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oGu:, ST A 1 1, I .It'l?.- f t -f f i VOLi. liXI NO. 19. 153 Entered at Portland (Oregon) s. ' Postofflce as Second-class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, WJiJUNJKSJJAiT, APRIL, 13, 1933 Fit ICE FIVE CENTS PACIFIC RATE WAR BROUGHT TO CLOSE BRITAIN RECOGNIZES UNCLE SAM'S RIGHTS CLAIMS ANENT GERMAN OCCU GRAND OPERA SOUTH RESULTS IN DEFICIT 'S MEN'S CHORUS SINGS TONIGHT FOR RADIO THE DALLES' FROST HEAVIEST OF YEAR LITTLE DAMAGE IS DONE . TO FRUIT TREES, HOWEVER. NEW TARIFF BILL GIVEN TO SENATE KEPT IN CHECK ORPHEUS GROUP BOOKED FOR WIRELESS EXPERIMENT. SAN FRANCISCO GUARANTORS TO BE ASSESSED. PATION UNQUESTIONED. UNRULY RUSSIA BANKER 1 INS INSURANCE Conference in Portland Agrees to End Fight. OLD TARIFFS ARE RESTORED Nearly All Lines on West Coast Are Represented. ONLY TWO COMPANIES OUT Arrangement Is Expected to Be Accepted by AH as Well as Shipping Board. The rate war which has been in progress for the last month between trans-Pacific lines was terminated yesterday at the conference of oper ators which opened here. Immediate readjustment of the . trans-Pacific tariffs, agreement to work together in maintaining them and a re-establishment of the trans Pacific conference, an agreement for which will be submitted as soon as possible to all lines operating in the trade, were the results of yesterday's session at the Hotel Multnomah. The rules and regulations were those drawn a year ago, but not adopted at that time. Cargo is to be booked today at $12.50 a thousand feet on the usual run of lumber, $11.50 a thousand feet for small sizes, $17.50 on loga and lengths more than 40 feet will be subject to special contract. Wheat and flour Is quoted at $5 a ton. Pre vious to rate cutting by northern lines, the lumber rate was $15 and wheat and flour $6. Ce-ast Operator Attend. The session yesterday was partici pated in by operators from Vancouver, B. C, to San Francisco, including-Seattle, Tacoma and Portland." The meeting opened at 10 o'clock and the afternoon session was terminated at 4:30 o'clock. W. D. Benson, traffic manager for Frank Waterhouse & company of Seattle, officiated as chairman and was credited with hav ing arranged the gathering,, having labored to attain a peaceful solu tiono of the difficulty. It was said last night that little doubt was felt but that the shipping board will subscribe to the arrange ment and it was believed to be cer tain that the Blue Funnel line, which, with the Canadian Pacific, is re garded as the starter of the rate cut ting, would come into the conference though it did not have a delegate at the meeting Resolution Is Adopted. A resolution was adopted, agreeing to submit a memorandum of the rules and regulations to all members-for their signature. Most of the operators were said to have signed them about a year ago and they had been submitted to attorneys and the shipping board .and fully approved. But about that time separate conferences were or ganized on the coast, Puget sound, Portland and San Francisco working independently, but there was a New York committee on transcontinental rates. When the slashing began the New York committee was unable to longer function. The meeting yesterday adopted spe cific rates on various commodities as well as adopting local tariffs and it was the sense of those present that the rehabilitated rates be used with the hope that there be no question as to the future of the conference. It is probable rate committees will be named for Puget sound, Portland and San Francisco with a secretary at each port, but that is a detail of or ganization remaining for future con sideration. Cut IV ot Followed Here.. The cut made by Puget sound lines was not generally followed at Port land, though March 18 San Francisco operators, including the Java Pacific line; Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Pacific Mail Steamship company, Robert Dollar company, Furness-Withy '& Co., Mc Cormack & McPherson, China Mail Steamship company and Struthers & Barry agreed to enter the conflict and open rates were declared. Captain Robert Dollar took a lead ing part in the morning session but left during the afternoon for San Francisco. J. G. Stubbs of the Java Pacific line, and W. K. Sempey of the China Mail, were other San Francisco delegates. From Vancouver, B. C, was B. C. Keeley of the Canadian government merchant marine, while from Seattle were P. H. Glendenning of the Canadian Pacific, S. Ogata of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, John G. Gorman of the Admiral line, T. A. Lee, Furness-Withy & Co.; J. R. Walker of the Walker-Ross company; W. J. Chalmers of Jas, Griffiths & Sons, A. W. Kinney of A. M. Gillespie, Inc., K. Yuchlda of the Yamshita Kisen Kaisha, S. Sasaki of Mitsui & Co., R. T. Johns of R. T. Johns & Co. From Tacoma. was G. H. Wagner of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha. Portland delegates Included W.' T. Sexton of the Columbia Pacific Shipping com pany, K. T. Johnstone of Statter & Johnstone, J. W. Crichton, division of operation of the shipping board; G. R. Theiring, with A. M. Gillespie, Inc., and representing the Yamashita serv ice; C. K. Harvey of the -Toyo Kisen Kaisha and X. Konner of Suzuki & Co. "Sole From Lord Curzon Expresses Hope That Settlement Will Be Effected Shortly. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 11. Secretary Hughes today received from Ambassador Harvey in London a note from Lord Curzon, foreign secretary, which stated that the government of Great Britain would not in any cir cumstances question the rights of the United States in its claims for pay ment of costs of the American army of occupation in Germany. ' Lord Curzon's communication ex pressed hope that means of settle ment of the American claims would be found as soon as possible. The British government, he stated, was in communication with the French and Belgian . governments for the purpose of arriving at the most convenient method of meeting the American claims. Secretary Hughes later transmitted a note to Ambassador Harvey for de livery to the British foreign office expressing his gratification 'for Lord Curzon's letter and expressing hope that reimbursement for costs of the United States army in the Rhineland would soon be made. Secretary Hughes instructed Am bassador Harvey to say in reply: "I am directed by my government to express its gratification at the tenor of the response which your lordship has made to my communi cation relative to the payment of the costs of the American army of occu pation on the Rhine. "Permit me to join your lordship in the hope that it may be possible to reach a speepy and satisfactory con clusion of the matter." Mr. Hughes has directed that sim ilar replies be made to communica tions of the same character recently received from the French and Belgian governments. OREGON COW TOPS MARK 7 of 8 Championships Are Now Held In This State. SALEM, . Or., April 11. Another Oregon Jersey cow has broken a world record and now holds the championship for all mature animals, according to information telegraphed from New York today by the Ameri can Jersey Cattle club. She is Lad's Iota, owned by S. J. McKee of Inde pendence, Or. The cow's record for the year ending last Friday night was 1047.94 pounds of butterfat. This beats by 7.86 pounds the previous record held by Plain Mary, a Maine cow. In the Jersey list are eight classi fications, beginning with cows un der two years old and ending with mature cows, those above five years old. Oregon now holds the champion ships for seven of the eight classifi cations. RATES ON EGGS LOWERED Northern Pacific Announces Cut on Shipments East. SEATTLE, Wash., April. 11. Re duced rates on eggs from Seattle and vicinity to Chicago and surrounding territory will be effective May 25, it was announced here today by the Northern Pacific railroad. The old rate was $3.33 per 100 pounds, which will be reduced to $2.60. A drop in the dried fish rate also was announced. The new rates ef fective April 27, will be 95 cents per 100 pounds on minimum car lots of 50,000 pounds. ( A new rate of $1.-15 per 100 pounds on shipments in packages, and $1.234 in tanks, was announced on vinegar from the Pacifc coast to South Da kota territory. RAILWAY PROFITS LARGE Rock Island Pays Dividends and Freight Business Increases. CHICAGO, April 11. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway com pany, in its annual report for the year ended December 31, 1921, made public today, showed a balance of income available for dividends of $5, 780,269.22, of which $3,567,695 was ap plied to the payment of full dividends on the preferred stock. An increase of freight earnings, said by the report to be a .rare per formance among the roads in the Rock Island's territory, also was shown. FATHER OF ROSES IS DEAD Cuittirist Who Developed Rambler Varieties Succumbs. WOODS HOLE. Mass., April 11. Michael H. Walsh, 74, horticulturist, internationally known as the origi nator of the Rambler roses, died at his home here last night. The Lady Gay and the Minnehaha were rambler creations evolved by him. They brought him grand awards by societies in this country and abroad. 3 GET LABOR BOARD JOBS Senate Confirms Nomination of Member From Washington. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 11. Nominations of three members of the railroad labor board were confirmed today by the senate. They were: J. H. Elliott, Texas, representing the managers; C. Wallace Hanger of Washington, representing the publie group, and A. O. Wharton of Miss ouri, representing the labor group. E. $45,000 CASE CONCLUDED Federal Jurist Thinks Suicide Theory Preferable. FLIGHT STORY DOUBTED Prudential and Mutual Companies Lose Fight to Escape Payment of Kelso Policies. TACOMA, Wash., April 11. Because he did not believe that Fred E. Stew art, formerly a Kelso banker, would voluntarily have banished himself from home and friends to become a wanderer over the earth. Federal Judge Cushman today decided that Mr. Stewart committed suicide, and awarded Mrs. Maud B. Stewart $45,000 life insurance. The Prudential Life insurance company of New Jersey and the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York S contested Mrs. Stewart's claim on the ground that Mr. Stewart fled because of an impending finan cial crash in his bank. He disappeared from the ferryboat Queen between Goble, Or., and Kalama, Wash., on the night of March 17, 1921. While Judge Cushman was giving his deci sion Mrs. Stewart was overcome and was forced to leave the courtroom. In rendering his decision Judge Cushman analyzed the evidence in troduced during the trial and decided that the probability of Stewart's hav ing committed suicide was greater than that he had deliberately planned to disappear. Suicide Theory Preferred. "In this case the court is asked to choose between the theory that Stew art destroyed himself," said Judge Cushman, "and the theory that he deliberately banished himself from his home and friends and became a wanderer on the jface of the earth, constantly on the alert and always in terror of a familiar face." -The state of the man's mind when he disappeared must be considered of supreme importance. His conduci that morning and during the 'day seems to show that he had not yet made up his mihd as to his course of action, though he may have been contemplating either suicide or a dis appearance. The evidence as to this phase of the matter will weigh equally on either side. After he had learned that the bank was to be closed it is probable he began to fear arrest. This might account for his movements in Portland, which might have been designed to temporarilj throw off the scent any one who might be seeking him with a war rant." Judge Cushman declared that in his opinion Stewart's conduct pointed to (Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) THE QUESTION IS HOW TO Judge Decides Fred -Stewart Is Dead. ' l 1 8 Washington High School Girls Scheduled to Give Vocal Numbers Today. Tonight for the first time since the radio telephone has become an insti tution in entertainment and educa tional activities in Portland, a large chorus of men's voices will be sent broadcast over the city and the Pa cific northwest when the Orpheus Male Chorus, Inc., of Portlandt di rected by William Mansell Wilder, will sing a programme of nine selec tions, two of which will be solos by Sargent Patterson. This, like the entertainment given by George Olsen's Portland hotel or chestra last Friday, will be some thing in the nature of an experiment The chorus will be grouped around the radio room in the tower of The Oregonian building, and the voices will be thrown into the five large wooden sound collectors constructed especially for such concerts. The col lectors are of pyramidal shape and are connected with a central dia phram, to which the 'transmitter of the radiophone is directly connected after the announcements are made. Radio. fans are awaiting this con cent with a great deal of interest, as it practically completes the list of different kinds of concert music al ways available to the general public and now available to the radio public. The Oregonian has already sent but solos, quartet singing, piano music, orchestral music and a variety of in strumental music. The Orpheus Male Chorus, Inc., is a popular Portland musical organiza tion, whose singing is always in great demand. The programme, which will start at 8 o'clock, will consist of the following selections: "The Passing Regiment" (Mason), "Here in the Twilight Glow" (Bishop), "The Long Day Closes" (Sullivan), "Rockin" in de Win"' (Neidlinger), "Wake With the Laik" (Geibel), "Venetian Song," Barcarolle (Tosti), and "Goodnight" (Dudley Buck). The two baritone solos to' be sung by Sargent Patter son are "Mavis" and "Keep on Hopin'." Thi3 afternoon, as a special feature not included in the announcement of this week's programme, the Washing ton high school "Celeste" chorus of 18 girl voices, will sing numbers, by arrangement with the Seiberling Lucas Music company, from the music memory course being conducted this week by Miss Mary Klizabeth Godwin. The Celeste chorus is trained and directed by George D. Ingram, high school supervisor of music, who will play the piano accompaniments. The chorus is an organization composed of a limited number of selected, voices from the girls' chorus. They will sing four numbers: "The Lost Chord," 'O Sol o Mio," "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" and "Barcarolle." The Celeste chorus will also give an entertainment at the auditorium Sun day afternoon. V TWO OFFICERS PROMOTED Nominations for Brigadier-Gen eral Sent to Senate. WASHINGTON', D. C, April 11. The nomination of William Henry Hay to be a brigadier-general of cavalry was sent to the senate today. . , Edmund Wittemier was nominated as a brigadier-genreral of infantry. MILK THE COW AND AT THE SAME TIME KEEP AWAY FROM THE "CRITTER." Spring " Plowing in Umatilla Is Halted by Rain and Snow. White Salmon Has Snow. THE DALLES. Or., April 11. (Spe- ' cial.) Twenty-six degrees above zero and the heaviest frost of the year last night made Wasco county fruit grow ers thankful that the late spring has retarded the progress of the buds all near the bursting point on their trees. Very little damage was done by the frost. Hills adjoining The Dalles were partially covered with snow, but none fell here. PENDLETON, Or., April 11. (Spe cial.) Pendleton and Umatilla county have been in the grip of winter for the last , four days, with rain, snow and hail alternating and heavy winds blowing. Today a heavy hail storm was reported in all parts of the county and it both hailed and snowed here. The maximum temperature has been 50 in the last few days and each night the mercury has dropped below the freezing mark. Practically all farming operations have been stopped, No great damage has been reported Fruit growers are optimistic over the cold weather, as it is retarding buddinV and thus lowering the dan ger of late frosts killing the blossoms. ELGIN. Or.. April 11. Snow fell here acrain on Monday About an inch covered the ground in the valley. WHITE SALMON, Wash., April 11 (Special.) A heavy snow storm which reached the proportions of a North Dakota blizzard, on Monday drove workers in orchards to shelter, A gale from the northwest prevailed throughout the day. ABERDEEN, Wash.. April 11. (Special.) Four inches of snow fell Sunday in the vicinity of Wishkah dam, according to Water Superintend ent Watkins, who made a trip there to inspect the city's waterworks. The snow nut the ranchers far behind with their spring crops, he said. AUTO KILLS 1; 1 INJURED Mike Angland, Sheep Man, Report ed Dead Near Fort Rock. BEND, Or., April 11. (Special.) Reports from Lapine to the effect that Mike Angland, well-to-do sheep man of Alfalfa, had met death and that Tom Cronin, prominent woo, grower of Powell Butte, had suffered fractures ' of both legs, in an auto wreck near Fort Rock, were received here today. Telephone lines between Lapint and Fort Rock are down and the re port could not be confirmed nor fur ther details obtained. ROCK THROWING RESUMED Two Men Narrowly Escape Injury In Chico Warehouse District. CHICO, Cal., April 11. Rock throw ing was renewed in tne warenouso district here today and yesterday, and two men narrowly escaped in- Jury. According to J. H. Priel, three of the stones dropped yesterday, while today there were recurrences at 10, 11:30 and 1 o'clock. One of the rocks was brought to the police station by J. W. Charge. It was wet, indicating that It may have come from the creek bed. three blocks from where it was found. Argument on Measure to Begin April 20. LENGTHY DEBATE EXPECTED Rates Higher Than Payne Aldrich Law Average. U.. INDUSTRY PROTECTED Latest Tariff Law in Measure Flex ible, in Accordance With Wishes of President.' WASHINGTON. D. C, April 11. (By the Associated Press.) The long awaited administration tariff bill was presented today in the senate. Sena tor McCumber, republican, North Da kota, in speaking of the measure, an nounced that to give senators time to study it he would not call it up before April 20. Some republican leaders thought it would be passed after about 60 days of debate, but other estimates ranged as high as three months. Experts who assisted the senate fi nace committee majority in preparing the bill estimate that the average of its rates is slightly higher than the average of the Payne-Aldrich law. the last republican tariff act The Payne-Aldrich level was approx imately 41 per cent on all dutiable imports and. 21 per cent on all im ports free and dutiable. The average of the democratic Underwood tariff, which the new bill would replace, was 37.60 and 14.88 per cent, re spectiveiy, in 1914, the first year of its operation and the only year when trade was not seriously affected by the world war or after-the-war con ditions. t'ordney Bill Ile-nrlttea.. Comparing this bill with the Ford ney measure, which the house passed last July 21 and of which this is a rewrite, the experts estimatw that the average of all rates is lower, thougu me specillc rales, and more particu larly those on foodstuffs, are gome wiiat lilt Her. Exact comparisons of the ad valorem duties in the two bills are somewhat difficult, due to the tact that the senate commute turew overboard the house American valuation pian, returning to tne for eign valuation principle While they have not completed all calculations, treasury experts have estimated that the senate measure probably would raise between $330, uuu.uou and $3io,uou,uu0 in revenue, as compared with tne estimate of $300, uuu,uou for tne ioroney bill and tne ou6,uuU,oou of reveiuie returned in me calendar year 1921 from the joint operation of the Underwood law and tne emergency tariff act. Tariff Made Flexible. In returning to the forelgu valua tion principle the senate committee majon'ty carried out suggestions of 'resident Harding to congress last I'ecemtier tor a flexible tariff. Under aptcial provisions in the measure the president, in the language of the majority report, which accompanied tne bill, would be authorized: "To modify tariff rates either up ward or downward within prescribed limits (50 per cent) and in accordance with definite rules laid down by con gress so that rates may at all 'times conform to existing conditions. To change the basis for the assess ment of ad valorem duties on selected terns from the foreign value to the value of the domestic article in the American market when the foreign value is not a certain basis for the assessment of duties on such items. "'To impose penalty duties or pro hibit the importation of particular goods for the purpose of preventing nnfair methods of competition In the importation of goods. Increase Also Possible. "To impose additional duties on the whole or any part of the imports into the United States from any countrj which discriminates against our over seas commerce. These additional du ties are limited to the amount of the discrimination, but if the discrimina tion is maintained the importation of merchandise may be prohbited." Asserting that these elastic tariff provisions were regarded by the com mittee as "undoubtedly constitu tional," the report declared that they would "contribute to tariff stability by preventing the accumulation of cases which ultimately force the up heaval of a general tariff revision." It was added that investigations of pos sible tariff changes would be carried out under Judicial procedure and. that the parties interested would be given j an opportunity to be heard. Outlining the purpose of the bill, the report said the committee had endeavored to recommend fates that would afford protection to American industries and permit them to pay wages sufficient to enable the work men to maintain an American stand ard of living and alse rates suffi cient "to maintain essential industries created as a result of the war and i considered vital to the future indus j trial Independence of the American I people." "The rates Imposed by this bill are sufficient to protect the American (Concluded en Pag 2, Column 3.) Shortage of "Not More Than $65, OOO" Must Bo Made Up by Prominent Business Men. SAN FRANCISCO. April 11. Guar antors for the Chicago Grand Opera company will have to stand an as sessment of "not more than $63, 00 at the outside." for the deficit In curred by the company in the tw weeks just concluded here, it wat stated today by Sclby C. Oppenheim, who had. charge of the appearance here. The guarantors, composed of prom inent San Francisco citizens, prom ised to make good failure of the gross receipts to reach $200,000, according to Oppenheim. j Last year San Francisco set a rec ord ror opera attendance' for the country, 7800. with receipts of $26,000 wh.en Mary Garden sang in Thais Miss Garden was ill for a week here this year and was able to appear only on a few occasions. LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 11. Ed ward Kent Bixby of Los Angeles, for merly traffic manager for the' Chi cago Opera association, now in this city, filed in the United States dis trict court here today a suit charg ing the association with breach of contract. He asked damages of $10,000. Willy N. Tiffany, Los Angeles court reporter, today was granted a divorce from Marie Berg Tiffany, a soprano of the Metropolitan Grand Opera company of New York. Desertion was alleged by the plaintiff. AMUNDSEN IN PITTSBURG Explorer Says Damage to Plane Will Not Prevent Flight. PITTSBURG. Pa., April .11. Cap tain Roald Amundsen, the Arctic ex plorer, arrived here today en route to New York from Clarion, Pa., where his airplane was damaged yesterday during a severe hail storm. The accident, he said, would have no effect on his proposed transconti nental flight in a plane whicli he ex pected to use in exploration in the northland. FIREWORKS KILL THREE Soldiers Lose Lives In Pit and Nino Others Are liurned. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 11 Three soldiers were killed and nine seriously burned when pyrotechnics exploded in a pit during an exhibition at Camp Bullis, north of here, last night. The exact cause of the explosion Is not known, but it is believed that sparks falling back into the pit Ig nited the combustibles. BRYAN NOT CANDIDATE Definite Derision Not to Run for Senate Is Announced. MIAMI, Fla., April 11. William J. Bryan this afternoon announced his definite decision not to become a candidate for the United States sen ate, from Florida. Mr. Bryan's stand was made known in a statement for publication. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTER DAY'S Maximum temperature, 41 degrees; minimum, 3'7 degrees. TODAY'S Rain; southwesterly winds. Foreign. Unruly Russia kept in check at Genoa con ference. Page 1. Witnesses say money was offered In effort to incriminate- Mrs. Stlllmun. Page 4. Mr. Lloyd George scores at Genoa. Page 4. National. Efficiency In government held Harding's purpose in recent dismissals. Page 2. Senate confirmations formally complete al lied debt refunding commission. Page Z. Britain will not contest American claims anent army of occupation. Page 1. Administration tariff bill Is presented to Senate. Page 1. Domestic. The Presidio. I Major Duryea. kills self Page S. Coal operators admit strike is spreading rapidly Into non-union sirongnoius. Page 3. San FYnm-ltco guarantors must maKe up $05,000 deficit for grand opera, rage l. Pacific Northwest. College president opposes tax rise. Page 9. The Dalles' frost heaviest of year. Page 1. Mrs. Stewart wins bankers' Insurance. Page 1. Sports. Twenty schools apply for entry blanks for Columbia inaoor meei. raKo n. Details of programme . for relay carnival complete. Page 14. One big golf meet to favor Portland this year. Page 13. B'nai B'rlth boxers win most titles. Page 14. Pacific coast league results: at Sacramento 5. Seattle 1; at Oakland 7, San Fran cisco 2: at Los Angeles 4, Vernon 2 (13 innings); at Salt Lake-Portland game postponed. Page 14. Commercial and Marine. Wheat bids further reduced In northwest ern markets. Page 23. Chicago wheat lower with Liverpool de cline, Pago 23. Fifteen million Ontario bond issue to be of fered soon. Page 23. Business Is brisk In stock market. Page 22. Local docks meet Puget sound rates. Page 1. Idaho still weak financially and support Is recju uired. Page Portland and Vicinity. Pacific rate war Is brought to close. Page 1. Fire Chief Young demands showdown. Page 5. Pastor declares love of neighbor essential. Page 12. Local promoters accused of fraud. Page g. Dr. Joseph Murphy convicted of selling poisonous liquor. Page 7. Smelt reported running in Sandy. Page 13. jjprpheus y Page 1 I Expert r rpheus chorus sings tonight for radio. rpport out on throat epidemic. 3. Classics fivored by reading pubrfc: rase 6.' New Supreme Council Is Formed at Genoa. SOVIET RECOGNITION ISSUE Lloyd George Has Plan for Land Disarmament. FRENCH HIT AT GERMANS Iluv-iu ;rovls About .lupuii and Rumania Occupying Part of licr Territory. BY ARNO DOSCH-FLVEKOT. (Copyright by the New York World. ru lished by Arrangement.) GENOA. April 11. (Special Cable.) A new supreme council of Europe was formed this morning in the shape of a subcommittee of commission No. 1 of the Genoa conference. While this subcommittee, consisting of 11 members, is supposed to deal only with the three first points of the Cannes resolution, the method ot recognizing the soviet. It will be an important body, a body where two or three of the most important ques tions are going to be settled. Provided the Russians agree to the three points In the Cannes resolution making Investments In Russia safe, recognition In some form la certain. Premier Lloyd George, as part of the recognition agreement. Intends to push through his pet plan to Induce all the participants to accept the present European frontiers for a pe riod of perhaps 10 years. Such an agreement would turn existing arm aments into scrap iron and land dis armament would take place by itself. IHaruaaloa la Avoided. It was with this thought In mind that he avoided discussion of dis armament yesterday and smoother! ovar the trouble between George Chitrhrrln and Louis Barthou, heads of the French and Russian delega tions. These two were like the snarl lug dogs Mr. Lloyd George men tioned in lils opening address, but the snarl was for each other. They were at It again this morning when rotnmlHHion No. 1 formed Its sub committee. Chltcherln wanted two Russians on the commence and M. Barthou asked sharply why everyone else should be satisfied with one. The soviet leader replied that Russia was In a special position. as the committee w formed to deal with her and It ought not to be one against ten. Issue la Pmoothed Over, The lirlllsli premier smoothed this over anil Induced Chltcherln to with draw Ills request. Russia rould not. of course, Insist on a preferential po sition. Chitcherln raised the only other two points that disturbed the tranquil morning, lie objected to the presence of Japan because Japan Is hold ing a portion of Siberia. Viscount Ishii sharply retorted that Japan was not present to please Russia, and her presence was not dependent upon whether or not it was agreeable to Chitcherin. The bolshevik foreign minister next raised objection to Pre mier J. C. Bratlano of Itoumanla as a member of the committee. The reason given was that Roumania la holding the old Russian province of Bessara bia. M. Bratlano contented himself with the saying that Bessarabia is overwhelmingly Roumanian. The composition of the new su preme council puts France In better position than before. After M. Har thou's unnecessary met Iculousntss yesterday ovor Chltcherln's central remarks about disarmament. It looked as If r ranee was doomed to serious isolation. But Chltcherln's somewhat hectoring methods In pos ing his objections today cost him favor and balanced the Frenchman's attitude. Kraace la Made Stronger. The composition of the sub-committee is an additional strength foi France. M. Bratiano and Polish Am bassador Sklrnunt are two of the most likely listeners to French ob jections. Premier Benes of Czecho slovakia, who opposes the narrow French view, is pot on the commit tee. Both M. Bratiano and M. Kklrnunt have a vital interest In holding Rus sia to a strict agreement beforo re lations are re-establlslied. The French delegation has officially Informed the press that France is not sabotag ing the conference and that all tin carping is coming from Chltcherln. The French, however, complimented the correctness of the German attl tude. The truth of the matter Is that both Chltcherln and llartliou are act ing equally undiplomatically. The British admit the French arc rlgh' but point out they are wrong to In sist upon being right. DAY IS AXOTIIKU STOI1MY OM) France IleMlsti t'ourley of Per mitting Germans to Seak. GENOA, April 11. (Ry the Assu elated Press.) ATtcr two rathei stormy days without serious mishap It begins to look as If Premier I.towt iconciudtd on I'lunjl, Cuiiwk ; )