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8 THE - MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1923 RUSSIA TO DEMAND STRAITS' FREEDOM Programme Outlined for Dardanelles Conference. SOVIET PART EXPECTED Parleys Will Bo Impotent With out Nation's Participation, Says M. Tchitcherin. BY GKORGE SELDES. (Chicago Tribune Foreign News Service. (Copyrig-ht, by the Chicago Tribune.) MOSCOW, Oct. 18. (Via Wireless.) I am able to state today on the authority of Commissar of Foreign Affairs Georges Tchitcherin the at titude of Russia toward the Mudania conference and the forthcoming Dardanelles parleys and to give the fundamental points which Russia will draw up tor decisions on Black sea questions. Those Russian claims must be.decided with its participa tion, In order to be valid. Concerning Mudania, Russia has taken no stand whatever, because it was a military armistice concluded by nations participating in a war that included England. Russia took no military steps whatever, said Mr. Tchitcherin, and therefore it could not participate in the armistice. Russian Views Outlined. For the Dardanelles conference, to which no invitation or any offi cial -word has been received so far by the foreign office, but in which Russia has full confidence that Tur key will" insist on its participation, here are the fundamental and inter nationally important points in the programme which Russia will main tain: 1. Russia supports all the Turk ish claims for the nationalist fron tiers as contained in the nationalist pact, which was drawn up in Con stantinople before the last adjourn ment of the Turkish parliament and which has been confirmed by the Angora government. I 2. Russia supports the Turks' sovereign rights on the coasts of the' straits which must not be di minished. 3. Russia opposes the mainten ance of the present, or the creation of any new neutral or international zones. League Control Opposed. 4. Russia opposes any league of nations control of the straits. 5. Russia opposes any mandate or other control by a foreign coun try over the Dardanelles or other Turkish territory. 6. Russia supports commercial freedom in the straits in accordance with Turkey's sovereign rights. 7. Russia repeats its claim for absolute freedom of commercial freedom in the straits. Since the return of M. Tchitcherin from the, Genoa conference, which was almost coincident with the re turn of Premier Lenin to his desk, the near east situation has been a subject which this correspondent has placed before the Russian for eign office in response to numerous cablegrams from the Chicago and Paris offices requesting a full statement of the Russian attitude, M. Tchitcherin granted this in his first interview since his return from Genoa. At the close of the Genoa parley last spring M. Tchit cherin went to Germany. There he spent considerable time to improve his physical condition. ' Points Are Fundamental. "These points in the programme which I have outlined." said Mr. Tchitcherin, "are fundamental with us and are to be included in what ever programme is presented. Al though Russia has received no in vitation to the conference, we main tain our right to participate in any decisions affecting the welfare of the Black sea nations. "Russia will protest against r.nv conference withcut her which deals with near-east questions. Such con ferences, should Russia have no voice, are doomed. They must bi impotent, they have no effect and their decisions never will be rec ognized by Russia. "We protest especially in view of the participation by Roumania Vnu Jugo-Slavia. If a conference was called of the belligerents, Turkev and Greece and perhaps Great Brit ain, because Great Britain did par ticipate militarily, but only on mil itary questions, then well and good. But we find it abnormal that Rou mania and Jugoslavia should be in vited and Russia, whose interests are as vital as Turkey's, should not participate." At this point 1 asked rather an undiplomatic question. "Cannot Rus sia be certain that Mustapha Kemal Pasha, in view of his previous state ments, will refuse to begin the con ference without Russia?" M. Tchitcherin recalled the 1921 Russo-Turkish treaty to which the nations adhered by way of reply. He discussed Russian and Turkish nationalist ambitions and explained that Turkey so far has not, on ac count of its military victories, asked for spoils In land or anything more than was outlined in the nationalist pact which Russia supported. "There is talk now," continued M. Tohitcherin. "of Turkish claims to HARRIETT LEACH IS HERE TO TAKE CARE OF MOTHER Gifted Singer to Return to Stage When Health Again Enables Her Parent to Be Left Alone. WEEKS' CONFERENCE STIRS ARMYCHIEFS ! ' - BT LEON CASS BAER. HARRIETT LEACH, Portland girl who is to be heard in concert' tonight at the Audi torium, says that of all the types that claimed her attention during her. two seasons on the Orpheum circuit, that of the musical com edy or operatic favorite who al lowed flattery to ruin him pre sented the most interesting study. "It' does not pay to be willful, to ignore the reasonable demands of a manager or to indulge in pre posterous idiosyncrasies and insist on having your own way regard less of good sense and good busi ness when you're on the stage, or anywhere else," mused Miss Leach. "Every, day or so I read of some musical star who has ridden to a fall, singers or musicians who have met disaster simply because they have permitted flattery to go to their heads and imagined they were, of far greater importance than they really are. When my sister Florence and I were on the Orpheum bill in New Orleans a prima donna also on the bill, with a brilliant career predicted for her, did not appear at the theater one night because she was piqued at something. It was the first time I had come in personal contact with so-called tempera ment,, and frankly I did not call it temperament. Rather it was bad manners and poor judgment Woman Gets Habit. "Anyway, I read later where this prima donna did the same thing in another town, and later still I read where she had passed into the ranks of cabaret entertainers. You see, they mistook temper for tempera ment." Harriett Leach is one of the many Portland girls who have made a success in the field of music. She Land her sister Florence studied with local teachers, Harriett doing most of her training with Rose Coursen Reed, and it was just a few years ago that they were booked solid for two seasons in big-time vaudeville. Including the Keith and Orpheum time. Then one day when the two girls had come home for a few weeks' rest tragedy stalked across, the threshold of their home and laid helpless their little mother, a fine, splendid mother, who had been the constant friend and companion and adviser to her daughters. Stage Career Resigned. The two young girls never gave another thought to their stage ca reer. Their work was at hand. If there were any regrets, any little heart aches or longings for the broken stage career no one knew of il. Their mother came first. Offers came from the Keith and Orpheum for further engagements, but the offers were declined, because their mother still lay broken and ill and she needed her girls to do for her the loving personal helpful things that tTey were lad to do for her. So it has been that Harriett Leach, faithful to her trust, has gone on singing for us here and in cities adjacent to Portland, giving freely and gladly of her song service to cubs and organizations, and all he time, if she had been as selfish and devoid of filial devotion as many girls, she could have been singing in vaudeville all over the United Slates. Better Times Coming. The law of compensation has be gun to work for the Portland girl. The little mother is regaining her strength and soon it will be pos sible for Harriett to accept an of- 'A Pt Illillli&plwWilil IlllllliimlSBlil National Guard Service Be lieved Endangered. Harriett Leach, vho sings at audi torium tonight. fer made her not long ago for a concert tour. Her voice is lovely, one of those flute-like sweet so pranos, with surprising top notes and a bell-like trueness that delights the ear. Not long ago when Mary Garden, who knows a Hhing or two about voices, was here in grand opera, she gave Harriet Leach a tryout and was . enthusiastic about the girl's voice .. "You can ' go into opera eventu ally if you study and keep on sing ing." Miss Garden told Harriett. A week ago, through the same kind providence which secures audiences for worthy voices, Harriett sang for Geraldine Farrar, and the lovely Geraldine echoed her friend Mary: "Go on, child, with your voice, into big things the concert field and ultimately grand opera." Concert Preliminary Step. As one of the preliminary steps toward that career Harriett is giv ing a concert tonight, and is singing ail the lovely songs we like to hear her sing, and all the women's clubs and the civic organizations and the various associations for which she has so often sung are purchasing seats and are going to attend so that some day when Harriett Leach is famous we can all say "I told you so." Harriett says flatly that "too many girls study music. It is time wasted," opines this clever girl, "to give precious hours in training to girls, or boys either, who are not gifted or are unfitted by mental equipment and nature and tempera ment for a study of music. The fact that a girl, has no sense of har mony, no taste for music, no love for it, and cannot work up enthu siasm for the classics does not mean that she is a dolt. - Mothers Enforce Study. ' "It is only that too often girls of this type are forced by a mother's pride to waste years learning music, when S'he might have devoted that same time to equipping herself with a good business training. "No." says Harriett," I believe with Bernard Shaw that brains, good brains, are ruined by being obliged to learn distasteful and repugnant things unless it has a direct bearing on the occupation the individual in tends going in' for." ' TINKERING IS DEPLORED irao CHEW A FEW!!! E EASE STOMACH Ate Too Much! Stomach Upset! Here's Instant Relief So pleasant and so harmless: The moment Pape s Diapepsin reaches the stomach all distress goes. Lumps of indigestion, gases, heart burn, sourness, bloating, flatulence, palpitation vanish. Ease your stomach now! Correct digestion and acidity for - a few cents. Druggists sell millions of packages: Adv. v. Saloniki. That goes beyond the na- I tional pact, and it has not yet been J adopted oy the Turkish parliament. The foregoing statement was read and corrected by M. Tchitcherin. WIFE-BEATER IS FELLED Court Blackens Man's Eyes and Then Fines Him $10. WILKESBARRE. Pa., Oct. 18. Both eyes of a man charged with wife beating were blackened today by the magistrate, who ended the incident by imposing a $10 fine. The magistrate. Edward Burke, alder man of Pittston, had heard only part of the wife's testimony, when he shouted: "I am going to see how he likes it, and, jumping over his desk, ordered Anthony Azakas, the defendant, to stand up. As Azakas did so the magistrate hit him a sharp blow 'over the left eye. The defendant fell, but was ordered up again and received an other judicial punch over the other eye, which once more sent him down. Azakas promised never to strike his wife again. OFFICE IS FOUND ABLAZE Robber Unable to Open Safe Thought to Be Incendiarist. Firemen answering a call to the yard office of the Columbia Brick works, 302 East Main street, found the woodwork of the , building ablaze and the safe combination Jammed. Apparently someone had endeavored to open it, and, becom ing disgusted, had set fire to the place for spite. The building is of fireproof con struction. Quantities of records had been burned, the floor was charred in spots and it was like an oven 'When firemen arrived. The fire was burning at the opposite side of the room from the safe and could not have been set by an ex plosion. Burnt matches also were found in drawers of a desk. . , . , TREATMENT HERE URGED Hospital Extension for ex-Serv- - ' ice Men Desired. . In an effort to prevent the send ing of Oregon ex-service men to hospitals in other states, officials of Portland post, American Legion have petitioned the city council to pass an ordinance permitting the government to handle tubercular cases at the Hahnemann hospital, East Second and Multnomah streets. The council will cons:der the ap plication at a special meeting this afternoon. It is explained that the govern ment is willing to construct an ad ditional wing in' which ex-service men afflicted with tubercular dis eases would be treated. New Indian Agent In Charge. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Oct. 18. (Special.) Fred A. Baker, local at torney, today took charge of the Klamath Indian agency, succeeding Walter G. West, who was dis charged following Investigation by the Indian bureau on charges of improper conduct. Baker was formerly in the Indian service. He is a veteran of the Spanish-American war. 3-MILL TftX LEVY UHCED SPECIAL KEVENUE NEEDED FOB CITY GOVERNMENT. Officers Express Fear That Guard May Slump Back Into Politico Military Machine. (BY GRAFTON WILCOX.) . . By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) WASHINGTON, 'D. C., Oct. 18. Officials of the army in Washington are aroused over the forthcoming conference called by Secretary of War Weeks for the purpose of agreeing upon a scheme for reallot ment of organizations to the nation al Kuard. service. , Secretary Weeks recently sunt mor.ed a group of general staff and" national guard officers, Brigadier General Milton J. Foreman of Illi nois being one of them, to deliber ate on this subject a&d make recum merdations for , the guidance of congress and the "war department. With this board about to function, some of the regular officers of the army who are vitally interested in thf. national guard as a -component part of the national "army v are aroused over what they ftar may be done to the guard. With them affairs of the national guard are rapidly moving to a crisis, with the fate of the guard resting in the conference group called by Secretary Weeks. Some army offi cers who -have been' watching the situation and have learned that an effort will be made to readjust the gusrd allotments, due largely to failure of congress to provide suffi cient funds, fear that a step for the worse rather than for the improve ment may be taken. "A retrograde step at this time," said one aZ the army officers of high rank today, "and the national guard service may slump back into that wretched makeshift, a politico military machine. "A forward move taken in the face of a congress that is largely indifferent where it is not actively hostile and the service will com mand the backing that it needs in order to become what the country requires, . a dependable, well-balanced force for the first line de fense in the absence of an adequate regular army. "It is regretted that the matter of a general readjustment of na tional guard allotments should have been brought up at this time. Only a little over' two years ago the law was passed which placed the guard on a secure federally recognized footing. A certain definite quota of division, corps and army troops was allotted to that service and the work of reorganization was inaug urated with enthusiasm. In spite of niggardly appropriations commend able progress has been made. A well-knit force, embracing not only divisions but also the organizations required to support these divisions, is in sight. "Here, however, it seemed the fatal tinkering spirit must creep in." . . when the voting closed yesterday, according to an announcement made today by Secretary Stevenson. Of these 65 voted in favor of the rail road committee's report favoring tb.ev Southern Pacific and 27 opposed it. The interstate commerce com mission was advised of the results. An announcement authorized by the directors states that the South ern Pacific and Union Pacific Rail road companies urged the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce to take a stan4 in the present railway controversy. The opinion has been expressed by non-members that a chamber of commerce referendum could not ex press the opinion of the majority of the people of the county. - The Klamath post of the Ameri can Legion today adopted resolu tions commending the decision of the United States supreme court relative to the railway unmerger. They characterized the decision as "an Important forward . Btep in progress." JURY HUES MOIST MARINE CORPS OFFICER IS HELD TO ANSWER. Phone your want ads to The Ore gonian. All its readers, are inter ested in the classified columns. Supervising and Conservation Body Advises Council Fund Should Not Be Refused. The city of Portland cannot be od- erated satisfactorily if entirely de prived of the revenue obtained through the special 3-mill tax, ac cording to the opinion received from the members of the tax supervising and conservation commission by the city council. Several days ago Mayor Baker ad dressed a leter to the commission, in which he requested an expression of opinion of the members relative io tne d-mui tax. In answering this communication thfi memhATR Cif the to. rnmrnlDotn. uree the voters nf Pnrtlan favorable vote to the measure when it is re-submitted on November 7. The letter, signed by all of the members of the pnmmiRRinn is ae follows: ' , In reply to your communication of OCtOber 1ft. rafurrintr 1. - O ilt olal .tax levy for the general, fund of the city, the members of this commis sion are ol the opinion that the gov ernment of the city cannot be sallsfac- lu'"j uijeraiea 11 entirely deprived ot this extra, rnvontio- anA .HAA.. urge a favorable vote by the people on tiic measure wnen resubmitted. This is not 'to be understood as ap- the maximum basic levy of S miUa, as as me special levy ot 3 mills, but merely as supporting the measure sub mitted to the people. The commission Questioned the spe cial 3-mill levy, not on its budgetary merits or demerits, but strictly on its legal status, In that an exemption from the constittltinnn 1 S tai .m. ml. 1- , sumed for an Indefinite period. The letter of the tax commission, members of the council state, makes Clear the fl.ttlt.liriA of the tav . rrtrr,- mission. Some queries have been re- ceivea oy taxpayers as to the reason the tax commission did not eliminate the 3-miil levy through its power to reduce the "budget.1 In order to make plain that the tax commission is now opposing the special levy, but is attempting to clear up a technical feature in con nection with the amendment author izing the levy, the tax commission was asked to issue a statement set ting forth its position. EDUCATION ACT DEBATED Boon Cason and H. P. Lee Discuss Merits of Measure. The compulsory education bill re ceived attention before an audience of several, hundred persons in li brary hall, when Boon Cason, a local attorney, defended it against,argu ments presented by H. P. Lee at a meeting under auspices of the Port land forum. Each side had 40 min utes in which to present its case. Mr. Cason contended" the bill should be made, the law of Oregon in order to inculcate into the young minds of pupils principles of Ameri canism, and contended that it would be a good thing in welding units of society togetner. Mr. Lee held It to be un-American, a blow at lib erties and against the principles of the American government and de clared it to be unnecessary, as, he said, there is now a compulsory edu cation law in effect. UMMERGER " IS OPPOSED Klamath Chamber of Commerce Favors, Southern Pacific. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Oct. 18. (Special.) In a referendum taken by the chamber of commerce on the railway merger question, in which ballots were mailed to 202 mem bers, 92 ballots had been returned Coroner's Inquest Results in Verdict Against Captain James P. Schwerin. Captain James P. Schwerin, United States marine corps officer, whose machine ran down and killed Will iam G.:. Light near East Sixty-second street and Eighty-fifth avenue, Southeast, -Tuesday 1 night, must answer to the grand jury on a charge of involuntary manslaugh ter, according to a verdict of a cor oner's jury which investigated the killing in a formal inquest held at the courthouse last night. " In addi tion, it was recommended that Cap tain Schwerin's auto driver's license be forfeited. The marine corps officer was placed under arrest by the police when he called to report the mis hap and was released on his own recognisance. . The matter will be taken directly to the grand jury. Details of the tragedy were re counted by ?a half ozen witnesses, including Captain Schwerin, Wednes day night. Light, with L. R. Hender son. 7612 Fifty-eighth avenue South east, was out soliciting funds for a church drive. The two were walk ing south on the right-hand side of Eighty-second street, near Sixty fifth avenue. They started to cross diagonally across the street. Captain Schwerin and Herbert W. McBride of the Carlton hotel were returning from a hunting trip and were traveling north on Eighty second street. The gist of the testi mony showed that the officer's ma chine was traveling at a rate of about 30 miles an hour. Henderson stepped to the side Just as the ma chine bore down oti htm and escaped injury, but Light was struck by the car and knocked a distance of about 20 feet. Captain Schwerin stopped the car 222 feet away, returned to the scene, and after seeing that the victim was sent to a hospital drove to the po lice station and made a formal re port of the tragedy. Captain Schwerin is well known in Portland, having been in charge of the marine corps recruiting sta tion for the last year. Light was about 57 years of age, and made his home at 1408 Oatman avenue. GIANT RAP10 PLANNED $2,000,000 Plant St'' Vancouver to Work With Australia. (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) TORONTO, Ont., Oct. 18. 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