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The Omaha Daily ; Bee
VOL. 50 NO. 179.
aT 11
.oaiioonists
Greeted by
Huge Crowd
Hazardous Journey and Bat
tle for Life Ends as Men
Emerge From Wilderness
to Meet Friends.
Men Arp in finnd
Hi Tlii- Af. ltttrl Trt,
Mattice, Ont., Jan. 11. The three
American naval balloonists otranded
tiear Hudson bay when their big bag
descended after a flight from Reck
away, N. Y., reached this lail head
today, after mushing down from
Jdoose Factory.
The officers Lieutenants Louis
A. Kloor. jr., of New Orleans,
Walter Hinton of Bell Harbor. N.
i., ana aiepen . rarrcu oi .cw
; York found a corps of newspaper
men wailing to greet them when
they entered this settlement at 2:20
p. m. ' '
All three officers were in' excel
lent condition While definite plans
have not been made for their depar
ture for the east, it is believed they
will leave here tonight. 1'hev re
ported no exciting incidents on their
cloH trtn Hrvvn trnm M nrtdf Mr-
lory.
Receive Bundle of Mail.'
The aeronauts ' were met ' 'y
Trooper Louis McLaugiin of. the
Royal Canadian Mounted , police,
who handed them a bundle of gov
ernment dispatches from Washing
ton; There was not the slightest effort
(to place the Americans under tech
nical arrest because of their alleged
violation of international aii regu
lations by landing in Canada without
clue formality. '
Kloor did upon his arrival was to
make a flat denial of the statement
credited to Lieutenant Hinton thai
Lieutenant Farrell had offered his
life in an effort to save, his compan-,
ions. The story had it that Farrell,
worn out. had offered his body to
fiis hungry folio-.' aviators as food.
Lieutenant Kloor. however, de
fclared that during the days they
were wandering in the woods near
Moose Factory their only food had
een carrier pigeons.
Had Great Adventure.
Adventure of a kind rarely known
!o humans of a humdrum world be
ell the three in the performance of
limple navy duty, a test flight in the
.utitie of general department or
ders, to test air currents among the
clouds , above .their home station at i
Jtockaway, Hi, Y. J
The officer set out in a free, bap-,
I xn. which ""let .tro about noon me
mber 13. .1 he bisr bag rose grace
fully into the sky and drifted gently
Tnrn to Vat Four, Column Tixt) y
Rumors' About Secret
Clause in Alliance With
Japan Are Denounced
Tokio, Jan. 11. The rumor from
America of a secret clause itr tin
'Anglo Japanese alliance is de
nounced by the Jiji Shimpo as in the
rlass of mischievous canards, and the
talk of war between Japan and the
United States as similarly mis
chievous, particularly, at this time,
when, it says, the disarmament idea
is making headway.
The Jij: Shimpo expresses the hope
that President-fleet Harding will
shortly announce his views on dis
armament, and also his plan for an
association of nations.
Kokumin Shimbun. commenting
pn disarmament discussion, says:
"This is America's day: others can
'only listen to her simultaneous plea
for disarmament and he biggest
tiavv." .
The Jiji Shimpo, in its nrtiele, said
that as for a naval race between
America, Japan, and England, this
would be incomparably more foolish
than the Anglo-German naval race
before the war. In the latter ease,
it points out, the danger of war exist
ed, nut as tor the present situation,
declared the most fantastically
inmaea politician. 11 possessed oi a
gram of common sense, cannot tm
agine a Japanese-American war."
Austrian Government
At End of Resources
London, Jan. 11. The Austrian
government has announced to the
entente that it is at the end of its
resources and no longer is in a posi
tion to continue, according to a re
port which has reached official Ger
man quarters, says a London Times
dispatch from Berlin. "
The government has declared its
intention to retire January 15, and
place the administration oi the
country in the hands of the repara
tions commision, the dispatch adds.
Former Attorney General
Fined for Killing Ducks
Joplin, Mo.. Jan 11. Frank Mc
Allister, who retired yesterday as
attorney general of Missouri and
four Kansas City men were fined $10
and costs each by Federal Judge A.
S. Van Valkenburgh for violating
the migratory bird act by hunting
ducks out of season, following their
indictment by a federal grand jury, ;
late yesterday.
The alleged offense was committed
two years ago. The costs, it is said,
will aggregate several hundred dol
lars. Rapid City Voters Adopt
Plan for City Manager
Rapid Citv. S. D.. Ian. II. -Rapid
City adopted the 'manager plan of
government by a vote of 587 to 276
at the special election held yester
day. This will be the first city, in
South Dakota to have its affairs con
ducted in this manner.
The nroposition to establish a
CnftrM m
Oaaha P.
Omaha Boy Made Sta
In Motion Pictur
Ray M. Bourgeois.
Ray M. Bourgeois. 24, son of Mr.
land Mrs. H. J. Bourgeois of Omaha,
has signed a contract to star in
Famous Players Lasky corporation
motion piqtures. Young Bourgeois
was educated at St. Cecelias
academy and Creighton university.
He began writing moving picture
scenarios several years ago, but with
little success.
He was chosen as one of the
three handsomest men in 'lO.OOO in
a contest conducted by the Univer
sal Film company, but before he
was made any offer he enlisted in
the navy, shortly after this country
cntenfd the war. His mother is
with him in Hollywood, where he
is taking the leading part in a pic
ture now being filmed.
The cider Bourgeois, propietor of
the Dutch Mill, restaurant, expects
to go to California and visit his
son soon.
Deportation of
Lord Mayor Asked
By
State Officer
Counsel for O'Callaghan De
clares Action i of State De
partment Will Be Con
tested Through Courts.
Washington, Jan. 11. Deportation
of Donal O'Callaghan, lord mayor of
Cork, who arrived at Newport News
last week as a stowaway and without
a passport, was requested of "the De
partment of Labor today by Acting
Secretary Davis of the State depart
ment. Mr. Davis' request was in writing.
He quoted, as his authority for act
ing, the proclamation by President
Wilson on August 8, 1918, designat
ing the secretary of state as the one
who shall decide whether an alien
coming under passport regulations
should be admitted or denied ad
mission to the country.
New York, Jan. 11. The legal
right of the State department to
issue an order of deportation for
Lord Mayor Donal O'Callaghan of
Cork, requested today by Acting
Secretary of State Davis, will be
contested in the courts if necessary,
counsel for the lord mayor an
nounced here today.
Washingon, Jan. 11. Don'al O'Callaghan,-
lord mayor of Cork, who ar
rived in the United States as a stow
away and in whose case the State de
partment has refused to waive the
passport requirements, is to appear
Thursday before the commission of
the committee of 100 investigating
conditions in Ireland.
November Collections
Of Income and Profits
Taxes Show Increase
Washington. Jan. 11. Collections
of income and excess profits' taxes
for November increased by more
than $20,000,000 as compaicd with
November, 1919, according to re
ports made public by the bureau
of internal revenue. Receipts were
$70,212,075 ' as against 49,740,220
for the same month of 1919
Aggregate receipts of the bureau
for the month from all sources
totaled $187,084,948. an increase of
more than $23,109,000 over Novem
ber, 1919, but the aggregate receipts
from the beginning of -the fiscal
year, amounting .to $1.579 083,640.
fell off by over $138,585,210. as
against the corresponding period
of 1919. .
Vienna Unions Threaten
To Hang All Profiteers
Vienna. Jan. 11. Threats to hang
profiteers to lamp posts were made
by metiers of several unions at a
conference with Chancellor Mayr.
The conference had been called by
the chancellor to devise means of
checking rising prices.
Notice was served upon the gov
ernment that unless it could show,
before the end of the month, that
measures had been- taken which
would suppress profiteering, mem
bers of these organizations would
"take the law in their own hands
and hang the guilty to lamp posts."
Man Sentenced to Pen for
Kidnaping His Own Niece
Rupert.' Idaho. Jan. 11. A. R.
Cow gill, 23 years old. arrested two
weeks ago at Pocatello. Idaho, on the
charge of kidnaping his 12-year-old
niece, pleaded guilty when arraigned
before Judge Babcock yesterday and
was sentenced to serve from three
to 25 years m the penitentiary. When
arrested Cowgill and the girl, the
prosecution alleged, were in an auto-
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Governor
Measures Introduced in House
Would Abolish Budget Sys
tem and Several Code
Secretaries.
Bonus 'Bill Is Presented
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 11. (Special.)
Gov. S. R. McKclvie would be
stripped of much of the power vest
ed in him under the civil admin
istrative code bill passed at the last
session in a series of bills introduced
today by Byrum of Franklin county.
These bills, with others introduced
by "Byrum, would abolish the pres
ent budget system, inaugurate a
new one and put a number of the
governor's code secretaries out of
business. Briefly, Byrum in his bills
proposed the following:
Takes auditing power from secre
tary of finance.
Takes budget preparing power
from department 'of finances.
Takes power from governor to ap
point inspectors and assistants for
pure food law enforcement.
Divests governor control over de
partment of trade and commerce.
Abolishes Secretaries.
Abolishes secretaries of finance,
agriculture, trade and commerce and
public works. Transfers their duties
respectively to state treasurer, land
commissioner, secretary of state and
lieutenant governor. Increases sal
ary of lieutenant governor to $5,000
a year.
Creates Jiew budget commission,
comprising treasurer, auditor and a
state budget supervisor to be chosen
by both branches of legislature. The
supervisor's salary shall be $5,000 a
year. ,The budget shall be turned
Over to governor, who may prune it
or add to it, but must put reasons
for actions in writing and present
both reports to legislature for final
approval. '
Druesedow's "Deposition" Bill.
Druesedow of Omaha introduced a
bill tended to avert "doctoring and
depositions. LTnder th provisions
of the Druesedow .bill no clerk or
stenographer for interested party
would have the right to assist in tak
ing depositions.
A soldiers' bonus bill and two mea
sures affecting the Metropolitan
Water district of Omaha Were in
cluded in 45 bills introduced into
the - state , legislature today. Of
these nieasiires, 26 wjjre introduced
in the senate, and 19 in the lower
house.' .. . ,'
Charles LT Saunders and John W.
Robbins of Omaha introduced two
measures in the senate, one of which
would permit the Metropolitan
Water district of Omaha to assess
abutting property owners who bene
fit from the improvement, for the
expense of gas main-extensions, as in
the case of water mains at present.
The other would permit the water
district to increase the interest rate
on bonds from 5 to 7 per cent.
Presents Bonus Bill.
Brantly L. Sturdevant of Holt
county presented a soldier bonus
measure in the lower house which
would give all who served in the
world war. including nurses, $15 a
month bonus for the length of serv
ice up to a maximum of $50. He
(Turn to Paa-p Foor, Column One)
Nonpartisan League
Opponents Unite for
Campaign in Kansas
Salina, Kan., Jan. 11. Nonpartisan
league opponents, united under the
"American constitutional defense
league of Kansas," began a campaign
to defeat efforts of A. C. Townley
and his workers to establish the
league as a factor in Kansas poli
tics. The 500 former service men who
came here yesterday to perfect or
ganized resistance to the Nonpartisan
invasion returned home today, to
meet the league workers in the
"grass roots" with an orderly cam
paign of "publicity under counter
propaganda." Townley's forces, which gathered
yesterday for the first public meet
ing of the league in the state since
Townley came here to convert the
Kansas farmers, scattered to the
rural communities to resume their
membership solici.ation.
Threatens Hotel Owner
By Letter and Telephone
Fred Castle, owner of the Castle
hotel, received a threatening note by
messenger from the Clarcmont Inn
yesterday afternoon which read:
"A rattlesnake always warns be
fore he strikes. I am warning you.
Fred Cowhey.
"I'm coming down to the hotel and
will kill Castle in the lobby of his
own hotel," the man giving his nam":
as Cowhey told a clerk at the Castle
over the telephone a few minutes
after the note had been delivered.
Police found Cowhey at the Clare
mont Inn, intoxicated, they say. "I
wasn't responsible," he said. He is
being held for investigation.
Private Funeral Services
For Embezzler:Suicide
Spokane. Jan. 11. Private funeral
services were held today for John
B. Milholland. declared by the authori
ties to have committed suicide Sun
day night, when officers sought to
arrest him for the alleged embez
zlement of $353,000 from James F.
Callahan, a wealthy mining man of
Wallace, Idaho.
Man Dies of Poison
Idaho Falls," Jan. 11. Mistaking a
bottle of carbolic acid for a bottle
of medicine, John H. Sayre, promi
nent pioneer ot eastern Idaho, died
from the effects of the ooison at his
Itnmi firar here i ' "' ,
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OMAHA, WEDNESDAY,
Camera Man Seeking
Picture of Woman on
Fast Gets Thrashing
I Danville, 111., Jan. 11. Harry
Birch, motion picture Camera man
i from Chicago, was soundly thrashed
by Lrnest Harrington, whose wite is
on a hunger strike to force her hus
band to become a church member.
Birch, it is said, went to the Har
rington home and attempted to gain
admittance, saying Harrington had
given him permission. An attendant
asked Harrington about it.
"No," he answered, "throw him
out." '
I Birch then was told to leave the
j residence.
I "We arc getting enough notoriety
as it is and I don't want tool pictures
j of me going all over the world," said
Harrington.
Harrington then toftk Birch to the
woodshed and administered such a
beating that the victim lost con
sciousness. When he came to Har
rington was gone and two strangers
directed him to a doctor. j
All Inauguration
Ceremony Plans
Are Abandoned
President-Elect Harding Will
Take Oath of Office in Sen
ate Chamber, Is Latest
Announcement.
Washington, Jan. 11. President
elect Harding will take the oath of
office in the senate chamber and all
outside ceremonies planned at the
capitol and elsewhere will be aban
doned, according to a decision reach
ed today by 'the joint congressional
inaugural committee. After consid
ering Senator Harding's request for
a simple inaugural, the congressional
committee canceled plans for out
side ceremonies at the capitol, for
a large reviewing stand and for of
ficial invitations.
Many expensive and magnificent
gowns ordered weeks ago by women
for the inaugural ball soon may be
dumped upon the bargain counters of
Washington as a result of canceled
orders.
Florists, it was said, also expected
the loss of hundreds of orders, actual
and prospective.
Urges Abandonment '
Of Celebration Plans
By PHILIP KINSLEY.
Cblrafo Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Marion, O., Jan. 11. Complete
abandonment of all plans for an in
augural celebration, including the
-parade. and ball.-Js urged by Presi
dent-elect Harding in messages sent
last night to Senator P. C. Knox,
chairman of the congressional com
mittee. yMr. Harding has watchdd with dis
may the plans for an elaborate ccle-
(Tnrn to Pairs Four, Colnmn Six)
Date for Arrival of
Electoral Delegates
At Capital Is Named
Washington, D. C, Jan. 11. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Attorney General
Davis of Nebraska, who has ex
pressed considerable doubt as to just
when the messenger or messengers
carrying the electoral vote of the
state would deliver the same to the
vice-president, as provided by law,
called upon Congressman Reavis to
day to settle the question, in view
of much agitation as to when the
delegates should leave for Washing
ton. Mr. Reavis interviewed the vice
president and called his attention
to the vagueness of the law rela
tive to the delivery of the electoral
vote by messenger. Mr. Marshal
jakingly said:
"We have two sources of infor
mation as to the vote in Nebraska;
through the State department and by
mail to the secretary of the senate.
If the messenger carries the vote it
must be in my office by midnight on
the fourth Monday in January, other
M.isc we iwll have to count the vote
as we find it recorded in the office
of the secretary of state."
Naval Flying Boats
Prove Seaworthiness
Washington, Jan. 11. Recent
aerial maneuvers on the Pacific coast
have demonstrated to the satisfac
tion of naval officials the seaworth
iness of the F-5-L type of flying
boats, it was announced at the Navv
department. Recently flying boat
No. 11, attached to the Pacific fleet,
was forced to land at sea with waves
so high that a sub-chaser ordered to
rescue the crew reported it could not
leave harbor. Nearly eight hours
later a destroyer took off the crew,
none the worse for their experience,
while the plane weathered the storm
When the seaplane force of the
Pacific fleet enroutc south for win
ter maneuvers with the combined
fleet, arrived at Salina Cruz, Mex.,
a severe storm was raging, but the
big planes made the landing without
injury.
' Democrats Lonesome in
Wyoming Legislature
Cheyenne, Jan. 11. With a lone
democrat holding down the job of
the minority in the house and three
hold-over 'democrats in the senate,
the 16th session of the state legis
lature opened here this afternoon.
Mrs. MacSwiney in England
Loudon, Jan. 11. Mrs. Terence
MacSwiney disembarked here today
from the steamship Panhandle Sate,
which arrived from New York. Only
two or three friends gree'.ed her.
She intends to remain in England
a few days and then proceed to
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JANAURY 12. 1921.
Lloyd George "I've Invited De Valera to Sit in This Game on Condition He Recognize My Right to Hold
These Twe Cards in Every Hand."
Opponents Plan
Bitter Fidit on
Tariff Measure
Many. Amendments Meant to.
Delay Action on Emergency
Bill in Senate Hear
ings Concluded.
Washington. Jan. 11. 'Hearings
on the Fordney emergency tariff
bill were concluded by the senate
finance committee tonight, after an
other day of appeals, cither to be
excluded or included, had opened up
what supporters of the measure
feared and opponents hoped, would
add amendments to the bill.
Senators McCumber of North
Dakota and La Follette of Wiscon
sin, republican members of the com
mittee, after the hearings announced
they had statements to make rela
tive to the tariff. These will be
read at a session Thursday; when,
it was indicated, several other sena
tors would also declare their atti
tude. The close of the hearings brought
indications of a concentration of ef
forts among opponents;, and the
turbulence with which some discuss
ed the question was accepted to
mean they would go far in their
fight against passage.
A dozen amendments are pending.
Some, their sponsors assert, are in
tended to be facetious but for Wvi
direct purpose of taking up the time
of the senate and, if possible killing
the bill. Senators Thomas of Colo
rado and Harrison of Mississippi,
democrats, said that they would
seek to have the soldier bonus and
immigration bills tacked on the tariff
measure.
Another senator, it was reported,
was prepared to introduce an amend
ment which would include the bill to
recodify the nation's laws and to
demand that this amendment be
read. It is a document of sufficient
length to keep reading clerks busy
two weeks.
First Big Sale of Herefords
This Year Held at Hastings
Hastings, Neb., Jan. 11. (Special
Telegram.) The first big sale of
Hereford cattle this year was held
here by H. Gatidreault & Sons, net
ting $39,335 for 64 head. It was the
firm's first sale here and comprised
offerings from their Hastings and
Brady Island. Neb., herds, headed by
the famous " Anxiety Fourth bull,
Bean Randolph. Don Carlos No.
942.704 at $2,400. was the top animal
and was brought by Mackey, broth
ers of Eustis, Neb.
Anatole France, Author,
Joins Communist Section
Paris, Jan. 11. Anatole Ftance,
the author, has announced his ad
hesion to the communist section of
the French socialist party. This ac
tion on his part was not unexpected,
as he began last October to write
articles favoring scvietisin, saying
that the advancement of soviet prin
ciples was one of the principal under
takings of his life.
Ford Gaining in Recount
Of Michigan Election
Washington, Jan. 11. With 597 of
the 2.200 Michigan precincts recan
vassed. the recount of votes in the
senatorial contest between Senator
Newberry and Henry Ford showed
a net gain for the latter of 31
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American Scores
Communist Rule
Man Released From Moscow
Prison : Says Reds Bring
Starvation to Rugshu
Berlin, Jan. 11. (By The Asso-:
dated Press.) ''Communism in Rus
sia is robberism; it tolerates im
prisonment, persecution and execu
tion without trial; it has ; brought
Russia starvation, disease- and death
There is no government. It is a
worse autocracy than czaristic gov
ernment and I lived there tor over
20 years under the czar," , M.
Schwartz, American socialist of San
Francisco, recently released from
four months' imprisonment in Mos
cow, declared. With his wife,
known 20 years in America as a
socialist worker uuder the name of
Jessie M. Molla, he went to Russia
last Jurtc and attended the second
congress of the third internationale.
The couple were , thrown into
prison August 6, because they failed
to approve conditions in Russia.
They were released December 3,
after Mrs. Schwartz went on a hun
ger strike, and sent to Lcnine, Trot
sky and Tchitcherin notification she
preferred to have her death adver
tised to the working classes of Amer
ica rather than suffer further hard
ships at the hands of the bolheviki,
whom she believed , exponents of
justice to the workers until she ar
rived in Russia. ,
Mrs. Schwartz died at Reval. De
cember 20, from the effects of her
long solitary confinement and hun
ger, and her htfsband is returning to
America to given even worse pictutes
of conditions in Russia than many
Italian, British and German delegates
to the congress of the third interna
tionale have painted, v
Community Store Is
Closed by Creditors
Norfolk, Neb., Jan. 11. (Special.)
The Community store of .Norfolk,
under the management of H. C.
Peters, head of the community stores
of Nebraska, was closed by creditors,
who filed an involuntary petition in
bankruptcy in referee's court here.
Frank Warner, counsel for the store,
announced the closing of his client's
business and intimated that the shut
down was permanent. It is under
stood that the store, which has been
opened a very short time, has a large
amount of debts.
Simplification of Utah
State Government LJrged
Salt Lake Cit', Jan. 11. Simpli
fication of state government by the
consolidation of boards and com
missions was urged by Gov. Charles
R. Mabey in addressing a joint ses
sion of the legislature this afternoon.
The governor declared that if addi
tional revenue was needed one of the
means which should be employed
was an extra tax on motor vehicles.
He urged the legislators to keep be
fore them the need for eronomv. '
Fast Day Is Proclaimed
By Mormon Church Heads
Salt Lake City. Jan." 11. A fast
day throughout the Mormon church
was proclaimed by President Heber
L Grant and his counselors, in be
half of the starving children of Eu
rope. Sunday, January 23, has been
&U aside as it special fast- day.
Union Farmers
Meet In Omaha;
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Want More Laws
National Secretary Pleads fori
Increased Legislation - to
.. Protect Interests of
Landmen.
More than 500 Nebraska farmers
attended the ope!VT.j of the Farmers'
Educational Co-Operation union at
the City Auditorium yesterday.
In his opening address- II. C.
Davis, national secretary, declared
the "middleman", must be elinrnatcd
and that the farmers should adopt
some method whereby they can dis
pose of their crops to consumers
more directly.
"We raise the crops and get them
ready for market. We then sit
around and let some one else manip
ulate prices and make the money.
We should do the selling ourselves
and what profit there is should go
to us."
Wants More Laws.
Mr. Davis said there should be
more legislation which will not only
help, but protect the farmer. He
said the farmer having grain stored
in warehouses or elevators should be
able to borrow money on their ware
house receipts.
"Some system should be adopted
by the government which would car
ry over surplus crops and prevent a
glutting of the market. Small crops
often bring more money than large
crops. By carrying over surplus
crops a more uniform market would
be maintained."
Mr. Davis asked the farmers to
urge the Nebraska bankers to estab
lish a better system of short time
credit. He characterized the present
method as "bunglesome and ot little
real aid."
Membership Campaign.
J. David Larson, commissioner of
the Chamber of Commerce, delivered
tin address of welcome.
Other speeches were made by C.
C. Gustafson, president, and J. O.
Dornblaser, Clebirn, Tex., national
organizer.
Both men urged the members to
help jn a membership campaign
which will be started soon in which
the member farmers hope to get t
least half the farmers of Nebraska
to ioin.
In the afternoon various commit
tee reports and the annual reports cf
the president, secretary and treasurer
were read. - Thre was no meeting
last night.
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THREE CENTS
Time Ripe
For Limit on
Navy Forces
Harding Should Call Disarm
ament Conference Within
Two Months After Inaugu
ration, Secretary Says.
Urges World Agreement
Hy Tho AM-latl I'rraa.
Washington, Jan. 11. The present
time was described as ripe for a
movement toward limitation of naval
armaments by international agree
ment by Secretary Daniels and acting
secretaries of the State department in
testimony today before house naval
affairs committee.
Secretary Daniels declared that in
his opinion, the move might properly
be made by President-elect Harding,
who, he said, could call and hold an
international disarmament conference
within two mouths after his inau
guration." ,
Mr. Harding, as president, he
pointed out, would have authori
zation to call such a conference
under the 1916 naval appropriation
act.
Explains Wilson's Stand.
Secretary Davis said President
Wilson had not called such a con
ference because he felt such action
would embarrass the new adminis
tration. Mr. Wilson did not use ihe
powers granted him in the 1916 act
after the war. Mr, Daniels added,
because he thought participation by "
the United States in the league of
nations would result.
The committee was urged by Mr.
Daniels to authorize continuance of
work on the uncompleted part of
the 1916 three-year naval building
program until an international
agreement was reached. He asserted
if no such agreement could be ob
tained, the United States should
build "the greatest navy is the
world."
Asked by Chairman Butler if
Great Britain's situation did not,
entitle that nation to command of
the sea, Mr. Daniels stated he did
not subscribe to this belief.
Moral Obligation.
"The United States has the long
est coast line," he said, "and has
Alaska, Hawaii. Guam and the Phil
ippines to protect, as well as a moral
obligation in South America under
the Monroe doctrine." 1
The pending Borah resolution,
proposing a 50 per cent reduction
: in naval programs for the next five
years by the United States, Great
the discussion by Representative
the naval secretary opposed the
Borah proposal on the grounds it
would leave this country second in
naval strength and did not take in
to consideration armed land forces.
No Evidence of Fraud
In Government Ship
Contracts Revealed
Washington, Jan. l. Some "in
stances of improper expenditure of
money by shipyards building gov
ernment merchant sfr'ps but no evi
dence of fraud have been round in
reviewing clainis and settlements,
Tilden Adamson, assistant to the
general comptroller of the shipping
board, testified before the special
house committee which renewed in
vestigation into the board's opera
tions. Final payments on the claims had
been held up, he said, "until we
could determine whether cl?.ims '
covered proper expenditures" lie
added that some vards had soent
for yard enlargement, money ad
vanced for the corstruction of
ships.
He testified that the board of
trustees of the emergency fleet cor
poration, which until a few months
ago had final jurisdiction over set
tlement of claims, "settled s-mie
claims in eveess of the amounts rec
ommended by the shipping board
adjusters," who had investigated the
validity of the claims.
"Hand-Picked,; System
Of Immigration Urged
Chicago, Jan. 11. A plea by F.
A. Wallis, commissioner of immigra
tion of New York, for a "hand-picked
system of immigration" which
would bring the desirable immigrant
and exclude the undesirable, and an
attack on the excess profits tax by
Congressman Ira Copley of Auro- .
ra. III., with au "ultimate sales tax"
recommended as a substitute, were
made in an address before the Illi
nois Manufacturers' association.
Both speakers referred ir bolshc
vism in explaining their views. Mr.
Wallis blaming "improper systems
of immigration" for what he term
ed bolshevik tendencies, wihle Con
gressman Copley placed the respon
sibility on unjust taxation.
Attempt to Enforce Sunday
Blue Law in New York Fails
New York, Jau. 11. An attempt
to punish a man for making out bills
on Sunday failed here when H. B.
Divorsky, a manufacturer, was dis-
c,!:irFed
"Iherc is no such thing as a 'Sun-
day blue law' and a man has a right
... . i. i e
mi Hint in ins oiiue on cunuay so
long as he is not engaged in the
sjle of merchandise," ruled the
inrgistrate.
Plan Aerial Derby
Washington, Jan. 11. An aerial
derby, including a race between
dirgible airships, the first of the kind
in the world, will be held soon al
Long Beach, Cal., the Navy depart
ment announced today. The naval
i!iri(?ible B-ltf will be sent from San
Diego to race a similar shia to be
entered by a commercial
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