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1AEEIS LETTERS READ IH PROBE Contents Not Disclosed by Murder Investigators. 0 ARRESTS YET MADE District Attorney Gathers Taylor Killing Clews. 'ISTOL REPORTED FOUND Prominent Movie Tcoplc Arc Ques tioned In Effort to Kind Out What Happened. LO ANGELES. Cal.. Feb. 9 A new and comprehensive investigation into Ihe circumstances surrounding the death of William Desmond Taylor was under way here today, directed by the district attorney of Los Angeles county. Taylor, a motion picture di rector of note, was found in his liv ing room on Thursday of last week, apparently having been shot and killed the evening before"? L'p to to night no arrests bad been made nor were any in immediate prospect. Yesterday and today the district at torney gathered into' his hands the scattered threads of evidence that had been drawn out by the police, the sheriffs office and independent in vestigators, and tonight he was at tempting to weave them into some sort of pattern that would disclose what took place when Taylor lost his life. yilu ersaad Say Xatklag. As a first step toward this end, cer tain letters which were written by Miss Mabel Normand. picture actress, and which disappeared from Taylor's home after his death, -were delivered to the district attorney. These let ters were rediscovered jesterday. con cealed among Taylor s effects. Their rnntuiii were not disclosed, and Miss Normand. who was in seclusion to day, declined to comment. Witnesses questioned today In the investigation, which It waa announced would be complete and would take other Inquiries Into consideration only so far as facts learned from them might be helpful. Included Charles Eyton. general manager. of the Fa mous I'iayera-Lasky studio here mhlch Taylor was employed as a di-.-nr Mr. Evton testified at the coroner's Inquest that he was the first to suspect that Taylor's death had been caused by other than natural events. He said he had Insisted that the body be examined for wounds, and it waa his insistence, according to his statement at the inquest, that caused discovery of the wound that had caused death. CeaaaHatlea la Private. When Mr. Eyton arrived at the dis trict attorney's office this afternoon he was first taken In to a private con sultation with, Thomas Lee Woolwine, the district attorney: then Mr. Wool win and Mr. Eyton went to the room occupied by Deputy District Attorney W. C. Doran. where a further confer ence followed in which Mr. Doran participated. Others who were summoned to the district attorney's office today in cluded Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Mac Lean, whose home adjoined that of Taylor, and who had given previous statements at the inquest and to the police; Henry Teavy. Taylor's colored house man. who has done little since the shwtinji but submit to interroga tion about hat he Knew of it: How ard Fellows, chauffeur for Taylor, and Harry Fellows, brother of the chauffeur and an assistant director. were also questioned fully. The dis trict attorney declined to disclose the results of these various interviews. Revolver Reported r'oaad. Another development today was a well-defined rumor that some person unnamed had found a revolver, possi bly the weapon with which Taylor waa slain, shortly afier the murder became known. This rum.r was brought to the attention of the dis trict attorney and the police, both offices disclaiming any direct knowl edge of the purported discovery, but both saying that coaniiance was be ins taken of. the rumor and efforts made to either prove or disprove it. While these local developments kept the officials encased, word cams from 8n Diego that the authorities there !elieved the body of a suicide ling in the morgue there might be that of Edward F. Sands, missing house man. against whom Taylor swore out warrants for grand larceny and embesilement. who has been ear nestly sought r..r to tell what he knew of the murder. Investigation, how ever, dexeloped that the dead man was not Sands, and the San Diego in vestigation closed about as suddenly as it had started. , Safe IrrpMll '! fwukl. ll waa also announced today that the public administrator was making Irrarch f.r a second af dj posit "ox h.'d hv Mr. Ta-vlor. One was found and opened, its contents being negiigi- j ble. There was tio direct evidence that he had another box. but the au thorit.es said many men d.vded documrnts In two or three buxe. and it was possible that the search would t irtd aomcthin- Inventory of Tyl Kafed h ii'!it r s t state c. far 1 httle exreot (Conciutii'd on r J. U'Utnn 1-1 "ETHER COP" NEEDED TO REGULATE RADIO CONTROL OF WAVE LENGTHS BY LAW DISCUSSED. Chatter of American Small Roy" and Other Vsers Causes Com plications, Says Hoover. WASHINGTON'. D. C Feb. 9. Control of the wave lengths of the air may require "an ether cop" to regulate the wireless "chatter of the .American small boy" and other users of radio communication. Secretary Hoover said today In discussing the government's plans for radio regu lation. At the request of President Hard ing. Mr. Hoover said belwas calling together radio experts of the army, navy, postoffice and commerce de partments and radio engineers to meet in about ten days to work out regulations governing use of the air for radio communication. Develop ment of the radio telephone he des cribed as one of the most important steps in the progress of communi cation, but the limited number of availale wave lengths, he declared, was causing congestion. The ingenuity of the American small boy in the use of radio tele phones. -he explained, had so filled the air with chatter that commercial and official communication had been in terfered with, while the practice of broadcasting sermons, music and other matter was hindering the more Important uses of the wireless tele phone. Development of the air as a means f communication, he asserted, was projecting a new problem for con sideration in the light of the rights of persons to the use of ether similar to property rights in land and water ways. Legislation may be required, he added. IDAHO OUTLAY $7,361,388 Census Bureau Itcports Per Capita Tax or State at 16.9 1. THE OREGON IAN NEWS BIREAC, Washington. D. C. Feb. 9. The costs of government 'or Idaho the fiscal jear ending September 30. 1920. amounted to J7.S81.3S8. which was a per capita cost of $16.94. the census bureau announced today. In. 1917 the ner capita cost was 17.03 and in 1914 15.42. The totals for those years be- Ina SI. 8:3. 115 and tl. 000.691. respec tively. The per capita costs for 1920 consisted of expenses of general de partments, 18.97: payments for inter est. $0.2. and for outlays. $7. St. The total arvenue receipts in 1920 were .19.6l9. or S15.23. per capita. For the fiscal year the per epia excess of governmental costs over revenue receipts was therefore 11.71 Property and special taxes consti tuted the greater part of the revenue In a majority of the 4ates. In Idaho they represented 69.1 per cent for 1920. The per. capita levy for Idaho for 1920 was 7.1S. SENATORS JBIT PETULANT Blow to Dignity of I'pper House Not Easily Forgotten. WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb. 9 A blow to senatorial dignity not soon is forgotten. This R as shown today when in the midst of belated debate or. the Newberry election case several senators arose and denounced the war department for placing the senate far back, as they said, in the funeral pro cession for the unknown soldier last Armistice day. Senator Ashurst. democrat. Arizona, said the senate had bein relegated to the rear of the parade, and that the war department through its manage ment of the parade had "insulted the senate." Senator Stanley, democrat. Kentucky, said the senate had reached the point where -bureau chiefs and department clerks were able to tell it to "go back and sit down." 600 IN COMMUNITY CLUB Vancniner Hopes for 1000 Mem- bers Before End or ear. VANCOUVER. Wash., Feb. 9. (Spe cial The membership of the Com munity club of the American Legion community building., today passed the 00 mark and indications and hopes were that the number will pass 1000 before the year is over, according to Charles A. Watts, commander of Smith-Reynolds post. Every Saturday morning the swim ming tank is thrown open to the chil dren of the city free, and several hundred children alwats are -present. A business men's athletic class has Krn .lartori for two hours a week between 5 and o ciock. i uesaa, Thursday BANK CASHIER IS HELD Miortace of $75,000 in Accounts ' Is Reported. SVKACl'SK. X- T.. Feh. Robert IV Conroy. cashier of the Citisens" National bank of Hammond. X. V.. is held today following his arrest last night while federal and state bank examiners make a further examina tion of his books. Conroy's shortage was reported to be 175. OBO. The ban was aiouc today by order of the directors, pend ing the result of the examination. WALLA WALLA WHEAT UPj Sales of S30.O00 Bulicl-i in Two Days Are Reported. WAl.l.A WALLA. Wash.. Feb."9. Sprcial.t Vl neat prices nn.M Wheat prices wmcn nave b.cn lookinit up for several days nt , "" h.vhui b .J .iiSl.Ud ! e sates, inn iiii-ie wicm. 1 " ' . th . ,.. .,- da ! .f H..r in the last two days. Turkev red and ban were much in : I demand "today and commanded $1.05. the be; t price in monins tor naiu i w heat. Club, which has been a price leader, was worth. 9 cents. VICTIMS iBED ATDRUGPARTIES Addicts Relate How Traf fic Is Increased. PEDDLERS ALSO ARE BLAMED Free "Shot" Offered to Any Who Try to Reform. CURE IS DISCUSSED Oregon Narcotic Control Associa lion Hears Talcs of Women and Men With Habit. Portland is not without its narcotic "parties." if the word of a 24-year-old narcotic victim can be taken as truth. Police officials know by experience that narcotic users do not stick to tho truth, but nevertheless the real sensation of the weekly conference of the Orgon Narcotic Control, asso ciation yesterday in the city council chambers was the story of this young addict. It was at such a party in Portland, she avtrred, that she first received morphine and during the last four years, while she has been addicted to the habit, she has at tended a number of such parties. Xew Victims Sought. According to her testimony, con firmed addicts, many of whom are dealing in narcotics, stage these parties to ensnare new victims. Men and women, all addicts, gather for what seems to be an innocent even.- ing gathering, she said, and perhaps one young women, who nas never experienced the use of drugs, is in vited to attend. Before the evening is over, the witnss said, the initiate is persuaded to take a "shot" and in variably becomes an addict. For two hours yesterday various addicts, or ex-addicts, some of whom are now being detained at the citv and county jailsv and others who are at liberty, told their stories to. the conference.'"! n alt cases, the appear ance of these people was voluntary, with the assurance that names would not be made public. Jail CoaflHteaaeat Opposed. It seemed the consensus of opinion of those who had suffered the tor ture that is the addict's share in life that jail is not the proper place to confine addicts. They are sick and helpless when unable to procure the drugs, they said. Medical treatment. with a diminishing supply of nar cotics, followed by a long season at healthy -outdoor work, with plenty of good food was the cure advocated by these users. The first addict to relate her ex periences was a trained nurse, pos sessed of unusual intelligence and a full realixation of tha horror of the continued use of drugs. According to her story. Bhe became an addict after being In a hospital for nine months following an auto- Conc,u.ied on Page i. Coimnn 3. j , T . . - I M i 1 l W 5r I s I i I i I Vr M 1 . i III I ! : m ,o cT : fWM A- r : GOVERNMENT CREDIT FOR RAILWAYS HOPED GUARANTEE OP CERTIFICATES ! PKOPOSED AS AIDS. Mellon and Hoover Concur in Be lief That Help to Kail Lines Will Improve Business. WASHINGTON. D. O, r eo. Means "of lending the aid of the government's credit to the railroads are under consideration in adminis tration circles, it was indicated today by . high officials. Any such plan, however. It was said, would not in volve use of government money for rendering financial assistance to the carriers, but use of federal credit. Secretary Hoover suggested today that a government guarantee of rail road equipment trust certificates would make them attractive to -investors and enable roads to raise money for needed rolling stock with out the expenditure of funds from the treasury. Secretarv Mellon is also understood to regard "favorably the idea of lend ing the government's credit to the carriers on the theory (hat better business conditions generally would result from improvement in the railr road situation. If any such steps should be taken however in the opinion ot Attorne,-.. legislation prooaoiy necessary and in this case some dif ficulty might be - encountered In congress. -..j. e the railroads for more equipment Is their own difficulty, in f Secretary Hoover, who said' it was up to the railroads to take the leadership in presenting some constructive plan for providing funds. The railroads' troubles, he asserted. were "in 'anticipate which made any relief measures dif ficult of adoption at this time. He expressed the belief that if the short age of-cars became sufficiently acute there would be .pressure from all sides to remedy the situation. Under-equipment of railroads he said, had its .-effect on the employ ment situation and upon agricultural conditions. Secretary Mellon is also understood to coincide with this view. Use of the government ..-i .I...., heen extended to the farmers. lr. Hoover pointed out. in the guar anteeing of farm loan f;.",, some such method might . ...,. .a t aid the railroads, if. the situation should become suffi ciently acute. POLICE FORCE DISMISSED Officers" Declared, to Have Failed to Keep Order During Strike. OMAHA. Neb.. Feb. 9The entire police force at Nebraska City, includ ing Chief William Dunne, has been dismissed by the city council there. according to information leiepii""" from that city - " ------- Thomas of Omaha, commander of the Nebraska national guard troops, sent ih.ra recently to preserve "order dur ing a strike of packing-plant em ployes. Colonel Thomas, who recently said the local- authorities at Nebraska City had "fallen down" during dis orders ttmt occurred during the strike, announced that Turley Cook, who served as a first lieutenant dur ing the world war. had been appoinir ed policec hief and was engaged in reorganization of the department. Martial law still is in force at Ne braska City, despite ther ecent cal. ing off of the strike- LOOK AT THAT! IT'S STARTED BEARING FRUIT ALREADY. HIGHER FARM PRICES BRIGHTEN INDUSTRY . GHEATt BUYING POWER IS TAKEN AS HOPEFVIi SIGN. Producer Has Accepted More Than Share of Liquidation, Says Mr. Wallace. NEW YORK, Feb. . 9. Increased purchasing power of 'farmers, which has resulted' from recent advances in prices of farm products and decreases other lines was citea Dy Wallace tonight in an address Derore the National Retail Dry Goods asso ciation as a "hopeful sign to industry in eeneral." Estimating that farmers and their families represented 40 per cent of the nnnulation. he declared every phase of business should be Interested in "every sensible effort to get iarm ine back on a sound basis." He denied what he termed the wide ly held notion that corn belt farmers had olunced into land speculation durine the war years. Probably not more than 10 per cent of the culti vated land changed hands, he said, j "The farmer has taken . his full share and more of liquidation," he declared. "He has the right to ex pect that others, such as manufactur ers, railroads, laboring men and re tailers will follow his example. Prices of things must come down. "Farmers always have been and are now the great stabilizing force in government." BELGIANS SEEK SECURITY Features of Proposed Military Pact Protested. BRUSSELS. Feb. 9. (By the Asso rted Press.) Serious divergence of opinion marked the discussions of the proposed Anglo-Belgian military pact today by the foreign anairs coiim..- sion of the cnamoer ui o""'-0- Objections werer aised based on. tne absence of clearness as regards me danger against which the pact is de signed to guarante Belgium s se riiv. A maiority of the commission deemed it indispensable that the treaty should state definitely that the guaranty is against an ypossible ttank hv Germany. Otherwise, it is held, the pact would be equivalent to , Rritiah nrotectorate rather than protection.' - The clause prohibiting Belgium frnm concluding any other conven tion in conflict with the Anglo-Bel gian pact is regarded as a restriction on' Belgium's sovereign rignis. . CREDITORS ASK RECEIVER Columbia Graphophone Company Is Declared Insolvent. WILMINGTON. Del., Feb. 9. Appli cation for a receivership for the Co lumbia Graphophone Manufacturing company, a Delaware corporation, was made today in the United States dis trict court. Insolvency is alleged. The application was made by tne Universal Securities company, owner of 1000 shares of common stock; May B Shert. owner of 1226 snares, ana H.nrv w Runvon, 275 shares, all of Jersey City. The amount of liabilities was placed at $19,900,000 to banks and financial creditors, in addition to S3.000.000 to merchandise and other creditors. No listing of assets was made. The price in the open stock market has declined from $73 two years -ago to $1.25 last month. - ! HANDS OFF PACT SAYS 1VS. POINGARE Tampering With Treaties . at Genoa Barred. OTHERWISE FRANCE BOLTS Warning Note Sent to Amer - ica and Allies. POSTPONEMENT DESIRED Plans for Opening of Economic and Financial Conference in Ital ian City Are Proceeding. PARIS, Feb. 9. (By the Associated Press.) Premier Poincare, In a note given out tonight, addressed to .the United States and France's allies in the late wax, declared flatly that France will be unable to send dele gates to the proposed Genoa economic conference if any ot the rnvited gov ernments let it be understood that they do not accept entirely conditions arranged a,t the supreme council meeting in Cannes in January, pre cluding any discussion of. the exist ing peace treaties. It is necessary, Mr. Poincare thinks. to see whether the Kussian soviet government is disposed to accord commercial facilities and to give guarantees for tLe protection of in dustrial and personal property. He opposes any discussion that would in fringe upon the province of the league of nations. His note concluded with the statement that time is re quired properly to prepare for this conference and that this necessitates a postponement of the gathering three months. Committee Back Premier. The foreign affairs committee of the chamber of deputies today adopted a resolution approving Pre mier Poincare's attitude. The resolu tion draws attention to possible con flicting interpretations of the "clauses of the supreme council's resolution providing for respect for treaties and "the re-establishment of a solid peace basis." - After strongly advancing the prin ciple that the agenda as fixed at Cannes must be adhered to, that the existing treaties must not be. dis cussed and that it must be under stood that the delegates, by their very presence at Genoa, accept this condition, the . note criticises the agenda in that it fails to make clear what it means regarding non-intervention into the interior affairs of states. It asks whether that means that the powers would undertake not ! to interfere in the interior organiza tion of the German government if the restoration of the Hohenzollerns were involved, or the restoration of the monarchy in Hungary. Poincare Wants Us. "It is necessary to know," says the note, "exactly what is meant by non intervention; otherwise this clause might be dangerous for the p-ace of Europe." Ti,. nnt. i nncludes by saying that h allies must come to an under- standing as to the interpretation of the resolution adopted by tne supreme ,n ii ramies, since the practical application of those principles is the first item on the programme. '"Mie governments desiring iu op pose the conditions laid down cn Jan- I uary 6," says the note, "will not give I warning of their intention. But theyj would introduce dangerous questions ( and endeavor to pass them through the holc3 in the programme if it is not prepared rigorously on a plan not open to discussion." ' . GENOA, Feb. 9. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Plans for opening the intersectlonal economic and financial conference are proceeding without in terruption, the fall of the Bonomi ministry having had no effect in the plans already started by the premier Prefect Poggi is preparing accommo dations for about 1000 delegates and 700 newspaper men. The ancient royal palace is being prepared for the conference sittings, but the opening session, at which the delegates will be welcomed, will be held in one of the other palaces. An elaborate system of telephone and telegraph equipment is being in stalled which win proviae last com munication with important points in E.urope. ' Wireless . communication is to De established with Berlin and Moscow. MR. MEIER BEGINS TRIP Exposition Chairman and Family ' Depart -for World Journey. Julius L. Meier, chairman of the board of the 1925 exposition, left for San Francisco at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, accompanied by his fam ily on the first lap of a journey around the world that will require four months' absence from Portland. He will carry the message of the ex position to various foreign capitals and generally spread knowledge of the event wherever he goes. Mr. Meier and family will sail from San Francisco "February 21 on the steamer Toyio Maru, going to Hono lulu and thence to Japan. During Mr Meier's absence, exposition af fairs will be in charge of a managing committee representing the city and state. HUSBAND IS DROWNED DESPITE WIFE'S AID FRED MEXTZEL LOSES LIFE IN WILLAMETTE RIVER. AVoman Assists Spouse to Boom and Swims Ashore for Help Man Missing on Return. Fred Mentzel, 3S. who was thought to live in a boathouse near the foot of Cranton street, was drowned about 5 o'clock last night near that point when a small skiff, carrying Mentzel and his wife, capsized. At a late hour the harbor patrol had not recovered the body. Few details of the accident were available during the progress, of the search, but information given police ...no .af Mri anri Mrs Mentzel were their wn v in shore with a boatloadS of bark, which they had gathered from logs to use for fuel. When about 20 feet from the boathouses at the foot - of Cranton . street the skiff, heavily loaded, turned turtle and precipitated both occupants into the water. Mrs. Mentzel. who is a good swim mer, assisted her husband, who could not swim, to a log bootn, where she left hi mclinging while she swam ashore for help. When she returned h had arone down. It was thought that he had become numbed and had drawn some water into his lungs be fn.. machine- his temporary haven at the side of the boom. Mrs. Mentzel was distracted, as she had no doubt but that he would be sate wnere sue left him. Mentzel was said to be employed as a waiter at the Benson hotel. YOUNG MAN IS STABBED Affray at Elma, Wash., Follows Quarrel Over Liquor. ABERDEEN, Wash., Feb. 9. fSDecial.) Ernie Wi.nne, S5, county roadworker, , last nisrht stabbed Ora Castile. 22. in the back with a butcher knife following a quarrel over liquor. Castile was seriously wounded and Winne will be charged with assault with intent to kill. Winnie, it is said, went to the Cas tile home in west Elma last evening a t home with his father. James Castile, refused the request and also rofiiiied to "uo out and get some. Winne. angered, seized a butcher knife fro mthe table and chased the voimir man out of the house and inTr, hx street Castile started to oiimh a 1'ence in his effort to escape. but Wfihe caught him ana staDoeu him in the back. Winne then went to his own home and was found there by officera-an hour later. EVERYBODY IS $3 POORER Per Capita Circulation of Money Declines In Month. WASHINGTON, V. C, Feb. 9. Every person in the country was $3 poorer at the end of January than at the beginning of the month, according to a circulation statement issued to night by the treasury. On January 1 the per capita circu lation of money in the country was $53.03, based on a total circulation of $5,775,400,315, and an estimated popu lation of 109,917,000, as compared with a per capita circulation February 1 of $49.96, based on a total circula tion of $5,447,953,533 and an estimated population of 109,055,000. : SENATE INDORSES ENVOYS Harding Choice of Ambassadors to Former Central Powers Approved WASHINGTON, r: C, ' Feb. 9 toi.nt Hnrdiner's nominations of ambassadors to the former central powers today received the indorse-1 t ment of the senate foreign relations 1 ,,- The nominations of Allison B ! Houghton of New York, to be am- Ibassador to Germany; Albert H. .Washburn of Massuchusetts. to be minister to Austria, and Theodore Brentano of Illinois, to De miuni" to Hungary, were reported favorably to the senate with confirmation de clared assured. . INDEX-OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 49 degrees; " degrees. . TODAY'S Friday, .rain; winds mostly soutneriy. Foreign. No tamperine with present treaties at Ge noa conference, eays Poincare. Page 1. Irish kidnapings cause deadlock. Page 1. National. I, narrowed to eight source's: Page 2. o.n. nan new clash over Newberry. "Ether cop" needed to regulate radio wave lengths. Page 1. rii MBt nhiDDing pool conference in Washington ended. Page 5. Government credit for railways projected Halt in naval work lays off thousands of m favor of 100-year lease to Ford. Page 3. Domestic. i u.iul Nnrmanm letters raa m Pacfria Northwest. Seattle declared looted of millions. Page 7. Steele's defense is insanity. Page 7. Sports.. Amateurs to box tonight at armory. BoxhJg9arena war to finish looms. Page 14 rnmmfrriftl and Marine. cradually advancing in all .,-uta. Page Jl. Wheat breaks at Chicago on profit-taking sales. Page 21. Steel and low-priced rails strong features of stock market. Page 21. Good wools soarce on Boston market. . Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. School district asks government for refund. fund. Page 13- . . Victims ensnared at drug parties. Page 1. Two indicted stock salesmen arrested. Fuse 8- " , . . Workers for chest are facing defeat. Page 8. Piecework wage for -women opposed. Page 8. Federated societies promise to be factor 'at coming primary. Page . IRISH K1DNAPIN US GAUSE DEADLOCK Further Violence Feared Along Border. ULSTER APPEALS FOR HELP British Troops Continue to Go ' From Island. GRIFFITH URGES PATIENCE Assurance That Free State AVill Do) All It Can Given Residents of Xorth Ireland. LONDON, Feb. 9. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Although t was be" lieved that the few persons captured in Donegal have been released, the situation in Ireland, as a result of kidnapings otherwise remained dead-' locked today. The Sin:. Feiners ap parently have declined to liberate prisoners until the football players from Monaghan have been released by the Ulsterites. The Sinn Feinera today were declared to have captured several more Ulster specials. The northern government ha placed some 5000 specials along the boundary to prevent a new invasion from the south. It is also arranging for reinforcement by troops. The government headed by Sir James Craig also has urged the im perial government to take action, but the imperial authorities appear to be reluctant to interfere further pending action by the provisional government of the free state. British Troops Leaving. British troops today were still lear ing southern Ireland, and a; statement made in parliament by Winston Spen cer Churchill, secretary for the colo nies, seemed to indicate a desire by the government to leave the solution of the disturbed, situation to the two Irish governments- r : , , Arthur Griffith, in an. interview. expressed confidence that with Pa tience and restraint by both sides, tho Ulster question wouUf" be amicably settled within the present year on the basis of a unified Ireland. He added that it must be remembered that tho provisional government did not enjoy full governmental powers as yet, but that it might be relied on, to adopt every action within circumscribed, powers to prevent illegal acts from being committed. Winston Spencer Churchill stated in the house of commons today that it was impossible at present to give a date for the completion of the with drawa.1 of British troops from Ireland. Anarchy Is Doubted. Sir John Butcher of York askedV df in view of the "anarchy in tho south and west, and of yesterday's eppallinff raid into the north," tho government intended to keep sufficient troops in Ireland to preserve order. To thia Mr. Churchill replied that he was in clined to deprecate the statement that! anarchy existed, and said that no munitions or stores had been, sold to the Irish republican army, but thata quantity of police arms, ammunition and motor transports had been taken over by the provisional government subject to valuation. Mr. Churchill said he could! not promise to suspend the transfer o arms and ammunition to the provi sional government, adding that so long as the provisional government continued to carry, out ins principxsa of the treaty, the British govern meat's intention was to equip it wlta all means of maintaining order within its own territory. Ho said tne im perial government was responsible) for assisting in the maintenance! of law and order and in tne pmwvuuiivi his majesty's subjects throughout the northern territory and this oougation would be fully discharged. DE VALEKA XOTES PTJBLISHEU Irish-American Association GIvea Out Correspondence. WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 9. An exchange of messages with liamonn de Valera and Michael Collins, head of the Irish free state, was made pub lic tonight by the American Associa tion for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, based on a resolution adopt ed by the executive committee of the association at New York February 4. ' The resolution reaffirmed adher. ence of the association "to the se curing of the official recognition, of the republic of Ireland by the gov ernment of the United States, and the support of that republic by such lawful means financial or otherwise, as may be necessary." It directed its secretary to inquire of the president and the congress of the United States "what measures are being taken or will be taken to in sure to the Irish people an oppor tunity to express their will lor mo maintenance of their existing rcpub lican government, free of any threat of war by England, and free of any dictation by England as to the means by which that shall bo expressed, and "to communicate with Eamona de Valera to ascertain what assist, ance is now desired from this asso ciation." ' In reply Mr. de Valera said: "Irish republicans are ready to bide by plebiscite free of threat of (Concluded oa Pa a a, Column l. - r ' : . . 't t 3 cB 101.0