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NAVIES NEAR END
- France and Japan Deny.
Washington, D. C.— While practical
ly all machinery of the arms confer
Brief Resume Most Importan
Daily News Items.
ence halted for New Year's, the unof-
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public took advantage of the lull to
press charges of a secret French-Jap-
Tonnage of Airplane Carriers
Definitely Fixed.
unese understanding for perpetuation
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of Japanese contro' in Siberia.
DETAILS FOR EXPERTS
The far eastern delegates declared
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proof of their charges, already denied
Events o f Noted People, Government »
by the French and Japanese delegates,
Americans Withdraw
could be obtained by examination of
Objections
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
original documents in the archives of
Japan’ s Flea to Claraify
Thing» Worth Know ing.
the far eastern government at Chita.
Treaty on Pacific.
to
They suggested that such inquiry be
Arizona federal authorities admitted
Tuesday that there have come to their
made by American consular officials
Washington, D. C.— The arms con
so that results might be known to the
conference when it considers Siberian
attention persistent rumors to the ef
problems.
feet that the execution of General
To emphaslzze the French denial
Francisco Iteyua in Nogales Monday
made Tuesday, Albert Sarraut, head
was preceded by irregularities.
of the French delegation, notified Sec
With $411,831 already collected, the
annual revenue from automobile own retary Hughes, as chairman of the
ers in Washington bids fair to exceed conference, that the charges were
the $750,000 estimate set by the last wholly without foundation In fact. The
legislature, which passed the law, ac French government, he said in a writ
cording to Fred J. Dibble, director of
ten communication, had entered into
licenses.
no commitments regarding Siberia ex
The United States probably will be cept those of which the United States
Invited to send official representatives
was aware.
to the international financial and eco
In view of the French and Japanese
nomic conference, which is to be
called by the allied supreme council repudiation of the charges and the
at Its annual meeting in Cannes early position of the far eastern delegates
next year.
as “ outsiders” sent to the conference
The supreme court of Massachus by an unrecognized government, the
etts Tuesday denied the motion of the inclination in muny conference circles
trustees of the Christian Science Pub
was not to take the development very
lishing society for an Injunction to
restrain the directors of the First seriously. A t the same time the ac
Church of Christ, Scientist, from re cusations attracted widespread atten
moving the trustees.
tion.
What Is said to be the heaviest
sentence yet pronounced on a woman
In federal court In Washington for
violation of the Harrison drug act
Tuesday sent Mrs. Kate Vletheer to
the King county Jail for one year.
Sentence was Imposed by Judge Ne-
terer, who denied a motion for a new
trial.
Naval experts alone worked Tues
day studying technical questions which
remain to be settled in connection with
the naval agreement. It was said their
deliberations were at such a stage
that all the loose ends of the settle
ment probubly could be cleared away
within a few days. If questions of
policy raised by the submarine regu
lation proposals can be settled In time
the conference leaders believe that a
five-power naval treaty ran be put
into definite form this week.
Deaths from cancer In the death reg
istration area of the United States In
1820 totaled approximately 73,000, ac
cording to a report by the census
bureau, which on a basis of propor
Panama Hit By Quake.
tional population estimated the total
deaths for the entire country at 89,000
Panama. — An earthquake lasting
or an Increase of 6000 from the estim about a minute occurred at 1 o'clock
ate for 1919.
Monday morning, shaking up the city,
Rear-Admiral Charles Henry Davis, but doing no damage either here or
retired, brother-in-luw of Senator
along the Panama canal. The center
Lodge of Massachusetts, died at his
home in Washington, D. C\, Tuesday. of the shock was about 60 miles dis
He was a native of Iloston and 76 tant.
years of age. Admiral Davis was a
\ heavy flood due to rains was rog
son of the late Rear-Admiral Charles istered In Gatun lake between 3 o’clock
Henry Davis and a brother of Mrs.
Sunday afternoon and 8 o'clock Mon
Lodge.
day morning.
An Involuntary petition In bank
ruptcy was filed in the New York fed
Hambcrlaln, S. I). — A pronounced
eral court Tuesday against Robert 11.
earthquake, lasting about 65 seconds,
lngersoll & Bro , manufacturers of the
was felt here at 9:50 Monday morning.
lngersoll watches of this city. Lia
Many brick chimneys were tumbled
bilities were set forth as $3,000,000
down, dishes were shaken from cup
and assets, exclusive of good will, as
board shelves and house plants thrown
$2,000,000. The concern admitted its
to the floor by the tremors.
Inability to pay its debts and ex
pressed willingness to bo adjudged
Hays May Yet Quit Job.
bankrupt.
New York. — Postmaster ■ General
Changes in soviet governmental poli
lays started back to Washington late
cies, recently made, or indicated as
Tuesday to resume his duties after
In prospect, may eventually bring
about a resumption of trade relations three weeks of rest. He said he still
between Russia and the United States, was considering an invitation to be
come head of a group of motion plc-
It was said Tuesday at the White
House. Reports received recently by ure producing and distributing cor
the American government, it was add porations. and probably would give
ed, were most optimistic as to the them his unswer at a conference In
course likely to be pursued by the Washington January 14. He is report
ed to have been offered a three-year
soviet authorities.
ontract at $150,000 a year.
Attired in their tribal robes. Chief
Red Feather of Muskogee, Okla., and
Hope Seen For Farmer.
Princess Atuletaah of Davenport. Ia .
Washington, D. C.— The farmer can
were married in the parlors of a
Salem hotel at noon Tuesday. The enter the new year In a spirit of hope
chief signs his name ns Edward De- fulness and good cheer. Secretary of
moss, and has been engaged In the Agriculture Wallace said Monday in
message to farmers.
theatrical business for a number of
“
I see nothing which Indicates boom
years.
He Is an Indian and ns a
soloist has appeared In many of the times for the farmers In the near fu
leading theaters of the country. His ture.” he continued, ' but there does
bride, who Is an Indian, has been seem to be a promise of better times
acquainted with her husband since both for the farmer and for those
whose business Is largely dependent
childhood.
upon him.”
The people of the United States
ference has virtually reached the end
of Us efforts to put a curb ou naval
armaments.
Iho t « i U I ship m tlMMs l was
added Friday an agreement for limita
tion of future tonnage in airplane
carriers, and then the naval commit
tee adjourned indefinitely, leaving de
termination of various problems of
detail to a sub-committee of experts.
Some sort of declaration with re
gard to the use of submarines and an
agreement not to construct any auxil
iary vessels hereafter with a tonnage
of more than 10,000 are expected also
to be added to the accomplishments
of the conference before the final cur
tain is rung down. A five-power treaty
embodying aii the points of which
there is agreement now is in process.
of drafting.
There are growing Indications, too,'
that the four-power treaty to pre-
serve peace in the Pacific, which al-
ready has been signed, will be in some
way further clarified before the con
ference quits. The American dtdega-
tion is understood to have withdrawn
any objection to the Japanese pro
posal that the treaty's scope be de
fined as not including the major Jap
T |,e old T»dd
st 074 West Main street, Lexington. Kjr., where Mary Todd lived from her early childhood
m t .i
r marriage to Abraham Lincoln, la on the market foe the lin t ttmo In jo n n , u d the .....la sought M r bn
ness purposes. Dut a group of public-spirited citizens of Lexington is planning to purchase the old structure ut. I
use It as a museum for Lincoln relics owned in Lexington.
The Illustration shows the Todd home and un old por.
trait of Mary Todd Lincoln.
Europe Home
of White Race !
Habitat 5,000 Years Ago Was in
Lithuania, Declares Profes-
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sor Bender of Princeton.
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HONEY BEE SEEN AS FACTOR
Indo-European Language Indicates An.
clent Home in Common Word for
Insect— Traced Through Com
parative Philology.
Princeton.— Where would your home
anese islands, and the plan for an ex- be if you had''lived 5 , 000 “ years »go?
change of clarifying notes or for The search by ethnologists und other
amendment of the treaty text Is ex- scientists to find Just where the first
pected to take definite form within white peoples lived, before splitting
a few days.
up Into "'hut are modern nations, Is
The Japanese request for a clari- described by Prof. Harold H. Render
fi. ution of the tn.it> a terms is said h t Pr,n'-pfon university, who declares
tlrnt our ancestors of the cuve man
to have been based largely on the
jierlod lived In what is modern Lithu
development of a difference in view ania.
on the subject between President
As a student of languages und pro
Harding and the American delegation. fessor of Indo-Germnnlc philology at
This development has been a topic of Princeton Professor Render’s Investi
such widespread speculation in con gations have led hint bnck to the or
ference circles that the president Fri igin of all white races, before the dawn
o f history. His conclusions, together
day took occasion to characterize us
with a description of the methods by
"silly’’ published reports that Secre-
which lie came to them, are embodied
tary Hughes was considering resign- ln » Tlu. Arynn y lles,|„ni r,|(I lhe Lan-
iug from tho cabinet as a result of gunges of Europe Come From Asia?”
differences arising between him and a lecture published by Princeton,
the White House during the arms
The Indo-European race, which flour-
negotiations.
Ished almost 5,000 years ago, is the
What is to be done about the far <toun* r of a" ,,le Pr**«’n‘
of
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Europe, save the Hungarians, Greeks,
eastern problems now becomes the „
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Romans, Anglo-Saxons and other Ger-
big unanswered question of the con mnna CeIts
thos„ pe,,pIe nre ,le.
ference. Japan and China are dead- gcendnnts o f the one-time race, which
locked In their efforts at a separate professor Render believes lived In that
settlement of the Shantung contro- section o f Europe between the Itultlc
versy and, as a consequence, all the and Rlack seas, or modern Poland and
other fur eastern discussions are at Lithuania.
a standstill. It was indicated that a j
Comparison of Languages,
meeting of the far eastern committee
Living l**fore recorded history. In
would be held this week, at which * hnt ls oft,>n f u r r e d to ns cave mnn
times, tills ancient people from whom
China would attempt to transfer the
are descended all o f the modern Eur
Shantung negotiations into the full
opean races left us little with which
conference.
we might learn of their culture nnd
Venus Held Uninhabited.
Swarthmore, Pa.— Investigations by
E. St. John, director of the Wilson
observatory, California, and Seth R.
Nicholson, his assistant, indicate that
the planet Venus supports no life, they
asserted In papers read before the
American Astronomical society in con-
vention at the Sprout observatory,
Swathmore college.
Both declared
they had discovered no oxygen or
water on Venus and therefore the
presence of even animal life was pre
cluded. The council of the society de
cided to hold its next meeting at
Yerkes observatory, Williams Bay,
Wis., the week following next Labor
day.
Poles Out of Position.
Swarthmore, Pa.— W alter D. Lam
bert,
mathematician
of
the
United
States coast and geodetic survey de
scribes calculations made at a num
ber of observatories showing a slight
motion of the earth's poles. The north
spent more than $ 100 . 000.000 for toys
Radical Trio Quit Riga.
pole has dipped slightly to the south,
and games during the year Just end
R ig a — After a week's Imprisonment, the observations over a period of years
Ing. The National City bank of New
during which time they were not per indicate, he said, hut the movement
York quoted that the factory value I
mitted to communicate with outsiders. has never taken the pole more than
of toys manufactured here more than
Emma Goldman, Alexander llerkman 60 feet out of its position.
trebled when the war cut us oft from
and Alexander Shapiro, deportees
Germany, formerly the chief source of!
from America, who recently came out
117 Farm Leans Granted.
toy import*. In 1919 the value of toy*
of soviet Russia, started a second time
made here was $ 46 . 000,000 against j
Washington. R C.— Approval of 117
Tuesday for Reval, Fstbonla.
The
$ 14 , 000.000 In 1914
Imports of toy*!
advances for agriculture and livestock
fell from $ 9 , 000,000 In the year before radicals intend to go on to Stockholm. purpose, aggregating $3,699.000. was
the war to $ 1 , 000,000 In 1918 . In 1920
I
New York Hit By Cold.
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Import* of toy* rose to $ 6 . 000 . 000 . and
cor por ation. T h e lOBM d is ’ ributc 1 !■
this year to $ 10 , 000 . 000 , more than
Utica. N. Y.—Temperatures ranging eluded: Montana. $155.000; Oregon.
the value In any year before the war. from 15 to 27 degrees below zero were $37.000; Washington, $49.000; Wyo-
Capital engaged in the Industry here reported Monday. They were from mlng. $105.000; California. $424,000;
advanced ^roin $10,000,000 In 1914 to central and northern sections of the North Dakota, $294.000; South Dakota,
$25.000.000 in 1919
state.
i $268.000.
dally life. All that we have Is a meth
od o f comparative language study by
which we find their own language, and
hence much nbout their civilization.
Philologists have discovered that the
lnngtiages of a quarter o f a billion peo-
pie ln Asia and most o f the Inhahl-
tnnts o f Europe, North and South
Amertcn nnd other regions of the
varth colonized by Europeans are fun-
dunientally alike. That I*. Latin. Ger
man. Russlnn anil Greek are at the
bottom o f same, having all descended
f ron, the same parent language. Pro-
feasor Render says: "Language Is the
best evidence o f community, of life
and culture, and we can at least as
sume that at some time and in some
more or lea* definite territory there
dwelt a people, or group o f peoples
racially pure or racially mixed, who
lived to a large extent a common life,
and who spoke a tongue which was
the common ancestor of the languages
now spoken by the majority of the
rtvtllred people* o f the earth.
“ With the beginnings of the science
of comparative philology early ln the
Nineteenth century came the knowl
edge that Sanscrit was the oldest of
the Indo-European language*— If not
the mother o f them all. at least their
Town Elected Six Mayors.
Each Serving Two Months
Political leaden of Praaaborg.
a city o f »O.OUO. In 1 xectioslo
vakia, found that party feuds
would make It Impossible to
elect a mayor or burgomaster.
They got together and agreed
the city shall have sis burgo
masters. «H ie to he elected by
each party, each mayor to hold
office for two months, succeed
ing one another. All parties are
now satisfied.
Given 24 Hours to
Meditate and Pray
Syracuse, N. Y.—Tw o girls,
arrested for shop-lifting, were
sentenced to “ 24 hours o f medi
tation and prayer” by Police
Court Justice Shove.
“ Spend 24 hours In medita
tion and prayer," said the Judge.
“ Search your conscience and
bare your faults before your
eyes. Then let me know you
nre sorry— not that you were
caught, but because you stole.”
elder sister.
Philologists concluded
that the home of the Hindus must al
so have been the home of the Indo-
Europeans, nnd tills common home
they visualized on the hunks of In
dia’s most sacred stream, the Ganges.
The study of the Veda soon showed, I
however, that the Vedlc people did not I
know the Gangea, bet lived in north- • £
west India ; so the primitive home of !
the Indo-Europeans was moved once
more, this time into the Iranian re which would approximate the dura
tion of tlie Indo-European period, so
gion east of tlie Caspian sen.”
Professor Render goes on to show far as It Is known. There is probably
how philidogians nnd theologians met no other part of Indo-European terri
on a common ground for different rea tory for which there Is so much evi
sons and decided tlint the location was dence against autochthonous, non-In
southwestern Asia. He presents the do-European predecessors.”
arguments In support of this hypo
thesis and shows liow most of them
have been disproved and presents the
method whereby modern philologists
have arrived at this new conclusion. Saves Little Girl From Death in Sea
During Violent Storm on the
Honey Bee Is Factor.
Atlantic.
On account of the fact that almost
every Indo-European language shares
New York.—Tliyras, u shaggy police
with Its cognates a common word for
honey, or for un intoxicating drink dog from Poland, is a hero, ncclaitned
made from honey, it is made clear that by the sixteen passengers of the steam
the primitive home of the Indo-Kur- ship Gdansk, which docked in Brook
o|>eans must liavo been a land where lyn recently after huiTeting its way
the honey bee uhounded. But not one across the Atlantic through storms
of the Asiatic sites that have been that more than once threatened to car
seriously considered by modem philol ry youthful members of tlie ship's com
ogists ns ttie possible home of these pany over tlie rail and into the sea.
peoples, falls within the bee belt. In
Capt. A. II. Peterson, who wild It
Europe, on the other hand, the bee was the roughest voyage of his life
Is Indigenous almost everywhere.
time as a skipper, told tlie story o f
By continuing this process of com Tliyras' exploit In saving Zeata Za-
parative philology and by the processes horowski, youngest daughter o f u fam
of elimination tlie conclusion above ily o f five children on their way from
mentioned is reached. “ We liave left, Danzig to Join relatives lu the United
finally,” says Professor Render, “ the States.
great plain of central Hiid southeast
“ Zeata dropped her doll over the
ern Eurojie, which embraces roughly rail and it caught on a nail on the side
the present Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine of the ship,” he said. “ A heavy sea
and Russia south und west of the Vol was running, but Zeata, who is seven
ga. Almost every condition Is satis years old, started to clltnb after the
fied by the conception o f the Indo- doll. Just as she was going over the
Europeans ns Inhabiting some part of side up dashed Tliyras, who seized her
this plain ns inte ns 3.0U0 or 2,o00 B. dress and liung on. The girl screamed
C. Geographically this central Euro and the purser run up and dragged
pean plain lies In the very heart of them both to safety. After tliut Thyras
Indo-European territory as we now-
and his two companions, T o lf and
know It.”
Nellie, were musters at arms and
In support of his theory Professor
practically took care qf the children.
Bender states ln the closing paragraph
of his lecture: “ Nor can we ignore
Mad Bull Has Fit.
the notable fact that right here we find
the Lithuanian, which has preserved
Poplar Bluffs, Mo.— William Daniels
into modem living speech more of the admits that lie Is as much opposed to
Indo-European past tiian any other Hereford bulls as Ireland is to John
language on earth. Not a scintilla of ny's "bull." And William is In favor
evidence, historic or linguistic, has of “ fita.” Because an angered Here
been produced to Indicate that the ford threw a fit Daniel's two small
Lithuanians have ever stirred from sons are alive. The two hoys, ten tnd
their present dwelling place since they twelve, were attacked by an irate”
separated from the other Indo-Euro With the youths lying on the ground^
pean speaking peoples.
the Infuriated animal wns preparing
“ Indeed, It has Iieen made very prob to gore them to death when lie sud
able on tlie grounds of linguistics, denly was seized with a fit. Frothing
natural science nnd history that the at the mouth the hull was slain by a
Lithuanian stock 1ms dwelt ln Its pres veterinary surgeon, who declared the
ent location for at least 5.000 years. animal had hydrophobia.
POLICE DOG IS SHIP'S HERO
LOVE OF MOTHER STAYS JUSTICE
Woman Assumes Blame for Son’s
he had grown up." she told the court.
Shortcomings to Save Him From
I, not he. am to blame. I should pay
Sixty-Day Sentence.
the penalty. Let him go home with
Detroit, Mich.— A mother agreed to me and 111 keep hitn there, try to cure
go on a year's probation and to suffer him. and report regularly In his stead.
the penalty to report personally regu If I fail to do so you ran give me the
sentence you were about to Impose ou
larly that her son might not serve a him."
tkV.lay sentence ln the Detroit house of 1
Judge Faust accepted the offer.
correction.
She Is Mrs. Charles II. Slating, wife
Kills Big Bear.
of a prominent Flint (Mich.) banker. |
She was given the “ sentence” when
Saranac Lake. N. Y.—Charles Riv-
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in Ke<-order's court, to ask leniency for In the Black Rn-ok aectlon had a
her son. Charles Reynold*, twenty-six. J thrilling experience when he killed the
Reynolds was about to be sentenced largest bear on record in that section
for the third time In two years for i of tlie Adirondack* since the days o f
larceny. III* latest offer -e wns the 1 the pioneers. When creeping ¡u,ng a
downtown store. He was found guilty, or suddenly came upon the I .ear. He
hut sentence was deferred until the j dhl not seriously Injure the beast with
court could confirm reports that Roy- a hasty shot and was instantly charged
n. Id* was a drug addict.
! by it. In attempting to get a better
Mr*. S ting, accompanied by Rey- shooting position,the hunter fell from
n*>hts' stepfather, tearfully took the the ledge and dropped hi* rifle. The
filmile for Keytiolda
)1 v..luuteered l*ear scrambled down the ledge and
lhe penalty.
was atmoat upon his foe, when Riv
“ I spoiled him as a child and after ers recovered his rifle.