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The Omaha Daily Bee 1't ) Hi 3 jK. 1 t J VOL. 30 NO. 276. WBbrah Plan Left Out of Naval Bill Senate Committee Refuses to Include Clause Authorizing President to Call Disarm anient Conference. Increase - Appropriation j J, By The Aaaoclatrd Trrot. Washington, May 4. Administra tion forces won the first skirmish to day in the impending senate fight over naval disarmament. Guided by the wishes of President Harding, the senate naval commit tee refused to incorporate in the an nual naval appropriation measure the proposal of Senator Borah, republi can, Idaho, authorizing the chief nxecutive to invite Great Britain and Japan to send representatives to a disarmament conference. Before the committee acted Sena tor Borah had reintroduced his pro posal in the senate and moved to sus pend the rules to make it in order. senator Fomerene, democrat, Ohio, give notice he also intended to pre sent a disarmament, amendment to the naval bill. His amendment would ask the president to delay the build ing program six months while an ef fort was being made to arrange a conference between the United States, Great Britain and Japan. - May Suspend Building. Should an agreement to limit con struction be reached the president 1 might suspend the building program in whole or in part. It is understood administration loaders plan to delay action on pro posals for international disarmament because of the desire of the president not to have this question initiated in congress during the present state of international relations. , As favorably reported today by the naval committee, the annual naval "Bill, which failed at the last session, provides not only funds for continu ing construction on the uncompleted 1916 program, but also for a per sonnel 20,000 in excess of the 100.000 proposed by the house. It also car ries funds for beginning work on naval bases on the Pacific coast. Appropriation Increased. The committee increased the house total $396,000,000 to $496,500,000, or , the same figures in the bill as failed , in the senate last March. The prin cipal increases voted today include If 12.000,000 for aviation. $15,000,000 to start work on two new aircraft cat1 riers, about $7,000,000'to begin con struction of a new fleet base at. Ala meda, Cal., and other Pacific coast es. and about257.00Q.000 to exoedit construction of capital ships. There also were large increases tor pay and support of personnel. Senator Poindexter, republican, Washington, plans to report the amended measure to the senate to morrow with a view to calliug it up next week. M. F. Ihmsen, Publisher Of Los Angeles Paper, Dies After Long Illness l os Angeles, May '4. M. F. Ihm- sei publisher ot ttie i-os Angeies Examiner, died today after an ill n;sg of nearly two years. He is sur vived by a "widow and daughter. Mr. Ilimsen, who was born in Pittsburgh in 1868, began his news paper career there in 1888. He joined the Hearst service ui 189o. . He was active in national politics and had; been secretary of the Nation al Association of Democratic Clubs and a member of the democratic na tional congress committee. He organized the Municipal Own ership league in New York, which nominated W. R. Hearst for mayor in 1905. He was Mr. Hearst's cam paign manager. The following year he organized the Independent league in New York, which resulted in the nomination for Mr. Hearst as gov ernor. , ie was me candidate in ivu or party for sheriff of New York coun ty. The following year he came to .fSs Angeles, as publisher of the Examiner. Industrial Workers Plan Annual Convention May 9 Chicago, May 4. The tact hat four score industrial workers of the world have been sentenced to the penitentiary to serve sentences for wartime conspiracies against the gov ernment will have no effect on ihe plans for the 13th national convention ot tne organization, wnicn is scnea uled to be held here May 9, accord ing to I. W. W. officials. The. convention will be the begin ning of . a new life for the organiza tion, according to Roy Brown, chairman of the national executive council. "Love Bungalow" Death Suicide, Say Police - Los Angejes, May 4. A suicide theory in the mysterious death of Marie Vance in Los Angeles oa April 5, the particulars of which arc now under probe by local and Chi cago authorities, is advanced by Cap tain of Detectives Charles R. Mo:' fatt. That the girl, apparently deserted by her fiance and suffering from an agonizing and hopeless illness, took nicotine poison to end her mis ery is a very probable solution, Cap tain Moffatt said he believed. t,f irni-j l Dayton. O., May 4. A. G. Pen dleton, 25, civilian employe of Mc- i Cook held, was icmea wnen a plane 1 crashed to earth in view of hundred! , of spectators at the Community Countrv club. Lieutenant James Wart, pilot, was seriously injured. Fattrt at BteoK-CUH Mitttr Omaha P. 0. Uatr Act el :Fras!TII Of Death of Napoleon Paris, May 4. France today be gan a two-day observance of the centenary of the death of Napoleon. At 5:49 o'clock Thursday afternoon a salvo of artillery at the Invalides will mark the passing of a century j since the death of the great warrior at St. Helena and will close the exercises. A memorial service was held early today in Noire Dame cathedral. Cardinal Dubois, archbishop of Paris, presided. 'I lie chief feature of tomorrow's exercises, will be a military review at the Arc De Triomphe. The concluding ceremony will be the granting of solemn, absolution by Cardinal Dubois in the chapel of the Invalides. adjoining the tomb of Na poleon. On this occasion, Marshal Foch, commander of the mightiest host in the world's history, will do homage to the little Corsican. The celebration appeared, how ever, to have little appeal for the general public. AnselFs Partner Confirms Charge In Bergdoll Case Declares Judge Wescott Knew All About "Pot of Gold" Before Draft Dodger Escaped. Washington, May 4. Edward S. Bailey, law partner of Samuel T. Ansell, corroborated before a house investigating committee, Ansell's testimony that former Judge John VV. Wescott of New Jersey knew all about the story of "the pot of gold" before Grover Bergdoll, draft dodg er, escaped. Mr. Bailey corroborated the An sell testimony, denied by Wescott, that the judge went to the War de partment to see the secretary in the prisoner's behalf and remained softie time without seeing him. Testifying after .Mr. Ansell had been subjected to a severe cross examination by Representative John son, democrat, Kentucky, Bailey re lated the gist of a conversation as to plans by which the lawyers hoped to obtain the release under guard, of Bergdoll, to recover his hidden fortune and in which the late D. Clarence Gibboney and Judge Wes cott took part. Responsibility for changing mili tary plans, by which Bergdoll was permitted to stop over in Philadel phia to visit his motlfer.rfell proper ly upon the shoulders of Mr. Gib boney. Mr. Bailey declared. It was from' his mother's house that Berg doll escaped. ' - Mr. Bailey told of a talk he had with Bergdoll at the Governor's is land prison, of the" hitter's tale of the gold, and of the military plans for a speedy trip to find it. Mr. Bailey declared Gibboney took a personal interest in the prisoner and promised, in event of his acquital, to take him to Philadelphia and try, and make a man of him. Mr. Johnson insisted that as he had promised to stand responsible for the safe return of the prisoner, the former acting judge advocate general of the army was in duty bound to do so. Mr. .Ansell con tended, however, that even if there had been an error of judgment the request for the man's release was made in good faith and that undfer military regulations the authorities and not the lawyers, were respon sible for his safe keeping. Woman Asks Dahlraan G.H.Q. If She May "Home Brew" Barney McArdle, in charge of the Dahlman headquarters in the Bran deis theater building, yesterday was besieged with telephone calls of con gratulations and queries. . But one question captured the mahogany ash can, he said. About noon a woman's voice over the telephone asked: "Is this the Dahlman headquar ters?" "Yes," replied Barney, in an ex pectant tone. "Well, I just called," returned tha woman's voice, "to ask you whether one can make home brew now?" ".No, madam." Barney says he told her. "When the new administration takes the city reins Mav 17 there'll be no more home brew.1' Chapter of Lions Club Organized at Columbus Columbus, Neb.. , May 4. (Spe cial.' The Columbus Lions club, to be affiliated with the international as sociation of Lions club, was organ ized in Columbus with a charter membership of 50 business and pro fessional men. Orlando Jones of Chicago, field director for the Lions, perfected the organization. Each club is an organization of boosters pledged to take active interest in promoting matters of civic welfare and co-op erate with the chamber of commerce and other civic bodies. A full set of officers was elected. Columbus Doctors Elected .To College of Surgeons Columbus. Neb., Mav 4. (Spe cial.) Dr. F. H. Morrow and Dr. C. H. Campbell have been advised of their election to membership in the American College of Surgeons. Dr. A. C. Allenburger has been a member for some years. Columbus, it is understood; is the only city in Nebraska, aside from Omaha and Lincoln, with a repre sentation of three members in the organization. Plague Rages in Vladivostok Washington, May 4. A serious outbreak of pneumonic plague at Vladivostok, Siberia, is reported in a cablegram received today at Amer ican Red Cross .headquarters here. The message gave no details. Red Cross officials said this plague wai UK-re deadly than the bubonic j plague. May !. INI. at March 8. 1179. llndu stries!ArT!i T,, In Need of Protection Anti-Dumping Provisions of Tariff Bill Will Not Prevent Underselling, Says Sen ator McCumber. Foreign Prices Lower By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. Chicago Trlbune-Omnha Bee Leased Wire. Washington, May 4. That the anti-dumping provision of the emer gency tariff bill will not halt the present underselling of American products bv foreien products in j American markets was admitted by 'Senator McCumber of North Dako ta, ranking republican member of the Finance committee, in opening the debate on the measure in the senate today. This underselling will continue in increasing volume until American prices fall and American wages are lowered or until the tariff on the competing foreign products is raised. Such protection will be af forded agriculture products by the emergency tariff bill and other prod ucts, it is contemplated, by the permanent tariff law to be enacted several months hence. The anti-dumping section provides an additional duty to be assessed on foreign goods dumped on American markets at prices below the home market value. It will be ineffective because there are no foreign goods being dumped in American and will not - be until conditions radically change. Dumping Not Necessary. Foreign goods are not being dump ed here because it is not necessary to do so. American prices are so much higher than foreign prices that the foreign goods can be sold in the United States above home market prices and still undersell American competitors. With the foreign goods sold here at prices no less than the home market value the provision of the anti-dumping section will not apply to such imports. German products are reaching American markets in volume rapid ly approaching the prewar figure and American industries are alarmed by fears of the effect of German competition, but the protection sought can be afforded only by per manent tariff legislation. "I think every man in the senate realizes the condition of the indus tries tliroughout the United States at the present time," said Senator McCumber. "While we hav recog nized that industries in every lino were suffering from the reaction after the war, it was well known that the " agricultural industry was suffering more than any other. While the . farmers' product had gone down from one-third to one half in price, yet" everything the farmer had to purchase has remained at the old price. No Occasion for Clause. "I regret that the house saw fit to attach to what was purely an emergency tariff proposition other provisions, relating to anti-dumping and a new method for determining values of foreign currency, thereby injecting into this discussion new propositions. "I regret that the anti-dumping provision was attached because I can see no occasion for it. In all the hearings we had before the sen ate finance committee there was no snowing as to any dumping. Cer tainly there is no danger of the dumping of agricultural products, and there is little danger of the dumping of manufactured articles because prices in this country are so much higher than anywhere else in the world and it is not necessary for foreign manufacturers, in order to sell their products here, to dump their goods at prices below their own." Senator King of tUah, democrat, asked Senator McCumber if it were not a fact that the anti-dumping provisions are "a fraud upon the public and a pretense from which no benefit will be derived whatever." Senator McCumber replied that that was not his opinion. f "Isn't it possible," continued Sen ator King, "for this anti-dumping provision to be so administered as to perpetuate a monopoly in the United States or permit manufactur ers in the United states to perpetu ate present prices?" "I do not think that is possible," replied Senator McCumber. Paper Company to Sell Groceries to Employes Oregon City, Ore., May 4. The Crown-Willemete pulp and paper company, which last week posted notices reducing employes wages 20 per cent, today notified its employes that to protect them from merchants who might be inclined to profiteer, the company would sell groceries and case goods to its workers at cost, plus 10 per cent. Burglars Ram Door of Shoe Store and Steal $1,000 Loot Burglars backed a truck up to the back- of the Loyal Shoe store, 4721 South Twenty-fourth street Tuesday night, tried to open the back door by boring holes around the lock and failing in this battered the door in with a large ram. They loaded 200 pair of shoes val ued at $1,000 on the truck, according to J. Shame, manager. People living upstairs said they heard a great noise at the back of the store but didn't suspect burglars. Woman Drowns Children. Clarence Mullenix, 36, drowned her two children, a girl of 8 and a boy of 6, 'last Saturday, it became knevn today. She lived on a farm. Y. M. C. A. Drive Beatrice, Neb.. Mar 4. Special.) ; A drive for a $.j.UUO . .M. (. A. 1 fund is under way here, OMAHA, THURSDAY, 111 uvuu iiicii mat Washington, May 4. Jules W. Arnstein and the four other defend ants on trial here on charges of con spiracy to bring stolen securities into the District of Columbia, were found guilty by a jury tonight. The other defendants were Nick Cohn, D. W. Sullivan, W. W. Easterbay and N. S. Bowles. The cases arose out of a $5,000,000 Wall street bond theft and the de fendants are expected to be placed on trial soon in New York as the next step in their prosecution. Sentence will not be imposed for two weeks. The maximum is two years' imprisonment, or $10,000 fine, or both. "United Seven" To Take Charge Of City May 17 Dahlman Resigns as Marshal Mike Demptey Slated to Succeed Ebersteiu as Chief ot Police. HOW THEY RAN. Dan B. Butler .34.037 James C. Dahlman ,...32,473 Harry B. Zimman 31,788 Joseph B. Hummel 30,682 ohn Hopkins 30,438 Henry Dunn 29,451 Joseph Koutsky 27,616 W. G. Ure 24,496 Roy N. Towl 23,064 Thomas Falconer 23.C01 J. Dean Ringer 21,881 Abraham L. Sutton 20,760 Charles A. Grimmel 19,978 John F. Murphy 19,803 The successful "United Seven" candidates who will take office Mav 17 at the city hall will meet the sec ond Tuesday after the day of election in the city council chamber to "or-' ganize and assign the seven port folios, as is provided in the law gov erning the city commission form of government." Departmental Assignments. The probable departmental assign ments will be: James C. Dahlman, mayor, in charge of public affairs. Henry W. Dunn, police, sanitation and public safety. Harry B. Zimman, lire protection. . D. B. Butler, public accounts and finance. J. B. Hummel, parks and boule vards. Joseph Koutsky, public improve ments. John Hopkins, street maintenance. Mr- Dahlman will remain in "the marshal's office until May 17. He wired his resignation of that office yesterday and arranged for his offi cial bond as city commissioner through Harry S. Byrne of the Fi delity and Deposit company of Maryland. Police Shakeup Promised. - Commissioner-elect Dunn,, in line for superintendency of. police, stated yesterday a new system will be in vogue in the police department and "several important changes will be made." M. F. Dempsey is prominently mentioned for successor to Marshall Eberstein as chief of police. Tom Dennison declined to make a statement yesterday. Abolishment of the Public Wel fare board as a result of the election "seems to be in the cards," it is re ported. Thomas Murray and Harland L. Mossman expect to retire from the (Turn to Pare Two, Column One.) Judge Rules Ticker Companies Cannot Be Held for Mistakes New York, May 4. Supreme Court Justice Tierney ruled today that the relations of a -financial ticket service to the public are the same as those of a newspaper publisher. He made this decision in dismissing a complaint in a suit brought by Gas ton Jaillet of Newark, N. J., a stock market operator in New York, to recover alleged damages against Jo seph Cashman, as treasurer of Dow, Jones & Co., ticker service opera tors. "There is a moral obligation by every one to say nothing that is not true," the court said, "but the law does not attempt to impose liability for a violation of such duty unless it constitutes a breach of contract, obli gation or trust, or amounts to a de ceit, libel or slander." The suit resulted from al alleged incorrect report sent out on March 8, 1920, on the company's ticker, as to the effect of a decision of the United States supreme court on the taxable status of stock dividends as an income. Cheese Prices Slump. Waterloo. N. Y., May 4. For the first time, in six years, cheese' was being bought in northern New York markets for 14 cents a pound. Deal ers report there is no market even at that price. A years ago cheese was selling at the factory for 28 to 30 cents. ' Return From .Washington Washington, May 4. (Special Telegram.) -President Robert Trim ble and Commissioner J. David T.ar son of the Omaha Chamber of Com merce, who have beeij in Washington for several days, left -this afternoon for home. Censorship Bill Killed Madison, Wis., May 4. Motion picture censorship by a board of te vicw established under the .in dustrial commission, failed to receive the approval of the senate today i which -killed the bill, 27 to 4. MAY 5, 1921. Nebraska Bank Cashier Flees; Accounts Short Cashier of Belvidere Bank j Disappears on Same Day ! Brother Goes to Prison For Defalcation. Lincoln, May 4. (Special.) Will iam Barge, cashier of the Farmers State bank, Belvidere, Neb., has dis appeared from home, leaving a short age in 'his accounts. He left Belvidedc last Monday, the day when his brother, Herbert H. Barge, cashier of the Farmers State bank of Hoskins, Neb., entered the state penitentiary here to serve a term for defalcation from that bank, to which he confessed. The disappearance of the second Barge brother was a mystery until yesterday when his wife received a letter from him which said in part: "I am short in my accounts in the bank. I am going away and will tot be back." The letter also is said to have ad mitted a shortage of $2,000 in Barge's account with the Belvidere school district. The letter was mailed on a North western railroad train somewhere on the Norfolk division. J. E. Hart, secretary of the de partment of finance and revenue, sent Bank Examiner J. R. Riley to take charge of the bank at Belvidere. Riley has reported that he found about $15,000 of what he considered "bad paper," including a loan of $5,000 made to Herbert II. ' Barge, the brother now in the penitentiary. At the time of the last examina tion the Belvidere bank had loans of $96,500 and deposits of $85,300. A wave of bank troubles. is sweep ing over the state, due to "general cussedness," according to Mr. Hart, and not to any general financial troubles in the country. Following the recent closing of the Farmers State bank at Hadar, Neb., it was announced today that William Lefferdink, the cashier, will be prosecuted. C. L. Dort, an assistant attorney general, went to Oshkosh, Neb., to day to appoint a receiver for a bank there. Attorney General Davis said last evening that he will leave today for another town which he declined to name to appoint a receiver for a bank. . " Fremont Makes Bid for New $300,000 Reformatory Lincoln, May 4. (Special.) George Wolz of Fremont called on the Board of Control today and added Fremont to the list of Ne braska cities which want to be chosen as the site for the $300,000 reformatory for young men author ized by the recent legislature. Other cities in the race for the institution are Ashland, Lincoln, , Raymond, North Platte and Brownville. At Brownville lives Mrs. Robert W. Furnas, widow of a former Nebraska governor. She has offered free a site for the institution. Women Urge Legislation To Regulate Meat Packers Washington, May 4. Representa tives of several women's organiza tions and of the National Grange appeared before the house agricul ture committee yesterday . to urg? passage of legislation to regulate the meat packing industry. Women Voters Write in Name Of School Board Candidate Sisterville, W. Va May 4. Wom en voters of Sisterville won their first victory at the polls yesterday when they wrote in the name of Mr?. Thomas Bell on the school board j ballot and elected her by a two-lo-lone vote over a male opponent. Ualll Jim II. ay Mall (I Vr., Dally 4 Sun.. I7.W: Dally Only, ti: lun.. tJ.M uuuiat 41h Itnt (I aar). Dally aa Sualay. Dally Only, 112; Suaaa) Only, 13 Onward Omaha ITS YO&XS f ( row; hop Poles Occupy Upper Silesia, Fight Italians! Surround Italian Regiment and Pitched Battle Fnsues Also Ci?sh With German Troops. "W ' Oppeln, Upper Silesia, May 4. (By the Associated Press.) Or ganized Polish forces, estimated at 20,000 have occupied , all of upper Silesia south of a line running from Kosel to Tarnowitz, with the ex ception of a few large towns and are moving further northward, ac cording to information supplied by a member of the interallied represen tation here. Today, according to this source, the Poles are njarching ino Gross Strehlitz, north of the aline men tioned, in a well ordered manner, us ing motor lorries and being supplied with rifles, machine guns and dyna mite. . Pitched Battle. Italian troops at Rybnik, well south in the plebiscite area, com prising a regiment of infantry and two machine gun companies, are surrounded by 3,000 Poles and a pitched battle has been going on for several hours, the informant stated this afternoon. The Italian known dead are three officers, one of them of high rank, and 12 privates.- Warsaw, March 4. (By The As sociated Press.) The insurrection ary movement in upper Silesia begun suddenly Monday night, spread rap idly in the districts of Beuthen, Plcss, Rybnik and Tarnowitz. Ac cording to the newspapers, a Polish civilian fighting organization occu pied Katowitz and other towns after machine gun encounters .with the Germans, but French troops finally controlled the situation Newspaper extras last evening re ported eight Poles .killed and 16 bounded in the Katowitz region in clashes with the Germans, in whicn the Poles attempted to gain control of the districts bordering on the Polish frontier. Adelbert Korfanty, the Polish plebiscite . commissioner in upper Silesia, has been recalled because he exceeded his powers, it was announced today. Paris, May 4. The French gov crnment, it was learned today, , has strongly impressed upon the gov ernment at Warsaw the grave con sequences to Polish interests likely to result from a Polish tuprising in Upper Silesja. Unrest has 'been re ported in this region over the rumor of an allied decision giving Poland only two districts there as a result of the recent plebiscite. A mining strike is also in progress there. Japanese Plan Big Drive Against Soviet Forces Riga, May 4. The Izvesta of' Moscow prints a report that Japan is planning decisive action against the Soviets. The newspaper declares the plan includes the bringing of the army of General Wrangel to? Siberia by Japan, this army to join, the forces of Gcnera' Scmenoff, the anti-bolsherikileader. It also asserts that the Japanese military attache in Paris dined recently with Russian officers there and promised them aid. Steamer Bringing Russ Bolshevik Gold to U. S. Christiana, Norway, May 4. Hie Scandinavian-American line steamer United States, due in New York May 11. has on board 70 sacks of gold bullion, valued at several mil lion dollars, consigned from the Swedish mail service as first class mail. The gold is Russian bolshevik gold rcmelted bv the Swedish royal mint ' ! to zt .Judge To Render Verdict In Stokes Divorce On Julvl Testimony ' Practically Com pleted on Both Sides Statement of Several Wit nesses Proved False. CHiraro Tribune-Omaha Be Leaed Wire. . New York, May 4. Justice Ed ward R. Finch announced from the bench in supreme court late this afternoon that he would give a de cision in the Stokes divorce case about July 1. This announcement was made after both sides had com pleted testimony, with the exception of calling W. E. D. Stokes, millian aire plaintiff in the case, who 'will take the stand some day next week. The court gave counsel for both sides 20 days in which to submit their briefs and 10 days more for a supplemental brief in answer to those of opposing counsel. Justice Finch said that after he has written his opinion he would check this up with the lawyer against whom he had rendered his decision. The last witness to be called for Mr. Stokes was Stephen O'Brien, sales agent for a lumber concern and former New-York lawyer, who is a friend of Edgar T. Wallace, one of the corespondents named. . He testified that he had seen Mrs. Stokes in Wallace's ajjartment at Fifth av enue and Fifty-ninth street as well as his later apartment at 13 East Thirty-fifth street. He identified Mrs. Stokes as the woman he had seen in the company of his friend. Models, and photographs of the much discussed apartment of Edgar T. Wallace occupied this morning's discussion of the case. Certain photos showing a figure standing within a window of the former Wal lace apartment were pronounced an incorrect representation of the scene. Lionel Wurtz, a professional pho tographer, today admitted Under cross-examination by Martin W. Littleton, counsel for Mrs. Stokes, that it would have been impossible to see or take a photo from the coping of anyone standing within the room in the position that witnesses for Mr. Stokes testified. Ford ,to Continue Fight For-Seat in U. 5. Senate Washington, ' May 1 4. Alfred Lucking, counsel for Henry Ford in the Detroit manufacturers' contest before the senate for the seat of Senator Newberry of Michigan, conferred with Senators regarding a continuation of the . senate's inquiry into the 1918 Michigan elections. In a statement, Mr. Lucking said that the decision of the supreme court setting aside the conviction of Senator Newberry and 16 other de fendants, -did not affect Mr. Ford's contest before the senate committee. Union Head Predicts Early " End of Strike in England :, Southampton, May 4. A prediction thatthe coal miners strike would be over in a week was made by J. II. Thomas, general, secretary of the Na tion Union of Railway'Men. He was a passenger on the steamer Olympic, sailing, for New York. Mr. Thomas, while in the United States, will attend the annual con vention of the American Federation of Labor as a fraternal delegate of jthe British trades unions congress. The Weather Forecast. Fair and warmer Thursday. Hourly Temperature. .S J 1 p. m. S 2 P. 8 p. m. m. ni. 43 47 60 h'Z it ct 9 10 4 p. ni. 8 p. m. 6 p. m. " p. m. 8 p. ni. ..Al ..S3 . .tt2 ..1 . .;? 11 a. m. i 12 noon THREE CENTS U. S. Awaits Invitation To Council Will Make Format Statement Of Position U. S, Influ ence May Still Affect " Reparations' ' German Cabinet Resigns B)' The Aaaorlaled Tm. London, May 4. A telephone mes sage from Paris gives a Berlin dis patcll saying that in view of the sit uation that arose in consequence of the reply of Secretary Hughes to Germany's counter proposals on re parations, the German government decided to resign. Chancellor Fehrenbach informed President Ebert of the cabinet's de cision, whereupon the president re quested the ministry to continue to deal with current affairs, which it Consented to do. , V Washington. -May 4. Possibility that the inllucncc of the United States in reparations settlement with Germany had not ended with the dispatch of Monday night's com munication returning the counter proposals to Berlin was seen today in the invitation of the allied supreme council to have American representa tives trnong its members as well as on the reparations commission and council of ambassadors. An official statement of the Amer ican position is expected when .'the invitation is formally received here. In some administration quarters today doubt was expressed that the United States would consent . to formal representation on the supreme council but it was suggested that it was possible that an unofficial ob server would be named to sit in at the sessions as tflie United States- is vitally interested in the reparations settlement. ' ' " Comment Withheld. State department officials said to day that the only information they had regarding proposals under con sideration by the supreme council for a blockade of Germany was that obtained from press dispatches from London. They interpreted these to mean that the allies would undertake no blockade without the approval of the United States. , ,. . Comment on this question -a!so was withheld, but it is understood that the United States would look with disfavor on such a procedure i American commerce with Germany was to be interfered with in any way. Financial Plan. - -' -London, May 4. (By The Asso-f ciated; Press.) The allied govern ments financial plan for Germany, which seemed to be a completed document yesterday, was being seoa rated today by members of the repa rations commission . into two parts. One of these is the purely legal por tion, conforming to the treaty of Versailles, while the other, chiefly (Turn to, Pate Two, Column Two.) Hiram Johnson Blocks Confirmation of Blair charges made by Senator Hiram Johnson in secret session of the sen ate yesterday blocked confinnation of the appointment of David li. Blair of North Carolina to be com missioner of internal revenue. '; .. After stormy debate behind closed doors the Blair appointment was re- ferred back to the senate finance committee for thorough investiga tion. . . ,.v ,. t Senator Johnson charged Blair,, un fit for office: 1 - . .. 1. Because, as commisMdjjier . of internal revenue he will be .'called upon to pass on proceedings which his family has instituted for the re funding, of hundreds of thousands of dollars which the last administration compelled his father-in-law, J. W. Cannon, to pay. 2. Because, as a delegate to the republican national convention, at Chicago last June he deliberately, violated the North Carolina slate pri mary law voting for Warren vG. Harding while he was specifically instructed by the voters to support Hiram Johnson. Labor Leader Scores Cut In Wages by Steel Firms Washington, May 4. ""There is no justification for tlie 20 per cent reduction in the wages of employes of the steel trust," Frank Morrison," secretary of the American Federa tion of Labor, declared in a state ment commenting on the announce ment yesterday by the United States Steel corporation, of a cut iii wages effective May 16. "Employes of the steel trust are disorganized," he said, "the- are helpless. The steel trust is a law unto itself and it is permitted to violate the- anti-trust laws because of the fear that it will interfere with the countrySs foreign trade."- . . French Legion of Honor Presented to Mary Gardeii Chicago, May 4. The cro of tlie French Legion of Honor was pre sented to Mary Garden, general di rector of the Chicago Opera com pany, at. a luncheon given Min her honor by the Chicago Association ct Commerce. , The luncheon opened the cam paign to "democratize opera by transferring the sponsorship from the social register to the telephone "book." River Floods Large Area When Arkansas Levy Breaks Helena, Ark., May 4. Approx; i niately 150 feet of the White five." levee, five miles above Georgetown I gave way at noon and water flooded a large area, according to reports i received here. Georgetown is about j0 miles uorthwest of here ?,