Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 230, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1922 — Page 1

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DETECTIVES SUSPECT ‘DAPPER DAN’ COLLINS IN DEATH OF TAYLOR Seek Alleged Two-Gun Man and Master Blackmailer, Said to Have Been Traced to Los Angeles. UNDERWORLD PALS TELL OF BOASTS LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 4. —“Dapper Dan” Collins, two-gun man, and alleged master blackmailer, is “wanted for questioning” in connection with the murder of William Desmond Taylor. This was revealed today by private investigators at work on the mysterious slaying of the famous motion picture director. “Dapper Dan” is now at large, detectives said, with a price of $5,000 on his head, following the shooting in New York last May of John B. Reid, well-to-do manufacturer, at the home of Hazel D. Warner. “Dapper Dan” has been traced from New York to Denver, from Denver to Salt Lake City and from Salt Lake City to Los Angles, the investigators asserted.

He recently escaped a trap set for him when a motion picfure actress, whom It was alleged he was attempting to use as a tool in another blackmail project, informed on him. Detectives are attempting to establish ■whether or not this blackmail scheme Involvad Taylor's mystery-shrouded past. Underworld acauaintaces of “Dapper Dan'' told investigators, according to the latter, Collins had boasted his intention of finishing this deal single-handed, since his “come-on girl” had crossed him up. The detective's believe “Dapper Dan’s” intended victim was someone, obviously possessed of considerable wealth, who was connected with the moving picture industry. This belief is based on the fact the blackmailer was attempting to use a film actress as a lure. Collins, it is believed, was Intimate with the details of Taylor’s past in New Tork, bits of which are now coming to Jight for the first time. CHAJtGE TAYLOR USED LAKE NAME. It Is rumored evidence has been uncovered showing Taylor, a supposed art connoisseur, lived in New York under an assumed name in 1908. He married Miss Ethel Harrison, an actress and member FAINTS BEFORE BODY 1,03 ANGELES, Feb. 4—The collapse of Henry IV.ivej, negro servant of the mnfdered man, when be was led by detectives into a little room and told to Look upon the body of his dead employer, marked the opening of the inquest into the death of Taylor. As he glanced at the body of his former tna*tr, the negro moaned and sank to the floor. Detectives carried him into an adjoining room where he was revived. A great throng of persons assembled at tbe mortuary eager to get first band details of the circumstances in connection with the mysterious murder. Many of those present were luminaries In the film world, whose faces are familiar to millions of movie fans. of the original Floradora company. They had one child. Taylor and his wife subsequently were divorced. Police are attempting to find out whether or not the former wife is living. Taylor’s daughter, Ethel Daisy Taylor, 14, is now said to be attending a finishing school at Mannaroneck, N. Y. Police were said to be attaching considerable significance to information given by Harry Fellows, Taylor's assistant director and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Tiffany. Tiffany was the slain directors chauffeur. These three persons have been questioned for several hours and probably will be subject to further griliin,?. The detectives’ rigid questioning of these three is said to be prompted by the feeling they may be able to shed some light on events leading up to the fatal shooting because of their close association with the slain man. Mrs. Tiffany is credited with the statement she saw- Edward F. Sands, former secretary-valet of the murdered man, on the afternoon of the day before the murder was committed. Sands has been (Continued on Page Two.) Willie, Optimistic, Takes Appeal to Slate High Court

M illie doesn't want to go to jail jet. Willie Carey, who Friday received a fine of .5200 and costs and was sentenced to serve sixty days in the Marion County jail by Judge Harry O. ChambrCn for violating the liquor law, appeared In Criminal Court todaj' and appealed from the decision of the court. His appeal was taken to the State Supreme Court. Willie was ordered to report to Sheriff George Snider at 0 a. in. to begin his sentence, but his appeal will staj r the beginning of his service until the high @@url; acts on the ease. Middaugih’s Bondsmen Face Delicate Task Bondsmen for Charles " (Big Shiner) Middaugh against whom a charge of operating a blind tiger Is pending in Criminal Court, today were ordered by Special Judge Harry O. Chamberlin to have him in court Tuesday, Feb. 10, or tin? bond would be forfeited. Middaugli is serving a term at the Indiana State Farm for violation of the liquor laws.

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Ban Placed On 9 Professional Bond Signers Some Barred on Account of Faulty Title—Others Overstep Bounds. Judge Delbert O, Wilmeth exploded a bomb in city court today when he posted a notice barring nine professional bondsmen from signing bonds of prisoners. The nine on the barred list, ell of whom have operated around police court for years, are as follows: Alex Alexander, Louis Brown, Joseph Bissesi, Piendel Shanoff, Ed Thomas,negro; Harry Campbell, Sam Farb. W. P. Hyde, negro, and William P. Hiatt. The notices reading that bonds from thse men will not be accepted until further notice was posted in the matrons' and turnkeys’ offices and a copy was sent to Chief of Police Herman F. Rlkoff. “Some of these men have been found to have all of their property In their wife’s name,” said Judge Wiimeth in commenting on the order. "Others have been found to have their property held in Joint deeds. Others have overstepped the amount of bonds for which their property would be security.” The Judge said a quiet Investigation of the bondsmen has been going on for some time and that undoubtedly others would be excluded from city court practice within a short time.

2 CLAIM BOOZE; BOTH ARRESTED Second Claimant Arrives in Time to Climb in Wagon. When two persons claimed ownership of the same illicit booze, the police arrested both of them today. The police found eight pints of whisky under a stairway in the grocery of Curtis Boggs, 030 Ogden street, and a quart of whisky under the building. William Wright of tho same address, said the booze belonged to him, Boggs and Wright were being loaded into a patrol wagon when Herbert Colver, negro, 637 Ogden street, appeared and said the booze belonged to him. “All right, climb in," the police said. Herbert climbed. All were charged with operating a blind tiger. Enlarges School! In order that they may know something about the work they are supposed to do Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank will have city street and street cleaning Inspectors go to school a few hours each veek until the spring season opens, he announced today. Engineers will te asked to lecture to the Inspectors upon approved methods of laying and maintaining pavements and keeping them clean.

All Will Hays Must Do to Earn Pay Is to Cut Film Cost $50,000,000

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—rushing a $50,000,000 load off the shoulders of the motion picture producers each year will be the first move of Hays’ regime. By a radical change in the method of distributing the films to exhibitors, a system of triplicate handling in shipment will be eliminated. It will cost between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000 to put the ne wplan in operation as it involves building operations in one hundred principal cities where new structures averaging between $250,000 anil $300,000 will be erected. In substance when the plans are completed, it means the American Railway Express Company will become the “postal service” of the film industry and it will act as the “clearing house” for all the producers. If the undertaking is a success, it may result in its adoption by other industries and will cause a revolution in transportation methods Involving the savings of millions and millions of dollars to large corporations. EXPRESS COMPANY HEAD WORKS OUT SYSTEM. Robert E. Cowie, vice president and general manager of the American Railway Express Company, who directed the work of merging the seven major express companies during the war, worked out the, plan by which it is proposed bis company will become the distributing agent for motion picture concerns with a joint capital of approximately $300,000,000. Cowie carried out the negotiations which are now practically complete with representatives of the greatest American producers including: Famous PlayersLasky Company, Fox Film Corporation,

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SERVICE BOARD MAY APPEAL TO HIGHER COURT ’Phone Rate Decision of Federal Judge Upsets Precedents of Commission. NEW UTILITY CONTROL Tho question of whether the public service commission will take an appeal from the decision of the Federal Court in the case of the Home Telephone and Telegraph Company of Ft. Wayne in which the court granted the company increased rates that had been denied by the commission will be put before the commission at a meeting Monday. John W. McCardle, chairman of the commission, said that he did not wish to discuss the question of an appeal without consulting other members of the commission. He said, however, that "it is very questionable if we ran do any better if we take the case to Chicago.” The decision of the Federal Court is one of the most far reaching in the history of utility regulation in Indiana. It is the first time in the history of the public service commission that a utility has taken a case to the Federal Court on the ground that the commission has in not granting increased rates, violated the Fourteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution by confiscating property without due Drocess of law. OVENS HOOKS FOK OTHER CASES. Members of the commission have frequently expressed the opinion that if the Federal Court ruled In favor of the telephone company it would throw the door wide open for gimilur action in other cases. In fact, some of the commissioners have snld that such a decision will moan that the control of public utilities will eventually be lodged 1 In the Federal Court with the public service commission in the position of a court of original Jurisdiction and the Federal Court a court of appeal. The commission recently has denied a number of petitions for Increases in rate® and in other cases has granted only a fraction of the Increases asked for. It Is possible that some of the utilities involved will now proceed to take their cases to the Federal Court on the ground that the commission by its action Is confiscating their property. Edward M. White, assistant, attorney genera!, who handled the telephone case in Fede -al Court, said he did not know whether the case would be appealed. He said this is entirely in the hands of tbe public service commission. The decree as entered by Judge Albert B. Anderson enjoin* the commission from enforcing the schedule er rates fixed in its orders of March 31, 3920. and Aug. 17, 1921, from in any way interfering with the plaintiff in charging rates which will provide a reasonable return upon a fair valuation of its property and collecting he schedule of rates which the company presented to the commission last year for approval and which was rejected at that time. The commission is also forbidden to prosecute any civil or criminal suits against the company for the collection or assessment of any penalties because of its having (Continued on Huge Two.)

ARRESTS UNCOVER BOOTLEGGER GANG Three Taken by Federal and Local Ollicers in Round-up—Ordered Held Without Bond.

Three arrests had been made this afternoon in connection with an investigation being made by the Federal officers and the Indianapolis police of what is believed to be a gang of bootleggers and counterfeiters who have been operating in Indianapolis for some time. Those arrested are; Edgar Ratcliff, a barber, 39028 North Illinois street. Roscoe Crisswell, 4001 Carrollton avenue.

Universal Pictures, Tnc.; First National Exhibitors, Goldwyn Pictures, Inc.; United Artists. By the proposed new plan, the American Express Company would build a “clearing house" in 100 sectional distribution points to which the producers would ship their films with posters and advertising matter. All the films for the exhibitors in the metropolitan district of New York would be shipped to the New York express o'fiee where the express company will assemble all the shipments to one exhibitor and taake one delivery several days in advance of the release date on the pictures. WOULD OPERATE LIKE POST OFFICE. In this manner the sectional distribution office of the express company woull function for the movie Industry just as the postoffice does for (he mail districts. Under the existing conditions the mov.e producers have in Chicago alone forty separate distributing agencies, all with large forces of employes and large investments in real estate and equipment. Under the new plan there will be only one maintained and operated by the express compnny. The same will prevail in one hundred large cities in the various sections of Ik > country, from which 16,418 motion picture theaters obtain their films. The new method can be placed in operation within two months after the plans are completed. Transportation men regard it as an experiment which may mean a revolution in business shipping methods. Eventually ail shippers may turn their distribution over to a third corporation acting on the part of all of them.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1922.

MAKES PUBLIC CONVERSATION WITH GARMAN Attorney Tells in Letter of Talk Over Electric Merger With Engineer. REFERS TO ‘BIG STEAL’ l Harry O. Carman, former chief engineer of the public service commission, who recently came to the defense of the commission m the Indiana Electric Corporation case, previously male the statement that the corporation was “trying to steal si,i*>o,(MXV according to a letter written by Edwin Stears, an at torney, to J. Stephen Cullen, a leader in the Enterprise Civic League. The letter was unde public today by Mr. Fallen after be lrud shown it to Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank. The mayor said he agreed it should be given out as showing Mr. Carman's attitude. “Some sevtrai weeks ago. shortly after the public service commission refused to permit the merger on a value, as I remember it, of something like *ao,Wo,000, I had u conversation with Air. Garnian in which he stated that ‘if in merging the corporations, they had tried o steal u million or two, they could have probably covered it up and gotten awuy with it, but they ure trying to steal seven million,' ” the letter says. REITERATES FORMER STATEMENT. “A couple of weeks ago I again had u talk with Mr. Carmen with reference to the merger anil in this conversation 1 reminded him of what he had said in the former conversation with me and above quoted, ii, laughingly said, 'Did you remember that?' and ’i told him that I did and he again reiterated that Ins former statements were right. In fact, he seemed to bo pleased that i hud remembered what he said. "As I was returning the other day from the Shank demonstration I met Me. Carman on the north side of Market street just west of Pennsylvania street. Knowing his attitude as expressed to mo in his former conversations, I spoke to him and told Idm that be had missed a great demonstration, lie then asked me about this demonstration and 1 told him of the crowd and that Mr. Shank had quoted him frequently with reference to the different values of the various utilities to lie merged. He asked me if Mr. thank had mentioned his name and I told him 'Yes, several times.* Ho seemed to be well pleased with the fact that Shank had done this and said, ‘Mr. Shank Is exactly right, i was forced out over there because I would not stand for It.’ I again reminded him of his conversation with reference to the stealing of seven million and 1 sai l, ‘They did not get the seven million but they did get four of It,' and he said, ’That’s right.* TWO INCREASED, ONE DECREASED. In answer to statements that the public service commission has been granting undue Increases In rates, John W. McCardle, chairman of the commission, made public figures showing that the rates of only two of the concerns involved in the Indiana Electric Corporation merger have received rate increases nines 1917 Rnd that the rates of one of the concerns have been decreased. The following comparison of electric rates to householders was given in Mr. McCardle's figures: Merchants Heat and (Continued on I’uge Two.)

Montrose Jctmore, Muncie. Ratcliff ami Criswell were held on blind tiger charges with notations that they were to lie held for Federal officers. Jetmore was charged with vagrancy, a technical charge, and the sain* notation was indile concerning him. The police were instructed that none of the men are too be released on bond. Large quantities of booze, bearing counterfeit United States and Canadian revenue stamps were found at both the Carrollton avenue address and the North Illinois street address, but no counterfeiting equipment was found In either place. The Ratcliff house was the first raided. In that place the officers found one hundred quarts of colored liquor In cases, each bottle bearing a counterfeit United States or Canadian stamp. A large quanity of material for making booze also was found in the place, but no still was discovered. At the Carrollton avenue address the officers found six ten-gallon jugs of whisky, and eighty live quart bottles of whisky, all bearing counterfeit stamps similar to those found at the North Illinois street address. Ratcliff and Crisswell insisted they were not working together, despite the similarity of the stamps. According to the police, Crisswell was the only person at the house when the raid was made. They say he was preparing to load an automobile which was found in the garage on the place, with the booze. To persons living in the neighborhood the Carrollton avenue house lias been a mystery for some time. While the house was fully furnished, they say no one was about it except in the evening. Nearly every evening about 6 o'clock, according to neighbors, the house was lighted from top to bottom and the lights kept burning, although no one ever was seen moving about in the main part of the house. Among the persons who have been seen going into the house in tho evening was a woman. The police were told by neighbors automobiles frequently had been H‘en to stop at the place and the occupants to leave a few minutes later bearing packages. The police often have been notified of tbe circumstances surrounding the place, but so far as can be determined no investigation was made until the Federal officials started an Investigation of tbe existence of counterfeit revenue stamps in Indianapolis. STRIKE DELAYS SESSION. DUBLIN, Feb. 4.—The convention of the Sinn Fein today was postponed until Feb. 21, because of the railway strike.

WORLD POWERS PLEDGE TO DEAL FAIRLY WITH CHINA

Arms Parley Achievements

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—History will record the following as the imposing achievements of the Washington conference: Five-power naval limitation treaty. Junking many battleships, establishing a naval holiday and setting a fiat allotment of tonnage of warships for Jbe five great naval powers after the holiday. Five-power poison gas and submarine treaties, outlawing gas as a war weapon, and submarines as commerce attackers. Four-power Pacific treaty aimed, at eliminating strife in the Pacific. Two so-called ulne-power Cbineso treaties: (At One dealing with customs duties—granting China an effective 5 per cent tariff with subsequent alterations upward. (B) One reaffirming In unequivocal

FINANCIAL AID Delegates O. K. Pact Presented by Underwood. BOOSTS INCOME Aim to Put Nation Back on Sound Monetary Basis. By HARRY L. ROGERS. CONTINENTAL HALL, WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Tho nine powers represented in the Washington conference today gave their formal approval to a treaty designed to increase the customs revenues of China to a point which will permit her to get back on a sound financial footing. The treaty was presented by Senator Oscar Underwood, minority leader of the Senate, and member of the American delegation, who addressed the conference in plenary session for the first time. The conference adopted the customs treaty at 11.30 a m. at tho end of its presentation by Underwood. The text of the customs treaty follows : “The United States of America, Belgium, British Empire, China, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Portugal: "With a view to increasing the revenues of the Chinese government, have resolved to eonelude a treaty relating to the revision of the Chinese customs tariff and cognate matters, and to that end have appointed as their plenipotentiaries: “Who, having communicated to each other their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed as follows : ARTICLE I. "The representatives of the contracting powers having adopted, on the fourth day of February, 1922, in the city of Washington, a resolution, which Is appended (Continued on I’nge Two.) SCHOOL HEADS NAME OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATION J. M. Scudder of Huntington President —New Accounting System Desired. J. M. Scudder, of Huntington, was elected president of the City and Township Superintendents Association at the closing meeting of the organization in tho Clay-pool Hotel today. Mr. Scudder succeeds T. F. Fitzgibbons of Muncie, who retired. Other officers elected were: J. 8. Painter of Mt. Vernon, vice president, arid W. C. Goble of Sway-zee, secretary and treasurer. The new executive committee is composed of A. W. Youngblood of Auburn, W. A. Knodle, Elwood, Paul Van Rifer, Lebanon, and W. F. Vogel of Bonneville. A committee to cooperate with the State superintendent of public instruction and the State board of accounts in preserib- j ing anew method of accounting for the j schools vyas appointed by Mr. Scudder. j The committee will assist the two boards j iu devising a more up-to-date systematic scheme of acounting than has been used before. Educators must realize that their primary function is to aid in the "socialization” of the children and that one of j the problems to be confronted Is the attention to he given to the so-called "bad boy,” Dr. Henry H. Goodard, Columbus, Ohio, told the conference. “We do not know wnat our schools ! will do for mental defectives for we have j not been able to give the schools a fair | opportunity to try out the proposed j means of handling this class of society-,” i Dr. Goodard said. “The group of mental ; defectives that is perhaps the most com- j plex and perplexing is the psychopathic j or the *llOßlßlll6 minded child. In the ; school and the penal institutions it is | the psychopathic individual that is the ; trouble maker. We are wasting millions cf dollars because we are treating the prisoner on the same basis.” E. W. Konold of Elwood, urged that the salaries of married men teachers be increased so as to afford them a living wage. The average salary of a teacher j in Elwood, he said, is $950 a school term, j while in other parts of the State it is as j high as $1,250 for a school year The final session and the election of j the offiicerß of the organization will be I held today.

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language old principles of respect for China's “open door” ami China’s Integrity. Settlement of the Shantung question between China and Japan providing for return of Kla Chou and the Shantung Railway to China. Settlement of the Y'ap controversy between the United States and Japan -—a controversy which was ;ftding the two powers manifestly to war. Settlement of the division of cables in the I’acific. Agreement of Japan to withdraw from Siberia. Withdrawal by Japan of the obnoxious group five of the twentyone demands with relinquishment of the idea of "exclusive" control in South Manchuria and inner Mongolia. Return of Wei Hel Wei to China by Great Britain.

9 NATIONS JOIN Adopt Treaty in 5 Minutes After Session Under Way. PLEDGES SET OUT Oriental Country Becomes Party to Agreement. By GEORGE R. HOLMES. CONTINENTAL HALL, WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. —The great powers of the world today pledged themselves to deal fairly with China. The pledge was contained in a nine-power treaty presented to the sixth plenary session of the arms confereufece by Secretary of State Hughes and adopted within five minutes after tho session got under way. China herself Is a party to the agreement, and upon her own part, she pledges herself not to grant preferential rights to any nation, and to do her utmost to see that all nations have equal economic opportunities within her far flung borders. PLEDGED TO PRESERVE CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY. Following the adoption of the Chinese treaty, the conference formally approved the resolution pledging the powers to preserve the Chinese Eastern Railway. Then Secretary Hughes read into the conference record yesterday's action on the twenty-one demands, In which Japan renounced group five and pledged herself not to press the others to the detriments of other nations Interested. All this the conference quickly approved. The treaty itself was composed of nine sections, following a preamble which stated that its purpose was to "stabilize conditions in the Far East” and insure the maintenance of equal opportunity for all nations in China (open door.) PLEDGE TO RESPECT INTEGRITY. 1. The powers pledge themselves to respect the territorial, administrative and political Integrity of China, and to do their utmost to maintain the "open door." 2. The powers pledge themselves not to enter Into any agreements with each other which would prevent (Continued on Fge Two.)

American Public Opinion to Steer Senate on Pacts Drawn in Arms Confab

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. —American public opinion largely will determine Senate action on the treaties evolved by the armaments conference, it was agreed today by Republican and Democratic Senators already lined up for or against them. Senator Underwood, Alabama, Democratic leader and member of the American delegation, expressed the opinion that an “overwhelming preponderance” of public opinion favorable to the conference accomplishments would insure ratification of the various pacts. Although reluctant to discuss the situation on the Democratic side, Underwood appeared sanguine s to the ultimate outcome of the bitter opposition awaiting the treaties from the Senate “irreeoncilnbiea.” OH. YES, BORAH TAKES A DIFFERENT VIEW. Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, leader of the “irreconciliables,” took a different view' from Underwood in anticipating what the effect of the American sentiment on the Senate’s attitude toward the treaies would be. Borah expressed confidence hat public poinion is veering away from the conference and its decision, “if only because of its blunders and entanglements” instead of toward them, ns contended by Underwood. Underwood's adherents In the Senate declared he would wield more political influence with his Democratic colleagues than some of the Senators who still reflect the League of Nations views of Woodrow Wilson are willing to concede. Underwood planned to deal with the Democratic frankly and fully, it was stated, by laying all of his cards

HUGHES SAYS WORK OF CONFERENCE HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED Three Treaties and Many Resolutions, Adopted in Open Session, Consolidate Issues. SPEECH MAKING IN FINAL ROUND CONTINENTAL HALL, WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—ln a fast and furious finish in which international treaties and agreements were presented and ratified at a speed so great the spectators had difficulty in keeping track of them, the armament conference today swept toward final adjournment. The first two hours of the last official Eession saw the presentation and adoption of three treaties and numerous resolution incorporating and 'consolidating the three months' work of the conference.

Jap Homeland Removed From 4-Power Pact U S. Senate's Objections Met by Conference in Supplementary Treaty. By J. DART CAMPBELL. WASHINGTON, Fel. 4.—ln order to meet the objections raised by the United States Senate, the armament conference today adopted a supplement to the fourpower Pacific treaty, which definitely removes the Japanese homeland from the provisions of that pact. The supplementary treaty was presented to the conference by Senator Lodge, majority leader of the Senate, who presented the original pact some weeks "ago. The supplement removes Japan proper by the simple expedient of explaining that the term “insular possessions and insular dominions" applies only to part of t'Jkhalln Island. Formosa, the Pescadores and the islands that are mandated to Japan. Tbe text of the brief supplement follows : "Tho United Slates of Amertca, the British Empire, France and Japan have, through their respective plenipotentiaries agreed upon the following stipulations supplementary to the quadruple treaty signed at Washington on Dec. 13, 1921: ’ The term 'insular possessions and insular dominions' used in the aforesaid treaty shall, in its application to Japan, include only Karnfuto (or the southern portion of the island of Sakhalin), Formosa and the Pescadores, and the islands under ‘he mandate of Japan. "The present agreement shall have the same force and affect as the said treaty to which ir is supplementary. “The provisions of article IV of the aforesaid treaty of Dec. 13, 1921, relating to latifleation shall he applicable to the present agreement, which in French and English shall remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States and duly certified copies thereof, shall be transmitted by that Government to each of the other contracting powers. "In faith whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present agreement. "Done at the City of Washington, the sixth dnv of February, one thousand nine hundred, twenty-two.” Pneumonia Claims Thirty in Five Days The pneumonia and influenza death rate continued to cause health depart nient officials concern today. Four deaths from pneumonia and one from influenza were added to the list yesterday. making the total in the last five days thirty.

face upward on the table at a conference of the Democratic membership of the Senate to be held shortly after the treaties are submitted to tho upper Chamber by President Harding. He Intended to tell his colleagues all about the conference and his participation in It and to permit them to ask him as many questions’ as they may desire, It was said. Underwood’s task would not he nearly so difficult as that of Senator Lodge, the Republican leader, and also a member of the American delegation, it was predicted. Lodge’s chief difficulty may lie with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which he is chairman. PACKED TO PREVENT TREATY RATIFICATION. | The committe originally was packed with Republican “lrreconcllables.” to prevent the Versailles treaty from being reported from It without reservations. Its members include such “bitter enders” lu the League of Nations fight as Borah, 0 vhnson, California ; Brnndegee, Connecticut; Moses, New Hampshire, and McCormick, Illinois. Shields, of Tennessee, a Democratic Irreconcilable, also is a member. Especially with regard to the fourpower Pacific treaty, the ’'lrreeonclHables” are determined that the conference pacts shall receive the most careful scrutiny and discussion before they are reported from the committee to which they will be referred Immediately following their submission to the Senate. One of its “irreconciliable” members predicted that the four-power pact would leave the committee only after it had been (Continued on Page Two.)

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At 12:30 o’clock Secretary of State Hughes formally announced that the work of the conference has been accomplished. This was the signal for the beginning of a final round of speech making. in which all the heads of delegations were to express their approval of the works of the conference. RESULTS OF TWO HOURS’ WORK. When the final speaking began, the conference had, in a hectic two hours, accomplished the following: 1. Approved a nine-powered treaty pledging the powers to strict observance of the open door, and to respe< t the territorial, political and admlnist -stive integrity of China. 2. Approved a nine-powered Chinese tariff treaty, designed to grant China a tariff increase so that she may get back on her feet financially. 3. Approved a four-powered supplemental treaty to the Pacific treaty, which definitely takes Japan proper out of the provisions of the pact. 4 Accepted Japan*s renunciation of part of the twenty-one demands and her promise not to press the other part to the detriment of other powers’” commercial interests. 5. Adopted a declaration, aimed at better preservation of the Chinese Easters Railwny and a continuance of international control. ACCENT JAPAN'S WORD OF PEACEFUL INTENT. 6. Accepted Japan's declaration of peaceful intent toward Siberia and her promise to withdraw Japanese troops as soon as a stable government is set up in Russia. 7. Approved the creation of an international board of reference in China to which disputed points between nations of this conference can be referred for action. 8. Adopted a resolution providing for the creation of a commission to study new agencies of warfare with a view to codifying rules governing them. 9. Accepted a resolution by which the naval powers agree not to sell capital ships ordered scrapped under the Hughes plan. After the longest session yet held, and which saw the completion of three months* work, the Washington conference adjourned at 2:35 o'clock this afternoon until Monday. On Monday the treaties will be signed and President Harding will address the conference at a final session. Living Cost Here Cut 19.3 Per Cent in Eighteen Months WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—The cost of living in the United States has decreased 19.5 per cent in the last eighteen months, according to Department of Labor figures Just announced. For the United States as a whole the cost of living is 74.3 per cent higher than it was in 1914. The percentage of it for some of the principal cities for Jan. 15 this year as compared with 1914 are: Chicago, 72.3; Los Angeles, 76.4; Denver, 24.5; Indianapolis, 19.3; Kansas City, 22.5; Minneapolis, 20.7, and St. Louts, 18.3.

Judge Roby to Hear Chappel ‘Tiger* Case Judge Frank S. Roby has been selected to preside at the bearing of the case of George Chappel, charged with operating a blind tiger. The case is set for hearing Wednesday morning in Criminal Court. Attorneys for Chappel asked a change of venue from Judge James A. Collins and this was granted, Judge Roby being agreed upon as the trial Judge by attorneys for the State and defense. LEO BROKEN BY STREET CAR. Thomas Shea, 329 Ogdon street, suffe.-ed a broken leg and other injuries when he was struck by an inbound BrooksiOo street car at Alabama stret and Has*achusetts avenue today. He was tken to the city hospitl. John Lewis. 2211 Kluff avenue, was the motorman of the car.

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