Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Partly cloudy tonight. and tomor- Tow; cooler tonight, Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Hlghest, 57, at 2 p.m. yester- day; lowest, 51, at 3:30 Full' report on page 31. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. No. 29,032. a.m.’ today. POWERS O K. MOVE FOR PARLEY TO SAVE EUROPE F ROM CRASH France, Belgium, Italy Insist Reparations Should Na Commission me Board. HUGHES TELLS CURZON CONSENT OF NATIONS MUST BE UNANIMOUS Secretary of State Maintains Allied Debts to U. S. Are Entirely Separate From German Penalties. Important developments following publication of the Hughes- Curzon correspondence follow : France, Belgium and Italy tentatively accept the proposal| for a unanimous world parley to determine Germany’s ability to pay reparations, provided the conferees are named by the repara- tions commission. The United States is “stand ing by,” watching developments from correspondence between London :md.European capitals. Hughes awaits Poincare’s note of acceptance with stipulations {fully and explicitly outlined. All shades of British opinion settlement has been taken. BERLIN TO BE | PARLEY SEAT LONDON HEARS| | By the Associated Press | LONDON, October 26.—France, Bel- | glum and Ttaly have accepted the| British invitation for a reparation | conference with the understanding that it shall take the form of a com- | mittee of experts under the aulhul‘l!yl‘ of the present interallied reparation | commission. | It is understood the British mem- | bers will be the same as those who | served last year on the bankers' committee, on which the United | ates was represented by J. P.| Morgan. It is thought that Berlin will be chosen as the seat of the conference, since the chief function of the com- mittee will be to inquire into Ger- many’s financial assets. Selection of the French, Belgian | and Italian personnel is expected to | be completed shortly. POINCARE STANDS FIRM. Maintains Attitude Reparations | Commission Must Name Board. | | By the Associated Press, PARIS, October The Frpnchi government is willing that an inter- | national conference of experts, to be | named by the reparation commission, be called to conmsider reparations in conformity with the treaty of Ver- | sailles. The French government, it was sald‘ in official circles this morning, would | be most happy if the govermment of | the United States would name an ex- pert to participate in such a confer- ence. It was announced that Premier Poin- care, in the name of the Fremch gov- ernment, already had informed Secre- tary of State Hughes that he would accept an international commission of to determine Germany's ca- | ut that they must be | paration commission. | named by the The British government, it was added, | has not yet accepted this condition. | Premier Poincare maintains the at- | titude h s taken from the day he! retired from the presidency. of the | reparation committee, which is that this body alone is qualified under the | treaty of Versailles to take up such questions as the examination of Ger- | many’s capacity for payment. | There is no reason to Suppose, either, that the French premier is ready to accept any revised esttimate. | even if it were made by the commis- sion. It was declared by high offi- | cials of the foreign office today that he still held to the schedule of pay- ments adopted in London in 1921 with a total of 1 00,000,000 gold marks. The French government thus remains intrenched behind the treaty of Ver- | sailles as a defense against the Brit- ish offen: in favor of a revision of the reparation figures. The French viewpoint is that if an international conference were held under conditions not provided for in the treaty no one could tell where such a step might lead, as were a revision of the treaty to be thus undertaken the precedent would be likely to be used by all the former enemy powers to escape_ the war settlements as made at Ver- sailles. BRITISH OPINION CAUTIOUS. Government Gratified American Position Is Definitely on Paper.=» By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, October 26.—Official Brit- ish_opinion concerning the response of Secretary of State Hughes to Lordl Curzon's réparation conference invi- tation is cautious and reserved Broadly, however, there is a feeling in the government departments that America’s clear-cut declaration brings an international conference on repa- rations appreciably nearer. While the general attitude of the TUnited States on a reparation confer- ence was already well known, the British government appears to be much gratifiedto have the Coolidge administration restate it so specHical- 1y and clearly on paper. There is a distinet feeling of satis- faction over the helpful, friendly tone of the renewed offer of co-operation. Tt is believed here that America’s ‘tion will be limited to the partici- ation of an expert like J. P. Morgan, as in the case of the technical bank- ers’ committee appointed last year under the supervision of the repara- tion committee. It is held that one of * the most satisfactory results of the Hughes' note is that it facilitates the estabilshment of such a techalcal mmittee of inquiry to determine ermany’s capacity,” and that if rance enters it she will have to scale down her original reparation total, which was the rock upon, which last year's committee split.- The_feeling among the British peo- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) agree a great step toward final 3 METHODS OUTLINED IN HUGHES’ NOTE By the Assoclated Press. Conditional French acceptance of the proposal that a commission of economic experts be created to de- termine Germany's capacity to pay reparations, reported’ in Paris dis- patches today, injects a new and in- teresting angle into the international negotiations disclosed in the publi tion last night of correspondence be- tween Secretary Hughes and Lord Curzon, the British foreign minister. Officlals said today that Premier Poincare's notification of the willing- ness of France to accept the commis- slon plan, subject to the stipulation that the commissioners be named by the reparations commission, had not yet reached the State Department. Pending its arrivai, it was added ,the United States government can merely watch developments and awalt the results of negotiations which may be in progress between'London and Paris and_other European capitals, Viewed Here as Preliminary, The Curzon communication, which was 50 phased as to develop a re- statement of the position of the American government on three dif- ferent suggested methods of dealing with the reparations situation, mani- festly has been viewed here as a preliminary to negotiations among the European powers, possibly cul- minating in a formal invitation to the United States to join in an economic conference or in the setting up of an economic commission. Until there is more definfte knowledge as to the nature and progress of those nego- tiations, however, American officials have declined to predict whether the British move is destined to meet wtih any degree of success. The statement in Paris dispatches today that the British had not con- | ceded that members of the proposed economic commission be named by the reparations commission seems to indicate at least that unity of action, | believed by the United States to be ossential to the success of any plan, has not yet been achieved among the allied powers. Ananlysls Shows Three Methods. An analysis of the British-American orrespondence shows that three pos- sible methods of dealing with the reparations matter were outlned Ry Lord Curzon. They were: First, through the calling of an interna- tlonal conference; second, through the appointment of an economic com- mission representative of all the pow- | | aence, ers concerned in German reparations, and the United States; and third, through the calling of a conference | of appointment of an economic com- mission representative of only a part of the reparations powers and the United States. N Mr. Hughes replied categorically. He expressed the willingness of the United States to join in a conference in which all of the reparations pow- ers participated, but stipulated cer- tain conditions as to the scope and nature of such a conference. He ex- pressed again the American bellef that the economic commission plan afforded the most probable way to success, but pointed out that the United States could not appoint a (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) \Forbes .Divorced by His Wife ch WASHINGTON, D. DRY AGENTS HOLD POLICE KNEW THEY WERE BOOTLERGING Accusations Against D. C. Vice Squad Made Public. Trial Starts Tomorrow. Charges that Lieut. O. T. Davis, head of the Washington police vice squad, knew that two of the revenue agents whom he was assisting to en- force prohibition in Washington were bootlegging liquor and that he did not arrest them are contained in the specifications upon .which Davis and three other members of the vice squad will go on trial tomorrow morning before a spectal police trial board. The charges against Davis were made by prohibition agents them- selves, it was learned today, and the anomalous situation of one prohibi- tion agent charging another with il- licitly handling liquor for profit, and vice versa, is presented in the spe ification. 'In plain words, the pro- hibition agents furnishing the in- formation charged each other with being in the bootleg game and jointly charged Davis, on differeht counts, of course, with failing to prosecute them. One of the charges against Sergt. J. D. McQuade is that he tried to get a revenue agent to give him four half-gallon jars of of *“illegal corn liquor,” which had been seized in a raid conducted on September 10, “and which said liquor the said Sergt. Mc- Quade stated was desired by him and Lieut. Davis, as they ¢ # & were go- ing on a fishing trip Charge Guns Carried. Both McQuade and Private H. G. Bauer, another of the vice squad, are charged also with allowing two men to carry concealed weapons in the District of Columbia, and without ar- resting them, the charge stating fur- ther that McQuade and Bauer both knew that the two men had no right to carry the weapons. The last-mentioned charge, together with the “fishing-trip” charge, are the only two against McQuade. Bauer, however, is to be tried on three charge T. Morris Wampler, well known local attorney, has been retained by Lieut. Davis and his associates to protect WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION (255 LLOYD GEORGE VISITS | TOMB OF UNKNOWN HERO Says Hughes’ New Note Holds Solution of European Problems; Party Goes to Mt. Vernon. David starting before and Lloyd George, for Mount Vernon Arlington today to decorate the graves of George Washington and America’s unknown soldfer, declared that the for restoration of peace in Europe was contained in Secretary Hughes' latest no “At first I heard,” he sald, “that France had accepted, the American proposal. ‘Later I was told that Pre- mier Poin had cepted con tionally. Before discussing the situa- tion fully, 1 should. want to know what that condition s, bt T hope no one will let mere technicalities stand in the way of this important proposal. “I beileve Secrctary Hughes' note s the basis. for a possible working 6ute? the problems of Eurape today. If Poincare’s condition is - purely a FORBES DECLARES CHARGES FALSE Public Asked to Withhold Judgment on Bribery Story Until Hearing. just From his place of seclusion here, Charles R. Forbes, former director of the Veterans' Bureau, issued a state- ment today denying as “utterly and absolutely false” the story of Elias H. Mortimer of Philadelphia before the Senate idvestigating committee of alleged bribery and corruption in connection with contracty for Veter- ans' Bureau hospitals. “I do not feel that I ought to make their legal right in the cases before |any statement in advance of the full the trial board. Another charge against Bauer ir * caused the arrest of Pomeroy Brown |in a charge of carrying concealed weapons; “which said charge the said Private Bauer * * ¢ knew to be false s he * * % had removed er from under the front seat cushion” of an automobile Brown was occupying at the time of arrest. This charge is made with George Fowler, jr. a prohibition agent, named 'as one of the_ complainants. Friends of Davis and McQuade point out that this is a pecullar ‘coinci- inasmuch as a conviction of Brown was obtained on this charge on the testimony of Bauer and Fowler himself. Bauer is further charged with fill- ing a half-gallon glass jar with water on February 17, 1923, during a raid and attempting to make this look like corn liquor. Says Prisoners Mistreated. Other charges against Bauer in- clude rough treatment of prospective prisoners. Attempted concealment of four “gunny” sacks, each containing alco- holic liquor, at the second precinct, instead of placing the sacks in the storeroom of the police station after a raid on March 15, 1923, constitutes another of the charges against Bauer. ] ‘In Utmeost Secrecy October 11 By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash.,, October 26.—It was discovered here last night in a search of court files that Mrs. Kate Forbes an October 11 was granted an interlocutory degree of divorce from Col. Charles R. Forbes, former director of the United States Vet- erans” Bureay, and gvho has been mentioned prominently at a hearing being conducted by the Senate com- mittee at Washington investigating alleged graft In connection with the awarding of contracts for govern- ment hospitals. The suit was handled here with the utmost secrecy and efforts were made to conceal both the action and the granting of the divorce. No men tion of Forbes’ government or busi ness connections was made in the complaint. Departing from the usual procedure of stating a principal's full name_and jnitials in a court action, Col. Forbes was referred to in the suit merely as “Charles Forbes.” That the “Charles Forbes” referred to was in reality Col. Charles R. Forbes was established last night by Deputy Prosecutor Eugene Mecham, who represented the state at the hear- ing. “’As I recall Mrs. Forbes' testimony," Macham said, “she accused Forbes of preferring -the company and society of others to that of herself and their ten-year-old daughter Marcia. She stated that he neglected his home to a greater extent than- the traveling occasioned by his position necessitat- ed. Her health, she testified, was very poor as the result of her hus- band's treatment. Her physician cor- roborated her testimony in regard to her health during a perfunctory hear- ing on October 6." Judge Gillam’'s order directed Forbes to pay $75 a month for the next two years for the support of Mrs. Forbes and an additional $75 monthly to maintain their daughter, who was placed in her mother's cus- tody until she is eighteen years old. All community property was awarded to Mrs. Forbes, and complete testimony which I shall s:ve under oath on the witness stand,” sald Mr. Forbes' statement. ‘“How- ever, at the insistent urging of my triends and in response to inquiries from the press, I cannot refrain from saying that every charge and every word of testimony, especially that of Elias H. Mortimer, reflecting on my personal and official integrity, are utterly and absolutely falve and with- out the slightest foundation. “The story of the receipt by me of a $5,000 bribe was not only false, but so_absurd as to be ridiculous. 'The only thing I ask of the public is to withhold judgment until my witnesses and I are heard and the full documen- tary evidence produced. “In reply to inquiries as to when I will testity, 1 do not know, as that is entirely within the discretion of the committee.” The committee has decided to hear Mr. Forbes next week, if he desires. Meantime, the former director is-rest- (ing, on the advice of his physicians, who have warned against a probable recurrence of a serious heart attack unless he maintdins absolute Test for the present. EN Senator Reed, republican, Pennsyl- vania, chairman of the committee, sald Vesterday that the investigation of the bureau has barely gotten under way, and that there are a number of additional witnesses to 'be heard who will present some “very interesting material.” e Chairman Reed added that whatever evidence is adduced by the commit- tee will be made available to the De- partment of Justice for such use as it may determine. GREEKS THROW BURDEN “OF WAR ON MUTINEERS Government Orders Regular Army to Avoid Bloodshed at All Costs. ATHENS, October 26.—The govern- ment has concentrated forces for striking a final blow at the insur- gents and it depends upon the mu- tineers whether any conflict occurs, the regular army having been or- dered to avoid bloodshed at all costs. The mutiny has been suppressed in Macedonia, the government an- nounces.._ A ~ tp Great Britain. | face-saving proposition, then cer- | tainly T think it would be worth while to help France by accepting it.” Crowds Wait at Cemetery. Accompanied by Secretary of War Weeks, the former British premier, with Dame Margaret Lloyd George and Miss Megan Lloyd George, mo- tored to Arlington at 10 o'clock this morning, choosing the route over the new Key bridge. A large crowd awaited Mr. Lloyd George's arrival jat the cemetery, but no marks of applause were heard out of respect to_the men buried there. | . Passing slowly through the amphi- | theater, "hat in hand, Mr. Lloyd George emerged in front of the tomb of the unknown soldier and passed |slowly down the lane of spectators with Secretary Weeks. Quietly plac- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) GOMMERGE STAFF - PAY RAISE HIGHEST E2,661 Workers to Get Aver- | age Increase of $122 Un- | der Reclassification. The -2.661 employes of the Com- merce Department in Washington Who cofme under reclassification re- |ceive the largest percentage of met | Increase In salaries of any of the | regular departments. The average basic salary is now $1,571, and the | average base salary plus the bonus |is 31,783, while the average ap- | praised salary under reclassification is $1,905. The entire 2,661 employes will get an average increase of $122. | The average appraised salary under | reclassification for the 467 employes in_the professional and _sclentific service is $2,983, which is $532 more than the present average base pay, and an average increase of $374 above base pay plus the bonue. The | reason why the increase Is so large for this service is because few of | the employes received the bonus or any portion of it, For the 352 employes in the sub- professional service the average of 1 appraised pay under reclassification is $1,610, which is an increase of $335 over the average base pay, and an in- crease of $96 over the average base pay plus the bonus. The 1,493 employes in clerical, ad- ministrative and fiscal gervice are to recelve an average appraised salary of $1,831, which is .$289 higher than the average base pay at present, and 369 above the average base pay plus the bonus. In the custodlal service the average appraised pay is $1,073, which is $269 higher than'the average base pay, and an average increase of $33 above base pay.plus the bonus, In these three latter services the net salary increase is low in propor- tion to the net salary increase in the professional and sclentific services because in these lower grades prac- tically every one was getting the $240 bonus, Which has. been .absorbed. A table showing' how 'reclassifica- tion affected employes of the Depart- ment of Commerce in° Washington by services within administrative units is provided on page 4 of today's Star. e MEXICANS FLASH GUNS IN LEGISLATIVE DEBATE By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, October 26.—Secre- tary of Finince Pani- appeared in the lower house of congress last night for interpellation regarding the finan- cial condition of the republic and his recent charges of financial misman- agement duringtthe period that Adoi- fo de la Huerta- held -the treasury portfolio. . The session was very stormy. The Callista and Huertista factions in the chamber heatedly participated in the debate, while the public was in con- | stant fear that at any moment gun play might end the arguments, inas- much ag - the deputies ' repeatedly pulled out their revolvers. Deputies Arce, Prieto Laurens and Espinosa interpellated Secretary Pani, finally concluding that the Mexican government cannot be considered in a state of bankruptcy and that the present muddle in its finances dates back many.years. ¢ Foening Star. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1923—FORTY-SIX PAGES. NN [2-MILE DRY LI 15 GIVEN APPROVAL OF BRITISH EXPERTS Government Concedes Major Essentials of U. S. Proposal to End Smuggling. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE TO TAKE ACTION IN WEEK Gives America Right to Search for Contraband Liquor in Much Greater Area. By the Associated Press, LONDON, @ctober 26.—The British government has accepted In principle the proposal of the American govern- ment that vessels in American waters be searched «for contraband liquor within twelve miles of the American shore. The expert committee of the im- perial conference, which has been studylng the question under the chairmanship of Forelgn Secretary Curzon, has drawn up plans which are believed to meet the essential points of the American request. The plans will be submitted next week to the full conference, which is expected to approve them. R — STEINIETZ, WIZARD OF ELECTRICS, DEAD End Comes at Breakfast as Result of Breakdown on Pacific Trip. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., October 26. —Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz, elec- trical wizard, died at his home here today of a physical breakdown due to a trip to the Pacific coast, from which he recently returned. The attending physician said break- fast was being served the patient when suddenly his heart seemed to give way and he dled immediately. The trip. which Dr. Stelnmetz had made to the west started September 1 and proved much more strenuous than either he or members of his adopted family had planned. As a result he’ was compeiled to take to his bed soon after his return on Oc- tober I3. At the same time physicians announced that a rest was advisabl although {t was emphasized that his condition was not serious. He awoke today in a cheerful mood, expectant that he would soon be al- lowed the freedom of the house. But as preparations were being made to serve his breakfast, a_sudden heart attack selzed him and he died imme- diately. Heart Weakness Known. It was known before Dr. Steinmetz's trip to the Pacific coast that his heart was weak, and his program was so arranged that brief rest periods might be allowed. Hundreds of invi- tations ‘to deliver addresses were re- ceived by him, but he was forced to decline most of them. Because it was his first trip to the Pacific_coast, Dr. Steinmetz and his party include a wide territory and virtually all of the large cities of the Rocky mountains and_the western slope. Accompanying him were his adopted som, J. L. R. Hayden, Gen- eral Electric engineer, and members of the Hayden family. The exact cause of death was given by Dr. Steinmetz's physicians as acute dilation of the heart, following a chronic myocarditis of many years’ standing, which is a weakening of the hear? muscles. There was no one with Dr. Stein- metz when the end came, his nurse having left the room a few moments before. One of his adopted grand- sons, William Hayden, entering the room with his breakfast, was the first to notice his condition. Soon after he awoke this morning Dr. Stelnmetz told his nurse that he was feeling fine. Last night he spent much time chatting with members of his adopted family about tech- nical matters. This morning after his death there was found on his desk a scientific book, with several passages marked for his grandson to read. The American career of Charles P. Steinmetz, A. M. Ph. D., chief consult. ing engineer of the General Electric works, Schenectady, N. Y. has its beginning in New York in 1§89, where, penniless and able to speak but very little English, he arrived from Zurich, Switzerland. 'He was accompanied by a young American who had been his fellow-student at the Zurich Poly- technicium, One side of Steinmetz's face was badly swollen as the result of a trifling _illness aboard ship, and the “From Press to Home Within the Hour The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 93,225 TWO CENTS. Named as Envoy To Great Britain FRANK B. KELLOGG, SEPARATISTS GRP SLPS DESPITE AD OF ALLIED TRODPS Invading Armies, Forced to Act as Anti-Republicans, Fight Secessionists. 3,000,000 FACING DEATH BY STARVATION IN RUHR All Groups Dodge Responsibility for Chaos—Stresemann Promises Meager Aid. By the Assoclated Press. COBLENZ, October 26.—The new Rhineland republic is much where it was yesterday. The separatists main- tain with difficulty- their hold on Aix- la-Chapell, Wiesbaden, Bonn, May- ence, Duisburg, Duren and Crefeld, while the strength of their position in Coblenz, which they re-entered late last night, remains to be seen. At most of these places, however, the republicans are subject to a sort of guerrilla warfare on the part of their opponents, requiring frequent intervention by the French and Bel- gian troops to restore order. Only at Trier Go they seem to enjoy - undis- turbed possession. ‘The secession also have occupied a number towns, such as Godesburg, St. Goar and Euskirchen. The city of Cologne is dependent on the latter town for part of its dairy products and foodstuffs, Confer with French. After retaking the provincial gov- ernment building and post office here the provisional separatist govern- ment, headed by Joseph Matthes, vi ited Col. Philippe, the French dele- {gate on‘the high commission. On leaving the colonel's office Matthes said that the republicans had handed the Rhineland commission a declara- tion requesting recognition of their regime in Coblenz, promising to re- spect the authorify of the occupa- tion forces and to adopt a concilia- tory attitude toward such inhabitaats as have not yet rallied to their my.ve- ment. The statemen continues: / “Taking Coblenz for a base, e will continue to strengthen our situation, peacefully If possible, but, as by the fault of Berlin we were obliged to shed our blood at Alxla-Chapelle and Crefeld, we are resolved to use force if necessary. “Out of deference to the curfew regulation we suspendedjaction (last evening), but from 6 o'clock this morning we will proceed with further occupations.” The first step, the statement said, would be the organization of a police force, armed as were the blue police. The separatists are prepared to work harmoniously with officlals and judges who recognize the movement, and will accept the services of police- men who are ready to swear fidelity to the republic. The statement con- cludes: “The majority of the members of the provisional government at pres- ent are here, but a certain number of our colleagues have already left to help develop the movement at Bonn, Treves, Trier and Duisburg. We are full of confidence in the success of our undertaking.” Coblenz was quiet early today, but signs were not lacking that there would be a sharp reaction during the day which would put the separatists to a hard test. MILLIONS FACE STARVING. say of “small Boppart, 'BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. By Cable to, The Star and Chicago Daily News. . Copyright, 1023. BERLIN, October 26.—Threatened starvation of upward of three million Ruhr workers and their fam; 2om (Continued on page 26, Column 1.) By the Associated Press. TEAGUE, Texas, October 26.—De- talls of one of the grimmest pistol duels in the history of Texas were revealed here by Sheriff David Terry of Navarro county. The dead are Norwood Huckaby, scion of a family prominent in Free- stone county for more than_a hal century, and Charles A. Williams, until recently a resident of Navarro county. . The battle was an epic in gun fights, according to the sheriff's story. It occurred in a little room in the barn ot T. F. Young, jr., at Young, in Freestone county, shortly after dusk ‘Wednesday night. Toe to toe, left hands locked to- gether, their right hands clutching smoking revolvers which spat bullets until neither man could summon strength to pull the trigger again, Huckaby and Williams died within a few minutes of each other, and with ~their boots on. (Continued on Page 22, Column 1 Two Die in Grim Pistol Duel Fought in Room in Texas Barn Four bullets took effect in Huck- aby's-body, three lodging in the chest and one in the side. Willlams was wounded in the forehead, right breast and side. Two pistols, one a .38 caliber and the other a .32 caliber, were found clutched in-the men’s hands. Every chamber had been discharged. Huckaby was a widower with four children and lived at the Young home. Returning to the homegshortly after dusk Wednesday evening Huckaby ‘went on to the barn with his horse. A few minutes later Williams, ac- companied by a son and another wung man, drove up and proceeded to the barn. .A volley of cracking pistol shots was the first intimation to those at the house that anything was amiss between the two men. b4 Motive for the spectacular shooting scrape was believed to be .a former brush between the men. In this trouble, which occurred almost a year tll“' Huckaby received a bullet in the | log. FRANK B. KELLOGR CHOSEN TO SUCCEED HARVEY AT LONDON they | Ex-Senator to Assume Post Shortly—Close Friend of Late President. MANY PROBLEMS AWAIT ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND Reparations, Prohibition and Open Door in Tangier Present Heavy Burden for Ambassador. Frank B. Kellogg, former United States senator from Minnesota, has been selected for American ambassa- dor to London. He will succeed George Harvey, who recently resigned, and the ap- pointment Is expected to become ef- fective in the near future. Mr. Kellogg, who was one of the little coterie of personal friends who accompanied the late President Hard- ing on most of his trips away from Washington and was a frequent guest at the White House during the Hard- ing administration, is a lawyer by profession. During the single term he served in the Senate he devoted conslderable attention to foreign af- \fairs, was a leader of the “mild res- ervationists” in the Versailles treaty fight and served as a member of the foreign relaxkns committee. Beaten By Shipstead. In the 1922 campaign he was re- nominated for the Senate by the re- publicans, but fafled or re-election in the sweep of the farmer-labor party. which sent Henrik Shipstead to the Senate from Minnesota by a majority of more than 80,000 over his nearest opponent. The newly selected ambassador is sixty-six years old, and is a native of Potsdam. New York. He studied law at Rochester, Minn., after his parents had removed to that state: was admitted to the bar in 1878, and soon afterward entered upoh a long career of public service. He was for three years city attorney of Roches- ter, served latér as county attorney, and then rose to national prominence as special counsel for the federal government in its anti-trust suits during the Taft administration. Among the proceedings of this char- acter he prosecuted were those against the Standard Oil Company and the Union Pacific-Southern Pa- cific railroad merger. Although Ambassador Harvey said the other day that he would leave the London post with his desk ean,” his successor mow seems cer- to find heavy burdens awaiting Of first importance among the negotiations in which he will have a part stands the reparations diffi- culty. Ambassador Harvey is retiring at a time when there has been a revival of the efforts to induce the United States to participate in some plan for the adjusiment of the repa- rations tangle. Dry Question Unsettled. Whether the plans of settlement proposed by the British prime minis- ter meets with success or not, Mr. Kellogg will have much to do before a final working out of the problem is possible. - In the event a conference is called, or an economic commission created to determine Germany's capacity to pay reparations, the American am- bassador at London is sure to find himself involved in nany delicate negotiations. | Second among the questions Mr. Kellogg will be compelled to take up is that of the reciprocal treaty agree- ments proposed by Secretary Hughes to deal with prohibition enforcement. | At this time, so far as the United States government knows, the British position on that proposal remains to be determined by the imperial con- ference, to which tt foreign office {reterred it for a decision as to policy Should Great Britain sent to be- come a party to the treaty suggested by Mr. Hughes, negotiation of that pact would be done largely through the American embassy in London. Tangler Question Pending. Another question pending between the United States and Great Britain is determination of the status of Tan- gler under the act of Algeciras. The United States recently communicated to London and other European capi- tals an outline of its views, in which the flat statement was made that the open door policy must govern final in- ternational conclusions as to Tangler. The London emba: under the new ambassador, probably also will have to deal with some phases of the Lincheng bandit outrage settlement in China. Although the diplomatic corps in Peking is handling these ne- gotlations directly, the governments represented in the corps have a close- 1y related interest in the negotiations and_ continuously are interchanging views on the matter. Born in 1856. Mr. Kellogg, the son of the late Asa Farnsworth and -Ablgail (Billings) Kellogg, was born December 22, 1856. His ° forbears werc prominently tdentified in colonial New England life, his earliest parental ancestor be- ing Lieut. Joseph Kellogg, who came from Great Leighs, England, in 1651, and settled in Farmington, Conn. His early boyhood was spent on a farm of his father, a pioneer of Min- nesota. There for several years he worked in the fields. He left the farm in 1875,_and commenced the study of law at Rochester, Minn. Here he was admitted to the bar three years later and immediately took up its practice. Soon afterward he won a place in the rank of the leading lawyers of his judicial district. An important change in his pro- fessional career occurred in 1887, when Senator Cushman K. Davis in- vited him to come to.St. Paul and become .a partner with himself and C. A. Severance. He accepted, and the relation was maintained until the death of the senator. Headed Bar Association. He was president of the American Bar Association for the year 1912- 1913, and at its annual meeting held September 1, 1913, at Montreal, he delivered the annual address on the treaty-making power, which com- manded wide and favorable consider- ation. This meeting was_a_notable (Continuéd on Page 2, Column 1.)