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I TREATY FIGHTS THREATEN G. O. P. SOLIDARITY 1
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t REPUBLICAN ADITS
! DISPUTE IS SHAKING
! PARTY'S SOLID FRONT
III Conference Held By Senators
In to Discuss How to Proceed in '
IIS View of Protests
I THREATS OF BOLLINGS
I DECLARED POPPY-COCK
S Fate of Treaty Very Much Ini
jf Doubt Because of Attitude I
' on Reservations !
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. Republi
j can senators met in Informal confor-
1 ence today to consider procedure with
i (he peace treaty in view of the pro
; i tests against further compromise
; . made yesterday by the eight Repub
i llcans headed by Senators Johnson of
California and Borah of Idaho.
: ' In order that the Republican confer
ence might proceed freely. Senator
i Lodge, the Republican leader, can
! celled the meeting planned with the
! Democratic committee, headed by Sen
ator Hitchcock to discuss compromise
; reservations. Mr. Lodge called a num-
: ber of Republicans, including those of
; , "mild reservation" group to his office
I ; to consider the situation presented by
the threatened defection of the Johnson-Borah
group.
No announcement was made by Sen
! ator Lodge regarding renewal of the
compromise negotiations with the
Democratic leaders, but it was believ
ed that the Republican committee on
1$, compromise would meet again early
fir- next week with tho Democrats. There
i wore Indications that the cancellation
of today Vbi-partisan "conTerence was
merely to give Senator Lodge time to
consult with the rank and file of Re
' ! publican senators.
; ' Except for brief statements from
Senators Lodge and Johnson, and a
lengthy statement from Senator Sher
man, few of the senators participating
; in yesterday's conference would talk
; for publication. Mr. Lodge said the
t senators who called him to the meet
ing represented "a large group of sen-
! ators who want no change In the
! Lodge reservations. Senator Johnson
i declared that the Lodge reservations
i were said by Mr. Lodge to be "the irri-
ducible minimum." Others In the j
meeting stated privately that the ques-
i lion of a treaty compromise on "Re
publican solidarity and leadership in I
the senate and in the country" was i
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: Threats of Bolting
"Were there any threats to bolt the
'- Republican leadership or the party?"
was asked of one of the 'Republican
conferees.
'V "I would rather not answer that
j- question," came a hesitant reply. "Par
" ty solidarity is threatened; that is nil i
1 dare to say."
; Senator Johnson was asked regard-'
Ing reports widely circulated In senate
lobby gossip, that declarations had
been made of a third party movement
.and a "bolt" from the Republican sen
ate leadership if the Lodge reserva
tions are modified, and the California
I senator replied:
"Poppycock; I haven't such a
thought"
; Senator Lodge said the meeting was
to givo Information to senators pres
,' ent regarding the compromise negotia-
lions with the Democratic committee.
Desire No Changes
"They represent a large body of sen
ators who want no change In the
r Lodge reservations," said Mr. Lodge,
as he smilingly crowded his way
through newspaper correspondents
waiting outside the conference room.
To the suggestion that all of those
3 present except himself and Senator
New aro identified with the treaty's
foes, Mr. Lodge answered:
"Wc must present the question to
all sides. That was understood in un
JjjV dertaklng the negotiations with the
Democrats. We Republicans, In meet
ing the Democratic leaders, represent
nobody but ourselves. Anything we
cio Is tentative and must bo referred
to senators. Those present ' today
!j wanted to know what wo had done."
i Beyond this Senator Lodge declined
?, to comment.
f Other senators in the council, how
ever, stated that no textual drafts of
proposed compromise reservations
1 were considered.
I Principal Protect
J The principal protest of tho eight
I senators to Mr. Lodge and Mr. New, It
was stated, was against holding any
compromise negotiations whatever
with the Democrats and secondly,
against any change In the Lodge res
ervations. This view was outlined in
Senator Johnson's statement after the
conference broke up.
"After months of debate and delib
eration," said Senator Johnson, "the
senate agreed to a set of reservations
which represent a compromise. It
was admitted by evrybody that these
reservations, called the Lodge reserva
tions, were the very limit that should
oe done for tho protection of America,
In the language of Senator Lodge they
constituted 'the Irreducible minimum'.
; Personally 1 am unablo to see how
r here can be any compromise upon the
; least poBBlble protection, to American
XT y y,oys y y uy "Wr
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FRAMER OF PEACE
HAS TOUGH LUCK
PREMIER ASSERTS
PARIS, Jan. 24. Ill fortune
has attended statesmen inti
mately associated with the
framing of the treaty of Ver
sailles, is the opinion of Pre- I
niier David Lloyd George of I
Great Britain, according to a j
newspaper article published I
here. j
Mr. Lloyd George was so ,
convinced Georges Clemcnceau j
would be the nezt president of
the French republic that he ' j
considered the race over. There- ;'
fore when he heard of the elec-
tion of Paul Deschanel as presi
dent he could not refrain from
expressing his astonishment. !
"Who could have expected !
I such a reversal -of form?" he j
ejaculated. j
The British premier is said to
have expressed an opinion that j
fthe peace treatywas hard
luck for anyone having had a !
hand in it. ' ' j
"Yes," the deput is quoted i
as replying, "Premier Orlando ;
is out of office, Premier Cle- ,
menceau is again in. private I
life and President Wilson has '
met with reverses in Washing
ton. Only you have been
spared."
"Yes, and in less than six
months it will be my turn," is
the reply attributed to the Brit- j
ish leader. , :
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LAST OF SiEII
: EMIlira&CE
WELCOMED AT HUBORi
Transport Also Brings Pas
sengers Rescued from Disabl
ed Steamer Powhatan
i
NEW YORK, Jan. 24. The army :
transport Northern Pacific, carrying!
the last contingent of the American;
expeditionary force In France, and tho;
271 passengers of the disabled irans-j
port Powhatan, reached port early to-j
day and expected to dock at Hoooken
during the forenoon.
Two hundred members of the Rocky
Mountain club, with many notables as
guests, went down the bay in a stvam-j
er to greet the transport at quaran-:
tine. The doughboys will be guestu
of the club at a dinner and series of
entertainments.
The Powhatan's passengers were rc i
moved from the helpless transport!
about 200 miles off Halifax after she!
had wallowed in high seas for sixj
days and nights. The Powhatan,
which sailed from scw York for Ant
werp on January 16 and was disabled
last Sunday, was being slowly towed
to Halifax today by the Canadian
steamship Lady Laurler.
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Pan-Ainericans Are
Guests at Annapolis!
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 Delegates
to the second Pan-American financial
congress, which adjourned its business
sessions here yesterday left this morn
ing for Annapolis, where to day, they
are the guests of Secretary Daniels at
the naval academy. Returning to tho
capital tonight, they will be the guests
at a banquet tendered by Secretary of
the Treasurv Glass in the Hall of the
Americas in tho Pan-American building.
or European reservations which are
Hhe irreducible minimum,' In safe
guarding American institutions. To
me thore can be no Improvement with
Americas Junior, or American protection,"
IH1IH CRUSHED
AID BURNED DUDE!
BUZIK WRECKAGE
Accident Occurs Near Salt
Lake Folowing Rear End
Collision of Trains
DENSE FOG BLAMED j
FOR FEARFUL CRASH'
!
Trapped Trainman Pleads for;
Gun to End Life as Flames
Approach Him
' i
Denver & Rio Grande officials today;
wec making an investigation of the ;
railway accident at MIdvalo, near Salt I
Lake, last night in which three train-,
men were crushed ana burned to death
and several others were hurt. '
Tbe-dead: j
H. C. Spencer, Salt -Lake, .head
brakemau, crushed and scalded toj
death beneath . lospjpc4i.Ye, . . . j
"Clifford t'.W. ".Hoagland, brakeman. i
Salt Lake, burned to death beneath ,
splintered caboose.
C. P Johnson, of Salt Lake, engl-l
neer, missing, but believed crushed to'
dea'h beneath load of rails.
AV. H. Kirkham, three other train-1
men, and a woman are in a Salt Lake)
hospital. Kirkham is thought to be
fatally hurt.
Rear End Collision.
The wreck followed a rear end col
lision between two Denver & Rioi
Grande trains- Both trains were head-j
ed for Midvale and the smash came,
while both trains were wrapped in fog.!
The engine fell over the embank-1
ment, dragging with it ten freight
cars. Sparks from the engine ignited!
the cars.
Hoagland was caught in the splin
tered caboose, and was burned to
death before the eyes of his would-be
rescuers. It was not until the caboose
had been entirely burned that the
charred remains coud be recovered.
Spencer was riding in the engine as
head brakeman. He was caught be
neath the block of the engine boiler
and screamed in agony for a gun that
he might escape the agony of the live
steam which scalded his body.
When the smash occurred a carload
of iron rods was precipitated over the
embankment and it is thought that. En
gineer Johnson was caught beneath
this mass of Iron.
It is .surmised that the fog hid the
rear lights of the forward train until
it was too late to avert a crash. j
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Traffic Combine Asks
Government Centre!'
LONDON, Jan. 21. The traffic com-
bine comprising all the local and met '
ropolitan railroads. Including the sub
ways and motor omnibuses, has asked
tho ministry of tranport to take over
these traffic systems and administer
them along the same lines as those un
der which the government is now con
trolling the main railroads of the
country.
According to tho Mall the ministry
is willing to take over tho railroads,
but noL the omnibuses and is prepar
ing to adopt measures for the control
of the former.
The application to the transport
ministry is said to bo in consequence
of the prospect of a large loss for the
year.
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Severe Earthquake
Alarms Vancouver
VANCOUVER, B. C. Jan. 23. A. se
vere earthquake shock was felt here
shortly after H o'clock tonight. Peo
ple rushed In alarm from many build
ings but no damage other than inter
ruption of telephone service in some
instances has been reported.
Reports from Victoria and other
nearby points reported feeling the
shock. It was at first thought tho
shock was the result of a heavy explo
sion nearby.
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QUAKES IN TURKEY.
PARIS, Jan. 24. Earth shocks
alonn the coast of the Sea of Marmora,
are reported in a Havas dispatch from,
Conptantinoplo under date of Janu
ary 19,
Flying Animal Millions
of Years Old May Teach
Moderns Tricks of Game
NEW YORK, Jan. 24. The skeleton of a huge flying reptile,
probably the largest flying creature that ever existed, which in
its pre-historic day was as wide ranging an ocean traveler as a
modern seaplane, has been placed on exhibition at the American
Museum of Natural History, it was announced today. Study of
the, mechanics of the creature's flight, which is plauned by scien
tists, may throw light on the practical problems of aeronautics,
it is declared.
The clumsy, toothless animal, a pteranodon which flourished
in the age of reptiles, many- millions of years ago. had a wing
spread of sixteen feet from tip to tip, but because of its curious
dimensions may not have been as heavy as a modern condor
which sometimes attains a thirteen foot spread. It was nearly all
wings and head, with a small body, slender hind legs and a mere
stump of a tail.
The specimen was found by Handel T. Martin, curator of the
geologic?! museum of Kansas university in the cretaceous chalk
beds of the .Smoky Hill river of western Kansas. It is believed
to be the; only mounted specimen of a pteranodpn in' any Ameri
can museum.
IMEIilSE '
FiliS DESI 10
TRADE WITH Kll
I
Board to Promote Commerce
Between Two Countries Was
Formed in Washington
WASHINGTON. Jan. 24. Represen
tatives of a number of American busi
ness firms met here today to organize
an "American-Russian trade Board" to
promote commerce between the Unit
ed States and soviet Russia.- E. P.
Jennings, president of tho Lehigh Ma
chine company, presided and announc-j
ed that an effort would bo made to j
have the American government i
"lift the blockade" In accordance with
the decision of the supreme council at
Paris. ,
Mr. Jennings said companies repre
sented at the meetings included Mor-j
ris and company, Chicago packers;
the Borden Condensed Milk company; !
Rahn-Larmon and company, machine J
tool makers of Cincinnati; Flschmani
and company, New York, importers
anJ the Columbia Freight Forwarding
company of New York. j
Dudley Field Malone, former coun
sel for Ludwlg C. A. K. Martens, self-!
styled Russian soviet "ambassador" to J
the United States, was among those:
attending. Ho said ho was reprc-bent-j
ing his own interests and American j
clients in New York. j
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Newspaper EcMions !
Curtailed in Madrid
i
MADRID, Jan. 2-i. The official
journal publishes a royal decree for
bidding In tho futuro publication of
Sunday evening and Monday morning
editions of newspapors. Sale of news
papers Is also prohibited froin noon
Sundny to noon Monday.
Work In editorial and printing offi
ces of the newspapors must cease from
7 a. m. Sunday until 7 a. m. Monday.
Transmission of news Intended for
publication either by telegraph or telo
phone Is forbidden between 6 o'clock
Sunday morning and 6 o'clock Monday
morning.
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Gerard Accepts Monroe
Challenge to Debate
NEW YORK, Jan. 24. James W.
Gerard, former ambassador to Ger
many, whoso name was filed as a
Democratic candidate for presldeut at
tho South Dakota primaries, has ac
cepted the challenge, of George D.
Monroe of Chicago, an Independent
candidate, for a joint debate on the
presidential issuos. The challenge was
made and accepted In compliance with
South Dakota laws.
The debate will bo held at Sioux
Falls, March 2, Mr. Gerard announced.
IIHCIESOF
FLU 18 MIA
LISTED li CHICAGO
Disease to Hit Everybody Not
Immune Commissioner of
Health Declares
CHICAGO. Jan. 21. Influenza and
pneumonia continued to spread in Chi
cago today at tho rate of more than
2000 new cases every twenty-four
hours.
The highest death rate for any
twenty-four hours since the epidemic
began was reported. There were 2513
new cases and 101 deaths.
At the Great Lakes naval training
station total deaths reached 18 and
the total number of cases 1034.
Dr John Dill Robertson, health com
missioner, predicted "the contagion
will continue until it has hit overy
person who is not immune."
Industrial establishments today re
ported their working forces had been
depleted ten per cent by the epidemic,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. Although
reports received by the public health
service in the last 24 nours showed
a gradual Increase of influenza cases
over the country. Suryeon-General
Blue today said there was no real
cause "for the people to get panicky"
and that state and city health authori
ties apparently had the situation well
in hand.
Kansas City, Mo., reported 40 deaths
in an automobile school there. The
disease is prevalent over the state.
Other telegrams showed an increase In
tho number of cases at Ogden and Salt
Lake City, Utah, 152 new cases In
Wyoming, G9 cases with ten deaths at
San Francisco, 242 additional cases in
Connecticut, a largo number of cases
of so-called grippe in Montana; 117
cases at Richmond, Va ; increases in
Oklahoma and a few scattered cases
throughout Wisconsin.
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Food Production Will
Combat Cost of Living!
NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Increased ag
ricultural production throughout the
world tb combat the high cost of liv
ing Is planned by the International As
sociation of Agricultural Missions, just
organized here, it was announced to
day. The organization, which is asso
ciated with the inter-church world
movement, will seek to introduce mod
ern agricultural methods In all non
Chrlstlan lands. Tho new methods will
be introduced through the protestant
foreign mission boards.
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, SAN SALVADOR TO CELEBRATE.
1 SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Sal
vador, Jan. 24. Steps looking to the
celebration of the first centenary of
the independence of ContralAmcrica
have been taken by President Bar
quoro of Costa Rica. (The separation
of Central American t.err,A,v from
Spain occurred, in 1S21.)
HMEEDLLERH !f
-SURPRISED TO HEiR
; OF WNJJHD VERDICT
( Premiers of France, , Great
'. Britain and Italy Discuss Next
Move to be Made
NEXT DEMAND MAY
BE MADE ON BERLIN
Czecho-Slovakia and Austria
Have Formed an Alliance
Against Hungary
AMERONGEN, Friday, Jan.
' 23. Former Emperor Wil
j Ham of Germany was not
! surprised by the formal re
fusal of the Butch fove'rn
1 ment to comply with the al
lied demand for. his surren
der, it was declared today at
Bentinck castle, where the ex
' ruler makes his home. News
of the decision was first com
, municated to the castle by the
' Associated Press correspond
ent here.
PARIS, Jan. 24 Conference between
premiers of Great Eritian, France and
Italy will be held . before the next
move in the proceedings to extradite
, fornuer Emperor William from Hol
i land Is decided upon, according to in
formation given the Associated Press
; by the French foreign office. Wheth
ler the next demand for surrender will
jbo directed tp The Hague or Berlin
'will be the main subject to be deter
; j mined.
! The next meeting will be held in
.London, but as no date has been fixed
; and the matter cannot be left pending
ija long time, the foreign office ex
' pressed the opinion that the question
.'.might bo settled through diplomatic
channels between Rome, Paris and
London.
., LILLE, Jan. 24. Seven more Ger
'man soldiers, among them a captain,
I who are accused of thefts and pillage
.'during the enemy occupation of this
city, have arrived here and incarcer
, a ted in the fortress.
. ; BUDAPEST, Jan. 21. Czecho-Slo-ivakia
and the Austrian republic have
! formed an alliance against Hungary,
according to a news agency report
.'published here. It is said the agree
, ! ment reached by Chancellor Renner at
'Prague provides that Austria shall un
idertakc no measures looking to an in
j crease in her military establishment
j without submitting them to Czecho-
i Slovakia for approval and thi . in the
'j event of war between the Czechs and
'Hungary, Austria shall supply muni
lions and material only to tho former,
j In addition, it is said Czecho-Slo-..vakia
has agreed to furnish troops to
jhid Austria in securing German sec-
tions of western Hungary.
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British and Americans
; Plan Credit Extensions
j PARIS, Jan. 24. Conferences are
1 dailv in progress here between -repre-I
sentatives of the British and American
treasury departments with a view to
allied and neutral co-operation in the
event that the American congress ap
proves tho proposed plan.of credits for
feeding central Europe.
Tho negotiations are well advanced
and approximately 40.000 tons of Brit
ish shipping have been chartered by
Sir William Goode in order to supply
Poland, with tho equivalent in grain
granted on credit by tho United States
but for the moving of which neither
Poland nor tho United States can pro
vide shipping.
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TWELVE-HOUR DAY.
LONDON, Jan. 24. A dispatch to
the Central News from Helsingfors
says the Bolshevik! are trying to force
the population of Russia to work ev
ery day In tho week and have Intro
duced a compulsory working day of 12
hours. All working classes are affect
ed. It is said the new rule is being
enforced with the utmost severity.
COHFIDEHGE GAME OF jl
THIRTY YEARS AGO IS I
REVIVED POLiGE SAY I
pHHfl
Letters Sent Out Declaring Re- j
cipient is Heir to Vast Estate ij fl
in New York
CONTRIBUTION SOUGHT H
"FOR LEGAL EXPENSE" ,
Site of Woolworth Building !
and Trinity Church Included 1
In Supposed'Property
RED BANK, N. J., Jan. 24. ' H
Three armed men held up
four employes of the Sig- '
mund Eisner company on the
factory grounds today and
robbed them of $20,000, the
company payroll.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Search for
swindlers who arc trying to convince 1 fH
thousands of persons throughout the
country that they have inherited most
of the land in New York's financial j
district was begun today by the po- !
In a revival of a swindle which net
ted promoters nearly SI, 000,000 near
ly thirty years ago, letters haye been i
circulated advising the recipients that
they are heirs of -Anneko Jans, and
that her estate consisting of the sites ;
of the Woolworth building, Trinity
church and most of Wall street is to LH
be jclivklcd soon. A contribution for I
legal' expenses is asked. Jewels and 1
money valued at millions belonging to '
the estate have just been discovered i H
in a vault in this city, the letter say. IH
As proof there are enclosed what ap- I ( jH
pear to be newspaper clippings. I
Anueke Jans was a real old. Knicker- IH
bocker and she left all her property 1
.to Trinity church. Litigation over
the estate ended years ago, but at
least 500,000 persons have claimed to
be her heirs since then, it is estimat- jH
eel at the district attorney's office. 'H
Residents of Ogden declare they r
member this old swindle. They de- i
dare that one person in nearly every i
community received a letter in which j jH
they were told they were heir .o great IH
wealth and that a certain sum should JM
be contributed toward developing the
legal phases of the case.
I Government officers ' urge that any
' person receiving one of the letters of (
I the present swindlers notify the prop
. er authorities.
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Catholic Publisher
Is Facing Charges j l
LONDON, Jan. 24. Charles Dia-
mond, proprietor of the London Cath- !H
ollc Herald, who was arrested January JIB
IS, charged with publication of an arli-
I cle in which he was alleged to have .
said that "killing is no murder," was , iH
lodav committed to trial in the cen- IIJ
trai criminal court. IH
Diamond, according to the Indict- 'H
ment, -"did unlawfully solicit, encour-
age, persuade and endeavor to per- i'lH
suado and propose to divers persons
(in ireland to whom the article should IIIH
I he communicated to murder dhers 'H
persons carrying on the government J
1 of Ireland."
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j Commercial Airplane I
Flight Tied in Peru I
LIMA. Thursday. Jan. 22. The first i
commercial airplane flight in Peru
was undertaken today when a biplane
piloted bv an American aviator, Walt
cr Pac, left Lima for Pisco, 130 miles 1H
south, along the coast carrying a pas- llH
senger. The airplane made tho trip M
; in two hours. The trip takes 24 hours rH
I by the slow coastwise steamers which
'sail every ten days. fil
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New York American M
Club Dissatisfied ijl
NEW YORK, Jan. 24. New York's !H
normal birth rate has been reduced by
3G.000 since January 1, 191$, because IH
of the war and tho resultant high cost
of living, according to a statement is- I'H
sued hero today by Dr. H. M. Biggs, :H
slate commissioner of health. Fl
Dr. Biggs found solace in the fact
that the death rate for the samo pe- jl
riod was tho lowest in many years. liH
BURNED TO DEATH. 'H
DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 24. An. uni- '1
dcntlfied man was burned to death,
two were sent to hospitals, severely 'M
burned, and a number of other per- ,B
sons sustained less serious injuries
and burns in a fire which destroyed a
three-story hotel here early today.