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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-16
By EDWARD w. PIckARD

IT AVlNG read the latest
IL reparations offer of Chan
cellor Cuno, what chance do
you think il presents for final
settlement of the problem?
Have you any confidence in the
good faith of Germany?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-16
NATIONS BUSINESS

Senator Smoot CRep., Utah) says
we will ne cancel foreign debts or be
a collector for any other foreign ia
ton.
President Harding declares no re-
duction in tariff will be made except
on the most striking evidence OF the
necessity for such change in rates.
Gigantic order fraud unsettles all
markets and declines are registered
in cotton and gram as well as stock
list.
Lehigh Valley Railroad says bad
year caused by strike.
Ford Motor Company shows assets
of 1886 ,351, 939, according to state
ment filed with Massachusetts Com
missioner of Corporation in Boston.
Orient now has one-ffth Of entire
United States export trade, Commerce
Department announces.
Treasury to offer $500, 900 900 note
issue; last step in %refunding of Vic
tory notes.
Narcotic conference asks President
to bring about world anti-drug action
and break with nations not %co-operal-
ing.
No mar can hold Office Of Chief
Executive and believe in American
isolation, President says, reatirming
stand for world court
Railroads will lay in S25, 900 900
coal stocks before heavy trathe sea
son.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-16
Ticks and Flashes Which Bull
letin in Condensed Style the
News of the World.
TIMELY HISTORY PARAGRAPHS
Events at Washington Which Loom
Large as Crucial Happenings.
Industrial Activities at
Home and Abroad.
WASHINGTON

New York and Atlanta bankers oP
pose proposed branch OF Boston Re-
serve Bank in Cuba.
Minnesota's occupation tax on the
valuation of iron ore mined in that
State was declared constitutional by
the Supreme Court.
Administration officials regard sit
uation in China as most serious since
the Boxer Rebellion. Joint interna-
tional Intervention to rescue foreign
ers seized by bandits may be under
taken.
United Mine Workers of America
renew plea to United States Coal
Commission for a fully unionized field.
La Toilette progressives to meet in
Chicago May 25 and 26 to discuss
means to cut $40, 1000, 000, 600 railroad
valuation in half.
Repeal of New York dry law be-
lieved in Washington to inject dry
issue into next Presidential contest.
Hughes seeking international show
down on o%pen-door question.
Producers Of commodities find big
demand is at an end.
Ford Motor Company report indi-
Gates owner is worth at least $780,
100000 and is worlds richest man.
President Harding will support the
Shipping Board in its decision to OBJ
ain docking facilities for the Levia-
than on the New York side of the
North River. rather than at Hoboken'
n. j.. it was declared at the White
House.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-16
FOREIGN

The Chinese bandits who raided the
Picking express demanded o. 900
for ransom for their prisoners, who in
clude a score of foreigners. All the
white women prisoners are at liberty.
Miss Aldrich, sister of Mrs. John D..
Rockefeller, Jr., was reported safe and
unframed near the scene of the raid.
Nineteen Americans were captured,
but some of them are now free. Major
Roland Pinger and Major Robert AL
len, both American army officers, still
are held.
United Mine Workers of America
renew plea to United States Coal Com
mission for a fully unionized field.
Firemen strike in Dublin and city is
left to mercy of flames.
Shipping trust in Germany is fore
Swallowed by recent mergers and close
cooperation of companies.
Liberal Reichstag parties deter
mined to force acceptance of the slight
est chance in Poincare's reply for an
ultimate understanding.
Lord Robert Cecil, arriving home,
conveys impression he does not ex-
pect America in League of Nations
soon.
Homes for honeymooners scarce in
Britain, mine union head reports on
return.
George Barbet in 15-horse power
fivver flies English Channel and wins
Paris lie Mathis 20, %00O-franc prize.
Andre Citroen, the Henry Ford of
France" proposes great transportation
system across Sahara desert.
Ovation rendered King and Queen of
England along their route to Rome.
British financial circles foresee long
delay IN settlement of reparation prob
lem.
Miss Lucy T. Aldrich, si~ster-in-law
of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Robert
P. Scripps, American publisher, re
ported among l44 passengers kidnap-
ped from train by Chinese bandits.
Death penalty for Archbishop Tx.
hon is urged by virtually all Peoples
Commissars at Moscow meeting, Riga
reports.
America involved in dispute over
capitulations which threatens to
wreck the Lausanne Near East peace
conference.
British notify Poincare separate re-
ply TO Germany d%ispleases and that
London favored conference before
such action.
Kidnappers of Werner A|lexanderson
sought in Montreals Chinatown. Gen
eral Electric Company offers $4,000
j reward.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-16
SPORTING

Sweetser and Gardner beaten in
British golf championship.
Kilbane sends $4,000 forfeit to
meet Dundee following Criqui bout.
The Leander eight, famous English
crew, will row at Toronto September
l against Canadian and American
competitors.
With the posting of a S25, 900 forfeit,
Eddie Kane, manager of Tom Glib
bons, st. Paul heavyweight, fulfilled
the challenger's contract, binding a
championship match with Jack Demp-
sey at Shelby, Mont, the boom town,
on July 4.
Georges Carpenter knocks out Mar.
eel Miles in eight rounds in Paris
bout.
Harvey Prick is victor in fifteen
mile road run.
Navy is victor in triangular crew
race On Lake Carnegie. Princeton fin
ished second and Harvard is third.
Yale wins varsity boat race at Der
by, with Columbia second and Penn
third.
Orlando Piani defeats Lorenz and
Grenda in three-cornered match at
Newark Velodrome.
Charley Paddock, the California
sprinter, is outstanding star of Paris
track games, breaking n worlds
record and equaling four. French cap
ture team honors.
Yale wins at polo from Cornell, 20
to 3.
French Athletic Federation decides
to prohibit Charles Paddock from
competing in that country.
Francis Ouimet defeats DR.. o. F.
Willing of Oregon in play-off of tie for
famous st. Georges golf cup,
The famous st. Georges vase will
remain in England even though Fran
els Ouimet won it. Ouimet's name
will be inscribed on the vessel, but
he will not be permitted to take it
out OF the country. Instead, the club
will present the Boston golfer with a
replica of the original vase.
Three American golfers lead field
in England for famous Royal St
Georges Challenge Cup, Francis Out
met and Dr.. Willing in tie for trophy.
William T. Tilden I'd once again
defeats William NJ. Johnston on ten
mis- courts in Philadelphia.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-16

Bankers predict new Treasury note
offer will be oversubscribed by $780,
600. 900.
Watch your step" and Look to
the right and left will be painted on
the pavements at New York's princi-
ap street crossings in an effort to
guard pedestrians against accidents.
Great Britain's quota of 77,342 emf
grants to America for the year ending
June 80 is exhausted. This is the
earliest the British quota has been
filed since the present immigration
law went into effect.
Chairman Lasker is standing pat on
the award of the contract for reeondi-
tioning the President Buchanan to the
Newport News Ship Building and Dry
Dock Company over the lower bid OF
the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Federal officials prepare to redouble
enforcement act.
Government will purchase only 49,
900 900 ounces more of silver under
the terms of the Pittman act.
Governor Smith of New York calls
for public hearing May 81 on Mullan-
Gage repeal; won't sign until he hears
both sides.
Sugar rehners blame tariff for 20
per cen of sugars cost.
Henry Ford is richest man in the
world. with more than $500, 000, 900.
Technically prevents official recog-
milton of cross-continental flight rec
ord.
The bill to unmask the Ku Klux
Khan, passed by New York Assembly.
awaits Governor Smiths signature.
Liquor fleets flight off New York
proves only strategic retreat; ships
return, use seaplanes to land cargoes.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-16
GENERAL

La Toilette PrOgressiyes to meet in
Chicago May Is and 26 to discuss
MEALS TO cut $4,000 ,OO0, 00U railroad
valuation in half.
irish emigration to the United
States for the first three months of
1928 shows a 300 per cent increase
over the same period last year.
The American Jewish Historical So
ciety plans the erection Of a building,
probably IN New York, as a memorial
10 Jews who died IN the World War.
Farmers Loan 81 Trust Co. arranged
with the Shipping Board to open an
cfice on the steamer LeViathan sched-
Gled to sail July A.
Edward Il. Cunningham of Iowa
named to Federal Reserve Board. Ed
ward (. Jones Of Pennsylvania made
member Of Farm Loan Board.
Great Schenectady IN. y reception
for Werner A-lexandeFson on his return
home. Three women arrested, &C
cused Of kidnapping him.
Michigan Legislature defeated a bill
proposing to raise $4,000, 900 annually
ALL 445A aJ AlaAAtAlE ~ lIEI EdSAuB
the weight tax on automobiles.
A committee representing twenty
four International steel unions will
launch a campaign to organize Ameri-
a steel workers.
Sioux Indian nation in $3.50, 900 900
claim against Federal government.
Boston meeting plans revival of New
England interest in foreign trade.
Twelve greatest living American
women picked by National League of
Women Voters.
Coast Guard tells President Harding
it can end rum running at cost of
$500, 900 a year.
American commissioners to nego-
tiate resumption of friendly relations
with Mexico left Washington for Mex
leo City, where they will meet Mexican
representatives in formal parleys com
mencing May IA.
Drys outwitted when duplicate Null.
lan-Gage repeater is rushed through
New York Legislature.
Poll OF Jersey clubwomen shows &C
per cent break dry law or have seer
close relatives violate it.
Flogging condemned. legislative &C.
ton to end it and convict leasing sys.
TEN demanded by Florida citizens.
Joint Franco-Belgian note rejecting
German reparation proposals handed
to Allied and American governments
Receivers depose d. G. Derry al
head OF Neg York silk corporation
bering his name and tell court dc
owes concern S1,500, 900.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-16

T IEUTS. John A. MacReady and
IL Oakley G. Kelly of the army air
service made a mountaineering flight,
from Hampstead, N. Y, to San Diego,
Cal, without stop. The distance was
about 2,635 miles and the time was
26 hours, 80 minutes, 48 2-5 seconds.
They used "A big %monoplane with a
Liberty engine.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-16

board in its last annual report, that
THE Presbyterian church in the Unit
national church in the fullest sense,
and has always recognized hat every
corner of the whole United States
where need for our service exists has
a rightful claim on the home mission
forces. east, west. north and SOUTH"
There will be divisions of missions
for cOlored people, schools and hos.
pitfalls, buildings and property, and gen
eral promotion and evangelism. is this
projected idea.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-16
BOARDS IN MERGER
important Move in Reorganization An
nounced by Authorities of the
Presbyterian Church.

New York.-One of the oldest organ
cations in the United States, the Pres
byterian board of home missions, in the
one hundred and twenty-first year Of
its existence, merged its identity with
the woman's board Of home missions.
the board of church erection, the board
Of missions for freedmen negroes Of
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-16

the South). the permanent committee
on evangelism, and the missionary and
eYangelistic section of the board of
publication and Sabbath school work
and became a factor in the new board
Of national missions of the Presbyte-
rian church in the United States.
This organization is the second
great accomplishment in the entire
plan Of consolidation of the Presby-
'terian boards from sixteen into four.
The establishment Of the new national
missions board emphasizes the KEY
note sounded by the home missions
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-16

CHANCELLOR CUNO'S long await
- ed %reparations offer was present
ed to the allies and the United States
last week, and though 1t was promptly
rejected by France as wholly made
quate and impossible, it Is believed at
this writing that Premier Poincare
will intimate that the proposals may
be, when revised, a basis for renewed
negotiations. That is as far as the
most optimistic opinion can go.
Germany offers a total of 10000
100000 gold marks ($7,500,00O,000) as
the utmost limit of her capacity to
pay, and expresses some doubt of her
ability to pay that much, though 1t
is a minor fraction of the sum she
agreed to pay under the Versailles
treaty. She proposes that two-thirds
of this be raised before July l, 1927,
by a bond issue floated in the inter
national money market; that 5,0OO,-
100000 marks more be raised before
July l, 1929, in the same manner.
and the remaining 5000, 100000
marks similarly before July /, 1881.
The plan provides that in case the
three loans do not produce the re-
quired total, IAN impartial interna-
tional commission must decide, if.
when, and how the balance must be
covered. The same commission will
decide how the interest on these loans.
not provided for, may be raised"
This commission, the note says,
should be "either the consortiUm which
floats the loan or an international
commission of business men CORE
spending TO the proposition made by
Secretary Of State Hughes, on which
Germany would be represented with
equal ria hts, or an arbitration tribunal,
composed of a representative of the
reparation commission. a representa-
tive of the German government, and
an arbitrator designated by the Presi-
dent of the United States in the alb
sence of an agreement on this person
age"
Cuno says Germany Is ready to en-
act legislation that would make her
entire economic system contribute so
as to assure the interest on the loans,
and to make conventions for deliV-
cries in kind. He proposes that secur-
ity as between France and Germany
be assured by an agreement to submit
any future disputes TO arbitration OF
other conciliatory process, suggesting
the Bryan arbitration plan.
Conditions hedging the offer include
the immediate evacuation by France
and Belgium of occupied territory
whose occupation Is not authorized by
the Versailles treaty, and the restora
ton of all expelled persons to theil
homes and positions.
THE Cuno proposals are In ever.
4 respect wholly obnoxious to til,
French. AS to the loans, the French
attitude is expressed thus by a higt
official The whole PREPARATIONS ques
ton is handed over to a few group
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-16
NEWS review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Germany's New Preparations Of
fer Rejected by France as
Wholly Inadequate.
SUMMARY OF CUNO'S PLAN

French UItimatum to Turks Concern
Ing Syrian Border Supreme
Courts Ruling on Liquor on
Vessels at Sea-Commu-
mist Ruthenberg Con-
victed in Michigan.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-16

THE Cuno proposals are In every
Il respect wholly obnoxious to the
French. AS to the loans, the French
attitude is expressed thus by a high
official: The whole PREPARATIONS ques-
ton is handed over to a few groups
Of bankers, chiefly German %fnanciers
operating In the United States, Eng
land. Holland and Switzerland, as the
note provides that If the 10000, 900 900
gold marks foreign loan is not foated
the whole question will be referred to
The Washington times., 1923-12-04
JEAN ELIOT'S. NEWS OF SOCIETY
JuSSerands TO Give
Dinner Party for
COn1patriOtS

The French Ambassador and Nine.
Jusserand will give dinner at
the embassy tonight in compliment
to their countrymen, Senator and
Nine. DuPuy, who are bringing
their visit to Washington to a close
tomorrow and will sail for France
on December IL. The Secretary Of
the Treasury, Mr.. Mellon, viii be e
guest.
Last evening Senator and Nine.
DuPuy We're dinner guests OF the
Counselor of the French Embassy
and Nine. de Laboulaye, the others
in the party including the Third
Assistant Secretary of State and
Mrs. j. Butler Wright; the chief OF
the division of European affairs OF
the State Department and Mrs.
william r.. Castle, jr.; Mr.. and Mrs.
Christian Herter, Miss Mary Pat
ten, and Coleman Jennings.
-
Cyrus E.. Woods, American am
bassador to Japan, and Mrs. Woods
arrived at the Willard this morn
ing. They have just landed in the
United States and this is their first
trip home since the Japanese earth
quake. They plan to be here all
week.
The Washington times., 1923-12-04

Mrs. John Joyce Broderick, Gen.
eral and Mrs. George f.. Downey,
Commander and Mrs. G. c. Harti-
gan, Commander and Mrs. John
Magruder. Mr.. and Mrs. Perry
Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Wilcox, Lieutenant and Mrs.
Edgar Allen Poey Miss Ruth
Richards, Phillip Kaufman, JO-
seph Sheedy, Commander Edward
Longworth, Pickney Tuck and
Lieut.. Halsey Powell.
MRS. HAROLD WALKER had
W1 table for eight guests, In
cluding her sister, Baroness Won
Schoen and Mrs Gertrude Divine
Ritter; and others who enter
tanned for dinner or later at the
dance were Miss Elizabeth Hanna.
Mrs. Joseph Stoddard, whose
guests were friends of her debu
tante daughter, Miss Ruth Stod-
dard; A. H. Hamilton Gordon. Col.
Winthrop Green and Mrs. Pearl
Moore Gray, who entertained for
Miss Muriel Eleanor Gray.
The Washington times., 1923-12-04

Miss Elizabeth Hubbard, of Charles
ton, w. Va, who is spending the
winter with her aunt, Mrs. Joseph
NOEL and who is numbered among
the seasons debutantes. Miss
Hubbard was graduated from q
Washington school last spring and
then went abroad to travel ex-
tensively with her aunt.
s.
Mrs. Peter GoeIet Gerry, who is
in New York, viii return to Wash
ington the last of this week.
-
Mrs. John Stewart McLennan and
her family have moved into Judge
and Mrs. Sidney Ballou's residence,
2114 Bancroft place. which they
will occupy for the winter months.
Mrs. McLennan will entertain at
dinner on Saturday evening for her
daughter, Miss Mildred Tytus, the
company going later to the dance
which Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. Reynolds
Hit are giving for their debutante
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Hit.
Mrs. Emerson Howe viii enter
tain a company Of twelve at dinner
this evening at her apartment. 1902
Eighteenth street. Dinner will be
followed by bridge.
-
Miss Ellen Blair will be the guest
of honor at the dinner Mr.. and
Mrs. Chester Snow. jr., will give
this evening.
Miss Dorothy bennett and her
father, Fred bennett, who have been
at the Hotel Commodore in New
York, have returned to Washington.
They will be Joined shortly. by Mrs.
bennett, who has been in Seattle,
Wash, for several months.
s.
Mrs. McKenna Pultz is in New
n /. IL
The Washington times., 1923-12-04

Senator and Mrs. David A. Reed
have as their guest Mrs. Thomas
Wilcox, OF New York. Mrs. Reed
will not be at home on Thursday
afternoon, but will receive on Thurs
day, December 13.
The Washington times., 1923-12-04
Ambassador Herrick Guest
At Wedding Breakfast.

Our ambassador to France, Myron
Herrick, and the Brazilian ambas-
sador in London, Domicio de Cana,
were among the guests who attended
the large breakfast which followed
the wedding in Paris yesterday of
Mrs. H. Wilfred Du Puy and Capt.
George w. Steele, u. s. N. There
were no guests at the wedding ex-
cept the witnesses, Capt. Frank
Upham, u. s. Naval attache in Paris,
and Mrs. Upham.
Captain Steele was sent to Europe
to inspect the Zeppelin ZR-3 at
Friederichshafen, and he and Mrs.
Steele will spend their honeymoon
flies back to this country, when his
bride will sail with her mother. Mrs:
Alexander Ramsay Thompson, Of
New York.
Captain and Mrs. Steele win make
their home in washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley p. Wilson
entertained at dinner at their couu-
try place, Holm Hall, Va, Sunday
evening, for Senator Samuel Short
ridge. Gen. and Mrs. Arthur MUIR
ray, DR.. and Mrs. Macpherson
Crichton. Commissioner and Mrs.
Mark Potter, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Davies, Bascom Slemp and William
Eric Fowler.
Mrs. Wilson went to New York
yesterday and will return the end
OF the week.
Sir Percy Thompson, of London,
has arrived in Washington and is
at the Shoreham.
-
Mrs. w. Harry Brown and Mrs.
Delos A. Blodgett have been added
to the list of patronesses for the
Columbia Hospital ball to be a-tven
at RauscheNs on the evening OF
December IL. Mrs. Blodgett has
also taken box for the occasion.
-
Mrs Victor Foster, wife OF Major
Foster, u. s. A., now stationed at
San Antonio, Texas, is arriving In
Washington today to visit Miss
Katherine Holbrook. Mrs. Foster
was formerly Miss Lucy Garrard
and had many friends in Washington
when her father, Col. Joseph Ger.
rard, was in command at Fort Myer.
-
Mr.. and Mrs. James M. Green
entertained at a dinner dance last
evening at the Chevy Chase Club,
the company numbering about one
hundred. The dinner was in honor
of their guests, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
r. MacMurray, of New York.
The Washington times., 1923-12-04
Sale and Tea Planned
For Salvation Army.

For the benefit of the Salvation
Army, a sale of Christmas articles
will be held at the home of Mrs.
Alfred s. Gillett, 1914 Twentieth
street, from tomorrow afternoon
to Wednesday, December IL, Sun
day excepted, from 3 to $50 o'clock.
In previous years Mrs. Gillett has
held similar sales in a business house
on Connecticut avenue, but this
year she has determined to place the
several hundred exquisite articles
which are in the collection on ex-
hibition in her own house, where the
sale will have the aspect of social
function. Tea will be served each
afternoon.
The sale is a remarkable one each
year, not only on account of the sew
eral hundred exquisite articles placed
therein, but because they are the
work of Mrs. Gillett's fingers. She
designs each article and no old-world
convent ever turned out more fin
ished products. Her plan in helping
the Salvation Army is to use the
hundred or two dollars which she
would otherwise give, in materials
for fancy work, and with the expert
ence OF several years to guide her,
designs and personally fashions the
nuhureoS or fancy articles to be Sold
for the cause. In the collection oc-
cupying tables In the Soldiers
room" of Mrs. Gillett's home are bags
of every size and kind, cushions,
toilet pieces, infants wear and COW
ers, and a table especially devoted
to toys and things for Christmas.
There are also many simpler, more
useful things on sale, with prices not
to be outdone by the shops of the
city.
Wednesday, Mrs. Charles Bough-
ton Wood will preside at the tea
liable, where there will be a differ
ent group of Mrs. GilIetts friends
each afternoon. Assisting her other
wise at the opening will be Mrs. Mar
Gus BENJAMIN, Mrs. Minnigerode An
dreWs, Mrs. Gouverneur Hoes, Mrs.
Lee Phillips, Miss Violet Gratz, of
Philadelphia, the niece and guest of
Mrs. Gillett; Mrs. Frank Andrews,
Mrs. Hugh Castle and Mrs. Louise
McGlH. Of Philadelphia, who is
spending the winter at the Connect
cut.
s.
Congressman Ernest Alderman
anG his family have come to Wash.
ington for the winter, and have
taken an apartment at Wardman
Park Hotel.