St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 24, 1920

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Lanning, Assistant Medicine Maker Threw 'T eey tor the is registration places will be open from 8 a. m. 1 to 10 p. m. for registration. Those : See who should register “are “those i ee Navigation Chief, Blames | who have changed their place of | | P as Away Ear Trumpet, Thin‘- a day for the special $24,000,- residence since they registered Daniels for ‘V‘irtual Con- ing His Hearing Restored. ‘NEW YORK TO USE — “SUMMER” TIME, BEGINNING SUNDAY New Schedule Will Be Two Hours Ahead of St. Louis Instead of One. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 24.—Op- eration of the State daylight saving law which becomes effective at 2 a. m. Sunday through the refusal of the Legislature yesterday to repea! the bill, is expected materially to af- fect business hours and conditions in stock and trade markets throughout the country. Officials of the stock, cotton and other exchanges here, to- gether with all local banks, an- nounced that they would operate u.a- der the new time schedyle, which makes “‘official New York tinre” two hours ahead of Chicago and St. Louis instead of one; with a corresponding CALS 10 . x % 4 » . ae “> fa #T POSTS IN Z CUTTING SUPPLY OF FOOD, SAYS CAPPER Their Desertion of Farm, Lured by Higher Pay of Bricklayers, Will Bring Shortage, He Asserts. : in te ” za : 4a ie ; = & & F — | : ef ‘ % ; : ‘ a PY an ie ‘ ares. ap A ie “7 a ea Ly : 3 . 7 Le cm s | : : ny > a! i ¢ : AG In nt Socialists Re- ported Sure to Have Im- " ‘portant Portfolios in Reor- ‘ganized Government; Concessions to ~ b } *y % es ? Highest yes- terday, 67, at Pp. m.; lowest, 49 at 7 a. m. Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Unsettled weather tonight and tomorrow, with occasional showers; not much change in temperature. -Missouri and Tilinois: Unset- tled weather to- night. and to- morrow, prob- ably with occa- portunity for registration before May 11. It is also the only op- Sept. 24 last, for the schoo] tax 000 bond issue election of last. The last registration was , ; oe dition of Chaos.”’ | American Attitude on Dispo- siti of Turkish State Given in Note, in Reply to Alli¢s’*Inquiry as to Our: Views, Which Will Go special election, but that election was for taxpayers only, and there has been little change in the rec- ords since the fall of 1918. = 1 Men who have recently become : of age, or who will be 21 years old on or. before May 11, should register tomorrow; also all men who servéd in the army, navy DECLARES “PRICE HOG” | MUST BE CURBED BLISS CONTRADICTS TESTIMONY OF.SIMS SHOUTS REQUIRED TO MAKE HIM HEAR TROOPS ARE PRESSED. | BACK BY WORKERS) * € ‘Concentrate in Retreat at _ Wesel on Rhine; Interned 4 Prisoners Flee Into Bel- sional showers; not much change in tem- perature. — ‘WOOD 3396 AHEAD IN SOUTH DAKOTA PRIMARY Another Witness Is Asked About Suit Against Cham- bers by Widow of Jesse James. The belief of the Chambers, president of the .Dios late James H. | Chemical Co., in faith healing, was the subject of testimony today in the suit of a son, John Ralph Cham- Early Returns Give General 22,-| pers of Los Angeles, to break his increase over the standard time in other sections of the country. New York stock and trade mar- kets pointed that they are required | by law to adopt the official State time. side points, they said. Local offi- cials were without information as to whether the Philadelphia and Bos- ton stock exchanges would set their clocks ahead -to conform to New York time. Some confusion is expected to re- sult by reason of the fact that the railroad time tables will continue ‘o be based on standard time. This will involve a rearrange:- | ment of leased wire schedules at out- | Army Man Denies Categori- cally That He Recommend- ed Brigading U. S. Troops With Foreign Units. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, March 24.—Vir- tual chaos existed in the Navy De- partment at the time the United States entered the war, Capt. Har- Tis Lanning, assistant chief of the or Marine Corps, as most of these were stricken from the registra- While Prices to Consumer Advance Those Paid to Producer Drop — Decline in Stock Raising. By the Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, March 24.—As- | serting that farmers are leaving the’ MRS HIIMPHRY WAR : } country for the cities this spring by tion books during their absence. Any person who changes his address after tomorrow can have his registration transferred to his new district by applying to the Board of Election Commis- sioners in the city hall. tens of thousands, Senator Capper, Forward Soon. FINDS NO BASIS FOR - U. S. Position That Russia Should Have Part in Any Government of Constan- E- - ws y De = s St a a ‘ "hea . ° . rie os e s Forces Tt ; : mm ca: -« 5 e Ber. a> : - . a 7 ae : ‘ ea Be - . . ee 4 SS : - 4 2 > i* a e y ed es a oe “ -_ a* ys Kee, a > TS ee ‘a Ry *: + oye > 4 > » _ By the Associated Press. By the Associated Press. | COPENHAGEN, March 24.—For-|, | mation of a new German Cabinet is * @ matter of only a few hours, and - independent Socialists are sure of "getting severdl important portfolios, | of Kansas, in a speech yesterday | NOVELIST IS. DEAD Snetiinn aauucen, aiaiaiiiin theaters, | Bureau of Navigation during the|afternoon predicted a_ real tood | ’ tinople. i traction companies—in fact, virtual-| war, testified today before the Sen- | shortage in the near future unless : | ly all activities in New York—will! ate Investigating Committee. the exodus is checked. The farmers, By the Associated Prent cperate on “summer time.’’ " | -F s Engli Writ S March : Capt. Lanning said no one knew said Capper, are tired of being the Famous ng ish riter uc- WASHINGTON, 24.—The “goat” of law makers, middlemen, cymbs to Heart Disease in original position of the American and “profit hogs” and are getting , Government that the Turks should out of a business in which the aver- | London Hospital. be expelled from Eu is re-stated age income fs less than one-half the in a note to the allied Supreme Coun- average income of a carpenter, | By *he Associated Press. LONDON, March 24.—Mrs. Hum- cil which has been prepared at the bricklayer or any other organized State Department and fs to be trans-— city trade. phy Ward, the novelist, died of mitted soon. » 679, Lowden 19,283 and Johnson 17,560. | will. John R. Chambers is suing to | obtain his Share in the father’s ($250,000 estate, without the restric- 'tions of a trusteeship which was es- ie iatah 0c seed Pies, tablished by the will. His mother. | Philadelphia Council Repeals Day- | what to do after a plan of action sister and two brothers, who re- light Saving Law. | Submitted by the Bureau of Opera- | Major-General Wood held a lead of - e : es tee Kine Mae sia Ih a P édteitd slightly less than 3400 votes over/| ceived their shares without restric- PHILADELPHIA ER: Ege Pa ons ha een disapproved an a Gov. Lowden on returns from 708 of/tions, and the Mississippi Valley| rhe City Council yesterday repealed the “personal characteristics of the Trust Co., trustee for him, are the Secretary of the Navy often made it 1740 State precincts in South Dako- the daylight saving ordinance which tas vote for indorsement of a Repub-} gefendants. i according to telegrams from Berlin - this morning. Gas, water and electric service has not been resumed in Berlin and the 'tfamways are still idle, as the In- - dependent Socialists have assumed 4 | waiting attitude. They are said to 4 be dissatisfied with the Government's “soft methods toward s traitors," | while armed Spartacans are simply a By the Associated wnions the majority Socialists are Stood against the wall. Concession Pledged and Claims of Unions in Strike Settlement. Press. March 24.—In the ment reached by the. whment with tabor / Pledged: to place in their parliament- ram the claims of labor or- says a Berlin dispatch i to the Exchange Telegraph Co. 5 Government has expressed willingness to withdraw its troops | from Berlin and across the Spree “i os * 4 . * Government headquar- ters—and raise the state of siege im- mediately, it is said. In addition, it wndertakes not to attack workers, - particularly those in the Ruhr Val- ley, and to negotiate with unions _ eoncerning the entry of labor repre- » £ 4 j by é a +: follow: P Pe & . must be undertaken with the co-op- 4 4 sentatives into defense corps. The Unions pledged themselves to tall another meeting to decide upon ‘the question of a new general Strike, in case their claim is not met and the Government's policies are ‘broken. The claims of the unions “Reorganization of the Govern- “™ent of the empire and Prussia p *ration of labor unions, and the de- | @i@ing influence upon social laws M re ‘immediately to must be given the unions. “Guilty rebels must be disarmed _ and punished. | “All reform of governmenjal ad- -M™inistrationgs ‘must be executed as 4 s . * Quickly as possible with the co-oper- _&tion of the unions. 4 laws must be extended secure economic - @quality for workingmen. Umettwitz Arrested; Kapp and Vou & ia mu a “ # , ‘hed the Associated Press. “Yelt, has been arrested, it is officially | — ®fnounced. Admiral ~ Chief of the Admiralty, has also been an “Nationalization of industry must | be commenced at once. “Better supplies of food must be and available stocks must be Placed at the disposal of the peo- “All military formations which do remain true to the Constitution | Must be disbanded.” \ r. N, Tuesday, March 23.— Major-Generd! von Luettwitz, the commander in the Kapp re- von Trotha, Some of the ring leaders in the «Kapp revolution against whom pro- >. ee oe os oS 8. “oe s 7 be ote. | @tedings have begun for high treasor. Bs. disappeared. They include Kapp himself, Von J Bau ex-Attorney . w, Maj. Pabst, Col. of drumhead courts martia Berlin. The National Assembly will meet ur sureday afternoon and in prepara- taken ill last fall. signed to legalize State under the auspices Army, Navy and Civilian Board of Boxing Control. lican candidate for President. Sen- ator Johnson, in third place, was 1700 votes behind Gov. Lowder. Senator Miles Poindexter pendent candidate, polled small vote. Tabulated returns from tne 7058 precincts showed the fcllowmg voue: Wood, 22,679; Lowden, 19,285: John- son, 17,560. Inde- only a Ten counties comprising i42 vot-); tally alert. ing precincts; mostly in remote sec-| Culiarities. from. | Many of these are isolated from rail-| tions, have not been heard road and wire connections. Returns, which: came in rather briskly from the cities last night, were being received slowly this fore- noon. In the counties west of the Missouri River, mountain time és the standard. Comparison of returns in counties which reported a coniplete or almost complete vote. showed «hat the balloting was light. when the fact that women voted was taken into consideration. On the face of ‘availabl: returns Wood is leading in 31 ccunties, John- son in 11 and Lowden in il. son carried Minnehaha County (Sioux Falis) and received a majority of the John- votes in Lincoln County (Canton:. Western counties, particularly in the Black Hills, gave Wood strong sup- port. Lowden carried Davison Coun- ty (Mitchell). } WILSON TAKES DRIVE OUT OF CAPITAL INTO VIRGINIA Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, March 24.—Presi- dent Wilson today made his first trip outside of Washington since he was Accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and Rear Admiral Gray- son, his physician, he drove into Virginia as far as Alexandria. No stops were made and the President was away from the White House less than two hours. NEW YORK SENATE FOR BOXING By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., March 24.—The Senate by a vote of 30 to 19 late to- day adopted the Walker bill, de- boxing in the | h — thy | Questions as to a suit once filed ; “sambers die’ Nov: 6, 1917. at the age of 83. The son, in his suit, charges that Chambers was of un- sound mind when his will was made. Harry C. Barker, a lawyer, who drew a codicil to Chambers’ will, six months before his death, was called today by the defense. He said that, at the time when he drew the codicil, Cham ers seemed to be men- Later, Abaudoned Trumpet. He said Chambers, who was dehf and usually carrieg an ear trumpet, called at his office one day without the ear trumpet. Barker said he haji to shout to make Chambers hehr, but that Chambers insisted he had been cured of deafness by faith treatment | and said he had abandoned the use of the trumpet for that reason. Chambers also told him, Barker said, of his purpose to give $50,000 for faith-healing work. Barker said he tried to dissuade him, but that Chambers seemed determined to make such a gift. It did not develop whether the gift was ever made. Barker said Chambers asked his advice about an incident which had occurred at a religious meeting, held in some Illinois town, which ap- peared to worry “him. Chambers said he went to the meeting as a delegate, and that while the Mayor of the town was delivering an ad- dress of welcome, he (Chambers) thought he saw the Mayor take a lead pencil which belonged to the Pishop, presiding over the gathering. Chambers said he accused the May- or, on the spot, of stealing the pen- cil, and that the meeting was inter- rupted and the Mayor seemed of- fended. He was beginning to think, when he talked with Barker, that he owed the Mayor an apology. Chambers Talked Rationally. Sidney F. Andrews, a lawyer, testi- fied to having met Chambers when Chambers attended the Bible class of the Second Presbyterian Sunday school. He said he sometimes walked home with Chambers, and that he once wrote to Chambers in Califor- nia, asking for a gift for the Brookes Bible Institute, and that Chambers sent $10. He said Chambers talke ratinnollv with him on_ religious matters, and seemed to appreciate --*=** of the churches. Centinuecd on Page 2. Column 7. ‘a plunged him. two stories and Be. Concluded in Tuesday's POST - DISPATCH “NOW” FREDERICK ORIN BARTLETT A fascinating study of the doings of Dan Cupid, who en- counters e droll paradox of success through failure. What happened to a great financier, who became the idol of a country boy who went to a big city to seek his fortune and how little the same big. man of business seemed when the Wheel of Fortune turned and he found himself at the bottom with the country boy extending a hand to lift him out of the mire into which his vaulting ambition had This, the fifth in the series of a week now running in the Post-Dispatch, WILL BEGIN NEXT SUNDAY 4 he noticed ins was to have gone into effect March 28, on the ground that it conflicts with a State law that makes Eastern | standard time the legal time in | Pennsylvania. STUDENTS ORGANIZE ‘SOVIET’ AND ‘DUCK’ MEMBERS OF FACULTY Teacher at Western Kansas Nor- mal Appeals to State Officers for Aid. By the Associated Preéss. HAYS, Kan., March 24.—When members of the faculty failed work onarunningtrack at the Fort Hays Normal School, members ot the | student body posted a bul'etin an-.| nouncing that they would be ducked | in a laxe on the campus and carried | out their threat. W. A. Lewis, president of the Nor- mal School, has been out of the State for two days, and during that time a so-called “student soviet” has | been in control of affairs at the in- | stitution. | Before leaving President Lewis | suggested a half holiday to work on | the track. Men students were to do. the work and women to carry water and provide a meal afterward. ’ i i ; and eugenics, suggested in fun that | the girls who would not work should | be ducked. The suggestion was taken up eagerly, and acted upon. Two persons have been nearly drowned in the campus*lake as a re- sult and students had to jump in to rescue Prof. James Start. P. Casper Harvey, a professor at the school, has telegraphed to Gov. Allen at Topeka, and to the State Board of Administration asking for protection for the faculty. He states in his telegrams that all mem- | bers of the faculty who fail to obey the “student soviet” are being! thrown into the lake. TOPEKA, Kan., March 24.—The State Board of Administration today received from P. Casper Harvey, an instructor at the normal school at Hays, the following telegram: “President Lewis out of State. So- Throw faculty members into lake. We need protection from student forces." ‘HELD IN KILLING OF HIS SISTER Kansan Quoted as Saying She Was “Mean”? to Children. By the Associated Press. LYONS, Kan., March 24.—W. .B. Bast is under arrest here in connec- tion with the killing today of Mrs. Gene Regan, his sister. Mrs. Regan had four daughters, tions. was needed tO | wtthBbt ond. ranging from 8 to 13 years old. “She was mean to the girls and I cou!@n't stand it any longer,” said Bast. i ' Spring Drouth tn Southwest Broken. Bv?the Associated Preas. KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 24.—§ Heavy rains fell throughout Kan- | sas, Oklahoma, Western and scattered sections of Texas to- day, breaking a spring drouth. 100 Per Cent Stock Dividend. / } By the Associated Prees. BOSTON, March 24.—A stock div- idend of 100 per cent to share hold- ers of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. was recommended today by the trustees. 7 impossible to get approval of really important policies.” Capt. Lanning, who Rear Admiral Sims on the followed stand, 'said his statements were based on | tion bill. his experiences at sea with the fleet) cial needs of the Government for just before the United States entered the war and in the Navy Department at Washington afterwards. First Plan Disapproved. The witness said that at about the time the United States declared war the office of Chief of Naval Opera- tions had prepared a plan outlining how the navy’s first efforts should be directed, but that it was disap- proved by the department, with the result that when a plan of opera- the mavy was He charged that during the war it always was difficult and frequently in.possible to obtain the department's approval to essential plans and poli- cies, making it necessary for suborci- nate officers to go far beyond their rying on the war and decreasing the effectiveness of American participa- tion. Capt. Lanning also told the com- mittee that the various units of the department could make no Co-orai- nated effort to carry on the war for lack of a definite general plan; that MisS |the fleet was not ready for op. ra-| he asked, Loor, professor of domestic science |tigng when war began, and that in| nomic system under which the pro- the years immediately preceding 1917 the department did not take an attitude toward legislation and proiie| cies that would have prepared the| &¥ fieet. Says Danicls Delayed Action, ‘Whenever a plan or policy was presented to the Secretary he almost invariably delayed action on it,” Capt. Lanning declared. ‘The per- sonal interest he took in all matters connected with the department ab- sorbed so much of his time that lie never had much left to give to the more important affairs.” When important policies and plans were submitted to Secretary Danicls, Capt. Lanning said, directions would be given to leave the papers for’’con-| hours and the unpaid labor of his| sams of Chicago!” Capper spoke warmly against a |“determined effort” in Congress to |reduce the $32,000,000 carried by | appropria- Estimating that the finan- ithe annual agricultural | the next fiscal year may exceed | $5,090,000,000, Capper said that the | proposed allotment for az-icult=re /meant that out of every $156 of the | public funds, only a dollar would be ispent on the nation’s most vital -- | dustry. i | In New York State alone, Capper | Said thet a recent survey disclosed | |a drift of 35,600 men from the farms | |to the cities in the last year. The |same alarming conditions, he added, prevail throughout the Middle West. Want City J ; “Of course they Want city jobs.” he said. “Can you blame them? When they consider the $10 per 100 drop in hogs, which put the price far below the cost’ of produc- tion, the silly and senseless advance in the price of lumber needed to lauthority to get things,accomplished, /build farm homes, and the whole ‘thus increasing the difficulty of ca‘-| selfish demonstration we have seen toward the agricultural interests of the country in the last year, it is no wonder they leave. Capper saw a grave menace to the country in the growing proportion of tenant farmers. The percentage in 1880 was 25 and in 1920 was 37. “Can you expect anything else?” i|ducer gets such a small part of the consumer's dollar?” In the Chicago district in May of last year the con- mers paid 14 cents a quart for milk )and the producer got 5.2 cents, In |New York farmers got 6.1 a quart ‘while the consumers paid 16 cents.” Conservative estimates from corn belt, Capper said, decline in pork production much as 25 per cent, while in its beef cattle supply “the United States is heading toward bankruptcy.” He declared that while the farmer .to- day is marketing at a minimum profit and sometimes at a loss, he ts producing more material per man by 30 per cent than before the war. This increase he attributed to long the | indicate a of as heart disease today in a London hos : pital. Mary Augusta Humphry Ward ranked among the foremost women novelists. She was a financial as | well as artistic success and it was said she had received $25,000 for the serial rights of a single story. She was born in Hobart, Tasmania, June 11, 1851, and married Thomas Humphry Ward, journalist and au- thor, April 6, 1872. First Novel Tiresome. . Her first novel, ‘““Miss Bretherton,” was tiresome and almost uninterest- ing, though “Miss Bretherton” was said to be none other than Mary Anderson, the American actress. Her second, “Robert Elsmere,’ which ap- peared in 1888, created as much ex- citement and discussion as did ‘“‘Nich- olas Nickleby,” the sensation doubt- less much augmented by Mr. Glad- stone’s public commendation of the book. With “‘Robert Elsmere” be- gan Mrs. Humphrey Ward's real literary development. “David Grieve,’ her second novel, was real- ly much better written, with a bet- ter and more natural plot, though it never became as popular. “Bessie Costrell,” the next, was short and slight, but wonderfully graphic. “Marcella” was clever, and “Sir George Tressady” was considered by “in view of the faulty eco-| many readers to be best of all. As the granddaughter of the world-famous Dr. Arnold, head mas- ter of Rugby, the niece of Matthew Arnold, poet and critic, and the wife of a brilliant Oxford don, whom she wedded when 21 years old, Mrs. Ward come into the literary worid by all the rights of precedence and position. She kept that place, but did not permit society to»intrude itself upon her. When Eugene Field met her once at a dinner she looked him over frigidly, barely allowed her fingers to touch his arm as he escorted her to the table, but once safely har- bored there turned to him and said: “So you are a native Chicagoan. I have never seen one before. Please tell me some of the habits and cus- “Well,” drawled sideration.’ These instructions meant | wife and children—iwo of the CON the genial poet, “when they caught that the matter would not be heard/| ditions which are leading people to) me I was living up a tree!” _from again until the officers inter- ested looked the papers up and then viet in control here for two days. _ frequently the papers could not be found. “Conditions finally became so bad,” the witness said, “that officers used every means possible to put their plans and policies through without obtaining the required authority.” Capt. Lanning said many officers found this condition to+be true aod he offered to furnish the committee the names of other officers whw, he said, would corroborate his testimo- ny in this respect. Capt. Lanning said that just prior to 1917 the department gave out “such glowing accounts of the navy and its splendid conditian and eff- ciency that few, if any, outside the navy realized the true conditions.” Building Program Not Criticised. The witness said he did not criti- cise the department's policy as to bullding programs as it always advo- Bleseurt , cated increased number of ships, but whether the numbers and types were correct was a matter of personal opinion. Secretary Daniels, he said, based his ideas of the navy’s fitness on the total number of ships rather than on their condition or whether they were properly manned for war. Capt. Lanning asserted that while in the spring of 1917 only about Centinucg on Page 2, Columa 6. desert the farms. | City Prices Increase. | “Retail prices of pork and hog products,” Capper continued, ‘‘actu- ally have advanced in many cities during these recent months in which 'the wholesale market price of pork on the hoof has fallen nearly one- half. Still the city asks if the farm- er is profiteering. Were that the case the winter wheat area would of a decrease of 23 per cent. The reason for such reduced production is simply that the prices farmers re- ceive for what they have to sell, to- g2ther with the absence of hired help, and the cost of what they have to buy, are forcing farmers in self- they can do + ‘h their own labor and equipment. “The first thing profiteers and supp! sentials, such as lumber, agricultu- ral implemests, clothing. the like. at an honest price. We stop profiteering. “We must encourage legislation curbing manipulation of the market have shown a heavy increase instead | ' | | defense to limit their efforts to what | By the Associated Preas, More Recent Works. Mrs. Humphrey Ward's more re- cent hovels were “Helbeck of Ban- nisdale,” “Lady Rose’s Daughter,” “The Marriage of William Ashe,” “Fenwick'’s Career,” “Diana Mal- lory.” “Daphne,” “Canadian Born,” “The Case of Richard Meynell,” ‘The Mating of Lydia.” ““The Corys- ton Family.” “Delia Blanchflower,” “Eltham House,” “A Great Success,” “Lady Connie,” “England's Effort,’ and “Missing.” She also wrote a number of plays and many magazine articles. ee Ee METHODISTS REPEAL ‘BLUE LAW’ NEWARK, N. J.. March 24.—A | resolution to strike from the book of | | : is to curb the discipline of the Methodist Church y agricultural es- | that section known as the “Biue Law,” or amusement ban, which for- shoes and bids Methodists to attend dances, al- theaters and rcady have al’ the laws necessary -o ‘adopted at horse races, Was the Newark Methodist conference last night. The conference also adopted a res- olution memoralizing the gencral conference relative to the stand it r-* #ambiing bv the stock exchange ‘sharks, who seek to control unjust-| has taken in the matter of permit- stuffs. cotton and other necessities ase: giving the women of the church We should also have Federal super- .'x3f0n of the packing tndustry.” standing with men. ly the supply and prices of food-|ting women to become ministers, | The communication is in reply to an inquiry from the French and British Governments as to this coun- try’s views on the Turkish settlement. Officials were not certain’ when the note would go forward. ae The American Government is un- derstood to hold that there is no sound reason for retaining the Turk- ish capital in Europe. The United States is said to take the view that the contention that expulsion of the Turks might be resented by the Mo- hammedans, is not supported by facts since the war in the Near was won largely by the ald of Mo- hammedans. * eee an independent state and that. i#& embrace as much territory as the Armenian Government can contrel, It also takes the position that any arrangement that is made with re- gard to Turkey should guarantee to all nations equal opportunities for commerce and that no belligerents should be given paramount claims in any part of the Near East. . The position of the United States, it is said, also is that in any ar- rangement for the Government of Constantinople and the Turkish states a place for the participation of Russia should be made. The American Government is con- vinced that no plan of settlement can be successful in the long run which does not take inte account the interests of Russia in the matter. It is understood that in the orig- inal plan of the allies, the Government would lose all temporal power, but its ah sympathies and sentiment would be on The plan was to internationalize city, and the allies had hoped that the United States would accept «@ mandate for Turkish territory. The peace treaty between the Turkish Government and the allies has not been signed, and its terms have not been made public. That this has been held up is supposed t+ be due to the delay caused by the Supreme Council for the purpose of learning what views the United States Government held. England and France are believed to favor permitting the Sultan to re- tain Constantinople as his capital. The original attitude of Great Brit- ain favored expulsion, but a c came about in the British Gov ment view on receipt of advices India that the millions of Mussulman subjects there desired that the holy places of Islam remain under Mo- hammedan rule. The French repre- sentatives In the Supreme Council are reported to have supported the new British view, but Italy, it was said, favored expelling the Turkish Government to Asia. The latest let- ter of the United States aliens this Government with Italy and against Great Britain and France. Allied forces recently occupied Constantinople and a fleet of war- ships lies in the Sea of Marmora and the Bosporus, ite guns covering the elty. This action was supposed te be CONSTANTINOPLE, March 24.-— All Baid Pasha, Governor of equal opportunities and an exual | Constantinople, has been arrested by the British forces in the city. The United States, it is understood, - desires that Armenia be set up a8 therefore | Rw the Aasoctated Press. iS< coments HR ee ee ane a AE cu in oes te eats, ARS eae * hasoT = ~~ » Mya ’ ea tr 1 RS Ege ayo dts CR NR YR “eat Hea 5 NPRM ys RTS MPH | wiped —" “ ‘ * Pee REA a, ee at)