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* FAVORABLE REPORT FOR WELFARE BILL District Committee Sanc- tions Important Measures for Consideration. 2 The public welfare bi'l was report- to the House District committee the subcommittee which has been in conference with a similar subcom- mittee from the Senate and a favor- able report was orderei at a meet- ing of the committee today. This bill immediately the program for consideration in House the trict day bruary The ed by 9. next snonsored by which tion of all and would ict milk sup- tuberculin-tested milk biil District health require paste milk sold in the require that the )y come from herds, was listed to receive first con- sideration on the District day. The public welfare bill wou.d be call- ed up second pure i would Great Falls Power Bill. for the of Great report of hydro- Falls | Zihlman bill electric development in accordance with the M Tyler, Engineer Corps, U has been put third on the list for consideration on_the next District day The traffic code, which has been the f conferences between the nate District committees Le ready to be reported, and this, with the five-year schoo! build- ing program. will be added to program of District legislation to be ! called up for action in the House, if possible, on the next District day The welfare bill reported by Repre- sentative Oscar E. Keller, Republican, of Minnesota, was amended as to provide that children be sent to institu- tions of the same religious falth as that of the chiidren’s parents The e Elminate Superfiuvus Employes. An amendment offerrd by Represent- ative Charles L. Underhill of Massachu- setts specifically eliminates any poasi- bility of all employes of consolidated boarde to be retained, and thus allows any superfluous empioyesy to be dis- charged. The measure provides for a board of | five members to serve for a term of six | vears. An amendment was inserted giv ing the District Commissioners power to remove a'board member for cause Representative Thomas L. Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, urged that all Jiearings of the board should be pub- lished t WMilk Bill Long Consldere i The long-pending pure milk bill on | which extensive hearings were held during the last session of Congress was reported by Representative Flor- fan Lampert of Wisconsin. This meas- ure has already passed the Senate. It proposes to improve and standardize grades and = qualities of milk and cream in the District of Columbia. It would give the District health officers power to adopt rules and regulations. It forbids the pale of milk from herds fo which the tuberculin test has not been applied annually. It requires jnspection and grading of dairy farms and herds, and_authorizes the health officer to establish rules for pasteuri- zation. e An amendment to the milk bill was adopted which would prevent two or mors producers forming a partner- ship, association or corporation, or selling except under the same rules as applied to individuals. ARBUCKLE’S WIFE GETS PARIS DIVORCE DECREE y the Associated Press. January | PARIS, 28.—Minta Durfee | Arbuckle, moving picture actress, was granted a divorce from Roscoe Ar- buckle yesterday, according to the Herald. The newspaper adds, Ar- buckle did not defend the suit A dispatch from Providence, R. November -22, announced that M Minta Arbuckle had gone to Paris to hegin divorce proceedings against her husband, Roscoe (“Fatty’”) Arbuckle. Mrs. Arbuckle obtained a decree of divorce in the Superior Court in Providence in January, 1924, but the question of her legal residence in Rhode Isiand was raised and she withdrew her petition and the decree was vacated. Recently it Paris that Mrs x, s was announced from Arbuckle had insti- tuted divorce procesdings in the Parle | placed | the | | country are emmeshed | command THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1925. Soon Quits Capital [ | | | i wine Worlp PHOTO. DR. OTTO WIEDF] German Ambassndor, eived recall papers from his govern. ment. WIEDFELDT LEAVES POST HERE SUNDAY i { German Ambassador to Pre- sent Letters of Recall To- morrow or Friday. | The German Ambassador, Dr. Otto Wiedfeldt, has received his letters of and will, either tomorrow or morning, present them to of State Hughes, and wiil then take official leave of the President. On Sunday morning he will leave Washington for New York, and will sail February 3 the Albert Ballin. Dr. Wiedfeldt has heen Am from Germany since May and he will hold the historic having been the first Ambas | be received after the six years' break | in diplomatic intercourse following | the departure of Count Johann von | Bernstorft and the entrance of this country into the World War. He relinquished & most remunerative post under the Krupps at the request of President Ebert. and has devoted almost three strenuous years to re- building the status of Germany in the American republic and trying to un- ravel the tangled skein in which Ger- man finances and other affairs in this | Friday ry oW on ssador | 1922 role of lor to i | It was at his own request that he has been recalled, and he is severing his connection ~with the foreign service in order to take over his private business again. Dr. Wiedfeldt, after a few weeks in Berlin adjust- ing his diplomatic work. will retire for a month or two to Dresden, the | home of Frau Wiedfeldt, where she | is now attending an ill relative. Tre: Ambassador’s only son, Herman Wicd- | feldt, is conducting a farm n{lerl American methods near Hamburg, | and a lengthy visit will be made ! there before the retiring diplomat docides just what line of business he will pursue. Leaves Pleasant Relations. The German Ambassador Is leaving | WadHington with the respect and| highest regard of all the ofcials| with whom he has come in contact.| This is particularly true of the Sec-| etarv of State, Mr. Hughes, for D Wiedfeldt, feeling that social activ: ty would be untimely under the pres- ent conditions in Germany, has thrown himself whole-heartedly into | his work and has always been at the | of the State Department officials for conferences. For the President and Mrs. Cool- idge the retiring Ambassador and als0 his wife, Frau Wiedfeldt, feel the deepest gratitude and esteem, since sn tieir arrival in Washington, near- 1y three vears ago, their apartments in the New Willard were quite near those of the then Vice President and his lady, and their kindness and aid | during those first days, when a| rather frosty atmosphere enveloped | all that related to Germany, will prove one of their happiest memories, Another memory which Dr. Wied- courts, charging her husband with abandonment. The paper he case stated that Miss Durfee married Ar- buckle In Los Angeles in 1909 and that the eouple had no ¢ HOLLYWOOD, Rumors of another Roscoe Arbuckle, former dian, were confirmed himself here last night mitted that he would nouncement to make” days concerning the of himselt and Mis actress. Arbuckle declined to cate tails, but indicated that the wedding takes place it will be a quiet affair, probably at the home of Miss Deane's mother in Pasadena. IMMEDIATE ACTION ON FARM PROGRAM ASKED BY COOLIDGE (Continued fro: “have an an- 1 4 few wedding plans Doris Deane, into de- whenever m First Page.) and exchange crop and marketing in-| formation: that grouns of producers should receive the assistance of the Federal Marketing Board in forming associations; that marketing organi- zations, “purely as a voluntary act may be federally registered to in- spire confidence in the nl‘[:lnh:\flnnSE and to develop a uniform accounting! aystem: that grades and standards| for various asricultural products be| established; that distributors at ter-| minal markets may create federally registered exchanges or assoclations and that the board act &s advisor to the co-operatives, 0. Kox Clearing Houxex. Tn a section of the report devoted to principles applicable especially to “perishables,” the commission recom- mended that marketing associations in the fruit and vegetable industries be given the right to create clearing houses for the purpose of eliminating oversupply or undersupply in various consuming markets without interfer- ence with the restraint of trade laws Such clearing houses would Inter- change information upon the volume of avallable supplies of their com- modities Discussing pending measures in Congress, the report said legislation tending toward stimulation of pro- duction of any particular commodity for export “will resuit in even further ill-balance to our agriculture.” Senators Named Visitors. The Senate yesterday designated Senators Shortridge, Republican, Cal- ifornia; Swanson, Democrat, Virginia; Metcalf, Republican, Rhode Island, and Copeland. Democrat. New York, as members of the Naval Academy board of visitors. | although so self-effacing and so ab- feldt sures s his official pres- entation to the lata President Hard- ing. After all the formalities had been observed the President put his hand, on Dr. Wiedfeldt's shoulder and hen clasping his hand said cordially .et us both remember that the war is over.” The retiring jerman Ambassador, | sorbed in his official duties, has one of the most popular envoys among German-American citizens in every section of the country. On Friday .he German lony in Washingtc will meet in the embassy and pres the | Ambassador & m ¢ silver | urn appropriately engraved, and ac- companying this will be a beautifully bound book, containing the names nl’i the donors. Many other gifts have| come from different parts of the coun- try and many more will be presented | in New York City. Last Saturday cvening, when the| counselor of the embassy and Frau| Karl von Lewinski were the hosts of the Ambassador a2t a farewell dinner, the staff presented their retiring chief with a handsome album of views of Washington and of different parts of | the country, bound in illuminated | leather and very handsomely printed. Several exterfor and interior views of the German embassy are coniained in this volume. VETERAN’'S MARRIAGE ANNULMENT SOUGHT been Attorney for Henry W. Faison, Who Wedded Colored Cook, Ex- pects to File Papers Tomorrow. Procsedings to annul the marriage of Henry W. Faison, 33-year-old son of the late Representatiye John Miller Faison of North Carolina, to Annie Velson, colored, 37 years old, here on January 17 last, probably will be filed tomorrow, according to P. E. Barnard, attorney for the young man. Faison now is confined in St. Eliza- beth's Hospital. Faison lived for a time at the Shepherd house, Tenth and E streets northwest, where the woman was a cook. It is alleged she applied for he marriage license and gave Faison’s race as colored. Shortly after the marriage it was discovered by friends of Faison, who had him taken to Gallinger Hospital tor observation. He was later com- mitted to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. under orders from the Veterans’ Bureau. Faison was a World War veteran, serving i{n France in the Royal Flying Corps, but was invalided to the United States on account of bronchial trouble. | group.” | Brookland, { came here many 1S, DEFIES GUNS |GRAND JURY NA OF SHANGHAI FORT Navy Told to Escort Ships From Chinese Port at Any Time Desired. American vessels in Shanghai wat- ers have bLeen ordered to escort American or Pritish ships which de- sire to leave Shanghai at night, even in the face of guns of the Woosuns Fort commanded by Gen, Wang. Among other ships, the American naval craft are guarding the steam- ship 1genland which has 400 American tourists aboard Gen. Wang has advised Rear Ad- miral McVay, commanding the Ameri- can Yangtze patrol forces, that he Woosung Fort will not fire on forelgn vessels entering or departing from Shanghal during daylight dmiral McVay veplied that his Government desires Shanghal kept open to com- mercial ships, and that he will furn- ish convoys ut any hour Retalintion Assumed. The admiral’ report to the State Department did not say what he would do if commercial ships were fired upon, but it is assumed here that he would permit no damage to be done to them wlithout prompt re- taliation. The Belgenland is anchored off the Woosung fort, with an American destroyer nearby, prepared to protect her. Another British river steamer in Shanghai waters was held up Satur- day by Chinese, who rched the vessel and took off two Chinese pas- sengers Admiral McVay's report, said that Shanghai. 1 Nanking were qujet “One thousand northern troops came to Nanking from Pukow Sun- duy,” the report said. “There is no truce. Lu attacked Lashe, 10 miles from Wusish on the railroad, on Saturday and Sunday, and was re- puised. One hundred wounded have arrived at Shanghai, and also 4,000 civilian refugees. Captain of 'the French flagship is in port from Saigon as senjor officer, and brought 30 sailors.” SHOALS BILL BACK N SENATE AGAN Chin Presented by Underwood, | With Request for Appoint- ment of Conferees. On motion of Senator Underwood. Democrat, Alabama. the Underwood bill authorizing the lease of Muscle Shoals today was laid before the Senate with the request of the House | to| for the appointment of conferees onsider the bill in conference tween the Senate and House. The Alabama Senator declared that since the ranking members on the Senate agriculture committee who, under the custom, would constitute the conference were opposed to the bill and the Senate's action in pass- ing it, they could not reflect the sen- timent of the Senate in He asked that Senators McKinley, 11- linois; Keyes, New Hampshire, Re- publicans,” and Harrison, Democrat Mississippi, members of the commit- tee, be named the conferces. be- Difference Opinion. Senator Underwood argued that “in this case there ix a very distinct line of opinion on the bi “One group believes in Government operation and the chairman of our committee iz the leader of that he continued. “It is natural he would sincerely favor such & bill."” “Do you infer the chairman as a conferee would not stand up for the Senate’s bill as instructed,” Senator Smoot asked. referring to Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska. “Yes. It is natural he would carry his views for Government ownership into conference and he so announced on the floor,” Senator Underwood re- plied. “We are entitled to conferees reflecting the viewpoint of the Senate.” Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, declared he disagreed that the issue was between Government and private operation, because, he said, the Un- derwood bill provided for Government operation if a satisfactory lease can- not be obtained. MENTALLY ILL, MAN HANGS SELF IN HOME W. I. Bateman Was Despondent Over Continued Sickness—Long in United States Employ. A suffered from dementia praecox the past two years and fearing he would not recover, Willlam I, Bateman, 65, early this morning ended his life in his room at the home of Philip T. Haller, 1024 Irvinz street northeast, South hanging. His body was found hanging to a nost of his bed, the cord of his bathrobe having been used Bateman and Mr. Haller married sis- ters, and the former had resided in the home of the latter since the death of his wife, about 13 years ago. A native of Appleton, Wis., Bateman years ago and was employed as compositor in the Govern- ment Printing Office for more than 30 years. Two years ago he was retired be- cause of disability, and later he was a patient at Chevy Chase Sanitarium. He took French leave of the =anitarium after flve weeks' treatment and re- turned to the Haller home. The decoased was a member of the Knights of Pythias and Columbia Typographical Union. He had no chil- dren. Coroner Nevitt gave a certificate of death showing Bateman was irre- sponsible. It is probable that hia body will be interred at Appleton, beside his wife' g GERMAN PARTY HEADS ATTACKED IN SERBIA Connection With Stefan Raditsch Believed to Be Responsible for Beating. By the Associated Press. BELGRADE, January 28.— Herr Kraft, chief of the German party, and Deputy Crasseland, chairman of the local German party committee, were attacked during an_election rally Sunday at Novisivats-Voivodino and Kraft was seriously wounded in the head. The newspapers attribute the at- tack to the recant discovery of Kraft's _ connection with _ Stefan Raditsch, leader of the Croatian reyolutionary peasants’ party. dated | conference. | IN WHEELER CASE Special Inquisitors Selected to Hear Evidence Against Montana Senator. The special grand jury before which Attorney General Stone Is expected to present evidence tending to inerimi- nate Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, and late candidate for the | vice presidency on the Progressive | ticket, was completed and sworn to today before Justice Adolph A. Hoehl- | ing of the Supreme Court of the Dis- et of Columbia. Wilbur H. Zepp, an official of the United States Sav- ings Bank, at Fourteenth and U streets northwest, was relected as | foreman by the court, and the jurors nized and are prepared to hear | the evidence to be submitted by the Department of Justice. There is one colored man on the panel and 22 white men. A number of subpoenas have been Issued to persons in Montana, in Tulsa, Okla, and in New YVork City to appear before this additional grand jury early next wock. Many of these witnesses have been directed to bring with them papers, records and docu- ments relating to the dealings of Sen- ator Wheeler with the Gordon Camp- bell Co. in connection with the secu ing of oll and gas privileges In the West Grand Jurers Named. es Foreman Zepp, tional grand jury Fox, 3412 Ninth Charles L. Quill, 2124 O street north west: Gerson Nordlinger, 1317 ¥ street northwest; Randolph Haskins (colored), 1550 Ninth street north- west; Charles B. Perry, 1263 Evarts street northeast; . Kverett Peed, 1228 Irving street northwest; P. Ber- man. 733 Eighth street southeast; David A. Skinner, 1615 H street nerthwest; George F. Hamilton, 833 Allison _street northwest; Alvin M Davis, 5531 Sherrier place northwest: William C. Howes, 610 Sixth street southwest: George W. Poland, 923 Eighteenth street northwest; Charles |C. Van Horn, 13571% Pennsylvania avenue southeast; Archie H. White- hurst, 1446 Spring road northwest; John T. Clancey, 1809 Kearney street northeast; William C. Bates, 2901 Connecticut avenue northwest: Ern- est 1. Ober, 1420 H street northwest Willlam L.'Hughes, 3042 Bladensburg road northeast; Wallace E. Curtin, 1010 F street northeast; J. Howard | Birch, 633 Seventh street northeast;| Charles Hurdle, 117 Second street northwest, and Claude. B. Fenton, 5427 Thirteenth street northwest Be the addi- comprises L. W. street northeast | STONE DETERMINED TO PROCEED WITH NEW WHEELER CASE | i Continued from First Page.) considerations for a District of Co- | lumbia proceeding. After the Attorney General had de- clined to go into details of the evi-| dence on the case to be presented here, Senator Walsh placed in the records a letter written to Mr. Stone Iast May. asking for an early hearing | of the case in Montana since a jury| then was sitting at Butte, This matter was referred to United States Attorney Slattery in Montana, who advised that the jury was about to adjourn, and that, besides, there was further investigation of the case to be made Slattery wrote the Justice Depart- ment that Senator Wheeler was urg- | ing early trial so as to take advan-| tage of “the whitewashing given him | by his colleagues in the Senate.” The reference was to the Senate investigation which last Spring re-| sulted in Senator Wheeler's complete exoneration at the hands of a com- mittee headed by Senator Borah, Re- | publican, Idaho, Answering questions by Senator Walsh, Mr. Stone said the same witnesses who appeared be- fore the Senate committee would go before the grand jury here, but that others also had been summoned. It was developed that while Siat- tery now is willing to have the case tried at Butte, there can be no trial there until the middle of March. “That will be after the grani jury | here is through?’ asked Senator Walsh. “1 assume so,” Mr. Stone replied. In describing to the committee the investigation by Assistant Attorney General Donovan and its results, Mr. Stone said: Canl a chemes Frandulent. “The finvestigation indicated that mpbell’s promotion schemes in- volved primarily the securing, fraud- ulently, of oil and gas prospecting | permits on public lands in Montana and that the most important ele- ment in them was the validation of these permits by the Interior Depart- ment and the approval of assign- ments of these permits by the exec- utive ofiicers of the Interior Depart- ment at Washington, “These subsequent investigations changed entirely the aspect of the crime, which seemd to have been committed in Montana. Instead of a mere Traudulent scheme to use the mails in the selling of oil stock, it appears that there was a scheme to defraud the United States of its pub- lic lands and of the oil and minerals underlying those lands. “The principal and most important acts in furtherance of the scheme were to be performed. and were in fact performed, at the seat of the Government. crime if committed in these transactions was committed within the District of Columbia, where, under the statutes of the United States, it was properly triable. “While from the facts presented to me it appeared that a number of people were unquestionably impli- cated in this transaction, it became apparent that testimony could not be taken with respect to it without indl- cating that Senator Wheeler was in- volved in it. I therefore came to the conclusion that in fairness to him and with a view to the due and orderly administration of justice, an opportunity should be given to him to explain his connection with the transaction. But_Independently of his connec- tion with it, there had apparentiy Loen a crime committed and that crime had been committed within the District of Columbla and the case could not be submitted to a grand jury without developing the part Senator Wheeler had taken in it. “I therefore gave instructions early in December that the matter should be submitted to a grand jury in the District of Columbia. I further, at that time, gave instructions that the utmost caution should be used in pre- senting the case, to present . it with absolute fairness to all the defendants concerned, ard, in view of Senator Wheeler's relation to the case, I gave instructions that he should be per- mitted to appear before the grand jury to testify, if he so desired, pro- Vided he waive immunity, and that at a reasonable time in advance of grand jury proceedings, efther - Senator Wheeler or his counsel should be advised of my determination.” Mr. Stone said he accepted “full personal responsibility” for what had been done with respect to the case here. “The ceurse pursued by the De- | conception of Latest Aid to Womanly Beauty By the Associated Pr LONDON, January 28.—Corsets for ankles have appeared for sale in the beauty shops here. They are of rubber, and are guaranteed “to reduce the circumference of the thickest ankle to the slender dimensions so much sought by the woman of today There Is no discomfort in wear- ing the ankle corsets, it is de- clared by the modistes, who con- tend that this is the ideal way to reduce so far as the foot is con- cerned. The invention is of Ger- man origin. BLUE RIDGE PARK ‘BILL INTRODUCED Measure Also Proposes Smoky Mountain Site Be Used. Establishment of a national park in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Vir- ginia and another in the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina was proposed in a bill In- troduced jointly yesterday by ators Swanson of Virginta and MeKel- lar of Tennessec, Democrats. The bill provides the Blue Ridge mountain park shall be known as Shenandoah Natfonal Perk and shall be situated east of the South Fork of the Shenandoah River and between Front Royal on the north and Waynesboro on the south. The Smoky Mountain National Park would be located in such lands as selected by the Secretary of Interior situated in Johnson, Carter, Unicol, Washington, Greene. Cocke, Sevier, Blount, Monroe and Polk Counties in Tennessee, and in Cherokee, Graham, Swaln, Haywood, Madison, Yancey, Mitchell, Wautauga and Ashe Coun- ties In North Carolina. Representative Temple, Republican, Pennsylvania, introduced a bill In the House veaterday to authorize a sur- vey by the Secretary of the Interior of the Southern Appalachian Moun- tains for a proposed national park and of the Smoky Mountains in Ten- nessee for another, with expenditure of $15,000 The Secretary would be authorized | to appoint & committee of five, four of them national park experts, to serve without compensation, to con- duct the survey. This bill, Mr. Temple explained, widens the previous bill to cover the whole report that an unofficial committee made recently at the invitation of Secretary Work partment of Justice since this matter had come under my observation,” he said, “has been, I believe, in full ac- cord with both the letter and spirit| of the Constitution and laws of the | United States, and with the highest the due and orderly administration of justice. Senator Walsh said he had heard that an attache of the Department of Justice sald as early as last June that Wheeler would be indicted in the District of Columbia on a conspiracy charge. The Attorney General re-| plied no such information had come | to him at that time. _ The decision of the committes to throw the doors of the committea open to the pubilc was unusual, the rule being that matters relating to presidential nominations must be kept secret. The open session was proposed lnl e committee by administration Sen- ators, who said the plan had the approval not only of the Attorney General, but also of Presideht Cool- idge. Qualification of Attorney General Stone for appointment to the Supreme Court occupled the attention of the Senate in open session for more than two hours yesterday before it reaf- firmed its opinion that the subject was one which the rules required should be considered in executive ses- sion Taking advantage of President Cummin’s reversal of a former ruling to permit him to answer published statements about his position on the nomination, Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, went at length into Mr. Stone’s activities as counsel for the estate of J. Pierpont Morgan In a suit against James A. Ownbey of Colorado, | the outcoms of which he character- ized as “an act of judicial tyranny.” Declaring the action obtainéd by the Morgan estate against Ownbey In a Supreme Court decision sustaining Delaware courts in an action brought there subsequent to the institution of receivership proceedings in Colorado violated “the fundamental principles of justice,” Senator Heflin said he would judge Mr. Stone's “conception of the intent of the Constitution™ by his arguments in that case. “No attorney’s duty to his client requires him to do anything in the trial of a case which denies to the person proceeded against ‘dus pro- cess of law,” the Alabama Senator asserted. “No attorney Is justified in taking advantage of, of solemnly in- voking, a technically which, if sus- tained. would .deprive the humblest citizen of the right to appear in court and be heard in reply to the complaint filed against him. Senator Heflin contended that such a “technicality” had been invoked to prevent Ownbey from being heard in his own defense in the Delaware'ac- tion, when he failed to produce a bond of $200,000 fixed by a court, and that his subsequent failure to answer was used to obtain an affirmation of the decision by default in the Su- preme Court. “Col. Ownbey was called,” he as- serted, “and then was denfed a hear- ing by the court which called him Dbecause he couldn’t raise $200,000 to buy & permit to be heard. The technicality was raised under an obsolete statute known as the ‘C tom of London, but which had been annulled in the British courts 40 years before. “No bond was required of the Mor- gan heirs when they attached the property of Col. Ownbey. No one denied he had the testimony neces- sary to disprove the allegations set out In the complaint against him." Quotes Court Mecord. Senator Heflin also asserted that the court record showed that the Morgan estate had offered $1,250,000 for property of the defendant which it subsequently bid in at a legal sale for 341,000 The discussion did not end until Senator Willis, Republican, Ohio, temporarily _occupying _the chair. ) ruled In favor of several points of order agalnst & speech in reply to Senator Heflin by Senator Sterlingd Republican, South Dakota. chairman of the judiciary subcommittee which first considered the Stone nomination. Senator Dill, Democrat, Washing: ton, asserted after the ruling had been made that it was time for the Senate to “get in- step with the public” and eliminate some of the secrecy of Government business. He pointed out that while the Senate, Monday, was arguing about maintain- ing the secrecy of its executive se sions, President Coolidge had broad- cast to the country by radio a bu: ness meeting of the executive partments. th PACT-WITH FRANCE Definite Move in Few Days Expected—Belgium in on Plans. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, January 28.—The French government has received from Berlin reiiable information tending to in- dicate that the German government will within a day or two make a move to feel out both France and Belgium on the question of a security | pact among the three powers. (There have been intimations from Berlin recently that Germany was preparing for such a step.) There is no precise indication as to the form the German move will take. On the basis of official Informa- tion, however, the opinion of the foreign office is that the Berlin gov- ernment is paving the way for a roundabout revision of the treaty of Versailles so as to get out from under the deterrent influence of the Franco-Polish allfance. Pact Conditions See It is anticipated that the offer of the Germans to guarantee the curity of the French and Belgian frontiers will be made conditional upon the immediate evacuation of the Cologne bridgehead and the early liberation of the entire Rhineland. The French government, it Is de- | clared, will in no case consider a proposition that wonld involve the abandonment of Poland to the mer- cles of Germany and its first reply will probably be that France pre fers the Geneva protocol for her se- curity. Sentiment in political circles as well as in government quarters seems to be that any agreement looking to the security of French frontiers can- not be separated from the security of Polish territory. BRITAIN DELAYS MOVE. By the Associated Presy GENEVA, January 28 —Definite action by England concerning the peace protocol drawn up by the League of Nations assembly last Sep- tember probably will be postponed until next September’s meeting of the assembly, in the opinion of league officals who have just returned from London. The object of their visit was to in- vestigate the British attitude toward the protocol. They received the im- pression, they said today, that any| idea thyt Great Britain already had decided to reject the protocol was erroneous, but that it seemed likely she would demand modifications on certain points found unacceptable. Various departments of the British government still are hard at work studying the text of the protocol, and it is believed that Austen amber- lain, the foreign secretary, will tell the March meeting of the league council at Geneva that this study is not sufficiently advanced to permit an announcement of the British position. Negotiations with the British do- minions on the subject are an addi- tional cause of delay. HERRIOT DECLARES FRANCE WILL NOT DENY OBLIGATIONS (Continued from First Page.) antee of our aliles, confident that Germany would fulfill her engage- ments,” continued M. Dubois, “we have borrowed at home and abroad the money needed to repair our de- vasted reglons. If we ouselves have to pay for the reparation of the dev- asted reglons, which Germany under President Wilson's 14 points and the treaty of Versailies is bound to pay us, then we might as well revert to the basis of the armistice and the treaty of Versailles.” Pratses R. W. Boyden. M. Dubois paid high tribute to Ro- land W. Boyden, former American ob- server with the reparation commis- sion with whom he was associated for two years on the commission. “If Senator Borah is desirous of Jearning exactly how much France has received he might apply to Mr. Boyden,” he added. In conclusion he said: “Let our allies beware. It isj against their own Interest to force France down where she cannot re- sume her rank among the nations of the world. Let them place themselves upon the universal viewpoint and that of thelr own interest and lat them reply to our request for a de- crease. 1 await confidently the reply of the United States.” “Never has France Intended to re- pudiate her debts either to England or the United States,” he said, “but interallied debts and reparations form just one and the same problem.” Supports Mori M. Dubols sald he fully supported the views set forth by Loufs Marin, former minister for devastated re- gions, In his speech before the Cham- ber last week, but proposed to treat the question entirely from a busine: man's standpoint. = He divided the American advances to France into “two debts.” “One,” he said, “is of a moral nature ~—the American participation in the war. The other is of a material order, and itselt is subdivided into & commercial debt, which is unquestion- ed, and a political debt, of which I will speak.” He recalled that Finance Minister Clementel, “in recapitulating our ob- ligations in his inventory, entered the word ‘Memoire' opposite the debts, but one had only to read in detail his exposition to see that we in no sense renounced their payment, and to understand that the word ‘Memoire’ signified only that the amount of these debts was not definitely deter- mined.” M. Dubois gave the figures of the debt to the United States on July 31, 1924, as $2,933,000,000 principal and $650,000,000 Interest at b5 per cent, which was equivalent to 14,583,000,000 gold marks. The debts to England he fixed capital and interest, at 12.540,000,000 gold marks. | varied departments, have been laid Stranded S-19 Is Advised by Officer Abandonment until Spring of the effort to refloat the stranded sub- ashore oft Chatham, been recommended by the officer In charge of wrecking operations. Powerful Navy wreck- ing tugs had been endeavoring un- Successfully to haul her off the beach. The S-18 still is Intact and her position is such that those in charge belleve she will suffer no serious damage if she remains on the beach for a number of wee! No decision on the recommenda- tion has been reached at the Navy Department, however, and, pending a decision, operations will continue to float the craft. TOLERANCE NEEDED T0 PROMOTE FAITH, COOLIDGE ASSERTS 2 (Continued from First Page.) feel about their administration of the trust, we cannot doubt, as we survey the world, that it has been imposed upon them. They are the custodians of a faith which, despite momentary lapses and some perversions, has on the whole been a continuing inspira- tion to human betterment. Where it has gone, there the light of a better understanding has shown. There the works of charity, of benevolence, of mutual helpfulness, have prospered. Intolerance has been lessened. Edu- catlon has been summoned as an ally In the struggle against ignorance and bigotr: Science in a thousand realms, the mechanic arts in all their under contribution estate of men to improve the | y Practical Mede of Life. “For Christianity, let it be im- pressed. is a highly practical, as well At & profoundly soiritual, mode of Iife. 1t loses nothing of its spiritual quality because of its practical help- fulness; but it touches all its prac- tical workings with the spirit and pur- pose of lofty aspiration. Our con- fidence fn it is justified by our knowl- edge of its accomplishments. Where- ever it has been carried and made a force in the affairs of men, it has wrought for their good. But we must recognize also that it ha= added &reatly to the complexity of human life and rroblems. Its encouragemant to education, to knowledge, to scien- tific advancement, has created new forces in the world. The spirit of our organized, industrialized, machine- made and inter-related world has touched men wherever they live and profoundly affected their modes of life and thought. It has aroused in them new yearnings and new aspira- | tions. It ‘has truly converted this| planet into a brotherhood of races| and nationalities, interdenendent in a ' thousand ways, tending more and more to develop a common culture, common theught and purpose toward | the great business of livinz. The| problems which, In this new order of | lite, present themselves, will not he #olved excent through a greater and| constantly greater projection of the| pirit of nelghborship and co-opera- tion, Which is the true basix of the Christian code. Must Recognize Responaibility. “So, a® the Christfan nations have assumcd the resnonsibility for bring- ing this new and higher clvilization in touch with all peop’es, 80 they must recognize their responsibility to Dress on and on in their task of en- lightenment, education, spiritualiza- tion, christianizing. There can be no hesitancy, no cessation of effort. Not only must they go forward with this great task, but they must be sure that they go with the right purposes They must carry help and real service. “Let us look this part of our prob- lem fairly in the face, and see if we can find what is demanded of us. Not everything that the men of Christian countries have carried to the other peoples of the world, has been good | and helpful to those who have re- ceived it. Our civilization is yet far from perfect. Its aims are liable to | much _distortion when it comes contact with peoples not yet equipped through generations of race experi- ence (o absorb, to understand, to ap- preciate it. One of the greatest things that a missionary movement could do for the less favored communities, would be to assure that all who go out from the Christian to the non- Chrietian communities, should carry with them the spirit, the aims, the nurposes, of true Christianity. We know that they have not always done this. We know that the missionary movements have repeatedly been hampered, and at times frustrated, because ‘some calling themselves Christians. and‘assuming to represent Christian clvilisation, have been ne- tuated by un-Christian motives Those who have been willing to carry the vices of our clvilization among the weaker peoples and Into the darker places, have often been more successful than those who Lave sought to implant the virtues. Need Brotherhood a 4 Charity, “The Christian churches and ernment have no greater responsion ity than to make sure that the best, and not the woret, of which Christ. fan soclety is capable shall be given to the other peoples. To accom- plish this is the dominating purpose of your missionary movement, It fs one of the most important, the most absolutely necessary movement in the world today. We shall ourselves be the gainers, both spiritually and materially, by our efforts in behalf of those whom we shall thus help. The early Christians fairly burned with missionary zeal. Our mission- ary efforts will be more eftective, just in proportion as we shall render them in the same spirit of brother- hood and charity which marked the earliest Christian mission. “Such a service as you aspire to do for mankind can be rendered only under the inspiration of a broad and genuine liberalism. It must rest on toleration. It must realize the spirit of brotherhood. And the foundation of all missionary effort abroad must Dé toleration and brotherhood at home. The most effective mission- ary work will be that which secks to impress itself rather through ex- ample in living rightly than through the teaching of precepts and creed. The work of charity and benevolence, of education and enlightenment, wili best lay the foundation upon which to rear the permanent structure of a spiritual lite. “Our liberalism needs to be gen- “Our debts to Great Britain,” he added, “have nothing in common with those to the United States, because from the very beginning of the war France and Britain were associated as one in its prosecution, and by the terms of the Calals accord of Augu 24, 1916, both countries agreed to place all their financial resources in common until the end of the war.” S AUSTRALIA HEARS U. S.. Radio Experiments Prove Success- ful From America to Melbourne. MELBOURNE, January 28.—The of- flcial radiotelephony tests between Australla and America yesterday were quite successful, it is announced. Many musical numbers and epeeches broad- cast from America were heard distinct- ly in various parts of Australia. The strength of the. signals from America received (n. this city are d clared to have been as powerful as those usually received from Sydney. erous enough to recognize that mis- slonary effort will often build better on foundations already laid, than by attempting to substitute a complete new structure of morality, of life, and of ethics. Indeed, those who shall go out from among us, carrying the mis- sionary message Into the twilight places ot the world, will there find n.uch that Is worthy to be brought back to enrich our ideals and improvec our life. They will learn many les- sons of industry, of humility, of rev- erence for parents, of respect for constituted authority, which may quite conceivably become adornments to our own social fabric. Must Learn Lessons, “If those who bear our message abroad shall realize and accept the lessons that may be learned from the | that | gun, ora: ! kept stepping back,” Rowe testified | United States D)oz or s THERI N MAY SEEK [Pt i Floine 151000 EPECTED ATYOUNG FUNERAL Klan Raider Will Be Buried Tomorrow—-Opponents Testify Today. By the Associated Pres HERRIN, IIl, January 28.—Anti- Klan was given its turn today in wit- nesses summoned to testify before the coroner's jury investigating the deaths of . Glenn Young, Ku Klux Klan liquor ralder; Ora Thomas, deputy sheriff, and two Young fol- lowers, shot and killed last Saturday night in the most recent flare-up of opposing passions in Williamson County. The Klan supporters had their inning yesterday, when several witnessex testified Thomas was first to fire when he confronted Young in the little cigar store, where their old dispute was ended by death. Thomas' body was laid to rest yes- terday in the cemetery where that of Young will follow tomorrow. Funeral ceremonies for Thomas were said by the only non-Klan preacher in Her- rin, who stood in the front doorway of Thomas' humble home, while thou- sands of his former companions in the coal mines grouped in the snow unable to find space inside the house Elaborate preparations have be made for Young's funeral tomorro in the church where his body has lain amid Klan crosses. Five preachers will participate, while at . the tery robed Klansmen will conduct the Klan ceremonial “In view of the situation here.” one Klan official said, “we will make the funeral very simple. Within the city it will be only an ordinary funsral Looks for 50,000, “Invitations have been sent to n of the klaverns in the State. and if the weather is good I would not be surprised if between 35,000 and 50,000 people attended. If the weather is bad, as it looks like it will be, I would consider 20,000 a small crowd. “Perhaps there will be as many as 600 robed Klansmen at the side of the grave. No robed men will appear in town, unless the military author- ities consent to allow robed sentinels with the American flag to stand at the entrance of the church “No burning crosses will be dis- played. One small cross, electrically lighted, will be used, but we have no intention of making a spectacle of this funeral.” At the two sessions of the inquest ended last night virtually all of the witnasses told stories similar in many respects to the version related by Young's widow, who contended her husband was lured to his death by a mysterious shot, which preceded his meeting with Thomas. Jack Rowe's story of the tragedy was that when he arrived in the cigar store, Thomas walked up to Young and drew his pistol “Glenn said to him, ‘Don’t pull that don’t pull that gun,’ and =t “Ora kept mo & up and Glenn kept slipping back,” he continued ‘Glenn_was facing him at an angle Then Thomas fired.” Young, wounded, fumbled his draw but on the second attempt his tol and fired three times, Rowe said. Several other witnesses testified along similar lines, although none was definite &s to how Ed Forbes and Homer Warren, Young's companions vere killed. Several witnesses tifled shots were fired outside cigar store. the avored. ard Bavé muth wherewith to «id those s richly endowed. A be- coming modesty, a discriminating sense of our real opportunities and re- sponsibilities, are altogether to be desired as heips in the great work we wish to do. The missionary effort of the Nation cannot rise higher than its source. If we expect it to be suc- cessful in this fleld, we must provide the correct influence for it at home.” Thousands of delegates from the and Canada, here to receive reports from the outposts in missionary flelds, were gathering at (he Washington Auditorium this af- ternoon and greeted by President Coolidge and to open a convention, sponsored by more than 100 denomi- natlons of Protestantism. the like of which has not been seen in the United States in 25 vears Back from the foreign fields, from that younger corps of mission work- ers who have taken up the burden of pushing forward Christianity's, frontlers into alien lands will come story of world-changed conditiof®: reacting from world-swerving evenis of the last two decades «nd plctures limning the future on the canvas of the past. This convention, from all aspects at present, will exceed in importance and scope any of three similar ventions held since 1888. There was convention of this kind in that vear, and from this grew the great gathering in 1900 at New York City. Ten years later Edinburgh, Scotland was the scene of a world missionary conference and one was planned for 1920, only to be broken up by the chaotic state resultant from the war v Education First Alm. This supplants the 1920 convention. Its primary purpose is one of edura- tion and reinspiration not only for those at home out also for those in the field. The troubles encountered in the fleld will be brought to the ears of those at home and the latter will let the foreign workers under- stand, in their turn, the difculties and problems besetting the work at the home base. The convention is not being held to deal with questions and problems of admiinstration on the mission feld. Its messages are being centered upon enlarging the interest and deepening the conviction of the Christian peo- ple at the home base as to their foreign mission responsibilities and obligations. There will be many sectional meet- ings. Literature, medicine, evangel- ism, education, even agriculture, so- clal service, industry and recruiting work will enter into a tangent rela- tionship with the main convention in simultaneous conferences by emall groups. China, India, Siam and Malaysia. Africa and the Philippines, all nooks and crannies of the world, will pre- sent subject-matter for discussion. Program Is Brief. This afternoon’s program was brief. Tonight's program will treat of “The Present World Situation.” Bishop Herbert Welch, D. D., of Korea, and Bishop Charles H. Brent, D. D., of Buffalo, N. Y., will speak. Benediction will be pronounced by Rev. S. H. Ches- ter, D. D., of Nashville. Rev. Charles Wood, D. D., will open tonight's ses- sion with prayer. Messages from India and from Lon- don on the topic, “Christ, the Solu- tion of the Problems of the World,” will come at tomorrow morning’s ses- sion, while during the early after- noon, starting at 2:3) o'clock, no less than nine simultaneous conferences will be held, at which the following humbler and simpler peoples, they will be the more successful in plant- ing the spiritual truths of Christian- ity. Beyond that, they will be able to bring back much that will sreve us we]l. We have not all the wisdom that has been diffused among the sons of m But we have been greatly subjects will be discussed: Direct evangelistic work, medical work, edu- cational work, 'agricultural and in- dustrial work, social service, Chris tian literature, work among Moham- medans, church education in foreign mission work and recruiting and training for missionary servies

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