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lie FW SECTION Pages lto6 TWO SECTIONS 10 ?ats ? SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1921 PRICE: FIVE CENTS 5 f 1 1' 4. a m r. - v 4 I 0 JAPAN STILL i i INSISTS UPON : I KEEPING SHIP Acceptance American Naval Program Indicated .With Exception That Mutsu is Desired. LEADER OF FRENCH DELEGATION LEAVES No Less Than Four Treaties Will Go Before Congress for Ratification WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. (By the Associated Press.) Japan has Indicated conditional acceptance f the American 5-5-3 naval ratio and a final settlement ot the question appears Imminent. After another meeting of the naval "big three" today it was said 'one rery email point" remained to be determined. The Japanese exception to the American plan Is understood to center about her desire to retain her new battleship Mutsu and scrap insteal a vessel of older type. It she is permitted to do o it Is indicated that the United States and Great Britain will In sist . on similar concessions, al ways in the ratio of 5-5-3. 1 Domestic Questions out The new four-power treaty to preserve peace in the Pacific was formally sealed and signed today by the plenipotentiaries of the sUnlted States, Great Britain, Ja pan and France. To it is attach d an American "ressnration" ac cepted bjr the other powers. It provides that no purely domestic question . shall fall ; within the Bcope of the treaty and that none of the treaty provisions shall bo construed as a modification of the American policy toward Pacific mandates, a subject to be dealt .with in a separate treaty. Indications developed that In the Shantung negotiations things .were not going so smoothly. Both the Japanese and Chinese came out of a conference today showing; s'gns of somewhat dampened hopes. The question of financial settlements involved in Japanese withdrawal from, the Klao Chow leasehold was the stumbling block. ' By delegates outside the Japan ese and Chinese groups the diffi culties were looked upon as tern porary. Vivian! Goes Home Another Indication that the general trend of the conference is satisfactory to the leaders was given by the departure for France of Rene Vlfianl, head of the French delegation. Rumblings of oposltlon to the four-power treaty continued today in the senate, to which the agree ment must be submitted by Presi dent Harding for ratification. It now appears likely that there will be four or more treaties to send to the senate when the con- fefence ends. Larding Wants Future Meeting There Is a growing Impression that the naval ratio and the Far Eastern declaration and .perhaps also the agreement on naval bases In the Pacific will be written into formal treaties which may be pending in the senate simultane ously with the four-power pact and that relating to the mandated Islands. President Harding also hopes that some sort of an agreement will bo reached for future meet ings. -.1. ' t - Announcement by the confer ence of agreement on the 5-5-3 v naval ratio between Great Britain, Japan and the United States loomed tonight as probable be fore tho week-end. Agreement Conditional .A plenary session Is e peeled by some delegates. Japan has indi cated conditional agreement to th 5-5-3 ratio. Her acceptance was coupled, however, with a re quest to substitute the new battle ship Mutsu for the old 12-inch gun ehlp Sctsu In the ships she would retain. Tho decision pf Japan was com , municated informally to Mr. Hughes and Mr. Balfour by Ad miral Baron Kato and was dis cussed today by the American del egation at a conference attended by Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, later the "big three" of the naval powers,' Messrs. Hughes. Balfour and Kato. again met, this time Mr. Roosevelt, -Admiral Coontz, Rear Admiral Pratt attending. Holklay May Change After this meeting, it was said that only "one very small point" remained unsettled. It was indi- (Continued on page 5j. DE VALERA PHOTOGRAPHED IN PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE j 1 i I, - - i"f" .''r ... - TAMON DE VALERA. President of the Irish Republic. --' we recently made Chancellor of the National University of Dublin. The photograph Reports on Red Cross Campaign Received From All Districts at Headquarters Office in Salem "With the exception of a few dis tricts In Marion counties, which have not as yet sent into head quarters the result ot their ef forts all districts outside of Sa lem have completed the fifth an nual roll call of Willamette chan ter, American Red Cross, with headquarters in Salem. Dr. I). M. Fields says that re turns from Salem amounted to $1608, and from points outside the city, up to date, $1829. When all rural reports are in. Dr. Fields says the out of town districts will total memberships amount ing to about $t,000. Taking everything into consid eration, especially the week of flood and stormy weather, mak LITTLE UIIEU There was once a missionary V little boy who became tremen dously interested in the catnpaisti against Old Nick. He wanted to go into the fight, but he wasn't ready to take on all comers from the hosts of darkness, so he de livered his defi thus: "Well, me'oby I ain't able to fight the Old devil himself,, but gimme a chance ami I'll lick the stuffin' out of one of the littbi devils!" The seniors licked the "li'tlo devils" of Willamette last ntcht in the class basketball Merles, 17 DEVILISH IRE TERRIBLE PICTUE OF NEXT IR PITER By WILL " 'The Next War' doesn't really mean that there will be any next.'' is the substance of Will Irwin'? lecture at the armory last ninht. The war same has been pro gressing comt"orta;r:jr i.,r ;iie past 2000 years, developing a code thai look if it was solidcr than Uih- ralter. Men had nice, sociable killings, "according to rules. They ppared churches and women and children and non-combatants thouKh sometimes they made them slaves, which waa almost worse than butchery. But it was a defin ite code that had been built up by 1914. War (io1 lleally Awakes There hadn't been much proR ress in tho art of war for an al most infinite time, said the speak er. Gunpowder was invented many Si i i shows him in his official robe ing country work especially diffi cult. Dr. Fields says the interest shown in the Red Cross work as judged by membershins is most remarkable end very satisfactory. To the teachers of schools in the rnr.il districts. Dr. Fields wishes to express his thanks, as many made their efforts for the Red Cross under very unfavorable circumstances. Quite a number of districts in both, counties were not solicited as it was impo-siMo for the gen eral chairmen to secure workers in those districts. The following is a liet of Red Cross contributions for the fifth annual membership campaign (Continued on page 5) f RES Bf SENIOR FI to 7. The froh were not playing quite up to their firs;-day form, when they took the juaiors down the line 1-' to 11. They were not able to solve tin loog range Johnny-on-the-sot plays of the up per clas.sineu, who divided up their scoring almost i it exact ro tation. The teams were practi cally the same as those "that played for their classes Mon day, with th exception tiiat Cra mer went in for Schreiber lor the frosh, in tho last few minutes of the game, and Isliam substitut- (Continucd on page 5.) ciiU;i'i .v a to, hut had just oozed into tl)- game so slowly that H made no radical upset. Warriors foupbt on with 'pikes and knnts and common individual weapon?, decades after the rest of the world had pricked up its ears, spurred itself in the ribs and started to invent propresy. The stase coach of Napoleon's time, had pi veu way to the lno-mile-an-hour train, the 12."-mile airplane, the auto, the steamship: science hal worke-d out, electricity, teleg raphy, radio-activity, and a thmjs and chemical and engineering marvels; but arms and armies re-j mained much as they did when Xapoleon lost, tho world at Water loo. (Continued on page 4) PARLIAMENT TO BEGIN DEBUTES ON IRISH PICT Speedy Ratification Expect cd in House of Commons and Morley .of Lords to Urge Haste. PREMIER MAKES PUBLIC CRAIG COMMUNICATIONS Willingness to Cooperate With Southern Ireland Is Expressed LONDON, Dec. 13.- (Hy The Associated Pres.;) The imperial parliament will assemble tomor row to contstder tne treaty De tween Great Britain and Iieland Thc king will open parliament and the premier will review the Irish situation, explaTn the treaty and plead for strong endorsement of the settlement. The hou-e of commons is ex pected to give the lieaty its speedy ratifieation and in the house of lords Viscount Morley will ask for a similar action. Meeting Simultaneous. Simultaneously the Dail Eire ann at Dublin will take the treaty under advisement, the rish plen ipotentiaries, headed by Arthur Griffith, seeking its ratification and Eamonn De Valera," Sinn Fein leader, with a considerable follow ing, opposing the instrument as it now stands. Premier Lloyd George today gave out the correspondence ex changed between himself and Sir James Craig, dealing with the Irish negotions. These letters bore dates of from November 10 to December 5. They were sup plemented later by a letter made public by Sir James addressed to the premier under date of July 29, which he said was necessary to maintain the sequence of events. Craig Is Knipbatic. The I'hter premier unequivo cally declared Ulster would not en ter an all-Ireland parliament but was willing to accept three out of the four proposals cf the British government. Mr. Lloyd George argued that two dominions in Ireland was in defensible. Two alternatives were offered to T'lster. the one that she retains her existing powers with additional guarantees if she en tered the Irish Free State; the other that she retain her present powers, but in respect to all other matters not already delegated to her, share the rights and obliga tions of Great Britain with the proviso, however, In the latter case, that her boundary would bo subject to revision. Text of Craig Telegram Sir James Craig has sent a tel egram to Mr. 1 oyd George say ing: "In order to maintain the se quence of events it is of import ance that my letter to you of Ju ly 29 should be included. I. therefore am supplying a copy to the press. This letter proceeds to dilate on Ulster's unabated desire to re tain British citizenship and to point out the sacrifices Ulster has made in agreeing to self govein ment and the establishment of an Ulster parliament "much against our wish, but in the interests or peace." Complaining that southern Ir ishmen are now repudiating tho act of 1920 and pressing for wid er powers. Sir James says: Sinn Vein Defied "To join in such pressure :3 repugnant to the people of nor thern Ireland. In the further in- terest of peace we therefore re-, the obligalto solos. She has a speetfully decline to determine- or cultivated voice and is a thorough interfere with the terms of any ; ly pleasing singer, and it is to be settlement between Great Britain j regretted that the public is not and southern Ireland. ' favored more often with her sing- "Similarly If there exists an j inc. equal desire for peace on the part : The second apollo concert will of the Sinn Fein, thev will respect.' be given tonight. With the most the status nuo in 1'lster ant re- j excellent work done last nictit. frain trom any interference writ j nd the fact that Mr. Mutch will our parliament and r:chts whin again appear on the program, under no eircumslances can we i there is the assurance ol another admit. pleasing musical evening. "Our acceptance of your on'K- j -j . inal invitation to meet in confer-' . eme in London still holds Rood .! BliSineSS DeDI"eSSi0n Will T ) -. 1 i r l 1 1 i I i . 1 f I'll! I IfM i.'OUIIU Ul HC'l""1"" ."" with the fact that no meeting i- possible between 'r. De V'aleri and myself as it is recognized that northern Ireland will not submit to any authority otle?r than his majesty, the kinc and the parliament of the I'nitd Kingdom and admits he sanc'j- ty of th existinc powers and r,r' vilejjos of the parliament and gov ernment of northern Ireland. Peace is losired "Iet me assure you that peace Is earnestly desired by my gov ernment and myself as by you (Continued on page 5) SALEM MEN ARE WARNED BY OFFICIAL Postmaster Huckestein Asks Advertisers to Steer Clear of Lottery Schemes Merchants are being cautioned by Postmaster Huckestein not to advertise in a fotm that may he termed a 1 ttory, or violate any o the postoffice law:; regarding tahing chances or giving awards in order to increase business. The suggestion is made that if a merchant wishes to advertise any scheme or plan, that he fiist submit the idea to the postmaster that he may send it to the proper authorities for an opinion The postmaster here or else where, is not permitted by the pestoffice rules to pas3 an indiv idual opinion as to whether an advertisement is contrary lo the postal laws or not. But for the benefit of advertisers, in oidor that there may be no question as to whether the advertisement Imrders on a lottery, he is re quired to submit it. APOLLO sins . CAPTU1 SALEM Miss Virginia Rea Caught in 'Flood, But Place is Ably Filled All good friends of the Apollo club male chorus, and there are many of them, have every reason to be satisfied and even joyful over the concert given last night at the Grand theater, assisted by J. E. Mutch of Portland. Forty ! men were in the chorus. The chorus sang witli nice dis tinction and the closest attention to light and shade, under the very effective direction of Professor John R. Sites. In fact, Professor Sites had his singers well In hand and received from them the clos est of attention. And it was due to the most excellent drilling and musicianship of the director that the Apollo club scored a most de cisive hit. From the opening chorus to the close, the audience was captivated. Not only was Professor Sites com plimented, but his singers as well. Taking all in all, the concert may really be said to be one of the most satisfactory Apollo con certe ever given. The audience was most generous in its approval as evidenced by numerous en cores. To F, G. Deckebash was giver, the rather uncertain assignment of announcing that Miss irginia Rea was unable to appear, having been detained on account of the Seattle floods. Mr. Deckebach took his duty seriously but the audience didn't, as it had already heard several numbers bythe club, and was prepared to enjoy itself. And it did. J. E. Mutch of Portland who was considerate enough to come to Salem on late notice, soon had the enthusiastic approval of every one. As a soloist, the audience liked him and continued to give him such hearty encores that his program was considerably longer than perhaps Mr. Mutch anticipat ed. It isn't always pleasant to come into a concert at the last moment as u substitute, but Mr. Mutch should surely be well pleased with his Salem reception. Mr. Mutch has lecn associated with miison-White for the past two years, and will soon leave for Europe to take up his concert work. Mr. Mutch will appear again tonight with the Apollo sin iters. Mrs. Robert McKinney Hofer, also kindly agreed to take the part Miss Rea had intended to sing in "Omnipotence." by Schubert. Al though Mrs. Ifofer had but a few hours' notice, she most ably sang Cause Shops to Shut Down BALT1MOKE. Md.. Dec. 13. Thousands of shopmen employed by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad wiil be furloughed Indefinite!' Saturday when shops over the sys- tem will be shut down. Businesr depression and the necessities of effecting economies were given by officials as prompting tho action. WEATHER Wednesday fair; light northerly winds. ARCHERD'S CAT IS MERE DUB, ASSERTS CHARLEY KNOW LAND C. E. Knowland. King Bin? of the Cherrians. says the trained cat of Charles R. Archcrd is not so much of a cat after all. He says any sort of an animal will roll over two or three times when it wants to be fed." , Mr. Knowland says he has a cat that is a cat. That it wiil climb up to the bird cage, shake hands with the canary and do all that with out asking for anything to eat. Knowiand's trained cat i according to Mr. Know land ). comes out to meet him upon his return home every evening, and before entering the hone, will wipe its feet on the door mat. It takes time to train a cat like that, Mr. Knowland says. Amicable Settlement Effect ed With Martin Horst and Mrs, Hougham A compromise has been effect ed between the city of Mt. Angei auu iuaruu tioisi aim .uis. Liara B. Hougham, by which the city will not be obliged to pay th3 judgments entered against the town on account of damages done from sewerage from the Mt. Angel septic tanks. Martin Horst will be paid by the city the sum of $f00 for which the city has the right of way of drainage over the Horst farm. The agreement provides that the septic tank shall be main tained in its present location and that the drainage shall be through a gravel filtration joining from the tank, or if not, direct through a pipe line. The drainage over the Horst farm is to be of field tile and will be placed two feet below the surface. Tho city will have no use of any of the Horst land, and Mr. Horst or his assigns may cul tivate over the tile. The septic tank is not to be made larger than at present, and the sewerage system through the Horst farm is to be completed by July 15, Mrs. Clara B. Hougham will receive from the city of Mt. An gel the sum of $S02.25 which the city pays in lieu of the judgment of $2:.M) in favor of Mrs. Hough am. The city will have the same right to construct a sewerage of tile through her land and on the same conditions granted Mr. Horst. This ends the trouble between these two land holders and the city of Mt. Angel, in which each broucht suit against the city, al leging damages from the overflow of the city's septic tank. The jury at the last term of court awarded Mrs. Hougham $2T,00 and Mr. Horst $1500. By the agree ment these awards are cancel led. ELKS W BAB OF Fraternal Order Members May Discard Well Known Emblem of Lodge N?:V YORK. Dec. i:j. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks today was asked by the American Game Protective asso- riation to forbid its members wearing elks' teeth as emblems. This request was made in a res olution adopted when photographs had been shown picturing elks shot for their t'-eth alone. Speakers included Governor Gary of Wyoming. Portland Banks Again to ":., nk.;lmn, D.o' Ml. ANGEL CASE IS COMPROMISED PORTLAND. Ore.. Dec. 13. Signing of the fqur-power Distribution of Christmas bonuses treaty "in private" in the ante bv banks and other financial in-! room. of the office of the secre- j :stituf ions here to employes is ex ; nected to be a holiday feature as i in former years. Directors of the various institutions have the mat ter under consideration, but it is probable the size of the salary bonuses would be smaller than heretofore because of the smaller .profits of tho banks this year and declining costs of living. NOTED CAMP TO CLOSE AT BLACK ROCK After 16 Years of Operation Spauldings Finish Cut in Prolific District Black Rock camp of the Spauld ing Logging company, so well known to timber men in this part of the valley, is about to be closed down for good by the com pany. . according to V. G. Holt, logging superintendent. Already operations have stop ped on one side of the camp, and the equipment, consisting of four donkey engines and all logging supplies for work, shipped on sev en cars to the company's camp at Grande Ronde. The other side of the Black Rock camp will be closed early in the year, rmd equipment chip ped to Grand Ronde, to be used by the Mianii-Spnulding company. The Black Rock camp of Spaul- ding s began operations about 16 years ago. and there has been logged off at tho camp, GO,000. ooo feet of timber. The company has not as yet decided what shall be done with the land, now that the merchantable timber has tten cut and shipped. YAMHILL PEOPLE SOUND PROTEST Legislators and Former Leg- islator Cry Out Against World Fair Tax Yamhill taxpayers are strongly opposed to anything that will add a dollar to the present burden of taxation, according to the report from the Yamhill Tapayere as sociation meeting held at McMlnn- viue l uesaay iorenoon. The court house was a seething jam of people, turned out to do their bit In reducing the tax load. An imposing list of speakers laid the conditions before the eager au dience. Senator W. M. Pierce of Union county. Senator A. M. LaFollette cf Marion county, President C. E. Spence of the Oregon Grange, J. D. Brown of the state farmers' union, Col. E. Hofer of Salem, T. B, Kay and S. B. Endicott of Sa lem, Seymour Jones speaker of the house of representatives, and Judge P. H. D'Arcy of Salem, were on the program. ' The net result of the meeting was a resolution to appear in force in Salem, December 19, to talk to the lawnrnakers at' the pending session of the legislature. The resolution asked that the legisla ture consider no matters not spe cifically named in the gogvernor's call, and declared against the 1925 Atlantic-Pacific exposition at Port land or anywhere else that would impose any tax burden on the suf fering taxpayers. The meeting was marked with vociferous enthusiasm frgm start to finish. P.tLACK WKKCKED BRCSSKLS, Dec. 13. The Slg uranzia palace at Bolgrad, Bessa rabia, has been wrecked by a bomb, according to advices from Bucharest. One hundred soldiers and police on duty within the pal ace were killed. The bomb wasUj(.j thrown, it is believed, by one of a' group of conspirators. Reporters Receive News of Treaty : ; Signing Through Wee Crack After Being Told They Might be Present WASHINGTON, tier. 12. (By The Associated Press As the arms conference nears a settle ment on the naval ratio, its most vital issue, discussions are ?o carefully Ruardd from view that even some delegation spojtesmeii ; are finding difficulty in learning wh?t is Koing on The curtain obscures from the public exchanges taking place In the "hie three" and to a lesser degree the same situation prevails as to the other elements. Ar rangements had lw?en made to have newspapermen present at the signing today of the four power treaty, but the plan was cancelled. Silence' f lam-like One delegntion spokesman var- musly described the atmuae oi 'big three' today as "a clam- ! like silence." - 1 tary of state today was due to a : sudden and unexplained reversal of the orders of department off! cials. Before the plenipotentiar ies began to gather it was an nounced that the signing- would he public and additional chairs were carried into the room. Higher-up Appear Scarcely had the chairs been CANCELING OF BIG WAR DEBT PART DF HI Assuming Americans Do Not Intend to Call Meeting,1 British Leader May Take Initiative. . PROPOSAL'TO FORMER PRESIDENT RECALLED Claims Against Italy, France,1 Belgium, Russiaj, al- s . kans' May Go ; WASHINGTON,. rW IX ; (Hy the Associated Press) Some foreiarn diplomats in at tendance at the arms conference ; 1 ! nave rcceiveu rora wntcn. mey interpret indicating that Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain is preparing to take the initiative in world economic j matters, having become con- vinced from the reaults of in-' quirics made here that the Am erican government docs not in tend to call an international economic meeting, at least not in the near future. v His plan, according to the in formation, contemplates cancel- f lation of all war debts owed to Great Britain by Italy, Prance,! Belgium, Russia and the smal ler Balkan allies, amounting to upward of two billions gter ling. v - t ' j The premier, it Is recalled, j proposed to President Wilson that ail interallied debts should be cancelled, but his present design, according to the under standing, does not include re newal of that suprpestion to the United States."' He is said to intend to annul the debts of the other countries due Great Britain subject to conditions, one, it is understood, being that France should forgive the delfts of allied countries to her am ounting to about the equival ent of two billion of dollars and another being a reduction of German reparations due to France by 13,511,000,000 francs. This is the amount France bor rowed of England during the war and is about as large a sum as that loaned to Franco by the United States, -which was 15.285.000.000 francs; The idea of the British gov ernment acting independently of the United States in the cancellation of the debts, ac cording to foreign officials, ap pears to have originated with Austen Chamberlain when he was chancellor of the exchej- (Continued on page 6) placed than "sonr; one higher up ruled that the signing would b9 private. The chairs were carried, out again. In the dark corridor outside were gathered a hundred or more correspondents and to this throng an official announced that h would furnish "bnlletlns." After IS minutes he opened the door a wee crack and whispered: "Americans have signed." There ensued a race for tele phones. . t Girls Are Admitted j There was the same hushed an nouncement when the , other j gToups had signed in and then so other wait, during which way was made by the crowded correspond ents for girls to enter. ; They soon emerged and it developed they were stenographers. , Then a, f Us of clerks were admitted. . The promulgator of news "kul- letins" again appeared and de- scribed the signing as "very In- j formal." After a while the door, j opened and tho plenipotentiaries i emerged. Into the empty room the press representative;, at last ; were invited to nave a look at tho treaty. .: ' . - They Inspected Its bright red i seals, tried to decipher signatures, were shown the pens abed and then departed.. . - lW, if.