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THE WEATHER BINGHAMTON PRE The Binghamton Press Has the largest circulation of iny newspaper in fhe States which Is published 1" CX tm) of Uinghamton. SS AND LEADER CITY EDITION JANUARY 7, 1924 TWENTY-TWO PAGES BB EJ BIB urn mits ins mm SMI Kill IF1SEIII III MASS OF BILES Bok Peace Award Is to Be Submitted to National Referendum Plan 1469 Contemplates Immediate Entry Into World Court and Future Cooperation; Under Reserva-1 tions, with the League of Nations i hi IDENTITY OF PLAN'S New Vork, Jan. 7 (United Press) Beginning today the American people will have their first opportunity to vote directly on the question of whether the United States should through the agencies of the existing Fanatical Savages Pour Over Border, and Sur- round City of Batang, While Chinese Garri sons and Civil Authorities Flee, Leaving Residents at Mercy of Invading Hordes; Assistance Declared Impossible for Weeks Throughout the nation a poll will begin on Plan 1469, announced as ihe winner of the Edward W. Bok 5100,000 prize for the best possible plan "to maintain International peace. The winning plan was selected from 22,165 plans submitted to an eminent jury headed by Elihu Root.

Name of the author will not be made public until after a referendum which starts throughout the nation today and ends early next month. He already has received $50,000 and will be given an additional J30.000 if the plan receives public approval In the referendum. BELEAGUERED TOWN IS IN WESTERN 1 CHINA, 1,500 MILES FROM PEK1N Pekin, Jan. 7 (United Press) Ten Americans are sur- rounded by Tibetan bandit hordes in the City of Batang, in west ie.ni Sze Cbuan. and are in imminent ncril of starvation, according The plan proposes immediate en-, try of the United States into the Permanent International Court of Justice and full cooperation of this country with the League of Nations under certain conditions.

In a statement making known t'he winning plan the jury of award, headed by Elihu Root, Baid: "The Jury of award realizes there Is no one way approach to world peace, and that it is necessary to recognize not political, but air; clear to partly clondr tmiiclit and Tuesday; colder tonight. TRICE THREE CENTS The Americans who are h-ft be hind, facing death from starvation. or captured by tha Tibetan hordes are, Mr. and Mrs. M.

11. Duncan and son; Mr. and Mrs. M. H.

Hardy and three sons, all of the Foreign Christian Mission society: and Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Morse of the United Christian Mission.

Batang, where Americun mission aries are reported surrounded by Tibetan bandits, is in the cxtretna western part of China, a few miles from the mountainous frontier of Tibet. It lies some 1,000 miles west-southwest ot Pekln, In an iso lated part ot the Sze Chuan prov ince. If the Chinese garrisons along tho Tibetan border at this point havo fled, as reported, tho missionaries have been left in dire peril, for th ferocious Htle flat-faced brown men from the hills are among the most feared of the East bandits. Defending their own country and denying entry to all foreigners with, an unparalleled religious ferocity, tho Tibetan hordes are 'almost savages when they resort to sorties Into neighboring China. Short In stature, seldom reaching height of more than five feet six Inches, the Tibotan tribesmen arn wiry and strong, fierce fighters, both afoot and on tho tough litle moun tain ponies on which they make their raids.

They aro merciless tr captives and notoriously without regard for women and children. ONE OF FIVE ESCAPING FROM GIRLS' HOME DIES OF EXPOSURE Philadelphia. Jnn. 7 (Unilerl the mountains to her home, here, police were Informed today. The girls escaped Thursday." and separated at once, each miking for their homes.

Four of them wern recr.pt ured. but the Swanson girl jnnd Goldie Broadiiil. struck over mountains and evaded search. A Birl by the roadside and took her to a mountain settlement, where she died i 1 1 been found. HAVES HAS HOLLYWOOD STAGE OVER SHOOTING Jan.

7 Ti'w I nil vwnnrt' motion nlrtm i c())o'ny awaipd todajr tho first move of Will II. Hays, "czar of the films," In the situation growing out of the shooting here New Tear's night of Courtland S. Dines by the chauffeur of Mabel Normand. Reports from the Good Samaritan hospital, where both Dines and Miss Normand are patients. Indicated to I to reports to the American legation here.

Other foreigners arc likewise trapped. The savage Tibetans poured over the border Into China, recently, tha report stated, and surrounded the walled City of Batang, burning and loot Ing all surrounding towns. Chinese garrisons of the district fled, or had disappeared shortly be fore the appearance of the savages, and assistance Is declared to be Impossible for weeks. Civil officials of Batang fled. MONDAY EVENING, AUTHOR CONCEALED cooperate in effecting world peace League of Nations and World Court.

submit its long established policy concerning questions regarded by it as purely American to the recommendation or decision of other powers. Xo Military or Kconomlc Force. The only kind of compulsion which nations can freely engage to apply to each other in th ename of peace is that which arises from conference, from moral judgment, from full publicity, and from the power of publio opinion. The United States will assume no under -ArtitUe itn lion. The United States proposes that Article and- XVI be either dropped altogether or so amended and changed as to eliminate any suggestion of a general agreement to use coercion for obtaining conformity to the pledges of the covenant, No Obligations Under Versailles Treaty.

The United States will accept no responsibilities under tho Treaty of Versailles unless in any particular caso Congress has authorized such action. League Open io Ail Nations. The United States government proposes that Artlclo 1 of the covenant be construed and applied, or. if necessary, redrafted, so that ad- mission to the League shall be as- i sured to any self-governing state that wishes to Join and that retelves ino laioranie vote or two-uilros of the Assembly. I Ieelopnient of International Law.

I As a conditioa of its participation in the work and counsels of the League, the United States asks that the Assembly and Council consent or obtain authority to begin collaboration for the revision and development of international law, employing for this purpose the aid of a commission of Jurists. This commission would be directed to formulate anew existing rules of the law of nations, to reconcile divergent opinions, to consider points hitherto inadequately provided for but vital to the maintenance of International Justice, and in general to define the social rights and duties of slates. The recommendations of the commission would be presented from time to time, in proper form for consldera. tlon, to the Assembly as to a recom-n ending if not a law-making body. (The full text 'of Plan H69 appears on Page 3 8.) RALLOT FROM THE BINGHAMTON PRESS.

Do you approve the win- Yes. nlng plan In substance? Put en on dotted line.) Name 1'leaso print Address City Slat Are you a voter? Stall promptly to TUB ASIf.lUCAX PEACK A AIIO 3IJ Mndlnon New York If you wish to express a fuller opinion also, please write to the American Peace Award. factors. The only possible pathway present form, or under Article XVI to International agreement with ref-jin its present form in the covenant, erence to these complicated and lor in its amended form as now pro-difficult factors is through mutual I posed, unless in any particular case counsel and cooperation which tho Congress has authorized such ac- VoL 45. So.

227. Swing by Democrats to Senator Underwood May Be Crystallized in Meeting of Chiefs in Capital, Says Mark Sullivan MEETINGS CALLED By MARK SULLIV.W. tconrrisht, 1921. by Tha New Tork Tribune. Inc.) Washington, Jan.

7 During the coming: two weeks there will be a of important political meetings. The first, on Tuesday night of this week, will be a number of Jackson Day meetings held simultaneously throughout the country. There will be one at Annapolis, under the patronage of Governor Ritchie, at which Senator Oscar Underwood and several other Democrats of national prominence will be present. At Columbus, Ohio, ex-Governor James M. Cox will Ispeak.

Thereafter, one week la 1 sill bo held in Washingto jf ennial meeting of the later, there ton the bi Democratic National committee, composed of ihe one hundred and women who form tno'iMctalTeaaer' ship of the party In the various states and territories. Democratic Tactions Active. All these meetings have purposes niher than the selection of the candidate for president. Nevertheless, it is certain that on the present occasion two groups will emerge one determined to put McAdoo over," the other determined to held Mc-Adno where he now is. r'or the moment the latter group lias rather the greater energy and activity, for it represents a.

very re-icnt meeting of minds on the part those who don't want to see McAdoo get the nomination. Until December the opposition to McAdoo was lukewarm in spirit and diffused among several possible candidates. Today the determination to liold McAdoo at his present strength 'ong. As to the candidate whom the opposition wants substitute tot McAdoo there is 'not yet complete agreement; but nearly every clement of the situation makes It Probable that during the coming ten days tho opposition to McAdoo will "Mile more or less openly on Senator i.rdcrwood as their choice. There will be other favorite son tfmdidatos, but the real Intention of i lie opponents of McAdoo will be to make the big light in the convention or I ndcrwuod.

McAdoo Has Nearly Majority. The determination Is to hold Mc-jldoo where he now is. And "whcJe 1cAloo now is" i8 somewhere be-7" 0 430 out. of the total 1,094 delegates. a majon that If Democratic, om.ntlons had the majority rule eouhl not be beaten.

For this Im j'pAoo friends adopt tL 'WC ''ule Tllclr ts Improb- J.r vo" own lnV ar who will the 9 tW thirdS is Si-ycar-old tradition of the For the termination on the part of McAdoo'- is wlth i their vuiigress are Prineinlft Ad acy th. honnVh Ht vote for of conditions tl'Vcours lhFro 7ni hf. lnn, cam- Kk imUur "nst an opponent, if his op- "tinw4 on Tb0) 1 no FOES HI! VOTES AGAItlST HEM; Wl II ir mean, of tl1fl us a fmhlr the Ilcpub- lrt would "Anting it as an of- ''inl -Democratic trinnim. Tfi rmm Overnight Features, in News of World Winning plan for F.dward Bok peace prize proposes the immediate entrance of the United States into (he permanent court of International justice and coop, eration with the League of Nations under specific conditions. Battleship Louisiana with seven men aboard, on the way from Philadelphia to Baltimore to be scrapped is abandoned by two tifgs in gale oft the Atlantic coast and is adrift or Premier Polnearc reelected la French Senatorial contests and Interprets the result as a vote of confidence In his government, Intensity of cold wave seems to have been broken temporarily bffl the weather bureau late last night promised only partial relief at least in the Kaslern section of the country.

Four deaths ace attributed to severe cold in Pittsburgh snl three persons are burned to death in Philadelphia In fires apparently started from ovorheated stoves. Administration discourages shipment of arms from the United States to the de la Huerta revolu tionary group in Mexico as against the policy of the Washington gov ernment. Govern'or General Leonard Wood declares he will welcome a congressional inquiry Into his ad. ministration of the Philippines. Comparison of the tax on mar rlcd persons without dependents under the Mellon proposal and the Democratic plan made public last night by Repreienlatlve Garner shows that the person with an Income of 16,000 a year will pay $75 under the Mellon plan and M0, according fo the Democratic pro-posal, Mr.

Garner says. Fire In St. Louis business dis trict causes an estimated loss of about 11,500.000, Bishop Freeman of Washing ton, p. In Chicago, declares that quibbling by churchmen about belief and creed i out of place in a world that calls for practical, every day religion. Marketing organizations ot farmers did more than $2,000,.

000,000 worth of business last year, reports to the Department of Agriculture show. National Commander Quinn of tho American Legion, in letter to representatives in Congress, accuses employers of compelling former service men employes to write letters opposing tho soldiers' bonus bill. Hiram Johnson, In Chicago, says that tho administration pol icy toward Mexico Is "intolerable from the moral standpoint." Alexander Mclklejohn, In Baltl more, declares that the American "college of tomorrow" will aban don the lecture system. Governor rinchot of Pennsylvania leads a band of pilgrims to the grave of Theodore Boosevell at Oyster Bay on tho fifth anni versary of his death. Condition of Vcnizelos, ho as stricken with heart attack, shows some Improvement, Athens dispatch soy.

RUSSIAN VILLAGERS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS ON CUSTOMARY DATE i Moscow, Jan, 7 (I nilrd Prc) Many of the older bourgeoisie and majority of Russia's millions of vil-I lagers celebrated Christmas today. I What with Christmas trees, presents, tolling of bells, and closing shops, tho scene was much fnore like tho conventional celebration of Christ a birtntlay than was that a fortnight ago. On that occasion, the new calendar put Into effect by the Soviet government, called for Christmas on Deo. 25, as in other countries. Many employes of Moscow firms took advantage of the opportunity to celebrate today.

DIRS OF APOPLEXY f.OTkrjorr. St. Jan. 1. (Atanrlalprf l-msiwqsoua fmrirr, ow jnm Ola, half brother of -ensremnn U'sllise frinpsey, una vi yui'ira ai via avwa ar.

Congress Today (By lulled Press.) I SENATK Senator Lodge to state administration's position on Russia. Senator Eorah to reply to him. HOUSE -Speeches on taxes, etc. Ways and means committee continues work on tax bill. Sophomore Class Quits School to Voice Protest Students in Virginia Military Institute 'Walk Out' at 1.30 A.

M. Lexington, Jan. 7. (Associated Press.) The entire sophomore class of the Virginia Military Institute is in Lexington, determined, according to its spokesmen, not to return to the campus while the school's present vigilance committee remains in power. The class, numbering 133 men, and including three members of the varsity football team, walked out about 1:30 o'clock this morning as a protest against a punishment imposed by the vigilance committee upon Thomas Crowder of Texas, one Of its memhers.

on rlmrcrA nf Iiot- rng: The waitw it' mnv i the culminating incident of lone standing differences between sophomore and senior classmen over the hazing of freshmen. Crowder's alleged offense was declared by his classmates to be insufficient reason for the punishment fixed for him recently by the committee and they served notice that if the penalty was exacted they would leave the campus in a body. VENIZELOS FORCED BY ILL HEALTH TO QUIT AFFAIRS AT ATHENS Alliens, Jan. 7 (United Press) Ill-health has forced Elcutherios Vcnizelos to resign the leadership of Greek affairs. Returning in triumph, hailed as the strong man of his country, Vcnizelos, was no sooner elected president of tho National Assembly than a troublesome heart forced him to retire.

The former premier wrote to his followers that they must eloct another leader "from tho ranks of distinguished statesmen of the Liberal party," and that If one could be found ready to undertake formation of a cabinet, Vcnizelos was determined to resign. Two hundred and fifty moderate Democrats and Vcnizeltsts met today and deliberated on the choice of a leader. All were agreed, however, Vcnizelos must at all odds bo persuaded to retain the party leadership: otherwise, it was proposed, the party should dissolve and await his convalescence. Lut the ex-premier insisted he would prefer that another tako his place, while he went abroad in self exile. FIVE RACE RIOTS IN '23, COLORED PEOPLE TOLD ew York, Jmi.

7 (Associated I Pi ess) Five race riots occurred during 1923, according tD a report made to the annual meeting today of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The most serious clash took place at Rosewood. where rioting lasted four days and seven five negroes and two whites were killed, and the negro section of the! town was destroyed by fire, it was staled. Other riots occurred at Los Angeles. Blanford, Braddock (nd Philadelphia.

Pa. STEAMER GROUNDED OFF ST. AUGUSTINE! i St. A.iguwlfiie, Jan. 7 (As-1 soclatcd Press) SOS messages from the steamship Georgia reporting that vessel hard aground In rough sea on Mantilla Reef, opposite St.

Augustine inlet, were picked up by tho government wireless in- tion' here about 8:30 o'clock this morning. The message said that two of her water tanks were full but that bottom bolts were holding and that the rudder and rudder posts! WPre gone. The (Vessel reported a i rough sea, but said she was lying easy. I Initial Session of First Working Week of Legislature to See Introduction of Governor's Legislative Plans TO NAME CHAIRMEN Albany, X. Jim.

7 (Associated n'ileA fnefti witli ilia! problems which will confront the 1924 New York Legislature, senators and assemblymen today turned their attention to pro-session (11b-cussion of action to be taken this week on suggestions and recommendations embodied, in povernor Smith's annual message ot five days ago. Tonight's session, the initial one of the first working week of legislative activity, will see the introduction in both houses of a mass of bills covering all phases of the governor's recommendations. Foremost among the business to be' considered tonight by the Assembly will be announcement of committee, chairman. The only really active fight which has developed for committee chairmanship involves the cities eommlttee, of which last year's chairman, Assemblyman Oeorge N. Jesse of New York, went down to defeat in the fall elections.

-Assemblyman VineaatB. Murphy of Rochester is said to have won the struggle for this position, although this chairmanship, like ail of the others, is not being definitely made public until tonight. Of the old chairmen, AleQlnnies of Chautauaua probably will again head the ways and means; Jenks of Erie. Judiciary; Cheney or hanks; Witter of Tioga, agriculture: Van Wagenen of Ulster, Internal affairs; Vale of Putnam, public service; Hutchinson of Fulton, insurance: of Herkimer, education; Lattin of Orleans, public health; Miller of Genesee, labor; Hall of Niagara, social welfare, withonly a few minor chairmanships remaining to be disposed of. Selection of a head for the new and important motor vehicle committee lays between Bert Lord of Chenango, chief of the automobile hnreau durinz the Miller administra tion, and Lewis G.

Rtapely of Liv ingston, an automobile dealer, nere 4 h. fnct thnt althoueh a strange situation nas arisen. members have always been (or elther the agrigullure or nal affair5 committees, knowledge of largo city nriutrr linnvlpdSTA ff larito city vcnicie needs rather has indicated that such a post shold go to a city However, mere iw contestants in the field for motor vehicle head than Lord and Stapely. 'Within ihe next two days at least two messages dealing with features of the governor's message will be presented to the Legislature. One of them, the governor's special discussion of motor vehicle legislation, advocating the licensing of automobile operators throughout the state, as is now done in New York city, should be ready by tonight.

The other, a special report of the state housing commission, carrying out suggestions made by the governor on this subject, has been prepared for submission to the lawmakers by tomorrow. Housing congestion in practically every city in the state, especially the larger centers, will be referred to artlcularly in the report, as tho results of a c.irefui survey recently completed by the commission, and It is probably that a general rent law will be recommended. Because of the fact that the homo rule amendment, to tho state constitution I prohibits the Legislature from pass-; ing special city bills. It is generally believed that a statewide rent law, of fairly wide interpretation, will be i necessary to meet the problem. Legislator leaders believe the easiest way for a solution of the difficulty would be the adoption of la general antl-proflteerlng rnt law.

allowing rltbw to make the law ap. plicable to themselves or not. as they desired. The housing question, together with tho home rule enabling act, probably will take up a good i deal of time during the early days 1 of tho session. i The matter of tax reduction will draw no little attention from the first, In view of the announcement i by Governor Kmith last week that ho was willing to see even a greater reduction In income taxes than the proposed per cent, and that he would be willing to support the leg-ilslators.

of whatever political corn-I plexlon, in any steps which thee (might tako In this direction. 1 The uroposed radical tax reduc tions are made possible by the fac the slates actual Income for the current fiscal year ezceedeil the estimated Inrcmo when the last kud-tget was motlo up by approximately I fl a. 000.000. Of this unexpected I revenue shout Is. 000.

000 was from 1 1 lie no-call lied Indirect revenue of the plan selected contemplates The statement says it is the "unanimous hope of the jury that the first fruit of the mutual counsel and cooperation among the nations which will result from the adoption ot the plan selected will be a general prohibition of the manufacture and sale of all materials of war." The Qncstlon to Be Voted Upon. The substantial provisions which constitute the plan selected by the jury of award, and upon which the vote of the American people Is asked, are hereby submitted by the Policy Committee as follows: 1. Enter the Permanent Court, i That the United States adhere to Ihe Permanent Court of International Justice for the reasons and under the conditions stated by Secretary Hughes and President Harding in February, 1923. 2. Cooperate, with the League of Nations, without Full Membership lit Present.

That without becoming a member of the League of Nations as at present constituted, the United States Government should extend Its present cooperation with the eLague and propose participation in the work of its Assembly and Council under the following conditions and reserva- tions: Safeguarding of Monroe Doctrine. The United States accepts the League of Nations as an instrument of mutual counsel, but tt will assume no obligation to interfere with political questions of policy or internal administration of any foreign state. In uniting Its efforts with those of other states for tho preservation of peace and tho promotion of the I common welfare, tho United States Insists upon the safeguarding of the Monroe Doctrine and does not abandon Its tradlttonal attitude concerning American independence of the Old World and does not consent to If UPSPISTDLD Advocate of Congressional Sobriety Taken to Task on Wetness at Home Washington, Jan. 7 (Associated Press) Representative Hill, republican. Maryland, replying today to the plea for dry enforcement made last week by Representative Up- shsw, Democrat, of Georsia, charged that violations of the Volstead act I in me ia.ii.er ruaio wcro iiugraiii ano continuous.

"Mr. Upshaw and his fellow Antl-Saloon Leaguers," Representatives Hill declared, "cannot enlist publio sentiment in Georgia to enforce th Volstead act." Mr. Hill asserted that the Georgia representative was not qualified fo speak for the "majesty of the law" because "he sits in the House in direct violation of tho fourteenth amendment to the constitution." "In making this charge," Mr. Hill i said. "1 am not.

making on attack against the suffrage laws of the South, which are acquiesced In by a majority of the nation, but I am charging that those who sit as a result of acqulesced-ln nullification should not properly charge law vlo-; laflon to those who by entirely legal means seek fo remedy the Intolerable condition of Volstcadism." LUUII I ULUIIUIII Mr. Hill said he was elected to i Press) Escaping with five other the House with one of every five nirls. from tho Stale Industrial persons In his district voting, whlloiliome at Muncy, Lycoming county, the ratio In Mr. Upshaw's district lAgnes Swatison, 10, died of exposure was of every 44, or "2.5 per cent." I while firing to make her way over Ballot to Be Used in Voting in Bok Peace Plan Referendum Payment of the -second half of the Bok prize depends on Its approval by the American people. A referendum for this purposo is being conducted by the American Peace Award through newspapers, magazines and many oilier public agencies.

The Binghamton Press prints the referendum ballot herewith. If you wish to vote on the plan, published In full by The Press today, fill out this ballot: TUT EXPLORATION RESUMED BY CARTER LtMor, gypt. Jan. 7. (AstorinU-d Pres.) Howard Carter, In charge of the Tut-Ankh-Amen exploration 8t pylvan Dell, an Isolated week after the discovery of the sarcophagus of the Pharoah in the; InmU i mn .11 fart tt 'Pi II llll" I I'l t' I.1 1 ini'iMfl 1 I .1 Hil mill iiui inn ii'ii'in ft inn aiiiin I now are dosed and the sarcophagus i Is not visible, In the course of the morning thn component parts of the great frame work which suported tho pail be tween the first and second shrines wern swathed in protective furglcal bandagei and removed to the laboratory nearby.

IIF.AVr SNOW AT SArUVte I Rsranafl Iah, V. Jan. (AmocI. atari sr. A snftiHtorm which car lavlilence of bain the bairlat of the ea- 1 I THI PLAN IN BRItr PROPOSES t.

That Ihe Inilrd Sum Hull Itr.mM.i'.'lr enter the rcrratncjit Court of iMeroatlratl Jut. tlce, ttoder tho condltiens tMled tr Secretary ll'ighe and rrriirlem lUrdioi in Frbrujir. 1823. It. That vttliotil oecemlnf member of Ute l-jtn of Nailooa ai at present commuted, the laltoit shall offer to eiHO'l lu present cooperation Ihe leatua and pafldpart In the trork of tho leaiua lljr of mutual counsel under condition! which 1.

Subtttute moral force nnd public ortolan for the muifarr nnd economic fore orlnoallr Im piled In Artlriej and XVI 2. tbo Monroo Doctrine. Accept tb tct'Uiat the United Stain ll ai-siime no oblUitloni under the Tr-atf or Versailles en-epf by net of Consresi. 4. Propose that membership in the learie sboid be opened to all nanone.

0. TroWde (or the continulnf of International law. on Ibus far brgtn here enrl.r todnr. Thejday that both would be ablo to st-no ws light and drifted aomewhat, tend the preliminary hearing n-xt but up (o noon bad not interfered will. frlday of If.

A. Oreer. the chauffeur traffic. 'charged with tho shooting, V..