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(Associated Press Night 'Wire)
WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. The
first official disclosure that President
Harding is negotiating toward an in
ternational conference for the consid
eration of. European economic prob
lems was made by Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts, the republican floor
leader, during open debate in the sen
ate today on the proposal of Senator
Borah, republican, of Idaho, for the
president to call an international con
ference to discuss economic conditions
and disarmament
In opposing the Borah proposal
which is in the form of an amendment
to the naval appropriation bill, Sena
tor Lodge urged that the president be
not embarrassed "in the efforts which
he is not making as a matter of" fact."
Senator Lodge in the course of an
hour's address against the Borah
amendment as presented did not op
pose the calling of an economic corf
fcrence but said it should be carefully
and strictly defined with such ques
tions as reparations allied debts and
immigration specifically excluded
from consideration.
The state department which has
consistently maintained silence as to
any efforts the administration might
"be making in reference to improving
economic and business conditions in
Europe, declined to add anything to
the statements of Senator Lodge but
it was learned that President Hard
ing was considering most seriously
transmitting a letter to the senate
giving information of his negotiations
and at the same time deploring any
intervention from congress which
might operate to hinder his efforts.
Senator Lodge based his opposition
to the Borah economic conference pro
posal on the ground that it was too
broad in terms. He also contended
with reference to the Borah provision
for a conference to secure lancj and
further naval armament limitation
agreements that it would be "futile" in
view of the failure on these subjects
at the recent Washington arms con
ference and unless it was developed
that the European opposition to
further disarmament voiced at that
time had changed.
TO GET A RECEPTION
PENSACOLA, Fla., Dec. 27.
With the telegraphic Announcement
that Grover C. Bergdoll of Philadel
phia, the noted slacker, had left
Germany on a mercnanr vessel anu
was en route to a gulf port, every
ship and its crew was questioned
heer today.
It was later learned that the Ger
man steamship Jupiter was about to
arrive and that Bergdoll is a mem
ber of that crew. That he sailed is
definitely announced by German au
thorities. URGES WOMEN TO EXERT
THEIR POLITICAL RIGHTS
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec 27.
Mrs. May Van Wye, wife of a profes
sor and herself a former school teach
er, was elected by republicans of
Hamilton county to be one of the
women who -will represent this county
in the Ohio legislature for the next
two years. Mrs. Van Wye was elect
ed to the house of representatives by
76,609 votes.
S TO
Ravelling Wolves Devour
Canadian Hunters, Leave
Only Bloodstained Snow
(Associated Press Night Wirel
PORT ARTHUR, Ont., Dec. 27.
A great roving band of hungry
timber wolves has devoured three
men, according to meager reports
sifting in today from the snow
covered trauVof the Sturgeon River
country. These reports told of a
losing battle fought by two Indians
after a white trapper had been
downed and killed.
Last Saturday an elderly trapper
left his cabin in the woods to mush
down to the settlement for his
Christmas mail.
About two miles from the settle
ment, two Indians found a spot
pounded down in the snow and
crimson-hued. Bits of dog harness
torn to shreds -were scattered, about
ACID CIS UN
FIREMEN; FLOUR IS
(Associated Press Night Wire)
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 27 Two
firemen were seriously injured and
more than a score overcome by
smoke and gas when a four-story of
fice building in the business dis
trict was gutted by fire tonight.
Explosions of acids in the plant
of an engraving company on the
fourth floor generated quantities of
gas which added to the difficulty of
fighting the flames.
Flour Mill Explodes.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 27.
More than 30 men were injured and
burned, some perhaps fatally, as the
result of a dust explosion and fire
at the mill of the Schrieber Flour
and Cereal company here late' today.
The plant was destroyed with an es
timated loss of from $125,000 to
$150,000.
FORMER ENEMY MAY
FILE SUITS TO GET
BACK ITS PROPERTY
(Associated Press Night 'Wire)
WASHINGTON, Dec 27 Presi
dent Harding tonight signed a bill
which extends for one year until
January 2, 1924, the period during
which the German or Austrian citi
zens whose property was taken over
during the war by the alien property
custodian may file suit for recovery.
INVESTORS LOSE IN
TIMBER RIGHTS UNDER
NEW MOSCOW RULING
(Associated Press)
TOKIO, Dec. 3. (By Mail) An
other heavy loss has been sustained
by Japanese investors through the de
cision of the Moscow government to
cancel concessions for cutting timber
in Siberia granted by the former
White government. Several of the
largest firms in Japan had obtained
these concessions by the payment of
3,000,000 yen to the old Vladivostok
government, and a monthly sum ac
cording to the amount of timber cut.
As a great amount of this timber was
still awaiting shipment when the reds
took Vladivostok the Japanese count
the venture a total loss.
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PRESCOTT JOURNA L-M I N E R WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1922.
In the midst of them the Indians
found human bones. They hastened
back to report their discovery.
The lure cf the bounty on wolves,
however, urged the Indians to take
the trail again with extra ammuni
tion. They sped behind their dog
teams into thp woods as the vil
lagers waved good-bye. They did
not return. "
Yesterday a new searching party
departed. They found another"
patch trodden in the snow about
two miles beyond the first
The two guns the Indians had
carried were lying there and scat
tered about were bones, bits of
clothing and empty shells. The car
cases of, 16 dead wolves lay stretch
ed in a circle about the trampled
patch of snow.
IDS A
MESSAGE OF CHEER
TO AMERICAN PEOPLE
(Associated Press Night Wire)
PARIS, Dec. 27. Medical men at
tending Mme. Sara Bernhadt said
this evening there had been no im
provement in her condition since
morning but neither had there been
a cahnge for the worse. The actress
herself was optimistic as ever. "Tell
them in America, tell all my friends
how much I appreciate their kind in
terest" she said. "I shall get well
again, never fear."
Her severe illness has given rise
to much speculation regarding Bern-
hardt's correct age. Most authorities
give the date of her birth as 1S44, but
the birth records were burned, in
1871 when the Paris city hall was
destroyed by the revolutionists. The
'Divine Sara" herself has always
said she was a "few years younger
than Georges Clemenceau," who was
born in 1841.
NO SPEECH TO IRK
INTO GOVERNORSHIP
(Associated Press Night Wire)
PHOENX," Dec. 27. Governor
elect Hunt will be inducted into of
fice Monday without ceremony and
without delivering an inaugural ad
dress, he announced today.
The oath of office will be adminis
tered at the state house at 10 o'clock
Monday morning by Justice MteAlis
ter of the supreme court.
The governor-elect also announced
the selection of three additional ap
pointees as officials at the state
prison at Florence. They are Dr.
Fred Perkins of Phoenix to be pris
on physician; A. T. Hammons of
Payson to be prison secretary, and
William Belbridge of Bisbce to be
parole clerk.
RETURN TO HOME
John Wilson and family have re
turned to their home in San Francisco
after passing Christmas with Mrs.
Wilson's father, 'Judge E. W. Wells,
president of the Bank of Arizona. Mr.
Wilson arrived from San Francisco
Sunday, joining Mrs. Wilson and their
children, who have been visiting Judge
Wells for some time past.
ley Plan;
U. S. LICENSE FOR GREAT POWER
ND
(Associated Pruss Night Wire)
PHOENIX, Dec. 27 W. S. Nor
veil, state waer commissioner of
Arizona, today granted a permit to
James B. Girand, Phoenix engineer,
for the construction of a $40,000,000
power dam cn the Colorado river at
the mouth of Diamond creek, 26
miles north of Peach Springs, and
approximately 100 miles above the
site of the proposed Boulder canyon
dam.
The Diamond creek dam is to
generate 200,000 horsepower of elec
trical units.
Application will be made to the
federal power commission at its
next meeting in Washington Jan
uary 8 for a license for the construc
tion and operation cr the project,
Mr. Girand said tonight
He declared he felt certain the
federal commission would issue the
license as he was granted a permit
for the site two years ago and a con
tract was entered into whereby the
commission agreed to issue the
license upon completion of certain
development work on the site. This
development work has been com
pleted, Mr. Girand stated.
Construction of the dam will
start late in January, according to
present plans and the project will
require approximately two years for
completion.
The permit, Mr. Norveil stated to
night, in no way conflicts with the
prpvicions of the Colorado river
compact, recently signed at Santa
Fe, N. M.
Upon receipt of the permit today,
Mr. Girand paid a fee of $10,065 to
the state water commissioner's of
fice. E
OVER MRS. HAWORTH
ERT
Reports from the concert of Mrs.
Haworth at Fort Whipple last night
rang with enthusiasm for the im
provement of voice and technique of
this Arizona singer. But the recep
tion she got, it was said, was one
of the finest, if not the finest ever
accorded a Prescott singer at the
fort.
Her three groups of songs were
so heartily appreciated that she was
recalled many times to the stage of
the Red Cross house which was
packed for the occasion.
Mrs- Lester Ruffner assisted in ar
ranging the program and accompan
ited Mrs. Haworth. The piano solos
of Marie Vance Ryland were thor
oughly appreciated as were the dance
numbers of Andrea Bradley.
The program was given under the
joint auspices of the Red Cross and
Knights of Columbus.
VISIT SON HERE
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jett, parents of
Onas Jett, are passing the Christinas
holidays with their son and his family.
Arriving Saturday night, they will be
here until next week, when they will
leave for southern California for a
short vacation before returning to
their home in Newton, Kans.
AT DIAMO
WORK
S8
Harding Already Negotiating
CREEK
WILL STAR
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PflL ELECTION BEGINS TO
WI PEHSONL CANVAS STARTS
Backers of Opposition Ticket
Take to Canvass and Publicity
Methods; Goldwater Adminis
tration Points to Its Record.
Yesterday five working days be
fore the city election the supporters
of the non-partisan ticket for mayor
and councilmen, launched their broad
sides against the city administration
which is seeking re-election and the
approval of .the voters for the progress
that has beqn made in civic.jinove,
inent during" the past term.
A quiet but insistent personal cam
paign of political workers was the
form in which the non-partisan candi
dates began their offensive. This
morning with a paid newspaper ad
vertisement, they are presenting their
first public appeal for votes.
Mayor Goldwater and his adminis
tration are also engaged in the per
sonal campaign that may precede a
more public form of vote-hunting.
Both sides are in the preliminaries of
what may prove to be a campaign as
sharp as it is short.
The administration was renominated
at the regular primaries with no op
position. The opposition ticket was
made up 10 days ago and-launched in
an announcement by Henry Hartin,
the candidate for mayor, and Messrs.
Waara and Blumberg, who are run
ning for the two vacant positions on
the council.
The administration councilmen who
are out for re-election are Art Davis
and Ray Vyne. No political flavor
is lent to the election, for more and
more the municipal contests are being
waged along non-partisan lines, with
the major parties names mere handles
by which one or the other ticket mayi
be known.
The election will be held on Tues
day, January 2, at the city hall and
only those regularly registered for it
may participate. Those registered at
the last municipal election in January,
?920, are entitled to vote, however, on
the strength of their previous registra
tion. Mayor Goldwater is standing, on the
record of the administration for its
handling of the city water problem
and the new paving. During the
course of his administration, he points
to the sale at a premium of the city
water bonds that had been held in the
municipal archives for many months
because df a low bond market, and the
beginning of actual construction on
the Banning creek water supply, to
gether with the rehabilitation of the
entire distributing system. The other
issue is the downtown paving which
has been finished and accepted and on
which the taxpayers have repaid about
65 per cent of the cost in cash, dis
counting the improvement district
bonds.
' The opposition ticket is made up of
Mr. Hartin and Mr. Blumberg, promi
nent merchants, and J. W. Waara,
surveyor and former city surveyor
under several previous administra
tions. COTTON MARKET
(Associated Press Night Wire)
NEW YORK. Dec. 27. Cotton
closed barely steady, net 5 points
lower to 11 points higher, at ?26.75.
DAM
XPECTED AND TH
LATE IN JANUARY
TRAGEDY STILL
M'GAHTHY GftS
(Associated Press Night Wire)
NEW YORK, Dec. 27. More than
36 "hours after they began, their inves
tigation the police tonight confessed
themselves baffled in their search for
a solution of circumstances surround
ing the death of Teresa McCarthy,
10-year-old school girl, whose body,
with a .22 caliber bullet through the
heart, was found in a toy-littered room
of her Brooklyn home-yesterday.
The investigation after the police
had laboriously dissipated a half-;
dozen clues sifted down to two theor
ies. The first, the one considered
most credible by the police, was that
the child was accidentally shot by a
playmate who had been given a gun
of small caliber as a Christmas pres
ent. The second theory, which the
police say they had little faith in, was
that the child was shot down by a
sailor of whom Teresa and several of
her girl friends had complained
several weeks ago, declaring that he
had annoyed them.
More than 100 boys living in the
neighborhood of the McCarthy home
were questioned by the detectives in
a search for one who might have re
ceived a .22 caliber pistol or rifle as
a Christmas gift.
LAUSANNE, Dec. 27. Great un
easiness is spreading throughout the
near cast conference circles as the
time approaches when there must be
a final reckoning on all important
questions which have been passed by
with only partial agreements or no
agrrcment at all between the Turks
and the allied powers.
Lord Curzon's positive announce
ment today that Great Britain will
not cede Mosul to Turkey and does
not propose to discuss that question
further, was the fore-runner of less
positive statements from the .other
delegations on various questions
which indicate the conference . is
reaching a climax and that prepara
tions arc under way for a final
showing of strength.
RETURNS FROM COAST
Frank A. Hathaway, assistant cash
ier of the Bank of Arizona, returned
yesterday from Long Beach, where he
passed Christmas with Mrs. Hatha
way and their children. He reports
that Mrs. Hathaway, who has been
on the coast recuperating from an ill
ness, is much better.
CLI1AX NEAR
III MUDDLED
' CONFERENCE
Thursday, fair south, cloudy north;
warmer. Friday, unsettled.
Prescott Temperatures, Dec 27
8 a. m. .26 12 m. . .-16 5 p.m.-. 44
Temperatures Year Ago
8a.m.. .40 12m 44 5p.m... .142
FIFTY-NINTH YEAR
SIMP TIL
LA. OFFICERS
(Associated Press Night Wire)
BASTROP, La., Dec. 27. Civil
and military authorities today follow
ed through the Redlow hills and
swamps of Morehouse parish the
trail they believe was taken by the
masked and robed men on the af
ternoon and night of August 24
when five "men were kidnapped and
two murdered.
The trail covered a distance of
about 25 miles from a point on the
Bastrop-Mer Rouge highway where
the men were kidnapped, to a ferry
landing at Lake La Fourche, near.
where the bodies of the two men
were found last week.
The reconoiterers were seeking ad
ditional cyidence implicating those
responsible for the mysterious dyna
miting that released the bodies from
the bottom sof the lake where they
had beeniveighted, down forfour
months.
The day was devoid of local devel
opments. All eyes were turned to
ward Baltimore where Dr. B. M.
McKoin, former Mer Rouge mayor,
was battling against extradition to
Louisiana, where he is to face a
charge of murder in connection with
the case.
MISER! Al DEATH
(Associated Press)
DEDEAGATCH, Western Thrace,
Dec. 1 (by mail) Heavy snow, icy
winds and intermittent rains have
wrought great misery and suffering
among the half-million shelterless
refugees scattered oer Thrace and
Macedonia. Unless help is prompt
and generous, the Greek and Armen
ian exiles in these areas will perish
in large numbers. Already the ma
jority are half-naked, starving and
diseased. All the elementary needs
of life are lacking. Food stocks in
the towns are growing low.. Famine
must ensue this winter unless flour
is sent in.
Human woe and wretchedness sel
dom have reached such levels. Large
numbers arc dying daily of exposure
and inanition. The condition of the
children and babies is pitiful. Infec
tious diseases are rampant. Typhus
is gaining such headway that it is
feared the great epidemic of 191S
1919, which began at Cavalla, will re
cur. Life in the East always has
been cheap, but never so cheap- as in
this corner of Europe. Had the
population been permitted to remain
in Eastern Thrace and faced the
Turkish invader, their lot could have
been little forse.
When the Associated press cor
respondent crossed the little river
near Drama where Paul baptized the
first Christian, he was assailed by a
band of hunger-maddened Greek wo
men and children who begged pitc
ously for a crust of bread. They
said they had been on the march for
24 days and were subsisting on beet
roots. Although there was a foot
of snow on the ground, many were
shoeless, coatless and hatless. The
blistered, bleeding feet of the chil
dren left red silhouettes in the snow.
In spite of many promises of help
from the outside, little has been done
to assuage the misery of these help
less exiles. Most of them are women
and children. They are sadly in need
of help.
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