Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1921 — Page 1

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SHANK OUSTS JEWETT MEN IN APPOINTMENTS Administration Favorites Fall as List Is Announced. FRIENDS PLACED Carnefix Named for Recreation Com- ' missioner. Samuel Lewis Shank, mayor-elect, continued today to weed_ out the Jewett appointees, in the city hall, supplanting them with selections of his own who have proved their loyalty to his standard. The latest announcement completes the clean sweep of the park department by the naming of Louis Carnefix, councilman and Shank worker, as recreation commissioner, to succeed R. Walter Jarvis. The latest appointments besides Mr. Carnefix are: George Griffin, plumbing inspector. Francis L. Hamilton, commissioner of buildings. Gordon Donaldson, negro, custodian of city halL Detective sergeants: George Bradley, Komer Dailey, Robert Hyland. Kmmert W. Englebright, John L. Jtupip. John Marren, Claude Johnson, John Gaughan. Fred Simon, O, D. Thomas, Jesse McMurtrie. Herman R. Shrum, Chasles Sum mers, Ed Samuels and Charles Summers. Police garage lieutenant. William ' Holtz. Clerks of detective department: Ralph Moulton and P. C. Davis. Humane Inspector with rank of sergeant: John R. Eisenhut. Assistant in~ the humane department. Mrs. Maude Harris, assigned to Juvenile court; Mrs. Annie Brewer, Mrs. Orville Denny and Mrs. Mary Moore Chief inspector in city civil engineering department, Charles Derail. Assistant- chief Inspector in engineering department, Ed Mcßiide. Inspectors in engineering department, Joseph Shinn and John Collins. •Terks in assessment bureau, W. O. Me Kinney and Gustave Kothe. Assistant street commissioners, Oscar Wise and George Woodard. Inspectors in street ,cleaning department, Claude Poland and Louis R. Markum. Cierk of board of public works, Miss Lulu Myers. i Deputy inspector of weights and measures, Charles O. Britton, Clarence Stewart and Charles Huesman. Stenographer, to the loyd of public safety, Mrs. Bessie Reed. DETECTIVE ASKINS REDCCED TO BEAT. It also was announced that Lieutenant Askins of the detective department will be reduced to patrolman. Other detectives reduced to patrolmen are Richard Pressley. William Brady, Michael Fla(Contlnued on •Pago Eleven.)

YALE LEADS IN FIRST QUARTER YALE BOWL, NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 12.—With real martial surroundings the Princeton Tiger made the last stand of the year here this afternoon against the Yale Bulldog. Marshal Foch, generalissimo of the allied armies and high ranking officer of the United States Army and Navy, sat among/ the 80.000 spectators in the huge bowl surrounding the battlefield for what was expected to be the greatest of the forty-five tights in which Nassau and Eli have engaged. FIRST QIARTER. Y'ale won the toss and chose to receive at the west goal. Garrity kicked off to Yale’s ten-yard line, O'Hearn running, it back 12 yards, being downed by Snively. Aldrich punted out of bounds in midfield. Garrity nit center for two yards. Louric made four yards off right tackle. Wittmer made a terrible pass and Snfvely fumbled the ball, recovering after losing twenty yards. Lotirie punted to O’Hearn who was downed on Yale's thirty-five-yard line. Jordan made seven yards off right tackle. Aldrich skirted left end for fifteen yards. Aldrich made four yard off right tackle. Scott replaced Stinson for Princeton. Jordan made four yards through right tackle. Jordan made a yard through center. O’Hearn made eleven yards off right tackle. It was first down on Princeton’s twenty-two-yard line. Jordan hit •■enter for two yards. O’Hearn ran twenty yards around left end for a touchdown. Aldrich kicked goal. Score: Yale, 7; Princeton, 0. Aldrich kicked oft to Princeton’s goal line. Lourie running back twelve yards. Gilroy charged center without gain. Lourie ran right end for six yards. Garrity made a yard off left tackle. Lourie to Yale's forty-yard line. O'Hearn dodged through the whole Tiger team for forty yards. Aldrich ran right end for six yards. Jordan hit center for two yards. Gilroy knocked down a forward pass from O’Hearn. Aldrich attempted a drop kick from the thirty-five-yard line, but it rolled oveir-the line for a touchback. It was Princeton's ball on her own twenty-yard line. Cleaves was thrown for two-yard loss. Cleaves made nine yards through left tackle. Garrity made three yards for first down. Lourie mile two yards on a left end run. Cleaves ran right end for eight yards. Lotirie failed to gain around left •>nd. Lourie punted out of bounds on Yale's twenty-yard line. Aldrich was thrown for a yard loss. O'Hearn tltvvered a punt to Yale's forty-yard line. Lourie ran left end for five yards. First period score: Yale, 7; Princeton, 0.

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Jitneys Haul Patrons Free Is New Angle Voluntary Contributions to Tin Box Acceptable, However. If you live near a Btreet where there is a Jitney bus line you can ride to and from work free of charge—that is, if you do not wish lo “donate” a nickel to the driver for each trip. Nearly every, Jitney in Indianapolis was in operation today, despite the ordinance forbidding them from running on the streets used by street cars, requiring high bonds and other regulations. Every one of the busses carried a sign designating the street on which it was running and under this was printed it) big letters the word “Free.” A passenger who hopped one of the busses to find out what it was all about discovered n tin tobacco box with a slot in it w-ired to the side of the car. The driver explained that any one who desired could donate whatever he wished but that he was •■giving 'em a lift free.” “How many passengers fail to donate?” he was asked. \' "I don’t know. I don’t pay any attention to that box, because I’m hauling them free,” he said. Then he explained that he had run yesterday and that when he counted his "donations” last night he found he was only a little short of what he usually had when the rides were not “free.” This driver was authority for the statement that nearly every Jitney bus in the eity is operaHng. “Only a few of them are afraid to run,” he said. Chief of Police Kinney declared he would take no immediate action toward enforcing the ordinance as he had been instructed to give the Jitney drivers two weeks time in which to file their bonds and routes. “That tin can arrangement is only a subterfuge.” he declared, “and will not affect the inforcement of the law.” Fred R. Bonifield. attorney for the Taxi and Jitney Bus Drivers’ Protective Association, said he understands about 50 per cent of the Jitneys are operating under the new plan. The association does not intend to appeal from the ruling of Judge Tarter in Superior Court, holding the Jitney ordinance valid, he said, but whenever the police attempt to stop operas tion under the “free” plan, any arrests will be fought vigorously.

GLENN STOUT GIVEN TERM OF 10 TO 21 YEARS Second of Beech Grove Bank Bandits 1 ~ied, Sentenced to Prison. Glenn Stout, the second of two Beech Grove bank bandits to be found guilty by a Jury In Criminal Court, was sentenced from ten to twenty-one years in the Indiana Reformatory today by Judge Harry Chamberlain, f itting as special Judge In Criminal Court. In addition he was fined SI,OOO and disfranchised during his term in prison. Stout drew the same penalty that was meted out to George W. Miller, who was convicted last week. The men formed part of a quartette of bandits that raided the bank on Sept. 9 of $23,000. Rescue 6 Children in Chicago Fire CHICAGO, Nov. 12.—Six children were rescued in a fire which threatened lives of inmates of an apartment building at 803 South Ashland boulevard. The fire started in the basement apartment occupied by Rabbi Morris Fischer. The flames spread rapidly, but all tenants escaped without injury.

Navajo Indian Falls Victim to Tire Water’ Red Cloud, a Navajo Indian, fell victim to the white man's wiles as exemplified bv “white mule ' last night ana today faced Judge Walter Pritchard in tflty court on a charge of drunkenness. The Indian, who insisted that his name is “Red Cloud" and that he is a graduate of Carlisle University, declared that he had lost $33 while Imbibing some of the pale face "fire water.” On his promise to reform he was discharged.

‘Petit Police Force’ Nears End of Its Reign in City Eisenhut and Three Women Assistants Are Named for Humane Work by Shank.

Appointment of Trafticman John Eiseubut and three women in place of the four male sergeants In the humane division of the police department by Mayor-elect Samuel Lewis Shank yesterday marked the beginning of the end of the “petit police force” iu Indianapolis. Another move toward the establishment of machinery with which real humane work may be done in Indianapolis was the appointment of Dr. Elizabeth Conger to be city poundmaster. The “petit police force” gained the name when it was discovered several months ago that the four humane sergeants operate In independence of tne rest of the police department and even of the board of public safety, taking such orders as they receive from W. H. Roberts. president of the Indianapolis Humane Society, which now is involved in a suit for receivership. Trafficman F.isenhut will have the rank of sergeant and the three women under him will have tile rank of policewomen, Mr. Shank announced. They are Mrs. Anna Bruner, Mrs. Orville Denny and Mrs. Mary Moore. The men they will succeed are Samuel H. Gaddis, Thomas Bledsoe, Joshua Spears and Fred Gunsolus. It is supposed to be the work of these four men to look after cases of cruelty to animals, children and the like, but a recent investigation of their report \

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AWFULNESS OF WAR BEATS IN ON DELEGATES Armistice Day Service Object Lesson for Parley Leaders. BRYAN IMPRESSED Says Lofty Requirements of Occasion Met by President. By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. • WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. The opening of the conference could not have been more impressive. While the burial of the unknown soldier yesterday was not strictly a part of the disarmament conference, it brought together all of the principal delegates. The President’s speech was almost entirely devoted to the subject which calls the conference together. If all the peace advocates of the world had Joined in planning a service which would portray the awful, ess of war and proclaim the glories of peace they would not 1 have conceived such a compelling scene as that upon which the conference looked on Armistice day. An air of solemnity pervaded the amphitheater. Seldom have so many people assembled, listened and dispersed so silently. -The religious element combined with the spirit of patriotism inspired n feeling bf worship and consecration. The delegates, present, who attended today's opening session of the conference, cannot but have been profoundly impressed and moved by the spectacle. The stillness was profound. The President, I think, rose to the lofty requirements of the extraordinary occasion. In thought, in expression and in delivery, he surpassed all of his previous efforts. Only a great occasion calls for that great speech. He is not likely to go beyond the record-of that day. Several of his sentences will live. One, “On the threshbold of eternity, many n soldier. I can well believe, wondered how -bis ebbing blood would color tile stream of life,” and another, "Burial here Is rather more than a sign of goveruuent'a favor —It is a suggestion of a tomb in the heart us a nation sorrowing fur If iiMidead," are worthy of the best traditions of American eloquence. Mil.l-lO.VS OF UNKNOWN'S lIA\*F BEEN’ SACRIFICED. No commanding officer and no soldier whose name was known could so fittingly receive the nations homage or plead so eloquently against the carnage of the buttle field. From the beginning of history myriads of unknowns have been offered on the altar of Mars. :>nd of millions more who, for a fleeting day were known liy name and loved by friends, no record remains. Their blood pleads piteously for peace; their sacrifices have purchased for posterity release from bondage to the barbarism of war. All of the noble dead Join in the petition presented by the living that the conference now iu session lead the world to peace through universal disarmament. —Copyright, 1921, by United Press.

Hundreds Want City Jobs Under Mew Executive

If you can't get on one way try another, evidently is the plan of some of the hundreds who hope to get on the police and fire department when Samuel Lewis Shank becomes mayor. At least n rush of men and women to the office of the board of public safety today to get application blanks for appointment as firemen or policemen would indicate this to be true. Homer Barton, clerk of the board of public safety, reported that approximately twenty perrons, four of whom were women, asked for blanks during the morning. The office closes at noon on Saturday. Announcement of Mr. Shank that he was going to put women police in uniform is finding favor in the sight of some women.

“I hope they're pretty ones like the girl ushers in the theaters wear," remarked one fair hopeful.

showed that Sergt. Thomas Bledsoe was doing practically all the work and that it was entirely too much work for one man. Asa result, of the failure of the humane department to properly function about the only real humane work dope in Indianapolis during the past two or three years has been accomplished by Dr. Conger and Mrs. Dotha Lantz, who have spent many hours each day working without pay at the city dog pound. These women have gone so far as to meet the expenses of operating their system for finding homes for worth-while dogs that were impounded, out of their own pockets. They found conditions at the pound deplorable and compelled the board of public safety to clean things up. Some months they have watched over the care of as high as 900 dogs in one month. As poundmaster, Dr. Conger has announced that she will not use a penny of the salary of $1,200 for herself, but will expend it all upon a plan for improvement of animal conditions, which she is working out and which will be announced later. The suit for receivership of the Indianapolis Humane Society is expected to be heard before Mr. Shank moves to break up the combination which has prevented real humane work in Indianapolis are in operation.

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‘LESS OF ARMAMENT, NONE OF WAR’ WISH OF WORLD, HARDING SAYS President Tells x\rms Conference Millions Hunger for Peace and Relief From Heavy Burdens. WASHINGTON PARLEY IS UNDER WAY Text of President’s Address Will Be Found on Page 11. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Outlaw war and cut armament, President Harding urged 1n opening the conference on the limitation of armament and Far Eastern affairs in Continental Hall here today. “Our hundred millions frankly want less of armament and %one of war,” he told the assembled delegates. 4 • President Harding offered no specific program. He devoted himself entirely to impressing on the delegates the world hunger for peace and relief from the crushing burdens of big armaments.

Standing at the head of the conference table, he pleaded for frank, straightforward exchange of views without suspicion and resort to intrigue. No pride need be bumbled and no nationality need be submerged in the effort eo reach peace. President Harding said. But he warned, "there can be no cure without sacrifice." America, he explained, goes into the conference with unselfish hands, suspecting no enemy, harboring no fears, neither contemplating nor apprehending conquest —bent only on doing “that finer, nobler thing no nation can do atone." Civilization, President Harding declared, has come to its crucial tost. The address was one of the shortest set speeches he ever made. “The conclusions of this body will have a signal influence on all human progress —on the fortunes of the world,” the President said, adding that it is impossible to over-estimate Its linpor'nnce. He expressed gratification at addressing representatives of the associate nations with the United States in the World War The conference, he believes, “Is evidence of the awakened conscience of twentieth century civilization.”

CLARA BURNSIDE RESIGNS PLACE IN POLICE DEPT. I—Object*- to Policy of MayorElect. Capt. Clara Burnside, head of the women police, today handed her resignation to Chief <>f Police Jerry Kinney, the resignation to become affective .Tan. 1. Miss Burnside gives as her reason for resigning (he antiounceinent of Samuel Lewis Shank, mayor elect, that ihe women’s department is to lo* combined with the regular 'police department. Miss Burnside's letter of resignation follows: “Please present to tile members of the board of public safety toy resignation from the Indianapolis department of police, to take effect Jan. 1, 1822. In view of the public,statement regarding the future of the polk* deportment relative to the elimination of the woman’s bureau, I feel that I should he unable to render nny valuable service to the eity of lmHSlnnpolls.*’

HEAD OF MAN FOUND IN BALE OF WASTE PAPER Lafayette (Ind.) Checks, Signed by G. L. Reams, With Member. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 12.—The head of a man, with two bullet holes in the forehead, was found in a bale of waste paper at the warehouse of Kent Storage Company by workmen today. The head was wrapped in a bloody, torn shirt. A hank book showing deposits to the amount of $3,000 in a Lafayette (nld.) bank and cancelled checks signed by O. L. Reams also were found. The bale of waste paper was just about to be’ put into the baling machine when a workman made the discovery. The American Box Board Company the bale of paper to the warehouse sev ' eral months ago. The checks, signed by Reams for the H. and R. W. Company, were drawn on the Tippecanoe Loan and Trust Company, Lafayette, Ind. Physicians expressed the belief the man had been dead for some time. Peace Proclamation Will Be Issued Soon WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—President Harding today planned* to issue at an early moment the proclamation of peace between America and Germany. It had been delayed awaiting word of exchange of treaty ratifications, but this step was taken vesterday in Berlin between Commissioner Dresei of the American Berlin mission and Chancellor Wirth of Germany. , , American business men welcomed the actual establishment of peace, since lack of it had curtailed (heir trading. With peace reestablished it 'is expected President Harding will act favorably on release of Eugene V. Debs. A delegation of World War veterans was to call on the President today urging freeing the men imprisoned for utterances during the war. There are about 15(1 so-called political prisoners, many of whom probably will obtain freedom soon. Bandits Get SB,OOO From Illinois Bank EAST ALTON, Til., Nov. 12—Four armed bandits obtained SB,OOO in cash when they held up two employes of the Illinois State Bank here today and escaped in n waiting automobile.

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WASHINGTON, N6v. 12. The statesmen of nine nations, great and small, met today gi round a table to try to work out by mutual agreement a formula of understanding that will make war unnecessary and relegate armies and navies to the rank of mere police forces. Within sight of the building where the statesmen gathered Is the spot where yesterday was buried one o fthe millions of victims of war's terrible ravages, and It was fresh from the sight of that Impressive ceremony that the diplomats turned to their labors. Seldom, if ever, have the great, powers of the World gathered under auspices more agreeable or conditions more conducive to general peace and concord among nations. All of the nations represented—America, the British Empire, France. Japan, Italy, China, Belgium. Holland anti Portugal—are at peace, and their statesmen have arrived in Washington with the avowed determination of perpetuating that peace. Here in the tranquil atmosphere of Washington, thousands of miles removed from the evidences of war's ravages, the great nations profess to believe the for mo*s4Wnnm'i' twhich they s.-ck can be found. BIS IN'ESS LIKE AIR PREVAILS. Veteran diplomats of Europe who have participated In every important par icy for the past half century characterize the meeting as unique in world history—a meeting called iu advance of war, designed to prevent war. and n voluntary coining together of the great nations to limit the size of each other’s armies and navies. Certainly no world conference ever got under way in a more busiuessiike atmosphere. There were no great guilded balls tilled with priceless paintings, rich tapestries and antique bric-a-brac in which to meet. There were no relies of post conquests hanging on the wnils of the conference room in Contiu*>ntnl Hall. Instead there was a workmanlike room,

ENACTS CARRIE NATION ROLE Logansport Woman Swings Wicked Hatchet. Special to The Times. LOGANS PORT. Ind.. Nov. 12.—Enacting the role of Carrie Nation in a man ner that would tuuko poor Carrie look like a piker, Minnie Seliuester, local woman, walked into Charles Weser's soft drink parlor here and wrecked the place. With blood in her eye and armed with a hatchet, the woman proceeded to smash glasses from the bar, bottles, chairs, and finally ended up her work of destruction by smashing to bits a long mirror valued at $l5O. she was finally subdued by the astonished proprietor and ejected from (he place. Mrs. Sehuester is said to have received the report that Weger had been selling moonshine to her husband. It is understood tiiat charges of malicious trespass will be filed against her, while the Indianapolis Brewing Company is contemplating filing suit against her in an effort to collect the amount for the broken mirror. Indian’s Manager Admitted to Bar John C. Hendricks, known as “Jack,” and the manager of the local Indians, today was admitted to practice law in the State of Indiana by Judge Solon .T. Carter of Superior Court, Itoofn 3, on a motion by Attorney John C. Rnckelshaus. It was stated that Mr. Hendricks previously had been admitted to rpactice law in Illinois. It was not announced if he intends to engage in the active practice of la|v in this city. NEW BISHOP FOR CHICAGO. ROME, Nov. 12.. Monsignor Hoban, chancellor of the Chicago diocese, has been appointed auxiliary archbishop of Chicago, with the title of Bishop of Coloscia, it was announced at the Vatican today.

Russian Soviets , Peeved , Plan Their Own Arms Parley COPENHAGEN, Nov.. 12.-The Russian Soviet government, disgruntled because President Harding did not invite Bolshevist representatives to the Washington disarmament parley, has invited China. Japan, Korea, Siam and India to send delegates to a peace conference at Irkutsk immediately, according to an unconfirmed prss dispatch today. Chinese and Japanese delegates were said to have started for Irkutsk.

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President to Arms Delegates “The conclusions of this body will have a signal influence on all human progress.” “A world staggering with debt needs its burden lifted.” “In soberest reflection the world's hundreds of millions who pay in pettye and die in war, wish their statesmen to turn the expenditures for destruction into means of construction, aimed at a higher state for those who live and follow’ alter.” “We harbor no fears; we have no sordid ends to serve; we suspect jm enemy; we contemplate or apprehend no conquest. Content with what we have, we seek nothing which is another's.” “No pride need be humbled; no nationality submerged.” “Nothing can be accomplished in disregard of national apprehensions. Rather we should act together to remove the causes of apprehensions.” “Our hundred million frankly want less of army armament and none of war.” “We are met for service to mankind.”

plainly furnished and devoid of glitter and display. In the Renter of the big square room was a great U-shaped table covered with plain green cloth. The covering on the floor was a green rug, equally plain. FLAGS ONLY COLOR NOTE IN ROOM. The chairs for the delegates, ranged on the outside of the U were of the. plain American business office variety, uneushioned and hard. Before each delegate was a square American desk blotter, pen and ink, a pencil and a scratch pad. Nothing more. The only vivid color note of the sombre room, aside from the sreen rovering on the floor and table, was furnished by the of the nine nations, gathered in two clusters immediately In the back of

Prayer Opening Arms Conference

The prayer opening the conference follows :

“Almighty God, we thank Thee for the coming of this eventful day. We have seen It from ufur and now we rejoice that it bus at last dawn Cd. May It bring untold blessing to a troubled world. O. Thou omnipotent One today as in other days we believe that Tlion dost guide In human affairs. Thou hast made of one blood all nations that dwell upon earth and though we are of many ruces anil many tongue*, yet the interests of the few are the interests of the larger number. May we feel assured that the welfare and Happiness and prosperity of the human family arc Inexpressibly dear to Thy heart. We pray for clear vision or we shall grope blindly for the light and lose our way. We pray for hearts lovingly sympathetic to human distress whenever it may exist or we si tall sink Into the depths of a miserable selfishness. We pray for minds willing tit believe that the strong ought to bear the inflrmaties of the weak or we shall miss the great joy of service. Give us the ability to think clearly; to judge fairly, to act wisely Help us to think less often of our rights and more often of our duties and responsibilities. We pray at this hour on behalf of a world in sore need. Thou art not unmindful of the sufferings of Thy people. Tlie cries of multitudes of widows and orphans have come up before Thee. O God. We have had our terrible baptism of blood. There Is hunger and pestilence and unutterable nnguish. God forbid that the wars of three years should ever again he visited upon the earth, fan it be that Thou hast permitted us thus to suffer in order that we might turn from our own devices to Tliee and ueknow ledge Thee as king of our lives and ruler of our destinies? Out of the depths we cry unto Thee. Save us or we perish. May we walk softly and humbly before Tliee this day and throughout the fateful days of this great conference. May we be Intent on knowing Thy will, and knowing it. may we have the courage to do it. And grant, O God, that the findings of this conference shall be so wise, so far-reach-ing and so beneficial that all mankind may fake new hope and fresh courage. And to Thee shall be the praise and glory forever and forever. Amen!

America Takes Leadership in Movement to Allay All Danger of a World War

BY FRANK CHARLTON. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—America to’ols active leadership today iu the first world movement In history for the elimination of international menaces that threaten civilization with future war. Reduced to simple terms, the United States seeks: First To prevent competition ampng the great powers In the construction of war machinery—naval, laud and air. Second—To remove sources of international friction in the Pacific Ocean that may lead to future confljct. Recognizing the general he+ief that the Far East is the new danger spot, America has sought the cooperation of eight other powers with vital powers in the Orient to allay the clanger of a next world war. BELIEF FROM DEBT BURDEN ALSO ISSUE. This generally is r c Knrded ns the greatest humanitarian crysade in the history of mankind'. But it is also a practical scheme for material relief from the overwhelming burden of taxation and debt.

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SECRETARY HUGHES PRESENTS CONCRETE PROGRAM TO PARLEY Asks Nations to Stop Capital Ship Building and to Scrap Certain of Older War Vessels. TO BE EFFECTIVE F OR NEXT 10 YEARS D. A. R. HALL, WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—The United States, through Secretary of State Hughes today proposed to the world that a naval holiday be declared for the next ten years. -' ) In addition to a naval holiday, the main points of the American program proposed before the arms limitation conference, are: 1. That all capital ship building programs, either actual or projected, should be abandoned. 2. That further reduction should be made through the scrapping of certain of the older ships. 3. That general regard should be paid to the existing naval strength of the powers concerned. i < 4. That the capital ship tonnage, not numbers of vessels, be the basis for limitation.

America's delegates, who sat at the head of the table. One cluster contained the flags of the big powers—Japan, Italy, France, Britain and America; the other held tlie flags of the '‘“little fellows”— Netherlands, Belgium. Portugal and Qhlna —iu the order named. A bank of autumn leaves and palms behind the" flags provided the only floral decorations and two raintings, one of George Washington, the other of Martha Washington, were the only art ohjfects. The meeting was scheduled to open promptly at 10:30. Long before that hour crowds had been gathered in Seventeenth street to see the great of Europe and Asia meet together on American soil for the first time In history. Seventeenth street, so long a quiet thoroughfare, suddenly lias been transformed into .an avenue of nations. FEW OF "FI BLIC” WITHIN THE HALL. While the session was described as “public," there were few of the “public" within tbe sacred portals wh>n the session got under way. f The Japanese and Chinese contingents were the first to appear and there were many of them. Major General Tanaka, the Japanese military adviser, with his aid was followed shortly by a handful of British. Two boxes immediately above the table at which the delegates sat were occupied by Mrs. Harding and Mrs. Hughes, with parties of friends. The first delegate to appear was V. S. S. Sastri, representing India. He was a picturesque figure in his black frock coat and white turban. Secretaries and small fry—froekeoated, be-spatted and monocled, filled the enclosure as the time approached for opening the momentous session. At 10:20 the tall form of A. ,T. Balfour was to he seen making his way with difficulty through the throng of underofficials. At 10:23, the room broke into applause at the entrance of the American delega(Continued on Page Two.)

MRS. OBENCHAIN’S MOTION DENIED Immediate Trial or Dismissal Move Fails. LOS ANGELES, \al.. Nov. 12.—The District Court of AfVpoals today denied the petition of Charles IV. Erbstein of Chicago, attorney representing Mrs. Madalynnc Obenehain for a writ of mandamus against Superior Judge Reeve, whereby It was sought either to compel Judge Reeve to grant Mrs. Obenehain an Immediate trial on the charge of murder, or to dismiss the indictment returned against her icy the county grand Jury. Mrs. Obenehain. with Arthur C. Burch, was indicted for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy last August. Rabbi Feuerlicht to Conduct Bible Class The Bible class of the Council of Jewish Women will meet in the vestry room of the Temple, Monday afternoon. Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht will conduct the lesson. On Nov. 17, the Study Circle of the council will meet in the vestry room, when Mrs. Demarehus Brown will give a talk on “Battle Fronts and Tourist Stunts.”

In no sense is the conference a peace parley as the world has known peace parleys in the past. There is no enemy to be punished; no new frontier align inents to be worked out; no spoils of war Jo be parcelled and no new alliances to be contracted with a view to future military cooperation. It was called primarily to lighten the burden of a warweary world and to pro ent such burdens from being imposed t. the future. proceedure will >e followed, however. The committee? meet behind closed doors, but 'the American Government is determined that no secret diplomatic agreements shall creep in. The final decisions finally will be made known to the whole world. English will be the official • language. The agenda, or official program of matters to be considered covers a tremendous range of territory, especially insofar as it relates to the Orient. Under the heading of “Pacific and Far Eastern Questions.” the conference will (Continued on I*uge Eleven.)

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AFFECTS fi SHIPS WITH TONNAGE OF 1.878,013 TONS. Under the program which primarily affects the United States, Great Britain and Japan there would be destroyed immediately of the navies of the three great powers sixry-six capital fighting ships built and building with a total tonuage of 1,878.043. It was proposed by Hughes that three months aft r the agreement for arms limitation is signed, the navies of the three great powers with respect to capital ships, should boas follows: United States, eighteen ships. Great Britain twenty-two ships. Japan, ten ships. -f The tonnage of the big ships after the reduction is made will he as follows: United States, 300,C59; Great Britain, 004,130; Japan. ‘;9,700. Under the program the United States will strap thirty capital ships built or in process of construction, a total tonnage of 8;5,740. Great Britain .u.'tl scrap nineteen big ships, or a tonnage reduction of 411,373. Japan would tlesfroy or cease construction of sevrtf new capital ships, with a tonnage of 289,100 and scrap ten older chips with a total tonnage of 159,828. THEN DISCUSSES REPLACEMENT. Hughes then dismissed the gradual replacement of tlie three great navies. He said. “With respect to replacement, th* United States proposes: ”1. That it he agreed that the first replacement tonnage shall not be laid down until ten years from the date of the agreement. ”2. That replacement he limited by an agreed maximum of capital ship tonnage, as follows: “For the United States. CO'MttO tons. “For Great Britain, .700.000 tons, i "For Japan. 3'0,1*00 tons, i “3. That subject lo the ten-year limitation above the maximum standard capital /Hips may he replaced when they are twenty years old by capital ship construction. “4. That no capital ship shall be built in replacement with a tonnage displacement of more than 33.000 tons.” Hughes also proposed the limitation of auxiliary naval-" craft, submarines, airplane carriers and aircraft. He suggested that the total tonnage of auxiliary craft (cruisers, flotilla leaders a id destroyers) allowed each powpr to be as follows: United States. 430.00 K tons; Great Britain, 430,000 tons: .iTipan. 270.0J0 tons. Submarine tonnage would be limited to the United States. 90.000 Ions; threat Britain. 90.000; Japan, 34,000 tons. All submarines, wlvose keels have been laid before Nov. 11 should be carried to completion.

TAKES UP NAVAL V AIRPLANE CARRIERS. Naval airplane carriers would be limited as -follows: United States, 80.000 tons: Great Britain. 80,10.1 tons: Japan, 45.000 tons. Regulations to govern conversion of merchant marine for war purposes must be provided. Hughes said. With the acceptance of this plan, Hughes said, the burden of meting the demands of competition in naval armament will be lifted. Enormous sums would lie released to aid the progress of civilization. At the same time the proper demands of national delense would be adequately met and the nations will have ample opportunity during the naval holiday of ten years to consider their future course. Preparation’ for offensive naval war is .to stop now. Applause interrupted Hughes when he said with emphasis that “competition in armaments must stop.” When he said the conference had been called for action rather than mere resolution. the House and Senate arose in a body and the famous “rebel yell” broke out. “Briand! Briand 1" the galleries shouted after Hughes had finished talking. Applause which fhr exceeded even the welcome given the President, greeted the French Premier. “When the President invited the nations to- this conference,” said Briand, “my country instantly answered ‘here.’ My country was actuated first by gratitude and by her aspirations for peace. “If it is possible to obtain the security to which she is entitled, France is ready to say ’down arms." ” “Japan,” next demanded the crowd. l’rince Tokugawa. head of the delegation speaking in English, said “Japan is here to promote honest friendship among (Continued on Page Two.)

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