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The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
Hoosier Farmer
Loses Center of
us. Population

SPENCER, Ind, Feb. 21.-The
rush of Jimmy Herrin was over
today.
The 60-year-old farmer sat back
in his armchair, free from the gaze
of the curious and DETECTED on his
short-lived fame. which followed
announcement that the center of
population of the United States was
on tire Herrin farm.
Astronomers from Indiana, Uni
versity. rowing over Owen County.
decided first calculations, which
placed the center of population on
the rear of Herrin's forty acres,
were wrong-that the honor should
go to Melvin Sims. living two miles
away.
&, Prof. Cogshall. head of the astron.
omy department of the university,
determined the spot was on a steep
hillside of the Sims farm. II is
marked by a beech tree on which
the professor carved, Center of
population 1890"
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
SENATOR MORRIS
MAKES PLEA FOR
PATENT BILL VETO
Says Legislation Is Nee
essary to Protect Inven-
tor and Government.

Senator George w. Norris, of Ne
braska, chairman of the Senate
Patents Committee and of the Con-
ference Committee. has appealed to
the Senate to fix a time for taking
the final vote on the Nolan bill
providing increase in pay and per-
sonnei at the Patent ofice.
Senator Reed. of MI Souri. yestcr-
day attacked section y OF the bill.
which he called a joker. He de-
clared the bill as reported from
conference conveys the power Of
registering patents Of employees and
former employees Of the government
and issuing papers with the ,ap-
proyai of the President. =
I'm the first place" said Reed.
'goverRment employees should have
no more advantages than anyone
else, merely because they happen to
be government employees and have
that much advantage to start with.
am utterly dissatisfied, not to say
disguised. with the process Of legis-
lating during the war by shifting
duties upon the President"
Lend In Patents.
'T agree that the same privileges
should apply to everybody" said
Senator Norris in reply. But 90
per cent Of the Patent Office busi-
ness comes from government en-
ployes and there is no compulsion
about IL.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
HARDINCCIVES
CABINET PLACE
TODAUCHERTY
Campaign Manager for
President-elect Accepts
Portfolio.
CONSTANT ADVISER
SINCE ELECTION
No Man Would Refuse to
Serve Friend and Coun-
try in Full.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Feb. 2l.-
Another member of the Cabinet was
definitely announced and the post
accepted today.
The appointment was that of
Harry NJ. Daugherty to be Attorney
General in the next administration.
President-elect Harding stated
hatly that he was ready at any
time to invite Daugherty into the
public service" Harding laughed at
reports describing Daugherty as a
professional politician He said:
Invited to Cabinet
"As far as 1 am concerned / am
ready to invite Mr.. Daugherty into
the Cabinet, and when he is ready
to accept there will be an announce
ment. IL he can persuade himself to
make the personal sacrifice. 1 think
Mr.. Daugherty is a splendid man,
and 1 think he will make a great
Attorney General. I can say this
that the opposition to his appoint
ment has merely strengthened my
conviction that / wanted him"
Harry M. Daugherty not only is
the lifelong friend of the President
elect. but the man generally regard
ed as responsible for placing Hard
ing before the Chicago convention
as Presidential possibility.
Constant Adviser.
The Columbus politician. beside
being the President elects cam
paign manager. has been q con-
stant adviser since the days follow
ing the election.
When apprised of the President
elects statement, Daugherty made
public the following acceptance:
mo man would, refuse to serve a
friend and his codhtry under the
circumstances. am appreciative of
both the honor and the responsible
lIitt.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
SIMON TO REMAIN
BOARD PRESIDENT
Denies Report He Is to Resign
As Head of D. c.
Education.

DIR. Abram Simon, president OF
the Board of Education, will not
resign from that office as was fore
cast in the newspapers yesterday
afternoon.
DR.. Simon, in a statement en-
phatically denying that he was con-
sidering placing his resignation be-
fore the board at their next meet
ing on March 2, said last night he
would continue in his work "for a
while longer at least"
Il feel that should and shall
serve in my present capacity" DIR.
Simon declared, "as long as the
pressure of need calls for such serv-
ice.
while 1t is true that in my orig
inal letter / agreed to act only until
an emergency was tided over, I be-
lieve that / should continue in my
work as president of the Board of
Education for a while longer at
least"
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
German Dye Experts
Not to Be MOLested

WILMINGTON. Del, Feb. s1.-
Issuance OF warrants in Cologne,
Germany, for extradition of four
chemical and dye experts, two OF
whom are now employed by the Du
Points here, is not regarded as like
ly to have any material effect, as
Gsrmany and the United states still
are in a technical state of war. IT
is doubtful IL the State Department
will recognize the validity of the
warrants.
The four chemists are accused by
Friedrich Bayer & Company, Of
Germany. by which firm. they for
merly. were employed. of breach Of
contract and betrayal of commercial
secrets. Two Of them. DR.. Joseph
Ffachsiander and DR.. Otto Rtnge.
have been in Wilmington month.
They are engaged by the Duponts
at s25.oeo q year each as dye sex-
experts &.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
Points Of Danger.
Germans Asked TO Attend
League Meeting in Spain

PARIS. Feb. 21.-The league Of
nations flung down the gauntlet to
the London congress today when
the council decided TO send a formal
invitation to Germany TO attend the
communications and transit confer
ence Of the league at Barcelona on
March 10. despite the statement
during the Paris conference that
Germany will not be allowed 10
attend any league meeting until
she agrees to pay the indemnity
The motion to invite Germany
was passed following the insistenee
OF the Swiss. Italian and Spanish
delegates. Arthur Balfour. British
representative, finally agreed that
the Spsniards. as hosts Of the
March gathering. had the right 20
invite Germany IL they were pleased
to do So
The actual consequence Of the iu-
vitation is that Il puts Germany on
equal terms with other nations in
the settlement Of world problems
for the first time since the war.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
ILLNESS OFTWO
HALTS MINGO CASE

WILLIAMSON, w. Va, Feb l21.-
The Trigger Trial" was again up
set today. Two of the nineteen de-
fendants-Charlie Kiser and Bill
Bowman-were so i'll they were
unable to attend court, so the days
hearings were called OF. Bowman
has influenza with fever of 102. XII
ser's ailment is still undiagnosed.
Both men are veterans of the great
war. having fought in many of the
big battles on the Western front.
Judge Robert d. Bailey announced
court will hereafter open at s in
the morning and the proceedings
will last eight and nine hours a
day until the case Is finished. All
witnesses were again warned that
will mean Jail terms.
II the two sick men are unable
to appear tomorrow the State is ex-
pected to make a motion of mis-
trial in their cases and ask to go
ahead with the trial of the other
men charged with the
MURDER of Albert e. Felts. Bow
man and Kiser have been segre-
gated in the county Jail to. safe
guard the health of the other de-
PENDANTS.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
Jump With Parachute
SaUed Life, Filler Says

CHICAGO, Feb. 21.-''well, 1t was
economical. They didn't have to
spend any money on flowers"
This was the nonchalant way C.
C. (Mike) Eversole spoke of his
narrow escape from death when
last Friday he leaped from a mail
airplane in a parachute, dropping
to safety from a height of 5000
feet, near Minneapolis.
After several men had been
killed on tnat North end route, .
continued Eversole, "the field SUI
perintendent said there were para
chutes in stock for those who
wished to carry them. When 1
found ! was going on the trip 1
sure wanted one. Believe me, there
was no advertising in that jump"
Eversole Is on his way to Wash
ington where he will report the ac-
cident. 1t was the first successful
attempt in America to leave q ma
chine by parachute without assist
ance.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
Clothing Taken
From Prisoners
To Bak Escape

CHICAGO. Feb. 21.-Prisoners. at
the detective bureau today found
themselves without hats, shoes,
overcoats. coats and collars.
John ]. Murphy, lookup keeper,
took these articles of clothing from
all prisoners early today following
an attempt by four prisoners to es-
cape. Taking away the clothing is
an old-time army method of pre-
venting escape. Murphy is a for
mer army lieutenant.
The attempt at escape was led by
Louis Kasper, who has twice fed
from the hospital for the insane at
Chester and now is awaiting re-
turn to that institution, where he is
under life sentence for murder.
Kasper had succeeded in snug
Cling a hacksaw into the bureau
with him when arrested. Using soap
to deaden the noise. he had succeed
ed in saving away the iron grating
at the top of his cell where he and
three companions were held, when
Murphy spotted the work.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22

Fletcher, as he will be one of the
Harding administration who also
served in an appofntive post under
President Wilson. In his duties as
Ambassador to Mexico, and after
ward on detached duty at the De-
partment of State, he brings mucn
concrete knowledge of American
oipiomacy into the new administra-
tion.
Ut was Mr.. Fletcher who virtually
singie-handed conducted the neeo-
tlations in the Jenkins case with
Mexico. which Immediately preceded
the downfall of Robert Lansing as
Secretary sof State. 1t was known
at that time that the notes sent 10
the Mexican government in connec-
zion with the arrest and detention
OF the American vice consul-by far
the strongest in the present history
Of United Statss-Mexican relations
were the handiwork of Mr
Fletcher. and there never has been
the slightest doubt In Washington
that the actual cause for the Presi-
dents brusque demand that Mr..
Lansing resign was due NOT 40
much to the stated reason-the cali
ing Of Cabinet meetings-as II was
to the fact that Mr.. Wilson sud-
denly discovered. when his health
once more permitted him to take
an active part in the affairs Of, the
nation. that his Secretary of State
had gone far afield from the VIII
sonian theory of "watchful watt
ing" and was about to, demand a
with Mexico. Mr.. F1etch-
er left the State Department with
Mr. Lansing. s.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
CHARGE
AERO SABOTAGE
Deaths of Seven American
Mail Fliers Laid to Fault
In This Country.
Especial Cable to The Warrington Herald
and Chicago Tribune.)

Especial Cable to The washington Herald
and Chicago rribune.)
BERLIN, Feb. 21.-The American
postal service airplanes which
caught IRE recently. causing the
death of seven young men, were
tampered with in America. accord
ing to a statement made by the
Junkers Company, which is endeav-
oring to send representatives to
testify before the Congressional In
commission.
-All airpIanes sold to the Ameri-
can postal service are sold without
motors" the statement said, but did
not make 1t clear whether America
had purchased any German motors.
Continuing. the statement declared:
This company is blameless for
accidents arising from the motors
igniting the planes. 1nasmuch as 1t
is the simplest thing to sabotage a
motor within a few seconds with a
monkey wrench, the Junkers Com
pany believes that someone resort
ed to sabotage, which caused the
deaths of the pilots.
mot a single airplane caught fire
during the war. nor in all the time
since the armistice, in the German
civilian postal service.
The Junkers Company is anxious
to testify before the American COM
mission of investigation, but is un-
able to obtain a passport wise from
the American consulate in Berlin"
Copyright, ls21.)
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
Feud of Words
Among Texans
GrouUs Hotter
Summers Posts $1,000
Forfeit for Blantpn's
Proof of Charges.

Rounds Four and Five Of the
Summers -Slaaton feud were
fought yesterday Ion paper
the former again drawing fresh
blood. Round Six is impending.
with knockout Improbable
before next election.
honnd -Four was an appeal
by Blanton to his Texas con-
stituents to withhold Judgment
until he In able to assemble
facts to convince Lone Star
state voters that hs is not
Shghting air.
Summers came back In Round
Five by posting a forfeit Of
$1,000 IL q committee, to be
chosen by Blnnton himself.
shnds that you told the truth
I'm your letter to Texas papers
or had reason to believe you
were telling the TRUTH,
The $1,000 was posted with
the Security National Bank of
Dallas, Texas. and II payable to
the American Legion OF Texas
for the treatment Of disabled
soldiers. 10 the committee hnhs
that SBlanton told the TRUTH
"If.' said Summers, syou have
made n false charge, whether
the motive was deliberate pur-
pose to hurt, or desire to give
yourself n relative status By
emitting down the reputation
and good name OF your COLI
leagues, you have done n hurt
to your government which NO
ordinary anarchist could dor
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
GREEKS PROMISE
TO MOP UP TURK;
COURAND SMILES
French General Declares
Kemal Has Powerful
Armed Forced.
BY HENRY WALES.
Especial Gable to The Washington Herald
and Chicago Tribune.)


and Chicago Tdbune.)
LONDON, Feb. 21.-That Greece
can mop up all the Turks in Asia
Milor within the next three months
was the assurance made by Nikolas
KalogeropouIos. the Greek premier,
to the supreme council of the league
of nations today.
The Greek premier made a grand
stand play for worldwide interest
by promising to wipe out Mustapha
Eenlal Pasha's army and liberate
the Armenians. which both the allies
and the league of nations failed TO
do.
Big Drive Due.
Col SERVANTS, chief of stan OF
the Greek army in Asia Minor, as
sured the conference that Greece
could enforce the Sevres treaty and
was preparing a big offensive TO
crush the nationalists and police
AuatoIia 3
Gen. Gouraud, who commanded the
French forces in Cilicia and who
fought the Turks at Gallipolis,
warning the conference against
sharing Greek optimism said, DO
not think the Kemslists lack war
material. In capturing Aintab a
fortnight ago the French troops had
TO face Turkish bombardment from
three and four-inch artillery. which
attained an intensity Of 1000 shells
daily"
Gen. Gouraud stated the kemal-
lists possess $4,000 organized troops,
besides a large number OF irregu-
lars, and prophesied the most Bit
ter nghting when the Greeks at
tempted to advance deeper into An
atolia-
The Greeks are now fighting
tired. exhausted Turks who former
ly inhabited the Iittoral which the
Greeks now occupy" he declared;
when they penetrate further in
land the Greeks will encounter
tribes which, history shows. have
been courageous fighters"
Gen. Gouraud merely smiled when
the Greeks promised to subdue the
Turks in a three months campaign.
The revision of the Sevres treaty
was not preached" said Premier
BRAND after the session. This
afternoon we attempted to learn
from the Greeks the exact situa-
tion there. Tomorrow the British,
Italians, Japanese and myself will
hear the Turks"
Samy Bey, Mustapha Kemal
Pasha's representative, arrived in
London this evening but the Brit
ish have not yet decided IL both
Angora and Constantinople Turks
will be admitted tomorrow after
noon or whether they will be in
structed to reach an agreement
among themselves first.
The British military experts did
not participate lin today's discus
sion. The Japanese and Italians re-
manned silent
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
Eireless Day
Ends Eighteen
Year Record
Department Goes for "a
Hours Without Alarm
Being SeT1t in.

At Il:10 last night N. L. Mothers
head, veteran switchboard operator
for the fire department at the Dis
trict Building, took OF his head-set
and solemnly raped on rood.
He had witnessed the establish
ment Of a record for the past eigh-
teen years by not having received
a single alarm of nre in the past
twenty-four hours. For one whole
day the scores Of companies, re-
Gently harrassed with from twelve
to twenty-six calls to action per
diem. lived the life Of Riley in their
houses.
Not since 1902, says Mothershead,
has a day gone by without record
ed blaze. And his thirty-four years
experienced n the Department con-
stitute him an authority. Mothers
heads woodworking seemed fur
there to discourage the fame jinx.
More than three hoWs later all was
still in the fire linz.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
Power of Absent Nation
Felt i'm Proceedings
At London.
COVENANT CHANGE
HELD IN ABEYANCE
Swiss Ban on Troops Of
wilma Subject of Pro-
test by Associates.
By FLOYD GIBBONS.
Especial Cable TO Ths washinstou Herald
and Chicago Tribune.)

PARIS, Feb. 2I.-The United
States. although not represented at
the meeting, dominated the pro-
ceedings of the council Of the league
o fnations here today.
Speculation as to the attitude of
the new administration on the
league resulted in the referring of
amendments to the league coven-
ant to committee. which will not
report before April This gives the
Harding administration time to de-
fine its position.
'Iesgue in Leaeue.-
The council LiainIy apprehends
that the new administration will
make France and England propo-
sails for disarmament and that there
will be a new grouping of powers
amounting TO a league within a
league. IL is asserted that the coun-
Gil is ready to adopt any United
states amendments to the covenant
VIII JON lne
league.
The council decided 20 send a let
ter to Switzerland regarding the
latter's refusal TO allow league
troops to proceed 10 the Wilma
plebiscite region via Switzerland"
Regrets Refusal
The council regrets the Swiss re-
fusal and her opposition TO the
obligations which the covenant as
signs to members Of the league. IL
is pointed out that the seat Of th-
league being located in Switzerland.
her refusals amount TO the barring
the leagues troops from the
leagues seat which is an impos-
sible situation
The transfer Of the leagues scat
from Geneva to Brussels Of Tn"
Hague has not been mentioned and
no immediate solution Of the sit
uatioE is expected.
Copyright, is2I.)
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
4 DEATHS FEARED
IN BLOCK COLLAPSE

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 2l.-
Nathan Soglovitz. vice president of
the Cuyahoga Wrecking Company,
was killed, two other men were
badly. hurt and three others are be-
lieved dead following the collapse
of the third floor Of the Masonic
Temple building here today. The
structure is being razed.
The third floor and walls Of the
building collapsed suddenly and
crashed onto an office on the first
floor. Six men were in the office at
the time. The many tons Of debris
carried the men and the ONCE into
the basement.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
Stabbed by Colored Boy,

Suffering from a slight stab
wound in the left side, Jerry Tudor.
IS years old, of 1887 Harvard
street northwest, was treated at
Garfield Hospital yesterday after
noon. Tudor was stabbed by an
words near Central High School.
The colored boy ran following the
assault and police have been un-
alala to locate him.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
Jap General Suspended
For Death of Langdon

TOXIC, Feb. 21.-It has been Of
ficiaIly announced that Maj. Gen.
Nishi Hara, the commandant Of the
twenty-second brigade. of which
the sentry who killed Lieut.. Lang
don was a member, has beon sus-
pended and his command taken over
by the chief of stan Of the First
division.
The Japanese press has been in
sistent that the sentry was not SO
much responsible for the staying IS
the officers who instructed him.
Copyright, ls1i. By the Chicago Tribuns.)
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22

POLICY URGED
BY DR.. LOWELL
Harvard Head, Friend of
Harding and Hughes,
Opposes Changes.
LINKS PROSPERITY
WITH DIPLOMACY
Declares Public Opinion
And Trained Workers
Must Be Guides.

CHICAGO. Feb. 21.-That the
foreign policy Of the United States
should become a fundamental and
permanent doctrine. not susceptible
to radical changes by succeeding
political administrations. was advo-
Gated today by DIR. A. Lawrence
Lowell. president of Harvard Uni
versity, in talk at the City Club.
DR.. Lowell(is close friend of
President-elect Harding and of
Charles Evans Hughes. who will be
the next Secretary of State. He
also has been called on for advice in
foreign matters by President Will
son.
In his adress, which was on the
subject of "A Permanent Foreign
Policy" DR.. lowell reviewed the
american governments attitude to-
ward European nations since the
days of the Revolution.
Brought Into Embrorlio,.
From 1916 to 1912. we were al
ways being brought into European
embroglios," he declared. "This
was because of our peculiar terri
torial and political position and also
because of the smallness of our ma
tion.
1t wasn't until the Introduction
OF steam transportation that our
country tended toward Isolation
PREVIOUS to that time our clipper
ships-our merchant marine-were
The greatest form Of investment for
our capital.
AT the present time we have
enormous and diversified industries
we now need raw material from
outside countries to supply these in
dustries. Our foreign trade must
inevitably increase constantly.
Links Trade sad Politics.
what is our situation today,
Can We avoid dealing with tie out
sac world? We are the richest
nation and we are commercially tho
most powerful. Commercial rela
ffons go hand in hand with poIiti-
cal relations. You can't do busi-
ness without questions of import
and export and duties and customs
constantly coming up for settle
ment.
Does anyone believe We can take
the attitude that we will GO to
Heaven while the rest of the world
may go to He'll?
1t is not good thing in domes-
tic policy to make sudden changes.
The most essential thing in any ma
ton of permanence is that its for
eign policy be stable. If the ma
tions of >the world do not know
what you stand for, you stand little
chance of getting it. The nation
which knows what it wants and
keeps its eyes firmly fixed will al
ways get ahead.
Two Fundamental Forces.
IF you make a success of a for
eign policy 1t must be permanent
and continuous. There is no reason
why the foreign policy should de-
pend on the attitude of a man
elected for totally different reasons.
"A foreign policy should be di-
rected by two fundamental forces:
General public opinion and a body
OF trained men who know their
jobs. Do you know there Mas not
been a President since Buchanan
who has had intensive training in
diplomacy?
Our foreign policy should be
like the Monroe Doctrine-it should
outlive the administration which
conceives and any number of fur
ther administrations"
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
REDS TAKE TIFLIS,
FRENCH ANNOUNCE
Especial Gable to The Washington Herald
and Chicago Tribune.)

PARIS. Feb. 21.-The French for
eign once officially announced to-
day that the Bolshevists have cap
tured Tiflis, the capital of Georgia.
The report states that Gen. Buden-
ny's cavalry entered the city and
after the most sanguinary street
fighting finally placed the red nag
over the Tiflis arsenal.
The capture Of Tiflis, which, is a
railroad center of vital Importance,
the soviets with the Kem-
alists in the southwest, the Mus
sulmans in the south. and with Per-
sia and India to the southeast,
overshadows the London conference
on Near East Affairs
tos1erisht. loe1J
The Washington herald., 1921-02-22
Makes Hold-up on Busy Street

MEMPHIS. Tenp., Feb. 2l.-Un-
daunted by the, hundreds of persons
on the street near the scene. lone
bandit shortly before noon today
held up and robbed Ernest Tapp,
messenger for the Memphis Fed
eral Reserve Bank, OF, approximately
5000 in cash. The bandit. in q
soldiers uniform. stopped Tapp and
prea.~s his gun into his side.