Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 336, 13 December 1921 — Page 1

RICHMOND PAIXADIUM VOL. XLVI., No. 336 i'lladlum. Est. 1831. Consolidated with Sun-Telegram. 1107. RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 13, 1921. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS BLOCS UPSET Enters Business ATE LOOKS Finally Snapped Speaks 300 Dialects TREATY, WITH

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PARTY WORK ON TARIFF BILL Familiar Stands of Party Work Cannot Be Followed Congress Disapproves Creation of Commission.

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PAMiADH'M SEWS niREAU WASHINGTON. Dec. 13. The senate's job of tariff making, which is scheduled to begin some time next month, is not being looked forward to

with any degree of relish by the majority leaders. j Familiar standards of party proced-1

tire in the handling of such legislation cannot be followed because the creation of the "bloc" system in the upper house ha3 made such methods obsolete. The agricultural "bloc," for instance, will not be bound by any party ties in the framing of the tariff. The members of that group, comprising both Republicans and Democrats, will accept the discipline of their respective parties only when such action does not threaten the interests of their favored constituency. Any experienced legislator will testify how difficult it is to frame policy legislation when party discipline cannot be maintained. Since President Hardine delivered

his annual message to congress, last !

week, speculation has been rife as to the attitude both the senate and the house would assume to his suggestion that a "more flexible" tariff policy be provided. He advised that the tariff commission be clothed with the authority to fluctuate tariff duties as changing trade conditions warranted, with the approval of the president. As the tariff bill emerged from the house last July and went to the senate

it retained the old system of iron-clad'

rates which could be changed only by congressional amendment. Would Give Board Power. If the president's suggestion is carried out, and American industry, generally speaking, has indicated its approval of the proposed reform, the tariff board would cease to be a mere advisory body. It would have "new and enlarged activities," as the president pointed out. He further stated: "The plan is feasible, and the proper functioning of the board would give us a better administration of a defined policy than ever can be made possible bv tariff duties prescribed without flexibility." - But congressional opposition to the creation of a tariff commission which has authority to raise or lower tariff duties as conditions demand, without congressional authority, is traditiono.l. It represents a usurpation of congressional privileges, and congress is ad jealous as a vixen of its privileges. It has been freuently said, rightfully or wrongly, that the only differ

ence between' the two major political parties is their attitude toward the lariff question; that if the tariff question was removed from politics the two old parties would be deprived of their only campaign issue. Would Face Gauntlet. If the present congress runs true to the form of its many predecessors it will not take kindly to the president's suggestion for the creation of a flexible tariff policy. The plan would have to run the gauntlet of both houses before .adoption, because, as stated, it was not provided in the bill as it was passed by the lower house. The majority of the leaders hope to have the tariff bill through the senate by next May, but, they have as yet ventured no pediction as to whether the new act will provide for a real tariff commission.

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China; Naval Ratio and Pacific Bases Subjects for Agreements I r reconcilables

Prefer Action on Whole.

NEXT STEP IS EASIER

By MARK SILLIVAX WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 Your correspondent is familiar with the views of the more important of the so-called irreconcilable senators. It is not likely that there will be formidable oppo

sition in the senate to the four-power I treaty adopted on Saturday at the

arms conference

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Miss Peggy Thayer

I At the same time, it is apparent

I that the irreconcilables would like to chart G nawps I

defer judgment, and would prefer not j to go on record until after the other (treaties come out of the conference. I They regard the conference as a unit

Miss Peggy Thayer, prominent and w'ould prefer, if circumstances Philadelphia society girl, has opened i permitted, to pass judgment and take a French noveltv shoD in the center ! action on its results as a whole.

of Philadelphia's social district She It ,s probable now that as many as 1 for a photo. But he fooled 'em and

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Gen Charles G. Dawes.

Gen. Charles G. Dawes, director of the U. S. budget commission, was expected to use some more of his now famous "hell and Maria" language when photographers recently a3ked him for the umsteenth time to pose

field. The girls are daughters of Mrs.

John B. Thayer of Haverford.

sells all kinds of imported novelties. I three additional treaties will come out Her sister Polly recently announced ! of the conference in rapid succession, her Intentions of entering the musical l0ne wil1 deal with the naval ratio and

anotner win deal with China. A third subject is naval bases in the Pacific. Obviously, a naval ratio which is satisfactory as long as naval bases re

main where they now are would not be satisfactory if new naval bases were erected, for example, by the United States close to Japan. This subject may be treated in a separate treaty, or it may be attached to the naval ratio treaty. There are other minor subjects which may form the basis of treaties. Two Reasons. It is apparent that there were two reasons for bringing out the Pacific islands treaty first. One was that it got rid of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. This was the real purpose of the agreement. Under the terms of the old compact between Japan and Great

Britain neither country could termi-1

posed willingly. Dawes has

nounced that he plans to resign budget post July 1.

Enactment of Veterans Adjusted Compensation Bill Completed Within Three Months, Say Sponsors. WILL HASTEN" ACTION

(By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 13. Enactment of the veterans' adjusted compensation bill will be completed by congress within 90 days, according to information given Hanford MacNider, national commander of the American Legion, today by Senator McCumber, author of the bill In the senate, and Representative Fordney of Michigan. Commander MacNider wired Lemuel Bolls, national adjutant of the legion, this information at national headquarters here today. The measure, Commander MacNid

er said he was assured by the two

SIGNED BY U.S. New Four Power Pacific Agreement Subject to Understanding on Mandate Policy, Domestic Questions. OTHERS ACCEPT PACT

Miss Alice Warner. Miss Alice Warner holds the only professorship in Sushili. an East African language, at the English school of oriental languages. She has been a lecturer on that language for some time. She speaks about 300 native African dialects. In addition to her

HARDING REQUESTED TO CALL CONFERENCE ON ARMENIAN NATION ( By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. President Harding is requested to call a conference between Great Britain. France and Italy for the purpose of considering methods by which Armenians may be given an opportunity to establish themselves as a nation under the provision of a house resolution introduced by Representative John Jacob Rogers. Republican, Massachusetts.

The president also is asked in the resolution to express to the defacto government at Angora the "moral protest of the United States against the persecution of the Armenians and other Christian peoples." In a statement issued by the Armenia-America society it is asserted that the Armenians have been recognized officially by the allies as an ally in the war and the least the United States could do in behalf of an associate who helped defeat the Turkish armies, would be to use its good offices to secure in the post-war settlements justice for the. Armenians.

JAPANESE PREMIER PRAISES HARDING

FOR 4 POWER PACT

THREE GREAT STRIKES LOOM ON NEW YORK'S INDUSTRIAL HORIZON

(By Associated Pi r"s) TOKIO, Dec. 13. Conclusion of the four-power entente for preservation of peace in the Pacific brings to an unusual completion the aims of the conference on limitation of arms, Premier Baron Takahshi is quoted as declaring. "The American president must be congratulated on the grandest contri-

nae the alliance except upon a year si cordpd jn hlstory;. e Baid. .'The

'peoples of the world are likewise to be congratulated upon the most significant assurance ever given for the promotion of their welfare."

He expressed the hope that the na

PRIMATE AND BISHOPS OF IRELAND EXPECTED TO ENDORSE TREATY

BULLETIN DUBLIN. Dec. 13. The Irish bishcps. following a meeting presided over by Cardinal Logue, to consider their attitude as to the Anglo-Irish agreement, issued this afternoon a state

ment of a non-conitnittal character.

It implored the divine blessing upon; n(ins

the deliberations of the Dail Kire;tniij lrote against the institution of piece

rpd said mat uooy v.oui.i ue tine iu work uy Jhe rmerators. has been In

(T5y Associate). Press)

NEW YORK, Dec. 13. New York's industrial horizon assumed a more

pessimistic outlook today. Three great strikes that would involve more than 100,000 men In the Metropolitan area appeared against a background of three important labor disputes already in progress. Rumblings of wage disputes came from three quarters the anthracite coal miners, railroad maintenance of way and shop craftsmen, and the building trades.

Of these, the threatened walkout In the building trades which alone would affect, nearly 100,000 men here, was pointed out as having serious possibilities. Drastic wage cuts, to be drafted tomorrow, will be fought to the utmost union leaders declared yesterday. A similar attempt last summer, though on a much smaller scale was met with immediate refusal by the men. Railroad men stated their position with regard to proposed cuts by unanimously voting to demand immediate increases of about 17 per cent. After arguments of opposing counsel yesterday. Supreme Court Justice Wagner reserved decision on the motion to make permanent a temporary injunction against the garment manufacturers to restrain them from

breaking existing contracts with the

The garment stiike, called in

notice.

The present treaty terminates it without the loss of that time and upon a basis agreeable to both countries. It was necessary to get the Anglo-Jap-

cmese auiance out or me way Detore tions co-operating in the cause of

nnai action eouia De taken either on j peace eventually would realize the ahthe naval ratio or on China. A 5-53 j solute abolition of armaments, ratio would not really be a 5-5-3 ratio " ,

as long as the alliance between Japan and Great Britain continued. It would be a 5-8 ratio. Next Step Easy The other reason for introducing the present treaty first was an essential part of the tactics which have dominated the whole confeernce. It was an experiment in getting the nations to march in step. This was the easiest field in which agreement could be reached, and one successful experiment in harmony makes the next one easier. Moreover, there are certain princi

ples involved in the Pacific islands'

treaty which would have been more difficult to introduce in the later treat

ies

cipies in the present treaty makes it

leaders of the bill in congress, will mastery or Atrican vocal expression, become effective in July, 1922, as o, ffTerman , DuThd iglnally provided.

The commander stated in his telegram that he explained to the sponsors of the bill that he expected to visit a number of legion posts shortly and desired definite information regarding the bonus bill.

"Leaders in the senate and house assured me," said Mr. MacNider's telegram, "that congress believed in the adjusted compensation measure and realize that immediate action is necessary on account of the present financial condition of many ex-service men and women."

MARSHAL FOCH ENDS 20,000 MILE TRIP; TO SAIL WEDNESDAY

URGE AGRICULTURAL ATTACHES STATIONED AT U. S, CONSULATES

(Bv Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Dec. 13. Legislation to legalize co-operative combination of farmers for marketing and distribution of their products and to provide for agricultural attaches at American consulates in foreign countries will be recommended by the joint

luciTOucm upon tnese pun- tural inauirv according to Chairman j

Anderson, who announced today that

easier to press them in future treaties, i

MRS. MAIER, PIONEER RESIDENT, SUCCUMBS

AT DAUGHTER'S HOME

Mrs. Lucinda Katherine Maier, 77 years old, widow of George Maier, for many years principal of St. John's Lutheran parish school and later superintendent of the Wernle Orphans' Home, died at noon Monday at . the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Hoffman of North Liberty, Ind. She had been ill for the last three years, and had suffered from an ailment in her eyesight for a number of years. The body will arrive here Tuesday afternoon at 4:20 o'clock and will be taken to the home of a son, George Maier, 907 South Seventh street, where friends may call at any time. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

Mrs. Maier was one of the pioneer residents of this city, residing here

virtually all her life. When she and her husband took over the management of the Wernle home, they soon established themselves firmly in the

I hearts of the orphaned boys and girls.

Mrs. Maier was affectionately known

is "mother" by the children, to whom

NEW YORK, Dec. 13. Marshal Ferdinand Foch, generalissimo of France, will reach here lnte today to say his farewell to the metropolis and to the United States. He sails Wed nesday on the steamer Paris, for France. Since his arrival here Oct. 27, as a

guest of the American Legion, Marshal Foch has traveled 20,000 milei, and visited nearly every large city in the United States and Canada. The conferring of honorary memberships in four national engineering societies, the American Society ot

Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Electrical Engineers and the American Society of Mining and Metalurgical Engineers, is on the program for the last day of his visit; . -. After these exercises he will be presented with a sword by the French Institute of the United States. It will bear the arms of the United States and France, and follow the pattern of the sword of a general of the American army. In the evening Marshal Foch will be ihe guest of honor at a dinner given by the state of New York, which Governor Miller will attend.

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month. The report, he said also will stress the need for more adequate wholesale terminal facilities. Finds of the commission, according to present plans, will be divided into

four reports, the first to deal with

ton has any anticipation other than a

completely successful outcome for the conference. The most difficult problem is China, but even in that field much more progress has been made than Is commonly realized CopyrigM. 1921 by the New York Evening Post, Inc.

DENY SOVIET CHIEF ON WAY TO CONFER WITH HUGO STINNES

have the best interests of the country

in mind. (By Associate.! Press) DUBLIN, Dec. 13. Cardinal Logue, irimnte of Ireland the Bishops of evtv diocese convened here today for a meeting at which it was expected ihey would make some expression reaarding the Irish peace treaty. The general belief is that they will vote overwhelmingly and possibly unanimously in favor of the treaty. Such a vote by the Catholic hierirchy would give a powerful impetus 10 the movement for ratification by the Dail Eireann which meets tomorrow for action on the treaty. The executive committee of the Gaelic league also met. but any action by this body, it is thought, will have little actual effect on the vote in the Dail. The Dail session tomorrow will be tield in the council chamber of the

National University instead of the Oak room of the Mansionhouse. It had been announced that the press would be barred from the session, because of the smallness of the Oakroom. The c hamber is much larger and it is conlectured that the change means the newspaper correspondents will be admitted.

progress several weeks. In the meantime, New York's milk strike was still in progress. Police officers were riding on delivery wagons to protect the drivers. More than 4.000 employes of the Big Five packers walked out yesterday in protest against what they said was an effort on the pait of the employers to destroy the principle of collective bargaining in the industry.

BERLIN. Dec. 13. Rumors that Karl Radek Is on his way to Berlin to negotiate with Hugo Stinnes in regard to reconstruction work in Russia

is denied by those close to the Ger-j man magnate. It is pointed out that M. Radek is ; the soviet chief of propaganda and as 1 a purely political agent would hardly 1 be one with whom Herr Stinnes and !

his fellow financiers would deal. It was also hinted that the Stinnes!

interests IVPrO linHVoKr ie nnHartolrc !

- - - . . . . . . 1 ' U ll'l. . I H 1V any extensive action in the direction of exploiting Russia before consulting with or advising English offcial crcles or financial leaders with whom he recently discussed the Russian situation. Although M. Radek was supposed to have passed through Riga several days on his way to Berlin, the present whereabouts of the soviet "mystery man" Is unknown here.

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credit, transportation and distribution and marketing. The commission which was to have made a final report by the first of the year, has asked consent of congress to submit the last of its frhdings by next April 15. Represented in the complete report of the commission Mr. Anderson will be the labor of 200 committees and 3,000 co-operators, as well as the work involved in answering approximately 10 million questions set forth in 25,000 questionarics.

of the word. Her influence over the boys and girls, as well the kind hearted treatment which she and her husband accorded their charges, endeared them to hundreds who came under their influence.

Weather Forecast

MOORE'S COUNTY FORECAST Unsettled tonight. Rain or snow by Wednesday or Wednesday night.

Another storm is moving eastwnra 1 ng the basis on which to hold a pie-

ADVANCE PLEBISCITE TO STOP WAR COSTS, SAYS CHILE TO PERU

(By Associated Press) SANTIAGO. Chile. Dec. 13. The

text of the note addressed yesterday by Chile to Peru in regard to the dispute over the provinces of Tacna and Arica proposes that the plebiscite, provided under the treaty of Ancon, be advanced so as to do away with the necessity for maintenance of excessive military establishments. The note, written by the Chilean foreign minister, Ernesto Barros Jarpa, points out that the negotiations

carried on in 1912 with a view to fix

GOODRICH ADVISES WHEAT, CORN BOUGHT FOR RUSSIAN RELIEF

PALLADIUM SEWS BUREAU WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. James P. Goodrich, former governor of Indiana, who is In Washington after a trip through Russia, met with members of the Indiana congressional delegation last evening and urged their support of a bill pending in congress making

an appropriation for the purchase of

j from the upper plain states towards j the Great Lakes, and for that reason j the weather will remain unsettled dur

ing the next 3b hours witn rain or snow by Wednesday or Wednesday night, and temperatures not far from freezing will prevail.

SAFE BLOWERS GET HAUL CLEVELAND, Dec. 13. Safe blowers broke into the office of the Long Dressed Beef company this morning and made away with $2,800 in cash and $6,289 In promissory notes after Tracking the door of the safe with a tiigh explosive.

NEW JAP PREMIER FAVORS EMIGRATION TO SOUTH AMERICA

TOKIO. Dec. 13.--Viscount Taka-

hashi, Japan's new premier, is quoted as saying that he favors sending Japanese emigrats to South America where they will be welcomed, rather than to the United States or Australia. In line with this policy, the government is planning to speed up Japanese emigration lo Brazil. ' Through an agreement between the government and the Yokohama specie bank, which has an office In Rio de Janeiro the bank will advance funds to Japanese emigrants to Brazil on easy terms. The bank is sending several staff men to Rio to look after this business, while the government is planning to dispatch a number of officials to the Japanese consulate in the Brazilian capital for the same purpose.

Two Armed Bandits Get $13,000 From Bank MT. CLEMENS, Mich., Dec. 13 Two armed bandits this forenoon held up the Halfway State bank at Halfway, near here, and escaped with a sum estimated at $13,000. They fled in an automobile heading for Detroit.

biscite were interrupted in their final

details by causes well known. It asserts that President Alessandri has determined rapidly to seek a manner of solving the dispute. "It is true," says the note, "that the 1912 proposal postpones celebration of the plebiscite until 1933, but

For Indiana, by the United States j such postponement would be equivaWeather Bureau. Increasing cloudi- lent to the maintenance in America

HEAR ARGUMENTS ON RAILROAD DECREE

BOSTON, Dec. 13. The federal court decree of 1914 ordering the NewYork, New Haven and Hartford railroad to divorce Itself of certain, subsidiaries came up for hearing here today. Attorney General Daugherty, who conducted a hearing at Hartford yes

terday at which he heard arguments favoring the return of the Connecticut company, a trolley system, to New Haven ownership, came here to listen to the views of representatives of the New England interests on the question of having the roads carry out the other requirements of the decree.

ness tonight; probably rain or snow

in north portion; Wednesday un-l settled with rain or snow; somewhat j colder tonight in northeast portion. j Temperatures for Yesterday Maximum 41 Minimum 34 Today Noon 3' Weather Conditions A succession of storms continues to move rapidly eastward across the northern states, resulting in occasional snows and rains over Wayne county and Indiana. It is rather cold over Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan and south cen

tral Canada, with zero weather in portions of Ontario, and snow storms. Indian summer prevails over several of the western states with the following temperatures: Monday afternoon, Concordia. Kan., 70; Denver, Colo., 68; Pueblo, Colo,; 74; Rapid City, S. D., 66; Helena, Mont., 62.

Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,677

of a cause of possible international conflicts obliging Peru and Chile and perhaps other countries to support ex

cessive military establishments by war. We have invited the nations of this continent to dedicate their best efforts to development of their natural riches." Hopes For Early Date. The note expresses hope that the plebiscite may be held at an earlier date than that set in the 1912 proposal, and invites Peru "without loss of time to carry into practice the resolu

tions celebrated in 1912." The 1912 negotiations were the last

official parleys concerning the two for

mer Peruvian provinces, which" have

been under Chilean administration

since the war of 1879. These negotia

tions extended several months and finally broke down as the result of

various difficulties, among which are

said to have been the opposition of the congresses of both republics, especially that ' of Peru under the late President Guillermo Billinghurst. Fulfillment of Article III of the treaty of Ancon, signed Oct. 20, 1883,

which provides for a plebiscite defin

itely to determine the sovreignty of the disputed provinces, generally had conceded to have been the stumbling block to an agreement between the two stats.

10,000,000 bushels of corn and 1,000.,!

000 bushels of wheat for the relief of the starving Russian people. He said that the reports of the Russian famine had not been exaggerated; in fact, he though it would be advisable to send 20,000,000 bushels of com to Russia. Mr. Goodrich assigned two important reasons for American relief for Russia. First, because the food supply of Russia has been exhausted; second, because It would insure the eternal good will of Russian people toward the United States which he predicted would in the future become a valuable asset to this country. The former governor stated that Russia was now rapidly drifting away

from its communistic form ot government. He said that before normal trade relations between the United States and Russia could be resumed the establishment of Russian courts for the adjudicating of trade disputes would be necessary, also recognition on the part of the Russian government of private property rights and individual interests. Goodrich appeared before the foreign affairs committee of the senate this afternoon to discuss the Russian situation.

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. The new four power Pacific treaty was signed formally today but the American delegates affixed their signatures subject to a written reservation ; that' the treaty should not affect the American policy toward mandate, or cover apy controversy involving a question within the domestic jurisdiction of pny power. In turn, the plenipotentiaries of the United States, Great Bri tain, France and Japan placed their signatures upon the treaty and later signed copies, both in English and French of 1h3 American reservation. The reservation is in two parts, the first calculated to cover temporarily the question of Yap and the other mandated islands, which are to be the subject of a special treaty. The second clause declared that all questions which "according to prin-

j ciple of international law lie exclusively within the domestic jurisdiction of t the respective powers" shall be con

sidered outside the scope of the treaty. There was no formal ceremony and only the plenipotentiaries, their secretaries and advisers were present. The American delegates, the first to sign under the alphabetical arrangement of the powers, put their names to the documents and affixed their seals a few minutes after 11 o'clock. Text of Reservation The text of the American reservation follows: "In signing the treaty this day between the United States of America, the British Empire, Japan and France it is declared to be the understanding and intent of the signatory powers: "First: That the treaty shall apply to the mandated islands in the Pacific ocean, provided, however, that the making of the treaty shall not be deemed to be an assent on the part of the LTnited States of America to the

1 mandates, and shall not preclude

agreements between the United States of America and the mandatory powers, respectively, in relation to the mandated islands. "Second: That the controversies to which the second paragraph of article one refers, shall not be taken to embrace questions which, according to principles of international law, lie exclusively within the domestic jurisdiction of the respective powers." Submission Uncertain. When the treaty will be submitted to the senate by President Harding is uncertain, bur. it was indicated by administration officials today that the president saw no necessity for hastening action. There was an intimation that he might wait until the arms conference was over, or at least until it has reached a more definite position in regard to all the major issues, before it. The text of the treaty, having been published by Mr. " Harding was described as taking the position that members of the senate have every opportunity now to study the terms of

the proposal, and that there is no reason why it should be immediately transmitted to the treaty ratifying body in an official way. The president i3 also said to feel that it will be unnecessary for him to

take the treaty to the senate in per

son, or to transmit an extended message with it. The language of the document, is regarded by Mr. Harding as speaking for itself, and requiring: no further explanation from the administration.

KELLEY IS APPOINTED TO 2E CITY ATTORNEY; HEALTH BOARD CHOSEN

NINE PERSONS, SEVEN OF THEM CHILDREN, DIE AS HOME BURNS

(By Associated Press) DETROIT, Mic, Dec. 13. Nine persons, seven of them children, are dead, and three others are seriously burned, one of them perhaps fatally, as the result of a fire early today that destroyed the farmhouse of Mrs. Margaret Wakeu, two miles north of the Detroit city limits.

The dead are Mrs. Wakeu's husband

and her four children; Mrs. Eliza Cosnick, of Detroit, and the latter's three children, who were visiting at the

Wakeu home. Mrs. Wakeu is not ex pected to recover. Joseph Weiswaki

William H. Kelley, Sr., was named city attorney by Mayor-elect Lawrence Handley, according to an announcement made public late Tuesday afternoon. In addition to the city attorney, Mr. Handley announced the members of the new city health board as follows: Dr. S. G. Smelser, president; Dr. C. E. Duffin, secretary, and Miss Ruth James. Miss James is the first woman appointee of the new administration. Another woman will be named later as police matron, according to a statement made by Mr. Handley. Tuesday.

Will Request Withdrawal Of 17. S. Troops From Cuba (By Associated Prese HAVANA. Dec. 13. Withdrawal or American troops stationed in Cub.", will be requested by the government under a joint resolution passed by

both houses of congress. The resolu

tion states that it will be regarded as a friendly act if the American government acceed to the request. Tup troops referred to" are marines which are stationed at Caraguey, in March. 1917, at the request of President Men-ocal.

RusselVs Condition Same Says Telephone Message

The condition of Howard Htjsseu, now in the Miami Valley hospital at

34, a boarder at the home, jumped ! Dayton, was reported unchanged In a

from a second story window, his clothing ablaze. His condition is serious.

Another boarder escaped uninjured by jumping from the window. The fire started from an explosion, caused when Mrs. Wakeu poured kero-

sene in a kitchen stove to start a fire.

telephone message from his lather, John Russell, Tuesday. Young Russell was injured when the motor car in which he was driving went off an embankment near Dayton early Sunday morning. It is thought that his back was broken.