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MINE LEADER FLAYS ACTION OF GOVERNOR

fv-rnrtarv Green Sav.-s Exccu! i livtd Allows Gunmen to Run Mines in V. Virginia. GIVES OUT STATEMENT Claims Citizens Have Failed! to Receive Equal Protection in State. INDIAN APOLLS, Ind.. Dec. Declaring th.it rjov. John J. Cornwall "kniiwH that hundreds of armed guard., thugs and trunnion are e-m-I I d by real rornpanks of West Virginia," and that ho 'Mare not deny this Is true," "William (ireen, international secretary treasure r ef the Cnited Mine "Workers of America, isued a statement here late Wednesday, replying to Oov. Cernw ell's statement made public lust Monday night. M"r. Green asserted that men. still suffering from the attai ks made hy private guards, had heen taken to the governor in his idhre in the state houso at Charleston, W. Va. Mr. Green'. statement follows: "The alleged sta'cmcnt of Gov. .rinsell, of West Virginia, appearing in various newspapers of Decern - r T, rannot go unchallenged. He laiDws that hundreds of armed guards, thugs and gunmen are employed by coal companies in West Virginia. Laboring mm who have been t Ii victims of the brutality of these guards have heen presented to the governor. Many Men Injured. "They were brought to his oHloo in the state houso at Charleston. W. Va.. so ho could see their bruised bodies and I roken hone.-. Men whose hod Irs wrro bandaged, still suffering from attacks made hy Baldwin-Felts 1. teetlves, and who had been beaten into Insensibility and left for dead, v re brought to the governor as living exhibits of the murderous ;itt.aek. made by private guards employed and paid by coal corporations ill West Virginia. The se are incontrovertible fact and cannot be dismissed ns 'lying propaqanda.' The ..'ov-rnor dare not deny this is true. " Keprest-ntatives of the miners and other citizens f Wist Virginia have app.-uled to the governor for '!; removal of thes. private armies gunmen who control in some sections of v-t Virginia, and his an--A -r h in always be-n that he is l"ivtle s to act. To be speclaV, we i h.iru'i' that in MeDowa 11 and Mer- - r counties, Vest Virginia, huni! ds ef aiTni'd detecties or gunmen . e Ii I r!- v l by ieal corporations; ihit thi priat- corporat am owneil my w ill nt certain citizens of ihtso mmmuTuTb's, who are incm i 't s of th- Cnited Mino Workers of America, tu enjoy their constitutional and ci il rights. Wllliam-on IUvtrict. '"Ti: s" miidng sections are ronti:;ii"us to and re::ard-d as a part of tiie com m.only calh d ':il an. co,,i .ist net Will Co v. Cornwel! iare ! r.y t ills harge : in .d .r;go cotinty I'un.lrc.l or" Miners ant th-- r f.iini'i s have 1 n thrown on, of th- cor1 . i : . 1 1 ion -ow a. d h ei: -; w it !i now h-.-re to go. These- fan.iles .ire li!ng in t ni.-i jtrovided fi r them by the C'Kted ;ianv ' w. :; in had ei s ei Am, ri i a. th w o r K e i ! t r c al t orporatiov s for j arn, but uheu t r.t y joiTc d the er. a r-.i. a tion t'.'a-y w t re discharged a:, i tin own cut oi t!v ;r 1i-t:;i s-. rhe vr r nor f W Virgin:. i iL.Ti.'l'I-:i ON paci: :-"l'il SENATOR HARDING RETURNS TO OHIO Prv-idrnt-elect Iuidy to Lay Foundation for Iiis Administration. MARION. O. P.c. S.a r.trs .e;ti 'u tr.p P.: r..ma. P: - s t-. ".- -' H e .l S turn.- t- .vur; -n . tn. - lay to ;ay . zzx t :th ma r.v ed' tb.e na'l-n's b i ling ta!( smt n. The "m e-t::t e f Mir-" J I..- j,r.t:;iv d during the campaign! will !.- e::n arly m t w ek after of accumulated c '-j ;d has yv.l Jute, re... re : o e r. r er. to f the :ia st:o::s he w.rd to aK t: voth hihere t.- o -.-. f--r :ie . f Vitt. t . I v. :,. i e :on forem- i:i his ius.-lc-.s,

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Bandits Revive Wild West Days In Niles Store

fill to Th- ..'v, -T;ü: :;: NILLs, Mich., P.e. s. ViII west! UK' underwent .'i i.rir f revp.al last i.iAht when two D- troit n-gro-s. nrmed witii Colt revolvers, entered th'.- grocery at ore owned by Krnil Kupzner at tiie Mi' higan e'e-ntral trmi?iil and started r.ooting intr the walls. Mr. Kupir.er, who wa:; alon" in the building, made a hasty attempt to dep art by the re-'r door. As he was rushing out a btdlet lired by one of the bandits cia.f:hed into the wainscoting above his head, show ring him with fragr.ie-nto of splinters and broken plaster. The polh-e were summoned, but upon th ir arrival it was found that the negro, s had ritb.-d the cash re-gis-ter, containing from 7 to ? 2 . and escaped. It is believed they may be located In I troit. BRIGHT FUTURE FOR NATION IS SEEN BY DOBBS Noted Advertiser Discounts Pessimism Merrill Tells of Zone Plan. "Uusiner.s men of America, with faith in the insiitutions of this nation, staruling firm in th- traditions ef our forefathers, will be abl" to meet and solv the tremendous and serious economic problems that confront us and nviko the next ten years ef American business the brightest in history." This mess-age was delive red to Ko business men of South lend and northern Indiana Wednesday, nignt in the address tf Samuel C. Dobbs, of Atlanta, (la., "the man who put Coca Cola on the rrap." The form ur presidcr.t rf the Ce-ca Cola company and for many years organizer of AdSell clubs ihrouuhout the country, spe)ko to the largtst meeting of the South le nd Advertising elub in the eleven years sine-- he hel.el found it. Preceding Iobbs' spee-ch. W. J. Merrill, in charge of national advertising in the Chicago Tribune, gave a comprehensive and peppy outline of the Chicago Tribune's "zone system," setting forth the importance of .advertising in the held where the greatest eiislribuMon is obtained through tli o medium ef m-wspaper space. DNp.i rages Isolation. Mr. I)obb.s" subject was "Looking I'lTuanl." He declared that he could see that diffen-nt individuals mh;ht differ about th "idealistic scheine of the League of Nations." j alienee with ! i but said he h id "no paiiei the"" policy of isolation olVOCated bV many of our poiitici-ms." "Lurope is literallv in our front yard," Dobbs saiel. "Japan is knocking at our back door. What affects economic conditions in llurepe is bound to affect bu-iriess in this country. So long as South Lend makes b tier plows und 1-ett r wagons than tire made else v do re. the w orld is r.-ady to pay tribute to South I'.- nd. Tribute .always is d'-marub d of Miperiority in manufacture. Tint tnatiufaet'.ir' rs of this country must think in world tirms and not altuie 7ope terms, to my mind, is th-"1 jriaaf-'st dooming ffinv.'inl' movement tliat ha.-) come tait ed" th" great tat" Iobbs i alb-el upo'i busm -ss ni'-n to "put their fee a that hydra - p.e.-up-.t monster loa; wou.u sip tne strenc. th of tear government and l-reed s'-r ;: l i--m and nnarcliy, overturning oi church-, s, schuois and instirutiors." "It b.-l.eovi ler -k anxiet:.-l our buinccs ream to but oov.tbb'r.tlv to the ft: lire," I )d b s.l ur.d to tlv e,.;- - "Our t-ountrv is Ila I, es iiiiis. The s:- ak r s. fed r.I l es.-rve 'ark f.: ir.eia! pi ' : s bat kind of rol 'v.'',nors of ;':'tks ko eiint l : es a r.d t 1 i 1 an k - .re. Ht p t py t ii' y la red tint -h 7 i; i 1 1 o.:l i t ike. lie aNa d r.v :.-litii- ."i r.s b. e g,.!), teo far r : ui iting lai-ine--s. "Th re ha:? b n t--t mu-.'h p'.aeing tlie sti.Tma of 'bad I usi;i ss on s : --s simply ! caus- it :; 'b-.g --s,' " t'.:e sp a- c- sa ;!. He bu lau-b-.i Wcfk o 11: i U ! u'.'MiM Id) eX PACi: i'e )cP.) !

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Nicky Arnstein Trial

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IRISH BOARD FROM NATION W'll Not Permit Committee Investigating Irish Issue to Enter Country. OITTCIAL GIVES REASON Says Proposed Visit is Not Agreeable to His Majesty's Government. WASIIIXC.TOX, Dec. S. The special committee of six which the commisson of the Committee of One Hundred now holding hearings he-re on the Irish question had hoped to send to KngI and and Ireland to gather nrst hand information will not be permitted to visit Great Lritain. William I.IacDonald, secretary of the. commission, was informed In a letter sent Weelnesday by K. L. Craigie, lirst secretary of the British embassy, that' the "proposed visit to Lritish territory' is not agreeable to his majesty's government" and that therefore the embassy would net vise the passports issued to members of the. committee by the American state department. Mr. Craig'.es letter apparently was in reply to one from Mr. Mac Donald making formal application for vide ef the passports. Members of Committee. Members ef the special committee which it had been planned to yend to England and Ireland as announced by the commission were Oliver I. Newman, former elistrict commissioner of this- city; the Rev. Norman Thomas and Arthur Gleason of New York; James II. Maurr, president of the Pennsylvania state feeleration of labor, William MacDonald and Dean Morse J,ovett of the University of Chicago. Passports issued to the members of the committee were for "travel and study in Europe, Including Great Pritain," or for purposes similarly stated, it was paid Wednesday at the state department. Applications for the passports were made by the committee members Individually and thus the question of whether the state department would grant passports for a committee an such to go o r.r.i,'.and and Ireland was not raised. SCOUR MEXICO FOR ALLEGED MURDERER ff-.i, 1( i T. 1 C 'OUHIÜ15 A All M JL Hill Vjlilltl Smith, Wanted for Killing Jake L. Äanion. SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. Dec. 8. Hex ir county olhccrs here take little stock in recent rumors that Clara Smith, wanted for the killing of Jake L. Hamon at Ardmore. Okla., had been he-re. it was saiel Wednesday. They received a request to watch for he-;-, but so far as is known have oMaiued no clew to her whereabouts. I'L IWSO, Tex-., Iec. S. A correspondent of The Associated Press, aeeoimvinied bv the secretarv ef the .hlf f'.f police of Juarez, Wednesday i.cit d all the rooming houses and ho;ls in Juarez, as well as otlier places, but found no woman answering the description of Clara Smith. Chief ef police Arturo Morales of Juarez Slid he did not believe theL'irl was in Juarez find that if she h.ul been there she probably had beer, tal-eri by American friends to a small town south eif Juarez. duar'Z ol'iciils believe that CInra S:uith N on the American side, protected bv Americans net far from LI Paso. acqi'i rn:i or Mi'iinm. I .. rAYKTTM, Ind.. Pee. S. Pearl M. McLaughlin, charged wi th th" murder of her husband. Ouy Mel an.Thlin. was acquitted in the c -ireuit c urt h'-re Wednesday after the iure Itad deliberated but forty ir, juutc.. wh:ch he na I obtained from his brother, irwng, anotr.er messen? r. lp. -n arriving here, he continued. tl;e securit:'-.s were given to conn. ur.aia.ti ;r.eM:.i;or, n-siiwea xr.ai i , e isited by Cohn in October. 10 11 t;.ci a rrope.sa! a.- made tli.it ! h a-i-in d:s:iosir.g of honv'.s

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Demands Trial for Wayward Girls! LEGAL BATTLE v V fT TiTnTniinnjn

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Mrs. Hortense Lersner, of New " ork city, ono of the country's most successful women attorneys, deman ds jury trials for wayward girls, Mrs. Lersner raps the present cour t methods. "When a woman's reputation and honor arc concerned, not one, but twelve should pass judgment upon her," says Mrs. Lersner. "Where a girl is arrested she should have the right to trial by a J ury. Twelve are not to apt to err in judgment as one."

PREDICTS IRELAND WILL WIN FREEDOM Mary MacSwincy, Sister of the Late Lord Mayor, Testifies Before Board. WASHINGTON, that the British Dec. 8. Charges government has kept alive and continuously stirred religious hatreei in Irelanel and has sought, through a "reign of terror," to starve that country into submission, brought to a conclusion eight hours of testimony Wcdnesilay by Miss Mary MacSwiney, sister ejf the late lorel mayor of Cork, before the commission from the committee e)f 100 investigating the Irish question. Miss MacSwiney told the commission that she and Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney, the lord mayor's widow, had come from Ireland to "aid the commission iiwobtaining the true facts." She madeXlo prediction that Ireland w-2 Its freedom, even though xTagland had to be beaten to tiie ground." Her sister-in-law will be heard Thursday. Punctuates Story. Miss MacSwiney punctuated her story of the movement for Irish freedom with the assertion that the United States had not lived up to its ideal of "making the world safe for democracy."' "We are not disturbers-." the witness said. "We want just to be left alone. We are not using coercion and we will not be coerced. We simply want England to clear out; we'll forgive her of everything if she will only leave us alone. "We are going to get our freedom." she continue.l. "That every Irish republican knows, for you cannot keep in continual slavery J' people every one o-whom is ready to die for his country." Miss MacSwiney recounted instance which she said proved that the British government was deliberate ly tiring religious hatreds and added that there would be no religious differences if the protectants and Catholics were Wt without outside interference. The Irish have not persecuted anybody, she asserted, addinsr that the peace and prosperity of the large Jewish quarters in Cork and Dublin attested to that fact. Japanese Government Recognizes Mexicans MF.XICO CITY, Dec. ".Japan ha recognized the new Mexican governrr.ent. according to a dispatch rHeivctI frem Ivopoldo Rlaneuc7. Mexican minister In Tokio, and made public Wednesday night bv the foreign othic". The foreign n-Tic" n'so announcei otTirlilly thut P-rail ment. had reccgniztd the governTwo I lookers Seriously Hurt in Auto Accident HAMMOND, Ind.. rc. . men were seriously Injured. Two onenrobablv fatally, and three others cos seriously hurt here "Wednesday. when an automobile in which they were riding crashed into a freight train vtandinc at a crossinpr rear the city limits of Hammond. The men, all of whom lived in or near Oary. v. ere returning home from Hnmmond when the accident occurred.

.'V' .ffc-.?. j-.t '. V- V . - .-"". . , ,.w- -S- .-- .f '.?, V?;v ' - -A PLAN TO REVISE TARIFF MEASURES Chairman Fordney Announces House Committee Will Begin Hearings Soon. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Republican mrmhe-rs of congress took the first steps Wednesday toward revision of tax and tariff laws at the extra session to be called soon after next March 4. Chairman Fordney of the hou.ways and means committee announced that his committee would begin hearings within a few days on revision of the tax laws, these hearings to continue Jan. 6th, when the hearings will be started on tariff legislation. Almost simultaneous with Chairman Fordney's announcement. Sen. McCumber rf North Pake, ta, acting chairman of the senate finance committee, issued a call for a meeting of that committee for Thursday, wh n plans will be ma le for hearings similar to those -on-templateit by the house committee. To Draft New Law. The senate and house committees alike hope to conclude their henr ing by the end of the present session. The house committee. Chairman Fordney said. expects to be able to begin the work of elrafting the new tax and tariff measures- a. soon as the extra session is convened. The senate committee's hearings are expected to be briefer than those planned by the house committee. Chairman Fordney said Wednesday that he had in mind a definite plan for simrlification of the tax on corporation incomes. One of his proposals is a flat tax on the incomes1 of all corporations "having no eiualitication or other modifying provisions." Mr. Fordney also paid it was his desire "that the income tax laws be made so simple that a corporation will not have to hire an expert or a lawyer to rlgcr' how much it owe.s the government." Mine Owners Plan to Fight Striking Miners NEW YORK. Dec. S. Coal operators in Alabama and Mingo county. W. Va.. are determined to fight the striking miners in those regions "to a finish," a; l a stateme nt by G'-or?c Dexter, director of the New York Wholesale Coal Trade association made by the association W'dnesdiy It is said that b ss than 1 percent cf the miners have joined the union and by their tacti -s tiay are attempting to force the (dhcr 90 percent to join. Most of the fighting is being done from arr.bus-'n in traditional feudal fashion, btu the Introduction of the militia is gradually bringing order out rf char.?. The producers are determined to continue the f.crht on the unionizing of the men acilnr their will, until the 'onion concedes defeit. SUNDAY PICTl Itr.S IJXJATj. AUSTIN, Texas. !):?. S. Sunday motion picture shows rind Sunday baseball where admisfden fees are charged are ilbgal in Texas, the str.t court of criminal appeals held Wednesday.

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LIFE STARTEi Jones Opens Fight to Semi Alleged Muessel Murderer to Chair. DESCRIBES KILLING Prosecutor Tells of Slaving of Prominent South Bend Brewer. (.Special to Tho News-Times) IAPOKTP;. Ind.. Dec. 8. With the; acceptance of a jury' and the putting on ef evidence Wednesday afternoon th-3 state starteal a le-al battle to send Jack Wright, charged with the murder of Henry Muessel in South Bend five years ago, to the electric chair. Tho jury was accepted shortly before noon and the opening statements by attjrneys for the ttate and tlefeuase occupied the time of the court in the afternoon. Two witnesses were called to the stand and the examination of ono was completed. The opening statement of the prosecution was made by Vitus Jones, council of the Muesse' Brewing Co., whe with Attorney Frank Osborne of Lap orte, is agisting Prosecutor Samuel Schwartz in. trying the case for the sdato. Following the reading of the indictment of the SL Joseph grand jury, in which Wright is charged with raurder in the lirst degree, Attorney Jones said in part: , Aims at Wright. "Wo will show the following facts in this case: It was a three man job, but wo will not say anything about tho mm on the outside, August Schultz. The part we are concerned with here is Jack Wright. In order to get a rerspective of the case the following facts are necessta rv : "In 1S53 Mr. Muessel established the brewing business and until 27 years ago tho place was not incorporated. The plant is located on Klwood av. on the north-west edge of South Bend." The attorney then de-sx-ribed in detail the offices and other buildings at the brewery and explained where every employe was working at the time the murder took place Hen ry Mi: esse T was at one of the (.CONTINCKD ON PAGE FOUK.) REFUSE TO GRANT NEW WAGE AWARDS Operators Tell Workers They Are Willing to Adjust Individual Cases. PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. Dec. S. While willirg to adjust any individual cases o:' injustice or inequality within the present agreement, representatives of the anthracite mine operators Wednesday notified the mine workers that they were against granting any general wage increase or taking any action that would tend to reopen the award of the United States anthracite coal commission. The attitude of the mine owners toward the demand? of the min'rsi f.-ir zentral additional wage in creases, rate, and $6 minimum day a universal eight-hour day for the hare coal workers, was made known to the miners here Wednesday at an executive session of the joint sub 3? tie committee of the anthracite op rators whhich had bpen holding almost continuous conferences during the last three days. pendlns i meeting of the operators to make a more formal answer to their petition on general wage increases, the miners' representatives will make a report on today's reply at a special meeting of the mine workers' general scale committee called, for next Saturday at Hazelton, Pa.

Houston Submits Plan To Revise U. S. Taxes

WASHINGTON. Dec. S. More equitable and just distribution of the four billion dollar tax burden which the American people must bear for at least four more ycar.s was recommended to congress Wednesday by .Scc'y Houston, who in his annual report t-'ubmitted a comprehensive, scheme of tax revision. "Levi. ion cf taxes should be effected," Mr. Houston wrote conprej-. 'There can and should be a better distribution of the den. Unwise taxes should tax burbe elimi nated. But any scheme -which would after this fiscal year yield for several years to come less than four biUionf of dollars would be incompatible with safety and sound firane. Ani tho country should fac the fact that the present taxes even may not In the future be re-lied upon to yield the needed revenue." The secretary of the treasury -tid that the excess promts tax should be repab d and must, of course, be replaced. He said he htlievtul H

Fort Wayne Man ! I Breaks Legs in i Four Story Fall

FOPT WAYNE, Ind.. De V . - tori John Martin, age "y, fell f our here Wtdr.esday while at wrk en a n w buildmu' and not only lived but also was conscious and able to t-l! cd the accident when em his way t" the hos-phnl. He suffered fractures of both r?gs at the ankles. Martin said he was on an r levator hoist, which suddenly gav way and fell to the ground .is it reached the fourth floor. H did not know what caused the accident. Martin is in a serious condition Wedne.-day night and is not expected to recover. FARM FEDERATION TO MARE REQUESTS OF NEXT CONGRESS Will Seek Revision of Tax Law and Repeal of EschCummins Railwav Bill. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. I). c. S. Knactment of a legislative program. Including changes in the tariff, the income tax, the Fsoh-Cummins transportatie)n act anel the passive of several new- measure.-, w is- asked of congress Weelnesday by resolutions adopteel at the annual conve ution of the American Farms Pup au federation. Pres't-elect Harding also was reque sted to appoint a s-c-rctary of agriculture' who lias a practical understanding of all phsc9, of farming. Among tlb1 policies enunciated by the resolution was the federation's opposition t strikes and le-ckouts. Further, the resolution declared the federation's- opposition to what it was said seemed to be the policy of the treasury department and the feele-ral reserve board for deflation, and the request was made that bankers and merchants extend farmers' obliga tiens to secure "immediate relief from the present economic crisis" confronting the farmers. In this connection, the resolutions said: Oppose! to indicy. "We are opposed to the policy of elrastic and precipitate delation, which seems to have be-en instituted by our federal reserve board and our treasury department, and look upon as dance-rous to the- best interest of the entire nation during tlv present crisis. Keasonable contraction was- necessary but dras'ie deflation as now practiced has caused widespread disaster. "We request the shvere cooperation of all banking and comim-rei tl interest in our effort to pet immediate redvf from the present eeor.omie crisis during the extention and renewal eif farmers obligations in e-p.b-r that there may be orderly marketing of this year's crop." The adoption of the resolutions, which it was announced was by ;i unanimous vote, preceded the Irsing session tonight e f the convention at which oflie ers wa re e-ie-eted. Ar. -nounce-inent also was made t' night of the appointment of a oommitte to meet with bankers, merchant ami public official- at Chicago e.n Friday to consider the ergi nidation of a nOO.000.009 export tradt corporation, under the Fdge act. The committee irvudes Ilowarl Core. Morgardown. W. Va.; W. S. Shearer, L-wirowr.. Mahn; differ.'. Therne( Chicago; ljn Livingston. I Pierre, S. D.; Ceorge box, P.a.. ax,

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Ames. la., and J. sJ. (rcr.shaw, Hep. kins'villo. Ky. Di.-euss resolutions. During disei-ssi-n of tiv resolutions. Mr. Cunningham, chairman of trv resolutions committee, sii.l that the export corporation was net in dorsed by the committeei er a . it w !0 be a private ir als du t Ion, hi which conn '-et ion ho also state d that the rcs .luti ns similarly w-re stb r.t as to the- joint stock land banks. Tho legislative program asked rf congress proposed immediate er.ac ment of a r.ew tariff law. simpli: ration of the income- tax law with a e CONTI Nl'FD ON PAOF. P.iUIi.i should be "replaer-d in large rtrt by some form of corprratirr. profit. p.edurtion of the higher groups of the income ;r-taxes, accom; in .. i by increases in sur-tax rat s ; t.v b -o i-. su g--e .' el bv the secret gress "cot ', who asked that cooler such a general r--vision, with a reduction to a maximum rate lower than that contain? a In the present law, provided tad.de new taxc-s of euual yi a c c e p -II can be found. The secretary ?aid th plain fat was that the present rates, which .are -as high .as 7 0 percent, could not be öuci-vst'uoy collected .a r.d that "tbv efJectlve way to tax th. rich is to adopt rates that do r.o; force investment in tax exempt securities." Mr. Houston uzcs.ts a nnniter ef Fourre of revenue which eoail be tai'ped are! e.thr which could b ? reviseel to make up for the less o reventfc in the mended. occasioned by taxed which the he changes r e. c o n ; -

LEAGUE HEADS WOULD SET UP

lit Vi 9 S Lively Uehate Follow? Kecommendationri of AriinIii v Committee. CANADIAN GIVES VIEWS Declares European Nation' Would Control League I nder New Plan. CFNFVA. D.c. ;. (Py ti e A: -e iated I'n ss. ) --The hvele st m. ':: g the assembly of the League of N.tior.s has e xpernnced was provok--i Wednes.lay o N. W. Howell. o(C-.:-ada, w h( e xpressed his views r-garn-ing Furojiean slatesmariship m way that .'tarthi diplomatists ed th World. A sharp debate arose .v r the i -ontmeudatiem e.f tjv committee i.l teehnl' ;! organization that the :oseuibly j ropose tti the eo(rnmet.to set up unebr tiie au.-pie'-s of tr League three new i irgalil?a t b' s. li nine 'S. transit arul health, with annual eonferenes e)ti t.ht sc subjects. Mr. Uow.dl edijected on the ground that it was impossible for distal, i ountries to send the ir 1 ht men abroad tour times a year to attend the assembly and the conference.-, and declared that tho result would be to throw these organizations undo r Luropi-an influence. The assembly, he held, should occupy itself with!" tht-se question.. Canadian'. Views. Canada, at any rate, he Mid. felt that they were euestions that should not be allowed to f ill into Hurcreari centred. "Fifty thousand Canadian s'ddvrs under the soel ef France and Flanders is the price Canada has paid for Muropeari stat .smanshlp." he cried, to the astonishment ef the entire assembly 'and the dismay eif some cf the deb gates. Arthur Balfour and Mr. Fisher were plainly affeetcel by the- thrust from a Pritish dominion; they remained motionless in their seats through the balance) eif the debate, with grave faces. Lord Hobert Cecil, representing South Africa in the assembly, in a gentle way softened the blow by saying that he agreed with much that .Mr. Kowe-U nad haid, but thought Mr. Howell was mistaken in supposing thut the organi;:atioi;s would fail und r the cor.tn 1 ed" Lurope. He could not get iid- a debate' as to whether "Lurope hii n.uele its way in the- world." Mr. Ketwell Stipjirfd. Seejal (,f the b b gate sugge .-ted to .Mr. Pow-1! tliat h;s w rds b.-ot ereated a different im; nssvn tb io , had intended. The ('.Tiadii depL'.ite took the fb.or ,fg..j'i am! .'aid io- did not m an to .at;.ak Lu-re.p--.t n stat' sToer-. a fe.l. rather tha n giv.- !:'.;;-., ,: ;' rn -1 to witio'rav. his words. Mr. How. 11 was. supp-ated by ,'.-. Miller, of Australia, aii-1 was udbily t.ak n ta task by Ca'.ri' g- I Lir.ot.i u.v. of I rai.' e. Dr. da.-'i a d- Cunha. of Pta;'..l, w ho had oft red an a:g-ie'-met.t. united with the otlr r.-;. however, in agreeir.g to let the juest i -:i r: (-v r uid.il Thurso; v. In tlie m. intime, endeavor- WÜi !:. ole pt ,;rr:v" at a eorv. i r r.i -e. s-'ome tie- pi ira ipal d legatwearying of tiie protracted eh.-cu--.sj-irs an I s..m what d:.eourag. d hi tip :r ftorts t- leisten the Wei ,. :' the .assembly, are talking e.f going home. M. Viviarii. wl.a Ins b a away from his law praeti- - $(,r nearly a month, sail Iv would not s'ay longer than the end e.f this w U. Tlv g..-m ral opu.i-gi, ho v. v r, is that it will be impossible to tinih b fore the no of rie,t waek unices the d--bates ar- summarily fhorte r.e d. Prcsident 11 ilsun Turns Down Offer From League WASHINGTON. Dec. 6. The Fmie.j si:.it s, not 1 ir.g a mf a:ib r t the Le-iu,. 0 Nations, cat: r.t t j artic; ate in the delib ratif-ns ef i 3 ague council or e-f any comm:csaM acting under the council, Pr-s' t Wilson has decided in declining the council's invitation to appoint Arnerican representatives t .-it on the council's comm.i-.-icn :: tiie reduction of armanvnts. TJie pr e s: J nt's decision was e mbodied in a communication -r.t today by Artfr.g Sec'y of H.ite Da. U to Paul Hymanc, president of the league council. Sympathy, howvt r, was -xpr-s--d by th'- prcder.t "with any Rine err- e ffort to evep.e a ccn-t ruct lv pi in fo- disarmam r.t which is n-c-fs--try for the f-ccnomie rehabihfaa-, e ar. I stability i f the orld.' Government to Pension Gen. Annclcs Daughter MUXICO CITY, lc. S. Tho s-r:-W'-dne'.ay, -aft. f u log.z: Gen IVlippe Ar. ren, former Vitt c I a-'.er. i.v.''' rf the re-public'.1: !r:ot hriliiar.t prtrdots, adopted a till pr.1J1". g f or a periHinn of six pe -r ('a-.ly f t his daughter ar.J two sons ur.'.l they i.-e-r-irr.f of age. The , h:ldr-n. w h aro new jn Vf-v Yerk. were orphmei vh-: their fdla r waui shot late !at y.nr after being captured by Carrg. force, the shock killlt-g tht.r i::a.IId mother.

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