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Show WASHINGTON General Charles G. Dawes, Chicago, and Owen D. Young, New York, held a conference with Secretary of State Hughes to receive the views of the United States government of the impending im-pending American-allied expert investigation in-vestigation into Germany's financial condition and capacity to pay repa-artions. repa-artions. Captain Kdward II. Watson commander com-mander of the destroyer -squadron wrecked on the California coast, near Point Honda, last September, will lose 150 numbers, and Lieutenant Commander Donald T. Hunter, commander com-mander of the destroyer Delphi, one of the squadron, will lose 100 numbers num-bers as a result of naval court-martial sentences approved by Secretary Denby. A detailed statement of the real estate and cattle investments of Former For-mer Secretary Albert B. Fall, filed with the senate public lands department depart-ment declared that a $100,000 loan advanced to Mr. Fall by E. B. McLean, Mc-Lean, the Washington publisher, enabled en-abled him to purchase additional ranch holdings in recent years in New Mexico. Proposed legislation to create a department de-partment of mines was discussed with President Coolidge by Chairman Oddie of the senate mines committee. commit-tee. The department would have within with-in it a bureau of coal which would have powers simliar to those of the federal coal commission. The president presi-dent promised to consider the proposal pro-posal and consult with cabinet members. mem-bers. Secretary Hoover has been named by I'resident Coolidge to represent the federal government on a joint commission which will be created to settle the rights to the use of water of the Rio Grande river, as between the United States and the states of Colorado and New Mexico. Director Hines of the veterans' bureau, who has just returned from a visit to New England hospitals, announced an-nounced he had concluded arrangements arrange-ments for increasing by 360 beds the capacity of the Chelsea hospital, near Boston, the work to be completed early in January. The advisory committee on reclamation recla-mation which next month will inspect several governments projects in the west, will meet about the middle of January at Salt Lake City with the federated water users, representing practically all of the projects, to gather gath-er Information for recommendations to Secretary Work. The itinerary for the trip has not been completed. A war referendum amendment to the constitution was offered Tuesday by Senator Clarence Dill, Democrat, Washington. Under it congress would declare war without a special election only in case of invasion or rebellion. FOREIGN The bandit leader, Kuprenko, one of General Petlura's chief lieutenants has been executed by order of the district court sitting in Kiev. Kuprenko Kupren-ko was tried for the shooting of a Jewish family living in a village of the Kiev district. He was executed by a firing squad. The Hondurean government has signed an agreement for the payment of the Hondurean debt. The agreement agree-ment provides that for ach bond of 100,000 face value it shall pay only 2000 to holders of bonds issued in 1868 and 1870. Kumatoro Honda, former Japanese minister at Vienna and Budapest, has been named ambassador to Germany, suceceeding Eki Hioki and will go to Berlin early in February. M. Honda, who for many years was attached to the Japanese embassy in London, was with Japan's delegation at the Portsmouth peace conference. It is officially announced that Prince Erik of Denmark on the occasion oc-casion of his betrothal to Miss Lois Frances Booth of Ottawa renounced his right to succession to the throne and his title of prince. King Christ-Ian Christ-Ian however conferred on hlni the title of Count of Rothenborg. Loufti Fikri Bey, head of the Turkish Turk-ish bar, has been convicted of treason trea-son and sentenced to a term of five years' imprisonment. The sentence carries with it hard lnbor. The charge of treason was based on an open letter let-ter sent by Fikri to the caliph imploring im-ploring him not to resign because his resignation would be disastrous to the dynasty and the country. Government tax experts who met here recently unanimously recognized the necessity of international agreements agree-ments to aid in the apprehending of tax dodgers that they might be forced to meet their obligations. Heavy snowstorms and avalanches are reported from several points in Switzerland. One man was killed and several cattle destroyed in the collapse of stables at Ginggenberg, in the Bernese Oberland. Two houses were carried olf at Diablerets, where an elderly man was buried his body not being recovered. A third man perished in a snowstorm. Christmas greetings from all over the world are reaching Pope I'ius at Kome in a steady stream .those from America being especially numerous. There were preliminary observances with the Vatican. The gardeners of the Vatican presented the pontiff with a tribute of the sacred. Cleo de Merode, French motion picture actress, hns lost her suit for 100,000 francs against the owners of the film "Peacock Alley," which she charged injured her reputation by burlesquing incidents In her career. |