88 Pages
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Section One
Pages 1 22
VOL. XXXIX NO. 48
. Entered at Portland (Orejon)
Pcgtoff!ce a Second-Class Matter
PORTLAND, OREGON,- SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1920
PRICE ,TEN CENTS
ILL-FATED BARGE
SOUGHT DN ROCKS
END OF JAZZ CRAZE
IS NEAR, SAYS PIANIST
BAG-TIME DEFENDED IX TALK
' AT SALEM COXVESTIOX: U
CONGRESS FACES
SEVERAL BIG JOBS
HOUSE TO LET WOMAN
MEMBER RULE CUISINE
REPRESENTATIVES HOPE FOR
IMPROVED RESTAURANTS. ,
PRICE SLUMP STRIKES
PIE COFFEE AND PIGS
FLOtB ALSO DROPS TO LEVEL
BELOW RECENT FIGURES. ,'
JOB-HOLDERS' MRT
RT JAIVlERlGANLEftGUE
Well be worried
GUEST WELCOMED
OFFICIALS TOLD TUEY MUST
FUNCTION OR GO.
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V
Searchers Believe Pirrie
Has Broken Up.
RESCUERS, HOPING, STAND BY
Vessels Comb. Sea in Vicinity
of Giants' Graveyard. .
MANY THINK CRAFT LOST
Owners of Lumber-Laden Carrier
Say Sail May Hare Been Hoist
ed and All Saved.
BARGES "WIM.' TAKE OFF
CARGO ABOARD THE
TAJIALPAIS.
HOQUIAM, Wash.. Nov! 27. " .
(Special.) After an investi
gation of the steam schooner
Tamalpais. which went ashore
early this morning while an
chored, waiting- out the. storm
near Westport, it was decided
tonight to lighter her entire
cargo on barges.
Tugs Ranger, Fleetwood and
Manette, with nine barges, will
go to the scene Sunday morn
ing. It is reported the ship is
listed heavily and fear is ex
pressed the cargo ..as . well as
the ship will be a total, loss.
Marine underwriters are here
to make the trip Sunday.
ASTORIA, Or., ov. 27. (Special.)
At 7:10 the . Western Union an
nounced that information was re
ceived by them, from the wireless sta
tion at North Head to the effect that
the captain on the Santa Rita now
thinks that the Pirrie has broken up.
The Santa Rita searched from Cape
Flattery to Perkins reef, but until
dark could find no trace of the mias
ing barge. Heavy seas were still run
ning in that vicinity and the. revenue
cutter Snohomish and the Santa Rita
were standing by.
SEATTLE. Wash., Nov. 27. Relief
i-nGE.lD cot rr.li i tit. Iho mi'Xr r l n -j tt nf
Washington in the vicinity of James
island for the lost barge W. J. Pirrie
were combing the sea tonight. In the
neighborhood ' of Giant's Graveyard
rocks, 10 miles south of that island,
according to a message to the Asso
ciated Press from the navy radio sta
tion at North Head, Wash.
. Two Vessels Search Sea.
The steamer Santa Rita and the
coast guard cutter Snohomish were
searching the ' waters arouncl the
Giant's Graveyard. There are no
shoals around the rocks and, accord
ing to shipping men here, if the Pir
rie struck there she foundered.
The search turned to that locality
on the suggestion of Captain J. K
Tibbetts, master of "the Santa Rita,
who in a wireless message to North
Head expressed doubt that the mas
ter of the Pirrie had been able to
hoist sail and clear away from the
rocks last night. . .
"We still cling to the hope that the
Ilrrie may have been able to put
safely to sea," R. E. Bourchgrevink,
Seattle manager for W. R. Grace &
Co., owners of the Pirrie, said early
this afternoon.
Owners Still Hope.
"There is o.n.e. phajjee .in. a thousand,?
he added, "that the master, was able
to bolst one .or two . sails -and wear
off the shore. . He bad a . full quota
of sails aboard, and. it .is, safe. to. pre?
EUme that when he saw what was
coming he began making his prep
arations to fight his way to safety."
From Tatoosh. north of James
island, came a report at noon that
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Idealization - of Popular Harmony
. . Prophesied, by Teacher; of
Rhythmic Analysis. .
v SALEM, Or.. Nov. 27. (Special.)
Jazz will ie a thing of the past with
in the. next two years, in the opinion
of Frederick W. Goodrich, pianist and
instructor of harmony and analysis
iff the University of Oregon exten
sion. co.ur.se in Portland, who was the
chief speaker at the closing session
of the annual convention of the Ore
gon Music Teachers' association here
today. -
"The so-called jazz Is a depraved
method of harmony taken from the
illiterate negro," said Mr. Goodrich.
"Rag time, however, is nothing else
than, the 'syncopation' used by the
old masters in their compositions, and
when rag time is idealized and per
fected it will become .a study in it
self." Another .address wi-5 given by
Mrs. Jean Park McCracken of Port
land, who discussed .harmony-as it
relates to modern music. -Officers
were elected as follows:
Frederick W. . Goodrich. Portland,
president; George flotchkiss Street,
Portland, vice-president; Mrs. Charles
Heinline, Roseburg, Or, and Miss
Lena Belle Tartar, Salem, Or, auxil
iary v;ce-presidents; Mrs. Jean Park
McCracken, Portland, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Harry McQuade, Port
land, recording secretary, and Daniel
H. Wilson, Portland, treasurer. v
. A banquat was held at a local hotel
tonight, when informal talks were
given by members of the association.
The attendance at this year's con
vention was larger than ever before.
ALL MAY; HEAR HARDING
Inaugural Address May Be Trans
mitted Everywhere.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Nov. 27. Telephone en
gineers, it is learned, are working on
a plan to make audible to the people
of the remotest corners of the United
States the inaugural address of War
ren G. Harding when he speaks from
the platform at the east front of the
capitol, March 4.
The plan calls for a great magna
vox above the speaker's platform to
be connected with all the transcon
tinental circuits of the great telephone-
systems. Every community
can then say whether it wishes to
lear the new president's address or
not.
To hear his actual intonations, as
promised by-the technical experts of
the telephone companies, all that will
be necessary will be for each com
munity co . hire -a hall and have the
necessary receiving instruments in
stalled. SAMPAN PROBE IS ENDED
Results of Inquiry Following Gov
ernor's Suicide Withheld.
TUTUILA. American Samoa, Nov.
27. The naval board of inquiry, un
der presidency of Rear Admiral
Charles F. Hughes, has concluded the
taking of testimony in the investiga
tion of the naval administration of
American Samoa under the late Com
mander Warren J. Terhune, as gov
ernor. Findings were not made public
Commander Terhune ended his life
November 3, at the governor's man
sion at Tutuila, a few days before the
arrival of Admiral Hushes and the
bdard of inquiry.
SUFFERING BRINGS UNION
Famine Relief Work Draws Chi
nese Factions Together. . ' -
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. "27. Kl Tseng
Quang, minister plenipotentiary from
the republic of China to the republics
of Mexico and Cuba, arrived here to
day. He announced that the need of
relieving those in the famine districts
of -China-was bringing all factions to
gether and strengthening the re
public. The'five sons of Yuan Shi-Kai, sec
ond president and for a brief period
emperor of China, also arrived to at
tend a private school near Boston.
tow ere. YtcVre. c. V -Mi y.T- - 1 17 . P -' "?- 3otE cwuisTw-i
ArACAU QORU vlfPANESE 'v HfVttVUrAG, HKO TT GET ftVU .... timG rAON&Y
,. fyJ sy L " VTH' XLW; VCB- CM WHILE. ' ' "w
Important Legislation Is
Possible, but-
WILSOft PROMINENT FACTOR
Will, President .Indicate . Will-
ingnessTd Co-operate?
SESSION MAY BE EXCITING
Activities of Men Defeated lor Re
election Will Be Frankly,. Even '
. Aggressively Independent.
: ' BY MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copyright. 1920, by the New York Even
ins Post. Published by Arrangement.) -WASHINGTON.
Nov. 27. (Special.)
A weei from Monday congress sits
again, and enough senators and con
gressmen are . back in. - Washington
to make possible 'a, consideration of
what the temper, of this-short- ses
sion will be and what activities It
is likely t tako. up
No one can understand the pres
ent atmosphere..of - Washington or In
telligently follow the activities ' of
this coming short session without
keeping always in mi ml the fact that
this is the old congress not the new
one. The members and senators who
were elected this month, and who will
compose the big republican majority
that is to dominate things for the
near future., do not take their seats
until after March 4.
Old Congress Still In Session.
From December until March 4
it is the old congress still in sssion
and out of that fact flow the most
important considerations tlfat will
determine what is done or not done.
A session of congress" situated like
this coming one Is always apt to be
rather more exciting in its activities
than a normal session. - A consider
able number of the members in- the
present case a rather unusually large
number-rfbave been defeated for re
election. They no longer feel under
the' apprehensive constraint of
watchful constituency. That tends t
make them more free, and the com
ing session will be characterized by
an unusual and agreeable frankness.
AKKTCiTeness Is Expected.
Quite a few of these defeated mem
bers who have already returned ' to
Washington feel uo. only free from
constraint, but feel, ialso. that'their
own constituents and the cou'nt'ry as
a whole have been Aingratef uu" v The
activities of men in this mood will be
characterized not merely by unusual
frankness, hut by. an aggressive Inde
pendence A session of -congress, of
which a considerable number of mem
bers know they are going out of pub
lic life and of which the remainder
know that they are secure in ;their
seats for a long time to comer ough:
to provide the country with ' better,
legislation . than usual. Except for
two factors, the coming session .would
Wilson Uncertain. Factor. X- J'
The first, of the factors that maker,
a good body of legislation less probable-
is uncertainty about the disposi
tion of -President Wilson. . -
Rightly, or wrongly, congress has
come to feel; that President Wilson
is In an unreasonable mood, and tha:
In his exercise of the veto power dur ing
the coming session Will be gov
erned not merely by the ''freedom
which he shares with them as a man
about to leave public life, but by a
petulant insistence on his own pre
rogative. i
Drastic Immlsjrrntion L'lA' Lilcely.
For example,- there can be no doubt
that the present congress is disposed
to pass a drastic law restricting "im
migration. Congress is almost uni
versally impressed ..with . the belief
that many countries of Europe, in the
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PICTORIAL COMMENTS BY CMtTOONIST
" ;pzspsj j- p : r : : . j
Reputation . as Cafeteria Manager
Earns - Miss - Alice ", Robertson
----
. Free Hand In Capitol.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, .Nov. 27. In contending
that-some domestic questions are even
more, important than American -mandates
for Armenia-, or Mesopotamia,
leading men. memoers of' the house
of representatives have' 'laid- out a
large and responsible job for Miss
Alice Robertson, the new member
from Oklahoma. .. 8 -.
Some of.' the atrocities practioed
against the natives of Armenia are as
nothing compared to all that patrons
of the house restaurants in the capitol
ua aouse onice buna. ng nave suf
fered over a long period of years, say
these male statesmen. akFrequent at-j
tempts have been made' to Improve
the quality of the food and the char
acter .of the service, ' and congress
leaders believe that they have found
the solution in the election of Miss
Robertson. -
Miss Robertson comes to Washing
ton with a reputation for many
things, one of which Is that she
knows f.how to run a successful cafe
teria. " It is asserted that the founda
tion of her strength in the late elec
tions was constructed almost wholly
from patrons of her eating place in
Muskogee. Word comes from Musko
gee that' everybody w-ho ate in Miss
Alice's. place was strong for her. They
say the-food waff right and the price
was' right and she prospered withoul
putting figures on the menu that
were prohibitive to the ordinary fel
low arid "fellowess." J
Plans therefore are being .carefully
joined together to put her at the head
of a committee having charge of the
house restaurants. She is to be given
a free, hand.;- The men members of the
committee understand that their only
functions will be to help make a
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INDX OF TODAY'S NEWS
! The Weather. '
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 51
degrees; minimum, 42 degrees,
TODAY'S Rain ; southerly -winds.
Departments.''
Editorial Section 3, page 10.
D ram a tic Section 4, page- 4.
Moving picture news. Section 4, page 6.
Real estate and building news. Section . 4,
page Hf . . " --
Music Section 4, page 7.
Churches. Section 5, page "2. "" "
Schools. Section 5, page 8.
Books. Section 5, page 3.
Automobile news. Section 6. .
Women's , features.
Society. Section 3, page 2.
Women's activity. Section 4, page 8.
Fashions.- Section 5, page 4.
Mlsa Tingle's column. " Section TS, page 7.
Auction, bridge.' Section 5, page 5.
Special features. -
Pioneer .bands basis for Portland's love of
music. Magaaine section, page 1. '
War on paint and "nakedness." Magazine
j section, page 2.
Talks with T. R. Magazine section, page 3.
News of world as seen by camera. Maga
zine section, page 4.
Miss Board man discusses public service as
a. career. . Magazine section, page 5.
Why rich girisv marry poor men. . Magazine
section, page o.
Pilots t( industry at 00 guide giant buai-
. ness. Magazine section, page 7.
.Hill's tcartoona, "Among Us Mortals."
Magazine section, page 8.
Posit ionVof-.. public nurse offers big field.
Section4, page 2.
Valuable -ash timber found in Oregon. Sec
lion, 4, page 3.
Joaquin 3tflljer's cabin atlU stand's in Can
yon City, Or. Section 4, page 9.
Woman.-, decorator tells of need of har
monyn the home. Section 5, page 6.
' - .' ' . foreign.
Plot to. seat king in Bavaria denied. Sec-
Uott 1,- page. H. :
British government may establish intern
ment camps -for members of Irish re
publican army. Section 1. page 2.
League members , welcome representative
of United States war department. Sec
tion. Is page 1- . " - -v
British' preek says United States is not en
titled Jo . Mesopotamiau oil Britain
bought with her own blood. Section 1,
page 18. ;
.National.
Congress faced by several big jobs. Section
. 1. page 1.
Red Tape rapped by American Legion. Sec
tion a, page 3
Army of non-essential jobholders at Wash
ington may well be worried. Section 1,
page 1.
Miss Alice Robertson, representative from
Oklahoma, to rule restaurants in house.
Section 1. page 1.
Dairy Lunch Announces Reduc
tions Affecting Many Coast Cities
; and Including Portland.
SAN, FRANCISCO, Nov. 27. Price
reductions on coffee from 10 cents a
cup to 5 cents, pie from 15 cents a
cut to 10 cents and other reductions
were announced today by a dairy
lunch concern operating in several
coast cities. . , The change hero is ef
fective also -in Oakland, Portland.
Sacramento, Seattle, Tacoma and
other cities where the concern has
establishments. It was announced. '
New low record prices for the year
on hogs were announced today by the
two local packing companies, one
company's price ranging from 9 for
very light to a top price of 12 cents,
while the range of the other company
was 10 to 12 cents.
Flour dropped 60 cents a barrel here
to 110.70, it was announced by Frank
B. Connolly, secretary of the Cali
fornia State Grocers' association.
There will be further reduction in
the cost of flour and bread prices
will be reduced. Mr. . Connolly said.
The price today is the lowest since
almost a year before the-,JJnited
States entered the war. The price of
J10.70 a barrel Is fdr flour at the mill
door. 'Wholesale price at points ais-
tanr from San Francisco will be
110.70 a barrel plus freight charges.
Since July 1, when flour reached
the peak of price following the war
the market has been steadily decreas
ing. On July 1 the price was 14.30
a barrel.
MINNEAPOLIS. Nov. .27. Continu
ing its downward slide, flour touched
a new low price in four years today,
when the mills here reduced prices
to J8.35 to 8.50 a Barrel for family
patents. The decline today was 25
to 50 cents a barrel. The previous
low record was $8.40.
- Domestic .
Shipping board investigatortels of thceats.
Section 1, page 3.
Price slump hits pie, coffee and pigs. Sec
tion 1, page 1.
State's effort to set aside Pickford-Moore
divorce unwarranted, says McNab.' Sec
tion 1, page IB. -r
State Bank of North Dakota, created by
non-partisan league, facing . -financial
crisis. Section 1, page 4. !
Governor Coolldge pleads for learning. Sec
tion 1, page 10. , i
; Pacific Northwest.
Klamath committee reports Link river dam
necessary. Section 1, page 9.
Ill-fated barge sought on rocks. Section 1,
page 1. .
Storm abates' at Grays Harbor, but tele
phone lines are down and railroad is
, covered- by mud slides. Section 1,
1 Page 8.
End of Jazz craze near, says pianist. Sec
tion 1, page 1.
Anti-alien land bill may pass in Idaho.
Section 1, page 7.
Conductor and brakeman held responsible
for railroad smash-up. Section 1,
page 16, v '
-r B ports. " .
Thee aerial flips down Washington, 28
to 7. Section 2, ,paee 1.
Pacific coast all-star-football teams chosen.
Section 2, 4age 1. ,
Navy victor pver army, 7 to-0. Section 2,
Pag 2. 0 ' '
Three Ail-American gridiron stars will play
in Pacific fleet game with winged-M
eleven. Section 2, page 2.
Langford trains faithfully for bout with
"Tiny" Herman. Section 2, page 3.
Twelve are victims of 1020 football games.
Section 2, page 18.
Kenworthy signed to manage Seattle. Sec
tion 2, page 18. .
Commercial and Marina.
Decline in apple prices believed to be
checked. Section 1, page 21.
Heavy exports stiffen wheat market at
cnicago. section l, page 21.
Supporting orders steady stock market be
fore close. Section 1, page 21..
Portland trade in far east held to depend
on rate aajusimem. section l, page 20.
Coastwise shippers to seek abolition of ca
nal tolls. Section 1, page 20.
Portland and Vicinity.
Vocational guidance is outlined at -closing
session of conference of presidents of
independent Oregon colleges. Sectional,
' pag 10.
Proposed amendment to teachers tenure
law debated at Civic league luncheon,
Section l, page 11. r1
Organization of
legislative Committees
arouses curiosity. Section
1. page .14.
Many long for federal jobs in Oregon.
Section -3, page 17.-
Plana forming for entertainment of fleet
officers and men due Friday. Section
1. page 19. ,
layor to ask railroads to build union sta
tion. Section 1, page 10.
Al, Kader temple of Shriners will nomi
nate Mayor Baker as outer- guard of
imperial divan. Section 1, page 18.
PERRY ON SOME RECENT NEWS EVENTS
Coming Xongress Under
, No Obligation to Any.
NON - ESSENTIALS MUST GO
Leaders Realize Pressing
- Need of Economy.
OTHER PROBLEMS APPEAR
Flood of Foreign- Immigration to
XT. S. at This Time Is Causing
Serious. Apprehension.
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THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, Nov. 27. It has fre
quently been-remarked that the word
"economy" Is nothing more than a
slogan for political campaigns.
t is different this time. Political
leaders now are thinking more seri
ously over the need for economy than
when the term was being used It the
period preceding the late elections to
put over a . republican president and
congress.
The reason is that as estimates are
received from the various depart
ments of the government it becomes
apparent that cabinet members hope
to be allowed to go ahead spending
money like drunken sailors. Not oTily
cabinet members but the heads of in
dependent .boards and federal com
missions - have put in demands .for
money that laok like the financial
requisitions of war time.;
Budget Committee Stunned.
Members of the enlarged appropri
ations committee, more properly now
the budget committee, ' are dum
founded at the' figures laid before
them, although declining to let the
j public in on all the facts for the
present. -' This much, however, is
knownr The heads of departments
show no disposition whatever In their
estimates to retrench. They seek to
carry on the payrolls thousands upon
thousands of employes who were put
on only for the war emergency, and
they are going to ask for Increased
salaries for. all the h01p.
Bureaus established exclusively for
war purposes are not .only asking to
be continued permanently, but re
quest larger salaries for everybody
in their employ. Other war activities
which were supposed to contract
siowljf until tlfeir affairs were en
tirely wound up have instead come to
congress with petitions for perpetual
tenure and millions more of the pub
lic money to do, nobody knows what.
Many Heads Must Fall.
Congressional leaders who formu
late fiscal legislation feel so out
raged that It is expected there will
be a summary taking off of many
political heads just as soon as the
lawmakers can get action.- Members
of congress complain that the execu
tive departments are placing upon
them the enti-e burden of reducing
government .expenses.
The policy of -the, administration, it
is declared, is tc get all that it can
while the getting is good, but con
gress purposes to assume responsi
bility for saving with a genuine test.
The congress which sits here one
week from next Monday is under no
obligation to any job-holder in Wash
ingtonT" It is therefore to be expected
that, some of those gentlemen who.
with, Jobs given in the payment of
purely political debts, are able to take
j three to four hours or lunch, six
dm a week. "Twill be going home
onrt nrnivin0- at mulnvmont
- x - " w
agencies iur aunieiuiua iu iiue iucw
over.j, - S" ,
Other Problems Appear.
But economy is not the only prob
lem confronting the short session of
congress. The flood of foreign im
migration to American shores at a
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Discharged and Disabled Men to
Be Protected Whatever It
Costs Bureaucrats. ,
. WASHINGTON. Nov. 27. Represent
ative? "of the American Legion in
formed officials of the war risk in
surance bureau, the federal board for
vocational education and the public
health service today that the legion
proposed to urge measures designed
to cut red tape in the- bureaus and
to compel the government to func
tion in its dealings with discharged
and disabled service men.
The legion representatives, who met
here with the heads of the three bu
reaus to discuss a plan to combine
the work of the bureaus, declared
that the legion proposed to press for
legislation consolidating the func
tions of tHe government agencies and
doing away with "long-winded talk
about co-operation and co-ordination."
John Sherbourne of Boston,
member of the legion committee, ad
monished the government conferees
that if the proposed consolidation de
stroyed their present organizations
it would-simply have to go ahead
and destroy."
Dr. C. W. Lavender, representing
the public health service, pleaded for
the continuation of "other work in
the health service outside of that
done for the veterans of the world
war," saying his bureau had many
other functions.
"I have read every one of your ap
propriation bills," Mr. Sherbourne re
plied, "and I find that the money you
have to spend for the soldiers, sailors
and marines is much greater than
for all other purposes. Now, we don't
want to be rough, and we do not
want to impair or handicap any gov
ernmental agency unnecessarily, but
we are faced with the problem of gov
ernment agencies not functioning and
we do not propose to permit any sin
gle agency to stand in the way."
The consolidation plan as outlined
by the legion representatives proposes
creation of an assistant secretary in
one of the executive departments to
have direct charge of the work of the
three bureaus. The government rep
resentatives R. G. Cholmeley Jones,
director of the war risk insurance
buriSau; Uell Lambkin, member of
the vocational education board, and
Dr. Lavender approved this feature,
but doubted the advisability of actu
ally combining the three bureaus.
STOWAWAY AGENCY FOUND
Business of Smuggling Japanese
Into V. S. Uncovered.
TOKIO. Nov. 27. (By the Asjo
ciated Press.) The Yamato Shimbun
announced today, that the police have
discovered a stowaway agency en
gaged in shipping emigrants to the
United States in contravention of the
"gentlemen's agreement" between
Japan and the United States.
The agency's representatives, the
newspaper says, confessed they were
working' in conjunction with petty
officers of freighters, who allowed
stowaways aboard disguised as mem
bers of the crew for 1800 yen.
SOME RAINS FORECAST
Unsettled Conditions Are Predicted
M for Week.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 27. Weather
. predictions for the week beginning
Monday include:
t Northern Rocky - mountain and
plains regions Generally fair and
normal temperature except that local
rains and snows are probable about
Tuesday.
Pacific states Unsettled, with oc
casional rains in Washington. Oregon
and northern California; normal tem
perature. ITALIANS RATIFY TREATY
Forty-Two Deputies Decline Vote
on Adriatic Problem.
ROME, Nov. 27. (By the Associ
ated Press.) The chamber of depu
ties today approved the treaty of
Rapallo, regarding the Adriatic prob
lem, 221 to 12.
Forty-two deputies abstained from
voting.
Major Churchill's Appear
ance Surprise.
MISSION IS NOT SIGNIFICANT
Officer in Geneva in Behalf of
War Department.
U.S. MEMBERSHIP DESIRED
Assehibly Would Leave Way Opea
for This Nation to Act In Cov
enant Revision.
GENEVA, Nov. 27. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Arrival today of Ma
jor Marlborough Churchill, assistant
chief of the military intelligence di
vision of the generall staff of tlio
American army, which, so far as ap
pears now, has no real significance
except to himself and his department,
has created a mild sensation in league
of nations circles. The United States
has been on the lips of almost ever "
spokesman in the assembly and prob
ably in t'.e minds of every delegate.
The hope that the United States
will some day join the league is un
mistakable. The work of the assem
bly has visibly been directed so tt3
not to prejudice the most important
questions at issue regarding the cove
nant and so as to leave the way open
for the United States to have its say
in its eventual revision.
Appearance during this assembly
of any official or unofficial repre
sentative of the American govern
ment was the last thing hoped for.
Major Churchill, consequently, was
all the' more an object of attention
when his presence became known.
Two Nations Vet Barred.
The sub-committee considering the
admission of new members has been
unable to complete its work on ac
count of objections to both Bulgaria
and Austria by neighboring states.
Roumania, Greece and Jugo-Slavia
are . still standing out against Bul
garia, while Czecho-Slovakia has not
yet consented to the admission of
Austria. v
Reasons given by the objectors are
much the same as those presented by
France against Germany. It has been
pointed out to them, however, that
both Bulgaria and Austria in their
applications promised to fulfill their
international obligations and thus
make themselves eligible. Sugges
tions were made to the representa
tives of the objecting states today
that in view of the advantages they"
derive from the peace treaties con
tinued obstruction on their part
would be likely to attract unfavorable
attention.
The subcommittee on armament to
day continued hearing arguments in
favor of the resolution introduced by
Dr. Gastoa da Cunha of Brazil, mak
ing manufacture of arms and muni
tions a state monopoly.
Proposal Oainins Ground.
This proposition is gaining ground
among the delegates, it' being held
that much of the tendency to pro
voke hostilities would be removed if
all possible private profit from the
manufacturers of war materials
should be eliminated.
Work of the league committees has
progressed enough to warrant an
nouncement that a plenary, session of
the assembly will be held some time
between December 5 and 10.
Admission of new members to the
league will be taken up by the as
sembly by the end of next week.
The "little entente" will propose
that Czecho-Slovakia replace Greece
as non-permanent member of the
council, while the Scandinavian group
favors Sweden.
Da Cunha's munitions resolution is
receiving strong support in the sub-
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