SHIPOWNERS OPPOSE U. S. ARBITRATION End of Marine Strike Already In Sight, However, in Opin ion of Government Officials, Is Report. New York, MayS.—American ship owners arc opposed to government .—- arbitration or outside interference ol any kind in the settlement of the marine strike which began Sunday. The steamship owners also rejected a suggestion by Secretary of Com merce Hoover that the dispute be submitted to a board of arbitration. The action was taken on the ground that the submission of the strike con troversy to an arbitration board would be contrary to sound business judgment, principle and precedent. They have refused point blank to make any further concessions. They want to fight it out with the unions direct. They ask the administration to keep its hands off the present strug gle. inf self-elected officers into whos< pockets go 80 cents out of every dol lar milked by It from wounded met #1 the late war,” as well as monej collected from the public. Most of th< more prominent members of his ad visory council, he added, had resigned and he declared he did not hold then responsible for its activity. H« named George H. Gillan, Sldnej Marks and Arthur T. Smith as offlceri and said they "had attempted to sel the alleged Influence of the league t< both tho republican and democrats parties last fall.” ♦ WATERSPOUT MILE HIGH T~ CHASES SHIP FOR HOURS New York, May 2.— How a playfu waterspout,' several times the height of the ' Washington monument, die porting itself .around the Carlbbeat tea. chased'the Ward liner Esperensa on its way from Mexican ports to Net /fork by way of Havana, and kept thi navigators of the ship In a nervoui ■"'•% sweat for several hours, was tok when the ship docked at Brooklyi Monday. TERMS DON’T GIVE THE ALLIES BASIS In Reply to Berlin, Secretary Urges Teutons to Make Defi nite and Adequate Offers Di rect to Entente. Washington, May 2. •— The United States government Mon day rejected “as a basis for dis cussion acceptable to the allies,” the German counter reparations proposals submitted by Dr. Sim ons, the German foreign min ister, on April 24. Secretary of State Hughes, in a note to the American commis sioner in Berlin, for submission to Dr. Simons, urged that Ger many again submit clear, def inite and adequate proposals, and that she send them direct to the allied governments, rather than to the United States. TV* n fart «-v4' 4- !■» ma4a «rnn rnlvrAO out by the state department late Monday night and without com ment. -It caused considerable surprise, in view of the fact that it had been indicated, semi-offi cially, that this government be lieved the proposals to at least furnish a basis upon which the reparations negotiations might be re-opened. Whether the dispatch of the state department’s note fol lowed the receipt of advices from the supreme council, now meeting in London, could not be learned. It had been stated the decision as to whether the German offer furnished a bisis for discussion was to be made by the allies, and net this government. In view of this fact, it is assumed that the state department is in possession of a formal notification from the allies stating they cannot con eider the latest offer even ae opening the door for discussion. Ths United States has made it plain on two occasions that it de sires a reopening of the entire matter of reparations, and that attitude is not reversed in the note of Monday. Secretary Hughes states it is the “earnest desire" of this government that there be a “prompt settlement of this vital question" and in urg ing the German government to make a new offer it Is inferrsd that this government does not approve the demands already mado upon Garmany by tha au proma council. At any rate It Is apparent that this government Is In the reparations fight to stay. President Harding himself, in his message to congress declared that the matter of repara tions was a "vital” issue to every man, woman and child In the Unit ed States, and since that time It haa been declared that the United States must be a party to the final settle Text of Hughes’ Note. The text of Secretary Hughes’ note follows: “The government of the United states has received the memoran dum left by Dr. Simons with the commissioner of the United States under date of April 24, re lating to reparations. In reply this government finds Itself unable to reach the conclusion that the proposals form a basis for dis cussion acceptable to the allied governments, and that these proposals cannot be entertained. "This government, therefore, again expressing the earnest de sire for a prompt settlement of this vital question, strongly urges the German government at once to make direct to the allied gov ernments clear, definte and ade quate proposals, which would in all respects meet Its Just obliga tions." , GERMANY DISPATCHES NEW NOTE TO HARDING Berlin, May 3.—Foreign Minister Von Simons Saturday sent another communication to President Harding, this one amplifying and elucidating the one forwarded recently as Ger many's proposition to the allies on the matter of reparations. This Is learned on reliable authority in gov 1 emment circles here. 1 The new note Is said to explain the German proposals In a much more advantageous way than the manner In which it was interpreted by the recipients. Although the 1 actual contents have not yet been divulged. It is understood that in this new correspondence the foreign ’ minister takes pains to state the total i sum which Germany Is willing to pay t and to suggest the method of an nuities which would bo the country’s maximum ability to pay. i ■ e ■ According to a ruling by the attorney , general of New Tork state, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., will have to pay a tax of $2,000 yearly on the social hygiene plant, near the state reformatory, which 1 ho Is allowing the state to use free of JUVENILE COURT TO TRY BRIDE, 13, FOR MURDER Poplar Bluff, Mo., May 3.—A 13 year-old bride—Mrs. Letta Parsons— will be tried for murder In Fkrmlng ten. May 19. It was announced here Monday. Because of her age she will be tried In Juvenile court. She la alleged to have shot her step daughter. Llfly Parsons, on March 11, In order to “get even” with her hus I band. The shooting occurred leas l, than a week after she was married. Now John Mitchell Knows There Was Oil Enough, and Then Some Chicago, May 8.—A story of great wealth through a small Investment In California was told Monday by John J. Mitchell. Chicago banker. It rivals accounts of gold strikes In ’49. But In the case of Mitchell It is oil. The Bolsa Chlca Gun club of Chi cago, of which Mr* Mitchell Is a charter member, purchased a tract of land near Long Beach, Just outside of Los Angeles, for a hunting preserve. The Chicago men enjoyed hunting on the coast. The cost of membership was nominal, around $1,500. Oil propectors told the club offl clals they would like to drill on the land, according to Mr. Mitchell. An agreement was reached whereby the club would receive 26 per cent, of the proceeds. "We laughed and remarked there wasn’t enough oil there to keep our gun barrels from rusting,” confessed Mr. Mitchell. But, according to Mr. Mitchell, a gusher was brought In that yields 80,000 barrels of oil. There are other promising prospects. An offer of $150,000 for actual membership was refused Monday. Mr. Mitchell said. The erstwhile game hunters have become oil and dividend hunters. HELEN DENIES ILL SCANDAL' CHARGES Stokes’ Lawyer Asks Her if She Dined and Caroused With Her Attorneys and Other Men. New York, May 3.—Reaching Inti, hidden recesses of a criminal case for exhibits, Martin W. Littleton, attor ney for Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, in her tight against the divorce suit of her husband, Monday displayed to the court past efforts of W. E. D. Stokes to “besmirch the character of his wife.” The rather reluctant witness, through whose agency the activities of Mr. Stokes were revealed, was Ber nard M. Sandler, counsel for Henry Williams, a former Pullman porter, accused of receiving $30,000 worth of jewelry stolen from Mrs. Stokes three years ago. Again and agin “I decline to an swer" was Sandler’s reply to Little ton’s Inquiries. Admits Geting List. Littleton, however, succeeded in forcing the witness to admit Stokes had furnished him with a list of ques tions to be asked Mrs. Stokes when she appeared to testify against the former porter, and also with a num ber of pictures, which, he declared, he was told were the likenesses of Mrs. Stokes, for use in cross exami nation. Sandler outlined under pressure from Littleton the questions fur nished by Stokes as follows: “Ask her If Will H. Meyer was not her lover before her marriage and since. "Ask her if she did not go to a bauty parlor kept by a woman of an other race to get her red hair tinted. If she says her hair is not tinted make her take off her hat so you can see It. This will make her mad and sho will swear at you. "Ask her If she was not In the house of Oom Paul, a notorious cult leader, when It was raided In West Seventy-fourth street, and if she did not visit there frequently. “Ask Her if She Hid.” "Ask her if she had not hidden In the safe In her Denver home a bunch of men’s letters to be used In get ting money In lawsuits. "Ask her If she ever dined with men called ‘Nick,’ 'Sidney' and others. "Ask her If she did not go out in disguise at night with ‘Old Nick' to roadhouses and cabarets, at parties that generally wound up in Mrs. Kearney’s apartment at 3 or 4 or S In tlie morning. "Ask her if she did not leave her husband’s homo disguised as a little old woman collecting money for Dr. Taylor's church and at one time even collected money from her husband in that disguise. “Ask her if she did not try to put up a job on her husband so that she could get a divorce from him. “Ask her if she did not dine and carouse with lawyers she has re tained in this case. “Ask Her About Campbell.” “Ask her if she was not Intimate with Detective Campbell, of the Pull man company, and when she lived In Chicago and with whom." Mrs. Stokes, recalled to the stand by Littleton when Sadler had finished, denied categorically all of the accu sations embodied in the questions. PACKING HOUSES7MEN REFUSE TO BACK STRIKE Chicago, May 8.—When 900 mem bers of the Livestock Handlers' union struck at the stockyards Monday their places were immediately filled from the ranks of Chicago's unem ployed. By evening the management an nounced that the new men were do ing the work about as well as the strikers had ever done It and that the strikers would not be taken back. Meat cutters and butcher workers refused to back the strike with a sympathetic walkout. DENBY WON’T COMMENT ON FLEET DIVISION TALK Chicago. May 8.—Edwin Denby, secretary of the navy, who spent Monday in Chicago, said there is nothing to be said about a division of the fleet between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. “Have you formed any policy about division of the fleet?" he was asked. “There is nothing to be said about that whatever." he replied 4444444444444444444 ; BENSON ASKS LOYAL J J AMERICANS TO BACK ♦ HIM DURING STRIKE ♦ 4 Washington May 8.—Ad- 4 4 mlral S. Benson, chairman of 4 4 the United States shipping 4 4 board, declared Monday night 4 4 that the board will make every 4 4 effort to keep its ships In op- 4 4 eration and called upon "all 4 4 loyal citizens to rally to the 4 4 support of their flag.” 4 4 His statement, In part fol- 4 4 lows: 4 4 “The shipping board is con- 4 4 ttnulng its efforts to keep its 4 4 ships in operation. Reports 4 4 show that It is meeting with 4 4 gratifying success. This In- 4 4 dleatcs that the personnel on 4 4 Its ships agree with the post- 4 4 tlon taken by the board. 4 4 "This Is a time for all loyal 4 4 citizens to rally to the support 4 4 of their flag. Full protection 4 4 both now and after the con- 4 4 troversy is settled will bo giv- 4 4 en by the shipping to all those 4 4 who come to Its assistance In 4 4 keeping the ships In opera- 4 4 tlon." 4 4 4 4444444444444444444 8 MISSING AFTER LINER, AFIRE, SINKS Following Frantic S .0. S. Calls, U. S. Transport Bu ford Rescues 65 from Jap Ship Near Seattle. Seattle. May 8.—The United State* army transport Buford reported Mon day night that all except eight of the passengers and crew of the Japanese liner Tokuyo Maru, which capsized from Grays Harbor Monday evening, had been accounted fQr. The Tokuyo caught fire about 4 o’clock Monday evening and the Bu ford had gone to her assistance fol lowing frantic ’’SOS" calls. The liner was ablaze from stem to stem when she capsized. The ship sank shortly after 6 o’clock, off the entrance to Gray's harbor, according to news reaching Seattle. As she turned over the To kuyo smashed and sank practically all her lifeboats. Previously those aboard the Japanese liner had taken to the life boats. The United States army transport Buford rescued 65 persons. One died. Loaded with lumber the steamer left San Francisco April 18 for Hong Kong via Portland. Ore. BYUNCLE SAM Must Transfer Territory Un der Dispute or America May Serve Ultimatum— Demands Sent. Washington, May 8.— Unless the government of Panama complies with the boundary awards which the Unit ed States has approved in Panama's dispute with Costa Rica, this govern ment will bo ‘‘oompelled to proceed in the manner which may be re quisite." This assertion, approaching an ul timatum, Is made by Secretary of State Hughes In his latest noto to Panama, but no time limit Is fixed In which Panama must act. It is be lieved at the state department that Panama will comply with the demand of this government, within a short time, and that no severer steps will be required. It is Indicated, however, that if Panama does not transfer the territory under dispute, the United States may serve an ultimatum. BEAUVAIS’ RELATIVES WILL BE QUESTIONED Testimony Against ‘Fifi’ Still. - man to Be Resumed Wed nesday. New York May S.—The taking of testimony (n the divorce action of James A. Stillman against Mrs. An ne U. Potter Stillman will be resumed before Surrogate James A. Gleason on Wednesday morning. The hearing will be secret, according to present plans. It was given out In White Plains, Monday that a special commission had been appointed to go to Three Rivers, Que., to examine some of the witnesses. The witnesses are said to be friends and relatives of Fred Beauvais, the co-respondent named by the president of the National City Bank, in accusing his wife. JAPS DECIDE YAP CONTROL. Toklo. May 3.—Monday's newspa pers report that the government has finally decided to place the Pacific Islands held by Japan under mandate -In control of the colonial bureau. The navy, the reports add. is preparing to withdraw the principal garrisons. RAP HIGH SCHOOL FRAT8. 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