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IS GIVEN A HEARING 8UPREME COUNCIL CONFERS REGARDING THE FAILURE OF GERMANY TO DISARM. The Eventuality of a German Sitting With the Council Hinges Upon Action of Representatives Re garding Vexed Question. Paris.—The supreme council, com posed of representatives of Great Britain, Italy, France, Belgium and Japan, on January 24 heard the mili tary experts and later conferred to gether regarding the failure of Ger many to disarm as provided for by the treaty of Versailles. The experts were asked to make a detailed report on the subject, with recommendations re garding measures to insure execution of the disarmament clauses of the treaty. The British prime minister, David Lloyd George, and the president of the French council, Aristide Brland, it Is understood, desire an opportunity to talk over the different phases of the reparations question before the sub ject comes up for discussion at the full couHcll. Thus the change in the council's program. In this connection the premiers are said to be considering whether It Is feasible and advisable to have the German representatives sit with the council before the final decision on reparations is taken, delegation is believed to favor invit ing the Germans to take part in the discussion after the allies comp to an understanding among themselves. Pendnlg a decision on this ques tion, Herr Bergmann, the German delegate, it la expected, will confer with Louis Loucheur, the French min ister of liberated regions, and it Is re ported he will make an official offer to pay two billion marks in gold with in a year, one-fourth of that amount In cash. The eventuality of a German being invited to sit with the council de pends partly upon Herr Bergmann's reply to M. Loucheur, who will ask him If Germany has any proposition to make before the allies shall decide finally upon what course they shall pursue to enforce execution of the treaty. The premiers are understood to be greatly alarmed at the situation of Austria and will endeavor to find some way for the continued existence of that cohntry. The eastern question, Greece and the treaty of Sevres will be taken up after the council has fin ished considering the Austrian situ ation. Resumption of trade rojaffions with Russia by the allied governments, which would entail a sort of condi tional recognition of the soviet regime in Moscow, appeared to be a topic which will be discussed seriously in the next week. The British MU8T TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN France Invites United States to Re move Derelicts From That Country. Washington.—France has asked the United Statès to remove the derelicts of the United States In Paris and elsewhere In France who have made a borne with the local criminal classes. The French secret service and po lice service are to co-operate with the American array on the Rhine and with the United States military attaches at Paris to get these missing men back to the United 8tates. Any Identified ex service man arrested In Paris will be sent to General Allen's headquarters at Coblenz for transportation home. The request Includes a suggestion also that soldiers who for any rea son have become a public burden in that country should be deported. The work Is to be commenced by the war department sending to the French government as complete a list as possible of disappearances. These belong to two classes, those who actually deserted In France and those who have been reported as missing In action. Upriaing In 8ileala. Oppelyn, Silesia.—The entire popu lation of upper Silesia Is armed with rifles, revolvers and machine guns, and Js well supplied with ammuni tion,vchlch the entente military forces and the plebiscite police are hesitat ing to seize for fear of a general up rising. Ten Kilted by Gasoline Explosion. Memphis, T|pn.—Ten negroes dead, approximately a score Injured, some probably fatally, and property dam age estimated at $200,000, made up the known toll of an explosion of 8000 gallons of "casing head" gasoline waiting unloading from u tank car. 8eed Appropriation Voted. Washington.—The house voted on Monday to appropriate $360,000 for the free distribution of seeds by members of congress. This Is $120,000 more than was appropriated for the current flseal year. Europe's Debt to Increase. Washington.—Europe's debt to the United States will be increased to $20, 000-,000,000 by 1924, George F. Warren, professor of economics at Cornell unl tarlff revision al WILSON HOPES FOR PEACE FOR RUSSIA PRESIDENTIAL ACTION IN AID OF ARMENIA CONDITIONED ON TRUCE. League of Nations Informed Thai Powers Must Agree Not to Abet Attacks on Soviet if He is to Proceed With Overtures. Washington—A "public and solemn" engagement among the great power* not to violate, or to permit the viola tion of, the territorial integrity ol Russia 's regarded by President Wil son as the sine qua non of an attempt at the pacification of Armenia and other states bordering on the formel empire. His views are given in a note trans tnltted to Paul Hymans, president ol the league of nations assembly, by acting Secretary of State Davis, mad« public January 22. , The "distressful situation" of Ar menia, Invaded by both the Turkish nationalists and the soviets, is only one detail of the Russian problem, the president says, and he urges hl^ conviction that It is only by a genera) and comprehensive treatment of the problem, "only by full co-operation ol the principal powers," that a hopeful approach to the pacification and Inde pendence of Aitnenla can be found. The president says he has never believed that the problems raised by the bolshevik coup could be solved by outside military actions, and he expresses the hope that the tragical events on the Polish front and In the Crimea have convinced the world that armed invasion Is not the way to bring peace to Russia. Settlement Within. Mr. Wilson adds that these events have only strengthened his convictions that the Russian revolution must be developed to a satisfactory conclusion by the Russians, with such help as may be "voluntarily received." The problem, he says, is one of re lations between central Russian and surrounding smaller national groups. Bitter and mutual distrust, he states, Is the cause of the unrest and instabil ity along the border; the struggling new nationalities are afraid to disarm and return to peace, because they dis trust the bolshevik!, while the soviets contend they are afraid to demobilize, fearing new attacks. Time Propitioue. Mr. Wilson expresses the opinion that the present offers a "peculiarly pressing challenge" to an attempt at general pacification on the Russian borders along the lines of a clear dis tinction between offense and defeiise. "Smh an attempt seems to the presi dent <co be the only logical develop ment of the request to mediate in the Armenian conflict. * * * It is ob vious that these small, struggling bor der states will not attack great Rus sia unless encouraged by promise of support from the stronger powers," the note says. Would Fix Responsibility. The president suggests a "public and solemn" declaration among the powers to refrain from extending such aid, declaring that in this way responsibil ity for any new war on the Russian border would be "clearly placed." "If the principal powers represented on the council of the league," Mr. Wilson concludes, "find themselves In accord with the president, and wlf. as sure him of their moral and diplomatic support, he will instruct his personal representative' Mr. Morganthau, to proceed on hts mission." BORAH DEMAND8 ACTION. Objects to Root's Plan of Delay of World Plan of Disarmament. Washington.—A suggestion of Ellhu Root, former secretary of state, that a world conference on disarmament be delayed until after President-elect Harding is inaugurated, sharp statement Saturday night from Senator Borah, Idaho, pending resolution asking the presi dent to initiate negotiations looking to a reduction of naval building by the United States, Great Britain an«/ Japan. brought a author of a "Delay Is liarly adapt of disarmament," said the adding that he regretted "exceedingly that Mr. Root should throw his In fluence against the progress being made." one of the methods pecu ed to killing any progn | i senator. Lucy S»eks Another Job. Topeka, Kan.—The Kansas Anti* clgaret league has refused tfl pay Lucy Page Gaston, Its organizer, any salary, or to be responsible for bills Incurred In her campaign against the clgaret. Miss Gaston announced Sun day, adding thut she will go to Iowa to organize a league. more » Whisky Consumption Decrease. Washington.—Whisky consumption lu the United States decreased from 89,641,985 gallons in 1917 to 5,581,553 gallons iu 1920, the first year of pro hibition, according to figures nouneed by the anti-saloon league. Red Army in Russia. Berlin.—A semi-official statement Issued Sunday says evidence of the tic Istence of a red army, created by the German Communist party, has been revealed by searches In Essen, Due» j un ] NEW CHAMPION OF WRESTLERS . M * • > >vi < üm m M If! m : ij : m : ' : p: r : m i I.;-;.; £|; s 1 : i! : X& . : ■ J Ed "Strangler" Lewis, new heavyweight wrestling cnamplon of the world, demonstrating his punching headlock with which he wore down Joe Stecher and won the title in the bout at the seventy-first regiment armory. New York. MANAGERS OF TIGERS These are the men who, since the organization of the Ameri can league, have been chosen by the Detroit club to guide the des tinies of the Tigers : George Stallings, 1 900-1901. Frank Dwyer, 1002. Ed Barrows, 1903-1904. William Armour, 1905-1906. Hugh Jennings, 1907-1920. Tyrus Cobb, 1921. ASKS SHORT TRAINING TRIP Barrow of Yankees Suggests Three Weeks Sufficient to Get Players Into Condition. Business Manager Ed Barrow of the Yankees says three weeks /Is long enough for any team to train and he suggests that Manager Miller Huggins should not gather his players at Shreveport before mid-March. Huggins has an idea that a month won't be àny too long for him to get his bearings in, considering that he will have a good deal of new material to look over. IRWIN TO SUCCEED HOWLEY Veteran Manager la Signed to Pilot Hartford Team In Eastern League During 1921. The veteran Arthur Irwin landed hla baseball Job for 1921 when he met James H. Clarkln of the Hartford Eastern league club In New York. Clarkln signed Irwin as his team man ager to succeed Dan Howley, who hasn't decided as yet where he will go, though some of the knowing ones have been saying he will return to the De troit Tigers as coach of the pitchers. INTERESTING SPORT NOTES R, Keith Kane of Newport. R. I., was elected captain of the Harvard football team. * Rex D. Wray of Monmouth, 111., has been elected captain of the University of Pennsylvania football team. * The Galvest«m club announces that It has' acquired Pitcher Jack Harper from thq Akron Internationals. • * * Patsy Donovan will succeed "Wild Bill" Donovan as manager of the Jer sey City International league club. • * • A report that Gilmore Dobie, coach of the Cornell football team, will coach the University of West Virginia next season. Is denied by Cornell offi cials. • * * There Is no doubt that Ty Cobb Is now faster than ever before. Newspa per dispatches one day had him In New Orleans In the morning and In New York at night. Willie Smith, English style billiard champion, has challenged Melbourne Inman for a match of 16,000 points for $2*500 to $5,000 a side, to take pla<>e In Manchester, England. » Last summer Rahe Ruth fouled one «»IT *ln Indianapolis In an exhibition game and hit a fan In the mouth. Now the fan asks the Hooslers for $15,000 damages. Pretty high for a few teeth. * By joining the newly organized Ohio hosing hour«!, Akron expects to get Into the ring game with both feet. To ledo, Cincinnati, Columbus and other Buckeye cities have cast their lots with the state body. • • * Ty Cobb has chosen Dan Howley as the coach of the Tiger pitchers for next season. Howley was pitching coach during the 1919 season. Last year he was manager of the Hartford i-daiLnf-the Eastern 1« ie. MUCKS' LOSS WAS BIG BLOW Big Wisconsin Star Was Injured Just Before Commencement of Olympic Games at Antwerp. Take a look at this whale of a man. It Is a picture of Arlie Mucks, the great Wisconsin star who has startled the country with his weight and discus throwldg records. Of course he was selected to make the «trip to Antwerp and pull down a * I . \ J ■ by. ^£We«i>rn Newspaper Unit Arlie Mucks. few firsts for the Yankee team that finally emerged victorious from the contests. Just as certain he was a victim of injuries, and like many of the real stars of the team, was obliged to with draw even before It started on Its overseas journey. Many of the others were rendered unfit on the scene of action and before their great ability had opportunity to show and to make itself felt for the good of Uncle Sam. This applies to Jole Ray, Pat Mc Donald, Matt McGrath, Sol Butler, Walker Smith and to Miss Charlotte Boyle of the swimming team. After withdrawing and making re covery, Mucks tossed the discus a greater distance than any of the Ant werp contestants, even the winner, showing what he could have done had he been able to compete. 4 SPORT FOR GRID LUMINARIES Many Football Heroes Play Basket ball During Winter—Several Are Quite Proficient. With.the football season over, many stars will now turn their attention to basketball. Many of the gridiron luminaries are also extremely profi cient on the court. Dickerson and Legendre of the Princeton eleven are fine basketball players. So are Haines and Kllllnger of Penn State. Horween of Harvard. Harris of Columbia, and Anders oNi of Syracuse. Graves, Penn's star end. is one of the best centers in the game. Danny McNIcol is as good on the court ns he is on the gridiron. Browne of Dartmouth Is good In both sports and Crane of Yale is another who can play both games well. Stojfk of the Army, a g«Kid tackle. Is a «'apnble center. Rote and Wilson of Lehigh, both fine football performers, are strong hask«-t ball players, while Ewen, McKee and Walters of the Navy are helping out the basketball team. FOOTBALL UPKEEP IS URGE During 8«ason Just Closed It Cost Harvard $40447.81 to Develop Its Gridiron Team. It costs a lot to develop a football team. This item rang the Harvard cash register for $40,847.81 daring the year Just closed. This Includes the trip to the coast for the Oregon game. The Crimson athletic fund shows a deficit of $6,000 iLENINE FAILS TO DEMAND FOR THIRD INTERNA TIONALE CAUSES DECIDED SPLIT IN THE RANKS. Conditions Imposes by Russian a Little Too Radical for the Fol lowers of Socialists Doctrines in the United States. New York.-—Nicolai Lenine's Ulti matum to the socialists of the world, giving them the "21 conditions" to which they must subscribe before they con be received into the Third or Communist Internationale of Moscow, has met with a widespread, if In many cases negative, response. It Indicates a decided split In the ranks of the socialist party In many* countries, judging by reports from abroad. Lenlne demanded, among other things, that socialist organizations must purge themselves of all moder ates, defy all national laws, undermine armies, gain control of the press, throw off the allied "yoke," promote a world economic crisis, condemn any league of nations, aid the soviet gov ernment and abandon fbr the blood ànd fire of "red revolution" all conserva tive social democratic program«. The national executive committee of socialist party of America, in refusing to recommend affiliation, said: "We concede to the Russian comrades the right to formulate their own Internal policies without Interference from any other section of the working «lass movement of the world. What we concede to them we claim for Our selves. Every resolution adopted by our party implies pr claims this right for the American movement." t In France tne socialists split Into three factions. following convention at Tours on December 28, at which a mo tion by the Left Wing to join the Third Internationale without reservations received 3208 votes, winning bjsa Urge majority. The center and right groups oppose the elimination of conservative leaders. In England leaders of British labor party and trades union congress In appeal to socialist and communist par ties of world, urged efforts to constitute the Internationale on a p on sectional basis.". 're POURS KER08ENE ON FIR^. Six Lose Lives snd Home Destroyed ss Result. Washington Courthouse, Ohio.—Six members of the family of James Ad kins, fourteen tille» north of here, were burned to death Sunday when fire destroyed their home. Adkins was fatally burned. The fire followed the explosion of a coal stove into which Adkins poured kerosene onto hot coals in an effort to start-it quickly. Kentucky Night Riders Busy. - Lexington, Ky.—Night riders Satur day night visited farmers In Bath and Fleming counties and wanîed thenli not to haul any taore tobacco to market until prices were higher, "according to reports here. The reports said that the growers were told that their barns would be burned and that they would be dealt with severely unless they complied. Thousands Idle in Pittsburg, Pittsburg.—One hundred and eighty thousand men are ont of employment !n the Plttsblurg district, "workshop of the world," embracing western Penn sylvania, eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia, and the number Is in creasing almost daily, according to a survey of the Industrial situation Just completed here. The dally wage loss Is figured at $967,260. Japanese Premier Optimist!«^ Washington.—Negotiations between Japan and the United States fob ad justment of Issues arising frrtn anti alien land legislation by California were viewed as satisfactory and hope ful by Premier Hara aft Foreign Min ister Uchida in addresses Saturday at the reopening of the Japanese diet. Routs Burglar With Dishwater. Chelsea, Mass.—That a masked bur glar with an automatic pistol [is match with a woman with a panful of hot, soapy dishwater, was proved by Mrs. Elsie Waite. The intruder poked his head and pistol through kitchen doorway and demanded all the money In the house. He got hbout a gallon of boiling suds. the Home Brewers Reprieved. Washington.—Home brewers will not be disturbed for the present, «le spite recent government announcement that tney would be prosecuted vigor ously, Frank D. Richardson, prohibi tion 'Mrector, said Sunday. Two Negroes Lynched. Norlina, N. C.—Alfyed Williams and Plummer Bullock, two negroes, taken from the county jail at Wkrren ton by a masked mob early Sunday morning and shot to death, as a result of rare rioting Saturday. Moonshiners Kill Officers. Florence, Ala.—Don Stephenson, pro hibition enforcement officer, was kill ed, two other members of the force wer«- seriously wounded and three Missing its a result of * battle Hitae Jar with moonshiners. were 11 * BELIEFS ABOUT DOGS It Is bad luck to give a dog away. If a girl dislikes dogs, she will never get a good husband. 1 It Is bad luek to meet a barking dog early Jn the morning. If you step on a dog. there will en sue a change In your vocation. The lively barking of dogs in Lent la a sign of a wedding to which there la mncb objection. _ Another Interpretation of the dog howling heavenward Is that It foretells a great Are disaster. Another negro superstition Is that a little white dog Is supposed to be a messenger of coming evil. Did you know If you wish on seeing a spotted dog, and you do not see it again, yon will get your wish? If you meet a mastiff, and It makes friends with you, you will soon meet some one who will prove a fine friend. Naturally anything which has pro duced such splendid tributes In prose, in poetry, and In human devotion as a dog would have much folklore accumu lated around 1L In slavefy times the negroes thought that If they wanted to keep dogs from scenting their tracks, they should go to the graveyard, get some dirt out of a grave and rub the feet with It Everybody is familiar with the southern negro superstition about the dog baying at the moon being an omen of death, and if It howls twice and stops It Is for a man; If three times a woman. IT IS NEVER TOO LATE— To love Instead of resenting and hat ing. To apologize tf we have been in the wrong. To begin to smile If we have been frowning. To be honest If wç have been dis honest. To try to do the thing which runs in jur blood. To save If we have hitherto been spendthrifts. HaH*s Catarrh Medicine Those who are in a "run down" condi tion will notice that Catarrh bother» them much more than when they are to good health. This fact proves that while Catarrh is a local disease. It la greatly influenced by constitutional conditions. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE is a Tonic and Blood Purifier, and acts through (he blood upon the mucous surfaces of the body, thus reducing the Inflammation rnd restoring normal conditions. * All druggists Circulars free. F. J. Cheney Jk Co., Toledo. Ohl«. Unexpected Reply. "Woodman, spare that tree!" criert the poet. "All right. No more wood pulp, no more paper, no more poetry."—Louis ville Courier-Journal. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, that famous old remedjr for Infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature ofi In Use tor Over SO Years. 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