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AND SUN-TELEGRAM
VOL. XCIL, No. 290
Palladium, Est. 1831. Consolidated
With Sun-Telegram, 1907.
RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 6, 1922.
SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS
E RICHMOND
AIXATW
GLEMGEAU
NOT TO GET
GUARANTEE
Administration Clings
to Isolation
'Ambassador to England
SIX AVIATORS
KILLED WHEN
PLAN S CRASH
Bodies Are Burned in
Wreckage
In Critical Condition
Mighty Hath Fallen
COMMISSION
FOR STRAITS
IS PROPOSED
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CRISIS HERE
IN DRY LAW
ENFOUENT
To Cost Nine Million
For Five Years
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By MARK SULLIVAN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. Georges
Clemenceau is in Washington. He
makes his speech here on Friday.
This Washington speech, in his orig
inal plans, was to be his only one, cer
tainly his principal one. It may yet
turn out that the ."Tiger" has some
especially convincing appeal to make
nt the seat of . the government he
hopes to move. The natural probabil
ity, however, is that his Washington
speech will not stand out from those
he has made elsewhere, or from the
one he is to make at Chicago next
week before he sails back for France
on Tuesday.
With hia appeal to America now
fairly well known, it Is possible to
sum up the effects of it on the govern
ment here at Washington. Any such
summary would say that M. Clemen
ceau has made a personal impression
of the best sort-one that combines
charm and rugged strength. There is
the kindliest feeling and even marked
enthusiasm for him practically every
where. Further than that, there is
a sympathetic understanding of the
plea he makes and the way he makes
it.
Policy Unchanged
When you pass from the personal
impression into the question of how
much he has affected our public opin
ion on the subjects he discusses, it is
believed that he has made a measur
able change in the American point of
view on the charge that France is
militaristic It is believed he has to
some extent succeeded in justifying,
before American eyes, the size of the
army which France feels obliged to
maintain and her determination to
keep herself secure. But when you
consider whether M. Clemenceau's vis
it has worked any change in the pol
icy of the present administration, or
of the present senate, toward Europe,
the answer is no."
Any recorder of facts as they are
is obliged to set it' down clearly that
the policy of abstaining from internal
European affairs is a little more
strongly held by our government today
than at any previous time. Clemen-
ceau'3 visit has not affected It.
Not to Get Guarantee.
As to the specific plea on which
Clemenceau lays emphasis, the appeal
for a guarantee to France against fu
ture German aggresslpn, there is not
in sight the faintest suggestion of a
probability that America will consent
. to be a party to such a guarantee.
That Clemenceau and France should
wish for such a guarantee is under
stood and conceded. But that America
should give it is regarded as utterly
unlikfly. This statement is made on
,.the basis of contact with many shades
of thought, not only among Republi
cans but among Democrats as well.
Action May Come.
Probably this statement of facts as
they are ought not to be said without
pdding that there are men, few in
number, but strong in experience and
judgment, who are calmly confident
that sooner or later events will force
America to. take such a hand as this
in saving Europefrpni further destitu
tion. These men say that our present
tubbornness in an "Out of Europe"
policy is like our equally determined
effort to remain neutral during the
early days of the World war.
But speaking ot the present, it is
clearly, necessary to say that ex-Premier
Clemenceau's visit has worked
not the faintest modification in Amer
ca'a foreign policy.
Copyright 1922, by The New York
Evening Post, Ind.
PLAN TO ELIMINATE
GOAL STRIKES GIVEN
TO MINE OPERATORS
riy I'nltPd Press
CHICAGO. Dec. 6 A . plan for
'wHge negotiations which it was hoped
would prevent further strikes nn.l
lockouts in the coal industry, was
fVr submitted by operators in a joint
session, with miners representatives
' here today. Fifteen states wore rep
resented at the meeting.
The wage negotiations plan was
drafted at a preliminary meeting of
the operators. Widely varying pre
dictions were made as to its accep
tability to the miners.
One of the teading operators declar
ed that failure of the miners to ac
cept the plan would result in feder
al control of the industry, if a strike
on April was to be prevented. He
said the outlook for acceptance was
not optimistic.
Other operators declared they "hop
ed the plan would be aceptable."
' The draft includes provisions for
arbitrating differences and a scale of
wages to be based on market prices
in various competitive lields.
SENATE ASKS DATA
ON PACKING MERGER
(Hv Associated Press!
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. The sen
ate today adopted the resolution of
Senator LaFollette. Republican, Wis
consin, calling on the secretary of ag
riculture for full information regard
ing the proposed Armour and Morris
packer merger.
An attack on the proposed merger
was made in the senate by Senator
LaFollette. who said that the pickers
were seeking immunity In advice of
. President Harding and governr tnt of-
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The Marchesse Delia Torretta, the
new Italian ambassador-designate, who
arrived in London recently from
Rome.
Foulke is Expected
to Urge Dry Agents
Under Civil Service
PALLADIUM NEWS BUREAU
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. One of the
principal speakers at the annual con
vention of the Civil Service Reform
League, to be held in Washington
Thursday and Friday, this .week, will
be William Dudley Foulke of Rich
mond, Ind., civil service commissioner
during the Roosevelt administration.
Mr. Foulke will discuss the question
of prohibition enforcement. It is an
ticipated that he will advocate. the ap
pointment of enforcement officers un
der the regulations of the civil service-
commission.
It is the contention of many govern
ment officials that the lax enforcement
of the prohibition law is due in a large
measure to the irresponsibility and in
competency of a large number of the
federal prohibition agents. The larger
number of these men, it is said, owe
their appointments to their political
activities.
Many Change System
The question of prohibition enforce
ment was thoroughly discussed at a re
cent, cabinet meeting and it was re
ported that the president expressed
concern over general and flagrant vio
lations of the Volstead act. No one
will be surprised if an executive order
is issued in the near fiitnrri nlnrine
the appointment of prohibition enf orce-i
ment officers under the civil service.!
It will not be a popular order with
many politicians, however. They have
found these offices choice plums to
pass around as political rewards.
Two other major topics will be dis
cussed at the meeting 'of the Civil Ser
vice Reform League. They are:
The effect on governmental effici
ency of appointment to positions in
the federal service of veterans of the
World war under the various soldier
preference laws.
Urge Merit System.
Means of securing the appointment
of postmasters strictly on merit, to
the end that the post office department
may be taken entirely out of politics.
A program of action to obtain adop
tion by congress of such amendments
to laws dealing with these subjects as
are believed by the league to be neces
sary will be formulated at the conven
tion, and a campaign will be laid out
for the enactment of civil service laws
in the 3S states, including Indiana,
still without legislation embodying the
merit principle.
The post office department has re
ceived a petition for the extension of
rural route 8 out of Kitchel, Union
county, Ind. The department has an
nounced that an investigation will be
made to determine the feasibility of
the project.
Earl P. Antrim has been appointed
by the post office department to fill
r. vacancy in the rural carrier service
at. the Spiceland, Ind., post office. His
appointment is effective, January 2.
A pension has been awarded by the
Pension Bureau to Abe E: Sheafer, 26
South Tenth street, Richmond, Ind.
Sheafer is a Spanish-American war
veteran.
CAMBRIDGE CITY PLANT
VALUATION $24,783.60
fSpecial to The Palladium)
CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., Dec.
Valuation on the Cambridge City light
plant is fixed at $24.7S3.60, according
to tthe appraisement filed recently
witli C. W. Jacobs, town clerk. The
next Step in me proceedure tp dis
pose of the plant is the meeting of the
town board at whicn it is probable the
decision will be ma,de to advertise for
tyds.
After the proposed sale of the plant
has been advertised for the- given
length of two weeks, the bids which
have been received will be opened. The
opening of the bids is not probable be
fore about three weeks, it is said.
Two Chicago Laundries
Are Targets For Bombs
(By United Press)
CHICAGO. Dec. 6. Two laundries
were partially wrecked, and the lives
of girl employes endangered by
bombs here today. Police believe th!
outbreak was a signal for resumption
of the launrdy war which raged here
some months ago. Managers of both
companies declared they believed the
bombs were thrown because of their
refusal to join an organization to raise
prices. The. plants bombed were Vm
Victor laundry and the Angelus
(By Associated Press)
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Dec. 6.
Major Guy L. Gearhart, of Leaven
worth, Kans., and Captain Benton A
Doyle, of St. Louis, Mo., and four en
listed men were killed at Langley
Field today, when a Martin bombing
plane carrying five of them and a Fok
ker scouting machine, piloted by Maj.
Gearhart, collided about 250 feet in
the air. both machines crashing to
earth in flames. Tiie .enlisted men
killed were Staff Serjeant Marsick, of
Cleveland, O., Private F. J. Clunka,
Chicago; Private Thomas Jordan,
Deepstep, Ga., and Private Leon Rolas,
Philadelphia.
The bomber, pilo-ed by Captain
Doyle, was leading a formation and
was making a banking when the Fok
ker arose in the air from a long take
off. The smaller machine struck the
bomber almost amidship cutting off
the tail. Both planes hovered a mo
ment, then broke into flames and
crashed to earth. Private Rolas leap
ed from the bomber as it neared the
earth but was fatally injured. He died
while being placed in an ambulance.
Bodies Are Burned
The others were pinned beneath the
machines and before aid could reach
them the bodies were burned almost
beyond recognition.
The accident occurred over the
Hampton Normal scnool farm and ad
joining the flying station. Several
persons who rushed to the scene were
badly burned while trying to extricate
the men. The five other machinesin
the formation led by Captain Doyle's
plane effected quick landings, but their
occupants with those already on the
scene were powerless with the flames.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. War de
partment records show that Major Guy
L. Gearhart, Leavenworth, Kans., and
Captain Benton A. Doyle of St. Louis,
were stationed at Langley Field.
NO ADDITION U. S.
TAX TO BE NEEDED
IS MELLON'S REPORT
By JAMES T. KOLBERT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon today inform
ed congress that no additional federal
taxes will be necessary during the com
ing year, if a policy of 'rigid -economy
is enforced.
In his annual report on the financial
operation of the government during
the last fiscal, year, the secretary
strongly urged one reduction in taxes
a 50 per cent cut in the present sur
tax levies on big incomes. The pres
ent maximum surtax rate is 50 per
cent, which applies to incomes of $200,
000 a year and over. Mellon suggested
that the maximum be fixed at 25 per
cent, and the other rates on incomes
below $200,000 reduced accordingly.
Taking direct issue with the farm
bloc which was largely responsible for
the present rates, Meiion asserted that
the high levies are restricting business
expansion and that just as much reve
nue could be obtained by cutting them
in half.
Features of Report.
Other outstanding points of the sec
retary's report were:
1. The country already is suffering
from a scarcity of labor, due to immi
gration restriction and the general re
sumption of industrial activity, with
the consequence of higher wages than
last year and greater manufacturing
costs.
2. The railroads are suffering from
equipment, and are unable to meet the
demands of business.
3. Farm products are selling too
low at the farm and too high at the
distributing centers.
4 The country has increased its
gold supply more than $1,000,000,000
during the Hst two years and this has
tended to increase speculation and un
natural expansion of business.
Foreign Markets Endangered.
5 The unsettled condition in Europe
Is endangering the foreign markets foi
many of our products, and business in
this country cannot progress without
foreign markets.
6 The treasury believes by keeping
Its house In order it can best aid Eur
ope at the present time.
7 Further issuance of tax-exempt
securities, which now total approxi
mately $11,000,000,000 and are increas
ing at the rate of $1,000,000,000 a year
should be prohibited by constitutional
amendment.
g Every effort i3 being made to
speed the collection of back taxes.
9 Custom receipts during the year
ending June 30. 1922. although the low-
Democratic tariff was in efiect, totallec
$357,544,712, the greatest in the his
tory of the country.
10 The value of Liberty bonds has
increased $2,500,000,000 since th' low
marks of 1920.
For the present fiscal year, which
ends next July 1, Mellon said present
figures indicate a deficit of $274,000,
000, as compared with estimates of
$697,000,000 at the beginning of the
year.
For the next fiscal year, the period
from July, 1923, to July 1912, a surplus j
of $180,969,125 was estimated, but it 1
was emphasized strict economy is nec-!
essary to obtain this surplus. Appro-j
priations asked for by the budeet bu-1
reau for the next- year total $3,078,940,- i
331.69, a reduction of $195,000,000 as j
compared with appropriations for the
,
Olivia M. P. Stone, trained nurse
G. Kinkead, is in a critical condition
recently acquitted as slayer of Ellis
after attempting suicide in her room
in a New York hotel. Alone and des
titute, she had just returned from Cin
cinnati, where she had successfully
fought for a certificate to resume her
work as a trained nurse.
Farmers of Vicinity
Win Recognition at
Chicago Exposition
.Joseph Helms and his son, Chester
Helms, living near the Liberty pike,
south of Richmond, were prize winners
at the International Corn show, con
ducted in connection with the Live
stock Exposition, at the Union Stock
Yards at Chicago this week. Both won
on samples of yellow corn which they
had submitted, the father talking twen
ty-second place while his son took sev
enteenth. These were awaids in
Region Four.
Two Winchester men and two Un
ion City men, Randolph county far
mers, were yellow corn winners in
Region Three. Thoy were Marvin
Thornburg, whose address is Winches
ter,, sixth; L. O. Turner, Union City,
eleventh; William Turner, Union City,
twenty-seventh, and Troy H. Keener,
Union City, forty-sixth. A total of 48
of the 50 premiums offered in Region
Three were won by Hoosiers, Iowa and
Ohio each winning one premium.
A fourth of all the prizes offered for
exhibits from Region Four, which in
cludes about half of the states of Illi
nois, Indiana and Ohio, were won by
Shelby county growers.
Besides the juniv.r corn grower
championship, won by Glenn Phares,
Gibson Gray, another Shelby county
boy, won second, v'hile adult corn
growers winnings were as' follows:
White corn, first, Peter Lux; fifth,
Ernest Thornburg; twelfth, Frank
Luxr thirteenth, Ed Lux; sixteenth,
Maurice Lux; eighteenth. Victor Lux;
nineteenth, Joe Isley, while other Shel
by county men also took six smaller
prizes." ' ". ' '" - ',r'"' '"'"" : ' '" "
In yellow corn, the local winners
were third. Peter Lux; fourth, Ed.
Lux; twelfth, Ernest Thornburg; four
teenth, Maurice jLux; with seven other
lower premiums.
An Indiana hog feeder, Mike Myers,
of ElwcQd, again' von carlot cham
pionship, with a drcve of pure-bred
Hampshires. He has won five out of
six years at past shows
BOMB WRECKS HOME
OF VVEATHY ITALIAN
. DETROIT. Mich., Dec. 6 The home
of Dominic Gargaro, wealthy Italian
contractor, was partly wrecked early
today, when a bomb was xploded
on the front porch. Windows in
houses for a radius of a block were
shattered and a score or more neigh
bors ran to the street in their night
attire, fearing a disaster, had . occur
ed in the neighborhood.
The bomb was thrown by black
handers, according to the police be
cause Gargaro had refused to pay
$15,000; He received three threaten
ing letters during the last ten days,
demanding $15,000 and his- refusal to
pay, is said to have been the cause
of the attempted assassination.
Gargaro's wife and five children
were imperilled by the bomb. Tho
house is a two story brick structure
The entire front was wrecked. The
sleeping quarters are in the rear and
this fact is "said to have saved the
famy from serious injury,.
Weather Forecast
By W. E. Moors
FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY
Fair and below freezing tonisht;
Thursday partly cloudy, with rising
temperatures.
Fair weather will continue tonight,
due to the high barometricpressue.
A storm over the Rocky mountains
will cause unsettled weather to de
velop within the next 48 .hours or less,
probably followed by rain. The tem
peratures will rise.
.Temperatures Yesterday at the
Pumping Station .
Maximum .45
Minimum 23
Today '
Noon .-.....-... -35
Weather Conditions: The center of
the cold wave continues over southern
Canada and its influence' is being felt
far south of the gulf states. The cold
est weather within observation was at
Medicine Hat, Canada, where it was
22 degrees below zero. It ivas 18 be
low zero in western Montana. A
Rocky mountain storm is causing
snow over Montana, Wyoming and por
tions of Oregon.
For Indiana, by the United States
Weather Bureau: Fair tonight and
somewhat warmer in the south por
tion; Thursday increasing cloudiness;
warmer in the south portion.
Paid, Circulation
Yesterday, was
12,159
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec 6. The crisis
in the Federal prohibition enforco
ment fight has been reached, in the
opinion of Commissioner Haynes, it
was disclosed today in reports of re
cent hearings before a house appropri
ations sub-committee.
In asking $9,000,000 for the next fis
cal year for his department, Mr.
Haynes told the committee that if a
similar amount was allowed for pro
hibition enforcement continuously for
five or six jars, a reduction then
ought to be possible, but that the criti
cal period for enforcement was now at
hand.
Mr. Haynes said there were 3.S00
men employed in the work of prohibi
tion enforcement. Because the appro
priation asked for next year repre
sents a reduction of $250,000 from
this year's outlay, he said there would
be a slight reduction in his forces,
but he hoped to re-arrange the organi
zation so as to not appreciably lessen
its efficiency.
Courts Sympathetic.
.The prohibition commissioner told
the committee "that he was gratified"
with the present functioning of his en
forcement machinery, and that the de
partment was securing "fine co-operation"
from states and counties in the
main. Courts were becoming "riore
sympathetic" he asserted and jail serv
ices and fines were becoming heavier.
There is a general disposition to
tighten up he added. In the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1922, the prohibi
tion commissioner said there were 20,-
483 convictions in federal courts for
violations of the prohibition law. Ac
quittals numbered 4,625, cases dropped
3,217 and civil cases disposed of 544
At the end of the year he said 15,910
cases were pending in federal courts,
bringing the total of cases handled to
44,879. These figures he said did not
include cases in btate courts. Fines in
federal courts which were deposited
in the treasury, he placed at $2,791,000.
In many cases proceedings toward for
feiture of bonds and other assessments
were pending,
Evidence Bought
Mr. Haynes asked for $150,000 for
buyinz evidence" and told the com
mittee $139,000 had bea spent that
way during the last year.
The prohibition commissioner under
went a long examination at the hands
of Representative' Galllvah, Democrat,
Massachusetts, who inquired particu
larly about .the method of )handling
the department's publicity. Mr. Galli
van referred among other things to
what he termed the "wildly extrava
gant" statements he said emanated
from the bureau, one of which, he
said, credited Mr. Haynes with having
asserted that ' 20,000,000 Americans
had "gone on the water wagon" since
the enactment of the Volstead law.
Mr. Haynes denied knowledge of the
statement.
Mr. Haynes told the committee
there had been a splendid reaction by
the public toward his department's
work, and immediately clashed1 with
Mr. Gallivan over the results of the
election of Nov. 7, the Massachusetts
representative citing the voting down
in his state of an enforcement meas
ure and the commissioner asserting
that prohibition had won where "con
ditions were normal."
Replies to Gallivan
In reply to Mr. Gallivan, Mr. Haynes
admitted increased arrests under the
narcotic law during the last fiscal
year, but attributed it to the "in
creased efficiency" of the narcotic di
vision and not to the prohibition laws.
Representative Magee, Republican,
of New York, aekeo- if the commis
sioner "did not realize there is a wide
spread disrespect, defiance and viola
tions of the laws."
"That is true of all law," replied Mr.
Haynes, adding that a sub-committee
' of the American Bar association had
made a statement that disrespect for
all laws was at a maximum as a nat
ural sequence of the,, war. Mr. Magee
said there was no uch condition a
few years ago and Mr. Gallivan in
sisted that the prohibition law had
"caussd disrespect fr all laws."
WINTER, CONQUEROR
OF NORTHWEST, IS
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9MING SOUTHWARD
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CHICAGO, Dec. 6. Still holding the
northwest in a chilling grip of sub-zero
temperatures, winter continued its be
lated advance today into the southland,
causing marked drops in temperature
as far south as TexaS and calling
forth predictions of colder weather in
the Lake region, the great Central val
leys and the east Gulf state3.
In the upper Lake region, the zero
and sub-zero weather was accompanied
by a 60-mile wind driving before it a
snow storm that v'lually tied up ship
ping. Reports indicated that the cold wave
still centered in North Dakota. Havre
and Williston, N. D., recorded the cold
est temperatures in the country last
night, the mercury going past six be
low zero.
The east did not suffer from the un
usual cold prevalent in the northwest,
temperatures there ranging from 26
to 70 degrees above zero.
Real summer weather in Texas early
today gave way to the fir3t breath of
winter; the thermometer dropping sev
eral degrees throughout the state.
The cold wave still obtained in the
northern portion of the Rocky Moun
tain region with a prediction of rain or
snow and cooler weather supplanting
the mild weather that had prevailed in
the southern Rocky Mountain region
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The daughter of the former King
Ferdinand of Bulgaria has turned to
the sou and is- now a farmerette, do
ing all the work on a, little farm which
she has secured and is working in
Bavaria,
Robbers Use Truck
to Carry Off Loot
From Boston Store
BOSTON. Ind., Dec. 6. Thieves
who entered) the A. S. Nelson hard
ware store here securing between
$700 and $800 worth of loot early
Tuesday morning, certainly had no
fear of detection or being foiled in
their attempt ait robbery for they
backed up their auto truck, entered
the front door and left only when they
had about all their fancy dictated.
That the robbers felt no concern Is
evidenced by facts pieced! together
during the two daya the authorities
have been working on the case. As
near as can be learned! the men with
the truck made their visit to Mr. Nel
son's tore some time between 2 and
3 o'clock Tuesday morning, and when
they were ready to depart had gone
south fora short distance before go
ing west in the1 direction of Conners-
ville.
It Was not known that Boston had
entertained unwelcome guests until
Mr. Nelson found his stock of guns
depleted, his showcase of choice
pocket knives stripped' ot its- wares
and the silverware display sadly mis
sing when he went to his store at the
usual time in the morning.
Took Stock of Guns
"I don't know whether the thieves
are going to enter the shooting gal
lery business or not," said Mr. Nelson
good-humoredly Wednesday in discus
sing his loss, "for they took 18 rifles
and shotguns and about 30,000 rounds
of ammunition. In. addition to this
they took about 100 pocket knives, a
large number of silver table spoons,
teaspoons' and other fares, not forget
ting to make a number of alarm
clocks part of their hauL"
Entrance to the store was gained
by forcing the front door. The fact
that a garage is located next door to
the hardware store is believed by Mr.
Nelson to account for the ability of
the night marauders to run their
truck about the neighborhood without
arousing the suspicion of citizens liv
ing near the store. Persons living
close to the store say they heard an
engine running early Tuesday morn
ing but believed the noise to come
from the garage.
Mr. Nelson's experience with thefts
is not limited to the one discussed,
however, for he said Wednesday that
his store had been entered three times
before, tho most recent of which was
about a year ago when only a small
amount of goods was secured.
Neither he nor local authorities an
nounce any clues likely to prove val
uable In apprehending the thieves.
IRISH FLAG RAISED
TODAY; FREE STATE
COMES INTO BEING
4Hy United Press)
LONDON, Dec. 6. At a special
meeting of the privy council today,
King George signed i.he proclamation
making the constitution of the Irish
Free State effective. The king -also
signed the proclamation appointing
Timothy Healy as governor general.
DUBLIN, Dec. 6. The Irish tri-color
was raised today over the vice-regal
lodge. The British Union Jack was
hauled down as the Free State came
into being. . .
After simultaneous announcement of
the formal constitution of the Irish
Free State in Dublin and London, Tim
othy Healy, the governor-general, was
sworn in and the first meeting of the
Irish parliament sum.noned.
Cosgrave Is III.
The last few strenuous weeks have
affected the health of President Con
grave, who will leave for the - south
of France to recuperate soon after th
assembly of the first free state parlia
ment. Doctors have ordered him to
remain away for at least two months.
The Republicans are reported to be
planning a coup de eeta under the lead
ership of Liam Lynch, who has arrived
in Dublin to take charge of, the Re
publican campaign. ' .
The free state government seeks to
discourage Americans from subscrib
ing funds for Republican leaders on
the ground -that further rebel activity
will only result In the destruction of
property and the ambushing of troops.
Timothy Henley, upon -his arrival in
Ireland, asked America to withhold
her moral as well as financial support
from the Republicans. He said that
tho Republicans had no panacea for
the- rii'tinns.
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U.S.DemandsFreedom
-Turkey Shifting
fBy Associated Press)
LAUSANNE, Dec. 6. The general
atmosphere of the Near Eastern con
ference was greatly cleared by an im
portant session today. Lord Curxon
of Great Britain, presented a state
ment of the position of the allied pow
ers for international control of the
Dardanelles and the Boephorus provid-
ig for a control commission on which
the United States would be represent
ed with Turkey, given equal repre
sentation. This plan is believed to be accept
able in the main to the powers
in the conference except the Russians,
who seem clearly 'ar from being
agreed with the Turk as to how the
straits problem shall be solved. The
Turkish position is apparently under
going a change, possibly due to the
fact that it was realized that the Rus
sian plan for control by Turkish war
ships would make H Imperative for
Turkey to build a navy.
The American position was present-.
ed by Ambassador Richard Washburn
Child, declaring for the freedom of
the straits and the Black Sea tc mer
chant vessels and warships of all na
tions both in peace and in war, and
opposing one power control.
Ambassador Child said after the
meeting that the statement of the
American position was worked out
quite independently of Lord Curzon's
statement which he never heard, un
til it was presented today. The am
bassador declared ttfe foreign secre
tary's statement impressed him as
quite liberal and not in conflict with
the American position.
MRS. PHILLIPS FLED
TO MEXICO, BELIEF;
PEGGY CAFFEE GONE
(By Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec 6. The
search for Mrs. Clara Phillips, con
victed of 'beating Mrs. Alberta Tre
main Meadows to-death with a ham-
mer and who escaped yesterday from
the Los Angeles county Jail, was in
active progress today throughout
southern California and Lower Cali
fornia, the Mexican state.
Despite various other "tips' and
clews," sheriff's deputies generally
held to their original belief that the
hammeress had fled across the bor
der into Mexico, and plans were made
to extend the search today for her as
far south as Ensenada, on the west
coast of the Lower California penin
sula, about 90 miles south of San
Diego, Calif. They were not over
looking other directions, however, and
had asked San Francisco authorities
to join in the hunt.
Border is Watched
Meantime the border between the
Californias from Tijuan, near San
Diego to the Arizona line and espec
ially at Calexico, Calf., and its low
er California neighbor, Mexicali, was
being closely watched.
Officers of border cities and towns
were reported giving Los Angeles of
ficials excellant co-operation in guard
ing posible means of leaving the
state and country.
Armour Lee Phillips, the convicted
woman's husband upon whose story
of his movements, the 24 hours pre
vious his wife's escape some doubt
had 'been cast according to sheriffs
deputies, still was In technical cus
tody early today.
Although not placed in jail, he wa
in charge of Frank Dewar, a deputy
sheriff, with whom he slept and with
whom he was to take his meals, "utit
further notice," it was said.
Pggy Caffee Missing. -
The exact whereabouts of Mrs. Peg
gy Caffee former chum of Mrs. Phillips
when they were members : of the
chorus of the same musical comedy
company and later star witness for the
state at Mrs. Phillips' trial, was un
known to the authorities early today.
They say they were interested in learn
ing where she was meyly because
they wanted to be assured of her safe
ty. Various rumors were current about
danger surrounding Mrs. Caffee after
Mrs. Phillips escaped but officials
said they were discounted by the dis
covery she had sent a telegram from
Los Angeles to her husband at Long
Beach 20 miles from here, long after
they were, set in circulation. This
telegram stated she was O. K. ?.;d
promised she would "be home within
an hour."
This promise was not kept, however.
according to the officers but they ex
pressed no fears for her safety.
GREAT LAKES CREW
MISSING IN STORM
(By TTnlted Press)
SAULT STE. MARIE. Mich., Dec. 8.
Fear for the lives of 40 men, mem
bers of the crews of the steamer W.
H. Sawyer, and her two tow barges,
the A. E. Redfern and A. C. Tuxbury,
caught in one of the worst December
storms in the history of the Great
Lakes, was expressed In marine cir
cles here today.
The Sawyer, her two barges, and
steamers, A. C. Burch and H. B. Nye,
are over-due. Vessel men here said
the Sawyer and her barges were load
ed with lumber and expected they
would experience considerable diffi
culty in reaching a place of safety in
the 60 mile blizzard, which swept the
lakes last night. They were due yes
terdsv momine. " - ,