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oeatic Occurrence*.

WASHINGTON

A dramatic incident loo* place in the aena'e when Senators Ledge and Uaderwood, two of the delegate who signed the Fcur-I’ower treatj. when ouled to the stand confessed to the senate that they' did not know who wrote the Instrument. Comptroller of the Curren-y Cris■tnger ..mounced that in the esent of the enactment of soldiers' Ltonus legislation proridlng for payments by adjusted sersice certificate^ he would advise national banks to decline so h-cept the certiOcates as security fur leans. Senator Lr-dge said be waf Itnpatient with the delay the treatj was encountering and declared that be did not pro|K->*- u> permit it to "draj a!j*ig in•efl.iitel: * Acceptance hy the power* represented in the Invmatlon*! Cable Cammloaioc of the plan lubwiited at the cummission >> meeting by Acting S. retnry Fletcher f..r the diwf—ItlfW of the forSKt t^nnas carles is now understood to del rod largely upon the atutndb of F^tncr President Herding recoin mended to Congress the eivropriatloa of A-T.lSa.-•00 for the refm ding of uses Illegally esUected by the Internal Bevenue Barra o. The Senate Finance Committee Uepnblicnns hate agreed upon a duty of T per ceat per pound on long staple

• Waterbary Clock Company hat. par- ' chased the property uad aWi oT Bob | err H. lugersoll #. Brothers for $1,500,000 In cash, subject to the *p- ] proral of the court. • Acute irfectiou Jrnndlce Is now epl- ! demlc in tbit country for the twentieth time in 72 yean. The New York state department of health announced In Jaitusry that this malady had appes: ed in virtually ever: M-ctlon cl the

■rate.

Senator McCormick addressed mam m« Ming in Washington in behalf nf pending legislation to grant Austria twenty-five-year extension of time of payment of debt fo> whom purchased from the Cnlted States in 1SC0. President Harding and Secretary of State I.ughes draped American reply to levitation to Genoa Economic Conference, th*re apparently being -no change in altitude that United Sta’es cannot participate until conditions of Americrm aid are met. ! The interallied Control Cemm'wiJoB i has. sent a note '.o Germany threatenIng punitive measures unless Instructions to German artillerymen in training. which stipulate the ‘ultimata object of the t’wining is preparation for war,“ are withdrawn. Having accompli shed the disarmament of Bulgaria, the Interallied Commission appointed for that purpose under terms cf the treaty of Neuilly left ' Sofia, the capital. Government authorities revoked press censorship as a result of repeated protests in t_.any quarters.

NATION’S BUSINESS

According to figures complied by the **ss City's 1921

The lira income taxes will bring the •nverrment $2^tt\0UtWlW, about *730, 800.0UU below the fetal received last jmtr. Treasury statisticians estimated. The first quarterly payment* will me* no more than S46U.CUL.tfJU. which t* ' IHXUXXUMf below the quarterly average of last year. It is believed. Chairman Kuhn of the house Military Committee told W.'Ii. Mayo, chief •f eiig.nit-rs for Henry Ford, In Wash Isgtuu that it would require years tc thrash out eristlng legal entnngiements. and it was doubtful even then that Uk g vernuten: would he able :o acwpi the Detroit manufacturer's pr - poeed contract for purchase and lease •f the nitrate and power projects at Muscle Sb-Mis, Ala. Seduction in wages averaging JO per cent for ail classes of ratUnad workers except those in the train service were demanded jy lul railr-jads oi the country before the United Slates BailVny Wage Board. Director McLean of the War I'm -nee Cor. jniuon. who Just returned to H'ashington from the south, reports nil agencies funvioning sctivelj, and a large volume of business is now being l-nndied at Atlanta.

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A«ontfr{ to reports, the I'eruvinn gvverumeat will dual a loan here of SHavo.WM to ti...' Uu,(AJU. Striking mill and camp workers in Southern Oregon and northern California hare tied up the lumber plants. Judge Hubert H. ingersoll in Atlantic City sustv.ned the claim of Mrs. Margaret l\ •■Iben Bartlett -bal she is •tie beneficiary 10 ;Ue *I.W>j,tfJU estate if George 'f Lippincott. A'lautic Uty banket. under u.e terms of a wiii dated June 3, Ihul. An appeal from probate if the will had been taken by Ml t Agues Lippmcotl of i'bllailclphia, a niece of tb" liunker. A miners' striae in the coai fields of fix western stale* of 'be Irans-Jils-nisaiitpl terrilury loomed st x-,-.cn. CU> When United y.n* Workers' i«p-res.-t.iE! i-s wiibdre > from a wage n»e.!:ug with uiioe uiM-.ators, tajmg they bud no sothoeity lo neg Hiaie on poicew si anevd by opera tors. The New kersej ssselubly passed by • %•■:» ui :a t« g| .he i»-tuite rcwajotiuo for i be raUAmBue by New Jersey of tie fed. rai K-.idb.iiop aamadnwm. This a ie-u mikes New Jersey, which in tao stp-rewdsa leg statures had fniieu i ratify, the forty-sixth state gdrjrlir. the amendment. TBWJ v ghi glass botll* blowers in tfea Knnr tl’s l ewni.-n u.v completing pUus far . corpora tile factory at Organised labor, through the Ksnxns BUt* FManiLo . and its allied bodies, riu go iru tbs political rampalgn this "-—i til the executive comI ftt T"|-eka site, an

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Tale defeated Oxford by 740 to 706 in ft ell Ipternutiooal rifle match shot by cable. Arrangemrnts were completed in New York for a ten round battle betvreeo Benny Leonard and Jointly Dundee, to be held before the Quci ns-'K-rry A C in Milwaukee March 27. Bugera Hornsby, crack second baseman of the St. Louis Cardinals, slugger extraordinary and a holdout until this week, signed a contract which calls for a salary of *2X500 a year for three yearn. A heroic statue of Christy Mathewson delivering bis famous “fadeaway'* is to be erected in Van Cortlandt Park by amateur baseball players of New York City. The model for the statue, the work of Gertrude Boyle, has been completed, fnuds have been raised, gad the admirers await only permission from the city to nse the park in honorlag their beloved Matty. The Indian* University baseball team has accepted the Invitation of the Waseda University team of Tokyo, Japan. to play 12 games at Tokyo. Purdue dosed Its western conference basketball season in Lafayette. lod, by defeatirg Illinois 39 to 3L Xba Purdue ’.earn is the western conference champion, with eight victories in nine games Judge K. M. Lar dls will witness the first exhibition game of the training season at Tampa, Fla, between The Washington Americans and the Boston Nationals March IS, according to a letter received from Judge Landis by Oar* Griffith, president of the Washingion club. Spain entered the Davie Cup Lists with the filing by cable of a chal'enge for the luternotluot’ team lesnis championship trophy. Frauk L Fleming, of Chnirpalgn. HI-, woo the national amateur title in three cushion bltiards, defeating Adolph “Spike" Spiel man, of Chicago. 50 to 30 In S3 innings in the championship matcu. Fleming had a high run of * and Spieimau's high run was fi. Wraiam H. Laurent-, ttfe noted tennis player, who Held the world's bar, curt cltau'-pinoslup, died In Paris. Laurents came prominently 'nto notice in 1911 by defeating A. F. Wilding, the New Zealand champion, ,'n 'be finzl of the French open covered court championship at AuteuU.

Edwin Montagu's resignation was demanded and accepted as secratary of stale fur India, hilug George accepted tbt resignation which let Montagu out ut the cairnet. Montagu wa* hied J*tcause be advocated the restoration of Turkey to her pre-war position in Eu rope and Asia Minor. Formation of a bureau of fruit markets within the Dejau-tiuent of Agriculture for tbe b«-m-tlt of the fruit industry of •'.muds was discussed at annual Doum ioo fruit conference at Ol taws. Price of refined sugar in New York ranges from 5.15 in 5710 cents a pound. The British House ol Lords passed tbe Irish bill through iu first and second readings. Lord Northcliffe's Evening New i 1 Oiames Lloyd George for America's re- | fusal to participate in the proj-osed | Genoa conference. Princes* Eltel Friedrich, daughter : in-law of the former Kaiser, appeared I in the Potsdam Court in rierlin os co- ' respondent in a divbrce suit brought by ! the Bareness Plettenberg. The Prln cess eon (eased she had known Bar-*.! Plettenberg intimately for years ahi that their relations continued after her mar-lage to the ex-Kaiser * sou. The United States must come tc the finauciul aid of Eurnj*- was the key note of u speech delivered by Dr. Wa: ter Bi (hetmu, tbe foreign minister, before the executive committee of th> ' reichstag in Berlin. Dr. Henry Atkinson, secretary of the ' Fliurch Peace Union of tlie United j States, hat arrived in Copenhagen to I make final arrangements' for a greet International '’inference of church w rki-ra, who will he represented by iek ..utes from 26 ronntries. The arch-biah-p o' canterbury will preside. About 200 deltgsur* are expected he•W-—■ *o»usi 5 and *1

OUR RHINE CLMM IS KOI ALLOWED Finance Ministers Continue tne Division of German Payments Among ABted Powers. POYDEK ASKS $241,000,000 Question Will Ge to Government* Upon Whom Washington I* in a Position to Use Preesvr*—Say We Should Collect Our Own. Paris.—The Washington government asked tbo Finance Ministers of tbe allied nations engaged in a conference here for dividing np Geriuon pavmenta to the Reparation Oonunlacion for a settlement of tbe dalm of *241.000000 of the American government for the cost of the American Army of Occupation. The Allied Ministers did not comply, but by subsequent action presented » direct .refusal to grant ibe American demand. The American communication was in the form of a eratemert by Rotand W Boyden. American member of tbe Repnrution Cotr.miaslon. who is sitting in the allied Finance Ministers' meeting. Although the official oomnurohjoe make* no mention of the matter. It is undent'bd Mr. Boyden recalled that the Berlin treaty reserved for Ataerica the benefit** she would enjoy under the Versailles Treaty; that the Versalllea Treaty provided that costs of the armies of occupation was a lien on German payments of prior validity to general reparations that the Allies having practically paid themselves for their occupation costs, the $211,000,000 due America should ? e paid before any allotment was made for general repara-

tion*.

To grant the American demand the allied JJInisters. after having allotted sums to meet the French, English and Belgian army occupation costs, would have to assign funds to meet the American claim. What the Finance Ministers did was to complete the division of the 1921 payments and then provide for the sllocatiun of the 1922 payments by Germany, which adieu included allocation of funds for other purposes i payment of the armies of occupation. No provision was made for meeting the American demand, nor will any be made before the end of the Ministers’ conference, it was stated officially. The attitude of the Finance Ministers is in accord with that of their governments, which is that America, hr.vlng a separate treaty with Geriny. should collect diced from Gei■ny. It is always possible the allied governmerts may find delicate reasons for changing this attitude, but as the itter stand* at present the Allies do not fed that they sbhuld collect for America. Tbe Amen cor action is Important because for the first time it raises the issue of tbe validity of the Berlin treaty, in its text, reserves for America the rights she would have had under the \ ersallle* treaty. But that re aeivlng is done by America and Germany, wit (tout ibe conser.t of the Allies. who under the Versalllec treaty, according lo the European interpretation. already held a first mortgage on all German resume*i. It was tbe expedat'on ol tbe allied nations th .t following tbe aigulng of tbe Berlin treaty Washington w..uld negotiate with them to establish American rights under the Beilin treaty. This was pointed out in the Farts dispatches of the New York Time* last September, which dispatches brought « MUttmen: from Washington that no such negotiations were necessary. Because the allied nations owe America Immense sum* of money and America con briug pressure to bear on them In that direction they may ill mb 6-.--a from the present stand But st present li is not their iu'.eutlou to hand over to America for her occupation account any sums which hav. beep collated from Germany by Virtut of the Versailles treaty we did not ratify. It Is their attitude that tbe American claim is a cislm against Germany, not a claim against .e Allies. Up to dare the Allies have paid themselves some *590.0tfi.OOO as their costs of "Crupntlon. All the French, Belgian and Britlsn claims up to ‘',j, 1, 1921. wen- met out of the 192! payments except a relatively small amount still due England.

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photograph of J. H. Ho war I. presidHit of the American Farm Bu-

reau Fsderation.

VESSEL CARRIED 3,000

GASES OF WHISKY

Craft Seized by Customs Inspectors in Lower Hew York Bay

Held for Court Action.

New York.—The American schooner Victor, loaded with mere than XJJU3 cases of American and.Scotch whisky, whose value was estimated by prohibition agents at nearly *400.000. was aelsed by customs Injectors in tbe lower bay and tied ap at tbe Battery,

of tbe crew were taken to tbe Custi House for quesriunlsg. Customs tboritles were Informed by tbe cspicin. they said, that A. Chsi.es Kelly, owner of the «rafl, bzd ordered him to the Bahama Islands several weds ago. One night while be was asleep, tbe captain la reported t* have said, the cargo, wrapped in onriap, was placed on bo*\rtt Tbe captain thought it consisted of cocoannta Tbe cert more ing, tbe captain add, be was instructed tc sail Immediately to a point off Nantucket lightship. •'This skipper and crew," add WI1IIcm A. Sanders, one of the customs official*, after tbe larestlgatiofi. “are perhaps tbe nerviest ever brought into this port. In broad daylight ths schooner, without manifest or dearlag papers, had the and*city to pm her nose into New York harbor and bzad np fbe hay with this cargo under peeUcse nf being a fishing reaael bound tor Fulton fish market.'' The only fid) aboard, Sanders sain, were three smoked herring ind a caa

of sardines.

The Viet r. built In Essex. Mass, in 1991. originally haded from Gloucester Recently her home port was changed to New York. Charges of Illegally transporting liquor were lodged against Captain Brows and the other men dt-

CANDHI UNDER ARREST Reading to Resign ns Viceroy of India, London Rsports. London.—It ww .ficially reported here that Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader or the oon-c»-«peratloiilst party in lndl*. was arrested by govern men’ agents at Abmedabod. India. Tbe resignatJua nf the Ear! of Heading. Viceroy and Governor Geneml of India, was report-,-d from semi-official sources, to be i inulnrot. I’remler Lloyd George 1* ioteusely disappointed by the failure of hi* friend* to .aim conditions in India. TEXAS I* SNOWED UNDER Phraa Fset Deep st Epearman in Worst Bi.rxard in Vaara. Atnaril! . Tex - The north Fun Kandl- of Tr*u« 1* la the grit, of «.• of th* worsi tUrxards known In r.-ent -ara. thTe Get of ***•'» having '.own r. irtKted *t bto-armaa. the termin^v of :t..- Spearman hiaucb of the Santa Fe B-illruad. Spearmac U cut off from the outride ».>rld. So far u* transportafion Is cm-cc.-ned. J-os* t<> llvnatock is believed U. LAVS been serious

WORLD’S NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM

LONDON,—Tha Anglo-American patndsw war entered a new Stare when the House of Costnon* backed up tbe British drive to overcome American leadership In production by t oting an appropriation of £959000 to the AugloFersJio Oil Compaay aa a temporary

loan.

PRETORIA, booth African-Martial law has been declared In the Band dkitrlr. where. In tbo word* of Fremler Jan Smuts, the country is “faced with one of the graves: crises that hat ever arisen ta South Africa.” The disturh^nccs are an outgrowth of r strike of gold miner* PARIK-Prlncoac Mary and Vlacoort Uascelles arrived in Paris from Loo don. They stopped at fbo British embaasy crerrlght and than ecutlimed on to Italy. FRANKFORT, Ky—Th* Kentucfc/ bouse defeated tbe EUla avolntion bill. The volt was 42 to -11 against the measure when it was pieaeeied for passage. PROVIDENCE. R. I—but-. Modi*, tion and Concila:h«. Board aaiuouncri that it has aband-med all praeeft attempts it settlement of the strike of 20.0UU textile worker* in Rhode Island, and has adjourned indefinitely. LONDON. — blr Arthur Balfour, K. u.. maoe a pm for coatinuance of the coalition, which waa all the Bora fordble Ik*.-ause delivered la be uulmpaa

D. S-DECLINES TO SOTO GENOA Cannol Attend a Meeting Whe-e Primary Eoonomic Problemt Are Exrlnded, Hughes Says. POSITION FRANKLY STATED European Nation* H*ld Derelict In Efforts to Remedy Industrial Conditions—Holds Aloof From Rusal a— bunds by Not* of Last March. Wdsblngtnn-—America declined to participate m tbe Genoa conference. The refusal Is based on tbe belief that tbe Genoc conference l* not designed to be an economic discussion *t all. but a political conference. Secretary Hughes bluntly state* In bis note dispatched to luly. “Questions appear to btve been exclnded from v-onsidermtion," Mr. Hughes wrote, “wltbont the aatisfactory determination of which the chle* causes of economic disturbances mr ft con'inue to operate.* On the other hand. Mr. Hughes insists. the conference Is rather “of a political character, in which U..- gov- : eminent of the United States could : not helpfully participate.” While asserting strongly that it Is i the belief of tbe Administration that ! the American people would aot ap- * prove the entry of thla country Into a political conference regarding Ecropean questions, the hope I* expressed ' that “progress may be made In pre- . paring the way for the eventual dlsI rusalon and settlement of tbe -*undaI rsmtal economic and tancial questions , relating to Enropcnn rec. peration which prcws for dilution." 1 Tbe paragraphs of tbe note with regard to Russia caused great surprise here. This rovemn.ent virtually serves notice on Europe that no gttempt must be made to settle European economic problem* by disposing of tbe res >nrcea of Russia. JT»e open door must be ; malntalKed In that country, tills government asserts, while at tbe same time tbe fiat statement Is made that It As futile to attempt to solve Europe's financial mess without restoring Rossis

to productivity.

Keen Disappointment in Loncm London.—Tbe news that the United States has declined the invitation to j participate in the Genoa economic conference is extremely disappointing to all the supporters of the project. The view is hiid here that tbe absence of the United Ststns is bound to detract from the usefulness of any declalora adopted et the conference, fot European fconomls:* ar* increasingly convinced that the real rehabilitation of Central Europe is poeribie only with the co-operation of the United Statea. In Ge'-nany the dlsappo'ntment U likely to be quite aa keer. the Importance attached to American participation being shown by Dr. Rathenau’s recent speech on the subject, taly 1* believed to fee] as Great Brlialn. but the French government is thought to be quite lake-warm about the project, and the fact that America has declined to partlolpate will add strength to the French objections and fortify the French demand that questions roncerni»« 'eparations ami treaties shall be ik’ljr • rinded from tbe purview of

■ conference.

America's refusal can hardly be without effect ~ the BritUb Prim* Vial tier's plans It la known that LU*7d George I-a* tnlit great hope* on the cunf-rence and its expected result* aa a political asaei hi tb coming *lneiliable appeal to tbe country. With America taking part, great tilings might have been looked for. promising a revival of Europear, trade and extended markets for Britist, gooda, to th* benefit of the serious unemployment situation In this country. It Is recognized that without :he partlcipa. Mon of America the conference will be deprived - f much of it* .mjM.r:ajiee. Anr.e.i Chamberlain, the government leader, told tbe House of Commas that decision of tbe question of .*cogniUon of the present sovie. government of Russia mosl await the results of tbe ccining Gerw economic conference. H* made this stitement In response to a question a* u, whether the government Ijferjded to recognize the oovlet regime with a vUw to opening trade relations between llnssia and the rest of the world, est-cinlly Great Britain.

Mile Rua has been eh of national beauty in e a design for a new Mane ef posiagt stamp!!. She is said to bo ttia prettieM peasant girl in CaedKMtONrdcia. MkTmmirr OF PRESBYTERIANS Canvass for Fund of $14500,000 for the Churoli'a WorldWide Work-

in this section are Joining daring March with millions of others of that denomination all over the country ia a nationwloe every member canraas for benevo'ences of the church. Pledges for $14.500060 Cor the worldwide work of the Presbyterian Church *n the C. & A. are expected to be mad* In the follow-up work la —cceadiag The date, Sunday, March 12. was set by the decomlaadoma! authorium last fall, when tbe total to be asfcd was determined after exhaustive lnv» tigaton of the needs of tbe varioa*

and in cor.ditlou of growth of the ——r- - Tb- total to less than half what (Wild profitably be qxnr tn ^ reedy partially opened, but the repre seoutives of the ' '_■**' ~ all pari* of the country, pared fon preliminary estimates antTi $l4Ji00.'<d waa left. This to boaras hope to have tor work dnrtr.t tbe year beginning J* earning April L Presbyterians adopted the budget a tion. so that tbe la advance of their _ thing rather definite ns to the amount of money they may expect by the roi of the church year. Liarch SL Dorinj the last two years th* actual monrf contributed for this work tom rt«s from *5354.000 to S’OZO&OOt. The share of tb j otai bkdjcat to M raised by local Frexbj teriar* was do temined carefully. After the total ft* the denomination war derided thU was apportioned among synods according <» church membership and past gift*, wien in turn tbe amount for each *y>“4 waa divided among the preabyterirs and then by a presbyterial comml''' - * subdivided for churcbes according 11 tbe ability of re.ch

LAritST EVENTS AT WASHINGTON

NEW YORK.—Th* issue *f r900,000 Pbill|iplne govern inert fv year l per cent non us, offered at 10b^. us« been heavily oversuboerlbed. ALBANY.—dovemor Miller mad* H clear that he favor* the *l,tmo u.. m p. proprtotion provided for in thr hill int rod deed by Assemblyman BruMlage frr the temporary relief of state disabled veterans of the w „rld aar who

are unfi. for service.

FAIL TO REOPEN MILL

Crompton Co.’s Employsao Do Nat

Obvy Whistle ™

Provlden.-e, R. L—An atumpt to re“P*® Crompton Company', pu nt the largest In the Fswtuxet Valley failed. When the millers' whistle eounued for tbe first time in seven week*. * huge throng hastened to the factory hut none entered. Instead a parade was formed and * roar ,. h through the Pawtuxet Valley wns begun. Operative* In otoer towns lulu.-d

■ tbe procession.

HOUSE PLEAD! FOR~TARIFF 09mi Warfare Breaks Out When Upper

Branch Refuse*

Waahbuton.-Qpn, war ha. trokea -ut h.’*.»n houae and senate leidcr. over tar.ff House Republicans do not relish tne thought ,, having t, „„ f«rr tl^ \uierr :hi. fall win, , arl(r

of Mr «W»ed

tampalgn Pledge. kenate | rtdr _ bwd naautoe4 a “W e .b-uid-worry atdtudv over the qu-othm Uaav of thw -atert.',, serious doubts as u the

Uriff uakering.

Representative Fordney, Oh airman rf tha House Ware and ltoa“« Cam" 1 ' 4 ' *•«, defended the bank lean p ' eio-> of tbe eoldierw bontu billA govr.nment-owned oorporaGon the developmrnt ef th* Mwe 1 * fihoala. Alx, nitrate project urns »»*• posed m senate by Senator Morr>x Chairman Fordney axpreeeed the opi'*--Ion that leans mad* by banks on adjusted service cartlfieatee weald hav* no e^ect whatever *n the banking situation He asserted that assurance of this hae beet, given tid cornmlttee by W. F. G. Harding g*" emor ef the Federal Reserve Bo**Brr Gen. John H. RueeeiJ has l*ft for Port au Prince to -et a* President« High ummmtosioner « Haiti. Without a record veto the Bens'* passed the blit carrying approp' *- *ione for th* Department ef Commere* and Department ef Latoer <ef the ffocal year 1t23. Ocepite arH’dafo ty Controller ef th * Currency Cr.ssinger ef tne bank lo»" feature of th* eodlara’ b««u* «*''• Republican Hcuec leaders wwit toward with their plMrm to pu.h th * measure through without fu ***• changes. Appl‘cation ef tbe Mew Haven to' * government loan of *2 7*K0M “ meet maturing Indetetedneee was *p proved by th* Incerotcto Cemmert* Commie.’ or, January export* to Europe totsisd $l4k.S39^4« compared wttn •77 In Jenuary a year agoThe deeftne in the value of Americs * foreign trade In Jenuary as comp-' 1 •o with January. 1i*1 f to further «"*• phasiced in statieUcs aa to trad* “f continents and rountoie# for the f‘ r ‘ t month Cf th* 1 resent year, jue* public by th* department ef co»