Medford mail tribune., December 12, 1921, Page 1, Image 1

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YAP QUESTIOr
SETTLED, JAPS
Agreement Between U. S. and
Japan Reached, Secretary
Hughes Announces Tokyo
Sends Views On Naval Ratio
But Not Revealed.
AVASHINCTON". Dec. 12. (Hy the
Associated Press.) Thu text of ii
treaty between the United States and
Japan coveriuK an agreement as u
the status of Hit; Island of Yap was
madii public! late today at tho stai
department.
The treaty prohibits fortification lit
hc Island of Yap and Rives Japan Hi.'
right to maintain older.
The Coiled States under the treaty
recoKiii.es Japan's mandate k'iven by
the I.y.-uUL' of Nations 'over tho Cer
iniill Islands ill the Tadl'lc north of
thu equator.
Xo licensing will he required of
American firms who desire to con
struct either cable or radio facilities
on Yap. In regard to radio arr:ini;e
inonts, however, it Is provided that so
long as Japan maintains an efficient
radio station on the island, with unre
stricted communications to other sta
tions and to ships at sea, the roiled
States will not exercise its riKht of
establishing an American station
there.
The provision in regard to cable fa
cilities is drawn in the broadest terms.
It declares that the V nited States shall
have "free access' to the island for
purpose of cable communication in
evcrythiiifr that relates to the Yap
Cliam cable or to any other cable
which American interests may desire
to lay in the future.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. ( ISy the I
Associated Press.) The four power j
treaty dealing with the Pacific is
lands will be signed at tho state de
partment tomorrow by representa
tives of all the nations party to it.
Tho seven representatives of the
Ilritlsh empire will sign the treaty, it
was announced by a British spokes
man. The formal signing of the trea
ty, it was explained, involved agree
ment on I he Yap question which was
reached today.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. Illy the
Associated Press.) The naval ex
perts committee of the arms confer
ence, it was announced today, has
been disbanded and a fresh commit
tee consisting of delegates from the
five powers and experts were named
to deal with all naval questions.
Mr. llairour, head or the llril
ish delegation, Lord l.ce and Hear
Admiral Chatfield were named as the
Ilritlsh members of the cominilleo.
II was slated thai this body would
lake up the proposed naval ralios for
Franco and Italy and also in all
probability submarines.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. Illy Asso
ciated Press.) The controversy be
tween Japan and tho fnited States
over thu Island of Yap has been set
tled, and the terms of the settlement
will he announced during the after
noon. Secretary Hughes today told the
Far Kastern committee of the Wash
ington conference.
Tlie agreement is in the form of a
treaty which includes ail the islands
over which Japan lias the mandate in
addition to Yap. The pact has been
approved by the government heads,
hut announcement as to whether it
was actually signed was withheld.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 12. I Hy Asso
ciated Press.) Japan, through her
arms conference delegation, announc
ed to the powers represented in the
Far Kastern committee of the Wash
ington conference today her willing
ness to withdraw Japanese postoflices
from China January 1, 1923.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. tliy Asso
elated Press. I The anna conference
swung into its fifth week today with
delegates confident that it would see
rapid strides toward completion of all
their major tasks, now definitely
hoped for by the eml of the year.
Another session of the Far Kastern
committee was scheduled for today to
press forward discussion of the Chi
nese questions ami the Japanese and
Chinese also were meeting in their
separate Shantung conference tin' ap
parent question of the control' of tin
railway in the Japanese leasehold
there being up for discussion again.
Although the Japanese delegates it;
was known, have received instructional
from their government regarding its;
KEEP NT
decision on the naval ratio q-.ie.-tion
the nature of these was not ivveal'Mi
and it remained doubtful.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 12. ( P.y the
Associated Press i The beginning of
the seeend nwnlh ef the arnianieoi
conference finds the ennferen- e so fat
advanced that in practically oviy
(Continued on rage Twoj
Mexican Mother Gives
Birth to Eight, None
Survive, Is Report
MKXICO CITY, Dec. 11. Front
: Tampion comes a report, publish-
ed by Kl I'niversal, that Sonera ;
Knriipiita liuilm at thai place :
irnva birth yesterday to eisht cliil- :
drou. hut none, of them survived.
: The mother is well.
The. llexioo. City Medical asso-
: ciatioii is showing much interest
in the report nnd will institute- an
:- iuvestiKaijon ;,s t,, u authentic-
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FiVE INCHES RAIN
IN 2 0WS, BUT
EOT UNBROKEF
TACO.MA, Dec. 12. Flood condi
tions prevailed throuKhout roulle
west Washinston today, und high
ways, railroads and telephone and
telegraph linos are down in all direc
tions. Floajl conditions in tlrays
Hnrbcr county are reported the worst
in pisht years. Five inches of rain
had fallen here up to noon since Sat
urday morning, but no records were
broken.
Streams were also augmented by
meltiim snows in tho Cascade moun
tains. A Northern Pacific railroad
conductor at nebn reported thai at
Stampede, tho hiKhest point on I lie
Northern Pacific line it was 7 0 de
crees this morniiiK and that most
of the snow has disappeared on the
west side of tho mountains.
OI.Y.MPIA, Wash., Dec. 12. Traf
fic over tho Northern Pacific railroad
Is tied up belwe onOlympia and (late
as tho result of a washout at Perci
va.l creek, about ono and one-haif
miles west of here, tho railroad agent
reported today. The trains arc being
rouled from St. Clair, 12 miles
northeast of here, to Conlralia and
Chehalls. liain has been falling
steadily in this section for HU hours.
IASEBALL CHIEF
MEETINGS
NKW YOIIK. Dec. 12. Paseball
cluli owners, managers, league offi
cials and players were gathering here!
today for a week of meetings and con-j
iereuces of major leagues, including
one join! league meeting. Trades and
purchases that would place many
stars and near stars in different uni
forms next season were expected to
result. The majors were talking a
great deal of trades and purchases
anil giving little attention to such
kuestions its the draft,- the proposed
seven game world series and other
points of difference.
PACKERS REFUSE TO
ARBITRATE STRIKE
CHICACd. !-. 1- I'acking luni.se
officials in chi ago reiterated today
that the, strike declared one wt'ck nun
by tin Amalgamated .Meat Cutters
and IiutrhM Workmen had not mate
rially interfered with their normal
operations. And they also stood firm!
in I heir refusal to meet arbitration
overtures of union leaders.
President Cornelius Hayes and Sec
retary 1 H-nn is La no h.-i vn gone to
Washington to lay the strike nnd tho
wane question before the department
of labor and possibly w it li the view
of having President Hardin;; ask the
packers to meet officials of the union.
CANADA PREMERSHSP TO
BE CHRISTMAS GSFT
OTTAWA, Tint.. IVc. U--i Hy Asso
ri.ifd Press. Tin p:emiersh;p of
('una hi will bp bunded ai a Christmas
present to W. I.. Mackenzie Kin-,'
leader of the liberal party, which tri
umphed at th" polls last week over
Premier MeiL-hrn and his conservative;
following
Premier Meiirlwn will in a few dav:;
pr-'i-oiit his resignation to the. i;over-nor-L'enoral.
Lord Hyng of Yimy. The
reit:ns of power will be handed over to
Mackenzie K im; a few d.".ys befoi o
Christ mu'.j, ' ;
vy rains in
NORTHWEST ADD
FLOOD DANGERS
Storm Warnings Posted for
Oregon Coast Slides Are
Fatal at Seattle and Aber
deen North Washington
Rivers Rise Rapidly.
SAN FItANCISCO, Hoe. IlV South
west storm warnings were hoisted this
morning at all stations north of Cape
Blanco, according to an announcement
by the Fnited States woittlier bureau
i here. Indications point to a bree'.y 21
'hours toninht ami tomorrow along H'l
! Washington and Oregon e lasts, with
I hat portion of the seaboard swept by
fresh to strong southerly sales, shift
ing to southwest.
llFUJNtUIA.M, Wash.. Dec. 12 The
Nooksack and Skagit rivers, as well as
numerous smaller streams, were out of
their banks in places this morning as
a result of almost continuous rainfall
since Saturday night.
The water w;is a foot deep in the
streets of Kverson, on tho Nookaok,
last night and had entered some of the
stores, hut had fallen about three feet
this morning. It was expected to rise
timing the day, as a heavy rain was
falling this morning. Mariitta, at the
mouth of the Nooksack, was partly
under water.
The Skagit river broke through the
dike at lilverside, two miles above
Mount Vernon during ll'.e night. A
largo crew of men worked most of the
night on the dike.
Tho river was still rising early to-
j day and hail flooded a large area south
of Mount Vernon.
Train service into liellingham was
suspended by the Northern 1'aclflc
and Great -Northern yes.terday. Tele
phones were cut of commission in var
ious purls of tlie county.
Throe inches of rain fell between
eight o'clock Saturday nlglil and six
o'clock this morning and still coming
down at 10:110.
APKItDKKN. Wash., Dec. 12. Two
men, a woman and a baby aro dead
and two men are injured, one perhaps
fatally, as'a result of two slides on the
Clemens Logging company's railroad
ab-nit sixteen miles south and east
of Aberdeen last night. The first slide
carried a logging train engine and a
number of cars 200 feet down a steep
embankment, killing outright the engi
neer, his wife and two year old baby,
and injured two brakonien. The sec
ond slide, half an hour later, killed
one member of a railroad construction
camp rescue party which had been
hurried to Hie scene, injured another
ami left a thin! as yet unaccounted for.
KKATTLK, Dee. J 2. City firemen
today were Neaivhiuj; the ruins of a
house in west Seattle, a suburb, in an
effort to reeuver t lit bodies of .M rs.
Samuel (.'. Andrews and her two step
sons, Jack, ned live, ard Tom, uK'd
seven, who are believed to have, lost
1 heir lives when t heir homo was
struck hy a landslide and demolished
last n in lit. Additiunal s Tides, caused
by the heavy rains of the last three
days, made thu work of tho search
ers difficult,
Joseph Jloran, a niht watehman
living at .Medina, a suburb, was in
stantly killed early last niht when
his home collapsed from the impart
of a landslide, i 1 i.s wife, who was in
the house, was not injured.
The rains of t he past three days
have been the heaviest ill Seattle since
offices of the Weat her buiea ll were
establishd here, bureau officials said
today. Slides were reported in va
rious districts of the city and portions
of Jiainier valley, a residence district,
were under water. .Property damage
jn that section, R was reported, was
heavy.
SISATTIJ-;, Dec. 1L- Rainfall here
in the -2 hour period endim; at ." a.
m. set a new record of '.'Ml inches hh
compared with the previous record
of L'.!fl inches OHtahliahed December
12-1:;, 1S!i7. it was unnoiineed. The
rainfall continued steadily today.
Practically every river in Western
Washington was fn near-flood stafie,
according to reports received here
Mid railroad lines were preparing for
washouts and delays. Trans-continental
main line roads were reported
open with the exception of the Creat
Northern, which was rut by the col-lap-o
of a briripo over Miler river,
east of Kverett, Wash., yesterday
when v.eStbound fast mail Xo. 21
pluiiK'-d throuch the hridge with the
resulting lo?s of two liven.
Warm rains were fulling steadily
in the Cascade mountains carrying
away snow on both sides of the ratine.
The follow 1 1 meeting of the recent
baby clinic will be held on Dee. I.'uh
at the oilier ol Miss Kaldlne, county
nur.v, in the Sparta building.
HEA
MAIL
G.N.DiVES THRU
BR1D
Flood Weakened Structure
Near Skyhomish Collapses
Mail Clerk and Fireman
Die Residents Flee Before
Miller Rwer On Rampage.
SKATTU Hoc. 1l Uescue work
ers today wore atteijijuiiii; to ivcnvcr
the bodies pf unnre! K. 1 ! ile:ii:tu.
mail clerk, 'and Glorue Irvin. fireman,
believed to hav'fe been o.;t when
Great Northern fast mail I rain No. 117,
plungvd through a bridge over the
Milcr river, near Skyliomim, Wash.,
yesterday. A. V. Uarlinghonse, mail
clerk, was also reported inis.sing to
day. John Carey, engineer of the
train was Injured, and five mail
clerks and a marine guard escaped
without injury. Hehitid tho train and
bridge wreckage today, according to
reftorts received liore, a heavy jam
of trees was forming, swept down by
tlie flood waters of the .Miler and
Skykomish rivers, hy driftwood and
wreckage of barns and farm build
ings. Residents for miles around
Mere said to bo fleeing before the
rising waters.
The bridge, undermined by high
water, gave way j ust as the engine
started over the itpun. The locomo
tive and five cers plunged into the
river, the last car, in which the mail
crew was riding remaining on the
track.
According to Superintendent A. C.
Yamiorvort of thoruilway mail ser
vice, workers found it almost impos
sible to reach the wreck today, roads
for miles around being inundated.
Three persons were rescued from the
M tier River Inn near the accident,
just, as high water swept about the
building-, aeo.ording.,lo reports.
ATE OVER
F
SUE
Control Granted By Versailles
Treaty, North of Equator, Is
Continued Cable Rights
Granted U. S. Smilar
Treaty With Great Britain.
WASIIIXGTUX, line. 13. Tim Ynp
trruly, It was said in official AnuM'i
rmi iiartcrs, leavi'S suzerainty, or
control over tlio Islanil of Yap lo
Japan, observing the mandate receiv
ed under the treaty of Versailles.
Japan, it was said, also was nive.ii
control over the other mandated is
lands mirth of tin? equator.
-Negotiations with Great Britain are
to follow for u similar aKroenient as
that reached with Japan. Great
Hritain, under the treaty of Versailles,
was Kivon the mandate for former
C'erman Islands in tho Pacific south
of the equator and it was said that
the fnited Htales would proceed to
deal with Great Britain with respect
to these.
The 1'nited States, under the Yap
treaty, was said to have been gi .'en
some of tlie exist iuK cable facilities
terminating on the islanil and also
would be allowed' to build new cable
lines from tho island. The, United
.States also would be allowed the
right to establish wireless stations.
Under the treaty. It was said, the
United States would stand on an
equal fooling with "11 of the five,
principal powers as to the privileges
accorded on the Island of Yap and
the other islands mandated to Japan.
This nation, it was said, would have
the same right as Great Britain and
other nations, including Japan as to
the use of tlie islands, with the ex
ception that Japan would have tlie
technical suzerainty.
A man who passed a number of
bogus checks en .Medford merchants
recently and who is said to be an old
timer at that game is under arrest at
Yreka. Calif., and Sheriff Calkins of
Siskiyou county informs Chief of I'o
lice Timothy tiiat lie will be turned
over to the I'asland, Calif., authorities
who elnlin to have a number of bad
check charges againt liim. The chief
arrested I.. B. Johnson on Sunday on
the charge of parsing a forged check
on A. I'. I'alton for .r, and was to
have been erraiened before Justice
l a;, lor.
R VER
JAPAN RETAINS
AC
L GEORGE FIRM
ULSTER DENIED
TREATY CHA
There Is the Treaty and There
It Stands, Craig Told De
Vaiera Says l-fonor of Ire
land Not Involved in Ratifi
cation By Sinn Fein.
l,ON!H)N, lie,. ll'.
rai-,-, CI:-.! ei premier.
Sir .lame;
vas ba k in
ontelelie'
nri:i! relalivi:
I Pell'ast to, lay after h:
I v. ith Premier l.in. A c
I t the
hi: t w
I;-
1 1 settlement terms r
ll was expected toil;
tched
, Hint
! he immediately w mild
milium mem-
i liers ef hi.-! cabinet.
-1 r. I .level ieeir.e is understood to
j have postponed his address before the
; linus.' el' commons on Wednesday anil
it is forecast he will make a plea for
ratification of the agreement with
Ireland.
liKMWST, Mec. JJ. tliy the As
sociated 1'ivss) Sir James Craig, the
jl l' ter premier, presiih'd over a meet
, intf of ihe ClstiT parly here today, in
i forminj.: his supporters of his recent
j eimferenee with Lloyd Ceore in 1-ou.
j don. It i:i unofficially repfrted the
i proceedings grew stormy when Sir
j James informed the meeting that Mr.
I' IJoyd (ieorip; had maintained an Uli
yieldim: attitude tow;ird t'lster.
ft was intitualed that except for a
few trifling changes x he 1 hit ish pre
mier had declined to make any con
cessions, his at lit ude being "there Is
the treaty and it stands."
Id'lU.IN, Dec. 11'. (Hy the Asso
cia;ed Press) Tho Sinn I'ein pub-
I lieiiy department today Jsstit d :i
'stau-ment from Kamonii JJeValera Ju
which he said tlie honor of Ireland
I .was not involved in ratifying the
j AniTlo-Irish treaty since tho Sinn Vein
t ideal potent iaVies had been ehosim on
the understandintr that any treaty
they inlKht negotiate Would be HUb
ject to ratification by thu Pail Kir
eann. llatification of the treaty, he
declared, was not an empty formality.
ANSAS WIVES .
STORM WORKERS
j,rri:.-:i:nu;, Kas., Dec. in. a
mob of women, estimated at li.OUO, the
wives and relatives of sli ikin coal
miners stormed mine -No. 17 of the
Jackson Wa I lier com pa ny shortly
after Ii n't lock this inornim; and pre
vented Ihe miners employed nt. Ihe
mine from j;oinK to work. The women
appeared to be nearly alt foreigners.
Tho mob formrd in I'Tankliu, about a
mile from the mine. .Men; in a num
ber estimated at ;,0m assembled n't.
I'ranklin, but did not ma rch on the
mine.
About. 11!5 miners bad been working
,ut the Jackson Walker mine. Many
id' the miners drive their automobiles
to tho mine, but ol her miners have
been uhIh;,' int eru rba n cars. This morn
ing the women, after asscmblim? at
I'Vankhn, marched down thu public
highway to t he interurhan station
near the mine ami refused to let the
miners get off the car 11
GREAT NORTHERN iS
FLOOD MENA
KVKI110TT, -Wash., Dec. 12.
Further criiipiiiK of the (Ireat Nnrlli
ern main line, liUU feet of track lias
lieen washed out near .Sultan by the
iiklkoinisli river. The .Miller river Is
risiiiK a;;ain, sioiijiIiik work on tlie
leinporary hrldKO around tile Miller
river lirldce that was wrecked Kunday
nioriilnif when a mull traih went
through It nfler It was partly under
mined by hlKh water. All rivers are
risliu; rapidly. The town of Stan
wood near the moutli of the Htilla
fniamish Is expected to bo under
water during the day. A larce county
bridge at Oso is reported to have
kouo out.
IATIRES
PEACE Wl 0. S.
"WASH I.' ITOX, 1),,., 1 J. ( I ly the
AHsociatod J'ress) The bill ratifyitif,
t ho peace treaty between J unxii ry
and the I'nittfl tat'-.n jiassed its first
reading by nnaMirnous vole In the
national assembly today.
NGES
Southern Propaganda j
No Travel Funds,
Blamed Cotlon Error
WASHINGTON', lb'C. l'J. Ttt
! i'niiouneiujT it- final estimate of
cotton production for thi.; oar
- as ! li.enu bale wbi.'h in 1 .-
mm). ono bales mere than (;;ven
in the preliminary estimate, in
.- October, the department of ag
; rieultnre placed the blame for
the erroneous statements ear
! lier in tin season on "persistent
and w i ties p read prop;:;: a mi a at
I planlMi;; time," a; to the acre-
aiu', and lack of travel funds
I which prevented t f a r ist ician s of
I the government from personally
I inspecting and checking reports.
I'
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ONDON XMLS
SEE ACCEPTANCE
PACT BY Ml
J.OXDOW Oee. in.- Kutitieullon of
the four-power t real y ndat ivn to in
sular possession in the Pacific is be
lieved to be assured when the conven
tion is submitted to the United Staten
senate, in t he view of new spapers
here. IWany journals greeted the
terms of the treaty with enthusiasm
and based t heir forecnsL of r:-1 if iia
tion upon the fact that Senator l,odi,'c
presented the draft at the Washing
Loll conference.
"The apparently impossible is, in
ef feel, an necomplishcd fad ," said
the Telegraph. "Our alliance witli
Japan h;is passed out nf existence
upon the only terms which Japan
could regard as satisfactory and
which we could feel to he honorable.
i thi.i accomplishment
alone, 1 'resident J lard inn's ml minis- i
(ration has fully Justified the bold and
maK-nnninious stroke of Jitulit.imunshii) j
by which it amazed the world a few
months ai;o." j
- in the opinion of tho "Westminster j
(a::clte, tho wea h ness of the treaty
Ilea In the fact that it does not ntia.r-,j
mi toe the inteKi'ity of China,
"We havo einerf.',ed from a nH;ht-
mure of niisiindt-rstaudinK'M about
secret motives nnd .V r. JlardijiK" has'
earned the j;ood will of (lie world by
his initiative," ::aid tho (laKctle.
KEAliGRAB
MARKETS. PLAN
KPOKANK, Den. 12. Willi the
puriiose of afteiiiplin an amalgama
lion of all cti-operal ivo wheat niarkel
liiK aKeucles of the United .States n
conference will be held in ChlciiKO,
in March, it was announced hero to
day by lleoi'Ke .lewett, ,'eueral niaiia
por of tho Northwest Wheal (Iroworn,
associated at a lueetinp of tlie mem
bers of Unit organization.
Mr. Jewell announced that Hie
Northwest association would handle
tin ri iijv the present s"asou I ,Mi ,MM
bushels of wheal, at an average price
ol $l.ir. per bushel. I le said the best
possible price had not been secured
for all wheat marketed, because II.
had not been delivered until alter
the price had dropped. '
Kxport business, lie staled, hail
bene profitable, and would lio extend
ed. .1KHSKY CITY, N. .1., Dec. 12.
( l)y the Associated I'ress.) -The
first arrest In collection with the ?2,
oon.oouo mall robbery In New York,
several weeks lino became known
today when Krank Calabrl. was or
dered arralKiied before Federal Com
missioner tiueen. Cala'.rl, charged
with thoft of four packages of regis
tered mall had been secretly arrested
a month hko and confined in jail
here by postal inspectors.
ul man
CENTER GAME
HdlTU r.K.VD, led.. l'c. 12.
Noti'o Uame will play Centre college
toot ha 11 team 1 ec ember tn
Dici:o, Cat.
IVfinit e annoum cmeut to Ibis ef
fect -was made this alt'-i wn. The
am has been declared on and off
several times.
CHICAGO KILLER
ESCAPES ON WAY
I!
Gunman Doomed to Hancj
Thursday 'Shoved Out and
Given Everything But a Road
Map,' Says Chief Three
Guards Suspended.
t'll Hu;o, Iter. 1L "Lucky" Tom.
my O'Connor, .; unman and killer, wart
t i have been led today to the death
cell in the Cook county jail, there to
await ham;hiK Thursday luornini; foe
the kiilinj-v of a policeman, but instead
O'Connor was bailing the combined
force of :;.immi polieo and deputies a
merry chase. after a sensational
escape from the jail. Knur jail j.;uardn
were overpowered by O'Connor and
four ol her prisoners yesterday, but
O'Connor's reputation an a killer suf
fered when be failed to use a revolver
which had been snui!Ti-'.led to him.
Charles KiUnt orris, chief of pi dice,
today threatened to suspend any po
licemanwho tries to capture O'Con
nor alive, and promised promotion to
the man who brings him in dead.
"lbs will never surrender so lonff
as he can shoot," the. chief said, "and
I don't want my men to tako uny
cham es."
I'itv.morrls was bitter in his denun
ciation of conditions at the jail. Jin
charged O'Connor was literally
"shoved out" of the jail by soino of
fic hits Inside.
"They rave him everything but a
road map," the chief asserted.
Sheriff Charles l'eters suspended
three jail (juards.
if AUQCKTTK, Mleli,, Dec. 1'2.
Michigan state policemen were stund
injr Kuard in Marquette prison today
following a riot union it tho prisoners
yesterday morn ins that resulted in
the serious stabblnir of "Warden T. It.
Crttlin, the betitin of JJeputy Warden
Fi'i'd Menhennit and tho Hcriotis
woundlnj'- of the bitter'a son, Arthur,
Threo, Inmates of tlio prison, : who
are charged , Willi leadiiiK tho riot
were lo he J'loKKcd in tho iiistitutirm'rt
hull pen today, the punishmcut hav- ,
inn; been ordered by Charles illatiey, .
of Kalamazoo, chairman of tho Mich
b;an state prison commisnion.
"Witrden Catlin, who received nino
knift! wounds, is said t bo in a 'hc
rions condition. Vounfr jMenbennit
was stabbed in the Iuum:.
The out break came in tho prison
chapel while a largo number of tho
prisoners were wltnessinf: a moviutf
picture performance,
"(Jypsy l!ob" Jlarjicr, .Jasper l'erry
and Charles Koberts, all of Detroit,
are alleged to havo rushed upon "War
den atlin in the darkened room and
to have slashed him with ( ItnlveH
stolen from the prison kitchen.
A guard with a rifle stopped tho re
volt after the warden and tho two
Menhennits had been stabbed.
Harper had expressed ill feeling
for the warden because his privileged
had been revoked following hifi enp
( ure after an escape tlireo months
ago.
RAH OPENS UP
W PACIFIC PACT
AVAillllNCTU.W Doc. 12. Tin-four-power
l'acit le treaty will bo
not hing but a "straight out military
alliance" unless "real disarmament"
results from tho "Washington confer
ence, .Senator llornh of Jdaho, reptibr
Mean irreconcilable leader in the
League of Nations fight, declared to
day in discussing the new treaty in
tin; senate.
Mr. Jiorah, breaking bla silence
with respect to the treaty, declared
that bis attitude toward tho pact
would be largely determined by what
tho arms conference does with re
spect to "real" disarmament and Chi
nese questions. Ho declined tho work
of the conference would bo "dis
couraging" If it adjourned without
prohibit ing the submarine, poisonous
gas and other "barbarous weapons."
EX-MAYOR OF COR
I'OIIK, Dec. 12. Illy the Asso
ciated Tress. 1 1'atrick Meade, form
er mayor of Cork, w.ei shot and
wounded by an unknown assailant
while he was opening his place of
business this morninp;. The man who
fired at him was later arrested but
bis name had not been mndo public
Ibis afternoon.
A compositor by the name of Wil
liams employed by tho Cork. Consti
tution was fired at and wounded by
an unknown man as he was returnin;
home from work earl)' today.
DEATH