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THE WEATHER
OREGON: Cloudy tonight and 8atur
day. Rain In the northwest portion.
Moderate south winds.
Local: Max. 35; mln. 19: rain ,01s
river 7.6; almoe., foggy; wind, west.
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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 14
SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1925
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SOLDNS Ft
10 WEAKE
PIERCE HO
developments of Initial
Week Are But Display
of Noise; Governor In
Best Position.
(liy Harry N. Crain.)
Granting the truth ot the as
tertiuu that Uovernor Pierce has
ittle to gloat over, and even less
o salve hie pre-aesaion apprehen
dona, it still cannot bo said thai
lis active adversaries in the lesis
jntive ho,i3cs and the lobby can
ilaini much greater satisfacticn
out ot the developments ot thu
tirst week o( the third-third as
lenlbly. Checking point against point
Hid stab against stab the t.nt
Keek ot the session has amounted
lo little more than a fencing party
":th honors about evenly divided.
Ferhaps, even, a slight advantage
Bay be accorded to the governor
or, while his inuing was short,
onflncd to the hour and fifteen
alnutos 1' took him to deliver bin
nessago Monday afternoon, ho
)lant"d more dynamlto than the
members ot ths two houses have
been able to strew about during
the entire four days they were In
aessijn.
Pierce Mso Scores.
Without being In the least ag
gressive Governor Pierce laid a
half .score of ultimatums on the
doorstep of the two houses tbnt
have still got them thinning, no
told tluin quite plainly JuBt what
fee thougbt ot the very things tuey
ere thinking about, and now
hey are wondering whether they
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I
MEET 10 ASK
FEDERAL HELP
Port Inn J, Jan. 1 6 Representa
tives of fifteen pnrt districts In
Oregon met here today at tho call
f Governor Pierce, together with
representatives of Washington and
California, to draft resolutions ask
ing congress to spend $20, 000.000
in port development on the Pa
rtflc coast.
George Rhodes of San Francis
co and W. H. Telera of Grays Har
-or were appointed by their gov
ernors. Governor Pierce's own commit
ee consists of I. N. Day of Port
land. I E. Bean of Eugene and
Russell Hubbard of the Umpqua
ort district. Bean is presiding of
ficer. In addition to asking the legis
lature of coast states to memcrial
e congress for $20,000,000 to Im
prove const harbors to a depth of
SO feet, the conference delegates
sought to start a movement for a
conservation policy which would
provide for cutting of the westcin
forests it once under a system of
adequate reforestation instead of
holding ripe timber in reserve un
til It deteriorates to a complete
loss.
Another movement discussed
was to demand that the federal
government be required to pay
taxes upon timber in the national
forests on the same basis as taxes
arc required on privately owned
timber, so as to relieve the bur
den of taxation In counties in
which the bulk of the taxable
property la locked up In govern
ment reserve-!.
Governor 1'ierce bald that har
bors could be made by building
jetties at Nehalein, Tillamook, Va
quina, Simlaw and Umpqua.
W. II. i'eters of Grays Harbor,
Washington, representing Wash
ington, declared that money spent
In improving Gays Harbor would
eliminate loss of J 200.000, annu
ally now caused by vessels being
bar bound. In the time that It
takes to get out the 45 billion fret
of timber tributary to Grays Har
bor the saving In having adequate
fcarbr facilities would amount to
$.2,000,000, a sum sufficient t
improve all the smaller harbors of
the cuast. he s-ild.
George ti. Rli 'des, representing
the governor of California, pledg
ed hts services in beMlf of the
movMneit and predicted that the
k zit 1 ii e of California would
nicmnr. tlixe congress In line with
the ret jiuiiiendAlion of the conference.
OREGON
LEADS
Increase In Indebtedness
And Per Capita Debt
Greatest In Union Ac
cording to Census.
Washington, Jan. 16 The pub
lic debt ot the United States in
cluding that ot the federal gov
ernment and all of Its sub
divisions multiplied nearly seven
times between 1912 and 1922, it
was shown today in census bureau
figures. At the end of December,
1922, the total was 30,S45,62G,
000, while at ths same period In
1912, It was but $4,800,400,000.
While the greatest Increase ap
peared In the federal debt because
of the war, the debt Increase of
states was nearly three-fold and
that of municipalities and other
sub-divisions doubled.
The federal government in
1912 owed 11,028,664,000, while
in 1922 it owed $22,155,886,000.
The total of state Indebtedness In
1912 was (346,942,000 while in
1922, it was $935,644,000. Other
civil divisions owed J3, 475, 954,
000 in 1912, and $7,754,196,000
In 1922.
All the figures represented net
debt, the bureau explained, sink
ing fund and cash assets in pos
session of the Indebted units of
government having been sub
tracted from the total ot their
obligations outstanding.
The debt total In 1922 made the
per capita obligation of each
citizen ot the Knltel States,
adult or child, $283.70. In 1912
the Indebtedness per capita was
$49.97. Apportioning out the
items of per capita Indebtedness,
the report said that In 1922 the
federal government obligations
were responsible for $203.78 of
the total, the debt o" states for
$8.64 and the debt of the munici
pal subdivisions to $71.32.
The greatest proportionate debt
increase was in the state ac
counts of Oregon, where the ln-
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POSTAL SALARY
Washington, Jan. 16. Th
senate voted today to give the ad
ministration measure propositi
increases in postal salaries a:rl
rites the right of way next Thurs
day. Keeping a premise made when
the senate sustained President
Coolidgc's veto of the postal api
ary increase bill. Senator Moses,
republican, Ne v Hamjiehire, tslt-
cd that a date be set for consider
ation of the doubt barrelled mens
ure and the propo?al was support
ed by administration leaders as
veil p" by most democrats.
The vote wae 66 to 10, or 16
more than the two-third required
under the senate rule. If the bill
s not disposed of on the day It Is
taken up however, it must taK
ts place on the calendar.
ALL STATES IN
PUBLIC DEBT
Talk of Referring
Service Commission
To Popular Vote
Reluctant to have the leg.j'a
lure assime responsibility for
'hangirg the system under which
the public service commission
functions by putting It under a
fee system of their own acord,
yet confident that If they pass tne
regular appropriation fur that d
artment It will b-; vetoed ly tho
governor, members of both house?
who arc remaining here over the
eok-end refers are speculating
is to the prospect of a compr
mlse that will allow the comnils
don to unrtion until the people
Save 'pen given an opportunity of
"Xpressin? their will as to the f'J
.. ro o. this Jepartment.
Simply cutting oft the appro
priation fr the commlftiiion and
caving It without mean of carrv
ng out the duties prescribed by
nw does not appeal to most of tl-c
irlators. nor arc tbey entirely
agreed is to the desirability of a
Triple Hanging
Avenges Murder
Of Calif ornian
San Quentln, Cal., Jan. 16.
Jack Ferdinand and John Sears,
Los Angeles murderers, were
hanged at the state prison here
today.
The two traps of the gallows
were sprung simultaneously.
Ferdinand was pronounced dead
in 13 minutes, but It took a min
ute longer for Sears to die.
There were approximately 150
witnesses. Four of the spectators
were made ill by the scene and
two of tbem collapsed.
The men went to the double
trap with a steady tread and
seemed to ignore everything about
them. Previously Sears had re
fused a stimulant, saying that he
wanted to go to bis death "with a
clear head." Ferdinand, however,
acceped the stimulant.
Folsom, Cal., Jan. 16. John
Gcregac, one of three men to be
executed In California prison to
day for the murder of Charles A.
Chapman in Los Angeles last
year died on the gallows at the
state prison here this morning.
He went to his fate bravely. Jack
Ferdinand and John Scars, con
victed with Gercgic were to be
E
A coastwise search for a marble
slab which was used for a pilicw
by a Methodist bishop in early i-io-ncer
days, came to a successful
conclusion at Willamette univer
sity this morning. The slab har.
beon In the university mtteeum fur
year, it Is said by school authori
ties. The bishop, whose name wae
William Taylor, used the slab not
for any particularly religious rea
son, it is said, but because he bad
contracted a deadly fever while in
Africa. The fever made his head
feel hot, and it helped some to lie
with the elab for a pillow.
W. S. Matthew, an author living
at Berkeley, Cal., desired to writ:
a book on the life of the famous
bishop. He heard about the s'ab
and set out in r.earch of it. dejir
ing to use a photograph of ft in
his book. Among others asked was
M. C. Wire, a retired pastor who
is now living at Newberg, Or. Mr.
Wire wrote a letter of Inquiry to
Willamette authorities, with the
result that the photograph was
taken this afternoon and wilt h
forwarded to Berkeley next week.
The slab la cf light colored
marble, Is approximately an inch
thick, with a flat eurface meas
uring about 6 by 10 inchee.
Potash Bill Passes.
Washington, Jan. 16. A bill
designed to harmonize the meth
ods of disposing of potash depob.te
on government a.id with the pro
visions of the nil pod mineral leas
ing act of 1920, known as tin
general leasing a. . was passed to
day by the houee and eent to the
senate.
ystm of financing that wouid
leave he corporations which the
commission is supposed to reg'i! ;te
holding the purse strings.
Todf.y it is being snirKested that
a compromise be attempted where
by the governor vlll be asked to
forego his promised veto of the
appropriation upon agreement of
the legislature to submit to trie
people at the nxt general elec
tion alternate .iroposals to diipnff
ot the problem, one bill calling for
abolition of the commission i'.:re
ly, and the other devising a sys
tem of fees whereby the commis
sion would be made self-supprt-ng.
Inasr-iuch as the governor If
!tnov.n to favr abolishing lh
boar I, contending that It Is non
functioning solely .for the benefit
of the public service corporatioj
It Is believed tnat euch a plan
would receive bJi sanction.
hanged at San Quentln state
prison at approximately the same
hour, 10 o clock. '
The crime for which Jack
Ferdinand, John Sears and John
"Smokey" Geregac were banged
today was the shooting to death
of Charles Chapman, an insu-ence
broker In Loa Angeles on the
night of November 27, 1923.
Ferdinand and Sears were hanged
at San Quentln and Geregac at
Folsom prison. Ferdinand fired
the shot that killed Chapman, the
two other men having been con
victed as accomplices.
The murder of Chapman came
as the climax to a long series of
robberies in the southern city.
By a careful check of automobile
rental agencies it was established
that Jack Ferdinand, previously
suspected as the perpetrator of
the robberies, had obtained a car
the night before. Officers arrested
Ferdinand as he drove into the
agency. The next day Sears and
Geregac were arrested.
The suspects were tried to
gether and found guilty of first
degree murder on January 28,
1924.
IRRIGATION BILLS
OF
S
Among irrigation bills that are
to be offered at this session of
the legislature it now appears
that three will loom uppermost
One would enable irrigation
districts to refund their bonded
indebtedness, one would provide.
tor the sale of water rights, and
another provides for the appoint
ment ot a manager for districts
that are In default In payment of
Interest or principal on bonde.
The measures havo all been
drawn In tentative form. The one
referring to water rights provide
that the board of directors of an
Irrigation district may apply to
the etute engineer to determine
the quantity of surplus water in
the district for possible sale. He
would be required to make hie
findings and report back to the
board. Another provision le for
the eale of water from lands with
in the district that were acquir
ed by the district in various way
but with particular reference to
sale for taxes. Sponsors of this
measure have the Warm Springs
district In mind especially, with
reference to a method by which
it can cell water rights to the
United States reclamation serv
ice.
The refunding bill provide
that the board of directors of any
irrigation district may issue i
gotiable coupon bonde. to be de
nominated refunding bonde, for
the purpose of refunding any or
all of the bonded indebtedness of
the district, whether due or not
due. "or which has or may here
after bpcome payable at the op
tion of the dietrict or by coneen
ot the bond holders, or by any
lav ful means, whether such bond
ed Indebtedness" be now existing
or may hereafter be created.-'
OP KATZ SEIZED
Lee Anselcs, Cal., Jan. 16 The
district attorney's investigators to
day seized a collection of unset
rubies and diamonds valued at
JliiO.OOO whii-h were Mid to have
been placed In. a safety deposit
vault under an nvumei name
piior to hl death by llnrry I
K.'itz, diamond broker, wno was
shot November 10 last.
The s'.izure of tho gpnis reopen.1)
the invest iff at ion of the mynterl
oun Khooting of Katz as he stood
In the doorwiy of his apartment,
the district attorney announced.
More than two score per?nn
have been quent Wined concerning
the activities of Kate before hi:
denth. This led to the discovery of
ths vault laden with Jewels.
The district attorney siild thrtt
the dV.h wa formerly accredit
ed to a revenue motive, now, how
ever, he believe that Home one
nho knew of the Kati Jewel
wenlth killed the diamond brok
er. Intending robbery.
$25010 GEMS
RUCK
FOR SANTIAM
IIIED
Irrigation Controversy
Between Reclamation
Corporations and Farni-
erg Threshed Out.
The Santfam Irrigation contro
versy was threshed out at a
hearing before State Engineer
Rhea Luper yesterday and last
night, and the engineer, who has
the task of making a decision as
to whether a permit to appropri
ate water shall be granted Henry
G. Porter and others against the
protest of two reclamation cor
porations, has taken the case un
der advisement. The bearing was
not. concluded until about 10
o'clock last night, and In the
neighborhood of 20 witnesses
were called.
Porter and about 15 others
recently filed application for au
thority to appropriate waters of
the river, and land on which
they would use the water would
include some of that In the pro
ject of tho Willamette Valley Ir
rigated Lnnd company and the
Santiam Reclamation company.
The claims ot the two concerns
Involve rights acquired by W. L.
Benham in 1912. He entered into
a eon tract with the Willamette
Valley Irrigated Land company,
and this contract provided that
if at the end of seven years they
hart, not completed development of
their rights, sucn as wero not ae
veloped should revert to him. At
the end of that time he enforced
this provision of the contract and
the . courts returned such rights
to him. The affair continued In
litigation of various kinds until
1924.
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BILL HART'S WIFE
TELLS WITH TEARS
OF FAMILY ROWS
f.os Angeles, Cal., Jan. 16.
Winiti.'d Westuver Hurt took the
witnctis stand in court here ttM-y
In Jier suit to bieak the separa
tion agreement with her husband,
William 3. (Bill) Hurt, film star,
atfirtfild fctlij first time the in
side story of their domestic trou
bles .
Between fits of crying, while
her husband looked on stoically
and her baby boy frolicked in h
nurses lap nearby, the furmer
.screen actress told of Hart's ti
quent demands that she get a di
vorce from him and her repeated
refusals on her baby's account.
They were married, she said, in
Den m her, 1921, and all wont well
until May Hay, 19li2, when, fol
lowing a diflagr anient net woo n
her and Mart's sister, Mary, he
told her. "If that's the kind ot
stuff you are going to pull I don't
want you In the house. '
Her husband omled, she testi
fied, that he had $400,000 and
that, lie would create a trust fund
of $11)3.000. to provido an Income
for hcri'.lf and another $100,0(10
to talte are of the expected cbil I.
Mrs. Hart retorted that she d I
net 'HWve In divorce, she aid,
and that the won id not handi'Mp
her ciiilfl by starting him in lit:
with divorced r'-rn's-
Then, shi testified. Dill dra
mnttfiilly declared: "I owe noth
ing to posterity."
HeveiJil turns, she continu'l,
her husband ur,;ed her to o lo
Itr no and obtain a divorce, but she
refu? d, and their relat ions be
rum" so strained that at times b'
denied her their home. On :-uco
occsrlon?, he said, she went t"
her Mithei
Mm. J fa it ie attempting t) brcjl
that provision of the trust fund
sett le-nent vhich burs h'-r from re
turning to thf scii ' ii.
explosiqOYlls" six
r.i iinnipi
o ciTiirnicco
Vi i MiMire, K;. .Inn. IS,
Twnity children v. ere nrtd fa-tltrrl-
'H'eiduy when an explo
sion it the Diamond Conl m:h
pany'n mine No. 1 killed six uiiii
era who composed the powder
gavz.
Kighty-flve miners left the mliif
an hour before the explosion.
Senate to Go
On Record on
Gun Elevation
Washington, Jan. 16 The sen
ate would be placed on record as
to whether guns on American bat
tleships aro to be elevated to give
an equal range of fire with those
of tho British navy, under an
amendment offered today to the
naval appropriation bill by Senator
McKellar, democrat, Tennessee.
DOLLAR A YEAR
Portland, Or., Jan. 16. "The
legislature will find prompt re
sponse among the people If it en
acts a code creating a law en
forcement board, non-partisan In
character and consisting ot t'irce
portions of the type of the 'dollar-a-year
man who served the gov
ernment during the war," Judge
Stephen A. Lowell of Pendleton
declared before the annual con
vention of the county judges and
commissioners .it the court bouse.
Such a board, the speaker oal'l.
should be clothed with authority
to itdvute with ti e sheriffs of the
various counties as to enforcement
problems, to investigate those of
ficers who are neglectful ot duly,
and, when the results ot such in
vestigation warrants, to set in tnt-
tlon the legal machinery to to
move the delinquent officer. Like
wiee the board ought to have pow
er extending to the incorporated
cities; to the end that it mlht
idvise and assist the peace officers
with attendant authority of in
vestigation, he said.
All fines arising from criminal
prosecutions, the speaker said,
tjhouhl be converted Into the treas
ury of the board to be used by It
under proper accounting to the
auditor of the state, the balance
at tho end of the year to be re
turned to the counties In propor
tion to the amounts given.
Oregon's tax for strictly state
purposes is lower than that of
other western states, and Inwoi
than that in lost Btates In lb
union, despite the claims of son-c
office seekers who mislead the
public to further their own politi
cal ambitions, T. H. Kay, stat
treasurer, declared In bis adtlr-as
before the convention.
NSRROWlSCAPEFROM
GAS BY MOVIE CROWD
Oroton, Neb., Jan. 16. Tblilv
children nnr1 five ndultg narrowly
oacaped death from the effects of
carbon monixide gas In the Star
theater here I a a evening when the
exhaust pipe leading from th
gasoline engine which was bein.
used to light the theater, became
clogged. The performance tern!
mitt-d just In time to save tae
audience.
Parker Pleads Guilty
Sentenced to a Year
Paroled from Bench
William Parker, Indicted un l.r
the name of William Harper for
assault with a dangerous weapon
on Harry Christianeon, hotel pro
prietor at etrot., appeared In
circuit court today, changed bis
plea from not guilty to guilty, and
was sentenced by JudKe tolly to
ono year In the county jail and
parole - from the bench. One con
dition In ' is panda wag that he is
not to return to Detroit, or to that
.section of the state. To iiis
Parker readily agreed.
District Attorney Carson pre
sented iif, opposlti'in to the par.ilc.
In fact he stated that the nnv
Parker tnld when linking for pa
role was suUit.intlally correct, und
that there was an appearance on
the part of witnesses fur the stale
hat they bad no wlh to proseri:t'
th" man.
Parker, or Harper, was arretted
following a fighting scrape In Ui.
Dolroit hotel In which Parker
Usui a knife pr cut up C ' h ri. I n
sen anil two men named Ur jwu
and Oeiirin.
Parlor, In telling his story to
.bo eoui today d dared that he
went to eat supper at the hotel
.vbere he reguturly boarded. II"
raid ufter nuppci rtarted out
into thn lobby wh'M'P two mc-n
were playing on string Inatru.
ments. He stopped for a minute
MATRICIDE AGRICULTURE
FFERENT
ASTO FATE
Pleasure Loving Girl Re
mains "Full of Pep" In
Jail Shows No Sign of
Repentance or Sorrow.
San Francisco, Jan. 16 Pleas-'
ure loving Dorothy Ellingson.
16 year old confessed Blayer of
her mother, Mrs. Anna Elling
son, maintained today the smil
ing, yet Inscrutable mask of In
difference that has characterized
her attitude since her arrest ear
ly yesterday morning. The girl
was charged with murder.
Emerging from 12- hot ire of
pitiless questioning today the
girl was still "the life of the
party" just as she had been a
short time after tho murder
when she danced at the apart
ment of a friend while her moth
er lay in their home shot dead
during a flare ot anger.
In a written statement, Dor
othy has admitted shooting her
mother last Tuesday night after
the latter bad upbraided her for
continued Incursions of the city's
night Ufa and her apparent des'ry
for "jazz parties" to the precis
ion of everything else.
Both father and brother con
fronted the girl In the city pris
on, the former sorrowful and
pleading, the latter stern and
unforgiving. The brother, strick
en by the enormity of the crime,
repudiated the advances of his
sister when ehe sought to em
brace him In the cell, with the
cry "don't touch me! Vou killed
our mother!" the young man
swept her from him.
The police today had round ?d
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IMER
Washington .Jan. 11. Dr. W.
F. Iorenz, chairman of the Wis
consin state board of control, tin
captain and members of the crew
of the wrecked schooner Itulli of
Pensacola, Kla., have ben released
from jnll by Mexican authorities
at Progreso. Yucatan.
Word of the release which wa?
reported to have taken place yes
terday was received at the sta'.o
department fram the American
vice-consul at Progreso.
Previous advices received by the
department said the men were ar
rested on order of the port cap
tain nt Progcso charged with fili
bustering. Investigations showed the
charges tinfoiuidc c
o. two an l u woman In the hotel
I; rough t him a chair from tin:
kitchen, asking him to be seated,
lio declined and when be started
to leave In a short time also push
ed the chair v acr a table near
by. He did so hastily, be Raid, and
the cKilr ttarted to topple over.
He grabbed for the chair and In
doing so pushed It four or tlv"
feet across the floor with a loud
.acKct.
At that, he said, Christiansen,
proprietor, run out and jumpd
on him. Parker then explained
how be was j imped on, kicked
and pommeled and Btruck with a
chair until be got his knife out
and started to retaliate. Then, ne
:tays, Christiansen hit him over t:ie
head with a chair and that wat
thn last he remembered.
It developed that the hotel peo
ple thought Parker was drunk ant'
throwing chairs around when
ChrlHtinnscn Jumped on him and
started to throw his out of the
place. Parker says In the melcf
ho sustained three broken ribs.
that his face r as blnck and b)u
all over and his head bruised and
'Ut.
Parker's wife was In the court
roo n. Khe has been runnin-t an
i part men t bouse in Spokane.
fa ker was at Detroit acting op
Hiib-cot.trator on a section of the
new Detroit- Niagara road.
N
PORTFOLIO
PASSED UP
Hoover Offered Farm Job
By Coolidge But Pre
fers To Remain Head of
Commerce Department
WasliinKton, Jan. 18. Prcal.
dent Coolidge hag tendered th
post of secretary of agriculture to
Secretary Hoover, but Mr. Hoot
er replied that he decided to re
main at the commerce department
With the presidents approval
Mr. Hoover today tissued this slats
ment:
"In view of the press reports, tt
seems to me desirable to stat
that the president did me the
honor to sukkcsI that I conaldef
transfer to the post of secretary
ot agriculture.
"He expressed his belief that
the present need of that depart
ment was an administration la
which emphnsis should be Riven
to the solution ot the farmers'
marketing: problem.
"To this I fully agree. Never
theless. I feel that in the futura .
ns in the past the greatest con
tribution that I could maki o
the improvement ot the farmers'
position lay In the advancement
of measures that make tn the re
duction of costs in our whole
distribution system and In help
ing to bring about Improvement
and stability in the general in
dustrial and commercial situa
tion both at home and abroad.
The farmers problem le a prob
lem ot the nation as a whole.
"I deeply appreciate the confi
dence which the president ha,
shown In me but I have told him
that I believe It would be to the
best Interest for me to decide
against the suggestion, which I
haave done."
MPC
DIVORCE SUIT
J. IT. Donaldson declares In A
divorce complaint filed yesterday
In circuit court that Virginia
Donaldson, bis wife, went Into a
tantrum on January 13, whlcH
lasted all that night and Into the
next day and during the tantrum
among other things told him
that she wanted a real man for a
husband and that some day she
Intended to get one. Then, he do
dares, she hurled books at him,
evidently as an intellectual treat,
that she yelled and screamed
pulled things up around the house,
and Incidentally by her tantrum,
he says, she threw their two year
old baby into a wild fright.
The next day, Donaldson de
clares, while he was at work, she
look the child and left, threaten
Ing to take the Infant into Wash
Ington.
He wants temporary as well at
permanent care of the child, ac
cording to the complaint, and also
a divorce.
An attorney for one of tht
parties stated today that the
couple Lad gotten together last
night, settled up their grievances
and all will be well. The com
plaint still stood unmolested to
day, however.
S
Washington, Jan. 16. Condi
tions In Kurope silll preclude any
move by the United States toward
another arms conference In th
opinion of President Coolidge.
The Washington government
consequently Is making no further
move toward the calling of euch
a conference.
The Wbjte House today author
a flat denial of published eUr.
ies that an arms conference would
he called early In tt.e spring.
Mr. Cool Id re still feels that the
United Strifes should await the
outcome ot the move by the league
of nations to bring about limita
tion ot armaments and should do
nothing In the matter until tht
nice ess or failure of that move It
developed.