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PEACE MAY
OVERCOME
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Dail Eireann Cabinet Meets
and Some Want to Quit
Public Indifferent Ulster
Heads to Confer With L
George Oath
Causes Dislike.
to Crown
DUNLIN, Dec. 8. (Ily the Asso
ciated Press) Announcement was
made today at the military headquar
ters hero that if the Anslo-Irish
agreement is ratified the crown forces
would he rmovod from Ireland within
a month.
DU11IJX, Dec. 8. iny the Asso
ciated Tress) The agreement with
Great Hritain for establishment of the
Irish free state was taken up by the
Dail Eireann cabinet at a special
meeting today. A large crowd en
thusiastically greeted the- cabinet
members on their arrival at the
Mansion house.
The beginning of the cabinet ses
sion at noon found all the members
present, Arthur Griffith, Michael Col
lins and the other plenipotentiaries
having arrived by tills morning's mail
boat. They W'ere given a cordial wel
come at Kingstown.
Talk of a possible split in the Dail
cabinet over the terms is Increasing
nnd the .resignations of some of the
cabinet members are predicted, among
them Cathal Drugha (Charles Jiur
gess), minister of defense. Some of
the leading members of the cabinet
are known to object to the form of
tho oath of allegiance laid down in
the treaty. Regardless of possible
differences, however, it is believed the
agreement will be approved. In prin
ciple nt least. ,
The public maintains the same
seme semblance at Indifferenco tow
ard the agreement noticeable when
the news was first received. The
people seem generally satisfied, but
refrain from expressing' their feelings
in any outward demonstration. This
attitude was shown when Kamoiin IX1
Valera arrived at .Mansion house yes
terday; a small group of admirers
began a welcoming demonstration,
but the republican leader hurried in
side the building as If eager to escape
notice.
Republicans of tho lank and file
mako no secret of their dislike of the
oath involving fidelity to tho Ilritish
sovereign, nnd criticize among other
features of the treaty the appointment
pt a governor general and the finan
cial clauses. Women's republican or
ganizations aro especially antagon
istic toward what they call "a surren
der to England."
LONDON, Dec. 8. (lly the Asso
ciated Pressj--An interview between
Prime Minister Lloyd George and
representatives of Ulster regarding
certain parts of the new Irish agree
ment has not been definitely arrang
ed, but it was considered quite likely
today that Sir James Craig, tho pre
mier, Lieutenant Colonel Spender,
secretary for tho Ulster cabinet, and
Sir Ernest Clark, under secretary,
would cross from Ireland tonight and
see Mr. Lloyd George tomorrow.
BELFAST. Dec. 8. (By tho As
sociated Press.) Tho members of
both houses of the Ulster parlia
ment considered the Irish agree
ment at a meeting this morning. Af
ter two hours of private conference,
it was announced that Sir .Tames
Craig, the premier, would leave for
London tonight.
LONDON, Dec. S. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The Irish corres
pondent of the Pall Mall Gazette as
serts that the Dail Eireann has
given orders for tho immediate de
mobilization of the Irish republican
army.
RESCUES LITTLE
NEW YORK, Dec. 8. Thyras, a
shaggy imlice dog from Poland, is a
hero acclaimed by the sixteen passen
gers on the steamship Gdansk, which
docked in Brooklyn last night, after
.1. - Ul.nllp
buffeting its way across me .-ui.i..-.-through
storms that more than once
threatened to carrv youthful members
of the ships company over the rail
and into the sea.
Captain A. H. Peterson, who sal I it
was the roughest voyage of his lif'?-
THYRAS. SHAGGY POLAND DOG HERO,
Harding Invited to
Visit 'Frisco Next
Summer On Tour
: WASHINGTON. Dec. S Wil-
liam Crocker, ropublican national
I committeeman for California, iu-
vited President Harding today to
k visit San Francisco next summer,
should tlto president's projected
j tour to the Pacific coast bo made.
The president accepted provision-
ally, explaining that uncertainty
still existed as to whether he
could go and as to the exact tlmo. !
NOSE DIVE FATAL
Submarine Sticks in Mud
Tanker Arrives Just As Last
Torch Lighted Suffer From
Chrforine Gas Accident
Occurred Five Miles Out.
NEW YOU.lv, Dec. 8. (By the As
sociated Press) Kitty-one member.,
of tho crew of the submarine S-48,
who escaped through torpedo tubes
after their craft had made a nose dive
off lirldgeport harbor yesterday and
stuck to the bottom, told a remark
able story of rescue on their arrival
today at the New York navy yard.
According to a report made to the
commandant, they lightened one end
of the submarine until it appeared
.above the surface and then sat perch
ed on this pinnacle for more than ten
hours, until after darkness had talli n.
Then by lighting matches they ,.t-,
traded the attention of a passing,
tanker, which picked them up end:
brought them here.
Several of the men, ' as well ns ;
Lieutenant Francis Adams Smith, j
were found to be suffering Horn the.
effects jtt chlorine gas created by salt ;
water flooding, storage . batteries.
After examination, however, only,
three' were detained, at the hospital. .
The majority of the crew were em
ployes of the Lake Torpedo Lioat com
pany at Hrldgcport.
'When night came on, some of the
fit men went down into tho sunken
craft and hauled mattresses to burn
in order to get a blighter signalling
flare, than any matches could give.
One by one the mattresses were
burned at the tip of the upstanding
bow. There was a stiff wind and the
waters of tho sound were becoming
more rough. Just as the mattress was
burning about 10:30 o'clock the
Stnndard Oil Tug No. 28 sighted the
.submarine nnd came alongside.
The three men held at the hospital
acute gas poison duo to chlorine gas"
for observation and treatment "for
are Lieutenant Smith of California,
Chief Eloctricinn Michael Augustus
Fritz of New Jersey ami Peter Frank
Dunne, Bridgeport, civiliun employed
by the builders. All were able to lit
up and eat and talk.
The threo men said the S-IS went
down about five miles off shore. For
nearlv four hours everyone remained
inside the submarine, fearing the bow
would settle, leaving tho craft flat on
the bottom. They shifted everything
movable from the forward end to the
stern. The water entered only the
two aft compartments.
TAKES S
AI TRAIN ROBBERS
CHARLESTON, S. C, Dec. 8. Un
nrrielal reoorts reaching here today,
said a marine guard on a mail car of
train No. 80. Atlantic ( oast line, neai
Savannah, Ga., shot at three white
men who were robbing an express car
ahead. Two of the men were said to
have been badly wounded
GIRL AND HER DOLL
tw..' evnloit in saving Zeata Zebo-
ruwski. youngest of a family of five
children on the way from Danzis to
! i,.tive in the United Males.
J 11 .k-
Zeata dropped nor ami over ."--....'.i
ii ,.f,m-ht on a nail on the side
I till lillU 1'. -.-,-
of the ship." he said. "A heavy sea
was riinnim; hut Zeata wno is i
old. started to elimh after the doll.
Just as she was going over me sine up
Ti.r who seized her dress
anil hum; on. The girl screamed and
the purser ran up and nraggeu me...
S-48 CREW SAVED
URN BEDDING
both to safety.
JAPAN .
lOUADRUPLE
AfiDffMFWT
MUhLLIIILIl I
Tokio However, Fails to Under
stand 5-5-3 Naval Plan
Optimism Grows Among the
Delegates and Harding Pre
diction Coming True Make
Headway.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 8. (I!y the
Associated Press) The Jupanes
government has accept" ihe pro
posal for a qundruple understanding
in the Pacini, an authorized lbl'-ish
spokesman said today.
The ltritish spokesman said the
0-5-3 ratio proposition with regard to
capital ships was iu r-omo way re
lated to a complete settlement and
that this proposition bad not yet hem
accepted by the Japanese government.
Calling attention to an Associated
rress dispatch from Honolulu, quot
ing a Japanese newspaper as to ac
ceptance by the Tokio government of
the Quadruple plan, the British
spokesman said this was correct and
that the Washington conference knew
it to be correct.
WASHINGTON, Dec. S. (Uy the
Associated Press) An atmosphere, of
distinct optimism over the progress of
tho arms conference negotiations ap
peared to be growing among the dele
gates today as the Far F.astern com
mittee of tho whole convened to pro
ceed with its disposition of questions
relating to China.
The proposal for a new four-power
treaty as a substitute for the Anglo
Japanese alliance and providing for
a period of peaceful discussion before
resort to arms over any dispute In
volving the Pacific islands was gener
ally viewed today as a definite shap;
ing of developments along important
lines of accomplishment. While Pres
dent Harding In declaring in a pub
lic address that "the negotiations
promised to succeed beyond our fond
est hopes," made no direct reference
to the proposod four-power agree
ment, his expression was everywhere
accepted ns evidence of the optimism
with which the American delegates
view the present trend of the nego
tiations. The conference committee on Far
Eastern n-faflrs, the Ilritish spokes
man explained, was no waiting for
the officlnl signification by the Jap
anese government that it hnd ap
proved tho whole of the scheme, in
olving an agreement on the naval
ratio.
The agreement In regard to Yap,
it was said, had no special reference
to the matter under consideration by
the conference. Such an agreement,
however, was growing nearer to a
satisfactory conclusion, it was added.
There appeared to ho a tendency
tc mix up two or three different
phases of the agreements, said the
spokesman. Outlining them, he said
first, there was the original Yap
agreement; second, there was the
proponed "cooling off" agreement and
third, there was u similar arrange
ment in regard to tho maintenance
of the status quo with reference to
naval bases and fortifications.
Explaining tho application of tho
four power agreement to matters out
side of China, tho spokesman assert
ed that it might concern the Anglo
Japanese alliance us this treaty ap
plied to differences arising in the Pa
cific and of course, It might cover the
important questions of naval ratio,
maintenance of naval bases and forti
fications. Difficulties ill cable communica
tion with Tokio were said today to
have delayed receipt of tho Japan
ese government's views on accept
ance of the American proposal for
naval limitation. Proportions of a
dispatch from Tokio were under
stood to have been received but some
sections of It, it was explained had
not yet been received. '
F
YAKIMA. Wash., Dec. 8. Captain
William L. Splawn. who as a lad of 1 1
came overland with hi'i widowed moth
er to settle In Linn county, Oregon, in
152, died today at the hospital here.
He had been in )oor health for two
years following an automobile acci
dent. Captain Splawn first gained
fame in pioneer days In 1S55 when he
volunt'-cred to carry a message from
the Oregon volunteers surrounded by
Indians, nnd won through to Colonel
Kelsiy's force.
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Robber's Wife Greets Him in Prison
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On hearing that her husband. Hoy Gardner, train robber and escaped
convict, had been recaptured, Mrs. Dolly Gardner hurried from her home
in San Francisco to greet Gardner in the prison at I'hoeaix. Arizona. The
liars prevented any more iniimat-? greeting than a handclasp between Gard
ner nnd his faithful wife. Tho photo shows Gardner, his wife ami United
States .Marshal Joe Dilli.'un. 1 '
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HUUUL UiiHUUlUj II
STORM 1" TRAIN BEFORE
1500 Policemen Patrol Stock
yards After Crowd Is Fired
Upon Women Use Red
Pepper Negro' Stoned and
Drowned.
CHICAGO, Dec. 8. Forty men were
cut and bruised thin morning when
strike sympathizers stormed an elevat
ed train carrying packer employes to
tho stockyards. All windows in the
train were broken by missiles which
were thrown ut It.
Fifteen hundred policemen were
sent to the yards early when, long ho
foro daylight, several groups of per
sons. Including a few women, gathered
there. Only a few hours before 200
policemen hnd fired into thousands of
strike sympathizers who attacked
plant employes and, finally, the police
men. Last night's toll of casualties Includ
ed ono dead, nine seriously injured and
an uncounted number hurt when
mounted police charged Into the crowd
with drawn batons.
"The women are moro difficult to
deal with than tho men," Chief of
Police Fitzmorrls said this morning.
"They cany rod popper nnd throw it
in the policemen's eyes. Tacks have
been scattered through tho adjacent
streets In nn effort to stop tho police
motor cars."
Tho man killed last night w-as an un
identified negro who was seized by a
crowd of men, thrown into Bubbly
creek, north of tho yards, and pelted
with stones until ho sank. The body
was recovered several hours later.
Immediate action was expected to
dny on a petition for tin injunction
tgainst the Amalgamated Meat Cut
ters nnd Butcher Workmen of North
America by twenty-two packers, who
allege that intimidation of workers
has been practiced by union men.
The larger packers say they are
working about !K per cent of normal,
while the smaller firms have given out
statements that their output Is curtail
ed tt 50 or CO per cent of normal.
The union lenders claim 19,000 men
are on strike in Chicago.
AI.HKHT LICA, Minn., Dec. 8.
Mayor Wohlsuter nnd Sheriff Foss
today asked state authorities to send
troops here as a result of picketing o'f
the Wilson and company packing
plant by strike sympathizers.
L, S. 0.
MITCIIF.I.L, H. I)., Dec. S. A pas
senger train on the Oinnha railroad
was wrecked twelve miles east of
Mitchell at noon. The number of In-
Jur.-d Is unknown. Doctors were
rushed to tho scene.
J The train Was bound from Minne
apolis for Mit'.h'.U.
UTALITY
EARINGS BEGIN
Sen. Watson Appears "and
Reads From Texas Paper
Half Not Told of Offcers'
Cruelty Detroit Sergeant
'', Hanged.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Beginning
investigation of churjis by Senntor
Watson, democrat, Georgia, that pri
vate soldiers wero hanged during tho
war without convictions by courls-
martini, Chairman llrandegeo of the
special senate conimltteo announced
that the proceeding was not an Inves
tigation of the Georgia senator, hut
was ordered to ascertain whether
"officers of the United States tinny
were murderers."
Senator Watson appeared before the
committee immediately after the adop
tion of a resolution requesting him to
appear and testify in supiKirt of his
charges.
"I made no Indiscriminate chargo In
the senate against offlcors nnd nurses"
said Senator Watson. "I snld too
many officers wero guilty of brutality
towards soldiers."
Senator Watson declared he ; was
prepared to prove his charges that sol
diers wore hanged without trial.
Tho senator read a story from a
Waco, Texas, paper which quoted John
J. Forbes, of Cleveland, Ohio, a for
mer r.orvlce man, as saying the Wat
son charges wero true, and that "the
half had not been told about cruelties
Inflicted on soldiers by officers."
"Go ahead then," the chairman
broke In and the senator proceeded to
read Forbes' statement that he had
seen a man hanged.
"Do you want Forbes summoned?"
Chairman llrandegeo asked, and Sena
tor Watson said lie did.
The Waco newspaper printed a pic
ture of what was purported to bo the
gallows on which Forbes alleged ho
saw tho soldier put to death.
Discussing procedure ns to calling
witnesses Senator Watson said there
wero some men who were Injured In
the war and now drawing compensa
tion who 'were afraid their compensa
tion might be affected by their appear
ance before the committee.
"They will be protected," Chairman
Ilrandegee declared. "This, committee
gives you carte lilanche to say what
you please and to cull any witnesses
you please."
An affidavit signed by Georgo II.
Taylor, setting forth that he saw
twelve soldiers hanged in France, and
that he did not know whether all were
convicted by court martial, was pre
sented. Tho soldier said he saw two
negroes and a white sergeant hanged,
the latter after conviction by a French
court martial on charges of rape. The
sergeant, Taylor snld, resided at De
troit, Mich., nnd asked that his mother
be notified that he died of influenza.
According to Taylor there was no Jus
tification for the charges as the girl
was 17 years old and received money
from tho soldier.
Senator Watson presented nn afflda-
(Continued on page eight.)
SENATE
100 Blind Inmates
Of St. Joseph Home
Saved From Fire
,1 KUSKY CITY. X. J., Dor. S
Om hundred inmates of St. J'
seph's home for the Mind were
Km! from the building by atten
dants, firemen and Hli(vmen to
day when fire damaged tho utruc
ture. Mure than fifty Mind women,
some of them paralyzed, were
carried out. Several fainted hut
wen soon revived.
The blaze wan discovered iu
the sacristy of tho chapel by tho
Hev. Cornel in Melnerny, chap
lain of the home. The fire was
soon under control.
IS BORAH PLEA
Most Essential Thing for the
Restoration of Peace No
Use to Cancel Debts if
Present Policy Followed
European Salvation Risky.
WASHINGTON', Dec. S. The re
writing of the Versailles treaty, next
tc disarmament, was characterized by
Senator llorah, ropublican, Idaho, in
a statement today, ns tho "most es
sential tiling for tho bringing of
' peace and for the rostorinir of ocon
, omic Bocurity."
Mr. llorah discussed European con
ditions at length nnd his studios had
convinced him, hp said,: that unless
there aro changes In the pact "Ku
ropo will go from bad lo worse.',' He
declared the United Status could do
nothing to snvc Europe unless she
first is willing to bo saved.
"And the first Btep toward order,"
tho statement continued, "Ib to con
form tho Versailles treaty to tho
economic lifo which has been built
up through S0O years of effort
throughout tho entire continent. The
I next conference ought to ho between
I Grent llrltaln, Japan, Franco and
Gormany to rewrite thin treaty so
Kuropo can Ilvo."
Mr. llorah referred to what ho de
scribed as a revised and restrength
ened propaganda for the cancelation
of foreign debts, but ho asked what
good could come from such cancella
tions if the policies of Franco and
Groat llrltaln wero to continue.
"Is Germany to be destroyed, Ilal
kanlzcd and dismembered?" ho ask
ed. Tho Idaho senutor added thut ef
forts of tho Unltod States to save
Europo under present conditions
would ho comparable to starting "a
summer gulden on tho lava Blopes of
Mount Vesuvius."
L
GltAND ISLAND, Neb., Dec. 8. A
third political party In Nebraska was
formed here today when more than
r.OO men and women, who referred to
themselves as independents and pro
gressives signed a statement of or
ganization at a mass meeting- of
county delegates.
A resolution for balloting on selec
tion of a name for tho party was
adopted.
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Mil BUyS 2 BASEBALL SLAVES FOR
$175,000, SET IMOR LEAGUE RECORD
NEW VOKK, Dec. 8. (Ily Associat
ed Press.) At the height of his playing
career John J. McGraw, then a mem
ber of the Dnltlmore club, was b:1!
with two other star baseball players
to tho St. Louis team for the sum of
?lfi,000.
During tno Inst forty-eight hours the
samo John J. McOrnw, as vice presi
dent of tho New York National league
baseball club has paid the sum of
J175.000 for two players, ono of whom
will not ho available for the Giants
until the beginning of tho 1923 Benson.
in the spread of these two deals ia
REAL NEFDS
i CLEAR HEADS
I SAYS WEEKS
Too Many Committees in Con
gress for Work Rule By
Party Is Main Idea No
Strikes in Germany, Lots
Elsewhere Criticises Bloc
for Farmers.
NEW YOItK, Doc. S. The present
system of organization in congress
whereby control is divided between
numerous committees, may, ''if carried
lo its logical conclusion." divide the
United States "Into hostile factions or
groups." and leave the country "power
less to defend or maintain its interests
i national or international," John W.
j Weeks, secretary of war said today lu
an audress before the convention of
the Association of Life Insurance
Presidents.
! Contrasting tho present situation
I with a recent administration charac
terized by reference to a "big stick,"
Mr. Weeks snld:
"It was not many weeks ago that wo
heard stories about a "big stick" which
was supposed to lie used in driving
congress into a stato of tractabillty
and force tho enactment of laws de
sired by tho executive. , Tho truth,
however, is that whllo tho executive
was a masterly man of dominating per
sonality and characteristics, ho was a
party man and thoso In the legislative
branch of tho government wore equal
ly no. They believed In government
by parly nnd that tho responsibility
.under such government should be ob-
served even by those who might doubt
tho wisdom of tho proposed action.
I "Then came a reform, or it was so
heralded, In' the condiict of ' t'firt-hoitsa'
of' representatives.' The ' power 4 of
action, which hnd largely rested with
tho Bpealier and through hini with, (he
jcommluno on rules, was takon away
taind divided among committees. Tuo
(result and I think it has been clearly
: demonstrated is that it is Impossible
to get tho typo of legislation action
i which conies from party regularity nnd
resiionkibllity." . . .
Not only the United States hut tho
wholo world "is slowly but surely re
turning to normal," the secretary de
clared.
"Tho great need of the present
emergency Is clear thinking," Mr.
Weeks continued. "The real euro,
I however. Is bo old fashioned nnd bo
readily within our reach that some of
118 fall to recognize it. It is work. ,
"Wo do not hear of strikes in Ger
many hut they seem rather popular
every where else. Tho selfishness
which congress front the doslro to got
somolhlng at the expense of one's fel
low man 1b having a potent influence
in preventing the restoration the coun
try ne$ds."
Tho farmer "tho backbouo of tho
country" was the first to feel tho
effects of post war deflntion, the secre
tary said, but added, that "the farmer
could not ho entirely absolved from
blame" for his present sUuntlon as ho
should have foreseen the inevitable
collapse of values.
"I shall not take the time to criticize
the legislation congress has enacted
for tho benefit of tho farmer. It was
brought about by a combination of
members of the two great political
parties which had sufficient votes to
obtain the result desired. Some of
this legislation may benefit those for
whom It was enacted. Much of it is
unsound, howevor, from an economic
standpoint und I very much doubt if it
would bo any benefit oven to tho far
mor. "Ono of the leust excusable of the
fCnntlnneil on P Eight)
epitomized the progress of baseball
in two decades. '
In the purchase of Heinle Groh from
Cincinnati for tho reported sum of
$100,000 nnd two players and Jimmy
O'Connell of tho San Francisco club of
the Pacific Coast league for $75,000,
McGrnw has clinched his claim to be
ing tho greatest baseball trader in tho
history of the game.
Aptly termed the "David Itanim" of
baseball McGraw has also earned the
reputation of a "one season trader."
The purchase of O'Connell at $75,000
establishes a new record tor a minor
league player.
lime as a skipper, told the story i
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