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APRIL 2l 19J2. WP VT'TIT'T? fat. KTrnnT and tnpt LVlIlljli M.OWI.Y lUaJN'J TCMI'KKATl fci COAL MINERS WANT CONGRESS TO END STRIKE TWO VIEWS OF FLOOD IN PEORIA, ILLINOIS. TRIANGULAR" DEBATE OF COAL STRIKE LEADS TO SUGGESTION THAT PRESIDENT HARDING ACT RUSSIA AGREES TO TERMS ON FOREIGN DEBT SUMMER MILLINERY. New Turk, April 21 S.ind color mil bright emerald i will be the prevailing shade in ttomrn'a mid-aummcr and (all millinery.

These two colors have just been selected by the Metropolitan Iiisplay Men's club ai the ones to le featured in retail store throughout the country ami shown In display windows here nt the summer millinery opening on May 2d. They were chosen from a group of 12 colors suggested by the Tritile Color Association of America. Murray Presents Union Side; Watkins for Operators. GARFIELD FOR PUBLIC Jk (j vf I 1- i Sea.ll"sii 1 I i I -Tp Russo-German Treaty No Longer In Controversy. CONFERENCE GOES ON Soviet Representatives Show Conciliatory Attitude.

Genoa. April 21. (By the Associated Press! The Economic Conference to-day made a gTeat stride forward. The elimination cf the Rosso (Jcrman treaty from me TOiiinnrr, nun iiussia 11 ceptanoe of the Allied conditions concern- i ing foreign debts and confiscated property of foreigners, produced a very def- inite hope thnt the greatest congress Ku- ropean statesmen ever had attended will accomplish something real and tangible for the reconstruction of Europe, including Russia. The demands of the powers which have been accepted include lhe waiving by Russia of her counter-claims, bused on military intervention; recognition of war debts to the governments, with the un derstanding that they will be considerable I scaled down recognition of debts and i financial obligations due to foreign nationals and the riant of foreigner to have confiscated property returned to them or be given proper compensation for it.

Soviet More Concilatory. The conciliatory nature of the Soviet government contributed to the optimism hat the Bolsheviki earnestly seek an ar-rangerumt with the powers by which Soviet Kussiu will be permitted to enter into the comity of nations. The clear and brief demand it Allies, which affords a concrete basis for discussion, are compared here by the observers to the concrete American proposals for naval limitation which was introduced nt the outset oftbo Washington conference and which cave the dele-states to the Washington (inhering an opportunity to concentrate discussion on some thins tangible and constructive. rONTIMTD ON PAGE 2. Id COM "MX.

REPUBLICANS TO CONFER ON BONUS PLANS 5i Washington. April 21 I By The Asso-cinted Press). Republicans of the Senate finance Committee will bold their tirst conference to morrow on the Soldiers Bonus bill passed last month bv the House. Chairman McCumber said' to-day there would be a general discus non of the whole subject, adding it was! loo early to undertake to say what form I the bill finally would take. The North 1 hi kola senator made, known Ins opposition to the plan sug- gested recently by some Republimn sena tors of attaching the bonus bill to the pending tariff measure.

He said also that he was not fmorably discd to! 'any plan of financing the bonus with' certificates of indebtedness, but declared that cveu this was preferable to any proposition calling for added taxation. It is Senator -Met 'umber's idea that the bill reported to the Senate should contemplate a minimum of expenditure in the year lie regards the Hons bill as entailing too great a drain on the Federal treasury at the slart. Chairman McCumber said be waa COLD WAVE. Watertown, April 21. A cold wave prevailed throughout northern New York lust night, the official minitrum temperature in this city being 21 degrees.

Little damage to fruit la eipected aa buds are not far enough advanced to be seriously affected. RECOGNITION FOR OBREGON UNDERREYiEW Senator King Insists Mexico Protect Americans. AND PAY $500,000,000 Favors International Tribunal to Fix Damages. By Oraftsa ft. Special Dispatch to Democrat and Chronicle Washington, April 21, Strong protest against recognition of the Obregna government in Mexico until it affords adequate, protection to American lives and property end agrees to pay damages aggregating Jjt.inl,Ml.(n was voiced in the Senate to-day by Senator King, l'tah.

Senator King advocated drastic measures by the Harding administration to compel payment of American claims for damages. He declared that President Harding should set up an international tribunal to fix the amount of damages Mexico should pay. The seizure of Slex-ican ports and American control of customs receipt, if other methods proved ineffective, is urged. 1,000 Americans Killed. Senator King estimated that 1.0O0 Americans, men, women and children have been murdered in Mexico.

He stated that, all hough the Republicans bad freely criticised the Wilson policy of "watchful waiting" they had failed to solve the Mexican problem. am free to confess," said Senator King, in addressing the Senate, "that Mr. Wilson attributed to the Mexican people a degree of advancement to which they were not entitled. I believe he was CiiXTtM KD ON 2, 3d COM MN. Japan Gradually Getting Back to Normal Conditions Washington.

April -1 Japan is gradually getting bock to normal, Commercial Attache Butts at Tokio declared in reports made public to-night hy the Commerce llepartnient. The expected recession in prices and living costs bus begun, he said, bank rates have been raised and tighter money is bringing about dertufion. The simk market is dull and declining and tins development, he asserted, would do more to bring into line with the gciier.il world IcvpI of prices and cost of production than any single condition. Congressman Fairchild Married. Washington, April I'l.

Representative Benjamin Fairchild of the Twenty-fourth New York district: was married here to-day to Miss F.imor Parsons, of Yonkers. The ceremony wat performed at the hotel suite of John N. P.jrsons, of Yonkers, the bride's father. LADY ASTOR WANTSWOWAN TO CAST VOTE Viscountess Maintains Home Comes Before Politics. DEFENDS PROHIBITION Distinguished British Visitor Dislikes Spiritualism.

New York, April 21. (By the Associated Tress.) Lord and Lady Astor went to the theater to-night for their first amusement since their arrival from England on Wednesday. To-morrow they depart for Baltimore where Lady Astor, first woman member of Parliament, is to address the Pan-American conference of women. This wus another busy day for the Via-1 countess, most of the time she remained I indoors at the home of her sister, Mrs. Charles iNina Cibson, who waa the artist's model for the famous "(jibson Girl." There she received reporters, photographers and social callers, she answered many letters also and then went for a walk.

Home Be'ore Politics. In her interview. Lady Astor made clear her opinion thnt home should come first with a woman and then politics, which, she believed all of her sex should enter, at least to the extent of voting intelligently. She paid she considered leaching children the most important I thing in the world. Learning that Lord Balfour had ae- 1 cepted an Earldom, she said the only rea- sou he did so was because he bad be- I i come too old to labor in the House.

Jocosely, she remarked that nobodv in his right, mind would enter the House of Lords and turning to her husband, with the query: Would they, my Lord?" Lord Astor shook his. head smilingly. defending prohibiten Lady Astor said. "let. the rich drink if they want to, it would hurt no one but themselves.

"She CONT1NI El O.N VM.K 2, 2d COLVMN. JOLLY MUSIC FOR PULLMAN CAR JOURNEYS Chicago, April 21. Life on a Pullman car, especially on a long journey, is not to be so monotonous hereafter. Tired passengers will not be required to amuse themselves with the dubious "best sellers" tiurveyed bv the trair butcher, The Pullman Company discovers that among its hundreds of porters, there is lent of black mamies, cotton plantations; anil mellow moons. The first singing quartette of Pull-; man porters will leave Chicago to-morrow afternoon over the Monnn route traveling! ith cars tlvit carry Knights Templar to New Orleans.

Miners Willing to End Strike if Congress Renews '20 Award. New York. April 21. The coal miners, will declare the strike off and return to work, pending negotiations of a new agreement, if Congress will pass a joint resolution or bill applying the Bituminous Coal Commission's award of 1920 to all soft coal operations, Philip Murray, vice-president of the United Mine Workers of America declared at a debate on the coal strike to-night. Another requirement for the end of the controversy he said, would be a recommendation to President Harding to call a national conference of the representatives of all operators and mine workers to negotiate a new agreement.

Regulation of Production. He also recommended aa a permanent policy for regulating production and stabilizing the industry, the appointment of "a representative, technical and official commission nrgi with the duly ol collecting and analyzing all the facts and with the making of sound and appropriate iiinstructive remmmendations." The subject debated was "what lies back of the coal strike and what lies ahead." Mr. Murray presented the miners' side of the controversy and Thomas 11. Watkins, president of the Pennsylvania Coal ami Coke Company the operators' viewpoint. The public's attitude was interpreted by Harry A.

Garfield, president of Williams College, who was national coul administrator nnder former I'rewident Wilson, and by Uobert W. Bruere, director of the Bureau of Industrial research. Mr. Murray's suggestions were offered as a solution of the problem of the future contim r.n rAC.B 2, tn colcmn. CHURCH WOMEN GET CARILLON OF 25 BELLS Washington, April 21.

(By the Associated Presal The apienl of the women of the church of Our Lady of (xJ Voyage of (Gloucester, whose congregation is made up for the most part of fisher of Portuguese descent In humble oireijiisianees, to save the Carrillon of bells was answered today hy the I Tollse, lor tears they struggleI lo raise a fund for purchase of the church tnusi -a! of their ancestors. The carillon of bells, a church institutiou in their native land, tun not manufactured in America so they sent abroad. The carillon with its 2o bells with keyboard attachment, arrived recently but the ctinsregnt ion's joy was wiped out by (he new's that the government demanded pn inert of duty ninounring to $1,000. Soinelsuly remembered that the famous chimes in Sr. Michael's Church.

Charleston. S. and the bells of Trinity Church. Philadelphia, had come in duly free Act of Congress. To get the hells lhe Ciuuoe.ster church would have been forced to pay on a ruling of metal, or musical instruments, lhe latter the higher.

Kepres.uitulive Lukin. Republican, Massachusetts, now retired, proposed the carillon be admitted free, and when the bill finally came up to-day the House chimed its approval. Pboto by t'nderwuod ft I'ndorwuod. Two view of the flood which caused loss of life and thousands of dollars damage in Peoria. 111.

The flowing over of the lllinnia rivur al swept Beurdstown and Irvington. 111., (weeping houses and people from its path. The flood reached its crest on Sunday, Aprit ltith with the water 24.8 feet above the low water mark. Records which go back to the early sixties have not touched this mark. The previous record was feet on March 2'X Photograph shows lon'lopi the lower wagon bridge of Peoria with the flood at its crest.

The water reached up to the ties of the railroad bridge shown on the left. Photograph shows (bottom the main street of Tcoria, looking up from the water front. Note the truck in the foreground i' is over the railroad tracks. hopeful that a plan of financing an unusual iihundjnce of musical talent, debt could be worked out but he vug and has conceived the idea of organizing, bonus by use of part of the refunding ijuarteites from ainottg these colored bovs. i gestetl no details.

After meals and while the bertha are With the American lebt Refunding being made, these ipinrtettes will render; Commission ready for business, a nam- a number of vocal lections and guitars, ber of senators hone that at least part 'and other instruments may be added to I of the new British bonds can be in the; the equipment. Fretful children will be handa of the government about the time; lulled to sleep by crooning lullabvs, redo-. PAN-AMERICAN WOMEN GREET BRITISH GUEST Uplift Features All Day's Sessions of Congress. Baltimore, April 21 (By The Associated Prescl. Iplift, industrial, soeiu! and, moral, was the ke note of both sessions of the Pan-American Conference to-day Men and women from many parts of the world presented their views of the status of women in relation to these questions and almost wiihout exception the speakers expressed their conviction thnt the I'nited Stales must lead the way to social as well as industrial reform.

At the afternoon session, Mrs. Kine-line Punkliurst. who arrived unexpectedly and ntio spoke as president of the Social Hvgiene movement in Canada, was given an ovation both before and after she spoke. Mrs. Paukhurst declared the world stood urgently in need of both so cial and moral reform and she declared that stringent, legislative enactment should be obtained to stop the trnhV in human lives.

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Has acre. the game, i will be toned the page, ol rfy'. PoMM-rat and I hrenirl. STATE TO END GREAT WASTE 0FHERW00DS Destructive Lumbering Must Go In New York. I i Syracuse, April 111.

'By the Associ-'ated Press). Questions relating to forest management in New York stale, and pun jticularly to forest problems on which recommendations have lieen aked ny the I'nited States r'm-e-t Service, were is-! eitsscd today by members- cf lhe New York slate section the American Kor- estry Association, in session here in connection with the convention of the Inter I collegiate Association of Forestry nubs 'and lumbermen of tiie I niled Slates ami" Canada. Officials of lhe organization to-day declined to divulge these results of tile 1I1S- 'cussions, which were behind closed doors, but they asserted their reenmmeudaf ions will be adopted the future forestry policy of New York state. It was learned, however, the foresters' Society i will recommend some form of state super-i vision of all forest resources in this state in order slop what was characterized ias "an appalling waste" through destructive timbering in the state, Profeseor Itulph Hosnier. bead of the I CONTINl'KD ON 1-AtiB i.

5th Ct'Ll'M. ORPHAN GIRL ENDS LIFE IN FEAR OF LAW Buffalo. April 21. Fear that she 'would be returned to a state institution i caused Mildred Wheeler, of New York, an orphan, year old, to take poison with fatal effect to day. The girl was i brought here from the state training i school at Hudson a ago.

I When accused of a trifling of-i fen.se and threatened with recommitment to the school. Miss Wheeler rushed to i her room and swallowed poison, aecord-1 ing to statements made lo the police. SIR AUCKLAND SEES DAWN OF WORLD PEACE Britain's Ambassador! Cheers Pilgrim Society. New York, April 21. (By the Associated Press i International problems once "as black as thunderclouds" have disappeared and the outlook for world peace and proswrity clearer.

Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambassador, declared to-night in a sieech Itefore the Pilgrim Siwiety in the Plaza Hotel. "It is not uninteresting to recall," said Sir Auckland, "that when last I bad the honor to address you, the topics of Anglo-American interest, which I selected for refirenoe were oil, naval shipbuilding and Ireland. I think we may say that none of these topics now calls for discussion as live international issue likely to affect prejudicially the good relations of the British Km pi re and the I'nited States." Lack of Differences. Remavkinc that the lack of an difference "though diplomatically most gratifying, is oratorically moet hampering." The Ambassador said he did nt dare enter info competition with some writers who had descrbed the recent treaty-making in "They have told us," he 'aid, "all about CONTlMTl on r.u;K -tin rou OSBORN WILL STUDY JAILS OF HELLENES Syracuse, April 21. Thomas Mott Os-i born.

Billionaire prison reform worker' and organizer of the Mutual Welfare League at Auburn prison has received an invitation from the ueen of Gree-e to tour that country and make a study of the prisons. He will sail for England in June and from there will take a ship for tlreece. the bonus measure finally is by Congress. Senator MeCmuber said he had not yet discussed the bonus legislation with President Harding and lmd no present plans to do so, but that he might take the matter up with the President later. SENATOR WADSWORTH WONDERS OHIO DOES NOT IMITATE NEW YORK AND BUILD BARGE CANAL D.

A. R. CONGRESS VOTES FOR EXAMINATION OF ALL HISTORY TEXT BOOKS USED IN SCHOOLS Washington. April 21 -(By The Associated Press I Ohio members of the House appeared le'fore the Senate Appropriations Committee to-day tt urge an intreac in tlte Army Appropriation bill peremitting snrvevs to be completed nn the various suggested mutes for a barge canal connecting the t'hio river with either Lake Prle or Lake Michigan. Practically all the fund sought for the purpose were whittled off the appropriation be the Budget Bureau ami the House and the delegation asked that about be put in the bill 'o complete the ecrveys.

Members of the delegation which was headed by Hepresentatite Thmpsn, ai-gued as they hud before the House committee, which considered the same bill, that the improvement which they sought was a national and not a state or district (proposition. Mr. Thompson asserted that most of the states enst of the Mississippi river as far south as Tennessee would benefit directly from such canal and declared that to complete the survey was to give fb Congress the information it i must have before deciding the question. Washington. April Ul I By The Associated Press.

An investigation of all history text books in use in the public schools of the I'nited States will be made by the Committee on Patriotic Kducati.m by the laughters of the American Kevo-lution by a rwsVution adopted unanimously at to-day's session of the thirty-first Continental Congress. Resolutions also were adopted by the Congress pledging the various chapters of the societv to have each daughter plant a tree and the chapters to conduct tree drives ami indorsing the proposed restoration of Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of the family of tieorge Washington, in England. The society has also to co-operate with the American Leg. on and the National Kdticatimui! Association during educational week. Protest against 'lewd and immoral" motion pictures was made in a made, but not led 1 on to-day.

A supplemental rt submitted by Mrs. Livingston Hunter, chairman or the credentials committee showed that the voting strength of the thirty first congress is or 1U3 more than Inst jeer. A communication from Mrs. Warren C. Harding, indorsing the proposed I aro-tioe Scott Harrison memorial was read joseussion or me canal proposal orougnr into tue oi-scusmoo me acuwn oi otrrr states which have constructed canals within their border out of their own funds and caused Senator Wadsworh.

Republican. New York, to observe that New York had built, its own barge canal and to ask whether Ohm bad given thought to such a program- He received no direct answer eicept a reiteration that the Ohio project was considered of more than state wide importance and should be devel- I oped by the Federal government..