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VOL XXXIV.
U. S. Hopes of Averting
Coal Strike April 1 Fade
SAY ALL RESTS
ON EMPLOYERS
Lewis Declares Union
Will Accept Invi
tation.
Officials of the United Mine Workers
of America are “hopeful” that a strike of
bituminous coal workers April 1 may yet
be averted, but in the same breath they
admit there is little ground for hope that
suspension of operations will not ensue
upon expiration of the present wage
• agreement three weeks hence.
P “The whole thing rests with the oper
ators,” one union official said today, ex
plaining If the mine owners, now di
vided by the refusal of certain groups
to enter Into negotiations with the min
ers, once get into conference with the
intention of consummating an agree
ment, speedy adjustment can be made
and a cessation of mining operations
avoided. Thus far, however, there has
not been the slightest Indication of any
intention of the operators to recede from
their ‘stand pat* attitude.”
“No conference, no agreement; no
agreement, then a strike.” was the way
President John L. Lewis of the mine
workers summed up the situation.
WOULD ESTER CONFERENCE
IF CALLED BY DAVIS.
President Lewis issued a statement in
which he declared the mine workers will
enter a conference with operators of the
central competitive field, “if such a
conference is called by Secretary of La
bor Davis.”
The international executive board of
the mine workers ratified the articles of
alliance between the transportation and
mine workers' union. The action was
taken by unanimous vote of the members
of the board. Formal notification of the
action of the mine workers will be filed
with E. J. Manion, president of the Or
der of Railway Telegraphers, who is sec
retary of the alliance.
A dispatch from Washington Indicates
the operators and miners have failed to
respond to the invitation of President
Harding that they meet In conference
before April 1, despite the statement of
Presiient Lewis that an agreement to a
I conference" has been our attitude all
along and it will coc-tuae to be our" po
sition.” The Lewis s’atement Indicates
no Invitation has been received.
If the statement of President Lewis is
to be taken as a response the question of
whether a conference will be held ap
pears to rest with the operators.
RF.ADT AND WILL BE
TO MEET OPERATORS.
“The United Mine Workers of America
will enter a conference with the operators
of the central competitive field if such
a conference is called by Secretary of
Labcr Davis, the Lewris statement says.
That has been our attitude all along,
and it will continue to be our position.
“We have been ready ever since this
controversy started to confer with the
operators in an effort to reach an agree
meut, and the only reason this has not
happened 1j that certain groups of oper
ators have flatly and bluntly refused to
meet with the miners, although they
agreed In writing In New York on March
31, 1920, that they would so meet prior
to April 1, 1922.
“The miners do not want a suspen
sion of work on the first of April, and
we shall continue to do what we have
done from the start, and that is to put
forth every honorable effort to avert such
a suspension. It is quite evident, how
ever, that these groups of balky oper
ators are determined, if possible, to force
a suspension of coal mining operations
and bring discomfort to the American
people. The miners hope that the pub
lic will not lose sight of that fact which
stands out so prominently in the entire
affair. If such a suspension occurs it
will be through no fault of the miners.
HEED RECOGNITION
THAT DEMAND JUST.
“When President Harding directed Sec
retary of Labor Davis to call on the coal
operators to meet the miners in joint
conference, he recognized. In behalf of
the Government, the Justice of the min
ers’ demand that the operators live up
to their written agreement. He recog
nized the refusal as being an assault
upon the fundamental principles of busi
ness morality, which require every busi
ness man or corporation to fulfill h'a
obligations. It is only the dishonors He
business man who refuses to respect his ;
own contract. So President Harding and
the Government has given full sanction *
and approval to the principles of collec
tive bargaining between employer and
employe.
“There Is one thing certain and that j
is anew agreement must be made before
April 1 If a suspension is to be avoided, j
And anew agreement cannot be made;
unless operators and miners meet in joint j
conference and worii It out.”
A telegram has been sent by William
Green, secretary-treasurer of the miners, !
to Frank Farrington, president of the :
Illinois miners. Insisting that no district
conferences be held with operators, but
that the miners insist on a national con
ference. The telegram Is given as the
expression of the international executive
board. The message follows:
“The international executive board of I
the United Mine Workers of America, !
which U now in session in this city, has J
given consideration to telegrams which !
passed between you and International j
President Lewis regarding a separate j
Joint meeting of minors and operators of ]
Illinois. The board wai greatly surprised I
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Published at Indianapolis. Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914, at
Ind., Dally Except Sunday. Poetofflce, Indianapolis, ud., under act March 8, 1878.
ILLINOIS MEN
ARE DEFIANT
Act Independently if No
Interstate Parley in
Prospect April 1.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., March B.—The union
rol miners of Illinois will enter Into In
dependent negotiations with the coc,l
operator* of the State, unless an Inter-
State conference is arranged or in pros
pect by April 1.
This defiance to the edict of the United
Mine Workers of America was decided
upon a meeting of the State executive
board of the Illinois miners* union, held
here today. A tremendous breach in the
ranks of the international union with re
sultant weakening In the strike that
seems imminent in the Pennsylvania and
Ohio fields, is now threatened.
that a separate Joint conference was con
templated or proposed. Full and com
plete indorsement was given to the reply
to President Lewis to your telegram
asking advice regarding the holding of
such a Joint conference. The board is
unalterably opposed to any separate Joint
conference of miners and operators of any
district comprising the Cen-ral Competi
tive Field. The instructions of the inter
national convention and the duty we
owe to the membership demand that the
operators of the Central Competitive Field
be required to keep faith and to comply
with the agreement they made in March.
1920, to meet in an inter-State-point con
ference prior to April Ist, 1922, for the
purpose of negotiating anew wage
agreement. The international executive
board will not consent to separate dis
trict agreements within the Central Com
petitive Field and It calls upon the offi
cers and members of District 12 to co
operate with the international conference
with the Central Competitive Field. Please
wire immediate answer.”
MOTOR BUSSES,
NEW AND SHINY,
ALLURETHRONG
Insectus Autoitis Bites Visi
tors to Annual Car
Display.
No one ever attended an automobile
show without baying an automobile or
wishing he had on® on display there. This
mean a great many thousand persons in
Indianapolis and vicinity have the auto
mobile “bug" today.
The crowds yesterday afternoon and
last night continued to swarm through
the Manufacturers’ building at the fair
ground. admiring automobiles, big and
little, but ail shiny and new, and mar
velling at the hundreds of clever devices
displayed by the accessory dealers.
The weather has been adverse to the
show, bnt It seems to have had little ef
fect, for the crowds have been all that the
big building could accommodate, and
they are expected to continue for the
remainder of the week.
This afternoon and tonight, the pro
gram called for more concerts by the
Canadian Kilties Band, which has been
attracting so much attention at the ex
position. Tonight members of the In
diana Athletic Club will be the guests
of the show.
NASH ADOPTS
NOVEL PLAN.
Many novel methods of displaying au
tomobiles to best advantage have been
instituted by the show One which at
tracted a great deal of attention Is the
Nash exhibit. A Nash chassis is dis
played within a brass railing. The en
gine is being slowly turned over and
the working partg are displayed. In
one corner of the inelosure stands a
(Continued on P*je Eleven.)
Harris to Be Clerk
to City Purchaser
City Purchasing Agent Jesse E. Miller
today announced he will appoint Henry
E. Harris to the clerkship In the purchas
ing department created by an ordinance
passed under suspension of the rules by
the city council Monday evening. Mayor
Samuel Lewis Shank signed the bill to
day.
Harris was a candidate for city coun
cilman of the First district on the Re
publican ticket last fall bnt resigned
five days before the eleeeitlon wlieu It
was discovered technically he was a cit! -
zen of Canada. He formerly was assist
ant purchasing agent for the Sfutz Motor ;
Car Company. His salary will oe Jl.sOO
a year.
Darwinists Can Not Monkey With Bryan
DECLARES THEORY CONTRADICTS BIBLE
They Can't Prove They're Right, He Says
By WILLIAM JENMNCS BKYAN.
WASHINGTON, March 8. —I am not
disturbed by any criticism made by any
man vrho thinks he is the descendant of
an ape. He may boast of his brute an
cestry, but it is a peculiar pride and
there are comparatively few who share
it with him.
When a college professor winds his
intellectual tail round a limb of Dar
win’s family tree, he naturally looks
down with contempt upon ordinary peo
ple who walk on the grounc and are con
tent to believe they were made in the
Image of God. But wb.le this gives
amusement to the “tree m.in,” it does not
disturb the people, except when such
men take advantage of the educational
system of the count -y and undermine the
religious faith of the children entrusted
to their care.
With something like a million specie of
life, they have not yet been able to
prove a single species came from an
other.
FEW RESPOND
TO DAVIS’ CALL
Operators Inclined to
View Conference as
Impractical.
WASHINGTON, March B.—Hope of
averting the Nation-wide coal strike
faded materially today with failure of
the operators to respond to the invitation
of President Harding that the warring
parties meet in conference lefore the
walk-eot scheduled for April 1.
National leaders of the miners claim
they are ready to Join in a national
conference on wages, although In pome
States, particularly In Illinois, State
leaders are said to favor State confer
ences.
Secretary of Labor Davis, who issued
invitations, declared he had made “prog
ress,” but tacitly confessed the confer
ence was fur from a reality. It It. be
lieved the operators have failed to re
spond to the suggestions which were sent
out nearly two weeks ago.
The general feeling in Government cir
cles now is that the strike will not be
averted. •
Faith is still held by Secretary Davis
that the opposing factions may conesnt
to a national meeting. However, he sent
out his suggestions nearly two weeks
ago and only a few responses have been
received.
The operators are understood to op
pose the tnational conference on the
ground that it is impractical.
The Government can do nothing if the
miners and operators refuse to meet in
national conference. It Is believed by
officials here.
The public will suffer no direct effects
of the strike for several weeks due to
preparations which have been made for
the operation of non-union mines In case
of a strike and the vast amount of coal
which had been “hoarded away” by
manufacturers and private individuals
who “knew" the strike was coming on.
In the event of a strike the efforts of
the Federal Government probably will
be concentrated on protection of life and
property, with continued insistence that
the operators and miners get together and
settle their differences.
K. C. MEETING
DECIDES ON CUTS
KANSAS CITY, March &—Coal opera
tors of the tran.-Mississlppi system,
which includes six Stares, decided at a
two-day secret session here that miners’
wages must be reduced to a 1917 level
with the abolition of the check off
system. It was reported authoritatively
here today. The reported reduction would
affect Kansas, Missouri, lowa, Oklahoma,
Arkansas and Southern Wyoming.
SAYS ILLINOIS
WILL ACCEPT
ST. LOUIS, March R.—lllinois coal op
erators will attend the Joint conference
of operators and miners to be called by
Secretary of Labor Davis in the hope of
averting the scheduled Nation-wide coal
strike April 1.
This statement was made today by W.
K. Kavanaugh, president if the fifth and
Ninth Illinois districts of the Coal Oper
ators’ Association.
“It will require no change In the atti
tude of the Illinois operators to comply
with President Harding's request for a
meeting." Kavannttgh said. “The Illinois
operators accepted the several Invitations
of President John L. Lewis of the L T nited
Min Workers of America to meet the
miners and recently have been endeavor
ing to obtain a conference with tho min
ers of Illinois.”
Bandits Fatally
Wound Police Head
ARLINGTON, Va., March B.—Shot by
one of three bandits whom he surprised
In the act of robbing the Bank of Arling
ton early today, A. R. Wiggins, chief
of police, was so seriously wounded he
Is expected to die. The robbers fled
after the shooting, leaving the safe of
the bank a wreck without obtaining any
loot.
City Death Rate
Lowest for Month
Only two deaths from pneumonia were
reported to the city health department
during the twenty-four hours ending at
10 o’clock this morning. This Is the low
est point In the influenza-pneumonia
epidemic of the past month.
The flimsy evidence upon which Dar
wlnites build their fate would not be
sufficient to convict a person of petty
larceny In any court In the civilized
world. And yet, upon this so-called evi
dence they repudiate the Bible. Darwin
ism made an agnostic out of Darwin.
You can silence any of these worship
pers of a Jungle ancestry by asking them
to put In writing the vital truths which
they reject when they consistently apply
Darwin’s hypothesis to the Bible. I have
been trying to get some of these Insolent
guessers to answer the question, but they
avoid It. If they will show how little
of the Bible to be consistent with Dar
winism, the people will understand the
exlent to which they undermine faith
with their ridiculous guesses.
They do not believe in the creation of
man by separate act as a part of God's
plan. They see no divine purpose in
man’s presence here. They exclude the
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1922.
OTHERS MAY
FALL IN SIFT
OF SIPE CASE
‘One Man’ Said to Have
Suggested Loan of
Big Sum.
INVESTIGATION ON
Former County Clerk
Before Grand Jury
Tomorrow.
Richard V. Sipe, former Marion
County clerk, in jail for embezzle
ment, will go before the Marion
County grand jury at 10 o’clock to
morrow morning and tell what he
knows of his shortage of approx
imately $140,000, it was announced at
the courthouse today. It was stated
Sipe will go before the jury volun
tarily.
YVith the appearance of Mr. Sipe be
fore the grand Jury tomorrow Prosecutor
William P. Evans and Claude M. Worley,
special investigator, have prepared to
meet the line of inquiry as directed by
Judge James A. Collins of the Criminal
Court.
TO DETERMINE IF OTHERS
SHOULD BE INDICTED.
The grand Jury Is under Instructions to
determine if any “peraon. firm or corpo
ration" should be indicted and held for
trial on charges of conspiring with Sl|>e
to misuse public funds.
It is understood Mr. Sipe in a dictated
statement which ho madi to Mr. Worley
at the Jail has named a certain promi
nent individual as “one man” who not
only knew that Sipe was using pubiic
funds as the source of obtain money to
loan to "friends,” but suggested Sipe
“loan" him a large sum of money for
the purpose of swinging a financial deal.
This statement Is now In the hands of
Mr. Evuus.
Mr. Sipe, in an Interview with news
papermen shortly after his arrest, stated
“one man” knew the money Sipe was
using so freely came from a public trust
fund. Sipe stated this money which
he loaned to the “one man" who knew
was to be returned to Sipe in a few
days.
"< OVER UP PHASE
TO BE SIFTED.
Evidence hns been obtained by the
authorities tending to show that for
months Sipe has made a frantic effort
through a certain agency to conceal his
criminal misuse of funds. No names have
been made public and will not be unless
indictments are returned by the grand
Jury of any person or persona who aided
Sipe to “cover up" his losses by “kiting”
checks.
The voluntary appearance of Sipe be
fore the grand Jury Indicates that he in- j
tends to place in the hand* of the proper
authorities the entire story of his crlml- :
nal misuse of funds.
While the prosecutor's office is making
a preliminary Investigation prior to be
ginning a grand Jury probe tomorrow,
John F. Robbins, who was appointed re
ceiver of all moneys, assets, stocks
and notes turned over by Sipe to
the Hartford Accident and Indemnity
Company, whlc hwas the surety on
Sipe's SIOO,OOO bond, is taking his first
steps to obtain all of these assets under
order of Judge Robert Dalton, Judgo
pro tem. of Superior Court, room 1.
TOWN IN ARMS
AGAINST KUAN
Fear of Ku-Klux Activity Re
sults in Barricaded Doors
in Tafti Cal.
TAFT, Cal., March B.—Taft Is an armed
camp today.
Not even In the days of the old fron
tier did so many citizens carry pistols
as are doing so now through fear of the
activities of the Ku-Klux Klan, the night
riders, the vigilantes or whatever they
may be.
Doors of homes are barricaded at night,
sawed-off shotguns are trained on win
dows and neighborhoods are organizing
for mutual defense.
Without the leaders or the r"nk and
file of either faction being known, there
appears to be two factions In the field,
each operating under the guise of the
Ku-Klux.
miraculous and the supernatural as In
consistent with evolution. They libel
Christ by denying'his virgin birth; they
rob him of his deity and scout at his
resurrection. In fact, they so belittle
him they regard the finding of the fos
sil remains of what they call a flve
toed horse as a more Important event
even than the birth of the Saviour. When
the Christian people of this <eountry
understand the ravages of agnosticism
caused by the subsltutlon of the un
supported guesses for the word of God
they will compel the atheists and ag
nostics to build their own schools In
stead of using the public schools for the
spread of unbelief.
Christians do not object to the teach
ing of any truth; no truth can be in
consistent with Christianity, but they do
object to fantastic guesses being sub
stituted for the “thus sayeth the Lord”
of the Scriptures.—Copright, 1922, by In
ternational News Service.
Words Her Specialty
i'Tvinr £> irJ ii- lstc+i,\r&
If Miss Birdie Reeve, 14-year-old New
York maid, ever decides to go Into
politics she certainly should be able to
tell you all about herself. She has a
vocabulary of 64,(X© words, asserts her
dad who also declares that she can type
135 words a minute. The average person,
asserts Birdie's father, uses a vocabulary
of 700 words in ordinary conversation.
‘TIGEII’ SUSPECT’S
MONEY CARRIED
IN NEWSPAPER
Man Arrested Turns Three
Huge Rolls of Hills Over
to Sister.
When taken to police headquarters to
day on a blind tiger charge Lawrence
Burnett, 611 West Itay street, had so
much money his sister, to whom he turned
it over, was unable to get It In her pocket
and carried it home wrapped In a news
paper. The police did not count the
money, but they said it was in three huge
rolls.
Burnett and his brother, Joseph, were
arrested by police und Federal officers
after eight gallons of "white mule” had
been discovered hi a garage rn tlis rear
of their home. The polhss discovered the
booze after they had received a telephone
rail that someone was unloading “mule"
from an automobile at the Burnett home.
George Winkler, a Federal officer, said
he believed the two men are wanted In
connection with a Federal booze investi
gation.
HELD AS FATHER’S SLAYER.
CKOOKSTON, Neb., March 8. —James
H Penny, 24, is held on a murder charge.
He is alleged to have killed his father
in a row over a load of straw.
3 BOYS HELD IN T. H.
AS BOOZE RUNNERS
SAY THEY LIVE HERE
Enter Pleas of Guilty and Declare They
Worked for Private Concern—Name
Indianapolis Men.
Special to The Timea
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March B.—Ollle
Craig, 18; Edward Craig, 19, and Floyd
Krinner, 18, claiming residence at 1339
South Pierce street, Indianapolis today
entered pleas of guilty to transporting
liquor, when arraigned before United
States Commissioner Handel. The trio
waived hearing and will be taken to
Indianapolis for sentence befor* Judge
Albert It. Anderson. They were arrested
HARDING GIVEN
DAUGHERTY O. K.
WASHINGTON, March B.—Attorney
General Daugherty has transmitted to
President Harding his opinion with re
spect to the eligibility of Senator Smoot
of Utah and Representative Burton of
Ohio to serve ns members of the World
War Debt Funding Commission, it was
learned at the Department of Justice to
; day.
Although the Attorney General would
not make public hts decision, it was un
derstood he told the President there were
no legal bars to the confirmation of
Smoot and Burton by the Senate.
President Harding was requested to
furnish the Senate with a copy of the
opinion under a resolution offered by
Senator Cummins (Rep.) lowa and
adopted unanimously.
Situation in India
Declared Alarming
LONDON, March B.—The Internal sit
uation In India gives cause for serious
anxiety, Baron Ilawlinson, commander of
the British army In India, declared In a
speech at Delhi, according to a Reuter
dispatch from that city today.
“The ability of the British government
to maintain law and order will, I fear, be
tested at no distant date.”
Brussiloff Insists
Reds Need Big Army
COPENHAGEN, March B.—General
Brussiloff, chief of the technical staff of j
the Russian red army, has Issued a state- I
ment that Soviet Russia needs a big |
army to protect her from foreign inter- i
ferenee, according to a Riga dispatch 1
to the newspaper Politiken today. Gen- j
eral Brussiloff added the Internal situa
tion in Russia was another reason sor 1
the necessity of large armed .forces.
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LODGE WARNS
PACT DEFEAT
MEANSCHAOS
Tells Senate Rejection
Would Shock
World^
CITES WAR PERIL
Holds Refusal to Rati
fy Would Undo
Peace Work.
WASHINGTON, March B—Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge warned the
United States Senate today if it re
jects the four-power Pacific treaty it
puts renewed life in the Anglo-Jap
anese alliance, beckons to the grim
possibility of war and destroys the
whole works of the arms conference.
Speaking with an intensity unusual
for him, Senator Lodge defended the
entire lot of conference treaties, as
well as the course pursued by the
American delegates in the confer
ence, and declared Senate rejection
would leave a “shocked and startled
world,” still menaced by the horrors
of 1914-1918.
“The defeat of the four-power treaty
would mean the failure of the confer- i
♦ace,” declared Senator Lodge. “Let 1
there be no Illusion ou that point.”
The American delegates, Secretary I
Hughes, Ellhu Root, Senator Underwood :
and himself, were In entire accord. Sen- J
ator Lodge said, for a month before and I
during the conference, on what should j
be accomplished.
“We were clearly of the opinion,” he
said, “there lay before us three great
objectives. One was the termination of j
the Anglo-Japanese alliance. The next
was an agreement between the five pow- j
ers for a reduction of naval armament. |
The third was to accomplish everything '
possible to aid China In the establish- j
rnent of a free and Independent govern- |
ment and pnrtieluarly to secure the resto- ;
ration of the great province of Shantung
to the Chinese Empire, to which It
rightfullv belonged.
■ SAYS OBJECTS
WERE OBTAINED.
“We succeeded in attaining all these !
objects. The treaty now before us ter- |
minates the Anglo-Japanese alliance, l 1
think the obligation to meet and coo- j
suit is tho only obligation existing In j
this treaty.
"It Is sufficient to say In my Judgment ’
the Angio-Jnpanese alliance was the most
dangerous element in our relations with i
the Far East and with the Pacific.
"There is no likeness between that al
liance and this treaty.
“The removal of the Anglo-.Tapai ?He al
liance made it possible to bring about
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on Federal warrants and two automo
biles were taken from them.
The boys stated they- weer working for
a private concern at Indianapolis for sls
a week, hauling whisky from Clinton to
the Capital City. It Is said Federal of
ficers here have the names of the men
belonging to the concern mentioned, and
their arrests are expected to follow. They
are said td be wealthy and prominent
citizens.
Russian Soviet to Take
Part in Genoa Conference
International Loan of
$500,000,000 Will
Be Asked.
WILL STAND PAT
By EDWIN W. HULLINGER. fl
MOSCOW, March B.—Soviet Russia will
send a delegation to the Genoa economic
conference with the following proposals
and demands:
1. An International loan to Russia of
$800,000,000.
2. European reconstruction to be ac
complished by Russia supplying raw
materials in exchange for foreign credits.
3. Germany must be permitted to co
operate freely with Russia.
4. The League of Nations must not be
forced upon Russia or the central em
pire.
A fifth Russian demand, namely for
payment for damages caused by the vain
U. S. REPLY ON WAY?
WASHINGTON, March B.—The
American Government's reply on the
invitation for this country to partici
pate in the Genoa economic confer
ence will be sent today. It was Indi
cated following a conference at the
White House between the President
and Secretary Hughes.
It was believed Secretary Hughes
took the draft of this Government’s
reply to the White House for the
approval of the President.
PART OF CHEBOYGAN’S
BUSINESS SECTION IN
RUINS; FIRE SPREADS
Fighters Leave Doomed District and Devote
Efforts to Saving Surrounding Property
—Loss Placed Near Million.
TWO REPORTED TO HAVE LOST LIVES
CHEBOYGAN, Mich., March B.—A man
and a boy were burned to death, and the
central part of Cheboygan's business sec
tion was reduced to ruins In a fire
which started in the Frost Kessler block
today and swept north In Main street,
despite all efforts of firemen who have
abandoned the tight and limited their ef
forts to saving surrounding property.
Should the- wind shift in any direction
the biaze will be carried to adjacent
business and residence blocks, it was
Harding Says
Lansing-Ishii
Pact Is Dead
President Tells Senate Nine-
Power Chinese Treaty
Takes Place.
WASHINGTON. March B.—The Lan
slng-Ishlt agreement is completely super
seded by the nine-power Chinese treaty,
President Harding informed the Senate
today.
| Harding’s declaration was made in re
sponse to a recent resolution of Senator
, Borah, Idaho, passed by the Senate
which called for Information on this
point. The Lansing-Ishii agreement, the
I President explained, merely Is an execu
! live declaration and Is supplanted by the
formal treaty. If the Senate ratifies this
treaty the principles and policies therein
: laid down will be enforced by a “binding
international agreement,” he said. The
four-power treaty, the President stated,
| does not refer to China and therefore
| does not have direct bearing on the Lan
! sing-lshil notes. This treaty, however,
|he considers an essential part of the
plan to advance peace In the Far East.
The Lansing-Ishii agreement effected by
an exchange of notes between the United
[States and Japan during tho Wilson
| Administration recognizes Jajian’s ape
t eial Interests In China because of that
country's geographical position in tho
East and reaffirms the principle of the
“open door" In China. *
This agreement never was subject to
ratification by the Senate and has been
criticized ou the ground It paves the
way for Japanese domination of @hlna.
Expect to Unearth
Plot to Rob U. S.
LOS ANGELES, March B.—Startling
disclosures which In the opinion of In
vestigators may lead to a national scan
■dal were believed likely today to de
velop in connection with a probe of an
alleged conspiracy to defraud the Gov
ernment of approximately $850,000 In a
sale of Army goods at San Diego.
Federal agents Inquiring Into the cir
cumstances surrounding the sale said to
day that the suspected plot to defraud
apparently has wide ramifications, ex- j
tending to all parts of the country and j
likely to Involve persons in Eastern cities
in similar Government sales.
Lower California
Governor Accused
MEXICO CITY, Mexico, March B.—An
tonio Zeduria, who Is under arrest
j charged with fomenting rebellion, is said
|to have implicated Governor Catu of
i Lower California, according to dispatches
from Neuvo Laredo today.
It Is reported a,proposal was made In
Washington the United States rent Mag
dalena Bay for fifty years at $25,000,000
ion condition the American Government
I recognize the rebels before they recog
j nize the Obregon regime.
campaigns of Ivoltchak and Denikin, will
be incorporated In a Soviet promise to
pay the debt 1 , of former Russian govern
ments. %
It is with a business program of this
sort Bolshevist envoys will appear at the
council table _t Genoa April 10.
Proposals of the delegates will be ma
terialistic and nationalistic—but not com.
monistic. The "internutlonale” idea will
be left in Moscow.
The Russian delegation, while recog
nizing it must of necessity take acom
paratlvely minor place at Genoa, has re
eelved its instructions not to submit to
dictation. Rather than that Russia's late
enemies, France among them, should be
allowed to dictate terms, the Kremlin’s
envoys are to withdraw.
A clear outline of the soviet demands
which may, when presented at the confer
ence table, surprise allied statesmen, was
given to the United Press by a high au
thority.
The Kremlin intends the economic con
ference shall arrange a big international
loan to Russia. This is desired to fa
cilitate reconstruction but more to give
the present government a firm foundation.
M. Karesfinsky, commissioner of fi
nance, informed your correspondent Rus
(Contlnucd on Page Eleven.)
President May Go
on Vacation Today
WASHINGTON, March B.—President
Harding probably will leave Washington
late this afternoon for a ten-day vacation
trip to Florida. The President plans to
go first to St. Augustine.
No engagements were on the White
House calendar for today.
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feared. The damage thus far was esti
mated at $1,000,000.
Miss Jeanette McDonald, telephone op
erator In the Bell exchange, leaped three
stories to safety when the Bell tela
phone offices were destroyed.
The dead are Frank Hosier, baker,
who entered his shop In an effort to sava
hl3 effects, and Pete Laway, a boy, whose
body Is believed to be among the ruins.
Appeals for assistance were sent to
surrounding towns and several cities
have promised aid.
SOLDIER ‘BONUS’
HITS ROCKS OF
UNCERTAINTY
House Framers Confused by
President’s ‘Stand Pat’
Statement.
ADVOCATES ASK VOTE
WASHINGTON, March B.—The soldien
“bonus” session In Cong Tess was again
in a state of confusion today although
Republican members of the Ways and
Means Committee have agreed on a com
pensation measure.
The few words whfth President Hard
ing let drop to newspaper men at the
White House yesterday framing what
many regarded ns a formal notice that
he would veto tljg certificate plan “bonus”
if It is passed by Congress has thrown
the entire "bonus” question back on
the rocks of uncertainty, exactly where
It has been for the past two months.
The House “bonus" framers were
anxiously seeking private word from the
executive as to Just what he meant when
he said that he “stands pat” on the
proposition of sales tax or no ’bonus.”
Some of the Congressmen believe that
the President intended It to clearly In
dicate his disapproval of the measure in
troduced yesterday, paying the “bonus”
on the certificate methods. Others, how
ever. among them Representative Long
worth who Is as close to Harding per
haps as any one in Congress that the
President meant nothing of the kind.
“What the President really said,”
Longsworth announced, “was that ho
stands exactly where he has always
stood —that Is If the ‘bonus’ has to be
financed It must be financed by a sales
tax. Tho present ‘bonus’ bill requires
no financing at the present time and there
is no reason to believe the President will
oppose It.”
Others held Harding meant to express
his opposition to the loan plan In the
bill.
Among tho most ardent of tho "bonus’'
advocates in the House there arose a
demand that "bonus’’ be passed immedi
ately regardless of what tho President's
attitude may be, but the majority of the
more experienced legislators were plainly
inclined toward taking things slow for
a day or two, until the situation Is
straightened out.
MADALYNNETO
GO ON STAND
Mrs. Obenchain Expected to
Testify in Own Defense
Concerning Death.
LOS ANGELES, March B.—Madalynnn
Obenchain herself was to take the stand
this afternoon in her trial for alleged
conspiracy with Arthur C. Burch in the
shooting of John Belton Kennedy.
She will tell, for the first time, the
story of her tangled and tragic romance
with the young broker who was murdered
at Beverly Glen, her attorneys asserted.
“I am ready,” Madalynne said, aa
court opened. ‘I have waited and prayed
for this day, when I can tell my story.
It will be a strain, for I am not very
well, but it cannot compare with the
terrible, deadening suspense of the past
months.
“I am goinft to tell some things I have
never even breathed before. I know I
shall be acquitted."
Charges ‘Ridiculous,’
Only Reply of Fall
WASHINGTON, March B.—Secretary of
the Interior Fall today characterized as
“too ridiculous for refutation” charges
that he had ulterior motives In wishing
to transfer the Forestry Department
from the Agricultural to the Interior Di
vision.
“I am not going to say I am not In
with the Guggenheim and predatory In
terests, because it Is not necessary,” Fall
said.
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HA In 3500. Classified Adr.
Dept.
NO. 257.