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Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-05-14
MAX MURDOCH ACCUSES
MATE OF TAKING SON
OUT OF ILLINOIS
LOVE IS AL|ENATED
MRS. mARY LAWRENCE CHARGED
IN CLAIM FOR $25000 THAT
WlFE's AFFECTIONS WERE ALI.
ATED-DESERTloN CHARGED
IN BILL.

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stltute two suits instituted In the cir.
cuit court bv Attorney \I,y Uurdarl
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mother Mrs. Mary Lawrence horh rl
Ottawa The court proceedings. APP
pedrlug with the uneXpeatcduess OF
lightning from CIuuIless sky, have
come as great surprise 10 the many
ticnds OF the three principals in ,he
unusual triangle
The divorce bin, which alleged de-
sertion was filed Monday ana sup
pressed Tor service" The claim for
S2J, 900 damages from MIR. Lawrence
made its appearance in the circuit
clerks office late yesterday, and tua
hished the first iukling that the
couple both OF whom are prominent
III Ottawa ana StFestor social cir
clea-had reached that point in their
martial life where the ways parted,
with legal separation as their next
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Marriage License.

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WE EAT+ER

Generally fair and con.
tinued cool tonight and
Sunday
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-05-14

OTTAWA JOURNAL.
Established 1880
Evening star., 1921-12-02
MORSE CONCERN FAILS.
Groton Shipbuilding Works Go
Into Hands Of Receiver.

by tne ASSOCIATED freSs.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, December 2.
The Groton Iron Works. a Charles
w. Morse shipbuilding concern, with
yards at Groton and Noank, Conn.,,
went into the hands Of a receiver
yesterday when Federal Judge Edwin
S. Thomas accepted a petition filed
by James Swan. president of the
company. Counsel for. the concern
asked the court to name Mr.. Swan
as receiver. After an examination of
the paper Judge Thomas named Mr..
Swan as temporary receiver, under a
bond Of $4,000.
1t was said the action was taken in
accordance with a vote of the direc-
the receivership petition will be held
today before Referee Thomas M.
Shields in Norwich.
The schedule attached to the petit
tion gives the liabilities of the COM
pany as $4,02s.504 and the assets as
is the sum Of $13,153,000 which the
company says is due from the United
States Shipping Board. A suit brought
by the Groton Iron Works against the
Shipping Board for this amount is
now pending in federal court, the
action having been filed in New Lon
don last February.
The schedule gives the amount of
cash on hand as $18.07. 1t lists more
than 1900 secured claims, totaling
$1,015,701, and more than 200 unse-
cured claims, aggregating $1,042,616
Mortgages outstanding are given az
s1.S43,355, including one of $716,S66
held by the Shipping, Board. Among
the creditors listed are: Jennie
Morse Of Bath. Me-. $96.688; Travellers
Insurance Company. Hartford. $40;
c. w. Morse & Co., Boston, $4,000;
T. G. Bostwickamp, Hartford, $11, sos
.xonsr Am oxrnn
Evening star., 1921-12-02
PLAN FOR MODIFYING
HOLIDAY GAINS GROUND
IN NAVAL QUARTERS

BY the Associated Press.
An impression Is growing in Ameri-
can naval circles that it may prove
expedient to modify the ten-year
naval holiday proposal Of the Ameri-
can plan sufficiently to permit build
ing Of capital ships to continue dur
ing the holiday on very restricted
basis. There is evidence that both
the British and Japanese feel the
is said, and American officers to
some extent share that view.
The question of the naval holiday
has not been discussed by experts
of the five powers. although it may
have figured in the conversation
between Secretary Hughes, Arthur
J. Balfour and Admiral Baron
Kato. At the beginning of the
conference. when the American
plan was made known, British rep
resentatives indicated that they
were Immediately struck by the
probability that some arrangement
to continue naval shipbuilding
during the period would be neceS-
sary both for economic reasons and
because of the desirability of keep
ing up with the deVelopment oi
warship designing and similar ma
val engineering technical knowl-
edge.
The British representatives sug-
gested a ship a year" program In
an informal way. but later 1t was
stated that they had no lnten-
ton of proposing that each nation
would lay down a new capital ship
each year. 1t has occurred to some
American naval officers that more
logical modification would be to
provide that each nation should
have one capital ship under con-
struction throughout the ten-year
period. This would mean for Great
Britain. the United States and
Japan the production of three new
capital ships each during the holi-
day to take the places of ships
which would pass the twenty-year
priod of use during that time.
Each of the retained fleets under
the American plan includes vessels
which will become twenty years
old before the end of the naval
holiday.
Evening star., 1921-12-02
u. S. NAVAL OPINION QUESTIONS
DEFENSE IN JAPANESE PROPOSAL
Additional Tonnage Sought in 10-1O-7
Program Falls Within Category
sfOfensive Weapons.

American fleet must be divided and
kept equipped for operations in two
far separated seas, the Atlantic and
Pacific, even IL American obligations
as to the PHILIPPINES are disregarded
in the calculations. That makes nee
essary. American officers argue. air
plane carriers for use with each fleet.
even wider responsibilities in all the
seven seas Her national life depends
on keeping the seas open to her trade
ships and her equipment In air craft
and carriers must be equal to that
of any other power.
Japan In Defensive Position.
Japan. in the American view. is
not similarly situated. Her navy
operates practically, for defensive
purposes, as single unit. The Sea
of Japan, which lies between Japan
and Korea. is susceptible of such de-
fense that it would be almost i'm
possible of access by an enemy fleet
in wartime. Over it lies a road to
Korea, held by Japan. and to Mon
golia and Manchuria, under Japanese
influence, that makes the raw mater
ials and other resources of those
countries available to Japan without
fear of interruption in war times,
American naval opinion holds.
For these reasons 1T Is regarded as
certain that the American conference
delegation will not be disposed to ac-
tonnage in airplane carriers for ia
pan in the replacement agreement.
The question has not been reached as
vet for debate.
Evening star., 1921-12-02
WANT MORSE AT ONCE.

By the Associated Press.
Provisional detention of Charles w.
Morse, shipbuilder and financier, who
reached Havre today on the steamship
Paris, has been requested. of the
French government by the Americy.
embassy at Paris, it was said to9 ay
by officials of the State Departments. It.
Coincident with this statement FL
mer SchIessinger, general counf.e .el for
the Shipping Board, announced that
the board has been advised q. the de-
tention of Mr.. Morse, who @.iled from
New York last Friday. few days be-
fore It became e.ati publicly known that
the subject Of Investigation by q Dis.
trict Of Columbia granI jury.
Mr.. schlesinger sgd that with the
State and the Department Of Justice
the Shipping Boayd and making every
effort to insure the return Of Morse
to this country as soon as possible.
He, like other ofitials, would not dis
cuss the detAils of the plans under
Continued. on Page q Column z
Evening star., 1921-12-02
II SOLDIER HUSBANDS
CREDITED TO, WOMAN
WHO GETS ALLOTMENTS
By TIN. Associated Press.

By TIN. Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December AT least
twelve husbands who served in the
Army or Navy are credited to Mrs.
Helen Drexler of Waukegan. ILL.,,
the champion collector of govern
ment allotment checks. according
to federal authorizes who had her
in custody today.
She is alleged with having mar
rIed husbands from many different
parts of the country, divorced
none and received approximately
$500 a month from the government
for the past three years.
Government agents who arrested
Mrs. Brexler say she devoted her
spare time, not needed to marry
hero husbands and collect allotment
checks. to travelling over the coun-
try-at government eXpense-evad
. ing secret service men. who were on
her trail.
At the federal building the woman
was said to have admitted caShing
allotment checks for an even dozen
war veteran husbands.
Evening star., 1921-12-02
US. NO EASY MARK
F|RMNESS SHOWS
All Delegates Beginning to
Realize They Must Answer
to Public.
BY n. O. MESSENGER.

officials of this government, weeks
before the Washington conference as
sembled, sensed one possible misap-
prehension which might find lodg-
ment in the thoughts of some of the
participants and took steps to fore
stall 1t. 1t was foreseen that the
wave of typically American emotional
support of the ideal of disarmament"
which swept the public might be mis-
construed in foreign quarters as put
ting the American delegates in the
position where they would feel justi-
fed in asserting to practically any
thing proposed in order to secure ces-
sation of war preparedness.
President Harding and Secretary
Hughes found means to disseminate
the suggestion that there should be
abatement. of the over-enthusiasm of
the public in it's expectations in this
direction and to soft pedal the ac-
tiyity of some of the civic bodies
functioning in behalf of the general
idea of disarmament SO as not to en-
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column a.
Evening star., 1921-12-02
EASTERN COUNCIL
Of NATIONS SEEN
Association of Powers Likely
to Take Care of Oriental
Questions.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

An eastern council of nations now
appears as the objective Of the gov
ernments gathered here to discuss far
eastern questions.
The same nine powers who are try
ing to establish set of principles to
guide each other in their commercial.
financial and political relations with
respect to the Pacific will be ulti-
mately grouped in an organization to
see to it that the. principles adopted9at
Washington are fairly applied.
The United States government in Its
original invitation endeavored to in
clude all nations which might possi-
lily have interests in the far east. with
the exception of Russia. When the
Russians get a stable government
they. too. would be invited to Join.
Embodies President's Theory.
In other words. this development of
an association Of nine or ten nations
for a precise object-the tranquiliza-
tion of the far east-is in line with
President Harding's theory that inter-
national conference can bring about
cooperation not merely for the mo-
ment when the problems are laid on
the table. but subsequently when dis
putes arise as to the meaning or in
depreciation of principles.
Mr.. Harding's idea is that world
peace can be materially assisted by
regional understandings as well as
by periodic conference of all nations.
He summoned five powers to partici-
pate in the Limitation of naval arma-
ment, because they alone seemed to
be the factors in such a problem. Sim
cuss the far east were the only ones
to whom the far eastern settlement
was vital. In the same sense Mr..
Harding has taken occasion to refer
to the organization created by the
Versailles treaty as the European
league of nations"
Mny Lead to End Of Pact.
The President has let it be known
that he believes the league should
abide, because it has a definite value
for Europe. Probably if he were ask
ed to define his attitude toward Cen
trail and South America he would say
that the Monroe doctrine and the pam
American understandings of the last
generation had developed an associa-
ton of the nations of the western
hemisphere.
But the greatest thing that may de-
velop out of the eastern council of
NATIONS is the formula it may furnish
for the graceful abrogation of the
Anglo Japanese alliance. The state
ment of the Japanese opposition lead
er that the Anglo-Japanese alliance
should be broadened to include the
United States is similar to the utter
ances of Prime Minister Lloyd George,
who has been urging a special agree
ment of Japan, United States and the
British empire to take care of far
eastern matters. To this the United
States government cannot agree. High
officials have made that clear.
Would Cancel Agreements.
So the logical development which
will come at the psychological mo-
ment is a grouping of nations in an
eastern council. The compact uniting
them would automatically cancel all
(Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1921-12-02
Today's News In Brief

| Plan to call part of NJ street Penn
sylvania avenue is refused by Com
missioners. Page 1
Formation of eastern council of ma
tons likely. Page 1
| United States no easy mark" firm
stand at parley shows. Page I
Sheriff. asks more park police and
White House grounds control.
Page 1
D: c. women robbed by rioters in
| Vienna. Page 1
Experts disagree with Japan's pro-
posed naval ratio. Page /
British make new Irish peace offer
to Sim Fein. Page
U. S. delegates highly pleased with
progress on naval program.
Page /
c. w. Morse allowed to land in
U. S. Monday. Page
| U. S. will demand adequate naval
bases on Pacific coast Page 2
Policy of frankness favored by Japa-
nese delegate. Page 3
Reports of U. S. advisers show solid
backing of U. s. arms limitation
proposals. Page 3
Japanese and Chinese delegates at
parley confer on future of Shan
tung. Page
Congress of mothers pushing fight
against war. Page
/ Oehlert found guilty of first t-desree
| murder. Page
| Internal ional love feast grows out of
| Dante statue unveiling. Page 4
Prosecution declares woman con-
spired with Burch to kill Broker
! Kennedy Page
| President anxious for prompt action
on refunding allied debt. Page IL
| Packer employees ordered to strike.
Page II
| Urges united appeal for lower fare
! for school children. Page IL
| Guide Beauvais secures thirty affi-
| davits for Mrs. Stiliman's divorce
defense. Page "a
Jealous man murders wife then slays
himself. Page 26
Conference called for church unity.
PLss ~
-. :
Evening star., 1921-12-02
RIOTERS IN VIENNA
ROB D. c. WOMEN
Wife and Daughter of Col.
Hand Lose Furs as Hungry
Mob Runs Wild.

Mrs. d. w. Hand. her daughter and
Col. and Mrs. S. W. Miller of Wash
ington are mentioned in Associated
Press dispatches as having been
robbed and molested by rioters in the
outbreaks in Vienna yesterday. Mrs.
Hands husband, Col. d. W. Hand. is
stationed in the munitions building
of the War Department and Maj. r.
w. Harrison, son-in-law of Col. Mil
Ter. who was previously stationed
here, is also on duty in the same
Office,
The first word of the robbery Col.
Hand received was in the Associated
Press dispatches. He said this morn
ing that his family had been in Eu-
rope about six months, on a tour, and
as he had heard nothing from them
recently. he believed they were on
their way to this country. as they
had planned arriving here about De-
cember 20. So far, Col. Hand said.
he has been unable to get in touch
with his family by cable, but he has
asked the War and State departments
tp open negotiations with Col. j. w.
causey, the allied technical repre-
!,
their immediate return.
Few Americans in Vienna.
There are not many Americans in
Vienna. Col. Hand said, and the few
who are doing food-relief work are
given protection by the government
there. Col. Allan Briggs, the mill
tary representative of the United
States. is in no position to give refuge
ario hnr hA a1 int
ed out, as there is no embassy in the
city.
When in Washington the family
made their home at the Westmoreland
apartments.
The Col Miller. who. with his wife,
was also mentioned in the dispatch
as having been saved from attackers
by the display of the American flag.
is Col. S. w. Miller of infantry. re-
tired. His son-in-law. Maj. r. w.
Harrison, said this morning Col
Miller was on duty in Washington as
director of the bureau of civilian
craftsmanship shortly before the
was later given command Of the
training camp at Fort Niagara.
In Vienna a Month.
Col. Miller was retired from the
Army last February, and in May left
for Europe for a tour of the battle
fields and the continent. He has been
in Vienna for over month. hAs was
the case of Col. Hand. Maj. Harrison's
first word of the riots was in press
dispatches today. He said a letter
was received from Col. and Mrs. Miller
few weeks ago. describing the sit
uation in Austria as very unfavor-
able. due to the low rate of exchange.
Mai. and Mrs. Harrison reside at 1920
21st street northwest.
Evening star., 1921-12-02
ORDERED TO MAKE ARREST
French Ministry of Interior Sent
Instructions to Police.

~ uhe Associated Press
PARIS. December 2.-The Havre
police were instructed by the secret
service Of the French ministry of In :
terror this morning to arrest Charles
W. Morse, American shipbuilder and
f1nancier, as soon as he landed from
the liner Paris. The instructions
were sent by telephone.
The French police acted upon re-
quest of the American embassy,
which received belated cable instruc-
tions to obtain the arrest and de-
tention of Morse. The French au-
thorities say they will hold the
American financier until the embassy
receives papers formally demanding
his extradition.
1t was impossible for an American
warship to intercept the Paris as
there are no American naval vessels
in French or British ports. all on
this side of the Atlantic being in the
Mediterranean. Instructions for such
interception may have been sent to
Admiral Niblack. at Constantinople,
but American naval officers in France
received no word from him.
Evening star., 1921-12-02
TRADE COMMISSION
ACCUSES OIL MEN

Members of the Independent Petro-
leum Marketers' Association were
charged by the Federal Trade Com
mission today with having agreed
among themselves to maintain the
prices and selling practices establish
ed in the state of California by the
Standard Oil Company of California.
The charges of the commission were
contained in the second section of its
report to the Senate on price and
competitive conditions in the CaNfor-
mia oil industry.
Notified of Prices.
The commission in its letter of sub
initial declares that Los Angeles Of
ficials of the Standard Oil companies
were notified promptly" by a men,
ber of the marketers' association of
understandings and agreement relative
to price maintenance within that as
sociation. thereby placing the Stand
ard in a better position to know when
new price advance. would be fol-
lowell"
The commission also asserted that
10y oTuS SINCE 1919 DQlSclOSe that the
Standards prices in California have
been followed generally by all mem
f,ers of the Marketers' Association.
1T declared that the association had
prepared a list of peddlers and other
retailers who refused to sell at the
agreed prices and held the dis
tributers responsible, SO that this
class of trade would not receive sup
plies until the retailers maintained
the list prices"
Sales Managers Confer.
"Since the fall of 1915" the commits
sion continued. certain sales mana
gers and local representatives of
large marketing companies, particu-
larly of the Standard Oil Company
and the Union Oil Company frequent
ly conferred and usually arrived q,
an understanding as to the differen-
tials in the prices to be charged indi-
vidual customers and to various
classes of purchasers. Presidents or
the Standard and of the Associated
Oil Company deny that these prac-
tices were either consented to or
known of by the higher officials of
their respective companies"
Evening star., 1921-12-02
D. c. HEADS REJECT PLAN TO GALL
NJ STREET PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE''

The Commissioners today reject
ed a request of the Georgetown
Citizens Association that the name
of M street between 2Sth and 36th
be changed to Pennsylvania ave-
nue..
The Commissioners based their
Motion on a report of Surveyor
Melvin C. Hazen, who told the city
heads that to approve the request
would establish precedent which
could be used as an argument to
change the street names in all
sections of the city.
'In the original city plan," the
surveyor said, "the avenues were
designed with greater width than
the stxest.S0AA all leading in dag
Evening star., 1921-12-02
C. v. MORSE LANDS
ON PROMISE TO SAIL
FORU.S. ON MONDAY
French Police Permit Ship
builder to Leave Liner
Paris at Havre.
AMERICAN EMBASSY SENT
ORDER FOR HIS ARREST
Willing to Return, He Says, and
Insists Trip Abroad Is for
Health.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVRE. December 2.-Charles w.
Morse, the American shipbuilder. who
arrived here on the Paris from New
York today, was permitted to land
from the steamer this afternoon. The
French police, however. insisted he
must promise that he would return
to New York on the Paris next Mon
day.
Mr.. Morse declared his willingness
to go back to the United States by
the next returning steamer, provided he
was not arrested.
Il am willing to return to America
by the first boat. and 1 have so wired
the United States district attorney"
he told the correspondent on board
the Paris early this afternoon.
Insists Trip Is for Health.
II am over here because of i'll
health" he added. but 1 am willing
to return even at the expense of
jeopardizing my life"
Police Commissioner Fabiani, who
was enjoying luncheon in the lux
urious dining room of the Paris as a
guest of Mr.. Morse. told the corre-
spondent during the noon hour that
he would take Mr. Morse ashore at 8
pm. and deliver him to the American
consul general.
Morse declared that he was unaware
his presence in Washington might be-
desired in connection with the investi-
cation OF his wartime activities by
the federal grand jury at Washing
ton until he was informed by wire
less last night that several operatives
from the Paris police department
were watching for his arrival.
Morse took up quarters In the CONT
mental Hotel here. escorted by French
Inspector Aigouy, and he will remain
there until the Paris is ready to sail.
Evening star., 1921-12-02
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
American naval opinion finds 1t
difficult to reconcile Japanese claims
to higher fleet ratio than the Amer
lean "5-5-3" proposal on the basis of
Japan's needs for her own defense,
when the additional tonnage sought
by Japan is all in offensive. not de-
fensive ships.
So far discussion has been largely
confined to capital ships, battleships
and battle cruisers. regarded in all
navies as purely offensive weapons.
This is true particularly of the cruis-
ers with long-cruising radius to per-
nit operations far from home waters.
The Japanese experts brought up in
discussions among the experts. how
ever, the question of additional air
plane carriers for Japan. 1t has been
indicated in Japanese circles that ia
pan desires equal tonnage with Great
Britain and the United States in car
rierS.
Air Forces Defensive.
1t is asserted by American officers
that airplanes themselves might be
claSsed as defensive weapons as long
as no means was provided to carry
them to distant waters. But when air
plane carriers are provided. the air
craft become potential weapons of
offense for bombardment of enemy
cities and fortifications.
Another aspect of the airplane car
rier problem lies in the fact that the
Evening star., 1921-12-02

onal directions. This action would
deviate from such a plan and
might lead to requests for other
streets to be designated as a pro-
longation of avenues, which GER
tainly should not be considered.
Pennsylvania avenue is $50 feet
wide, one of the widest in the Dis
trict, and it would seem that it
should not be bottled at one end
by a width of 80 feet.
"It is the parade avenue and is
known all over the world for its
magnif1cence. To have 1t run into
an east and west street of less
dignity would detract from its inn
portance. 1t Is believed that the
Commissioners would be without
authority to change this name
without a special act Of Congress,
and 1t is recommended that the
Commissioners disapprove such
Hesitation"