Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 344, 22 December 1921 — Page 1

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VOL. XLVI., No. 344 Palladium, Est. 1831. Consolidated With Kun-TeleKram, 1907. RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY-EVENING, DEC. 22, 1921. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS

SENATE MAY BE GUIDED BY HARDING VIEW Difference in Interpretation of Scope of Four Power Treaty Likely to Be Brought up Again. nothinTput OVER

Irish Political Prisoners Are Freed by Great Britain DEATH TAKES WATTERSON, JOURNALIST Girl Sues Bryn Mawr College to Force Reinstatement DO NOT BRING UP AUXILIARY NAVAL CRAFT

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By MARK SILUV4X WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. For 36 hours or more this town has buzzed with what Is referred to roughly, as the "Harding-Hughes-Japanese homeland" episode. In official quarters, and in conferences between the officials and the newspaper men, there is for the present a disposition to say nothing more about it; but In the private conversations of politicians, senators and newspaper men it is the one subject. I suspect it will come to the front again very soon in a public and offitial sense, for it is obviously in the interest of the Japanese, as well as in

the interest of the general situation for the Japanese, to say nothing about it. In any event, if not immediately, the subject is certain to compose the burden of the debate when the senate begins to discuss the treaty. For making the incident clear to the general public, the best method is a chronological attempt. Just a week ago today, some of what we have learned to call humorously "the commahounds" smelled out in the fourpower treaty the fact that the language is such as to cover the homeland of Japan in the same sense that It covers the main islands of the racific. Caused Sensation This caused something of a sensation, for the general assumption had bpen that the treaty was meant to cover merely the smaller islands of the Pacific. The discovery was printed broadcast in the newspapers. The newspaper men aske.d the members of the American delegation about it, and the members of the American delegation said that it wa3 quite true; that it was meant to be so, and that the only incorrect thing about it all was the disposition to make a sensation out of it by attributing to it implications broader than the actual language of the treaty really conveys. With these explanations the matter died down until Tuesday at 1 o'clock. In the newspaper conference with President Harding that takes place at that hour, some of the newspaper men asked President Harding whether he felt that the treaty covered the homeland of Japan. He replied that, in his Judgment, it did not. This reply, created another sensation, for practically every newspaper man in the room had been told by one or more of the American delegates that the treaty does cover the homeland of Japan; that it had been framed with the intention of covering it; and that all the delegates knew everything about it. Point Out Discrepancy During the afternoon this discrepancy of point of view between the delegates to the conference and President Harding personally was called to the president's attention, and late in the afternoon he issued a formal statement, saying that the difference in view could not be permitted to embarrass the conference or the ratification of the agreement. For the moment, this completed the episode so far as President Harding is concerned. It was recognized as a fine thing for him to make it clear to the public that hi3 interpretation of the language of the treaty would not be permitted to cause any embarrassment to the delegates, who had intentionally put into the treaty a different meaning. There was and is a good deal of surprise that President Harding had not. learned before just what had been intended by the conference in writing the treaty. The conclusion was clear, of course, that President Harding not onlv had not happened to ba familiar with this particular detail of the work of the conference, but also had not happened to read the newspaper discussion about the inclusion of the Japanese homeland. That is all there is to that part of the episode. Raise Lodge Point. Subsequent to all this, the point was raised as to why Senator Lodge, in his public speech, when he first introduced tho treaty to the public, and commented on it, had failed to point out that the Japanese homeland was included. In several quarters there was a disposition, either seriously, or in humor, to charge Senator Lodge with lack of good faith.. In this there is nothing whatever. Thse who don't want to rely on Senator Lodge's' intellectual integrity, cnn at lea-tt rely on his intelligence. There wasn't the faintest possibility of hi.-t "slipping something over," in a rolitiral sense, even if he had wanted ;o. He knew perfectly well that the language of this treaty would be made the subject of microscopic examination through long days of senate debate. The present writer heard Senator Lodge's speech, and watched him closely as he delivered it. It was perfectly apparent that he was proud as a pigeon over the distinction of reading the treaty and making a speech about it, and equally apparent that the two things he did in the speech were the two things- that are characteristic of hint. He used it as an opportunity to tak a na-ty wallop at Hs particular obsession, the league of nations, and as a chance to give an admiring public a glimpse into the literary erudition of which he is not a little proud. We all have the. laugh, on Senator Ijodge now for having given up so many lovely quotations from - the v poetry of Browning, and from Stevenson, and Melville, about the beautiful isles of the Pacific, when a less ornate man hight have used the opportunity for a more serious di.-cussion of the "waning of the treaty.

Political prisoners leaving barbed wire cage at Rath camp, Curragh, Ireland. Without waiting for the Dail Eireann, or Irish parliament, to ratify the newly signed peace treaty. Great Britain has freed all the Irish political prisoners, numbering a thousand.

WAR FINANCE CORPORATION REPORT INDICATES DAILY BUSINESS TOTALING SEVERAL MILLION

(By Associated Tress) 1 Washington and in the field was comWASHINGTON, Dec. 22. The warpleted. finance corporation is doing business j "Within the past few weeks the re-

at the rate of several million dollars i a day according to the annual report j of that organiation submitted today to i CUpreto'Nov. 30, the date of the report, the corporation said, its advances! for agricultural and live stock pur-; poses totalled more than 182,000,000 i of which the principal items were! loans on cotton aggregating 122.000,000. on grain $16,000,000, live stock $13,000,000 and for general agricultural purposes $34,000,000. Calling attention to the fact that its powers for financing agricultural credit relief were not broadened until last August the corporation declared that it had perfected its organization of credit agencies in various sections' of the country and by the latter part r ntw i? ruhinorV hnth in both in TO ASK COMMISSION ON REHABILITATION OF EUROPE, RUSSIA (Special to The Palladium) LONDON, Dec. 22 The allied supreme council at its meeting in Cannes will be asked to invite the interested powers to appoint a commission to elaborate a comprehensive scheme of the rehabilitation of central Europe and Russia. This conclusion was arrived at in the conference of the French and British premiers just ended here. The United States would be invited to have a membership, in this commission. Germany also would be represented. PARIS, Dec. 22 An invitation to attend the meeting of the supreme council next month, has been extended to American Ambassador Harvey at London. The meeting is scheduled to open in Cannes, Wednesday, Jan. 4. SEARCH FOR ESCAPED PRISONER FAILURE (By Associated Press) . COLUMBUS. Ohio, Dec. 22. An allnight search of the big prison this morning had failed to give penitentiary offcials any trace of Paul Mason, 24 year old prisoner from Youngstown, who disappeared yesterday, and who is believed to be hiding out inside of the prison walls. . Mason was serving a sentence of from six to 15 years for burglary. The last sensational hide out at the Ohio penitentiary was about 10 years ago, when Harvey Johnson, a negro, serving a life sentence for burglary, secreted himself inside the pH-;on walls for about 10 days. He wr-iot and killed by a guard one night ! prowling about for food. le Weather Forecast MOORE'S COUNTY FORECAST. Snow tonight or Friday morning, fol lowed by rain. .Rising temperature, j cast winds will shift to south tonight or Friday. The eastward movement of the Pacific coast storm is the reason for tho above forecast. For Indiana, by the United States Weather Eureau Rain or snow and warmer tonight and Friday. Temperatures for Yesterday. Maximum 37 Minimum 2:. Today. Noon 27 Weather Conditions Although the coldest weather of the present season now covers Wayne county andIndiana it is rapidly getting warmer over th plain states due to falling barometric pressure. The-center of the. severe cold wave which has prevailed for sev. eral days over the northwest has moved to the upper lake region and St. Lawrence valley today. The Pacific coast storm has moved eastward across the great plateau and is now over the plain states. It has rained almost constantly for four days and nights in southern California. Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,662

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port said, "the corporation has been: passing upon from 40 to 50 applica tions daily ranging in the aggregate (Continued onVage Two, SALESMAN ADMITS DENTAL THEFTS IN FULL CONFESSION PRINCETON, Ind., Dec. past life revealed by a who charged that he had served tim r burglary, Paul A. btockel. 42. N O salesman, made a full coniessi ew mon to the police authorities here. Stockel, seriously shot by Dr. J. K. Cunningham while he was trying to i enter the dentist's office, had main i

even when Dr. C. A. Smith, Columbus, i n ana copies Dy tne press oi me naInd.. dentist, had identified gold and i t'0":. Besides his power in molding bridgework found in StockelV travel-! ?bj'c opinion through his editorials ing bag. as that stolen from Ws o3ice j afterson s influence is credited with q-,.,jo., .. . 1 having shaped the platform of the

. . . ".-'-' . . - V V. 1111 . II f 11 L. . utsi oiiiuiuay. . , . . -vt?-i Mrs. Stockel, the wounded man's divorced wife, arrived with their 17-year old daughter, who seems to have oc cupied much of her father's affection

She told 'authorities here that before j "alism. Early in life he evinced unshe wa divorrpd from stnrkpi sh , hart usual musical talent and his parents

been called to Worcester. Mass. to ts. i

tify against the jewelry salesman in I hjs left thumb, leaving that member court proceedings there stiff, caused the musical education to Learns Husband is Criminal be abandoned, as the piano was his faThe second Mrs. Stockel. who hur- .vo"te instrument, ried to her husband's bedside, when ! v A natural bent for writing developed, she learned that he had been seriously j but even m this Mr- Watterson was wounded, learned for the first time seriously handicapped, as an illness today, she said, that her husband was i m infancy had affected his vision. His a criminal. In his confession to Prose-' flrst Journalistic experience was gaincutor J. D. Robinson. Stockel told how j ed on a Washington, D. C. newspaper he had lost monev on New York raops. 'as musical and dramatic critic. His

had mortgaged his propertv, and then I father, Harvey M. Watterson, for turned to dental thievery for funds to I twenty years preceding the outbreak pay off his debts. j0' the war between the States, was a Stockel declared that he wanted to I representative in Congress from Tenget to New Orleans, where friends of j nessee. It was during this time Henry his were making money in horse rac- Watterson laid the foundations for an ing. Before he confessed, Stockel was ' elaborate knowledge of national af-

assured that he would not be taken to Columbus, Ind., for trial in connection with the theft of dental and bridgework .found in his traveling bagi and identified as that stolen from Dr. King. , TO CALL GRAND JURY IN CONNECTION WITH TRUSTEE'S AFFAIRS MARION, Ind., Dec. 22 Judge J. Frank Charles, of the Grant circuit court, said today he would call a special session of the grand jury to investigate findings of the state board of accounts in relation to the affairs of James M. Clifton, former trustee of Center township. CUfton now is serving a term in state prison for embezzlement of tax unds. State examiners found charges af?-lnv USiln oi Iota,lnS $14,322.31. of which $3,980.24 has been repaid CLEANUP SQUADMAN PRAISES RICHMOND "Richmond has a -remarkable community with excellent organizations working for the betterment of the city,' 'said Dr. J. D. Thomas, of the clean-up squad which has been working in Richmond during the past week, in his address at the meeting of the Kiwanls club Thursday noon in the K. of P. hall. . "The Legion post which you have established here in Richmond is one of the highest class in the state which I have seen and you are to be congratulated on having such a fine organization. .The clean-up squad has J l"lusa J" , cases were straightened out by the squad. An American soldier had been sending money home to his dependent wife and never a cent of the finances reached her. When he learned of this outrage he immediately set about to obtain his rights and through the efforts of the clean-up squad, such things have been 'ghted.' .At this time Dr. Thomas turned to thawork of the entire country on the tuberculosis situation. "Tuberculosis hospitals are being built all over the country and the next year will see all cases under the direction of government supervision with correct conditions to handle the cases."

Veteran Newspaper Owner

and Publisher Dies at Hotel in Florida Is Last of Old School. CAREER INTERESTING (By Associated Press) JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 22 J Henry Watterson. one of the country's ibest known journalists and former owner and publisher of the Louisville. Ky., Courier Journal, died at a local hntel at fi-15 this mnrnine. expected, though it had been known for some days that he was ill. The veteran publisher had been here about six weeks, as was his custom on his annual trips to Florida. He has for years been spending his winters largely at Fort Myers and it was his intention to go to that place when his condition improved sufficiently to take the trip. His wife, son and daughter were at his bedside when he died. Col. Watterson's death was due to heart failure superinduced by congestion of the lungs, according to physicians. Converses With Wife He was conscious for a few minutes at intervals and 30 minutes before his death called his wife into the room and conversed with her. After a few words with Mrs. Watterson. the son and daughter were summoned. Members of the family said his death was peaceful, Col. Watterson having lapsed into unconsciousness again a few minutes before he passed away. The body of Col. Watterson. it vas said by his son, Henry Watterson. would be placed in a vault. here until ' spring, when it will be taken to Louisj ville for burial in the family plot in i Cavehill cemetery, there. Mr. Watter-

I son said his mother was very frail and 12. With his j because of her condition, it was informer wife, i advisable to return north before

spring. Last of Old-Timers Henry Waterson was one of the last of the old-time personal journalists. More than half a century his editorials. i with their brilliant, original and phrase-making composition, atracted i wide attention. They were commented . Democratic party in more than one presidential campaignIt was perhaps through an accident that Henry Watterson pursued jourencouraged it. A mishap that crushed i fairs, he spending much of his time associating with party leaders of that period and in close contact with the operation of the government. Course Interrupted Watterson's course in letters and 'journalism in the national capital was interrupted just as he attained his majority by the outbreak of war. With his father, he opposed the secession movement, but upon the declaration of hostilities he returned to his Tennesj see home and joined the army of the Confederacy. He served throughout the war, except for a period of ten months, when he established and operated at Chattanooga, Tenn., "The Rebel," a semi-military paper. Mr. Watterson served first as an aide to the famous cavalry leader. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and later was on the staff of General Leonidas Polk. During the campaign between Generals Sherman and Johnston, Watterson was chief of scouts of the Confederate army. "The Rebel" instantly achieved j great popularity. The paper was out spoken and independent, forecasting in many things the Louisville Courier- ( Continued on Page Three) Noted Editor Dead Col. .Henry Watterson.

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Miss Marjorie Barker.

BRYN MAWR. Pa., Dec. 22 Miss Marjorie Barker, who was summarily dismissed from Bryn Mawr college without being informed of the reason for her dismissal, will know by New Year's whether she is to be vindicated. Miss Barker, who is the daughter and heiress of a wealthy manufacturer of Michigan City, Ind., appealed to the courts to give her a hearing after the Bryn Mawr 'faculty had peremptorily dismissed her, refusing to grant any form of trial for her alleged offenses. OAKLEY, ROUSH TAKEN TO PRISON FOLLOWING JAIL BREAK Ralph Oakley and Raymond Roush were taken to the state reformatory Thursday after an eleventh hour al-i tempt Wednesday night to tigm tneiri way to freedom, in wnicn tney were defeated by Turnkey Charles E. Mor gan and Sheriff Carl Wadman. The two prisoners made a determined effort to escape, savagely attacking the turnkey, and being driven back only after a hard fight when Sheriff Wadman came to the relief of his assistant." Both" officers succeeded in driving back the men without resorting to the use of firearms. The attempt was made at 6:30 o'clock Wednesday evening as Morgan was locking the men in their cells for the night. He had gone upstairs on the south side of the jail, where Roush and Oakley were located. Oakley was standing in the corridor and Roush was farther back in the jail, near his cell door. Oakley questioned Morgan about having his relatives see him before he left for the reformatory in the morning. The turnkey had just finished telling him that the train left t at 6 o'clock in the morning, when Oakley rushed, catching Morgan about the body, in such a way that he could not draw his gun or club. Roush followed up the attack with a blow on the head delivered with a milk bottle that had been passed into him during the day. By this time the trio was out on a steel platform about 15 feet above the jail floor. Morgan attempted to throw Oakley over the railing to the floor below, (Continued on Page Two) RUSS RELIEF BILL GOES TO PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. Final legislative action on the bills appropriating $20,000,000 for the relief of Rus sia's starving and distressed through j purchase of grain was taken today by senate adoption of the conlerence report. It now goes to the president whose signature, congressional leaders, wouia sian. . auuiuunai imo as a.uuica's Christmas gift to Russia's famine regions. A , A t t A TYia rpTuirt was anonterl in the ah-! --j - . - - sence of Senator watson, umocrat. i Georgia, who yesterday served notice that he would block action on it at least until after Christmas. . Only atout 20 senators were in the chamber and no dissenting voice was heard when the presiding officer called for the vote. GIRL'S DEATH CLOSES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Lucile Thurman. 17 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Thurman, is dead of spinal" meningitis at her home east of the city,, following a collapse at the senior high school litre Wednesday afternoon. . ; Dr. J. M. Bulla, county health officer, ordered the senior high school dismissed at noon.- A thorough disinfect ing of the building will follow to pre

vent a possible communication of. thelTu?f!da; "Send word to all my Rich

disease to other pupils;- -Heaith offi-''uuuu ''p1?"' indl 1 wlsn them a very time of the blast. Several automocials said they believed precautions ! happy Christmas and a salary increase j biles, parked at the curb, were taken today would prevent a spread of i next, year, he said, as he dashed for wrecked and windows a block distant

the malady, which is communicable by contact only. Dr. Bulla also said that the home would be quarantined and the funeral be private. Dr. Smelser, the attending physician, made no report to the city health officer, though the girl had been attending the city high school. His report to the county health officer was made too late to close the school this morning. . . Basketball games scheduled for the high school gymnasium tonight have been cancelled."

The case is now before the court of

common pleas at Norristown, Pa., and the judge's decision will be rendered soon. George Wharton Pepper, attorney for Miss Barker, announced in open court that he would accept no fee for his services in her case, which he de- ! clared represented a "gross injustice" to a girl whose whole life and reputation were being ruined, he said, by a "blind dismissal under the stigma of unknown charges." EVERYBODY SUPPOSED TO POSSESS $52.71, SAYS U.S. TREASURER r.I.I..nil"M EVS Bl'REAU WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. A year ago the per capital circulation in the umted States was 59.77. Today it isj Col. Frank White, treasurer of the United States, states that the per capita circulation of a year ago was abnormal that It wan in fart thp hie-h . . , . . . water mark of his.ory. He says he , is looking forward to gmeral good times and prosperity in the not diS' tant future. Tn .IflnilQrr 1fi7Q Vna cava i nor (

capita circulation in this country wasiPates await further instruction from onlv Slfiq Tokio before resuming the exchanges

. "The cash reserves in the banks arew5th the Chinese. i ,. Announce Opposition,

M;r;9.M:th7K.nt." : ft, o l.:r,, moving around in the pockets of the people. ! "The money sent ino the treasury! iui .fueinpuon ainy ana muinatea money the last five or six months has been thp largest in amount in the his tory of the country. Using Up Surplus "During the period of general em-'

ployment. and high wages a great dealj reCeived today at the state departof money was kept in the people's j ment. Secretary Hughes was attending pockets and about their homes. Thi3the meeting of the full naval commitwas especially true of those who usu- tee of the conference, and pending its ally do not carry bank accounts. These transmission to him of all informareserves are now being used on ac- tion as to the nature of the message.

count of unemployment and we observe it in the redemption department of the treasury. If the redemption of currency keeps up as large during the remainder of the fiscal year there will be close to 100 per cent redemption a complete turn over, all the old bills sent in and new issued to replace them. "However, not all the old currency that has been coming in for redemption is being reissued at this time. This is on account of the low demand pnd the larsre amount of cash reserves in the banks. "The average cash reserve for the ; federal j whereas only 35 per cent is required! reserve is now 71 nrr fnt in otner worris, the average cash reserve now is oubie the amount a bank is compelled to carry." lnainna visitors at the capitol are always interested in seeing one of t!'. bratod products of their state. tv.t, ji.n.i. , ; .."iui w . iiir.i aup. ciuei or nap-pa n. the houf of representatives and tho wirto f " . . .. ... most famous citizen of Whitir.Pis 30 years old, stands four feet, four inches and tips the scales at 105 pounds. He has held his job for three years. Prior to entering upon a congressional career McCabe was on the .stake, playing the leading part in a musical show which went by name of "Buster Brown." the Mrs. Sadie E. Saunders, of Richmond, Ind., who hns. been employed in one of the government departments in Washington for over a year, is now visiting her sir.ter at Waterloo, Wit. Mr., John M. Lontz, of Richmond, Ind., was in Washington on business, Tuesday. : Mrs. George L. Clapp, of Indianapolis, is in Washington for the holidavs. the guest of relatives. Strickland W. Gilliland. of Balti more, tamous humorist and one tim resident of KlCnmonrJ, - Ind.. Caller upon the ' Palladium correspondent a train to fill a lecture engagement "down in Virginia. Burglars Take $160,000 From Bank Deposit Boxes (By Associated Press) YORK. Pa.. Dec. 22. Burglars early today broke into the Mount Wolf bank and stole , $100,000 in securities from safety deposit boxes. They forced a window and cut through the vault doors with acetyline torches. Locks on 80 deposit boxes were broken with ta hammer.

Statement Made in Behalf of

France and Italy Accepting Formally American Proposals for Limitation. POSITIONSlTHHELD (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. Statements in behalf of France and Italy accepting formally the American, proposals for limitation of capital ship armaments were made today at the meeting of the delegates of the five major powers of the Washington conference. Contrary to general expectations, the question of auxiliary craft, eubmarineS and cruisers was not reached at the morning session of the committee, but went over until another meeting at 3 o'clock. The French delegation, it was said, was not ready at tne morning session to proceed with the discussion of the auxiliary tonnage, as they had not reseived instructions from their govern, ment. The delegation said it hoped, to have the instructions for the afternoon meeting. The British nation, which had planned to state its case in opposition to submarines, as a naval arm, also withheld its statement at the morning session, which was said to havve been confined largely to preliminary general discussion and the clearing up af the ship ratio questtion. Fight to be Stubborn The British delegates have prepared a full statement of their position which probably will be made public after it has been laid before the committee. Unless there is a committee decision at least favorable to the British view there probably will be a public session of the conference later for general discussion of the subject Although apparently not intending to press their request for abolition of the submarine to the point of greatly prolonging the conference, the British delegates are known to be prepared to make a stubborn fight at least for a great reduction in the submarine tonnages suggested in the original American limitation plan. ine snaniung negotiations coniuiRsnfmSinn todav- althnnth tnJ forniai conferences following their adjournment Monday have developed new indications of a trend toward agreement, while the Japanese del Japan will formally oppose any dis cussion of the validity of the 21 de- ! mand of the treaty of 1915 if the mat ter is brought up by China as expected in tomorrow's meeting of the Far ; conferen ce it was announced today in ; onsiMo to ri. rioe A communication from Premier Briand, of France, to Secretary Hughes, as chairman of the Washington conforon ix-as nnrWstond tn have been was refused. POLICE AND FIREMEN SEARCH RUnS AFTER EXPLOSION HURTS 37 fBv Associated Press) COLUMBUS. Ohio. Dec. 22. Police and firemen renewed their search of the ruins of the Wright woman's furnishing store, partially wrecked late yesterday by an explosion of natural gas, injuring more than 37 persons, including two women who died soon after th" blast, following reports to police this morning that two women had been missing from their homes over-night. Both women, police were told, had occasion to be in the vicinity of th restore which is in the downtown section, at the time of the blast. Relatives of the two women. Mis.s Sadie'Kouts, 30, and Miss Gertrude Scheptar, who visited hospitals, were unable to identify any of the injured or the body of an unidentified woman.. One of the dead was identified as Miss Barbara Carl. 32. of Columbus. ! six others, five women and a man. were reported In serious condition at local hospitals this morning. Seeping Gas Cause The cause of the explosion was saM to have been caused by gas from a leaky main seeping into the basement of the store which eventually came in contact with fire in a furnace. Coroner Murphy and officials of the state fire marshal's office have announced they intend to start an Investigation today. Force of the explosion was so great that th side walk in front of the hnilHinp- n three stnrv hHr-.k strilCi turo wa'a hrnirn tn hits Manv of the. - 1 injured were passing the store at th? were broken. Large pieces or concrete and boxes of merchandise were blown from the basement into the street. Refuse Ford Permission to Reduce Coal Price (By Associated Press).:"." WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. Henry Ford's attempt to reduce freight ratei on coal 20 per cent along the Mne of. bis railroad, the Detroit. Toledo nd i Ironton. was disallowed todav br the interstate commerce commission, :