty said he be-| Meved only an impairment of the| ‘President’s health would stand in the | way. Of course, much may happen | in the next fourteen mont but | friends of the President within the | last few days have ventured the pre- gdletion that ke will return to Wash- ington with his health better than | t any time since he entered the | White House and certainly in better physical condition than at any time in the past year, Touchi ectly on this m,ase“ of the Mr. Daugherty as-| serted that the President had passed | through the hardest part of his ad- ministration —the period during | which the more far-reaching policies | must be formulated and the after-| tmath of the world war straightened | out. The time for the most extensive ! appreciation of the Harding admin- | istration, Mr. Daugherty now is beginning. S question, believes. Several Issues Up. Attorney General said that he had no desire AMr. Harding's campaign next Year, declaring he never was or never would be a campaign manager. This ! statement, however, was not taken | 48 meaning that Mr. Daugherty will not take a prominent part in the cam- paign if Mr. Harding is the central| republican figure, but as indicating that he would be content to remain somewhat in the background as an| adviser. ) Although agreeing with the state- ment n de here sterday by Wil- liam Jennings Bryan that it was yet a bit too early to talk politics, Mr. , Daugherty said some of the issues| on which the campaign would be| fought out alrcady had appeared, | " Among these he mentioned taxation, law enforcement, freedom of action jor the United States in internation- al affairs and the administration of | the Department of Justice. ! The Attorney General did not elabo- | rate statement that there would be only one candidate in the guadrennial republican convention against Mr. Harding. Mr. Daugherty appeared today to be gaining steadily In strength, as the result of his stay here. He will remain here another week, then go to St. Augustine to spend several days with the presidential party. REACH PALM BEACH. The plainly | to manage on his { “ | By the Associated Press. | WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, March —President and Mrs, Harding and party arrived in Palm Beach'‘on a special train from Miami. On the way to board the train at Miami the| President and Mrs. Harding called on Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Bryan. On their arrival in° Palm Beach the President and Mrs. Hard- g went to E. B. McLean's cottage, Ocean View, and the other members of the party went to the Breakers + Hotel. It is said that Mr. and Mrs, Harding will remain here until Mon- With Fit of lnsanity—Was Affected Before. Special Dispateh 1o The Star. ROANOKE, Va., March 17.—Arter unsuccessfully attempting to murder his wife, Grace, wounding her in the forearm. Ballard McGuire. thirty- two. an employe of the Norfolk and Western railway, tonight entered an airs bedroom of his home In ich his three small children, Dot and Dorothy. twins. aged four, and James. aged five, were playing and, after locking the door, shot each of {the children in the back of the head and concluded the tragedy by shoot- ng and killing himself. No cause for McGuire’§ act been ascertained by the police and Mrs. McGuire's mother, who resides at the MeGuire home, was unable to throw much light on the question. Devoted to Family. Aoccording to her statement, Me- Guire was a devoted fatier and hus- band. She did state, though, that McGuire had Had a period of semi- nsanity about' a year ago and, ag this statmeent was substantiated by neighbors and friends of the dead man, it has led the police to belleve that the killing and suigide was oc- casioned by insanid§. According to information obtained by the police, McGuire was seen on the street in an apparentlv normal state at 5 o'clock this evening. That McGuire's determination to exter- minate his family was suddenly reached is the belief of the police, and Information gathered by shows that Mrs. McGuire was at the head of the stairs and almost {n the door of the room containing the chii- dren when her husband pointed his pistol at her abdomen and shot. Her life probably was saved by the act of throwing har arm cver her stomach. The bullet passed through her forearm, but did not penetrate her body Mrs. McGuire, calling for aid, rush- ed from the house after being shot and reached the home of the sister, in the same block. The police were called. REBELS WIN IN BRAZIL. Many Government Soldiers Made Prisoners in Battle. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, March 17.— The rebel bands in the state of Rio Grande do Sul continue their activities. Reports come from the frontier of a battle near San Lorenzo between state troops, commanded by Jose Lucas de Lima, and rebels under Col. Zecca Netto. The government forces were defeated, many of them being taken prisoner. —_— ENDS LIFE IN CROWD. BALTIMORE, Md, March 17.— Standing near the base of Battle Mounment, Calvert and Fayette streets, one of the busiest intersec- tions of the city, a young man shot himself through the head this after- noon, dying almost instantly. Papers in his pockets disclosed that he was Andreas Ontaneda, a native of San Juan, P. R, a world war veteran and that he had been honorably dis- charged from the United States Nav. Hundreds of pedestrians and per- sons in the postoffice and other near- by buildings were startled by the shot and saw the man stretched in the street. BRITONS AND GR TO REPAIR DIPLOMATIC BREAK By the Associated Press, PARIS, March 17.—Efforts are has | them | {sidered here as unfriendly and even I nostite | The term “hostile,” it was assured tonight, will be explained by Am- bassador Jusserand to Secreta Hughes as not meaning hostile in the jstrict sense. but as conveying the general sense that France desires to ifinish the Ruhr affair without outside |aid or mediation. France needs me help, and her attitude is that medi- ation can serve only to help the Ger: mans and deprive France of the ad vantages that have accrued to her as |a result of her effort of the last two months in the Ruhr. 2 Must Make Offers Directly. The reich, so far as Franee is con- cerned, must make her offers directly and fn official form to the allies—in other words, Germany must capitu- late. While Ambassador Jusserand probably will convey his message to Secretary Hughes in more diplomatic | language, I am in a position tomght to announce that the above will form | its purport. News of the commurication made by the German embassy at Washing- ton to the United States Departfient of State, suggesting that the mood offices of America toward 2 concili- ation move would be acceptable to the dignity and prestige of both France and Germany, has had the worst possible effect in French offi- ial circles. The government feels | | that there is no question of prestige {or dignity involved for a nation which consistently attempted to escape its | obligations, and that there can be no | { footing of equality between the two | nations. Issues an Explanation While Premier Poincare was wiring his ambassadors in foreign capitals their instructions, the quai d'orsay i was issuing here an explanation of the French attitude in exactly similar key. “It must be reiterated” <aid the | forelgn office statement, “that the French government persists in its at- titude. The government would con- sider all offers of mediation as un-| friendly, even as hostile. Tt is re-| solved to ignore all ‘bondage’ of | whatever character which might come from intermediarles, whether quali- ed or not, whether allies or neutrals. The government is resolved to ex- aminee only propositions made direct- ly, in official form, by the German government.” Premier Poincare, it is understood, will agree to discuss German pro- posals, when these are made, with not only Belgium, but England and | Italy represented, through the me- dium of the supreme council- or the reparation commission. The premier has so notified the British govern- ment in an official note, pointing out that his position to date has been in strict conformity with the treaty, and that he is prepared to remain consistent, but that on one point he is firm—that offers from the reich cannot be admitted if they are made to a single ally to the exclusion of the others. WIIl Seek Special Pact. . i “Premier Poincare will seek a spe- cial agreement with Belgium, as a co-partner with France {n the Ruhr military activity, but it is now clear that he 1s well acquainted with the fact that any agreement with France's smaller nefghbor will in- volve the condition of full interallled diplomatic co-operation. = It is clear that M. Poincare is now in accord with the thesis heard In Paris during the last few days in (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) EEKS IN EFFORT Lindley, the British minister to| Greece, left Athens over-abruptly at | niter. | until certain rights of way are ob- making to adjust .amicably the par-|the time of the exccutions, and that tial diplomatic break between Eng-|his departure was an excessive manl- land and Greece, which resulted from festation of British displeasure over the execution, against a British pro- | the infliction of the death penalty test, of the former Greek cabinet|upon former Premier Gounaris and ministers who were tried and .con-|the other ex-cabinet members, which demned by a court-martlal, in Athens, | Greece 'deemed a purely internal after the Greek revolution last No- |political question. ? vember. Minister Lindley's. withdrawal em- Evidence that official relations be-[barrassed M. Caclamanos in London, tween London and Athens are still|and he retired to Paris, leaving the somewhat strained is found in the|secretary of the legation in charge, fact that M. Caclamanos, Greek min- ister to Great Britain, has practically established his residence in Paris, to just as the British did at Athen: With the near east peace pour- parlers again under way, renewed ef- day, when they Will board the house- [ which he came after the suspension |forts are being put forth to restore voat Ploneer and resume their jour- to St. Augustine, of the month. Lausanne ‘conference last The Greeks feel that ¥ 0. 1 diplomatic relations to the status they occupied before the executons. D. C, SUNDAY MOR BIDS T0 BE ASKED $2,000,000 Water-Purifying | | Station to Have 70,000,000 | Parent-Teacner Activitics—Page 27. Gallons Daily Capacity. FUNDS AVAILABLE JULY 1] Maj. Tyler Gratified by Congress Action Providing $3,000,000 | for Work. ! With work on the new water con- ! duft well under way, Maj. M. C. Tyler, engineer officer in charge, is| prepacing.to call for bids for the| $2,000,000 filtration plant to be erected | at the District line, beyond George- town This puritying station, the first view of which is printed herewlith, will be modern in every respect and capable of handling 70,000,000 gzal- lons of water a day Tt will occupy approximately ten acres of land lying’between Conduit | road and the tracks of the Washing- | ton Railway and Electric ('(-mphn}} 1 at Little Falls road Although this is practically the same capacity as the existing filtra- tion plant at Ist and Channing streets, the new one will occupy a much small- er area of ground. The mew plant is known as the rapld-sand filter, while the old one is a slow-sand Beds ' Under Building. All of the filter beds will be under | the main building, shown in the pic-; ture. In the tower the coagulants| | used to settle the water will be swred} and handled. The pumping station | is shown at the right. Maj. Tyler sald yesterday he hoped to advertise bids for the filtration plant by July 1. when the new ap- propriation for the water project be- comes available. The first filtration plant contract, the major explained, will be only for the concrete foundation, the super- structure fo be erected later. Contracts awarded last fall to the Arundel Corporation of Baltimore provide for the construction of the greater part of the conduit itself. With the arrival of mild weather steam shovels will be chugging and cement mixers will grind out tons of concrete from now until next winter, bringing into reality a project for which the people of Washington have been working for years. There remains to be let out on contract 2,600 feet of tunnel, at the Great Falls end of the conduit and an intake gate chamber at the falls. This latter work will have to walt | tained by the War Department. Gratified by Congress Action. Officials of the engineer office in charge of the water project are grati- | fed at the spirit ‘shown by both houses of Congress in appropriating for the work thus far. In the current appropriation act the legislators made $1,500,000 available and author- ized the letting of contracts for an additional $1,400,000. The act just approved for. the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1923, carries another $1,500,000 cash and an au- ¢horization to enter into contracts | for the same amount. “This makes a total of $3,000,000 ap- | propriated In two acts. The hope of | civic leaders and officials is that the lawmakers Wwill continue to appro- priate a substantial sum annually | until the work is completed. ‘Although the conduit itself should be finished by January 1, 1925, that is only a part of the scheme for giving Washington a safe and adequate wa- ter supply. Not only must the filtra- | tion plant be built, but two additional reservoirs must be constructed in the northwestern section of the city. SILESIAN MINERS STRIKE. BERLIN, "March 17.—Mirers' and other workers in Upper Silesia have gone on strike in- protest against the so-called self-defense’ associa- tions, the disbandment of which they demand. | Fraternities—Pages 10 and 11. ING, MARCH 18, 1923.—NINETY PAGES. ’ FILTRATIONPLANT *OPAY™S. STAR | IROP OF S200,000 PART ONE—38 Pages. General News—Local, National, Foreign. | Schools and Colleges—Pages 22 and 23. | Campfire Giris—Page 12. ; IN |N[;0ME TAXES Goy Scout News—Page 18. | Reserve Officers’ Corps—Page 20. —_— Vet ns of the Great War—Page 20. . e P rs ot |Returns for Maryland Dis- Rad Gossip and News—Page 26. 1 % i o cnt-T ! trict, Including Washington, Show Sharp Decrease. Spanish War Veterans—Page 30, Financial News—Pages 29 and 30. Aviation Activities—Page 37. Classified Advertisements—Pages 31 to 37. PART TWO—16 Pages. {INCREASE IN TAXPAYERS | Editorlals and Editorial Features. | Washington and Other Society. | Community Centers—Page 12. \ Serlal, “The House of Mohun""—Page 13. l Officials Hope Complete List Will Reach Mark of $400,000,000. Arts and Artists—Page 13. D. A. R. Activities—Page 14. Girls and Their Affairs—Page 15. New Ideas In D. C. Schools—Page 15. | G | Aithough an increase of $40,000.000 PART THREE—12 Pages. | oF $50.000,000 i5 expected from coun- “{try-wide income and excess profits \tax returns paid on March 15, as { compared with a year ago, the Mary- {1and district, of which Washington s ta part, will be $200,000 under last | year's figures, according to prelim- PART FOUR—4 Pages. inary figures made public yesterday by Pink Sports Section. ! Galen L. Tait, collector of internal revenue. PART FIVE—S Pages. | Th ot of Maryland showed re- Magazine Section—Features and Fiction. | T ¢ District of Maryla 5 Music In ‘Washington—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 to 9. Boys and Girls' Page—Page 12. | ceipts at the close of business, March | Scientist Willing to Help in Miller Suit Proprosal, But Will Give No Opinion. G. ivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Kills Daughter To Bring Relief When She Is 11l By the Assoctated Press. DEFIANCE, Ohio, March 37— George Brown, seventy-seven, was in Jail here today, after he told neigh- bors last night he had killed his | daughter, Calia, fifty-four, because he thought she would be better off |dead. The daughter had been i1l & few days and neighbors called last | night to inquire about her condition. They said the father told them that he had killed her and they found her body lying in bed in an djoining | room with a bullet wound in ttre) head. It is thought she was killed ‘Wednesday night. Brown has been known as an ece ‘cenlr!c, TRAFFIC SOLUTION INDIVIDUALS, DECLARES RUDOLPH Problem Will Continue Till Each Realizes Own Respon- sibility, He Believes. | | Washington's traffic problem will not be solved until every man, wom |an and child realizes his responsibil- ity to drive and walk right, Commis | stoner Rudolph, chairman of the board, \declared last night, commenting on Ithe satety movement being fostered ! nere. i “When {obtained,’ such a con said has been the Commissioner, rigid traffic laws will be unneces- |snry, law enforcement will be sim- {plified and accidents will be perma- {nently reduced | ppeals to Citizens. | | The Commissioner concluded ! Istatement with an appeal to every | lcitizen to begin-today realizing his | { responsibility in using the streets |ther.as pedestrian or ariver The Commissioner said: | “It is very gratifying to note that| there has been a reduction of acc dents in the city of Washington dur- ing the past month. Last year there were ninety-seven children, or an av- erage of cight per month, killed by accidents of various types In the city. | i This year two children were killed | In January snd ‘two in February. | Thers were three persons killed in traffic aceidents @uring the month of February, as compared with nine | similar deaths in January, a reduc- ition of ‘two-thirds. All aceldents {caused a total of seventeen deaths| during the first month of the year| and twelve during the second. Fur- | thermore, the police reports show | that, whereas every effort was made to bring the automobile speeder to Justice, only 676 person ere arrest- ed for speeding in February, pared with 924 in January h is ei- | i { | Lauds Courts and Pre: “Without doubt some of this re- | duction in accidents and in trafiic violations has been due to the fact that the courts have been imposing | greater penalties and in some in-| stances Jail semtences upon the of-| fenders, while the newspapers have | given generously of their space to| call attention to arrests and the pen- alties which have been imposed. On the other hand this improved condition proves that our city has become awakened to the need of more care in the daily walks of life, in order that many serious accidents may b prevented. The Washington | Safety Council, through its many educational activities, and the press through its columns have assisted in arousing the public to this need.| - Many Suggestions Made. ‘During the past few weeks of our best citizens have been menting upon the traffic and haves offered excellent sugges- tions for its remedy. Some of these suggestions can and are being put into effect, others are being studied for future action and still others require an act of Congress. None of these suggestions, however, if carrled out, will entirely solve the problem. ma com- ituation, the majorlty of the populace. Inf rigidly enforced, they must be in sympathy with the opinion and have the support of a Targe proportion of the law-biding citizens. An unpopu- lor law is difficult to enforce, and | because many attempt to disobey it Jilted by his fifteen-year-old sweet- heart, Otto Fuss, seventeen years old, of 520 224 street northwest, at- | tempted to commit suicide by drink- 1 ing a quantity of poison last night. A {few minutes after physiclans at ! Emergency Hospital had pumped the !poison out of the infatuated boy’ ROTOGRAVURE—8 Pages. 15, of $8.583.019, as against a total Warld Events In Fctures. |amount collected the vear previo e !of $8.786.176.89. Whether this d O ! SE N 'ages. r by other factors. was not explain- ed. However the figures are tenta- tive, and not final. More Returns in District. 1 of returns, a total of 203,700 belng re- | ceivea this vear as comparea with 194,100 last. | The city of Washington, according to 4bout 32 per cent of the total for the | Maryiand district, and paid $2.317.- 41513 cash, or about 27 per cent of ithe total, for the district. By the Associated Press. | scientists put little faith in the theory | non-taxable returns increased, indicat- that the parentage of a child can be | ing that a number of persons who paid proved or disproved by comparing |taxes last year evidently were exempted the blood of the father and mother | this vear. i a {000, as compared with last year's tax- attorney for Miss Jeannette Francis|?00: Decker, who is suing Charles F. Mil- |able returns, totaling 04,100, and non- ler of Bethesda, Md., allegéd father |taxable returns ‘:‘““’:g;:-""g-‘ of her child, for $50,000, proposed Officlals Aw: ports. today, awaiting compflation of more hn\‘:. ‘5.2‘,’,;‘,‘3;‘;,“;,,"“:;2 ‘;(],";Z‘Q the | complete returns from the collectors of blood teats made at Hopline and then | INerial Tevenue throughout the: cofin- m°:a‘,e e ad it tats ons foiba u’: try. Estimates, however, continued to vear 1922 reaching the $100,000,000 mark, disinterested party, determine the 1 if not, in fact, exceeding it. child's parentage by a study of these| g 0" qour Sl 00 oL ceed u;:ls. ‘:‘he x(:r)l.‘an of h:{vlnf scx:nula}:s £400,000,000 it would be 2 substantial other than those at Hopkins do the p clusive evidence of the reality of the “‘f'“‘,“‘;"h tar ¢ o] EYE Of prosperity which is on the r. ~ John uck, one of the|yway sclentists at Hopkins, awho recently| Collections in March, 1922, for the did not believe parentage could be | determined by blood tests. He ex- plained he was willing to make the test of the blood of the three persons, | SHIP ASHORE; TUG TO AID. Steamer Is Reported Stranded Off Cardena, Cuba. KEY WEST, Fla., March 17.—The i ference wouia be made up later by Mutt and Jeff; There was an increase in the Mary- | special reports from Baltimore, made | The number of taxable returns in the with that of the child. The number of taxable returns for that the three principals in the case| Lreasury officials issued no official lected by Miller, one by Miss Deckerndicate that officials were hopeful of determining of the parentage is per-| increase over last year's returns, and, discovered the existence of more than | — oo he s ) but that he would not give any opin- wrecking tug Relief left here tonight utt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Betty; | returns in the mail, but not received, land district, however, in the number 33154 returns this year, constituting BALTIMORE, March 17.—Hopkins]Maryland district decreased, while the John A. Garrett of Rockville, Md, | this sear was 103,700 ; non-taxable, 100.- go to Johns Hopkins Hospital and|Statements on the income tax returns e B v e nileied by wee] . L SSikenl. for the. Sambe Sty flgocdins o 605 decat Most' o L s W e o four blood groups, said today that he = fon on the similarity of the blood. to g0 to the assistance of the steamer stomach, pretty Mary Steep was ad- mittéd to his bedside and tearfully begged a forgiveness that Otto was only too willing to bestow. Romance in Candy Shop. Otto and Mary, whose home is at 2135 I street northwest, are both em- ployed by a local candy manufactur- er. Working side by side before large vats of boiling tafty, the youthful couple started a friendship that soon blossomed into love. And one day, in an atnlosphere laden Wwith the sweet odor of cooking dainties, Otto gave his little sweetheart her engagement ",'. Were happy, all right, until an pthier &irl got jealous and spread 3 Ripon of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, ashore oft Cardena, Cuba. AVE the Children Look for the Boys’ and Girls’ Dept. Part Three—Page 12 | ~ (Conunued on Page 2, Column 4.) JILTED BY HIS SWEETHEART, 15, LAD, 17, TAKES POISON DRAUGHT | “Mary believed them and we had a fuss. Then she returned my ring and sald it was all over between us. I'll be all pight pretty soon now, though. | The doctor said I could go home to- morrow.- When will we be married? On. I don't know. Maybe never.” Rushed to Hospital. Otto was found by his sister a fow minutes after he had swallowed the poisonous draught. Seeing that he_was 111 she asked what had happened and the boy admitted” he had taken poison. His sister summoned help and Otto was rushed'to the hospital in the Emergency ambulance. Otto admitted he had taken the poison because he thought life would not be worth living without Mary. Whiat little fear the doctors may have entertained over a very immediate recuperation of their patient was dis- sipated, however, after pretty Mise Jary had departed. | ence | 1eague lot of liés about me around the shop," | Otto sald at the hospital last night. | ® FIVE CENTS. STAGE S BEING SET FOR NEW AIRING OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY Wide Discussion of World Court in Senate Forecast Before Vote Is Taken. BORAH FAVORS ROOT PLAN OVER ONE URGED Capper Sees Hearty Support of President’s Proposal in Middle West. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The stage is being set for another airing of the foreign relations of the United States—perhaps more correct- 1y, the foreign policy of the adminis- tration—before the country goes into the throes of a national campaign and election next year. The vehicle which apparently is to bring about and center the eyes of the country upon this discussion is the proposal of President Harding that the United States adhere to the protocol relating to the establis! ment of the Permanent Court of In- ternational Justice, organized und the auspices of the league of natior Wken Congress reconvenes in D« cember the Senate still will have be- fore it this protocol, transmitted it about a week before the last Con- gress closed. It must go to the Se ate foreign relations committec for consideration—for amendment or fo the preparation of reservations ¢ | the part of the United States. Wide Discussion Forecast. Canvass of opinion of Senate lead ers, among them members of the eign relations committee, clearly that the question of the United States taking part in th world court as a member thereof is going to be given very wide discus- sion before a vote is taken The sane canvass indicates, ever, that with reservations, the shows s, | : ate will adopt the protocol. By no means, however, will pu discussion of the subject await return to Washington of the 3 Already senators are delivering ad- dresses touching upon the matter in various parts of the country. The President himself in travel across the continent this summer is expected to discuss the matter. Criticism of the foreign policy of the administration in recent months, it known, has aroused the President, and advo- cating the adherence of the United States fo the protocol relating to the World Court, it is expected Mr. Hard- fng will reply to some of these criti- cism nd will endeavor to s the country that the policy developed by the administration has been wise Administration’s Problem. The administration’s problem, in connection with the World Court as it has been in regard to other mat- ters touching foreign relations, has been to take part in bringing about friendly relations and peace among without joining the league of e world court, now organized aut The Hague, was organized under the auspices of the league of nations The opponents of the United States going into the court are asserting that this is merely a way of dragging the United States through the back door into the league of nations. On the other hand, both President Hard- ing and Secretary Hughes of the State Department have made it clear that it is not their intention “We could not hope to participate with an American accord if adher- involved any relation the sald President Harding his letter transmitting the protocol to the Senate, and Secretary Hughes, in a list of suggested reservations to be acopted by the United States be- fore giving assent to the protocol heads them with the condition: at all. Will Not Involve League. “That such adhesion shall Lot taken to involve any legal relation {on the part of the United States to the league of nations or the assump- be “Just laws arec enacted to protect|ijon of any legal obligations by the United States under the covenant of lorder that they may be properly and|(he league of nations constituting {part T of the treaty of Versailles." | Other ‘reservations suggested by | Secretary Hughes look to the United States taking part in the selection of the judges of the world court; to the United States paying its fair share | ot the expenses of the court, and to | the United States having a voice in | any amendment of the statute under {which the world court was estab- lished. That there will be many other res- ervations offered is a foregone con- cluston. The Senate has become adept | in the proposal of reservations since the long fight over the Versallles treaty. Supporters of the league of | nations in the Senate are expected to put forward reservations that would bring the United States into legal co- operation with the league or to op- pose the rescrvations seeking to di- vorce the United States from any connection with the league. Still others, it 1s said, will offer reserva- tions to strengthen the standing of the world court as a judicial tri- bunal dealing With international af- fairs. Borah Believes in Court. Senator Borah of Idaho, an old op- ponent of the league of nations, is one of those who believes in a world court—divorced, of course, from the league, certainly so far as the United States is concerned. He is convinced however, that the present world court is little more than an arbitration ‘budr He frankly prefers the pro- ] € £l (Continyeg on Page 2, Column 5.) P