Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 12, 1921, Page 1

VOL. LXIlI—NO. 300 ~ POPULATION 29,685 COMJECTURE CONCERNING ~ THE ANGLO-RISH TREATY Hnterest Centers in Pending Action by Dail Eirann, Which is to Meet Wednesday—It is Believed That Eamonn De Valera and His Supporters Will Put Up a Stiff Fight' A i Against Ratification of the Treaty—Present Indications Favor a Narrow Margin a Probable Reference toa in Favor of Acceptance, With Plebisgite of the Irish People— Ratification by the English Parliament is Considered Quite Safe—Attitude of London, Dec. 11.—(By the A. P)—In |absence of any new move and awaiting )important developments of the coming |week, the press and public are engag’d_ in |estimating the ‘chances in the pending = wle for and against the new Irish treaty. Those best informed see no reason to dify their view that the treaty will s accepted by the Irish people, but are lined to take a less sanguine view of its chances in Wednesday's Dail Eireann bmeeting \ It 1s belidved that Eamonn De Valera nd his supporters will be -able to put un ln stiff fight. He will have powerful aid rom Charlgs Burgess, the minister of fdefense, who is eloquent and persuasive, Iwhila the brunt of the defence of the ‘;z—n,m- is likely to fall on Michael Coilin2, o in the opinfon of some writers, will imself zreatly handicapped by all imentary things the English press has ben saying about him since the settlement was reached. Present indicatiors favor a narrow ma- 3 and probable refer- . © a rlebiscito of the Irish people. h parliament ratification is dered quite mafe. s admitted that Andrew aw, even it mot' approving all the ses of the treaty has Cecided to'ac- it in principle, or, at least, not to b fal oppesition, his view be- s sufficiently protected priv of contracting out. small hody of “die hards” in the ; commons numering ab:ut 50 had Bonar on Mr. Ponar Law, and their n n to the treaty is likely to evap- or:e measureably. wanting this ald r Lloyd George has been util week-end at Chequers Court in of spoech for delivery in the houge of commons. Ife to speak for an hour ani werful plea. for the ved that debate will aded more edily than was at 1ght possihle and that the treaty v ed and the s»szimn clo: the end of the weak. The gnecessary lati n to give effect to the settlemen will b introduced a: the new gesslon in ry mes Cralg the Ulster premier, s been conferring with the prime in London, returned to Belfast tonight. but no denits expression of Ulster's atiftude is looked for until the b of the treaty in the hands of the ireann ts kncwn. pecting reports that Ulster is de- iine some financial cconeessions on similar to the privileges Southern ill get under ths treaty, Sir s tevenson Horne, chancellor of o euer in a sjench at New Castle Faturday expressed the conviction tha‘ no ree hle Ulster tatesman wou'd think of claiming a lower rate of taXa- tion for Plster than oncrated in New Cas- Glasgow. This siim& to .cut Mster getting sach relief ing into the treaty arters importance is attachel reon’s (formerly Sir BEdwarl me oprosition to the treaty, Ulsterites evidently still kope will ehampicn their cause. He o this effectively, however, by his post as lord of appeals and of wolities, which 1s now con- or bremier. on leaving tonight anything about tre set- | ave arrarged with my friends side” he ex ined, “that will sirietest reserve, ard in the 2l and anxious time I think will best serve the imte- fot all concern.” Midlaton, leader of the Southern Jetter to Premier Liova 1ng him for the Information in a tter from Arthur Grif- the Southern unionists would share of representation in the the Irish parliament n that In ncocrdance with the ‘s pledges and terms of th> certain question sh-uld be the ubject of an agreed settliement before “gransfer of powers to the new gov- n nt of Treland These questi-ns in- 1de he completion of the land purchase, & ouestion £f dual taxation in the two es and provision for comnensation Por losses during the late unrest in Ire- - There was no attendance of the Dail Fireann cabinet memwbers at the Mansion $ouso in Dublin today, ut the meac: gettlemert was referred to in most rf the qrish churches. An interesting problefm has arisen as 4o whether the four unonfst members for Dublin University, in at- tending the Dail Eireann meeting Wed- nesday, will be challenged to ake the oath of alleglance to the Sinn Fein, Tt §s declared they will refuse if so chal- tenged. o x- her of Lt ] NF DEFEATED DE VALERA MAY MAY RFSUME PROFESSORSHIP London, Dee. 12.—The Dafly News gays it learns that if Eamonn De Vale- ya I8 convineed that Ireland is against and with regard to the peace treaty me his professorship in May- nooth eoilege and not lead the opposition in the Irish parlfament. LOMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY AMERICAN ARMS DELEGATES Washington, Dec 11 (By the A. P.) — An analysis of the mass of memorial petitions and regolutions which had been yeceived by the American delezates to the arms conference up to Dec. 1 indicated that they voiced the sentiments of more than 6,535.000, the general information sections of the advisory committee sald today. Numbers of communications continue 10 arrive daily, it was said. The communications received to the first of the month were tabuiated as fol- Jows: ‘Advocates of complete disarmament, 1.253; advocates of limitation without the co-operation of other powers, 1,11; ndvocates of co-onerative guided by benevolence and liber: by 840 ; advocates on co-operative limita- left with eonfidence to the judgment limitation.; made plain that the discre: Ulster Remains Problematical. of the delegation, 6.501,436; advocates of limitation with caution, 1,001; against limitation, none; those who beseech di- vine guidance for the delegates in fol- lowing policy, 5,011,620 ; those who espe- cially request that disarfnament be made the principal issue. 499,620, .and “tnose who especially advocate an association of nations, 38,406. INSTRECTIONS FROM JAPAN ON THE NAVAL RATIO QUESTION ‘Washington, Dec. 11 (By the A, P.).— Instructions from Tokio regarding the decision of the Japanese government Gn the naval ratio question are in the hands of the Japanese delegation. The nature of the communication was not made known, but it was fndicated tonight that further meetings of the Big Three prob- ably will be necessary before Japan's stand on the 5-5-3 capital ship ratio will be announced definitely The idea prevailed tonight in well fn- formed eircles that Tokio did not regard the arrangement as to strength of naval bases and fortifications in the western Pacific as completed and that further| conversations on this point as well as| upon the question of the retention of the Mutsu may be necessary. Meantime, authoritative Japanese here are talking of the pofible termination of the conference before tile end of the year. The concensus of ovinion in that quarter was said to be that the success of the conclusion of the guadruple treaty con-| cerning the Pacific will soon be followed by an equally definite and harmonious agreement as to naval limitations. BELIEVE. YE VALERA HAS SACRIFICED HIS London, Dac. 11.—“Thefe is belleve, says a despatch to don Times from Dublin, that members of the Balfast business comm: nity have been in communication with the Sinn Féin leaders. It is assumed thi has been with the object of learnirg how far the south would go in the matter of safeguards.” The despatcn adds: “Reports from re- liable agents in all parts of the country CAREER reason to ! the Lon- important 1 (Continued on Page Three, Col. Five) RAILROAD SHOP LABORERS APPEAL TO THE LABOR BOAKD New York, Dec. 11.—Represenatives of 35,000 maintenance of way and railroad shop laborers throughout the countrv vi-t- ed here today to reject any wage re tion propo: by the roads and anpeal to the railroad lahor d on December 19 fir increases ranging upward from 17 per cent. The increases to be asked by the work- erg would raise the scale of nmaintenance of way men from 40 to 48 1-2 centsan hour and ten cents an hour to the scale now paid all foremen and laborers in me- chanical departments. Charges that the Erie sought to evade rulines railroad had <f the United States railroad labor board by “farminz out”. work to outslde contractors, were made in the form of resolutions adopted teday by the New York district council of the maintenance of way and Railroad Shop Laborers’ Union. The resolutions were ordered present- ed to te board in Chicago at a hearing un Decerrber 19, by Jerry A. Hunt, general chairman ¢f the United Brotherhoods of the Erie system. The union charged that the Erie, after making effective the wage scala approved by the labor board July 1, made still | further reductions through the contract system. It declared also, that the was es of many employes of the Erie had been reduced to $7.20 a week through a four-day-a-week working plan at wages | of less than $2 a day. VIEWS OF PARIS PRESS ON WASHINGTON TREATY Paris, Dec. 11.—“We are happy to see France figure among the signers of the treaty ready at Washington” says The Temps today in an editorial régarding the four-power treaty on Far Eastern questions. This newspaper's comment sounds the keynote of the expressions of the entire French press. “Thanks to this treaty,” the Temps continues, - “France has the assurance of being consulted .if any great interna- tional problem arises concerning the Pa- cific. Never since the summer of 1918, when American soldiers landed on French soil, has the prestige of the United States been so great. President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes have a right to repeat what M. Viviani| said yesterday at Washington, ‘this con- ference has fully succeeded.’” The Journal Des Debats says: *“The real object of the entente is found in the last paragraph of the treaty —the end of the Anglo-Japanese alli- ance. Thus the success of the confer- ence is assured without offending Japan- ese susceptibilities. Mr. Hughes has a rigth to congratulate himself upon such a fine result.” COMPTROLLEE OF CANADA TAKES HIS LIFE B YPOISON Ottawa, Ont., Dec, 11.—R. E. Rourke,| comptroller of currency in the Dominion government, took his life tonight by | swallowing poison. The comptroller's | office s the highest post in the Canadian |department of finance under civil ser- vice regulation. : Following the discovery of his death | government officials made known that for {several months Mr. Rourke had been di- jrecting an audit of his department {through which discrepancies said to total }about $33,000 had been brought to light. As result of the shortage, police declar- ed tonight, an official of the finance de- partment was placed under ; survedl- I lance, I spokesmen for the financa departmen ancies which Mr. Rourke was imstrumétal in disclos- closing hac no relation to his own brarc: of the govenument business, | basis that w family, ghe police said, they had learned tgmxld solve the mystery. ProgressaofEconaric Recovery in Europe Sec’y Hoover Says It is Not as Gloomy as Some State- ‘ments Would Make It Ap- pear. - ‘Washington, Dec. 11.—The economic while necessarily slow and 4ifficult is making substan- tial prograss, ,Secretary Hoover declar- ed in a review of international trade con- ditlons made public tonight. The situ- ation “contains great dangers,” he said, but it is “not at all as gloomy as some statements would make it appear.” A survey of European conditions, he sald, “will show that the danger of bol- sheylsm Is' past,” partly through im- proved standards of life and partly “through the salutary lesson to Rus- sia.” The one fieid of continuoug degenera- tion,” he declared ‘to be that of govern- ment finanze, citing as factors “unbalanc- ed budsets and consequent currency in- flation.” “The commerce of the whole world, the secretary said, suffers from this failure in government finance, and unless remzdies are found the great re- sumptian affected in. soctal, political, in- dustrial, agricultural and cormerclal life will be enlangered. “The most cangerous of the unbal- anced inflation situations.” Mr. Hoov- er sald, “Is whose case depends upon the method and vclume of reparation pay- | ments, s the Unjted States does not partic- ipate either in its—control or its receipts,” he added, “we have no Noice or right to interfere. 1t i5 earnestly to be hoped that the present negotiations upon repar- ation may succede in finding a sound basis that will scure permanent*economic and political stability to Germany and certain of regular payment to the al- lies. With this effected. the way Is open for construztive consideration of ‘the uations in other states. The Amerlcan people have never been and will not be remiss In ra:rticivatioh in these furt er measures, but our people cannot sue- cessfully enter until those who have con- trol of the reparations have settled this major issue 1 so sound an economic can. look upon the future of Europe with confidence. “Outside of the government finance of a limited number of states the outlook is very encoaraging. - Democratic. Institu- tions are zaining strength among the 150.000,000 people formerly supporting autocratic. Tn Russla itself extreme communism s slowly hoiling to death in a caldron 5f starvation and its leaders freely acknwledge its failure. “In the fleld of international political relations, aside from conflict in Tur- ki war nas ceased and treaties of peace are offective throughcut the world. Russia no lomger threatens any ‘serious mititary offensive. There are bright pros- pects of limitation of armament. Agreed limitations in land armament are not very hopeful, tut the economic pressure of taxes and unbalanced budgets is slow ly. disarming Europe and it will ‘Qisas more of them yet. The number of men under arms has been decreasd by fully a million ‘n the past 12 months. “In the fleld of economic life, the pro- gress of agricultural<and industrial pro- duction - y2ar by vear since the war is very marked. Famine has disappeared from Europe except in Russia. Popula- tions have 7airly settled back and indus- trial efficlency and productivity is be- ing steadily 1estored. Generally, there is prograss and the nroblems vet to he solved are heing steadily narrowed and their solutions better understood.” RIOT AMONG PRISONERS IN AMICHIGAN REFORMATORY Marquetce, Mich, Dec. 11—A riot among the Michigan state reformatory here during a moving picture exhibition this morning was quelled after Warden Catlin had received nine knife wounds. Deputy Warden Menhennit was gadly beaten and his son, Arthur, who was visiting him at the prison, was stabbed in the lungs. A large number, of the prisoners had ben taken to the ‘chapel to witness the entertainment. After the chapel had been darkend to permit showing of the pictures a number of the prisoners sprang upon Catlin. As a prison rule prohibits carrying of frearms within the institu- tion, the officials, aided by a large num- ber of loyal vrisoners, had to fight the | Insurgents with their fists, feet or with canes they carried. Carving knives, believed to have been obtained by .some of the prisoners from the reformatocy kitchen, were brougnt in- to play and Catlin fell before the knife thrusts. = Arthur Menhennit, went down soon afterwards as his father was re- ceiving a beating at the hands of ihe in- mates. A prisoner serving a, life sentence, rushed from the chapel as the dlsturb. ance started and summoned a guard, from the -uter wall. He ran to the chapel, leveled his rifie at the prisoners | and kept them at bay while the other guards were summoded. ‘The prisoners were herded 10 their cells, The leaders In the riot are in the prison bull pen tonight awaiting decision of Governor Alex J. Groesbacg, as to their punishment. YOUNG WOMAN WHO FIGURES IN DEATH OF DR. GLICKSTEIN New York, Dev. 11.—A: young woman ‘who served in France during the war” to- night became the center of police investi- gation of the murder last ‘night of Dr. Abraham Glickstein, of Brooklyn. Though admitting they wanted to lo- cate this woman, officials refused to say whether she was suspected of one who, concealing a revolver in her muff shot the physician in the office of his resi dence and then calmly brushed pas: sev- er patients in the reception room and dis- appeared. Through a member of the physician's the identity of a woman they believed She had not appeared at her home today, howgver, they said. It was repcrted that detectives sent to Philadelphia to follow up the trail. The deadly weapon, a revolver with one chamber containing a discharged car- tridge was found inside a tattered muff, hidden under a bookcase by the slayer before she left the room. A bullet hag plerce the fur > ENGINEER BEHEADED BY CABLE PULLED TAUT Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 11.—George W, Andfews, chief engineer of the freighter Charles Hubbard, was killed aboard bis boat here today. He was looking out of an engine ‘room port hole whea a towing cable pulled taut and snapped | cord _ Cunard ton and 0 quarts . n a storage warehouse in New York cli, whien was condemned by the federal district court. ~ dock. Fy of Official announcement was made in Ma- drid that the Spanish-American postal convention signed in Nov., 1920, will be- come effective Jan. 1. Secretary Weeks was eritioised in the house of representatives by Representa- tive Tincher of Kansas, fo* his address in New York. Tolice of Paris announced they are on the trail of the man who sent the bomb to the home of Myron T. Herrick, Amer1- can ambassador. Congressman Rossdale,’ of New York, introduced a bill in the house providing for a general sales tax to pay the sol- diers’ bonus. Bremier Briand sald he wonld accep the invitation cf Prime Minister Lloyd George to go to Londen for a discussion of German reparations. The Farl ot Halsbury, who was lord high chanczellor in 1895-1905 in Lord Salisbury’s and A. J. Balfour’s ministries, died yesterday mording in London. District Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier of Suffolkk county, Mass., was ordered to stand trial before the supreme court .on Dec. 19. Thomas Egan, Irish tenor, who ended his tour of this country in St. Paul, Minn. announced that he will return to Dublin to assume directorship of the new.lIrish national opera. Prosperity has revived and the country is getting back to mormai conditions, ac- ccrding to figures presented at the fift- teenth annual convention of Life Insur- ance president in New York. According to announcement from the French foreign office, “France approves na dwelcomes the prcject for a four- power Pacifi¢’agreement, including Amer- ica, Great Britain, Japan and France” Scores of followers of Carlos Herrera, whose government was recently over- thrown in Guatemala, are crossing the Mexican border fearing for their safety under the new regime. " One of four bandits who Saturday rob- bed a bank messenger of $1,000, was shct and killed by a compgnion. ‘His body was thrown from the bandits’ automobile miles from the scene of the robbety. Legislation to revive the United States Grain Corporation with a government guarantee of probably $2.50 a bushe! for heat will be asked of the present ses- sion of congress. Henry C. Tron, of Plainfield. N. J., a strucion engineer, who was asked to rchuild the devastated willages of France fsails on the Aquitania for Furope Tues- day to.confer with the officials of the French goyernment. Air passenger lines will soon become a regular part of the transportation of this country, L. B. Lent, an expert on ccm- mereial airclane servide, told members of the aeronuatic division of the American Society of Engineers. - George V. H‘ullldny‘ broker, and Harry Turner, editor”of a magazine, were in- dicted by the St. Louis federal grand jury for alleged counterfeiting cf $1, 500,000 of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s interim receipts for French government bonds. Vanlt of the First National Bank at Claysburg, Pa., was cut open by robbers using an acetylene torch. They looted the vault of cash, securities, jewelry and Liberty bons. Loss has not been esti- mated. Postmasters who find it necessary to employ additional help during the holiday perfod have heen Instructed by the posf- office department to give employment to those who need it most in an effort to re- lieve unemiployment conditions. The Suffolk County (Mass.) grand jury indicted James Luna and John Dubee, of Scranton: Pa., and John Pletkewlez of Detroit for tie robbery of $28,444 from bank messengt at Chelsea, to weeks ago. Anthony Mello of Lowell, Mass., a former memher of the 63ra Engincers, with the Americ Expeditionary" forces, sald that he saw two men hanged dn France and had written a letter to that affect to Senator Watson of Georgia. Former Governor Francis Burton Har- rison of the Philippines, who is now in Spain, cabled friends in New ork, an- nouncing the engageiment of his daughter, Virginia Randolph Harrison to ChFistian Gross of Chicago. Sir Thomas Lawrence’s “Portralt of Miss Harriet Day,” one of the best known fiaces of eighteenth century por- tralturc has ben sold by tha Fearon Gallerfes of New York to an unnamed American collector for $50,000. The monthly tonnage report of the TUnited States Steei Corporatfon, showed 4,250.542 tons of unfilled orders on hand verrber 30. This is a decrease from October's unfilled order which totalled ,286,829 tons. Four policemen were killed and wourded while breaking up a street fight at Managna, Nicaragua between several American mafines and a party o f ci- lians. Two of the mrines were wound- ed. The Americans were off duty at the time. ore Suspenslon of Immigration for three vears excent for husbands, wive and minor children of raturalized children of naturalized citizens, is proposed in a bill Introduced ty Chpirman Johnson of the house immigration committee. ‘ Arnnouncement was made vesterday by the Natfonal Woman’s party that agree- ment had becn reached on the form of the proposed new amendment to the con- stitution “‘to cover all political, civil and legal discriminations against women." Emma Goldman and Alexander Berk- man, whose presence in Riga became known yesterday, told the Associated press correspondent they were ‘“nct go- ing to America immediately,” but hoped to travel in Europe in the immediate Tu- ture. ¢ Charles B. Hart, said to have been 4be last. surviving member of the grogn which served as pall bearer for- Pr his head off. His body fell back cn the -engine room floor where he s found by his son, an_oiler on the bo; An-' drews lived i Cleveland. . dent Lincoin, died at San Francisco yes- ‘terday. e Was a veteran of the Unlon army in‘the Civil war and a personal friend of the martyred president, ; w;Ems:.flns:tmm-vmmml:- | OSED5-5-3NAVALRADID | Word came from Paul Godley, Fought Their Way Past Half a Dozen Guards—One a Murderer. Chicago, Dec. 11 /By the A P.).— Tommy O'Connor; a gunman sentenced to be’hangeéd next Thursday for the murder of a policeman, and two other notorious criminals today escaped from the county jail, fighting their way past Waif'a dozen guards, most of whom were beaten into unconsciousness by the desperadoes in their dash for liberty. Starting in the fourth floor “bull pen,” where the prisoners were exercisng at 11 o'clock this morning, the break for free- dom led down five floors, through the basement, into the jail yard and over a twelve foot wall to a street, where an automobile was commandeered. The driver, a pistol poked into his face, was told to drive like hell. A few’' minutes later the machine crash- ed into a telephone pole. but the bandits continued _their flight. O'Connpr “com- mandeered another car and when last seen the murderer, who has been char- acterized by the police as Chicago's most desperate gunman, was headed toward the South Side underworld, armed for battle. Two other prisoners - who at- tempted to escape with the trio were capturde in the jail grounds. The escape, carried out in broad day- light, was the most sensational in this part of the country in many years, and apparently was carefully planned in ad- vance. It was succe€sful despite the fact that several jailers refused to heed the threat of O'Connor’s pistol' and risked their lives in trying to obstruct his dash for liberty. The two men who escaped with Q'Con- nor were Edward Darrdw, charged with robbery, and James Lanorte, alleged to have been implicated in a $30,000 rob- bery. O'Connor has been in trouble with the police on many occasions, but his ap- parent immuni from conviction earned him the title of “Lucky Tommy."” Last spring haif a dozen detectives went to O’Connor’s house to question him about a crime. While they were there Policeman Patrick O'Neill was shot to death, and O'Connor, later convicted of the murder, escaped despite the’ presence of half a dozen officers, most of whom were suspended for their apparent negli- gence. After several weeks Tommy's proverb- fal luck failed, for he was captured in St. Paul, Minn., brought back here, con- victed and sentenced to hang. Seventy-five prisoners were exercisng in the bull pen when O'Connor and his pals made their break. David Strauss was the only guard in the roomi at the time. One of the men, according to Strauss, suddenly whispered something to O'Con- nor, The five prisoners in the break simultancously jumped on Strauss, O'Con- nor drawing a revoiver which had been smuggled to kim. over Strauss’ head and he was beaten into unconsciousness. O'Connor repeated- Iy brought down the bu't of the pistol oft the gpard’s head. Hesring the commotion, two othar guards rushed into the bull pen. O'Con- nor ordered them to throw up their hands but they refused, and sprang forward. Apparently afraid that the sound of shooting would bring so many guards that escape would be impossible, O'Con- nar did not fire. The guards were béat- en into unconsciousness. One of the guards haM the keys to the jail, and these were taken from him. The five men dashed for the freight elevator, but ran into an assistant jailer. Pointing the reyolver at him, O'Connor shoute Stand back, or I'll blow you to hell. The jailer sprang at O'Connor, but the criminal hurled him to the floor and con- tinued his dight. Down to the basement, past two mory guards, the bandits fled, and then start: €d to scale the twelve foot wall sur- rounding the jail. Here two of the pris- oners tripped and were captured at the foot of the wall, but O'Connor and the other two got over safely. Robert Crowe, state’s attorney, imme- diately began a personal investigation of O'Connor's " escape, and Chief of Police Charles Fitzmorris assumed personal charge of the case. Scores of policemen, armed with shotguns, were plaged on the murderer’s trail, ‘and to each of them Chief Fitzmorri# gave these instructions: “The only way to get rid of murderers like O'Connor is to put them in the morgue. Shoot to kill, and aim straight.” The suprere court recently refused,to reprieve O'Connor and a few days ago held that it had no furisdiction to order | @ stay of execution pending an appeal to federal courts. O'Connor was in court yesterday over certain legal manners ‘and it is believed that the escape may have been planned then, If O'Connor is captured before méxt Thursday, his execution would take Dlace as schedule, according to Seott Stewart, assistant ‘state's attorney, If he is captured after that timé, the court would be compelled to fix ‘another date for hanging. Mr. Stewart said. Chief of Police Fitzmorris in a state- ment . tonight said: “Conditipns at the county jail ars ap- palling. It may be true that O’Connor slugged a couple of guards, but I say he was shoved out of the county jail. He was pushed out. They furnishel h'm With veerything he needed with tne pos- sible exceptio hof a road map.” ¥ — P HELD FOR THEFT OF AN ANTO AND HARDWARE Milford, Conn, Dec. 11.—Word was recelved by the local police tonight of are arrest 1. Elizabeth, N. J., of Gsorge Curtiss on charges of stealing an auto- moblle here early today and also $1,000 worth of hardware and other goods. A description of stolan automobile sent cut by the police today resulted in the deten- tlon of Curtiss. The machine :was full of alleged stolen goods when hp was ar- rested. ALl A A e | AMATEUR RADIO MESSAGE SENT ACROSS ATLANTIC Greenwick, ~Conn modern amateur wireless staticn r#f cently built here has been successful in sending a message across the Atlantie in the test now under way under the aus- Plces ‘of the American Radio Relay League, it was _announced tonight. repre- sentative of the league in Scotland, that he heard the local station send its mes- sage on Friday night. The station is lo- cated on the Cronkhite Estate here and one of the owners is Minton Cronkhite. Major E. H. Armstrong, former com- mander .of the United States army radio research: division, and George Burg- hard, president of the Radio Club of America, supervised the construction of the station, - Break in Chicago PR A sick was placed’ Technical Matters Will Be Left For Decision of Naval perts After the Conference Has Adjourned—Arms Con« ference Will Deal /With Decisions Involving Policy— Methods of Scrapping Ships and Rules of Warfare, Prob- * ably Will He Matters For Expert Discussion—Japanese ing Naval Ratio. ‘Washington, Dec. 11.—(By The A. P.) —Wnhile the foreshadowed acceptance by Japan of the “five-five-three” naval ra- tio, cornerstone of the American naval limitation plan, will leave much to be de- cided, it doeg not follow, in opinion of American conierence officials, that -the conference itseif will have to pass on all that must be cone. The remaining \'\v‘ork on naval matters, it is said, naturally di- vides itself into two classes. They are de- cisiong involving policy and those mere- 1y dealing.with details under policies al- ready approved. The confersnence must act on all pol- loy questions. 1In this group lie the Franco-Italian naval ratio determina- tion; the British desire to reduce the tonnage of each power in submarines, and possibly, to limit the size of ffture submersibles; the suggested medificzt:on of the ten jear naval |hdliiday plan to permit some building as necessary. for protection of skipbuilding knowledge and skill and final determination’ of fleet ra- tios and n airplane carriers. In the other group, it is expected, addition will be found questions as agreement as to the method of scrapping ships slated for destruction; wsys and means to control conversion of merchant craft into war vessels in war time; rules’ of warfare as applying to new agencies such as subma- rines, aircraft and poison gas; specific agreement as tc Tleet ratios In the aux- iliary ships besides sumbarines and air- plaine carriers. It ig held the confer- ence would well leave someat least of these points to expert discussion and fin- al settlement through ordinary diplo- matic channels. N A particular point In the latter class is the method to be followed In scrap- ping capital ships. This necessarily in- volves such disnosition of the vessels as will make them impossible of ready reconversion Into war craft. Yet there will be a strong tendency to salvage whatever ~an be saved for ordinary com- mercial or other purely non-combatant use. g Already it has been suggested that three of the six Ameriixn battle cruls- ers could he made over into safes fast passenger *'ners, a type of merchantman lacking in the president American com- mercfal fleet. The three ships under con- sideration have been completed up to the water Hne. At that point, naval experts figure, it would be possible to continue construction =0 as to produce a purely vessel instead of a potential crulser. Changes would be necessary so that the vessel mnever could be restored to war purposes, cxcept to the extent that any other commercial ship might be used as an auxiliary for war. Outside of epecial hu!l construction to afford protection against submarines and mines, a warskip hull is practically -the same ag that of a liner up to the water line. In :he battle cruisers, some of the engines and at least elght knots In speed would be racrificed if the ship was changed to a liner and these changes would be permanent. No change back to cruiser construction would be possible experts declare, The same thing is said to apply to bat- tleships. There is a possibility that those not too far advanced in construction could be changed into intermediate freight and passenger service but naval experts haye rot gone far enough to de- termine if this is a practicable and econ- omic suggestiont ‘There are varlous non-combatant na- vl uses to which new or old capital ships might be put when stricken from the st of fighting ships. -Already one old American pre-dreadnaught, the Kear- sage, has been made over into a fleat craft ship. She now has no fighting quality. Simflarly it might prove prove expedient to use a battleship or two as repair or supply vessels, stripping them beyond possible restoration of fighting characteristics, offensive, or defensive. These are all technical matters, however, which nayal cxperts probably will thrash out after the conference itself has ad- Journed. FORECAST AS CONFERENCE ENTERS ITS FIFTH WEEK Washintgton, Dec. 11 (By the A.'P.). With the four-power treaty in final form and an agreement on naval ratlo regard- ed ‘as practically assured, the arms con- ference goes into its fifth week with its principals confidenf they can wind up thelr major duties here by the end of the year. The problems of the Far East and de- tails of the naval reduction program. in- cluding the question of Pacific island fortifications and naval bases, flow be- come the subjects of primary considera- tion. The Far Eastern discussions’ are to be pressed:forward at daily meetings of the committes of the ®hole at the same time that the naval situation is clearing up through continued communication with the foreign capitals and while the nego- tiations over Shantung and Yap are verging toward decision, Although there are irdications that Japan is about ready to accept the Amer- ican “5-5-3" naval ratlo, It Is not con- sidered unlikely that she may refrain from committing herself definitely until there is a clearer understanding about future fortifications on the Pacific islands. There has been a general indication that all the powers dre wiling to. assent to an agreement by which all present defenses in Pacific waters would be retaimed and none added in the future, but the question is yet to be made the subject of formal exchanges. Further instru s from Toklo were recefved today by the Japanese delegates. The nature of the message was nof Te- vealed, but there were evidence that the Japanese were preparing to cagvass the situation relative to Pacific bases before going further with the naval ratio dis- cussions. The two sudects have been long regarded by Japan as inseparably linked, and her desire to dispose of both at one time is not regarded as a &erious barrier to a ratio agreement. The negotiations relative to Chinal, al- though proceeding separately, also are re- ceiving the careful attention of the Jap- anese, while the naval question is in abeyance, and there have been some hints that they would prefer to see a de- cision In that quarter also before they Government Has Sent Instructions to Delegates make their acceptance of the “5-§-3% final and binding. It is the general expectation that the result of thx Far Eastern discussions w! be a united declaration of policy by the nine nations represented hére, embodying the “four points” of Elihu Root and mak- ing such specific application of them as be found possible. Such a declara- a part of whick was given official tion by the nine nations at yester- s plenary scssion, it was expected, ould finally take the farm of a “gentle- . understanding. Some of the potentiaries, however, want to rite 10 a treaty, and a decision o= that point is yet to be reached. Afterward a similar declaration may be made as respects Siberia, but it is D le that the separite pronouncement on that subject now understood to be contemplated by Japan may be accepted as suffigient, When the four-power Pacific treaty consummatéd yesterday to be signed v the representatives the United ain, Japan and France is stil]l an unanswered question. It is the | impression among some of the delegates, however, that the formal signature may be delayed until the naval problem ig settled and that President Harding will not send it to the senate for ratification until the conference is over. Over -Sunday consideration of the new treaty among members of the treaty rati- fying branch of the-government develop- ed indications that the leaders of both the republican and democra‘ic parties will stand united for its approval. Sena- tor Underwood, the democratic leader, is one of the Americans who will sign the treaty as plenipotentiary #nd his advos cacy of ratification will be seconded on the democratic side by Senator Hitch- cock, senfor democratic member of the foreign relations committee. While the naval ratio and Pacific forti- fications questions me”e toward a de- cision, other detalls of the general maval oblem are coming Into st among them 1o be given detailed consideration probal this week are the proportionate stren, to be fixed for France 2nd Italy, and the questions of a modification in the nava' holiday plan and in the suggested submarine tonnage as fixed in the American reduction pro- posal. When these more or less collateral sub- Jects are out of the way, and the high spots of the Far Eastern negotiations and the naval ratio disdussions them- selves are disposed of, it is probable that the principal delegates will go home, leaving various commissions to work out further details and communicate them directly to the several forelgn offices. BI-PARTISAN SUPPORT FOR FOUR POWER PACIFIC TREATY ‘Washington Dec. 11. (By the A. P.)— Further assurance of bi-partisan senate support for the four power Pacific treaty came tonight with announcement by Sen- ator Hitchcock of Nebraska, assistant democratoic leader and ranking democrat member of the foreign relations commit- tee, that he expeoted to wote for its rat- ification. “:’I see no reason for opposition to the treaty,” geald Senator Hitchcock. “There does not seem to be any very serious cb- jection nor any reason for great re- joicing over it. It rominds me of the old aying that is ‘good enough, what there 15 of it, and enough of It such as 1t is. Senal?r Hitcheock said that the treaty was similar in some respects to the league of mationg covenant. ‘The ‘treaty is very mild and s good’ enough a way to get rid of the Anglo- Japanese allience.” Senator Hi‘chocck’s announcement, made wpon his return from the west, followed pthers by democratic leaders that they would give the treaty their sup-; vort. With the republican leadership al- ready on record in behalf of the treaty,! hopes of its ratificaticn were today in- creased. y H It appeared more definite that the ip- position would be imited to a few of the “irreconcilabl of the League of Na- tions fight with the prospect that thelr number wquld be less than the league! controversy: Senator Borah, Idaho, prominent re- publican opponent of the league oontin- ned his silence, with regard to the new treaty. ADVANCEMENT NOTED IN AMERICAN BIETH BATE ‘Washington, Dec. 11.—The American birth rate advanced 1.4 per cent. in 1920 as compared with 1919, the census bu- reau announced today. The birth rate was 237 per dent per 1,000 population Jast year as compared with 22.3 per cent. in 1919, according to the bureau's figures. The rate last year, however, was 1.3 per cent., below ithe rate of 1916, which the bureau de- clared may be looked upon as.a more normal year as it preceded the Influens, za. epidemic and the entrance of tha Unlted States into the war. The highest birth for the white popu- lation last year was reported for North Carolina with 31.7 per cent. and the lowest for California with 18.3 per ocent. PRESIDENT HARDING IN : CARUSO FOUNDATION New Ycrk, Dec. 11.—President Hard- ing has accepted honorary chairmanship of the Caruso American Memorial foun- dation, which is planning anmual music scholarships and awanrds t0 deserving students in memory of the great Italian tenor. This was announced tonight by Paul D. Cravath, president of the perma- nent national ccmmittee of the founda- tion. ' The president, In“a letted to Mr. Cra- vath, wrote, “I cannotbut feel that such a foundation would be the most practical and effective method of testify'ng a na- tional interest not only in th-: great Ca- Tuso, but in the perpetuation cf the est forms of art. “I will realize of course that my com- tributions to your efforts will necessardly be of a very inal characted. On ac- count of complete abscrption in pubMn business here, but it Is a pleasure to give 'this much testimony of my approval of what you are doing.