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PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TOO PROLIFIC WIFE
SEIZED By COURT
MARY GARDEN BANS
ALLIED DEBT AND
BONUS STAY APART
5 PERSONS INJURED .
IN WRECK OF TRAIN
SHANTUNG TO GET
SCHOOL AND SHIPPING
BOARDS IN DEADLOCK
SALOME FROM STAGE
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PLAINTS OF BLIND
1 TIE
ARE TP BE AIRED
Governor Asks for Full
IfJ HOLE ATTENTION
GERMANY TO PAY
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CHICAGO PROTESTS AGAINST
LIXKIXG ISSUES OPPOSED
SEXATE LEADERS.
BY
CAKS LEAVE TRACK NEAR COX
XELL, WASH.
U. S. BODY DEMANDS PAY FOB
BOILEHS GIVEN DIRECTORS.
FAMOCS OPERA.
Bereft Father of 5 Asks
Senator Borah's Aid.
PAIR CLASSED AS MORONS
Sterilization Is Offered to Get
Family Back.
ALL ARE IN INSTITUTION
"I Hate to Think That I am Sub
normal," Is Declaration In
JLcttcr to Friend.
KAMPA, Idaho. Jan. 13. (Special.)
Bereft of his wife and five children
by order of the county cort of Bound
ary county, Albert C. Sundamo of
Bonners Ferry has appealed to
United States Senator Borah at
Washington tJ aid him In his efforts
to have his family restored to him.
vare now in the Idaho state home for
-he feeble-minded, known as Crescent
i Hill Retreat, located at Namnn. Idaho.
. Basis upon which the family was
separated, it Is stated, was that in
the eight years that the Sundsmo
have been married they have had
even children, five of whom are liv
ing-. Officials acted in the belief that
the children were being born too fast
to enable them to be brought up as
normal children should be. and be
cause, after an Investigation, It was
found 4hat the home was unsanitary
and that the oldest boy was sub
normal mentally.
Sterilization Offer Made.
Sundsmo has declared that he Is
willing to submit to sterilization so
that no more children will be born to
lira. Sundsmo. This was a volunteer
offer on the part of Sundsmo. The
state does not require It, but if It Is
taken his wife and five children will
be allowed to return to him. Mrs.
Sundsmo was committed to the feeble
minded Institution in October, last.
tShe is the second wife of Sundsmo.
uiui jl ino live cnuaren is
evcn ysars and the youngest six
months. When Mrs. Sundsmo was
-ommlttted to the institute, rather
than tuavo the children become a
-harge of the county, they were sent
to Nampa with her and are being
""Ajared for there.
Sundsmo held a conference recently
with David Burrell, state commis
sioner of the public health depart
ment, and was informed that if ad
ditional children were born to his
wue tney would probably be sub
normal. He then made the offer to
eubmit to sterilization and returned
to Bonners Ferry with the intention
cf having the operation performed.
Family la Taken Away.
The mother and her children, ac
eording to Mr. Sundsmo's statement.
Were taken from him and committed
to the Institute for the feeble-minded
on October 30, last, upon order of E.
B. Henderson," probate judge of
Boundary county, because Mr. and
Mrs. Sundsmo were having children
too fast for the good of society.
Mr. Sundsmo asserts that Judge
Henderson declared that after inves
tigating conditions in the Sundsmo
family he believed it his duty to sep
arate husband and wife. Judge Hen
derson eald that he acted after two
physicians had reported to him that
the Sundsmo house was kept in on
insanitary condition, and that both
Mr. and Mrs. Sundsmo were not
mentally normal that they were
morons.
Mr. Sundsmo is 60 years old and
Is a native of Norway. He has been
a resident of the United States for
S4 years. Is a carpenter by occupa
tion, and, according to friends, has
always been able to provide for his
family.
Mr. Sundsmo said that, although he
lacked money to institute legal pro
ceedings to restore his family to him,
he Intended to continue his efforts
to regain his family.
tetter Written to Friend.
Mr. Sundsmo's side of the case is
given in a letter which he wrote to
a friend in Milwaukee, Wis., a copy
of which has been sent to Senator
Borah at Washington. The letter fol
lows: "Dear Friend I am greatly puzzled
as well as grieved. Being financially
embarrassed, I hardly 'know how to
proceed. I feel that my wife and I
have been greatly wronged and I have
not the means at hand to get a hear
ing in the courts. Some eight years
ngo, I became acquainted with and
married a girl. Her name was Anna.
Anna and I have lived peacefully
together and about as happily and
contented as a workingman could
perhaps expect. She is a kind, loving
woman, and though she may not be
called an intelligent reader, gifted nor
talented in any way, I always thought !
her very practical, full of common
eense. ,
Seven Children Are Dora.
"During the eight years of our mar
ried life, seven children came to us.
Two are dead, five are living. Up
until now we had no trouble, but
suddenly, like a bolt out of the blue
sky, she was taken away with her
five children and committed to a re
treat by a probate Judge. The Judge
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Mrs. Rockefeller McCormle Leads
' Campaign Denouncing Work
of Oscar Wilde.
CHICAGO, Jan. 13. "Salome," ban
ished from the Chicago Opera stage
11 years ago. once again has been
thrown Into the discard after a futile
attempt to convince Chicagoans that
the operatic version of Oscar Wilde's
famous work is art and not im
morality. Scores of persons, headed by Mrs.
Edith Rockefeller McCormick, have
launched such a storm of protest
against the opera that Mary Garden,
director of the Chicago Opera com
pany, tonight yielded to their wishes
and canceled all ftitura nerformanees
of "Salome" for this season, el -
t hntl irh frananflo Uam a ..art a A fViaf
it is her favorite opera.
The opera was first produced here
11 years ago, but after three per
formances the protests became so
voluminous that it was abandoned.
This year Miss Garden revived it,
playing the title role herself.
Two performances of it have been
given.
TWO MURDERERS HANGED
Double Execution Staged at Arizona
Penitentiary.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 13. Tomai
Roman and Ricardo Lauterio. con
victed of murders in Maricopa county,
were hanged before dawn today in
I the state penitentiary at Florence.
It was the first double execution by
the state of Arizona since it was ad
mitted to the Union.
Each of the condemned men faced
death stoically. When the trap was
sprung Roman denied he was guilty
of the crime for which he was dying.
Roman was found guilty of having
killed August Hintze, 10 years old,
during a raid on-a store in Tempe,
Ariz., while Lauterio was sentenced
for having killed Adelina Sosa, his
sweetheart.
PASSENGERS ARE CHILLED
Trains In Nevada Encounter 20-
Below-Zero Weather.
OGDEN, Utah, Jan. 13. While
Southern Pacific trainmen struggled
in 20-below-zero weather to thaw out
frozen water pipes, passengers on
eastbound Overland Limited near Car
ln. Nev., this morning huddled under
extra layers of blankets and drank
hot drinks from the diner to keep
them warm, according to information
given out at Southern Pacific offices
here.
Baggage and mail cars were trans
ferred to the rear of the train and
the Pullman cars were placed nearer
the locomotive.
SUSPECT DENIES KILLING
Salt Lake City Man Says Robbers
Slew His AVI re.
SALT LAKE CITY. Jan. 13. Omer
W. Woods, charged with the murder
of his wife, Myretta Woods, 40, In
their apartment last Monday, pleaded
not guilty when arraigned In court
today. .
The prosecution alleges that Woods
killed his wife, then placed her on
the bed, where the body was found
by firemen, burned.
Woods said that robbers broke Into
the apartment and attacked him and
his wife, and that he did not know
his wife had been burned until be
recovered consciousness.
TWO STEAMERS COLLIDE
Wakena and Princess Mary Dam
aged by Accident in Fog.
VANCOUVER. B. C Jan. 13. The
steamer Wakena, owned by the Unlo-.
Steamship company, and the passen
ger Bteamer Princess Mary of the
Canada Pacific coastwise line, collided
in a fog In the gulf of Georgia bay
near Victoria today, according to word
received her.
Both vessels were damaged slightly.
The Wakena proceeded on her way to
Vancouver and the Princess Mary re
turned to Nanaimo, on Vancouver is
land, where she will be drydocked.
FARMER IS N0T WANTED
Advisory Council of Reserve Board
Advises President.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 13. Op
position to the proposed legislation
directing the president to appoint a
farmer o the federal reserve board
was declared in a memorial presented
to Mr. Harding today by the advisory
council of the board.
The members of the advisory coun
cil called at the White House after
several senators conferred with the
president with the idea of framing
the bill to meet what are understood
to be executive objections.
WOOL PRODUCERS CONFER
Washington Growers' Convention
Opens at Yakima.
YAKIMA, Wash., Jan. 13. Nearly
200 wool growers of Washington, with
a number of bankers, forest super
visors and others, met today for the
annual convention of the Wool Grow
era' association. The first action of
the convention was to re-elect T. J.
I Drumheller of Walla Walla president
i and J. F. Sears of Prosser secretary.
I Plans for forming a finance cor
I poration, fixing wages and organiza
I tlon of a wool warehouse corpora
I tlon are to come up.
Investigation.
PORTLAND CITIZENS TO ACT
Board of Control Proposes to
Get Facts. .
, MANAGEMENT UNDER FIRE
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Many Charges and Counter
charges Made Concerning
State Institution.
- SALEM, Or., Jan. 13. (Special.) A
complete investigation of charges and
counter-charges concerning the man
agement of the Oregon institution for
the blind will be made by a committee
of prominent Portland people ap
pointed by Governor Olcott.
This was announced by members of
the state board of control following
a special meeting here today. The
committee appointed by the governor
to make the probe is composed of Otto
R. Harf.Tig, president of the state
federation of labor; Walter G. Asher.
attorney; Harry W. Stone, secretary
of the Portland branch of the Young
Men's. Christian association; Mrs.
James B. Kerr and Mrs. H. B. Torrey.
The board of control issued the fol
lowing statement in connection with
the Investigation:
"In view of the fact that complaints
have been lodged against the manage
ment of (he institution, both by per
sons in and out of it, we have decided
to ask these disinterested and promi
nent citizens to investigate the situa
tion existing there and report to the
board.
Board Deslrea Facta.
"These charges and complaints have
come to the board as a body and to
various individual members. For the
sake of the institution, its wards and
the people of the state, a full, free and
Impartial Investigation should be
made for the purpose of remedying
bad conditions. If they exist, and to
ascertain fully and truthfully what
the conditions really are."
Internal dissension at the institu
tion has been reported for several
months, and at a recent meeting of
the board of control J. F. Myers,
superintendent, was confronted with
a number of complaints received
from Inmates. One of the women
employes also had complained to the
board regarding the conduct of the
superintendent, it was brought out
at the meeting.
Mr. Myers explained to the board
that practically all of the trouble
was caused by two Inmates, neither
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WASHINGTON. D. C, Jan. 1$. The
soldier bonus bill will not be made a
part of the allied debt refunding bill
Chairman McCumber of the senate
finance committee, said tonight after
a series of conferences between sen
ate leaders to discuss the deslrabll'ty
of merging the two and after it be
came known that President Harding
did not favor the suggestion that they
be combined.
The foreign debt bill. Senator Me
Cumber said, would be taken up by
the finance committee Monday in the
hope of putting it in shape In time
for reporting to the senate.
It was the intention, he added, to
eliminate some of the features to
which the treasury department has
objected and which have resulted in
holding the measure in committee for
several weeks. These include pro
visions for payment of interest and
an interest rate of not less than 5 per
cent.
President Harding does not look
with favor on the suggestion before
senate republican leaders that the
bonus and the allied debt refunding
bill should be combined. Although
the merger plan was originally re
ceived favorably by a number of sen
ate leaders, the president was said
to regard it as Impractical and his
view was reflected in the further con
ferences today between senate leaders.
He was represented, however, as
not hostile to the suggestion that the
Interest or principal of the allied
loans be used for paying the bonus
once they were available and it was
stated definitely that he also would
not oppose a sales tax for the purpose
of paying the bonus, if congress
should decide upon that plan.
The president, however, was said to
regard as impractical a suggestion
thatover $400,000,000 in the hands of
the alien property custodian be used
for bonus payments. These funds. It
was stated, were regarded as pledged
technically to private individuals
whose property was taken.
5 COUPLES BRAVE HOODOO
Marriage Licenses Obtained De
spite Friday, 13, Superstition.
There are brave hearts for whom
Friday, the 13th, has absolutely no
terrors whatever. Marriage does not
daunt them on such. a- day. as witness
the record of License Clerk Easter,
to whose desk there came yesterday
five fearless couples who don't care
what the calendar says. Applicants
for licenses were:
Crossley-Wella William H. Oosley. le
gal, 361 Fremont street, and Luclle Wells,
legal. 729 Lombard street.
Calcagno-Patrone Joe Calcagno. 23,
Parkroae. Or., and Giovanni Patrone, 21.
Parkrose.
Falles-Troster Paul R. Fa lies, legal. 131
Sixteenth street North, and Rose A. Tros
ter. legal. 829 Gladstone avenue.
Berglund-Mylen Albin Berglund. legal.
S90 Twenty-first street North, and Sign
Nylen. legal, 198 King street.
D'Abruizl-Ponta Joseph D'Abruzzi. le
gal, 638 Fifth street, and Mary Ponta, le
gal. East Twenty-eighth street.
Bill on Foreign Loans Is to
Taken Up 6y Finance Cora
mittetron Monday.
Observation Coach of North .Coast
Limited Jumps Rails on Curve,
Pulling Pullman Over.
PASCO, Wash., Jan. 13. Five per
sons were injured, none of them seri
ously, and 18 others were shaken
when a sleeping car on Northern Pa
cific train No. 1, westbound, the
North Coast Limited, left the track
live miles west of Connell. Wash.,
about 9:30 o'clock last night.
Walter McGraff, 'whose home is in
California, was the most seriously 'n
Jured. He sustained a dislocated
shoulder and scalp wounds. Mrs.
Ruby Richardson, aged 80. of New
York city and Miss Beatrice Alexan
der, Toronto, Canada, sustained scalp
wounds; R. C. McCroskey, Garfield,
Wash., had a sprained hand and arm,
and Mrs. McCroskey's arm was cut.
Hospital attendants said the in
juries of none of them would be seri
ous. Other passengers proceeded to
their destinations.
The observation car left the rails
on a curve, pulling the rear Pullman
over with It. The other cars remained
on the track.
EVADER PUBLICITY RISKY
Newspapers Publishing "Draft
Dodger" Lists Take Chances.
NEW YORK. Jan. 13. Newspapers
which publish the "draft dodger" lists
issued by the war department are not
immune from libel suits by persons
erroneously listed as deserters, the
appellate division of the New York
supreme court held today.
The decision followed a suit
brought by Charles J. Hyman of this
city against the Press Publishing
company, publishers of the New York
World.
CHINESE LOAN PROPOSED
Bankers Would Raise $30,000,000
to Buy Shantung Road.
PEKIN, Jan. 13. (By the Associ
ated Press.) A Chinese banking
group has signified willingness to
raise a loan of 330,000,000 to be used
as a cash payment for the purchase
of the Shantung railroad, according
to Information received here today-
The loan would be secured by in
creased customs duties, as a result
of tha Chinese customs agreement
reached by the Washington confer
ence. ' '
8 WED ON FRIDAY, 13TH
Four Couples Procure Marriage
Licenses at Vancouver.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. Jan. 13. (Spe
cial.) Though this was Friday the
13th. four couples procured marriage
licenses here today. Two of the brides
and one bridegroom were from Se
attle. Usually Friday cuts the number
down to a small number, but more
recently there seems to be less superstition.
Naval Treaty Now Vir
tually Completed.
FAR EAST ISSUES REMAIN
Powers Expected to Attempt
to Mediate.
PACT DRAFT ABOUT DONE
Document Probably to Be Laid Be
fore Full Committee Early
Xext Week.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 13 (By
the Associated Press.) With the
naval treaty virtually completed, the
arms delegates are preparing to turn
to Shantung, hoping that a settlement
of that controversy may make it
easier to go ahead with other trouble
some problems of the far east.
It is the expectation in conference
circles that during the next few days
and probably until a decision is
reached, the Shantung negotiations
ill have right of way over discus
sion of other far eastern subjects.
So far the Shantung exchanges have
been between the Japanese and the
Chinese alone, with American and
British observers present, but the
next phase Is expected to concentrate
upon the problem of the friendly In
terest of all the governments repre
sented here.
One Point la Settled.
The Japanese and Chinese groups
today agreed to open up the entire
Kiao-Chow leased territory to foreign
trade and tomorrow will take up oth
ers of the collateral questions in
volved in restoration of the leasehold
to China. Their sessions, expected to
last all day, are the only item for to
morrow. In the naval negotiations, only a
few perfunctory details remain to be
arranged. An agreement has been
reached regarding methods of scrap
ping undtr which discarded battle
ships may be converted in some cases
into airplane carriers and training
ships and a final settlement relating
to Pacific fortifications awaits a
reply expected hourly from Tokio.
If present plans develop, the final
draft of the navy treaty will be laid
before the full naval committee early
next week and will be publicly an
nounced at a plenary conference ses
sion later.
Delay Element Eliminated.
One possible element of delay in
concluding the naval convention was
eliminated today when the French
delegation received instructions from
President MUlerand to go ahead with
its conference duties regardless of
the cabinet crisis at Paris. Albert
Sarraut, head of the French here, in
dicated that he interpreted the mes
sage as giving him full power to sign
the treaty unless some unexpected
question of real importance appears
in the negotiations.
Under the scrapping provisions -as
finally agreed to, the United States
and Japan are understood to be
authorized to change into airplane I
carriers some of tho battleships now
i
under construction, which under the
original plan would have gone to the
scrap heap, while France and Italy
are to be permitted to convert into I
training ships the dreadnoughts of.
their fleet, which by the agreement
are to become obsolete in 1931,
Decision la Ilecorded.
This decision was formally recorded
at a meeting of the "big five" today.
The decision to give the Shantung
problem the right of way as details ;
of the present naval agreement
clear-up was interpreted generally as
another evidence of the fundamental
importance attached by conference
leaders to the question of the long
contested former German leasehold.
In American quarters particularly,
there is apparent a belief that a
final settlement of the Shantung
situation is almost indispensable to
the programme of readjustment un
dertaken by the conference in the
far east.
During several weeks of conversa
tions on the subject the Japanese and
Chinese have effected agreements on
many details, but all of these settle- I
ments are conditional on satisfactory
solution of the method for return to
China of the Tsingtao-Tsinanfu rail
road. On that point difficulties per
sist despite an informal effort on the
Dart of Secretary Hughes and Arthur !
pari - j ,,.,i I
J. Balfour to effect a compromise.
Increased Pressure Expected.
It seems likely that the exchanges
will now be accelerated and that in
creased pressure will be brought to
bear for their conclusion.
This Impression Is given color by
private expressions of disappointment
among some of the foreign delega
tions that more rapid progress is not
being made by the conference. Most
of the delegates are anxious to get
home, particularly the European
groups, who want to have a closer
view of political developments in Eu
rope during the last two months. A
British spokesman predicted tonight
that his delegation might sail for
England within ten days or so, but
not all of the foreign delegates are
so optimistic
The deliberations at Cannes, the
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Local Body Installs Heating Sys
tem and Holds Up Payment
on Account of Defects.
The United States shipping board
has met its match In the obdurate
school board of district No. 1. De
claring that the district must render
payment In full before It receives the
last two of six huge boilers recently
purchased, it was met with the
counter assertion that the shipping
board must furnish adequate bases
for said boilers before It receives the
money. Though there Is a deadlock,
the advantage seems to rest with the
school board. It Is In possession of
four boilers, purchased at 33700 each
and costing the government $16,500
apiece.
According to George B. Thomns, di
rector, who negotiated the original
deal, the bases provided with the
boilers are misfits. This was discov
ered upon the Installation of one in
Buckman school, where the necessary
alterations cost 3400. It is the con
tention of the school board that the
shipping board must either allow'$400
on each boiler for remodeling the
bases, or furnish them. The shipping
board, through its local officers,
maintains that the transaction is
closed, that the bases are all right,
and that it will not deliver the two
remaining boilers until a check in
full is at hand.
The boilers originally were built
for ships projected by the Bhipping
board, but never constructed. They
are said to evaporate water for 25 per
cent less cost than any other type.
and are of superior construction. One
has been installed In Buckman school,
two have been delivered to James
John high school, and the fourth Is at
Washington high school. The unde
livered boilers, to which the shipping
board clings, were to be installed in
Jefferson and Benson schools. Be
lief was expressed that the contro
versy will be carried to Washington
for settlement.
HARDING TO AID JOBLESS
Public Work to Be Opened Up to
Provide Employment.
WASHINGTON. D. C. Jan. 13. The
unemployment situation was dis
cussed by President Harding with
his cabinet today and decision was
reached, it was said, to take steps for
alleviating the seasonal difficulties
in so far as possible through federal
government aid.
The president, it was added, as one
measure of relief has requested the
heads of several departments to make
a survey of their available funds fur
public works In the expectation that
some stimulation may be given the
midwinter situation.
CAVE-IN BURIES FOUR
Twenty Acres Drops and Three Are
Hurt; Several Escape.
SCRANTON. Ta., Jan. 13. Four
men were entombed, three were in
jured and several others had narrow
escapes from death today when 20
acres of land dropped in a mine cave
of gigantic proportions In the Na
tional mine of the Glen Alden Coal
company.
Seventy-five men attacked the mass
of debri. coal, rock and earth from
three different angle-s, but had not
sicured any trace of the missing men
late tonight.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Minimum temperature,
t"'- mlnlmum """'.
TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds,
Foreign.
American musician poisoned in Paris.
Page S.
Moratorium granted Germany, rage 1.
Provisional government In South Ireland
to be established today. 1'age 4.
National.
Senators of farm bloc request higher tariff
rates. Page Z.
Shantung now centers efforts of arms
parley. Page 1.
Ford's nitrate offer to be transmitted to
congress. Page 3.
Allied debt refunding bill and soldier
bonus kept separate. Page 1
Final discussion of Import taxes begun by
senate, rage ::.
Domestic;.
Mary Garden bans Salome frcm stage.
Page 1.
Words rarely used In everyday life de
clared to clutter school spellers. I'age 3.
Finest of African wild g.ime declared
threatened with extinction. I'age 6.
Fate of Burch la put in hands of Jury.
Page o.
Pacific Northwest.
Circus employes describe robbery. Page 7.
Wife and family selaed by court. Page 1.
Troubles at state Institution for blind are
to be fully investigated. Page 1.
Five persons Injured In train wreck near
Connell. wasn. rage i.
Seattle behind Columbia project. rage T.
Advertising topic occupies editors. Page 4.
Sports.
Ball sweepstakes popular with golfers.
One-year freshman rule la urged on all
Page 14.
colleges. l-ag
Carpentler may again defy Dempsey. Page
13.
Commercial and Marine.
Local wheat market responds to eastern
advance. Page SI.
Large decrease In visible wheat supply
total expected. Pagj 21.
General advance in stocks led by invest
ment rails. Tage 21.
Proposal for changes In wharfage charges
protested . by steamship operatora
Page 20.
Portland and Vicinity.
Trial of woman autolst Is begun. Page 8
Stock subscription to finance fair proposed.
Page 22.
Dr. John H. Boyd dies in Chicago. Page 22.
Eggs offered as substitute for meat.
Page 12.
Spanking of errant pupils la upheld.
Page 15.
European countries mortgaged to 65 per
cent of wealth. Page 20.
School and shipping boards In deadlock.
Page 1.
Civil service, tests results announced. Page
IS.
Moratorium Granted De
spite Briand Quitting.
GENOA CONFERENCE SAVED
Three Big Developments
Emerge From Confusion.
P0INCARE NEW PREMIER
Anglo-l'rench Pact Is Believed to
Hi ngo on Sleeting Willi
Mr. Lloyd George.
LONDON, Jan. 13 (By the AssO
elated Press.) Three important de
velopments emerged today from the
confusion into which the resignation
of Arlstlde Briand, the French pre
mier, threw the Cannes negotiations.
These were, first, that a ministry
headed by Raymond Polncare will
take the place of the Briand admin
istration; second, that the Genoa
economic conference appears to have
been saved out of the wreckage, and
third, that the reparations committee,
acting under the discretion it pos
sesses by virtue of the Versailles
treaty, has granted Germany a mora
torium until the allies arrive at a
new decision with regard to her
condition.
Germany, Instead of paying the
500,000,000 gold marks due next Sun
day, is to pay every ten days approxi
mately 31,000,000 gold marks, which
latter amount Is considered -as repre
senting 25 per cent of her exports.
Part llnncs on Conference,
Whether tho Anglo-French pact
arranged between M.' Briand and
Premier Lloyd George alco can be
saved Is considered to depend upon
a conference between Mr. Lloyd
George and M. Polncare. The latter
always has been solid for tho Ver
allles treaty and, as much as France
Is known to desire a pnet to replace
the tripartite convention, including
the United States, which was con
templated In the original peace'
negotiations, I'oincare, like Briund,
will have to count with the extreme
nationalist views. Doubts are enter
tained here whether the nationalists
will accept the stipulations Mr. Lloyd
George Imposes as necessary to con
clude the pact.
For these reasons, it is believed
that difficult negotiations may be
needed before an agreement is
reached.
Kleeflnn lOfferts Dlarunsrd.
Speculation here still turns on the
effect the developments will have on
the contemplated general election.
The possibilities of elections In Eng
land and France at almoRt the same
tlmo are being discussed, as it Is
regarded possible that the Polncare
ministry may be short-lived.
The view in political circles here
Is that Mr. Lloyd George has been
subjected to humiliation by the flat
refusal of the conservative party
organizers to fall In with his idea of
February elections and that he will
be only too willing to adhere to his
plan, if there Is no hitch In the
Genoa arrangements, If only to re
gain the prestige lost through the
action of the organizers. Hence to
day opinion for and against a Feb
ruary dissolution of parliament was
about evenly divided.
Lord Carson In a public speech at
Canterbury tonight declared that Mr.
Lloyd George, having swallowed up
the unionist leaders, wanted to
appeal to the country Immediately,
as he knew the conservative party
had no leaders.
POIXCAUE SEEKS CABINET
Completion of Tusk Not Expected
JIofore Sunday Xiglit.
FA MS. Jan. 13. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Raymond Polncare
officially Informed President MUle
rand late this afternoon after a lonp;
conference with the president that he
accepted the task of forming a cabi-
net to succeed the Briand ministry.
Sf. I'oincare said tonight that he
did not think that he could complete
his cabinet before Sunday night at
the earliest.
M. Polncare added that he had In
formed David Lloyd George, the Brit
ish piimo minister, that he would be
happy to confer with him at the Brit
ish embassy in Paris tomorrow.
It was while receiving deputations
from the principal groups in parlia
ment tonight that M. I'oincare gave
out this information.
"As you know," he said, "Mr. Lloyd
George very kindly expressed a r)?.lre
rt tali with M. Brland's successor.
if he was appointed. I have informed
him that I fill be nappy to comer
with him at the British embassy.
"As our conversation will require
iveral hours, thus delaying the ef
forts I expect to begin tomorrow to
obtain the collaborators I need In the
new ministry. I do not think the
cabinet can be formed before Sunday
night at the earnest.
"Parliament having decided to meet
next Thursday, I must be able before
snnearlna- there to familiarize myself
with current d iscupslons 'between the
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