Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. . Weather 1 recast ind cdnsiderubly colder tonight ow: lowest temperature to hout 20 degre Temperatures: Highest, 41 ¥ lowest, port on “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,120 TWO CENTS. COURT AND TAX CUT 10 0CCUPY SENATE SLATE IN JANUARY 3p.m . at 4 a.an. today. age 7. ¢ Foening Star. New York Stock Market Closed Today -~ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 03 23, Entered as second class matter post office, ' Washington, b . WASHINGTON, D. C, WORLD REINCING 55355 e eorwroo e MNE DSPUTANT - IN REIGN OF PEACE ereidnsSpns ey i gue o ot . ABREE T0 RENEWAL ONCHRSTUASDAY " "5 FPARLE TESDAY day With Family at White House—Many Offi- | e |and home hearths bright with Christ 29,8 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1925 -FORTY PAGES. UP) Means Associated Press. | a part of a generaul observance ar- ‘ ranged by the churches of Washing- | cials Out of Capital for Yuletide. Europe Celebrates Locarnoi-nas today to enjoying the goodness of the most beneficent Santa Claus America has ever known. In every home, from Pact Effects—Anthracite | cheer, all Washington turned ton, which attracted the four cobnct members remaining in the city and many members of Congress. Much of official Washington, however, is spend- | Agreement Within Week and Failure Forecast on Eve | the White House down to the least of Field Sees Peace Again. | PRESIDENT LEADS D.C. | IN ANNUAL FESTIVAL | Midwest and New England Ouly| Sections to Enjoy 0ld-Fashion- ed White Day. | of y ind | today throughout | nd beyond ¢ fields, enlivened peace. to Eu-! ting the Lo- nd the prospect of arma- Hmitation, from Southern State: balmy weather to the former Kaiser's pala Doorn there joieing toda Table messages from forelgn lands | recount the observance of Christmas, | Noel, Weinachten ale, or Pascua, | exch according to the custom of the! i Washington { ghted huge | far m the iers in national | around him. | ms were gath- | House lawn to | en with the President and his fam- o the singing hristm: rols i< whispered that la‘er the Pres. nt peeked at some of his presents of schedule time. New York Parties Vast. New York Mayor-elect and Mrs. Iker joined last night in deliver- | baskets to the city’s poor, while | newspaper distributed $250,000 | ted from its readers, and another | 000 Christmas party, at | tons of toys and food were Theré was only a light Metropolitan area, al- New England enjoyed From th: i cap! o pacts > at was | | vesterday Coolidzc pruce not in fro were thar " on the Wh W i1 tributed v Chr London will and Saturday e Boxing day | All business and | nsportation are at and I papers in Lo T’aris was more than ordinarily gay, despite a Christinas eve drizzle and ast of rain for Christmas day. The* Montmarte~ and _the Chemps. vsee were reported their gayest ce pre-war days. At the American Club in Paris, Am- sador Herrick of the United States ced a wish for Premier Briand in ords of Daniel Webster, explain- r the Hamiltonian stewardship of the American Treasury: “He smote the yook of the mnational resources and nbundant streams of revenue gushed forth ate Trish President Speaks. e of the | in expressed s for 2 happy h people will be fulfilled. pite depression in some quarters the German republic, Berlin re- ported a cheerful Christmas, There was holiday spirit and song even among the unemployed, for the reich placed 100,000,000 marks for their aid on its budget. President Hindenburg and most of the official family spent day at their homes, but sent a | special Chrlstr greeting to the | American people | x-Kaiser Wilhelm was o i v ensconced at his Do wny of the nobility eland who were on their " to Visit him for the holidays. the holy door by the the most signifi The ceremony of the holy year.! »{ the Catholi rdinal Hayes of end itaries ch, including ¢ York, ser the Christfnas ion to Ame av prove to even gr the world received 1ling of the prob- m of hostilities | aining embat The iating for an imminent c one the few e sar Te men {in simple, them, some measure of the joyous Yuletide spirit found its way, sweeten- ing the bitterness of past reverses and ving promise of hetter things for the future. Down in the business district shington, where the wheels of natton ordinarily turn ceaselessly through the day, it was quiet th morning at that night before Chris mas of a poet's lore, when *not a creture was stirring, not even a Mmouse Of course, of W few creatures really were stirring, but by comparison with e usual rear of industry it truly quier us u mouse.” President Coolidge typified the spirit this Christmas in the Capital | spending hix ay at the White Hous: hservance with his family. T} tne only vhen th President, Mrs. and their son John, home Amherst College for the holi ys, attended community service at the First Congregational Church. Tm mediately after the service the Presi- dent returned to the White House for his Christmas dinner. The pulpit of the First Congrega- tional Church was assigned today to Dr. W S. Abernethy of Calvary Bap- tist Church, where the late President Pra-Atnes A Thia wavvice wa< DISPOSAL F PLAZA TOCOME UPAGAN Government Hotels Form Puzzling Problem for Sen- ate Committee. The question of what should be done with the Union Station plaza property, on which the Government erected dormitories for its workers break in this rou- | ing this Christmas out of the Capital. | Santa_Claus came to Washington in the early morning hours after a cele- | bration that started at dusk and con-: tinued until lonx past midnight. When | {he had departed store sheives once | ! heavy and bright with toys and dain- | | ties were almost bare, and the joyous | | beauty that had once adorned them | FOR NEW PEACE EFFORT| had been transferred to the homes of | i deserving little boys and girls, whose | —_— ! | conduct through the past vear had |- . hE | |entitled them to the merriest Christ- | Either Side Privileged to Offer { mas posstble. mas poss Settlement Program Under Terms Stated. of Conference. JOINT COMMITTEE ASKS The Yuletide scason of 1925 was offi cially ushered in at 6 o'clock last eve- ning when the President, in the pres. | | ence of . large andience, touched the ! goldem Dutton that emblazoned the living ny nal community Christmas tree, in Sherman Square, with the ;”.I\hlll}f rays of hundreds of vari-col ored electric bulbs. With the Presi dent was Mrs. Coolidge, who personal 1y had distributed baskets of food and Eifts at other celebrations earlier in | the dav. As the President touched the golden button and the big tree burst into a magical halo of glory strains of “Holy Night" called from the trumpets of the United States Marine Band. For another half hour the assembly stood around the ristmas tree, singing old carols and mn 2 WAR LORD'S RIVAL REPORTED SLAIN Kuo Sung-Lin Executed After Capture by Chang, Dis- patch Says. By the Associated Pres HAZLETON, Pa., December 5 UP). | —Official announcement that Wwage negotiations looking toward peace in he anthracite industry would be re- | sumed next Tuesday came as a JOyous | Christmas gift today to the 158000 idle mine workers. Gloom that had hung over the re- gion for weeks was dispelled by the | news that Alvan Markle, chairman of | the operators and miners’ joint com- | mittee, had issued & call for a renewal | of the parleys in New York City after | | ascertaining that such action was agreeable to representatives of both | miners and operators. i There were predictions that a new | wage scale would be signed within a ] | week after the conference is resumed, | «s well as forecasts that the opposing | groups, between whom so much bit- terness has been manifested recently, would be unable to reconcile their dif- ferences and that the conference would end in failure as did those in Atlantic City last August. - Both Sides 0. K. Call. The call for a resumption of nego- tiations was lssued by Mr. Markle after receiving official notification that John L. Lewis, president of the United | Mine Workers, had expressed his | willingness to confer with the oper- {ators on any and all peace plans and | after having ascertained that such | action was agreeable to representa- | tives of both sides. In a formal sta‘e- | ment announcing the call, Mr. Markle | said: i i { | BY the Associated Press. TOKIO, December .—Dispatches ]m the Kokusai News Agency and = THE VERY THING HE WANTED MOST! FUTUREUS-AEAGLE POLCY ISFOUND Hands of Butler, House and Root Seen in Arms Par- ley Acceptance. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The biggest and most important step in international co-operation is mbout to be taken by the United States vernacular newspapers from Mukden “The anthracite subcommittee wi' during the war, is to be given con- sideration again at this session of Congress, it became known today. Members of the Senate committee {on public buildings and grounds al- ready have dlscussed the problem in- formally, and it is§ understood the committee will take it up at an early date following the Christmas recess. While a few of the dormitories are on Govermment land, most of them are on ground still owned by the Baltimore and Ohlo railroad, and the Semate must consider what arrange- ment can be made with the owners for the continued use of the land, if it is decided to leave all of the tem- porary bulldings standing. Obstacle to Keeping Few. One suggestion heard recently w: that the Government retain, as long there is a demand for them, the dormitories on the Government land | adjacent to the Caplitol and abandon the buildings on private land. The main obstacle to this eolution | is that the central heating plant for all of the dormitories is in one of the privately owned squares, and could hardly ‘be abandoned if eny of the structures are retained. Although two of the domitory units have been closed as a result of the gradua: veduction In the number of employes . ince the close of the war, Robert Wai. w of the United States | Housing Corp “ation sald vesterday there are still @, “ut 1,100 women liv- ing at the hot: Mr. Watson said 1t iy the prerogative o. Congress to de- cide on future plans fu - the hotels. Plaza Parkway Plaw ed. e to « afi- Whenever it is found poss: dispose of the dormitories it | dently expected members of Congre s ill ‘revived the plans that were | started before the World War to make | principles of | the plaza an arttractive parkway from | the Capitol to Union Station. This project had made considerable head- way more than a decade ago. but all thought of carrying it into effect had to be luid uside when the war began. Prior to the conflict the several squares owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had been put through ~ondemnation proceedings and the Jury had fixed the price at ich they should be acquired. Opposition to the state that Gen. Kuo Sung-Lin, whose jarmy was defeated vesterday by that of Marshal Chang Tsolin, was shot meet in New York on December { Government. 1t is the result of an| 1425, at 3 pan. The resumption of ne- | agreement by Senator Borah, leader | gotiations is agreeable to both miners | of the irreconcilables, and President | !and operators. At this meeting any | Coolidge us to the scope of American and killed today by order of Chang. Earlier dispatches said that Kuo and his wife had been captured by Chang’s cavalry. PEKING, Deceraber 25 UP).—Mar- shal Feng Yu-Hsiang'" long fight for basis for settlement may be brought before the conference by either party.” l The call followed a concerted effort | on the part of the Cathalic clergy of the anthracite fleld to bring. pressure: to be«r on the opposing forces for{ a renewnl of negotiations. In letters ! participation in the proposed disarma- ment conference, and it means that a formula for future association with activities of the League of Nations has been found at last. Mr. Coolidge is insistent that the complete mastery of Chihli Province moved near a successful termination yesterday when his troops entered Tientsin, the great port and com- mercial center of North China, hav- ing brushed aside the last barrier, the | to Mr. Lewls and Maj. W. W. Inglis, | United States shall not assume any chafrman of the antbracite operators' | obligations of the covenant of the wage negotlating committee, 16 priests|yo,zue of Nations, but, on the other of non-English speaking congrega- | - tions, claiming to represent 85 per | hand, he has assured America of the | sent of the miners in the hard coali OPPortunity to gather information first | elt, declared that a great majority of the men were tired of the strike and desired to return to work. Others Sign Letters. These communications were followed last night by letters signed by 11 Catholic clergymen of Irish-American | congregations indorsing the declara-! ! tions made by the priests of non-Eng- | lish parishioners and urging the nego- lating partles to “resume negotiations, o reopen the mines immediately, and re- _ Foreign Section Guarded. [ fer all demands on which you do not Forelgn troops and volunteers,| an impartial board of adfu- guarding the entrances to the feoreign while the latest letters went concessions, stand ready to prevent|further into the controversy, stating the spread of war and lawlessness to.that the unlon’s demand for —the those districts of the city where thou-| “‘check-off” was not considered by the sands of Americans, Britishers, Jup-| mine workers as of sufficient impor- anese and other non-Chinese residents | tance to prolong the strike. live and own business and industri Gov. Pinchot and a committee of properties worth millions of dollars, | mayors and burgesses of the anthra- The garrisons of Tientsin include| cifc region were among those who one battallon of Amerfcan infantry. | made unsuccessful efforts to end the The last phase of the battle for|suspension. army of Gen. Li Ching-Ling, governor of the province. Gen. Li, named to his post | Chung Tso-Lin last vear. when th Manchurian dictator ‘was also rule ver most of North China below the | Great Wall, {s reported to be a refu. gee in the Japanese concession of Tientsin, with his staff. His soldiers, beaten and In scattered retreat, have been Jooting and spreading terror ir the Chinese part of the city. civil by | | tive, !ington conference for limitation of | hand and participate in conferences called by the league #o that no act of international co-operation of a| treaty character will be signed until| Senate leaders have been consulted. | Strietly speaking, the Chief Execu. | through his ambassadors and | ministers, can negotiate treaties and | sign them. leaving it to two-thirds of | the Senate to ratify or reject, but Congress, 00, must provide the funds for American missions sent abroad. So | Mr. Coolidge has found a compromise | hereby he will get the funds to send missions abroad, but he will discuss the Instructions to such special mis- fons before the latter leav Security Pacts Barred. Thus in the proposed disarmament | conference to be held by the League | of Natlons Mr. Coolldge has agreed | in advance with Senator Boruh as| chairman of the Senate foreign rela- tions committee that no security com- pact obligating the United States to protect or preserve the boundaries of | foreign countries will be signed by the American delegation. Also the American mission will be instructed | not to vote for any reduction of | Amerfcan land armament as the United States considers it has re- duced its military establishment to a mere police force. But America will consider further limitation of naval armament and the | restriction of the use of poison gases | and other weapons. This is in line | with the traditional policy of the | American Government under the Re- publican party in particular in The Hague conferences and in the Wash- | armament. | City Heads Wish Citizens a Happy, Prosperous Year Annual Christmas greetings to the residents of Washington were issued today by the Board of Dis- trict Commissioners, ~The mes. sage, signed by Cuno H. Rudolph, chairman of the hoard: Lieut. Col. J. Franklin Bell and Frederiok A. Fenning, follow “The Commissioners of the Dis- trict of Columbla desire to express 1o the citizens of the District their best wishes for a merry Christmas and happv and prosperous New Year. The District is enjoying an unprecedented prosperity, and the hope of the Commissioners is that the next vear will be even more Prosperous. Commissioner Fenning also ad ssed written greetings to the Police and Fire Departments and those departments officlally relaved them to the men under their com- mand with additional felicitations, LEAGUE MAY ACT IN RUBBER FIGHT Suggestion Made That Issue Be Laid Before Eco- nomic Conference. o {we e { s ve in boj stion In press dispatches from that the British rubber mo- nopoly, which has evoked great con- cern here, be discussed at the proposed League of Nations international cco- nomic conference, with American par- ticipation, is_ awaiting interested Washington officials at conclusion lLie Christmas observance. The rubber situation, Congress into which already has ordered an in- vesti fon, would, under the Geneva uggestion, be a phase of the confer consideration of world supply nd distribution of raw materials gen- er Whother the Washington adminis. tration would agree to the proposal and with the added opinion that this country might be asked to sit with the league's council No. 2. an advisory political body, or would prefer to pur- sue an independent course, remains problematical. Retaliation Outlined. In addition to the ordered cougres- sional investigation, retaliatory steps 1gainst high rubber prices already have been outlined by Secretary Hoover. These contemplate co-oper- Three Firemen Killed, Four Others Dead—Thirty Hurt in Four Blazes. By the Associated Press BOSTON, December 5.—Christmas was ushered in in New England with a toll of seven killed and a fire loss of | men, who lost ‘Il in excess million dollars. dead were three fire- their lives responding Among the of three-quarters of a| an alarm, while more than 30 others had been Injured or overcome Ly smoke in various blazes. In the four major fires of last night, $350,000 damage was caused when a {convent in process of construction 18 destroyed at Hudson, N. H.; 00,000 in the biggest fire in four ars in Bridgeport, Conn.; $125,000 the destruction of a block in Marl- ro, Mass., and $65,000 in a spectacu- lar Boston blaze. of ! Three Firemen Killed. Pre-holiday fatalities included the | deaths of three members of the Scitu- | ate, Mass, Fire Department, when their truck overturned on a slippery road while responding to a call from Norwell. Three boys were drowned und two others rescued when ice broke from under them in the waters of Greater Boston, and a woman in Holyoke was asphyxiated from escap- ing gas after she had finished pre- paring Christmas bundles. In the Hudson convent fire many workmen had narrow escapes, and two were burned serfously, as they fought the flames, which swept rapid- through the structure. Only the e been a miilion-dollar building for the Sisters of the Presentation of Montreal. Bridgeport's $200,000 fire was k dled by stores inflammable me chandise, and when finally it was un- der control firemen had been ken to a hospital for treatment for njuries caused by falling glass and everal others had been overcome by dense smoke. Two Women Rescued. Tn Marlboro. Mass., two women, overcome by smoke, were rescued and two firemen injured shen a four-story store and tenement block was reduced |to a shell. Clerks and Christmas shop- vers in stores on the ground floors \‘dashed for safety as the flames spread through the bufiding. Firemen In erecting ladders had to cut wires, and the surrounding district was plunged ; | into darknesec. Belated ippers of holiday mall | 5 foundations were left of what was to| Program of Both Branches Made With View to Ad- journing by June 1. | |HOUSE TO FORCE WAY THROUGH FUND BILLS | World Tribunal Friends See But One Chance for Adherence to Be Refused. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | The January program of Congress |has been mapped out by leaders in | both Senate and House | The World Court and the tax re { duction bill will consume most of the 1 time at the Senate end of the Capitol. The House will drive ahead with {the regular appropriation bills, with {the Burton bills for ratifying the wa ‘(lflhL settlements with Belgium, Ita | and others in the offing. { Already the talk of adjournment of | Congress by June 1 is growing strong- ler, and efforts are being made to so | shape the legislative situation that this will be possible. The World Court debate, alread: {well underway, will continue in the Senate when that body meets Januar: 4. Senator Shipstead of Minnesot: Farmer-Labor, has given formal n tice he will address the Senate on that date. He is an opponent of the ad herence of the United States to the court as it now exists. Senators W lis and Fess of Ohio, both supporte & the court proposal, have announced they will speak for the court. Reservations Opposed. Republican and Democratic Sena tors supporting the court proposal are | disinclined to accept the reservations ggested by Senator Pepper of Penn /lvania, eeeking to make more spe cific and explicit the stand of the United States toward the practice of glving advisory opinjors. They feel that the reservation in the Swansor { resolution for ratification of the prot. j col is sufficiently wide enough to cover the ground. The language of this reservation ie: | “That the United States shall nuot |be bound by advisory opinions which may be rendered by the court upou questions which the United States has Dot voluntarily submitted for its judg ment.”" The Senators on both sides of the chamber favoring adherence are pretty well content to vote for ratification | with the reservations suggested by the President. They certainty will oppose loading the resolution down with other reservations. Ratification of the World Court protocol s predicted by its Republican Kupporters—with one mental reserva tion. They fear developments should Democratic Senators crow too lustily for the League of Nations and predict entry of the United States into the league. Such a course by Democrats would lose the court not a few Repub lican votes, it is said. The Democrats will be urged to confine themselves to the court, omitting discussion of the league. Opponents’ Aim Voiced. The tactics of the opponents of the World Court will be to goad the Demo. crats into vociferous advocacy of the | League of Natlons in the Senate de ibate, if they can. Both Democrats {and Republican supporters of the court will be charged by anti-court nators with soft-pedaling, incon stency and hypocrisy before the de- {bate is over. i At present the court Senators count {only 11 Senators as unconditionally op iposed to entrance into the court. But there is a score or more who till have {to determine definitely how they will |vote. It will take 33 votes to defeat {ratification, if the entire membership lof the Senate 1s accounted for. Should Ithe Senate decline to seat Gerald P. | Nye of North Dakota, appointed to fill [the vacancy caused by Senator Ladd's }death, it would require only 32 votes {in opposition to prevent ratification. Opponents of the court, however, are |hoping that Senator Nye will vote against the court should he be seated {80 there would be little gairied one ay or the other in the matter of his seating. Case to Come Up Soon. The Nye case, a matter of highest | 1 In deciding to send Hugh Gibson, ,tion of American users of the com-|were sufferers when fire was discov- | privilege, is expected to come before ind the | d more largely | broades ers. The Soutl jovful cistmas tod weather, though. i tions clouds hung acro . ss has been good throughout | s precedi; Christmas and | zeneral prosperity, due bounteous | s ami sble ihdustrial condition, ndered fecli of good itile hardship was Telt in am 1 1d the nerosity of thou v the day brighter for those whom 1 3 1= fallen Throughout Juthland ellow Clubs and charits dispe nec e in on Good le organiza- clothing and with a few luxuries Only I'lorida, where an embargo 11 congestion of train serv- tmas | rit dampen H we on echoed good will toward throughout the Midwest Has Snow. Middle We vas termed old-fashioned | with of snow on' und, nild weatheir and well } Chicago alone gave for £100,000,000 tife of the today to| ents, sents | son in a last- | it Dawes for hi I excursion to the | pping evenit shioned also was the singing | Christmas ea throughout the Jast pizht by bands of wandering trels, including hundreds of school ned for weeks. . poor and needy were not for- tten. Twenty-five thousand baskets Christmas cheer were distributed in m Page 4, Column 3.) | Sontin purchase price developed, however, and the condemnation was not com- pleted. Then came the war and the necessity for erecting housing accom- modations for the influx of war work- The fmmediate question before the Senate committee on public buildings ind grounds, of which Senator Fernald of Maine is chairman, is the making of necessary arrangements for the con- tinued use of the private land if all of the dormitories are to be kept. No definite developments on the park sroject are looked for until the life of the temporary structures is settled. Senator Keyes of New Hampshire, a member of the public buildings and unds committee, said yesterday he felt sure Congress would revive the Plaza Park development plan when- ever the dormitories are removed. Directory Reveals Identity. CHICAGO, December 24 (#).—When Policeman Scully today found an el- derly woman dazed and lost in the { Christmas throngs he saw the initials The officer read “H. 8.” on her ring. aloud the names beginning with in_the telephone directory. When he called the name Schoenberg the wom- an fainted. That was her name. White House Box Brings Christmas Cheer roweno To President’s Father in Sno By the Associated Press. PLYMOUTH, Vt., December 25.—A | box of goodies from the White House was among the Yuletide gifts received by Col. John C. Coolidge, father of the President. Christmas found the colonel in comparatively good health and cheerful spirits, and he looked for- ward to 8 quiet day. A blanket of snow covered the hillsides and the weather clear and cold. he same simpli { ity that has always Significance of Feng. When the revolt against Cha came, Gen. Li Ching-Ling waveren” 15 dicating at first he would join it. Later, influenced by knowledge that Feng would eliminate him regardiess of which side he took, he defled Feng, already master of Peking and all Chihli except the area of Tientsin, and prepared to defend himself in the lat- ter city. Maneuvering of the armies oceu; the first week of December . Hena moved his Kuominchun (national pec: ple’s army) down the railroad from | - 5 i for Breach of Promise. eking, approaching Tientsi; VEW: ¥ northwest, His ally, the Governr of | 1 o3V YORK, December 25 UP)— Honan, moved from the south and | LT C. (Bud) Fieher, cartoonist, & ihweet 19 | has for a Christmas present to- Were reported in | contact o Thes day a $50,000 breach-of-promise suit fronts. Li won several local s e e 2 = sticcesses; e identity of the plaintiff was (Continied on Puge b, Column 3) | not further revealed in the papers, which were flled two weeks ago. Newspaper accounts of the recent | | wedding of the cartoonist on the liner | i Leviathan to the former Countess | Aedita de Beaumont of Parls In-| spired the action, Miss Shields de-| ared in her petition. Held Up by Hacker. MIAMI, Fla, December 25 (#). Mr. and Mrs. Van A. Smith of New York reported to police last night they had. been held up by a taxicab driver and robbed of $2,000 cash and| Tientsin was brief but sanguinary., It was to Mayor Durkan, chairman The killed and wounded numbered' of the committee of mayors, that thousands. Recoiling Monday from a | President Lewlis sent his telegram to | repulse by Li's defending forces, Feng | “clarify the wrong impression of the sent his men into 4 new and heavier : mine workers’ attitude which has been assault on Tuesday that ended with' brought about by improper interpre- the capture of the city. | tations,” and ind‘v;;hh'hl he said the 9 ! governor’s lan not preven! e Made Desperate Stand. | Eomalderation of amy other possibla| “arly vesterday it was reported that | P/ans by the parties to the conference. Li > mt'ut'kh;(s a last desperate stand, T counte. gttacking with such vigor tha ' his men xogrested 3 miles vieor that| MINERS ORGANIZE NEW rection of tsang, 10 miles north-| west of Tien win. The success was| BODY IN BITUMINOUS AREA only llel;n;lol‘al‘!v however, and a re- new: s'a. £ 0E the Seslotis 2 tack broke the back | picavow Alleglance to United Mine Feng has appointed Sun Yueh, form-| re—TUn s erly one of his division commanders. ' Works Ucion Ol civil governor of Chihli in Li's place. | Association Joke. in marks the end | By the Aseociated Press. B | of Feng Yu-Hsiang’s drive for Tient.| PITTSBURGH, December 25.—A | in, which began a month ago and en- | new miners’ organization, the Fed- {tered its final phase last week. Al-|erated Miners' Association, has been | though this campaign really opened |launched here by employes of & num- | With the collapse of Chang Tso-Lin's | ber of bituminous mines in western | strength south of the great wall in: Pennsylvania operating under the 1917 late November, it Is not to be con-|wage scale. fused with the battle, 500 miles away,{ A statement issued by the officers near Mukden, in which Chang is fight. of the new association declares its ing for the remnants of his political | members disavow all future allegiance power. to the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica. i P. T. Fagan, president of District 5 of the United Mine Workers, when informed of the action characterized the new organization as a huge joke that will have no effect upon the | morale of members of the United Mine | Workers of America. . sl B o BUD FISHER IS SUED. Woman Asks $50,000 of Cartoonist wbound Hills gt | i marked Col. Coolidge’s mode of life was to be seen in his Christmastide preparations. There was no Christ- mas tree in the cottage, and the hang- ing of stockings the Fresident’s father left to his neighbors. Attorney General Sargent and former Gov. W. W. Stickney dropped in to wish the colonel a ‘“merry hristmas.” and many Christmas cards ame to him from his well wishers, far and near. lars. Passengers in the taxicab a few hours after arrival here, they told of- ropbing them and drove away. {American Minister to Switzerland, to attend the informal parleys of a pre- | liminary nature at which the program for the disarmament conference is to be discussed at Geneva, the President has simply availed himself of his right to order his ambassadors and ministers to report on anything which | goes on in the respective countries’ {Continued on Page 6, Column 2.) — LINE FINED $25,000. Conveyed Elks to Boston, Violating Coastwise Shipping Laws. BOSTON, December 25 (P).—A fine of $25,000 has been imposed on the Lam- port and Holt Line for transporting 500 members of the Philadelphia Elks to Boston in violation of coastwise shipping laws. The Elks were landed here during a convention a year and a half ago. In the proceedings the company held modity in a campaign to restrict its|ered among the parcel post packages consumption and to promote develop-| of the Malden post office. Two alarms that the Elks were taken on board for transportation to Halifax and that Boston was only a port of call. The Bureau of Navigation contended that the trip was an attempt to encroach upon American shipping. A fine of $100,000 originally was imposed, but this has been reduced. e FREIGHT BY AIRPLANE. New Paris and London Servlcei Will Be Instituted. LA BOURGET, France, December 25 P).—Airplane freight express serv- jce between Paris and London by night will be instituted January 15 on the line of the Imperial Airways, Ltd. “Urgent merchandise” is the way the company describes the facilities The London-Paris air route s now {lluminated at 10 different points by ocous. i ( | ment of substitutes. Replying yesterday to a statement | in the London Morning Post defend- ing the rubber combine and charging that this country itself had attempted restriction of wheat production ata time of world need, the Secretary declared the paper had been misinformed. He indicated that the rubber and wheat situations were in no way comparable, reciting that during the war, in order | to supply the allies with wheat, the Government encouraged expansion of acreage and guaranteed the price of wheat to American farmers. Recalls British Action. This, he said, coupled With the fact that the British government after the Armistice bought cheaper wheat from Ausralla and the Argentine, forced the United States Government to buy large amounts of the grain in order to make good the guarantee, Much of the surplus was disposed of to starving European countries, some as charity, Mr. Hoover declared, while the remainder was sold at about half what it enst this Government. {were sounded, but the fire was brief. o estimate of the damages were avallable early this morning. The Boston fire was confined to a six-story building after threatening ad- joining structures in the market dis- trict. So many firemen were overcome by smoke that it was necessary to sound {a fourth alarm to bring fresh men. $200,000 Fire Loss. READING, Pa., December 25 (#).-— Fire last night destroyed the wire nail mill of the Carpenter Steel Co., at a loss estimated by company officials at about $200,000. el g Durer Sketch Discovered. ZURICH, Switzerland, December 25 P).—A hitherto unknown pen sketch by Albrecht Durer, master painter of Nuremberg, has been discovered in the library of the Zurich Art Institute. It represents Apollo armed with bow and arrow. In his hands he carries a miniature sun with a human face. $50,000,000 Vein of Silver Found In Idaho Tests By the Associated Press. BOISE, Idaho, December 25.—A vein of silver and lead ore, measuring 38 feet in a driven crosscut, 2,200 feet below the apex, and which conserva- tive estimates of productive value are given at $50.000,000, was found in the Walker H. McGinnis Metals Co. mine at Clayton, in central Idaho, company officials announced Yesterday. = The Jjewelry valued at several hundred dol- | offered by the experimental trips. | strike was made December 16. The ore tested 50 cunces of silver to the ton and 53 cent lead, an es- ficers the driver forced them out after | special ground lights and flashing bed- timated value of $1,000 & ton. Opera- tlon costs of recoverlng the ore were 50 Ounces to a Ton given by.the State mine inspector at | $5 a ton, with additional costs of transportation to the nearest present smelter of $17 a ton. Walker H. McGinnis Metals Co. is a New York firm in which the Gen- eral Motors Corporation is sald to hold a heavy interest. An adjoining prop- erty and mine prospect, the Red Bird, upon which proving operations are now belng forwarded, is owned by Henry Ford. Radi6 Programs—Page 34 the Senate as soon as it reassembles Senators who are urging his seating insist that their strength is growing. that many Senators are inclined to give him their support on the ground that whether a Senator is a State | officer is @ moot question, and that & State is entitled to full representation in the Senate. The privileges and elections commlttee, however, has re ported against seating Mr. Nye. Consideration of the tax bill will | be begun in the Senate finance com { mittee January 4, and Senator Smoot, | chatrman, hopes' to report it to the Senate by January 20. The bellef is strongly expressed that it will be re ported largely in the same form it came from the House and that ulti { mately it will pass with little change | While the progressives and the Demo- ! crats both find fault with the biH, they |attack it from different angles, and a | coalition between them does not now seem probable. The Senate foreign relations com ,mittes has before it a resolution, in- troduced by Senator Reed of Missouri, Democrat, providing for investigation to determine what money, if any, has ibeen expended to influence the action of the United States in the settlement of the foreign war debts and the at- | titude of the United States toward | the World Court, and by whom. It |this inquiry is undertaken, fireworks are threatened by opponents of the debt settlements and the court. House Approval Seen. Majority Leader Tilson of the House expects that the forelgn debt settle- ments will be ratified promptly by that body, although there will ba some scattered opposition. The disposition of Senator Smoot, who has charge of the bills ratifying the settlements in the Senate, is now to wait until the House has acted before asking the Senate to take them up. The first business to come before the House immediately after it recon- venes will be appropriation bills. 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