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LEAGUE OF NATIONS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—A statement issued by
the state department yesterday an
nounced that Secretary of State Robert
Lansing had tendered his resignation
to the President, and that the latter
had accepted it, effective yesterday.
Tt is learned that Mr. Lansing re
signed after President Wilson had ac
cused him of usurping the powers of
President by calling a cabinet meet
ing d#ring President Wilson’s illness.
Mr. Lansing denied that he intended to
usurp power, and added that he be
lieved the conferences were for the
hest interests of the nation, and were
proper and necessary because of the
President’s condition.
Mr. Lansing stated that he would
have been derelict in his duty if he
had failed to act as he did. He there
fore placed his resignation in the
hands of the President, who accept
ed it.
Quarrel Began at Peace Conference
The state department has made pub
lic a series of letters which passed be
tween the President and the secretary
of state. In one President Wilson said
It had become known that the opinions
of Secretary Lansing and himself dif
fered dreadfully, and the administra
tion Hid been embarrassed thereby.
/ Mr. Lansing, in his final letter, said
he was not unmindful that the con
tinuance of the present relations was
impossible, and said he had been con
sidering the advisability of resigning
since January of last year.
The differences began at the peace
conference, and had continued since.
One of the chief causes of dissension
was the government’s attitude toward
^ifexico.
The Bullitt incident
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President Wilson: and Mr. Lansing
have been in disagreement since be
fore the war. At the peace confer
■en^ in Paris Mr. Lansing wanted to
separate the treaty of peace from the
League of Nations covenant, and
Henry White and Colonel House, the
other commissioners, supported him,
as they' feared ratification of the
treaty would he delayed if the treaty
and the league were made insepar
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The statement of Colonel Bullitt,
on his return to the United States
from Paris, that Secretary of State
Lansing had said that “the treaty of
peace would fail if the American peo
ple knew what it contained,” probably
came nearer causing the break than j
any other incident.
It is believed that President Wil
son’s illness was the only thing which
prevented him from ousting Mr. Lan
sing, when Colonel Bullitt testified be
fore the senate committee. Mr. Lan
sing has not seen the President since
the Bullitt testimony was made public.
Lane Upholds Lansing
Secretary of the Interior Lane said
today that he/ considered himself as
mu<?h responsible as Secretary Lan
sing for the calling of the cabinet
•meetings during the illness of Presi
dent Wilson. He said Mr. Landing
telephoned him to obtain his approval
before calling the first meeting. He
said the meetings often transmitted
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messages through Dr. Grayson to the
President.
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President’s Action “Harsh”
Chairman Porter of the house com
mittee on foreign affairs said today
that he thought the President should
not have dismissed Mr. Lansing so
harshly for calling cabinet meetings.
Possible Successors
Under Secretary Polk and John W.
Davis' United States ambassador to
Great Britain, are being discussed as
possible successors to Mr. Laning.
At the White House it was said that
there would be no more cabinet resig
nations as a result of the Lansing in
cident.
HUGS CONTINUE
TO BEAT AND
• ROB VICTIMS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14 (by Asso
ciated Press) .-*-Daylight bandits, at
tempting to rob a Liberty loan broker
age house in the heart of the city yes
terday, shot and killed E. A. Stroup
and D. A. Bohlman and wounded Mrs.
L. Lasater.
The bandits were unmasked, and
in order to reach their auto after t.he
shooting darted through the crowd of
paasers-by, some of whom attempted
to stop them, and chased them for sev
eral blocks. -They were finally lost in
the traffic.
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STEAMER OFF COAST
WIRES FOR ASSISTANCE
NEW YORK, Feb. 14 (by Associated
Press). — The steamship William
Henry has wirelessed that she is on
fire and in need of immediate assist
ance off Tucker’s Beach, N. J.
GERMAN SHIPS
NOT LIKELY TO
BE AUCTIONED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—Representative Sabath
of Illinois has introduced in the house
a resolution directing the United
States Shipping Board not to sell the
former German liners.
Another resolution was introduced
by the same member t^, instruct the
secretary of the treasury-, the secre
tary of commerce and the chairman
of the Shipping Board to adopt rules
permitting sales of liquor on board
American steamships outside the
three-mile zone. It is claimed that
prohibition on American ships is hurt
ing traffic.
DAWSON PIONEER DIES
OF FLU IN STATES
SEATTLE, Feb. 14 (by Associated
Press).—Elier Abner Ward, a pioneer
of Dawson, died here yesterday of in
fluenza, aged 53 years.
TRIPLE ALLIANCE IN
SESSION AT SEATTLE
MAY INDORSE DUNCAN
SEATTLE, Feb. 14 (by Associated
Press).—Four hundred delegates are|
in attendance here at the state con-j
vention of the Triple Alliance of farm-'
ers, railroad men and trades union-1
ists. It is believed that the conven
tion will indorse Duncan for mayor.
Newspaper men have been excluded
from the sessions of the alliance.'
WANTS ROYALTY
PAID IN OIL TO
GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—Chairman Payne of the
United States Shipping Board has re
quested Secretary of the Interior Lane
to exercise at once the authority given
in the oil land-leasing bill to take the
government’s royalty on oil produced
in oil instead of cash, and to sell it
to any government department.
Mr. Payne said that such action
would enable the Shipping Board to
obtain its requirements of fuel oil. He
said the Shipping Board caused the
provision to be inserted in the leasing
bill permitting the government to take
its royalty in oil in order to assure
the necessary supply of fuel oil on the
Pacific coast at reasonable prices.
KILL TWO AND
WOUND 01 IN
BOLD HOLD-UP
SEATTLE, Feb. 14 (by Associated
Press).—J. A. Locknane reported to
the police today that two thugs beat
him into unconsciousness last night
and robbed him of $1,500 worth of dia
monds as he stepped from an automo
bile on Twenty-eighth avenue.
DAILY CO-OPERATIVE
NEWSPAPERS FAVORED
BY FARMERS’ CONGRESS
CHICAGO, Feb. 14 (by Associated
Press).—Speakers at the Farmers’
and Laborers’ Co-operative Congress,
in session here yesterday, recommend
ed the organization of daily co-opera
tive newspapers, and denounced the
press as ‘‘prostituted and debased to
the interests of capitalists.”
MORE SALARY
DEMANDED BY
PROFESSORS
SEATTLE, Feb. 14 (by Associate!
Press).—The University of Washing
ton professors have determined to pre
sent a new salary scale to the board
of regents, with the request that it
be granted.
The faculty members’ association
previously requested a 50 per cent in
crease, and the regents voted them in
creases ranging from 2 to 25 per cent.
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crew And officers
OF STEAMERS CLASH
AND NINE ARE HURT
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 14 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Nine men were in
jured, two of them seriously, in
clashes between the officers and crew
of the American steamship Butten
wood, at Middlefast. It is said the
trouble* was caused by the intoxication
of the members of the crew, all of
whom were arrested.
TlfO MODIFIED
TREATY DRAFTS
ARE SUBMITTED
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—Senator Hitchcock, mi
nority leader in the upper house of
congress, yesterday laid two modified
drafts of proposed reservations to Ar
ticle 10 of the League of Nations cov
enant hefore the Republican senators,
promising that forty Democrats would
support either of which the Repub
licans preferred.
The indications are that little hope
is entertained that either will be ac
cepted: Both propositions were re
jected in* the recent bipartisan con
ference.
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The formal reply to the proposals
is being withheld by the Republican
leaders.
WAGEDEMANDS
WILL BE HELD
IN ABEYANCE
DETROIT, Feb. 14 (by Associated
Press).—The officials of the Mainte
nance of Way Brotherhood say that
President Wilson’s answer to the
demands of the brotherhood for in
creased wages will not change the
plan for a strike of three hundred
thousand men set for February 17.
Demands Probably Refused
WASHINGTON, Feb. J4 (by Associ
ated Press).—It is believed that Presi
dent Wilson’s answer to the demands
of the two million railroad men for a
general wage increase was a refusal.
The unions have accepted his deci
sion for the present.
It is officially announced that Presi
dent Wilson has asked the railroad
men to hold th$ir wage demands in
abeyance for the time being, and the
men have promised to do so;
TELEPHONECO.
EMPLOYES ARE
OUT ON STRIKE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14 (by As
sociated Press).---The electrical work
ers of Los Angeles, Sacramento and
San Francisco went on strike today
for more wages from the Pacific Tele
phone and Telegraph Company.
The employes of the company at Se
attle and Spokane did not join in the
strike.
WITNESSES IDENTIFY BARNETT
AS SLAYER OF WARREN GRI '
DURING PARADE AT CENTRALIA
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MONTESANO, Wash., Feb. 14 (by
Associated Press).—In the trial of the
eleven alleged I. W. W. members for
the Centralia Armistice day murders
; yesterday, A. H. Carpenter, a Cen
tralia garage man, testified that he,
with his partner, F. H. McDowell, an<J
Miss Elsie Hornbeck, watched the pa
rade of the former service men from
the window of the garage, and heard
the shooting. McDowell, he said, ex
claimed, “For God’s sake! look! See
that gun!” He looked toward a north
upstairs window of the Evalon hotel
and saw the barrel of a rifle, and then
heard a report.
Identifies Alleged Murderer
Miss Hornbeck, testifying, identi
fied the man she had seen in the win
dow as Eugene Barnett, who, the state
claims, killed Warren Grimm.
Charles Briffett, superintendent of
| schools, said he saw Grimm fall, and
two minutes later he saw a man
emerge from the Avalon hotel carry
ing a rifle. He thought it was a .38-66.
He identified Barnett as the man. He
said ‘Barnett was filling the rifle with ,
shells as he walked.
Clarence Sherwood, a schoolboy,
said he saw Lamb running from the
scene after the shooting.
• Corroborative Testimony
Testifying today, Clarence Watkins,
who was the color-bearer in the serv
ice men’s parade, identified Eugene
H. Barnett, one of the defendants, aa
the man who did the shooting from the
Avalon hotel window, opposite the
hall of the “wobblies.”
The state is endeavoring to prove
that Barnett killed Grimm.
Watkins said the men in the parade
were marking time when the shooting
started.
MONEY FLOWED
LIKE WATER IN
SENATE FIGHT
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 14 (by
Associated Press).—In the trial of
Senator Newberry and others for
frauds in* connection with the sena
torial election in 1918, Frank H. Rob
arts testified yesterday that E. V.
Chilson, head of the speakers’ bureau
of hte Newberry committee, told a
friend early in 1918 that “they have
tapped the barrel and are spending
money like drunken sailors.”
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PEDAGOGUES
HOLD SESSION
The Parent-Teacher Association en
joyed another profitable meeting Fri
day afternoon, forty being present and
many new members signing the roll.
From the interest manifested, it would
seem that this organization bids fair
to fill the oft-quoted “long-felt want.”
After a piano solo by Dorothy Dool
ley, and a song, “America, the Beau
tiful,” by Helen Downing, Celia Fried
man, Wilma Claveau and Catherine
Smith, with Ophelia Howard at the
piano, some very interesting talks
were given on “What we have a right
to expect from- the public school and
its teachers.” The speakers for the
afternoon-were Mrs. Chester Mellison,
Mrs’. Fred Schaupp, Malcolm Brock,
G. C. Hazelet and Rev. Mr. Shriver.
Each one had something worth while
to say, and said it in a most con
vincing manner, receiving the closest
attention from the audience.
Probably some time in the near fu
utre the teachers will be given a
chance to tell what they as teachers
have—or think they have—a right to
expect from the parents, but—“that’s
another story.”
Bobby Sheldon is scheduled to leave
Fairbanks on Monday with a stage
load of passengers for Cordova.
REPUBLICANS
OF M’CARTHY
FORM CLUB
McCarthy, Feb. 13 (Special to
the Daily Times).—A Republican Club
has been organized here, and sixty
seven members have been enrolled.
The following officers were elected:
John Pitcher, president; J. E. Barrett,
vice president; Sam Saltenreich, sec
retary; J. B. O’Neill, treasurer; R.
L. H. Marshall, M. A. Hussey and O.
W. Brehmer, executive board.
The club unanimously indorsed
George C. Hazelet of Cordova for del
egate to the national convention and
J. C. McBride of Juneau as national
committeeman.
DECISION IN FIGHT AT
SEATTLE LAST NIGHT
AWARDED TO WRIGHT
SEATTLE, Feb. 14 (by Associated
Press)-.—Billy Wright of Seattle,
Pacific coast welterweight champion,
.won a decision over Joee Azeveno, tha
San Francisco veteran, last night.
UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT
BY FORMER EMPEROR
TO RE-ENTER HUNGARY
BUDAPEST, Feb. 14 (by Associated
Press).—It is reported that former
Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary
unsuccessfully attempted to enter
Hungary recently on a false passport,
to endeavor to re-establish himself on
the throne.
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CREW OF STEAMSHIP r
AGROUND NOW SAFE
LONDON, Feb. 14 (by Associated
Press).—The crew of the American
steamship West Aleta, reported to be
aground off Terschelling island, in the
North sea, yesterday, have been taken
off the vessel. Many members of the
crew are from Seattle.
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