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RUNE
I aB EL I Y
BT. BRII!
SIGNS PACT
WITH RUSSIA
Trade Agreement Under Which
Business Is Resumed Sign
ed, by Both Governments
' ' Trotszky Declares Uprising
V in Petrograd "Just Talk" to
' : Prevent Agreement.
(i ; ONDON, Mar. 10. (lly Associated
Press.) The trade agreement under
which commercial relations will be ret
sinned by i Great Britain and Russia
. was signed here tills morning by rep
i resentatives of the governments o the
two countries. ,
i The agreement is essentially tlio
same -as tho draft taken to Moscow
by Leonid KraBsin, soviet minister of
trado-nnd commerce in January, the
most important terms of which fol
low:. '
Each party agrees to refrain from
hostllo action or propaganda outside
Its borders against tho other's insti
tutions or giving assistance or en
couragement to any propaganda out
side its-own borders. The soviet gov
ernment particularly ;agrees to refrain
from any, encouragement of Asiatic
peoples to' action against British .in
terests especially In lAsla Minor, Per
sia, Afghanistan- and' India.
. Each agrees not to impose any
form of blockade against tho other or
any discrimination against trado not
imposed on' other foreign' countries.
Ships in each other's harbors shall
receive tho treatment usually accord
ed foreign morchant ships by com
mercial nations.
A renewal of telegraphic postal fa
cilities, includlngjparcels post, will bo
arranged. .
With regard to Russian gold ex
ported from Kussia as payments for
Imports, tho British government does
not cottccdo tho soviet claim that such
gold should bo rogardod as immune
from seizure to pay British claims.
Tlfo agreement loaves this as a-mat-tor
to be settled by' ordinary court
procedure.
In the arrangomont the soviet gov
ernment is termed tho "government
of the Russian socialist federal soviet
republic."
' COPENHAGEN, Mar. Ill Fifty
thousand men have been gathered at
tho Russian fortress at Kronstadt, and
this number Is iiicreasing dally, says a
Hclsingrors dispatch quoting an Amor
ioan Red Cross worker, just arrived
there from Kronstadt. An organiza
tion of Russian' fetnlgntnts in this city
has' been-' informed in a wireless dis
patch that Kronstadt Is receiving nec
essary provisions and has sufficient
ammunition foi' three years.
Victor' Tchernoff,' who was nilnislor
ot agriculture In" tho Kcrerisky caffinot
in 1917, was the organizer of the) coun
ter revolution, It is declared by tho
Pollution. -. ' .
LONDON,' Mar. 10. (By Associated
Press.) Leon trotzky, Russian soviet
war minister, deolurcd In anjnterview
given at Moscow that "all talk of an
uprising in Petrograd and a bombard
ment of tho town Is silly fiction," says
a wireless- dispatch from the soviet
capital today.
"Petrograd Is just as Impregnable
against a. counter revolutionary coup
d'etat as It Is to tho Kronstadt for
tress," Trotzky asserted, "Liquidation
or tho uprising has bocn dragged out
becauso wo wish to avoid severe
(Continued on Vatd Eight)
DR. ZAYAS ELECTED
"FAIR" ELECTION,
!. 1
HAVANA, Mar. 10. Dr. Alfredo
Zayas y Alfonso, fortlier vlco president
and candidate ot the conservative
popular coalition (national league)
party, made virtually a clean sweep of
the partial elections held yesterday. In
several hundred precincts of various
provinces in Cuba.
Incomplete figures given out by the
department of communications today
show that in the four provinces out
siilo of Havana where elections were
held, tho liberal parly obeyed the or
der or Its execntlvo committee to re
main away front the polls, only forty-
First Payments to
Ex-Service Men Are
Made in Washington
OYL.MPIA, Wash., March lli.
i First warrants covering sol-
diers' bonus payments were sent
: out today from the office of the
state auditor. Warrant No. 1
went to A! P. Stenger, an Olym-
pia veteran of the world war.
The first Tacoma man toe sent
his payment was . Oscar N.
Thomas, who recelved-$330 for
service in France and .Germuny.
The payments will continue un
: til all the (i 0,000 wan veterans
of tho stuto havo received $ 15 for
each mouth actual service from
i the day war was declared on
lienminy on April 0, 1917, un
4 til one year after tho armis-
tice, or November 11, 1919. .
I
, WASHINGTON, Mar. 10. Priority
for tariff or internal tax revision
legislation at tho special session of
congress still was an open question
today and probably will bo the sub
ject of conferences to be held within
tho next few days by President Hard
ing with congressional leaders.
Prospective fiscal legislation was
discussed by Mr. Harding yesterday
with Chairman Penrose of the senate
finance committee and Chairman
Fordney of tho house .ways and means
committee. ;
Tho two chairmen laid before the
president" tile results of tho preced
ing days' meeting of the republican
members of their committees with
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon.
Final results of tho White House
conferem.-" were said by tho chair
men to hate been the .obtaining r
presiclential approval for tho pro
posal to enact as soon as possible
after convening of tho special session
Apuil 11 of nntidumping and Ameri
can valuation of imports legislation.
Both Senator Penrose and Repre
sentative Fordney expect to confer
with Mr. Harding before tho end of
the week and in tho meantime the
president is expected to call In other
members of the two committees to
receive views as to whether tariff or
tax revision should be given prece
dence. The majority of the two com
mittees are known to favor taking up
the tariff first.
COFFEE FALLS TO
NEW LOW LEVEL
NEW OKK, Mar. lli. Under
continued pressure of liquidation, due
to large receipts from liruzll and the
lowest Brazilian exchange rate in
over twenty years, the coffee market
today broke to a new low level, tho
lowest Bincc 1808.
May contracts sold ns low as $5. 15
and .Inly ns low' as G.50, representing
declines of 27 to 28 points from last
night's close. Spot coffee was selling
at six cents for ltio No. 7.
ATHENS, Mar. 15. (By Associated
Press.) King Constuntine tonight de
clared there was absolutely no founda
tion for reports published in the Unit
ed States. . "Oh, let me have peace."
Constantino exclaimed when asked 1f
the reports were true. "I have no in
tention of abdicating in ' favor of
George or any one else." '
PREST. CUBA, IN
UNDER U. S.
two voting. A total of 12,431 votes
was cast for Dr. Zayas.
Although tho liberals carried Ha-
, in the regular Novem
ber elections and partial elections are
set for Oriente province Marcn jn,
..Mtanhr'i election was considered
final as regards the presidency.
-,.ri r-rnwder. special American
rroontuilv.v nersonally made a tour
of Inspection last week into several
provinces.
DdrK received bv tho central
electoral board state there were no
serious rlashfs anywhere during me
day,
SAYS STRIKE
CERTAIN IN
STOCK TDS
Leader of Packing House
Workers Declares No Doubt
of Walk-out and Little
Doubt, of Strike 'Becoming
General Balloting Has
Already Started. ,
CHICAGO, Mar. Hi Representa
tives of ten national packing plant un
ions today pledged their support to
the Amalgamated Order of Meat Cut
ters and Butcher Workmen of North
America in case of a strike.
Indications were, however, that no
organization would strike until after
the conference Monday at Wasulngton
when representatives of labor and the
employers confor with Secretary of
Labor Davis.
Union officials said tnoy wished to
go before Secretary' Davis "with clean
hands" and for this reason probably
would not order an immediate strike.
They held that tho war time agree
ment with tho packers was In effect,
that the packers had violated it by
ordering wage reductions and that
they would not violate it by ordering
a strike without first taking every
means to nvert one.
No Injunction Sought"
It was, definitely decided not to re
sort to legal .proceedings in regard to
tho wage cut at present. No Injunc
tions will be sought by tho laborers
but It is believed that at tho Washing
ton conference they will urge the gov
ernment to seek an Injunction against
tlio packers on tho ground that the
government was a party to tho 'war
time agroement and that this agree
ment had been violated by the pack
ers. The organizations represented at
tne conference today were:
The International Brotherhood of
Stationary Firemen, the International
Union ot Steam and Operating Engi
neers, the International Brotherhood
ot Teamstors and Chauffeurs, the
Sheet Metal Workers International Al
liance the International Association
of Machinists, the International Broth
erhood of BlackBmlths, tho Interna
tional Association of. Plumbers and
Stentnfitters of tno United States and
Canada, the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers, tho Coopers
International Union of North America,
the Brothorhood o. Railroad Cur Men
ot North Amorica and tho Amalgamat
ed Order of Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen of North America.
CHICAGO, Mar. 10. Willie Inter
national officers of 'the unions in
volved in tile packers wage contro
versy woro assembling hero for con
ference today, it was learned that
eight independent packing companies
have closed down or "greatly reduced
their forces, throwing nearly 2000
men out of work.
"We want to see how tho labor con
troversy is going to (-onio out," said
I'atarick Brennan, president of the
Independent Parking company, the
largest of the eight companies.
Heads of some of tho other com
panies declared tho present price of
live Iiors and the low price of the
slaughtered pruiluct have made ope
rations unprofitable Just now.
Says Htrlke Certain.
Before the meeting, Dennis Lane,
.secretary of tho Amalgamated Order
of Meat Cutters and Butcher Work
men of North America, the organiza
tion which Is taking a strike vote, said
that unofficial conferences he had
held with the heads of other' pack
ing plant unions' convinced him thnt
they were ready to order a strike bal
lot among their men.
"They cannot, of course, make any
official announcement until a decis
ion is made in today's meeting." said
Mr. lme, but I have yet to find u
union official who Is opposed to the
strike. All Beoin to be convinced that
the packers uro giving us an -unfair
deal.
"There Is no doubt there will be a
strike and little doubt that all the
packing plant unions eventually will
Join it."
Balloting Is On,
CHICAGO, Mar. 1 II. Balloting In
the national referendum strike vole
of packing house employes began
hero today. While members of the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen were voting or
preparing to vote on a strike, ten al
lied unions having member employes
In .the pur-king houses, were confer-
(Continued, op 15a Eight)
N. W. University Dean
Defends Lip Sticks
And Skirts to Knee
CHICAGO, Mar. 10. Tho fash
ion extremes adopted. by the mod
ern girl should not be judged too
harshly said Mary Ross Potter,
dean of women at Northwestern
university last night at a meet-,
ing ot ministers' wives,
"There is nothing wrong with
the girl ot today because she uses
a Hp stick and a little rouge, and
a dab of powder,"- said Doan Pot
ter. "Of course the dress of the
girl of today skirts to knees al
most, flimsy ' stockings, flimsy
everything is not the dress of
mother's generation. Neverthe
less she Is sweet and good and
kind at heart. She has an Inde
pendence that did not belong to
Iter mother's dny but such is the
spirit of (lie times. It is the. re
sult of the war."
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4.44
Allies Declare Money Must Be
in France, England or U. S.
A. On or Before 23rd of
Month French Forces Are
. Moving East
.LONDON, mar. -Hi. (Uy Associated
Press.) The house of commons, with
the consent ot the government, today
decided that the German reparations
bill, providing for a levy of fifty per
cent on tho purchase price of Imported
German goods, shall not come into ef
fect until March 31-. Tho measure
passed Its second reading in the com
mons Monday last.
PARIS, Mar. 16. (By Associated
Press.) The allied reparations com
mission, in Its note to Germany de
manding 'fulfillment of article 235 of
the peace treaty, notified tho German
government l must pay one billion
gold marks before' March 23, it wus
announced today,
Tho money must be deposited In the
Bank of France, Hank of England, or
the federal reserve bank in the United
States, Germany was told. .
It must complete ,tho 'payment of
twenty billion gold marks by May 1.
Tho commission gave Germany until
April first to submit a proposul to pay
tho balance of the twenty, billion
marks otherwise than in cash. Ger
many may submit a plan for a foreign
loan, tho proceeds of which shall be
payable to the commission. - '
The commission announced that
Germany had virtually refused to pay
the balance, assorting the twenty bil
lion marks had been fully puld.
Some time ago tho commission an
nounced that the allied claims for rep
arations had been forwarded to Ber
lin. The exact total ot those claims
has not been announced, but In usually
wen informed quarters It Is said they
probably amount to approximately
000,(100,000,000 goid marks, or roughly
two and one-haii t linos the figures fix
ed for indemnities by the Paris Confer
ence. '
Computation of the total reparations
was difficult, chiefly because ot the
widely fluctuating exchange' rates us
well as the vast task ot checking
Claims and cgiiiputiug tho pre-war val
ues and .transforming them into to
day's figures, on falling markets.
DUISIIURO, Mar. 10. (lly, Associat
ed Press.) New French forces have
arrived here from the occupied area
and belief is expressed that their com
ing may foreshadow tho occupation ol
Mu!helm-on-Ruhr, four miles cast of
here toward Kssen.
COHLENZ, Mar. 10 (lly Associated
Press.) Principles to be followed 'In
collecting customs In the new tariff
zone established east of the' Rhine by
entente forces have been outlined in a
report sent to the allies by the Rhine
land commission. The report also out
lines the. zone, which would begin ut
Mulhclm, and run along the line of the
extreme outosts of the newly occu
pied territory and of the bridgeheads
established by the entente.
General Allen, commander of Amer
ican forces here., has participated un
officially In discussions or questions
relative to the tarili anil the limits of
(he new zone.
iW DEMAND A
BILLION MARKS
BY MARCH 23
WSiTrl
riion
IS FINISHED
State in Closing Arguments to
Jury Does Not Ask for Death
Penalty Leaves Punish
ment to Jury Five Hours
Allowed for Summing Up
Expect Verdict Thursday.
AltTMORE, Mur.'h III. Attorney
v
General Freollng, this afternoon
pointed out in his opening statement
ho had not roferred to a death pen
alty shor.ld Clara 'Hamon ho found
guilty, and said ho would ask. a peiy
alty which" the jurors "in tlioir judg
niont find fit.' lie said ho would
not change from that In his argu
ment. ARDMORE, Okla., Mar. 10. Intro
ductlon of tostlmony in tho trial of
Clara Smith llanion tor tho allegod
murder of Colonel Jako L. Hamon, re
publican national committeeman from
Oklahoma ami millionairo oil and rail
road man, ended ut 10:23 o'clock this
morning and court was recessed until
3 p. m. to permit Judge Thomas W.
Champion to prepare his Instructions
to the Jury.
( bach sldo was allotted five hours for
arguments, and it was said that.lt the
court had -prepared his charge Jiy tho
time court re-convenes thoy will bo
gotten tinder way Immediately. .
Tho court will charge the jury on
three points: Murder, which, upon con
viction, would carry a sentence of
death or llfo Imprisonment; first do
greo manslaughter, the sentence for
which upon conviction would bo from
four yours to life imprisonment; and
second degree, manslaughter, with u
minimum fine of $1.
Attorney General Frce::ng In charge
of tho prosecution, said that II. H.
Hrown, special prosocutor, would
make tho opening argument nnd that
ho would close for the state.
Thero wore numerous reports about
the county building this morning of
threats made against stale .counsel
and the jurors should a verdict of guil
ty bo returned against Clara Hamon.
Sheriff Buck Garrett said, howevor,
that no such reports had reached him
with one exception, that of n letter
written to a menthol of tlio defense
counsel In which a warning was Riyon
pf possible violenco to tho defondnnl
should she be acquitted,
1 ri. 11. Brown, special prosecutor,
said threats had been mndo against
him but he would not go into details.
,W. P. McLean of Fort Worth, Texas,
said that tho defense had submitted a
proposal to tho state counsol to permit
tho case to go to tho Jury without
urgnmcnts immediately after the
judgo reads his charge but thul the
state had declined.
ARDMORK, Okla., Mar. 10. Judge
Champion, in the trial of Clara Smith
Hamon, on trial charged with nimdor
of Colonel Jako L. Hamon, today ruled
Inadmlssablo us evidence a number of
letters Hamon had written to the do
lendant. Tho defenso had ml excep
tion noted and formally rested.
Tho state began presentation of Its
rcbuttiil testimony by introducing Sum
lllalr, a newspaper man who obtained
an Interview with Clara Hamon at
Chihuahua City, Mexico. .
Ho said he saw Clara Hamon first
on tho night of December 18, 1920 nnd
baw her twice later. Asked regarding
any stuloment tho defendant may
have made regarding a will left by Ha
mon, lllair testified Clara said sho be
lieved there was a will and that It was
being kept hidden until after site
could bo tried.
S. P. Freellng, slate attorney gen
eral In charge of tho prosecution, of
fered ns part of tho trial record, a copy
of a newspaper containing Hlair's ro-
rort. '
The defense objected and was sus
tained. .
Irwin C. Daniels, a IJenlson, Texas,
chauffeur, said ho had driven Clara
from Denison to Dallas and that on
the trip he had seen a pistol In the
defendant's handbag.
Today, seemed quiet and druggy
after tho startling developments of
yesterday which piled on In rapid sue
tossloii.
Miss Rose Cannon, a nurse 'at the
(Continued on Pae KlRht)
Small Amounts of
Liquor in House No
Cause for Arrest
SKATTLK, March 10. Per
sons found with a small amount
of liquor in their possession,
"for refreshment purposes," will
not be prosecuted 111 tho federal
court, Robert 0. Saunders, Uni
ted States district attorney, an
nounced . today. Such cases
would have to bo prosecuted un
der tho state law, Mr. Saunders
sa!d.
"Wliero great quantities of
liquor uro seized," Mr. Saun
ders added, "and where thero
Is evldenco that persons hold
' liquor for the purpoie of sale
I will prosocuto tho violators
under tho Volstead law."
UTAH SLATED FOR
U.S. LAND OFFIC
WASHINGTON, Mar. lli. Former
Govornor William Spry of Utah, is
understood to havo. been virtually de
cided on by President Harding for ap
pointment us- commissioner -of tlio
general land office.
Governor Spry has been iudorsod
for tlio post by Senator Smoot, repub
lican of Utah, and by a number of
other western members of congress
As assistant commissioner, tho neai
dent Is understood to havo undor con
sideration R, C. Taylor of Boise, Idahp
WASHINGTON, Mnr.. 10. Fred E.
Scubey of San Antonio, Texas, Is un
derstood to have been solocted by
President Hurtling as director of tho
mint.
, Raymond T. nakor, present dlroctor
of tho mint has not resigned nnd he
said toduy ho had no intontlon of re
signing. Ho was appolntod by Presi
dent, Wilson for a torm expiring March
22, 1922. s
Mr. Scobey Is a personal friend of
President Harding and was host to
Mr. Harding when ho visited Point
Isabel, Texas, after the cloctlons last
fall. .,
IN LOS ANGELES
PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 1G. A fin
ger print on n thermos bottle left by
the allegod blackmailer "Shadow"
when pullco pursued him lust January
will be compared with flngor prints of
Herbert L. Johnstone, under arrest In
Los Angeles on a charge of threaten
ing a merchant of Olympla, Wash.,
said pollco hero today.
The methods In tho Olympla case
losomblod those of "Tlio Shadow,"
who threatened prominent residents
ot Portland. Chief of Detectives John
Clark said the printing of I lie
"Shadow" notes rcBcmblod that of the
notes sent at Olympla. Pollco said
thoy would ask to examine Johnstone
hero when officers tako him to Olympla.
ALLEGE MOTHER OF SON MURDERS HIS i
: DOUBLE FOR $24,000 LIFE INSURANCE
, WARSAW, Ind Mar. hi. Develop
mcnts at a coroner's inquest lust night
and Investigations by detectives in
ho case of the youth round fatally In
jured on a railroad crossing near here
Saturday, resulted in tho arrests of
Mrs. Lydla Decker, and her son, Vir
gil. Tho body was Identified as that
of I .eroy Lovett ot Klkhurt, 1 nil., and
A verdict that Lovett had been mur
dered by an unknown person was re
turned. .- Mrs. Decker's arrest followed her
repudiation of her Identification of the
body which sho and others of her
family had maintained was that of her
son Virgil. She admitted the body
was that of lovett, whom she said she
4 INDICTED
; IN iiS
H FAILURE
:i
Mr. and Mrs. Ethcridye, Fred
Morris and Secy. F. B. Pratt
Charged by Grand Jury
Etheridge Implicated In All
Indictments and Morris 'On
Two.- ' -
PORTLAND, Ore., Mar, 10.--Four
Indictments charging misappropria
tion of a total of $250,00(1, woro served
(oday on persons figuring in tho col
lapso of tho bond house of Morris
Hrothers, Inc. Those accused by tho
grand Jury were: John L. Elherldgo,
former president of tho wrecked bond
houso; Mrs. Stella Etheridge, his wlfo;
Fred S. Morris, founder of tho con
cern; Forbes 11. Pratt, socretary; . -.
All the charges road "larceny by em
bezzlement." Uthorldge Is Implicated in each ot
tho four indictments, .Morris is named
til two of them and Mrs. Etheridge
and Pratt In one each.
Ono Indictment charges Ethoridgo
nnd Morris with embezzlement of
$100,000 which was placed on deposit
nt a Forest Grove, Oro., bank and Im
mediately turned over to Morris indi
rectly by means of payment to Miss
Henrietta Morris, sistor of Fred Mor-
Etheridge, Morris ana Pratt Tvore
indicted in a second truo bill charging
thoy engineered a dcul whereby $25,
000 in stock of tho Rogue River Water
company, the property of Morris pro
thors, inc., was turned ovor to MIbs
Morris In February 191D for 1.
A third indictment ' against' Etho
ridgo concerns allegod duplication of
assets, ' '- : '
Etheridge and Mrs. Ethoridgo woro
accused of embezzlement of an addi
tional $100,000 in bondB. These bonds,
the grand jury nsserts, Etheridge took .
from the assets of the firm, placing
$25,000 of them in a safety deposit '
box here and $75,000 in a box at Ta
coma. -., ' .. .,.'. ,
PORTLAND, Ore,, Mar. 10. Indict
ment of John L. Etheridge for embez
zlement ot $100,000 In bonds from the
firm of Morris Brothers, Inc.; bond
house was included in four secret true
blllB returned yesterday by the. Mult
nomah county grand, jtyrx .after .nvesto
gatlons continuing since,, ,tht jury, ,wfia .
Impanelled, for the , DocojJiber" ,.J 19,2f:f
vorm. i ','i,'-V'J.:d ,vilu;i
: Inusinuch as , Ktberidgq. ,, is,,, under.,,
bond ot $20,000 furnished wi(in, bpqnd, .
over to the, grand jury,iubllpntlu-n,o
tho r,iet iif hlu Imlintmmit wttu linrmlt..
tnfl bv tlln authorities. .. . -. ...
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HARVEY ACCEPTABLE
TO GREAT BRITAIN
LONDON, Mar. It!. (lly Associated.
Press.) Tho British government to
day gave formal approval to the ap
pointment of Colonel George Harvey
as United States ambassador to Grqat
Britain to succeed John W. Davis.
linew well. Tho two youths were
called doubles becuuso of thoir physi
cal likeness.
Virgil Decker was arrested In Mar
ion, lad., last night
Virgil Decker was known to have
been Insured tor $19,000, sonio of the
policies containing clauses providing
for doulilo indemnity in event of accl
dentnl death, bringing .the policies to
$2i,000 payable to his brother Fred.
Investigation indicated that Lovett
was murdered and bis body placed on
tho track to cover up the crime,
the track to cover up the crime. Vir
gil Decker later was -charged with,
murder while Mrs. Decker waa releas
ed I here being no pvidcnrn ngnlns
her,
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