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ALL MERCHANDISE ADVERTISED IN THE TRIB?NE IS GUARANTEED Vol. IiXXIX No. 20,715 First to Last? the Truth: {Copyright, 1930, New York Tribune lnc.| WEDNESDAY News 'Editorials Advertisements JANUARY 7, 1920 JEriJtwme WEATHER Cloudy and warmer to-day with ?new or rain at night and to-morrow; moderate south and south? east winds. Full Krport on V*f* IV ?fC SfC 5j? 9f? ^ TWO CENTS ?'"LA*****1" X*w York mad I THREE CENT!? '.within commuting di-turne | ilMowhrr? Earthquake Kills 1,330 in Mexico; Death Toll Grows 2.000 Casualties, With 1,000 Killed, at Couzt lam anc* Harrison at Xeoeelo Is Wiped Out Streams Clogged By Victims' Bodies 0o2en Towns Destroyed in State of Vera Cruz; Bandits Loot Ruins jflXICO CITY, Jan. 6.?Couztlan | yru destroyed by Saturday's earth- ! quite with 2,000 casualties, includ- j inf B?W than 1,000 dead, according j to eflidal reports given out here to? night by Presidential military head? quarters from advices received from offlcers in the Vera Cruz center of disturbance. Tb* entire garrison at Teocelo was silled or injured. The dead num? bered thirty and the injured sixty. Virtually all the roads in the sur .aaading district were flooded or de ?iToyed, according to the reports. Three hundred dead are reported . Barranca Grande, near Couztlan. The water level at Port Barranca ?el Agua rose twenty-five meters. Towns Totally Wrecked .'.i least c dozen towns and vil? les in the state of Vera Cruz have en totally or partly destroyed, nlcahualco. with 200 inhabitants, is ported to be entirely engulfed, but ?e complete death toll in all prob? ity never will become definitely j nown, because of the isolation of j ..?Of ?adiari villages and the dis? armed state of the country, tend g to make communication exceed ?jjy (hfficult. Apparently the earthquake, which ?timiiy shook ten of the central isd southern Mexican cities, has -nded, although slight tremors are ;'tk from time to time. Throughout the afflicted area, thousands are -?eeping in the open because of fear <>' a recurrence. Belief was started from the city uf Vera Cruz almost immediately upon receipt of word of the death and destruction wrought. The gov? ernment sent out forces of men and trains to bury the dead and aid the injured and homeless. / One of the most tragic features of the disaster was the engulfing of Calcahualco, which formerly nestled in the dopes of the mountains. Its residents were mostly families oi wbel leaders and their followers operating in the Gulf region. Na? tives report nothing left of the ham? let ?zcept a pit filled with debris. A detachment of soldiers has been ?eat from Huatusco to bury the wans. Outlaws Raid Ruins Hardly secondary in tragic in t**ert is the story that comes from 8*n Juan Coscomatepec, where, it ? said, outlaws raided the ruins, *nVio?; the survivors into the fields ?ad Jungles. i'oRautlan, a village . rf 2,500 residents, was left with ?Bljr two buildings intact. An un ?^nrted number of victims is be "?"th the ruins. These three towns were apparenfc x'l dose to the exact center of the ?arthqnake area, which, extended **** sixty miles on the eastern j I1??? of the volcano of Orizaba. ? ^th carne not only from crumbling j *01*? and churches, but from floods * hitherto peaceful streams. These *?* swollen by black sulphurous ?***???, which ?wept wrecked settle j^* along their banks, drowning I** injured and carrying scores of ^*?? downxtream inextricably ?X6d w?th uprooted trees, dead cat ^??d other debris. y'*n a point on the Mexican Rail *?J know? a? Puent* Nacional, **** of trien, women and children ^?been seen floating downstream /7"0 ?nance of being recovered n identified, or *-v<in counted, jj* Ban Francisco, twenty-five *?? have bef-n taken from a ?r?*??and a call for fra,}, V;ater T*en ??nt to Vera Cruz. Rin 7**? ?pwt* the recovery of about ?f2?0f k^'*"? wh?e the residents *4ki Fr*Bd*c0 dc v*n'A* 'Ar* to*t 'ZU?* ri?*?m? frwn h stream which *JJ* through the village. * ?4*tfon to /Jeaths in the main P are?, ioui-itmn wer? Vmtbivjid on pay* three ?prpentier Agrees To Fight Dempsey \ Accepts Coffroth9s Tertnsl for Bout at Tia Juana, hut Favors Ten Rounds PARIS, Jan. 7.?Descamps, manager for Georgea Carpentier, wired James Coffroth, manager of the Tia Juana Race Track, last evening accepting the latter's terms for a championship; bout between Carpentier and Dempsey: in America. The only exception taken ' wa3 relative to the length of the bat- ! tie. Carpentier being unwilling to ' tight over fifteen rounds and favoring ten rounds. Descamps offers to split the purse fifty-fifty, claiming Carpentier is as big a drawing card as Dempsey, whether the battle is staged in America, England or France. French promoters were disheartened by the spirited bid? ding of Americans and have given up the idea' of holding the fight in this country, one saying: "The Americans knocked us out before we entered the ring." $1,150,000 Asked to Rid U. S. of 'Reds' Federal Fight To Be Pushed to Make Certain the De? portation of Thousands of Radical Undesirables WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.-^Determina tion of the government to carry on to the finish its fight to rid the nation of Communist and Communist Labor party members, more than 2,600 of whom now await deportation proceed? ings as a result of the recent nation? wide raids, was seen in the request transmitted to-day by the Department of Labor to Congress for new appropri? ations aggregating $1,150,000 to be ?sed j in the enforcement of laws against ; radicals and for their deportation. ( While members of Congress were yet j giving the request preliminary con- ; sideration, from the temporary head- i quarters here of the Russian Soviet Bureau, located less than three blocks from the Department of Justice Build? ing, a statement was issued by S. Nuorteva, who said he was secretary to Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, so-called ambassador to the United States from the Russia Soviet covernment, set? ting forth general charges against De? partment of Justice agents. He charged that department agents had "actively participated" in the for? mulation of some of the planks in the Communist and Communist Labor party platforms, which, the statement i said, "now form the basis of the per? secution of thousands of people." Another charge was that "the chief , figures in such celebrated bomb plots \ were agents of a similar nature." The statement added that Martens was in Washington but that jio effort had ben made to arrest him. Offers of Documents Nuorteva said later that if permitted to appear before a Senate committee Martens would produce official corre? spondence with the Russian soviet gov? ernment, which he had refused to give up to the Lusk investigating commit? tee in New York. He said all docu? ments' of whatever nature in the possession of the "Soviet Bureau" in this cauntry would be placed at the disposal of Congress. Department of Justice officials, ad? mitting ttiat a search was being made for Martens, read the Nuorteva state? ment carefully, and, although refusing to discuss it officially, said privately that the situation to them was "humor? ous." The Department of Labor's request lor additional funds to conduct its work in rooting out radicalism was based on a recommendation of An? thony Caminetti, Commissioner Gen? eral of Immigration, who declared the Department of Justice had amassed such quantities of evidence against the radicals taken in the raids as to mean at least two months' work. Prediction was made at the Department of Justice that the hearings on deportation cases which are scheduled to begin to-mor? row in several cities will require that much time in themselves. Additional time then will be required for final review of the casen in Washington. The Attorney General's office, de? tailed to prepare the cases against the radicals, also is anticipating a strenu? ous fight before those to bo deported are aboard an outgoing cteamer. Parties Have Big Fund In addition to the "slush fund" of the two parties, estimated at more than $1,000,000, which is to be used in their drfvriHe, officials ?aid to-day that un? doubtedly "more would be obtained where that came from." While these sources of the financial support wer? not fully disclosed it was said that de? partment agents had seized several thou ?and books of "social war bonds," each of which bonds was sold for SI. Interest on the bonds, which on their face? iscrlbe ?heir purpose "to help crash the capitalist system," is made payable "on the day after the social revolution." in addition to the government "'' tempt? to drive out the "Red"." it will Maintain hereafter a much closer sur v>itlan#?' over immigrants in order to check the inflow of undesirables. Aliens coming to the United States hereafter will be tnore thoroughly in? vestigated. Their passports will have to be Issued by government? friendly to the United states? Under Secretary of Btatc folk ?aid to-day in discussing plans for keening undesirables from *iH*riO? the country, Ko further deputation or radical aliens will be undertaken until the experiment with the transport Buford, tna first "soviet ark," is completed, Mr. Camine'ti ?aid. ? T?a n??rly '4,000 radical aliens taken Continued on puye three Jersey City Police Drive Out Berger "I Am Going to Speak Here," He Saya; "You Are Not," Replies Chief ; Escorts Him to Ferry Radical Is Trailed From His Hotel Request for Taxi Refused and Socialist Orator Talks of Damage Suitj Victor Berger. Socialist, whom the voters of Milwaukee re?lected to Con? gress after the House of Representa? tives had denied him a seat, was in? tercepted by Jersey City policemen last night within a block of the hall in which he was to have spoken in that city, placed in an automobile and driven to Weehawken, where ho was forcibly put aboard a ferryboat, j bound for New York.* Charles P. X. O'Brien, Director of Public Safety, announced several ! days ago that Berger would not be j permitted to speak in Jersey City. Last evening when Berger left the j Hotel McAlpin with Oscar Amer iiiger, his campaign manager, he wa.-< trailed by Chief of Police Richard j Battersby, of Jersey City, and three ' detectives. They boarded a tube train with him, rode to Hoboken, and j there took the same trolley car to i Hutton Street and Central Avenue, ! Jersey City, a block from the Social- ? ist Education Club, 256 . Central j Avenue, where Berger's address j was scheduled. Berger Advised to Leave At this point Berger left the car by j the front platform. Chief Battersby i and the detectives ran out the rear | door and confronted him as he stepped j to the street. "Who are you?" Battersby asked him. j "J'm Victor Berger," the Socialist re plied. j "I think you had better leave Jersey j City at once," said the chief. "But I am going to speak here," Berger insisted. "No, you're not," Battersby told him. "You're going to leave town at once I or I will escort you out." "If you do that," Berger retorted, : "I'll sue you for all there is in it." Ameringer'8 Protests Ignored Mr. Ameringer injected himself into | the discussion at this juncture with voluble protests against the police ac- j tion, but Battersby paid no attention , to him. "Well, let me send for a taxi and I'll i go," Berger finally consented. "No," said the chief, "I think you ! had better come with me." Berger entered the chief's car, which ! had been brought to the place by a I police chauffeur, and with Battersby ; and the detectives was whisked over ! Hudson Boulevard to Weehawken. There the Milwaukeean was bundled aboard the ferryboat that plies to Westf j Forty-second Street. j Crowd Gathers Quickly Meanwhile a crowd that jammed Central Avenue had gathered in the : vicinity of the Socialist educational ' Club house. The majority of them j seemed to be Socialists who h;id come ! in the expectation of hearing Berger, although a goodly number were curi- I ous persons attracted by the prospect j of trouble. Berger had been halted and spirited away so quietly that no one in the throng knew what had happened until long after he was on the w?y back to | New York. Fifty uniformed policemen were j drawn in a cordon in front of the club- ! house and prevented any one from j entering it except those who could > show tney were members of the or? ganization. Even thes? were not per? mitted to enter the auditorium, where the Berger meeting was to have taken | place. The doors were guarded by j policemen, and the Socialists who were j let into the building had to content themselves with gathering in groups in other parts of the clubhouse. There they waited for the hero who never arrived. Spectators Miss Episode Eventually the crowd outside began to dwindle. Few, if any, were aware of what had happened, most of them being under the impression that Ber? ger had failed to venture crossing the river in the face of Director O'Brien's announcement that he would be barred. In hi? communication yesterday after? noon to Chief Battersby Mr. O'Brien quoted Berger's address in New York last Sunday night, in which he re? ferred to the Constitution as "a piece of paper," and declared, "Whether 1 go to prison or to Congress, I will carry the flag of revolution with me." "It can readily be seen, therefore," the instructions to the chief continued, "that with Mr. Berger's record of con? viction on one of the most serious-of-j fenses against the government, and his ? continued preaching of revolution and j the destruction of American instilu- | tion?, that he iv a dangerous indi vidual, J take it that he is against law i and order, and that his appearance ?snd j speaking here might lead to serious re- j suit::. It is in the best interests of government that Mr. Berger be not al? lowed to deliver a public address in j Jersey City to-night. Government Campaign Cited "At present the United State? gov? ernment is conducting a campaign against those who have bee?) plotting against our government and rightly has deported a number of them. This country must not. be tainted with or desecrated by the principles which Berger espouses and, an far as Jersey City is concerned, wo will never be so affected. "To permit Berger to speak here would not only be an affront to the 20,000 boys of Jersey City whojrbully Continued on poye three a? Schwab Is Out For Gen. Wood Charles M. Schwab has come out in support of Major General Leonard Wood for President. Re? ports of this, which have been current for some time, were con? firmed last night by the steel magnate, who said he has visited General Wood, and in discussing the coming Presidential race the general had asked him who he wanted., "I told him," Mr. Schwab re? lated, " 'I'm for you.' " "Are you prepared to make a statement that you indorse the general?" he was asked last night. "General Wood is a very good man," Mr. Schwab replied. "He would prove a very great Presi? dent if nominated and elected." 63 More'Reds' Seized Here in 24-Hour Raid 199 Now at the Island;) ;Novy Mir' Office Invaded and 15 Are Arrested;! Children Burn Literature j Although the detention pens on Ellis j Island hold 499 alleged alien radicals last night, including fifty-eight pros- i pective exiles sent there yesterday, ' State Senator Clayton R. Lusk, chair- | man of the Joint Legislative Com-j mittee investigating seditious activi? ties, declared that the government ? hasn't scratched the surface of the I revolutionary movement. Senator Lusk said there are 20,000 | aliens in New York State who are j openly organized for the overthrow of ! the government. While Senator Lusk j was issuing this statement Department ' of Justice agents and members of the I police bomb squad were raiding a Communist meeting in the offices of j "Xovy Mir," a Russian language news-! paper, formerly edited by Leon j Trotzky, in 118 East Tenth Street. ? Fifteen Arrested Fourteen men and a woman were arrested at the meeting and a vast quantity of radical propaganda, pam? phlets, papers and photographs of Bolshevik leaders was destroyed. There was so much of this material that the officers, after- the prisoners had been sent to the Department of Justice offices in the Park Row Build? ing, invited the curious children who crowded about the door of the raided newspaper office to come in and help them. The children, typical little East Siders, accepted the invitation with a whoop of joy, and in their enthusiasm destroyed a great deal more than propaganda. Samples of every kind of printed matter were preserved as evi? dence, but literally tons of it was torn into scraps of paper by the children, who ended their fun with a street bonfire. In charge of the raiders were Agents Francesco and. Davis and De? tective Sergeants Gegan and Brown, of the police bomb squad. They said that their most important capture was Dr. Victor Pachakchy, who has angli? cized his name and now calls himself Dr. Victor Paige. He is a dental me- ? chanic living in .103 East Fourteenth j Street. He is a friend of Trotzky and worked with Lonine in Switzerland in 1914. He was quite Frank when questioned in the Park Row offices of the Depart? ment of Justice. He readily admitted that he believed in the overthrow, of governments by violence and said that while he had no particular grievance against the government of the United States he was convinced that the ] Soviet form was more desirable. He said he wished he was back in Russia | und was assured that he would get his ; wish. Once Sent to Siberia In 1907, Dr. Pachakchy was arrested j for revolutionary activities in Russia i and sent, as an exile to Siberia. ? He existed there until 1911, when,' with the connivance of his guards and j the assistance of friends, he escaped j and crossed Russia into Germany. Ho ' went from there to South America, j visited the,United States, and ir. 1914 1 went to Switzerland and became asso- I ciated with L?nine. A mission for L?nine brought him , back to the United States in 1915, and '? when he arrived he became ,associated with Leon Trotsky, then editor of "Novy Mir." Pachakchy delivered lee- i tures, at first under Trotsky's guid-j ance, to audiences most Jikely to ac- \ cept the doctrines he preached. In j 1916 he tried to get back into Russia; by way of Siberia, but was held up j and returned to the United States and became affiliated with the Federation j of Russian Workers. The woman taken in the raid was j Annk- Manson, twenty-four years old,; of 12 West 121st Street. She told the, government agents that she would be i glad to get a free trip to Russia, her ? native land, provided .lohn Dudarik, ; ;,l".i twenty-four, and living at the same i address, was deported with her. John echoed her remarks, he, too, having j been taken in the raid. They go toi Ellis Island ?his morning. Weinst fin Photographed Gregory Weinstein refused to pose ? for the photographer on Ellis Island or; to he linger printed yesterday. He is, j or was, the chancellor of the Russian ? Soviet Republic bureau, of which Lud- ; wig C. A. K. Martens, 3eH-styled Am? bassador from Russia, was the chief. When the government photographer reported that Gregory had refused to '. pose, two husky guards were sent into the detention pen. They emerged with Gregory. One had a thick hand tightly; clasped in the slack of Mr. Weinstoln's trousers and the other clutched the ! collar of his coat. Ho was shouting: "I stand on my right. I refuse to be photographed." They sat him down before the cam? era, persuaded him to stop yelling, and, when he looked least, unpleasant, the photographer opened the shutter. Aftor that It wnn comparatively ?Imple to ilngor print him. Then they photo Continued on pape three 2 American Oil Mm Slain By Mexicans Bandits Kill F. J. Roneyi and Earl Bowles in Territory Controlled ! by Carranza Forces i 19 Killed inTampico District Since 1917 U. S* Demands Immediate Action Be Taken by Mex? ico to Capture Slayers | WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.?Receipt by ! I the State Department late to-day of ! advices that two more American oil i men, F, J. Roney and Earl Bowles, j j had been murdered by Mexicans in I the Tampico district of Mexico was | followed by instructions to the Ameri? can Embassy in Mexico City to urge the Mexican government to take every possible step to bring about the cap? ture and punishment of the murderers. First word of the killing of the two Americans, which brought the total of American citizens murdered in the Tampico district since April, 1917, up to nineteen, reached Washington through private sources. Later the State Department announced the re? ceipt of similar advices and outlined the steps which had been taken by the department in the case. The depart- i ment's information, which came from the American consul at Tampico, said the bodies of Roney and Bowles, who were employed by the International Petroleum Company, were discovered yesterday. The State Department also was in- j formed during the day in a report from i the American Consul at Mazatlan,!. Mexico, that Harry V. Leonard and Harry O. Martin, members of the crew j of the United States submarine tender' Pocomoke, arrested in Mazatlan No-1 vember 12 after a street light with a I Mexican, had been sentenced to two months' imprisonment. The report said, however, that as the sentence dated back to November 32, when the j bluejackets were arrested, their re? lease should be effected January 12. In announcing the killing of Roneyi and Bowles the department's statement; read: j "The Department of State to-day! cabled instructions to the American Embassy at Mexico City to immediately urge the Mexican government to issue j orders promptly to put into effect every possible measure for the apprehension | and punishment of the murderers, and the embassy was directed to report! specifically to the department the earli-j est possible moment the action taken by the Mexican government in the case. Similar instructions were sent to the i American Consul at Tampico, with a ! view to immediate action by the local ' authorities. "The department has called on thej consul to report further details re-; garding the murder." Court Denies Jenkins9 Plea to Revoke Release Bail Given Without Knowledge), or Consent, Says American i Consular Agent in Mexico MEXICO CITY, Jan. t?..Th..- appeal! of William 0. Jenkins, American con- j sular agent at Puebla, for nullification of his release on bail was denied Mon- j day by Criminal Judge Guzman in j Puebla. According to Mr. Jenkins the $500 bond furnished by J. Salter Han sen, another American, was given with- j out his knowledge or consent. Mr. Jenkins, who was arrested on charges of collusion with the bandits j who kidnaped him last October, had declined to furnish bail himself, de? claring he would accept nothing but unconditional release. Neither Mr. Jenkins nor his coun- i sel appeared in court yesterday, al? though the State Prosecutor, Julio Mitchell, and Indian witnesses against ? Mr. Jenkins were present. Mexican Plot to Kidnap Summerlin News to I!. S. State Department Had I\o Inti? mation of Plan Until It Wan Revealed by The Tribune New York Tribune Washington Ihirran WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. -Until dis-? closed in Wilbur Forrest's special dis-j patch to The Tribune to-day, the Ameri- j can government had received no in? timation that. Federico Cordova, the Mexican bandit who kidnaped Consular Agent Jenkins, had planned to abduct George T. Summerlin, the American Charg? d'Affaires at Mexico City. It was said at the State Department, how? ever, that this government had sus-1 pected that Cordova's plans included ? the kidnaping of the British Consul at Puebla. Mr. Forrest's dispatch was eagerly read by State Department officials, and steps were immediately taken to advise Mr. Summerlin of the disclosures made by The Tribune's correspondent. Offi? cials did not disguise the fact that Mr. Forrest's interview with the bandit I leader had added an entirely new sig- \ nlficance to the abduction of Mr. Jen- ! kins. 12 Hurt in Bus Accident 2.a? in Auto When^It Collides With Trolley Car Twelvo persons wore injured last night when a privately owned bus, oper? ated by authority of Mayor Hylan, col? lided with an Ocean Avenue car at Lafayette and Mnrcy avenues, Brooklyn. The bus was overturned and Its sidos smashed. Albert K?ufer, of 42? Van Buren Street, was removed to the Jew? ish Hospital suffering from Internal In? juries and a fracture of the loft arm. The other eleven whjp vvero hurt were able to go home after being attended by ambulance surgeons. There wore twenty-fivo passengers in the bus. "WTJirHNfl IIKM.H"?IliMTt? Theiirr*. Hit nioit Joyoui rmuody of All T??f?.? A<tr?. _ - ?i?I Compromise on Treaty Is Offered by Democrats; Bryan Influence Hinted Europe Safe If She Works, Says Hoover Ample Credit to Meet All Needs Obtainable if She Rehabilitates Eco? nomic Status, He Avers Herbert Hoover, en route here from the West wired to his New York of? fice yesterday a statement in which 'ne took sharp issue with the asser tio ., attributed by him to "European propagandists," that "our Treasury needs to be further drawn upon *for loans" to relieve fiscal and physical distress overseas. if European nations will "get back to work" and rehabilitate their econo? mic status, Mr. Hoover says, they will be able to establish commercial credits ample to satisfy their needs.' There devolves upon the United States gov? ernment, he adds, the moral obliga? tion only to defer this year's in? terest on the war loans to the Allies and to provide breadstuffs on credit to the inhabitants of some of the larger centers of population, approximately 15,000,000 or 20,000,000 persons. "Our taxes are now 600 per cent over pre-war rates," runs the Hoover statement. "We simpiy cannot in? crease this burden. Rather, the prob? lem is one of early reduction. "Outside of interest to the Allies, Great Britain states that she wants nothing but commercial credits. These she can obtain if she puts up her ample collateral assets. France also has unpledged foreign assets that would cover most of her important needs." Mr. Hoover suggests it would not be inappropriate for the 70,000,000 people of Central European countries to mani? fest a disposition to aid in European relief. He calls attention to the fact that th.? American peonle are con? tributing $7,000,000 a month "in charity" to feed H.000,000 European children and to tight disease. If the government were to sell about 15 per cent of its wheat flour supplies to the needy of Europe on credit, he points out, the difference between credits and cash "would be the dif? ference between starvation and exist? ence to them," but it should bo predi? cated on the understanding that "this country is nearing the^ time when it must cease to carry the"'' economic bur? den of Europe, except through ordi? nary business processes." Italy can furnish commercial credits to fill all her needs, save in some of the larger cities, Mr. Hoover asserts. Germany, he says, could pay or obtain commercial credits if the reparation commission would permit her to use her domestic resources and unpledged foreign assets. Bulgaria, Greater Ser? bia, Rumania, South Russia and Tur? key (except Armenia), he declares, have enough of a food surplus to ex? port some of it. Hungary could feed herself, according 10 Mr. Hoover, if Rumania would return the cattle and grain she took last summer. "We are therefore left." he goes on, "with Finland, Belgium, Poland, Ozecho-Slovakia and Austria to con? sider. Austria is the sorest point in Europe, and while she must be fed ? this winter, the Allies should be made ' to realize that any assistance from us is upon condition she is free to make such political associations as will take her out of a perpetual poorhouse." Funding of Interest of Allies Seems Assured House Ways and Means Com? mittee Almost Ready to Ap? prove Glass Plan New York Tribune Waghington Bureau j WASHINGTON-, Jan. 6.?Funding of' the interest obligations of the Allies,! declared to be absolutely necessary by j Secretary Glass of the Treasury De? partment, probably will be approved ! by the House Ways and Means Com? mittee. The interest, amounting to about $475,000,000 a year, will either be funded in new obligations by special^ authorization of Congress or under ex? isting law. Secretary Glass has taken the position that logislation is not nec? essary, but the committee is not cer? tain of the correctness of his position. Chicago Opera Singer Held for Deportation Georges Baklanoff Accused by Songstress of Breaking Marriage Pledge CHICAGO, Jan. 6..Georges Bakla? noff, a Russian baritone of the Chicago Grand Opera Company, who sang the title r?le in the world premi?re of "Rip Van Winkle." composed by Reginald do Koven. was arrested and held in $1,000 bond'to-day to face deportation proceedings. A Federal Department of Labor warrant alleges Baklanoff is an undesirable alien. Vera Amazcr, also a singer, the com? plainant, told District Attorney Clyne that Baklanoff had brought her to this country several years ago and had promised to marry her. lie had per? suaded her, she said, to accompany him on tours of this country, and she had discovered later that he had a wife and children in Russia. Train Derailed; Ten Hurt Five < lars Plunge Over Bank on Louisville Road LOUISVILLE, Ky? Jan. 6.- Louisville & Nashville train No.'.?2, running from Knoxville to Louisville, was derailed and five nus went over an embankment at Newhopo, Ky., near Lebanon, late to-night. Last reports receive? here Raid ten persona were injured, savernl probably fatally. At the !.. & N. offlres here it was unid that, a ralief train was bringing the injured to this city. Wilson Will Call League, Says Polk Expects President to Act When Ratifications Are Exchanged With Berlin WASHINGTON, Jan." 6. ? President, Wilson "will no doubt" Issue the call for the first meeting of the league of nations under the peace treaty, when \ the treaty is actually in effect through the exchange of ratifications of three of the Allied powers and Germany, Assistant Secretary of State Polk said to-day. "I think there is hardly a doubt that the President will issue the call," Mr. Polk said, "in view of "the fact that he is especially charged with this duty by the treaty, and it has nothing to do ( with ratification by the United States." j Mr. Polk added that he had so ad | vised Premier Clemenceau and the I other Entente premiers while he was j in Paris as head of the American Peace Mission when they asked whether the President would issue the call. i Reservations Said To Suit Premiers \ | Senator Harding Asserts Ideas Were Approved] at London Conference] i United States Senator Warren G. i Harding, of Ohio, the favorite son of ! the Buckeye State for the Republican ? nomination for President, declared last ! night at the Waldorf-Astoria, prior to | his speech to the Ohio Society, that ; Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Nitti, ? i Premier's of the leading European na- ? j tions concerned in the peace treaty, '. I are agreeable to the ratification of the ' covenant, of the peace treaty as pro- I ; posed by the Republican majority of | the Senat?;, and have been so since the i I visit of Clemenceau to London more ' than a month ago. "As f matter of fact more than a month ? ago, simultaneously with the ? visit to London of Premier Clemenceau, ! a prominent British publication made \ the announcement that Ttaly, France ! and England were ready to accept the treaty reservations proposed by the Republican majority in the Senate,", said Senator Harding. "The edition of the paper was suppressed within two hours. My information was obtained from a man who was in London at the time and read the announcement. I am I speaking on the word of that man. "Article X comes pretty near to be I ing the whole thing in* the present ! deadlock. As the President submitted ! it, it creates a super-state. The Repub- \ ! licans will not stand for that. In good ! conscience they adhere to the idea : Congress 'should reserve to itself power ! to declare war. The covenant of the j treaty of peace, does leave a framework which within proper limitations may accomplish very much for the preserva? tion of peace. It affords a foundation on which we may apply the league of j nations in erecting a structure which we began under the Taft Administra- i tion." Telegram Belies Wood-Perkins Tilt Only Duties in Chicago Kept General From the Ohio Society Dinner | Failure of Major General Leonard ; ' Wood to be present last night to ad- i ! dress the Ohio Society at its dinner: j in the Waldorf-Astoria was due to the ? strike and radical ?situation in and ! about Chicago, according to a telegram j read at the dinner by George W. Pf r- ' ? kins, who presided. Earlier reports i had been to the effect that a squabble \ I between General Wood and Mr. Perkins j j had caused the soldier to cancel his ? I promise to" attend. The telegram said, j in part: "My dear Mr. Perkins: I regret ex- j ceedingly that the pressure of public '? business here prevents my being pr?s- ! i ent at the dinner. Moreover, I am just closing up the situation at Gary, and am somewhat occupied in doing my ] j part in the rounding up of the 'Red'! ! element. In other words, it is a case I of duty first." General Wood continued with a de : nunciation of "Red" activity in Amer- ' I ica, saying that all who joined in it ! j should either be deported or punished otherwise. The other speakers of the evening followed the same vein, for the topic chosen for discussion was American ism. About eleven hundred persons attended the dinner. They were ad ! drassed by Senator Warren G. Harding. of Ohio. Nicholas Murrav Butler and ?Job E. Hedges. j Senator Harding spoke of the Con? stitution as the great foundation of I Americanism and of its application in ?the future, together with the steps to be taken under it to ward off the "Red" ?menace. In speaking of the present chaotic condition of the world he said: "Many have thought that the ratifl ! cation of the peace treaty and the ?'league of nation.- would make us nor i mal, but that is the plea of the patent medicine faker, whose one remedy will cure every ill." He also referred to the responsibil? ity of the employer who hires foreign born labor to see that these received every opportunity to absorb the prin? ciples of Americanism. "There must be concern about de? votion and duty, as well as ?bout divi? dends," he said. "There must be a thought of the eventful morrow, as well BB the golden day. It is of no avail merely to preach contentment. Content never lighted a furnace or turned a wheel in all creation. It doe? exist in the human being who is I really worth while. Mere subsistence does not make ? citljten." Group of 44 Senators Represented in First Definite Proposal to Seek Basis of Truce Aini at Agreement By End of the Week " Mild Reservationists w Pledge Twelve Vote? to Proposed Program AVu- York 7 nbun* Wasthiiigton Bureau WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.?Over? tures for a compromise on the peace treaty were submitted to the Repub? licans to-day by a group of Demo? cratic Senators acting: without the authority of their party leaders in the Senate. The Democratic Sena? tors hope the plan will furnish the basis for an agreement that may be reached on Friday or Saturday, af? ter the Jackson Day dinner of the Democrats Thursday night. The influence of William Jenning? Bryan in the Senate is credited with the effort that is being made to reach an agreement. The Senators who are actively in charge of the negotiations include Bryan follow? ers, among them Senator Kendrick, of Wyoming; McKellar, of Tenu?,s see, and Swanson, of Virginia. The proposal was the first definite step toward a compromise that has been made by the Democrats. It !s submitted to the ''mild reservation ists," who will discuss its terms with other Republican Senators, including Senator Lodge, and then negotiate .with the Democrats until a plan is agreed upon that will secure the. support of enough Senators to raf if y the treaty. Forty-four Democrats Pledged The support of forty-four Demo? cratic Senators was pledged by th? group of Democrats to any compromise that might be reached in the inform?) negotiations that will he carried on during the next two or three days. The "mild reservationists" on the Republican side pledged at lens?, twelve votes for any agreement that might be reached, giving the com? promise advocates fifty-six votes, or more than a majority of the Senate. should the effort succeed. With a ma? jority of the Senate pledged to support a definite compromise plan the advo? cates of the proposed agreement piar to secure control of the treaty situa? tion in the Senate and keep the com? promise proposal alive until the sixty four votes required fcir ratification of the treaty have been secured. Rivals Xot tn Movement Senators Hitchcock and Underwood, rival contestants for the Democratic leadership in the Senate, and Reed, of Missouri, who is an ''irreconcilable" opponent of the entire treaty, will not be asked to support the movement. Senator Swanson was selected as th* representative of the group of Demo? cratic Senators to conduct the negoti? ations with the "mild reservation ists." Senator McCumber, of Korth Dakota, is representing the Republicans. The "mild reservationists" discussed the proposal submitted to-day in in? formal conference, and later declared that the Democrats have asked for too many modifications of the Lodge reser? vations. The "mild reservationists" said they would consent to modify th* preamble, but that the Democrat? must make important concessions be? fore an agreement can be reached. Modification? Sought Briefly outlined, the compromise pr6 posed by the group of Democratic Sen? ators was based on the Lodge reserva? tions, with the following modilication8. FIRST- Eliminate from the pre? amble the provision requiring the written acceptance of the reserva? tions by three other great powers. SECOND?Insert the phrase "by its military or naval forces" in the Lodge reservation on Article X. That would make it read that the United States assumes no obligation to pre? serve the territorial integrity of any nation by the use of its military or naval force unless Congress shall so determine, THIRD?Eliminate commerce, coast? wise traffic and suppression of the traffic in women, opium and other dangerous drugs from the list of do inestic questions declared to be out? side the jurisdiction of the league of nations. Monroe Doctrine Weakened FOVRTH -Strike out the provision of the Monroe Doctrine reservation declaring that the United States sha 11 have the "sole power" to interpret the doctrine. FIFTH- The Lodj;e reservations concerning the appointment of rep? resentatives on the various commis? sions and bureaus created in th* treaty would be eliminated alto? gether. SIXTH?Eliminate ali mention of China and Japan from the Shantung reservation, making it read simply that the United States withholds it? assent to the Shantung settlement. SEVENTH -Make the reservation on the 'sbor sections, which reads that the United States withholds its assent to those .section!*, read that the United Statei ..-sumes do obliga? tions under them. EIGHTH- The, wording of the res erva?joii on the ?quality ot the vot? ing power of the United States and the British Empire is changed te soften th? reservation. NINTH?Tht) reservation on with? drawal is changed no as to provide that a -joint resolution of Congre?? *