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VOL. LXI NO. 19.339 Entered at Portland fOreponi Poaoffic as Second-class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1932 28 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS BIRTH RATE FOR 1922 EXPECTED TO SLUMP PRESIDENT BREAKS J ISILVER THAW BEGINS AMERICATO BACK BRITISH DEMAND tOG REFORMERS DOWNTOWN HOLD-UP STAGED BY YOUTHS TIGER OF FRANCE OLD-TIME PRACTICE TO GRIP PORTLAND E 5 GULLS 0 DEATH PERCENTAGE LIKELY TO JUMP, PREDICTION. . EXPECTED MESSAGE TO CON GRESS NOT DELIVERED. ICE COATING IS REPORTED RAIN-SOAKED PAIR GETS $20 IN CITY OUTSKIRTS. FROM STORE. HIIR SLAYER IKES ESCAPE COUNTER HARDING Jail Bars Sawed by Con victed Killer... HUSBAND IS DETAINED (Three or Four Persons Be i lieved to Have Aided. PEGGY CAFFEE VANISHES Chief Witness at Murder Trial of Mrs. Clara Phillips Is Re- ported Missing. ' LOS ANGELES, Cal., Deo. 5. Grave fears are felt for the pos sible fate of Peggy Caffee, the wit ness whose testimony convicted Mrs. Phillips. Two hours after Mrs. Phil lips escaped, there came a frantic call for help from Peggy's bunga low and then the connection was suddenly broken. Sheriff's deputies who hastened to the bungalow found no trace of Peggy, or any signs of life about the place. Practically in front of her" home there were footprints corresponding to those Mrs. Phillips made on the roof as she escaped from the jail window and lying in the road was the scarf she wore during the trial. LOS ANGELES. Dec B. Mrs. Clara Phillips, young woman under sentence to serve 10 years to life in the state penitentiary for the ham mer murder of Mrs. Alberta Mead ows, last night escaped from the Los Angeles county jail and tonight was still at large. ' Armour Lee Phillips, husband of Mrs. Phillips, tonight was held in technical custody pending further developments, according to an an nouncement from the sheriffs office. The escape was so well planned and quietly executed that it re mained unknown for more than six hours- Mrs. Phillips, after effeclr tug her -scav a with the aid of thrj or four persons outside the jail, apr parently went in an automobile,! bearing license No. 78681, with those who aided her, and disappeared from sight. Three Steel Bara Sawed. Three steel bars guarding the window in her cell were sawed through from the inside. Then a square of heavy mesh netting was cut out, and through the two-foot opening thus formed the young woman climbed and made her way over adjacent roofs of other parts et the jail down through a trapdoor, and out to where liberty and an au tomobile awaited her. Sheriff Traeger dispatched depu ties to all ports along the western border of Mexico. He also caused the main roads out of southern Call-' fornia to be guarded; he placed guards at every depot to scrutinize outgoing passengers; he telegraphed full descriptions of the woman and ler husband to all nearby peace of ficers; and he personally led a earch of those places to which it was believed the escaped woman might hava fled. Escape Aided by Three Persons. Investigation indicated that at least three persons had aided Mrs. Phillips in her escape. Her quarters were on the third floor of the old jail buiiding and she occupied a tank ceil overlooking a roof of an auxiliary structure a story lower. Footprints and other marks on this roof led the deputies who investigate.! that angle of the escape to announce their belief that at least two per sons aided her on the roof, and that one or two more awaited them in an automobile at the street level. The Los Angeles county jail stands in the main business section of the city. It is within a block of the federal building, where postal activities are continuous. Street cars pass along one side, even in the quiet hours of the night; taxi cabs and automobiles ply over Tem ple street. There are always jailers and matrons on duty and a glare of street lamps surrounds it. Husband Appears for Qnis. Armour L. Phillips, husband of Mrs. Phillips', appeared at the of fice of her attorney late today and sent word to the sheriff's office he was ready to be interviewed about ttie escape. Phillips later made a statement in which he said he knew nothing about the escape or where his wife had gone. He gave a detailed ac count ot his movements for the last 4 hours. ' Yesterday morning, Phillips said, he went to the county jail to visit his wife. While he was there she asked him to take a message to her attorney, Bertram Herrington. Upon leaving the jail, therefore, he went to Herrington's office and delivered the message, the nature of which, he did not divulge. Room Eng-ag-ed 1b Hotel. Then, he said, he went to a hotel and engaged a room, paying a week's rent In advance, after which he went to the home of Mrs. Phillips' mother and sisters, where be had been Btaying, arriving there about 7 o'clock last night. About (Concluded on. Pas 8, Column L) Censns Bureau Bases Calculation on Records for First Six Months of Tear. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 5. (By the Associated Press.) Declining birth rate and an increasing death rate for 1922 as compared with 1921 were forecast today by the census bureau, which based its calculation on records for the last six months of the year for the registration area of the country, comprising about 82 per cent of the total population of the United States. The birth rate for the first six months of this year was 22.7 for each 1000 population, while for the same period of 1921 the rate was 24.8 and for the whole of last year 24.3. North Carolina had the high- AQ MtA lew Vi "i 1 i t- Vaini, 0, while Virginia was second with 27.5. Vermont had the lowest rate, 18.1. ' - The death rate for the six months ending June 80 this year was 12.6 for each 1000 population, while for the same period of 1921 the rate was 12 and for the whole of last year 11.6. Maine had the highest mor tality rate for the half year, its rate being 15.7, with New Hampshire second with a rate of 15.5.' Idaho had the lowest rate with 8.2. Not all states are represented! in the registration area. CHURCH PLAYS POLITICS Plan Laid to Enlist 40,000,000 Members in 1924 Campaign. CHICAGO, Dec. 5. A campaign to enlist 50,000 ministers and through them 40,000,000 church members to take an active part in the 1924 presidential election was announced today by Rev. J. Clover Monsma," editor of the Ministers' Monthly. The plan, he said, will embrace organization of the Christian vot ers' league and the holding of a national convention here shortly be fore the presidential nominating conventions. "If the party conventions keep on following the beaten path and refuse to designate candidates that stand for the things that churche uphold a bolt will be suggested," his announcement contained. "With the churches organized, however, no party can afford to ignore the tremendous vote controlled by them." . FASCIST! MEAN BUSINESS Clubs to Be Used on Criminals, Says Spokesman. ROME, Dec. 5. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Criminals will be clubbed and sent to hospitals in stead of being Imprisoned, in the administration of justice under the fascisti regime in the prov:nce'of Allessandria, Dr. Sala, the secretary, said in an address to malefactors summoned before him. "If, after such lesrrons,, veteran offenders still eist. the next time the clubbing will be such as to send them, not to hospital but to the cemetery," he added. 7 COMMISSIONS PLANNED Bill Introduced Proposes ' Re gional Interstate Bodies, WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 5. Regional interstate commerce com missions operating under jurisdic tion of the interstate tommerce com mission in Washington would be provided under a bill introduced to day by Representative Hawes, dem ocrat, of Missouri. The measure would establish seven divisional bodies of three members each with -headquarters at Boston, New York, Atlanta, Cleve land, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco. GOVERNOR'S PLEA DENIED Mississippi Executive Must Face Charges of Girl. OXFORD, Miss., Dec. 5. Judge E. R. Holmes overruled the de murrer of Governor Russell asking that the petition of Miss Frances Birkhead be dismissed on the basis of no grounds for action, when court convened today. Judge Holmes ordered that the ca-e go to trial tomorrow. Miss Birkhead's suit asks 1100,000 on charges of seduction r.nd breach of promise. EDUCATE PARENTS, PLEA Compulsory Training of Heads of Families Advocated. CHICAGO, Dec 5. Compulsory education of parents in the:. duties toward their children, to be acted on by the Colorado legislature, was advocated on a national scale today by Judge Lindsey of Denver in an addresr before the Hotary club of Chicago. He declared such compulsory edu cation for parents would greatly lessen juvenile crime. HOLDUP MEN GET $3770 Cashier of Gas Company and Po liceman Knocked Down. WEST NEW YORK, N. J., Dec. 5. Three outlaws today attacked the cashier of the Public Service Gas company - and a policeman who guarded him as they left the com pany's offices, felled them with pis tol butts and fled with a bag con' talnins J8770. . Freedom of Straits Is to Be Required. OBSERVERS RECEIVE ORDERS Policy Based, on Wilson Statement During War. SOVIET TO GET REPLY France, England and Italy Are Reported to Hare Reached Accord on Attitude. BY HENRY WALES. (Chicago Tribune Foreign News Service. Copyright. 1922. by the Chicago Tribune.) LAUSANNE, Dec. 5. The United States will line up with Great Brit ain on the question of the freedom of the straits. The American offi cial observers today received from the state department a coded mes sage outlining the policy they . are to follow with regard to the Dar danelles question. The state department's note was said to Insist on complete freedom of the straits for both merchant ships or warships in times of war as well as in times of peace, with the exception of warships belong ing to belligerents. Provisions are to be made for ap plications by neutrals for permis sion to have their ships traverse the straits in times of war. Wilson Statement Backed. The state department's policy is based on the statement Woodrow Wilssn made during the war, insist ing on freedom of the seas in gen eral and freedom of the Darda nelles in particular. The instruc tions sent to the American observ ers indicate that the state depart ment favors placing the control of the Dardanelles in the hands of an international commission. It is ex pected that the United States wtll consent to beins. represented !j such a commission ii or-'tr to protect its own interests. - Ambassador Child is expected to make a statement outlining the American attitude at tomorrow's meeting of the conference. It has been decided by the allies to have the discussion of the straits prob lem resumed at 11 o'clock tomorrow. Three Allies In Accord. France, Great Brtain and Italy re ported they had reached an accord on their attitude regarding the straits. It was said they were ready to reply jointly to the Russian plan, which was offered by M. Tchitche rin yesterday. Their reply, it was understood, will combat the soviet government's attempt to make the Black sea a Russian lake by barring ingress to all warships in times of peace as well as in times of war. It will Insist that all warships be allowed free entrance In times of peace. Ismet Pasha called on Ambassa- (Concluded on Page 2, Column 4.) l &Offi&r '-;eirnv :imMU HV " , nl'f II mm-- eiSP" mmwMM Pressure of ' Public Business Is Believed to Be in Part Re sponsible for Delay. " WASHINGTON, D. Dec 6. A precedent established" early in the history of the republic was broken by President Harding today .when he failed to deliver his annuaL mes sage to congress, whiclt convened in regular session yesterday. It has been the custom for the chief executives to deliver their messages in person or in writing: on either the first or second day of a ses sion, and, according to officials at the capitol, the only time this prac tice has been broken heretofore was in 1855, when President Pierce deferred his message until the last day in December because of the in ability of the house to organize. At that session it required 133 ballots for the house to elect its speaker. Pressure of public business was believed to be in part responsible for the delay, but there were also Intimations that the president, be cause of recent official discussions, felt it would be the part of wisdom to give a few more days' study to certain questions. There was a suggestion that among these questions was a plan for legislation to aid the farmers. The president discussed this subject last week with Senator Watson of Indiana and a dozen other repub lican senators and it was believed possible that this programme had not been worked out in all its -details and that more time would be required to put it in final form. GIRL IDENTIFIES SLAYER Texas Negro Is Charged With Murder and Attack. WACO, Tex., Dec 5. Complaint was filed in Justice court this after noon charging Ivory Clay, negro, with the murder of Grady Skip worth, who two weeks ago was shot to death and his body thrown over a 100-foot precipice. The man was identified by the girl companion of Skipworth, who was attacked, according to her statement, and thrown off another cliff. RUSSIA WANTS WORKERS Soviet Government In MarVp.tfbr " ' American Steel Experts. YOUNGSTOWN, O., Dec 5. The soviet government of Russia ex pects to recruit 5000 steel workers from the YoVngstown district this month, according to P. S. Calvert, president of the Kuzbas industrial colony. He began a search for puddlers, machinists, rollers and mill hands today. MAYOR C0UZENS QUITS Place of Newberry in Senate to Be Taken Thursday. DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 5. James Conzens, appointed to the United States senate last week to fill the unexpired term of Truman H. New berry, resigned as mayor of Detroit tonight, and plans to leave for Washington tomorrow. He probably will be sworn in as a senator on Thursday. THE BOOTLEGGER'S SHADOW. Warm Weather With Rain or Snow and Continued East Wind Is Predicted. SNOW STORM HITS WHOLE , NORTHWEST COUNTRY. Portland Snow falls on heights surrounding city. Sil ver thaw threatened, Pendleton Six Inches to foot of snow, with storm con tinuing. Astoria First snow of sea son. The Dalles Nine inches of snow. Medford Two feet of snow at Anna Spring camp. Sheridan Two inches of snow, melting; Yamhill river swollen. Hood River Ten inches of snow falls in 18 hours. Chehalis, Wash. Heaviest snow ot season falls, but is melting. Oregon City First snow of season falls. Hermiston Snow falls for ten hours. Irrigators enthu siastic Hoqulam Six inches of snow reported. A silver thaw was threatening the city Shortly after midnight. Trees and streets were coated with ice on the heights around the city, including east side districts. Al though no 'damage had been re ported a.t an early hour, it was feared that property loss would result unless the weather changed suddenly. The Portland Railway, Light & Power company reported some trouble on the Portland Heights, Montavilla and Rose City lines. The trouble was not at all serious, it was said, and cars were kept running on schedule. The prediction of the United States weather bureau offered some comfort to the worried citizens, for it promised warmer weather, with rain or snow, and continued easterly wind. Indications were that the area of low pressure would move from off the mouth of the Columbia river to the north with the result that Port land v,rill be 1 treated to milder weather, while Seattle and Tacoma will remain in the grip of snow and icy blasts. From a minimum of 33 degrees yesterday morning the temperature climbed steadily until a maximum of 38 degrees was reached at 5 P. M. It fell two degrees between 5 and 8 o'clock. A storm was still raging off the mouth of the Columbia last night and storm warnings were broadcast along the coast. Only one serious traffic accident resulted from the light snowfall yesterday morning. A car. driven by George Moyer of the Calumet Baking Powder company skidded on the Columbia river highway on the east side of Crown Point, the wind turning the car around. It was jammed against the railing, which prevented it from falling down the 1000-foot ravine which borders the road. The highway was covered with a coating of snow and (Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) I j - . mm : President Is Opposed to Drastic Changes. PROGRESSIVE FACTION BUSY Abolition of Electoral Col lege Is Proposed. DIRECT ELECTION URGED Bloc Proposal Also Would Have Congress Meet Earlier and Change Inaugural Date. WASHINGTON,. D. C, Dec. 5. Members of the new progressive bloc in congress got into action today, but at the very outset ran into Wbite House opposition. Led by Senator Norris, republican. of Nebraska, bloc members sitting on the senate agriculture committee obtained a favorable report from the committee for . a constitutional amendment providing for abolition of the electoral college and for di rect election of the president and vice-president and for abolition of the- long period of time usually elapsing between a congressional election and the regular meeting of the new congress. Such an amend ment forms one of the planks in the platform adopted by the bloc at its organization meeting last week. Disapproval Is Voiced. Opposition on the part of Presi dent Harding to any such change in the constitution was expressed by a White House spokesman soon after the senate agricultural com mittee resolution was laid before the senate and assigned to a place on the calendar of business. Some leaders in the senate likewise voiced their disapproval and tonight it ap peared that any efforts by the bloc to press the proposal might bring on a fight which would test the power of the progressive faction. The 'proposed amendment wottfd provide specifically that "the choice of each state for president and vice president shall be determined In a general election of the qualified electors of such state," thus per mitting voters to cast their ballots directly for president and vice president. The vole would be can vassed by the senate and. house, meeting in joint session, each state being given as many votes for this purpose as it has senators and rep resentatives. Novel Possibility Noted. If such a canvass by states should disclose lack of a majority, then the president would be chosen by a ma jority vote of the house "from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as president." The vote for vice-president would be canvassed in a similar manner, ex cept that in event of no choice by a majority of the voters the senate would select that official as betweVn the two persons receiving the largest number of votes. The committee in reporting the amendment resolution through its chairman, Senator Norris, pointed out that the proposed system might result in the election of a president and vice-president from different parties "a matter of fundamental justice we ought to be protected by law in taking .... should we desire to do It.'' Session Change Proposed. The amendment would further pro vide that the term of senators and representatives should begin the first Monday in January following the biennial congressional election and that congress should meet each year on that date. This would wipe out the session of the old congress after the biennial elections. Another provision of the amend ment would be to change the date of inauguration of the president from March 4 to the third Monday in January. ' . White House officials in present ing President Harding's views on the proposal represented the execu tive as feeling that constant changes in the constitution were unnecessary and in some cases unwise. Mr. Har ding, it was said, regarded the pro cedure under the constitution where by a new congress does not meet for more than a year after its elec tion as one of the wisest steps made by the nation's founding fathers, as it alows passions to cool. Opposite Vlevr Expressed. The agriculture committee, in Its report, however, took an opposite view, declaring "the present condi tion of affairs is not only unfair to the citizenship at large, who have expressed their will as to what leg islation they desire, but it is like wise unfair to their servants whom they have elected to carry out this will." With respect to abolition of the electoral college, the committee de clared its amendment would make it possible for an independent candi date to run for president without eiitablishlng an elaborate political machine In every state, which 'means tne expenditure of a vast sum of money." When the amendment and report wertr laid before the senate some (Concluded eu Pace 3, Column 1.) M. Perlman, 148 First Street, Is Robbed by Armed Boys Who , Enter as Customers. While crowds of home-going folk stood waiting for east side cars just outside the door, two rain-soaked youths held up M. Perlman, proprie tor of the Economy Clothing store, 148 First etreet, at the point of a revolver shortly before 5:30 last night and relieved him of J20 in cur rency. - Escaping, they mingled in the crowd and disappeared, while Perl man remained in the back room ot the store. A boy of 16, with no overcoat, and another of approximately 18, a nickel-plated revolver in his hand, Perl man said, were his assailants. They entered the store, asked to see hand kerchiefs, he said, then moved toward the rear of the place to in spect his stock of overcoats. "The little fellow was so wet I could hardly try on a coat for him," Perlman told the officers. "Then, all of a sudden, the big one pushed his gun in my stomach and told me to come across." And that he did to the extent of two J 10 bills. The pair, evidently amateurs, were deterred from at tempting to open the cash register, which contained a like sum, by their victim's warning that it would ring and attract attention. Perlman was then told to go to a back room and stay there. "They told me not to come out for five minutes," he said, "but I didn t stay there but half that time. And just to think I could have licked 'em both, they were that small. I could have grabbed the revolver any time, it shook so." "Yes, and you might have had a funeral on your hands," suggested an officer. "I thought just so," Perlman con fessed, "and then why Bhould I risk my life for $20; tell me why should I? But I could have lick6d 'em both.'' The police do not believe the pair were the two who held up the Bial kin store at Sixth and Oak streets Monday night, nor the Terminal Clothing company in the north end two weeks ago. FIVE GRAIN BARGES LOST Terrific Wind Storm Pestroys Boats and Wheat Cargoes. UTrCA, N. Y., Dec. 5. Five barges carrying 60,000 bushels of wheat were caught in a terrific wind storm on Oneida lake, off Lewis point, late today ,and were believed to be a total loss. Three of the vessels were washed ashore at Verona beach and the o.her two were reported drifting to ward Sylvan beach. Efforts were be ing made by lifesavers to rescue four of the crew. The barges were owned by the Inland Marine cor poration of New York. SADLT STE. MARIE. Mich., Dee. 5. A gale, accompanied by a severe snow storm, was lashing Lake Su perior in this vicinity today, forcing all shipping into shelter. INDEX OR TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 38 degrees; minimum, 33 degrees. TODAY'S Snow; strong northeast winds. , Foreign. Revolutionaries liberate General Papoulas, ex-commander In cbiet In Asia Minor. Page 2. Irish Free State launched with Tim Healy as governor-general. Page 3. France must reduce reparations de mands, says German chancellor. Page 4. America to back British demand for open straits. Page 1. Germany duped by England, says Von Moltke'e "Memoirs." Page t. . National. Progressive bloo at outset runs into White House opposition. Page 1. Clemenceau calls on Harding. Page 1. Problem of immigration tackled by pres ident and his advisers. Page 3. President breaks old-time practice in de laying message to congress. Page 1. Hearing of witnesses on merger ends. Page 2. Birth rate for 1922 expected to Slump. Page 1. Administration, despite Tiger's plea, clingj to "out of Europe" policy. Pag". 8. Domestic. Hammer slayer escapes trom jail. Page 1. Profit-sharing plan Ford's own idea. Page 20. Pacific Northwest. Bend jury blames woman for killing. Page 6. Sports. Hale of Beavers sold for $73,000. Page 1 4. Trojans selected to play Penn State at Pasadena. Page 14. Kramer to battle hero next Wednesday. Page 14. Siki's frame-up tale all false, declares Descamps. Page 14. Commercial and Marine. Intercoas." trade gets new vessels. Page IB. Temporary reaction in wheat market checks trading. Page 26. Bonds affected by government plan of new financing. Page 27. Stocks seesaw all day with little change. Page 27. Wheat tone easier in Chicago market. Page 26. Fortland and Vicinity. Multnomah county to help build Mount Hood loop. Page 5. Downtown holdup staged ' by youths. Page 1. Traffic plan up to car company.' Page 20. . Fireworks mark phone rate hearing. Page 18. Philadelphia and Denver complete chest drlvea. Page 17. Tax commission azain favors xmrchaae of Eastmoreland links. Page 23. Silver thaw begins to grip Portland. Page 1. Weather resort, data and forecast. Page 15. Eastern Oregon senators decide presi dency today. Page 13. Bad weather defied by cooking students. Page 18. 5000 brave , storm for Shrine circus, i Pass 1. .... . Visit Is Merely Social; State Issues Forgotten. CLEMENGEAU IS PLEASED Chat With President Is Called Delightful. WILSON VISIT IS PUT OFF Time Is Changed to Today to Suit Convenience of ex-Presi-dant; Sights Seen. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dee. S (By the Associated Press.) Georges Clemenceau visited the Whits House today and talked with President Harding for 40 minutes. But the subject nearest his heart Ameri can participation in European af fairs did not come up. The visit was described at the White House as merely a social call of courtesy at which, it was said, serious problems of state were not discussed. The Tiger said tonight it was "a delightful visit," during which ha gave the president his views about economic conditions in general. He said that he did not ask the presi dent for any assurances, pointing out that he was merely a private citizen of France, and asserted he had not gone ' to "preach to the president, but to pay my compli ments." No Effect la Indicated. If Clemenceau's pictures of condi tions overseas had any effect on the administration's foreign policy, it was not indicated in comment at the White House later on other sub jects. With respect to the Lausanne conference on the near east, full participation in which has been sug gested by Clemenceau, the president was said to feel that every proper Influence of this government and this Influence was- described as great already was being exerted in a manner believed to be in harmony with the best Judgment of the world statesmen who were fully in touch With the situation. As to the question of American mandates over territory once a part of the Ottoman empire, the president was said to "rejoice" that the United States had not assumed such a re sponsibility. The executive was rep resented as feeling that America could not take upon its shoulders responsibility for directing the af fairs of the world. Talk Apparently Enjoyed. Clemenceau apparently enjoyed hia talk with the president, which was the first event ot a full day. Ho was smiling when he emerged . from the executive offices, where he had been received, and chatted so volubly with Jules J. Jusserand, the , French ambassador, who had pre sented him, that he forgot his hat and had to return for it. It was hia v "tube," the formal high hat which he had out of his luggage only once before, when he went to the opera in Chicago. But his smile vanished when he saw the usual battery of motion picture photographers and still camera men lined up. He posed for a moment with a frown and then muttering something to Ambassa dor Jusserand, turned away and en tered his limousine, while several hundred persons who had collected to get a glimpse of him cheered. Wilson Visit Postponed. It had been expected that ths French war premier would drive to Woodrow Wilson's S street home from the White House, but the visit was postponed until tomorrow aft ernoon to serve the ex-president's convenience. So the Tiger went sightseeing. Ambassador Jusserand took him first to the Lincoln memorial, where he stood for several minutes in silence before the heroic figur of Lincoln in the vast columned temple. Then he walked over and read the Gettysburg address on the marble wall. Ignoring workmen who were hoisting buckets of paint to the roof he also paused to read Lincoln's last inaugural address, which is hewn into the opposite I wall. Emerging, M. Jusserand pointed out the reflecting pool under pro cess of construction between the memorial .and the Washington monument and explained that in the morning it would mirror the tall Washington shaft and is the after noon would reflect the memorial. Monument Is Vinlted. Clemenceau then was driven to the monument, but his car circled it without stopping and sped out through the fashionable Chevy Chase section to the zoological gar dens, where the Tiger expressed a desire to see bears. He made the complete round of the bear dens, stopping before nearly every one to read the descriptive cards and to grunt out an occasional comment to M. Jusserand. Ignoring the tiger house, which all the trailing photographers hoped he would visit, he returned to the Crescent place home of Henry. .Concluded on Page 3, Column 4.)