3
THE WEATHER
Forecast for North Carolina: Gen.
erally flr Monday and Tuesday or
eept unaettled In northern po'rtion
Mon.; little eha. In temperature.
GENO
' LClUflRARI FT ll'R K
GENOA SESSIONS MA Y BE RENEWED AT HAGUE
niuimuLL i u II it
5 II IRISH J! IS
NOW ANTICIPATED!
Two Anti-Treaty Leaders
Flan Resignation to
Hurry Peace Terms.
PEACE COMMITTEE
MEMBERS CONFER
Fierce Firing Prevails in
Belfast Sunday Peo
ple Undisturbed.
''Dt'BUX, May 14. Bv 'tho As
sociated Press. )-The Irish situa
tion is likely to take a sensational
turn. It was freely rumored to
night that two prominent nipmiim
it the anti-treaty parly i-oTvin-plate
resignation with a view of
facilitating progress tow.ir 1 m-ai e
Important developments ate there.
fore expected at an eciy date.
An optimistic feeling pr-tvails in
Dublin tonight over iho pr ispfc;s
for peace. The decis'on of t ho
peace committee of the dai. rire-
ann to meet on Sunday, was inter
preted as h determination, 'to us,
evejy effort to reach a settlement.'
The commitue met a'. 0 o'clock to
night and conferred for several
hours. No official ;! itemont w.is
i.-3U"d, but a epnrt will be present
ed to the dail eirci .n on Wednes-
FIERCE FIRING keen'
l. BELFAST SCXRAV
BELFAST. May 1 1 1 . i By the
Associated Tress.) There was
fierce firing, in which the military
participated late this afternoon in
the Townsend district htwcen the
Falls road and Khanl.hill road.
Two women and one man were
wounded and sent to hosnitujs.
(Indicative of the fan iliai t;y of
the people of Belfast with the
shooting affrays, pedestrians this
afternoon paraded Uoyal avenue
and other main arteriei of the c ity
apparently unconcerned with the
sharp encounter that was going
on within half a mile of them.
Four special constables were
wounded, two of them serlou.ly
when a patrol of which they were
members was ambushed shortly
after midnight at Derrym.icash,
near Lurgan, Armagh.
.. fclrl was shot deid here to
night and a woman who was
wounded in the firm-- in Tawnsj-id
srrcil lied in th nospitil. This
ro..kes four death for the weekend-
.
The people of the Marrowbone
and Ardoyne district of Belfast had
a peaceful Saturday night indoors
in consequence of the new curlew
regulations. There was. however, I
some shooting in Great George
street. Oft iork strec. a woman
was shot In the thigh. This, morn
ing Bridget McKenna was jhot by
a sniper as she was entering her
home in Little York street. Her
condition is dangerous Robert
and James Bruns, brother.?, also
were wounded.
GEMENT -PRICE IS
III THIS STATE
Market Goes up Again,
Despite Big Order for
Foreign Supply.
C1T1ZIN KIWI BCRRA'j
TARRORrircH HOT VL
flr tnOCK BAIttLBY) .
RALEIGH, May 14. An inn-ease
of 20 cents the barrel in the
price of cement, on the top of the
foreign order or trie state highway
commission and Southern Power
company, is announced y cement
men here today.
They came to see the highway
commission men. about the pur
chase of a supply for use pending
tlie arrival here of the first con
templated shipments of cement
I from Sweden. Shipments of for
eign cement, a million barrels of
hich were contracted for by the
highway commission and a like
amount bv the Southern Power
company ,will start in about 30
dims, If details in connection with
the contracts can be completed
without delay.
The unprecedented demand
throughout the country for cement
is given b.v 'tne salesmen i"
reason for the increased price. Gen
eral uniformity of prices among all
the cement people, with Indications
of further rises, prompted the high
way commission and power com
pany to make the foreign contracts.
"We have shipped into North
Carolina' In the tot three niohths
more cement than we shipped into
the state during anyone year here
tofore," said a representative of one
of the largf companies.
"North Carolina has so much road
work under way and so much build
ing construction that ' there is a
' mad rush for cement." he added.
Snmn nf ihe cement, men' are
doubting the ability of the highway
commission and power company M
get foreign cement delivered here
and distributed over tne state m
price lower than cost oi Amenmii
ement. Thev think the cost of
distribution from Wilmington will
he heavy, one representative saying
that his company maintains a ware
house there and that the coet. be
yond the first 100 miles. Is high.
Meanwhile, the purchasers - are
making plans for receiving the ce
ment at Wilmington and making
attributions. The importer, who
will bring the cement from Sweden,
will also be in charge of the d fl
it lbution at the seaport, the high
way commission let It be known,
although announcement of the Im
porter's name coul i not be made.
The importer is to make all ar
rangements for deliveries and d i
trlbution, having charge of the se
lection .f steamshln lines and all
ffiri. ... .,.il o- rinme-ntic.a.rrange-.j
AGAIN ADVANCED
ESTABLISHED 1868.
OTEEN SCHOOL
WILL AGAIN BE
RUN THIS YEAR
Public Health Officials Much
Interested In Ideal .
Location
TUB AH!tni 1 CITUKN
' si. h t: ( mitri
WASHINGTON MAY 14 The
Public Health Officials here are
icry much I til crested In Otecn ac
count or i Ik- location and Itie cli
mate. l)r Hugh s. dimming, sur-
iM-on. general, said today Otecn 1st
i an iiical place..
"It Is. not only delight fully ult -uaicd
a n. I easily accessible, hut ap
prcclatid by the people of the sur-i-'UiidiHL-
country, "said lie. "It 1
clo.e to our Hospital at Kcnllnorth.
"ind a must convenient place to
conduct a tuhcm-uloKis school. We
"III have a school there this year
Minlliar In that held there last year.
''The Oieen school was patterned
aTtcr the Siiininer School at Sara
inc Lake X .1., vtlth necessary ad
ainions to special work required.
ii graduated, last Tear. 22 n hvs -
ci.in.H and 19 nurses who had been
-electee from the sixty sit hospi
tals of the service. (Hern has a
lapnclti of 1100 beds. The school
ilns year is to run from June 1 lo
30.
lr. uinming thinks It Mill make
better record than that of last
I'-ar. It will have 30 medical of
ficers and 30 nurses.
A few persons outside of govern
ment hospitals if Identified with
Ii.Im rculosls work will be admitted
under Kclal conditions.
PROBE OF FRAUD?
Question Is the One About
Which Many in Wash
ington Are Talking.
WASHINGTON BCrt!'
TH ASKETU.l.a CITI1B.V
or ii. b v. rht)
WASHINGTON, May 14. 'A
most interesting question here to
day Is: "Will Attorney General
Dougherty go through with the
promised investigation of war prof
iteers, and ask for indictments .'
Two republican members of the
house. Representatives Uoyal C.
Johnson, of South Dakota, and Roy
O. Woodruff, of Michigan, have
goaded him to ask of
$500,000 "for "'"proseciiflh?' 'Vn
chargei against war contractors.
He has told the President that he
would go to the last ditch if he
had the money. Members of the
house and senate believe that he is
bluffing, but they will provide the
money. Democrats as wel. as re
publicans of the more progressive
school are eager to get him going.
It has been hinted ion? enough,
democrats assert, that the Wilson
Administration was crooked out of
lots of dough. This was strongly
intimated by republicans of the
committee to inquire into war ex
penditures. Here is a bit of interesting his
tory: In 1 3.1 S. when the repub
licans captured the house, a lead
ing republican told me that, as
soon as they took charge an '.nvc
tigation of war contracts and war
profiteers would be made and that
Representative William J. Crahim,
of Illinois, a prominent afid able
attorney, would be named to -conduct
It! He explained that the
things brought out would be used
in 190 against the demounts to
oust their, from the White House
as woll us Congress. The predic
tion then made came true. Mr.
Graham conducted a vigorous
probe, spending hundreds of .hous
ands of dollars, but no crooks
have been put in Jail. His report
was very caustic, but no democrats
were prosecuted.
Di-rtng the war it was repeated
lv pointed out that men suspected
of profiteering were republicans
and not democrats. Of course
there are criminal' in both piirtien
and politics had very little to do
with contract le'.ting.
But, the Graham outfit found j
some remarkable farts, and re-port-d
them to the house. When
Mr. Diiugherty begins to invesiig.ite
with a view of pvosecjt'.ic; sonr-r-odv
he will nam-V.lv t'.iTi to his
files containing the findings, ami
hearings of the Graham committee
all nf which were turned over to l
him for legal action. Knowing!
these thtiwrs the democrats have'
their ears tr. the ground, for the
most pronounced charga made by
Graham wa.t igainst the Standard
Steel Car company, or whlcn pec-reta'-V
M"':lon was a .iirectcr. Mr.
Daugherty cannot Ignore Mr Gra
ham's on-'ii attack on that con
cern.
North Carolina Interested
In Xiimbcr of Persons
""North Carolina is Interested in
a number of persons and elrcum
siac.es mentioned hy the Graham
report Contrae'ors who did crti
V.'. d o-. work f.or th government
In tre Carolinn .no charge with
scheming t ch-tat or extor;. Mr.
I dfi'iii refers t ' William A. btir-
... j , h s cost ci'.is rv'tc'i'- .Mr.
Star-en is well known in the
sc'.;;h
Here are some t'xcerss and briefs
from the Graham report now In
the hands of the IX-pirlmcnt of
Justice to be c insi.leed when the
long-delayed legal lH'ht begins'
No doubt Mr. Daugherty will be
embarrassed by the Graham re
port, charging that the Standard
Steel Car company robbed the gov
ernment out of millions nf dollars.
Mr. Graham was very severe in his
criticism of this .concern.'
The Standard Steel Car com
pany is going to be a h.ird bridge
for Attorney General Daugheriy to
cross if he carries out his present
plans for a thorough going prose
cution. In making his report on
this organization Mr. Ci-ahim raid:
"Gentlemen, read the record. It
gtinks of corrupr'on. I charge that
Colonel Hughes has viilated the
militarv code In many instances,
and ought to be court martialed.
Bribery has been he-i
in in
WILL
DAUGHERTY
CARR
Y 0 UT H IS
THE ASHEVILLE
DEDICATED
mm I urn
AT TANG-SHAN
Action Is Taken on As
sumption That Chang
Will Set up Empire.
AMERICANS GUARD
. FOREIGN WOMEN
Hong Kong Dispatch
Says Dr. Suh's Troops
Are a Mere Rabble.
PEKING, May 14. (By The As
sociated Press.) General Wu I'ei
Fu has ordered his troops concen
trated at Tang-Khan, north of
Tien-Tsin, on the assumption that
General I'hang Tso-Un plans to
establish an Independent empire in
Manchuria ami Mongolia.
The Peking government has
given explicit commands that its
military authorities dislodge Gen
eral Chang Tso-Wn. who is en
trenched with 43,000 Manchurians
near Lanchow. It is generally re
garded in official circles that Gen
eral Chang Tso-Lln intends' to
make Lanchow his stronghold
against the enemy.
AMERICANS PHOTECT
WOMEN AX1 CHILDREN
TIEN-TSIN, May 14. (By The
Asmtciatcd Press.) Women and
children in the Linsi mine, region
have been taken to Tongshan where
ihey will remain under the protec
tion ot the American guard. Mis
sionaries from Changli hav0 been
removed to Chinwantao.
The present 'indications that,
ueneral Chang Tso-Un is with
drawing his troops from Kaiping
and Kuyeh to Lanchow, where he
Is forming a bridgehead. While es
tablishing his main position near
Changli. the lanchow bridge has
been planked over to permit the
movement of Infantry and artillery
by foot as well as by rail.
The Chill artillery brought down
an airplane of the Chang force
near Tongshan Saturday. The ma
chine was not damaged.
SOUTHERN TROOPS AUK
DECLARED TO BE RABBLE
LONDON. May 1 4. A dispatch
to the Times from Hong Kong says
It is learned that the troops of Dr.
Sun Vat Sen, head of the southern
government at Canton who are de
clared to be marching northward
I'll I IS MASSING
Congee4.wm Cutton. a ' rbblu. Jyla ny
of tne men are without -weapons
and a large percentage of the uni
forms they wear are merely rags.
It is added they are undislcplined
and that gambling and opium
smoking are rife among them.
FOUR ARE ARRESTED IV
ALLEGED JEWEL THEFT
NEW YORK, May 14. Three men
and a woman, charged with grand
larceny in connection with a $75,000
jewel theft, and said by the police
to have an International reputation,
were held In $25,000 ball each In
magistrate's court today for exami
nation Wednesday.
The prisoners who were arrested
in Harrisburg, Pa., Saturday, were
I.unmcn Becle. David BtishnHI. John
Gavin and Ruth Hsyden. All gave
as their address 4S69 Wlnthrop ave
nue. Chicago. They are allegcil to
liuve utolen Ihe jewelry from Mrs.
Mitchell Harris, of Knosville. Tenn..
on April 30 us she was leaving a
train nt the Pennsylvania station in
this city. - - , .
About $40,000 worth of the valua
bles have been recovered, aeenrdins '
to the police who saM ome were I
iuuiiu jt ii.-?iiuia in i iiimueiiiii us.
and Chicago although the greater
part was found in the possession of
the four arrested.
RESERVE BANKS MAY
BUY IX VICTORY BONDS
WASHINGTON, May 14 Au
thority given Federal reserve banks
to .purchase 4 3-4 per cent Victory
notes direct from holders at pai'
and accrued interest up to nn ag
gregate amount of $1 00,000,000 has
been further extended from May
15 to June 15, 1922, Secretary Mel
lon announced tonight
RE-ORGANIZATION OF THE PRISON SYSTEM
L ; " ; - f
r .'; - tmmsmti
L-(mi Jlipl ...I h ra. K nLuf ilpi
'
TO THE UP-BUILDING
ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1922.
Tacna-Arica Negotations
m At: .
' loday;
WA
AMl.MifU., .May n.
( I!y the Associated Press.) -
In an atmosphere of renewed
cordiality and hopefulnes.
the plenipotentiaries of,. Chile
and Peru will meet tomorrow
in the Hall of the Americans
to attempt solution of the dif
ferences that have estianged
their governments for more
than a generation.
Convened in Washington at
the invitation of President
Harding, the conference will
be opened with an address of
welcome and good will by
Secretary Hughes, delivered
in the presence of a notable
gathering of government offi
cials and diplomatists from
every part of the world. The
responses, .will be made for
Chile b.v Luis Izqulcrdo and
for Peru by Meliton Porias,
and then the two delegations
will retire for private consul
tation in their new efforts to
apply the "conference plan"
of diplomacy to International
relationships of the western
hemisphere.
Although the seriousness of
the problem is everywhere
realized, there was a feeling
here on the eve ot the con
ference that the delegates
would meet under condi
tions notably auspicious. For
two governments belween
whom diplomtic relations have
BUREAU
Blair Says Congress Like
ly Will Be Asked for
Big Sum of Money.
WASHINGTON, May 14. Con
gress may be asked for an appro
priation to etubl'i the internal
revenue bureiti to make refunds
of approximately J20.000.000 m, n
result of the recent decision of the
supreme court In the Hchwajh case.
Commissioner Blair announced to
night. '
The decision in that ctse, - he
explained, wc to the effect lha. a
lansfci- made in contemplation of
death prior tJ September 1. 1916.
was not to !ia included . in the
gross revemio estate of a descend
ant under tho provisions of the
revenue act of 1 MO.
There has been much specula
tion, Mr. Blair- declarod, tis to the
amount of money the government
will have to icf iul us a result of
the decisio-,1 nnd oirs New York
was quoted in .t -published ftate
nioit as plarint the estimate be
tween $100,000,010 and fSO'J.OOO,.
000.
( However, ne stated, it nan oetn
cieterminea by r. carcrui survey
that the amednt to be refunded
was approximately $20,000,00 i. and
while, if It ..i found nccena y 'o
do so. Congress will be .-inked for
an appropriati.m to permit Ihe bu
reau to makeHhe refunds, it will
not be necessary for e.tmos to fi'e
claims as the refunds will be made;
automatically as soon as funds a
available. ----- ' - -
Mx a,; j. W. VV. PRISONERS
FREED AT LEA V EX WO RT n
LKA VEX WORTH, K'.. May 14
Nine Industrial Workers of the World
received here September 7. 1 !1 8, with
tha "Risr Hill" Hnvworirl cTinniirn-
I ment, were released from the federal
penitentiary today, having completed
sentences of five years with reduc
tions for good behavior.
Three of the nine. John Avlla, a
Portuguese. Herbert Mahler. an
Irishman, and Jos Oates. an English
man, were re-arrested by immigra
tion authorities Immediately nfter
their release, and were started for
Ne York for deportation.
REVENUE
REFUNDS TO GO TO REPUBLICANS
MNTYJILL1 PRIMARYTUESDAY
: : I
By BILLY BORNE ; ,
OF WESTERN NORTH
15 Hopetul
be n severed for a dozen years
'Chile and Peru have ap
proached the negotiations in a
spirit of amity regarded in
il.plomailc circles as so unu.m
as to give much promise
of a settlement.
At the ;ame time, among
the delegates themselves ami
among otHe!uls who have an
intimate knowledge of ihe 4
year controversy over the
Treaty or Ancon, there has
been apparent. -a tendency to
warn against over-confidence.
Quick results are not expected
by those In a position to
in a k c authoritative predic
tions. . It is iecognlr.ee! that
an agreement can come only
after many interchanges of
opinion and there are some
who believe that in the end
the outstanding Issues must
be left to arbitration.
it now is considered Im
probably that the I'nlted
States will in any way be rep
resented in the negotiations
unless arbitration becomes
nei ' , ary and both delegates
ngr lo appeal directly to
President Harding.
That the President and his
-advisers are ready to render
any service that may be ask
ed of them, however, already
has been made known to the
delegates.
KEYSTONE STATE
1
Alter-Pinchot Fight for
Gubernatorial Nomina
tion Outstanding.
PHILADELPHIA. May 14. Re
publican voters of Pennsylvania
will go to the polls on Tuesday in
one of the most Interesting pri
maries of the Keystone elate In a
generation. It will be the first
time In nearly 50 years that re
publicans have gone into a fight
to settle party differences without
a Cameron, ; MlUhew', Stanley
Qtiay, or Boles Penrose to guide
the destinies of the regular organ
ization. All political parties of the state
will select candidates to be voted
for In November.
The contest overhaoowlng in
terest 1h that for the republican
nomination for governor between
Attorney General Geo. E. Alter
and Gilford Pinchot, former state
forestry commissioner, Uovernor
Sproul, the Philadelphia and the
Pittsburgh city organizations and
many of the regular republican
county leaders are supporting Al
ter, while Pinchot has rallied to
his cause many leaders identified
with the nrnri-Milv nartv mnvo.
menta In and 1414 nnit tnme
of the regular republican county
leaders.
MEMORIAL VX VEILED TO
TWO RALEIGH WOMEN
CSRw.fl CrrwirfiMi, Tt AikirllU C(Htfn)
RALEIGH. May 14 Wake county
loday honored the memory of Eliza
Rlddlek and Lucy Page, volunteer
nurses, victims of the Influenia epi
demic with exercises in the city au
ditorium and the unveiling of me
morials on the court house lawn arc
at the State College Y. M. '. A..
Josephus Daniels was the principal
speaker at the public exercises char
acterizing the sacrifice of the nurses
as the supreme sacrifice of heroes.
They did from pneumonia ontracted
while administering to the sick dur
ing the Influenza epidemics. Miss
Rlddlek db-d in 1918 and Miss Page
In 1919. The memorial on the court
house lawn Is In the form nf a foun
tain, while a tablet In their memory
occupies a prominent location at the
State College Y. M. C. A.
CITIZEN
CAROLINA'
PRICE
S
m m j fsmi
PROM TIM UK
"
Promotes Economic
Agreement Which Ger
mans and Poles win
IS BIGGEST WORK
YET ACCOMPLISHED
Germany Satisfied for
First Time Since Pleb
iscite Conducted. ,
(1 EN K VA,' May 14 (By the.
Associated Press.) The tinman
and Polish representatives attend
ing (he sessions of the council of
the league of natioiit are ready
to sign on tomorrow the eco
nomic treaty agreed upon settling
the I'pper Sileslan question. The
signing of this treaty will con
clude what the league or nations
consider Ihe league's greatest po
litical achievement.: The docu
ment Is longer than the treaty of
Versailles containing ItOl articles,
which is Hid more, articles limn
are embraced In the Ver.-iiilles
treaty. The Upper Silesian agree
ment follows six months work
under the chairmanship of M,
Calender, former president or
Switzerland, who Was appointed
arbitrator by the league of na
tions. Although the conference
several limes was on the verge of
breaking up without an agreement
Al. Ca louder never had occasion to
use his authority, from which
there would have been no right of
appeal.
The I pper Silesia agreement
which members of the league re
garded Ihe mon Important settle
ment of a European controversy
since the signing of the Versailles
tieaty, contained detailed arrange
ments for dispositions of the rail
ways, water, electric current and
coal, and postal as well as legal
problems for 15 years. It Is de
signed also to prevent economic
crisis and provides for two Joint
Polish-German commissions under
the league of nations chairman,
the first of which is to execute
the treaty and, the second to settle
prlvale disputes.
League experts believe t h e
treaty will remove possible sources
of war belween Germany and Po
land and France and that it so
pools Sileslan resources as to pre
vent. either Oerman or Polish In
dustries from suffering.
The Germans still are dissatis
fied with the territorial divisions
based on the plebiscite, but feel
tlfat they are compensated hy the
economic arrangements. Settle
ment of the long pending Silesian
problem was reforred to the lea
gue by Ihe allied supreme council.
EFFORT CHARGED
TO DISCREDIT
FARM Li PLAN
North Carolina's Good
Condition Shown by Re
payment of Loans.
wnsilGTnN nrnroT
rsa uni.iiin fliTuitt
'!' II K V. IIIYiST)
WASHINGTON. May 14 -In s
letter to Seoator Simmons today
Charles K Ixibdell, member of the
federal farm loan board, charged
that the Farm Alortgage Bankers'
association ha been trying to dis
credit, the farm loan batik system.
He states reports harmful to the
government Institution have bfir.
circulated about the eountrv. and
Senator Simmons called attention to
some things that were being said In
North Cai-olina.
"The Farm Mortgage Bankers'
association," ald Mr. Lobdell, '-has
ben a constant and vicious critic:
of the farm loan system in all its
aspects. It first directed its cam
paign to the farmers Jn an ,en:
deavor to convince them that the
system was not beneficial and would
not function. When this failed, it
turned its attack in the way of liti
gation affslnst the constitutionality
of the federal farm loan act. Since
that IHIgatlon failed, it has preae-
vfipn in nie r;ie oi naipuis ciiuc.
The letter th.it prompted Senator
Simmons to write was written by
Ijiwrence S. Holt, Jr., a manufac
ture iY ,
I VAST SI M PAID BACK
IX I'AST FEW MONTHS
WASHINGTON. May 14. For
agricultural, exporting and co-operative
purposes North Carolina
has- borrowed from the War Fin
ance corporation $1 4,000,000 with-
'in the last eight months. Of that
I total $8,000,000 was for agricul
tural purpoaes and $ 1,500, OIM) of
that sum has been paid back.
North Carolina has returned a
larger per cent of the money se
cured for farming interests than
anv other state. This, it was ex
plained by Angus Wilton Mclean
Of the corporation today, plainly
indicates that, his state Is in better
shape financially th-i sny other
(although there Is siill depression In
.sections that rely altogether on
co.ton. He pointed out that it was
a compliment to the farmers of
North Carolina to have a belter
record in this matter than Iowa,
for Instance.
That business In North Carolina
1 is Improving is shown in a report
today by the bureau of mines on
the use of explosives. The Informa
tion was gathefed to find out what
kind of materials were' used and
also to reflect business conditions.
In March the state used 1,173
lit; of blank- blasting powder,
17,925 pounds of high explosives
other than permissible and 2.200
i pounds of pei misslble explosives.
The permissible explosives are Ihe
"safety ort according lo the bu-
NAI
RYE CENTS.
Formal Bid Is Given t
u. S. To
At Adjourned Session
EUROPE DECREED
MAIN CA11SF (IF
MONEY TROUBLE
.o Help Seen by Inter
American Commission
Until Restoration
WASHINGTON. Mar 14-Ite-P'ii
is from na'ii nal sections of the
iutci '-American high .eommlxiioii on
the principal factors In the ex
change situation In ioier-American
commerce nearly ail concluded
I hat the - priuwry factor la "the
alarming fuitinoial situation in Eu
rope," according in a Nunimarv is
fUH toivght bv Secretarv Hoover,
chairman of the tuinmianlun.
The subject !. discuased at 8
meeting ot the sections of the colli
inission In the various Latin-American
capitals nnd In Washington in
December nnd re.pnru exchanged
by the sections. The Iatln-Amer-Icnn
sections agreed with that of
Ihe I'nlted States In expressing the
conviction "that no fundamental
and permanent relief from the uo
certaintles of exchange fluctuation
can be secured until the situation
in Hut-ope shall have been put on
a basis of restored public confi
dence and balanced budgets."
IRRIES TO BED
OF ILL JAUGHTER
Will Postpone Coronation
This Fall for Visit to
United States.
ATHENS May 14 (By The As
sociated Press) -Princess Eliza
beth, w.fe of Crown Prince George
of Ureece, and daughter of the
king and queen of Rumania, who
has been ill for some time post is
In very- critical condition. Hhe
Is suffering from a pleural abcess.
An operation was performed yes
terday and a small quantity of pus
removed.
At 2 o'clock this morning there
were symptoms of pulmonary
oedema with great weakness of
the heart and cold extremities.
The evening bulletin reported
Ihe leniperalure of the patient as
102.5; ,ulse 150; respiration 52,
The nieen of Rumania Is ex-
jpected hjre hourly. She left the
bedside of her youngest daughter
frincess nena who Is suffering
from chic ken pox, to come to
the ns.
RI MMAX KING AND
OVEEX III HHY TO GREECE
Ttl'i'H A It EST May 14 The king
id queen of Itumanla Immediately
leit lie."'- Tor Constanzo on receipt
of word today from Athens (hat
Princess K'izabcth was in an ex
hcnrly dangerous condition. The
frstest v-rashlp will convey them to
Piraeus.
MNY
'ETITIOXIXf! HER
TO COME TO AMERICA
BVCHAUKHT May 14 (Hy The
Associated Pressi Queen of Ru
mania mtv forego her coronation
tins fail In order lo visit the United
Stole. S nce the signing of the
'irmistlc the queen has been plan,
ni.ig to go to the I'nlted States but
pieKiing i, f fairs In her own coun
try and the expenses of ! lie long
luid am ocean Journey have de
teind he-.'. Now Invitations from
friends and petitions from women's
cluiis ii ml civic noddies are pour
ii t.' in on her so rust that she finds
It difficult to resist them.
.'Vhllf ihe ouen has not received
an ofriilal invitation from Presl
d 'nt Htiit'ing, it is known that the
American government would wel
come and entertain her. The no
nunion government however, would
prerer tn.-.i the queen recelv .t
'ormal Imitation from the While
House m order that there might
be ro mistake concerning her stat
i . Mario has not yet set any date
for hei departure but her friends
are urplng her to postpone her cor-
lnHon
with King Ferdinand
wnich ii set to take place In Tran
xvlvanla nnd start for New York
sl'ter she has fulfilled a few Euro
pean co:r: engagements,
Ti e ciiei today made It clear
lo The '- soclaeil Press that if she
,u ,:1p L niteu .states it would
"on in.' uiijeei or seeing the
country nnd thanking in person the I
i.ioi.ann or Americans who hclp
ec ItuminlH so generously during
and nrier th.i wr.
RED CROSS TO CLOSE, ITS
WORK IX EI ROPE SOON
PARIS. Msv 14 -IRv Tho 4..n,.lol
d Press.) The-American Kd Cross,
siier eignt yearn of work during
which it expended more than $100.
noiionn will close lis main activities
in Kurope at the end of June This
announcement, was made todav by
lr. floss Jlill, director of foreign
operations who has jui leliirned
from a two months aurvev of Kurope
"lending from Warsaw to Cnnatan
tinoolc fr. Hill Kald he hllov,l ih.. ...
longer hs any need fm Atnerlimi
relief effnri In the war affected er,.'m. I
tries. The. welfare of the peoples of
Kurope was heller than 'at anv lime
since Ihe war, due largely to Ameri
can aid.
KNOXVILI.E MAX TAKES
LIFE BEFORE FRIEND
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Miv 14.
Bidding goodhy to a friend stand
ing nearby. James T. Jackson, ii6,
part, owner of an automobile ,e.
pair st.ition, shot himself while
sitting at a desk In ihe rear of his
;Ln 0 , 'i' l ,l('wn-
own sec on. He tiled wi hout re.
vealing the cause of his. J.ct.
f i lends and relathe, . ould assign
RUMANIAN QUEEN
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TODAY
lake Fart I
BRIDGE GAP II
T
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vvuuiu JTiuvtue ivr uiuv. ,
up Without Admitting ji!
Failure to Agree. ; 1 1
WILL BEPUT UP Ij
TO SOVIETS T0DAj
Russians Prepare Note
Rejecting . Non-Russian
Probe Commission.
GENOA. May 14 (By The As
sociated Press.) The Genoa eco
nomlc conference will be re-con I J
vencu on June id at Tne Hague ti S
discuss the Russian questions. I
the plao agreed to this afternoot
at a private conference of the fn f
viiing powers oe acceptea By tn j
sub-coiumiKsion on Russian affair:! I
at Its meeting tomorrow. .
This derision to postpone actlorl f
relative to ltussia is promptet
largely ny tne desire of the Euro
pean powers to induce the United
States to participate and apparent
ly is merely a means of dissolv
ing the Geno conference wlthou
PROGRAM WOULD
i
rovers;
- ' J-S
admitting that the differences be4 I
tween France and Great Brltslrt
regarding the treatment of theV
Russian problems cannot be re-j
conclled In (lenoa. j t
Sir Edward Grlgg announced 1
this afternoon that this compro ( '
mise plan suggested by Premleit ..
Lloyd-George had been accepted byt '
the Inviting powers and would b r
passed on by the sub-eommlsslort :
on Russian affairs tomorrow, ,
Only vague details are given a
to how the proposed commission -or
commissions to discuss tha Rus
sian question will be formed at
The Hague, and Xhe entire scheme 1
seems to he still 4n tha twilight -gone,
awaiting America's decision. .
whether h wilt help Europe to
straighten out the tangle. , f i
Sir Edward ad4ed that all the'i
powers attending the Genoa con-' j
ference will be asked to send rep-M '
resentatlves to. The Hague, where';
they will agree upon members of
th commission who are to sit withJf -the
Russian representatives.
Present at the meeting at Mr,1'
Lloyd George's villa, In addition toij ?
the British prime, were M. Bar 4 1
thou, of France, Foreign Mlnlsterf 1
8chanzer, Italy; Viscount lahll.f -Japan
and M Jaspar, Belgium. ?
After the morning session Mr 1 1
Lloyd George said that consider- i
able progress had been made to-
wards affecting a compromise on fr
the organization ot the eommla- I
slon or commissions proposed for."
cue cunniueiauuii ot Itussian (l-l j
nances. , t '
At the conclusion of the after- V
noon session It was announced that:)'!
meejng had "satisfactorily set-'
tied all business submitted." It '
was agreed to ascertain whether
the Cnlted States was Inclined tni.
participate In the commission and'.jl
that no separate agreements should is
be concluded with Russia pend.ogfl
the work of the commission, which'
...wok i.jiuii wicuiii iiuee ninntns.'jl
A proposal for a non-sggreastonii
truce on a reciprocal basn uurlng j.
inci iviii. illusion aiso-
wus udopted. I
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FORMAL INVITATION IS 't
GIVEN AMERICAN DIPLOMAT'
.GENOA. May 14 (By The As-f
sociated Press.) The Italian for-j
elgn minister Signor Schanzer who
Is president of the. economic con-
ference called on Ambassador!
i.nuu tonight and handed htm a.;'
formal Invitation to the United1'
States government lo participate ''i
In the newly arranged Hague con-ti
ference on Russian affairs in June H
The ambassador Immediately tor- i
warded the Invitation by cable to4!
the state department at Washing- H
t0"' ' I
"AMERICA INTERVENES If
hostile to sontrra" f'i i
LONDON, .May. 14. Router's Gs
noa correspondent said, It Is re- it '
ported, that the Russians refuse to h
accept the propoeed terms for the 3
appointment of a mixed commission ' ' 1 1
anu nave nutltted S:gnor- Schanier Ji -tto
this effect. S I
America ha.i intervened in the :;
Genoa conference 'In a sense hoe-
tile to the Soviets," says the Genoa
oiwimra oi tne Daily Herald
labor organ), whose close rela-
tlons with sovletlsm are well known, ' j
"For two days," nddo the eorre- Hit
spondont, "we have lived lit the 35
presence of a gi-eat capitalistic con- S3
.spiracy against Russia disguised as M
-'ft COriciliHtnrv nnmnritmii. " ill .
NOTE STATING SOVIET
REJETIOX PREPARED
GENOA, May 14. I By the As
sociated Press.) The Russian del
egation announced today that M.
Tchitchevin has prepared a note to
Sigmir Facta, president of Ihe con
ference, advising that the Itassians
will not deal with sny commission
to dlsctlSH -Russian flffntrs iirion
which Russians ftre not officially
represented on equal terms with
the other po v-is.
Members of the Russian de.lega-
tion aaicl it was framed after tha I
Russian delegates learned from tha
prew that Mr. Llovd George, M.
Mrcnuu aim rvprnsviuviiv p in fcnis e
other inviting powers ware. ram- B
Ing a compromise reply to the Rus
sians, in which it wan planned to
have h commission excluding tha
Russians.
Since the suggestion was first
brought to the attention of tha
I'olshevik delegates they have al-
Jowe,, lt ,0 be known offioUUy that
they would nt permit their repre.
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