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Show THE WEATHER. - Buyer and and Thursday, falrj colder southeast portion Wadneaday. . Wednesday Local Settlement Domestic. 99 Silver c: I end Copper, (catljodeSV. ... foreign . jirumptly'tta'O'ngB" 66 Wants. ...64.70 .673 31 4 SALT LAKE CITY, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY VOL. l(ri, NO. 110. - j Pacific Ocean Bed-roc- k in Enormous Quantities Slips to New Base to Even Things Up; There You Have It, in Effect. Is Commission Told Bankruptcy Now -- Faced ' by Thousands. NEW YORK, Jan. 31. The earth, In its whirl through space, trot off oenter few moments today and shifted U ' poles' or Axes, to new center of rotation. c j Then" that on hot 1)0 Tia a "flat wheel. Mgo to tons of solid rock, somewhere off the western coast of the United sta'es In the bed of the Pacific 0',ean ;;sid'.Lnd : .ui Thundred:-fe- t dr so to even things up. The seismograph record showed a deviation of a millimeter Snd a. half. Observers here said they could not be certain whether the displacements were horlxoiital 'or vertical. In the great San Francisco shock of 1906. the horizontal twenty displacement amounted to feet. This Is the manner In which professors' of geology and selsmographlc disturbance account for the violent earth vibrations which demoralised instnimenfs In observatories. Thus far the exact .location of the' huge "Slip' has not beh determined, although observers from Washington, 1. C to Berkeley, Cal., agree It probably was a few hundred miles off the mouth of the Columbia rtver. Absence of a record disruption of the visible surface of the earth or of the huge tidal waves which usually radiate from the scene of an earthquake, lead observers to believe that the "slip" occurred miles below the bed of the ocean. Its violence was attested by the quavering seismographs, which in some instances were thrown from the recording rolls, while a "strong machine at Berkeley was set in motion for the.' first time In many years, fit-th- T Utah and Idaho Conditions Reviewed by Banker at HearingiriWashington. SrHl W to T!i Trlboo. ASHINGTON; Jan. 31 The farmer., the stockmen and fruitgrowers of Idaho and Utah, already up to their necks in debt and unable to better their condition, no-- t No the crope landing unprecedented last year, 411111 gink deeper into the mire, and the agricultural industry, already dwindling, will languish unless there is a reduction in freight rates that will enable these Industries to market their prod- uct at a reasonable profit hereafter. "This, in substance, was the testimony given today before the Interstate commerce commission by C." H. Coffin, chairman of the board of directors of the Boise Cltv National bank, the first witness called by H. W. Prlckett to discuss the economic situation of the west, as affected by railroad rates. As - representative of the governors of the seven intermountain states, Mr. Prlckett developed through Mr. Coffin . the on rate sitImportant facts bearing uation, and will put other witnesses on the stand tomorrow. later be will present an array of witnesses to dlScuss situation, Merely Readjusting. specifically the agricultural livestock, wool, fruits, wheat and other "No doubt the earth was readjusting afnow Industries adversely ! agricultural Itself," said Frofessor J. J. Lynch, fected by existing railroad rates. observer At Fordham university here. Farmers in Debt. . "About every so often the oarth beits Mr. Coffin Impressed upon the com- comes upeet, goes off center, changes lime, mission the extent to which the banks axes, and usually, about the same a violent a is slipping earthquake, of Idaho and Utah have made advances there to farmers and stockgrowers, and dwelt of miles of strata, and we go . merrily .... upon the manner - in which - the hanks The Andes aion the Pacific coaM tn have gone to extreme lengths In making of rocky loans of this character. Had the grow- South America, and the chaintwo. ootvti- which Join deformations ers of Idaho and: I'tah been able to market their 1981 crops, Mr. Coffin said, they could have liquidated their indebtedness lastJa!LJbuLhigh freight- - rates Interfered. Rnk- - fftHtres have been numerous, he said, and In communities that produced big crops of hay, grain, potatoes, seed and sugar beets bank deposits have declined without a compensating decrease lii loan. In many cases producers could not repay money advanced to produce the last crop, and the hanks, are now confronted with the necessity of advancing tnore funds to finance the 1922 harvest. He went into some details as to the manlier In- which the banks are aiding, and said the war finance corporation Is now Check-u- p of assisting the banks In this undertaking. a"tt' A " : Inti the sea off disappearing southern ialrforni. are vonthnUtiHy lifting. falling- and "slipping," according to the seismologist and the geologist. Many of these disturbances take place in mldocean jhe.xiuli: visible bgr 'trailed' "by' a seismoIhg'WiirTtlWajfheb m.uil Measure graph hundreds of miles d'ra the most1 notable examples o, such paroxysm occurred In December 1920. and scientists still are cudgeling their brains to account for the "lost" earthquake. ..by... Its smirce of evrm never bar be,-definitely of was such proestablished, although It Is Bonus portions as to shatter Instruments thousands of miles - away., and to send a tidal V: wave circlingthe earth. A few days later came the word of the earthquake bill AuThe si, Jan. WASHINGTON, In Kan-BIn In which China.province 2000 persons perished. Scientists asserted thorizing: the refunding of tn eleven bilthere probably had been two distinct up- lion dollars .foreign debt Jhto securities heavals, probably on opposite sides of the maturing in not more than twenty-fiv- e globe. years was passed tonight by the senMidocean Quakes,. ate. ' "Lost" earthquakes, taking1 place In Th vot-l- was 39 to Cft. Final enactmidocean, often cause vast changes in ment of the measure must await adjust the appearance of the ocean bed which ment of differences between the house are not discovered for years. Such earthquakes are frequent near the nd senate, which, is expected within a ' West Indies and beneath the Pacific west- week or ten days. ward of the America to the chain of Iiorah. bllcan a Three Repu la Follette sunken mountains which form the Japanese archipelago. and Norris Joined with the solid DemoTho first major catastrophe by earthcratic minority in opposing the bill. quake or volcanic eruption which history Under the MU, a commission of five, records, was that at Constantinople in 577. when 10,000 persons perished. Since then headed by the secretary of the treasury, apwould have authority, subject to tho conthere have beert twenty such disasters. to refund or The greatst toll of human life was proval of the president, taken In a volcanic upheaval in Yeddo In vert, and to extend time- of the payment or both, 1703, when 19,000 person lost their lives. of the principal or the interest, More than two centuries fciter, in 1908, of the foreign debt. The date of maturitv of the obligation there was the disastrous eruption which not exother Ital- accepted by the commission could buried Messina and fifty-foand the inian towns, causing the' death of 161,009 tend beyopd June IS, 147,less than 44 te ronid hot terest rate inhabitants.-- per cent. Bonds of one foreign governof those not for be accepted ment could Take Wide Range. cart of the foranother, nor could anycancelled. 81 EarthSAN FRANCISCO. Jan. Indebtedness be eign in California were felt shocks today quake north of San Francisco and throughout Fixed Three Years. the coast towns of Oregon. In Oregon The lite of the commission would be cities the tremors shook windows and apawakened sleepers and rattled dishes. No three year from the date of theother proval of the act, and the members, would damage was reported. of the the treasury, than seismosecretary The shocks were recorded by be appointed by the president, suhjeot to graphs In California and Washington confirmation hy the sen me. '"Tturlngltiy JEUfoctsAo obtaiit verification' fwrni-sbe at life the commission would on the Pacific ocean, of deduction make annual reports to congress at the In session Thirteen each of Continued on regular beginning . (Columa Four.) conand cabinet of member the Only on the debt comgress will be uppolnted to Watson, Senator mission. according Republican, Indiana, "who told the senate by that, although tohe waa not authorized make such an announcethe president ment, he nevertheless knew this was the president's Intention. Aside from the section proposing that Interest on the refunded debt be not less as than 4i per cent, which was added an amendment from the finance commitin made Important the change only tee, the blU by the senate was the elimina- - v Farmer Supports Business. "The merchant, banker and railroad In ' Idaho and Utah are doing business dependent- - on the farmer, st.ockgrower, the mines and lumbermen for their bus! ness and prosperity," said Mr. Coffin. "For the past two years these Industries have operated at a great loss and today the farmer and stockgrower are becoming discouraged. In parts of the agricultural sections the producers are finding It difficult to meet their taxes and Interest, and It Is luy opinion that it Is to the Interest of the railway companies to do gelr part in assisting these industries to get back to a point where they can profit. again produce at a reasonable Fnder examination by Mr. Prlckett, Mr. Coffin brought to the attention of the commission late figures showing the extent and Importance of agriculture to the states of Idaho and I'tah. In Idaho, he showed, 94 per cent of all traffic offered the railroads came from the soli, the mines' and the forests. Idaho and today In Itah, he said, are interested costs, snd, as transreducing production the largest elements portation fa orte of are now appealing to of that cost, they relief. the commission for Farms Mortgaged. Coffin also presented facts and showing that 61H per cent of the figures In Idaho are now mortgaged, more than double The percentage of 1910. Idaho on Interest 7.3 mortgaged farina ain rate ot l)er cent, against averages Atlantic middle in the 4 per. cent the showed developalso lie s'ates ment of agriculture by acreage, crop l'Twb and Idaho PoPUiat vsh.es and each of since IS1'), and then dealt with He the leadng crepe - separately. fact the last that emphasized hay crop, year Idaho produced Its largest holdover from wldch added to a large Mr I.ra toin. ly 3,6.10,000 tons. the problem of disposingandof cattle in that The number of sheep declined since 1920,! have rapidly territory more off than having fallen sheep alone In one year, and that, com 60 per cent In the pined with the largest hay crop presents one of the history of the ofstate, Idaho farmers today. big problems If the freight rate on hay can be reduced to a reasonable figure, he said, the hav growers can market their sur- v if present rates continue, plus is ahead of them. Prevailing big bank-rupte- Continued on Pag (Column Four.) Fin. r I WASHINGTON, Jaa. 31 Quoting police department record,-- , Representative Tlnkham, Republican, Massathe house today chusetts, declared inwere committed tn that more murders Washington last year than in London, and that the situation was due to "the destruction of the American home through badly conceived legislation. "Compared with 7910, the murder Increase In Washington last year was ' ,41 per cent, gnd this, along with: the other Increase In crime here, has been due to1 the character of legislation enacted In the last bine years at the dictation of selfish interests," said "For the same period, Mr. Tlnkham. the increase In arrests for Intoxica142 per cent, aed Sij pcr tion, w We have had cent for nonsupport. all sorts of legislation, first tried out but of all the causes In Washington, for this Increase, this gen oral contempt for law, 1s theso destruction of disrupted by the American home, does not legislation that the child for turn to helpful know which way -- guWane-" WASHINGTON. Jan. '31. Washington today held the first of.lts many funeral who perished Satfor the ninety-seve- n urday night when the roof of Ihe Knickerbocker theater collapsed under the service weight of snow, and memorial were announced by a number of rhurene function Social and other organizations. and businesa conferences ceased In honor of the dead, and the theaters, again In operation, sheltered meager audiences, to treat while hospital staffs continued still conthe more than sixty injuredami unoffiot official A number fined. cial Investigations alBo got under way and others were announced. Meanwhile late today another building, one of the long sbeds of the freight depot railroad, colof the Baltimore & Ohio men who lapsed two minutes after eight had checked there had been employed to out. No one was injured. Damage freight it contained the shed and the620,000. The structure, was estimated at It one rof the walls of which gave ofway. melteffects the is believed, due to w1 as built roof, ing snow on in 1904. Firemen and police Immediately 'Ration. an invest began Kdward H. Shaughnessy, sistant postmaster general. i Who was one fhe, of the most critically Injured ported tonight. stFartlltmprovlng' 6 The funerals today Included jthat ot of pr. JJadapie Virginia Feraud, sister un Julio Blaneht, Guatemalan, inminister I gul St. dec the Herrera regime, Homan Catholic church. Herbodyriwi,t BeTlent to Venture rial to rest beam that of her husband. sentji flowera to Secretary Weeks families residing here of the seven war killed in department employees who wereletters or the catastrophe and personal not to living in the those condolence city, Th" city commission today turned over of the disaster tor. its investigation Colonel Charles Keller, engineer comrms-sioneand the building inspector a- The federal grand Jury and he coroners jury visited the ruins of the theater today and It was announced they investigations Hitoe would conduct thorough ca ue e o t determine, if po t st b I e,. t he Individual waa accident and whether any to blame. in.an resolution proposing Thp Capper referred tonight quiry to the disaster was Columof District by the senate to Its bia committee at the request of Its sponsor. who said the committee desired to make a survey of the inquiries already ordered and to determine further the ecope of the senate Investigation. Jan. 31. Joint funeral PITTSBlRG, J. services for former Congressman A.Mrs. IlRrchfeld an hie daughter-in-lain the included Helen Myers Barehfeld. disvictim of the Knickerbocker theater will be held In the aster at Washington, church Thurshere German Evangelical today, The 'bodies were brought here day. y -- IITERESF Continued ea Page Five (Oolus&n One.) the-lop- lng I ; " RpME, Jan. 81. (By the ' Associated Press.) Interest in the choice of a successor to Pope Benedict Is Increasing as the time draws near for assembling of the sacred conclave, and many attempts to find an Indication of the result are being made. of the Cardinal Laurgntl. secretary congregation of the propaganda, although raised to the purple only last year. Is understood to be favored by at least thirty members of the Sacred college who believe In a rapprochement with the Italian government. At the same time he Is said to be acceptable to those opposed to closer relations with the Qulrlnal. The name of Cardinal Rattl, archbishop of Milan, mentioned previously as fa voiced by the peace" group headed by Cardinal Ganparrl, It not heard so often now-anthe section headed by Cardinal Merry del Val, which had been credited with favoring Cardinal Maffl, archbishop of Pisa, is reported aa ready for a compromise before the balloting begins. Several cardinals, Including Bourne, archbishop of Westminster, visited the conclave quarters, after the solemn requiem mass In th4 Slating -chapel yester- Contain i oa 3- Fits (C4umFetir.) Ask for Gas Bombs and Masks to Fight Lawless suit York witnesses brought bv Mayor William Male Thompson of Chicago against the Chicago Tribune was begun today. The suit la based on articles published in September. J917, referring to Mayor ''action' In permitting the Thompsons people's committee for democracy and terms of peace to hold meetings after Governor 1 zjwden had prohibited them aa "treasonable Chicago Tribune-Sal- t conduct.".! man and 8. 8. McClure, 'magazine former owner of the New York Evening Mall, and George Sylvester Viereck, former editor of the Fatherland, were among the first witnesses to appear. Lehman Caves in Nevada Established r.s Monument Jan. 31. President WASHINGTON. has estabHarding, by proclamation, lished the Lehman Cave national monument In Nevada, the eleventh national monument. located within: a national forest Th Lehman caveu. Included in the 593 acres reserved by the president, lie six miles west of Baker, Nev., and are within the Nevada national forest. . These raves are honeycombed by tunnels and galleries of stalactite formations that have unusual scientific interest and importance. Under th proclamation, the caved and Area surrounding them will be preserved tn their condition under: the jurisdiction present 6f Hie forest service, Dead in Disaster in Mine in Kentucky i Lake Tribune Leseed Wliw NEW YORK. Jan. 31. The police department today asked the board of aider-me- n for tear gas bombs and gas masks as aids lh capturlnv criminal and breaking up moiis. Inspector General Thor appeared before the board and urged the appropriation of 642(ki for the purchase ot 00 tear gas bombs for the department and 100 gas maaks for the police bombing squad. In their military camp at Fort Totten last summer the New York police experimented as a mob against KAeargu and aTTcame out enthusiastic for the bombs a a means of breaking up mobs, but unanimously agreed a tear homb was nothing to turn loose on a policeman, either aa an experiment or otherwise. Thor explained the plan was Inspector to have the tear bombs stored in the In each Inspection district, headquarters. each Inspector to have a -squad trained In PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 31. The death of true explosion last night in the y company's mine at here, today reached six layman, near when the bodies of the two entombed men. John Martin and hia son, James Two Martin, were found by rescuers. others, injured In the explosion, are In a serious condition in a hospital her. Crow to Be Candidate for New Senate Term Cbteago 'k hard-workin- g their use. PITTSBURG. Pa., Jan. 31. United States Senator William K. Crow, who Is resftng a a Ptttabuig Imgpltal. will be a cjftnildate to succeed himself at the Republican primarte next May, It was stated by .State Senator Edwin IDAHO WOMAN HEARS H. Vare,tonight following a conference between two. The statement sets at rest the OF SISTERS DEATH rumors that Senator Crow, who was sp pointed by Governor Sproul to fill the IDAHO KALES, Idaho, Jan. 31. Miss unexplred term of the late Senator Kno Hazel OgdeD. emp'nyed In the office of would retire. When Senator Crow will leave the hospital could not be learned, E M. Blalock A Co., received word last Miss Vivian OgSenator Vare said. evening that her s'ster. Knickerbocker In the been killed had den, D. C. theater (JJsaetey at Washington, FORMER GOVERNOR DIES. Vivian Ogden was a student at Mi SKATtIE, - Wash., Jan. 31. Stephen university at the George Washington B. Packard, governor of Louisiana In 1877 toll lavvman-Caliowa- re-o- place- - . year. t Bloc. antr eolation of the president' action, which, he said, would enable hm to Tribune-S- i It lake Tribune Leased Wife. NEW YORK, Jan. 31. Mrs. Margot Asquith, wife of the former British premier, read from her published and unpublished diaries this afternoon In the New Amsterdam theater, anij exchanged words, sympathetic at first and' then less soothing, with persons In the galleries who contended they could not hear. Mrs. Asquith, who had been seasick on the rough voyage to this country, was pot strong enough to stand. Ing from the gallery occupants, with the regularity- of a minute gun. "You're not missing anything, said a great deal of laughMr. Asquith, and ter came from the front rows. tn- gal- The strongest of the voices in lories called out: gotJi.iy-.-mqtiey.f- Pklesgn He expected, he added, to examine senatorial precedents to determine whether, after the confirmation, he may yet vote. The cooperative marketing bUi..scheduled to 'Take the next place on the calendar of business, is one in which he is vitally Interested and Mr. Kenyon said he hoped to cast a vote on that measure' before finally abandoning bis Beat in the senssslahnahthat be ate. has nbtThe r.ght, Mr. Kenyon added that he thought he had been on the senate floor this morning "fur the last time as a senator." "The president has known since our service together In the senate that political life did not appeal to me and that my ambition was to serve on the federal bench," the senator satd in his stats When a vacancy occurred last ment. fall In Che federal district Judgeship In friends suggested some state, my my name to him and he Indicated his me. The legislative to appoint willingness situation was such then that it seemed to me I could not accept. The situation Is somewhat different now, as the West way, Virginia Investigation is out of the likewise the Newberry case, and a large has of the program agricultural portion been put through. s Director a Chinese. PARIS, Jan. 31. (By the Associated The expected exchange of views among the allies regarding the conditions conferunder which the ence should be 'opened Is awaiting the development Through; diplomatic discus slon of other questions regarded as more Genoa propressing. The fact that tne Ue dormant gram is being allowed to In taken seems to be pol.tlual quarters her to mean- that the French govern- a ment regards French participation as foregone conclusion and that settlement of questions regarding the Agenda wbl be so easily reached that there l no hurry in taking them up.of the scope of The French viewpoint the work to be done at Genoa rests upon (he conditions clearly set forth at the Cannes conference that, nothing bearing upon questions settled by the treaty of Versailles shall b discussed, that reparations shall not corns Into question, and that there shall b no taik of treaty re' vision. , As for the German reply to the repAmbition Realized. arations commission the foreign office any "The question is presented to me again, said today It was not ready to make statas to the circuit judgeship In the Eighth comment on this document. It wasFrance of the judicial circuit' and the president, know ed, however, that in policy lo the nerespect ing my ambition and desires Jor service remains unchanged on the federal bench and at the sollclta cessity of the al.les taking the, guaranthe authorised of tendered treaty of Verby tees ofsoine my friends, has tion me the arpolntnient of circuit Judge for sailles, so as to give final character al-to . definite whatever arrangements the Continued oa Pog Four lies might come lo regarding the treat (Column Tor o) ment of Germany's default, Gsnoa-eeonere- te- functions. Thi i L yteut- - w!vk.'to hwBr: been generally adopted in China. Dr. Chung Hut Wang, a member oft he, Chinese delegation, said today that the ; drafting of the treaty ought to be made in two or three day and be public then It seas made known th restoration of ; the leasehold of Tsingtao to China, will,, take place "as early as possible," and not" In any event later than six month after, ) the coming into effect of tile whole Shau-4 tung agreement. - com--plet- ed The ealt field- - held by Jaiwneoe nationals also will be turned over to China tnontn after the tre.itv than become effective. . The TiflBtao--T(UA- !. anfu railway will b hamiCd over to China as early as possible, but under no c r cumstances liter than nine months alter the treaty becomes operative. Dr. Wang, speaking for the Chinese delegation, said tonight: We feel grateful to end have to thsnt Mr. Hughes and Mr. Balfour for the friendly help and advice which they have brought th congiven and which have conclusion. versations to a happy a much betwill have The settlement ter effect upon th Chinese people wheq. In control. There actually they see China fore, the execution of the treaty ought: to be expedited as much as possible. not-late- r oman - to i CfleEV Seek-Seat- -( in Senate j From Ohio , ELAND, Oo., Jan fta ten oft vtr. 8l.-rm-- ') IuciUt5fli7 fits to Premier day sent a letter Italy ex press. n x "profound surprise and was keen regret" that his government not Invited to send representatives to the Genoa conference. The tetter asked the Italian premier to take whatever steps he could to bring about such an invitation. Ferrid Bey's letter expressed particular being excluddisappointment at Turkey's addressed to ail ed from "an Invitat.on ktatt-s- , ss Turkey la essentially European of Its capital at Eurotean on account accouDt-oon Constantinople and Adrta--nopi- a .. only by "Asia Minor is continletter the geographical fiction," of a I rally prolongation being "It ues, To. exclude Turkey from Invlta-tlon- s Europe.addn-seedta the ,M:i andThrace. letter concludes, powers, than injustice. announced her candidacy for election a United Rate senator from Ohio, the first PITTSBURG. Jan. SJ. Protest galnt woman In this state to aspire to a sena- the interpretation placed by the United revenue run an will as Independtorial seat. She States commissoner .of Intern ent with no party affiliation. on that section of the Volstead act under wh ch rabbis are permitted to cermade by Jews for COAST NEWSPAPER SOLD. tify to application for sacramental use, was mkile toFRK8NO, Cal, Jan, 31 The Fresno wine from by eleven. rabM representing Herald, owned hy.George A. Osborn and day at a spec al meetthe 215 to 300 synagogue, Chase 8, Os'iorn, Jr., publisher-o- f conference 4f Americentral of the toing was sold Fresno Morning Republican, rabbi. day to William 1. , Ft. Sure. Frank E. can resolution adopted and forwarded to Khode,and Treffie R. LaSenay of Fresno. theA commissioner stated that the certififor cation of application' made by Jews ac wmt-- for fwrramenlal use was not In of Jewish cordance with the requirement . religious laws. was The resolution was prompted. It secof thp violations wholesale said, by boottion in question-whicpermitted legger to obtain quantities of w.ne by "The nest reading will be somethin anAsquith entirely different," Mr. nounced, and there was some applause. of an American Mrs. Asquith told actress she met by accident on a tram. The actress told Mrs. Asquith what she knew from reliable people about Premier Asquith, who was then In office, and hia wife. Asquith waa one of the brainiest men In Europe, and had got enormously wealthy through Investing In Krupp e. He had been a good man, but his wife had ruined his career. - His daughter was engaged to sn admiral In the German navy a nd regularly informed her afflsnood of the contemplated movements ot the Brit lah fleas. Mrs. Anouilh was the one living woman who did not "feel the war. She spent her leisure playing tennis with the German prisoners She was on ofthe Ugliest women known hard, artlftUni. bui enormous: cleoeri Deformhey parted. Mr. Asquith revealed herself to Amrlen aetree. who repented in Mrs. Asquith pmendous consternation. en.had her to . tea and to meet, the - -- ejjfiep. :, application. - ' , Finger Prints Free Suspect Taken on Swindle Charge CHICAGO. Jan. 31. Af4er thirty, eight person had Identified him as John Harvey, suspect In an automobile swindling case, IB. M. K'Jaworth today began to to He w taken doubt his Identity. await trial following hts Identification. fingerprints were Shortly after his was found these fingerThen It correspond to those of prints did not were on file. E!'worth Harvey, which was taken before a nolle Judge and disThe Judgt characterised the charged. mistake as the "most startling proof of human fallibility" he had seen. PAV TRIBUTE TO EXPLORER. BUF.NOS AIRE8, Jan. 31. Th Argentina chamber trf deputies at th opening of Us session today stood sa a silent tribute to Sir Ernest Shackleton, British explorer.- - who died January 5 on board1 the steamer Quest In the south Atlantic. after Deputy The tribute had delivered a eulogy ot the dead explorer. -Previously the members had paid homage to the lat Pop Benedict, waa-pai- d . . Treaty Up Today. a sep. naval treaty and subm-t-rlnembodying the and poison gas - resolutions will b reported t a plenary soesion of th arm conference tomorrow. committee at a meetThe armament ing today adopted th naval treaty -and' ordered it reported. The far eastern committee met (hi afternoon and appointed the chiefs - of subcommittee to draft delegations a the treatlee relating to Chin.- There will be at least two such treatlee. possibly more, but a number of agreements, such as those relating to th Chines tariff and the Chines Eastern railway, will take the form of protocola. The far eastern committee discussed th arms embargo, which It Is proposed shall operate to bind tbs powers not to export arms or munition to Chtha.I In the Interest of Chinese tranquillity, but Centime ea Peg TUrtaea The five-pow- er a rate agreement - (Cettuaa Twe.) Why Abolish War and Leave the Rat? -- Rabbis Protest Ruling on Sacramental Wines forged Salt Fields. Will Return Turk Nationalist Aggrieved. Pittsburg Police Bureau x PARIS. Jan. 31. Ferrid Bey, Turkish In Paris, to Due for Shaking ''Up Nationalist representative Boiiomt of f I The. direct1- - general of the railway, will be Chinese. In China every lorelgn loan railway has auch an official, who supervises the road. The traffic manager will be a Japanese, and there will he two. chief accountants, one a Chinese the other . Japanese, who wlU coordinate their Pres.) vest-gallo- ' a formality, .understandings1 Want No Discussion of Issues Settled at Versailles. Jan. 31. Immediate re organization of the Pittsburg bureau Of police was decided on late today by Mavor W. A. Magee and Director' of Public Safety George W. Mcfandless, afIn ter Ihev had discussed yesterday's of the escape of four bandits who robbed the First National bank of CrafUm, a suburb, and killed the assist nt cashier. In his otatement today, the mayor-ddared that "Mr. MeCamilesa and I agreed shown that there was no lack of courage by the detectives during the automobile dethink "we the four that but chase. tectives were st fault in not making further search for the fugitives." ire. having been reached with the home gov- - , emments as to the terms,- - " The drafting la being done aa rapidly h j possible. The delegates hope It will be J ready fqr signature this week. Tudey the conferees agreed that the financial J details of the Talngtao-Tsinanf- u railway t arrangement, whereby China will taka over the railroad, paying for It It) Chinese f treasury notes to cover e period of fifteen v' years, with a redemption option after five years, shall be left for settlement at some later time. Among the financial questions which must be cleared up later Is the rate of interest China shall pay. , leady to Go to Genoa, but PITTSBURG, v VT . F Like to Vote. By GRAFTON S. WILCOX. Trtbune-Ssl- t Lak Tribune Leased WASHINGTON, Jan. 61. The Bhan- - I ' tung controversy 1. settled. Today the Japanese and Chinese dele-- ', gates announced that they had reached . an agreement. , : They have cabled T do and Peking for authority to sign th treaty, but that . achieve his ambition "to serve on the federal bench." The motion to confirm the Iowa senator was made by his colleague. Senator Cummins, and when Senator Curtis of Kansas, presiding at the time, called for the vote on "advising and consenting" to the tiomlnatlon, every senator in the chamber stood. Senator Kenyon after the confirmation said that he would be unable to leave Washington to taka up his new duties short o( a week or ten days. Would , Long-standin- Margot Asquith Makes Bow to American Audience in Gotham; Engages in Tilt W ith Galleries . You "Good-h- j Washington. l.n f Snd American consul at Liverpool upon Miss Ogden left Immediately liood-bye- ? Htrth died hers todsv. HV had ,eenT" V I"I nothing. the naw fox tbe- - fi m v liurre-s- t M. Asquith paid no attention to this Louisiana, Mo,, where Interment will take resident of Seattle for the lest fifteen Iplerjuptlon. i Amicable' "Understanding g on Trouble W ASHING TON, Jan.' 31. Senator Kenyon of Iowa announced today he would accept the nomination a federal -- Judge for the Eighth circuit tendered to him by President Harding and sent to the senate. The senate soon after receiving the nomination confirmed It In open session, an honor only rarely paid to nominees. The Iowa senator, who Is ode of the Who tia bsen namsd to the fsdsrtl'bench leader of the senate and chairman of nd who oeespts tender by president. the agricultural bloc of that body, in a format statement Issued upon receipt of his nomination by the senate, expressed Picture Successor to Benedict XV Final Begin Taking Testimony in Big Libel Suit Supplies Topic of Increas Theater Horror Victims of tesNEW YORK, Jan. SI. Reveals Slight Decrease. score of New mg' Speculation in Rome. timony from more than aTaking In the S500,00:i libel . Capital City Scored as a Leader in Crimes on Plan to Crimp hi - Compromises Make Possible Mississippi .Makes Caustic Comment at . . of Committee; Rejected. - u and Chinese Agree to Terms of Settle ment ; - Will Draft, Treaty Japanese ; 1 justment Plan FIVE CENTS SENATOR KENYON Vote Is 39 to 25, Three Re- - Iowan Is Quickly Con firme in Open ' Session ; Goes to publican -- Joining Democratic Minority Opposing. Eighth U.' S. Circuit heiits. - 22 PAGES 1922. 1, SENATE PUSSES Mother Earth Gets a Jolt; Traveling Flat Wheel; Say Scientists in Explanation t Interstate to-Retli- ei1 the medium of Tribune Price. ....... . . seller-Re- t Fru-gonl I!atk hav 6 been responsible for more untimely deaths among human beings than all the wars of history. pests They are tha worst animal From their homes in the world. among filth they visit dwelUnM and storerooms to pollute and 'de", stroy human food.rata and mice each Jn our country rear destroy crops and other prop-ert- v worth 200,(100,000. 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