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VOL. XCII, No. 292
Palladium. Est lgjl. Consolidated
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RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. 8, 1922.
SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS
HARDING WILL
DEMAND DRY
LAWS OBEYED
Will Test , Opinion by
Enforcement
WASHINGTON, Dec 8. President
Harding, in his annual message deliv
ered today to congress in person, deals
with nearly a score of subjects, chief
among them prohibition, farm credits,
the transportation problem, child labor
'and Immigration. Xl
The executive announces his purpose
to invite the governors of the states
and territories to an early conference
with tho federal executive authorities
, with a view to adopting definite poli
cies of national and state co-operation
in administering the prohibition laws.
He says the day is unlikely to come
when the prohibition act will be re
pealed ' and that the nation should
adopt its course accordingly. President
W Harding tells congress that if the stat
utory provisions for prohibition en
forcement are contrary to deliberate
public opinion, which he does not be
Jieve, the rigorous and literal enforce
ment will concentrate public attention
on any requisite modification.
To Save Humiliation.
"Such a course," he adds, "conforms
with the law and saves the humiliation
of the government and the humiliation
of our people before the world and
challenges tho destructive forces en
gaged in widespread violation, official
corruption and Individual demoraliza
tion." -.
With regard to the transportation
problem, Mr. Harding proposes that
the railroad labor board be abolished
with the substitution of a labor divis
ion in the interstate commerce com
mission with ample power to require
Its ruling to be accepted by both par
ties to aid in disputed questions. The
executive also proposes that the law
require the carriers and their employes
to Institute means and methods to ne
gotiate between themselves their con
stantly arising differences, limiting ap
peals to the government body, to dis
putes of such character as are likely
to affect the public welfare.
Urges Co-ordination
Co-ordination of all transportation
facilities is urged1 by the president.
, - These would include not k only inland
waterways, but motor truck trans
portation as well. He inveighed
against the system of paralleling the
railroads with truck roads that draw
ing freight from steamline instead of
making the motor tnnk a feeder for
them.
As to the carriers themselves, Mr.
Harding suggests as ways of increased
economy and afficiency there by a
01 merger of lines into systems inter
change of freight cars, the consolida
tion -of facilities and the economic
use of terminals. He declares that
the managers of the line are with
out the inter-carriera cooperative re
lationship, "so highly essential to the
bet and most economical operation,"
adding that they could not function in
harmony when the recent strike
threatened the paralysis of al'lvaihtfay
transportation.
Urges Farm Credits
More extended credit for the farm
ers is strongly urged by the executive
who declares that the very proof of
helpfulness already given is the
strongest argument for the permanent
establishment of widened' credits. He
says the farm loan bureau may well
have its powers enlarged to provide
ample farm production credits, as
well as enlarged land credits.
CLEMENCEAU HOPES
TO PUT REAL PUNCH
IN TALK AT CAPITAL
(Bv Associated Press) !
WASHINGTON, Pec. 8. Georges
Clemenceau, war-time premier of
France, will conclude his visit to
Washington today with the fifth "for
mal address" of his American tour.
He has already spoken twice here
at the war college before officers
who commanded troops overseas, and
before the Southern society, but he
regards the address to be delivered
this arternoon before the Internation
al Lyceum and Chautauqua associa
tion as the most important of his
Washington appearances.
Invitations to attend have been ex
tended to government officials and
leaders of congress. as well as to the
members of the diplomatic corps.
Clemenceau planned to spend most
ot the day in seclusion, marshalling
his facts and making his last-minute
preparations for presenting them.
There was a possibility, however, that
he might make a brief sight-seeing
tour. After the address he planned
to return to the . home of lenry
White. his Washington host, 'for a
brief rest before going to his private
car for the trip to Philadelphia, his
next stop. ,
Itinerary Announced.
His itinerary was announced offic
ially today as follows: Leave Wash
ington at 1:20 a. m. Saturday for
Philadelphia, arriving at 5:05 o'clock
and leaving the train about 10 o'clock
for his sixth formal address, which i3
. schedulid for 11.
Leave Philadelphia at S:28 p. m.
Saturday, arriving about midnight at
Cresson, Pa, where he will spend Sun
day. '
Leave Cresson at 6 p. m. Sunday, ar
riving in Chicago at 9 a. m. Monday
Hr an address scheduled for 11 o'cioik.
Leave Chicago at 3:30 p. m. the
same day arriving in New York at 5:28
p .m. Tuesday, he will address the
. Society for Devastated France Tuesday
evening and then go to the steamer
Paris and sail for home at noon Wed-jnesday.
Auxfliary Secretary
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Miss Bess B. Wetherholt.
- Dr. Kate Waller Barrett, national
president of the American Legion Aux
iliary, has announced the appointment
of Miss Bess B. Wetherholt of Gal
lipolis, Ohio, as national secretary of
the auxiliary, which is .composed of
mothers, wives, sisters and daughters
of Legion members and of men who
died in the service. '
During her term as secretary of the
Ohio department of the auxiliary with
headquarters at Columbus, Miss Weth
erholt attracted national attention.
She trebled its membership and
doubled the number of its units during
her first 10 months in the position.
Miss Wetherholt was secretary of the
Ohio department from the time it was
formed until she assumed the national
office.
. The Ohio Auxiliary was also not
able for its efficient work for the re
lief of sick and disabled soldiers in
the hospitals of that state during Miss
Wetherholt's term of office.
Miss Wetherholt was educated In
the public schools of Gallipolis and in
a private school at Cincinnati. Fol
lowing her graduation from the latter
institution she engaged in legal work.
During the war she served in the sta
tistics section of the ordnance depart
ment In Cincinnati. Her spare time
was spent in organizing chapters of
the American Red Cross. .
Three brothers of Miss Wetherholt
were World war fighters.
American Marines
to Check Activities
ot Chinese Bandits
(By Associated Press)
PEKIN, Dec. 8. The American de
stroyer Asheville will arrive at Tsing
Tao tomorrow, and it is understood
here that the vessel will not hesitate
to land marines if the bandits infest
ing the district endanger the' lives of
foreigners after ' the Japanese evacu
ation.
Japan is prepared to restore the
Kiao Chow leasehold to China at noon
Sunday. The Japanese legation an
nounced today that all the Japanese
troops would withdraw, immediately
leaving the district in the hands of
Chinese soldiers.
Tsing Tao is surrounded by bandits
who threaten to invade the city as
soon as Japanese control comes to an
end. Japanese destroyers which have
been in the harbor of the port for sev
eral days are prepared to co-operate
with the Asheville in protecting lives
and property of foreign nationals.
The bandit activity is regarded here
as in the nature of -i local revolution
inspired by military leaders for the
purpose of obtaining control of Shan
tung so that the province might be
maintained Independently of the Cen
tral government. - ; , .
A dispatch from Tsing Tao last
night said that the foreign population
fearing a reported plot by Chinese
bandits to kidnap ail foreigners, had
suggested an appeal for American and
British warships to protect nationals.
MORRIS AND COMPANY
SAYS ARMOUR ACTING
WITHOUT ITS CONSENT
- (By United Press)
CHICAGO, Dec. 8. The, $530,000,000
proposed merger of Armour and com
pany and Morris and company, pack
ers, hit a snag here today which
threatened to end negotiations.
Nelson and Morris in a signed state
ment declared that all of the talking
had been' done by J. Ogden Armour,
and that they did not propose to sit
by and see themselves shoved out of
the packing business. -
Armour is reported to have held sev
eral conferences in -Washington at
which he isought government approval
of the consolidation. ;
The Morris brothers statement de
clared they were informed that Ar
mour told President Harding the Mor
ris company was anxious to get out
of the packing business.
"This is news to" us," the statement
said.
No Offer Made.
"While we realize Mr. Armour kr
anxious to acquire our business, up to
the -present time, he has not made us
an offer and we have not put a price
on our organization.
"Even if Mr. Armour purchased our
business it would not mean that we
would remain long out of the packing
business.
Armour is rumored to hare told cabi
net members in Washington that the
proposed consolidation would lower
over-head expenses in the administra
tion, operating and distributing
branches of the industry and would re
sult in a saving to the public
It was understood today that further
negotiations in Washington were
planned.
Mme. Gadski to Sing
Despite Opposition
of American Legion
(By Associated Press)
OAKLAND, Calif.. Dec. 8. Madame
Johanna Gadski, noted singer has an
nounced she will sing In Los Angeles
on Dec. 11, despite protests of the
American Legion there.
Madame Gadski declared she would
begin action for damages against per
sons or publications spreading a false
story as to the manner in which she
received news of the sinking of the
Lusitania.
The singer said she held a statement
from the department of justice show
ing her status while residing in Amer
ica never had been questioned by the
autnoriues.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8. A tele
gram asking for official information
concerning- the attitude during the
World war of Madame Johanna Gadski
has been sent to Attorney General
uaugnerty by F. J. Zeehandelaar, sec
retary of the Merchants' and Manufac
turers' association, it was announced
today.
This was a result of nrotests bv
members of the American Legion at a
projected concert here next Mondav
by Madame Gadski because of allega
tions she was pro-German during' the
war. . .
E. Sherman Danby, the singer's man
ager, was said to have told a commit
tee of members of the American Le
gion today that if Attorney General
uaugnerty's reply indicated pro-Ger
man sympatnies on the part of Ma
dame Gadski, her engagement in Los
Angeles would be cancelled.
UNLIMITED DEBATE
IN SENATE OPPOSED
BY SENATOR WATSON
PALUDIl'M SEWS BUREAU
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Senator
James E. Watson of Indiana has an
nounced that he will urge the calling
of a special session of the senate after
March 4 for the specific purpose of
modifying the rule of unlimited de
bate The senior Indiana senator be
lieves that such action is necessary if
the senate ever is to function properly
The filibuster js made possible be
cause or tne rule or unlimited deoate.
and through this agency the senate
majority elected to carry out the legis
lative, demands of the people is fre
quently thwarted by the minority.
Senator Watson is opposed to any
"gag" rule as provided in a pending
proposal for cloture by a bare majority.
He favors restriction of debate by a
substantial majority, something less
than two-thirds majority, which is the
present cloture rule of the" senate.
However, he is against any application
of cloture to the consideration of treat
ies. Not Expedient Now
It would not be expedient during the
present session of congress to attempt
a modification of the rule of unlimited
debate, Senator Watson believes. He
anticipates that opponents of the antl
lynching bill and the ship subsidy bill
would raise the cry that the proponents
of those measures were attempting to
' railroad" them through the senate. A
filibuster against changing the rule
would very probably result.
Senator "Watson, as Republican floo
leader, is not blind to the fact that the
senate is no longer held in esteem by
the people. He believes this is not be.
cause of the nersonnel of the senate.
but because of its antiquated rule of
unlimited debate, which frequently de
lays the enactment of important legis
lation and occasionally defeats it.
The rule, the modification of which
the Indiana senator is seeking, is as
old as the senate itself, but it did not
bring forth the filibuster until a com
paratively few years ago. During the
earlier history of the country members
of the senate did not violate the spirit
of the rule. After a measure had been
thoroughly debated the senators would
cast their votes, Senator Watson says
Senate is Ridiculed.
, In recent years both Republicans
and Democrats have resorted to fill
busters, with the result, the Indiana
senator says, that the procedure of
the senate has been made a traversty
and the senate an object of ridicule.
President Wilson was the first exe
cutive to make an insistent demand
for a modification of the rule of un
limited debate. This came when he de
nounced the filibuster against the
"armed merchantman" bill "by a little
group of willful men. In March, 1917.
To consider changing the rule he call
ed an extra session of the senate. At
this session the present rule of clo
ture by two-third3 majority was adopt
ed. Senator Watson asserts that this
rule has not worked out satisfactorily
because of the excessive majority re
quired.
Oscar E. Bland, who represents the
second Indiana district in coneress and
was defeated for re-election at. thf rp-
cent election, is a candidate for ap
pointment a3 one of the members of
th United States customs court of an.
peals. His candidacy has been in
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dorsed Dy tne other members of the
inaiana delegation.
800 GREET SUNDAY .
ELDORADO, Ohio, Dec. 8. An audi-
ence of nearly 800 greeted Billy Sun
day and "Ma" when they drove up
from Dayton to visit Monroe central
ized school, Friday morning. The
party arrived at 10 o'clock. "
Rev. Sunday addressed the school
students and citizens of the commu
nity in the school auditorium, speak
ing from- the Twenty-third Psalm. He
complimented the school board on the
building and commented on the sing
ing or his congregation.
A collection of $40 was taken up for
the Winona fund and receipts from
a dinner served by the Winiska Sun
day school class of the Eldorado Unit
ed Brethren church, which arranged
the meeting also will be turned into
the fund.
Rev. and Mrs. Sunday left at 11:15,
to the accompaniment of yells by the
high sciiosl students.
REBEL CHIEFS
ARE EXECUTED
BY FREESTATE
Action Reprs .1 For
Assassination
DUBLIN, Dec. 8 Itory O'Connor
and Liam Mellowes. together with two
other Irish rebels were executed in
Mountjoy prison this morning it was
officially announced.
The other men executed were named
Cooney and Barrett, both prominent
Republicans.
An official army report states that
the four men were executed as a re
prisal for the assassination of Sean
Hales the deputy shot yesterday, and
as a solemn warning to those associat
ed with them "in the conspiracy of as
sassination against the representatives
of the Irish people." .
The executions created nearly as
much excitement as was occasioned
by that of Erskine Childers, . for
O'Connor and Mellows were heroes
to all with Republican leanings be
cause of their gallant stand in the
Four Courts fight
O'Connor held out in the law courts
building on the banks of the Liff y
against overwhelming odds until Free
State artillery sent walls crashing in
about the head3 of his men. Finally
he surrendered.
Liam Mellows, leading a little rebel
band in guerilla fighting on Sackville
street, was finally cornered near the
Gosham hotel. He was called upon
to surrender, but refused and came
out. Revolver in hand, he resolved to
die fighting. A Free State trooper
wounded him, and he was captured.
There was a suggestion current that
the executions may be in the nature
of reprisals for the assassinations of
Sean Hales, Free State deputy, yes
terday.
LONDON, Dec. 8.- The Irish repub
licans, says a dispatch to the Evening
btandard from Dublin, have Issued a
manifesto describing Timothy Healy,
the governor general, aa a life-long
enemy of the nation. The manifesto
adds :
"The fight will go on as long as
there is a man in Ireland. It is war
to the death."
DUBLIN, Dec.' 8.-A master spy of
Irish inaureencv was knnwn tn the
free state government today , as the
man reeponsrme lop the death In am
bush of Michael Collins and General
minis. .
This snv. noKlnET n.s a nhritiffpiir and
machine gunner In the National army,
yesterday stole an armored car and
handed it over to the rebels.
The armored car was used in a rebel
assault at. Ballvmakei-A. rmintv rVirfc-
where 100 Free State troops surren
dered to an overwhelming insurgent
iorce aner one nad Deen killed ana 15
wounded.
The "Free State's pnvpmin PTif An
nounced the man who handed over the
Car to the DeValeraitea waa in fharva
of an armored car accompanying Mic
hael Collins when the famous Free
State' chieftain was slain. At that time
this man claimed his machine gun,
jammed, it was recalled. Later, when
uenerai n,nnis was similarly ambushed
and killed the tsnv rlai
to return rebel fire was due to having
Dut one macnine gun belt.
$15,000,000 DAMAGE
TO CITY IN OREGON
(By Associated Press)
ASTORIA, Ore., Dec. 8. The busi
ness district of Astoria was laid in
ruins by a fire which broke out short
ly after 2 a. m. and despite efforts of
the local fire department, and re-en-
torcements from Portland swept 16
blocks causing a loss estimated at be
tween $10,0-0,000 and $15,000,000. One
life' was lost in the fire, according to
reports available at 8 o clock.
Norris Staples, automobile dealer,
and president of the Astoria Bank of
Commerce dropped dead. Two other
business men who were missing, and
believed dead later were accounted
for. Patients were removed from St.
Mary's hospital, all the windows of
wnicn were shattered by explosions of
dynamite or gasoline tanks.
Weather Forecast
For Richmond and Vicinity
By W. E. MOORE
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday.
occasional snow flunes this after
noon and tonight. Decidedly colder.
A storm which is now crossing the
central states will be followed by
temperatures below freezing tonight,
with rain turning to snow flurries this
afternoon. It will be fair at intervals
Saturday.
Temperatures Yesterday at
Pumping Station.
Maximum 58
Minimum ,
Today
Noon .4i
Weather Conditions: Heavy rains
are now falling over the Ohio valley.
It is turning colder north of the Ohio
river.- The temperatures are -still be
low zero in the northwest, but it has
begun to moderate in Western Can a
da. Summer weather covers the gulf
states. Another storm is in the far
west.
For hidiana, by the United States
Weather Bureau: Generally fair to
night and Saturday. Much colder to
night and east and extreme south por
tions Saturday. ?
Paid Circulation
Yesterday, was
12,182
American Diplomats Observers at Lausanne Parley
Kit ' i$ a " j& - V- 'i
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Richard Washburn Child, U. S. ambassador to Italy, left; Joseph C. Grew,
U. S. ambassador to Switzerland.
Sitting In at the Luasanne peace parley are Richard1 Washburn Child",
U. S. ambassador to Italy, and Joseph C. Grew, U. S. minister to Switzer
land, America's1 official observers.
900 MINERS IN TERRE HAUTE FIELD STRIKE
AGAINST OPERATORS' "CHECK OFF" STAND
(By Associated Press
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 8.
Three mines in the Terre Haute field
with a total of 900 men employed, to
day are idle by reason of a strike of
the men against the attitude of the
operators in refusing to check off
the $4 assessment, levied recently by
mine workers' organization.
The Indiana coal Producers asso
ciation comprising all the strip mines
in the state has notified the Mine
Workers' organization that the mins
controlled by this association would
make the check off.
President John Hessler, of District
No. 11, United Mine Workers of Amer
ica, said this morning that no formal
strike . order would be sent out, but
that each mine in the state would be
come idle as the owners refused to
make the check-off. i
'Seven ' hundred ' men walked out
near here , yesterday afternoon, clos
ing the Glen mine near Brazil and the
Willow Creek at Cleveland. Jackson
PROMISE STARTLING
REVELATIONS IN TRIAL
OF FT. WAYNE MAN
(By Associated Press)
FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 8.
Startling developments are promised
during the day in the trial at Angola
of the case of Nie Sheffer, of Auburn,
charged with the murder of his broth
er, James W. Sheffer, and the latter's
wife last August.
Attorneys for the defense claim that
they will be able to prove that a pil
low slip in which two guns were
wrapped before being carried to Nie
Sheffer's home bears the initials "H.
F." Another pillow slip found In
Sheffer's tent bore the loundry mark
"H. F." Also other laundry found in
the tent bore the letters "Nie."
The defense will attempt to prove
that the one pillow slip was "planted"
in Sheffer's tent homp. while the other
was used to wrap up the gun, alleged
to have belonged to Nie. The guns
buried near Sheffer.'? tent home were
found by Howard Matheny, Auburn
lineman, and friend of William Cha
ney, brother of the late Mrs. James
Sheffer. Chaney, according to Earl
Cochrane, state witness, and the first
man to arrive on the scene, after the
double killing, declared that Chaney
came running out of the garage when
he, Cochrane, ran towards the scene,
after he had heard the shots fired.
QUAKERS WILL SHIFT
FIVE YEARS MEETING
OFFICERS,SAYS CLERK
Questions of reorganization of cer
tain departments of the Five Years
Meeting of the Society of Friends have
been uppermost in tie minds of the
members of the executive committee
of the society in session at the South
Eighth Street Friends church Thurs
day afternoon and evening and Friday
morning and afternoo, accordig to a
statement made public by John R. Ca
rey, of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, and
presiding clerk of the Five Years Meet
ing. The office of assistant general
secretary will be abandoned, the an
nouncement says. r V ! -
MiTb S. Hinckle, executive secretary
of the Friends' board of foreign, mis
sions, has been released from service
with that board for a year to do visi
tation work in the various yearly meet
ings as a result of tbe reorganization
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WRIGHT PURCHASES
HOWARD PROPERTY
Edwin C. Wright, contractor who re
cently opened the Wrightland addi
tion in West Richmond, has purchas
ed the Howard property at 321 North
Tenth street, it was learned -r-.--,
day. The consideration was not giv
en. . The Howard homestead is one
of the landmarks of the city.
Mr. Wright will erect six dwellings
on the site. Definite plans were not
announced but it is probable that the
houses will be ' modern bungalows.
Work on the project will begin about
Dec. 15. '
Hill No. 7 near Sullivan was down
this morning.
There are 1,000 major mines in In
diana with an annual production of
24,600,000 tons. ,
HARDING IS HESITANT
ABOUT CHANGING DATE
OF CONGRESS OPENING
By .MARK SUIX1VAW
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 While there
is good evidence that President Hard
ing personally has no particular sym
pathy with going through the process
of a constitutional amendment in order
to change the date of the beginning of
newly elected congresses, most of the
other regular Republican leaders have
no marked antipathy to it. Many of
them, in fact, urged it long before La
Follette brought it up recently. So
conservative an organization as the
American Bar association has gone on
record in favor of it.
President Harding's hesitancy seems
to lie in his belief that the present sys
tem is a concrete advantage. The the
ory is that the electorate may vote In
haste and the country may be the bet
ter on occasions for a period of reflec
tion between the casting of the vote
and the assembling of the new con
gress. But the proposal that the con
gress elected in November should come
together and go to work in January
does not create much excitement
among the regular Republicans gen
erally. ,
Weather Objection.
The chief objection brought forward
is one of weather. The new proposal
would cause the president, every four
years to be inaugurated on the same
day as the assembling of the new con
gress. And January in Washington is
a very unpleasant time for the parades
and other features of a presidential
inauguration. The Washington shop
keepers can be expected to do what
they can in opposition. On several re
cent occasions when the March 4 in
auguration has been embarrassed by
bad weather, there have been pro
posals not to advance the date, but to
postpone it until the milder month of
May.
Want Vote by States.
Neither is there much excitement
among the regular Republican leaders
about the elimination of the archaic
electoral college; That would be a per
functory innovation, so long as the
voting by States is retained. And
even the progressive leaders want to
retain voting by states.
As to the proposals for farm credit,
the regular Republicans already have
drafted bills which go as far as any,
except the most extreme radicals de
mand, in the direction of setting up
institutions for farm credit, under the
auspices, of the Federal government,
and with the initial capital advanced
from the federal treasury. It is in
the matter of taxation, when it comes
up, that there will be a real contrast
of position between the conservatives
W& radicals. -Copyright
1922, by the New Tork
Evening Post, Inc.
THREE UNMASKED MEN
OBTAIN MAIL LOOT
t
(By Associated Press) '
ST. JOSEPH Mo., Dec. 8. Three
unmasked men, armed with pistols
and shotguns, held up two mail clerks
at the Union station ' early today and
escaped in a waiting automobile with
cne package of registered and five
packages of fir6t-class mail which had
just been taken from the mail car of
a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy pas
senger train enroute from Kansas City
to OmahaJ '
No estimate of the value of the
loot could be obtained early today.
The holdup occurred on the station
tlatform Just as the clerks started
from the mail car to the terminal sta
tion with the maiL Albert Woellner,
of Kansas City, clerk in the car, re
fused to raise his hands and one of
the bandits knocked him down.
The bandits then, seized the mail
and ran to a waiting automobile.
The St. Joseph police were told to
day that the same train was robbed
of several pouches of mail Wednesday
night near Armour Junction, Mo., but
j no valuable mail was reported taken.
TURKS' PLAN
PROVIDES FOR
OPENJTRAITS
Ask Warships Limited
-Proposal Pleases
(By Associated Press)
i LAUSANNE. Dec 8. Turkey's pro
posal for regulation of the straftP of
the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus1
presented to the Near East confer
ence today were heard with saiHsfaic
tion by the representatives of the
allied powers and the United States,
as they were found not to contain any
contention that the straits ehouldl be
closed to foreign, warships aa Russia
had demanded.
Turkey, aa her ptan -was presented
by Ismet Pasha, asked that warships
passing through the ' strtaata to tho
Black sea should! be limited in number
so as not to constitute a danger, the
suggestion toeing made that they be
confined1 to the lighter class of ves
sels for the protection! ot international
comttnerce.
Asks Guarantee
Ismet asked further that warships
be prohibitedi from lingering In the
Blaick eea ana insisted upon strong'.
guarantees against surprise attacks1
from land or sea, against the Straits,
the Sea ot Marmwo and: (Constantin
ople, - :
He insisted that Turkey Khould be
authorized to build1 fortifications for
the defense ot Constantinople Bind the
straitst Spokesmen for the entente
expressed the opinion after the ses
sion that the Turkish and allied plans
could! be harmonized. Russia stood
absolutely alone today in opposing thai
allied! plan aa Rou mania, Greece, Ser
bia and Bulgaria rallied: to its support.
Allies Against Russia.
The visit of Premier Mussolini here
yesterday gave notice that the en
tente is solidly united aainst the Rus
sian position, and gave Ismet as much
information as to Europe's attitude
toward the Dardanelles question aa he
could hope to obtain.
Many Turkish leaders doubting the
permanency of the Bolshevik regime
in Russia, have counseled against too
close co-operation with the soviet dele
gation at the expense of cordial r
lations with the naval powers.
The tenacity with which Foreign
Minister Tchitcherin has held to his
demand that Turkey be given abso
lute control of the straits, made it
seem probable that Russia would ap
prove no other program and that Rus
sia and Turkey might therefore break
on the Dardanelles issue. The Turks
do not want to be forced to build a
navy and are eager to obtain the aid
of European powers in reconstructing
their country.
HAMMER SLAYER'S
HIDING PLAGE BAFFLES
CALIFORNIA OFFICERS
(By Associated Press)'
IXDS ANGELES, Dec 8. Officials
were quoted today as admitting they
"hardly knew in what direction to
look" for Mrs. Clara Phillips, hammer
murderess, who sawed her way to
freedom from the Los Angeles county
jail last Tuesday morning.
Since her escape Decame Known, ap- ,
proximately six hours after she sev-.
ered the bars across ner ceil window.
the police of the greater part of the
country and of the Mexican territory
of Lower California aa well have been
on the watch for her.
But so far the seartih nas resulted
only In a score of tips which proved ,
worthless and in annoyance as far
east as Chicago to two women who.,
were believed to bear some resem
blance to the missing murderess and
who were passengers on trains on
which she was reported to be travel
ing eastward. I
Reviews Possible Penalty.
While the police, sheriff forces, pri-.
vate detectives, still were searching
for her, the district attorney's office
reviewed the punishment prescribed by
law for prisoners who break Jail to
determine what further penalties
might be given to the woman already, .
under sentence to serve from 10 years
to life for beating Mrs. Alberta Tre
maine Meadows to death wfth a ham
mer.
Charles W. Fricke, deputy district
attorney, who assisted in Mrs. Phillips "
prosecution, stated the California penal
code classified a Jail break as a mis
demeanor and fixed punishment for it '
at six months imprisonment in the
county Jail, a fine of $500 or both.
But in damaging Jail by filing "
through the cell bars, he added, she
had committed a felony, punishable
by a fine of $5,000 or by a sentence of
from six months to five years in the
penitentiary- - . . ,
If she had accomplices in her escape
he said, they were guilty of feloniea
and liable to serve punishment, if ap
prehended.. ,
BULGARIAN PEASANTS
IN PURSUIT OF REBELS
(By Unite Prss) '
ATHENS, Dec. 8. The Bulgarian
revolutionists reported to have staged
an uprising and assassinated many
notables at Kusteudii, are fleemg"be
fore armed peasants faithful to the
government, according to dispatches
from Sofia today. - iv 1
The advices said the peasants a4
mobilized . in Sofia and now control
the situation. The insnrgenta "werew
treating to the southward takingalong;
prominent persons as hostages.
r The Democratic club was tmraedj
and houses and shops were sawf'tpp.
and pillaged during Friday Ushl