Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (U, S. Weather Burean Forecast.) Faje and warmer, with Jowest tem- perature about 40 degrees. Tomorrow, cloudy, followed by or night. Temperature 3:80 pan. yesierday; lowest, Full report on page 9, today in in after Highest, Entered post_ office, No. 30,264. Wa ccond class atter ss m ashington, D. ( @h WASHINGTON, ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. 0., FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1927 —FIFTY ¢ Foening Sfar. - FIGHT BETWEEN WU AND CHANG MAY BE * PIVOTO CIVILWAR' 600 Woufided Soldiers of Latter’s Army Reach Peking From Honan Province. FAILURE TO GET THROUGH WOULD HELP CANTONESE Soviet Threatens North China if Seized Russians Are Hurt. U. S. Protest Made. By the Associated Press Fighting which may have effect on the outcome of the strug between the Northern and Southern Chinese is going on behind the scenes 4n Honan province. Its seriousness is fndicated by the arrival of 600 wound- ed at Peking. d It appears that the lonsg predicted clash has at last occurred between forces allied with Wu Peifu and those of the Manchurian war lord, Chang Tgo-Lin, who is driving southwar 4 through Honan to attempt to halt the morthward advance of the Cantonuse. May Make Flank Attack. Chang, known as a master tactician, 48 reported to be planuing a flank at- tack in Honan, meanwhil> rushing 60,000 reinforcements southward to carry on his main edlvance toward Hankow. Cantonese for are en- trenched on the sonthern Iionan bor- der to block the way to Hankow. Rains have turned the terrain Shanghai into huge morasses, ily halting the military op erations of the Cantonese. These forces seek to cut the railway to the morth and thus sever the supporting lines of Gen. Chang porthern defender of Shanghai. : Soviet Sends Second Note. Soviet Russia has presented a sec- ond note of protest to the Peking gov- ernment over the seizure of the steamer Paniat Lenina and the ar- yest of three Soviet courlers, together with Mme, Borodin, wife of the Rus- sian citizen who acts as adviser to the Cantonese government. The note warns Peking that it will *hear full responsibility” for the safety ©of the party. Messages from Tsinanfu, where the Russians are held, say they ‘are safe and receiving good treatment. Special guards are reported to be protecting the leading British military personages in Shanghai in the face ©of growing extremist agitation. The Britlsh forces there were ‘augmented today by arrival of the Coldstream Guards. , S0 SOVIET THREATENS PEKIN( Demands Safety of Russians Seized on Steamer Recently. PEKING, China, March 11 UP).—The Soviet charge d'affaires, M. Chernyck, visited Acting Premier Wellington Koo today in connection with the sec- ond note hanthd to the Peking for- eign office regarding the seizure of the steamer Pamiat Lenina and the detention. of the passengers and erew, A long conference ensued, during which Dr, Koo assured M. Chernyck thut the arrested persons were safe * and well treated, as a message to that effect had been received from the foreign affairs commissioner at Tsinanfu, First Note Ineflective. The Sovi~t note points out that the not, protesting against the geizure of the steamer and detention of the crew and passengers and as ing for their immediate release had been ineffective. The Peking ministry of foreign af fairs, it says, was “even unable to produce information regarding th fate of the steamer or the persons in volved,” Threat in Final Passa; “It is an astounding and unheard of fact,” it continues, “that the min gstry of foreign affairs should not even commit jtself to any tion or denial of in the vernacul ewspapers ecouriers had bee shot by order Gen. Chang Tsung-Chang In conclusion the note embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic hereby declares that the Chinese government will beu: full responsibility for the safety the couriers and other persor tained, and warns the Chinese ernment that any safety might certainly decisive v that of s de g0V bring most serious consequences and compel the Boviet government W ex ceptional measures to appeal Charge of Propaganda. \ the Pamiat 1 turday, it was oaded with prop: inst the northern Chinese causg Mme. Borodin, wife Mich: Borodin, adviser to the Canton gov # ernment, was arrested on the charge that shp had in her » mill tary plans of Gen Trung . “nder nina wa xplaine nda dire Tsung-Chang, | ““The violation of their of | . {Harder to Qualify For Auto Than to Wed, Wiley Says By the A od Press. Ala.,, March 11.—Dr. found authorities in cerned about his qualifications as n automobile driver than as a hus- band, Dr. Wiley, addressing an audi- ence at Alabama Polytechnic In- stitute last night, said that when he applied for a mar in Washington d $1 and no qu When he applied for a driv- nse he was questioned two hours and charged $2. “It cost me double the amount to qualify as a driver than 1t cost me 1o found a v, and im that is wrong,’ T5BURN TO DEATH N TIHO FAMLES | Nine Victims in Pennsylvania and Six in New Jersey. ! Four Others Escape. By the Associated Press. BLAIRSVILLE, Pa., March 11— Nine pefsons, all members of the same | family, were burned to death when |fire destroyed the home of Clarence Marsh at Tunnelton, six miles west i of here, early today. | The dead are: Clarence Marsh, 45; his wife, 40, and their five children, | ranging in age from 1 to 12 years, |and Mrs. Harry Montgomery, 21, and her 1-year-old child. Mrs. Montgomery was a sister-inlaw of Mrs. Marsh. Only one person, Harry Montgom- |ery, husband of one of the victims, |escaped. . He leaped from a_second- | story window. The victims were be- |lieved to have been trapped in their | steep. | | Six Die in New Jersey. BROWNS MILLS, N. J., March 11 (#).—Use of kerosene to make the | kitchen fire burn faster resulted today in the death of a father, his four chil- dren and one grandchild. They were burned to death when the farmhouse of William Stevenson at Sunset Lake, near here, was destroved. Mrs. Ste- venson and a daughter were badly burned and one son is missiug. The dead are: William Stevenson, 55; Shinn, 12; Ernest, 11; Alfred, 9; Mildred, 6, and Lillian, the grandchild, 1 month. Stevenson’s wife, Rebecca, 48, is seriously burned. - Clara, mother of Lillian, is suffer- ing from burns and a fractured hip, the result of a fall from the second story, & - Phe missing son is Willlam, jr,, 14. His mother saw him flee in his night clothes from the burning house. A search for him at the homes of neigh- bors and in the woods nearby was started immediately. The children were trapped by the flames while they slept in rooms above the Kkitchen. The flames spread so quickly the mother was unable to rescue them, Stevenson, with his clothing aflame, staggered from the house and col- lapsed. He was found unconscious and died shortly afterward. 1 e {NEW BALTIC PEACE PACT. Soviet and Latvia Initial Non-ag- gression Agreement. MOSCOW, Russia, March 11 (#).— | A guarantee pact between Latvia |and the Soviet union has been ini- tialed at Riga, It was announced to- | day. Agreement is still to be reached on ertain supplementary texts, includ- ing one drafted by the Latvians deal- ing with the beariug of the pact on er membership in the League of Na- i tions, A Riga dispatch in Qctober, telling the arrival of M. Araloff of the | Soviet foreign office, said he was to { negotiate a non-aggression treaty | along the lines of the treaty between Soviet and Lithuania. BANDITS BLOW UP ARMORED PAY CAR AND GET $100.000 Five Injured as 9 Outlaws Bomb Truck and Escort- ing Machine. CUT BEFORE HOLD-UP Money on Way for Miners Near Pittsburgh Stolen Just Out- side of Plant. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, March 11.—Nine armed bandits escaped in an automo bile with a $100,000 payroll of the| Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. this aft- ernoon after bombing an armored car containing the money and an escort- ing automobile as the two machines approached the Coverdale Mine of the concern, about six miles from Pitts- burgh. Five men, occupants of the two au- tomobiles, were badly injured in the explosion, which occurred after the machines had left the main highway and had driven down a side read about 300 feet toward the mine. The automobile had proceeded from a Pittsburgh bank along the Library road, a main highway in Bethel Town- ship, and had turned into a side road to enter the mining camp, when the| explosion occurred. Bomb Wrecks Trucks. The bomb, set off just as the ar- mored car was going through an underpassage of the Montour Rail- road, wrecked the automobile. The bandits materialized seemingly from nowhere, grabbed the payroll and sped away in an automobile they had parked nearby. The run from the main highway to the mining plant is a distance of about 300 yards. Police and detectives from Pitts- burgh headquarters, seeking to obtain information regarding the hold-up, found that all telephone wires in the vicinity of the Coverdale mine had been severed. A line was ordered re- routed through nearby towns to es- tablish telephonic connection. Meantime officers from Pittsburgh sped toward the scene in automobiles and all available officers in the vicinity of the mine were mobilized to aid in the bandit hunt. Second Payroll Stolen. The armored car in which the pay- roll was transported was suppiied by the Brinks Express Co. Officials at the Pittsburgh office were without knowl- edge of the robbery. . +yoii The payroll was the second of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. stolen within two years. A year ago Chi mas $48,000 was stolen in‘the hold-up of a company payroll automobile. A guard was killed in that hold-up. Both Machines Wrecked. Three men were in the armored car, two guards and the driver, and two men were in the other machine, a touring car. Both automobiles were wrecked by the bomb, which was set off as the machines neared an over- head crossing of the Montour Railroad. The robbers apparently were hidden nearby. Immediately after the blast occurred they ran out, grabbed the tomobile and sped away. They were believed to have headed toward Wash. ington, Pa. Their automobile. bearing Pennsyl- vania license 602-896, was +aid to be owned by H. B. Light, R. D. No. 4, Myerstown, Pa., which, police said, had been stolen from the Lebanon County man. SR SuRe Floods Spread Over France. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 11.—Reaching the proportions of a disaster, floods in southwestern France were spreading { today. Rivers in other parts of the country were rising rapidly, and the authorities said that, barring a cessa- tion of the rain, of which there ap-| peared no likelihood, tributaries of tha Seine and Marne would shortly over- { flow. They do not expect serious inun- dations in the Paris district, however. 'Two South A Two lion cubs are on the way to {the White House from Johann South Africa. as @ gift from that municipality and there seems to be *| considerable apprehension among the employes of the| servants and other | White House. Wilson Jackson, the colored porter d with| who has had personal charge of the Mine as M. S Krill & to Hanke The ( missioner today tl 3orodin. ure xafe treatment WOUNDED REACH PEKING, affair telegr and ) s arvested with t receiving com A me hem, THeavy Believed Developing. PEKING, Mar 11 () dred wounde Peking, Indic in Honan is Six bun w that developing the on a large s Tso Lin ¢ conti Yellow River b a opposition from the forces of Chin Yun Ao, civi sovernor of Honan, and ¢ ¥iualChing, These two nominally £uppor ¥u, Chil definitely lined up with the southe The northerners, however, (Continued on P 4, Column generals are Wu Pe nof n couriers en route phed | the coming of these good | 1o Fighting in Honan Province | diers have arrived at fighting on. Wang | (8 ) doif the P ous White House dogs and cats and other pets in recent years, and who is well known in Washington as | the master of hounds at the White | House, is probably more alarmed over young lions than any one else. Jackson has been told | ihat it no doubt will fall to his Jot { {o care for the cubs and to train thom L otherwise to subdue them, S0 that .“will become proper playmates fo ., the coon, and the White fouse dogs S The President himi to some extent for this | dation on the part of Juckson and some of the other servants. He asked | Jackson very seriously several days {ago 1f he knew anything about handling lions and went on to inti- | mate that it was his intention to in- clude licn taming in Jacksoms duties | s master of hounds. Jackson's asso- s have attempted to pacify him nove his fears by suggesting dent was joking, but have met with but little 58, son insists that the | President meant what he said. 117 off he was fooling,” Jackson said, L} «he surely can look serious and - | honest.” When i 1 i self is responsible S feeling of trepi- sked what he proposed to ident docsaln the lons WHITE HOUSE HOUNDS MASTER HAS GRAVE DOUBTS OVER LIONS frican Cubs, N;w En Route, Create Apprehension Among Servants. Jackson Must Keep Them Peaceful. urg, | i i i over'to him, son sald he supposed hé would obey orders and would do the best he could. | “I've had pretty good luck training | dogs and other animals like cats and | the like," Jackson added, “so I figure | I might get along with these lions That is. If they are young enough and | not too orne: i Jackson said he asked the President t the time the latter told him about the coming of the lions, if they were bad lions and might bite. To this the President is said 1o have replied inno- cently enough that they were especial- ly playful, but that one of them did a little hiting once in a while; that this cub bit a man’s foot off just before being put aboard the ship to be sent} to this country. The President went | on to explain, howee that that would not have happened if the| man’s foot had been on the ground. | “Oh, it was off the ground,” Jack- | son replied. “Well, then, that man | must have been doing some run- ning.” s, it is quite likely the man was doing some running,” the Presi- dent is understood to have said as he lked away with a very serious ex- pression upon his face. The President today replied to the mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa, who recently notified him that the lions were being sent as a gift from that city, and thanked him for the gift and said he would accept the cubs. The President intends to send the cubs to the Washington Zoo, but he has intimated that he will haye them kept in cages in the rear grounds of the White House for a before turning them over to the ' payroll satchels, jumped in their av-|* { ton Government or of the Red Cros: CHEER _ZpTE ENA A EERANT AU < Sy f > GALE DEMOLISHES QUAKE RELIEF HUTS Suffering in Japan Augment- ed by Loss of Temporary Shelter for Refugees. By the Associated Press TOKIO, March 11.—Central Japan, recovering slowly frém the havoe wrought by Monday’s earthquake, was swept today by a terrific gale. The storm brought renewed hardships in the Tango district, blowing down many of the hastily erected refugee shelters after the troops had experi- enced considerable difficuity putting them up. As relief by sea had been hindered by rough weather, it was feared the gale would further delay help for refugees in the villages along the coast which suffered most in the quake: Nearly 3,000 Are Dead. Latest figures compiled by the home office, which are not looked upon as final, gave the number of dead ! through the quake as 2,687, with 6,443 injured. The home office estimated that 10,000 buildings were destroyed. Relief measures went on steadily despite serious handicaps, the authori- ties giving particular attention to those in need of medical care. Their next thought was for the thousands compelled to camp out in the eold and snow through the collapse of their homes. Strenuous efforts were made to prevent an epidemic and to provide food and clothing. Relief Work Is Rushed. Immediately after the catastrophe | the relief expeditions were hampered | by impassable roads and flooded areas. Prior to the gale, however, many of the roads had been repaired, had subsided and.warmer weather had set in, and reports from inland plac indicated that hopeful progress was being made in the work of relief The government, announcing that no outside help was necessary, mar- | shalled all its forces, the heads of the various departments working long and hard in_an effort to ameliorate the plight of the suffercrs. The govern- ment ordered a large quantity of rice to be shipped from the government warehouse at Osaka. OUTSIDE AID NOT NEEDE Able to Relieve Suffering, Advices Indicate. * Japan will take care of the suffer- ing caused by the recent earthquake without outside assistance, according to advices reaching the War and State Departmen Japan rtment aid was tendered through Lieut. » American mili attache at Tokio, to the Japane: ster of The minister ex- pressed his appreciation, but said that local authorities were able to handle the situation. Meanwhile' Ambassador MacVeagh had offered the aid of the Washing- but the Japanese officials, expressing gratitude for the offer, said they felt outside ald was unnecessary. — HOME IS DYNAMITED. Explosive Applied to Non-Union- ist’s Residence. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 11 (P)—The home of W. H. Baggett, a non-union labover at the Mascot Stove Works, where a strike has been in progress for some time, was dyna- mited early this morning. The blast destroyed the porch of the house:and tore a hole in the wall of a bedroom where Mrs. Baggett and two children were sleeping. No one was injured Residents within 10 blocks of the house were awakened by the ex- plosion. Kerensky Sees Hope for Russia Leader of revolution which overthrew the Czar says Bolshevism, will soon give way to a real democracy. His mission to America explained in a signed article to be published next Sun- day in The Sundpy Star 1M FLYERS GIVEN UP AS DEAD. War Department Makes Notation for Lieuts. Gray and Harris. The War Department today official closed the records of Lieut. Wil liam A. Gray and Lieut. Willard L. missing Army aviators, with mple notation, “Died in the sea.” The two flyers were never seen after taking off from the Island Beach Coast Guard Station, near Barnegat, N. J., Februa 17. Sometime later, however, a traveling bag that had 1y belonged to one of the men was wash- | ed & e, giving mute testimony of Gray was from Chelsea, Mass., and entered the aviation serv- ice in 1917. He served as a balloon observer in France during the World War. Lieut. Harris was born in ‘Williamsport, P received his UCATINUQUOR NOVED N SECRET Detectives Stand Guard Over Seven Cases After Release of Alleged Hi-jackers. Shortly after the release from cus- tody today of three men held for in- vestigation Into the disappearance of a truck of the Big Four Transporta- tion Co., originally reported to have been the subject of a hi-jacking cpera- tion which netted a largé amount of choice liquor as the loot, Headquar- ters Detectives Fowler and Flaherty were supervising the secret removal of seven large, filied wooden cas known to policemen at the tenth pre- cinct, where they had been stored overnight, as “the legatijn liquer.” later it was made apparent at police headquarters that nothing is t0 be divulged regarding the mystery which has surrounded investigation of the case since the theft of the truck and its load of liquor from in | front of 1042 Twenty-ninth _street early Tuesday morning. The truck subsequently ~was burned on the Marlboro pike near Meadows, Md. The liquor which it contained parently been recovered, men held for investigation in the cz released and nobody Lut the police is the wiser. Detectives Take Charge. Policemen questioned about _the matter at the tenth precinct today frankly professed no knowledge of the seven wooden cases, other than saying it was known about the station house as “the legation liquor.’ This morning, a short time after Clarence Allen Barber, employe of the Big Four Co.: Rush W. Chamberlain and George Reed, who had been taken into custody during the police inves- tigation into the affair, had been re- leased, the detectives went to the terth precinct, and, with uniformed members of the force, ordered to keep away from the cellroom where the cases had been kept overnight, took charge of the removal operations. Lieut. W. G. Stott, who was on duty last night, stated today he did not know where the cases had come from. They arrived at the precinct when he was out, he sald, and he rad no knowledge of who took them there. The same seal of secrecy was main- tained during the eéntire transacticn, Capt. Cornwell was overheard to teil detectives, who started whispering to him: “If you don’t want this to get out, don't’ tell me and then you can’t blame me.” Release of Three Explained. At police headquarters the release of the three men was explained as being occasioned by the fact that the investigation had developed no evid- ence on which to hold them. J. F. Anderson, general manager of the Big Four Co., refused to make any detailed statement today. When asked if he knew the liquor d been recovered, he simply said he ‘was glad to hear it, and “if the con- signee had gotten it he supposes matter was “all right.” r He refused to divulge the name of q the the client causing the transportation in June, of any article in the truck which had been stolen. “Did they get the hijackers?” asked. “Did they find the people who stole the truck?” = And afterwards he added that he he was entirely “out” of the since it was in police hands. the three, lmmm |ALASKAN BILL STRIPS SHIP SINKS IN FO ~ AFTER COLLISION One Lost as Freighter Goes Down in Midchannel in New York Harbor. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 11.—The light that Liberty sheds upon the world was not bright enough today ‘to dispel a fog that shrouded New York Bay, and two freighters collided head-on under the harbor’s famous statue, one of them sinking and becoming a men- ace to navigation in the channel, one of the busiest shipping lanes in all I GOVERNOR OF POWER Senate Gets Plan Proposing Re- organization of Territorial Executive Branch. By the Associated Press, territorial government, and stripping the governor of virtual- | ly all his powers, has been introduced | € gislature. The to centralize gov- is known as the asure, designed rnmental affair “controller bill. It provides for the election ever: four years. of a controller, treasure and attorney general to constitute a board of centrol over the executive branch of the government. An identi- cal measure will be introduced in the aking from the governor administrative func- tions, is understood to hav - approval of Gov. George A. I Federal offic VARE TOASKFULL RECOUNT OF VOTE Will Make Request Next Ses- sion, He Writes to Reed Committee. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, March 11— United States Senator-elect Willlam S. Vare announced today he will ask the regular Senate committee on privileges and elections of the Senate to recount the entire vote cast for Senator at the last Novmeber election in Pennsylvania. He so stated in a letter to Senator Reed, Missouri, chairman of the Sen- ate special committee investigating campaign expenditures. The letter was in reply toa communication from Senator Reed asking Mr. Vare whether | he wanted the committee to impound ballot boxes from any other counties than ' Allegheny and Philadelphia in the contest brought by William B. Wilson, Mr. Vare’s Democratic op- ponent in the November election. Some Ballots Already Here. The ballot boxes of Philadelphia and Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, already have been taken to Washington under the Reed com- mittee's orders and Mr. Wilson has asked that the ballots of four other counties also be examined. “I am advised,” said Vare's letter to Reed, “that the special committee, the world. Only one man was Brown, a ship’s carpenter on the Southern Pacific freighter El Sol, the ship that sank. All other members of the crew of 44 were saved. The other craft in the collision, the Amer- ican Diamond Line freighter Sac City, was badly damaged, but did not sink and none of the crew was injured. The two freighters were nosing through = heavy fog off Staten Island and about a half mile from the Statue of Liberty when they struck. Visi bility was almost entirely destroyed by the low-hanging banks of fog, and apparently even the sound of the sirens could not be heard until it was too late. Other Ship Keeps Afloat. The collision tore a great hole in the bow of the Sac City, but it was able to keep afloat and anchored off Greenville, Staten Island. El Sol, how- ever, a craft of more than 3,000 net tonnage, was more seriously damaged and sank almost before the crew could take to the water. The channel at the point, which is directly in the main lane for ocean liners, is about 60 feet deep and only the tips of El Sol's spars showed after she sank. The position is about half way between Bedloe’s Island, on which the Statue of Liberty is situat- ed, and Governor's Island, the'Army headquartérs for the Sscond Corps Area. When the st report of the accident recelved, all efforts were turned rescue of life. Police bhoais, enue cutter and all through s w to the fire boats, a reve near-by small craft shoved the fog to the scene as speedily & they dared. Tug Takes Crew Aboard. The Morgan Line tug EI Amigo was the first on the scene and took aboard El Sol's vcrew. A check-up after it reached shore showed that. the car- penter, Brown, was the only man not accounted for. After the rescue of the crew was accomplished, attention was turned to the sunken freighter to see how seri- ous a menace to navigation it was. The channel at this point is some- thing like the neck of a bottle and it was feared that El Sol, in sinking, had assumed the position of a cork in the bottle. : A Coast Guard survey was begun to determine the exact situation and plans also were begun for clearing the channel as soon as possible. Ship- ping men sald that if it was found the El Sol had sunk in the exact middle of the channel ocean liners would be unable either to enter or leave the harbor until it was removed. The Cunard liner Berengaria and the Lloyd Sauboda liner, Conte Biannca- mano, are scheduled to sail late to- night. Used as an animal transport during the World War, the El Sol made many trips across the Atlantic with cargoes of horses and merchandi: Dead Girl Is Granted of which you were chairman, should request that every ballot box in Pennsylvania should be brought to Washington and its ballots scrutinized and tabulated. I am convinced that roughout the State I was the suf- rer from many frregularities. Says He Will Ask Recount. “] expect upon the convening of the United States Senmate to e a re- quest for a prompt and complete re- count of the vote of the entire State by the committee on privileges_and elections, to which Mr. Wilson's ‘con- test has been referred.” PLAN TO USE OWN FUNDS. Committee Members: Consider Contin- | uing Despite Keyes' Refusal. By the Associated Press. Despite refusal by Chairman Keyes of the committee on audit and con- | trol to advance expense money for the Reed campalgn funds investigating committee, members of the committee are considering going forward with | their inquiry by furnishing their own funds. Senator Keyes has notified the com- mittee that he lacked authority to sign a voucher for $1,000 to pay the expenses of the Senate sergeantit- arms, who had heen ordered to go to Pennsylvania and impound additional ballots of the November election. In addition, Senator Reed, Repubii- {can, Pennsylvania, has announced he would seek an injunction if the com- mittee attcmpted io function after tae adjournment of Congress. e committee also is considering { carrylng its investigation into Colo- rado, as a majority hold it stiil has authority to investigate expenditures of last year's election. Since the adjournment of Congress there have been reports of impending resignations from the committee, but Senator McNary, one of those named, sald today he had no intention of re- tiriig. _Senator Goff, Republican, of West Virginia, also was mentioned, ! but members of the commiftee said | he had not so advised them. i The next move will be ordered by Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, chairman of the committee, who i now in Detroit. FEAL 5 72 BELIEVED LOST. Search for Japanese Training Ship Is Abandoned. LONDON, March. 11 (®).—An Ex- i i {other JAPAN HOPES ITALY - AND FRANCE GAN BE ORAVN TOPARLE Accepts Unconditionally U. S. Invitation to Three-Power Conference. TOKIO REPLY DELIVERED TO STATE DEPARTMENT Note Expresses Belief Geneva Meeting Will Adjust Questions of Naval Reductions. By the Associated Press. A hope that France and Italy will decide eventually to participate in the naval conference at Geneva was ex- pressed to Acting Secretary Grew today by Ambassador Matsudaira, in communicating Japan's unconditional acceptance of American proposals for a three-power conference. *The Ambassador said the Japanese government would take part ig any event, but that it was the feeling in Tokio it would be highly desirable for France and Italy also to come in. Both have declined Invitations. Formal Announcement Made. The State Department made the following_announcement: “The Japanese Ambassador today informed the Acting Secretary of State that the Japanese government gladly accepts the invitation of the American Government to hold @ dis- cussion at Geneva among the United States, the British Empire and Japan on the question of the. limitation of naval armament. “They feel that the definite adjust: ment of the question would be greatly facilitated, if the willing and a co-operation of France and Italy could sec u “Should it, however, be found im- possible to count on such co-operation, the Japanese government will never- theless be ready to take part in the proposed discussion among the three powers, and to assist in the endeavors for the furtherance of the desired nd." Parley in Summer. Acceptance by Japan of the Amer. ican proposals means that the United States, Great Britain and Japan will send delegates to Geneva this Sum- mer in an effort to find Jost—John | ceased to exist. If this were not 80, Il matnods by which competitive eon- destroyers and struction of cruisers, submarines may be avolled. Great Britain's de to participate in the conference, notwith- standing the declination of France and Italy to send delegates to Geneva, was communicated to the State De- partment yesterday by Ambassador Howard. The acceptance of Japan had been anticipated, and preparation of formal notes of invitation to ratify the verbal exchanges has already be- gun. The hope that France and Italy may vet find it possible to perticipate in some way in the s 1s still held here. Some officials believe these two European continental mnations should be invited to send observers and technical experts to sit in at the meetings. The purpose of the conference will be to limit competition in naval craft which were not covered by the treaties drawn up at the Washington arms conference. Armaments dealt with In those treaties were battleships and aircraft carriers. ACCEPTANCE IS EXPLAINED. Japanese Action Designed to Improve Friendly Relations. LONDON, March 11 (®.—In con- nection with Japan's acceptance of the American proposal for a further naval limitation conference, Reuter’ Tokio correspondent today telegraphs ‘I learn from an .authoritati source that the decision was influ enced by the Japanese government’ desire to increase friendly relations with Great Britain and demonstrate to the world that, despite apparent differences of opinlon regarding the policy in China and apparent signs of distrust regarding such matters as the Singapore naval base. Japan de- sires to prove that there is no cooling of friendship.” NAVAI, CONFERENCE LAUDED John Ericeson League Indorses Efforts of President Coolidge. CHICAGO, March 11 (#).—The John Ericcson Republican League of America in session here Indorsed President Coolidgie’s efforts for pro- motion of world peace by inviting nations o join the WUnited States and work out a plan for naval disarmament. Another resolution adopted said: “The convention wholeheartedly com- mends the aetion of the Government in bringing to trial those involved in the infamous oil scandals.” ANl of the national officers of tho change Telegrazn dispatch from Toklo says search has been abandoned for' the Japanese training ship Kari- shima Maru, which was reported in distress off Cape Inubo Wednesday. usl;,e |:;sbet“evfld lonhnve sunk with all hands, totaling 72, and including 40 students. o Treasured Diploma And Document Is Placed in Her Casket Death itself could not rob little Marie Cecelia Reidy of the reward for her efforts in St. Dominic’s Parochial School during the years she was a pupil there, she ‘would have presented to her s matter, | M it for yesterday re- the diploma. Father | bered toward that diploma. She found time for a little play, of course, and on Tuesday she feli in play. The doctors said it was heart disease; she died. league were unarumously re-elected. DR. H.—W. FRAUENTHAL KILLED IN 7-FLOOR FALL Hospital Founder Loses Balance Seeking Air at Window of Apart- ment Bedroom. By the. Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 11.—Dr. Henry window in his seventh-floor apartment | on West Seventieth street. yes. | belleve he lost his balance when he went to the window for air. He was 63 years old and had been in 1l health for the last month, rela. tives said. He was able, however, make his daily visits to the hospital