Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 193, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1921 — Page 6

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MESSAGES SHOW CHINESE UNITED ON MAIN ISSUES; Whole Nation Stands Firm oni Shantung Problem and Twenty-one Demands. TALK OPEN DOOR POLICY Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. BY ROBERT BARRY. WASHINGTON, Dec. "3—As the pros- i • pect grows for a resumption of iliscuss.ons by the Far Eastern committee of the conference, spokesmen for China and Japan are coming forward with unequlvaJapan are coming forward with uneqlvo- ; tions with respect to the so-called twenty- | one demands of 1915. Masano Hanihara, of the Japanese dele- ; gallon, snid his government had not altered in the slightest its position of irreconcilable opposition to a considers- | tion by the conforms of the treaties and agreements between China and Japan growing out of the Japanese demands of 1915. The Japanese delegation will take .the position that review of those treaties by the conference or any suggested amendment or modification, would go outside the agenda of the conference and involve an issue which is the sole affair of two nations. Mr. Hanihara will present the case of Japan to the Far Eastern Committee and will urge that the treaties of ail nations with China would have to be inquired into if the Slno-Japanese treaties of 1915 were to be involved. The Chinese delegation has made ptt'.tlie the text of forty-four vigorously worded messages received from China - since the conference convened. Aftc • referring to the broad scope of the popular sentiment expressed through the cablegrams. the delegation statement added the senders “are giving assurance daily of the sentiment at home and the unity of China where foreign relations are ooncorned, especially with reference to Shantung and the twenty-one demands. • Manchuria and Mongolia also arpear in ■ the ’iter telegrams/’ • ‘'While cabinets may fall in Pekin." the ‘ Chinese statement added, “public opinion .In no way changes toward the main j . issues. Cabinet changes do not occur . ‘ periodically in Chinn, any more than in j England and such changes as are now i being made look to a further unification of the leading factions. The telegrams ' present a hist .tie document in the | growth of popular control of the forces -of government in China, and the exprestion of student sentiment in this country ■ reflects an even greater activity at home.’ - . The Chinese telegrams constituted au i Imposing array of public expressions, j The publication of the messages at this j ..hour of the conference negt tiatoins was tvgarded as a strategic move ny the dele- 1 gation to justify its firm stand for a consideration of the twpntv-one demands. The feeling has been gaining currency in the past few days that the other nations participating In the confer nee would support Japan in her contention that a review of the twenty-one demands was not a proner function of the conference. JAP DEMANDS OF 1915 IN WAY. There has been no formal expression of j such an attitude on the part of the American delegation but it was doubted whether a nine-power agreement affecting the mainland <>f Asia, to be known as the “continental treaty." could be obtained if a review of the 1915 treaties , were undertaken by the conference. The matter goes back t a question of the validity of the treaties and an investigai tion of all treaties made by China is • thought an Impossible undertaking. In the opinion of mm* authorities, an inquiry by foreign notions into the treaty making functions of the Chinese government and an assumption by those nations to declare legal or illegal the i.various conventions whi-h the Chinese government lias entered into would eonStitnte an invasion of China's soveignty T fln.i might promote an r itation for the International control .f China, making her a ward of the powers. It Is predicted that tic- powers holding spheres of influence in China anil •. which are represented in the Washington conference will agree that the pnncipl of the often door ami equal o- ~r-tunity tunity for thi- nationals of ail c.*.,ntri ( -s In China, shall apply to every province O- China, but that none of them will resign its sphere. It is pointed out that so-called spheres of influence have not existence in name in the treaties and exchanges of notes between China and the powers which called them into being, file phrase being invented as a convenient anti expressive one. Th powers holding such spheres of influerece, it is stated, do not actually lay claim to them as -uoh. but would be iinwill'ng to abrogate tinconventions which gave rise to them. The question of spheres of influence is admittedly a vague one, and Mr. Balfour has indicated they no longer exist, the agreements already rearhed by the conference having abolished them. In the case of the British sphere of influence in the Tangtse valley it was created by an exchange of notes between China and Great Britain in which China pledged herself not to alienate any of th- territories traverse,! by the Yangtze River. The French sphere of influence is the province of Yunnan, in which France has . Preferential rights in financial matters in addition to owning, controlling and operating a railway from the eapjtol ot the province. Yunnan Fu. to the border of the French possession es Tonking. Just as Japan owns, contrite and operates the South Manchurian Railway. JAP SPHERE OF INFLUENCE. The province of Fukien is regarded generally as a Japanese sphere of j n . fluence as a result of an exchange of notes between Chinese and Japan, in which China promised not to alienate any territory of that province, which is opposite the Japanese island of Formosa, or Taiwan. South Manchuria is a Japanese sphere of influence, although in a distinct category, as Japan there sueceeded to rights acquired previously by Russia and obtained them directly from Russia after the Russo-Japanese war, ihe transfer having been approved liv ■China. It has been indicated by a spokesman of the Japanese delegation that Japan's interests in the Liaotung pe-insula. comprising Port Arthur and Dr.-ren. and properly called the Kw.antung leased territory, are vital to the •xistenee of Japan, and up to the present time this declaration has not been • hullenged by any power in the conference. It is believed Japan will erect no obstacle in the way of the application of the principle of the open door and equal opportunity to Manchuria proper, outside the military areas, except insofar as the powers themselves have already 'agreed in the correspondence relating to the international bankers consortium for financing China, whose organisation was delayed until an understanding could be reached in regard to Japan's special status in that region. The agreement recognized certain Japanese claims and pledged non-interference with the vitil requirements of Japan in respect to the consortium's operation in South Manchuria. The sphere of influence question it is believed will be settled by the pronouncement anew that the principle of the open door and equal opportunity shall be observed in all parts of China, except in those exceptional cases where, through extraordinary grants already made by China, guch ns In the leased territory of Kowioon, British, and the Kwantune leased territory, the application of the principle may not be practicable.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

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American Women Lead in ‘Housekeeping Genius’ Lord Riddell Impressed With Their Ability as Managers .

Special to Indiana Daily Tini.s a:.d Philadelphia Public Ledger. By CONSTANCE DKEXEL. WASHINGTON. Dec. 25. -Lord Riddell. who aas done as much as any one person at the Washington conference to smash open the doors of secret negotiations. on leaving for England, was asked by the writer for a few of his impressions of American women during this, his initial trip to America. Lord Riddell is very tall and quite thin, and has white hair, but very youthful blue eyes, dlis manner is a combination of something which suggests a grasp of the whole world’s affairs, yet with a comfortable individual touch as if to say, "there, there, don’t cry; everything is all right, an 1 going splendidly." "American women V” Lord Riddell repeated the question after everybody Lad 1-ft the room, and walked to the wide expanse of window overlooking Potomac Park and the obelisk of tne Washington monument rising against the clear winter sky. Looking out. in- put one hand up to his head and thought but only for a moment. WOMEN ANNIOI S FOR INFORMATION. "One outstanding point which must strike every visitor to America,” lie began. “is the insistence of the people of the country for information, but whether it is due to feminine curiosity or some other quality, it has been borne upon me forcibly that American women are even more anxious for information than American men.” It seems Lord Riddell, who delights in pointing out on every possible oceasi.9ii that he has been a member of the British aristocracy only since 191 k, was bom .anted with invitations to speak at women's organizations during his stay in this country. He made addresses several times a week, often at luncheon time, and was struck by (he keen attention of the women and by the intelligence of their questions. Lord Riddell considers this thirst for information on the conference and other international affairs as a sign of the tr.-nd of the times. Os eourse. he did ont say so. hut any one who has known many British women, not only in their wn land, but at international conventions. where women from all over Europe nnd from Asia have come together, knows that knowledge of the far corners of the earth is no novelty to the I’riiish woman. All this is very natural, since He Has No Country v - vdi -Xv;. -a. .-.••• kSBK -w. v.., ' *.iwi Sir Edgar Speyer, multimillionaire finaiioi >r. who e nipleted the work of thlate Charles Yerkes by forming a gigantic trust of tubes, 'bus lines and tramways in Loudon, may he another man without a country. Ilia naturalization papers have been cancelled by the Britisli government on grounds that he unlawfully communicated with the enemy during the war. Statements that Sir Edgar was born in Germany have been denied by his counsellor, who says that he was horn in America of American parents. According to Chief Naturalization Officer Sturges of New York, ho will have to take out naturalization papers if he intends to become an American citizen. As it is now. it looks as though Sir Edgar is tyiother man without a country.

Great Britain has had a far-flung empire for a great many years, necessitating the migration of men and their wives all ovi-r the earth. HOUSEKEEPING GF.MI S APPEALS TO BRITON. But leaving affairs of state aside, what lias st. .ok Lord Riddell the most, and this will be a surprise to many—is what he termed the “housekeeping genius" of tiie American woman. Lord Riddel! while here has had plenty of invitations from the innumerable great establishments in Washington among the hostesses who have been vicing with each other to entertain the social lions of the conference, but, as he said, he has made it a point to visit in the homes of what he calls his personal friends—the newspaper correspondents of Washington. Thus lie lias grille into the more modest homes, tiie single little houses which abound in Washington and the apartments which are increasing every day. lainl Riddell said he had been struck with the fact that whereas a woman In England whose husband earned say $5,000 a year, would have a few servants, because servants were so milch more plen,tiful a nil cheaper over tie-re, here the woman in like circumstances does her own menage nnd runs an automobile, lie has been struck with the good cooking of thus-- wives, with the cleanliness and extraordinary good taste of all their house furnishings. Instead of being extravagant. he thought the American wemnn was very clever in making the best use of the money available. Lord Riddell also was impressed xvith the American apartment house because .it is so light and airy. He thought American architects had made immense strides in that type of architecture. In closing he said, and this may bo considered his farewell message. "If the world Is to take to pence, the women have got to do it. The men can't and the men won’t. There is no use in mincing words. The men have too triahy traditions and hoary theories behind them. The women are coining into world affairs without those things pulling them back into the past and blinding their vision into the future. "it is for the women to insist on peace,” he finished. —Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company. PAR AND $82,864 PREMIUM HIGH PLAZA BOND UiD (< ontinued From Page One.) I compel tiie city council to call a special election on the question of the ■ city's participation in the plaza project had something to do with failure of ■ more local firms to participate in tiie bidding The fact that a decision order- ! ing the election, which the council refused to call months ago after deciding that a petition for it was insufficient, would seriously embarrass the city in its plaza plans is regarded as having been considered by all firms preparing submission of a hid upon the bond ; issue. Such a decision, it Is believed, would constitute a cloud upon the issue, and attorneys for the bidder to whom it is awarded are expected to take the matter into consideration very carefully in approving the issue. For this reason, city officials were very much interested in the particular provisions in lie- bids received regarding their living subject t-> approval of attorneys. Judge Moll of Superior I'oiirt. room 5, before whom the Miller suit was filed, said it probably can not bo heard before Jan. 3 The city administration hopes to sell tiie bonds and acquire all the property in the block hounded by Michigan. North, Meridian and Pennsylvania streets before Jan 1. Printing of the l.Ht<o bonds, each of SI.ICO denomination was completed lute yesterday nnd deUvery made to Controller Bryson, lie turned the bonds over to Mayor Charles \V. Jewett and the mayor expected to sign his name 1,090 times during the day, each bond requiring his signature.’ (OTHRKLI. HEADS REALTORS. E. L Cothrell of the E. L.*Cothrell Realty Company, is the new president of the Indianapolis real estate’board. He was erected at a meeting of the board of directors yesterday to succeed Joseph J. Schmid of Cchmld St Smith. Other oficers elected are Forest M. Knight, vice president; Chester \V. llenry, secretary. and Lacy E. Hearn, treasurer. PIONEER MAM.'FACT! REK DIES. DENVER. Colo., Dec. 23.—Joseph FitzOxven Brintl, 71, pioneer manufacturer of Colorado, died here lait night, egad 71.

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FIVE WANTED IN ILLINOIS BOUND TO GRAND JURY Men Accused of Mail Robbery Now Face Dry Law Charge. Five Indianapolis men, whose removal to Illinois to ansxver to charges of robbing the I’tilted Stutes mails in n spectacular hold-up of an Illinois Central train near Paxton, 111., the night of Nov. 7. was refused by Judge Albert Anderson in Federal Court last week, were bound over to the Federal grand Jury for alleged violation of the prohibition laws at a hearing before Charles W. Moores, I’nlted States Commissioner, today. Their bonds were set at $2,000 each. The five men are Gnrrett Osborne, negro, 1008 Yandes street; James Hill, 115 North Senate avenue; Joseph Burnett, 1014 South West street; Vernon Jones, negro, Kll North Senate avenue nnd Frank Wolfia. 1041 Chadwick street. At tiie removal hearings last week the men. in explaining their presence near Rockville early on the morning of Nov. 8. and tiie shooting of James Ferguson. negro, whose body was found in the bustles at tlie roadside scxernl days later, frankly admitted that they were bootleggers and were on their way to Clinton to get a load of whisky when the circumstances arose which resulted in Ferguson's denth. Postoffice inspectors from Illinois contended that Ferguson had been shot at Paxton, and his body brought to the place where it wns found. Judge Anderson refused to grant the removal on the ground that the evidence was Insuffi clent to justify such action. However, lie ordered the men held for violation of the liquor laws in view of their own statements.

Washington Briefs

Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Put-lie Ledger. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 The favorite conference phrase, "in principle,” already has made its way to popularity elsewhere. It has been adopted as part of a Christmas greeting by David Wallace, a New York writer. Washington frien Is of the man who had so much to do with the successful launching in America of John Drinkwater's play, "Abraham Lincoln,” are receiving Christmas cards reading, “Please accept in principle best wishes for the holiday reason.” Some surprise has been occasioned in congressional circles by the practice of several members of the House in charging considerable sums for making public addresses. The practice is not entirely anew one. out of late has become more and more common as members find they are able to place a premium upon their oratorical ability. Some members who heretofore found difficulty in meeting all requests to make speeches have met the problem by replying to such invitations with their terms, now thnt the practice ia In vogue. The prices vary, but there arc several members who have a fixed charge, running all the way from $100,0(H) to $300,000 an address, plus expenses. A recent article by William G Shepherd in a popular magazine is creating considerable attention here, as it brings the cost <>f armament down to the terms of every day life. lie says: “There are only five universities in the I'nltcd States with endowments as large as the cost of one $22,000,000 battleship and a fully mounted land gun co: ts $300,000 aud one shot costs $1,300. Six men in your neighbourhood have to draw $2<H apiece from the bank Just to pay for one shot. A h-'Spital big enough for a town of 30,009 costs $200,000. There are probably 1.000 guns like those just described scattered around the I tilted States. What would 1,000 $200,000 hospitals mean to thee United States? They would wipe out most of the misery of sickness.” Mr. Shepherd points out that every citizen pays from 25 cents to 50 cents for war purposes, and until the United States finds some way of disarming nnd getting other nations to do so, this daily payment of $250,000 for war never will grow less. The article evidently was written before the proposal for a naval holiday, which will do at least somethtlng to reduce our war bill. The Hardings first Christmas in the White House will witness the transplanting of an old New England custom to Washington by way of Marion, Ohio. On Christmas eve, lighted candles will appear iu the White House windows, and at the request of Mrs. Harding candles will flicker in the windows of many Washington official residences. The custom, as explained by Mrs. Harding, first appeared in America in Connecticut, where If doubtless xvns brought over from England. Its inauguration West of the Allegheny mountains was in Marion, where years ago Fresident Harding, then a youthful editor of the Marion Star, caught by the practice, wrote an editorial advocating it. The Hardings put a candle to their window on that Christmas eve, and many Marionites followed.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

GOVERNOR MAKES ANOTHER CHOICE Thomas A. Daily Appointed to Removal Commission. Thomas A. Daily, Indianapolis attor noy. was appointed a member of the reformatory relocation commission to succeed Charles C. Huestls of Greencastle xvho resigned, Gox-ernor Warren T. McCray announced today. Mr. Huestls, who is a civil engineer anil a Republican, told the Governor h<* would not be abiif to serve on the commission because of his personal business. Mr. Daily is a Democrat and xvas formerly on the reformatory relocation advisory committee before it xx-as reorganized by the Governor after the special session of the Legislature which provided that the advisory committee should be of four members instead of iix'e. BOND COMPANY FORMED. Articles of incorporation were filed with the Secretary of State today by tlie Dickinson St Reed Company of Indianapolis. The capital stock of the company, xvhich xvill engage in the buying and selling of stock, bonds and other securities, Is $25,000. The directors of the >mpnny xvill be Joseph J. Dickinson, M. E. Dickinson, Frank M. Reed and E. G. Reed, all of Indianapolis. PLANT’S VALUE FIXED. A valuation of $1,679,232, wns placed cn the property of the Citizen’s Gas Company of Terre Haute by the public service commission today. The com miss'on now xvill hear the petition of the company for an increase in gas rates. INNOCENCE PLEA FAILS. Elliot Penn, 1408 North Tuxedo street, was given a five day jail sentence and fined $t nnd costs in‘city court yesterday when lie was convicted of taking 4 cents from a drinking cup machine on a Pennsylvania railroad coach. Althougn the sentence wns suspended the case was appealed by Penn, who inflated he was innocent.

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Brig. Gen. Omar Bundy xvho has been named for promotion by President Harding. C-on. Bundy served with distinction during the World War. He is nominated to be made a major general.

BOARD TO ASK INJUNCTION IN RAILROAD CASE Would Prevent Abandonment of (J. & E. I. Line by Receiver. An injunction to restrain the receivers of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad in Indiana from abandoning the company's property In the State, will be asked of the Federal Court by the Interstate Commerce Commission "r the pun lis service commission. Commissioner George W. Barnard of the Indiana commission said today it is the plan of tne receivers to sell the property of the company to the highest bidder at an auction in January. If no railroad cares to buy the property to operate it, it will be sold for Junk, according to present plans. Attempts have bis n made by the State commission to Interest railroad companies in the matter of buying the road and operating it. The commission first attempted to have the Fere Marquette Kail road purchase the road, but it refused. The commission, according to Mr. Barnard, has another prospect in view und he said he would go to Chicago early next week in an attempt to have the company make a survey of the road. Merchants anil farmers on the western boundary of Indiana are anxious to see Uip road ngaln in operation. They have agreed mat the passenger service be eliminated and that only the minimum amount of freight trains be run in order to give the purchaser es the road an opportunity to operate on a paying basis. The receivers granted the State commission an additional thirty days in which to find a purchaser for the road some time ago. Tin- commission now will seek to prevent t hem from selling the road to any bidder who does not intend to operate the road, Mr. Barnard said.

Alleged Bank Robber Arrested by Police DETROIT, Dec. 25—Nick Lambriek, said to have been identified in bank robberies in Halway nnd In Grand Rapids, is held in Wyandotte. Two policemen xvere killed in the Grand Rapids robber> Mutilated money said by Wyandotte police to have been identified as part of the loot taken from the Grand Rapids bank, xvas said to have been found in the home of Lambrick’a sisteriu Wyandotte. ASKS DIVORCE AFTER 4 YEARS. O'FALLON, 111., Dec. 23. Mrs. Mary Wlersert. married forty-years and mother of thirteen children, is asking for a divorce from her husband, charging desertion and cruelty. BANK’S DOORS CLOSED. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 23—The Merchants Bank failed to open its doors today. A notice on the door stated the bang was in charge of the superintendent of banks.

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WAR’S HORRORS BROKE SPIRIT OF SOLDIERS Colonel Whittlesey, ‘Lost Battalion’ Hero, Victim of Terror. NEW YORK, Dee. 23.—Because of hi3 self-chosen, self-inflicted burial at sea, the late Col. Charles W. Whittlesey may be called, by the unthinking—a suicide. But he will forever be listed as one of the casualties of war, this hero commander of the 77th Division’s “Lost Battalion,” who, hemmed in by the enemy, | told the boebe to “go to hell!" I Casualties continue, though we have long since passed Armistice day with its carnivals aud Joyous hail of confetti that pelted a world weary of war. But there is another “Lost Battalion ” It is a company of those wounded i. spirit as well as those xvho cannot br *athe ! the’pure air of peace for all the gaseous content left in their lungs by battle. CHARACTER OF WHITTLESEY. Os these first Whittlesey xvas typical. And another soldier who knew the lost commander of the lof battalion tells us [something of the horrors thnt so feed upon sensitive men’s souls that life no longer holds rest for them. Supreme Court Justice Philip J. McCook. major in the sth Division, member of a famous family, the “fighting MeCooks,” knew Whittlesey both before and after the war. “He always felt the responsibilities of others. Where associates cursed nnd damned every phase of war, and every situation that didn’t suit them, nnd so relieved the pressure, Whittlesey felt, it more deeply. He was like a too thin boiler plate with no escape valx'es for nil this pounding steam that worked xvlthin him." Judge McCook explained. “THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY." “The pressure at last, found a weak spot—hence his death. “Such an intensely nervous organization simply had to rest. He wanted to find sleep, and he saw no other way. “Picture the feelings of a man who comes back a xvar hero—who with this type of organism has gone through terrific strain. He l.ns no position or business. lie must start all over again in a profession. Life may seen just too hard. There are very many such men. "With him remains the fearful memories of sufferings indescribable. Memories of comrades who stopped suddenly to fall with brains spilled out on the ground; men xvho died and sat lifeless with pencil In hand as thpy were xvrlting to those who waited at home; bodies thnt lay so thick that one must look sharp so as not to step on ii dead friend's face; horses that a moment before had responded to a reassuring pat, suddenly killed, four legs frightfully standing up in the air. "These scene* of suffering stayed with many of the men. "They always hear the roar of the guns —which would unsettle any one who couldn't forget. DISGUSTING SCENES OF WAR. "These scenes, often sublime or pathetic. more often dirty aud disgust-

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ing were painted In high colors to the constant pounding of cannon in one's ears. I recall a dugout under a ‘155,’ which rocked me back and forth with a steady jerk, so that even in the sleep that finally came I had to brace myself against falling out of the bunk. “They often give too much—of themselves. “If these men had hard shells like some of the rest of us they could not have broken. But he xvas a true ‘sensitive.’ “I believe Whittelsey xvas not in his full senses when he went ox'erboard on the Havana-bound boat. His nervous makeup xvas Inadequate to meet the double strain he had to face. “If there had not been a xvar these men would not have been broken, but in the last analysis they gave up to inhuman pressure. "Don’t think for a moment they arttrying to escape—that is too often the slur upon a suicide. “The ‘hero stuff’ made Whittlesey sick. How ho hated it” said Judge McCook. “Charge it up to xxnr that a man of j great sxveetness of character, modesty and generosity—of a type seldom seen—came to that choice. CASUALTIES WHICH COME LATER. ‘‘l don't look for more casualties of ‘his nature. But I do knoxv that cases of tuberculosis, induced by being gassed, hive been increasing by the thousand. Dozens of felloxx's I knoxv hax'e gone out o California, xvith lungs scared. Henry Stlmson, ex-Secretary of War, said the ether day that the peak had not yet been reached in the gas casualties.” And so the ghost of war remains xvith men who cannot forget sights not meant for humans to see; xvho cannot escape from sounds beating on ears that xvanl only quiet. Highly nervous organisms, even those naturally quiet and unassuming, often rise to great daring as did the “lost commander.”

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SENATORSSAY MARINES OUGHT TO STAY IN HAITI Committee, After Investigation, to Exonerate Naval Soldiers of Cruelties. WASHINGTON, Dc. 23—United States marines should not be withdraxvn from Haiti and Santo Domingo at this time, members of the Senate committee just returned from an investigation of American occupation of the island republics, declared today. This xx*ill lie one of the recommendations made by the committee iu its preliminary report, it xxas said. Other recommendations it is said the committee xx’ould make are: . 1. Exoneration of marines of charges of atrocities upon natives. 2. Announcement of a definite American policy toward the island republics, making it clear that annexation is not contemplated. 3. Centralization of American control during occupation to cut ox'erhead expenses. 4. Extension of road building, educational, sanitation and hospitalization work. Th committee called on Secretary of State Hughes to discuss certain phases of its findings. BISHOP BUFFERS STROKE. WHEELING, W. Va., Dec. 23.—Bishop P. J. Donohue, head of the Catholic Church in West Virginia, today suffered a stroke of paralysis and is in a critiacl condition. The bishop returned only a few weeks ago from a visit to the Pope at Rome.

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