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(Associated Press Night 'Wire)

WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. The

first official disclosure that President

Harding is negotiating toward an in

ternational conference for the consid

eration of. European economic prob

lems was made by Senator Lodge of

Massachusetts, the republican floor

leader, during open debate in the sen

ate today on the proposal of Senator

Borah, republican, of Idaho, for the

president to call an international con

ference to discuss economic conditions

and disarmament

In opposing the Borah proposal

which is in the form of an amendment

to the naval appropriation bill, Sena

tor Lodge urged that the president be

not embarrassed "in the efforts which

he is not making as a matter of" fact."

Senator Lodge in the course of an

hour's address against the Borah

amendment as presented did not op

pose the calling of an economic corf

fcrence but said it should be carefully

and strictly defined with such ques

tions as reparations allied debts and

immigration specifically excluded

from consideration.

The state department which has

consistently maintained silence as to

any efforts the administration might

"be making in reference to improving

economic and business conditions in

Europe, declined to add anything to

the statements of Senator Lodge but

it was learned that President Hard

ing was considering most seriously

transmitting a letter to the senate

giving information of his negotiations

and at the same time deploring any

intervention from congress which

might operate to hinder his efforts.

Senator Lodge based his opposition

to the Borah economic conference pro

posal on the ground that it was too

broad in terms. He also contended

with reference to the Borah provision

for a conference to secure lancj and

further naval armament limitation

agreements that it would be "futile" in

view of the failure on these subjects

at the recent Washington arms con

ference and unless it was developed

that the European opposition to

further disarmament voiced at that

time had changed.

TO GET A RECEPTION

PENSACOLA, Fla., Dec. 27.

With the telegraphic Announcement

that Grover C. Bergdoll of Philadel

phia, the noted slacker, had left

Germany on a mercnanr vessel anu

was en route to a gulf port, every

ship and its crew was questioned

heer today.

It was later learned that the Ger

man steamship Jupiter was about to

arrive and that Bergdoll is a mem

ber of that crew. That he sailed is

definitely announced by German au

thorities. URGES WOMEN TO EXERT

THEIR POLITICAL RIGHTS

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec 27.

Mrs. May Van Wye, wife of a profes

sor and herself a former school teach

er, was elected by republicans of

Hamilton county to be one of the

women who -will represent this county

in the Ohio legislature for the next

two years. Mrs. Van Wye was elect

ed to the house of representatives by

76,609 votes.

S TO

Ravelling Wolves Devour

Canadian Hunters, Leave

Only Bloodstained Snow

(Associated Press Night Wirel

PORT ARTHUR, Ont., Dec. 27.

A great roving band of hungry

timber wolves has devoured three

men, according to meager reports

sifting in today from the snow

covered trauVof the Sturgeon River

country. These reports told of a

losing battle fought by two Indians

after a white trapper had been

downed and killed.

Last Saturday an elderly trapper

left his cabin in the woods to mush

down to the settlement for his

Christmas mail.

About two miles from the settle

ment, two Indians found a spot

pounded down in the snow and

crimson-hued. Bits of dog harness

torn to shreds -were scattered, about

ACID CIS UN

FIREMEN; FLOUR IS

(Associated Press Night Wire)

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 27 Two

firemen were seriously injured and

more than a score overcome by

smoke and gas when a four-story of

fice building in the business dis

trict was gutted by fire tonight.

Explosions of acids in the plant

of an engraving company on the

fourth floor generated quantities of

gas which added to the difficulty of

fighting the flames.

Flour Mill Explodes.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 27.

More than 30 men were injured and

burned, some perhaps fatally, as the

result of a dust explosion and fire

at the mill of the Schrieber Flour

and Cereal company here late' today.

The plant was destroyed with an es

timated loss of from $125,000 to

$150,000.

FORMER ENEMY MAY

FILE SUITS TO GET

BACK ITS PROPERTY

(Associated Press Night 'Wire)

WASHINGTON, Dec 27 Presi

dent Harding tonight signed a bill

which extends for one year until

January 2, 1924, the period during

which the German or Austrian citi

zens whose property was taken over

during the war by the alien property

custodian may file suit for recovery.

INVESTORS LOSE IN

TIMBER RIGHTS UNDER

NEW MOSCOW RULING

(Associated Press)

TOKIO, Dec. 3. (By Mail) An

other heavy loss has been sustained

by Japanese investors through the de

cision of the Moscow government to

cancel concessions for cutting timber

in Siberia granted by the former

White government. Several of the

largest firms in Japan had obtained

these concessions by the payment of

3,000,000 yen to the old Vladivostok

government, and a monthly sum ac

cording to the amount of timber cut.

As a great amount of this timber was

still awaiting shipment when the reds

took Vladivostok the Japanese count

the venture a total loss.

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PRESCOTT JOURNA L-M I N E R WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1922.

In the midst of them the Indians

found human bones. They hastened

back to report their discovery.

The lure cf the bounty on wolves,

however, urged the Indians to take

the trail again with extra ammuni

tion. They sped behind their dog

teams into thp woods as the vil

lagers waved good-bye. They did

not return. "

Yesterday a new searching party

departed. They found another"

patch trodden in the snow about

two miles beyond the first

The two guns the Indians had

carried were lying there and scat

tered about were bones, bits of

clothing and empty shells. The car

cases of, 16 dead wolves lay stretch

ed in a circle about the trampled

patch of snow.

IDS A

MESSAGE OF CHEER

TO AMERICAN PEOPLE

(Associated Press Night Wire)

PARIS, Dec. 27. Medical men at

tending Mme. Sara Bernhadt said

this evening there had been no im

provement in her condition since

morning but neither had there been

a cahnge for the worse. The actress

herself was optimistic as ever. "Tell

them in America, tell all my friends

how much I appreciate their kind in

terest" she said. "I shall get well

again, never fear."

Her severe illness has given rise

to much speculation regarding Bern-

hardt's correct age. Most authorities

give the date of her birth as 1S44, but

the birth records were burned, in

1871 when the Paris city hall was

destroyed by the revolutionists. The

'Divine Sara" herself has always

said she was a "few years younger

than Georges Clemenceau," who was

born in 1841.

NO SPEECH TO IRK

INTO GOVERNORSHIP

(Associated Press Night Wire)

PHOENX," Dec. 27. Governor

elect Hunt will be inducted into of

fice Monday without ceremony and

without delivering an inaugural ad

dress, he announced today.

The oath of office will be adminis

tered at the state house at 10 o'clock

Monday morning by Justice MteAlis

ter of the supreme court.

The governor-elect also announced

the selection of three additional ap

pointees as officials at the state

prison at Florence. They are Dr.

Fred Perkins of Phoenix to be pris

on physician; A. T. Hammons of

Payson to be prison secretary, and

William Belbridge of Bisbce to be

parole clerk.

RETURN TO HOME

John Wilson and family have re

turned to their home in San Francisco

after passing Christmas with Mrs.

Wilson's father, 'Judge E. W. Wells,

president of the Bank of Arizona. Mr.

Wilson arrived from San Francisco

Sunday, joining Mrs. Wilson and their

children, who have been visiting Judge

Wells for some time past.

ley Plan;

U. S. LICENSE FOR GREAT POWER

ND

(Associated Pruss Night Wire)

PHOENIX, Dec. 27 W. S. Nor

veil, state waer commissioner of

Arizona, today granted a permit to

James B. Girand, Phoenix engineer,

for the construction of a $40,000,000

power dam cn the Colorado river at

the mouth of Diamond creek, 26

miles north of Peach Springs, and

approximately 100 miles above the

site of the proposed Boulder canyon

dam.

The Diamond creek dam is to

generate 200,000 horsepower of elec

trical units.

Application will be made to the

federal power commission at its

next meeting in Washington Jan

uary 8 for a license for the construc

tion and operation cr the project,

Mr. Girand said tonight

He declared he felt certain the

federal commission would issue the

license as he was granted a permit

for the site two years ago and a con

tract was entered into whereby the

commission agreed to issue the

license upon completion of certain

development work on the site. This

development work has been com

pleted, Mr. Girand stated.

Construction of the dam will

start late in January, according to

present plans and the project will

require approximately two years for

completion.

The permit, Mr. Norveil stated to

night, in no way conflicts with the

prpvicions of the Colorado river

compact, recently signed at Santa

Fe, N. M.

Upon receipt of the permit today,

Mr. Girand paid a fee of $10,065 to

the state water commissioner's of

fice. E

OVER MRS. HAWORTH

ERT

Reports from the concert of Mrs.

Haworth at Fort Whipple last night

rang with enthusiasm for the im

provement of voice and technique of

this Arizona singer. But the recep

tion she got, it was said, was one

of the finest, if not the finest ever

accorded a Prescott singer at the

fort.

Her three groups of songs were

so heartily appreciated that she was

recalled many times to the stage of

the Red Cross house which was

packed for the occasion.

Mrs- Lester Ruffner assisted in ar

ranging the program and accompan

ited Mrs. Haworth. The piano solos

of Marie Vance Ryland were thor

oughly appreciated as were the dance

numbers of Andrea Bradley.

The program was given under the

joint auspices of the Red Cross and

Knights of Columbus.

VISIT SON HERE

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jett, parents of

Onas Jett, are passing the Christinas

holidays with their son and his family.

Arriving Saturday night, they will be

here until next week, when they will

leave for southern California for a

short vacation before returning to

their home in Newton, Kans.

AT DIAMO

WORK

S8

Harding Already Negotiating

CREEK

WILL STAR

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PflL ELECTION BEGINS TO

WI PEHSONL CANVAS STARTS

Backers of Opposition Ticket

Take to Canvass and Publicity

Methods; Goldwater Adminis

tration Points to Its Record.

Yesterday five working days be

fore the city election the supporters

of the non-partisan ticket for mayor

and councilmen, launched their broad

sides against the city administration

which is seeking re-election and the

approval of .the voters for the progress

that has beqn made in civic.jinove,

inent during" the past term.

A quiet but insistent personal cam

paign of political workers was the

form in which the non-partisan candi

dates began their offensive. This

morning with a paid newspaper ad

vertisement, they are presenting their

first public appeal for votes.

Mayor Goldwater and his adminis

tration are also engaged in the per

sonal campaign that may precede a

more public form of vote-hunting.

Both sides are in the preliminaries of

what may prove to be a campaign as

sharp as it is short.

The administration was renominated

at the regular primaries with no op

position. The opposition ticket was

made up 10 days ago and-launched in

an announcement by Henry Hartin,

the candidate for mayor, and Messrs.

Waara and Blumberg, who are run

ning for the two vacant positions on

the council.

The administration councilmen who

are out for re-election are Art Davis

and Ray Vyne. No political flavor

is lent to the election, for more and

more the municipal contests are being

waged along non-partisan lines, with

the major parties names mere handles

by which one or the other ticket mayi

be known.

The election will be held on Tues

day, January 2, at the city hall and

only those regularly registered for it

may participate. Those registered at

the last municipal election in January,

?920, are entitled to vote, however, on

the strength of their previous registra

tion. Mayor Goldwater is standing, on the

record of the administration for its

handling of the city water problem

and the new paving. During the

course of his administration, he points

to the sale at a premium of the city

water bonds that had been held in the

municipal archives for many months

because df a low bond market, and the

beginning of actual construction on

the Banning creek water supply, to

gether with the rehabilitation of the

entire distributing system. The other

issue is the downtown paving which

has been finished and accepted and on

which the taxpayers have repaid about

65 per cent of the cost in cash, dis

counting the improvement district

bonds.

' The opposition ticket is made up of

Mr. Hartin and Mr. Blumberg, promi

nent merchants, and J. W. Waara,

surveyor and former city surveyor

under several previous administra

tions. COTTON MARKET

(Associated Press Night Wire)

NEW YORK. Dec. 27. Cotton

closed barely steady, net 5 points

lower to 11 points higher, at ?26.75.

DAM

XPECTED AND TH

LATE IN JANUARY

TRAGEDY STILL

M'GAHTHY GftS

(Associated Press Night Wire)

NEW YORK, Dec. 27. More than

36 "hours after they began, their inves

tigation the police tonight confessed

themselves baffled in their search for

a solution of circumstances surround

ing the death of Teresa McCarthy,

10-year-old school girl, whose body,

with a .22 caliber bullet through the

heart, was found in a toy-littered room

of her Brooklyn home-yesterday.

The investigation after the police

had laboriously dissipated a half-;

dozen clues sifted down to two theor

ies. The first, the one considered

most credible by the police, was that

the child was accidentally shot by a

playmate who had been given a gun

of small caliber as a Christmas pres

ent. The second theory, which the

police say they had little faith in, was

that the child was shot down by a

sailor of whom Teresa and several of

her girl friends had complained

several weeks ago, declaring that he

had annoyed them.

More than 100 boys living in the

neighborhood of the McCarthy home

were questioned by the detectives in

a search for one who might have re

ceived a .22 caliber pistol or rifle as

a Christmas gift.

LAUSANNE, Dec. 27. Great un

easiness is spreading throughout the

near cast conference circles as the

time approaches when there must be

a final reckoning on all important

questions which have been passed by

with only partial agreements or no

agrrcment at all between the Turks

and the allied powers.

Lord Curzon's positive announce

ment today that Great Britain will

not cede Mosul to Turkey and does

not propose to discuss that question

further, was the fore-runner of less

positive statements from the .other

delegations on various questions

which indicate the conference . is

reaching a climax and that prepara

tions arc under way for a final

showing of strength.

RETURNS FROM COAST

Frank A. Hathaway, assistant cash

ier of the Bank of Arizona, returned

yesterday from Long Beach, where he

passed Christmas with Mrs. Hatha

way and their children. He reports

that Mrs. Hathaway, who has been

on the coast recuperating from an ill

ness, is much better.

CLI1AX NEAR

III MUDDLED

' CONFERENCE

Thursday, fair south, cloudy north;

warmer. Friday, unsettled.

Prescott Temperatures, Dec 27

8 a. m. .26 12 m. . .-16 5 p.m.-. 44

Temperatures Year Ago

8a.m.. .40 12m 44 5p.m... .142

FIFTY-NINTH YEAR

SIMP TIL

LA. OFFICERS

(Associated Press Night Wire)

BASTROP, La., Dec. 27. Civil

and military authorities today follow

ed through the Redlow hills and

swamps of Morehouse parish the

trail they believe was taken by the

masked and robed men on the af

ternoon and night of August 24

when five "men were kidnapped and

two murdered.

The trail covered a distance of

about 25 miles from a point on the

Bastrop-Mer Rouge highway where

the men were kidnapped, to a ferry

landing at Lake La Fourche, near.

where the bodies of the two men

were found last week.

The reconoiterers were seeking ad

ditional cyidence implicating those

responsible for the mysterious dyna

miting that released the bodies from

the bottom sof the lake where they

had beeniveighted, down forfour

months.

The day was devoid of local devel

opments. All eyes were turned to

ward Baltimore where Dr. B. M.

McKoin, former Mer Rouge mayor,

was battling against extradition to

Louisiana, where he is to face a

charge of murder in connection with

the case.

MISER! Al DEATH

(Associated Press)

DEDEAGATCH, Western Thrace,

Dec. 1 (by mail) Heavy snow, icy

winds and intermittent rains have

wrought great misery and suffering

among the half-million shelterless

refugees scattered oer Thrace and

Macedonia. Unless help is prompt

and generous, the Greek and Armen

ian exiles in these areas will perish

in large numbers. Already the ma

jority are half-naked, starving and

diseased. All the elementary needs

of life are lacking. Food stocks in

the towns are growing low.. Famine

must ensue this winter unless flour

is sent in.

Human woe and wretchedness sel

dom have reached such levels. Large

numbers arc dying daily of exposure

and inanition. The condition of the

children and babies is pitiful. Infec

tious diseases are rampant. Typhus

is gaining such headway that it is

feared the great epidemic of 191S

1919, which began at Cavalla, will re

cur. Life in the East always has

been cheap, but never so cheap- as in

this corner of Europe. Had the

population been permitted to remain

in Eastern Thrace and faced the

Turkish invader, their lot could have

been little forse.

When the Associated press cor

respondent crossed the little river

near Drama where Paul baptized the

first Christian, he was assailed by a

band of hunger-maddened Greek wo

men and children who begged pitc

ously for a crust of bread. They

said they had been on the march for

24 days and were subsisting on beet

roots. Although there was a foot

of snow on the ground, many were

shoeless, coatless and hatless. The

blistered, bleeding feet of the chil

dren left red silhouettes in the snow.

In spite of many promises of help

from the outside, little has been done

to assuage the misery of these help

less exiles. Most of them are women

and children. They are sadly in need

of help.

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