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VOL. XCIL, No. 289
Palladium, Est. 1831. Consolidated
Wltii Sun-Telegram, 1907.
RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 5, 1922.
SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS
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MRS. PHILLIPS
BREAKS JAIL
1 CALIFORNIA
Climbs From Window
of Prison
(By Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES. Dec 5 Clara Phil
lips climbed out of a window in the
women's section of the county Jail,
and escaped early today. She was
under sentence of from 10 to life
Imprisonment after conviction for the
hammer murder of Alberta Meadows.
She was held in the Jail pending
formulation of an appeal. With the
aid of several steel saws her escape
was effected at 2 a. m., according to
a report to the sheriff from the Jailer.
Belief was expressed that she had
been aided by other inmates. Bars
were sawed through and after crawl
ing out, of the window, she dropped
to the roof of an adjoining building,
. climbed down the fire escape and
disappeared.
Finds Cell Vacant
The escape was not discovered by
the Jail authorities for several hours.
The matron In making the rounds
found the bed in Mrs. Phillips cell
vacant. The matron then discovered
the sawed and twisted bars and no
tified the Jailer. The former chorus
girl who was three weeks ago found
guilty of what the prosecutln official
declared to be one of the most brutal
murders they had had to try effected
her liberty with a suddenness equal
to that which her hammer slaying
revealed last July. It is believed she
escaped in an automobile.
CLEMENCEAU, WILSON
MEET TODAY: DRAMA
WATCHED BY NATION
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec. 5 Two
of the "Big Four" of Versailles come
face to face today after three and a
half years, when Georges Clemenceau
calls upon W oodrow Wilson.
, Since the days when .they remade
the map of Europe, each has been
repudiated by the electors of his na
tion, yet each is held in high esteem
by millions of his countrymen, and
the visit of the Tiger of France to
Wilson's street home Is considered
the roost significant thing of this
trip to America. ;
Reputed personal enemies since
Clemencau's plans were wrecked
those of Wilson and the latter's sen
TV ate in turn upset all the Tiger s hopes
v ' the two find themselves outstanding
champions of a common cause. Amer-
ca's return to Europe.
The Tiger arrived at the White
House five minutes ahead of time
for his call on President Harding. He
was accompanied by French Ambassa
dor Jusserand. For the first time
on his American tour, Clemencau's
slouch hat which he pulls down al
most over hi eyes, was replaced with
one of the high silk diplomatic vogue
Makes Plea to People.
Clemenceau, as Wilson once did, has
made his plea direct to the people. To
day he is in Washington to accom
plish what he can to win officially
support for his cause. lie calls upon
President Harding: it is a formal mat
ter of courtesy; yet the Tiger has in
dicated he wjll not let the opportunity
to present his case go by.
But the meeting with Wilson was
the one to which the country's ear was
attuned; the drama of the two elderly
men; one broken in health because he
failed to heed the pleas of his friends
to spare himself when he had a cause
to fiRbt for; the other, 81 years old
scoffing at similar warnings, givine un
limited energy to a widespread appeal
for what he conceives to be the good
of humanity. .
May Discuss Treaty
The parallel of Clemonceau's aims
and mission with that former one of
Wilson's is all the more strange be
cause they stood for different things
each in his own way declaring for
world democracy. Yet on,th eve of
' his visit, of S street, Clemenceau de
ft clared the principal thing he sought
was American guaranty of the sanc
tity of the Rhine against German in
vasion. Wilson, co-author of the now
defunct tri partite treaty, receives the
war premier, possibly to talk this
over.
As for his thrice reinforced appeal
direct to the American republic,
through speeches at New York, Bos
ton. Chicago and SJ. Louis, the Tiger
s satisfied he has won.
"I am going back to France in a
very Tow days now, to tell my country
men that we need have no fear, Amer
ica still is with us, her heart has not
changed," he said.
Clemenceau is a guest in Washing
ton of Henry Allen White, another
conferee of peace conference days.
. x He will make no formal speech until
Friday unless his itinerary is changed;
will speak at Philadelphia Saturday
and go back to Chicago to address a
farmers' conference Monday.
CHICAGO AUTO DEALER
VICTIM OF ROBBERS
(By Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Dec 5: The mystery
surrounding the slaying of Joseph
Lanus, wealthy automobile dealer,
whose body was found in the rear of
his garage Nov. 14. was solved today,
'the police announced by the confes
sion of Lawrence Hesserman, one of
seven persons under arrest, that the
victim was shot and killed in an at
tempted robbery. Lanus shot one of
the robbers.
Man's Memory Gone
But Has Remarkable
Medical Knowledge
(By Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Dec. 5. Phys
icians here today continued efforts to
revive the faltering memory of a man
who the police found last night wan
dering the union station. He was un
able to give his name or any account
of himself, but was found to possess
a remarkable familiarity with medicine
and surgical instruments.
At the city hospital a bottle of medi
cine which he saw produced the first
signs of mental alertness. Following
that clue physicians discovered he pos
sessed a marked ability to name medi
cines by scent in a number of in
stances being able to tell compounds
from which they were derived..
Chance suggestions elicited that he
had submitted to an operation.' He
also mentioned Columbus, Ohio, and
the name of a surgeon in Rochester.
Minn. Trade-marks showed his hat
was purchased in Denver, and his neck
tie In Salt Lake City. The overcoat
he wore 'bore the name of a firm in
Ithaca, Nk . Y., and under that was
written in ink "Lawler, Sept. 17, 1913."
Suggestion of the name of Lawler
brought no response. He wore a fam
ily woven horsehair belt.
The man apparently is between 25
and 30 years old, is about five feet
seven inches tall and weighs about 165
pounds, lie has brown eyes and dark.
wavy hair.
OVERLY BOYS GIVEN
FROM 3 TO 5 YEARS
FOR THEFT OF AUTO
"The youth of the country Is run
ning wild," declared Judge William
Bond in Wayne circuit court Tuesday
in passing sentence of from three to
five years in the Indiana state re
formatory upon William and Alfard
Overly, who entered a plea of guilty
to a charge of vehicle theft, "The
young people of today don't want to
work and earn a place for themselves
in society but are looking for a 'soft
snap.
"You ought to know that you should
not go about stealing the property of
other persons and more especially a
motor car. In this way you not only
endanger your own lives but those of
others," the court told the bays.
"It is indeed miraculous that you
were not both killed," said the Judge
in commenting upon the auto accident
which disclosed the theft.
The two boy9 had only recently
joined the army and were on a brief
leave of absence from Fort Thomas,
Ky. Arriving in Richmond Saturday
night destitute, they . stole a coupe
owned by Roland Nusbaum which, was
standing near the corner of Thirteenth
and North A streets, and started to
ward their homes in Ft Wayne. They
met with an accident near Winchester
which damaged the car to a great ex
tent but received no injuries them
selves. The boys were taken into custody
by Sheriff Fisher of Randolph county
and were brought to Richmond Sun
day morning by Sheriff Carl Wadman.
William Overly is 18 years of age
and stated that he ha9 been working
in various parts of the country as a
farm laborer. Alfard Overly also is
18 years old and has been living with
his uncle in Fort Wayne. The boys
are cousins.
TENSION BETWEEN U. S,
AND GREECE DENIED
(By Associated Press)
ATHENS, Dec. 5 Jefferson Caff
ery, American charge d'affaires, visit
ed M. Renteis, acting foreign minis
ter in the new government for the
first time today. Mr. Caffery denied
rumors current here that diplomatic
tension existed between the United
States and Greece, as a result, of re
cent events in this country.
The rumors were strenghtened by
the presence of an American destroy
er at Paleron.
It is said that a destroyer is to be
stationed at Paleron to insure wire
less communication with Constantino
ple, for it is feared that the Turks
may obtain control of the cable.
Regular communication between At
hens and Constantinople is essential
not only for official business but to
enable American relief organizations
to communicate with each other. The
relief work elicits the deepest grati
tude here.
Spanking Week Is Urged
In Raising Future Citizens
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, , Dc. 5. An "old-fash
ioned spanking wf-ek, with careful,
prayerful spanking" was recommended
as an aid in raising future citizens in
an address by Mrs. bmith Alford, at
the eighteenth anniversary meeting of
the Big Brothers and Sisters last night.
HONOR, COURAGE, REVERENCE, OBEDIENCE,
ARE NEEDFUL TRAITS, DECLARES DR, ALEY
Honor, courage, reverence and the
proper attitude toward law are valu
able factors, declared President R J.
Aley, of Butler college, before Morton
high school students Tuesday.
"One of the most valuable essen
tials in a man's life Is the matter of
honor. It is an indefinable and in
describable quality which makes for
manhood," said President Aley. "It
makes a man abide by rules, play
games as they should be, and honor
makes him scorn to do an under
handed thing. . Honor is one of the
greatest achievements which a man
can reach.
What Courage Is
"We all know what courage is, but
we hesitate to define it. Courage
urges one to do something better than
he knows. It puts fighting spirit into
rthe individual which holds him to the
task. We like to read of spectacular
HARDING LETS
SOLONS WAIT
FOH MESSAGE
Delay is Greatest in
History
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. President
Harding broke a precedent today by
permitting the second day of the new
congress to pass "without delivering
his annual message reporting on "The
state of the Union" and outlining the
administration's recommendations for
legislation.
It was said at the White House that
no date had been fixed for the presi
dent's appearance before the senate
and house but he expected to be able
to complete his message in time to
deliver it before the end of the week.
Officials added no formal explana
tion for the delay, but indicated that
pressure of public business had pre
vented compliance of the usual cus
torn under which previous presidential
messages have been placed before con
gress on the first or second day of
the session.
No Provision of Law
There is no provision of law re
quired that the ' president report to
congress at the beginning of the an
nual short session, it was pointed out,
the constitution stipulating merely
that "the executive shall from time to
time give to the congress informa
tion of the states of the union and
recommend to their consideration
such measures as he shall judge nec
essary and expedient." The custom
of making this' report not later than
the second day of a session was es
tablished early in the history of the
nation. However, senate and house
attaches today said they could not re
call when it had ever been broken.
Message Unnecessary.
Since the regular short . session
which began yesterday is to deal large
ly with the annual budget and with the
administration shipping bill some of
Mr. Harding's advisers are understood
to have taken the position that "no an
nual message" as the term is usually
applied, would be necessary.
Only two weeks ago at the beginning
of the special session the president
communicated to congress at length
his reasons for asking for passage of
the shipping bill and the budget with
Its accompanying routine letter of
transmittal from the president wis
sent to the capital yesterday.
SHANK SAYS SPEEDER
IS WORST CRIMINAL;
GOES AFTER POLICE
(By United Pr
INDINANPOLIS, Dec. 5 The speed
er, is the worst criminal we've got.
More people haVte been murdered
in Indianapolis by speeders than by
burglars.
The law should make speeding a
felony, instead of a misdemeanor.
There have been 50 killed and many
times that number crippled since
January first.
"I think more of a man who would
stick a gun in mf face than I do
of a speeder for the hold-up man takes
a chance and the speeder doesn't,"
fioHarprl Mavor Lew Shank, today in
laying down the foregoing creed for
police to follow in a crusade against
speeding motorists.
Two women were killed last night
while they were waiting for a street
car. One flivver coupe KnocKea mem
rtxror arm hefore they could arise a
semnd one ran over their bodies.
nnfi died instantly. The other lived
in minutes. "
All speeders must be arrested and
sent to police station in the patrol
wagon. They must be charged with
speeding and vagrancy and held under
$5,000 bond, StianK aeciarea.
Makes No Exceptions
"I don't "care if it's Sarah, you've
got to pick her up," he said. Sarah
is the mayor's wife and political
"Rut, of course, Sarah
dnpsn't drive fast."
The auctioneer mayor was in his
office until mid-night and was at po
lice headquarters at 6 o'clock this
morning. Four motorcycle cops were
rallpd in to the chiefs office.
"T nm cettins tired of coming down
here to make the police department
dn its dutv." he said.
"There seems to be only 30 percent
of the police department functioning
Th other 70 percent can either start
to work or their names will be drop
ped from the payroll."
Shank forthwith discharged 11 po
licemen for incompetency and pro
moted one to detective for his good
work.
things, sometimes due to an individ
ual's courage. A football team that
has 11 men full of courage will play
the game until the end of the last
quarter.
"Many great games have been won
in the last few minutes of play. I
know of one game in, the east, which
was won by persistence to the last
minute. Just one minute and 30 sec
onds remained and the winners were
able to take the game by the score
of 7 to 6. They won, because they
kept their courage. Courage, is that
something which holds us to the doing
of hard things. It Is so easy to push
aside things, which are hard.
"In our school work, we pass up
the difficult problems of mathematics
for something which is much more
easy. I knew of a banker in Pitts-
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This unusual photo of . Brigadier
General William Mitchell, chief of the
army air service, was taken after a re
cent visit to the White House to see
President Harding. Civilian clothes
temporarily supplanted his military
trappings. ...
ASSOCIATE WHISKEY
THEFT WITH FOILED
RAID IN NOVEMBER
(By Associated Press)
PEORIA, 111., Dec. 5. Officials in
vestigating the theft of 60 barrels of
whisky from the Liberty Yeast cor
poration at Pekin, 111., by 25 armed
bandjts today, connected the raid with
an unsuccessful one on the American
Distillery here Nov, 21 last. , It was
said several cf the Pekin robbers were
identif led as participants In the . futile
attempt here. . ;:
The Yeast corporation formerly was
the Globe distillery and the liquor had
been stored there since before the
Volstead act went into effect. -
The raid was made just a3 the night
shift of employes went on duty. None
of the robbers was masked. They
were heavily armed and moved with
military precision. Some surrounded
the plant while others entered and
compelled the workers to put up their
hands.
Twelve barrels or whisky were
loaded on each of five trucks which
were driven rapidly away over the
hard roads toward Springfield. Trace
of them Immediately was lost. '
It was reported one truck broke
down five miles out of Pekin but a
sheriff and a posse in pursuit were un
able to find' it. .
CHILDREN VICTIMS
OF DYNAMITE CAP
(Br United Press)
CHILLICOTHE, O.. Dec. 5. Arthur
Peters and Goldie Stevens,. 7 and 11
respectively, thought to have been
wounded by a hunter in a thicket near
here Friday, are victims of their own
experimef.'g, police said today.
Authorities . searching for the mys
terious hunter whom the "children at
first said shot them and fled, announc
ed they had a confession from young
Peters that he exploded a dynamite
cap in the girl's hand.
Goldie, however, who is maimed for
life, maintains they were shot by a
hunter.
Physicians said they were unable to
find any gunshot in the children's
wounds. ;
Weather Forecast
FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY
By W. E. Moore
Fair and cold tonight. Decidedly be
low freezing. Wednesday fair.
A great area of high barometric
pressure -covers the north and central
states which indicates fair weather
for the next 24 to 36 hours. The low
est temperatures we have had . yet
this winter will be followed by a mod
eration of temperatures Wednesday
afternoon. ,
Temperatures Yesterday at
Pumping Station.
Maximum ' . .58
Minimum 28
Today
Noon ..... 38
Weather Conditions The rain storm '
of Monday has moved very rapidly
northeastward. It is now over the
northeastern states. ' A cold wave has
centered over the northwest with tem
peratures ranging from zero to 8 be
low, in North Dakota. The heaviest
rain in the state yesterday was re
ported at Evansville. Another storm
is developing in the Rocky mountains.
For Indiana by the United States
Weather Bureau Fair tonight and
Wednesday. Colder tonight.
Paid Circulation
Yesterday, was
12,184
BANDITS TAKE
CHINESE PORT;
ASK RANSOMS
Take City on Eve of
Delivery
. (By Associated Press)
TIEN TSIN, China, Dec. Reports
received here say that Chinese ban
dits have taken control of Tsingtao,
Shantung, the Kiaochow port, whose
stormy career in war and diplomacy
was culminate in its return to Chi
na, after 24 years of alien rule, the
first 16 under Germany and the last
eight under Japan. The population
is reported fleeing from the city.
Trains from Tsiirgtao are said to be
crowded with refugees. Chinese po
lice sent from Peking to take over the
city, are reported to have been driven
out of their barracks.
Demand Ransoms
The bandits, according to the tele
grams, demand $100,000 ransom for
the delivery of government officials
and police in their hands The out
laws also hold out for tie appolnt-
meat of their chief as governor of
the port
Shops and residences are being
looted nightly, the dispatches said
The Japanese who remain in , Tsing
Tao, . unorganized for defending the
city, apparently are impotent in face
of the menace. ;
This was the date set for the actual
delivery of the Kiachow territory from
Japan to China under the terms of the
Washington conference. The region
was seized by Germany In 1898 as in
demnity for losses in the Boxer up
rising. At the outbreak of the World
war . Japan recaptured it and was
awarded it at the peace conference of
Versailles, but in conversations with
China at the Washington conference
agreed to turn it back this winter.
Farm Labor Union Hopes
To Control Crops, Prices
. (By Associated Press)
FORT WORTH. Tex.. Dec. 5- Put
ting farming on a business basis and
sufficiently organizing the farmers so
that they may dominate the acreage
and thus control production and prices
is the purpose of the Farm Labor .union
of America, which opened, a four-day
session here today,, according to" R. L.
Robinson of ; Cober,".. Tex.fc member of
the executive jcommittee. All ques
tions to be discussed during the meet
ing were left to the delegates giving
each "dirt' -farmer a voice whether
he is a farmer, tenant or hired help.
SOFT COALOPERATORS
CONVENE LAST TIME
BEFORE JOINT SESSION
(By Associated Press) . '
CHICAGO, Dec. 5 Union bitumin
ous coal operators of the United
States, gathered here to decide on
some method for negotiating a wage
scale with the soft coal miners next
January, today went into their second
session, their last separate meeting
before going into - joint conference
with the miners.
When today's session was called
according to the spokesman for the op
erators, no plan or method had been
agreed upon for presentation in the
joint conference opening tomorrow.
On the outcome of the Joint con
ference depends to a great extent the
possibility of another nation-wide bi
tuminous coal strike, beginning in
April, 1923, it was said. The opera
tors and miners have presented diver
gent views of this method for nego
tiating the scale, January 3. This re
sulted in temporary adjournment of
the joint conference last November.
Arbitration Plan Wanted.
The operators have expressed a de
sire for some form of arbitration. The
miners, according to John L. Lewis,
their president, will not accept any
thing that savor3 of arbitration. Al
though this is not one of the specified
issues in the conferences scheduled
this week, it nevertheless has been
brought forward and discussed by the
operators.
While it is known that the miners
strongly favor a return to the old cen
tral competitive field wage base, or
some modification of it that will in
clude more territory, the operators ap
parently hesitate to negotiate on this
base again because a number of them
are under indictment for contracting
with the miners under its terms.
There also apparently was a slight
division In the operators' ranks, one
faction composed of those operators
who have always been in the central
competitive field, flow non-existent be
cause of the action taken at the Cleve
land meeting last August and those
who are on the outside of this district.
Because of the large tonnage report
ed by the old" central competitive field
operators, it was pointed out their
method, whatever it-raight be probably
wouia De endorsed Dy the other oper
ators. . .' . ' '
TRAIN LEAVES TRACK;
24 PASSENGERS HURT
fBy Associated Press) ,
OMAHA, Neb. Dec. 5. Twenty-four
passengers on Wabash train No. 14
which left Omaha for St Louis at
5:55 last night, were more or less
seriously hurt and nearly a hundred
others shocked and bruised when the
crack through train was derailed
tnrough some unknown cause near
Shenandoah. Iowa, last night "
The train was travelling 40 miles
an hour and just had crossed a bridge
when the tender left the track. Three
coaches followed, turning over. Most
of the passengers were continued to
St Louis. .
Cates, Hall Are Sent
to Prison For Theft
of Chickens, Turkeys
Chauncy Cates and Carl Hall, of
Green's Fork, Tuesday were sentenced j
by Judge W. A. Bond to from one to
eight years in the Indiana state refor
matory for stealing three chickens and
three turkeys. The Doys also were j
fined $25. J
Cates, 20 yearsold, confessed that he
was the originator of the plan to steal
the chickens and turkeys which the
two boys took from a farmer near
Green's Fork and sold to a poultry j
dealer in Hagerstown. Sheriff Wad
man took the two into custody Monday.
The confessions of the two boys re
vealed that Cates had given Hall $3
for his assistance in the stealing of
the fowls but that he had disposed of
them for $18. Cates had told Hall that
he received but $8 for the haul. .
. "It s a shame and a disgrace to think
that you young men could not have
begun your careers as young men in
the right way," said Judge William
Bond after the hearing. "You know it
is wrong to steal and I think you have
both had a fair opportunity to make
good. It is not pleasant ot have to
pass judgment on young men who
have committed crimes but society
must be protected against thieves.
IRISH FREE STATE
DOMINION APPROVED
BY KING OF ENGLAND
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Dec. 5. King George this
evening gave royal sanction to the
legislation setting up the Irish Free
State as a dominion of the British em
pire.
The Anglo-Irish treaty expires to
morrow, when the provisional govern
ment will cease to function and the
Free State government will officially
take charge. The first meeting of the
Dail Eireann as the Lower House of
the Oireachtas, or Irish parliament has
been fixed for 5 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon.
Meanwhile the Dail will sit private
ly to choose 30 members of the Seanad
Eireann, or senate. The choice will be
made from about 150 candidates and
the selection will be announced tomor
row.
. Name Appointees.
The Daily Mail's Dublin correspond
ent says that the appointees of Wil
Ham Cosgrave, president of the Dail,
include the well-known writers William
Butler Yates and George Russell. Also
the Earl of Dunraven, the Earl of
Wicklow, Lord Glenavy better known
as Sir James Campbell, the former
Irish Lord chancellor and possibly
Lord Decies, the husband of Helen
Gould.
The business that brought Presi
dent Cosgrave to London suddenly yes
terday is unknown but it was appar
ently urgent His hands are not only
full, of national business but hia wife
is gravely ill, and it ?s not believed he
would have left if he could have avoid
ed doing so.
- Timothy Healy, who yesterday con
firmed in an interview his acceptance
of the governor generalship of ' the
Irish Free State returned to Dublin on
the night boat after consultations at
the Colonial office which are under
stood to have been satisfactory to
both parties.
Significant Fact
It is considered noteworthy that Mr.
Healy Is the first untitled person to
be chosen as the king's representative
in any British dominion. It is also un
derstood that unlike those of other
viceroys, the prospective governor gen
eral's aids will be officers of the Irish
army instead of officers holding com
missions from the king.
Arrangements for the evacuation of
all British, troops remaining in free
state territory are going forward and
it is understood the last of the mill
tary will have left bv December 18
Although the appointment of the
new governor general of Ulster has
not been announced, the report that
the Duke of Aberccrn would be the
choice, seems likely to prove accurate.
DIRECT PRESIDENTIAL
BALLOT AMENDMENT
FAVORABLY REPORTED
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. Members
of the Progressive bloc In congress
won their first legislative victory to
day by obtaining from the senate ag
riculture committee a favorable re
port on a resolution to amend the con
stitution to provide for direct election
of the president and vice-president.
The Ashurst resolution, on which
the judiciary sub-committee held a
hearing, provides that presidents are
to be inaugurated in January after
their election and that the new con
gress every two yoars is to convene
the same month, the present final De
cember session of congress to be abol
ished. Senator Ashurst seemed to
urge adoption of the proposed amend
ment, as did William Lowe Putnam,
a Boston attorney, on behalf of the
American tsar association, wnicn nas
endorsed the plan
Slow transportation and other rea
sons for the present constitutional
plan no longer exist Senator Ashurst
and Mr. Putnam said. They also
argued that there would be a better
response to public opinion by having
a newly elected congress meet soon
er. One objection to the plan which
Senator Ashurst said was not well
founded was whether conditions in
winter would prevent out of door in
augural ceremonies.
Harding Presents Court
Nomination Second Time
(By Associated Presst
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. The nom
ination of Peirce Butler, of Minne
sota, to be an associate justice cf the
supreme court, which failed at the
special session of congress was re
turned to the senate today by Presi
dent Harding. .-:
TURKS, EUROPE
ARE FAR APART
ON RIG ISSUES
Pessimists Predicting
Collapse ,
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(By Associated Press) .
LAUSANNE, Dec. 5. Turkey and
Europe apparently have drifted so far
apart on the great issue of the near
east conference that the pessimists
have a fruitful field for unhappy fore?
casts on a complete collapse of the
discussions and the resumption of war
in southeastern Europe.
Such a culmination of the confe
rence could easily be argued as ; a
strong possibility, but any-such argu
ment based on a reasonable hypoto
esis would leave out the fact that
Europe needs peace and that Turkey
has constantly proclaimed her need
for building up international relations
in acquiring capital to develop her im
mense resources.
The frenzied character of yester
day's proceedings, In which Russia
came to the fore as the willing cham
pion of Turkish autonomy, is indica
tive of the extreme nervousness of
Europe and the general unsettled con
ditions .which provoked feelings o(
genuine despair on the part of the
conference leaders.
Believe Worst Over.
So long as no actual break occurs
there is hope that time will bring con
ciliatory views. That the worst is an
ticipated however, is shown by the ap
pearance here of a suggestion that a
general war could be launched against
Turkey by the League of Nations. Such
a resort to force, it is suggested might
take the form of a sort of crusade
through the issuance of an appeal for
the help of all nations so that the war
could end quickly.
The Turks are insisting that . the
European powers should be the first to
set forth their desires in the Dardan
elles problem because the straits, after
all, belong to Turkey and the Turk
should be the master of his own house.
The Nationalist delegates . reiterate
their conciliatory intentions.
Although the entente nations ' and
the United States have not publicly
stated their views, Russia s proposal
for the exclusion of foreign warships,
from the straits which seems to cor
respond to the Turkish position un
doubtedly will not be acceptable. It is
almost certain that the powers will in
sist on the right of free passage for
warcraft, although they may . perhaps
be willing to restrict tonnage.
DAVIS TO BE ASKED
ABOUT ADMISSION OF
UNDESIRABLE ALIENS
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. Secretary
of Labor Davis will be asked by Rep
resentative Cable of Lima, member of
the house immigration committee, to
investigate the extent of congression
al influence in permitting undesirable
immigrants to enter the United State"?
in violation of existing laws, cables
said today.
The Ohioan has Just returned from
Ellis Island, where he investigated im
migration conditions.
"I found," he said, "that 20 per cent '
of all immigrants reaching New York
are being rejected by the public
health service for physical reasons,
and yet nine-tenths of those rejected
are being admitted after appeals to
Washington. In other words, 18 per
cent of the approximately 300,000 per
sons who are annually entitled to ad
mission are physically unfit Con
gressional pressure supplied in Wash
ington Is nullifying the efforts of the
public health service."
To Ask Law Changed
Cable, after his Investigation, say
he Is more determined than ever to
press for a change in the three -per
cent law so that instead of a fixed nu
merical ration immigrants will be ad
mitted provided they meet rigid physl-'
cal and mental qualifications. . : ;..
"My plan is that all persons who
will presumably become splendid
American citizens be admitted wheth
er they number three hundred thou
sand or five hundred thousand. Our
country can assimilate high class Im
migrants, but there should be no ad
mission for undesirables, physically
and mentally," he explained. - ?
BAVARIA TO REFUSE
DEMANDS OF ALLIES
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, Dec. 5. The Munich cor
respondent of the Lokal Anzeiger says
it is certain that, as far as Bavaria Is
concerned, v the demands of the allies
in their ultimatum of Nov, 3 for apol
ogy and indemnity for attacks on of
ficers of the inter-allied commission
nf rnnlrftl will not w fnlfUlAH trt thtt
j extent stipulated.
A Munich dispatch to vorwaerta
says . that the Bavarian premier, Dr.
Knelling, who arrives in Berlin today
for a conference with Chancellor
Cuno, is resolved not. to sign the let
ter of apology which the allies re
quire. Pilsudski's Withdrawal
Of Candidacy Disconcerting
(By Associated Press)
WARSAW, Dec. 5. The decision ol
General Joseph Pilsudski not to be a
candidate '- for the presidency ha
caused consternation and the parties
in the Polish nationalist assembly are
busily discussing possible substitutes.
Former Premier Witca and M.-Tram-pozynsky
are the most frequently men
tioned although up to the present time
the latter is supported only by the na
tionalists who have opposed the can
didacy of Gen, Pilsudski. The election
is scheduled for Dec. 9. ; ,