Wmmm 0K THE WEATHER Snow or rain, colder today; gener- ally fair tomorrow. Temperature yesterday-Max. 87. Mm. JO.
VT For weather report ace nest4o last page. "All the News- That's Fit to Print." VOL. 23,707. TVVH rPMTt; IaC.reater I THREE rr? jyOTR fgTT, 1VVU jfrwTork Wlthia Mil I jElncwhara NEW YORK. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1922.
DOLLAR PRINCESS HOMESICK, ARRIVES WITH HER PRINCE to See America' Again, Says Anastasia, Here for a Short Visit. UXES HER EX-KING BROTHER Denies Using Any of Leeds Millions to Help Constantino or for Qreek Politics. CHRISTOPHER TO TRAVEL Jsvenly to Bt Freed From Royal Ties, Ht Declares -Young Leeds and Bride After an absence of ten years Princess AnafUjUt, formerly Mrs. William B. I.vi., arrived, yesterday on the White Ob irplct accompanied by her band.
Trine Christopher of Greece. She looked little "changed except that is a trifle stouter than when she er.t.te Europe to live. The Prlr.ce. who is a tall, stout, youthful looking blond with a pleasant laugh, fi the first foreigner of consequence to arrive bera since the war who did not wear spats. They traveled, on separate passports because the Princess Anastasia ill return to Taris In January, she lid, while the Prince will remain In this country until the Spring and visit various points of Interest from coast to roast.
The passport carried by the Princess, which was Issued by the Foreign Office Athens, has the words not of royal blood written across It to avoid any, risk ef international complications. It The only regret she had was la ha, ing to give up her American cltl-snship, the Princess said. Princess Anastasia. who received the rwrters In the suite de luxe on the Crrr.rle. with her husband standing be-ide her.
was dressed In brown, with a rich table coat and toque. Her Jewelry corseted of two diamond rings of great brilliancy and a ruby ring of a deep, r.va Burmese pigeon -blood color. Jmpoahif Eqaerry. Prince Christopher wore a light check ilt and fur coat, a monocle, black high th-xt and a gy alpine hat with black aM. He was accompanied by an In waiting.
Robert Stucker. who wtj attired In light gray, peart spats, b'icfc shoes and gray fedora hat. He Is a man and wore a fur coat with an Immense- collar, which made his bulk t.w noticeable. JIU mustache Is fair, curled up at the ends, and he needed a whip to fill out the picture of a tTe that haa nearly passed away. Princess Anastasia said that she had esme from Parti to New Tork because physician had said she needed to Kinit her native air.
and not for anv political reasons, She had not been In Athens since late In the Spring, and the rtnee left the Greek capital In October. wrere the upheaval of the Government. said that she wished It to be clearly en-lerttood that she and her husband ere not royal exiles or refugees. Fhe CKpeued the story of the Dollar Princess by denying emphatically that Ingle dollar of the money of her late fcusband. the Tin plate King." ever had aflp-d the cause of her brother-in-law.
x-KJng ConsUntlne. to regain the t-rone. or for any other political party Oreece. Xone of the Leeds fortune has been to further Greek oolltlcs said Prlnceis Anastasia. "The only money I have given away In Greece was for toarfty to the needy.
There are l.poo.000 rTucees there of a population of 10. www. Apart from my natural sym-' Hthlea with the fortunes of the family Jtta which I married I have been en rr neutral In Greek politics. Con-wntine. who has abdicated, has not the I'ithtest wish to return to the throne.
I have bo ambition to reign in with, my husband and no execution our being invited to do so." Fsrtaae Tied la Tra.t (d. The Princess explained that the. Leeds fortune, variously estimated at from 1: 1 000,000 to (30.000.000. was tied up in a trust fund in the United States and tould not be removed to Europe for any Ktfpose whatever. 'ot even when her son.
William B. teeds becomes of age next Septem-the said, will this trust fund, or ny part It. be released, lit will ive a substantial portion of tlye In-tom and the principal will remain ln-t for his heirs. What about the sale of the Leeds uttfry bouse at Rough Point, near ''port, a few months ago. to Duke?" she was asked.
That was my own private property," fpUed the Trincess. and not a part the Leeds estate. Is'o fortune in nKrlca could undertake to further a ambition for a throne in Ku-fope." wat did you think the recent double in Athens and the arrest and ecutioh of the Minister?" knew intimately the Greek min-r who were put to death. Tou muttt al Hiiently with the Giveka. After rr under riobiliaation have than when thfy stnrted.
Every-Ui'y won has Doen taken from so you must not be hard upon Remember that lu pr cent, of laute Population of Grct.ce are les- you think that King Cons tan tine unfairly treated?" PP People have spoken." the tliv? r'P'id. and no one can qiifs-a their detiison. The people Ceatlaaed Pace F1t. Hreeelets are the leading Jewelry fcipi- of th on- K. M.
lisltie a Patrick's Cathedral art unusually attractive election of JJ vlu a.1 prices that ill appeal IS cnnui'tlng purchaser. Advt. New York Postal Receipts Highest With $83,479,614 WASHINGTON'. Dec Torlc led all States In postal receipts In the last fiscal year. Post Offices there taking- In $83,479,614.
This was announced by the Post Office Department today. Illinois was second and Pennsylvania third with 135.236.444 and respectively. Ohio was fourth with I27.Ott.108w Other totals ranged from $2,108 in Samoa to more than $21,000,000 in Missouri and California. GOVERNORS TAKE NEW DRY OATH Upshaw Calls on President, Cabinet, Lawmakers and Prosecutors to Follow Suit. AND SOCIETY LEADERS, TOO 'This Is No Time for puss*foot-Ing Utterances or Actions," Georgian Tells Congress.
fpfda: ro'Tae Aw Park Times. WASHINGTON. Dec, 20. A demand that never again should the Governors who recently met Vlth President Harding to discuss prohibition enforcement. Federal officials from the hltnoat to the lowest, as well as members vt Congreas and prosecuting aftornys.
drink any form or any amount of Il licit liquors at any function or in any ballroom or any baok alley, was made in the House of Representatives this afternoon by Representative W. D. Upshaw of Georgia, one of the most out-and-out dry In Congress. If these Governors who put their feet under the President's mahogany at the White House really wish to get any where In their conference for law en forcement." said Mr. Upshaw.
let (them remember what the beloved and Immortal Sam Jonea said If you want to reform the world begin on yourself. and then you will have one rascal out of the way. The plain people believe that many of these high officials believe in that autocracy which claims the privilege of buying snd drinking Illicit liquors thnra-selves, while denying that privilege to the poor devils among the masses. Calls far a New Oath. Let these Governors, led by the President and Vice President of the United States and all the members of the Cabinet, wslk out in the open and lift their hands before Hlh Heaven and take a new oath of allegiance to the whole Constitution and the American Hag.
Let them aacredly declare that, regardlesa of what their tastes and -i i mill n.niii"i vanoerveer. wno revived her. lter build UP a Dwueiirr iwroiruui kucin.si bv drinking any form or any amount of illicit Uquora at any r. at anv function in any ballroom or any back alley. Let member Congress and every United Slates follow suit.
Let every Stste snd Federal Juige and every prosecuting attorney In America atand tip like patriotic men and declare that they will never again ally trample the Constitution which they AK ami defend. let the Ifresiaeni they must say 'Come in an w. and effectiveness of consistent leader- less than this will make the conference Itself a farce and a acatidal. Timorous souls have never Inspired inybod This is no time for puss*footing utterances and actions on the part of our State and national Some of these Governora-most of them, let ua hope are men of personal sobriety andpoeitlve character and patriotism! and most' Congressmen and Senators. am glad to Wye practice the prohibition which their votes profess, but there are enough who do not to cast an ominous cloud on the Aefioial kv let us wipe that cloud w.v as a Christmaa society aud sobriety 1 Mere Tkis Blackerisa." And let these officials be followed by society leaders everywhere who have been counting it a smart thing to serve Illicit co*cktails to dinner guests, remembering that every such deed Is more than slack-rlsro In the presence of a common foe.
It Is a ihocklng case of trading with the "nenry -yea. of seeking, harboring and using stolen, goods. And no ather or mother, citlxen or public official, can do this thing and then blame anybody but themselves If their sons and daughters grow up to break their hearts In defying everv law of God and man. Representative Upshaw quoted Major Alvin Owsley as saying that so ion? as he was Commander of the American Legion he would never touch a drop of Intoxicants either in private or In Governor Parker of Louisiana Indicted the majority citizens of his State aa lawbreakers and liars by proclaiming that prohibition la a flit failure and that the Ku Klux Klan has overrun his State." declared Mr. tp-shaw.
adding: I'araphrasing the words of the Judge to the man who is going to be l.ung. May the Lord have mercy on his timorous soul! nrnr tixen. espVlallv every official, to total abstln-nce for the -common good. longer must these W-r-upa say a amH Slf BB It Of fllCll 1191) Eight Rail Union Leaders Are Convicted For Desert Tie-up of Santa Fe Trains MS.ANC.ELKf. Uec.
failroad men c'nvlcted today of con spiracy to interfere with interatate commerce will be arraigned for sentence in the Federal District Court here Tuesdsy. The 'maximum penalty which may be imposed is two yeara' Imprisonment ana 10.000 fine. Hie ueieiiu.i..-;;v .1 WaVSB aallfftarRfl I fl 1 1 a plotted to tie up traffic on the nta I ftailroad last Auguat by caus ng a alk-out of trainmen at other points. More v. thousand narsengera were ma- than a mouu rooned several oajs as n- -freight and msll were delayed.
The several days as the result and and msll were delayed. The nts ald the walkout wss Justi-aus- of defective equipment and icnce of armed guards at lerml- ald the waiacnu w- flel the pres-nc The Government contended thst the walkout was brought about to assist the railroad shopmen then on strike. I URMIA- P. M. snd :J.l'in,hi av lhni Sleopis.
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A4vt. JURY CONVICTS MOHR OF BRUNEN MURDER Life Imprisonment Is Recommended for Killing Jersey Circus Man. ACQUITTED WOMAN FAINTS Drops to Court Room Floor as She Attempts to Follow Brother to Jail. SENTENCE SET FOR JAN. 9 Final Testimony Identifies Car That Carried Powtll.
Hired Slayer, to "Honeit John's." Srei-iat The Xew York Times. MOUNT HOLLY. X. Dec. Jury In the Brunen murder trial at 6:20 o'clock tonight acquitted Mra.
Doris Mour Brunen and found her brother, Harry C. liohr. guilty of murder in the first degree for the killing her husband Honest John Brunen, circus owner. The Jury recommended life 1m- prtsonment at hard labor for Mohr. Mrs.
Brunen wept as the Jury was polled, and when Justice Kallsch announced that he, would sentence alohr on Jan. 9. she turned to him and aald: "Cheer up. Harry." Then Justice ordered her to rise and said Mrs. Bruren.
the Jury haa acquitted you of the murder of your husband, and you are discharged from Mra. Brunen fell back In her chair and the convicted man stooped over and MRS BRUNEN FREED kissed her. Three State troopers stood Mayor. Is published by Karl. B.
May-guard about Mohr while two court at- field. Democratic Senator-elect from Undents placed handcuffs on him pre-' Texss. but advices from Houston. paratory to taking him back to the! are that the parr owned and edited Burlington County Jail, ahere he and by Colonel Blille Msyfleld and not by his sister had been Imprisoned since the Senator-elect. last April.
A report had been in clrcu- The statement In th weekly that May-lativn that a pistol would be passed to Hylsn had ordered the police of New Mohr In the event of his conviction and Tork City to smxjt Klansmen was de-that he would attempt to shoot his may nted by the Mayor as. "wicked as well out of court. As the attendants started! as absurd." He also referred to the for the Jail with Mm Mohr called out: Good-bye. Doris." to his slater. Mrs.
rsiuL. i nn Mrs. Brunen announced. She started to follow Mehr. but had gone only a fw steps when she collapsed.
I Mra. Bessie Mohr. the convicted min'ii wire. and Assistant JToeecOtor rraco*ck raised the prostrate woman and placed I her In the chair she had occupied for ci.e rini uj oi in inai. Walter' C.
Keown. her lawyer, aM Mohr fanned Mra. Brunen aith: newspapers until the arrival of Dr. Wer-: n- ana gnri wire went IO me jail to en- ana onre wire went to the jail to talk with the prisoner until ha was locked up for the night. I The Jury was out two hours and fovtr-; five minutes, but had the evidence under discussion teas than an hour and a half, having previously gone to supper at the Washington House, a short distance from the Court House, where they had been locked up at night since the beginning of the trial.
The verdict In Mra. Brunen's rase was not a surprise, but there were many persons in the court ho thought Mohr either would be found guilty of the full offense charged in the Indictment, with death In the electric chair, or that he. too. would be acquitted. Justice Kallsch practically ordered the Jury to acquit Mrs.
Bremen and declared that there could be no middle course In the case of her brother. He declared that Mohr was guilty of murder In the first degree or he was Innocent. He added, however, thst the Jury' could recommend life Imprisonment though there Is no element of second degree murder in this case." To me the testimony against Doris l.runen seems very meager," the Court said. It cornea from Powell, the self-confessed murderer, and Hazel Brunen, her seventeen-year-old stepdaughter. They are the only two witnesses who lrrmllrated Mrs.
Brunen In the murder of her husband. i vr.j n-unen confessed that she and i. mot her were engaged In a law nuit over her father's property. Hu ought to lake Into account the Interest in this case and whether Haze! is or Is not Incensed at her stepmother because of this civil suit, whether It was not out of anger or revenge that she made these statements against her stepmother." Mehr Calm Over Terdlet. Mohr remained calm when the foreman of the Jury first announced the acquittal of hie sister and his conviction as the Instigator of Charles M.
Powell, who killed Brunen with a shotgun In the showman's home at Klverside. near here, on the evening of March 10 last. As each Juror announced guilty of murder In the first degree with the recommenda- C'eatiaeed aa Page Three. WASHINGTON'. IVc 20.
Attorney General Daugherty expressed gratification tonight upon the outcome of the trial In Loa Angelea of the trainmen who deserted their trains In the desert during the strike last Summer. It was his opinion, it was said, that the conviction of inr in.ii wno were tnirnwi wnn m-iug hi. run.nir.rv in in a V6 case was a vindication or the attitude of the Department of Justice In resorting to the injunction proceedings at Chicago. Mr. Daugherty aail he had given Instructions for the case to be proceeded with by the Government and had personally followed every step of the pro- I am never gratified at misfortune experienced by any man." he said.
but in the desertion of their trains by striking workers great suffering and crave hardships were Imposed upon helpless men, women and children." TK-erfoet farm Hsesagee served w-th rrMdl rsV-s make a ariirimi. ana tng breakfast. Order some today. Aflrt. Alarm Clock Set Too Early Costs Aged Man His Life Special to Ta Xetc Tork Time: CASSOPOLIS.
Dec mistake In eettlngfJm 'alarm clock, sending- him to a "Store two hours earlier than he Intended to call, cost the life of William Brown. 73 years old. who was shot by Reuben liar-ston, the watchman. The shooting took place aa4 A. M.
after Brown had tried the front and rear doors of the store. Marston feared that Brown was a member of a party of bandits, and fired a bullet Into the back of the aged man. The fact that Brown's alarm clock was art two hours earlier than the time he regularly rises Is thought proof that he fell a vUtln to having It set too early. HYLAN ASKS HARDING TO STOP KLAN PAPER' Declares Colonel Mayfield's Weekly Is Fostering Know-Nothingism. I ATTArK' I I HUrw RESENTS ITS I Brooklyn PaStOf Is Warned Harrison, N.
to Test Ku Kluxer's Sanity. Mayor llylan wrote to President Herding yesterday denouncing the propaganda of the Ku Kltix Klan and demanding that Colonel Vvf1 Weekly, which contained attacks on the Mayor for combating the Klsn. be suppressed if ex- amlnatlon of Its files bore out the sp- parent motive of racial and rellgloui hatred. The weekly, according to the rharre thst was a Knights of Co-1 lumbus Slavor." and said that, although It was true that he wss a Catholic, as i bis father had bocn. he had tried also te i t-A vt Kin hU MethojUt situation brought sbout bv Klsn! propaganda had passed the bounds of temDorlalrg.
stld the Msjor. aho re-! the rresUWt that negroes. Jeae rnlht tv.M. ivoieaiant. th Arn lh Klammvn'a i claim to "100 per cent.
Americanism." i nn Amerlrmn wouM h1, tt(r behind a dirty rag. skulk th. tlark ban-! i. racU, rtllglyKlt groups." A proteH ag.lnst method, of the Klan was sent to the Mayor yesterday by the Itev. Ir.
W.IIa.V Callup. pastor of the Ureene Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, who receivrd a iett-r from the Klan yesterJsy asining him to de sist from criticism of the Klan such as he had voiced in a ernon two weeks ago. Tr. Gallup asked the Mayor to forward the letter to the poll' with a request that an attempt be made to learn a ho s-nt It and to punish the writer. He also announced that ne I would again preach against the Klan on Sunday.
The letter from Mayor 11 lan to Presi- dnt Harding follows: CITY Olr' VUItK. "OFF1CB UK THK'MAYOK. tcc. IV. 1922, Hon.
Warren G. Harding. President of the United States. Washington. I.
C. My dear Mr. President: herewith ropy of the Iec, Colonel Msyfleld'a Weekly. The pub- fmrl we ran obtain the deslrej re-llshr of this n-spsper Is l-Uiin B. I suits by aithholdlng our commendation May field, the I -mocratlc Senator-elect front films do not approve.
In the State of Tezas. who has a knowi-j with a membership of more than edged his connection with the Ku Klux; 2.000.000, the majority of whom are Klan. There Is a blatant display of race hatred and rrllgious prejudice In tills newspaper and considerable misstatement. As an example of the latter. Mi.
Ma) field alleges In his newspaper tfgat 1 have Issued orders to the police to i x-1 Ktih a aecusmtin Is loth wilfully wicked as well as absurd. A Klensman guilty of murder or other. crime will given the same fair trial as Is afforded to any other law-breaker, including highwaymen who. with masked; faces set out to take life and Justice is guaranteed to and It Is a safe- a no sane man in or out of to break official llr would attempt Heaer. Right, ef AIL Mr.
Muriel la newspaper a so re fees to me as a Knights of eolumbua Such a statement of the narrow minded bigot who ready to cr' wolf when II i hi. purpose, la true I am a religion 1 I. of my iatn-r bc -v i knowledge that many of the tlilngaj which I have been able to do. wunout on? iota of discrimination. In the office of Mayor of the City of New York for the betterment of the varied elements of our large cosmopolitan population have been Inspired by the teachings of a rood.
ol'i-faf hloned. broad-minded i M.t k.l.t e.ith win. i timtnpr oi 1 1 ch-trity lor all ami mauce towaru none. I heartily subscribe to the popular conception of constitutional government which protects the legal right of alt to worship God according to the dictate, of conscience. You will notice that.
In addition to shameless misrepresenlstlon. the inclosed newspaper Is filled with polltk-al advertising. The whole tenor of tills sheet suggests strongly that there has been a rebirth of the Order of United Centlnaed ea Page HI. AFTER A nr tVT MRst. TltrREH NOTW- t.ci Use KK1.I.-At fur Indisealloe AdV HAYS SANCTIONS iRRIimRRRTRN I.llUUUlaaJLf IIU1U1U CAUSES PROTESTS Comedian Will Have Chance to Come Back and Make Good if He Can." CONDUCT NOW 'EXEMPLARY' Los Angeles Clubwomen Assert They Will Do Everything Possible to Bar Him.
HOSTILITY IN TWO CITIES Indianapolis and Detroit Mayors to Oppose Picture No Action li Planned Here. If, ivcnri j'ai -11 nnrn. Arburkle. motion picture comedisn, bas a job In the pictures and he may work; at It. Whether he comes back to the I rmim I I I I via mvuvicu J.
ilVJ UI.VI1 UP to Arbuckle and tp the American peop'e. Thst Is the glut of a aerie of statements given'out here today by American view here la tnat it would liajs. chief of the motion picture In- dustry; Jesse I. Lstky of the company that formerly dlstribated the Arbuckle comedies. Joseph hen.
k. the producer who will employ Arbuckle, and the comedian himself. Mr. Hsys last April requested the producers to withdraw the films and to no more of them. He took that action after Arbuckle had been thrice tried en a charge of manslaughter arising from the death In San Francisco of Miss Virginia Ksppe.
an actress. Sine then Arbuckle has lived quietly, taking an occasional trip away but beeping out of the public eye. Mr. Hays announced today he saw no reason why Arbuckle should not be per-n itted to go back to work if he wUhed to do so. Mr.
Hays said Arbuckle had ben tried and acquitted: that he believed every man was entitled to a chance to redeem himself and that he did nt lh to stsrd In Arbuckle's way made It plain that he neither spon aored Arbuckle's future nor his 1ms, kilt that tSaa m. a. a I ar- asv UUI till 1 11 Iffk trim so the actor could work out nis oan ruture. unhamnereH hv anv re.trtetione from within the Industry, Arbuckle decyned to commenl on the conditions other than to say he artspt the chsnce and try to Im- Pe It. Neither would his employer.
Mr. Schenck. comment on their nlans. Th" n'-v definite announcement In the matter omer than that or Mr. Hl)ii came from Mr.
Iaskr. who said hit I rimi had no Intention of putting xlt Arbuckle films on the msrket row. rreleel by Wesaea'e Make. After Mr. ruling on ArbiM became public the ixm Angeles District of Woman's Club, met and a adopted a motion endorslnr a previous t.ken shortly after the an arrest In Sen Kramisro for the death of Miss Bappe, ln opposing his return to motion pictures.
The new motion contained the phrase "and. as clubwomen, we alll do sll In our power to prevent It." Mrs. J. C. Urquhsrt.
President of the board, declared "I am certain the women will prove themselves consistent In this matter, Having taken the anion we did fnm a desire to elevate and purify the film, we cannot recede from our position. There Is no animosity on our psrt towsrd Mr. Arbuckle. but. desplM the fact that he was acquitted oa the charge of causing the death of Miss Ksppe, the testimony at his trlsl of such a character aa to bar him forever from appearing before a decent, self-I send you i respecting public.
0 Issue of! It Is not our nollrv to aeknrlhni fit rat at mothers. I do not think any film which we do not conintend will succeed. And I can truthfully aay the club women of this country will not commend any Arbuckle films." Official teniae ef Case. The statement of the case, as given th headquarter, or Mr. Ma- Koscoe Arbuckle Is to have another hance to go to work and make good After the first of the year, will be given thla new opportunity.
trslght since he was barred from the fllma last April and he ha. pledged hi. word that he will I kP on going straight. conduct hss satlafied Will H. Hays, adviser to Picture Industry; Joseph M.
1 Schenck, who will employ him, and the by Jiw concrrn fornM.rlv dUlrbMw, thf whlch tne full.maker rnm. to hJ chinct to make good. It is apparent that Rescue Arbuckle's conduct since tils trouble merits thst chance. So far aa I am concerned, there will bo no suggestion now that he should not have his op portunity to go back to work in his profejslon. in our effort, to develop complete iu n.1 f.nt'i.
nns avff I Ti Industry! hope we can start the New Year with no yesterdays. Live and let! live is not enough; we will try to live a It known that certain definite ftood that the features figured In the action thst will (their case wlU allow ArbGckle another opportunity ao sudd Mrst. pVrhaps. was the fact that he rttrS til: conduct since ne was oarrea rroni the screen last Apni apparency is men lAninlarv. Then.
too. the action was taken In the spirit of Christmas, and It was be- Coatlaaed aa Page Fear. WniCN YtU THINK OF Think ef -Whlllns- AUvt WRITING AMERICA ASKED TO FIX REPARATIONS; (1 ENGLAND SAID TO HAVE HUGHES AWAITING FRANCE'S Britain Indicates She May Ask Us To Modify Terms of Debt Payment Hy Wireless to Thi LONDON'. Dec. 20.
Aa the day for the departure of the British financial mission to America draws nesr. It Is realised In American circles here that it involves the united states far i more man a mere decision or ai wnai and in what way It la to receive a 'large amount of money. Five billion dollars are eventually to be transferred from one country to another. a transaction such as has never taken place before. It must haVe an Important effect on the exchanges, and.
through the exchanges, on Anglo-Amertcan commerce, and it is of as much Importance "to America aa to Great Britain that it should be carried out in such a way as to effect as little disturbance as possible. Consequently. It Is expected nere that Stanley Baldwin. Chancellor of the Ex- 'chequer, and al. I'.
Norman. Governor of the Bar.k of England, will be pr to d.scuss the transaction th xmertesn Commission from the wld- eat point of view. ft I realized that the conference is limited by act of Congress, and that the American Commission haa no authority to ask anything lean than 44 rant Interest and in i. Miv.ft.. Kni the ame time be a mistake to consider such terms as unalterable.
It would be absurd. It is argued, for men of the calibre of the American and British Commissioners to hold a solemn meeting if all they could do was to I perform a calculation which any name I elerk could manage successful! and It would he a grave miaiaxe to onng such capable financiers together with- 1 BIG FORTUNE LOST IN POKER SWINDLE Arrests Uncover Card Scandal Involving Several Hundred Thousand Dollars. WILL ROUND UP GAMBLERS Police Act on the Complaint of White Plains Man Against "Square Guys. New Tork Is on the eve of a gigantic poker scandal In which one man is ssWI to have lost several hundred thousand dollars, according to of two lu nil tHf sail -i a kw iiicii vu aitaj LI "2 ccordlng to detectives who served bits nts on the t'o men. they are armed with a sheaf of warrants for others, and when their roundup Is completed some of the most notorious gamblers who have flourished here for many years will be under arrest.
i The arrests yesterday grew out of conference at Tollce Headquarters at which Commissioner Enright and Chief Inspector William J. La hey are said to have displayed great Interest and to havi assumed active direction of a crusade designed to get every well-known gambler In town off the street, and to punish all who can be shown to have been concerned In the poker parties In which the fortune is said to have been lost. I In advance of completing their arrests, the police were reticent to such a degree regarding the case that only a bare outline of It could be obtained. It was lesrned thst the complainant was Ohsrles K. Meyer of White Plains.
Mr. Meyer Is understood to have played for high stakes In a aerie, of grmes In mid-Manhattan at which his partners are aald to have been men famed as square guys." always ready to risk their thoussmls against those of any plunger who cared to try his luck. Mystery "-breads Lee'atlea. The precise location of the rooms In which the games are said to have been played with Meyer aa a steady loser ha. not been disclosed, beyond the fsct that one of them is aald to have occurred In Forty-fourth Street, only a stone's throw off Broadway.
Only one date of the series ha. been revealed Oct. In. Whether Meyer complained Immediately after that and the Interval haa been occupied by lnveatL-atlon. or whether he kept on In vain hope that his luck would turn, only to resort finally to the police, also was a secret closely guarded.
Once Meyer had told his etory to the hi sliest officers at headquarters Detec tives lAona and Furlong of Inspector Lahey's personal staff were assigned to the task of rounding up the men. The two arrested yesterday have not figured In the news hitherto as gamblers, but one detective said the Identities of those still sought would startle persons who have followed the careers of men who live by gamea of chance. An effort w.s made to learn Just how soon the remaining warrants would be served and to find out if any of those "ought had left the Jurisdiction of New York courts. While neither question was definitely. It was iincior- the police had worked up with such secrecy and uddenly that none would The lrt -rre st yesterday i tLa enterinr his home at I1 sir hv Detectives John Furlona ami Thomaa J.
Lyons. a ii vig.nii Reardon just returned from Ceatlae'ed aa rage Why not PINEHt R.HT for your holidays Geod-fclloh p. All Ad. I. New Tosk out giving them an opportunity to express freely their views on the ultimate effects of the congressional scheme for debt redemption, and of suggesting such amendments aa they might agree upon.
So it Is hoped that the Administration would be willing to recommend to Con-gress any proposal emanating from the commission as long aa It conserves American Interests. When Ambassador Harvey sails on Saturday be will be accompanied by Major Solbert. Military Attache, and Chandler Cobb. Assistant Commercial Attach, so that he will be in. the position to -make a full report on every aspect "of the European situation.
He bas been collecting for some time the views of men of all political parties and many different walks of life, and is fully prepared to answer any questions thst' President HarcUng cr Secretary Hughes may put to him on the state of opinion here. As far as the BrltUh debt Is concerned he will be able to report. Thi York Tmcs correspondent learns, that there is not the slightest on the part of the British Government to dodge or postpone its payments. Cooyrleht, by The Chlcare Tribune Co. LONDON.
Dec. 20. Stanley Baldwin. Chancellor of the Exchequer, who will head the Brftlh Funding Mission to America. Is likely to suggest some changes In the present plan.
It is felt here that In the present state of the money market the rate is too high and cn.ii migm oe better ror both coun- ines ir m-s term or payment was ex tended. ON STRAITS CONTROL Turks Accept Allied Proposals With Only Two Reservations of Minor Character. MR. CHILD ENTERED PROTEST Sent a Note to All Lausanne Delegations, Objecting to Inter- i national Control Commision. By EDWIN JAMES.
CopsrlfbU 1ISJ. ry Ts New Tors Tlstej Ceerpany. Special Cable to Tub Navr Yosk Tiues. LACSAXXE. Dec.
20 American sideline diplomacy has created at Lausanne a situation of no little seriousness. Before the united front of the Allies th Turkish delegation this afternoon hc-cepted the allied plan for the freedom of the Straits, less than twenty-four lours after every delegation had received from Ambassador Child a noto saying that the American Government disapproved the setting up of an inter-nationaf Straits commission, which forms the baris of the allied plan, founded on the assumption that Tjrkey herself cannot be trusted with Uie Straits. While Mr. Child's note, reachlny the a fern- hours after Lord Cur- zon. speaking for the Al'lts, had notified the Turks that they must accept ths allied plan -as drafted or leave it.
was interpreted as an clevcntli-hour sensation, Mr. Child informs me that he sent It to the eecretariat of the conference on Monday for distribution. But that 1 issue may be called unimportant, since the Ambassador haa frequently told the other diplomats that the Washington Government did not approve the project of having a commission of incidentally, this commission will function under the League of Nations. Amerleaa Point ef View Igaored. The Important fact Is that the Allies In framing a Straits plan which America In advance declared anj would not' sign at have labored the American point of view.
attitude tonight would appear to be that as America is not taking part in making the Straits free, the Allies are obliged to do it in the maniicrr they deem best. What Is-the American position now? The allied plan provides that by ratifying the treaty America will obtain membership on the Straits Commission. But It appears that Washington will not accept the allied plan. When America seeks to make her own convention with Turkey, dcalfhg with the Straits and other will 'she not find the Turs bound by their signing of the asrecment that the Straits Commission shall the passage of ships through the Straits In accordance with the rules laid down in the allied plan, which limit, the number of 'warships which may go through In time of peace, whereas the American position has been, as expressed by Mr. Child," that there should be freedom without mention of limita tions? Would England permit Turkey to give the United States a more favorable position in the Straits than she has.
or would the Cnlted States accept a less favorable position than England? These are aomc of t.ic questions- to which Mr. Child's action is Riving rise. In American quarters one gains the impression that the American dc-legates mould have been better pleased If they had been aaked to put forward their own Straits plan in other words, if thev nad been virtually asked to arbitrate the Issue. But it is evident that England no more wished American arbitration of the Straits Iseue than France wishes American arbitratidh of the reparations Issue, or than. America would welcome foreign arbitration of differences she mlicht have with Mexico.
It Is America's aid which la sought, not her dictation. Since Kurope owes the United Statca teatinaed ea Page Twe. ACCORD REACHED CONSENTED, ANSWER i MNGTONIS NEGOTIATiliG 4 i Body of American Busi- ness Men to Be Sent to Germany 1 CUNO MADE THE- APPEAL Secretary Hoover Wanted by the Germans as Head of the Investigating PROMPT WORK BY- HUGHES Negotiations Thus Far Cucc: ful. Requiring Only'Franc i Assent to Co Through. LONDON, Dec.
20- (Associated United the request of a trade commission headed by Wilhelm Cuno, the German Chan- i eel lor, has begun negotiations with 1 France anoT Englarid looking to th appointment of a body bf American business men for the fixing: of a new? jj basis for the payment ofj war repara- i tions, was understood tc-day. In semi-official quarters "it was said that England's consent to such a plan had been cabled Secretary Hughes today, and that the Amer- ican SUte Department at ton expected an earijr reply trora 1 France. proposal Understood to have reached Secretary Hughe's through the Vnited States Chamber of Com-f mcrce, which body wis asked If 1 Chancellor Cnno and his? associate! 1 3 1 appoint a headed by Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com- mcrce, which would visit Germany and make an impartial survey of I th? country's financial cconomie position, The American Commission was to be empowered to determine what amount of reparations Germany could pay, and upon, tht basis of its report a new reparations treaty i would be drawn, whfch Germany would agree to fulfill! if the plan 1 were approved by itngland" and France. Trie United States iChamber of Commerce complied witjt the request of the German Chancellor to the ex- 1 tent of asking Mr. Hoover to tak 1 the question up with President Hard- ing's Cabinet, which he did, with tha I result that the matter was placed iaij the hands of Secretary The negotiations between Mr.
Hughes and the English and French Governments followed, with the ob- i ject, in view of obtaininz their con-; sent to abide by thei reparations sum fixed by the American commis-s; sion as within Germany's ability toj pay. Officials in London: refused to jj comment on the subject tonight N. H. DAVIS BACKS WILSON. I 2 Reparations Muddle Exists Becausoij We Didn't Ratify Treaty, He Says.
i Aorman H. Davla, one jf the repreaen-; tatlves of the United States on the Rep-f a ration Commission at ic Peace Con- ference, was asked yesterday to com- inciii ua me statement of John Dulles who. In an address before the: council on Foreign Relations Tuesday -ci-icia reel mat Wpodrow Wilson; was largely to blame fof the failure of the allies to aettle'the German repara-fj tlons question. Mr. Davis maintained-that It was not fair to Mr.
Wil-i! son for the repare.t'ors muddle and aaldti The m.nutes read by Mr. Dullea-cf Jj meetlns in which President Wilson an-ij nounced his decision bout penslona! were not official minutes, but a record afterward, fnade by Mr4' Dulles -himself of a private conference! between president WJIsoij and" tha Amer 1 an members of the mission, including Mr Julles. who waa' legal adviser- to the In the first piace. this question or, reps rat ions was a product of. the war" and noi- of th peace treatyj It not possible ln Jsslloe to blame? Wilson for the reparations more than that of bringing on tne The peace atte.r.pted toi1 solve problems and compose dJfi icultlea-whk-h gi-ew out of the war.
ana to pr vid machinery whereby lu the future conflicting ambitions ott be curbed or protect ed? without resort to arms. 1 ji i WUioa Ceaeeated ta Fea.loas. It Is true that President Wilton con-i: sented to the Inclusions of pensions id; the bill for but the control 4 ling reasons which led lilm to do were, as brought out In discussions at the time, substantially follow: ii "The Allies had contended stronglj for charging Germany iwith the. -ntir4: direct costs of -the war say Sl50.00i.-i Otsl.lHN. The United Stsfe.
positively r- fused to acquiesce In this. Mr. i.
