Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 11, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXII—NO. 62 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1920 DEM. SENATORS WAVER AND OBBLE OVER ARTILE TEN Threaten to Break A\fiy From President Wilson and Accept| Hurried From California. the Best Compromise They Can Get—Democratic Lead- ers Are Working to Hold Balk the Compromise—Irreconcilable Republicans Ob- ject to a Modified Draft of the Republican Reservation— Delay of Vote For Several Days is Probable in the Hope Elements Might be More Certain of Their That All Ground. ~Washington, March 10.—The peace] treaty compromise negotiations en- tered a period of fevered uncertainty today, as the time approached for final senate action on Articie 10. Working desperately for an agree- ment, senatorg on both sides of the chamber confounded the plans of their party leaders and threw the senate into such a tangle that it tacitly was agreed to delay vote for several days in the hope that all ele- ments might be more certain of their ground. The hopes of the compromise ad- vocates collapsed and were revived hourly as the day's negot.ationg pro- ceeded in private tonference while debate on the floor dragged on with- out apparent interest o effect. To- night the conferences continued, with some senators hopeful and some hope- less of the outcome, but with no one confident of what might happen. it was the treaty's irreconcilable republican opponents who started the| trouble by remonstrating in a mili-| tant way against the decision of some of their party leaders to assent to a modiled draft of the republican reservation of Article Ten. So ef- fective were their representations that | the leaders virtually dec.ded not to ogqer the new reservation at all. This jetermination gent of the mild! reservation republicans on the war- path and produced confusio» also on the democrat.c side, where senators| labored several days to line up votes; for the republican substitute, Caught; in a cross-fire from reservation re-; publicans and reservation democrats, the republican leaders withheld their | final decision but indicated that they! probably would present the subst tute if assured of enough democratic defections to adopt it. Meantime disagreement among thej democrats became more pronounced, ! partly as a result of a meeling in the office of Senator Owen, democrat,} Okizhoma, at which a number of the democratic senators are understood to bave expressed d'sapproval of -the course of theéir party leaders and to have promised active support ton the moyemeat to break away from Presi-| dent Wilson and accept the best com- promise they could get. ® Among some republican advocates | of compromise it was declared ton'ght that thirty-two democratic votes | could be mustered for the Article Tun1 substitute and there were indica- tions that unless the republcan lead- ers did present it one of the republi- can mild reservationists might do so. It also was suggested that if the re-| publicans abandoned it entirely, it might be presented by a reservation democrat, L While virtually the entire senate membership was occupied with these negotiations, the article ten reserva- tlon technically wis taken up for de- bate in an almost deserted senate chamber. But the irreconcilables were taking no chances that the un- settled situation would result in a stampedc, and they got the floor and | coPk had been made Enough Party Men in Line to kept it, Senators McCormick, repub- lican, Illinois, and Poindexter, re- publican, Washington, occupying the eatire day with aitacks on the treatyy and on the recent utterances of Pres'dent Wilson. | Countering the efforts of the dem- ocratic reservationists, Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, the adminis- tration leader, spent a busy day in conference with his colleagues, seek- ing to holdp enough in line to balk to the acceptance of a distasteful com- promise, He held to his prediction that the compromise movement would fail, though conceded that a large number of democrats were ready to vote with the republican. BRANDEGEE AND M'LEAN ON WILSON’S ARTICLE 10 LETTER (Special to The Buletin) Washington, March 9.—After the letter of the president to Mr. Hitch- public Senator Brandegee was asked what he thought its effect would be. “The president has strangled his own child,’ he re- plied. “He has killed the treaty by insisting mot the slightest change| shall be made even to the dotting of an i or crossing of a t as he once said."” 8 Senator McLean went more into de- tail and in reply to #: same ques- tion by The Bulletn correspondent, said: “I hope those who are in favor of a league of nations, will carefully note| the following extracts from Presidenti W.lson's letter to Senator Hitchcock. | In discussing the character of res- | ervations to Article 10, which would be unobjecfionable, he says: | 1 “There can be no objection to ex- plaining again what our constitu- tional method is and that our con- gressg alone can declare war or de- tefm'ne the causes or occasions for war, and that it alone can authorize the use of the armed forces of the United States on land or on the sea.” This is precisely what the Lodge reservations accomplish, and no more, They simpy remove all doubt} as to the right of congress to deal with disputes which may result in war or necessitate coercion. % Again, the presdent says, in dis- cussing the reservations proposed to Article 10: “For my own part, I am not will- ing ‘to trust to the counsel of diplo- mats the working out off any sal- vation’ of the world from \he things which it has suffered. This is just what the League of Nations does, and_ no less. It sur- renders the soveréignty of the United States to an exetutive council com- posed of nine irresponsibe diplo- mats, eight of them aliens and hos- tile to the .interests of the United States, 7 The rest of the letter is 2 medley of “sounding brass and tinkling cym- bals” but the extracts quoted clearly reveal an astonishing lack of cem- prehension or sincerity, or both, on the part of their author.” ON TRIAL FOR TRYING TO BRIBE A REVENUE AGENT New York, March 10.—The defense in the trial of Jay A. Weber, Secre- tary of the Pictorial Review Company, charged with trying to bribe an inter- nal revenue agent to falsify income tax reports Involving $300,000, today sought to amgck the credibility as a witness of Nathanial W. Gropper, to whom the bribe Is alleged to have been offered. Gropper testified that Hints for money to Weber under the pretense of alleviating pressing personal financial demands were made at the advice of his bureau superiors. He admitted simultaneous member- ships under assumed names in two rival political clubs during the local 1917 mayoraily race and in answer to questions coneerning relatiory; with companies he investigated, said he had been given the use of a motor car by one concern while he was auditing its books for the government. DALAYMPLE DETERMINED TO ENFORCE PROHIBITION Chicago, March 10.—Major A. V. Dalrymple, federal prohibition officer for the central states, today issued a statement in which he defied “public officials” who, he said, by their ac- tions, hindered enforcement of prohi- bition, and stated that no orders ever were received from Washington pro- hibiting officias from seizing liquor withovt warrants. “Reports that there are orders pro- hibiting us from making arrests with- out warrants are not true,” said Major Dalrymple. “We know what rights we have and we intend to enforce the law. 1 kelped draft the prohibition enforcement act. If the district attor- ney refused to prosecute our cases, we will find seme one who will.” ARRANGEMENTS MADE TO BRING BACK 3,000 POLES Warsaw, March 7.—The% American legation has been informed that plans have been completed for the transpor- tatfon to the United States of 3,000 of General Haller's troops, most of them naturalized Americans from Poland, who enlisted in the United States and fought -in France and were brought to Poland after the armistice was signed. Poland has agreed to trans- port the men to Danzig, where they will embark on the steamer Antigon at the American government's ex- pense. A DESTROYER NAMED IN HONOR OF PEARY Washington, March 10.—An Amer- destroyer has been named ry” in honor of the late Rear Ad- Robert E. Peary, the man who | the North Pole. The ves- being bullt at Philadeiphia and| lauached soon. HEARING, ON COMPENSATION TO FORMER SERVICE MEN ‘Washington, March 10.—A bond' issue ~to pay adjusted compensation | to former service men, Republican Leadér Mondel of Wyoming, told the house ways and means committee to- day, would “ongineer a panic and' send_prices ballooning.” He opposed any relief legislation at this time on the ground that heavy additional taxes would be necessary whatever plan of relief was adopted. “I don't believe we can issue bonds” Mr. Mondell said. “If they were intended for investment they owuld threaten the specie basis of currencs A popular dssue woul§ have al the ill-effects of an 1 f inves ment issue, besides inflating cur- rency. “Extension of financial relief is utterly impossible unless the people are willing to stand heavy additional taxes. A consumption tax, always unpopular, is the only tax which could be collecteq from month to inonth, producing revenue continu- ously.” Representative Swope, repubican, Kentucky, urged adoption of a bill! granting an extra year's pay to all those in the service, except thosé who :{rvetd less t‘}:an two months. He.es- imatedq such a plan would r an outlay of $1,300,000. eq‘fh-e The cash payment plan of the American Legion for $50 for each month of service was : endorsed by Major A. B. Critchfield, infantry school, firmerly of Akron, Ohio. Soldier relief also came up in the senate, where opponents of such legislation outnumbered those advo- cating it. WIRELESS PHONE BETWEEN BALLOON AND MOTOR TRUCK New York, March 10.—Conversa- tion by wireless telephone between passengers in a navy “Blimp” and a motor truck stationed at BEroadway and Forty-second street, during an exhib tion flight over the city today wag herd by persons standing around the truck at a distance of ten to fifteen feet. Hearing the voices from the occupants of the car attacheq to the gas bag was possihle, it was ex- plained, through a recently devised receiving apparatus. MEDALLIONS FOR PRINCE . OF WALES AND KING ALBERT New York, March 10.—Through Mrs. Douglas Robinson, sister of Colonel Theodore Riosevelt, the Wo- men's Roosevelt Memorial Asso- ciation has presented to the Prince of Wales and the King of the Belgians, bronze medallions in commemoration of their visits to the grave of the former president at Oyster Bay. The medallions have been sent ' to the embasgsies in Wadshington for trans- mission overseas with official mail, 1S now ‘about 280 marks to the poustd R.tfies S:ffrage Deciding Vote Cast by Sena- tor Block of Wheeling, Who Charleston, W, Va., March 10.—The West Virginia legislature ratified the suffrage amendment late this after- noon. ¥inal action on the amendment was -taken by the ,senate in adopting tae ratification resolution of the house of delegates by a vote of 15 to 14. The vote of Senator Jesse A. Block of Wheeling, who made a hurried trip from California to Charleston to vote on the amendment, was effectual in breaking the deadlock between pro and_ anti-suffrage forces. Senator A. R. Montgomery -was not perfitted tw vote, his seat having been declared vacant. The final vote on the Anthony amendment was taken at 6.15 o'clock in the senate after one of the most dramatic . sessions. .ever witnessed in either house of the legisiatuve. For several “hours - suffrage learders and their opponents fought in an effort to gain a definite advantage. IBach step by cither side was hotly contested— anti-suffrage forces determined to off- set their opponents’ victories in keep- ins the legislature in session and the suifragists confident of gaining a ma- jority to ratify by the vote of Senator who had rushed nearly across a ‘nent for the occasion. Ay first, occupants of the galleries tock more interest in the Wheeling scnator. Soon, however, interest was diverted to issues featuring the con- tast These included the actiort of the s rate in declaring vacant the seat of Scnator A.- R. Montgomery, depriving | hiin of the vote which would have de- feated ratification and the taking up and adopting of the ratification reso- lution of the lower house,' without amending the senate rules, one week after the senate’s vole defeating its uwn resolution on the same subject. Halls and corridors in the state- house were thronged with spectators, including scores of men and women who wore yellow flowers as a token of their allegiatce to the suffrage cause The senate chamber presented a col- orful picture with vellow flowers and ribbons. Kach senator had brousht to | He his desk as many chairs as coul crowded about it, the majority 1 occupied by women. In addition, | every available inch of space of the chamber was utilized for spectators. When President Sinsel rapped for or- der it was necessary to clear the aisles for the pages, and the space had to be cleared often thereafter. 2 As champions of one cause or the other appeared, occupants of the gal- lery broke into cheers. Once or twice in the course of Senator Gribble’s ad- dress in behalf of Senator Montgom- ery, whose vote the anti-suffragists needed, there were bursts of applause which .were stopped.only after vigor- ous rapping by the president. A few minutes after adjournment hundreds of men and women started a demonstration in the corridors, many of them having tin horns. Those without the horns addeil to the din by cheering. = | Tn Charleston tonir§ therc was no | evident intention of rage advoeates celebrating their vietory in making West Virginia the thirty-fourth stata | to ratifv the Susan B. Anthony| amendment. ; 1 N. Y. POLICE QFFICIALS SUBPOENAED IN VICE PROBE New York, March 10. — Subpoenas were issued by the district attorney’s office today for Chief Police Inspector | fihu Daly and Police Inspector Thomas cDonald in connection with the in- vestigation into alleged wholesale vice conditions in this city. Subpoenas‘ also were issued for important city records which Assistant District At- torney James E. Smith thinks will $e of material assistance in the grand jury investigation now under way. Judge Malone in general sessions to- day denied a motion for a reduction from $15,000 to $5,000 in the bail of Jennie¢ Burke and Kitty Daly, d as material witnesses in the investiga- tion, which already has res#ted in the indictment of Detective John J. Gunson. In an affidavit field with the court, Assistant District Attorney Smith al- leged that the two women have stead- fastly refused to reveal important facts relating to the Gunson case, and that he believes ‘their refusal is “due to influence and pressure brought to bear on them.” If the women are released except on substantial bail, Mr. Smith added, he fears they will be spirited out .of the city or forced, to dodge giving their testimony. N GERMAN MARK EXCHANGE RISE FROM 270 TO 295 London, March 10.—The reception ! by the exchange market of the su- preme council’s -general, findings on the economic situation was somewhat qualified today by the absence of im- mediate palliative measures. The fact of the recognition that Germany must be supplied with raw materials and credits in order to prevent her collapse was considered a good point, and the German mark ex¢hange appreciated to 270 against 295 yesterday, to which point it had been brought dowa from 350 a few days ago under speculative buying. The rate is still unsettled and sterling. . New York cables in sympathy with the New York foreign exchange mar- ket moved early to $3.65 for the pound sterling, which is now easier, while Paris and Brussels rates appreciated | fractionally. - FAMOUS GERMAN PRAINING SCHOOL FOR CADETS CLOSER, Berlin, March 10.—The chief train- ing school for cadets at Grosslichter- felde, Prussia, through which most of the officers of the German army pass- ed, was closed today in accordance with the terms of the peace treaty. There was an imposing military de- monstration attended by a number of officers in gala uniform, including Gen- eral Ludendorff. -‘ Fiéld Marshal Von Hindenburg tele- graphed to the cadeis’ that the ser- vices they had rendered the country would never be forgotten. BIG RELEASE OF LEAF * TOBACCO THIS WEEK Lacrosse, Wis., March 10.—Millions of dollars worth of leaf tobacco, held in growers' sheds in western Wiscon- sin all winter as a result-of dry, cold weather, will be released for market- ing this week, follow.ng the first thaw of the winter, it was announced today. Casing weather is two months late, {ounce in London, compared with 1138 Tva[egfi'flture ] Condéfised___leiegramj A report from Peru of War has resigned. s the Minister Shipping Board ‘started negotiations for sale cf Shipyard No. 2 at Seattle. “Bar silver was quoted at $1.28 in New York compared with 77 5-8d in Londen. According to military experts, White Ruthenia is now effectively cut off from Moscow. Gold was quoted at 114s 6d a fi 6d at last clese, Pittsburgh police seized 36 cases of standard bonded whiskey, said to be vaiued at $6,000. Sale of seven 3,000-ton freighters to foreign corporations was announced by the Shipping Board. Five firemen weir: overcome while | fighting a blaze in Baitimore. of $300,000 is reported. A loss Paris quoted the American dollar at 113 franes 85 cents, compared with 14 francs at previous close. Several hundred persons are dead and thousands homeless as a result of an earthquake in Tiflish. Louis Titus requ=sted President Wil- son to withdraw his nomination as a member of the Shipping Board. Sale of sevan freighters of about $,000 tons each to foreign corporations was announced by the Shipping Board. Cartarst Oil Refining Co. plant of Rooseveit, N. J.,, was a total loss after a fire which caused $250,000 damage. Minister of Transpert Farreri, ltaly, announced that merchants desiring to go o Russia would receive his sup- port. Glenn Shockey, cashier of the South H Kansas City, was killed by who tried to hold up the Unmarried men who pay no munici- pal taxes in Youngston, Ohio, wiil be taxed at about the rate of 20 cents a month. Albert F. Potter, associate forester, gned, following the resignation of Word was received from Mexico that the Government stipulated that owners of mines in Mexico must pay taxes by March 11. Press reports to the Paris Matin report the docks at Oran, Algeria, were swept by fire, incurring a loss of 30,- 000,000 francs, A deficit of 20,000 tons of coal daily will be the resuit of the miners’ strike in northe France, according to the Petit Parisian. Newton “D. "Bakér declared title in the Govérnment-owned terminals in the port of New Kk ought to be re- {tained by the United States. Edward A. Curti®s of Torrington has been adjudged insane by a special commission, appointed by Governor Holeomb. It’ was announced. United States District Court for the District of New Jersey upheid the con- stitutionality of the 18th Amendment 4nd the Volstead enforcement act. Spanish Gendarmes fired on a dis- orderly crowd in the village of Alo- marte near Granada, causing several casualties among the demonstratork. J. B. Malloy, a grand vice-president tenance-of-way employes un- red there will be no strike of the 378,000 workers in that organiza- tion, British EBoard of Trade report shows #mperts into the United Kingdom in- creased £63,440,601, while exports in- creased £36,049.079, as compared with last year. Senator Poindexter, Republican, of ‘Washington, cand.date for President, wiil leave Friday for a speaking tour in New York State, South Dakota and Michigan, Hundreds of lumber shipments for the United States involving millions of feet are heid up in the Otiawa Valley as a result of an unprecedented car shortage. Eight patients are dead and another is believed to be fatally burned in a fire which partially destroyed the male ward of the State Epileptic Hospital at Gallopolis, Ohio. The will of th> late Admiral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the North Pole, was filed for probate in Washington, Mrs. Peary received about $90,000, with some real estate. The Boston and Maine Railroad, which has been the ~“worst sufferer from ice and snow resulting from the blizzord of last Saturday is rapidly ap- roaching nermal conditions. Japanese foreign officc declares an early resumption of commercial rela- tions with the Soviet government will be made, preliminary to a formal re- cognition of the Soviet as a de facto government. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., will be called as a witness in the Assembly's investigation of the Anti-Saloon Lea- gue. It is reported he pays William H. Anderson, superintendent of the Aati- Saloon League, $15,000 a year. Opposition to United States Senator G. M. Hitchcock as a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination was expressel by William J. Bryan, in a statement made public here by his brother, Charles W..Bryan. Brands Wson Letter| s Unjust to France Andre Tardisu Says the Re- proach of Imperialism Can- not Apply to France. Paris, March 10.—Andre ' Tardieu, who was a member of France's dele- gation in the peace conference, said today regarding President Wilson'’s letter t5 Senator Hitchcosk: “French public opinion will be in ac- cord with that of the government that the reproach of imperialism cannot apply to France. It is net upon the | peace treaty that such a reproach can {be based. The treaty was judged and defined by President Wilson himself, in solidarity with the heads of the other governments, in the response addressed by them on June 16, 1919, to Count Von Brockdorff-Rantzau, the head of the German peace delegation “That was a capital document,” said M. Tardieu, who recalled that it in- formed the Germans that the peace proposed was “fundamentally a peace of justice” and that it provided “a basis upon which the people of Europe could live together in friendship and equity.” M. Tardieu continues: “Neither is it on the present pol- icy of France that one can base the reproach of imperialism against her. Fault is found with us, it appears, for having more soldiers in our army than before the war. That is notour fault. Our object is to diminish by all pos- sible means our military burden.. “But this is the situation: First— We asked that part of the League of Nations create an organized armed force as an gssential condition of d: armament in the nt countr; Our proposition was rejected three different times. “Secondly the United States prom- ised their guarantee in case of un- provoked attack, as well by the treaty of Versailles as by the special treaty between them and us, and néither of those treaties is ratified. “Third—The treaty of Versailies im- posed upom the aiiied and associated powers a certain number of comunon | military duties—occupation of the left bank of the Rhine, Schleswig, Dan- zig, Memel, Allenstein, ®Marienwerder, Upper Silesia and Teschen. Except- ting a few thousand Americans on the Rhine, it is French troops which everywhere bear that charge alone. The treaty was to be executed by sev- | leral. We are executing it nearly alone. “Fourth—The negotiations in Paris had in view pagticipation by all the allied and associated powers in the occupation of mandate territories. Here, again, the United States disap- peared, apd to pretect the populations against massacres in Constantinople, Anatolia, Arme! and Gilicia it was again French that was called upon. “Therefore, I repeat, it is unjwst to accuse us of imperialism. No one in France protests against the coatinual increase of the American navy. Our army like the American navy, is what circumstances require it _to be and it is not JFrance that created those cir- cumstdfices. It is the debate going on for -months in the United States over ratification of the peace treaty that created them. Everyone knows| my réspect for President Wilson, but I think that in his last letter to Sena- | tor Hitchcock he has been unjust to France.” CAILLAUX CLAIMS A TRAP WAS LAID FOR HIM IN ITALY Paris, March 10.—Only two witness- es were heard today at the trial of Former Premier Joseph Caillaux be- fore the senate as a high court on the charge of intriguing to promote a dis- honorable and premature peace with Germahy. They were Charles Roux, counsellor of the French embassy at Rome, and Commandant Noblemaire, formerly military attache at the same embsssy. Their testimony as to the activities of the accused in Italy in 1916 was of such a character that the former pre- mier appeared much perturbed at several points and towards the end of the day he gave signs of weakening from the strain of the proceedings. He recovered "his poise ultimately, how- ever, and finished the day in appar- ently good spirits. M. Roux swore that Caillaux’s re- lations in Italy were confined to pa- cifists, the former premier associating exclusively with men at present under indictment on the charge of having had intelligence with the enemy. The witness added that Caillaux was not a victib of imprudence hut had chosen his suspected companions . advisedly which was the reason why the em- basy had not warned him as it had done in the case of Deputy Leboucq. a few months before, when the latter was frequenting the same company. M. Caillaux laid emphasis on the fail- ure of the embassy to warn him and said that if he had been forewarned he would have ceased his relations | with the pacifists immediately. “The embassy was under the im- pression that 1 was in Italy for no good purpose,” said M. Caillaux. “It thought I was in Italy on treason bent and laid a trap for me. It wanted to get me and in order to do so was willing to jeopardize the security of France and give me time to accom- plish a separate peace, had it ever for a2 moment entered my mind to do SENATOR KEY PITTMAN DECLINED TO BE DELEGATE Washington, March 10.—Senator Key Pittman said today that the ac- tion of the Nevada democratic cen- tral committee in not choosing him a delegate to the national convention was at his own suggestion. % “I notified the central committee,” Senator Pittman said, “that under no -circumstances would I permit my name to be presented as a candmate! for delegate, nor would I accept such a place if chosen. I have re- | ceived a telegram from a ‘member of the committee saying that after re- ceipt of my request my name was not considered.” Both Senator Pittman and Senator ‘The “big five” packers were praiSed before the House Agricultural Commit- tee while stock raisers were denounc- ed as a “dissatisfied bunch who are trying to make money by keeping op- erations of 40 years ago in vogue.” United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals at St. Louis reversed the verdict by “which Mrs. Rese Pastor Stokes, wealthy New York Socialist, was con- victed of espionage in Kansas City, June, 1918., She will be given a new trial. v AccuSing Americans. in Mexico of inducing laborers to come to the United States, the Carrazna Government threatened to expel all such agents. It is stated that Mexico féars the coun- try will lose 500,000 laborers by.such means, . Henderson said they had asked not to be chosen delegates because they expected to attend the convention in any event and preferred thai the| places on the delegation go to their friends. l DECREASE OF LOANS IN NINTH RESERVE DISTRICT Minneapolis, Minn., March 10, — Loans in the ninth federal reserve dis- trict have decreased ‘$20,000,000 since January 1, it was announced by the bank today. The loans on January 1, totaled $74,000,000. Finanecial liquida- tion is proceed satisfactorily throughout the district - despite car shortage which affected . payment of Young, governdr of the bts, R. A inth Federal Reserve Bank, announc- H “BE MADE 10 FURTHER LOANS ARE 1O 10 THE ALLIES Treasury Dzpartment Seems Disposad to Ailow Debtor Na- tions to Defer Interest Payments For Three Years , More, in View of th= Exchange Situation and the Unset- tled Economic Condition of th: Europsan Nations—At 5 Per Cent. th: Total Interest Due the United States Yearly is About $470,000, ‘Washington, March 10.—Announce- ment by Secretary, Houston that ro further loans would be made to the al- lies was believed tonight to indieate the adoption by the treasury depart- ment of the policy favored by the debtor nations of dereffing interest payments for the next three years or more. Under authority granted by «con- gress to.exténd $10,000.000,000 credits to the allied nations, the treasury has made loans &mounting to $9,659,834,- 649. . " Treasury officials said that in v of the exchange situation® and the un- settied conditions of t tions during the reconstruction period, it seemed advisable to permit them to postpone interest payments for at least three years. Then, it is belicvell they would ‘be in a position to meet their obligations. With the interest on the loans com- > European na- | B C00. puted at five per cent., the total dl( the United States yearly. $470,000.000. on the amount to only .is . abost If interest is funded iné to long-term obligatiens, the interes payments thus referred U $23,000.000 y‘u which can be paid and the credit, of the debtor nations maintained. Treas- ury officials are working on rccome mendations to submit to to the course to be followed re permitted. has been suggested that the in- est on the interest be charged ol pa tere nZress s delerxpd but the proposal has met with strong opposition in corgress. America’s chief debiors are Greal with vith $3.047,974, ,338.986. $4,277,000.000; Fratics 77 and Italy with §i- Belgium’s debt s $34%- 445,000 and Russia is charged with $18 729,750. Rumania, Serbia, G ), Cuba, Czechoslovakia and Liberia are the other countries listed on the books of the treasury. ‘BASIS FOR DOMINION'S - NAVAL ESTABUSHME?\T Ottawa, March 10.—Canada should have for the protection Of her ports alone “three Jight cruisers, one flo- tilla leader, twelve torpedo craft, eight submarines and one parent ship,” Adm:ral Vistount Jellicoe de- clared in his report_to parliament on the Dominion’s naval needs, made “public in the house of commons to- day. He recommended administra- tion of Canada's navy by a “nay board” similar to the present mili- tia council, with a * ter for the navy” responsibe solely for the fig}_ll- ing arm of the government service ang answerable for his administra- tion to parliament. ~ Four suggestions were made on a possible naval buildiug plan for Can- ada, ranging from a $25,000,000 ficet to one costing $5.000,000. Ie empha- sized the importance of naval air service stating that any navy to be complete must possess its “proper complement” of aircraft. As a basis for the Dominion’s naval establishment, Admiral Jelll- coe suggested the “fleet unit” of one battle cruiser, two light cruisers, six _destroyers, four submarines and two fleet mine sweepers. . Naval assistance of the United States during the war, in the shape of cruisers, destroyers and othér small vessels in assisting in the convoy of trade ships .alowed Great Britain to pursue “some_of her overseas expe- ditions,” Admiral Jellicoe srid.. . He recommended continuation the Royal Naval Canadian .Volunteer Reserve under the name of the Roy- al Canad’an Naval Reserve. The admiral’'s report was tabled in the commons by. C. C. Ballantyne, minister of the mnaval service. of | HOUSE REJECTS PLEAS - QF “LITTLE ARMY" MEN ‘Washington, March 10.—Pleas of “little army” men to reduce military expenses were rejected today by : house, which approved a establishmnt of 299,000 enlisted men and 17,820 officers, after re; three proposals for a smailer fortg. The decision, though not final, was reached by a'three to one vote, ing supporters of the army reorgkh \ization Dill to believe that It virtuat- ly settled the peace ;une P In addition to authorizing a regh: provide lar army 100,000 stronger than ed by the national defense act of 1916, the house also accepted a lesson of the world war by adopting the prinei- ple of permitting the tactical organ- izations of the army to be prescril by the president instead of by law. Likewise, it approved of making arate corps of the alir service, % chemical warfare service and the fi- nance department, but refused to vorce the transportation and the can- struction services from the quartets master department. Representative Dent, Alabama, ranking democratic member of ¢ military committee, opened.the et B txllx'gfll:mmu’n‘l strength ment to e 226,000 men and -34.200 ‘officers 14,200 defeated, 79 to 25, and soon ATt resentative Jones, sought to fix the force at 205,000 Represen and failed, 55 to 22. Herrcld, republican, Oklshoma, 7e- newed the attack, to cut the proposing army to 150,000 ‘men." He' was beaten, without a record vote. CHAMP CLARK ADVOCATES UNINSTRUCTED DELEGATES Washington, March 10, — LIQUOR SMUGGLING LEADS TO SHOOTING New York, March 10. — The first series of disturbances waterfront occurred longshoresman slightly wounded by a customs guard shooting in a along New York’s liquor &muggling when a negro ov! tonig! who alleged the negro attempted escape from a pier with whiskey tak- en from the steamer Morro Castle, re- cently arrived from Havana. A policeman caught the fleeing ne- gro, but finding no liquor in his pos- arrested William Ratan, guard, on a charge of felonious as- officials, found more than 130 bottles of liquor session, sault. Customs howeve! concealed on the Morro Castle. THREATENED BY ICE GORGE THREATENED WITH ICE GORGE Port Deposi grounds. Licutenant Studler dropped several 550 pound E. N. T. airplane into the heart of the jam. He Md., March 10— ice gorge which has been threat this town showed slight signs of loos- cning today under the combined at- tack of warmer atmosphere and bomb- {ing from the airplane of Lieutenant Rene Studler, from Aberdeen proving bombs from his reported that after each expiosicn great agitation was visible. Late in pound bombs. the afterndon Studler made flights below where he broke up clear ice with the jar SALE OF OLIVES IN GLASS CONTAINERS PROHIBITED ' Helena, Mont., glass contain Java, Montana, March 10.—Sale linus several months ago." FORUR AIRPLANES TO BE : USED IN CARRYING ORE Vancouver, B. C., March 10.—Four was the The ing Lieutenant of ripe olives and olive preparations in s is prohibited in Mon- tana by a decision of the state board of health. This action was taken as a result of the deaths of five persons at from baclius botu- Champ Clark of Missouri, candidate for the presidential nomination eight © yeara ago, came out unequivocably today for election of uninstructed’ delegates to the democratic national convention. Opposing use of his name as & candidate in the Georgia lerential primaries, Mr. Clark. d that while no man would “declihe & pres- idential nomination tendered by & great party,” the essential to do was to have a convention, unfettered by pledges, adopt a “thoroughly dem- ocratic platform,” and then } the best democrat to be found. Mr. Clark's views were in a letter to Hiram L. Gardner, _of Eatonton, secretary of the Georgia democratic committee. HELME TESTIFIES IN NEWBERRY ELECTION TRIAL Grand Rapids, Mich, March ¥.— James W. Helme, who, it has been tastified, ~was “worked” to run | against Henry Ford in the 1918 dem- ocratic primary, presented his story to the grand jury-today in the New-, berty election tria. Mr. Helme his own attorney and his testiiday at one time met a unanimous objeg- tion from both the defense and gov- ernment attorneys. . Except for such points as may be developed in the cross-examink- tion of Paul King, the defense today closed its case. - Only -a brief _gov- ernment_rebuttal -isin -prospecl a Judge Clarence W. Sessions told jurors that the senq of the case was apparently . in _sight. . - “GENTLEMAN BART" ARRESTED FOR PAY ROLL ROBBER¥ ‘Toledo, Ohio, March 10. by Chicage police with nnid-q.:r.‘un‘ in a pay roll robbery there and later jump'ng his bonds, A. F. Brennsn, 24, alias Jimmie Dunn, alias “Gen- tlemap Bart”, was returned to Chica- go_today from that city. He was arrested ast night «in"d downtown hotel. He walived extra- dition today. THe officer who-return. ed the suspect said his prisoner wis 2 former pal of Smiling Jack O‘Brien, hanged recently for the mur- er ht to T, al m, airplanes are to be used this summer | in carrying ore from mines of the | Granby Mining Company twelve miles to tidewater at Stewart, B. C., it was announced today. Eackr plane will carry 1,000 pounds of ore a trip, The freight charges, it is estimated. will be reduced fifty per cent. by airplane transportation. ACQUITTED ON CHARGE OF - ~lv!l(:!lleG STOLEN .GOODS| New York; March 10.—Emil and| Litchenfels, Bronx grocers, who were arrested March 3 chargeq with suspicion -of having received stolen goods after $100,000 worth of silk, jewelry and other artic] were found in their warehouse, wer¢ discharged in court today. The police admit- ted there was no evidence that the der of a policeman, CHIEF YEOMAN HINTON 1S MISSING IN MEXICO March 10, — Chist El Paso, Tex: Yedman K. G. Hinton, of the El Pasq aa.w recruiling station, is missing [exico, according to. reports made Lieutenant J. B. Hupp to the con consul at Juarez. Hinton, whase bome is in Chicago, was last seen fn Juarez whil, evisiting -there- according to Hupp. Saturday, OBITUARY. Miss. Mary Colman Whecler. Providence, R. L. “March® 10.—Miss Mary Colman Wheeler, founder and for more than thirty years the head of Miss Wheeler's school, goods had been stolen. ROSTON COUPLE DROWNED IN UNDERTOW AT MIAMI preparatory institution for di & Nege ldr'hmhce jed today from injuries recelved “a" month ago in_a fall. Miss Wheeler was born in Mass., and studied in Berlin and is after having taught. in the ccrd schools for two. years. - S5 g She wh Miami, Fla., March 10.—Joshua |tablished Miss Wheeler's' School (& Seabier, Boston glue manufacturer,|18%9. She was a deiegate from NIy and his wife were drowned here to- dap. C the undcrtow while in swimming, they were swept out to sea. country to the Congress of Scheois in_ Paris in l}“_'lgd. o B 1904 B