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VOL. 37 NO. 268
HOUSTON TEXAS WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 28 192!.
PRICE 5 ' CENTS t
-ATTEMPT TO GAG
VOICE OF PRODUCER
Misfortune Plays
Santa Claus for
New Yorker
U. S. MAY RESUME Columbia Co-Eds Ask IMPS WHJ SPEND Princeton Plans to
QUESTION OF DELAY
OF SUB PROBLEM
GAINS PROMINENCt
TRADE WITH SOVIET When b a Girl PART OF TIME IN Supply Homes to
DECLARE REPORTS Old Enough to Smoke WAR AGAINST WAR Members of Faculty
' SENATOR'S CHARGE
E
CUSTOM
POST.
"Interests" Seek to Influence
Leaders of Farmers Says
La Follette
RAfLROAD ACT IS
STORM'S CENTER
Want Propaganda Against
Federal Supervision
Hushed Is Claim
Associated Tress Report
WASHINGTON Dec. '27. Senator La
Toilette republican Wisconsin in for-
mal statement issued Tuesday charted
that high railroad officials and represen
tatives of the coal steel and lumber in
terests at a secret meeting held in Wash
ington December 0 attempted to obtain
from representatives of farmers organ!
rations an agreement to cease agitation
for repeal of the section of the transpor-
tation act relating to railroad valuation
and for restoration of State control over
State rates.
Advising the farmers of the country
"to beware of the leadership in any of
their great farm organizations repre
sented in Wasliiugton that would shackle
them in combinations with railway execu
tives and with the great combinations and
trusts of the country" the Wisconsin
senator further charged that the "great
special interests" at the December 9
meeting were successful in obtaining the
consent of certain of the farm represen
tatives to the agreement.
Offers Support to Charge.
In support of bia charges Senator La
Follette made public what be described
it "a brief report on the action of the
conference" and a list of those alleged
to have participated in the meeting. He
did not give the source of his informa
tion but said be was informed the con
ference included representatives of farm
ers' organizations as follows:
J- K. Howard Gray Silver H. C. Mc
Kensie of New York Ralph Snyder of
Kansas and O. E. Bradfute of Chicago
all of the American Farm Bureau Feder-
ation and W. I. Drummond president of
the International Farm Congress and
T. C. Atkeson of the National Orange.
Qit of Flepert.
The brief report 'f the meeting aa
made public by Senator La Follette said
"On December 0 a aecret meeting was
held in Washington at which high off!
cials of the railroads and the coal ateel
and lumber interests attempted to enlist
the farmers in an agreement whereby all
agitation by the farm interests for the
repeal of section 15A (relating to the ag
gregate value) and for restoration of
State control over State rates should
cease.
"The great special interests represent-
ed at this conference were successful in
obtaining the consent of certain of tho
farm representatives to Buch an agree-
ment. It is not necessary to impeach
the sincerity of purpose of the farm or-
ganization officials who participated in
the conference in branding the secret
meeting as a conspiracy to betray not
only the farmers but the consumiug and
the producing millions pf the nation."
Russian P o 1 i cy Changes
May Bring About Result
It Is Stated
REPORTS TO U. S.
ARE OPTIMISTIC
By Loaned Wire to The Houston Post.
NEW VORK Dec. 27. Misfortune
was a substitute for Santa Claus in the
affairs of Max Htrscbborp 60 years old.
Bad luck took all positively all tbe
merriment of his Christmas
It began last Friday when he re-
ceived a notice from tbe concern by
which he was employed that his serv-
ices were do longer required. He had
rather hoped for a bonus In his pay
envelope; inatead he found tbe dreaded
pink slip.
With the notice In hi. pocket he rode America Responds by Al-
uptown on a Lexington avenue sub- r J
way train and his thoughta were not
as cheerful as they might have been.
Still it might be worse he reasoned
philosophically. There was plenty to
tide him over tbe winter in tbe old
wallet on the hip. Just to encourage
himself he reached for the pocket
just as the train reached Grand Cen
tral station. And lo the wallet waa
gone with its $580.
Frantically Hirscbborn sought out a
policeman who sent him to a police
station where he reported his loss. On
his way to the station to learn if his
wallet had been turned up be slipped
on the ice and fractured his hip.
lowing Relief Grain to
Be Bought
INGERSOLL WATCH
COMPANY FACING
BANKRUPTCY PLEA
Liabilities Are Set Forth as
$3000000; Assets
.$2000000
Associated Press Report
WASHINGTON Dec. 27. Changes lu
soviet governmental policies recently
made or indicated as in prospect may
eventually bring about a resumption o
trade relations between Russia and the
United States it was said Tuesday at the
White House.
Reports received recently by the Amer-
ican government it was added were most
optimistic as to the course likely to be
pursued by tbe soviet authorities.
The American government it was
Associated Press Report.
NEW YORK. Dec. 27. When is a
girl old enough to smoke? This ques-
tion has cropped up at Columbia uni
versity and today is puzzling hun-
dreds of co-eds who want to be told
why Barnard college rules said noth-
ing about Use of the soothing weed
in graduate dormitories and prohibit
it in those of the undergraduates.
Undergraduate sentiment began to
crystalize last week when two girls
were caught smoking in their room
in Whittier hall detected by a watch-
ful monitor despite their every pre-
cautionstuffing keyhole and transom
cracks and laying down a barrage of
incense. They were suspended.
Some one suggested that there were
no such rules in Fournald hall which
houses only faculty and graduate students.
Declares Arms Meet Effort
to Cut Expense Not to
Eliminate Cause
DEBS WEARS HIS
PRISON CLOTHES
Terre Haute Aswarm With
Socialists to Greet
Tl 1 I
i neir Leader
: FORMER HEAD OF
G. A. R. PASSES AWAY
IN INDIANAPOLIS
stated already has responded to the W. A. Ketchum. Indiana
change in Russian policy by admitting to I ; .
Lawyer INoted tor rlain
Associated Press Report.
NEW YORK Dec. 27. An involun
tary petition in bankruptcy waa filed in
federal court Tuesday agalnat Robert
H. Ingersoll and brother manufacturers
of the Ingersoll watches of this city.
Liabilities were set forth as $3000000
and assets exclusive of good will as
$2000000.
The concern admitted its inability to
pay its debts and expressed willingness
to be adjudged bankrupt
The proceedings were brought by tbe
National City bank of New York Chase
Kational bank of New York and Hath-
away Smith Folds & Co. with com-
bined claims of $450000.
Receiver Appointed.
Edward H. Child was appointed re
ceiver under bond of $25000.
Tbe company has plants in Trenton
X. J. Waterbury Conn. and Chicago.
The petition for a receiver which aet
forth that the concern had agenciea all
over the United States and controlled
the Ingersoll Watch company Ltd. of
London asserted that a committee of
creditors appointed last May had been
supervising the business.
The petition asserted also that claims
the United States a Russian agent to
buy grain for Russian relief enterprises.
The estimate recently submitted to
congress by the administration it was re-
called Tuesday in other auarters
called for an appropriation for the sal-
aries of two trade commissioners and
one clerk in Russia. Department of
commerce officials however have ex
plained that while there was no imme-
diate intention of sending commercial
representatives to that country the de-
partment in submitting its estimates for
the next fiscal year was merely prepar-
ing itself to meet any possible develop-
ments along that line.
Speaking Is Dead
Finger Print Evidence in
Mail Car Robbery Stolen
Associated Press Report
OKLAHOMA CITY Okla Dec. 27.
A stranger who represented himself as
a post office inspector entered police
headquarters here Tuesday gave an of-
ficer a narcotized cigaret and while the
latter was unconscious walked out with
finger print evidence obtained by the po-
lice from a battle of explosive used iq a
recent robbery of a Santa Fe mail car
near Edmond Ok la.
Tbe stranger introduced himself as
"Mr. Williams." II. A. Murphy Bertil-
lon expert produced tbe finger prints
and was talking to the man about tbe
robbery when the latter offered him a
cigaret the o'fficer related after two
physicians had spent three hours reviv-
ing him. Murphy said that after light-
ing he cigaret be talked a few minutes
to the man and then lost consciousness.
His last remembrance he said was see
Associated Press Report.
INDIANAPOLIS Dec. 27. William
A. Ketchum former commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public died at his home here Tuesday.
He was 7." years old.
Mr. Ketchum was elected commander-in-chief
September 24. 1020. He was
succeeded by Lewis Pilcher of New York
who was elected at the grand ecnamp-
ment held here last September.
The veteran was born in Indiapapolis
January 2. 1846. and was educated in
Associated Press Report
WASH INGTOX I) e c. 27. W a r l
against war is to occupy a great part of
the future activities of Eugene V. Debs
freed from Atlanta penitentiary by execu-
tive clemency on Christmas day accord
ing to his own announcement here Tues-
day. The socialist leader said he could
make no concrete plans for the future
until he reached his home in Terre Haute
Ind. Wednesday.
Debs announced his determination to
obtain if possible a vow from every
man woman and child in this country
and every country which he might visit
that they refuse to take up arms and go
to war. But until world relations un-1
dergo a reformation he asserted and co
operation displaces competition wars
would continue.
"Every war for trade" he said "soon
er or later and inevitably becomes a war I
of blood."
Associated Press Report
NEW YORK. Dec. 27. Princeton
university is planning to supply homes
to the members of its faculty.
Proceeding on the theory that "re-
turns would come in tbe increased effi-
ciency of the professor once his do-
mestic difficulties are lessened" the
university proposes to finance and op-
crate extensive faculty housing accord-
ing to plans outlined by Professor
Sherley V. Morgan of the Princeton
school of architecture.
Under the tentative plan attractive
houses under a single roof will be
erected for younger members of the
teaching staff and individual homes
provided for tbe seniors.
The project mas made practicable in
part by a bequest under tbe will of
M. Taylor Pyne who left the univer-
sity an extensive tract of land in the
residential district of Princeton near
the university club house including 24
houses and some undeveloped property.
HOWATANDDORCHY
HABEAS CORPUS
PROCEEDINGS BEGIN
French and Jap Opposition
Strong Factor It Is Pri-
vately Conceded
FITS IN WITH .
HARDING'S PLAN
Would Disappoint Presi
dent It Is Said if Future
Meet Is Not Agreed To
Associated Press Report
WASHINGTON Dec. 27. Sugges-
ions that the whole submarine problem
be left to a future world conference
gained increasing prominence Tuesdaj
while the delegates to the Wachingtoi
armament conference waited for forma'
replies from France and Japan to tin
American compromise proposal for sub-
marine limitation.
No delegation was prepared to advo
cate openly1 postponement of the "prob
lem and outwardly all delegatioi
spokesmen hold to the customary diplo-
matic attitude of optimism over the
Men Held in Violation of r?irIt""aJgreeneV. Pr'-
I U"V'H UiWIl I UO.U vuc uu I eg a It
conceded that the French and Japanese
ujmibiuuu io tne compromise proposa
constituted a discouraging barrier.
Pending action by the French cabinet
at its meeting Tuesday the French dele
gates here remained confident that their
7. Habeas refusal to accept the new American fig
ures would be upheld by their govern
ment. The Japanese too expected Tokio
to insist that the American plan was un
acceptable.
There was o meeting Tuesday of the
conference naval committee and activities
of the conference were confined to in-
Is Alleged
Associated Press Report.
TOPEKA Kan. Dec.
corpus proceedings in behalf of Alex-
Mr. Debs expressed the opinion that lander Howat and August Dorchy de
President Harding at heart was against I posed officers of district 14 U. M. W
all war but described the president as a I A. now serving sentences in the Cher-
representative of a system that made I okee county jail at Columbus Kan. for
war possible. The arms conference be I calling a strike in violation of the Kan-
continued was significant only in that itjsae industrial court law were begun in
1 - . . . I . M I . 1. T ' i J Oaa 1 . . 1 ! Inpmal n i 1 1 1 n I
i;. -r fvr.r Ho hpnmi I wb a recogniuou oi me cosi oi warrare I ""J wuueu oiaies aisirici court nere wii.ura.
. i i . .ffnrnpv and an effort to reduce expense instead I Tuesday. The general impression that lond arm-
general of Indiana. He is survived by of eliminating the cause. I Tbe petition which alleges that Howat ment will not again come before the
Action in Denait ot outers still im-1 ana uorcny are illegally neld tor break-1 ior umhto i-ojisiuernuou
prisoned for violation of war laws Debs ing a law which ia in violation of the w etrengthened by the departure of
declares would be undertaken as soon as constitution of the United States was "e Italian military staff.
he has readjusted himself to circum- filed by Philip Callory of Pittsburg and F"" Harding'! Plaa.
Rtances. As for himself he aaid. he I L. S. Harvey of Kansas attorneys. President Harding ia understood to re
harbored no resentment because of his I Date for the hearing has not been'Ird tb Proposal for a future world
private in company A 13th Indiana vol- imprisonment. et but probably will be next Monday conierenct on BUDmnnnea as fitting lu
unteer infantry. In 1805 be waa com- The socialist leader began Tuqaday a J before Judge John C. Polloek at Kansas wlu lur """""'"I "
missioned captain vrf TWrrpaur B.ofthef -W conferences with.ie?. and City Kao. according t F. L. Campbell . international qaes-
same regiment at the age of 10 years co-workeri which waa expressed to last ciexa or ttte court
His regiment was part of the tenth corps tintil he left the Capitol Tuesday night
of the Army of the Potomac in the battle Among the first of his callers was Peter Jjjjgf Testifies HI Suit
of Cold Harbor and took part to several J. MacSwiney brother of the late Lord T- r-"
notable engagements. Mayor of Cork. 1 O ILnjOin L.CW1S
Captain Ketchum was noted for his I Mr. Debs still wore his prison issue I Associated Press Report.
his widow and six daughters. He was
national judge advocate gencrol of the
G. A. R. from 1005 to 1020 when he was
elected commander.
Mr. Ketchum left school to join the
Union ranks in 1804. He enlisted as a
tions. Officials close to him said Tues
day that he would be very much dis
appointed if some plana for a future
conference were not agreed to before
I the Washington negotiations end.
In official quarters tbe conversation?
nlnin snenltintr. A soeech he made at clothes and declared his intention of re- KAVRAfl rrtTr f n.- orr i.k-w.. iu me prvjm were ueecrioeu
n - ... w. .- I"u
Boston not long ago in which he scored turning home in them and of wearing I seling a ma is meeting of 1000 Kansas
agitators of the Irish question in this I them for some time.
country was held up as an illustration.
At the last national meeting of the G.
A. R. here last September as national
commander Mr. Ketchum made a 'plea
Historical Associations
Hold Meet in St. Louis
totaling ?223040 had been deposited "uu nearln n.m "ei 1 ot ou
iuaa.1. uuib t.- v v mc UOS UCUU 1UUUU OS
j r1?" Ine prDts for the sanctity of Memorial day and
urged the Grand Army members to cast
Associated Press Report
ST. LOUIS Dec. 27. Meetings of the
executive council opened the joint con
vention of the American Historical asso
ciation and five other historical societies
here Tuesday. The other organisations I Tf-irv HM fnr 0aVi
with this committee and that a plan for
reorganization of tbe company would be
submitted to the creditors.
Dollar Watch Originator.
Robagt H. Ingersoll waa the origina-
tor of the dollar watch. Recent re-
ports showed that since the manufacture
of the famous cheap time piece known
as the Waterbury watch down to the
present time almost 100000000 had
been sold.
Since its manufacture .was started
however the price of the dollar watch
increased materially.
No reasons were ascribed for the
company's financial difficulties.
to the man's identity.
their influence against the "erratic and
fitful tendencies of the times."
St. Louis Jewelry Store
Is Robbed in Open Day
Associated Press Report.
ST. LOUIS Doc. 27. With hundreds
of persons passing at the time two
armed men Tuesday morning entered the
jewelry store of Henry Holrx at Seventh
and Olive fctreets one of the busiest
down town corners here and escaped
'Like the wrinkles on my face" be
said "they have cost me something."
Big Welcome Planned
At Home Town
Associated Tress Report.
TERRE HAUTE. Ind. Dec. 27.
as "utterly informal at the
present time" although they might take
the form of a definite proposal in the
very near future.
When and where a meeting of that
mm wAnM hn l.nl.l : IT nn I ....' .1
IT .-r I S. T . a" woum detail. President Hardmg is understood
ui uuuifuug uiner means
I coal miners in a hall at Frontenac Kaa.
this fall John II. Walker president of
the Illinois Federation of Labor told
them if peaceful mothods were not auc
tion J. O Donnell a union miner since
1808 testified in court Tuesday. The
testimony came in the hearing of a suit
HEIR TO BELGIAN
THRONE MAY WED
ITALIAN PRINCESS
Terre Haute is aswarm with socialists "ecl""B o enjoin Jolin Ia Lewis in-
Tuesdav. leaders of the organization te""tional president of the United
from all parts of tbe country assembling
here as the advance guard of the thou-
sands expected to welcome Eugene V.
Debs on his arrival from Washington
Wednesday afternoon.
Phil K. Reiuhold chairman of the lo-
to prefer that it should be held here but
he was said Tuesday to be willing to
leave that entirely to the arms delegates.
The president's desire to have the sub
marine question threshed out at a future
meeting was said to be contingent upon a
cnl committee in charge said todav 23.-
000 men and women would be in the niner ht in his opinion a concerted
with $700 in cash and diamonds and jew- EnMPement of Prince LeO- 1arale t"1" afternoon. " eh rga1?ed labor was be-
elry valued at KjOflO ' n8agemenl 01 1 "tc A mass meeting has been called for n md the . trust" Governor
' i t i i r l i ...
d enca irom setting faillre of pr(.gout confomicc to Tf!lch
up or contmuins a provisional govern- a 8ati!ifartory BOiutSon. Tle fact that
ment in the Kansas field district 14. tllp projcrt . alpr011lillg defillite
u. -u. m. ot a. me suit has been m (orm however was taken as an a.ldi-
Pr!f7?" "eTeral l8'8- tional evidence of the feeling among dole-
.' Vru""D lo.lne ""'mony or gnte that the present negotiations on
s vuuucu lurmer aurisea tne Kansas
The bandits entered the store just as
Mr. Holt was opening the fafe.
He was ordered to a balcony where
he" was botiud and caused. Thp bandit
In Rialto Theater Fire tbPn 00ted the p'acc-
A number of persons looked in the
pold and Princess Yolan-
do Not Confirmed
Associated Press Report.
store and according to the police said
are: The American Catholic Historical
association the Mississippi Valley His
torlcal association the Agriculture His-
torv societr. the State Historical Sometv I "V IT tit tl nrpv r ot n:.
' I -' . ' ' AAA.Cl vuiill. A ' i: L . I . V 1 1 I . 1 . i . . . .
f Missouri nH thr. Mi..o.ri Hi.tnri.l n..:u!. r ... t t ...... l"' ocueven rue rooDers were clerks.
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nrlnf v I r .... v s- ii . .i
- -- uiircui: rj Carroll maasxer oi me -.. .
Jean Jules Jusserand French ambas- Rialto theater and Alfred S. Black. WHSOn S DirthdaV to Be
aador to the Lnited States who is presi- president of the Connecticut Theaters HnrmrJ i'n 5r Tncortr. Mn
dent of the American iiistorical associa- corporation which owned the theater. "onorea OI. JOSepn IViO.
Associated Press Report.
BRUSSKLS Dec. 27. Reports of the
engagement of Duke of ltrabant eldest
son of King Albert to Princess Tolando
eldest daughter of King Victor Em-
manuel of Italy have gained considerable
circulation. Ignorance of their reported I Forward; George Koop Chicago social-
Tuesday night as a tribute to Debs and "enrT Alien or Kansas and the court
to afford an opportunity for the gather- J ""trial relations of Kansas and
ing hosts to give vent to their feelings
for their leader.
G. O. Hoelin editor of St. Louis Labor
and one of the qldest editors of socialist
and labor publications in the Lnited
States; Charles L. Drake of Chicago
editor of the Debs Freedom Monthly; C.
W. Erwin editor of the Xew York Call;
John L. Lewis.
Man Dies as Result of
Alleged Blows of Woman
Associated Press Report.
DENVER Colo.. Dec. 27 An un-
identified man believed bv the noli to
tion was to be the guest of honor at a are held criminally responsible for the
banquet ot the American Catholic Histor
ical association Tuesday night.
" Delegates from all parts of the coun
try are here for the convention business
sessions of which start Wednesday. The
convention will continue through Friday
Associated Press Report.
deaths of nine persona in the Rialto fire JuiilA Mo.. Dec. 2.. Citizens
of November 27 in a finding by Coroner I . ftt- Josel)h WI" be hosts Wednesday
$oviet Free Trade Brings
Out Famous Paintings I
Associated Press Report
MOSCOW Dec. 27. The economic
policy permitting free trade within Rus-
Eli Mix Tuesday.
The coroner says that the direct cause
of the fire was the burning of incense
to give "atmosphere" to a motion pic
ture iumsy stage draperies being ig
nited from the incense.
WEATHER FORECAST
Aisociated Prtf Report.
WASHINGTON Dee. X7. Wedntsd.y
cloudy.
UW TxaftWJn..1.. -t I-. T.J
lm L. - - I. . 1. I I. : . I. : .1 : I J ' J
u- uiuugui iium lunr umiug places i er in the Panhandle Wednesday.
large number of-paintings some at
tributed to f amour artists. Among these
are works by William Hogarth Jean
Baptiate Greuze Christian Dietrich
night at a dinner in honor of the birthday
of former President Wilson at which it
is expected democratic leaders from
many parts of the State will be present.
Tbje speakers will include Former Gov-
ernor Charles H. Brough of Arkansas
and Prof. L. E. Dodge of the University
of Chicago. A message from the presi
dent will be read.
Among those coming it was announced
Tuesday is Joshua W. Alexander who
served as secretary of commerce in Mr.
Wilson's cabinet.
Louisiana Wednesday partly cloudy.
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Oklahoma Wednesday cloudy colder in the r ITP I Jfnarrmnr Hlimn
northwest portion. I . tr
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Rosa Di TivoH and others the Italian paaable. but heavy in some localities.
uu wuuu preuominauDg. I rorecaK ior Houston and Vicinity Wednes-
The prices these works are bringing I mostly cloudy and somewhat unsettled;
are ridiculously small if they are gen-1 ""i.""1 ch " temperature.
w.iui. extremes ana precipitation ai
Houston encKnr J p. m.. December tl. 1S21:
Maximum i0: minimum 3: Drecioitaiion.
I none.
Atmospheric pressure at Houston at J p. m.:
v.. mm jcrei reading.
ounnac i :i a. m. sunset :30 p. m.
Lomnirihv. nmnl 1 1 ... I. I . .
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nine. A portrait of a woman attributed
t Greuse was sold to a foreign buyer for j
1330. It was originally owned by the
Conateis Sollohub who was stripped of
her wealth and estate in the Povroskaya
district and imprisoned by the bolsheviki.
Ska sold it for a small sum to buy food.
'Paintings by well known Russian art-
lata ta some cases sll for tbe price of a
pair. M shoes. A Shiskin landscape
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degrees; relatrv kuajidity 71 pr ecstt.
Creek Dry to GntroI Fire
Houston Post Special.
TAYLOR Texas Deo. 27. The Tay-
lor fire company made a voluntary run
to a barn fire on the Joe Blackman farm
bout a mile and a- hnlf northeast of
Hutto. Taylor was called when it be-
came apparent that without their aid the
home and all outhouses would be wiped
out. There being no fire plugs necessity
again became the "mother of invention"
when they found a little creek some 400
yards from the house and by pumping
this dry with the aid of the big engine
soon got the fire under their control.
The bant waa the only loss bi t this u-
cindea much feed being $4000 loss only
partially covered by inauraaca. I
engagement was professed Tuesday in
royal circles but other persons prom-
inent in Kelgian society expressed belief
that the report was not without found
ation..
Tbej Duke of Brabant who is 20 years
old served with distinction in the Bel-
gian army during the war and was
awarded tho croix de guerre and the
grand cross of the legion of honor by
the French government. He accom
panied his father and mother on a tour
of the United States in 1911). He is also
known as Prince Leopold and is the
heir apparent to the Belgian- throne. In
102O traveling incognito he made a tour
of a number of South American coun-
tries. This is not the first time that Princess
Tolando has been reported engaged. As
early as 1016 there were persistent re-
ports of her engagement to the Prince of
Wales and the report caused widespread
discusHon. particularly in Rome. The re-
port was finally officially denied by the
Italian embassy at Faris.
In 1010. when King 'Ferdinand of Ru
mania was reported to have been dis-
s'ni'ficd with the morganatic marriage of
Crown Prince Charles the Italian prin-
cess waa much talked of as Prince
.Charles' possible fiancee.
Again in January of this year Princess
Tolando waa rr ported ensared to Arch
duke Ferdinand of Austria but tbe re-
rt waa qvtckly denied officially at
ist candidate for governor of Illinois at
the last election and many others arc
listed as speakers.
Rear Admiral Davis
Dies in Washington
M. Sigel Chicago editor of the Jewish be XorD"' f. Gould died at the county
nospnai aa tne result or a beating ad-
ministered to him with a basatall hat h
Mrs; Caroline Rossi Monday night at her
home here according to an alleged con-
fession made to the police. The man
armed with a revolver and displaying the
badge of a deputy sheriff according to
Mrs. Rossi approached her at her home
and demanded money. He drew his nistol
Associated Press Report. and flourished it In the air for a moment
WASHINGTON Dec. 27. Rear Ad- and then atruck Mrs. Rossi on the head
miral Charles lenry Davis retired the woman told the police and newspaper
brother-in-law of Senator Lodge of Mas- men.
sacbusetts died at his home here Tues- Mrs. Rossi said she snatched the base-
nay. He was a native of Boston and 70 ball bat from behind a kitchen range and
years old. retaliated with blows to tbe man's head.
Admiral Davis had been ill for some Two little children of Mrs. Rossi and
lime xie was ine son ot tne rate Kear two other eh rirrn who r viciiin. .k
Henry Davis and a Rossis witnessed the proeeedimrs.
port w
Rase.
Admiral Charles
brother of Mrs. Lodge. He was appoint-
ed to the Naval academy from Massachu
setts and was graduated ia 1804. After
serving on various stations nrrd duties
especially In connection with various ex-
periments for determining the differences
in longitude by submarine cables he be
came superintendent of the naval observ-
atory in 1807 and served in that capacity
for a year. Later he returned to the ob
servatory and then commanded the bat-
tleship Alabama and was divisional com
mander of the battleship squadron. Ia
1904 and 1003 he was the American rep-
resentative of the international commis-
sion inquiry on the North sea which aat
in Paris.
Admiral Davis waa retired In 1007 and
sine kaa lived in Washington. '
Ranger Force Surprises
Barton With Presents
Houston Post -Special..
AUSTIN Texas Dec. 27. Adjutant
General Thomas D. Barton is the proud
recipient of beautiful Christmas gifts
from officers and men of the Texas
Ranger force one of the most prized
being a 45-caliber Colt long barreled six-
shooter with pearl grip. The dark bloe
ateel barrel and other metal parta is
decorated with artistic scroll work. On
the handle is engraved "Adjutant Gen-
eral Thomas D. Barton." On the re
verse side r rom tbe Ranter Force.
auxiliary craft have reached a serious
ob.-taclc.
Would Disappoint Italy.
Italian delegation spokesmen snid
Tuesday that Italy would leave the con-
ference very much disappointed unless
an agreement for limitation of auxiliary
craft were reached.
Should the attitude of France nnd
Japan cause a postponement of a decision
by the conference of submarine construc-
tion Italy it is snid would be obliged
regretfully to accede to that action and
would be loft free ns would other pow
ers to build as much as she saw fit.
Any initiative in the matter of
economic conferences must come from
Kurope it was indicated Tuesday by
American officials. The American view
is that European nations have the pri-
mary responsibility for their own recon
struction and that the United States can
not advisedly propose remedies or insti-
tute international negotiations unless the
nations most chiefly concerned have
acted.
Aircraft as War Weapon.
In the effort to regulate the use of air-
planes in warfare the subcommittee of
the arms conference which is dealing with
that subject. Tuesday had before it with
prospects of adoption a resolution de
claring that all aircraft airplanes and
dirigibles alike should be considered mlli- '
tary weapons only when manned by
aviators who have had at least two years'
practical experience as military fliers.
Naval experts of the special commit-
tee suggested by Arthur J. Balfour to
determine a standard practice for the
Washington conference in calculating
naval tonnage gave preliminary consider
ation to their subject Tuesday. I'K'
The British delegation placed French ;
existing submarine tonnage at about 28.- -. ' f ) ';
000 tons while the American groap ..4
placed it at more than 42000 tone . It V
was learned Tuesday that the American ' V '
calculation was based on figure obtainext .7'- -
from tbe Preach and based by; totta V '
. ".""...Vr. .hm.l I K..f k. ..-
A Dcanmui learner trarrlin h iu 1 """"- "". j -
from the Ranter force waa a Christina I Americana to be in terms of surface is- "
tft to General Barton. Iftacaaeat. Tat whole proportion of' "
VP'
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