Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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B'Nlmr "" -1 rnmmmBmm- _ Uni<m s PrjdayW ItltS ^ P<r Copy Blotters inactive toolffat about tiu HKUBb five city o?mminl9MV Ddft, in nadtaeoo to combat BSMBb of bomb plotter*, WboM HK wer# diadoNd yestoidaj jHBHpaient* by tho authorities jflBHHr tke residences and othei BHBI' tho city rfkhli. BflUjjjH^nn to maintain their mate) B??^te indications of an ontbrbt) Hffiflptters, tho officials market B^Bpht, awaiting tho vetan |^B^ta of Walter R. Flonmoy HraB today appointed ooBdtoi BHjKjf the Chattahoocboo super l?a|B circuit. It waa thought prob jjHMt the new solicitor, mho sueMttS. F. Mclaughlin, resigned MBMeltp mm* mini In "" ?1 IBie first Sets in his new* ofBce. pver action Mr. Flournoy taken F apprehending the would-be fhrowers, he will hare the sup This predecessor ta oOea. Mr. {ghlin snnounced todsy that he sid in every way in the invest!of the alleged bomb plot, end assist his successor If asked to > indication of arrests is given t authorities, although it has bated that they have the names eral men who are alleged to let Tuesday night in a cemetery nd made plans to blow up not he homes of the city commisi, but apartment houses and es belonging to certain memf that body. Ml grand jury mat today in sp?iHkpssion to consider the cas# btu ^Hned without taking action to^Hhringing the plotters to justice Ha George P. Monro recharged |Hk on law enforcement. He told ^Bn that be would keep then in ^HBuntil near the opening of the Hpy term of court, and that they keep a lookout for any inHps that might be used as eviK against th? alleged bombers. K * WITH THE SICK ^P^~*^"nirgit~vifi -i f ii i * ii ait i -* Hughes are confined to their h< Brttt a severe case of flu. bfevSfrs. Samuel Bra be on and little HHbaffering from an attadc of flu. Hgnflas Lilian Estes, who haa b ft sick with flu is slowly impi ^^Hp. Going is suffering from a B. Gordon Bishop, who has b HHlll at her home on Route 2, HHttuch improved. SbHB Perrin is sick at the homo HHrents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. P Kth flu. His friends hope he i BflRBbe out agsin. Hi Josephine Fant, the lit Hj^Htter of Mrs, J. Hay Fant, is qt S^Kday with pneumonia. HH P. Sumner, who has been s |H flu, is better today. SHrank Hart is able to bo ont a /fnv o aiawa wltW iVa die* MAW4 mm TViVH VUO IIUi j^Bhil Flynn is confined to his ho BH Calhoun street with a slight W PERSONAL MENTION B-Miss Jennie Sweeny, of Greenvi W) the guest of Miss Elizabeth 1 R Mrs, J. E. DuBose and son, Marl Bra visiting Mrs. J. A. Nicklee to i en for the holidays. , Miss Mamie Bates, who has b< Ike guest of Mrs. George T. Kel uring the holidays, returned to 1 uties at Winthiop college today. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wannaraal Hive returned to their home in ( Hgeburg after a visit to their ] Hnts, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Arthur. HKtos Mary Fant Hern don spent p H the holidays with friends in N? H. W. Stone left today : Hnalds where he was called to 1 Hflc bed of his father, Mr. F. |Hne, who has been quite sick \ BHsral days, and is 75 years of ag ^Herbert Bailey of Gaffney sp< Rubral days this week with friends Hriion's Stupor HI No LsBfir ExC Harrison, convicted murdei ^Hohn 0. Amette, who has recen MBm In an apparent state of coma ^^K>r, was sitting up st the penih yesterday and talking fret m^Bdinar to nriaon indiArlUM. Iraoon hi left his cot and jo r prisoner* around the alt warm.?Tha State. Rutland Baby Gate a Dull nd, Vt, Doe. 28*?TIm slof 'am youny" la Mac *ppl t promotion la thia dty. 1 t National Bank diraet >tad ? gtaa a bankbook w pit of oaa dollar credited baby bom to Rutland af jar 1 of this year. The 9 be effect tor a year, Wl m 1 i PRENDERV1LLE + CHARGED WITH ) GIRL'S DEATH liy^Vwuii..- "ST I It I II lit A -?* Cm ik ^ - H 1 rifXMHTuity cm in up wmtyn c > iwiiil po?toffc?, tonight ww or*' ? t rested on a ehorg* of homicide in tho I 1 ?h|iBg of tan yea* old Tbarew Mc- ' r Carthy, whaae body with the heart A 1 pierced by a .22 caliber bullet, vu 4 ' found in her Brooklyn heme last < Tuesday. V> 1 > Prenderville had been taken in.cue- 1 | tody earlier in the day on the MW|W ?H an WUUBTK DJ an. ASM 1 i N?U, the little girl's sunt, that tha > paatofflca clark, who boarM at tha ? McCarthy home, possessed several ' weapons, one of them a .22 caliber < * pistol. t Police asserted that after several 1 ' hoars' of frilling, during which It' i 1 was disclosed that tha prisoner had a ' criminal record, ha acknowledged t | owning such a gun. He is reported 'I '' to have kept it in a baby carriage ait 1 the IfcOarthy home. ' < Confronted by experts from the 1 Rogues 'gallery and fingerv printing' | departments, the postal eierfi is said t by the police to have broken down < and admitted bifaoncealed his record t to get into the civil service; and that ? ' he kept three pistols at the McCarthy < ' home; that he attended a Christmas ' 1 pary there at which he brought out 1 | his guns; and that he threatened to 1 slip little Theresa when she asked i ; him for "the pretty pearl handled I one"?the JE2 caliber gun. , < Prenderville also is said by the pa- t lice to have confessed that he was at i the McCarthy home when Theresa's 1 u moth A* found the girl's body, and that f he gave Charles Nell, IS year eld \ cousin of the slain child, 26 cents t I for going to. s nearby drug store and f telephoning hews of the tragedy t* 1 | the police. ' 1 < Before ther police arrived, however, 1 PrendervilljAs alleged to have admit- ' ted, he <j/ried his thre revolvers to ;4 s vscantfllot m few blocks from tlfc i MiCadp boms and threw theth | whstHbe thought they would net be t > reaw discovered. He did tha, m- t , com? to the reported rsffftion ef c owamhip of the 22 beoepee hs wa? I ,ne Preqj|tftil]* related, the police ds claredi that when he went to bed el ??n ter tm^ Christmas party ha put tb JBZ caliber weapon under hie pillow He said he left the house Tutorial t>v* morning about half an hour afte Mrs. McCarthy had gone to work, e- "Theresa was sleeping in her can bed," the story went on. "I left th een revolver Just where*! had put it/ 11 under the pillow. When he got home that evenini of Prenderville said, he remembered thi e*" revolver he had left under the pillos ' and ran into his bedroom. "The gun was on the bed and th< it?> bad been disturbed. I becam< excited and gathered up the other tw< guns. I put the three guns in mj 0 pocket and left the house. A feu blocks away I threw the revolveri into a lot near a factory." "I admit that I was badly fright ened and that is why I threw th< guns away," he explained. Detectives tonight were searching the lot for the weapons. Prenderville's statement that he re ,e' turned home to find the revolver as c" his bed and the fact that Theresa wat found dead on the dining room door . ' caused authorities to question him about his movements in the house bo tween the time Mrs. McCarthy went ".cn to work and when he left. He inJej sisted he had not entered the child'i bedroom, merely looking in and seetag her sleeping as he passed the door. |m" Palmetto Druf Store Open m. The Palmetto Drag Store Is open for business this morning after being ?or dosed for several days on account of the l*?. II Dr. Morgan, the druggist, and ell [or the olerks were ill with flu, but every # one is out today and working. snt 1 m ' in Hall's Store Wine In one of the fastest games of basketball ever played on the Ottaray j*. V. M. C. A. floor last evening Hall's Store defeated the Y. M. C. A. team p*r by the score of 58 to 89. Bads foi tfr Hall's Store featured by shooting 18 or field goals. a- m Bsunaado-Matarw m ?' to" J. G. Mebry, of Oowdysville, and 999 Mies Sadie Barnado, of Union, wen united in marriage at the First Baptist eh arch in Spartanburg by the paster, Bar. W. L. Ball, on Sunday, Do" eember 34th. ran The bride is Oo daughter of A. 8. led Barnado, a well known resident ei Cbe Union county. She Is a teacher at re GowdoyurMe and n graduate of Winfib tfcrey seises. to The groom *s In business with hit tor fhther, L. C. Mabry, who Is a largi hut landowner and fanjwr of lbs Oewdja vHe section.?Galfney Ledger. e V " a ' ; | OFFERS PLAN FOR WORLD UU. , SETTLEMENT ? fin * ru? no /b- ik. & ? i 1_ i y;in i| ?o \a; UW AMOCWV Hi' Wm}-?Aj? important article, rejecting in a broad way bailees bold by the British gevernHeht^'br -contributed to tho currant veeh'U fra*? of Tbo Spectator by its Mlltb*,' Jtfcn St, Lea Stracbey. Under AfeVaft|tW%"An Appeal to America,** be editor propound! a plan for world lettbpbrt under three headings: "^fciret, get Groat Britain's debt to imeriea funded. "Second, ask America to assist in iscertaining the amount of reparaions Germany is able to pay, and inluce Prance to accept that sum by indertalcing to cooperate in the defense of France against German agfroMrtota. \ "Third, America and England then P. inaugurate some system of intermtfanel legal tender, permitting reivjmption of international exchange ip>; basis." - Ob the Jpsmise that the new year outlook unless the meihanicifm of commerce is stabilised md that the essential to this reparaions irrevocably, without which he lays there can be no recovery for 3ermany or indeed for the whole vorld,' 8trachey submits that the reparations is insolubile without a preliminary agreement in regard te the htevallidd indebtedness. He suggests that chancellor of the ittchuqner Baldwin, who is on his way O the United States, tell the Wellington government nlainlv that ha ia* come to pay and, like a bank ofIcial, aak the Americana "how they rill take it.** Thua it wonld be for he Americana and not t&fifritJsh, to tropoee a plan for funding the debt n a manner aid tiny them beet and attain* the leaat poaafble incon variance to the world'a money markets. Having,. (W each funding, placed (/ai^i^'^lvMW poeitlon of a creditor thjdt^'lbb^mltor continues, England hould approach America with a reLtt^fbller joint. ?-tion to settle the infrmllied jiumdjor advice > lianeae and that America dif hda d lomatic entanglements. Prance, under his plan, would induced to accept the amount Oi T many is able to pay, ascertained r America, bp a promise to cancel 1 fndehtedneaa to England, as well > Italy's indebtedness. ? Further, England would promise ** go to the assistance of France if a were attacked by Germany. In vi< r of the difficulty of the United Stat s entering such an undertaking, f would be suggested to the America that "they should virtually, If r i formally, recognise the British proi i ise to France, and make it clear In > they would view any attempt by G< r many w uiiiuro mt peace ex X f world and in particular foreshacU i the economic measures, whieh th would take should Germany atta France." ! These steps would pave the way the Anglo-American legal tender su r gestion, and the editor expresses co ftdence that once the American peoi realise the fituation in ita true lig i they would agree. ? He concludes by appealing te t ? great organs of publle opinion i America to place the plan befo their millions of readers and tell the "the hour has come?the world wal ?your duty is to hear and to decide I - 9 'New York in Grip of Biggest Snow of Yea New York, Dec. 89.?New York t ! day was digging its way out of tl first big snow and sleet storm of tl I year. Hundreds were injured. Ai 1 balances all night were bringing pedestrians with broken limbs caua by falls on the icy streets. Two pe sons are reported killed by fallin D1?.L UJ 1 Ji t-i - ni|u wiuu mu new aisaoiea ove head communication wire*. Sigr > chimneys and smoke stacks fell, i Thousands of dollars of damage f believed to have been done on Loi and 8taten islands where scores t small boats were washed ashoi Heavy damage to building is report along. ti*e water front. City officii ? poorer quarters f storkers and augment of 24,000 one I shovel ers were advertised for t ( night. Part of an elevated train It the track becafase of sleet on CKe rat Slow1 speed is believed to have sav the lives of several hundred passe gers. Full stocks are being eetimat with a view of rationing fuel, if n? f 0 D. A. R. Mm*! The Fair Forest chapter, D. A. 1 ' will meet Tuesday afternoon at t: L **** * ** * Mr* Theodc ' PRESIDENT OPPOSEDJjO Washington, Dae. warfare over the Bcrah*StH&ptf for a world economic copa dramatic turning pciwHUbr Wka* Prehident Harding tMjkvfll the foil SenatorB rah's plan m r'?tof<l to] an amendment to (Am wtl appropriation bW and, to;a. vflVf road to: the senate, rirttuMy aa^K> tor Ita Another day's general to followed, but action went I were made for a veto toi^Ka m. Vat so many mors senators trad to speak that, with forces the Borih rider reported sj^^Hag for time in an effort at rsctt^^V yday over the New Year's /pear ed possible. Defeat of Ate amendment was predicted peeKi Bly fey ad- ! ministration leaders ancflB coneeded, upon the present ststlgyofltii*nettle, ' by its champions. ^ , B The president's letter ? addressed to Senator Lodge of Etaasochusetts, the Republican lead*, gap said ] the Borah amendment wBdd create "false impressions" abroaB^t well as 5 at home to the nmtsn i Bwitunl of' J doing toward nfcttgg^JhiBW Eri- 1 dently drafted with after consultation with flni^*rB~\iTnffess. } howveer, the ConwwinitiKd^ to give any details of ^ Msjutlntions ' it hinted iters in progtoB, Neither would White Bonse or at^Bfe deportment officials divulge aoy^nfttiher information on the aubjaet.^B Vtsy de- j lared the affair was B^Wnssarily veiled in diplomacy and l^B^lmlop- ^ ments shronded in douhg^Elbtaalty the only light thrown asfe- 0 tiations cams from SSfe^H* Udge during the senste disctnm^^Bphsii he j said that cancellation ef Iweign R debt was opposed by th^HMttldent {| and was not included Pt*U- M . vy n A suggestion from thd&j^^Bftfcat In * his latter that congrta^^^Ufe the \ hands" of the allied debjfl | hr p" prseident that? time for B Bt of principal and! Interest debts might h exteadclHntor *r Borah, however, in brief on y the president's letter, c^H^H that Ier the administration prspflvj^B) efM feet to cancel the do ferring payments "untiwJ^Bevanth or eighth generation haiV^Bd over the Jordan." '^W^m BW In discussions a V*?Eel depart"** ment rumors of ttfe nM potion's activities continoeM-IW fee and j 1X11 varied form. One vMe^M press t reports from abroad*!,*" Lg pos- < m" nihilities of a four B^B^Jpropean r peace pact as a raesVflC-ftlement 1 'r* of th reparations qialfl-Ait this \ also failed to etycit l^BjEinment t >w whatever in official ciiflMPhe un- a *7 official report said that^Hiany de- a c sired the United "StatJPjk suggest ii such a coarse to the ilief. France, Great Britain, Belgium Germany c to join in the peace ?pH?ient, and n possibly Italy. 1 ii ht it w*? impossiilrj get any f< reaction in offiefa! oaowtt on this I* new phase of the Earpfcn peace d ln pact suggestion knowiplave been a considered abroad' mow lj#> a year 8 W ago, it attracted much fclfficial at- ji ! tention. A possibility Mt it had ti * been evolved in Gemunjjil a means tl '* of meeting French demmji aa to ad- *> equate security from sttcApaa suggested. Since the three Pp1 agree- 3 ment for defense of Fnice, which c would have insured Ansflkan and v British sunnort aralnst nto German w J* aggression, failed when Ejected in the United States, it occurid to soma c' 0 observers that the Udjd States ? l,e miwht be -alecod he l?f*?l egeoey (je for presenting a fwhr-jjp*r -Boro- n n. P?un peace plan as m Jraattvo. ? ^ Hrip Thl. F?ty ? T" There is a colored fen* *n Union a r ' sick with flu and milk * soup are u " needed to sustain life. 1* ?nyor and ? ' chief of police tnveetgftt* the case, i( lg as did Mrs. George W r and all o: 1}f afire? that nourishing toti ?nd warm of bed clothing are needed m at once. a re Soup has been proddd for today k pj and if you ate willing * contribute U lLj milk, sweet or batten* , ingredi- a or ents for soup; cocoa, hue anything B m to eat, please notify *n( Kel- p he ?* , phone 100, South t- d Unk?n has never J ^ I D ^ TwwtHwo InckM 4 Snow n. Sported at PoijjpnJ, Ma. * ed Wsthingten, Dee. It.-*' wenty-two n ?. inches of enow ia report 1 at Port- <* land, Maine. Several wort er stations at reported a 60-mile trtal along the ? North Atlantic coeet. ^ Mies Virginia Trtfe* will leave a & ? next week far Gteavillo, 0 do, to to a v 4 > bridesmaid In the m?"* ! of Mis* I ? Bertie Bead, a lormor a da teacher t ?* Thaeeiear Oellef*. v 7\ ' V .* FORTY-FIVE p PERSONS MAY BE IMPLICATE! Bastrop, La., Dec.29.?State official! May declined to cemmant en the report that two signed confessions impi Looting 46 persons n the Mer Rouge kidnappings and murder had been made. New Orleans, Dec. 29.?Governor Parker, state officials and federal justice department investigators remained silent today regarding the conferrnsvmm " mi ? ' ? ?( !? ]( uic inurenuuil Kidnapping cam. The only intimation of what occurred was that the intensive study made of documentary evidence In the case. This is already said to exceed in volume that assembled for any criminal case in the history of America. Attorney General Coco said the state has an amasing collection of evi. lence for open hearings in Bastrop January 6th. Bastrop, La., Dec. 28 (By the Assortated Press). ? Forty-five persons re re implicated in the Morehouse kidnaping and murders of last Aufust, according to two confessions reported late today as delivered by rep-esentatives of the department of jut;ke to state authorities at New Orcana. .The state's legal office at New Oroana declined to comment on the subect, stating thty would neither deny tor affirm it. The confessions will not be made iublicf it was regarded here, until the pen hearings begin at Bastrop in anuary. A warrant charging Dr. McKoin rith the murder of the two men was Miued late yesterday on an affidavit f the sheriff of oMrehouse parish. In n exchange of telegrams between tobert P. Leach, state attorney here, nd Attorney General Coco of Loutiana, as to what procedure the forter should take in delaying the habu corpus hearing today, Mr. Coco ant the following: M!n answer to your telegram of DetWts and Thomas F\ HichatrW Sheriff leaves immediately with necessary papers for his extradition." ' It was stated that the signers of the confessions have been granted immunity by the state and are being secreted along with other witnesses and will be called upon to testify. However, it is regarded here as probable the arrests of some or all nf the men named will take place before the open hearing begins. One indication that the state is preparing for some activity is seen in ;he order Issued today to the National jimrd company at Mer Rouge to be > re pa red to move at short notice. Phese troops were stationed there to lold down a possible outbreak among he citizens of that community, who re in hostile camps, and are also as igned to assist the civil authorities n making arrests. The suspects are reported as under onstant surveillance of secret service len and no difficulty was anticipated 1 locating those who are designated or arrests. At New Orleans today behind closed oora the governor of the state, the ttorney general, his staff of legal asistants and the four department of is tic e men were mapping out the fuiiro course in the investigations into it death of two men, believed to have etn victims of a mob. What took place at the morning sesion was not disclosed. At its contusion the governor announced he rould leave for Baton Rouge and rould not attend the night session. It was known that volumes of evier.ee were gone over by the conferee and the difccuBsion lengthy. Friends of Dr. B. M. McKoin. forler mayor of Mer Rouge, were disppointed today when they learned he ad been denied bail at Baltimore, 'here he Is under arrest on a charge f murder in connection with the tse. His friends had promised to put p any amount of bond necessary. A und is being raised in this and ad>ining parishes to be used in defense f the physician. In the meanwhile a deputy sheriff, rmed with a warrant charging Dr. [cKoin with murder, was en route > Baltimore. Poor train connections nused him to be delayed in reaching iaton Rouge, where he is expected to ick up the extradition papers. This eputy arrested T. J. Burnett, former eputy sheriff, last Saturday and 1ft id him in the Bastrop jail. Sheriff Carpenter said today he exe .ted that McKoin would join Burott in the parish jail here by Tuesay. The jftil is being guarded by bate troops. Machine guns are trefoil on it. District Judge Odom announced toay that action on the application for preliminary trial made by Burnett rould not be taken until next week, t is regarded as unlikely the hearing o which he is entitled under the law rill be held prior to the hearings. A: i ' I FORD MAKES BEST OFFER FOR ) MUSCLE SHOALS i Washington, Dec. 28.?A challenge to opponent* of Henry Ford's proposal to take over the project to put for* > ward a better offer was made by Repi resenative McKenzie (Republican) of Illinois, acting chairman of the military affairs committee, which considered the plan in an extension of remarks inserted in the Congressional Record today. "If," said Mr. McKenzie. "the govr emment is giving so much to Mr. Ford under this proposal, it is strange indeed that with all the splendid, energetic captains of industry and mcr. of financial ability, none has appeared before the secretary of'war and urged him to give them an opportunity to compensate the government in greater measure than Mr. Ford proposes in his offer.' Mr. McKenzie insisted that the Ford offer would produce fertilizer for the farmer, and denied that acceptance would mean that only one-tenth of the power developed at Muscle Shoals would be used for manufacturing fertiliser products. "I do not feel," he said, "that it is a fair assumption to say that Mr. Ford's offer in any way gives color to the suggestion that he will use nine-tenths of the power deveoped in the manufacture of products which he may deem most profitable to himself unrestrained by any authority. Even if he did enter the field in some other activity he would be subject to all the federal and state laws now controlling the manufacture of like prod- ' ucta." Mr. McKenzie said his statement was prompted by a speech in the house several days ago by Represen- \ tative Reams (Republican) of Ohio also a member of the committee, who declared the farmers had been misled by propaganda for the Ford offer. Asking where the "friends of labor and agriculture" stood on the matter, Mr. McKenzie declared the Ford proposal as modified by the cdmmittee, in hi4 opinion carried with it "the most e,*~ [foTo^r consideration. Mr. MclCfenzie said several other bills had been introduced dealing with the project, but they all contained "the fatal defect of either government operation or operation of a government plant by lease." "The only clearly defined proposal in my judgment," said Mr. McKenzi?, "is the Ford proposal. Its terms are plain and easily understood. It proposes action, definite and continuing, and safeguards the vital interests of the people." Lease periods of 100 years or more were not unknown in the United States, he declared, referring to criticism of the feature of the Ford plan. He said a case in point was in the Keokuk dam across the Mississipp, river, constructed by private enter- , prise under a perpetual lease. 1 "It is one of the strange things , brought about in the investigation of this proposed plan," he added, "that the distinguished engineer, Col. Hugh | L. Cooper, criticizes the proposed , term of 100 years to Henry Ford and , in his same statement volunteers the information that he is vice president , of the company operating the Keokuk , dam under a perpetual lease." Missionary Meeting Postponed J The missionary society of the First | Baptist church has postponed the , week of prayer from Monday, Jan- ( uary 1st, to Monday, anuary 15th. This postponement was made on account of the prevalence ol flu in the ( community. The members are requested to note ( the change of date. Mr?. Davis Jeffries, | President. . m , i Guinn-Fain ; 1 Mrs. Mary Crews Guinn and J. P. Fain were married December 25th at Albany, Gn., and will reside in that city. Mrs. Fain resided in Union for sev- ( eral years and has numbers of friends ( here who will be interested in the announcement of her marriage. Three Killed and One Injured When Train Hit* Automobile Waycross, Ga? Dec. 29.?Matthew Tatum, Isaiah Tatum and William Broach were killed and a girl injured when the automobile in which they rode collided with the Atlantic Coast Line train at a street crossng here , I..4 1MI* IBIglll. TODAY'S COTTON MARKET Open 2:00 p. m. ( January ... 26:68 26.40 , March 26.73 26.62 , May .74 26.62 July , .. 26.44 26.82 October 34.72 24.67 Local market .. WMQ < GERMANY ASKS FOR AID TO SOLVE PROBLEM Lausanne, Dee. 29 (By the Associated Press).?The Near East confernce today verged on failure, the chief cause being the contest over the ownership of the Mosul oil flelds and capitulations question, the Allies talc.ng a firm stand agains the subjection of foreigners to the jurisdiction ,f the Turkish courts. They insist en special courts with a foreign judg" sitting in cases where foreigners are nvolvcd. The Turks are strongly resisting what they call an invasion of Turkish sovereignty, but their dele jjates assert that the Mosul oil issue ia a greater question than the capitulation. They claim the Allies are using capitulations to make their interest in he oil fields. Washington, Dec. 28.?Further aspects of the move for an American commission to inquire into Germany's capacity to pay reparations came to light today when the chamber of commerce of the United States made public a definite request from German business men that such a commission be appointed. The request was transmitted throuch the Gemnnn *T?i ?, ? ? - ?? uiobllV-UUUHandelstag, a national organization representing German business interests. In reply the chamber of commerce expressed gratification at the confidence shown in American business leadership, but deferred a definite decision pending discussion of the reparations questions by the council of allied premiers at their meeting January 2. The correspondence as made public contains no reference to previous discussion of the project, although it is known that in a less formal way the American commission plan has been under consideration in Germany, the United States and other countries for several weeks. Only one allusion made to the fact that the planp \s been discussed also with oficiaL-o A. the Interested governments, the Vuram of the German Industrie-^ kndelstag saying merely formation. State department officials, whohave been junwilling to discuss in any way the Commission proposal since it iirst was disclosed in a recent Associated Preses dispatch from London, continued silent tonight regarding the whjle project, the White House olficir.ls would not reveal whether the move was one of the things President Hnrrfinir Viarl in mind mUnn ---o "-? iiiikvi nucil UC WIUVO to Senator Lodge today regarding the efforts now being made to be helpful in sloving the European economic problem. The correspondence between th? German and American business organizations was made public in a statement by Julius H. Barnes, president of the chamber of commerce of the United States, saying that chamber officials had no comment to make it this time. Mr. Barnes' statement follows: "So much interest has been evinced bv business organizations and business men of America as to what night be done to facilitate a definite settlement of the reparations question that the chamber of commerce of the United States feels justified in riving publicity to a cable just received last Tuesday morning from the organization in Germany which -orresponds most nearly to the chamber of commerce of the United States, ind together "vith that cable the answer which the chamber of commerce if the United States has sent. "The importance which a reparations settlement has assumed in business and industrial circles all over the world is illustrated by this cable Find its answer. The belief is growing everywhere that a definite settlement of this Question carried out In "ood faith would be the chief approach to distinct progress in world -erovery." > Mr. Browning Improving Mrs. L. J. Browning has just returned from a visit to Asheville, N. C., where Mr. Browning is recuperat ng and reports his condition as very favorable indeed. He has improved so rapidly since going to the sanitarium and feels almost well enough to come home. Fine Basket of Cake The cat received a basket of de licious cake yesterday afternoon and <veiy piece of it was as good as it is possible to bake cake. Fruit cake, white and black, pound cake, and Lady 1al*;more?great, generous slices with bright wishes for the New Year ?ail from a good friend and a splendid cook. Dont ask who sent it for the eat has eaten it all up and did not have the slightest notice of dividing with you. A lump of sugar soaked in vinegar will stop most Oases Of hiccoughs.