r VOL,. IVIII. XO. 18,462 Knured at Portland (Oregon) Postoffic as Scond-C'!ap Matter. PORTLAND OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1920 PRICE FIVE CENTS COMPULSORY TRAININGl OREGON JOINS MAINE RED ENVOY LEANS ON U.S. RETAINERS OFFICERS PASSED UP WHEN MELON IS CUT WOMAN WHIPS, THEN NEW FIGHT HALTS WORK ON TREATY FAVORED BY SENATE ' COMMITTEE APPROVES BILL FOR 4 MONTHS DRILL. IN DRY LAW DEFENSE PLEADS FOR MASHER MRS. L. E. MILES FORGIVES STUDENT AT CELL DOORS. $2313 REWARD MONEY DIS TRIBUTED IN ASTORIA. STATE Wllili ASSIST IT. S. IN RHODE ISLAND SUIT. CHANGE OF VENUE OENIEDTOIJ.W. Examination of Jurors Is Begun at Montesano. RED CROSS WOMEN i. V. V Soviet Ambassador's Staff Largely American. DURANT ASSISTANT SCRIBE Former Creel Attache minds One of Censor. Re- NUORTEVA BRAINS OF LOT Secretary of Soviet Uureau Said to Me Man ot Vast Authority in Slav Domain. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, Jan. "6. rossibly for its influence on the senate committee in vestigating his activities, Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, self-styled Russian soviet ambassador to the United States, had surrounded himself with larere number of Americans, who were listed with the committee as members of his staff, when he ap peared at the hearing today. His staff, or most of it, with him used one-half of the long table at the head of which were seated three mem bers of the investigating committee. Chairman Moses and Senators Borah and Brandegee. The "ambassador" glanced about at members of his staff with an obvious feeling that there was safety in their numbers and their American flavor. Durant Ktarinblra Creel. The most foreign-looking individual on his staff was Kenneth Durant, born in Philadelphia and a graduate of Harvard, who. as assistant secre tary of the soviet bureau, sat next to Mr. Martens. Durant was a member of George Creel's committee on pub lic information during the war. He has the Creel - Creel mouth and the Creel ha. , iw0f kinks. Af ter years of cultivation, however, it shows some tendency to slant slightly to the back. There is utter absence of either "cow-lick" or Vpart.T'' e ' Durant had nothing to do except possibly to pass a message to - the "ambassador" from Santeri Nuorteva secretary of the soviet bureau and said to be the brains of the entire soviet organization in this country. Nuorteva is of medium height, thick and stout, with a very much overfed appearance. An exceptionally lar; head, with a baldness which spreads everywhere and dips at points to the low-water mark, sets off his swelling physique. Nnorteva Never Worriei, Examination of the front elevation shows Nuorteva to have two very dis cerning blue eyes, separated by a nose well proportioned, overhanging stubby, reddish mustache, which serves as a canopy to a slightly more than average-sized mouth. Investigations mean nothing in the young life of Secretary Nuorteva, who is about 42 years old and who pre tended to sleep or to smile as devel opments In the inquiry warranted. But that he was the real fountain o Information was many times apparent. When the "ambassador" hesitated at some question put by a member of the committee, and former Senator Hard wick, Marten's counsel, was puzzled, Secretary Nuorteva communicated through Durant some word to hi chief that seemed to put words In his mouth. Authority Held Vast. Nuorteva, it was brought out at the hearing, besides being first secretary of the bureau, has charge of the pub lication division of the organizatlo and is the person who approves every thing that is printed in "Soviet Rus sia," the official journal. "Ambassador Martens Is not an interesting type of man. He is tall and thin with light, almost white hair and mustache, and it is white because of his race and not his age. He looks more like a Scandinavian than a Slav, which he calls himself, although there is no reason to sus pect that he is other than a Slav unless he be possessed of some Ger man blood. He talked in broken Eng lish, yet practically every word he uttered could be understood by any one close at hand. These words which have for only a short time been known outside of Russia, like "soviet," he Jerked out so hurriedly that sometimes he kept his listeners guessing. He would say "soviet" almost without sounding vowel. Propaganda Called Off. He asserted that his bureau is not conducting propaganda in this coun try to promote a soviet form of gov ernment for the United States. Such propaganda was conducted through out the world at one time, he de clared, but only as a defensive meas ure to make trouble and embarrass ment for those nations which were fighting soviet Russia. He further asserted that the Lenine government. now feeling itself firmly established. is calling off all revolutionary under takings in other countries. For example, he said, Lenine re cently appealed to the Italian social' ists not to start a revolution which had been planned. He pleaded that his sole mission in this country is to establish friendly relations with the United States and to make commer cial bargains for supplies needed for the reconstruction of Russia. The audience which packed the Cash Offered for Aid in Running Down Murderers Alio ted by Board of Arbitrators. ASTORIA, Or., Jan. 26. (Special.) The board of arbitration, consisting of Major W. S. Gilbert, O. I. Peterson and Asmus Brix. appointed to pass upon claims tor the reward offered for In formation leading to the arrest of the murderers of the late Frank Uowan rendered its decision today. To avoid possibility of future con troversy the board in advance re quired each claimant to sign an agree ment to abide by its findings. In it3 report the board complimented the heriff, chief of police and district attorney for their work in connection ith the apprehension - of the mur- erers. but held that no peace officer or other official whose duty Is to ren- er all possible aid In capturing crim inals should receive any part of the reward money. The reward amounted to 'J2313.50 and the report, after allowing Chief of Police Carlson $350 and Sheriff Nelson 65.77 for actual expenses incurred in making the capture and 22.73 for lerlcal fees at the hearing, distribut ed the balance of the reward as fol lows: William Spellmeier, $50: Svon Lon- berg, $150; Marie Broderick, J250; George Mice. $200; Ora Hawkins, $425; Mrs. Mina M. Megler, $200; Mrs. Mary Suprenant. $200; H. Liebel, $200; Cal Cragen of Clear Creek, Utah, $200. Gowan. a Chinese merchant, was murdered on the night of November 28 by two young men for the purpose of robbery. The reward was contributed as follows: City of Astoria, $500; Clatsop county, $200; Gowan estate. out); go family, $o00; other Chinese, 613.50. Several persons who gave informa- ion to the officers, as well as mem bers of the police force and the dis- rlct attorney, claimed portions of the reward. County Judge Cornelius and Mayor Bremner appointed the arbi tration board to adjust the claims, and it was this board that reported today. RAIL RETURN PROTESTED Farmers Join With Railroad Em ployes in Plea to Congress. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. Represen tatives of f avmers'-aspciatioriVand of railroad employes today protested to senate and house conferees on the railroad bill against the return of the! roaaa to private operation next March 1, and urged that government 1 operation be continued at least two years. I George P. Hampton, representing I the farmers' national council, said the I extension was necessary, "so the I country can go to the bottom of the railroad problem." GUNS SINK BURNING SHIP Submarines at Cristobal Send Steamer Marne to Bottom. PANAMA. Jan." 26. The American shipping board steamer Marne, aboard which an explosion Saturday caused fire that ignited the oil bunkers, was sunk today by 54 three-inch shells fired into her by submarines stationed at Cristobal. The Marne was on a voyage from New York to Melbourne with an 8000-ton cargo. PRINCESS SEEKS DECREE Vatican Court Considers Radii will Divorce Plea. ROME, Jan. 26. The Vatican tribunal having such cases in charge began discussion of the request of the Princess Radziwill for an an nulment of her marriage to the Polish prince. She was Dorothy Deacon of Boston and bases her plea on the ground that she was forced into the mar riage. CRIME AT SEA SUSPECTED Resolution Asks . for Probe on Trouble on Powhatan. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. Secretary Baker was asked to advice congress if the condition of the disabled trans port Powhatan was the result of bol shevism aboard ship, under a resolu tion introduced today in the house. The resolution says. "It is under stood that mutiny, theft, gambling and insubordination exist on trans ports." CITY PLANTSJAKE GOOD Light and Water Business Pays Tacoma Half Million. - TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 26. Over half a million dollars' profit was made by the municipal light and water business in 1919, according to the re port made to the city council today by Commissioner Ira Davisson. une ugni aepariment ciearea 9439. 570 and the water department $103. 724. the report says. SUFFRAGE BALLOT WINS Wyoming Senate Votes to Ratify Constitutional Amendment. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 2C. The Wyoming state senate today ratified the suffrage amendment to the fed eral constitution. The vote was 24 for and none against. CLASHES ENLIVEN HEARING Court Warns Attorneys Per sonalities Are Barred. PRISONERS ARE COMPOSED Separate Trial Refused for Roberts, Who Signed Confession Accused Lawyer Aids Defense. , BY BEN HUR LAMPMAN. MONTESANO. Wash., Jan. 26. (Special.) On trial for their lives and entering the plea of self-defence. 11 I. W. W. defendants In the Cen tralla Armistic day murder case, with one exception charged with active participation in the crime, filed into the Grays Harbor courtroom at 10 o'clock this morning and faced the long period of evidence and argument that must intervene before their fate is finally with the jury. Charged with the murder of War ren O. Grimm, overseas lieutenant and Washington football star, who was one of the four veterans slain on Armistice day at Centralia, Wash., when I. W. W. fired upon a patriotic parade from ambush, are the follow ing members of the radical organiza tion: Elmer Smith, Britt Smrth, .Ray Becker, Bert Faulkner, James Mc- Inerney, Bert Bland, Mike Sheehan, Eugene Barnett, Loren Roberts, John Lamb and O. C. Bland. Two other accused participants in the crime are at large Ole Hanson and John Doe Davis. One Tentatively Accepted. One juror had been tentatively se lected, subject to peremptory chal lenge, at the close of court this after noon, when ten veniremen had been examined. He was Thomas C. Vonner of Montesano. Timothy Martin will be re-examined tomorrow. Veniremen who were excused for cause were G. A. Kittredee. Malone John Kahle, Aberdeen; R. G. Hall, Hoquiam; C F. Davis, Hoquiam; John Knute, Montesano; Fred T. Deane Hoquiam; W. F. Barrows, Montesano, and J. W. Keramerlin, Montesano. Proof that difficulty will be long continued before a jury is finally se lected was found in the examinations of veniremen. As juror after juror re plied to the questioning of the state, the defense challenged for cause. Two jurors were excused by the state when they declared their unwilling ness to convict under a capital pun ishment statute, while others openly admitted that they already have 1 formed fixed opinions with regard to I the case. I "I have formed such an opinion that I I do not believe any amount of evi- dence- could remove It." said John (Concluded on Page 3. Column 1.) - 1 a - I 1 ! 1 Yesvtsve, til 11 r v - jssrsss - 1 1 I KJ II r 1 ;3e2s , t Army Organization Act Provides for Standing Force of 2 8 0,000 , Men, 18,000 Officers. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. By a vote of 9 to 5, the senate military com mittee today approved provisions pro viding for compulsory military train ing for boys between 18 and 21 years, inclusive, and ordered a favorable re port upon the army reorganization bill. The compulsory military training provision, which fixes the training at four months, was opposed in the com mittee by Senators Lenroot, Wiscon sin, and Capper, Kansas, republicans, and Senators McKellar of Tennessee, Sheppard of Texas and Kirby of Ar kansas, democrats. Senators Wads- worth, New York, Warren, Wyoming, Sutherland, West Virginias New, In diana; Freiinghuysen, New Jersey; Knox, Pennsylvania, and Spencer, Missouri, republicans, and Chamber lain, Oregon, and Thomas, Colorado, democrats, supported it. Senator Mc Kellar announced that he would sub mit a minority report. As agreed upon, the bill is virtually the same as reported by the sub-committee, but is radically different from the reorganization bill submitted by the war department. Besides estab lishing compulsory military training, the bill provides for establishment for one army to be divided Into citizen army composed of men who have received compulsory training, a standing army of 280,000 enlisted men and 18,000 officers and national guard. Provision is made that the citizen army cannot be called except in case of declaration of war. To accommo date the reserve force reservation is made for an annual reduction of 5 per cent in the enlisted strength of the regular army and 2 per cent in the number of officers for the first five ears. This will mean. Chair man Wadsworth explained, that after five years the regular army will be reduced by 70,000 men and 1800 officers, which will greatly decrease the cost of maintaining the military establishment. The bill also would place all youths who have undergone the four months' training on the reserve list to be sub Ject to two weeks" training annually. Under an amendment dependents of Euch youths during training would receive an allowance the same as now provided under the war risk Insurance act- Establishment of the office of un der-secretary of war, who would be charged with the solution of the great industrial and business problems in volved in the procurement of military supplies, is provided. The bill. Senator Wadsworth said tonight, would reduce military expen ditures by approximately one-half. Estimates for the war department and the army for this year, he said, are placed at $1,100,000,000. He said h would report the bill to the senate possibly tomorrow. WOMEN RECEIVE CHARTER Organization Formed to Bettc Democratic Party Conditions. NEW YORK, Jan. 26. The charter of the Women Democrats of America, a national organization of women formed "to better conditions in th democratic party," was approved to day by Justice Pter A. Hendrlck, ON THE WAR PATH- Governor Olcott Approves Sugges tion to Retain Charles Evans Hughes as Attorney for 'Drys.' SALEM, Or.. Jan. 26. (Special.) Oregon will Join with Maine and oth- dry commonwealths in a request o the department of justice to allow these states to unite with the federal government in defense of the prohi bition amendment to the federal con stitution, according to a telegram pre pared by Governor Olcott here today and .sent to Carl E. Millikcn, gover nor of the state of Maine. Governor Millikcn, In a telegram received by the Oregon executive to day, said that the supreme court had granted Rhode Island, as a sovereign state, permission, to sue the United States to test tho validity of the pro hibition amendment, which already has been ratified by 45 states. It was also stated by the eastern, executive that 12 states had agreed to Join in defense of the amendment, while other states were expected to act favorably upon the request with in the next few days. No expense will attach to Oregon in defense of the amendment accord ing to Governor Milliken's telegram. Charles Evans Hughes, former member of the United States supreme court, has been suggested as counsel for the states uniting in the defense of the amendment and probably will be retained in that capacity. In a telegram sent to Governor Milliken tonight Governor Olcott said: "Attorney-General Brown concurs with me that ex-Justice Hughes is satisfactory." Although no date has been set for the hearing before the United States supreme court, it is ex pected that the necessary legal papers will be filed by Rhode Island officials within the next week. SHERIDAN' BARS SHIMMY Dancing Masters Get Ordinance Through Carrying $100 Fine. SHERIDAN, Wyo., Jan. 26. A city ordinance barring the shimmy dance was passed 'today, carrying a fine of $100. Mayor Camplin Introduced the ordi nance, which he said was requested j by dancing masters. In placing the ban on "vulgar and indecent" dancing, the ordinance de fines dancing positions which are prohibited, such as "dancing with cheeks too close or touching; with arm or arms about neck of partner or with shaking or jerkidg of upper body while taking ehort steps or standing." HUNGARY MAKES PLEA Entente Told Army of 35,000 Too Small for Needs. BASLE, Jan. 26. Budapest dis patches say Hungary's military rep resentatives at Neuilly have sub mitted to the entente plenipotentiaries a memorandum declaring that the military clauses In the peace treaty are not acceptable. It is asserted that an army of 35,- 000 is not sufficient to maintain or der in the interior, in view of the present conditions, or to protect the frontiers against the bolshevik! and insure the execution of the obliga tions demanded. TO QUIT SIBERIA First Transport Will Re turn Workers to U.S. MEN WILL TAKE PLACES Names of Four Captives Re ceived at Vladivostok. ENGINEERS ARE TAKEN Consular Officials Take Steps to Open Negotiations for Release of Prisoners. VLADIVOSTOK, Jan. 26. (By the Associated I-ress.) All American women and many Red Cross workers are to be evacuated from Siberia on the first available transport, it Is an nounced by the Red Cross hearquar ters here. Three trains bringing Red Cross workers from outlying points are on their way here, the first being due. to arrive tomorrow. The second has reached Harbin and the third is at Chita. Included in the 300 persons aboard the trains are 100 women. olunteers are being recruited among the men's Red Cross personnel here to remain at Vladivostock and supervise distribution among the ci vilian refugees of about $3,000,000 v.orth of supplies and also to care for about 900 children sent here from Petrograd. These children were for warded from European Russia by committees, by their parents, or by peasants co-operative societies on account of the scarcity of food there. The Americans have cared for them ever since they arrived, many months ago. Priaooera Names Given. A list of American Red Cross work crs captured by tho bolshevikl at Klincklnskaya station was received here today. It is as follows: Dr. W. H. Kingston, Oklahoma; Dr. J. N. Medill, Jarcsa, Colo.; Pharma cists W. O. Lowe. 262 West Seventy- seventh street. New York City, and I E. H. Charette, Stockton, Cal. News of the capture of the Red Cross men, and of seven American railway engineers was recei ed in I consular advices reaching here to day. These did not give the date of the capture, nor did they make it clear whether the Americans had been captured by supporters of a local uprising against Admiral Kol- chak or by bolshevikl advancing from The advices made no mention of any women Red Cross workers. How- ever. American Consul Hansen and 20 other Red Cross workers and Amer ican members of the railway staff are declared to have escaped and to have reached Irkutsk. The railway men, who included Colonel Blunt. were members of the Stevens com mission, sent from America to aid in rehabilitating the trans-Siberian rail way. Consular Officera Active. Prior to today s advices, no word j had been received of Americans near I J I Klincklnskaya, which is a station' I .v.. . c.:i , , . j luo u.iiaoiuciinu 11110 near xai- shet, for nearly a month. The American consular officials and j Red Cross officials here are taking steps 10 ascertain exactly wnat forces made the capture and to open negotiations for the Americans' re lease. ' WASHINGTON IS UNINFORMED State Department Has No Report of Engineers Capture. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. No report regarding the catpure by the bol shevik forces of a group of American railway engineers and a party of American Red Cross workers" at Klincklnskaya, Siberia, reported in press dispatches from Chita, Siberia, had been received today by the state or war departments or at national headquarters of the Red Cross. At Red Cross headquarters records showed that the Captain Charette re lerrea to as captured proDably was Edward Hercules Charette, a phar macist of Stockton. Cat, who went over with an early detachment. There was no record of a "Miss Ford, also reported captured. Tin coionei fiiuni rererred to as having been captured was believed at the war department to be Frank Roscoe Blunt of Piano, 111., a member of the Stevens railway commission. At the time he joined the Stevens commission, Mr. Blunt, who held commission as major in the engineer reserve corps, was general manager of the- .Chilean National railways. Previously he had been general super intendent of the Chicago Great West ern road. OKLAHOMA MAX IDENTIFIED W. H. Ford of Kingston Is Member of Expedition. MUSKOGEE. Ok la.. Jan. 26. The American Red Cross worker cap tured by the bolshevikl, reported in advices from Vladivostok as "Dr. W. H. Kingston, Oklahoma," is undoubt edly Dr. W. H. Ford of Kingston, Okla., Dr. Claud Thompson, secretary of the Oklahoma State Medical so- Umbrella Proves to Be Effective j Weapon Against University Lad Accused of Accosting AVoman. Mrs. L. E. Miles of the Clifford hotel administered a severe beating to Tom K. Murphy. University of Ore gon student, at. Park and Morrison streets last night, and later turned the young man over to the police with the information that he had asked her to take a drink with hiin. Fatrol- Pratt arrested Murphy on a charge of violating the prohibition law. Mrs. Miles ays Murphy and another youth walked up tho street behind her, making remarks about "chit-kens" wearing white furs. She says she niade no protest untiI ho sktd ncr to come witn nim ana nave a drink. Thereupon Mrs. Miles struck Mur phy across the face with her umbrella. She broke the handle of the umbrella. and the impact left a raw welt from Murphy's ear to his mouth. He turned and fled, with the woman in pursuit. The fugitive dodged around several automobiles, and might have escaped had not two pedestrians seized him and held him until the policeman arrived. Murphy told Lieutenant Van Overn, at police headquarters, that it was his companion who had accosted Mrs. Miles. Asked if he had been drinking. he admitted that he had a pint of whisky in his hip pocket. The po lice seized the whisky as evidence and locked the boy up. but later re leased him on deposit of $230 cash bail, furnished by his father. Mrs. Miles had recovered her tem per by the time the whisky was dis covered. She refused to prosecute nd asked that the lad be released. The police denied her request. JEFFERSON SAFE AT DOCK Vessel From Alaska Held Up 3 0 Hours by Snow Storms. SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 26. (Spe cial.) The steamship Jefferson of the Alaska Steamship company reached Seattle tonight at 7 o'clock, 38 hours behind schedule time. The Jefferson was delayed on her way from south eastern Alaska Saturday night, and Sunday on account of heavy snow storms during which she threw out anchors, it was reported on arrival here. l-ailure to hear from the vessel caused considerable anxiety among trlends of the 33 passengers aboard and the company officials here until an early hour Monday morning, when she was reported from a Canadian government station as having been seen earlier Sunday evening steaming southward. All was well aboard the ship on arrival. RADICAL CHARGE DENIED I Seattle Editor Pleads Not Guilty to Criminal Syndicalism. SEATTLE. Wash., Jan. 26. Edgar Selvin. editor of the Business Chron icle, today pleaded not guilty to a charge of criminal syndicalism. Selvin's attorney. Wilmon Tucker, said he wanted a speedy trial. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Wrathrr. TK ST Kit DAY'S Maximum temperature. 42 degrees; minimum, degrt-ea. TODAY'S Fair and colder; northeasterly winds. Foreign. Ssupreme council's note invites export of Russian surplus on reciprocity baala. Paee G. Ruafttan commander of armored train killed by Americans. Pa?e American women and Red Cross workers to leave Siberia. Page 1. Germans make preparations to put down Insurrection. ft'age 4. National. Soviet amh&ssadnr at hearinjr leans on his American retainers. Page 1. Officers not only heroes, says Secretary Lianiels. I'age 2. New fiRht halts senate committee's nego tiations for treaty compromise. Page 1. Compulsory military training is 'favored by senate committee. PaKe 1. Iometir. Churches report Brain of nearly three mil lion members in four years. Page 6. New York assembly defeats fourth attempt to reseat ousted socialists. Page 6. U. S. Recognition of republic of Armenia is denied authoritatively in Washing ton. Page U. Dr. Marie Equl loses appeal to supreme court. Page 3. 1'ariflc Northwest. Pacific northwest wants place on proposed car service commission. Page 4. Oregon joins Maine in defense of dry amendment to United States constitu tion. Page 1. Trials of state agents, accused of baiting, are set for tomorrow. Page 5. Astoria peace officers passed up when murder reward money Is distributed, page 1. Change of venue denied Industrial Workers of the World at Montesano. Page 1. Colonel Hartley completes stumping trip in eastern Washington in gubernatorial campaign. 1'age 5. s. porta. Jefferson basketers defeat James John Page 12. Pasadena trip new goal of Ell's eleven. Page 12. Boxers gather for Milwaukie commission bouts. Page 1 Commercial and Marine. Grant Smith & Co. buy two vessels. Page ia Corn weaker with report of cars more -plentiful. Page la. Portland and Vicinity. North Pacific fair association, in session, plans clean amusements for next sea son's crowds. Page 3. Woman pleads for alleged masher. Page 1. Portland rainfall more than three inches for 24-hour period. Page 4. Early orders for fruit boxes recommended by manufacturers and lumbermen. Page HO. Need of more bond Investors emphasized by visiting official ot New York com pany. Page . Rigid rules to curb spread of Influenza announces " ucaim gmte. cage lis. Few SLsplrants appear for republican con. gresslonal race. Page 10. "Kigolctto" pleases larse auditorium audi- nee. Page 11. Efforts of Conference to Compromise Fail. ROW FLUNG BACK ON SENATE Bi-Partisan Negotiations Are Terminated Swiftly. LEADERS LOSING HOPE Hitchcock Declares Democrats Will Reply Today to Lodge State ment Limiting Changes. WASHINGTON". Jan. 26. The ques tion of peace treaty ratification was flung back to the senate floor with the virtual collapse today of the' bi partisan conference. The end came with swiftness after Senator Lodge had informed demo crats, led by Senator Hitchcock, that there could be no change in tho res ervations on the Monroe doctrine and article 10. Democrats walked out for a confer ence, agreeing to reply to Senator Lodge tomorrow. First news of the break was given by Senator Hitchcock in a statement which broadly intimated that failure of republicans to give ground in an effort to reach a compromise was due to the threatened revolt of repub licans. Senate Leaders) Lone H opr. Senate leaders frankly admitted to night that they could see no hope of agreement. This meant, they said, that the question would be fought out on the floor, beginning probably to morrow. Senator Hitchcock declined to speculate on the possibility of so early a renewal of hostilities, but most democrats declared nothing was to be gained by further conferences. Senator Hitchcock's statement said: "When the conference assembled Senator Lodge advised the senators present that he had been called Into a meeting by certain republican sen ators and for that reason - had not been able to attend the last confer ence Friday. He regretted to. say that he found it impossible to resume the conference for a compromise ex cept upon the understanding that no change shall be made in the reserva tion on article 10 or on the Monroe doctrine. Rply to Lodge Likely Today. "The democratic members retired for a private conference and will make their reply to Senator Lodge Tuesday morning at a meeting at 10:30. "The conference up to the time its meetings were interrupted had tenta tively agreed upon the preamble and all sections of the reservations ex cept that relating to article 10, the, Monroe doctrine and one or two minor matters and an agreement was apparently also consummated on ar ticle 10 when adjournment suddenly came, followed by the intervention of the irreconcilable republicans. Lodge Explains Action. Senator Lodge at first declined to comment on the meeting, saying there was nothing to be given out. After being informed of the Hitch cock statement, however, he said: "I have only this to say about the committee meeting this morning: "That I said to the committee that there is a very strong feeling among many senators against any change in the Lodge reservations, either in words or in substance, and that I thought it only fair to say now what I have already said in public, that there can be no compromise of prin ciple and that it would be impossible to secure, in my judgment, two-thirds of the senate if any change was at tempted in such articles as 2 and 5, those relating to article 10 and the Monroe doctrine. I said this wu a mere statement of the situation." Viewa on Mtuallon Differ. Both democrats and republicans professed to see a difference in the situation as expressed by the leaders. "It looks as if the jig's up." de clared Senator McNary', republican, of Oregon, a leader of the mild reserva tion group, and this seems to hit the nail on the head, in the opinion of most senators. Democrats discussed generally their line of procedure and it was tenta tively decided, in the event of utter failure of the conference tomorrow, to present to the senate modifications to the treaty agreed upon by demo crats and insist upon a vote. FIRST AIR FUNERAL HELD Body of Flier Carried by Plane to California Cemetery. SAN JOSE. Cal.. Jan. 26. Passing over San Jose from the Garden City aviation field to Oak Hill cemetery, the body of Charles J. Abrames waa borne by airplane today. Arrange ments for the air funeral, the first one in, the United States, were made in accordance with the last request of Abrames. The casket bearing the body was strapped to the rear of the eeat. bear ing the -pilot and could be plainly seen from the earth. Abrames had been an aviator in the American overseas service. Joucluded go Pace 2, Column 3. (.Concluded on Page 2. Column 1.).