VOL. L.IX XO. 18,536 En,er2 " Portland tOregon)
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PORTLAND OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
15 ARE WOUNDED
IN BUTTE BUTTLE
300,000 "SLACKERS"
FAIL TO PAY TAXES
EVASION OF LAWS REPORTED
BY REVENUE BUREAU. .
JOHNSON HOLDS
LEADIPASKA
Wood 864'otes Behind
in Pr'.ary Count.
HORSE THIEF KILLS
SHERIFF ON STREET
ROBBER RECOGNIZES-OFFICER
COUNTY REGISTRATION PTfipK
PCATQ All DrpnpnQ u I uul
T IS
GLANDS TRANSFERRED
FROM "GOAT TO MAN
ATTITUDE
uuiio rii iiLuunuu;
SEVERELY SHAKEN
CAUSE BREAK
101,126 VOTERS SIGNIFY DE
. SIRE TO BALLOT.
PATIENT. 35, TO HAVE PEP IN
5 DAYS, SAYS SURGEON.
AND SHOOTS ON SIGHT.
MARKE
FRENCH
MAY
Striking Miners Massed
in City Streets.
POLICE RESERVES CALLED
Volley Fired Over Crowd
From Lodging House.
TWO VICTIMS MAY DIE
W. Y. Pickets Scattered Wlicn
Firing; Begins and Intense
reeling Prevails.
BUTTE, April II. Fourteen men
Relieved to be I. W. W. strike, pickets,
and one policeman were In" local hos
pitals suffering: from gunshot wounds
sustained in a battle on Anaconda
road, near the Neversweat mine, at
4:10 o'clock this afternon. Physicians
believe two ot the alleged I. W. W.
will die.
Police were searching: for three
other men said to have been wounded
seriously. Striking: miners are massed
in front of the Finlander hall and the1
street in front of the building;. Feel
ing: runs higrh. Police reserves have
been called out.
Count;- Attorney Rotering has
started an investigation of the clash
between mine guards and L W. -W.
pickets near the Neversweat mine,
but has reached no conclusion as to
the cause of the shooting:. At his re
quest the police raided the Simon
lodging house from which place earl
ier reports stated the first shots had
been fired. The patrolmen found the
place partially occupied and not aban
doned as was believed and all the oc
cupants declared that no one had
fired from the building: and that there
had been none there during: the after
soon except the usual patrons.
Deputy Sheriff Melia informed the
county attorney that the first shot
fired passed through hla hat as he
was- standing: facing: the grates with
his back to the Simon lodg-ing- house,
lie declared that the bullet "appar
ently came from -an upper-story win
dow and that when he turned he eawj
a man loan from the window and
shoot a second time. This bullet, he
said, whizzed past Deputy Sheriff
- Whelan, who stood close to him.
Earlier In the day, the deputies stat
ed, shots from this lodging house
were fired into a street car carrying;
miners going: to work.
Signal Skat In Fired.
Sheriff O'Ttourke, who was in the
crowd in front of the mine, stated
that he could not account for the
open breaks between opposing: forces,
except that several arguments were
in prog-reps a few minutes prior to
the time the first shot was fired. He
declared that as the arguments be
came heated he decided to order the
pickets away from the mine and was
ordering: his men to start the crowd
to moving when a shot was heard and
instantaneously there was shooting
in every, direction.
Officers and all sought cover and
the wounds in
the backs were doubt-
less received, he stated, from the pro
miscuous shooting, from the more
dense crowd near the mine gates.
Mine guards within the fences did not
n(j
appear until after the exodus
then men without weapons In -sight
were seen on a trestle 300 yards to
the east of the mine gate. No shots
could have come from this trestle to
the men at the gate without piercing
the fence.
Pickets Badly Beaten.
Early Tuesday morning a clash oc
curred In front of Finlander hall on
North Wyoming street and three
pickets were badly beaten when they
attacked four miners carrying din
ner buckets-. Spectators said that a
dozen or omre men jumped from twr
automobiles and ran to the assistance
of the miners who were being beaten.
Two of the pickets were knocked un
conscious and two others fled into
their hall, where they barricaded the
doors.
Scattering reports throughout the
.day came to police headquarter "t
miners, metal tradesmen and hoisnnr:
engineers being beaten by pickets.
The operating companies made a spf
cial effort to get engineers and pump
men Into the mines to keep thjem
from 'being flooded with water. Little
effort was made to get miners
through the lines and the men who
patrolled the avenues to the mines
in automobiles were thought to have
been deputy sheriffs and special dep.
uties ordered to protect engineers anC
pumpmen so that the mines would not
be flooded.
The strike was called Sunday night
by the I. W. W. for higher wages, a
six-hour day and the release of polit
ical prisoners.
RISE GRANTED TO MIXERS
2" Per Cent Increase Will Mean
$1 a Day More for Workers.
BILLINGS. Mont.. April 21. Joint
conferees of the Montana coal opera
tors' association and the United Mine
Workers of the state concluded their
three-day sessions shortly before noon
today after reaching .an agreement
regarding the application of the fed
eral coal commission's wage awards.
i'lded on Paje 2, Column 2.)
Amazingly Large Number of Dea
linqucnts Said to Cause Grave
Treasury Problem.
WASHINGTON-, April 21. Despite
the government's wartime appeal for
tax payments as a patriotic duty,
more than 300,000 firms and individ
uals failed to make honest returns
under the revenue laws in -the last
two years, the bureau . of internal
revenue announced tonight. In a six
months' drive, which yided February
1, $19,051,000 in . delinquent income
and luxury taxes were collected. Com
missioner Williams reported.'
"The amazingly large number of
persons who did not respond to the
government's appeal has caused
treasury officials to consider the de
linquent tax payments problem a
grave one. A new roundup of alleged
delinquents" has been Instituted to
cover' the tax period on which- re
turns were made March 15.
Of the total delinquents, 331.386 had
not . paid any income taxes and an
additional 44,260 did not pay the' full
amount of taxes due. From theft
two sources approximately J11.000,-
.000 was collected. .. '
Discover- was made also, the re
port said, that 164,590 firms had not
turned over to the government the
entire amount of the so-called luxury
taxes on sales and admissions. - In
some cases firms failed to make any
returns of the collections. Internal
revenue collectors in all cases forced
the delinquents to make good the en
tire amount, as well as pay a heavy
penalty, Mr. Williams said. The bu
reau estimated that for the present
year more than 7,000,000 firms and
individuals will pay federal taxes. It
is utilizing every avenue, of informa
tion to check up on "'tax slackers."
JAPAN CALLED "PANICKY'
Cablegram From Tokio Reports
Alarming Industrial Situation.
HONOLULU, April 21. "Panicky"
conditions reign in Japan, according
to a cablegram from Tokio received
by Nlppu Jipi, a Japanese language
newspaper here.
Deflation ot currency and rapid de
cline of stocks and prices of commod
ities, with imports in excess of ex
ports, has brought about an alarming
situation, the message said. The tex
tile industry has fallen - off. the yarn
and silk markets are slumping, in
dustrial plants are discharging em
ployes by the hundred, many smaller
plants are closing entirely, while
others are operating on part time and
business of all kinds is coming to a
standstill, according to. the paper's in
formant. The Tokohama dock yard
has discharged 2000 workers, the mes
sage concluded.
UNIONS TO PAY $300,000
Miners Lose Damage Suit Brough
by "Open SIop" Company.
FOUT SMITH. Ark., April 21. Ver
dict for the Pennsylvania Mining com
pany for 100,000 actual damages
against district No. 26. United Mine
Workers of America and union locats
in three Arkansas counties, was re
turned today in federal court here.
Under the Sherman act the judgment
against . the defendants will be
1 tripled, to aggregate J300.000, court
1 officials explained.
The mining company operated a.
mine under an "open shop" policy. A
strike was called and in the suit
j growing out of the strike the. com
pany cnargea conspiracy to oesiroy
its property and business.
AIRMEN DROP 1000 FEET
.
Pilot and . Passenger Killed When
Machine Hits Ocean.
LONG BEACH. Cal., April 21.
George Daly, a pilot flying for an
aviation school at Wilmington, neat
here, and a passenger were killed to
day when Daly's airplane fell 1000
feet into the Pacific ocean off the j
recreation pier here. It was said the
engine of the airplane failed while
Daly was making a loop. The engine
exploded when the plane hit the wa- .
ter. The bodies were recovered. j
Officials of the aviation school said ;
they could not identify the passenger. ;
HAWLEY BILL REPORTED
Sale of Isolated Tracts in Land
Grant Proposed.
' WASHINGTON. April 21. The
house public lands committee voted
today to report a bill introduced by
Representative Hawley, republican, i
Oregon, which would permit the sale
of isolated tracts in the former Oregon-California
land grant.
Under the provisions of the bill
these tracts would be opened for
homestead entry for -two years prior
to their sale.
BRITAIN TO SELL SHIPS
Sale of War Vessels Contemplated,
Announces Chief.
' LONDON. April 21. Walter Hume
Long, first lord of the admiralty,
replying to a question In the house
of commons today, said the' govern
ment contemplated selling some war
ships to foreign countries. -
Pending the outcome of negotia
tions, however, he added, particulars
could not be divulged. .. .. .
CLOSE CONTEST DEVELOPS
Bryan Jumps to Place Among
4 Convention Delegates.
HITCHCOCK WINS IN RACE
Persliing Third in Presidential
Preference, With Third of Pre
cincts Reporting Returns.
OHAMA, Neb.. April 21. Senator
Hiram Johnson continued to lead for
the republican presidential, preference
as the tTStes of the Tuesday primary
found their way slowly into tabula
tion headquarters of the newspaper
bureaus that were counting the votes
here today." .while William -Jennings
Bryan gained enough votes in the
day's count to place him among the
first four Candidates for delegate-at-large
to the San Francisco conven
tion. --
Wjih something . more than - one
third of the precincts in the state re
porting, Senator Johnson had a lead
of 8645 votes over General Leonard
Wood, his nearest competitor, with
General John J. Pershing , in third
place. -1
Brju Crawls to Victory. r-
In the Bryan-Hitchcock skirmish
for delegates at large the Lincoln
statesman notjonly managed to get
within the coveted four on the votes
thus far counted, but carried one of
his running mates, Stephens, with
him.
That Senator Hitchcock is a winner
for' democratic presidential, indorse
ment was assured after a few hundred
precincts had been heard from com
ing from all parts of the state show
ing him to be leading his opponent.
Robert Ross, by almost three votes to
one.
A real contest has developed, how
ever, between Arthur Mullen and w.
H. Thompson for democratic national
committeeman and it will require a
great many more returns before the
result of this contest can be predicted
by the followers of eithtjr man.
FORMER GOVERNOR WILL RUN
I
James E. Ferguson Is American
Party's Presidential Candidate.
, TEMPLE, Texas, April 21. James
E. Ferguson, former governor- of
Concluded on Paje
Column 2.)
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Clerk Sees Killing and Shoots
Horse From Under Fugitive, ,
.' Who Escapes on Foot.
"
BUTTE. Mont.. April 21. Sheriff
C. K. Wyman of Beaverhead county
was shot and killed at noon today on
the main street of Monida by a horse
thief for ' whom the authorities at
Idaho Falls had requested the Mon
tana sheriff to search.
Wyman, it is believed,' did not see
the-other man, who evidently knew
the sheriff by sight and fired without
warning. ' "
The fugitive leaped to ' his" horse
after- the shooting and attempted es
cape at a dead run down Main street
of the little town. A clerk in : the
general store shot his horse from
under him and the man made his es
cape on foot. Posses from Monida,
Lima and Dillon are In pursuit.
. Wyman was serving his second
term as sherif of Beaverhead county.
He was about 50 years of age and Is
survived by his widow and a daughter
of IS.
YOUNG BARONESS DROWNS
Note . Says Bela Kun Killed Hus-
band'and Confiscated Property.
GENEVA, "April 21. Another tra
gedy among aristocratic refugees in
Switzerland is reported from Romans
horn. The young Hungarian Baroness
Karlensky, after paying her bill at a
hotel, took a boa? on Lake Constance,
accompanied by her 2-year-old child.
Later both were found drowned in
the lake. ....'.
A letter, which the baroness, had
left at the hotel, said that Bela Kun,
the former Hungarian dictator, had
killed her husband in Budapest and
confiscated his property. .
COOK'S . PRANK COSTLY
Ex-Waitress, Pursued by Man
Carrying Mouse, Gets Damages.
KANSAS CITY. Mo.. April 21. A
cook's, . prank with a live mouse
brought a verdict of $1500 against
the Western Union Telegraph com
pany in the circuit court here today.
Mrs. Pearl Smith, former waitress
in a restaurant operated by the com
pany here, testified that last Septem
ber a fellow student, a man cook,
pursued her, carrying a live mouse
by the tail. Mrs. Smith fell, she said,
and afterward sued the company.
S0L0NSPASS BEER BILL
Measure in Massachusetts Would
Legalize Alcoholic Sales.'
BOSTON, Mass., April 21. A bill ts
legalize the sale in this state of beers
and light wines with an alcoholic
content of not more than 2.75 per
cent was passed by the senate today.
The vote was 21 to 8. The measure
has not yet been acted upon by the
house.
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Republicans Make Gain of 3388 1
While 'Democratic Loss of
4 73 Is Indicated.
There "are 101.126 voters registered-
at the courthouse, the largest number
Multnomah county has ever known,
according to tne official count com
pleted late yesterday by County Clerk
Beveridge. 'This is 1358 greater than
the registration for the general elec
tion in the fall o when th. to
tal reached 99,768. A republican gain
of 3588 voters and a democratic loss
of - 475 are shown in the last two
years.
The results disclose that there- are
nearly. 2000 more republican women
registered than in 1918. though about
1000 less democratic women. Though
the republican female vote shows an
increase that is substantial, the total
female vote is about 300 less than in
1918. -
Socialists, independents and prohi
bitlonisttshow a decline from 6466 to
4711; republicans show an increase
from 68.600 to 72,188 and democrats a
drop from. 24.702 to 24.227.
The heaviest final day the county
clerk's office has experienced brought
Multnomah county over the 100,000
mark . with more than a thousand
names to spare, there being 3460 reg
istrations' Tuesday. Double ltnes of
voters curled down the long corridors
of the courthouse all day. That they
were handled with efficiency and dis
patch wan Indicated by the fact that
timekeepers discovered it took exactly
15 minutes on. the average for a per
son at the end of a row to get to the
counter and sign his name on the
dotted line.
Following are the regisrarton fig
ures as totaled yesterday by Deputy
County Clerk Gleason:
Male.
... 4.1.54ft
. .14.070
. . 2.74S
Female.
2R.643
10.1.11
1.8
Tntal.
72. IRS
24.227
4.711
Republican .....
Democrat
Other parties...
Grand total 60..i6 V 40.760 101.126
For comparative purposes, the fol
lowing are the totals of the registra
tion prior to the general election in
the fall of 1918:
Male. Female. Total.
Republican .....
Democrat
Other parties... .
Grand total. . .
41.UM) 2O.U10 8.e
13.K7S 11.124 24.702
. 3.463 3.003 B.46H
. .58.731 41.037 ' 89.748
WOMEN'S VERDICT NULLED
.
Idaho Judge Orders New Trial of
Convicted Couple.
TWIN FALLS, ' Idaho, " April 51.
(Special.)--Women cannot act as Jur
ors In Twin Falls. This was the rul
ing of Judge Duva.ll in the case of the
state of Idaho vs. Elsie Hidner and
W. H. Shriver. convicted by a woman
jury, on a statutory charge.
This case has been attracting wide
attention during the past few days.
Homer C. Mills, attorney for the
defense, requested that the verdict be
annulled and: a new trial granted.
Judge Duvall probed tlio matter for
a time and at length decided to grant
the request.
Selling Movement Sends
Prices Plunging.
CRASH MARKS CLOSING HOUR
Wall-Street Reverse Among
. Worst Seen in Year.
LIBERTY BONDS AFFECTED
Securities Generally Decline, and
in Some Issdes Serious
Breaks Arc Reported.
NEW YORK, April 21. Heavy liqui
dation In the stock market today sent
prices plunging downward. In one of
the most severe reversals of the year,
leading, issues, especially those of a
speculative character, declined a to 13
points, while General Motors dropped
42'4 points to 273.
The big crash came In the final
hour when nearly one-third or the
day's extensive turnover of more than
2.000.000 shares took place. So great
was the- rush to sell that the ticker
was 15 to 20 minutes behind in report
ing transactions.
Sympathetic action marked the
trading in the cotton market here
and In the grain- and provisions
market in Chicago. There was .a break
of more than S5a bale In the cotton
market, attributed to ' prospects of
better weather in cotton belt.
Westers, Rialui Hrtrear..
From all accounts a large propor
tion of 'the day's selling originated
at interior points, confirming reports
that banks, especially in the west
and southeast, were again reducing
"unessential loans."
It was intimated here that further
curtailment of credits was In progress,
this being in accord with the lon
established policy of the federal
reserve board.
United States Steel fell below "par
for the first time since the third week
In March, declining to-9S?i. a loss
of 24 points.
Liberty rfoada A ffrr rt.
Baldwin Locomotive dropped one
to three points between sales, react
ing to 115. a loss of nearly 15 points.
Pierce-Arrow, Studebaker and Chan
dler Motors drooped with allied spe
cialties, and Mexican and Pan-American
Petroleum,', with related oils.
American Woolen and Crucible Stel
also were . featured in the collapse,
dropping five to ten points.
The severe reaction alro affected
liberty bonds, which fell to the low
est prices yet recorded. Some of the
issues dropped to levels where they
represented an interest return of al
most 7 per cent.. Large corporations.
desiring to liquidate their holdings to
permit them to engage In costly
financing, are believed to have been
responsible for the unusually heavy
offerings of war issues.
ForelsT Ksrhange Drop.
Foreign exchange rates yielded
with the rest of tho market. Demand
sterling dropped nearly 4 cents and
franc checks nearly 30 centimes, with
sympathetic declines in other Euro
pean issues. Selling by Japanese In
terests to strengthen their reserves
at home was given as one of the
causes for the drop in(exchange.
, On the surface the money market
was easy, call loans ruling at 7 per
cent and in plentiful supply. The fact
remains, however,;-that time funds
virtually were unobtainable, even at
bids over prevailing rates. "y
CHICAGO MARKET STAMPEDED
Prices Tumble When Excited Sell-
Ing Movement Starts.
CHICAGO, April 21. Excited sell
ing smashed down prices this after
noon on the board of trade almost as
much as quotations were first hoisted
i at the beginning of the world war.
Corn dropped nearly 9 cents a bushel,
oats cents said pork 81.30.- The
flurry was attributed, to uneasiness
regarding Japan's financial condi
tion and the downward tendency of
the New Tork market.
It was a case of stampede. The
duration was about 15 minutes, the
period which elapses between the
close of the New York stock market
and the finish of dealings on the
Chicago board of trade.
When the final gong, cleared the
crowd of perspiring brokers from the
pit values had shown little, if any,
power to rally and were at virtually
the low-eat point reached, r.-ith July
corn typical at S1.S8 to 1.58 u. as
compared with Sl.66- to tl.SSVs at
yesterday's finish.
The bulk of. the selling was as
cribed to liquidation by ill-protected
holders unnerved by the strain of the
day's huge shrinkage in the value of
securities and bonds and of staple
commodities like cotton. Aggressive
ness, however, was not lacking among
bears in the grain trade, once the
stampede had started.-
Irish Detective Inspector Killed.
DUBLIN. April 21. Detective In
spector Dalton was shot and instantly
killed Vonaa in Mountjoy street
.when he and another detective were
attacked by several armed men. The
detective escaped injury, but a woman
was wounded..
First Operation of Kind Id Sew
York Is Conducted Success
fully in 15 Minuter.
NEW YORK. April 21. Speci1.1 !
Dr. John R. Brinkley of MCford. Kan., t
who asserts he has met with success
In the surgical cases of transferring j
glands from goats to humans, per-,
formed his first New York operation !
of the kind yesterday. The prelinii- J
narics mere successful, he said later, j
ana ne expects his patient to be up
and about and full of pep in about
five days.
The person who underwent the op
eration yesterday is a man of S3 years
who had been under the care of Dr.
David Rosner of thls-clty.
The goat used In the case had been
bought at the Zoo for $40 and trans
ported by motor to Dr. Rosner's resi
dence. After being doused in a bath
tub of antiseptic solution, he was duly
executed, Mrs. Brinkley. the surgeon's
wife, assisting.
Th goat's glands were then placed
in a salt solution maintained at body
heat, the Kansan explained later, and
carried into the operating room,
where Dr. Brinkley transferred them
to the patient.
"The whole business did not take
more than 15 minutes," Dr. Brin-kley
sald, "and I have every reason to ex
pect that this young man will have
the same experience as the other pa
tients to whom I have given goat
glands."
The name of the patient, naturally,
was withheld, but It was said last
night that he was doing well.
Dr. Brinkley has not yet made a re
port of his operations to the medical
authorities, but he has published a
monograph for the perusal of laymen.
VETERANS TO BE FAVORED
New Executive Order Reganding
Postmastershlps Issued.
WASHINGTON. April 21. Under an
executive order issued today, the postmaster-general
Is authorized to sub
mit to the president for nomination
to first, second and third-clas post
masterships "the name of either the
highest eligible or the veteran ob
taining the highest eligible rating, as
the best Interests of the service may
require." .
It Is not necessary that the veteran
shall have obtained the leading posi
tion among those available fcr the
vacancy, the order said.
NAVY PAY, IS INCREASED
Army Also Benefits in Decision
Agreed On by Conferees.
WASHINGTON, April 21. Pay in
creases or 31 per cent for the enlisted
personnel of the navy and 20 per cent
for the enlisted personnel of the
army, with graduated Increases for
commissioned officers In both serv
ices, were ' tentatively agreed jjpon
today by the senate and house'eon
fe.re.es on the service pay bill.
All the Increases will be retro
active to last January 1.
NEW VOLCANO IS ACTIVE
Eruption Said to Be Near Katmal
Peajf, but Further Inland.
ANCHOR A E. Alaska. April 21. A
new volcano has become active In the
vicinity of Katmal peak, Kodiak
island, but further inland, according
to parties returning here.
There have bcen.no seismic disturb
ances. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
4S degrees; minimum. 39 decrees.
TODAY'S Fair and warmer; westerly
winds.
Foreign.
French obdurate attitude may cause-break
at San Remo, where council Is dlBcut
1ns German enforcement of treaty.
Pace 1.
National.
Leonard Wood vote surprises Washinrton.
Paire 2.
Revolt in Mexico la spreading- rapidly.
Pace 3.
Student aid in defense of I. W. W. hinted.
Pase 2.
U. S. has over 300.000 tax slackers. Pace 1.
Domestic.
Montana ahertff killed on streets of town
by liorje thief. Pace 1.
Sell in I movement precipitates crash In New
York stock market Pace 1.
Fifteen are wounded in battle In Butte In
course of miner' strike. Pac. 1.
Johnson holds lead In Nebraska. Pace 1.
Switchmen bolt meeting; leader released
from jail. Pace 4.
Glands transferred from goat to - man.
Pace 1.
Sports.
"Bush league schedul. to be made up
Yhursdav. Pace 12.
Downpour of rain causes opening game to
be postponed. Pace 1-.
Benny Leonard explains why Dundee Is
able to stick the limit in fights with
hlra. Page 13.
Pacific Northwest.
State tax levy for 19-0 seven million dol
lars above that of last year. Pace 7.
Rorue river fishing situation not affected
by attorney-general'a opinion. Page 3.
Censmerciat anal Marine.
Cold and wet weather hinders farm work
tn Oregon. Pag 21.
Grain and provision prices collapse In Chi
cago market. Paire 21.
Severe reaction tn 'all Street stock and
bond markets. Page 21.
Contract awarded for work on port dredge.
Page 20.
Portland and Tlrinit.r.
Commissioner Bigelow holds up considera
tion of ordinance to prevent rent prof
iteering, ran ii.
County employes likely to ret salarv in
creases totalling about 116. 000 a year.
Page 10.
Establishment of wool market here good
business, aay all interests concerned-
Pace 10
Shriners to tax city to capacity. Page &
Indicted ex-offlcial of shipping board go?
J2o.OOO from two Portland flrm.s.
Page 20.
Registration in county largest ever known.
Page 1.
local railroad situation improve? ard men
axe gradually returning to ork. fago 3.
San Remo Conference Is
Far From Hopeful.
MILLERAND BACKS MILITARY
Occupation of Germany to
Enforce Treaty Demanded.
BELGIUM IS IN DILEMMA
Old-l"asliioncil S-ccrcl Dipjoinat-)
Is Again in Vogue Because of
Absence of America.
Cops right by tlio New York Wor.d. 1'ub
llHhed by Arranermenl.)
LONDON. April 21. (Special Cable. )
Intense pessimism is the prevailing
note of all special dispatches pub
lished here from San Homo. The
complete failure of the conference Is
predicted, the latest- report that it
will finish its labors Saturday tend
ing to confirm that -iew.
When Premier Lloyd George left
here It was understood that he would
fight determinedly against the French
policy of seeking to enforce fulfill
ment of the treaty by Germany by
mllitary means, favoring rather econ
omic pressure.
Premier (kri Staatd.
Before he reached Marseilles France
was reported to have adopted a more
conciliatory attitude, but at San Remo
Premie Millcrand has refused to
budge an Inch from his pre-announced
policy and according to French cor
respondents Is prepared to face a
rupture rather than concede any
thing. Reactionary Influences in Paris are
all for a Franco-Belgian alliance as
their only safeguard against future
German aggression, but if there is a
rupture at San Remo Belgium can
hardly afford to face estrangement
from Britain, so the French mili
tarists hope in that direction Is not
likely to be fulfilled.
Serret DlalKaer au
All the correspondents complain of
the impossibility of gclUrg any useful
information except the French, who,
as usual, find no difficulty in that
respect from their officials. The de
liberations have been conducted ac
cording to the worst traditions of se
cret diplomacy, the European premiers
availing themselves of the absence
of America to revert to their old pre
war methods and practices.
If the conference collapses the dis
puted questions will continue to be
the subject of endless diplomatic in
terchanges of views, involving in
calculable delay which the conference
was called to obviate.
COUNCIL PLANS OCCUPATION
Military Plans Completed to En
force Treaty With Turkey.
SAN, REMO, April 21. (By tho As
sociated Press.)-The supreme council
of the allies is fully prepared to exe
cute the Turkish treaty by military
force. If necessary. Trie council ac
cepted today a plan drawn for the
employment of the allied armies by
Marshal Foch, Field Marshal Sir
Henry Wilson. British chief of staff,
and General Badoglio, Italian chief of
staff, who were present at the morn
ing session.
This morning the council discussed
the composition of military, naval and
aerial commissions in Turkey. It
gave to the military and naval experts
the Instructions necessary for prepa
ration of data for compilation by the
editorial committee on articles relative
to the Turkish treaty.
The limit to be fixed for the right
of requisition to be exercised by these
commissions also was considered. The
question of Turkestan was settled by
the council.
Two hundred thousand allied troops
now are within the borders of the
Turkish empire, strategically dis
tributed and these forces can be in
creased if Turkish resistance devel
ops formidably, to any essential num
ber. Greece probably will supply the
largest number of troops. . Supple
mentary naval plans also were ap
proved by the council.
The treaty which the council pro
posed to finish today does not include
the final arrangements for manda
tory states. They will simply be cut
apart from Turkey and disposed of by
the supreme council In the future.
The council has determined to leave
Kurdistan part of Turkish territory
for a period of two years and then de
cide whether to leave it with Turkey
or make it a separate province under
a mandate.
AMERICA MARES SUGGESTION
State Department Propose) Exten
sion of Neutral Zone Agreement.
WASHINGTON. April 21. Sugges
tion has been made to the allied gov
ernments by the state department
that there be granted an extension to
Germany of the agreement which ex
pired April 10 and which permitted
the presence of limited German forces
in the neutral xone.
Tenative decision of the San Ueino
conference yesterday to compel strict
enforcement of the Versailles treaty,
however. Is Interpreted by officials
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