Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1924, Page 4

SOVIET INFLAMED BY LEAGUE ACTION Objects Vigorously to Vote on Georgia Issue—Denounces MacDonald. By the Asvocisted Press. MOSCOW, September 17.—Bitter re- sentment is manifested by the Soviet officials and newspapers over the resolution adopted by the League of Nations assembly with regard to the situation in Georgia. In supporting the resolution Premier MacDonald of Great Britain is accused by the gov- ernment newspapers of deliberately violating the recently concluded An- glo-Russian treaty which expressly forbids interference by one country in_the internal affairs of the other. The Soviet officials contend that the league has no more right to investi- gate the Georgian question than it would the situation in Mesopotamia, Syria, or of any other country under foreign tutelage. They insist that the the people of Georgia indicated their political preference in 1921 by oust- ing the so-called Democratic govern- ment and enrolling under the aegis of the Soviet republic. Challengex Others. The Pravda Suggests th scite be held not only risia, but in_India, China. Morocco and ERYDL stating that Soviet Russia it the reply of the British and French premiers to this “challenge.” 1t is stated offic hat the re- cent uprising in ¢ was an s lated affair and that _conditions throughout Georgia are quite normal a plebi- Recent dispatches from arious sources have indicated that a move- ment of considerable proportions was under way in Georgia, with the ob- ject of establishing the country's complete independence from Soviet Russia. The action of the league assembly was taken after an appeal for inter- vention issued by P’resident Jordania of the Georgian republic, in Paris The resolution, introduced in the as- sembly by France, Great Britain and Belgium. asks the council of the league to watch events in Georgia and seize any opportunities to help the return of the country to its nor- mal situation SUICIDE PACT HINTED | IN DEATH OF GIRL, 15| Fragments of Letter Indicate Dis- charged Farm Hand Agreed to Die With Her. B_the Associated Press NEW BRUNSWICK. N ber 17.—That suicide planned by 15-year-old Johnson, whose bod: Carnegie Lake, Princeton, and Harvey Selhavaver, discharged by the girl's father and now sought by police, was indicated in_the fragments of a letter which police found scattered over the floor of an zbandoned cellar, 75 feet from the spot where the girl's body lay. “My Dear Precious Darling,” is the of the letter, which is signed “Your Brokenhearted Lover, H. 8" Those fragments which have been pieced together read, “I am ver: sad. Just to think that in two day more 1 will haveito put. you from my love. I cannot do it “Tt scems to me that the only way out is that which vou suggested on the porch last night. If we cannot live together in life let us part to- gether in death. “Tell me the time and place you will meet me and give me the ke: back. Please destroy this letter. Part of @ theatrical magazine with the girl's name written on the cover. a Pennsylvania time-table and a cartridge box which had contained .22 caliber shells were found in the ar. Elizabeth was found near on Sunday, farm hand, salutation GERMANS PAYING UP. Agent General of Allies Already Given 3,300,000 Gold Marks. COBLENZ, September 17.—The Rhine- land high committee announced that pledges yielded 27,000,000 gold marks in the month of July,and 21.- 000,000 in August. This brings to more than 400,000,000 gold marks the amount received by the cashier of the pledges department centralized in_Coblenz. The cashier has already pald to the agent general for reparations, in accordapee with article 4, annex 3, of the London agreement, 3,300,000 gold marks on account, and arrangements have been made to pay over the whole amount due, including the eptember, by October 1 PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturity Assets More Than $9,000,000 Surplus $950,000 Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY. JOSHUA W. CARR WORLD LEADERS SEE WAR’S DOOM SEALED BY ACTION (Continued from First Page.) paring an international conference for their solution. The preamble to the resolution de- clares that the experiences of five years have demonstrated the valuable services which the league can render toward meeting rapidly legislative needs on in- ternational relations. It also emphasizes the desire to increase the contribution of the league in improving or modifying the tenets of international law in econ- formity with the most modern and en- lightened standards. Provisions of Draft. The provisions of the draft protocol for the outlawry of war, already ap- proved by the French and British representatives, which was presented today by Foreign Minister Benes of Czechos'ovakia to the disarmament committee of the league and which became available late yesterday to the Associated Press, are, in sub- stance, as follows: The drafts begin by stating that with a view to insuring lasting peace in the world and to guaran- teeing the security of peoples whose existence, liberty and territory might be threatened, and being desirous of establishing a system providing for peaceful settlement of disputes aris- ing between the members of.the in- ternational community and for the repression, if necessary, of interna- tional crime and being determined to carry out the reduction and limita- tion of armaments contemplated in Article VIII of the covenant of the League of Nations, it is agreed to ac- cept the following provisions: Articles I, 11, III and V of the draft eventually must be drawn up in agreement with the arbitration com- mission of the assembly. They pro- vide that the signatories recogmized henceforward as obligatory ipso jure and without special convention, the Jjurisdiction of the World Court of Justice in conformity with the com- pulsory arbitration clause, but with reservations. Powers Defined. These include that in the applica- tion of Articles XII, XIII and XV of the covenant the signatories confirm their undertaking to submit to the council of the league all disputes, in respect to which no other court of abritration is provided for, with the understanding that the league as- sembly alone shall be competent to decide as to the necessity for the revision of existing treatie: The council shall act as a court of arbitration, taking its decisions by a majority vote, and the parties to the dispute shall retain the right to sit in the council during discussion of the matter submitted. During exam- Inaflun of the dispute, the council may, by a majority vote, order mea; ures to be taken by the parties in- volved with a vi to preventing or stopping armed conflict. The pro- cedure provided in the foregoing arti- cle shall apply to the permanent court of justice in cases which come Wwith- in the competence of this court. {4 a dispute is submitted for arbitration to some other body than the court or the council. the council of the le: shall have power to follow this cedure. Commission Duty Fixed. Article IV of the draft provides that to safeguard the carrying out of pro- visional measures to prevent conflicts and to facilitate recognition of an ag- gressor, the council or the Permanent Court of Justice, on its own initiative or at the request of one of the parties to the conflict, shall, when an appeal is made or at any other time, arrange for the sending of international supervisory commissions. These commissions shall during the entire course of the procedure be intrusted with the task of insuring that none of the parties engage upon the preparation of mobilization of an economic or military nature. The com- missions shall be composed of military and civil experts appointed by the coun- cil of the league from lists constantly Kept up to date by the different govern- zue pro- ‘Article V, which must go before the arbitration commission of the assembly, declares that a signatory state which fails to submit its disputes to the rules of peaceful settlement indicated above or fails to carry out the awards of com- petent arbitration Bodies within the limits defined in a decision and, if its act of disobedience is liable to trouble world peace, then it shall, be declared an aggressor state and outlawed. This declaration of aggression shall be made by the Permanent Court of Justice when an order issued by it has not been car- ried out, and in all other cases by the Tue Boss am PreLres Bumome Established 1907 BOSS & “THE HOME wuw'i,,: World Crnise Fads about Real Estate can be bought, rented or sold more satisfactorily through OF LEAGUE council voting by a majority. The draft then goes on to deal with the vital question of sanctions. When the above declaration is made, the council of the league shall call upon the members of the league to put into operation the sanctlons contain- ed -in Article VII of the protocol This article, which formed the chief subject of yesterday’s discussion be- fore the commission, is one of the essential features of the draft. It declares *hat as soon as z declaration of aggression has been made and the outlawing of the aggressor has been eftected by declaration, the obliga- tions of the signatories concerning sanctions of all kinds contained in Article XVI of the covenant will im- mediately become operative. The_obligations shall be interpreted as obliging each member of the league to co-operate loyally and effectively in support of the league covenant and in resistance to acts of aggression. In accordance with Article XVI of the covenant, the signa- tories undertake individually or col- lectively to assist the state which is attacked or threatened and to give one another mutual support by facili- ties and reciprocal exchanges as re- gards supplies, raw materials and food stuffs of every kind, opening credits, transports and transit, and for this purpose to ensure the safety of the land and sea communications of the attacked or threatened state. The next paragraph stipulates that if both parties to a dispute have been declared aggressors according to the preceding provisions, then economic sanctions will be applied to both of them. A supplementary article emphasizes that economic and financial sanc- tions are somewhat complex and hence, to define the guarantees offer- ed to the adhering states the coun- cil of the league shall instruct its economic, financial and disarmaments committees to draw up plans of ac- tion with a view of establishing a blockade of the aggressor state, and to draw up plans of economic and financial co-operation between the state attacked and the defendant states assisting it. Regional Agrcements 0. K.d. Article 8 of the draft stipulates that the council can accept individual or collective undertakings entered into by the states, which determine in ad- vance the military forces which they immediately place at the coun- s disposal to insure the carrying out of the measures dectded upon by the world court or the council. When an aggressor has been designated, the signatory states may, in accordance with undertakings previously entered into, place in the field the whole or such proportion as they may consider necessary of their military foroes against the party declared to be an aggressor. (This is the draft’s man- ner of authorizing regional agree- ments.) Article 8§ mentions the famous article 10 of the League of Nations covenant and declares that the appli- cation. of sanctions outlined above shall not under any circumstances include the violation of the political or territorial independence of the aggressor state, Conference Considered. Article 9 of the draft gets down to consideration of the disarmament conference which will follow in the wake of acceptance of the arbitra- | tion security protocol. It explains | that this protocol requires the signa- tories to participate in an interna- tional conference for the reduction of armaments, which shall be con- vened under the auspices of the League of Nations at the earliest pos- sible time. The council of the league shall draw up the general program for the disarmament conference. If, within a time limit as hereafter fixed and after the coming into force of the protocol, the conference is not assembled or a scheme for the reduc- tion of armaments has not-peen adopted or carried out, the couneil of the league may record this fact and each signatory will thereupon regain its complete freedom of action. The conditions on which the council may declare that the scheme drawn up by the international conference has not been carried out and that, accord- ingl; the protocol has become null and void, shall be denied by the con- ference jtself. Ry article 10 of the draft all of the differences relating to the carrving out or interpretation of the protocol shall be submitted to the Permanent Court of International Justice. Article 11 specifies that the proto- col. which shall be open to the 1417 K Street Main 9300 PHELPS OF HOMES" HOUSE AVERS 1. . LEAD NOT NEEDED Declares Europe Is Confident Now of Working Out Prob- lems Alone. By the Amsociated Press. WENHAM, Mass, September 17.— Europe is returning to the oppor- tunity that confronted It in 1919, Col. Edward M. House, who has returncd from an extended visit abroad, said in a statement today at the home of his daughter here. Under the guid- ance of Britain and France, he added, Europe is confidently working out her own solution of her difficulties without waiting for the leadership of the United States. “In 1919, the desire for peace was at a flood tide,” he continued. “But that tide ebbed while Europe waited on the leadership of America. In its wake came the fears and strife, the international bickerings and fruitless negotiations, which, through four years, made settlement impossible, Politics more than public opinion had its day during these four years. Now public opinion has become articulate again. Not Waiting for U. S. “There is no waiting now for the leadership of the United States. If the problems of Europe are to be solved, it is plain enough to Kuro- peans that they must do their own solving. They have their own lead- ers, and are confident that they can find their own solutions. Ramsey MacDonald in England, and Edouard Herriot in France afford the best evidence of FEurope's self-confidence. Both of these men came into power to do one thing—to bring settlement. They were given office that concili- ation might have a chance. And con- ciliation is working. “The very atmosphere of Europe seems to have altered since the poli- cies of fear and suspicion have been supplanted by those of friendship and understanding. If conciliation can continue a few months longer, I believe the people of Europe will re- fuse to support policies which have any other basis.” O Auto Racer to Marry. LOS ANGELES, Calif, September —Earl Cooper, automobile racing driver, and Mrs. Jane R. Bailey of Troy, N. Y., will be married at River- side next Monday, the Los Angeles Sxaminer said today. signatures of all of the states, shall be ratified and the ratifications de- posited with the permanent secre- tariat of the League of Nations at Geneva. Arother article of the protocol dwells upon the demilitarized zones. It emphasizes that such zones as have already been created through exist- ing treaties are designed to prevent aggression and it recommends their creation between states. The article continues that the already existing demilitarized zones or those which {may be established in the future be- tween equally comsenting states shall form the subject of temporary or permanent supervision organized by the council of the League at the quest of one or all of the adjoining states. The text of the protocol is preced- ed by a general exposition of the principles on which the draft Is based. It emphasizes that compul- sory procedure for the peaceful set- tlemert or disputes has been univer- sally recognized as indispensable GUARDING LOCATELLI, POLICEMAN STABBED Italians Storm Manhattan Opera House to Attack Italian Aviator. By the Amociated Pres NEW YORK, September 17.—A pa- trolman defending the Itallan avia- tor, Antonio Lecatelli, from attack by a frenzied mob of fellow country- men, who awaited his zppearance outside the Manhattan Opera House last night, was stabbed three times with a stilletto. Anthony Cioffo, 43, who says he came here recently from Chicago and is a member of the I. W. W, is under arrest charged with felonious assault. The patrol- man, Edward Trumph, 25, in a serious condition in a hospital. Because of his alignment with Pre- mier Mussolini, there have been many demonstrations since Locatelli's ar- rival here threatening his life. The police took unusual precautions last night by having detectives distribut- ed throughout the theater. After the performance was conclud- ed a large crowd of Italians gathered In front of the theater, all of whom seemed to be awaiting the exit of the Fascistl sympathizer. Locatelll, under advice of friends, lingered in the theater half an_ hour, belfeving the crowd would disperse. When it became apaprent that the crowd would not leave peaceably it was decided to attempt to get Lo- catelll to a waiting automobile A gaurd was formed around him and a path cleare The detectives were at the side of the Italian fler quickly and wielding their night sticks rushed into the crowd, with Putrolman Trump in the nguard. Just as Trumph was as- sting Locatelli into the motor car, felt the sting of a blade in the right side of his neck. Turning quickly in an attempt to seize his as- sailant, he was stabbed again in the right lhvs(. ¥or a third time the stilletto descended, the blade sink- ing deep Into his right side. Other patrolmen used their night sticks to disperse the crowd ‘while one of them subdued Cioffo, making him a prisoner. GETS WARNING OF PLOT. Manila Notified of Ship on Way to Smuggle Chinese. BY WALTER J. ROBR. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. MANILA, August 17.—Customs col- lectors at all ports in the Philippines have been notified to look out for a 8hip expected (o arrive in a few days, bent on a gigantic scheme to smuggle Chinese here from Borneo and China and run them secretly over the Cana- dian border from Vancouver at a charge of from $1.800 to $2,000 per man. Most of the Chinese, who are without papers and have been smuggled into the Philippines, are on the southern Island of Mindanao, where they arrived on swift Moro vintas from Borneo, the outlaw country of the East. A confidential letter from a State Department agent specifies a five- masted schooner of 2,521 tons, wooden hull and twin screw auxiliary engines, as the vessel in which it is planned to transport the Chinese from the Philippines. (Copyright, 1924, by Chicago Daily News Co.) Maclumsts for La Follette. DETROIT, September 17.—Robert M. La Follette was indorsed as a can- didate for Presient at the conven- tion of the International Associa- tion of machinists meeting here. The convention decided to await further developments before insisting upon tha formation of a new part —this 1924 Special Fall Purchase is what The response is gratifying—we knew we were right when we started—the -public wants a value—they appre- ciate it—every one is satisfied — you'll be satisfied, too, if you look for yourself— here’s the value a special selling of Suits that should sell for $40 and $45 at DAVIS MAY SPEAK IN CARNEGIE HALL Campaign Managers Plan Stirring Finish in Big New York Meeting. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 17.—John W. Davis will probably speak at Carnegie Hall on the night of Novem- ber 1, it was announced today by Thomas J. Spellacy, director of the Eastern headquarters of the Demo- cratic national committee. Nr. Spellacy said that Mr. Davis had been asked to speak at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, on the night of October 29, and at a luncheon to be given by women's democratic organizations at the Commodore Hotel on November 1. Received at Des Moines. DES MOINES, September 1 John W. Davis, Democratic presidential nominee, arrived in Des Moines shortly after 9 o'clock this morning for a series of public appearances that will mark the beginning of his party's intensive campaign in this State. Democratic leaders of the State and hundreds of adherents to the party welcomed Mr. Davis at the railway station and escorted him to State Democratic headquarters, where he planned to spend the forenoon in con- ference with party leaders on lowa campaign plans. Heading the escort was a band attired in overalls and nu- merous marchers representing farm and labor organizations. Mr. Davls was scheduled to speak before a woman's mass meeting this afternoon. His chief address here is to be made at the coliseum at 8 o'clock tonight. At noon the candidate was the honor guest at a luncheon with 200 State party workers. He will leave at 11:30 p.m. for Chicago. SEES NO MAJORITY NOW. By the Assouted Prens. SW YORK, September 17.—“If the election was held today, no candidate would have a majority in the elec- toral college,” Clem Shaver, chairman of the Democratic national committee, said in a statement last night. Chairman Shaver, who was about to depart for Chicago to consult with the mid-Western managers of the Davis-Bryan campaign, not believe the people wanted to be said he d!dll fed with the usual “fool predictions” which emanate trom headquarters. Mr. Shaver made the statement in response to questions by groups of newspaper men concerning his judg- ment of the present situation. When Mr. Shaver was asked to elab- orate on his reply, he said he could not do so now without “making state ments that might be misunderatoo “There 18 no doubt of the strength of the La Follette-Wheeler movement in certain states” he asserted, “and whether or not this movement will grow or decline is a contingency that cannot be determined but which must be considered. So far as we can as- certain, it is cutting into the Renub- an vote in the states President Coolidge must ca’ry to Be sure of election.” When reminded that Mr. La Fol- lette's strength in the electoral col- lege has been estimated as high as 70 votes, he replied, “Not if the election were held today. “Maybe some people will think it foolish to tell. the public the truth, but I have found it pay cluded. “Claiming eversthing does not bring you anything, and I have never got into the habit of deceiving either myself or other people. What I have said is my best judgment, based on reports.” ON TRIAL 11 MONTHS. Hearing in Massachusetts Court Longest of Record. DEDHAM, Mass,, September The Willett case, a trial now in its eleventh month, that has taken rank as one of the longest in the annals of the world’s Jjurisprudence, will be continued with only 11 jurors. Judge Christopher Callahan today announced that Juror Joseph L. Day had been excused because of a nervous break- down. George F. Willett is suing Robert F. Herrick and a group of Boston capitalists for $15,000.000 as damages resuiting from an alleged conspiracy affecting the American Felt Company and the Daniel Green Felt Shoe Com- pany. The case began early in No- vember of last year. 17— Minnesota Bank Closes. ST PAUL, Minn, Sept. 1 State bank of Walters, with a CIDI!IX of $10,000 and deposits aggregating $120,000 has been closed, A. J. Veigel, State superintendent of banks an- nounced today. The bank was closed because of "bad" paper. i There Is Every Reason Why You Should Locate In Chevy Chase Il QUINTER, THOMAS & co. REPUBLICAN ELECTORS RESIGN BANK POSTS Connecticut Bankers Play Safeion Positions to Insure Eligibility to Vote, By, the Aswoeiated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., September 17.— Two prominent bankers of Connecti- cut, who have been nominated for presidential electors on the Republi- can ticket, have agreed to resign from connection with national banks rather than jeopardize the legality of their votes in the electoral college, it was announced here today. All the electors nominated had been notified by State Chairman J. Henry Roraback of a rule providing that no persons “holdnig an office of trust or profit under the United States” may serve as a presidential elector. There is said to be some question as to whether national bank officers come within this category. But Charles F. Brooker of Ansonia Na- tional Bank and Col. Francis T. 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