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petwit ree Irw GREATEST NEWSPAPER 4 4 WEATHER Rain MYSTERY SHROUDS ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE PRINTERY AD LAPPERS LOSE VIC AS MAYOR BAB DANCE CIHSSINGEB apid transit BRINGS STAR CLASH REVIVED be 8 ted with The new car LATEST WIRE LASHES GIRL SOUGHT HERE AS GAUSE ALL Jefferson Blaze Breaks Out as ond star Thousands Pass On Way fi it 1 In for DETAILSSOUGHT! BY democrats: DOUGLAS WOUNDED IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER RDRSIHTOTHUG WHO STOPS HIM ASKS SETTLEMENT BEORE END MARCH Has Temperature Of 112 Yet Lives pointed out that adjusted certificates would nnt bo for rediscount by federal banka Arcadia hall 'Third drnmatUattun nt Interior decoration tho in aee an the PROBE HALLS WHERE JAZZ REIGNS ORDERED i 'W Police Scour Neighborhood But ail to ind Any Trace of Gunman Nab Smugglers With Dry AGREEMENT PLEDGES LAYED BY ROBINSON the son Klchard a cigar and Crystal License It Revoked Despite Objections of Many Bobbed Hair Girls Opponents Grill Lodge and Underwood to Learn Who Drafted Pact Quebec Arsenal Again On ire speculators by small margins and low rates of interest and of at tracting investors by partial pay ment pkms with small initial pay ments and no protective pro ted ive provisions were exposed in yesterday's article By way of pareuthgsts It should be said that the partial payment plan honestly administered is Continual on ujce Three Column ive Pennsy Operators Spurn Par ley While Other Go Unless All Are There ritr INAL EDITION In Picture and Story Walter Hastings a greenhouse keeper of South Lvon Michigan has become such an authority on birds 1 that the University of Michi gan has made him custodian of its zoological collection His camera studies of Michi gan birds will be shown the Rotogravure Section and the story of this iptcr es ting man and his work will be told in the Magazine Section ree Press but several produc at each can cut Wife rantic as Husband alls Declares He Was Not Known To Have Enemies Police at 4 this morning had been nnnhte tn discover any clow to the gunman who Thursday night shot and badly wounded Scientist Determined to Get at Playful Anti goniah Spirit GORDON JI McGltEGOR 8 Story on Pag 20 Column lit $40000 Downtown ire Attracts Throng Better Homes Program for Today 10 A Doom open to nml Man Drives Auto Over Robber Who Points Gun at Him' With Order to Halt An automobile was used as a weapon of defense against hold up men (or the first time known early today John Joachim 14631 Essex avenue when faced by an armed hold up man as he was driving on Phillips avenue near Kercheval speeded his machine and ran over the thug before had opportunity to Are Joachim stopped In time tn two dark figures descend from other automobile parked at curb lift their wounded companion Into It and liurry away Police were unable to find the in lured mam' or to discover how badly he was hurt Joachim reported he followed the fleeing machine for blocks but lost trace Of It tn down town ttafllc Joachim was driving on Phillips avenue dlroctly behind another automobile The machine In front suddenly stopped in such a position that he was forced close to the curb One man descended and levelled a revolver It was then Joachim suddenly swerved hie car outward and "stepped on the gas" On after thought he con eluded the man ho had Injured 'might have been a policeman and stopped When he saw the other i machine speed away however his i fears dissolved I lickey The Cabman On St Day When Hickey talks about Hie Irish on familiar ground lie says Lloyd George was foiled in his at tempt to Cliinify the Irish Race He came out of the argument somewhat the worse for wear but Mike Clancy went to the hospital! Hickey didn't care though io long aS the English haven't taken the punch out of St Day He's in a rare humor this week miss him Magazine Section ree Press Miami la March Dr I Daw a physician was electrocuted in his office Thursday while mak ing an ray examination of the fractured arm of a patient As the physician was adjusting the machine his arm came In contact with a high voltage wire Death was instanteous i Portland Me March John Dlnsco was In a generally Improved condition at a hospital here tonight after having undergone remarkable fluctuations In temperature Physi cians say that for four hours last night his temperature was above 112 degrees Then it dropped to 95 and today it returned to normal The said that a tempera ture above iu! bly fatal to not macnosi Is 34 yea Madras Orc March Black smoke wns observed Thursday aris ing In columns from the southwest side of (ho Mount Jefferson crater he report said the eruption as 'auslng snow to melt on the south west aldo of the mountain Operators Lag operators were to meet miners in con IS SHOT LE SITTING OWN HOUSE I re Mcctlon They pft with their companion whom wore pink shirta row ties some jaw vow fit or ihincra whirh rtealffnata flapper and mako him conapicious among'men When the hearing was over the police chiefs who sought revocation of the 'license were happy They were thqlniore happy because the devotees af jazz turned out They could not have produced a stronger piece of evidence than the audience Superintendent of Police William Rutledge and Inspector Kinney said One of Detroit's cutest flappers rushed right up to the mayor when the hearing opened and shaking her short locks and rolling her baby eyes told him the CrystaR was all She was only IB and accord ing to the rules should never have been admitted to the dance hall Continued on 1'nse Three Column ight as almost invara adult They have malady He Closing of Place They Termed Rendezvous of Immoral i Women Pleases Police devotees of Jazz turned out en masse Thursday to defend the Crystal Palace danco hall lappers male and female ap i poared at Mayor office to tell him what a splendid inslitu tlon the dance hall Is and to as sure him that there could be no question raised aa to the propriety of tho dancing there It was all of no avail however for the mayor ordered the license revoked and the hall must close Its doors Anrll 1 The mayor dealt th flappers a AVnra hlAW Tn Vftlinff mH UfBB i ilLi Aklnw nlnihleO' VST 1 1 11 ra in ugin vivsiudb their hair smoothly oiled as though they were walking representatives for America's best clothing houses were sorely disappointed when the mayor revoked the license Their sorrow increased ten fold when a minute later he ordered the wo men's police division to increase Its vigilance at certain other dance halls where the more Jazzy steps are permitted lapper Likewise Sorrowful The flappers were likewise sor rowful They shook their bobbed hair tn Indicate their disapproval and not one among them will ever vote for the mayor should ho seek in ornc most of little nar some jazz bow ties tight clothes and all the other the male a Washington March 9 ormation of a prohibition "navy" for combat ting rum smugglers along the lori da coast has tho approval of Secre tary Mellon It was stated Thursday al the treasury Mobollzatlon of the prohibition fleet Is progressing rapidly A coast guard officer has been made liaison official between the coast guard ser vice and prohibition headquarters or Quebec March or the second time In nine days fire tonight at tacked the dominion arsenal de stroying shops employing Sue work men and doing damage estimated at 1500000 Tho entire city fire department fought the flames while the per manent militia aided the police In keeping back enormous crowds On March 1 lire In tho cartridge factory a branch of tho arsenal destroyed 1000000 rounds of small ammunition Ray Machine Kills Physician ile Cured In 1 tn 14 Unys Druggists refund money If 1'AZO OINTMENT falls to cure Itching Blind Blending or Protruding Piles Instantly relieves Itching Plies 60c Adv THE TIER II II I BOOM PERMITS only proper dancing Modern party tonight for the careful and refined Ad Vi KILLED DY ALK Tulsa Okla March John Noble 24 years old secre tary treasurer of the Charles Noble Oil Hales company was killed here today when he fell eight stories down an elevator shaft in an office building IL RENICK DIES New York March William Jt Itemlck twice president of tho New York Stock Erchange and head of Remlck Hodges and company Investment bankers tiled today after a brief illness or the last year he had not taken an active part In busi ness the strain of finance from 1919 to 1921 having broken his health while head xt the ex change A GOW DIES Duluth Minn March 9 Alex ander Gow 60 years old as sistant chief engineer of the Oliver Iron Mining company died at his homo here today After graduating from Ohio State university he became con nected with the Panhandle rail road He came to Duluth In 1905 TO IGHT NON AIITISANS Grand orks March 9 North Iiakota Independ ent Republican state central committee meeting hero today accepted tho plan submitted by the Independent Voters' asso ciation for a Joint campaign committee to oppose the Non Partisan league BELIEVE O'CONNOH TAKEN St Louis Mo March 9 A man believed by police to bo Tom O'Connor notorious gunman of Chicago wflo escaped from the death cell of the Cook county jail last December was arrest ed tonight after a fierce battle with a policeman during which both were so badly beaten that they were taken to a hospital VOL 8 7 N0 1'6 4 Child Steps Into Path of Mo torcycle Skull Is ractured VOra Gettings seven years old 6638 Wales street was seriously In jured wnen sne was knocked to the pavement by a motorcycle driven by Law rence 3920 avenue vlzta and nrnblh for perfecting plans for tho useub chasers PRICE: THREE CENTS "I'rom the rom Work A mysterious fire that is believed to have started on the third floor of the at 113 115 Jefferson avenue shortly after 5 Thursday afternoon resulted in an estimated loss of $40000 The building is occupied by the Detroit Electric company dealers in radio equipment and as a store room for tho Detroit Knitting works Most of the damage was done tn the Detroit Electric company prop erty by water and smoke When the blaze was discovered tn alarm was sent In from Jeffer son and Woodward avenue which btought Battalion Chid Charles Hecht Engine companies Nos 1 9 ladder companies No 1 and Rescue company No and the fire boat James Battle Upon tho arrival of the firemen the flames were making rapid bend wav and Chief Becht Immediately sent In a wcohd alarm wh cl bt ought Chief Timothy Calla han Assistant Chief Stephen Dc Mav Battalion Chiefs Alfred Smith 'Moses Weingarden Engine companies No 6 8 1' Ladder com pany No 3 Rescue company No and the flrebcat James Elliott ire Commissioner Hayward Mnrphv came on the first alarm Quick work by the firemen soon brought the names under control view of liquid security and would have no betterjfrtandlng w(th the federal resr system He said that loans onjffhe certificates would Continued onJng Two Column our Intimates All Hi Plants May Have Share in Output of $348 Model Detroit ree Picm Bureau 302 Metropolitan Bank Bldg Washington Washington March Crowds Thursday morning witnessed the first showing of the new Durant Star car which will be manufact ured in quantity by the different Durant factories The new car will sell for $318 acclaimed by local dealers as a phenomenally low rrlcp 4 Duraffi officials say the car will be shown in Michigan soon Durant president of the corporation arrived Thursday In a special car from New York accom panied by his executive assistants and magnates of companies which will make the standard parts qt tne car All Plants to Pnrtlclpatc Mr Durant did not say where car Is to be manuiacturco ttmnted that each of bls factories will participate in tlon The car If assembled down freight rates for each sales region Accompanying Mr Durant are: Judson president of Continental Motors company Detroit: A it Demory president of Timken Axle company Detroit Hayes of the Hayes wheel company Jack son Mich Warner former president of the Oakland Motor Car company: Mlnlger president of the Auto Lite company Toledo Portner president of the Portner Motor Car company New Yot distributors Carroll Downes vice president of the Durant com pany of New York Dally vice president of the Durant company of Indiana Hohensee president of the Durant company of New York Victor Von HchlegSH of the Spicer Manufacturing company Briggs of the Wilson Body company Detroit: A Stuart chief engineer of the Durant company of New York designer of the car Day and tx any general sales manager Uses Continental Red Senl Nothing radical Is disclosed the new model displayed hero the first time Thursday What is puzzling automobile men who have seen it Is how Mr Durant will manufacture the car according to the specifications revealed and mar ket it at as low a figure as the price he has named The new "Star" as it will be called is a five pas senger car to be equipped with Continental Red Seal motor Other equipment will include the disc clutch selective sliding transmis sion with three speeds forward and reverse Timken rear axle Timken btarings front and rear Internal and external brake bands Statistical Report on Seating Capacities Brings Tilts in Board Meeting Despite the confirmation several days ago by the mayor of the an nual school budget members of the board of education In session Thursday evening engaged in sharp clashes during a discussion of the statistician's report of seat ing capacities In schools for which the budget has provided additions Samuel Mumford Dr John Hall and rank Alfred were the principals In the discussion ln( which Mr Mumford asked the board's statistician If he believed the figures contained In his report had been "garbled" wq pay a statistician 45 100 a year we have a right to ex pect that his figures may be relied upon" was Dr Hall's reply to the question Mr Alfred took Isiuo with Dr recent statement criticising the statistician's report Dr Hall contended that "the proper place to present these figures is be for the council" He declared'kthero are nearly 500 ematy seats rin these schools and that it the children of Hamtramck were sent home there would be 1000 The doctor asserted there is an over load In only two schools and that if the boundaries were shifted there would be room for all Mr Mumford appealed to Super intendent rank Cody to say wheth er those figures were true The statistician was called and report ed that the figures in Ills report In cluded the seats In the auditorium of which only about 80 are In use at a time Mr Alfred asserted that in No 3 district In which the Moore school is situated there is an overhead of 238 pupils Twenty basement rooms weto used In the district he 1'ontlnneil on age Two Column oor Police Make Rounds of The atrical Booking Agencies The rounds of Detroit theatrical booking agencies were made last iiik'bl by police searching for Thelma Hancock 15 years old whoft her home at Ypsilanti JVednes fiay and has not been seen since The girl left a note to her father laying sho was joining a theatrical umpany playing at the Stratford theater 4751 Dlx avenue River Runge She has not been seen there ro(ice turned to booking ugrneles thinking jtho might a position througt one' of them But she had visited none A man by the name of Brown ihouglit to be a member of a the ntil a troupe had written tho girl mying he would at the Mratford theater Police believe lie misinterpreted his note think ing him to bo manager of the the ater and that through him she could Linln a position Baker manager of tho theater declared last night that Brown has no con itecllon with the He also rltsclared he never had heard of the girl nor offered her a position The girl is described as being five leet thro Inches tall and weighing 14) pounds She has gray eyes and brown bobbed hair She was woar green coat with a fur collar and a blue and grey hat when she vu Smoke Pouring rom Volcano Allen Me Clellan at 5:30 Thursday Iter skull waa fractured The ac cident occurred at the corner of Har per and Sheridan avenues On her way to a nearby store the chllil stepp'd off the curb and was struck on the head by the han dlebar of the machine as It was swerved In attempt to miss the youngster She was taken to Receiving hospital Allen was taken to tho Chcne street police station where he was released after making a statement Miss Katherine Cosgrove 21 years old 710 PetorbOro street was run over by an automoblio and slightly Injured white running across the street near hor home to catch a street car Thursday She was taken home by Arthur Jones 456 East Lewiston avenue driver of the automobile Her ankle wns sprained and she was slightly bruised MILLION DOLLAR 1IALLROOJI DANCING TONIGHT Adm 2O 8OC THE GHAYHTONE 4235 Woodward bet Willis and Can field Harmony Adv GRAND INAL HANCE Palais do Danse championship rI Adv Arc Un Rending tkc Hiiok Reviews! If not you are missing a ral op portunity to keep up with tho neg books These appear every Satur day In The ree Tress as well an every Sunday In the Magazine Sec tion Comptroller Says Certificates for Vets Under Present Plan Are "rozen IIY ARTHVR SEARS HENNING Special to The ree Press and Chicago Tribuns Washington March Despite criticism by Comptroller of the Currency Crfsslnger of the bank loan feature of the bonus bill Republican house leaders went forward Thursday with their plans to push' the measure through with out further changes The full ways and means committee is scheduled to meet on Saturday to takejonnal action Comptroller Crisstngar In an In terview sc rvlco eligible reserve Mr Crlsslnger said that he would advise all national banks to refuse to accept the certificates as col lateral as they would constitute the ort kind of frozen credits They would be he said thre year non negotiable securities which would not be eligible for rediscount by federal reserve banks and their ac ceptance as collateral would load up the banks for three years with exactly the reverse of liquid se curities He declared that the adjusted BY LOVELACE Contrlbutlnf Hnanrlai Ed 'lor I Of the $750000000 stolen annually by bucket shops anl fraud ulent jifonioters the latter make much the greater haul This has been experience certainly or every dollar lost through houses like Raymond White Sugarman and Dier 10 or more dollars has been stolen by promoters of the Sinkula and Goldberg type raudulent promoters steal much more than bucket shops be cause they can work a much wider field and it is not always so easy to distinguish between a good promotion and a bad one as it is to distinguish between the honest brokerage house and the hi trier sllOD The field of bucket shop ope rations is more or less limited to people who think they know something about the and How little they know about cither cotild'not be more clearly shown than by their choice of a bucket shop to handle their dealings The buck et shop's methods of attracting INISH BATTLE Crissinger Will Warn ON COAL WAGE Banis On BonLoans MJH1I1D VDRintn companies coining on the sec alarm returning back to their llntin wtfhtn hart time Virtftnn wnrlrrrfl Ufprn in 110 htilld Ing when the fire was discovered anti all mado the street In safety Thousands of persons followed the fire companies down Woodward avenue and within a few minutes Jefferson avenue and Hates street were crowded It Is estimated 10 000 saw the fire Inspector Harry Jackson of the traffic squad and a big detail of men from the traffic squad and from headquarters es tablished fire linos II Kittle Co building at 109 Jefferson avenue tuid Royce I'assamore 119 Jefferson avenue were slightly damaged by water and smoke It was after 7 o'clock before tho last companies relumed to the stations Another fire Thursday drovo M0 workers from the factory of the Jenks A Muir Manufacturing com pany G441 Hastings street The biaze which originated on the top floor of the four story structure la believed to have been caused by short circuited rlectrln wires Tho damage was estimated at $2000 A fire causing small damage started In the bnsetnmit of the store of Dark 1 McKay Co 311 Bagley avenue al Tnursoay wis soon extinguished CTtNllttlli Mill WOftfv can bo secured quickly from Rest rick Certified Lumber Call West Adv NO HAM ARCADIA TONIGHT Hall rented Dancing tomorrow afternoon and night Adv NAVAL TREATY REPORT STATES Eager to Interview Girl Who He Believes May Shed Light on Case CaleflonlA Mills March 9 Apparently angered at the stub bornneM of tho Anttgonlsh ghost who has thus far refused to make his acquaintance Dfc waiter ranklin Prince New York scien tist and director of the American institute of scientific research de clared eomowhat testily tonight that lie would "stay on the Job jmtll he found out ThU Is the statement attributed to the physician by Dan McOltvray who live near the Alex MacDonald home reputed residence of the Elmer Douglas superintendent ghost and one of the witnesses of I Of tho Conway Brief companw a the mysterious liras and knotted printery as ho was seated at the cattle tails which were attributed inJn tri to JU activities McOUvray was also lndow 01 hlB home lull authority for the reported declare 1 Baldwin avenue tlon 'of the scientist that "this lap Business associates of Douglas ontlnued on Two folomn Two I appeared at headquarters and de manded Immediate action offering whatever assistance they might be able to give and declared they would make personal Investigations today TIDPUn UfiD PTTV rom UnUiJV rUn vll I nnf8" I from behind tho curtains of an auto I mobile which speeded away as the a rt' 11 fe" Pence are satisfic'd the A Dmitn CnlCOgO lell bullet was fired with intent to kill at urniture Show of Wayg The machine was driven front the i neighborhood before anyone secured to Beautify Detroit ilfene or obtained a good de scription After dinner the Douglas family went to the living room to spend the refnainder of the evening before retiring Douglas took his favorite eeey chair nar the front window Mrs Douglas was seated near him and across the room was couple's ten year old Douglas Jtad lighted was reading a paper Shades At ere The shades had not been pulled down and Mrs Douglas noticed I through the thin curtains an auto mobile iTasa up and down In front "Somu means of rapid transit at the house several times She must be installed Detroit continue nnrth anil nf ha "Unless this Is accomplished the I until the near tragedy vividly re 61 a I i It 14 mm 4 1 nuiui urcuvu vi Rfllarnt fn the will become an apartment district" I flrad police say The bullet struck A Gushing Smith of the Chi I Douglas In the right shoulder His cago Institute of Art thus touched I half surprised half pained cry min brieflr unon the transit situation gled with the sound of the shot In Detroit before several thousand He slumped to the floor as bls ife people assembled In Arcadia hall and son sprang up In alarm Thursday evening at the first an nual urniture ashion show In Knows of No lnemles Detroit He took for his subject Both ran to him to learn the ex "The City lan of tent of his Injury When Mrs Mr Smith voiced approval of the Douglas discovered blood flowing street widening plans and from his wound she dispatched the North Woodward avenue art I Richard tor a physician and herself center as site for the I notified the police Dr memorlal hall I pe rance 7638 Kercheval avenue an "Tho widening of narrow streets swered the summons and had Doug Is essential to the growth of any las taken to the Evangelical Dea Il vw city" he said "If congestion hospital There it was Is too great business Is throttled reported Ute Thursday night that and cannot expand Detroit what I Douglas would recover may be termed a street city In Mrs Douglas declared she and her that Woodward avenue Is the main husband had no enemies thoroughfare from one extremity of The bullet is believed to have Continued ou Pose Two Column Three been fired from a Urge calibre re volver It cut a clean small hole as through both the window glues and Charge Chicagoan curuln With Slaying IVifel SEES SHORT SKIRT DETROIT MICHIGAN RIDAY MARCH 10 122 PAGES Separate State Agreements Loom Despite Denial of Mine Head Indianapolis March (By the Associated Hope of avert ing a nation wide strike of soft coni miners April 1 rests with tho rnal operators of western Penney! vanla Ohio Indiana and Illinois accepting the appeal of Secretary of Labor Davis tor a wage confer ence of operators and miners ac cording to the statement here Thursday night of President John Lewis of the United Mine Work ers of America The unUn Lewis declared ie ready tn meet operators of the four states which comprise the central vompetHive field at time and puce Says Declaring eHv frrence Lewis added: "Up to this time we have failed to bring the poratnrs into a conference and the only thing wo can hope for now that the government at Wash ington may bring sufficient pressure bear on these operators to com pel them to meet us as they agreed thrv would Siml offirlal returns of the strike tote now being cast by the miners inntlnued to be reported by district union officials arriving here fdr conferences with the International executive board These reports It was said authoritatively forecast nine tenths of the miners In favorf the walkout unless an agreement li reached The official canvas of the vote will not begin for a week cnnsy Operators Balk Pittsburgh March 9 The Pltts nrgh Coal association it hose members employ 45000 union miners in the western Penn ylvanla bituminous field Thursday tnitprufAd thfiir (Ititermf not to meet the United Mine Workersf America and operators of the acntral competitive field for the pur pose of fixing a new wage for restern Pennsylvania Ohio Indl tna and Illinois "Our decision has been reached will deal with our own men in western Pennsylvania union or union on" a working agree ment with exception of tho check off hut we will not be a party to a scale for Ohio Indiana and Illinois tur decision Is Irrevocable "This practice of wage making means national officers of the Inlted Mine Workers of America with representatives from Illinois Indiana Ohio: and western Pennsylvania meet with the rep resentatives of operators of this district and negotiate a wage scale fur them The organlation then used this wage scale as a base lintlnued on Page Two Column ive STAGRSTRUGKYPSI GHOSr IS SHY BUT PRINCE IS GOING TO STICK Miami la March An lndlet ment charging Edgar rady of Chicago with first degree murder for the death of bls wife Dorothy rady whom he shot twice at their hotel at Miami ueacn on ro ruary 28 was returned by the grand Man About to Start 25 Year lury ThUfdy Term Score Style I 1 Special to The re Prm an4 Chicago Bucket Shop Is Piker Charles Lasher sentenced a nbp Prnmnfpr DvulUU Urvvl i Court Justice Morschauser on his pica of guilty to the charge of at tempted assault upon several Vassar girls wm taken to prison Thursday raudulent Schemers Obtain 10 Times the suited In the reination of more young men than short skirts" said Amount Brokers Get fisher as he was departing tor AIIlUUlll VllcaiUlg ututvtto vava Ossining "Eliminate them and ymt wlll be removing one of tho grean menaces to society It will probably It may be that I am weaker than thatmaV mayJjuTfo Toni lawsi are as they are and women Msoon'be beMnOdson ar many women who do I not wear them so short as to at fKVm who seem to pride themsIves on and rnot get nested they WtA? tore every Meir respecting man win have hlmaelf fitted with Hot Debate Keeps Senate loor in Turmoil During Entire Afternoon Washington March Charg ing that the four power Pacific treaty resulted from a Japanese British plan to offset the embar rassing effect of the Anglo Japan ese alliance opponents of the pact rought without success In the sen ate Thursday to learn exactly by whom lhe original draft of tho document was prepared Both of the representa tives on the arms conference dele gation Senators Lodge of Massa chusetts and Underwood of Ala bama declared In reply to direct questions that tho delegation head Secretary Hughes had conducted most of the negotiations loading up to the treaty Mr Lodge said had helped In the drafting and that he did not know who made the first suggestion Mr Underwood asserted that the first draft he saw was the'flnal one laid before him by Secretary Hughes Replies to Robinson The statements of the two senate leaders were made In reply to a series of questions by Senator Rob inson Democrat Arkansas who told the senate when the cross tlonlng was overthat although "we know and will never find out 4rom any authentic source who wrote tne first uratt ne was in clined to believe that the finished product resulted from the Joint labors of Arthur Balfour for Great Britain and Prince Tokbga wa for Japan He assailed the treaty as an "alliance" and predict ed it would do more harm than Senator Inquiry Into the origin of the four power Idea was a part of a field day of debate which kept the senate floor In tur moil all afternoon Appearing in full force tho opponents kept the floor throughout the ses sion except for the explanatory statement of Senators Lodge and Underwood In the midst Of? th attack the' senate recessed 'until riday whan: the "Irreconcllahlcs" again are expected to take the of fensive Broadsides against the pact were delivered by both Senator Robinson and Senator Reed Democrat Mis souri while Senators Borah Re publican Idaho Johnson Republi can California Shields Democrat Tennessee Watson Democrat Georgia and others joined In with suggestions which struck at sev eral of the conference treaties The next extended response from ths treaty supporters Is expected Sat urday when Senator Underwood plans to take the floor with a pre pared address explaining the pur pose and results of the pact Robinson I'lajs Psct Arguing that the pledges more than claimed for by Its proponents Senator Robinson called attention to the Provision against discussion of "domestic questions" under the treaty classes end asked why it was necessary to make this exemntlnn If "nntliliij but conversation" was provided for between the four signatories He declared that other three pow ers regarded the treaty as an alli ance and predicted that tho United States would have to do likewise In any future war where Great Britain Japan and rance joined forces against an outside nation The "no reservation pre sented by the foreign relations com mittee Senator Robinson asserted would not be sufficient to protect tho interest of this country He asked for amendment of the treaty text itself in two particulars HIT BYHrNDrEBAR GIRL 1 NAY DIE if the people Of believed the occupants were on to live In the deavorlng tojocato a house number and Sve no further thought tft It Detroit directly called It to mind business section It was from this car the ehot was i ISaOk'iL an A 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