“OLD GUARD”
WILL FIGHT
BORAH PLAN
Administration Forces Line Up
Solidly Against Proposal for
Economic Conference —
Point of Order May Settle
Fate.
ity upiversai service.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 25.—The
T hole power of the administration in
the senate will be thrown into the
fight to prevent adoption of the Borah
proposal for an international eco
nomic conference. All the adminis
tration followers in the senate are
lining up against it.
Senator Smoot, who was appointed
by the president on the international
debt funding commission, today Joined
the opposition forces, and Senator
Aledill McCormick, one of the “irre
concilables” in the league of nations
fight, also allied himsel? with the op
position.
Senators Borah and France are the
only members of the “Irreconcilable”
group who have endorsed the idea of
an economic conference.
Before Senate Wednesday.
A short, sharp fight ovdV the
amendment is looked for when it
comes before the senate next Wednes
day. A point of order against it on
the ground that it transgresses the
rule against engrafting general legis
lation on an appropriation bill, may
cause it to be thrown out with a mini
mum of debate. Senator Bodge has
stated that he will not Interpose the
point of order, although he will speak
against adoption of the Borah pro
posal, but some other senator be
longing to the administration group
may make it, and the fate of the
amendment then will depend upon
Tice President Coolidge*s decision.
Concerning the proposal, Senator
Smoot said he did not believe anoth
er conference would accomplish any
thing. He added: “We know in ad
vance what the nations want, and we
are not in a position to grant it. They
want us to cancel their debts. If we
called a conference, invited these na
tions here, and then, when they
came, turned down their requests,
the situation would not improve a
particle. The United States would be
placed in an unfortunate situation. I
am opposed to the amendment and
do not think it will be adopted.”
Senator McCormick, who has spent
nearly two months in Europe inves
tigating economic conditions, issued
a formal statement in which he took
the position that the reparations
question is one which the nations of
Europe must settle for themselves.
He is opposed to having the ques
tion disposed of in a conference to
which the United State would be a
party, as proposed by Borah's
amendment.
At the same time, he declared, the
financial situation of many of the
governments* n ofocnit adesuwtaol-1
governments of continental Europe is
»o desperate and the economic con
dition of the people who support
them'is so serious that one may ex
pect the gravest events before the
•end of the winter unless the victors
in the late war act with wisdom,
prudence and foresight.
Senator McCormick asserted that if
the governments of Europe cannot
agree «pon "a sound and realizable
program for the definite and final
settlement of the total sums of repar
ations which Germany shall* pay and
can pay, if they cannot agree among
themselves and with bankers and in
vestors upon a plan which will sta
bilize German currency, we may ex
pect the franc and the lira to start
down the declivity in pursuit of the
mark, the crown and the ruble.”
According to Senator McCormick
the reparations settlement should in
clude the following:
“1. Priority of payment for the re
construction of ruins of northern
France.
“2. A moratorium to Germany for
several years, conditional upon an
adequately secured bankers' loan to
stabilize the mark, to balance the
current German budget and to con
tribute to French reconstruction for
this year. ]
”3. Prompt withdrawal of the bar
barous and semi-barbarous Moham
medan troops from the Rhine and the
progressive withdrawal of other
troops as the terms of the mora
torium and reparations agreement are
fulfilled by Germany."
ERECT GRANITE SHAFT
FOR THE LOWLY SPUD
Universal Service.
Berlin, Dec. 25.—Poets may sing
the praises of pomegranates and
tropical fruits, but the potato now
has a monument erected in its honor.
The granite table, erected by farmers
on a piece of land in the Hartz moun
tains,- bears this inscription: “Here
was made the first experiment in
growing potatoes.” The experiment
was tried just 175 years ago. At the
time few people consented to eat
the food which this year will do more
than anything else to stave off
hunger In Germany. Its cultivation
was started in Bohemia more than a
century before the experiment was
tried in • Prussia.
MOROCCAN PROTECTORATE
ESTABLISHED BY SPAIN
Universal Service.
Special Cable Dispatch.
Madrid, Dec. 25.—*fhe cabinet has
voted to establish a civil protectorate
in the Spanish zone of Morocco. For
mer President Villanueva, of the
chamber of deputies, has be- » named
high commissioner.
Discovery of oil near Norfolk hospi
tal for the insane in I.os Angdee coun
ty. Calif, haw made the property so val
uable that the question of • moral of
the hospital In being considered.
NIGHT FLYING
UP TOCONGRESS
U. S. Air Mail Officials Re
quest More Funds For
Carrying Out Ambi
tious Program.
BY WINDER R. HARRIS,
Universal Service Correspondent.
Washington, Dec. 25.—Upon a de
cision to be fought out In congress
when the postofflce appropriation bill
Is taken up next week will depend
the fate of the air mall service.
Involved In the same decision Is the
United States’ opportunity to lead
the world in the development of avi
ation as an agency of commerce in
peace and a vital element of national
defense In war.
The postofflce department, It was
disclosed Monday has put it squarely
up to the House appropriation sub
committee drafting the bill to grunt
sufficient funds to achieve the bene
fits the air mail service sees ahead
for the nation, or cut It out alto
gether.
Experimental, So Far.
Under the limitations Imposed by
the scanty funds allowed since the
service was Inaugurated three years
ago, officials of the department
pointed out, the carrying of mall by
airplane has been purely experi
mental. Its only contribution to the
science of aviation has been record
ing of air currents and other atmos
pherical conditions and the laying out
of an air route across the continent
from New York to San Francisco.
About all that the government
could hope to accomplish In this di
rection has been done, it was de
clared. Night flying, however, still is
a field practically unexplored, ex
cept for stunt flying. And therein
lies the basis of the Impending crisis
on which the fate of the service
hinges.
Night Flying Urged.
Officials of the air mall branch,
with the backing of the postmaster
general, and the administrtion, it is
stated, urged that an appropriation
of $1,500,000, in addition to the
amount allowed for t{ie current year,
be granted for the fiscal year begin
ning next July 1 for practical de
velopment of regular night flying.
With this fund it is proposed to es
tablish a regular hour transconti
nental air mail service, which will
tend towards making the service self
supporting. Under the projected
schedule the flights from New York
to Chicago would be made by day
light; from Chicago to Cheyenne by
night, and from Cheyenne to San
Francisco the second day.
CLERK MURDERED
ON OAK PARK BENCH
Sat In View of Crowd of Skat
ers—Police Search for
Tall Stranger.
Universal Service
Chicago, Dec. 25.—Edward J. O’Day
was found dead on a bench in Doug
las park Monday. His throat was cut
from ear to ear. The authorities
started a search for a stranger, seen
with the slain man an hour before he
was found dead.
O’Day was employed as a clerk by
the American Express company. He
was not working Monday and went
to the park during the afternoon.
The bench where the body was
found was in plain view of a crowd
of skaters. A number of persons told
the authorities they had seen O’Day
enter the park with a tall man wear
ing a dark overcoat. No knife was
found near the body. The stranger is
believed to have cut O'Day’s throat
and fled unobserved.
NATIVES PROTESTING
VACCINATION ORDER
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White Settlers Fear Uprising
In Southwest Africa ahd
Flee to Towns.
Universal Service.
Cape Town, Dec. 25.—Compulsory
vaccination of natives in southwest
Africa is causing alarm among the
tribes. German settlers at Ontjo,
where the whole white farming com
munity has trekked into town for
purposes of defense, fear a rising.
The negro chief says the reason for
Ihe unrest is because they recall the
vaccination experience of 1904. At
that time the natives, who were on
the verge of starvation, were concen
trated and fed by the Germans, who
seized the opportunity to vaccinate
all of them.
The many deaths at that time were
attributed by the natives to vaccina
tion.
RUNAWAY HORSE SWIMS
36 HOURS IN COLD RIVER
Boston, Dec. 25.—A Boston horse
qualified as a long distance swimmer
when it was rescued from the Charles
river after spending 3G hours in the
water.
The horse had run away and dived
through a draw bridge over the
Charles river, leaving wagon and
cargo jammed between the rails.
TURKISH ENVOY RESENTS
ANGORA'S INTERFERENCE
Universal Service.
Lausanne, Dec. 25.—Ismet Pasha,
resenting the interference of the
Turkish nationalist assembly at An -
gola with hi . efforts to agree to Near
Eastern peace with the allies, has
dispatchedi Haasen Bey to the Mos
lem capital. Haasen was instructed
to tell the assembly that unless it
relieves Ismet from the lint order*
not to cede any disputed points,
peace is impossible.
j ARMY SURGEON ACCUSED AS BIGAMIST.
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Capt. Charles Pike, of the United States Army Medical Bureau, la
shown enjoying his dinner In the Crown Point (Indiana) Jail, where ha
was hefd on charges preferred by the father of his present wife, Mrs.
Prances Helle Pike, that he Is a bigamist. “Mrs. Marjory Pike” allogsa
ehe Is the common law wife of the army officer. Despite her father's ac
tion, the present Mrs. Pike rushed to her husband’s defense and later ob
tained his release on bond.
Prisoners Cancel Jail
Break, Present Jailer
With Surprise Stocking
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'Universal Service.
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 25.—Turned
by the spirit ot Christmas from a
daring and well planned jull break, 10
prisoners in tile county jail Monday
presented Night Jailer C. A. Patton
with a “gift stocking” containing 15
hack saws and handles.
As evidence of their good faith the
prisoners showed Patton where riv
ets had been cut from bars in prep
aration for a Christmas escape, but
the men in the tank decided to re
ftain from making any actual at
tempt to get away.
Night guards were attracted to tb%
tank, where "Little Mac,” notorious
robber, is being held awaiting trial,
by shouts and cries. Arriving at
*
tank No. nine they were laughlhgly
requested to have Night Jailer Pat
ton call around for u Christmas
present that had been prepared for
him. \
When Patton answered the sum
mons he was presented by "Little
Mac” with a 'black silk stocking con
taining the saws and handles.
Dangling from the stocking was a
jumping Jack Santa Claus, carved
from part of a chair. A note pinned
to the unique ligure read):
‘‘As a true observance of the proper
Christmas spirit, we herewith pre
sent our compliments because of the
kindness that has been shown us in
the past.—The men in tank No.
nine.”
Arrest of Santa Claus
Included In Christmas
Day Thrills In Paris
BY BASIL D. WOON,
Universal Service Correspondent.
Special Cable Dispatch.
Paris, Dec. 25.—Christmas was not
without Its thrills In Paris. The !
thrills included the arrest of Santa
Claus, thereby disclosing the very
latest idea in the art of burglary. The
arrest Monday morning of a burglar
in the garb of Santa Claus, including
the well known Mowing whiskers,
brought about the return of a sack
full of booty, including a pearl neck
lace, belonging to the Marquise De
Nay. The necklace had been pre
sented to the burglar by the little
son of the marquise In the belief that
he was making a gift to the real
Santa.
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FIRE LOSS $250,000
IN CHICAGO BLAZE
Flames Destroy Part of Live
Stock Exchange Build
ing and Valuable
Records.
Chicago, 111., Dec. 25.—Fire start
ing in a cloakroom in the Live Stock
Exchange building, in the stock yards,
Sunday burned out the third floor and
a part of the second.
The building, originally erected In
1866, was built by the “Big Five"
packers for use as their offices and
was the first live stock exchange in
the country.
Later, when the big companies es
tablished offices down town they
maintained branch offices in the
yards and let space in tlie building to
commission houses.
The loss, according to Everett C.
Brown, president of tile live stock ex
change. will l>e $250,000 for the build
ing and at least as much more for the
records and papers destroyed.
SEATTLE PUBLISHER DIES.
Seattle, Dec. 25.—Krastus Braineril,
famous editor and publicist and for
many years publisher ami editor in
chief of the Seattle I'nst Intelligencer,
died here of pneumonia, at the age of
67. He is survived by a wife and i
two daughters, Betty Bralnerd, fea
ture writer for a New York news
paper syndicate, and Mrs. II. It.
Wahoske, of :<reat Fulls, Mont.
JAILED WOMEN GET “FAGS.” j
New York, Dee. 25.—Clgarets for j
women as well as men were dlsiribut- j
ed to the prisoners at Raymond street
jail Monday. Wat den Honeeke
laughed when he was asked about it
and said: ‘Why not? I'd rather see
women smoking cigai ets than using ;
coke. If the men get- tobacco, why
not the women too'.'"
WOMAN DIES SUDDENLY.
Miller, S. r>„ Iter. 25 (Sp-clal).— !
Mrs. A. J. Ferguson, 75 years old. was
found dead in he:' bed Monday morn
ing by her husband. She had been
apparently in fairly good health.
Death resulted from a heart attack.
Five shooting affairs as the result
if a series of domestic triangles oc
■urred during the day. Three women
ind two men aro dying.
A near riot excited the boulevards
when the police prevented a mob
manifestation by an anarchist so
ciety.
A new system was inaugurated by
the police through which hereafter all
tielpless drunks will he taken care
jf by gendarmes instead of being
taken tc jail.
Another Christmas feature was the
presentation t<* every child in the
ievastated regions of warm socks,
the gift of the American committee
In devastated France.
MURDERS LOVER,
SITS WITH BODY
Louisville Woman Spends
Tragic Christmas Eve
With Victim’s Corpse.
Boulsvillo, Ky., Dec. 25.—For 12
hours, after a tragic Christmas eve
ending her second love venture, Mrs.
O. L. Jones, 45 years old, divorcee sat
in her apartment while the body of
her lover, slain by her hand, lay hud
dled in a corner. Monday morning
she called the police, confessed the
killing and surrendered.
Oscar D. Black, sales manager of a\
automobile company, the slain lover,
was named as corespondent when O.
II. Jones, the woman’s divorced hus
band, sued for divorce. I-ater he
witlidrew the suit and permitted his
wife to obtain the divorce.
Mrs. Jones told the police she killed
Black in self defense at about 6
o’clock Christmas efe. She covered
the body with a coat and blanket and
sat up the rest of the night. She re
fused to tell the pollen her reason for
killing Black. Mrs. .Tones was held
on a charge of murder.
RAD O FOR LLOYD GEORGE.
^Vlgociras, Morocco, Doc. 25.—David
Lloyd George, former British pre
mier, is here listening in on the
world. The first act of the fiery
Welshman, who arrived here for a
"list," was to order the installation
of a powerful radio set so that lie
could keep in touch with the Euro- -
pean capitals.
HYERS LACxTfuRTHER
REPORTS ON aANDIT BILLS
Lincoln, Neh., Dec. 2ii (Special).—
State Sheriff Gus Hj Ors, who Satur
day night made the unnoun-ement
that $5 lulls identical with t holla
stolen in the bandit raid at the Den
ver mint a week ego had been passed
it the towns of Hastings and Aurora
sometime K: iday, said .Monday night
he had no further disclosures to
make, hut that th re might be de
velopments. Sheriff llyers said his
Information on tho passing of the
bills in the two towns came from a
source which he regarded as reliable.
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Which of Two Waysf
From the Pes Moines Kegtrter.
Roosevelt has recently been quoted by
James Bronson Reynolds, president of
the American Institute of Criminal I-*w,
as to what America ought to do in the
Near Hast. Mr. Roosevelt said to him
after a conference with some Armenian
bishops:
"I sympathize deeply with the cause
of Armenia. I believe I was the first t*
make the statement that in the maasa
cres of 1885 and 1896 the Armenians
killed by the Turks outnumbered the
killed on both skies In the Franco-Rrus
elan war of 1870. But mere kind word*
such os these men have received every
where are valueless. What they need
and what alone will help them Is to send
a fleet of battleships to Constantinople.
To such a protest alone the Turks will
listen. Unfortunately you know and 1
know that the Senate will not sanction
such action.”
The question la. If there was an obli
gation to send battleships to maintain
order and secure life. Is there any obli
gation to act as umpire if the opportun
ity offers, to tender our good offices In
a civilian way to secure the same thingf
In other words, when Kental suggest
ed that America be asked to umpire the
whole straits controversy and fix the
rights of the people, what shonld have,
been the res(K>nse of the United States?
Or when we were asked to accept a
mandatory over Armenia and to make
ourselves responsible for the protection
of certain fixed boundaries, what should
have been our response?
Roosevelt had no hesitation about
saying that we should send batloships.
As a matter of fact, wherever there has
been trouble we have sent battleships —
not yet enough to get us Into war, but
enough to got us Into trouble If on* of
them should be damaged. m
Sending hnttlshlps is the old way of
maintaining international relations, it
always has ended In war, and nobody
can foresee ft time when It will not end
In war. In our day it has been pro
posed to set up a new way. Many good
people believe that International con
ferences and International co-operation,
and a little spirit of good will and dis
position to got along "•together under
laws fairly agreed upon will solve all
the more serious problems.
At least as wo come to our Christmas
season which Is dedicated to the new
way, why should we not consider doing
things differently from the way they
have been done In the past? They have
been done so badly In the past that the
future could not be worse. Nobody can
think of anything worse for the future
than another such war as we have Just
had.
Why Is not everybody ready to try
the new way? Why Is not the United
States ready to celebrate this Christmas
season by saying that we will Join with
everybody In any plan to organize the
world for civil administration?
The world Is going to pieces today
because the United States will not lend
a band. And yet everybody knoys that
if we do not lend a hand In the end we
shall send battleships. Who contem
plates this persistent talk that we must
be ready for the next war with satisfac
tion? And yet -who is moving to avoid
the next war?
The Mussolini Family.
Italian Correspondent, of Philadelphia
ledger.
When Benito Mussolini borrowed a
frock coat and went to the qulrlnal pal
ace In Rome to be sworn In as premier
of Italy, the life of his wife and three
>oung children underwent no corre
sponding change.
She whom we would call the first lady
of the land, after the queen, of course,
did not go to Rome to see her husband’s
triumph, nor did the children. The fam
ily remained home In Milan, where, It
seems they will continue to remain for
at least some time to come, the premier
keeping In daily touch with his wife by
telephone.
“Daddy will come home for Christ
mas,” Bruno, the youngest Mussolini, a
boy of 4, told me.
I am told that when Signor Mussolini
kissed Kdda, his oldest child, goodby,
ho>asked her if she did not want to go
to Rome to live and study.
"No, no.” she answered, “I don’t want
to leave Milan. 1 want to stay here at
home.”
That feeling seems to he shared by
the others. Signor Mussolini might have
been going to Rome ns a simple deputy
Ip a session of parliament, for all the
apparent difference It has made to the
family.
When I went to the unpretentious
apartment house In the Foro Bonoparte,
where the Mussolini family has occupied
for the last four years, a few rooms on
the top floor, there came childish shouts
from the stairway and the 4-year-oid
Bruno came clattering into the court
yard. A chip off the old block, this tow
headed Bruno of the mischief sparkling
eyes. Vivacity should he his name.
It was his dehut in the black shirt his
father has made famous, for all the
children had appeared that day for the
first time in the Fascist! costume. At
his breast the tri-colored ribbon of Italy
was pinned: in Ills hand he carried a
Fascist! clut* bedecked with more of
the national ribbon. A mighty club for
a lad of his age. hut he wielded it vig
orously, thumping on the pavement.
“Fang! pang! Communlsitl?" he
shouted gleefully—but it turned out
that.he really was looking for rats and
mice.
Senator Pepper, of Pennsylvania,
finding that some of his campaign
fund was left after the election, is
returning it to the givers. This is a
previously unheard of proceeding.
Put in view of the Pennsylvania re
publican machine’s well known ap
petite for money, one wonders how
much the senator succeeded in col
lecting in the first place.
Sir Arthur* Quilter-Coueh, profes
sor of English at Cambridge univer
sity, England, finds Shakespeare’s
itit “cheap and disgusting.” Well,
people will >»» laughing over Shake
speare's wit when Sir Arthur is for
gotten.
Erin’s Flag.
From tin- New York World.
So many readers have inquired as
to the official flag of the Irish Free
Stale that The World asked Tim
Hc-aly, travel nor general of th • new
commonwealth, for an authoritative
answer.
lfe replied that the tri-color—orange
gs-ecu and v.hltv. without embellish
ment of emblem or arms, Is still the
official flag
The shade of greer In the flag la
almost a Hue.
Citizens of Louisiana Town
Await Uncertainly Devel
opments In Kidnaping
Cases.
BY SAM BLAIR,
Universal Service Correspondent.
Mer Kouge, La., Deo. 25.—This tiny
town lolled under a tepid sun Mon
day—wating.
There was little of the Christmas
spirit evident. Little knots of men
loitered along the single street. Most
ly they talked In whispers. There
were a few who laughed.
The town and all 6f Morehouse
parish, of which it Is a part, are
waiting.
They are waiting for the public
hearing that will bo conducted Jan
uary 5 at Bastrop, the parish scat.
They are waiting for whatever evi
dence this hearing may develop
against those responsible for the
sluyings of Watt Daniels and Thomas
Richards, who vanished August 24.
after they had been kidnaped by a
hand of hooded men. and whose
headless bodies floated to the surface
of Lake La Fourche here last Fri
day night.
Uncertainty Prevail*,
Some are waiting to learn whether
this evidence will Justify suspicions
which already hove b^en breathed
against certain of their townsmen.
Admitted members of the Ku Klux
Klan are waiting to ascertain wheth
er the evidence will Identify mem
bers of that organization with those
who committed the murder.
All are waiting for the formal an
nouncement at the hearing of the re
ports of the New Orleans patholo
gists who examined the bodies of
Daniels and Kichurds.
In the word* Monday of Attorney
General A. V. Coco:
“When these reports and our other
evidence are presented, there will ho
a prodigious revulsion of sentiment
on the part of persons who up to
now have been tolerant towards the
situation."
Evidence of Torture.
Morehouse parish has had its mur
ders before.
But most of those who wait on the
street corners here already know
what the New Orleans pathologists
will report. In spite of efforts at se
crecy many saw the bodies of the"
men before their burial Sunday. And
it did not require a pathologist to de
teimlne the direct action at the time
gf the slayings.
Murder is one tiling. Torture, is
another.
That's why Attorney General Coco
said further to tills correspondent:
"There is an ancient statute in our
Louisiana code which gives the state
the right to a change of venue where
it appears that an unprejudiced Jury
cannot tie drawn.
"Tills statute might be Invoked In
tills case, but l don't believe it will
Iim necessary. No American can lis
ten to the evidence we’ve gathered
and.fall to give the state a just deci
sion.'’
Whita Population Divided.
Whether or not it will be stiown
that Klansmen made lip the hooded
band responsible for the murders,
many of the residents throughout the
parish believe some Klansmen are
implicated. Therefore, t lie white
population of the pariah is divided—
pro and anti-Klan.
Since the killings of Daniels and
Richards, according to William B.
Stuckey, for eight years a state sena
tor and an open opponent of the Klan
in the parish, a great many former
Klansmen have resigned—or publicly
proclaimed their resignations. Mr.
Stuckey and certain others have con
templated the possibility of reprisals
against witnesses after the public
and court hearings. They also the
orize about possible “Klan disciplin
ary” action against themselves after
tfie state troops, now on guard here
and at Bastrop, are removed.
“Should reprisals be started,” Sena
tor Stuckey, announced, “a call to
arms will be sounded. There arc 500
good Americans in and near this town
who hope that the orderly process of
law will be observed.
The senator refused to go on record
as to whether an antl-Klan organiza
tion for fighting purposes already hud
been perfected here.
Witnesses against alleged members
of the mob that kidnaped Daniels and
Richards have been brought secretly
and at night from all parts of the 760
square miles of the parish to tho
office set up here by the department
of Justice operatives. They will bo
rushed Into the machine gun pro
tected courthouse at Bastrop and
held under guard while they tall their
stpries.
One witness, Berry Whetstone, a
white resident of Mer Rouge, is now
being protected at the state peni
tentiary at Raton Rouge. Whet
stone’s possibility as a state's wit
ness became known and it was at his
own request that he was given the
sanctuary of a steel cell behind pris
on walls. His testimony Is expected
to lie extremely valuable. He chanced
by a group of the hooded band just
before the kidnaping of the men later
murdered. He saw the features of
many who had for a time removed
their masks. He recognized most of
those whose faces he glimpsed. When
the white sheeted mob found him.
they compelled him to attend1 them
as water carrier, it is believed he
witnessed some of the depredations
inflicted upon Daniels and Richard*}
before they finally were put to death.
GERMANY TO OFFER NEW
PLAN ON REPARATIONS
Universal Service.
Berlin, Be '• 25.—-It was learned
from unofficial sources today that the
German government is preparing a
new plan for settling the reparations
problem. The proposals are ’xpect
»d to be submitted for the considera
tion of French. British and Italian
experts in Paris on December 28 and
will be ready for submission to the
premiers' conference at Paris. Janu
ary 2.
