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.
in<? snipwwners wem on recurg a»
being absolutely unwilling to consider
anything less than a 15 per cent, re
duction in wages.
The general committee of the Mar
ine Engineers Association was sum
moned to Washington late Monday
* night.
Before leaving they said:
"We want no mediation. The men
voted Monday night for a light clear
through. They will accept no wage
cut.'1
davis optimisTic
AFTER CONFERENCE
Washington, May 8.—The end ol
the marine strike is already In sight,
according to the belief expressed by
government officials following a
aeries of conferences Monday.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover and
Secretary of Labor Davis, to whom
President Harding has delegated the
work of effecting an adjustment, wera
In session with Admiral Benson,
chairman of the United States ship
ping board, for more than aa hour
Monday afternoon. While Admiral
Benson refused to modify the board's
order for a 15 per cent, reduction In
wages, it Is understood that he will
accede to any plan of settlement
found satisfactory to Secretaries
Hoover and Davis.
Secretary Davis thought an early
settlement of the strike was In pros
pect when his conference with Brown
ended at 8:30 o'clock. They will
meet again at 8 o'clock Tuesday
morning. While the secretary would
not say so, It Is believed he expects
to announce an agreement before
Tuesday night.
Secretary Davis will ask the em
ployers and workers to get together
to lay the basis for an adjustment
satisfactory to both.
60.000 WALK OUT
ON ATLANTIC COAST
New York May Officials of the
marine workers' and seamen's unions
X\ say 60,000' men had walked out on the
VU* Atlantic coast.
Union officials estimated that 10.
000 men were out In New York and
were hoping for 26,000 to 80,000 Idle
hands by Tuesday morning. They
expected 176,800 to be out ultimately,
ct both coasts and along the gulf.
ATTEMPT TO BREAK
8TRIKE ON PACIFIC
San Francisco, May 8.—First evi
dences of an attempt to break the
strike of marine workers here came
Monday when the local offices of the
(J. 8. shipping board announced that
the freighter Eastern Sailor had sign
ed a complete crew at the new wage
scale ordered by Admiral Benson, and
that the ship would sail Tuesday foi
Puget Sound via San Pedro. Front
Puget Sound the schedule calls for e
trip to Great Britain with a cargo ol
•wheat.
The shipping board’s representa
tives here, H. H. Ebey, said this ac
tion had been taken following the re
ceipt of orders from Washington.
JOHNSON RAPS LEAGUE
FOR DISABLED VETERANS
Washington, May 8.—Suggestlnf
that a cqngressional lnvestlgatior
might be necessary as to the flnanclnf
and conduct of the national disabled
soldiers league, whose executive coun
cil, he sold, has Included at one tlm<
or another, Secretary Hoover. Rabb
Wise, Prpf. Irving Fisher, and othei
prominent men, Representative Roya
Johnson, republican. South Dakota, i
former service man, rose In the Housi
Saturday for what he said was th<
•unpleasant duty of unsparing criti
cism." Organized “purely for politi
cal purposes during the last cam
paign,” ho said, the league had a “sei
->f 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
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; 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
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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.
St Louis May 3.—High school fra
ternities and sororities were declared
evil, In that they tended to "create
snobbishness and Insubordination,” In
an opinion given in circuit court here
Monday,
Gives Tanlac Credit
For Splendid Health
V V
T. J. PARKER
4246 Juneau Street, Seattle, Waafc.
'T used to think all the Tanlac tes
timonials were exaggerated, but 1
have felt thankful a thousand times 1
ever believed In It strong enough to
give the medicine a trial,” said T. J.
Parker, well-known salemun for
Gately's Clothing Store, residing at
4246 Juneau St., Seattle, Wash.
“Several years ago I commenced
having periodic, spells of sickness and
a few months ago I had an attack that
1 thought would finish me. When I
did finally get up, I was scarcely able
to go. I had no appetite and what lit
tle I forced myself to ent caused so
much gas on tuy stomucli I could hard
ly get my breath.
“At night I was often so bloated I
couldn't breathe while lying down and
Just had to sit up and struggle for
air. At times I had cramps no laid 1
could hardly endure It.
Proved It.
Rich Uncle—You might as well stop
mooning about Miss Bute. She hasn't
been in love with you. She's been
after the money she thought you'd in
herit from me.
Nephew—Impossible! Why do you
think so?
Rich Uncle—I have proposed to her
myself and been accepted.—Boston
Transcript.
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“All the men at the store know
Tanlac pat me back on my feet, and v
: am glad to give this statement fori
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Tanlac Is sold by leading druggists
j everywhere.—Adv.
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