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Palladium, With Sun - END OF DEBT CONTROVERSY ISJNJIGHT England and America Near Agreement (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 Agreement on the last details of the plan lor funding Great Britain's wartime debt to the United States was regarded by officials as virtually certain to be reached today when the American debt commission meets again with Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ambas sador acting for his government in the concluding negotiations. With a virtual agreement said to have been reached yesterday after Ambassador Geddes was understood to have presented to the commission certain interpretative "understand ings" of the settlement provisions it was hoped the commission would be in a position after today's meeting to submit to President Harding tomor row its recommendations for action by :ongress. The president thus would be able to place the settlement before congress for ratification probably early next week. Definite decision as to what procedure would be followed in asking approval by congress apparently had not been reached, but indications strongly favored action on the British terms specifically and without at tempted changes in the debt funding act itself. Survey Situation In considering the form of sub mission offering the best prospect of speedy' action by congress the debt commission and the president are un derstood to be giving close attention to the situation in each house where indications are growing that the pro posed ratification will not. have clear sailing. On the house side, soldier bonus advocates are discussing an attempt to attach a bonus amendment to the settlement bill or resolution and are said to have gone so far as to ascertain just what strength they might count on to override a ruling holding such an amendment to be out of order. The first skirmish of the prospective fight in the senate over the debt settlement developed during a bitter debate of nearly two hours yesterday, started by Sen. McKellar, Democrat. Tennessee. Declaring the terms of the settlement were a violation of the debt funding act and amounted to the g.ant. by the United States of a "bonis or subsidy" to the British government. Senator McKellar predicted it would be "some time before congress agrees to any such proposition." Senator Glass Replies Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, inking the lead in replying to Senator McKellar during the debate in which ibout 10 senators took part, declaring ihe subsidy to Great Britain" asserted -by. the Tennesse senator was a "figV t'lnt of his imagination." The discussion reached a tense pitch when Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabaam. who supported Senator McKelIhi was ruled by Vice-President Coolidge as having violated the senate rule'; and reflected upon Senator Wadsworth. Republican. New York, when he declared in criticising the British debt arrangement that he represented the "American people and not the bond rharks and big financiers of Wall Street." After a row lasting until 7 o'clock, during which Senator Haflin denied any infraction of the rules, the proceedings, including the vice-president's ruling against the Alabama senator, were vacated and an appeal from ihe ruling went over until today. LEWIS GETS 193,824 VOTES FOR UNION JOB iPv Associated Press) 'NDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 2. John I,. Lrv.is. of Illinois, received 193,S24i,2 votes fo.- president of the United Mine Workers of America in the election li.'bl Dec. 12, according to the official count of the international tellers of the organization, who completed their work today. I';;i;;) Murray, of Pennsylvania, ri'ceived 1S7.S39 for vicepresident. i'.ml William Green, of Ohio, 1S9. H97 for secretary-treasurer. The three international officers had no opposition. The present auditing and credentials committee, composed of John J. Mosopp of Ohio. T. G. Morgan of Indiana, and Alfred. Neutzling of Illinois, was re-elected out of a Peld of 11 candidates. Thomas Paskel of Ohio. William Young of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Holiday of Illinois, were re-elected international tellers of the organization. Thirteen candidates sought, the position in the last election. Announce Delegates. The eight successful delegates out of a list of 59 voted on to represent the minors in the convention of the American Federation of Labor were announced as follows: President, John Lewis: vice president, Murray: secretary. Greene; Frank Farrington, Illinois; Thomas Kennedy, Pennsylvania; Fred Mooney, West Virginia; John Moore, Ohio, and Lee Hall, Ohio. The eicht alternates are: Walter Nesbit. Illinois; John Hessler, Indiana; John Rrophy, Pennsylvania; G. W. Savage, Ohiofc. J. Golden. Pennsylvania; Harry Fishwick, Illinois; William Mitch, Indiana, and William Roy, Ohio. Sims Urges Open Season On Ku Klax Klansmen (F.y Associated Press) BOSTON. Feb. 2. The Ku Ivlux Klan and Sinn Fein sympathizers were equally condemned by Rear Admiral William S. Simms, retired, in an address to the Loyal Coalition last night. He advicated that the wearing of masks be made a criminal offense, suggesting an open season against masked men and urging that a bounty be paid for their ears as was paid for the ears of wolves.

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ONE DEAD, TWO HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENTS NEAR INDIANAPOLIS (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 2. A child was killed and a woman fatally iniured. a man seriously injured, and several other persons were hurt in a number of accidents in and near Indianapolis Thursday night and early Friday.' Mrs. Marie Grieg died in the City hospital today from injuries she received when she was struck by the automobile of Dr. J. W. Emhardt. According to witnesses, the physician was speeding and he was ordered held on a charge of manslaughter by Coroner Paul Robinson, pending an investigation of the accident. The machine skidded 4i feet after striking Mrs. Grieg. Charlotte -Wright, six years old, of Mars Hill.near Indianapolis, was killed when she was struck by an automobile driven by Edward Johnson, of Plainfield. She was on her way home from school Johnson is being held on a charge of manslaughter, pending an investigation of the case. Elmer Newport, was seriously injured when he was struck by a taxicab. Mrs. Grieg was a widow, her husband having been killed in an accident in a stono quarry several years ago. She is survived by six children. Frances Grieg, eldest of the children, was injured by Dr. Emhardt's car. Two sons, John and Irvine, are employed by the Associated Press. DEATH WATGH KEEPER IS SOUGHT BY POLICE (Bv Associated Press) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Feb. 2. Floyd Felts, the alleged keeper of a four-day death watch while doggedly driving an automobile night and day over the wind swept barrens of two states, his only companion the body of a pal who had been shot, was being sought today by authorities in their endeavor to solve the mysterious slaying of Rivers Horner, 24. socially prominent here but said by St. Joseph, Mo., authorities to have been a bootlegger operating between Mexico and the Mis souri City. Members of the dead man's family just before dawn yesterday were summoned to the door by a man who dragged from an automobile Horner's body wrapped in automobile robes and placed it with a suit case on the lawn a few paces from the veranda. The elder Horner identified Felts as the bearer of the body. DEATH LIST OF GAS PLANT BLAST GROWS (Py United Press) SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. 2. The death list of the gas plant blast which took three lives and injured 60 persons late yesterday may be augmented,' police officials reported to day as firemen searched the ruins of the Springfield Gas Light company's purifying tank for additional victims. In addition, several of the more seriously injured are not expected to live. Two employes of the gas company and the driver of a bakery truck, which was passing the plant when the huge tank was fired and let 0 with a roar that shook the city, were killed. Two small boys, gathering coke in a refuse dump nearby, were hurtled from their feet and stripped nearly naked by the blast. - - Police and state constabulary patrolled the vicinity to prevent looting, hundreds of shop windows having bef. shattered by the explosion. Damage was estimated at more than a million dollars. . . Poison Sonp Causes Death Of Two Persons in Chicago STREATOR. 111., Feb. 2. Poison soup, it was believed today, caused the mysterious- deaths of Archie White and his two sons. The bodies of the three were found in the kitchen of their home hero. Police found three bowls half filled with soup on the kitchen table, which they took to a chemist to be analyzed for traces of poison.

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the Strings Mister Groundhog Sees No Shadow, . Thinks of Spring . Spring is approaching! As Mister Groundhog did not see his shadow Friday, winter is due to depart at once and spring will be ushered in with great acclaim. With spring in the air, many will forget their little colds and aches, and get out into the balmy air once more. According to an old belief, if Mister Groundhog comes out of his winter quarters Feb. 2 and sees his shadow, he will retire once more to his den for a period of six week. During this period, winter will continue to enfold the world. But if he comes from his den and does not behold his shadow, he remains out in the air, and winter departs. MEMORIAL DAY BILL OPPOSITION GROWING; LEGION QUITS FIGHT (By United Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 2. The annual 500-mile automobile race will be run this year on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway despite efforts to make it illegal, according to all indications today. Opposition to the Moorehead bill which would prohibit the races and all other commercialized sporting events in Indiana on Memorial Day was growing stronger. Leaders of the American Legion who endorsed the Moorehead bill and by their action precipitated a serious breach in the organization, were leaving town abandoning the fight to obtain approval of the bill, which had passed the senate and is pending in the house. Those leaving included Gregg of Vincennes, former state commander, and Phillip Stapp, editor of the Hoosier Legionnaire and Commander Perry Faulkner, who threaten ed to suspend posts opposing the bill. In the legislative halls, representa - fives were likewise receding from their stand of friendship for the meas - ure. Ralph Updyke of Indianapolis who introduced a similar bill in the house changed from a position of sponsor to that of an enemy of the bill. HUGHES, PREMIER OF AUSTRALIA, TOPPLES (By United Press) MELBOURNE, Feb. 2. Premier W. M. Hughes, of Australia, has resigned. S. M. Bruce, secretary of the treasury in the Hughes coalition cabinet of December 27, 1921, was invited to form a ministry. William Morris Hughes, last of the "war-time" premiers, had1 stormy sled ding in the Australian elections a month ago, and' at the time political observers predicted his early down-

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indicate the exact reason for the pre mier's resignation, but it is believed the country party, which fought Hughes and his candidates at the polls with considerable bitterness over the question of financial policy, finally became too strong for the weakened coalition. Hughes was in much the same position as Lloyd George found himself in last year; he headed a coalition that had thrived on patriotism in war time, but was steadily weakened by development of party spirit in politics within the last two years. The country party and the liberals were against Hughes, who had a few supporters among the labor group. Temperature to Fall To Low Mark Saturday Following is a special telegram from the weather bureau, received Friday afternoon by the local postoff ice: "Temperature will fall to zero northera and to 10 above southern portion by or during Saturday night."

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TO OPEN GRAVE IN SEARCH OF CROWN JEWELS Examination to Quiet Persistent Rumor WASHINGTON. Feb. 2 The treas ury department has acquiesced ia a request of war department officers for the exhumation and the examlna tion of the coffin of James Jones, an American seaman buried in Cypress Hill cemetery, Brooklyn, to determ ine whether smuggled Russian crown jewels were buried with the body. It was indicated that the treasury had no intention of taking action on reports that the jewels were in the coffin, until the 'war department com plained against the burdensome and expensive patrol, which it had been found necessary to maintain at the gnave. It was determined then to have the casket searched and either prove the story that the jewels were contained therein or set at rest the countless reports of the smuggling. Story Persisted "Stories to the effect that the Russian crown jewels had been smuggled into the" United States concealed with the body of Jones in a metallic casker, have been persistently brought to the attention of the customs officials for two years," said Ass't Sec'y. Clifford, of the treasury department today. "The stories were that the casket was buried without having been opened and that theieby the plan of the smugglers was defeated. None of the stories, however, could be subtantiated and the sponsors failed to produce evidence, which in the opinion of the officials, would warrant exhumation of the casket and a search thereof." GIRL RESERVES AID PROJECT FOR LOCAL Y. W. C. A. BUILDING Plans for establishing a Y. WT. C. A. in this city are under way according to a report from the sponsor of the Girl Reserves, an organization formed last year by girls of the high school. The purpose of a Y W. C. A. in this city is given in the following quota tion: To associate young women in personal loyalty to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; to promote growth in Christian character and service through physical, social, mental and spiritual training, and to become a social force for the extension of the Kingdom of God." Girl Reserves are junior Y. W. C. A. members, until they are 18 years old when they become members -of V. W. C. A. They do not have to join this or ganization however unless of their own accord. Girl Reserves' slogan is "To face life (Please Turn to Page Sixteen) SEVERE EARTH SHOCKS RECORDED AT CAPITAL WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 Earth tremors described as "rather severe" were recorded early today on the Georgetown university seismograph. The disturbance began at 12:19 a., m and continued until about 2:30 a. m.. reaching a maximum intensity be tween 12:52 and 12:57. Father Ton dorf, director of the observatory, es timated the distance at 5200 miles from Washington. Earlier in the night a less severe disturbance was recorded. Beginning at 8:18 p. m. it continued until 9:30 p. in. with Maximum intensity at 8:50 'The distance from Washington was 1 estimated by Father Tondorf as about ! the same as the disturbance which ocjcurred later. j Weather Forecast FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By W. E. Moore Rain turning to snow tonight or Saturday morning. Cold wave- Saturday and Saturday night. The storm center over the southwest is moving slowly eastward which indicates continued unsettled weather during the next 24 hours or longer, followed by much colder weather Saturday, with southerly winds shifting to strong westerly. Temperatures Yesterday. Maximum 54 Minimum 45 Today. Noon 36 Weather conditions Unsettled weather now covers a vast area with general rains from the Great Lakes south to the Gulf of Mexico and east pto the Atlantic coast The principal Mississippi valley. Snows are falling in the west. A cold wave is centered over the northwest where tempera tures are 10 to 20 degrees below aeio. It is 20 degrees below zero in portions of Wyoming and western Canada. It is also very cool in California with temperatures below freezing in south central California; 36 degrees at Los Angeles, and 38 ft San Diego. It is considerably below freezing in Oregon and Washington. ' For Indiana by the United States Weather bureau Unsettled with probable light snow and rain south portions tonight or Saturday. Much colder Saturday and west and north portion tonight. Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 12,155

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Expect "Fmds" Rivaling Those in Kings Valley (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. Feb. 2. Discoveries that may rival the recent finds in the "Valley of Kings" at Luxor, Egypt, and which may throw light upon early races on the American continents, are expected in the Yucatan peninsula, the "Egypt of America," four Ameri can archaeologists announced yesterday when, they sailed on the steam ship Esperanza for Progresso, Mexica. They will be joined shortly by a number of other scientists, well equipped for an expedition expected to continue for months. William Barclay Parsons, chairman of the executive committee of the Archaeological Institute of Yucatan; Dr. Marshall H. Saville, of Columbia university, representing the Museum of the American Indian; Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie, Institute of Washington, D. C, and Dr. Herbert J. Spinden, of Peabody museum, Cambridge, MasB., made up the party. Ancient cities of the Mayas through Yucatan, Mexico and Central America will be visited and excavated it was said. Special study will be mada of the two cities recently discovered in the jungle wilderness Uxmal, and Chichen-Itza, Efforts also will be made to translate hierogliphics unearthed from the ruins of these and other cities, the strongholds of the Maya race which vanished more than a thousand years ago. TUp earliest Maya date fixed is 100 B. C The Mexican government, it is said, is co-operating with the scientists. The main party, composed of 20 members of the Yucatan institute, will leave in a week. INDIANA BUDGET BILL TO PROVOKE HOTTEST BATTLE OF SESSION INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 2 The budget bill carrying appropriations of $14,000,000 for state institutions and departments for, the next two years and also a request by the administration for $2,000,000 for the new reformatory project at Pendleton, will not reach the legislators before next week, it was indicated today. Rep. Pittenger, of Selma, chairman of the ways and means committee, said consideration of the bill could not be completed in time to send it back to the house this week. This return is expected to provoke the hottest partisan fight of the session, with the reformatory appropriation as the center of the Democratic attack. Both hpuse and senate went ahead today clearing away legislation con sidered of less importance. Begin ning next week, it is expected that the administration bills will have the right of way in both houses. The feature of today's house session was the killing of the all time health officer bill by Dr. J. N. Hurty, former secretary of the state board of health. The house adopted a majority report of the medicine and health commission for indefinite postpontment of the bill, by a viva voice vote. Two-Thirds of Whisky Stock, 500,000 Barrels, Stored in Kentucky LOUISVILLE, Feb. 2.Housed in the 96 distilleries and 140 warehouses of Kentucky today is two-thirds of the whisky stocks of the United State's, in round numbers 500,000 barrels, worth at current prices $240,000,000. These figures were supplied yesterday by Dr. James Doran of Washington, chief of the technical division of the prohibition unit in charge of the government's liquor concentration program, who was here, together with W. A. Holbrook, chief of the bonded spirits section of the prohibition office, and Levi Cook, also of Washington, general counsel for the distillers, to attend a conference of Kentucky distilleries. Co-operation in facilitating the concentration of liquor stocks into a limited number of . warehouses was pledged by the' Kentucky distillers, about thirty of whom were in attendance, it was said, following the conference.

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CO-OP MARKETING ASS'NS COMPLETED

(By Associated Press) LOUISVILLE Feb. 2. Plans for permanent organization of the national council of farmers' co-operative marketing associations as agreed! upon at a meeting of representatives of cooperative marketing organizations in Washington, Dec. 14-16, were to be completed today by members of the executive committee meeting here with Robert W. Bingham, chairman. It was announced last night the plan of organization would' not be made public until it had been acted' upon by the various organizations to which, it will be mailed for approval. It will be assumed, it was said, that if any association fails to file notice of adop tion of the plan by May 1, 1923, it is not in accordance with the proposals and: after that date application for membership in the national council will be subject to approval by the executive committee. The executive committee of the na tional council consists of co-operative marKeting leaders from various sec tions of the United States, represent ing organizations wnicn now have a membership of 810,000 and affiliated bodies with a membership of. 450,000 AMERICAN CONGRESS URGED TO INTERVENE BY GERMAN WORKERS BERLIN, Feb. 2 The "traditional American honor and appreciation of fair play" are appealed to in a message forwarded by leading trade union exec utives to the senate and house of rep resentatives in Washington. The appeal, which gives expression to "the feeling of alarm" with which 12,000,000 German workers view the Ruhr occupation, voices the confidence that the "United States did not enter the war for the purpose of annihilating the German people" and declares that "American honor asserted at this time can save Europe and the world from inevitable disaster." The chairman of the executive boards of the four union federations, who signed the message, say that the step has been taken without the knowl edge of official circles. The Ruhr occupation and the Ver sailles treaty the message asserts have made inevitable a condition of servitude repugnant to the German worker. Not only are the German and European economic systems destroyed but unemployment for millions of Germans is threatened. Recall Promise. The workers reaffirm "that because of America's positive promise that right and justice shall prevail, they substituted democracy for autocracy, submitted to complete disarmament and gave unqualified expression of their desire to work for peace and international reconciliation." The message asserts that the appeal is "not an attempt to induce the United States to take an attitude in favor of one or the other opposing parties. It is signed by the chairmen of the executive boards of the General Federation of Trade Unions, the Federa tion of Christian iAbor Unions, the League of Clerical Employes, and the ndependent Federation of Liberal Trade Unions. FARM CREDITS BILL PASSAGE IS ASSURED WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. Passage by the senate today of the LenrootAnderson farm credits bill regarded as certain when a vote is taken under the agreement reached Wednesday will complete action by that body on its farmer relief program. The Capper bill companion measure to the bill to be voted on today, recently passed the senate and has been referred to committee by the house. The unanimous consent agreement for a final roll call today on the Len-root-Anderson bill provides for limitation of debate after 2 o'clock. Numerous amendments remained to be disposed of before the final vote. Among those acted on yesterday the only one of importance adopted, was by Senator Swanson, Democrat, Virginia, providing for distribution of excess capital of credit agencies to be financed by the government.

SHORTAGE OF FOOD FELT IN RUHRVALLEY Strikers Going Back to Railways

(By Associated Press) While the grip of Franco-Belgian industrial control of the Ruhr is being felt in unoccupied Germany through its coal and coke shipments which have been completely cut off, the pinch of hunger is beginning to threaten the Ruhr itself, according to German authorities. Food supplies are getting low in many towns and consultations of government food officials on the situation are in progress In Berlin. The authorities of occupation have indicated their intention not to interfere with food shipments, but the Germans contend the congestion of rolling stock at the frontiers is inevitably causing such interference. Strikers Go Back Resumption of partial train service is reported from the occupied areas. While there is nothing definite to show the railroad strike settlement. reported Thursday night, has been made effective throughout the Ruhr, the strikers appear to have gone back to a large extent in the Cologne area as forecast, and on many of the interior railroad lines in the Ruhr the German employes are reported again at work. Some trains began operating in and out of Duesseldorf, where the station was re-opened after being closed a week. The appeal of German labor to the American congress, asking American help to save Europe and the world from inevitable disaster, is declared in Berlin messages to have been made in entire independence of German official circles. An appeal sent by the archbishop and bishop of Sweden to President Harding points to the serious condition in central Europe and begs American assistance for obtaining a straight-forward agreement between the powers to relieve the tension. BERLIN, Feb. 2. A demonstration in front of the hotel, at Frankfort onMain in which inter-allied commissioners are living, occurred yesterday. The crowd attempted to enter the hotel, but the police intervened. AT THE FRANCO-BELGIAN CUSTOMS BORDER, NEAR DRACHEL, Feb. 2. The great railroad arteries, fed from the industrial heart of Germany, are feeling the first grueliing twists of the troop tourniquet applied by France and Belgium. Today the military cordon flung around the Ruhr appears to be checking effectively the flow to unoccupied Germany of coal, her "economic life blood." But unlike the surgical operation it resembles, this latest move of the allies is not aiding the life of the economic body on which it was applied. One of the most important sections on the military front is the 40 kilometre troop barrier between Luenen and Brachel. - In a straight line across the country a detachment of soldiers today holds the strategic points on the main railway lines leading out of Dot tmund toward such centers as 01dnburg, Bremen, Hanover, Hamburg, Halle, even Berlin itself. Passengers Leave Only passenger trains are being allowed to leave without question. All others are halted. Trains carrying ordinary goods are permitted to continue their journey after investigation proves that they do not bear coal. The officers said that reports recevied by them indicated that their experiences were being repeatd along the entire cordon. Rports received from Essen yesterday saidv that troops had fired on a train that attempted to disregard the signals at Hacheney, near Dortmund. Bullets struck the cars, which came to a standstill. Fears are expressed in German circles that fires soon will become prevalent in the dumps at the mines. It is said that many mines at which there is not much room to pile the coal will soon have to ceae their full production, being manned only with an emergency personnel large enough to keep the vital machinery going. No general strike is contemplated in the Ruhr, it is believed in this part of the occupied zone, but fears are expressed that the new blockade soon will force laborers out ot work since the only important outlet for coal under the control scheme would be to France and Belgium. The population's determination to resist such efforts Is said to be as strong as ever. DUESSELDORF, Feb. 2. Many Ruhr cities and towns are complaining to the French authorities that their food supplies are getting lower. The burgomaster of Recklinghausen, to cite one instance, has informed' headquarters that his people have only enough potatoes to last ten days. This i vegetable, together with cabbage and other garden products forms the chief diet of the Ruhr workers, few of thern have meat more than once a day. The directors of the four mines In the Dortmund Gelsen Kirchen district, who were ordered to resume coal deliveries to France immediately, have been given 24 hours to obey; if they refuse, they will be arrested and tried before a courtmartial. The French have made up their minds to remain here until Berlin surrenders, come what may. The inter-allied railway sub-commission for the Cologne area has reached an agreement with the railway directorate in that district whereby the German railwaymen will resume work as soon as the soldiers are withdrawn. However, no trains carrying reparation shipments will be operated. Coal production continued to decrease, while the empty cars needed for the transportation of what is mined has vanished.