VOL. LVIII. NO. 18,438 "" ' o Post office at Scomi-C!aB!i Matter. PORTLAND OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1920 PRICE FIVE CENT? DANIELS- DENIES GAG USED IN NAVY HOLLAND LIKELY TO ! SHIELD EX-EMPEROR! SOCIALIST PARTY IS HELD ON TRIAL FOREIGN EXCHANGE IN NEW YORK COLLAPSES 35 CARNEGIE MEDALS AWARDED TO HEROES 13. DIE SAVING OTHERS AND DEPENDENTS GET PEXSIOXS. BRYAN ATTACKS THRIFT CELEBRATION PUT ON BY CONGRESS PRINCE BY MICH REFUSAL TO GIVE UP EXILE TO ALLIES EXPECTED, UTTER DEMORALIZATION OVERTAKES MARKET. SENATE AND HOUSE SWEPT BY WAVE OF ECONOMY. HOME CUMINGS WON v D.S.M. Means 'Deep Sea Medal,' Says Secretary. RAP IS TAKEN AT ADMIRAL Some Officers Will Hang Themselves, Is View. HALTER ALSO SUGGESTED Obstreperous OXficers "Who Think They Know It All" Can Be Re strained. Says Chief. Reply to Demand of Powers to Be Forwarded to Paris Some Time This Week. WASHINGTON'. Jan. 21. "A good many persona appear to have the no tion that D. S. M. stands for "desk eervice medah' They are mistaken", it stands for 'deep sea medal.' " This statement was made today by Secretary of the Navy Daniels in con nection with the controversy over the award of distinguished service medals and navy crosses to officers and men of the navy. , "My feeling all along has been that only those who have performed the most distinguished , service ashore should get the 'D. S. M- " added the secretary. V.e of Gag Denied. Secretary Daniels' attention was called to statements credited to Ad miral Sims in a speech in New York last night, demanding that the "gag" be removed from naval officers so they could1 criticise the administra tion of the service. "I have not observed that the 'gag' has affected Admiral Sims in any appreciable degree," remarked the secretary in reply to a question. "Under the old system there were two ways to handle officers who think they know it all." he continued. "One is to put a halter on them and hold them. The other is to give them sufficient rope and let them hang themselves. - "I believe there is a happy medium omewhere. and I am going to f'.nd it. I hall do nothing- along this line for the present, pending the outcome of the investigation into the navy's conduct of the war." "With regard to Admiral Sims re mark about naval officers not wish ing to have their grandchildren in the future ask them. "Granddaddy, "which ship did you lose in the world war?" Mr. Daniels said: More Casta Before Board. "I have askea that question of Lawrence and of Perry. In fact, it might be asked of every man who has done a great, courageous thing why he had not done the impossible.' Secretary Daniels said he is send ins to the Knight board every day one or more letters recommending awards for officers or enlisted men who have received no recognition up to date. Some of these letters come from commanding off icers, some from junior officers, some from enlisted men and others from civilians who have learned of especially courageous things done by. naval personnel dur ins the war. "I have sent no other communica tion to the Knight board and have not and shall not interfere in any way with its work," he said. "All com munications received, from whatever source, bearing on awards will be sent to the board for its consideration." DAA1ELS REGARDED AS COOL THE HAGUE, Jan. 21. (By the Associated Press.) The reply of the Dutch government to the demand of; the allied powers that the former German emperor be given up to them' for trial is being drafted and will be forwarded some time this week to the Dutch minister at Paris for communi cation to the allies. . Although Holland is determined to stick closely to the diplomatic prece dent .and not publish or intimate the text of the reply until it is delivered, there is apparently no cause at pres ent to. make any change in the pre diction of the Dutch newspapers that the Dutch government will decline to accede to the demand. The" Associated Press was Informed today by a high official that the former German emperor had been in no. way consulted about the reply, nor even officially informed of the 'de mand for his extradition. THE HAGUE. Jan. 21. The Nieuw (jourant, in an editorial today, con siders the possibility of. condemning former Emperor William by default. "It is a great pity that the allies lack the moral courage to own that they have made a mistake," says the newspaper. "Giving a promise to try the kaiser by default when Holland shall have refused to permit his ex tradition is nothing but sensational humbug. The kaiser himself is not dangerous, but he may be the tool of others. "If the allies could make" the Dutch government see the danger of the kaiser staying near the German fron tier, another residence might be assigned to him. the Dirtch govern ment offering as an alternative his return to Germany. This might be asked without a preceding trial." The Vaderland says: "The Dutch government probably will answer that it is her natural duty to refuse extradition. It will say that the government has no sym patny with the kaiser but that it is led by considerations of international law and that the Dutch constitution forbids extradition." Association With Agency of Revolution Charged. ALIEN ALLEGIANCE AVERRED Effort to Install Soviets U. S. Indicated. in APPLAUSE IS CUT SHORT Hearing in Ouster Proceedings of Assemblymen to Involve Stand of 'Party, Says Attorney. GIRL PUZZLE TO POLICE "Aviatrlx" Thought to Be Lonj Missing Miss DcKay. ATLANTA, Ga.. Jan. 21. Dressed in the masculine uniform of an avia tor, a young-woman was held tonieht by police who were frankly puzzled as to whether she is Jeanne Anna De Kay, missing protege of Jane Addams of Hull house, Chicago. The girl, in appearance, corresponds to press descriptions of Miss De Kay except that her hair is bobbed and the word "Helen" is tatooed on her arm. Under questioning today, police said she first declared she knew Miss De Kay and then said she was Miss De Kay, but tonight denied it. News paper men who .talked with her told the same story. She first gave her name as Jeanne De Louse, Belgian widow of a French soldier. The young woman was arrested on Monday , because she was wearing men's clothing on the streets, but she asserted she was an aviatrlx and that she merely happened to appear in her uniform. She showed such a knowledge of airplanes that she was freed. Yesterday she was arrested again and will be held pending def inite identification. British. Journalist Tells of Impres sions of English People. PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Jan. 21.- (Special.) "At the- outset of Ameri ca's entrance in the war and during the trying months which followed, we in England, felt that the patriotism of- Secretary Daniels, or rather his sympathy for the allied cause, was very cool." Cecil Roberts, noted British journal 1st, who was with Admiral Jellicoe Admiral Ueatty and the Dover fleet of the British navy during the war, made this assertion in the course of an interview today. "I do not know what is behind th present controversy at Washington as concerns the navy department." h continued, "but I would say that Ad miral Sims made a deep impression in London, both In official and unofficial circles. He was the personification of tact. "We think of Hoover and Sims as the two American officials who made good in Europe and managed to keep good. ( " ilson s stock is very row," he said. "In January, 191S, he was wel comed like a messiah in London, but When he departed from France on the George Washington he went amid silent grief. "We felt that he was playing a lone hand and that astute politicians around him were 'wiring' him. "Wir ing" is a word we have which can be best explained as playing him into their hands." ALBANT. N. T., Jan. 21. Investiga tion of the loyalty of the five sus pended socialist assemblymen, was as serted, at their trial today by the as sembly judiciary committee, to in volve the question as to whether so cialists "can hypocritically masquer ade as a political party, strike hands with every agency of force and rev olution and- still make simple Ameri can people understand they are not the sworn enemies of their country and ready to overthrow It." This assertion was made by Martin W. Littleton, who withdrew tern porarily today as associate counsel for the committee to handle the case of United States Senator Newberry of Michigan, in connection with whose election charges of fraud have been brought. Allen Allegiance Charged. He charged that Trotzky and Lenine are attempting installation in Amer ica of the soviet form of government and that before the waves or putmc opinion stirred by this case have sub sided "this country will understand that this so-called political party is the agent and co-conspirator with the dark forces of the Invisible em pire whose object is forcible destruc tion of constitutional government in America." Opposing a motion that charges against the five socialists be dis missed, he declared that, "the . repre sentation with reference to what these 'five men did and what they profess and what they engaged to do stands out as plainly as anything can stand out that they, gave their al legiance wholly and solely to an alien and invisible empire known as the in ternationale." Five Called Hired Agents. He declared socialist legislators could be ruled by aliens paying party dues and that "they are the hired agents of a group of aliens, come to carry out the plans of the higher agents as far as they can in the councils of a free government." There was a burst of applause from men and women who filled floor and Xew Low Records Set for British, French, Italian Remittances. Marks Are Hardest Jilt. NEW YORK, Jan. 21. Utter col lapse. and demoralization overtook the foreign exchange market today, re sulting in new low records for Brit ish, French, Italian' and various other European remittances. The rate for British demand bills fell to ?.1.60i, or Zt-c under its pre vious minimum, and Paris checks. Italian Ilres and Belgian francs fell in corresponding or greater degree. Dealers in ordering were again In clined to attribute today's collapse to such well-known and long-existing conditions as the unfavorable trade balances against almost all the for eign centers and failure of the-United States senate to ratify the peace treaty. . . Francs, with a normal or pre-war value of about 19 cents, fell to the point where it took almost 12 to pur chase an American dollar, while lires on Italian exchange, ordinarily on a parity with French quotations, dropped to a level where almost 14 were required to equal the American dollar. No important form of exchange, not even rubles, which are only nominally quoted at 4,j to cents, against the pre-war quotation of 61 cents, has suffered as much as the German mark. Quoted before the war at 23 H cents, the mark today dwindled to slightly under IVx cents. Thousands of Dollars Go to Other Worthy Cases -Two little Girls Are Dead Heroines. HUGE PROFITS DISCLOSED Montana Merchants Reported Mak ing 34 to 7 5 Per Cent. HELENA, Mont., Jan. 21. Margins of profit ranging from 34 per cent on groceries to 75 per cent on table linen, are taken by retail merchants of Montana, it is declared in the an nual' report of the state railroad com mission as ex-officio trade commis slon. submitted to Governor Stewart today. Percentages of gross profit, the re port states, include 52 per cent on women's gloves, 61 per cent on worn en's hose, 69 per cent on woolen dress goods, 73 per cent on cotton blankets, 64 per cent on mattresses and 58 per cent on rugs. Men's high-grade shoes, which cost the retailers $6.50 to $8.35, it is declared, retail for 812 to 816, and women's high-grade shoes, which cost 7.10 to 810.65, retail for 312 to 32:- - - ' " The act creating the state trade commission recently was held uncon stitutional by the state supreme court. CUMMINGS DENIES REPORT Rumor of $20,000,000 Campaign Fund Plan Flouted. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Chairman Cummings of the democratic national committee today made public a letter to the editors of the New York Trib une, denying the statements in that newspaper that the committee planned "to raise a fund of $20,000,000 for this year's presidential campaign." "At no time and under no circum stances,' said Mr. Cummings, "has the chairman of the democratic national committee or anyone else authorized to speak for the financial department of the committee, made. any statement indicating that it was the purpose of the democratic national committee to raise a fund of 320,000,000 for this year's presidential campaign. "We seek only enough campaign contributions to enable us to conduct a legitimate campaign and to present our cause adequately to the people." Concluded on Page 3, Column 3.) MILLIONS GO TO INDIA $1,500,000 Withdrawn for Gold Export Causes Surprise. NEW YORK, Jan. 21. Withdrawal of $1,500,000 gold coin from the sub treasury for shipment to India excited considerable interest among interna tional bankers today. Exports of silver from the United States to India have assumed enor mous volume of recent years, but only rarely, is gold exported to that coun try from this part of the world. PITTSBURG. Pa., Jan. 21. Thirty five acts of heroism were recognized by the Carnegie hero fund commis sion at its 16th annual meeting here j today. Two silver medals and 33 bronze medals were awarded. Thir teen persons lost their lives while try ing to save others, and pensions ag gregating $5820 a year were granted to. dependents of seven of them, while to the dependents of three others $4100 was awarded to be spent as the commission may sanction. In seven cases $11,200 - was given for educa tional purposes, and in 13 cases- $9500 was awarded for other worthy causes. ' Two of those who lost their lives were little girls, Lottie C. Steen, who was killed while trying to drag a 9-year-old boy from a railroad track in front of an approaching train at Dale, Minn., and Marjorie A. Brown, 14, who was drowned while trying to save a girl companion in the uoose river at Belfast, Me. Owen Carter of Denver, a moving- picture operator, was drowned in the Arkansas river at Canyon City, Colo., July 1, 1914. Mrs. Grace E. Forman, to act her part in a moving-picture play, had ridden a horse into the river where the current was swift. The horse fell and threw Mrs. Forman into the water. Carter was drowned while trying to save her. Among others awarded medals were A. G. Peterson, Dutton, Mont., who received a sliver medal. Lloyd A. Osborne, a dentist of Sioux City. Ia-, lost his life at Fremont, la.. while attempting to save another man," and Rev. E. W. Bruner of Ekron, Ky., was drowned while trying to save Osborne. Others who lost their lives while helping their fellows include the following: Edward J. Butler, Freedonia, N. Y. ; Edward E. Murray, Baltimore; Albert A Slaline, Cincinnati: Oscar A. Deming, Stuart, Neb.; William H. T. SeaVnon, rich er. Okla. ; George F. Batlelger, Porter, lnd. ; A. Q. Peterson, Iutton, Mont.; Milton Carter, New Haven, Conn. In the list of those who risked their lives in an attempt to save hu man life were no less than eight chil dren 16 years of age and under. The complete list follows: Louis B. Smiley, Franklin, Pa.; Clarence J. Kichards. St. Petersburg, Kla.: J. W. MathewaoD, MarlmntirldEf, Cape Breton. N. S. ; Michael Moran, Sydney, N. S.; Ray mond O. Mathon. Lancaster, N. H.; Clar ence A- Hitchborn, Frutta. Colo.; H. Aus tin McDonald, Fortune Bridge. Prince Ed ward Island: 1-eo A. formal. Uticc. N. Y. ; Fred. hi. Clay, Chester, N. S. ; Thomas J. Boyer, Kagsdalc. Ind.; James McCor mick, box 28, route 7, Waco, Tex.; Freder ick C. Brown. Boyleston, N. S. ; H. Mar court Heal. Truro, N. S. ; Marcel C. Swift. Butler, Ind.: Arnold F. Voss. Stanttc, Hi.; M. W. Roscoe, Batavla. 111.; Clarence H. Smith, Bay City, Mich.: R J. Jacobsori. Moorehead, Minn.; J. Hathaway Taylor. Baltimore: Carlton E. Brown. Cincinnati; Charles W. Burrows, Cincinnati; U. Elmer McArthur, Grand Kapids. Mich. Bronze medals were awarded in every Instance except G. Elmer Mc Arthur and Albert G. Peterson, who received silver medals. Alliance With New Jersey "Wets" Charged. LIQUOR MANEUVER SCENTED Resignation of Democratic Chairman Is Suggested. Appropriations Are Reduced and Proposed Bills Eliminated; Sen ator McCumber Gives Warning. D. C, Jan. 21. "thrift week" cele wave of economy The HOT FIGHT IS PRESAGED Ex-Secretary oT State Warns Peo ple to Block Presidential Boom of Governor Edwards. Girl Perishes In Fire. DEMORKST. Ga., Jan. 21. Miss Florence Weeks of Atlanta was burned fatallyand half a dozen other girls received injuries in a fire which today destroyed Mary J. Green hall of Piedmont college. RICHMOND. Va., Jan. 21. William J. Bryan, in an address here,.tonight. continued the attack against Homer S. Cummings. chairman of the demo cratic national committee, which he inaugurated in a day address at Nor folk. Referring to Chairman Cummings" attendance at an inaugural dinner for Governor Edwards of New Jersey last night in Newark, Mr. Bryan declared thr.t Cummings t eith separate from the New Jersey executive or re sign as head of the democratic na tional committee. "The democratic party," said Mr. Bryan, "is too near me to ever consent to have its interests allied with those of the liquor interests." Gevernor Edwarda Rapped. "I won't join with Mr. Edwards in trying to turn the democratic party over to the liquor interests," said Mr. Bryan. "If the chairman." he continued, re ferring to Mr. Cummings, "has not sense enough to know better than to join in a boom for a candidate like that, he hasn't sense enough to be on the committee." Mr. Bryan took a fling at Edwards again when he referred to reports that Edwards had announced his can didacy for president in Nebraska and Virginia. . Ready," la A amine , "I don't know why Mr. Edwards went to Nebraska to announce his candidacy," he said, "unless he wanted a hot fight. And if he did, he sure came to the right place. If Ed wards comes down here I want you to be ready for him." Asserting that the liquor interests were going to take t" t fight against nation-wide prohibition into politics and try to elect a "wet" president on a "wet" platform, the former secre tary or state announced he could bring evidence to prove his state ments. WASHINGTON, Congress held its bration today, a sweeping both senate and house. result was: Decision by the house public build ings committee not to recommend passage at this session of a public buildings bill. Reduction by the house foreign af fairs committee of the annual diplo matic and consular service appropri ation bill to $8,S43,03S, which is $3,085,125 less than the state depart ment's request and $1,032,074 less than was appropriated for the pres ent fiscal year. Elimination by the senate of an appropriation of $42,500,000 from the Americanization bill and substitution therefor of an appropriation of $6,500,000 restricted to use until the end of the 1921 fiscal year instead of an expenditure over four years as the larger appropriation contem plated. Senator McCumber said that, at cording to careful estimates the gov ernment would start the fiscal year beginning July 1 with a deficit of $3,000,000,000. Should expenditures for 1921 be kept within the conserva tive estimate of $6,000,000, the sen ator thought they might be provided for, but there would be nothing left to take care of the left-over deficit. "We have gone mad on the ques tion of conceiving new questions that will reach into the federal treasury said Senator McCumber, referring to the Americanization bill, which is de signed to educate illiterate and Amer icanize foreign-born citizens. "The only thing that will stop it will be when we get to the end of the rope and have to bond the country to meet expenses." In cutting down appropriations in the diplomatic and consular service bilL the house commitee denied Sec retary Lansing's request for in creases in tne salaries or amDassa- dors and ministers. The only in creases granted over present expen ditures were a flat $1000 advance In salaries to secretaries of embassies and legations and an' additional item of $250,000 for passport control, bring ing the total for that purpose up $140,431. Visit to Western Part of Country Planned. PILGRIMS TENDER 'BANQUET (Need of Personal Contact Is Shown by Speaker. NATIONS ARE COMPARED ONE THING AJSOUT THE INCOME TAX THAT MOST EVERYBODY WILL ENJOY. BR VAX OX EDWARDS' TRAIL to TREATY OUTLOOK BETTER Compromise in . lieted WASHINGTON Improvement in Be- KIDNAPING IS DENIED 2 06 Arizona Defendants Say Thej Didn't Deport 1. W'.'w. . TOMBSTONE, Ariz., Jan. 21. Mil lionaire mineowners, shift bosses, ex- sheriffs and deputies, laborers and others to the number of 206, resi dents of the Warren mining district. pleaded not guilty to charges'of kid naping, in the superior court of Cochise, county today. The charges arose from deporta tion of 1100 alleged I. W. W. members and their sympathizers from Blsbee. July 12, 1917. to Columbus, N. M. V Young Fugitives Returned. SALEM, Or., Jan. 1. (Special.) Earl Young and Austin Henderson, ar rested at Marion a few days ago on a charge of larceny from a dwelling, were taken to Portland last night and recommitted to the Frazler home. The boys escaped from that institution bout 10 days ago, according to word received by the Salem police. PARKER DEEMED VICTpR Former Progressive Is Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 21. Colonel Frank P. Stubbs tonight conceded the nomination of John M. Parker, of New Orleans, as the democratic candidate for governor in yesterday's state-wide primary. Mr. Parker is the former progres sive candidate for vice-president of the United States. II 1 - AS? SbJ TA I " n- !, "!: K. '.WW .. t I r A -Ja Ma., r U laftlfk.rV L m 111 - 4 i i v "r v : -iv v -i n-v n. x H i i - i i . i "I'll Xever Vote to Nominate Jfan Like That," Says Commoner. -"VOKFOLK. Va.. Jan. 21. William Jennings Bryan, speaking here today under the auspices of the Anti-Saloon League of America, declared that he would oppose any movement to bring about the selection of Governor Ed ward I. Edwards of New jersey as I the democratic nominee for president l in 1920. The former secretary of state also 1 asseriH th-,r it tha opac v J 1 Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the J democratic national committee, at the dinner held last night in Newark, in honor of the new. inaugurated New Jersey executive correctly expressed the chairman's attitude, he would op pose him for chairman of the na tional committee. "Edwards has picked out my own state, Nebraska, to launch his cam paign In," declared Mr. Bryan. "But if Nebraska instructs for Edwards, I'll never be a delegate to the nation al convention. "I'll never vote to nominate a man like that." Following an eloquent appeal for support of the anti-saloon league, he digressed to say: "Twenty-four years ago I com menced running for president," and laughter followed. "Nineteen hun- j dred years ago," he added, "the wise men came rrom.me east. And .ew York editors think they are still com ing. No reformer ever started in New York and they can have no faitlr in reform of any kind." Referring to the possibility of I publican victory this year, Mr. Bryan said: "God did not put the Impossible in the hands of any human being, espe cially a republican, and no republican is going to be permitted to nominate the next president of the United States." Senate Xow Possible. Jan. 21. Marked possibility of com promising the senate deadlock over the peace treaty, was reported to night by leaders participating in the bi-partisan compromise negotiations. Although the leaders yesterday came close to a break, today's meet ing, it was stated upon most authori tative Information, resulted in mate rial progress toward & compromise. At no time since the bi-partisan conference began a week ago, one of the active leaders declared, have the prospects been so bright for an agreement between tne iour repuo lican and five democratic members of the committee. It was added, however, that tomor row might bring another change in the situation. ASQUITH SEEKS ELECTION Ex-Premier Indicates Wish lo Re turn to Parliament. LONDON, Jan. 21. Ex-Premier As qulth seeks, to return to parliament through the by-election arising out of the death of Sir J. McCallum. The local liberals adopted Mr. Asquith as tbeir candidate tonight. There is already a labor candidate. J. M. Biggar, in the field, and as the coalitionists had previously decided not to contest the seat if Mr. Asquith were selected, there Is likely to be a straight fight between the liberal and labor candidates, unless, as is con sidered improbable, th unionists ruu a candidate. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTKRDAY'S Maximum temperature. Ml degrees; minimum, Jl degrees. TODAY'S Cloudy and unsettled; north easterly winds. Forclsrn. Four nations unite to flsht soviet Rus sia. Pace 4. Price of Wales announces plan to revisit America. Page 1. Holland expected to refuse demand of allies for surrender of ex-kaiser. Page L National Both houses of congress have thrift cele bration. Page 1. Cag not used in navy says Ianlels. Page 1. Carranza's threatening of witnesses be fore United States investigating com mittee probably -will cause action by state department. Page 5. General Barnett upholds Daniels. Page 3. Many southern republics desire loans from bankers of United Slates. Page 3. Anti-Japanese resolution Introduced in senate by Mr. Phelan. Page 5. Hoover for president on any ticket is plea of New York World. Page 2. Domestic. Socialist party declared to be on trial In ouster proceedings involving New York assemblymen. Page 1. Thirty-eight alleged reds Indicted at Chi cago. Page 4. Thirty-five Carnegie medals awarded to heroes. Page 1. Foreign exchange in New York , collapses. Page 1. Congressmen split on Hoover boom. Page 2. Bryan assails'Cummlr.gs. Page 1. Armour company's business large. Page 3. Psvriftc Northwest. Olcott vetoes 21 more bills. Page 7. State is unanimous over safety bill. Page 7. Farmers of northwest asked to hit spec ulative wheat dealers. Page 4. Sport . Lincoln high basketball team beats Com merce. Page 14. Bob Martin's manager denies K earn a' charges. Page 14. Absence of deals dulls winter baseball sea son. Page 14. Commercial and Marine. Hard-wheat flour prices are advanced SO I cents a barrel. rage z I. Unfavorable wtather conditions lift corn at Chicago. Page 'Jl. Wall street market inactive with slump in exchange. Page SI. Portland Chamber of Commerce protests new trans-Pacific lumber rate. Page 0. Portland and Vicinity. A. L.- Mills t. ae on of financiers who will I help to avert world financial chaos. Page a. IWife, made uphappy by apartment-house lite, asks divorce. Page 1. Uouiori seek way v save injured, rase & Demonstrations of Good Will Dur ing Recent Visit to Vnltcd States Appeal to Briton. LONDON, Jan. 21. (By the Assocl- ' ated Press.) The Prince of Wales was the guest tonight at a large and enthusiastic dinner of the Pilgrims. More than 300 persons were present. The prince reaffirmed his intention to revisit America, particularly the . middle west and far west, saying that the best proof that one had enjoyed a visit was his earnest desire to re peat it. Responding to Baron Desboroagh'a toast, the prince said: "Two months ago to the day I was very hospitably entertained by the American Pilgrims at New York and they were going very strong indeed. When Desborough said that I am domiciled in England, I think it would have been more correct to say I am domiciled in the British empire. "I visited the naval academy at Annapolis and the military academy at West Point. The visits were very interesting to me, as I had been asso ciated with the United States army and navy during the war. It was that association that made It possible for me not to feel a stranger. Personal Contact Needed. "I had-a wonderful time and I was touched by the demonstrations of good will, not only on my own ac count, but because tliey were given' me as the king's representative and to the British people as a whole. This made me realize that only personal contact is needed to prevent ary mis understanding between the American democracy and our own. "The cordiality has not ceased be cause of my departure, I am still re ceiving most charming letters and, I may add, not all of them from the fair sex. "There is only one way of showing that one has enjoyed a visit. That is by repeating it. I therefore propose taking the first opportunity of pay ing another visit to the United States. 1 am afraid I do not know when that will be. I hope that then I may have the opportunity of seeing something of the far west and of the middle west and of the other cities and places I had no time to visit last November. "In conclusion, may I say I sincere ly hope that personal contact between the British empire and the great American public may rapidly develop. We have the same language, the same type of democratic institutions and the same good will towards all people. American Cousin. Toasted. "I thank you for having entertained me this evening and I wish all success to all branches of the Pilgrims' so ciety. It has done and is doing so much to promote and foster continued friendship, good will and understand ing between the peoples of the two great English-speaking nations." The Earl of Reading, lord chief jus tice and former ambassador to tha United States, in toasting "our Ameri can cousins," humorously remarked that perhaps he should have invited the Pilgrims to drink the tcast In water. Rear-Admiral Harry S. Knapp, com- mander of the American naval forces In European waters, eat at the right of the prince, both smoking big cigars and apparently having a merry con versation. Telegrams were read from the Duke of Connaught, president of the Pil grims, who is now at Cannes, and Chauncey M. Depew, president of the American branch. Visit Held Beneficial. Alluding to the objects of the Pil grims as impossible of being better expressed than they had been by the prince of Wales. Earl Reading said: "We had the good fortune to have had his royal highness as our am bassador to America. I do not beiievto that anyone can thoroughly appreci ate the beneficial effects of that visit, because nobody can gauge it at the present moment, t Deiieve it is im measurable and incalculable. "At heart both countries are Ani mated by the same purpose. Each is anxious that the other should deserve well of the world's history." The American ambassador, John ,W. Divis. In responding, said that It was much to be regretted that in the past the two English-speaking nations had no anthem In common. Now they could both sing one anthem In unison j "God bless the prince of Wales." ODESSA RUMOR PRINTED Roumanians Said to Coil template Occupation .and Defense. WARSAW, Jan. 21. It is rumored that the Roumanians are about to oc cupy Odessa and organize the defense of tiiat Black bolsheviki. sea port agaiu.t Uie t