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4? ; Eight Pages Today tinned cold, temperature eastern portion below ero; moderate easterly winds. Thursday Max., 19; rain.. 6r river, 3.6, falling; rainfall,' none; atmosphere,, clear; wind, east. , Just jt more shopping days until ' Chrl3tna3. You'll hare to hurry now or be caught In the last minute jam. SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR I ' ' SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER' 19, 1924 r PRICE FIVE CENTS l i " ! i t i w ! I I: t i . ; Ji i 5 V ' , ! v M ! t I ' E i v I) ! ' f i ; i-h : 1 '4 r 4 ' kr . jl - ;; A 4 i V , if i i r- V V; t-. i .. i n I t m y 4 , I n m w ' I vrn T-i rni i t , - I BUDGET BOARD VOTES fiGilST Public j Service Commission !s Placed in Jeopardy By . Action of Majority Mem bers 1 FEE SYSTEM URGED ! FOR UTILITY BODY Use of Public Funds Held Un wise Accident Cornmis- I sion Loses Out Refusal by GoTernor Walter M Pierce and Jefferson Myers, state treasurer, majority members of the state budget commission, to in clude in the general budget ' the estimated expenditures of $140, 000 fori the public-service commis sion for the next biennium has placed this department in jeopardy and unless funds from sources other than general taxation ' are forthcoming, the commission may be dropped. .' Sam Kozer, secretary of state, voted in favor of the com mission, holding that it was cre ated by the voters of the state and should be maintained. ? . Pierce Non-Committal Governor'Flerce stated that he was not opposed to any regulation of public utilities but believed ft waa unwise to use public funds for the commission under existing conditions. The governor would not definitely commit himself, but eaid it was under the jurisdiction of his office to seek of the legis-, lature the enactment of a law that would place the public service commission upon the fee basis, by which it would be supported by the Dublic utilities coming under its jurisdiction. 5 Governor Pierc would not say whether he would ask the solons for such a law. He eaid that the desired appropria tion could be granted by the legis lature over the executive veto by a two-thirds vote in each of the houses.' r.-;.r.:x ? - . 4 i Fee System Urged -v; Either completely abolish , the public service commission or place it upon a tee system was the at titude taken "by - Jefferson Myers, state treasurer, who held that there is its valid reason why the commission should be supported by public funds while other de partments derive their support en tirely from fees received. Depart ments supported by the fee sys tem at present are the state in surance department; state corpor ation department, and the state banking department. The budget commission also re fused a proposed appropriation of 1175,000 sought by the state ac cident commission for the two years starting Jaly 1, 1925. The last legislature, in compliance with the request I of Governor -Pierce, suspended for a period of two years the 1200,000 appropriated for the commission. Governor Pierce will ask the 1925 legisla ture for a continuance of the sus pension for a period of two more years. . Employers May Ixse As the expense of the depart ment is met by money paid by em ployers and employes whaAyail themselves of financial protection under the workmen's compensa tion act, the commission will have ample funds available to cover ? (Continued on page 7) Christmas Draws Hear; Statesman Fund Grows Nearly 9 ISO Received to Date; ' ; Need for Money i Continues ' Christmas is coming fast and those who desire a part in , the neighborly ' helpfulness inaugu rated by The Statesman will do well to send in their contribu tion i at once. Yesterday one; wag received from Mother Hub-! bard. I The letter was mailed at Huobard. The good work will go on to the last. 1 ; Below is the list of contrib utors to date: , ; D. A. White $ 5.00 Henry Jaquet 5.00 I. L. McAdams ........ 1.00 Edls Belle Mathesoa ... 2.00 Ida Mary Matheson .... 2.00 Daniel J. Fry ......... 6.00 Francis Rollow ...... . 5.00 Royal Neighbors of Am. 5.00 J. L. Ingrey 2.00 A Friend 2.00 Mrs. J. R. Chapman .... 6.00 A Friend 5.00 Tom Kay.... t .10.00 A Friend . .. ,..... 1.00 Elmo S. White ........ 25.00 E. A. Rhoten. " 5.00 A Friend .... ........ 6.00 W. H. Henderson ... .... 6.00 r. C. Conner 5.00 Edw. T. , Barber ...... 5.00 Mrs. P.iH. Strand 2.00 Salem Women of KKK. . 6.00 A Friend . . . r . 1-00 Theo. Sampson 3.00 F. A. Doerfler 3.00 Miss .... ........ 5.0.0 Mother Hubbard ...... 5.00 Total .8129.00 APPROPRIATION Ipv Grin Continues to Hold Oregon; Miaaie West Is Hit by Storm PORTLAND, Or'., Dec. 18. All nf CtTetrnri tonieht was held in the Icy grip of winter, with little pros pect of relief before Friday nigm, if then. Portland shivered when the mercury dropped to 11 de- mwa Vi-iv pro.! the coldest in five years. " Eastern Oregon fared the worst, with Meacham report ing 30 degrees below zero. Joseph rennrted 34 below, and Baker 20. Umatilla had 3 below and Enter prise 35 below. ! f Marshf leld on the coast had 16 ihnva ero. while in the Willam ette Talley Albany reported 4 above and Roseburg 20 aoove. ir-MtnAfjo th-: 18j (Bv The Associated Press.) Bitter cold still held sway , tonight in me northwest and Rocky Mountain region, while the Icy blasts swept eastward with indications that to morrow would find the entire middle west in the grip of near xero weather. ',' i Early tonight Illinois was swepi by a cold rain, half snow, half i -a o rctcu U Snrinefield. meet., uu as -- - Bloomington and Jacksonville were completely cut oif irom tne outside world by wire. Parliamentary! Situation in Germany Defies Solution; Marx Confers BERLIN, Dec. 18. (By the A. P.) -The parliamentary situation, up to a late hour this evening, ap parently still was in a state of hopeless chaos, j i Following authorization of Pres ident Eberf, early today to make a thorough and ; final survey of the situation in a last attempt to form a ministry which would- dom mand the necessary, majority in the reichstag, Chancellor Marx held a number of conferences'with the major parties and late in the afternoon, motored to the presi dent's office to apprise the execu tive of his futile search for a so lution to the existing deadlock. ' Among the proposals made to overcome the impasse was a sug sestion that the present Marx Stresemann cabinet be formally reinstated as the functioning gov ernment, but that it be given one member of, the cabinet from each of the German nationalist and so cialist parties to serve without portfolio. These would officiate in the nature of liason officers be tween the cabinet and their re spective parties j but would not pledge their , parties to - a formal responsibility respecting govern mental policies. IS STILL HERE Temperature of 6 Degrees Above Reported for Early Thursday Morning An unfeeling and ' apparently fur-lined weather man has no sympathies for .the shivering pop ulace and last night refused to let the weather warm up. Not only that but he predicted that today would also be cold. - . Thursday was the coldest day reported for the last five years, when the mercury touched 6 de grees above zero and at no time did the thermometer- record less than 10 degrees above freezing.. The snow which fell Monday still covered the ground and only In a tew daces' under the direct rays 'of the sun i was any thawing noticed and this was almost neg ligible. ; The maximum temperature yes terday waa f 1 9 degrees, " recorded at 1 o'clock. The weatherman re ported a temperature of 12 de grees at 7 o'clock last night. Prospects for skating are he coming brighter as the cold snap continues without a sign of abate ment. . With' some of the sloughs already frozen over and another cold night last night, the ice should be thick enough for skaters today, though children are being warned against venturing too far from the shore, where the 'ice is the thickest. - Willamette University ' Students Leave Today The doors of Willamette uni versity will close at 1:45 o'clock today and the students will leave by special train for Portland this afternoon.' The special Is being arranged by the Southern Pacific company and will carry students bound for Portland and points be yond. The Christmas vacation will last 18 .days, classes resuming Tuesday, January 6, ml Bets JU!ed The Associated Press in the emergency was forced to try to transmit its report to the news paper in these and other cities In the storm area by radio. t . In the southwest, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma suffered the brunt of a storm of sleet and snow, while heavy Christmas mail ings everywhere were being de layed. At Columbia, Mo , heavy property damage was reported when roofs of business, buildings caved under a load of1; Ice and snow. Sub-zero temperatures- for the region were forecast for to morrow. In Chicago hundreds of thous ands of -people faced- serious In jury and possible death in going to and from work today. The streets, coated with a glare of Ice yesterday when rain froze as fast as It feH continued to offer a heavy hazard to botn automobiles and pedestrians. " 1 Upwards of 100 persons were injured by falling 1 on Icy pave ments today, while three persons had been killed here by falls in the past 48 hours, f - : Former Safem Mayor, Now of McMInnvilleWiir Suc ceed Judge Belt Judge William M. Ramsey of. McMinnville and mayor of Salem in the early 808, ' was yesterday appointed by Governor Walter M. Pierce as circuit judge of the 12 th judicial district to succeed Judge Harry H. Belt of Dallas; who takes office as justice; of the ' su preme court on January- 5. While in Salem Judge Ramsey was asso ciated in - the law practice with the late Judge George G. Bing ham, his brother-in-law, and later with B. TF.5 Bonhamr " ' . After leaving Salem Judge Ram sey practiced in Pendleton and La Grande, later returning to Mc Minnville. He is a personal friend of the governor's and has long been identified as a prominent democrat. He is nearly 80. years old. Judge Ramsey was appoint ed to the supreme court on June 3, 1913, with Charles U McNary, to fill - additional', places on the bench created by the legislature. The appointments were made by Governor - Oswald West. Jud ge Ramsey served on the bench for nearly two years. . Judge Ramsey was selected from a - field of several 'aspirants, who included Roy Sparks, also of Mc Minnville and who had the en dorsement of several American legion posts, as well as other ret erans' organizations in his dis trict; Joe fiibley and W. F. Harr, combe, both of Dallas. , - He will take office- January 5, the date that Judge Belt's resignation is effective. - ' . - Judge Ramsey was born in Iowa in 1847, coming to Oregon with his parents the following year. In 1 8 6 9 he was admitted to the bar. . : J . S CLOSE MEET All Officers are; Reelected; Corvallis Chosen for . Next Convention, THE DALLES, Ore.. Dec. 18. Reelection of all officers and se lection of Corvallis ae the site for the 1925 convention, to be held gome time In May, featured the closing session of the fourteenth annual convention of the Oregon farmers' union here today. ; Robert Egber of The Dalles, will continue aa president, W. P. Laird of Eugene, as vice president, end Mrs. G. B. Jones of-Montnotb as secretary treasurer. Legislative and other changes recommended by the convention were: Change in automobile li cense law putting automobiles on the tax list, according to value: Change in election laws so that all initiative measures would be put on the ballot with the "yes' mark ing first. V ' Repeal of the state law guaran teeing interest on reclamation bonds. - Favored truth in fabric law; law for licensing by state of all commission! merchants; ratifica tion of child labor law and state regulation of trucks and buses. Lower assessments on farm lands than on other property.5 The union opposed repeal of the state market roads law and In dorsed the principles of the Mc-Nary-Haughen farm relief bill. OREGON FARMERS ff TO REST AID CEREIMY Historic Sleepy Hollow Cem- etery Is Place of Inter ment; Elks and Mason Lodges in Charge MANY PROMINENT MEN BURIED IN FAMOUS SPOT Funeral Cortege Makes Two , Hour Journey; Services are Impressive TARRYTOWN. N Y.. Dec. 18 Samuel Gompers was buried today on a little knoll in Sleepy Hollow cemetery. His body was laid to rest in company with some of America's most noted personages, in a spot famous in tradition and history.1,. . -. -; : To the right of his grave flowed the Hudson; to the left wound the picturesque wooded ' glens of Sleepy Hollow round about peep ing! from the grass or ' reaching toward the sky were the simple markers or massive mausoleums of Washington Irving, Andrew Carnegie, ; William Rockefeller, Carl Shurz, and of the Dupays, the Vandorns, the McCoombs, the van Cortlandts. the Beekmans, the Delavans and Boocks of ear lier generations.' , - i ; Cortege Arrives ' 'After a two hour service at the Elks club in New , York City where the body of Mr. Gompers lay in Btate yesterday and last night a funeral train of scores of automo biles brought him here. Preceded by an honorary escort of motor cycles ; from . the metropolis, the cortege made the journey in two hours, passing en route ..through many suburban hamlets, where streets were lined with those who stood with doffed hats. 'Through the crooked streets of Tarrytown, the cortege drove "a- cross t h e. headless horsemen bridge where Ichabod Crane made his, traditional ride,, and through, the ranks of the waiting antomo-j biles, men and women to a cano py and heaped evergreens which marked the Gompers plot. - Rain Falls 'The burial place was -a short distance beyond the massive pil lars which marked the entrance to the cemetery.; - A misty rain was falling as the silence among the hundreds who waited there was broken , by the chapel bell tolling , "Nearer My God to Thee," and the van of the cortege entered the grounds. There followed limousines bearing Mr. Gomper's -widow, his sons and daughters, his brothers and grand children, his associate officials of the American Federation of La bor, 'delegations- of labor chiefs of all trades, gathered from far and near, and Free Masons of St. Ce c He lodge of New ' York having charge of rites at the grave. i The impressive services lasted but "a few moments. As the bronze casket was lowered into the pit of evergreens,' banked with - huge florar wreaths, the Masons sang, "Lead Kindly Light.' " : j Theyy chanted.: the 23rd psalm and sang "Beautiful Isle of Some where." 'l' ' ,-A sheepskin apron fluttered into the grave,' and sprigs of sym bolic evergreen from the lapels of Masons followed. The chaplain uttered a few c words "He had discovered thd secret of peace without which there is no under standing; now the laborer's task is o'er." Then there was a brief prayer, another softly chanted hymn, and the relatives and friends of Mr. Gompers were led back o the waiting automobiles. I JURY ARE UrJTRUE Allegations That Jurors in I McCoy Case Tampered ; With are Quashed . : LOS ANGELES. Dec. 16. Charges that the jury hearing the evidence at the trial of" Kid Mc Coy, ex-pugilist, charged with the murder of Mrs. Theresa W. Mors, had been tampered with were ap parently quashed here tonight. ! The charges, brought by the prosecution, temporarily disrupt ed the trial, but at the time of adjournment, attorneys for both sides declared "their backs turn ed on the affair,". .and Judge C. S. Crail refused to make any statement." ' ' " The admonition . given . the ju rors by the court before they part ed,' however, bore va marked dif ference to those of previous occa sions. The Jurors were told to "refrain from discussing the trial in any matter whatsoever ' with anyone, and to ignore the- head CHARGES AGAlftST lines of newspapers." ' TOB OF HANGMAN J IS BEING SOUGHT BY SEVERAL. MEN Applications Pouring In to Prls f ( on; Convicted Slayer Is Re 4 reive! Here - ' j Warden A. M. Dalrymple is re ceiving applications, for official hangman1 at- the state penitentiary In nearly every mail and even by telegram, since it became known that William Lamb, who has per formed this duty for a great many years, is no longer connected with the institution. , ; Three letters were received by the warden yesterday and two tele grams the day before. Warden Dalrymple is optimistic and anti cipates further aDDlicationa today. rOne of the applicants sent 1 his pnotograph along with his other credentials. Any one of the offi cials or guards can, and probably will, perform the necessary act When the proper time comes. War den Dalrymple said yesterday. I Archie Cody, of Vale, convicted slayer of Sheriff Goodwin, of Malheur county, was received at the. prison . yesterday under sen tence to hang on Friday, February 20. Cody is the third inmate of the prison under the death sen tence. Covell and Pearce, whose cases are being reviewed by the supreme court, are the other two. ilECRO LYIHED 200 Men Overpower Sheriff, Hang Negro and Drag ? Body Thru Street ' CHARLESTON, Mo.. Dec 18. A mob of more than 200 men overpowered Sheriff B. B. Jack son in his office here tonight and d?agged Roosevelt Grigsby, 20 year old negro who had been Iden tified as the man who attempted to attack a white girl two hours previously, across the court yard and Banged him to a tree within 50 feet of the sheriff's office. A bullet was fired through the body, which then was cut loose rrom tne tree, tied to an automo bile . and dragged ' thronrh the streets of the negro section fol lowed by the howling mob, some members of which were brandish- A'i:i"4' ' "' .ft ; The - body eventually' was' hnn on a- post in front of a -grocery store. ;. - - - -- Before the mob denarted. how ever, the body was cut down, a huge bonfire was started and the body soon was charred embers. No one attempted to Interfere with the lynching and the mob dispersed within an hour without fresh outbreaks. , At 40 o'clock the situation was quiet. - ; , . Seventeenth Street '! Busses to Operate Every 15 Minutes Until Xrnas ? Fifteen-minute .service on- the Seventeenth streetcar line, to ac commodate the extra rush of Christmas shoppers and to elimin ate waiting for busses, will be gin today, it is announced" by T. L. Billing8ley, superintendent of the street car company. The. 15 minute service will be in effect until Christmas day and from 11:50 o'clock in the morning un til 8 o'clock at night. Busses will - leave State and Commercial 5 minutes past the hour and every 15 minutes there after. The busses' : will leave Seventeenth and D at 5 minutes past - the hour and at 15-minute intervals. - - ; . The 15-minute service, is main tained during the rush hours only under normal conditions and on a 20-minute schedule during the remainder of the day. Shortage in Canada and ArT gentina Bring Total Down; Russia Also Below WASHINGTON. Dec. 18. A de crease of 440,000,000 bushels in the estimated world wheat crop compared with last year is indi cated in reports made public today, by the department of . agriculture which place the crop at 3,300,000. 000 bushels. : The average five year pre-war total was 3,740,000, 000 bushels. The most, important reduction shown is in Canada, where the crop is placed at 200. 000,000 bushels below, and in Ar gentina with a reduction of .60. 000,000. The European crop with the exception of Russia is reported at 180.000.000 bushels below last year and only -260,000,000 under the average. .v.;-.- - BY LARGE JOB SP SERVICE OFFERED SHOPPERS WIIEflT CROP THIS EM IS REDUCED IS ARRESTED E Unlawful Search Chargsd Against State Prohibition . Commissioner; 1 . English Ship Is Raided LIQUOR TAKEN FROM I SHIP'S BONDED ROOM Federal Officers Say Alleged Offense Is Serious Breach of Treaty PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 18 George L. Cleaver state prohibi tion agent was arrested here late today by deputy United States marshals on a warrant charging unlawful entry of a British ship and unlawful seizure of property in the custody of the customs de partment4 of the United States government. The arrest followed a raid made Wednesday- night by Cleaver and between 20 and 30 deputies upon the British freight and passenger steamer London Merchant in which a quantity of liquor was taken from the bonded store room. It is still in his possession. The liquor, government officials allege, waa under -treaty provis ions in custody of the customs de partment. ! Complaint against Cleaver waa made out by Chief Assistant Unit ed States Attorney-Bynon after a conference with - ships attorneys and the captain. 1 ; .i . Upon his arrest, the state pro hibition commissioner was Imme diately taken before United States Commissioner Frazer who fixed bond at $1500 and released him on his town (recognizance until tomorrow. Saturday morning was set as the date for hearing unless arraignment is waived. Representatives of Furness Withy & company, owners of " the London Merchant, deplored the raid upon the vessel, saying that It was not their desire to bring upon., later national .complications, but ' that they would be content with restitution of their property. They admitted, however, that the matter had been laid before their consul. Federal officers viewed the! al leged offense as a serious breach of the British-American treaty, consummated May 22 last year, and signed by the president. This treaty was , sought by the United States in order better to regulate the importation of liquor and it waa this provision in the treaty, most beneficial to the. United States, that they said was violat ed. Collector of Customs McFar land declared that the officers of the vessel had compiled fully with the treaty regulations. ; Portland Kiwanis Quartet Chorus Concert Postponed Because of inclement weather the Portland Kiwanis male chorus has postponed its concert ! for ; Sa lem until a later date. The Port landers were scheduled to appear here Saturday night, but on j ac count of the snow and bitter old weaiht-r the trip was postponed. The condition of the Pacific highway was responsible for j the concert being postponed, it was stated. Another consideration was the difficulty of ; handling the crowds during the bad weather.' A definite date for the appear ance of the Portland Kiwanis male chorus has not been decided. ; FLIERS KILLED i TOKIO, Dec. 19. Three offic ers in the Japanese aviation serv ice were killed today when two planes collided in midair while flying over - the Kasumigauraj air base near ToKlo. - - t 0 SEZUR Ella McMunn Publishes Own Sketches ; and Copies Will be Available Today Author Groups Collection Under Title of "Down on the Farm"; Writings Have Charmed Statesman Readers . Ella McMunn . has written - a book. The printing and binding of the new book was finished late last night. It is a book of sketch es, "Down on the Farm." j ' It is what its title says it lis But it, is like no other book of sketches, because there is only one Ella McMunn. There is no one else who sees as many things of interest in homely tasks and every day, commonplace experiences as Ella McMunn, as thousands of readers of The Statesman knot. There are twelve sketches: rath er eleven. - with the Introduction. They are devoted to: i. "My Mother," ?To Oregon Grape Jelly," "Dear Old Tiny." "To the Edge l of -Things," "Spring Is Here," "An Old, Old Sorrow," "The Last Little Canary." "Death of a Goldfish." "On Losing a Tooth," "On Making a CakeI and "A Turkey Trot," ; 1 They -cannot be described.4 They will have to be read. If all the people she knows and loves will each buy a copy of her '-pOO MANY HATS 1 FOR AL NYE SO HE LOSES ONE Mailing Clerk at State Ilouse Fails to Notice Loss Until Office Reached Not many people can go to work these chilly mornings and boast that when they arrived at their office had lost their' hat. But AI Nye, mailing clerk at the state house, did this very thing Thursday morning. . ; Mr. Nye peeked outside his house, early in the morning and decided that his ordinary head gear needed some assistance un less the Nye head and ears were to suffer .from : the frost. He donned an old stocking cap, pulled it well down over his. ears, placed his regular chapeau atop the stocking cap, 'mounted his trusty bicycle and proceeded to tread his way to work. When Mr. Nye arrived at the state touse and started to place his hat' on his head while attend ing to hh dally duties he found that his hat was missing lost somewhere between bis home and the capitol. Now he is looking for his lost "benny" and promised that the performance would not be repeat ed. II I HOT DESIRED Japanese Government' Not in Favor of Sending US Fleet on Maneuver TOKIO, Dec. 18. (By the A.P.) In order to remove misgivings, entertained by a certain section of the- Japanese people, the . United States government intimated its intention of sending the American fleet to Yokohama after the man euvers in Hawaiian waters In 1925 but: "the Japanese government de clined the 4ffer with thanks," said Premier Tak-I-Aklra Kato, speak ing at a dinner of the Seluki party last evening.' V1 - ' "The American government at the same time has been kind enough to offer due explanations of the motives of the proposed maneuvers in the. hope of securing a proper-understanding- by-4 the Japanese people," ; the premier added. FIRE DESTROYS ' ii PORTLAND FIRM Blaze in Oil Mill Does Dam age Amounting to $60, 000; Engines Stick PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 18. Flames destroyed the Interior of the factory section ' of ' the Port land Vegetable Oil Mills company today and did $60,000 damage. The cause of the fire was un determined. ' j Workmen had been repairing a cooker on the second floor of the mill section. - Later the blaze was discovered and a call sent for as sistance. " ! The floors of the mill section were soaked with ' the i oil and clouds of grey-black smoke bil lowed from all its windows. ' The oil mills are located on filled ground and the heavy en gines, attempting to pass over this half, frozen sand, came to grief. Firemen and bystanders worked more than an hour to release ap paratus. Fire walls separated the three sections of the building and kept the blaze in the mill section of the plant. Fire boats moored at the oil company's dock! assisted the land engines in supplying water for the firemen. . first book, and do it today, the edition will be sold out before eve ning , . , For she loves everybody; even those undeserving of love accord ing to the standards that are com mon in this world l And she is in turn held in the same esteem by all who know her. The book will be on sale at Pat ton's book store for 75 cents a copy today. No one is going to charge Ella McMunn for any services in con nection with the sale of her book. The money will all go to her, out side the bare' cost of the printing and paper and folding and bind ing. '. ' - ' Then perhaps . she will be en couraged to give to the world some of her other sketches. he no doubt will, if the public shows a disposition -to encourage her. Copies of "Down on the Farm" would make very suitable Christ mas presents, though it Is hot ne cessarily a v Christmas book. Nei ther are most books bought at this season. - - - Ill BRUMS IT Congress Takes Decisive Measures . to Reascuro Country Against Scare; Hughes Gives Statement MOST CORDIAL RELATION WITH JAPAN PREDICTED Secretary .Hughes Welcomes ! Appointment of New Jap anese Ambassador WASHINGTON. Dec. 18. (By Associated'. Press;) Decisive measures to reassure the country; against the scare of an American-; Japanese estrangement were taken today both by the : administration ; and in congress. In a formal state ment which broke, beyond the bounds of ordinary diplomatic courtesy. Secretary Hughes wel comed the appointment of a new Japanese ambassador to Washing ton and predicted an era of the "most cordial relations" between the two countries. Almost at the same time the house was smother ing t nquick ordr a resolution de signed to build p an anti-Japanese alignment among the White na tions .bordering the Pacific. The proposal; was befriended only by its author,' Representative Britten, republican, Illinois, and' found among its most earnest opponents house leaders who live on the Pa cific coast. Underlying theee de velopments there was revealed a studied conviction among highest officials here that there is no threat-of trouble between Wash ington and Tokio unless by popu lar agitation imagined dangers are magnified into real misunder standings. "Friendship Sought President Coolilge and those who share. with him responsibility for the foreign telatloEs of tta nation look upon their contempor aries in places of power across the Pacific as candid exponents of in ternational friendship. It 13 the belief of the administration that Japanese is performing faithful:? her obligations under the arms treaty and the Washington agree ments relating to the Far East; that her government is trying earnestly to keep pace with the new order of international rela tionship; and that her responsible leaders want nothing but amicable relations . with the United States. If the two governments are per mitted to go along together un hampered by agitation and sus picion "among the two peoples themselves It is, the belief of the president. and his advisers that the beet of international rela tionships will rule between the two capitals. Bt they do not conceal their recognition that if the Amer ican and Japanese peoples aggra vate their misunderstanding out of all proportion to' their import- (Continued on page 7) j THURSDAY IN WASHINGTON The house resumed considera tion of the navy appropriation bill. . A senate committee investigated the Washington Herald attack on Senator Underwood's Muse la Shoals bill. i , A senate committee held hear ings on the transfer of prohibition enforcement from the Internal revenue bureau., " ' ; The .Washington government re- spoke an era of the most cordijl relations between the United States and Japan. The treasury predicted this gov ernment, like Great Britain, would insist on equal treatment in any settlement of French debts. Vice Chairman Culbertson of the tariff commission indicated a desire for transfer to some other branch of government service. Leigh C. Palmer, president of the emergency ' fleet corporation. testified before the house shipping board investigating committee. The department of agriculture estimated winter wheat was sown on 42,317,000 acres, 6.5 per cent rf more than in the fall of 1923. i Representative Britten, republi can, Illinois, proposed a confer ence of white nations bordering the Pacific over the protest of Pacific coast members. . Letters urging support of Rep resentative Madden of. Illinois for the house speakership were sent out and the New Jersey delega tion put forward Representative Lehlbach for republican leader. The department of Justice beaa an investigation Into charges that an employe of a senate committer accepted money to use his la fluence for legislation. i