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WpODBURN POINTS OUT JAP CRISIS Says Normalcy in Europe Long Way Off IS FOR RULE Returns to Capital Social Circle "Normal economic conditions ' - In Europe are a long way off," says John W. Davis, ambassador to Great Britain, who recently returned to submit his resignation to President Harding. IN LEAD

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FIGURES ARE WRONG, SAYS GERMAN NOTE Refuses To Pav Sum Demand-

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Enumerates Reasons for Fear

of Japan Discusses California Problem Touches Root of Controversy. compareTTolutions Undesirable situations and feelings existing between Americans and Japanese and their possible solutions were discussed by Dr. James A. Woodburn of Indiana university in his address on "America and Japan" before the civics department of the Woman's club at the Morrisson-Reeves library Tuesday afternoon. "A critical situation," the speaker said, "is said to exist in the foreign relations of the United States arisin from the ambition of Japan and un friendly attitude of that nation toward America. Because of this, 'yellow peril' warnings are given tuat war with Japan is only a question of time and the senate is being urged constantly to prepare for a crisis but has not yielded to the scare." On tjie other hand Dr. Woodburn pointed out, that during the closing hours before March 4 a resolution providing for a conference on naval reduction between the United States, England and Japan was passed in the senate by unanimous vote. Reasons For Fear. Reasons for fear of Japan to which tbe attention of the senate has been called were enumerated by Dr. Woodburn and the fact brought out by Senator Borah that "the navy of the United States will be two and a quarter times greater than that of Japan with the completion of the present program of construction," (in 1923), was mentioned by the speaker along with the fact that Japan's navy at present is three-quarters as large as ours. That competitive building would be carried on by England and Japan in the event that we carried on a big naval construction plan was pointed out by the speaker, and, he questioned. "What is the end of competitive building? Evidently, it is international bankruptcy." Discusses Forces. Forces making for peace and forces making for war were named and discussed by Dr. Woodburn, naming as forces making for peace : 1. Widespread disapproval of war. 2. The growing solidarity of the intellectual classes and their organized and concerted efforts to prevent an International crisis. 3. "The shaky financial condition of the world. Thi is especially 'so of Japan. Europe is Insolvent or bankrupt, from the Bordeaux to the Urals. International bankers are solidly against war," and he added, "babe3 now in arms when they become gray beards will be paying for the madness of 1914. Do we wish to launch into another mad career?" 4. Dependence of Japan on the

United States for raw materials. The ! countries and the United States, effectmost profitable industry of that coun-jing even American nationals in those try. Dr. Woodburn pointed out, is the countries without American passports, production of raw silk. Of the $310,- j Wants Sister Here. 000,000 worth she exported in 1919, hoi Several months asro the attention oT stated, $300,000,000 was bought by the the state department was trailed to the United States, which means that the plight of a Lithuanian woman, now in

uujicu kJlairo isuu,ui ffo wui lu um of every $100 worth that Japan sold. For textiles, which is her next largest industry, the speaker continued. Jap an obtains her fibre chiefly from the United States. "In i919," he declared, "the United States sold her $42,000,000 worth of raw cotton" and he expressed the opinion that "a cotton blockade would ruin Japan in 90 days and drive the militarists from power." j War Not impossible "On the other hand," Dr. Woodburn' said, "strong as these forces are they are not sufficient to make war an impossibility. Forces making for war which might prove stronger than those making for peace were named by the speaker as: "1. Jp-n's expansion in Siberia conflicts snarply with American international policies. Japan regards this as thwarting her natural expansion on the mainland of Asia. Her surplus population must overflow or perish. Here is one cause of the Japanese distrust and dislike of us. "2. Japan is insisting upon her control, or mandate, over the cable station on the island of Yap. This has disturbed our state department which has protested. We hold that Yap should be internationalized for news and cable purposes. "3. Japanese aggressions in China conflict with American shipping and commercial interests; also with our sense of right and with our policy of the 'open door'." While Japan suspects us of trying to alienate China from her the United States suspects Japan of organizing the power of China as a force to use against the western world, the speaker explained. "4. The enormous influx of Japanese into Hawaii, it is claimed, meana that in another decade the islands will be politically dominated by the Japanese. "5. Japan feels, also, that we were unfriendly to her at the peace conferrnce, and she bitterly resents some of the positions which the United States !

took at that time, which she, Japan, felt were very much against her. Oiscusses Immigration. The sixth and greatest subject, and the one which has brought a crisis. Dr. Woodburn maintained, is "the Japanese immigration into California and the land law enacted there by an overwhelming referendum vote that will drive thousands of Japanese farmers out of California. The Japanese children were not allowed an education in California. The insulting activities of Americans on the Pacific coast in their treatment of the Japanese as an inferior race is galling to the spirit of a proud and sensitive people. "It is difficult," the speaker con ceded, "for the people this side of the (Continued on Page Tenl

j Sullivan all have the matter under conAmbaMador and' Mrs. John W. Davis, photoflraphed In New York on thelri sideration and preliminary organiza-

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Relatives of Richmond People Take Steps to Return to U. S.

paixadii'M news burbau j WASHINGTON. March 23. The American commissioner in Berlin, Germany, has taken preliminary steps to permit Eli Hirschfield, a native-born American c itizen who was required to remain in Germany throughout the period the United States was engaged in war with that country, to return to America. He is a brother of Charles Hirschfleid, of Richmond, Ird. According to advices received in Washington the American commissioner has instructed Hirschfield, who has been living in Bremen, to call upon an American consul and make application for an American passport. This application must then be forwarded to I the stale department in Washington for approval. In 1S98 Hirschfield went to Germany and ntarried a German woman and has remained in that country ever since. He haB always retained his American citizenship, .howew,- and after.- the United States declared war on Geruieuij' iirj woo injuuru w iiin.rvo uauj reports to police headquarters in Bremen. Since the armistice Hirschfield has been making efforts to secure permission to return to the United States. The fact that almost two and a half years after th signing of the armistice he is F-till in Germany and that only preliminary action has just been instituted by the American authorities for his repatriation is illustrative of the strict measures provided to check travel between former enemv l . ..I .... A ,.aVa Anilv Berlin, Germany, whose brother is a naturalized American citizen residing in Richmond, Ind. This roan is very anxious to have his sister join him, but. as she is not an American citizen

no American passport can be issued toework fr in connection with her. Apparently she is also in Ger- lh& bomb explosion, or will be held many without k passport from the h,fre 'F tnf on thf of mutiny.

Lithuanian government, . The state partment requires that, she secure a I.assport from her otn government and that it be approved by some American consular official before she Is I ermitted to come to this country. Last August, after several unsucURGES TRADE PACT BY CUBA, ENGLAND CPy Associated Press) LONDON, March 23. Because the press and public men in Cuba are demanding the imposition of a duty of 40 per cent ad valorem on all British goods as a reprisal for the British 50 j per cent duty on Cuban cigars, R. T. Nugent, director of the Federation of British Industries, strongly urges a reciprocal agreement with Cuba. In a letter to the president of the board of trade, . Nugent mentions that in the first quarter of 1920, British exports to Cuba were 150 per cent larger than in the corresponding period of 1919. and that recent American reports stated British cotton goods are getting a big hold in that island. Weather Forecast MOORE'S SPECIAL FORECAST. Showers and Warmer. Unsettled and warmer weather Is in prospect for the next 36 hours with rain late tonight or Thursday. For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureai Showers late tonight of Thursday, rising temperature. Temperatures for Yesterday. Maximum 43 Minimum 30 Today. Noon 48 General Conditions Generally fair weather continues over the North'and Central States, east of the Mississippi river, while rain has been gradually overspreading the western plan states during the past 12 hours. Heavy frosts and temperatures below freezing occurred throughout Wayne county this morning. Barometer. 7 a. m 30.40 12 noon 30.34

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cessful attempts to get money and information to a young brother and sifter in southwestern Poland, Sam Baren, a Richmond 'man, appealed to Representative Elliott for assistance. Mr. Elliott arranged for Baren to send a money order and steamship tickets I m an American government en eiope ; addressed to the American vice consul at Warsaw, Poland. It was not until

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li uic uuirauitu U11J1.C1 tt-L Hainan acknowledgement of the receipt of the money and the tickets. He fatated that hf?alD?"fi-e ?aren! br0tJh!r, for them 1 7atT a thei ZJ ?: P?J. .1 JtlJ 'ui

Polish government he would tl; them in leaving Poland for the United C1T orKeJ8 nave taken tne papers Slates. In compliance with regulations oun an,d virtually every employe r.,, thJZ- tt,n h.v0 f has placed his name on the list to

surance that they public charges. will not become SECRECTSURROUNDS PRISONERS RETURNED FROM SOUTH AMERICA CBv Associated Prss) NEW ORLEANS. March 23 The five men landed in irons 5'esterday from the American steamer RushviHe, which brought them from Rio de Janeiro at the request of the American consul there still were held behind a screen of secrecy todaj-. Detained technically at the parish jail on j i charges of mutiny on the high seas, j but said to be suspected of knowledge j of the September Wall street boat explosion, the men were allowed to have no visitors and were carefully guarded by federal and parish authorities. Whether the men will be taken to de-!"" , , " 1 "L : ' be decided before the result of the investigation department of justice agents are making into their alleged connection with the New York disaster. So far as could be learned here the department agents had not succeeded in linking them, with the explosion but were still working on this angle of the case. Are Well Educated. The five men, all of whom claim to be seamen and all of whom were said to be well educated, gave lheir names as Philip Bender. Lionel Kuobreezuff, Rudolph Dorah. Hans Kandin and Henrik Lioman. According to Ca.ntain Van Wepldern, of the Rushville. they were arrested a month ago following a mutiny on board the Fteamer City of Alton, and were landed at Rio de Janeiro. Later the American cor-eul at Rio had them put a.board the Munson liner Yoroto to be returned to the United I Plates, but they created saich disorder

XW "i'i'l,l; 'riC. Dennis of Washington

turned I hem ashore. When the Ru-h-ville arrived at Rio a similar renuest ! was made by the consul upon Captain Vnn Weeldern. He aereed to bring the prisoners to New Orleans. Just how their names -wore brought into the Wall street explosion had not been made clear here. Greek Envov to U. S. Charge a" Affaires C&y Associated Press. 1 ATHENS, March 23. Dr. Alexander Vounos who has been named Greek minister to the United States, will have the status of charge d'affaires, according to the passports issued to him by the Greek government. The American legation here declined to vise Dr. Vouros' passports as minister, pointing out that President Harding has not as yet established relations with King Constantine. Following this action, the Greek foreign office has amended the passports issued to the diplomat. JAPANESE STOWAWAYS. (By Associated Press) , TOKIO, March 13. During the month of January 120 stowaways went from Japan to ports in North and South America, on board Japanese steamers, said a circular Bent , to governors of Japanese provinces by the Home department today. Precautions were urged and it Is expected arrests

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Cities Look With Favor on

City Manager Form Kokomo,. Anderson, Bloomington in Front. CITIZENS ARE ENTHUSED Cities of Indiana are looking with favor on the city manager form of government for cities. The lead taken by Richmond has .been followed by many towns of the same class and pe- J Utions for elections are springing up' in 1 all sections of the state. Kokomo, Anderson and Bloomington have passed beyond the doubtful stage and will have their petitions ready for filing by April 9, the first day pro vided for in the law for the filing of petitions. Muncie, Crawfordsville, ! Seymour, Marion, Michigan City and juons are Deing iormea. ah or uiese cities are consaaenng tne city manager form in preference to the commission form, and freely express the opinion that this is the means of putting their city on a business basis. Richmond Lead3 Richmond has progressed farther than any of the other cities and now has twice the number of signatures ; necessary to procure tne election. At a meeting held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms in the K. of P. build - lag luesaay evening it. was ueciuea to stop the circulation of the petitions on next Saturday. All will then be Hed in and the final document for the preSentation to the city clerk will be prepared. Jt is estimated that 3,000 names will be signed to the petitions Agitation for the adoptfp rf th new form of government seems to , , , .... 'Ward chairmen freely stated" that i there was no dliculty in getting people to put their names on thepe - Local Committee The committee to check the names pn.tbe petitions and present them to the city clerk Is as follows: Benjamin Johnson, Jr.. chairman, representing the Young Men's Business club; Miss Ruth James, the Woman's club; j Lucius Harrison, the Central Labor ; council; Everett Knollenberg, -the Kiwanis club; and Horace Kramer, the Rotary club. A brief summary of the provisions of the city-manager form of govern-1 mem is as iouows: The city-manager plan presumes single elective representative board, which is called the commission. This i commission incorporates the powers (Continued on Page Fourteen) FORMER LOCAL MAN MENTIONED AS ENVOY WILLIAM C. DENNIS i fctnvriTnv at,v, oq. -William former resident of Richmond, where his mothHaviH WT riAnnij nnnr rnsides Qaa been gjven a p,ace on the list of eligibles for appointment as United States' minister to China. It is understood, however, that Mr. Dennis, who is now practicing law in this city, has made no application for the appointment. His friends have suggested his eligibility, however, because of his particular familiarity with the af fairs of the Chinese republic. Mr Dennis has been an advisor of the Chinese legation in Washington, and for about two years, during the war, he was in Pekin as a legal advisor to the Chinese government. He enjoys the complete confidence of the high officials of the Chinese 'republic and, his friends say, his appointment as minister to China would be entirely satisfactory to that country. Much attention is being given by President Harding to the ministership to China. Pekin, however, has not yet been asked to consider any definite name. Among those who have been mentioned for the appointment, in addition to Mr. Dennis are. John Van Antwerp MacMurrey, chief of the division of far eastern affairs of the state department; Owen Roberts, president of the China society, of New York; W. W. Willoughby, professor of political science at John Hopkins university; Thomas Sammons, consul general at Shanghai and Dr. John C. Ferguson, now legal, adviser to the Chinese government.

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Miss Mary Burdick, daughter of Representative and Mrs. Clark Burdick of Rhode Island, has returned to Washington from a trip to Panama. She

j3 exceedingly popular in the young capital social circles.-

! 1 1 n III Tlli 1TMM M h V :Jf JJH ff f Uf f A 1 HAVE BEARING ON THE VANDERLIP HOLDINGS (By Associated Press) TOKIO. March 23 Japan will be ...u -t, mav UUUKeU LU auUUl nuaiCTCl auvu J be deemed necessary to preserve her j rights in Kamchatka, it the Russian ifar eastern republic persists in its far eastern republic persists course of transferring a part of that peninsula to the authority of the Russian soviet government, Viscount Uchida, foreign minister, declared in the house of peers here today. After stating that Japan had recently re,ceivedlntormatIonthat this transfer" had beth"mad'ehe said this country had sent a protest to the far eastern republic administration at Chita, and had submitted five demands. He declared that these demands had not as yet been accepted. Japan has extensive fishery interests in Kamchatka. This report of the transfer of part of the peninsula of Kamchatka to the soviet govern- ! ment in Moscow appears to have a d rect bearing upon concessions granted there tO W aSningtOn U. vanuemp, Ul rniifnrnin hv the TSolshevik regime in I Russia. The concession covering tne exploitation of the oil. coal and fisher interests of Kamchatka, was granted last year. Was Granted Concessions. Mr. Vanderlip left the United States for Russia early in February and arrived in Moscow on March 8, since which time tbe official statements made by leaders of the Bolshevik eovernment have indicated a reversal in economic and political policies by the Bolsheviki and a more friendly attitude seems to have been adopted b the authorities in Moscow. Information received in this country would indicate that the concession granted the American interests represented by Mr. Vanderlip would be worked by Russian labor. It was declared that the concession was granted without restrictions a-5 to method of development, the Bolsheviki having waived tbeir original de mand that the exploitation of the property should be carried out under soviet laws. Tm rlcrhts of tlm far Mstprn rpnnblic have been in the past considered! a formidable obstacle to the consum mation of the transaction by wnicn

Americ an interests would secure the j special envoy of the Mexican governconcesion I ment was given an official reception ' I last nieht in this city. He intends to

CONTINUE PROBE IN FORSYTH CASE Coroner S. Edgar Bond left Wednes-, day morning for Indianapolis with in-. j ternal organ of the body of Mrs. Ida ; TTI c .r V 4n tl,tn tVintYl flVDT" t fl t Vl staff health department for examination to! determine whether poison or any nature was contributory to her death, j The examination will be conducted by the state chemist. A report prob-i ably will be returned to the local of-j ficer in two or three days. j The autopsy held in Union City, Tuesday failed to show any startling! developments, although it was definite- j I ly stated by the physicians making the examination tnat tne dead woman aia , not die of peritonitus as was stated; on the death certificate. I Coroner Bond and Prosecutor Beck-; ett continued their investigation of' variowj angles of the case Tuesday! afternoon when they visited the daughter of the dead woman. The daughter is at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Crouse in Union City. Pending the chemical analysis of the stomach Alphis Forsyth, husband of the dead woman is being held in the county jail. He has retained Frank! Strayer as coun.'l, and has been instructed by his attorney not to talk to anyone regarding the action. Monday morning Forsyth stated to a reporter that he was innocent of any complicity in his wife's death. He stated that his conscience was clear and that he had no objections to the exhumation or the body of his wife, other than a natural horror of autopsies. .

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LABOR ENDS QUERIES BEFORE ROAD BOARD; REBUTTAL BY JEWELL By Associated Press) CHICAGO, March 23. Cross examination of high railroad officials by labor union representatives before the I railway labor board was completed to day when Brig.-Gen. W. W. Atterbury, vice president of the Pennsylvania, finished his third day of testimony. Today's hearing found General Atterbury still unshaken in his opposition to any railroad rules which were national in scope. This hearing adjourned at noon and tomorrow B. M. Jewell, of the labor side, will start his formal rebuttal testimony. In connection with the railroad's general treatment of its employes. Attorney Walsh charged in his testimony that, prior to federal control, the Pennsylvania maintainer a spy system. He said $800,000 had been spent on the roads police organization in 1914. While explaining that this amount cov(ered all protective measures, Mr. Atterbury admitted a spy system was mainia.mrw n mc wmr; l iai m uii. "But the labor people had one at the same time," he added Asked if the road did not have "little arsenals at various points where you kept guns and revolvers," the witness replied in the affirmative. Judge Interrupts. Judge R. M. Barton, chairman of the labor board, interrupted at this point. He said the subject did not come under the matters before the board. Mr. Atterbury also made "charges". One of the-se was that the unions were resorting to coercive measures in attempting to establish the closed shop. The witness read from a bulletin of the railway employes department of the American Federation of Labor which stated tliat no shop craft employe not a member of the union could exercise his seniority rights. "That is clearly an attempt to force the men into the unions." said Mr. Atterbury. "I rjn against the closed shop either the closed union shop or the closed non-union shop." RECEIVE ENVOY fRy Associated Press! SAN SALVADOR. Republic of Salvador. March 23 Juan B. Delgado, go to Honduras. Nicaragua and Costa and is bearing with him credentials of Mexican minister to Colombia. Why Richmond is the Best Place in Which to Live Riteh day M Palladium reporter rill Istervlerr prraom at random lo find out nay titer like to lira brre. "I was just thinking about the beautiful trees Richmond has," said a man standing in front of a local store. "If you are the reporter who writes that column for the paper, I don't expect what I am going to say will be worth putting in there because it is only a little point. But you've no idea what a difference a lot of fine shade trees make to a town. "Take some western towns I have been in, especially the one where my son lives. Everything is as bare and just looks kinda hot and dried up. "When I was walking down the street this morning I was noticing how different things looked here, and as I saw the little green making a struggle to come out, I could see how fine those trees that line the streets are going to be this summer. Everywhere you look in Richmond in the summertime your eyes are met by pleasant looking streets and believe me the trees have a lot to do with it."

ed by Allies -Says Amount Due by May 1 More Than Paid. REPLY ISTCOMSIDERED

(By Associated Vre) PARIS, March 23 Germany, In her reply today to the recent ultimatum of the allied reparations commission refuses to pay the one billion marks gold due on this date and disputes the commission's figures showing a balance of 12,000,000,000 marks due May 1. It is maintained in the German note that the 20.000,000.000 marks which the peace treaty provided should be handed over by May 1 has been more than paid. The note asks that a Joint commission Of Pinprfa flv tlm th German deliveries on reparation ac count. Dut it declares that in any event it would be impossible for Germany to pay 12,000,000,000 marks by the first of May. Conclusion of Note . The note concludes as follows: t "If, after the experts have conferred, it Is established that there is a deficit In the payments by Germany, she is ready to begin negotiations with the reparations commission regarding the floating of a loan abroad." The reparations commission met this morning to consider the German reply, which was transmitted from Berlin last night. The German failure to pay is deemed a violation of the treaty of Versailles which the commission will report to the allied governments. Tb-j allies will then determine what measures shall be taken. It is commented here that the German experts already have been heard by the commission, which listened to their arguments be fore fixing the valuation of the German deliveries credited as payments against the 20.000,000,000 marks. Tbe valuation thereof, was considered final, since the treaty gives the commission sole jurisdiction in the matter. The German reply does not answer directly the commission's demand for a first payment of 1,000000,000 marks today. (This point, however, is covered, on tbe face of things by Germany's contention of over payment of the entire amount due by May 1.) BERLIN. March 23. The Reichsbank will sternly oppose any attempt by the entente to seize its gold reserve to apply to the reparations demands, the Kreuzzeitung learns. Any such move, the banks' directorate is quoted as saying, would not only be inimical to holders of German certificates but also a violation of the treaty and in contradiction of the practice observed by Germany on French territory and the French army on German soil when deposits in state banks were treated as private property. The Reichsbank announces it will not surrender its gold volunatrily and that seizure would instantly result in devaluation of the currency of which ! immense quantities were privately held abroad, notably in the United States, Holland and Scandinavia. These are estimated at 20,000,000.000 marks while German bank credits abroad total another 30,000,000,000. The Reichsbank gold reserve, acS cording to the last statement, was 1,091,000,000 marks. AMBUSH DISASTROUS FOR EIGHT IN IRELAND DUBLIN, March 23 A police Inspector and eight men were ambushed near Dingle county yesterday and the fight that ensued lasted three hours and ended disastrously for the attacking party, eight of whom were killed and 40 wounded, according to official announcement today. Three . of the police were slightly wounded. It was said. CORK. March 23 Six civilians were killed in the Blarney district, county Cork, thi3 morning in a battle which ensued when crown forces were fired upon from a farm house. CARDINAL GIBBONS It CRITICAL CONDITION BALTIMORE, March 23. Cardinal Gibbons, who suffered a relapse last Sunday, was reported to be In a critical condition today. He is conscious only a part of the time and virtually all hope for his recovery has been abandoned by members of his household who had clung to the belief that the prelate's naturally vigorous constitution would pull . him through the present attack as it had those- of the (past. The cardinal passed a restless 'night and was weaker thia morning. IHis condition at midday was said to I hta iiTirhanMl limp wur If anv. - thing. . . . ... , Since his return in January to the Arfhieplscooal residence from the home of friends at: Union Mills. Md where he became seriously HI last nvinhr Iho rardlnaVa vmriftinn npa rent! v had continued to improve. He was able to take automobile rides almost daily and also was able to walk about his home. . - ' . . It wa in December that the- prelate . suffered a general, breakdown doe to his unremitting devotion to "his dlr eesen duties in .spite of his 66 years. Evidence that the strain waa beginning to tell on him was given as early "as November 7, when he waa mzed with i momentary falntness wrhile deliver ing a sermon at Havre de Grace. j