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GINGER PARALYSIS LAIDTOLOW GRADE Eight Face Charges Involving Sale of Substandard Product. By the Associated Press. LO , Ky, March 19.—In- vestigation of the 30 or more cases of partial paralysis reported in Central and Eastern Kentucky, led Federal prohibitien officials today to lay the blame on substandard Jamaiea ginger, which they said has been widely dis- tributed. Thousands of gallons of the product belonging to four large companies, three in Kentucky and one in Cincin- nati, have been seized by Federal in- vestigators from the Kentucky-Tennes- see headquarters here since early in January, and eight men, officials of the companies, have been arrested. They are now under bonds totaling $25,000. ‘The product seized was sent to Wash- for analysis and, Federal offi- cials said, chemists’ reports showed it bstandard and ‘“highly intoxi- investigation extended to 17 States. Of the approxi- mately 30 cases of the partial paralysis reported today to the State board of health, an examination of nine assured health officials that the cause was the consumption of adulterated Jamaica | officials explained that | Jamaica ginger has legitimate uses I "Cooking and other connections, but that its sale in adulterated form so that it can be used as a beverage makes its distribution h:lblen!‘n ;fi:\ll’r oL( conspiracy to violate the Volstead act mvem?gzlm of the illegal sale of the product, SALVATIO! ARMY HEAD DEFENDS PROHIBITION LAW IN STATEMENT (Continued From First Page.) uires & great deal of time and pat . The habits of an important section of a congested part of the coun- try cannot be changed over ht or in years. The reform and the ptation of soclety to that at which the amend- ment aims must be gradual. “The temptation of corruption will drag it out. While looking ahead at the amendment I despaired of any suc- cess, I really think that it is possible, if we keep at it, to achieve a satis- result. The persistence with which the people maintain in Congress a two-thirds majority in both Houses gives me much hope and I am inclined to think that this will wear down the moderate wets to a consciousness that the only solution is pressure in favor of enforcement. “I see that the wets claim that the election was not a prohibition victory. Well, one cannot argue with that view, and can only let those who believe it continue to believe it. “As ever yours. “(Signed) WILLIAM H. TAFT.” Taft is Slender and Angular. ‘Taft, who wears a gray mustache similar to that of his late distinguished brother, is quite slender and angular. He is 6 feet 4 inches in height, and is 68_years old. He was presented by Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, a member of the legislative of the National Association Reading from a prepared statement, Taft said that according to the testi- mony of those advocating repeal “our cocktall heroes are Iinked with the Christian martyrs, the men of '76, and the leaders of the anti-slavery party, a connection that argues a lack of sense of humor. “My brother was opposed to the adoption of prohibition. The reasons that he gave for it in ome or two articles and speeches are much the same as those used by other men. When, however, the amendment was adopted and the law passed he became convinced that both of them were beyond repeal, that the cy was here to stay, and that all good citizens was begun early in Janu- ary by Ernest Rowe, prohibition admin- istrator for Kentucky and Tennessee, and Joseph Phillips, assistant in charge enforcement must observe the law and do all in their power to help in its enforcement. There is no excuse whatever for misunder- standing this. “The only two public utterances which I can recall were one in r to a proposal to allow beer and light A. | winet and the other a speech at New The eight men officials of these concerns. “PARALYSIS” IS DIAGNOSED. Victims Suffer The mysterfous paralysis that has t simultaneously about 160 e mo&e!m and in New Eng- e eeel poivmauris b Pioian of the Tennessee health de- e acudiig. 1o telcgram Te- g L am re- 3 the Public Health Service but 9 of the 72 reported, the Barometer—4 p.m., 20.43; 29.35; 12 midnight, 29.33; 8 am.. 20.55; .63, Highest temperat 1:30 p.m. yesterday: lowest temperature, 41, occurred at 7:40 a.m. today. same date last year— Highest, 65; lowest, 37. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast an Geodetic Survey.) . ‘Today—Low tide, 5: 5 pm high tde, 11} R Tomorrow—] tide, 6:41 am. 7:17 h!:g'fide :17 pm.; , 120 5 12:24 p.m. ks The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 6:15 am.; sun sets 6:18 p.m. rises 6:13 am.; sets 6:19 p.m. + Moon sets 8:50 a.m. s sRamOIYY 223882338883 Chicago, 111 Cincinnati, Ohic Dei * - 38 FA EBLENEEEN RN SRR L N T e e e today.) Stations. emperature. We 5 Horta (PayaD, Asores. . 80 Part cloudy ton, SurTent obsérvations.) being imported inte e French enaf are ;l’l’vzuu at commencement on June 20, “Of the first, T only remember that he flatly opposed the proposition for beer and light wines, practically on the grounds I have mentioned above. m"n for the ucong‘. {hcln llm})‘fl’y: :i.lu evidence a copy e speec! ve referred to. “Let me repeat, I have no objection whatever to qu my _brother's on the sul ts made at any in his career, but if the mere au- thority of his name is sought, no ome on the wet side ought to claim it. One lady, for instance, in a newspaper con- troversy with a dry remarked, ‘T the wisdom of Chief Justice T of . i 3 g £ 4 i bi g5 5g% HH ? 4 hia, removed and completely his 30 that th::xtm't a tuft of hair left to pull. 000 | though its enforcement was lax. “Soclal Incidentally, 10,000,000 or ple have come to ice prohibition was the K majority in r cent of the members of Lower are dry and that the majority has been growing with every conj election,” 't asserted. “How do the wets explain.it?” Graham Interrupts Testimony. Chairman Graham once interrupted ‘Taft’s testimony to ask what the wit- ness meant when he referred to straw votes being conducted by wets in schools. “The straw votes always have been voluntary on the part of the schools cerned,” Graham said. “Oh, no,” Taft rejoined. “Why, there is a group up in a small Connecticut town wall to tomahawk me right now. However, I'll be glad to straw votes with you later.” 0, that won't be necessary,” Gra- ham, & wet, said. “We are merely look- ing for facts in this hearing and not for arguments and theory.” ‘Taft said that while his brother had been opposed to prohibition, he became convinced that the eighteenth amend- ment and supporting laws were beyond “The only two public utterances which I can recall,” he continued, in regard to a pre and light wines, and the other, a speech at New Haven, at commencement, on June 20, 1923. “Of the first, I only remember that he flatly opposed the proposition for beer and light wines, “As for the second. I can simply offer in evidence a copy of the speech I have referred to.” discuss Not Patriotic to Disobey. “When & two-thirds mwnmt Con- ress and three-fourths of State gislatures adopt a constitutional amendment, and a majori House of Conj passes ES&S&!; Under “ha cloudy |18 not “T am appealing to such a man.” ¥t Fot e Tty o i uate students of the Taft School to 1':.w‘ because much as he may disagree th 1 mean as a principle. —he can’t afford to h."m. his opposition to impair influence of the Constitution and laws of the coun- try or wreck the but when the regular elections came around “it was monotonous.” Drys. he added, did not vote in the big straw votes, and as a consequence the straw ballots did not amount to anything. Taft said “we all know” that of every dollar spent for a drink, 50 cents went for corruj and that the individual rson, if asked as to his responsibil- ty in the question of drinking, must answers : try go going to have my , ‘T regard the small personal liberty involved as so important that I would rather cor- rupt_all the officials and undermine our Government than give it up.’ “The third answer is, ‘I will quit obey the law, and help to “Of course,” he went on, “the answer comes very promptly that my supposi- tion is wrong and that the amendment will be . That is something that must be settled by time. ‘‘We stand for the law and the Gov- ernment.” Asked About Leiter to Lincoln. Representative La Guardia, Repub- lican, New York, asked about a letter the late Chief Justice had written to Allen Lincoln. “You said 50 cents of every dollar spent for liquor today to cor- ruption, didn’'t you?” La Guardia in- quired. “Yes,” the witness answered. “Then you should have no objection to the introduction of that letter to Lincoln in 1918, predicting the very things you say now exist.” “I have no objection,” Horace Taft explained. “I merely think we should give some emphasis to my brother’s Iv&e"" during the last 10 years of his La Guardia then questioned the wit- ness about articles in the Christian Science Monitor and the Congregation- alist, the latter written by the Rev. A. E. Cook of Denver, Colo., detailing dry propaganda methods. The New Yorker said he referred particularly to activities of the Law Enforcement League of Boston. Representative Stobbs, Republican, Mass., interrupted to ask how many of the Chief Justice’s predictions in the letter to Lincoln had been realized. “1 talked the matter over with my brother, who al laughed at me as a reformer,” the answered, “and we agreed that there were many ad- vantages as well as disadvantages. “I would say, though, that the advan- tages and disadvantages of prohibition are about equal.” with a Yale Rela the conversation dean, said that he had been told that “prohibition is a godsend to Yale,” that youths now were dismissed for drunkenness when previously they had “to punch & pol in the eye or Expects Only Improvement. conditions . I am is, ‘would you fa taining vor re Guardia asked. can massacre the all you , but you must remember that all rerites aren't all on one side.” asked the ‘were " not. “The drys don't vote,” Taft replied. Taft discussed the straw vote taken at Yale recently. “I would estimate that there is more drin| there now than when I was in school, but I doubt that there is one- ‘um&th of the drunkenness,” Taft 'flmu:m-!-&svvhen! was a student were repeated today, the news of them would be cabled all over the world.” Representative Celler, Democrat, New York, a wet, got an answer of “yes” to & question of whether he thought he failed in his attempt to get grad- favor prohibition. When Celler asked about the straw vote taken by the Yale Review, Taft replied: “It doesn’t Credits Prohibition With Presperity. Answering another question Cel- l-""'hrn proportion” of prs .?mm: n” of < perity to prohibition. e Following Mr. Taft, Jenkins it- ed Evangeline Booth's statement to the | s i teemd T o al vement, in the soclal orger in the country. al- loss and wreckage is im- measurably easier with drink than without it, and restoration to paths of virtue is a much stmpler problem now that drink is banished,” Comdr. Booth's statement said. The statement said that the condition of Comdr. Booth’s health prevented her personal l&pnrlnee. and added, “but you will find my representative, l. Jenkins, competent to answer any reasohable question that has any bear- ing upon ‘matter.” Comdr. Booth's brief took issue with a statement, presented previously to the committee by a wet advocate, pur- rted to have been made by Col. Wil- iam S, Barker, formerly of the north- ern division of the Salvation Army, to the effect that since prohibition the ages of the girls who had to be rescued by the Salvation Army were younger than in_pre-prohibition days. The brief quoted a telegram from Col. Barker to Comdr. Booth, describin; his statement as “grossly distorted, l.ns a fair {llustration of the dishonest practices-to which the liquor interests will descend in their efforts to legalize the liquor traffic again in this country.” “The assertion that I made a state- :nl:n"fnth‘l’; girls 13 and 14 nll’l: 311-1.:! our rescue home throug! nk- ing liquor is entirely false,” Barker's telegram read. was asked what effect the great war had had upon young people and I answered that the young fi seem- ed to have more freedom, the in- use of automobiles permitted in out-of-the-way places, and that we had noticed that girls were coming to our rescue homes at & young- er age. This condition could in no way be ;;;ugpvgi!.he usel ;! uqunr.‘m ¥ lence at home, an TVa~- tions abroad, is that been an inestimable to country, and I pray that America shall never go back.” Comdr. Booth's statement said that in 1914 the average age of the girl under the care of the Salvation Army was 23, while the present average is " heme a neestity we prace ver have to record the wing STAR, WASHINGTO room or the saloon as a present factor, and seldom has drink anything to do with the breakdown.’ She added that since there were fewer subjects returning for second and third lapses, the age average of those received naturally was lower. “The greater freedom and the wide use of the automobile,” the statement went on, “are, according to our record, a fruit- ful source today of youthful miscon- duct, but the girls, having to be han- dled as a consequence, are & very long way from the unfortunate type whose persons were public, and whose mart was very itly the saloon or its adjacent parlors. Holds Restoration Simpler. “Every woman officer in charge of our numerous homes devoted to our mater- nity and rescue work are unalterably committeed to the prohibition course as bringing a most important contribu- tion toward the solving of the girl problem. Social loss and wreckage is immeasurably easler with drink than without. it and restoration to paths of virtue is & much simpler problem now that drink is banished.” The commander’s brief dealt with the work of the Salvation Army in many cities, and asserted that notwithstand- ing the “lax enforcement of the present law” even in New York a crowd of 1,000 drunken men, formerly common in pre- prohibition days, could not be found be- cause “they are not there.” “It is freely acknowledged that there is much {llicit drinking, and I quite be- lieve that some of the stuff is vile be- yond expression, but all the same” Comdr. Booth's statement said, “the vast army of brokent and debased men have emerged into a cleaner and nobler type. Don't let us deceive ourselves.” In Salvation army hotels in the p prohibition days, the statement said, between 25 and 33 per cent of the men in them were under the influence of intoxicating liquor, but during a re- cent smallpox scare in Chicago, it added, 500 men in a hotel were vac- cinated and not one of them was found to be under the influence of drink. “Almost. overnight at the coming of prohibition,” the statement continued, “a change was noticed and conditions entirely reversed. The 10-cent flop is discarded for the 35-cent room and the guest had the wherewithal to pay his way.” Bowery Conditions Better. Bowery workers in New York, the statement said, “still declare without the test hesitation that conditions are ly 70 per cent better in every way than before the prohibition law enacted.” was . Comdr. Booth's statement said that three years ago she conducted an in- quiry into 55 social service institutions maintained by the Salvation Army for men in the Eastern section and that e to work, and only four fafled to Bote such definite advancement.” A more recent canvass of their in- :;::u'.h- in all sections of the country, wrote, showed that “without excep- tion, my officers maintain their warm support of the bition policy be- cause of the in table benefits that this continues to confer upon the men wha were formerly the worst victims of the drink’s devastating blight.” MAN, REPORTED TRYING TO ESCAPE, IS SHOT BY OFFICER (Continued From First Page.) ing the charge, but that he had refused to sign it. Detective Burke later arrested George Louis Hunnel, 33, who gave his address as mlx?ntel-l\:' N. J.!. 'h? ;fi:flm'o have apartmen at _the time. i i 31, Miss Foster and Frances O'Breen, 31 apartment with her, tnesses. who lives in the were bopked as wi 3 Official Action Withheld. | All of the witnesses in the case g brought md!mpecmr:un;- nflm'l:l'l: morning and questioned at length. They are being brought back this afternoon for further questioning. the outcome of the second quiz, no official aetion has been taken as to suspending Swartzel. Inspector Bean said he would not recommend that Gravelly be sus- BT mm.h Gravelly is el T8 assigned to the third precinct and the affair took place in the eight precinct, Inspector Wil- liam 8. Shelby explained that Burke had asked Gravely to assist him in the case “lmd that such & situation was not un . —_—— STUDIOUS STUDENTS FORESEEN BY EDUCATOR By th: Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., March 19.—Dr. Max Mason, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former president of the University of Chicago, believes the time will come when university students will be so intent upon acquiring knowledge that it will be necessary for physicians to watch them and prevent zgmn from studying too hard. “Students of the future will attend college to obtain certain definite kinds of knowledge to fit them for a specific function of life,” Dr. Mason said. “They will come to learn, and nobody can stop them. They will have the opportunity of listening to & lecture every week or two, and the remainder of their time they will be allowed to study.” D. €. STUDENTS RANK HIGH ‘Two Washington graduates of Swarth- more College, Winona Von Ammon, 3849 Legation street, and Thomas M. Brown, 1622 Twenty-ninth street, have been awarded fellowships for graduate study in 1930-31, it was announced at the college today. ‘The awards. known as the Joshua Lippincott Fellowships, carry stipends of $600 for a year’s study and are open to graduates of Swarthmore of at least a year's standing. Both Miss Von Am- '1%% and Brown graduated in June, C. Lawrence Haines og Linton. Md., won the John Lockwood Fellowship of $600, and the Hannah A. Leedon Fel- lowship of $500 went to Elizabeth D. Hormann of Pottsville, - FLYER FACES CHARGE e na Accused of Violating Neutrality ||| Laws in Mexican Revolt. ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., March 19 (). —Clark M. Carr, an aviator, charged with conspiracy to violate the neu- trality laws by piloting & plane across the Mexican border to aid revolutionists about a year ago, was free today on $1,000 bond, pending trial. Carr was arrested late yesf and arraigned here before a United States commissioner. He declined to make any statement. The aviator is a son of the late Capt. Frank M. Carr, a member of Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Graduat ueco Tl Metin) Gnses pst, DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES FURNITURE RENTING CE FURNITURE Misw 616 ESLN.W. ik EARL OF BALFOUR DIES AT AGE OF &2 British Statesman Is Unable to Ward Off Attacks of Long lliness. (Continued From First Page.) secretary for Ireland, first lord of the admiralty, foreign secretary, prime min- ister and member of innumerable gov- ernment missions and committees, the Earl of Balfour's political life spanned by & good margin the latter years of the reign of Queen Victoria down through the reign of King Edward VII and through more than 15 years of the reign of King George. He was most famous perhaps for the sol-called Balfour note, in which Great Britain renounced all post-war debts in continental Europe, both from her allies and Germany, beyond what was needed to pay her own debts in America, and by the Balfour declaration of British policy in Pelestine, which set that country aside as a home for repatriated Jevs, Macdonald Pays Tribite. Prime Minister Masdonald, Informed almost at once of the earl's death, de- clared: “It is the end of a long, useful life and the whole nation will unite in expressing its regret and in paying its tribute.” The earl was 81 years old last July and he played tennis right up to that birthday. A most notable character- istic was an almost unlimited capacity to remember. He frequently astonished friends with recollections of the most trivial incidents in his long carser. Arthur James Balfour was created the first Earl of Balfour of 1922 and holds besides the title Viscount Tra- prain of Whitiingehame. When the end came Lord Balfour ‘was writing the finishing pages of his autoblography, in which will be re- vealed the thoughts and opinions of the A'C):YOI.I. all the world once knew ‘The Earl of Balfour is succeeded by his brother Gerald, at whose house he | PU died. Lord Earl and Viscount Traprain after the Washington Conference in 1921 and 1922. He also was made a knight of | the Garter, but seldom afterward ap- peared in public roles. King Expresses Regret. He was president of the British Acad- emy from 1921 to 1928, but his time was given largely to his autoblography. His last state duty was attendance as lord president of the council at the privy council held last May 10 at Craig- weil House, Bognor. King George then signed the document dissolving Parlia- ment and bringing about the general election which threw Ramsay Mac- donald into power. King George sent the following mes- sage to Gerald Balfour: “The death of Lord Balfour will evoke throughout the empire and in many of the world feelings of deep sorrow, which the Queen and I fully share. It is & national loss of a great statesman, the last of Queen Vic- toria’s ministers. I treasure his memory as a lifelong friend, a great and cl personality, a and trusted counselor.” Called an Aristocrat. Balfour was once characterized as “an aristocrat who entered Parliament to | protect the privileges of his caste and to taste the joys of intellectual mastery.” Philosopher as well as statesman, it has been said of him that “he was never so y as when discussing some new guess at the nature of matter or the nature of the soul.” As first lord of the admiralty in the | coalition war inet (1915-16), foreign:| secretary (191 ), head of the British mission to America (1917), British dele- gate to the Paris peace conference (1919) and to important - post-bellum deliberations (1920-21) at San Remo, , Brussels, San Sebastian, Rome, London, Geneva and elsewhere, he took & notable part in the war and the ef- forts at reconstruction, in umm‘m- ration, boundary, racial and s jar problems, During Balfour's term as first lord of the admiralty the German air raiders were most active in their attacks on London and English coast towns, as & result of which he was severely criti- clized. terpellated in the House of Commons, he admitted that “mistakes” had been made in the British aerial de- fenses. Soon after, Premier Asquith re- signed, and within a fortnight David Lioyd George, at the head of a coalition ministry, had succeeded him and named Balfour as his secretary of state for for- eign affairs. Helped Heal Anglo-U. S. Rift. As foreign secretary Balfour came to the United States at the head of the British high commission, almost at the hour America was declaring the exist- ence of a state of war with Germany. ‘The purpose of the envoys, as well as that of similar allied commissions sent here, was to assist the United States in determining the scope of her co-opera- tion with men, money and munitions. Balfour visited President Wilson, ad- dressed both houses of Congress and, by his picture of conditions abroad as well as by his eloquence, did much, it was sald, “to help heal the breach of | 141 years between the United States | and England.” Balfour’s skill as an international diplomatist was shown at the peas table. China had helped the allies the war and yet, when the peace treaty came to be drafted, Shantung, one of China's richest provinces and the birthplace of Confucius, was awarded to Japan. The Chinese blamed Bal- four and declared that it bore out what said of him: “Charm he | Balfour was created an Desire for Winter Home Brings Man One Behind Bars By the Associated Press. PALM BEACH, Fla,, March 10. Anthony Charles, lately of Moline, i1, found himself in need of & Winter home about two weeks ago. He located one and moved in. For a brief time he lived the life of a millionaire, all except the diet, which in his case consisted for the whole two weeks of cheese and bread. He slept in a four- teenth centruy bed. His windows gave him a good view of the ex- clusive Winter colony. Now he has another Winter home. The beds are iron ones. Qol.rethzblnhzv’huznlllook through to get any view at all. Charles’ Winter home belonged to Mrs. W. L. Koehne of Chicago. has in & high degree; but it is an il- lusive charm. He smiles upon his friends and leaves them to the wolves.” At 26 Balfour entered the House of Commons. Everyone was surprised when a few years after his arrival at ‘Westminster he joined forces with the conservative rebel element known as the Fourth Party. Meantime, Balfour was obtaining &n insight into the trade government, by acting as private secre- tary to Lord Salisbury, secretary for foreign affairs. Took Stern Steps in Ireland. After the Liberals had had a long lease of power, Balfour was appointed in 1885 a member of the Salisbury Conservative government, but not of the cabinet as president of the local gov- ernment board. It was only a few months until the Liberals under Gla stone again threw out the Conserv: tives, who, however, turned the table: on their opponents once more in the same year, 1886, when Balfour became, firstly, secretary for Scotland and then chief secretary for Ireland. Ireland at this time, 1887, was in a state of chaos. The “reign of terror” was in full force. Balfour suppressed the disorders by abolishing trial by jury. The people of Ireland detested the |S new administrator and many were the threats against “bloody Balfour,” but he went on until he bagan to display the milder side of his character. evolved the plan of compulsory land rchase for the tenant farmers, whose rebellion had been the outcome of many years of rack-renting and absentee jandlordism, and he introduced & sys- tem of light railroads to assist them in disposing of their produce. Backed U. S. in 1898. An action which did much to strength- en the friendly feeling of the United States for the British was attributed to Balfour during his next term of office. As first lord of the treasury he was tem- porarily taking the place of Lord Salis- bury at the foreign office when the Cuban crisis arose in 1”;., lfie'ufllin 'fl; ropean powers proposed Tvene a W:::flnmn in behalf of the right of Spain to govern her colonies in her own way. Britain was approached, but Bal- four did not fall in with the plan and notified Washington that Britain would not adopt any policy which might be construed as unfriendly to the United After Salisbury’s death Balfour suc- ceeded to the position of premier in 1902. In 1905 the question of tariffs rang the death knell of the Tory ad- ministration and brought about the temporary eclipse of Balfour, but the next year, 1906, he was elected a mem- ber of Parliament from the city of States. ‘He | over a repart printed by the FRANCE AND[TALY HOLD PARLEY KEY Americans Submit Ideas in Hope to Break Present Stalemate. ; By the Associated Pres LONDON, March 19.—The American delegation to the Naval Conference, sticking _ persistently to its slogan, “Never Say Die,” met today to dis- cuss among themselves the Franco- Itallan parity stalemate. It was understood that Ambassador Morrow and Comdr. Harold Train, technical expert, who have been - clally working on this situation, w] threatens to cause at least partial wreckage of the conference, submitted ideas which they thought might afford the basis of discussion between the two European neighbors. It is possible that these schemes will never see the light of day. The diffi- culty is sald to be that the Americans could not with flr.ropnety volunteer their services as mediators between Italy and Prance, although the American dele- gation is understood to be hoping to be invited to intervene by one or the other of the two parties. Lunch With Americans. Observers say that the big problem now is to get the French and Italians to face each other across the confer- ence table. Neither has budged from its or! stand, Italy for naval ity with ch, which France will not concede. What the other delegations now want is to get the French and Italians to discuss any one of numer- ous schemes which have been figured out as a basis for possible compromise. Prime Minister Macdonald and A. V. Alexander, first lord of the admiralty, had lunch at the American headquar- ters today, and it was assumed the Franco-Italian situation came under urvey. The Americans present were Secn{lry Stimson, Ambassadors Dawes and llurro'v_vh -ndd su:cwr M. e During the day there was f Dally Ex- ress that there had been a breach of gnmony over matters connected with the American-Japanese tions. The prime minister was represented as n“mfio en Stimson to task for allowing an alleged misleading im- pression to circulate that Toklo was ready to accept a settlement - tion, and that there mbu:;ll = t.l:: wer agreement shoul F;‘-ncn-l jan problem prove unsolv- able. An American spokesman character- ized this as ‘“simply foolish,” while Prime Minister Macdonald specially di- rected the British spokesman to deny the story. The spokesman told news- rper men that the report was “abso- lutely a three-) WILKINS FINS SEA INPLACE OF LAND Water Covers Area in Which Antarctica Was Thought to Extend. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 10—Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Aretic and Antarctic explorer, returned today from his fourth expedition to Antarctica with the in. formation that he had found only seas where it had been supposed the Ant- arctic_continent extended. With hl:n were his two pilots, Parker Cramer of CI and Al Cheeseman of Behind Charcot Land, he said, the Stefansson Straits, found by him last , continue into sea water, “pushing k the Antarctic continent” about eight d i Oon hg expedition last year, Bir George found that the land di between 60 and 70 west and 62 and 73 south, was an archipelago and not & di- rect continuation of the Antarctic con- tinent, and the expedition this year fur- ther decreased the size of Polar continent, whose boundaries never have been definitely established. He mmt 1,200 miles of n&xflm year’s aerial discovered five talands. PO em an 25 'aboard uary al William Scoresby, a ship owned by :g: British colonial office, Sir George as far south as 70.10. There he took off in the seaplane he had lashed to the ship's after deck, flying to 73 south and 101 west before turning back. It was on this ht he discovered that open water of fansson Straits con- tinues on to the west, where land pre- viously had been thought to exist. CLARENCE DARROW BACK, READY FOR DRY DEBATES Noted Lawyer Says He Has Been Abroad Long Enough to Learn V. 8. Is Friendless. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 19.—OClarence and gratuitously false.” Reed Met Ambassador. Another report, circulated by a Brit- ish news agency, that Ambassador Mat- sudaira had called on Secretary Stim- son to warn him of an impending re- jection by Tokio of the American terms and to give notice of Japanese counter- proj also met with' emphatic American denial. As s matter of fact, it was authori- tatively stated, it was Senator Reed and not Secretary Stimson who met the and did not London and served mainly in that ca- |ican pacity until the outbreak of the great war in 1914 again brought his abilities as an administrator into recognition. Visited U.'S. in 1921, Balfour made his second notable visfi.to the United States i 1921, coming as head delegation to the Wi Arma- ment Conference. Hetook one of the most prominent parts in this epochal assembly and created an excellent im- pression both here and in - England through his efforts to co-operate with the other delegations and bring the conference to a point where actual ac- complishments of international benefit could be recorded. After accepting in principle the pro- posal of Secretary Hughes for a duction in naval armament, and cham. pioning the Prench plan for a curtail- ment of land forces and armament, he used his good offices to bring the Jap- anese and Chinese delegations ther for a settlement of the tangled and delicate Shantung controversy, which had been used as a club in the United States Senate to keep this country out of the League of Nations. Upondmis rett:rn to En proposed for the peerage, cause of his services in the offer. Later, however, he was in- vested with the Order of the Garter, and in March, 1922, at the request of King George, he entered the House of Lords, llhn,"c:he title of Earl of Bal- four and Viscount Traprain of Whit- tingehame. TO RENT $5 Per Month DE MOLL’S USED CARY OURISMAN Cheviolet Sales Co THE FAVOR —one of the many Walk-Over models that use the MAIN' SPRING ARCH A dressy street tie in Beige - Calf. 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