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Smyrna times., 1924-02-06
hi PLUMBER MERCHANT IlI...
AUTO HITS TRAIN
,,,n OWNER OF sEyER4L 5-6R1L
@Is lIID KILL KILLED AT TLINcoLN
....-,nting to Drive Over the
q Alif3igSl 9iiSqr gler' Did Not See the
d ind h'I1., Uraaks Did not Work

.0tinp TO Drive Over the
! "d !. hii2o, Prpaks Did not Work
. nI3 Reed, aged So years. an
aHE I,n5er n5sr dealer and operator
Z, ..1. iI.''1i, about Milford, and = one
,a4 a.l' known residents 3, OF Sus- Sas
ss' Ir.s ras instantly killed Sat
r1Iy, al,,"on "r, when the automobile
iiIslliys' Is:,iDo crashed into the side
,,.nmotive a,,,ai drawing a north !,
a,,.ergsr o'yll1g, train at Southard's
1''sS sSort distance from the
IineoIu. three miles south Of
. The machine was reduced to
and Reeds head was crush
T. 4 /. hi believed he failed to see the
| that when he did see it the
:, bis machine failed to hold
Y y .,jesvOred to stop. His wife
!. =, invalid, and one married
y . ,,r,ive him. An inquest
n IA n and the jury returned a YER
\ he effect that his death was
Nm accident. Reed had gone to
\, ,boU in Lincoln after his
!, T,,E 10 get a shave and he then
n into his touring car and drove
Ia ne square and started toward
-aro,d tracks on his way home
/, ,sred the crossing the locomo-
Tith was slowing down prepar-
b stopping at Lincoln station
,host cleared the crossing whel
!, ,utO crashed into the side o.
n mime, the step to the cab strik
\ car. The automobile was car
short distance along the track
va; thrown in front Of the ma
and crushed under it. The &C
occurred about 600 feet frOr
.On. Reed is said not to hav
driving his car more than l
an hour at the time. He wa
my occupant of the automobile
n inquest Charles Walls, VIII
IN house close to the crossing
tia he had just stepped from tn
aud saw Reeds auto run into tn
d tie engine. He expressed tn
Esi that Reed did not see the trai
Be brakes on the car did not hol,
eg Thomas gave similar test
Friends Of the dead man sa.
b understood the brakes {
EVere not in the best of worl
rE, Reed has been buying l
tracts, cutting the timber in
pa He has been operating a sa
b Milford Neck.
Smyrna times., 1924-02-06
''.'n Renodslinn L.

La -'n'deling Jester House
s'.lHar s'.lSa S,si.. / r,emOdelng the Jes-
sasl BosrSin in he purchased from
'ssle 49, ana moved to a lot
isdnsla.e Saen completed it will ii
Evening star., 1924-04-20

the, treaty of Versailles was in the
making.
Required Big Payments.
OF the $4,000. .oo0. 900 gold marks.
only $4,000. 900, 900 were TO be paid in
A and b bonds. The remaining So
600. 900, 900 of c bonds was reserved
for future treatment. To pay in
terest on the A and 3 bonds and to
retire them through a sinking fund
operating over fifty years required
annual payments by Germany of
somewhat more than 5000, ,000. 900
gold marks.
Germany regarded that as excess
sive. Dawes finds that Germany can
pay 100000 gold marks annually.
That amount is insufficient to pay in
terest on the entire reparations total
ing 10000. 900, 900 gold marks. but it
would meet requirements for 46,-
000, 600. 900 gold marks
Officia1s here believe that when
this problem is worked out, the
amount of reparation will have to be
cut still further, on the face of the
Dawes findings. approximately to
40 000,000,000 gold marks This is A
phase OF the subject that has not
date. 1t is regarded as almost GER
tain to create a sensation and may
delay negotiations for q time.
The Germans appear to have been
quick to see this point. however, as
that may have had much to do with
the promptnesS with which the Ger
man government accepted the find
ings in principle.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The triumph of an idea, obscured
for time and even seemingly de-
feated, but a triumph in the end
thus does the diplomatic world size up
the remarkable formula for the So
luton of the six-year-old reparation
controversy drafted by the Dawes
Young commission, and now ac-
cepted by Germany as well as the al
lied powers.
Secretary of State Charles Evans
Hughes sponsored the idea, fought
long and voluble diplomatic battles
with Premier Poincare, and finally
won out by the simple process of
awarding to the French premier the
opportunity to make the American
ldea his own. The inside history of
the moves which have led to the hap
py solution now in prospect, which is
ming the world again with optimism,
can be revealed now as an enlighten-
ing chapter in the foreign policy of
the United States.
Wilson Initiated Move,
The story starts with the effort of
president Wilson to get Senate con-
sent to get appointment of an
American member on the Preparations
Commission. He failed. President
Harding expressed himself as willing
to have such representation author
lied. but the temper Of the ''irrecon-
Evening star., 1924-04-20
REPARATION ADJUSTMENT PLAN
+ TRIUMPH OF 6-YEAR STRUGGLE
wilson, Harding, and Finally Coolidge Favored
Settlement Untinged by PoIitics-Hughes Out
lined Scheme Later Reviued by Poincare.

cilables' prevented action. An
unofficial American member sat in the
reparations meetings, first, r. w.
Boyden and then Cot Logan, Nei-
ther was permitted to vote. as America
had not Joined the commission off,
French. The Belgians and Italians
voted with the French, while the
British stood more or less alone most
of the time. The deadlock prevented
any solution.
Britain Sought United States Aid.
Great Britain sought American aid
in vain. Finally, through diplomatic
influence, the Reparation Commission
was prevailed upon to invite bankers
and financiers to act as an advisory
committee in finding a practicable
solution. J. +. Morgan was invited
to sit on such committee But the
sessions of the advisory body came
to naught. largely because the French
government insisted upon believing
that the plan would resolve itself
into a means of cutting down Ger
many's payments. Interference with
the scope of the committees work by
the injection of controversy over
jurisdiction marked the end of the
meetings
Hughes Repeats Suggestion.
Diplomacy again took up the tangie
speech OF Secretary Hughes at New
Haven, in which he argued that what
was needed was not a political, but
an economic, state of mind. He pro-
posed that the matter be left to a
commission of experts. disconnected
from political or governmental infiu-
ence. They were TO determine scien-
tifically what Germany could nay and
find q formula whereby Germany
would be able to pay reparation
debts The suggestion fell on deaf
ears in France. Then former Prime
Minister David Lloyd George came
to America and pointed to the
Hughes suggestion as practicable.
and urged its acceptance or, at any
rate, that the British government
be known that the Hughes plan an
nounced under the Harding admins
tration would be the policy Of his
administration.
Pressed by Lloyd George.
Lloyd George seized upon it as
a subject for further discussion. The
Baldwin government, fearing that
Mr.. Lloyd George would make Il an
issue on his return, promptly tender
ed an invitation TO the United State s
and other powers to participate in
the selection of a commission of ex-
.perts, as suggested by Secretary
America promptly accepted. but Pre-
mier Poincare was skeptical of the
London porposal as he was OF nearly
everything OF British origin. Try, as
Secretary Hughes did, through nu-
Inerous conversations with Ambas-
s9eh prser aas to t6s ssas shs
not have to be accepted il IL was
unsatisfactory. the French govern
ment, in effect, rejected the invita-
Evening star., 1924-04-20

ican bankers would be to accept the
Dawes plan with two notifications.
These were, he explained; 4;
First, the proposed gold bank
should be on a gold basis. other Eu-
ropean countries are jealous that
Germany should be placed on a gold
basis, but American fnanciers cannot
be Interested in a big loan t. Ger
many unless it is guaranteed by the
mark on gold basis. and not, as it
is now, on a paper basis.
Second. the bankers should insist
upon a sliding scale for the repara-
tions, according to Germany's ability
to pay" ~
Evening star., 1924-04-20

nical advisers OF the McKenna rep
aration committee, arrived today on
the Berengaria.
The Dawes plan, he said, is a good
one and a great advance over what
previously had been done, but it fixed
sums too great for Germany to pay.
"The present plan." the colonel as
serted, "is infiexible. and it should
be made 50 that Germany can pay
according TO her genuine ability to
pay"
Col. Ayres, who is vice president of
the Cleveland Trust Company OF
Cleveland, Ohio, was an adviser of
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Whitney PoSeur Arrested

NEW HAVEN, Conn, April 10
Harry r. Stedman, VINO represented
himself as Harry Payne Whitney OF
New York and ordered an automo-
bile and wearing apparel for an
actress. giving worthless checks in
payment. was held for the superior
court today in $500 on charges of
issuing three bad checks
Evening star., 1924-04-20

ton by imposing restrictions on the
scope of the committee which the
Washington government deemed de-
structive, and hence the British IN
vitation failed of result.
Psineare Revives Plaza
During the correspondence with
the American government the French
premier had shown such an interest
in the main outline of the Hughes
plan that he WIS truly disappointed
when the NEGOTIATIONS collapsed.
Feeling the necessity for an expert
Enquiry, NJ. Poincare decided to issue
the invitation himself, and he spon-
sored a plan quickly approved BY
the reparations commission whereby
that body formally invited the ex-
pefts to advise it.
The experts w. re not necessarily to
be connected with governments. In
the case of the Americans invited,
Charles G. Dawes. owen ID. Young
and Henry NJ. Robinson. they were
selected with the knowledge of the
American government, but without
its specific authority. Indeed. the
American members prevailed upon
the other experts to cut loose from
their governments, so to speak, and
look at the problem as a business
mater without regard to politics
exactly the Hughes formula
Matter SkifIuiIy Handled.
Such an attituce has brought out a
plait now regarded as a masterpiece
of adroit phraseolSgy and diplomatic
handling of an admittedly complex
situation. Neither France nor Ger
many VAS offended by the reeomnen-
dation. The national honor and obli-
gat'ons of both SIDES was recognized.
FISCAL reconstruction for Germany
was assured, provided France with
drew her economic stranglehold on
the ,Ruhr Nothing was said about
continued military occupa tion of the
Ruh- by the French, which prob
ably will be perfnnctory, but which,
pride without interfering with Ger
many's productiveness.
Americans Aid French.
Just how much the general fall OF
the franc had to do with the tractabie
spirit of the French government in
the recent parleys can only be con-
1ectured. but In the midst of the crisis
over the franc American bankers came
forth with big loan which stabilized
the French situation. These bankers
would not have made such a loan with
out knowing what the French would do
ABOUT the acceptance of the Dawes
Young report. The French government
was In constant touch with the work
of the Dawes-Young commission.
When the Morgan loan was made, the
financial world assumed the French
would accept the experts report. And
that has happened. The reparation
problem has, from the start been an
economic question. but it could not be
solved If viewed as a political affair
in either Germany or France. Mr.
Hughes insisted that it was q matter
OF ecopomicS. His view triumphed.
All of which shows that in diplomacy
persistence wins in the end.
Copyright, 1924
Evening star., 1924-04-20

the second expert committee, which
was appointed to search for German
capital abroad.
Calls u. y. "Sucker Country
Col Ayres said his study of the
flight of the German mark" showed
him that America was "a sucker
country" OF 1000, 100000 German
marks sold throughout the world at
high rate of exchange 700, 900 900
were purchased in the United States
on the assumption that the German
people would recover their economic
position, he declared. About 1000, 900
persons speculated in the mark and
about 100000 were buyers in the
United States, he added.
The banker said his advice toAmer-
Evening star., 1924-04-20
FLAW In DAWES PLAN,
U. S. ADVISER HOLDS
Col. L. P. Ayres, Member of Second
Committee, Says Too Much Is
Levied on Germany.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 19.-Col. Leon
ard p. Ayres. one of the expert tech
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Nursery Refrigerator and
Water Cooler, packed with
mineral wool, finished in oak
and white enamel, C1 TX
with nickle faucet VOs%O
The Washington times., 1924-10-21
zLAN AND DEMOCRATS MAY INA" FERGSOl
Suspicious Person
Escapes With
Jail Lock

INDIANA, Oct. 21.-Clymer,
this county, is exercised over
the fact that a prisoner cap
tured at 1870 in the morning,
escaped before two hours had
elapsed, taking with him the
lock Of the Jail.
Police officials say they do
not even know his name. The
chief of police found the man
inspecting the business houses
and picked him up as a suspi-
cious person.
When searched at the Jail all
he had on him was baby crow
bar, a razor, bunch of skeleton
keys, a jimmy, a six-inch blade
knife, a rope, some dynamite,
a little nitroglycerine, a revolver
and cartridges and a flashlight.
Everything but the fIashlight
was taken from him.
The chief Of police had no
sooner dropped into bed at his
home than the suspicious" per-
son got busy with that flash
light and soon had the lock
open.
The Washington times., 1924-10-21
plan IS
CHIEF ISSUE IN
GERMANY
Nationalist Planning vigor-
Gus Attack-New Reich
stag About Dec. I
By international News Service.

BERLIN, Oct. 21.-The Dawes
plan and Germany's acceptance of
it will be the leading issue in the
political campaign which opened to-
day.
Although the plan is accepted by
the whole world as the best solution
yet found for solving the repara-
tons problem the German nation
alists are going to make a vigorous
attack against the plan throughout
the, campaign.
The general election to choose a
new reichstag will be held about
December /, President Ebert having
signed a decree dissolving the pres
ent reichstag. Thus, new parlia-
ment will come into being in Ger
many and England at about the
same time.
Dissolution of parliament follow.
ed Chancellor Marks failure to ex.
tend the government coalition to in.
clude nationalists. The nationalists
had been promised representation II
they would not reject the Dawes
plan in the reichstag.
The Washington times., 1924-10-21
Dawes. COMING
EAST T0CLOSE
CAMPAIGN
Vice Presidential Candidate
to Speak on Court and
Budget Making
BY ALBERT F.. BAENZIGER,
International News ServIce.

ENROUTE THROUGH PENN.
SYLVANIA WITH GENERAL
DAWES, Oct. 21.-General Charles
G. Dawes, Republican Vice Presi-
Dental candidate, will open his
second and final invasion of the
East with a speech tonight in Phil.
adelphia.
Budget making and the dangers
Of Congressional supervision of the
United States Supreme Court will
be the subjects of mis- remarks.
His program will take him into
Maryland. West Virginia and New
York State.
Mrs. Dawes is accompanying the
General.
George Miller, engineer on the
Pennsylvania railroad, was plotting
the candidates special when It left
Chicago, his home. General Dawes
said he remembered how Miller es.
tablished what still stands as a
record for five car trains when he
''hooked up" to 126 miles in l03
minutes between Bridges Crossing
and Fort Wayne, Ind, in 1908,
When Miller left ms cab at Fort
Wayne, he carried In one hand a
dIipping oil can and in the other
hand big bouquet Of flowers given
70 him by Mrs. Dawes.
The Washington times., 1924-10-21
INTEREST
URGES JOB
BUREAU
Foundation Says Unemploy-
ment Is No Longer An oc-
casionaI Problem in U. s.

NEW YORK, Oct. .21.-The es.
Enlistment Of free nationwide
public employment service, to be
maintained by the States in co.
operation with the Federal and
local governments, for the benefit
of men, women and juniors in all
walks of life, Is recommended BY
the Russell Sage Foundation in
60O-page report on employment
methods, needs and agencies, made
public here today as the result OF
a five-year study which took the
foundation 81 investigators into more
than seventy cities OF the United
States and Canada.
The full report is being sub.
mitted to President Coolidge and
to the governors of the States.
The Importance Of the foundations
studies in this field becomes an.
parent when it is recalled that a
preliminary statement, made public
several weeks ago showed that un.
employment is no longer an coca.
sional problem, but a constant
phenomenon affecting large mum.
bers Of workers in every com.
munity.
The principal recommendation
are summarized as follows by
Shelby NJ. Harrison, director OF
the Department of Surveys and
Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foun.
dation, who was in charge of the
studies on which the report is
based:
''That the Federal Government
encourage and assist the States to
maintain adequate systems Of public
employment offices.
'"That the States administer and
support their own employment of.
fees, subject to the terms Of agree
ment with the Federal Govern.
ment.
THAT, in order to establish the
non-partisan character Of the serv.
ice, the functions to be performed
by the Federal Government be ad.
ministered by a board appointed by
and directly responsible to the
President.
''That this board consist OF the
Secretary of Labor, the Secretary
Of Commerce and the Secretary of
Agriculture.
'That a National Council and 10.
cal employment committees, repre-
senting employers, workers and
possibly other allied interests, he
established as an additional aid in
securing neutrality Of administra.
ton as well as reputation for
such.
''That the procedure Of the serv.
ice in respect to demands FOR work.
ers by employers in whose estab-
lishment a strike or lockout is in
progress or is pending, shall be
such as to guarantee the neutrality
Of the service"
The Washington times., 1924-10-21
MURDERED MAN PROVES
TO BE BLACKHANDER

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 21.-John La.
>paglia, found slain in his luxurious.
ly furnished apartment was involved
In at least ten mysterious muir
ders, police were said to have
learned.
Detectives said Lapaglia had
been indicted thirteen times for
"black-hand" crimes, but always
escaped conviction. He was said
to be the most feared man in the
Italian quarter here.
Inquiry indicated that he had
been killed Iby fellow black-handors
for failure to divide spoils. La.
paglia was bootlegger also, police
said, and daily sold 600 haif.pint
bottles Of "moonshine" whiskey at
fifty cents each.
The mans body was found In n
richly QUILTED bed. It was en-
cased In silk pajarnas and the bod
clothing was q silk.
The Washington times., 1924-10-21
be Valera Going to- UIster

LONDON. Oct. 21.-Eamonn de
Valera announced today that he will
go to Newry Friday to conduct an
active campaign. despite the an.
nouncement In Ulsher that he win
DO arrested n he crosses the borden.
The Washington times., 1924-10-21
EDUCATION WORTH
$4,000, SAYS DEAN

BOSTON, Oct. 21.-The cash value
OF education to it's possessor is
$4,000, according to report made
public by Dean Everett w. Lord,
OF the Boston University College
OF Business Administration. The cash
value OF a high school education is
placed at $4,000.
The report gives the average
maximum income Of the unframed
man as $1,000; that of the high
school graduate as $4,000, and of the
college graduate as $4,000. The total
earnings of these three types. up
to the age of sixty, are placed at
$4,000, $4,000 and $4,000 rasl,ec-
lively. Dean Lord estimates that,
while the unframed man at the age
Of fifty begins to drop toward de-
pendence. the college man reaches
his maximum earning capacity at
sixty.
The Washington times., 1924-10-21
s COUNTY POLICE
LOSE TRAIL Of
| FUGITIVE
kid" Diamond Tracked to
House Where He Had Been
Staying a Few Days

ROCKVILLE, Md, Oct. 21.--Al.
though Deputy Sheriff Stanley
Gingell and Policeman Dean vii.
kinson, Sunday got close enough
on the trail of Otis Faulconer,
alias kid" Diamond, colored, who
escaped from Jail here several
weeks ago, where he was awaiting
trial on a charge of assault, to
learn where he had been stopping,
they did not get their man and
today his whereabouts are more of
mystery than ever.
Sheriff Plummer received word
that a man thought to be
FaulConer, had been seen near
Vienna, Va, and he sent Deputy
Gtngell and Policeman Wilkinson
over there to make an investiga.
ton. The officers followed the tip
and located the house where he
had been boarding for a few days.
Charging that in Baltimore City,
on October 4, 1923, James A.
Evans, of this county, DETAINED
him, ]. Frank Hudson, a Baltimore
lawyer, has filed suit in the circuit
wal hCAC 4pI udIIldR9S III the
amount Of $4,000. He is repre-.
scented by Attorney John w. Krebs,
of Baltimore.
Licenses have been issued by the
clerk Of the circuit court here
for the marriage of Theodore s.
Garman, twenty-one, and Miss
Mildred A. Davis, nineteen, both
Of Washington, and Edward S.
Reynolds, twenty-five, and Miss
Margaret Seitz, twenty, of Wash.
ington and Maryland park, respec-
lively.
Governor Richie has appointed
Mrs. Lucy M. Offutt, of Rockville,
notary public for the county, and
Sheriff Clay Plummer has an.
pointed w. Vernon Beall, of Rock.
vile, a special deputy sheriff.
Both have subscribed to the oath
of office before the clerk of the
circuit court here,
The Washington times., 1924-10-21
FRATERNAL ORDERS TO
BE GUESTS OF B'NAI BIRTH

Members Of the Masonic order,
the Knights of Columbus and B'nai
Birth, representing the Protestant,
Catholic and Jewish faiths, will meet
in an inter-fraternity session of
good will tomorrow night at 8
o'clock, in the auditorium of the
Eighth Street Temple at the public
initiation to be held by Argo Lodge,
Independent Order B'nai Birth.
Roe Fulkerson of the grand lodge
of Masons in the District of Column
bia, Leo A. Rover of the Knights Of
Columbus; Henry A. Alexander, of
the B'nai Birth, and Bishop James
e. FRESHMAN win address the meet.
ing.
The Washington times., 1924-10-21

they assert, Texas would have pre-
ferred Mrs. Ferguson or almost any
decent person over a Klansman."
So disturbing has become the Re-
publican element that Democratic
leaders several days ago called a
Statewide rally Of county organiza-
tons, urging that the entire vote of
Texas be gotten out on Noyemb ar
4.
Should the entire strength appear
there is little question but that
Ma" Ferguson will slide into office,
but with many minds wandering in
indecision, Doctor Butte stands as
a decided menace to the Democracy.
Several of the States leading
newspapers that for years were
heart and soul with the Democratic
party have openly Endorsed the
Republican nominee, while others,
through yelled insinuations, have
advocated the lifting of the Republi-
can party to an equal strata with
the Democracy "for the betterment
Of the State.''
And meanwhile Mrs. Ferguson,
the little housewife from Temple
who was suddenly lifted from the
obscurity Of Main street popularity
on the crest of q tremendous wave
OF anti-Klar sentiment to inter-
national renown, remains calmly In
the line Of fire, retaining an almost
startling equanimity, supremely con-
fident that Texas will reiterate It's
faith in her so overwhelmingly OK
pressed In the primaries when she
defeated q field Of nine candidates.
The Washington times., 1924-10-21
ACTRESS FIGHTS
EXTRACTION
T0OH|O
Irene Dalton and John Owens,
Millionaire, Charged With
Mann Act Violation
By International News Service.

Los ANGELES, Cal. Oct. 21.-
Irene Dalton, motion picture
actress. and John Raymond Owens,
millionaire sportsman, of Toledo,
Ohio, prepared for bitter legal
battle here today to prevent their
extradition to the Ohio city. on
charges of violating the Mann
Act. Miss Dalton and Owens were
arrested here after Federal grand
jury indictment had been returned
against them in Toledo, where
Mrs. Owens is suing for divorce.
Miss Dalton was released on
$4,000 bond and Owens furnished
$500 bond for his release.
They were scheduled to appear
before United States Commissioner
Long, on November 20.
The Washington times., 1924-10-21
IOWA BANK LOSES $4,000
TO DESPERATE YEGGMEN

LITTLE SIOUX, Iowa, Oct. 21.--
The Little Sioux Savings Bank was
robbed of $4,000 this morning in q
spectacular raid.
After blasting the safe and snatch
ing cash and securities the four
yeggs shot their way through a cor
don Of armed and firing citizens
and escaped in an automobile.