Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - December 22, 1921, Washington, District Of Columbia Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the nse for republication ot all news dis- patches credited to It or not otherwise credited in paper and also the local news published herein The Washington Post Is a member of the Associated the complete ices of the world's greatest and colder tomorrow with rising probably 51; 23. NO. DAILY AND SUNDAY ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER D. HOPES HIGH FOR EARLY ACCORD DESPITE HAL T IN ARMS DENY DEADLOCK ON SHANTUNG 22, 1921. Delegates Look for Quick Agreement on FRENCH CLAIM UP Adjustment of Auxiliary Craft Presents Little TREATY VIEWS STIR ENVOYS Four Power Pacific Pact Covers Japanese Homeland in America's Official State Department Asserts Senator Reed Attacks Agreement and the President's Interpretation in Senate Sub- marine Issue May Be Laid Before Full Naval Committee the Associated 'The formal negotiations of the arms conference at a standstill groups of delegates personal consultations appeared to strengthen the general confidence in an early tion of all the points remaining at f With definite capital ship ratios agreed upon fcy all five of the cipal there was revealed a feeling that limitation of auxiliary craft was largely a minor question of In the settlement of the individual desires of the various could be generally The view was expressed that the real business of the conference had been accomplished in the of first line since it is that class of war vessels which constitutes the major element of naval aggression and which at the same time entails the great bulk of public Is France is to present estimates for auxiliary vessels at ing of the naval and though she is to ask for a America's Reply to French Naval Note Reaches Briand Harvey Delivers Prompt Pre- mier Resents of to See Ambassador Again By 3VORMAN W. Cable Dec. vey tonight presented Premier Briand with Secretary reply to the French premier's in which France informed the American of that she be un- able to recede on auxiliary ships as she had on capital An answer was promised by M. Briand at an- other conference he is to have Ambassador Harvey tomorrow at II In the meanwhile M. Briand and councillors have been using the phone to conferring with naval ex- perts Col. Harvey when he Briand's suite at the to say what he had presented but a half hour later the latter said the American Ambassador had come to present thanks for France's of her capital ship eald about auxiliary he was Premier Snows They are still In the Naturally they were the French premier re- It is evident that the criticism which his country's recent position baa caused has made some for M. Briand then launched Into a torrent of French In which he de- manded to know how it was possible for a conference to be carried on when every time one of the parties expressed a perfectly natural demand It was to be the object of un- deserved criticism on every It was apparent also that Secretary pre- sented forcibly to him by the diate answer to his note of Monday had the agile French off his He does not seem to relish tne position he now is In with Premier Lloyd George ing him on one side Secretary Hughes demands an answer on the Tour correspondent understands that American government has again reminded France that it is essary to 'the success of the ington conference that no undue de- mands be on behalf of any tion that will disrupt the possibility of success for all It Is believed to contain the open tion that no extreme views can be entertained and in this sense is just as much an answer the British position of no submarines as the French claims for 1921, by the Ledger ITS GIRL PICTURES STIR COLLEGE DEAN Magazine Suppressed by PreC COMPLAINS THE and cruiser strength out in Pen of proportion to capital ship ratio Draws Inquiry Ordered 300 Copies Escape fixed for no one appears to re- gard the prospect of adjusting her i as a difficult It is not understood to he regarded as i ial by conference leaders that the ship ratios be applied rigidly j of When a monthly magazine published by the students of came off the Howard L. VICTIMS GET persons Checks for 10 Per Cent of ments Mailed for Dec. 21. More than money with Jaist year his SKI percent 45 will receive per cent of their original investment in time tot The trustees appointed after postal scheme collapsed and he was sent to jail for five years mailed checks for to the in- This Is the first dividend ed by the who said others would follow as soon as legal ties surrounding the collection of sets were cleared The largest check mailed was for and the smallest for 29 down the line through the various lasses of smaller Deny Shantung I n the Shantung he day's Informal conferences oped new indications of a. trend The who ire waiting for further Instructions irom Tokyo regarding the terms of from the expressed tbe opinion hat the temporary halt In formal ex- with the Chinese did not a serious i r expressions came from other although the Chinese seemed to fear that the discussions encountered a serious In the Interim between formal of the various divisions of i e conference the delegates of all e powers continued an animated among themselves the question of interpreting the rw four-power Pacific Differences Are The difference in view revealed be- President Harding and iers of the American re- to the application of the eaty to the principal Islands of the furnished the chief topic of personal conversation among many of the foreign plenipotentiaries privately expressed themselves as unable to understand how such a situation had No further explanation was coming from the House or from members of the American group in the but it was declared in State Department circles that existed no question of the at- of the American The interpretation of the American it was holding that the treaty does apply to the major Islands stood as the cial American Reed Launches The treaty's opponents in the Senate took advantage of the lull In developments to launch another attack centered about Tuesday's White House Senator Reed declared in a Senate speech that the difference of view between the dent and the American aries new proof tnat the had been drafted as to The whole he be- trayed a policy of and cloaked behind a curtain of At today's meeting of the full naval committee there may also be a pre- of Great Britain's plea for MOORS LOSE THREE TOWNS took one look at the cover de- scanned a few of the Jokes and decided forthwith that the number should be The dean ex- his drastic action he tone of the magazine is not of the character that the uni- versity will There la some very objectionable matter in the De- cember I have started a ough Although the dean lost little time way Moroccans In promulgating his suppression there had been only 20 Spaniards Capture Mountain Gun in Drive Toward Dec. 21 the Associated The Spaniards fighting against the Moors in Morocco have occupied the towns of and along the the business managed to department of sell 300 says an official com- issued this of the paper before It heard of the j the Spaniards has Immediately after the order established at had been Issued copies became scarce i Tne bodies of a Moors were and the demand rose even rumored that as high as additional were A had been offered for a Flapper Stirs It Is understood that kins took particular objections to the front which depicts -a bobbed of hair and bare of The dean is also said to bave held that a pen drawing of a young an entitled was not at for Following are a few of the lines appearing in the suppressed don't necessarily make the but they reveal the yourself too often and you are liable to get girls don't wear fraternity pins any There's nothing to pin them Squibs Are Mere is a squib which the dean is said to have you a book called Every Girl Knows? we wouldn't be lowed to sell such a but we have one entitled Every Girl Should Other it Is met even greater TOO MUCH BABE Suspect Resembling Batsman Arv rested on Burglary New Dec. fact that he looks more or less like famous Yankee led to the arrest today of Raymond wanted in connection with 21 committed in Brooklyn within the last six Mrs. Lillian a baseball who was the victim of one orf the the police to look for Ruth's They did mod arrested him today on He is alleged to have confessed ting all the crimes tain gun was captured from the KINDNESS WINS Money Is to Chicago Tailor by Edward de Dec. small favor done several years ago for Ernest de professor and business by Archibald a Chicago repaid today when Mr. de will was leaving more than half his estate to the TRAPPED WHALE ELUDES LONG ISLAND HUNTERS Two Boatloads of Veteran men to Renew Chase at Southampton N. Dec. 21. the Associated boatloads of veteran seamen made an unsuccessful attempt today to a monster whale that strayed close to shore and apparently behind Southampton's outer They up hunt at but announced their intention to carry on The by coast guard observers yesterday off two miles east of Today hundreds of persons gathered on the beach hoping to Bight the mal. A party of Capt. Everett whose father was a famous speer set out from in an old time whaler and a power boat and maneuvered tor several They sighted the whale three but were unable to get close enough to use the harpoon a modern Premiers in London Agree on Meeting in PLEDGE SECRECY ON AGENDA London Hears Bussia ant America May Ee Council of Ambassadors to Meet in Paris Shortly to Prepare for Ses sions of Supreme Body at Cannes on French Say Progress Has Been Made to Talks With Harvey the Dec. of the allied supreme thi time at on the French riviera Is the outcome of the parleys between Prime Minister Lloyd George an Premier Briand of France during the past It will be preceded by a meeting of. the council of am within a few days at for arranging the details of th. Cannes which Is for early in A pledge to secrecy was entered Into between the two premiers their London conversations but the supreme council evidently has been called either to revise th reparations provisions of the of Versailles or to th advisability of calling a still larger international conference with a to dealing with the question of international finances and ex- which is linked up with the Question of Russian Report That such a conference is In con temptation and will possibly include Russia and if not the United seems to be shown by the fac that the commission intrusted with the examination into the Russian situation has drafted a report which is now under consideration by the French and British The meeting today between M Briand and George the ican is believed to have concerned mainly with nava Its occurrence at the ent the cause tp connected with the entente powers States reparations and It Is said that Premier Lloyd George purposes for Cannes the mid- dle of next week so as to secure a few days of rest of tie supreme Night Meeting The decision to convene was arrived at ah Interview of the two premiers Downing street This meeting occupied barely an Afterward it was announced that no decision could be taken without consulting the other allies and although the progress of the conversations had been no actual ment had been reached regarding the nature ot the report to be presented to the supreme It was added that both sides had recognized that it would be a of time to continue the discussions in the absence of the other It appears that the reports of the experts presented at the meeting this evening revealed greater differences than had been Indicated by an mistic statement made by M. Briand to the newspaper Brland Gives M. Briand this evening made the announcement to the newspaper men that the council of ambassadors would meet In Paris and that It would take up the question of German tions as an outcome of the present conversations between Mr. Lloyd George and M. Briand added that real progress had been made In Several points had been smoothed out complete cor- and was very much George the American was a caller at M. Briand's hotel this He remained for half an with the French Mr. Harvey declined to an- swer queries regarding the object of his but M. Briand afterwards said tbat the American Ambassador had paid him a purely formal call to thank him in behalf of Secretary Hughes for hia letter tal Refuses .to Talk M. Briand declined to be drawn into a. discussion of the subject of naval He dismissed such inquiries by saying tbat the question still and IB not the ton Tbe French premier previously had discussed the question of reparations with Baron the Belgian wbo visited him to press the prior claims o-f the Belgians and presumably received assurances that would be- decided without the representatives of Belgium con- In this connection M. Briand again reminded the newspaper men that nothing could definitely be purely between 1921. BT WASHINGTON CO. Harding and Dawes Meeting for Every 6 NEXT ONE TO BE IN President Will Efficiency Business Heads of the Department to Report on Conditions in Them Punishment by fop Thos WHo Incor to Be En Confident cal Methods Will Show Earnings By HARRY IT. 1921. by The Washington Post Co. President Harding and his directo of the Gen. Charles G mean to make the business organization of the in lated by the present administration not only a but a per manent The Presides and Gen. Dawas are determined tha all of the executive departments shal be operated on a business basis to th end that there shall be not alone th greatest possible but the greatest It was announced yesterday by executive promulgated by the budget director at the direction of th that the second genera meeting af the business organization will be held the latter part of Jan the date to be fixed and that hereafter these meetings shal take place every six Mr Harding preside at this meeting to Retire July 1. Gen. Dawes retire from the head of the budget bureau on July 1 but he intends that the business which he has established shall be in such working shape tha it will be just like any other big ness even though it is the biggest business corporation in the and will be able to tion no matter who may be at its It was made known in al probability Gen. Herbert M. head of the finance department of the War will succeed Gen At January meeting the ness depart departments with changes the under the new Though the boards have been in scarcely more than four months Gen. Dawes is that the new business organization will show remarkable results and beyond contradiction the im- mense saving to be had through tical business methods in to Outline The President's immediate purpose ia calling the it was an- is personally to give tions in connection with his policy of effecting economy in expenditures consistent He also will outline the methods which he desires followed in connection with a statute passed February 27-, relative to deficiency estimates and which be if It Is thought to enforce economy in tne departments as well as strict com- with the laws governing ex- Gen. Dawes will present the results of the operations of the coordinating established by the President for the unification and coordination of the routine business of government for the first six months of this fiscal At the same time it will be to submit a fairly accurate comparison of the business of the government with relation to estimated and actual This comparison will Gen. Dawes is that it is possible o run the government's business In he same economical and efficient manner as the business of any vate and strate to Congress the efficacy of the budget Penalized Law Gen. yesterday called ion to an act passed in 1906 which makes it Sa penal often 3e for aay executive to expend ON ADMIRAL SHOT BY FORMER SOLDIERS Two Others Also Wounded as Trio Use Guns in Athens Pension Dec. 21 the Associated discharged Greek soldiers today shot up the ions wounding Admiral former One of tile stenographers and a secretary ere wound of Admiral is not believed to be The a committee if men discharged from the the that they were receiving ance collected among Greek of the United States or purpose relief Tne men ately fired on a bullet In the After- the Big Dirigible Winds With Frozen Motors on Way THEN RETURNS Ambassador and Secretaries Weeks and Denby Miss Breaks Bottle of Liquid Air on Airship Purchased for Army in and the Big Vessel Is Formally Com- missioned Scurries Baek to Field With the Associated The 400-foot army airship Roma fought her way for five hours and a half against head wind from ley Virginia to Washington yesterday to be christened and put in commission officially by Miss rosa daughter of the sistant Secretary of who broke a liquid air on the great semirigid airship's Secretary Secretary Denby and Senator the Italian who participated in the waited for three hours in the chilling winds which blew the for the ship to They to have taken a in her of an hour or two over the city and to Baltimore with other invited but the wind was rising ily with gale proportions and Maj. Gen. chief of the army air ordered the Roma back to her hangar at Langley field as soon as she could be Fast on Return The great craft of tha air arrived at Boiling field at noon and left at scurrying home with the wind behind her In 2 hours and 40 A crowd of guests and officers of the two air services awaited the ar- rival of the army's new largest ship in this at field from 9 impatiently stamping their feet and trudging back forth in an effort to keep planes left the field from time to search out the great which continually by as but Finally Index to Today's Issue Page High for Early Deny Deadlock on Briand Gets American Premiers Call Fix Budget Battles Dail May Ballot Girl Pictures Stir Dean Cox China on New Discusses Shantung Fire Engine Families Flee to Open Fourteenth Street Christmas France's Sacrifice in Witnesses Will Consider Beer Host to Asks New Mata Hari and Berlin New Reparations Colby and liewis Dine Collapses in Lauds Haiti of GOVERNOR DENIES DINNER WAS Massachusetts Executive As serts He Was Unaware Hotel Was Being 200 REPUBLICANS PRESENT Jame slowly a stiff with three of her motors frozen Slow to Make toward the there a shape scarcely distinguishable agains the slate-colored It was fat dirigible ing a little toward the slowly and majestically lifting her nose over the encircling Gradually her bulk loomed up ana she swung toward the directly for the with her motors roaring Approaching quite she seemed to barely miss the trees and as she pushed against the wind and finally reaching the center of the field put her nose down and slowly A door in the shaped keel near bow flew open and a great coil of rope dropped to the crew All hands took bold and y the great craft came to The wind sweeping from the North and West swung the great ship back and as the men strained at the while stay wires with cables attached were dropped out of ports along the keel to other men who stood by to steady the Leveling off but un- der the blast of her propellers she settled on her and was But she never stayed still a swaying back and forth and carrying the men clinging to the ropes with Christened Fitting the by Miss who stood on a stepladder under the great curving bows as she broke bottle of liquid which flew Into a gray cloud of vapor as the glass The old ensign was then re- laced by a new one presented by the tallans and hoisted high on the stern over her curious boxlike Speaking for the government of the ship was Riccl expressed his ure that America should have bought the great semirigid and in accepting it for the War said he pleasure and opportunity were rather that the army should be so. fortunate in securing a ship de- by the skill of Italian Maj. G. Thornell and his staff of pilots and navigators also thanked personally by tary for their successful despite their handicap of an adverse wind and disabled Starts After- the color presentation took Assistant Secretary to Gen. Giuseppe who feelingly about the cordial and America the New United ensign the Gen. ordered the field gassed and Proprietor and Resident of Hems Plead Wot Guilty of Illegally Having 24 Dec. 21 the Cox in a statement to day regarding the dinner given in his honor at the Quincy House las night by 200 leading dur ing which prohibition officers a room in the hotel and seized a quantity of Whisky and said was in evidence at His statement was accom by similar declarations part of of State Cook 3V proprietor of and Harold E. who the hotel at his appeared In the Federal court and pleaded no guilty to charges of Illegal possession of 24 quarts of They were for a Dispute Over In the course of the preliminary controversy arose over the custody of the permit granted Kern to transfer liquor to the Quincy Kern contended that as the was part of his defense h should be allowed to keep it. Harold D. a prohibition led the raiding party and It finally decided to leave the mit in the custody of the Federal Prohibition Director Potter who present at the said today that the permit was issued in the regular Mr. Wilson thought the law being said Potter's was his duty to take steps to prevent it. Any suggestion that Mr. Wilson had any ulterior motive in his action of last night should be given no credence Cox Denies The statement of Governor Cox said he never saw the room where the liquors were seized and hard nothing about the seizure until after he bad left the Mr. announced later that fie had notified Ernest J. at the dinner to the that he did not need to make any appearance in He absolved of any responsibility for the presence of the he said Wilson saw no evidence that any liquor had been dispensed in dining Seventy-five per cent of those present at the I did not know that the liquor was THREE WOMEN KILLED IN OHIO STORE BLAST Natural Gas Explosion Also jures 34 Laid to Leaky Dec. 21 tbe Associated women were dead and 34 more or less seriously were in here as the result of an explosion of natural gas which partially wrecked Wright's furnishing store in downtown section late The Mrs. W. B. of Mrs. Barbara of an unidentified Mrs. Carl's Alton is in N. The which occurred y before 5 p. m. while this store crowded with Christinas was said by firemen to have been caused by a leak in a main un- ter the which allowed the fumes to enter the basement of the where they were ignited by a force of the broke dows a block distant and tore up portion of the street and several automobiles ed BALLOT i Members Show Impatience at Prolonged HOPES HIGHER Miss MacSwiney Says She Will Fight New PLEBISCITE IS AGAIN URGED De Valera Applauds Plea to Let Women of Ireland Decide in Speech That Re- stores Good Humor to Bitter Strongly Favors Charges Coercion in With Another Advises Affirmative the Associated Dec. possibility of concluding the debate on the Irish treaty and reaching a decision by tomorrow night was indicated by Eamon de Valera at the close of day's sessions when he suggested if the discussions were con- cluded tomorrow an ing session should be held finish Arthur criticizing Mary for speaking so long address occupied hoars and forty thought that fifteen utes would be sufficient for each of the remaining speakers to express his One deputy expressed the opinion that no moro speeches were and in this he appeared to voice the impatience of many bers to vote further For the first time there was a dis- position tonight -on the part of of the dail it bfe The acter ojf the applause incidental remarks of the speakers support this May Start Near the close of her long speech not only said that she might never have to address that assembly unless Ireland became a. but marked out her future policy and that of the republican party of rebellion against the free She has had opportunities of ascertaining views of the members of the dail and these references were taken as pointing to her considered opinion as to the probable result in the Sinn Fein George Gavan Duffy and other speakers for ratification seemed to take It for granted that the dail approve the despite these a large element of the Dublin population con- apprehensive tonight Ing the There were several references as to a whatever the dail decision may in order to obtain a. free expression from the electorate on the and thus the Speeches Are Much friction between the ing sides was in Inter- changes in the morning session be- tween Mr. de Valera and Mr. Griffith were marked by creating a tense The speech of iam Cosgrave in the went far towards restoring tual one of the most active and popular members of the dail who is In close touch with municipal and county organizations throughout Ireland and is regarded as knowing well the trend of public strongly advocated fication of the he made It plain that a great majority of the Irish people favored His speech was all the more for being and his est thrusts were not even by the men at whom they were Charles minister of for laughed ily at Cosgrave's description of him at but not good for anything He followed the adopted by Michael and comed the treaty chiefly for its im- mediately helpful effects on Irish cial and economic Pleaded for Mr. who is really the principal administrator spoke much pathos of misery of Dublin acb of whom lived in one the desirability of the to the Irish who bad the best right to determine heir own The meeting notable for Duffy Eamon r. two of the delegates the Though they poke from Duffy regretting treaty Dugan praising
