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In the City of Calexa-"', i - j -and elsewhere la - Marlon "and Poli Count!;. ?i Nearly ererybody read ' v . . CIRCULATION Average for the month ot Septem ber. 1923: -' ' V Sundays only . . . ........ .1T8 Dally. and Sunday ..... . .5302 The ITome f.gwr'DCT SEVENTY THIRD YEAR ; SALEM OREGON SATURDAY-MORNING,-NOVEMBER 10, 1923 " - " " " T" ' -7 ' v t PRICES FIVE CTTna Il'J era T0 TED. AT WU TODAY -v Structure at 'Willamette Is Ready for Use Decorat ed fcr Various Festivities of Homecoming Freshman class to 7 dedicate hew walk ( Football Game, Country Fair j and Receptions a r e. Other Features Today Willamette's athletes of the past will see their dream' of years realised when the new 1 100. rOOO gymnasium will be dedicated ; in Berrices at 1 "o'clock this after noon, -today's feature of the Wil 1 lamette ' homecoming: - program. The new gymnasium now complete : is one of the finest In the, country ltor a university of Willamette's i size and was made possible by the 11,000,009 endowment fund se- cured in the campaign last year,,; : 1 The Willamette-Whitman !gameu the alumni tea in the literary so- clety halls, and the Country Fair I .tonight, are other features of the day's program. V i " "Ready For Occupation - " j The dedication serrice will be held In front, of the gymnasium and will open with a song and in- vocation. R. A. Booth of .Eugene wlli give the address, followed by ! talks from A.' F. Flegel of Port land, President Carl Gregg Doney, , -Coach Rathbun and Fred Patfon. ' .president of the student body. , With the exception of a few de- t ails of equipment the gymnasium s complete and ready for full, oc- pupation today. "During the dsy it -Will be elaborately decorated, with 1 : booths ready for this' all-unlTersity j i colal mix tonight: After the ded- "Ication serrice it will be open' for the inspection of Tlsitors. Will Present Walk y Immediately following the. first serrice the freshman . class i: will dedicate its new walk ' leading to the gymnasium, the annual gift of tne incoming class to the univer ' sity. Dr. B.5 L. Steeres, president lot the board of trustees, will re ( celre the gift on behalf of the uni- tfrsity.'-. Throughout the morning fra- ternlty and sorority homes will be j scenes for class reunions and the I renewal of fraternal friendships. (rLausainne hall will also be open i throughout the day to guests who I were once residents there, ; , i , ' Women Are Hosts The Whitman game will be (called at, 2 :20- and more than 2000 ; spectators are expected to .ltnesa the battle. I ; Following the game the .Worn en's Athletic association will , be -Itosts ;to the Tisitlng alnmnl at 'a xea Is the literary society rooms fof Waller halj. The entertain (ment will be solely for alumni and j and ' will be their opportunity to neet old friends and discuss mem Tories bf days gone by. ,r The Country Fair tonight In the gymnasium promises to be a long remembered feature of the week end's1 activity. Booths or side shows have been prepared "byf all of the campus organizations and ' ejrerai alnmnl associations and it is hopedfthat In this entertain ment good fellowship between old and new Btadents will reach its liigHest pitch. All attractions are Tee to the students and; their soests. . .' ;;vV:: : .r : : 2 Tomorrow , morning Homecom mg serrices will bet held in' many -"o the Salem churches to welcome ,pe4 return of old student mem bers, f P;-A''y?Ji:v.. " The official program of 4 the Homecoming committee will end tomorrow afternoon when f rater jitr and sorority houses and Lau- . sanna hall will hold informal open toupa. from 3 until 5 o'clock. 1 1 THE WEATHER OREGON:, Saturday fair; mod k erate easterly winds." v - . LOCAL. WEATHER , ' j :rFrlday) " !!aximum "temperature; 58. 1 1 Ilinimum temperature, 33. F.lver,' J.lj stationary, r.afn, iDone. ft ?TZz'? C.3 1 nosphere.iear.;Xc Aiad, northwest. .. ORM , f r - , 442: PRECICTS MISSING Outstanding Returns Could Only Change To tals in Case of Unexpected Serious Errors in Present Figures Which Are Unofficial Law is Combination of Five Bills. PORTLAND. Or' Nov. 9. all but seven precincts of Oregon an unofficial tabulation made tonight of the, vote cast last Tuesday on the state income tax bill shows: Yes 58,537; No 58,095. Returns from the seven massing precincts will not mater ially alter this result. The number of missing precincts, even, given in tonight s tabulation of the return was based on a re check which showed that an earlier statement by the tabulators had ffiven an insufficient number. WHS FOB SCHOOLS Dill None Sent. HoweveivUnless ; Clerks' Bonds are Forthcoming Warrants for the 143 district Bchool apportionments are .being drawn in the county superintend ent's office and will be mailed out Tuesday morning. County Super intendent; Fulkerson, , 1 however. makes 'one reservation, !'no clerk's bonds, no money" and those dis tricts whose clerks have not filed bonds will, look In vain for their share of the apportionment. ' - - ; The apportionment for the coun ty of each of th. three funds Is as follows: f November ' i 1923 1922 County ..$89,957.51 $86,251.60 State ; .. .25,853.12 32$.754.70 Elementary".''! :Vv.-p i-"y;.Z Fund i5.874.SO . 44.2Og.O0 The spring apportionment -which is made for county and elementary school funds only gave 359,776 in county funds and' 34S.5fi4.87 for the elementary funds.'. . The elementary teachers fund Is derived from the two mill tax voted by the people a few years ago and the county is entitled to its share out of the fund accord ing to the number, of teachers em ployed, 3232.64 being apportioned for every teacher. The state school money comes from Interest on the irreducible school fund and this is apportion ed on a basis of 31.73 per capita. The county fund is based on 310 pupil. - j HS HOME ... I. - Ambassador From Court of St. James OptimisticJe garding Europe J , ; . NEW YORK, INov. 9. Colonel George Harvey, retiring ambassa dor to thercourt of1 St.: James, reached home today on the Acqui tanla, declaring that," like ' Benja min Franklin, he waa leaving the public service to join the masters. He declared himself as an opti mist regarding conditions in Bur: ope and expressed confidence that Secretary Hughes, with ,his repar ations proposal would be able to be of service in the present situa tion. r : ' ;l . ;' r:-: -- - ... Declining to t comment on the Pplncare-Hughes 3 exchange of notes on the German situation, on the ground that he was ' out of touch . with the latest : develop ments. . Colonel Harvey said he would go at once to Washington to report to President . Coolldge and then would, take a rest, "a good one, the first in ten years." He said he had no political plans In (view. He may visit Honolulu this 'winter.' Park Site Is Offered K t City By Thomas B. Kay ; Thomas rB. Kay, former state treasurer," has " made an ' offer ' to deed to the city of Salem five acres S3 a park site adjoining the Englewood school grounds on the north In North Salem. A condi tlon Is that the;cit will agree to pave two blocks of. street leading to the. site.: The city, council will consider the offer at its next meeting. . DO r i unwrv el iiiiniLi TAX 4 Si With complete returns from Majority for 442.? ! : 1 ne siaie .income iax 0111 was passed by the legislature this year and signed by Governor1 Walter Mi Pierce February 26. The bill M . I 111 carried provision fpr a ' special election in case of a referendum which was expected to be invoked. The measure which finally passed the legislature, was a combination of five income tax bills. Rough ly, it follows the federal income tax on net incomes of , persons' or corporations : resident " or: doing business in the state. Exemptions are the 'same as the federal law. : The Oregon Just Tax league and the State Income Tax Referendum league each circulated petitions invoking the- referendum, but the petitions were consolidated. Gov ernor Pierce and "C.'E. Spence, former master of the state grange, submitted arguments for the law in the voters pamphlet. - : 1 Potatoes in Oregon Will Be Below Normal Size. This -- Year Says Kent PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 9J- With a commercial apple crop for the United States nearly 30 per cent larger than the five year average, and the largest commer cial crop in the history of the Pa cific! northwest, t present prevail ing prices Indicate the "dumping" of considerable quantities of the smaller sizes of high grade apples in Oregon and Washington, said F. L. Kent, agricultural statisti cian. United States department of agriculture. In a : report : today. Canneries do not want the small sixes, ne said; and the cost: of transportation will not warrant their use for cider and: other ap ple by-products In many localities. Sufficient digging of the main crop of Oregon potatoes had been done , by November. 1 to Indicate that the average size of the tubers will be much below normal, which will reduce both yield per acre and percentage of .marketable tubers. In some fields the potatoes are so small that the crop will probably not be dug. Car lot movement-to date ' this ' season has been, very slightly-less than for the same period last, year, but ' this move ment has been largely from the early Irrigated districts where size was not affected as in unlrrigated fields. - ; Lime Rates Established By Oregon Railroads The public service commission yesterday Issued orders granting to the Southern Pacific company permission to establish a rate on cement In carloads' of 60,000 pounds minimum from Gold Hill to Portland and East Portland for use in combination with rates ton other lines to points beyond Port land, and to i establish through rates to points Portland and East Portland equivalent to these com bination rates; ano granting to the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation company permission to establish . a carload rate, mint- mum 50.000 pounds, from Lime. Or,, to points on the O.-W. R. N. and Southern Pacific lines in Ore gon. It was also ordered that the 0.-W R. A N. company be per mitted to, reduce the presentjrates on cement" from Lime. Or., to Ruf us, -Of. S - : i 5 QUAKES FELT - SPRINGFIELD,' I1L, Nov. 9. Earth shocks werefelt in Virgl nia and Chandlarfllle, Cass coun tr, and Oakford. ahdTallula. r in Menard county, at 10 o'clock -0 night. . In Tallula dishea were broken In kitchens and furniture rocked. SMALL APPLES ARE nur PED luQFEGO CHEtKERiQALlEl . , r Cli-0 ISNEAltiYAKElA ' ' i .'.y iTi. i-jt'l-. or StiUs, Pperftte at JnMlon of Three Cotuities.Keep Of 1 ficersHoppins Around -" YAKIMA; "Wash., Not.- .-Officers .; of - Takima, Benton T and Kllc;kitat counties ended a long game today ' "by ' moving "In ; from three sides "on twpv' stills, operat ing at the junction of tho county lines.' ; Several prevlou.vlsitB., io the spot ' w-sre', made ' by county f quads but the qusrfr contihuaHy moved ahead ot them ivintO; Hni next countyJi,rFour mUrwere! 'ar rested and caches of mash and distillery equipment were found n each county. ! I . .1 1 t COVEL REPUDIATES 11 Crippled Defendant in Mur l der Case Says He Took Blame to Shield Boy Ore., Arthur Covell, cripple defendant in the Covell murder case, late today, on the witness stand, re pudiated the confession he had previously made, said that he did not know how, Mrs. Fred Covell was murdered and denied " the stories which his niece and n- Phew had told, which, - he said, waa done at i his direction. : He sad when his . brother. Dr. Fred Covell, .wan arrested, the children feared for their father and that Alton Covell, aged 16, said he would assume 1 the responsibility for ! the killing, rather than let his father be hanged.' The cripple said, when he saw Alton's confes sion, he himself made one to con form, and took all the responsibil ity in. order to shield the boy, as his love for him was so great he would rather take the blame than see the boy have any trouble. Tho unexpected turn f Came' when, the defendant was put on the stand in his own behalf. He Will -be cross examined tomorrow. Alton; Covell, the boy: who is under Indictment for actual Unto? ing , Irs. ;, Covell, testified t about some minor points of the case, but did not r answer questions as he was warned that he need not say anything, to incriminate himself. Arthur Covell, you heard the testimony of Lucille Covell to the effect that you sent Alton Covell into the house to murder Ebba Covell. ; is it the truth?" asked his attorney. ; "It Is a lie." answered the de fendant, without the slightest trace of emotion or interest. The children came to my room after j their father had been" ar rested." he continued. Thev asked mejf I thought their daddy wouia nang. Alton said that he would take the blame on himself to save Ills dad. I warned hlnrto go slbw but told him that If the necessary ever came that he could tnrow ail tie , blame on me. I could) , not bear to see anything nappen to my brother or his child ren.! ; .- .i - ' - ' Then, in answer to a Question regaraing Lucille Covell's word picture of the - happenings "of the fatal; day. given earlier; today, he answered: "Lucille has been rn- mancing here in court a whal lot." . -- ' Every eye In the court room was fiveted on the speaker; every neck was craned for a view of the accused man. He' continued: "wnen I was shown Alton's confession, I refused to' make a statement. I read it., over care fully and fixed the ideas In mv zmna. Then 1 made out my own confession:1 : ' v ' . ; ' ?7bba Covell's death would not benefit me; in fact it would have been the reverse. I was depend ent u mj Drxnner ior rood and oucucr gu cre. t simpiy want ed rest and quiet." The defendant was still lestlfy- iny 1 when court adjourned. ' He will; continue to testify tomorrow inere were i four members of thej Covell family on the witness sUnd today, "Dr. v Fred Covell. Bandon chiropractor.' the' husband of the murdered woman; his two cniidren. by a former wife. L.n cllle and Alton Covell, the former a 14-year-old girl, the latter mental defective; according to his attorney, and finally, Arthur Co vell '.the' crippled -astrologer and aerenaant Dr. Fred Covell, when he went DCK he-; witness stand this morning was subjected to consid erable gruelling by Defense At torney Giles. Dr. Covell was in the: witness' chair' for a halt hour. Then came the girl. Lucille, who admitted that, for. a month before the killing she knew' ill of the de tails of; the proposed "killing, but that she did not make any attempt to save tho stepmother tor fear (Continued on page 2) FIBS OWESSON HOT ! IS iPiliB c OF FEDERALS -i-r.Jt'-Vi Maa.fcreditediWith Having I Lost nVVar fo? Germany I Celebrates Anniversary of I Revolution, in Jail CAPTURE MARKS END 4 nc TDAfilP DIITCPU doth Sides Su(f ered, Qasual- nes in bnei tncoumer ' Before Surrender 1 - UNICH Bavaria. Nov. (By be i Associate4; Pres8)-r-Geueral 2rijh udefldft s today lost tN necqn. (V Jfptach; ' within; j'i . three & ear and tonight la observing the iith anniversary, of? tha- German ody.;f, th federal rtfOQPS.'. . . The-j-manwhoastt commander n chief of the German 'force's.' is redited' with Having ' lost the World wir! 'for Germany tohlgnt is an"' Ignoble' a prisoner t 1 "' the young1" republic' he"1 bo thorou despisedand against the' fragile ex istence of "which" h6l has plotted openly and in secret ever since he retifed to his reactionary Bavar ian stronghold. Surrender Demanded Ludendorf f and Adolph, Hitler who had barricaded themselves in the offices of the' war ministry af ter "the collapse of the attempted coup d'etat engineered by Hitler laBt night, surrendered this after noon to a detachment of federal troops which, had been ordered by Dr. Von Kahr, the Bavarian die tator. and , General , von Lossow, commander. -of the M Bavarian relchswehr, to lay selge to . ; the building. ' Previously the Bavarian government had despatched an ul tlmatum .to botho-Ludendorf f and Hitler, who i is the leader ot the fascists in ) Bavaria, demanding their surrender within one hour, There was brief :; fighting be tween the relchswehr and the Hit ler guards in which a few men on both sides suffered casualties. Af terward Ludendorf f - and Hitler emerged from' the " building and placed themselves at the disposal of General von Lossow's troops. The status of Ludendorf f and Hitler as political prisoners ; has not yet beenderined, and for the moment their capture "merely marks the physical collapse of Hitler's tragic-comic "putsch", in which the world : famed former Quartermaster general of the German army became engulfed. BERLIN. Nov. 9. (By the As sociated " Press) Information 'dis pensed by' official quarters tonight would indicate that Adolph Hit ler's "putsch"5 in Bavaria scarcely got beyond the confines ' of the rathskeller; where the fascist! leader proclaimed 'himself ' dicta tor of all Germany, and General Erich Ludendorf f, his war minis ter. '; '' ' . ' Leaders C3iagrined The nationalist leaders in the reichstag make no concealment ot their' chagrin over5, "the fiasco, which they obviously knew as having done irreparable damage toj the . swing to the right among a large body of voters. Inciden tally, the movement has seriously handicapped the negotiations pro ceeding between the members of the nationalist party and the Ger man people's party for the forma tion of a bourgeoise cabinet i movement which had fresh Impe tus today when Chancellor Strese- mann's party adopted a resolution to. suggest' to the chancellor the advisability of Inviting the na tlonallsts into suph a coalition. ' Workers are Wanted for ; Red Cross Roll Cal ? Volunteers, who will work- two hours a day in the vicinity of their homes are wanted by R. A. Harris in charge of the Marlon County American Red - Cross roll call which will begin Sunday. Every thing is in readiness ' and flna preparations have been made. ' The spirit throughout the coun ty is that of cooperation, Mr. Har ris said yesterday upon his return to Salem, after an extensive trip through the county. Many organ izations. Including school boards are giving their heartiest support to' the work. ' Every indication Is that the response this year will be greater than that of last year, ac cording to Mr. Harris. BE Kt. I UKJMfc.D . vTOINVESTOR3 Sum at $781 to Giy Cap- itol Street Investors at Bleetins of Chasaber i Investors 1 in the Highway ; ad dition' through- which ; the newly completed' Pacific highway runs on North ; Capitol will' W given 781 at an open forum of the. Chamber of Commerce 1 'Wednesday " night. The ; money " has V been "pro-rated among SO investors and checks for each have been filled out by Freq Erixon:r:- f-: When this addition was first considered. Mr. "Erixon arranged for the sale of lots, working through a I special committee ' ot the Chamber of Commerce. After the lots had all been sold and street Improvements paid, ; -there remained the sum of $781,' which is being returned at this time. The lots were purchased without defi nite knowledge of the paving costs. '(:".:, SEIZED IN Judge Rules That Entire Plant May Not be Jaken Will Make Appeal PHILADELPHIA, Nov. '9. After prohibition agents had an nounced the seizure today of 14 breweries in 'and near Philadel phia, -Federal Judge McKeehan made a decision that it was illegal to seize the entire plants of brew ing companies. Holding that a search warrant authorizes prohi bition agents to seize only, intoxi cating liquors illegally manufac tured and the appurtenances nec essarily used in the manufacture, Judge McKeehan advised federal prohibition authorities to use some discretion and judgment."' In the execution of suck warrants, he warned that, there was a penal ty of a fine or imprisonment tor exceeding thejr . authority. . The decision came like a thun derbolt to the big squad ot prohi bition agents assembledjiere from different parts of the country, and who had planned to make other seizures in the government's na tion-wide movement ' to enforce prohibition. - WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. An appeal probably will be taken by the government,- department of Justice officials said tonight, from the decision of Federal Judge Mc Keehan in Philadelphia that the use of search warrants did not au thorize seizure of brewery build ings, but only the high-powered beer found and the appurtenances used in its manufacture. The de cision la applicable only In the Pennsylvania district pending ap peal. SALEM U TO v. OET ITS CHARTER Gathering of Kii. Klux To night Heralded Biggest Yet Held in State - Delivery of a charter to Salem Klan No. 29, Realm of Oregon, Is to be part of the program of the Ku Klux Klan ceremonial that Is to be staged at the state fair grounds tonight. Many of the Klansmen from other, cities'' ar rived in Salem last night. Prep arations for the event have been under way ior some weeics ana the event is heralded a3 tho larg est gathering of Klansmen that ha been held in the state. The Klansmen will gather at the fair grounds during, the day, and the parade will start from the fairgrounds at .8:45 o'clock tonight. Local officers will com pose the van guard of the parade whlchwlll march down town, com ing in on - Capitol street, down State . to Commercial. ' then - to Court and east on Court to North Summer and back to the fair grounds. The parade " will be headed by the American flag, fol lowed by the fiery cross, a band, high klan officials and the-Royal Riders' of the Red Robe in auto mobiles. The Royal Riders will be led by the Schotch Kiltie band from Portland. 1 Aged members will be in automobiles provided for them. ' After the return, to - the fair grounds the public will be ad mitted . without charge and the grandstand and bleachers made available for their use during the ceremonial and lecture which will be delivered from ' the Judge's stand. 14 BRUIES ARE 4 ' - - mm mi sg7j:i. BY UNIT Poincare and Hughes of State Department Come to Parting of Vfays on Propcral to Enlist American Aid in Solution of Re ae rations Problem -Comment Withheld. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. France 'and United States came definitely to the parting oftke way today on the proposal, to enlist American aid toward a ' solution 1 of the reparations problem. : . ; .Vv.f 'V ' "' '"''. !: -" ;v!' '; :-; " '- ' Premier . Poincare was advised by Secretary Hughes, through Ambassador Jusserand,. that restrictions insisted upoa by France would serve to 'frustrate" the object of the TVesh ipgtont government in of fering- American cooperation in an ex port reparations inquiry plan. - , . . The. state department refused to go beyond this point in disclosing the purport and result of recent conversations with, the ambassador, in which detailed explanations of the Prenck attitude were made.1 Na formal invitation to participate in an expert inquiry is before the Washington government, and a declination is therefore not in order. " Under the circumstancca no invitation from the powers now is expected. - UTTEMPTED BE Fourth Holdup Is Tried With ; In Radius of ,125 Miles Three Men Escape ; - ROSALIA, Wash., JJov. 9. -An unsuccessful v attempt was made tonlght'-to rob the Whitman Coun ty National bank here. Two un masked men appeared at the home of W. O. Palmer," cashier of ; the bank, who was ill, and at the point of a gun forced him to accompany them to the bank.:. -As they left the house they were joined by a third man. 5 They'' told Palmer they intended to keep, him at the bank- till morning when ; the time lock would , be released. Palmer, however, escaped '.as' they' peafed the bank. and gave the alarm. It was . answered by his 16-year-old son, Alfred Palmer, who was on duty at a gasoline service station opposite the bank: . Alfred Palmer opened fire with a revolver and is believed to have wounded one of the men. A bullet from their guns creased his neck. The shoot ing drew . other Rosalia citizens, whose attack drove the would-be robbers to their car,; parked near the bank. Halford Biggs, -mana ger of the telephone company here, one of those who came to the rescue, was shot In the arm. The ' bandits started west toward Maiden, with 50 men - lu several posses following. This Is- the fourth attempted bank robbery within a. radius- of 1 2 5 miles In the past, three Hays t ; V . The . effort ' at Thornton Wed nesday night was a failure, the safe withstood the explosives $ 1, 400 was secured from the John ston bank last night, about' 1300 from the -Cottonwood, Idaho, bank today. ; All except the Cotton affair are believed to be, the work of the same three men- " OCH.ETL.AT A. Okla.. Nov. Fire, which for a time, threatened the entire, town, was extinguished here after destroying three build ing in the business I district: at i loss of 145,000. . ? A New r Overland Champion Sedan , And A Splendid Chevrolet Touring -.. Car . ; ' And ' - A Diamond Ring And Eleven Gold Prizes And J, Cash Priies ' Total Value . $2000.00 Will be tiven away free ; to Ambitious People. ;, ForFuH Partlcularst Call To See,' Phone or , Writ 2 1 Actcnicbife M iicr y OOreson Statesman - 215; Scath CoBixacrd---Salem ROBBERY FOILED There is no doubt that snch an - i invitation, if presented under tbe French restrictions, would' La dined, President Coolidga f s t ' 1 that the French limitations ren ders the inquiry plan useless a- I futile".He believes the . French restriction's would reduce tha in quiry Into a mere audit of Gor man accounts, , that the United States could serve no useful pur pose by sanctioning American participation in an Invest! at.i on that could not produce" broad and comprehensive plans for eccnonlj rehabilitation ot Germany and ad equate payments by Germany cn reparations accounts! The conversations at ths 1'. : department ended today whea Am bassador Jusserand called wUh ad vices, from his government, whici reached him while Mr. Coo" : 1 and his cabinet were discussing the situation on the basis of pre vious explanations from Paris. To day's .message ; stowcJ n r.c ' cation of the French att!tf "!s ar ! added nothing new to the situ ' -tibn. f ' Secretary " Hughes, fcefora receiving the ambassador, made a second visit 4to the White Houes for a brief conference with tL3 president In preparation for pre senting the American decision. The exchanges between . Cecr:- tary Hughes and Ambassador Jus serand served to bring out a de tailed statement of the limitatlor. on the expert Inquiry, desired 1 the French government. With respect to the stipulation made : in Paris that the , experts should not discuss the occupatic 1 of the,uhr, the ambassador ex plained that this would mean I:, the French '.view that the experts could examine all questions as to the resources of the ; Ruhr, tLa value of Jndustriareslafcllsicr' and the productive power cf V. region. : France could ' not; how ever, discuss the legality of XI. 3 French occupation,, the system c collection of taxes in the Hu' -region imposed by. the French cc cupylng forces, the ' guarante 1 seised by ' French troops, or the agreement recently reached t3- tween the French authorities ar i the German industrialists of . tL 2 Ruhr.; . - . .On'tto question of the exact meaning of the French stipulation present capacity" to which tte experts would . have been limitcj In studying . German resoarcn which might yield the means oZ payment of reparations, the an bassador explained that this ecu!! be interpreted as meaning the sur vey of the situation np to and in cluding the year 1930. ( It was reiterated that the 7 :"!'- ington government had riaJa I: origlnal suggestions, for an expc : t inquiry a year ago and bad re newed them .in the recent Hughcs Curzon .correspondence In arr!: ": of friendship to all cf 1 countries and for the sola purr -ot finding 'some means to na available American hclpfulncii I the European crisis. The f.:;t t': France has found it liapc : :ila t accept the proffer of American a! , although her Allies, Great Eriia: , Italy and Belgium, have Inilcat ' thelri desire to take ster3 to t'.. . end, has not changed tta i::! of the government here to be Lc! -ful whenever an appropriate ti for expanding that helptuln presents itself. For that reason officiate refu tonight to do more than ex; in detail what had transpire the conversations between the f retary and the ambassador. , ' would not accept any sugsett: that' the door to American he" fulness had been closed, but ; the""8ame ' tins' they trou' : deal in speculation cf toy t; , acter as to what the "future l:' old-' , .... .' ...". ..