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GREENSBORO DAILY NEW 36 Pages Today Three Sections Closer and Much CiUn Today Monday Fair. VOL, XXV. NO. 160 ENiTiw) m irrwro rum mattci AT MsTOTiriClfc OIKKNSBOSO, H. c. GREENSBORO, N. C SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1921 SillT m ft.M Pr T1U putt jr.M rt ttu PRICE SEVEN CENTS HEAVY TOLL TAKEN IN HUMAN LIFE BY STORM OVER SOUTH I BE Storm First Struck the Eastern Edge of Arkansas. SWEPT TOWARD THE GULF Tearing Through Mississippi and T Louisiana, It Left Path of Destruction. TOWN ALMOST WIPED OUT Spencer, Liu. gaffers Los of Seven Liven Six Negroes Kill aa One . Floatation Crittenden Coun ty, Ark.. Hara Hit (tr Aaaeutea ma.1 Memphis, Tenn Deo. 14. Thirty-six persona, two white men and 14 ne groes, were killed and mora than 100 injured In a tornado which' struek Crittenden county, Ark lata yester day and dipped into Quitman, Coahoma, Carroll, Leflore and Tazoo eountlea In northern Mississippi early today be fore passing- to the southwest, leaving In Its wake a trail ot wrecked (arm building. Virtually all the Injured are negroes. Clarkevllle, Ark., reports nine dead and 85 Injured In that town and near by (arming settlements; Coahoma county, 12 dead and a number In jured; Carroll and Leflore counties fire dead and approximately 60 Injured; Quitman county, five dead and several Injured and Tasoo county Ave dead and seven Injured. Payne Harrison, crushed to death when a brick wall at Clarkevtlle col lapsed and William V. Turner, a plant er Who rode Into a fallen electric wire while viewing the damage to his plan tation near Mark,-are the only white persons known to have lost their lives In the storm. The storm struck first In the vicinity of Clarkevllle, Ark., demolishing small (arm buildings and damaging a num ber of the more substantial structures through a stretch of territory two miles wide and it miles long. Crossing the Mississippi river the term apparently descended In the , vicinity of Mark, Miss., about 10 miles south of Clarkevllle, rasing building on th Turner and Mark plantations and, continuing Into th nearby coun tries of Leflore and Carroll, destroyed a number of buildings. ' In Coahoma county the storm swept the Lacy and Oberst plantations. Eight were killed on th Lacy place and four en th adjoining plantation op erated by W. J. oberst.. Virtually all the negro cabins In sev eral plantations seven miles aouth of Vaughan station In Ytido county were leveled. , All of those killed In Crittenden eounty. Ark., were crushed to death In the collapse of a brick store build in of Banks and Danner at Clarke vllle in which a number of farm la borers had taken refuge from a rain storm which preceded the blow. Sev eral were Injured at Booker, a small village near Clarkevllle. In addition to the Banks and Danner store two cotton warehouses and a gin , were wrecked at Clarkevllle and farm buildings within a radius of several miles about that town rased or dam aged. Ambulances sent from Memphis and motor trucks hurried to the scene from nearby towns brought the more serl ously Injured to hospUals In Memphis while the less seriously nurt were cared for In Marlon and other towns In the Immediate vicinity. In Mississippi hastily formed relief erranlsatlons and Red Cross chapters at Greenwood, Vaioo City and other center are caring for the injured ana homeless. Whll no definite estimate of the itmnartt damaa-a was available tonight unofficial figures Indicate that the monetary loss will exceed million dollars. . uwv nl.ilpr,TlnNfl AND SMALL TOWNS ARB SWEPT BY STORM New Orleans. Dec. H. Twenty five reported dead, scores Injured and huge ! th toll n a storm jirupo .j u i . . - hinh truck eastern Arkansas last night and tore tnrougn upper Missis sippi and Louisiana during the early hours of today, according to scattered . - .AM th. .lAvsatatAil ar.u to. reports . ., day. Wires are down and virtually all communication-with the storm area shut off. , mi., ullta. Af flnenrer. Union Far Ish, La., about 15 miles from Monroe, was almost entirely leveled, with a loss. It Is reported, or one uie. Mrs. Mary Spain, wife of E. L. Spain th TUrinl blantatton l n a iin i w. ' - - u .nrthw.it nf nantroo. and six negroes were killed. Twenty five were reportea injurea in win !;. irk... n.vrn.a WrA killed tLTtA TnOTt than a score Injured when the storm struck two plantations near urem .....4 Ut.i aarlv tndaV. . wuii. m Tiirnr. a well known plant er, and four negroes were killed on a plantation near warns, hubs. The storm appears to have had Its inception In Crittenden county, Ark., 1st yesterday where about a dosen . , ....i.m.n. w.r affected. larmuia Dokwciiio.n. Payne Harrison and eight negroes were reported killed -In this county when a store. In which approximately ' 60 negro farm hands had taken refuge collapsed. The Missouri Paolfio depot, a store and five homes are reported demolish ed at Spencer. W. L. Wall, agent for -the Missouri Facmc ai opencer, ana ' vi !. ... nnrtd dvlnST Of IniurlCS. In addition to the seven killed near Bastrop, at least two other are fear- en IV W lie Th Spain dwelling was torn apart and furniture ana otner comeine win tered for miles on both side of Bayou Bartholomew, miss memo opmn, to ... ...inn.lv ininred and Is not ex pected to live. Mrs. Spain was blown for a hundred feet against a tree, meeting instant aeatn. New Hearing To i?e Given Peake Jan. 14 tltf Aaorlttsa rrw.? KmtiXTllle, Tens., lire. 24. Judge T. A. R. Nelson today saatalnrd tke motion for a sew bearing for J. L. Peake, Nortk Carolinian held ere on a a Indictment In eonnee tlosj w4th tke killing of H. B. Askbnrn, at Winston-Salem, JV. C December 8, and January 14 was set as tke -date for tke hearing. Peake was arrested here several weeks ago at the request of au thorities at Wlnaton-Salem, where he had beea Indicted on charge of marder. Motion fr the releaae of Peake on a writ of habeas corpus auto, math-ally stayed process) of ex. tradition which had beea granted by Governor Taylor. Additional charges against Peake at Wtn. ston-Salem have resulted In addi tional extradition papers being presented t the governor of Tea.- People Heeded Admonition to Mail Early Big Volume Indicates Prosperity. RISING TIDE OF BUSINESS i; (s Anedsted mai l Washington, Dec. 14. Officials of the postofflce department left their desks tonight convinced that the American people had begun to practice "mail early for Christmas." While th nearly one-third million persons In the postal service staggered under a load which appears, when viewed as statistics, to be th largest volume of Christmas mail In history, reports from several thousand divi sional and minor offices showed plain ly, It was declared, that the malls had been gloved , smoothly and with dispatch and above all without the usual "peak." , , Dr. Hubert Work, first assistant postmaster-general, declared this was due to the "fin co-operation of the people and th splendid efficient ser vice of th employes." Th response to Postmaster General Hays' appeal for an early mailing of Christmas packages wa mor hearty than w could hava hoped," Dr. Work said. The Indication of a great Increase In th Christmas malls wa viewed as significant by many government of ficials, who declared it showed a bet terment In th nation's economlo con ditions. It reflected, It was said, bat ter markets, busier factories, fewer unemployed. They believed also It re vealed a oloser knit American nation, for transcontinental as well as local mall alike was heavier. Mention was made In th reports of postmasters and railway mall service heads of the higher percentage of registered and Insured packages and the tremendous volume of parcel post matter as Indi cative of the rising tide of business. As shown by the postofflce depart ment charts, malls that could accurate ly be charged to the Christmas period began to Increase In volume about De cember 10. In the next 10 days the flow of' greetings and packages con tinued steadily and, although Increas ing gradually. It got beyond the ca pacity of few Important postofflces to dispatch or relieve with celerity. Even stormy weather In some sections did not cause what has hitherto been an annual Jam In th mails, th reports showed. Great cities Ilk New York and Chi cago, Important gateways as at mld contlnent rail dividing points, and the hundreds of lesser relay stations for the malls met the flood of the tide and turned It Into Its proper channels promptly, delayed only to th extent that railway service was impairea Dy Its burden of homeward bound travel ers, according to Dr. Work. He said Irr this connection that so lar as rec ords show never in recent yeara has lees -mall reached division points un worked" or unsorted for Its prompt transfer. . RADICAL CONVENTION TOOK CHAIRMAN'S TOM mtobalhi xt. v..b iw it. With a police- hiiiv itninr dntv as the chair man's gavel, the workers' party of America was born here today and ded icated to the overthrow of th present ..vinmnit and the substitution of the "American workers' republic." After preliminary organisation waa -m . . ,i T.M.a p Pnnnnn. of Kansas euecicu o cm.. - - ' City, wielding the billy as presiding officer, said the party should begin by fighting more ana taixing icsa. . in.t.tiv a.veral deleaates Aiiiivak lulMll"-"-' - acted upon th suggestion. They were ejected from the convention nmi v.. a.i. ..f-h ah eh. Mr. Can- a, vernal ii 1 , . ; non then declared he would listen to no one who taikea anyiuuig w unity." - ASA R, KKKN IS SHOT AND KILLF1D IN WILSON COUNTY ISpreHl "" N-' Wilson, Deo. !4. In Taylors town ship, several miles west of Wilson. Asa It. Keen wss shot In the back .i - . . h w H Evans and In stantly killed Friday afternoon. Evans made no attempt to eBcape and Is now In jail. Both are white men and Evans claims he was acting In self- Thls afternoon In South Wilson Tip Barnes,- a notorious negro, shot his wife in the mouth Rfter which he placed her In a local noi"pnai mm m skipped out. The woman died shortly after being taken to the hospital. Tip later was arrested. Forecast By States. Washington, Dec. 24 Virginia: Cloudy and much colder Sunday; un settled morning: Monday fair. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia: Cloudy and much colder Sunday; probably ram on me coast; Mondav fair, colder in east. Alabama: Genslally fair and much colder Sunday; Mld wave In south prdbably freeslng temperature to the coast Sunday nignt; Monaay lair. Tennessee: Fair .and colder Sunday night; cold wave In east; Monday fair, rising temperature In west. . Thermometer Readings. The temperature In Greensboro and vicinity yesterday, according to A. 11. Horry, local government observer, was High (6 Low ........... 41 fT a- Dave Norwood, D. G. Brummitt, Lindsay Warren, J. D. Dawson. FOUGHT THE OLD GUARD Hard to Figure What Commends Norwood to Watts As the Democratic Chairman. MEET NEXT WEDNESDAY Brooks Back Prom Michigan and Says He Doesn't Mind a Commlaaton Being Appointed to Study Him and Educational System . . i Th flreenttaro pally Km Buren. 101 HerchsDU N.Uwi gul lids. By W. T. BOST Raleigh, Dec. 4. Stat Chairman Tom Warren, of the Democratic exe cutive committee ha actually re signed even as the ' Raleigh gossip yesterday represented him, and Den nls G. .Brummitt,-: of Oxford; Lindsay C. Warren, of Washington, N. C, and John G. Dawson, of Klnston, are added to the name of J. Dave Norwood, of Salisbury, for th succession. The Cstonlshlng thing about this quartet Is that all four were hearty Max Gardner men, all were Kltchin supporters and have fought the or ganisation. Notwithstanding this, the most active Norwood supporer Is said to be Col. A D. Watts who must recall, aa th next door neighbor to Iredell, how Dava Norwood fought the Kltchin battle against Watts and "The Sena tor," and later how Norwood as an active supporter of Max Gardner aided in twice carrying Old Rowan against The Senator' candidate for governor. Just what commends the Salisbury man to Colonel . Watt, . barring the fact that Mr. Norwood Is a captain of industry and can get the miiey, boys, it Is hard to figure out. Colonel Watts hasn't won International renown for going outside his organisation to get men to run th party for him. Least of all should he seek a kinsman of Governor Kltchin, for among the kicks absorbed by Watts none ever hurt quit so badly as that administered by these damned Kltchlns" as Watts called 'em In Charlotte. For when the Kltchlns kicked Watts they booted The Senator, Jolted all over J. W. Bailey and the whol Simmons organisation. Quarter by the Kltchin men has not been asked. Wherefore, Norwood of the Gardner and Kltchin camp looms big. What the Organisation Demand. One thing may be recounted, but that ought to hurt. Norwood managed the Jim Hartness campaign against Bryan Grimes, but they only whisper the result of it In Iredell. The Salis bury man was well within form when he supported Hartness because the two were neighbors. It has been a long time since a Kltchin man received even favorable mention for state chairman, because an orthodox Old Ouarder, who never chased false gods In all his life, has been demanded by the organization, which has boasted that It will not allow a governor to be named until the candidate has ac cepted th state chairman. Thus the organisation men declared they treated Blckett. Of course the last one of 'em Is a Cretan. Blckett beat 'em as Kltchin had beaten 'em, but Tom War ren was an aggressive Blckett man. The organization must do some tall explaining to satisfy -the Klintnons folks everywhere. Here Is Dave Nor wood, a Kltchin man, manager and kinsman by marriage, a Gardner man by choice. And he is being boosted by the chief of the Simmons tribe In the state. Then there Is one other Watts-Nor wood tie. Both were opposed to woman suffrage and both are a trifle silent on the subject now. It is true Dave Nor wood didn't call It "damned nonsense,' for Dave Norwood Is In his Methodist! cal pew twice every Sunday and the best contributor that th First ohurch of Salisbury has. He doesn't cuss. But Watts spoke his sentiment. Take Hartness and suffrage away and one does not find how Watt and Norwood work together Kltchin man, Kltchin manager, Kltchin kinsman, and Gard ner supporter,, all In one. Yet Norwood is the Watts choice, lis said. Brummitt, on the other hand, mounts big in the every qualification for a chairmanship. He is a superb personal campaigner, really eloquent on the stump. Is a fine mixer, comes from the greatest district in the state, can get the great empire thoroughly organized Is loyal to woman suffrage, clean, pro gressive, and has hsd four years of active state .service during which time h was thlee times member of the house and speaker of both the regular and special sessions of 1919 and 11120. Where Brummitt gklnes. If the organization were looking for a man on the other side It would make a ten-strlks to land Brummitt because he has everything that a man now needs. He would appeal to the pro gressive spirit of the state, would be the instant friend of women voters, and he would have his home district solidly behind him. If the Watts sup porters desired a man who had not been personally objectionable to the Senator by being kin to Kltchin, Brum mitt fits, and If the Watts men wish a cltizenvho followed the wise advice of the Senator when he sent down word to ratify the suffrage amendment Brummitt would suit even better than . (Continued oa page fourj. THE THREE WISE MEN ARRIVE AT THE LOWLY i 1 New York City a Center Of Crime Christmas Eve Four Persons Killed and Six Others Injured In a Series of Bold Robberies Two Bandits Fall Into the Clutches of the Police and Full Confessions Are Wrung From Them Shops and Offices Robbed. (If iaaditodfTM.) New York, Dec. 14. Instead of a slty of good will, New York became a cen ter of crime on Christmas v. Police record showed that In the last 24 hours four persons had been killed and six Injured In a series of robberies and assault In th olty prop er and neighboring communities. In two Instance, however, bandit fell Into th clutches of th police, who asserted they bad wrung confes sions of their crimes from prisoner. The crlm chart shows: An armed man entered th Pronx home of Carl Mollar, Jeweler, mortally Injuring him and seriously wounding his wife, Usullne. A man giving his nam of Alrlc Wealing was captured after a block's chase by a motor truck driver, who alleged he had seen him running from the Mollar home. Mollar Identified Wealing before he died, ac cording to th police who declared tbe prisoner had confessed. The police olosed th oa of two holdup men who last night raided a United Cigar store In th Bronx, and wounded two detective. On bandit, hot dead, wa today Identified as Nel son Levy, with a long criminal record. Joseph Oats drove up this morning to a hospital In Englewood, N. J., and reported he had been shot by high waymen. He wa detained on suspicion Factory of Hackney and Sons Suffers $500,000 Damage, With $360,000 Insurance. WILL BUILD BIGGER PLANT (Spedil hi Dtllr Km.) Wilson, Dee. 24. Fir broke out In the second story of th building of Hackney and sons hsr thl morning and soon th whol plant wa a fur nace of flames. Rooky Mount wa called on and soon cam to th assist ance of ths local firemen and with their combined effort th flames were finally subdued. A dead wall between th paint apd woodworking rooms (topped th prog ress o fthe flames on ths (outhslde ad Jaoent to many large business houses. and a favorable turn of th wind saved many frame building en th north. On hundred oar and truck went up In smoke. Th " Hackney' loss on "' building, equipment and stock amount to 1600, 000, on which there was 1800,000 In surance. Damage to adjacent build ings Is considerable. Th Hackneys will build bigger and better than ever. CHRISTMAS GREETINGS VOICED BY FOREIGNERS Heads of Delegations Transmit Them To Amerleaa People Speak Opli mlatlcally of Conference Results (If Anorilled Fna.) Washington, Deo. J4. - Heads of the foreign delegations participating In the armament conference transmitted through the Associated Press tonight Christmas greetings to th American people, The delegation chiefs, one and all, took occasion to speak most optimis tically of the achievements of the con ference to date as pointing the way to a now era In International relation ships developed by the conference. Admiral Baron Kato Issued the statement on behalf of Japan, Albert Karraut spoke for France, Senator Schanzcr for Italy, and Jonklieer Van Karneberk for the Netherlands. The three Chinese deleKales, Wclllng-Koo. Alfred Sze and Chung llul Wang, Joined in one statement and Vice-Foreign Minister llaniliuia, of the Japan ese delegation, Issued to newspaper men a message in wnicn ne extenoea greetings not only to them but to the people of the United States. The ex pression of the British delegation was embodied in a statement issuea cy Arthur J. Balfour. WILL GIVE REASONS FOR f HKI.K.AHi; OF KfUEXB DEBS Washington, Dec. 24. Announce ment was made at the department of justice tonight that the complete text of the recommendations from Attorney Qeneral'Daugherty to Prosldent Hard ing in the Debs case would be made public soon and also would b dis tributed In pamphlet form throughout the country. This action was to be taken, It was explained, In order that the public might be fully informed on just what grounds commutation of lantena was Mwd. 4 iS Iff , , 5; that he was the other bandit who had participated In the Bronx robbery and who had been shot. Captain Wines, of th Bronx detec tive department, declared this after noon that he had been so Identified and that he had confessed taking part In 17 other robberies, In most case In volving United Cigar stores. Ths police were still searching for the holdup men who shot Leon Botlllo desd In his Bronx saloon last night, whll In New Jersey a poss wa look ing for a man held responsible for the brutal murder of a five-year-old girl In a New Brunawlok hotel. Th assail ants ot Philip 8. Honywood, member of a titled English family, also war still at large. Flv robbers entered th Brooklyn offlc of Capt, Gilbert C. Wright, treas urer, of the Lighter Captain' union, and at pistol point robbed hi safe of 120 and took 1104 from a union member who entered th offlc to pay his dues. The thieve then (leaped. Three armed men robbed Nathan Backman, Brooklyn merchant of ft?6, whll Francli Woolen reported that th ticket booth ot th Brooklyn mo tion picture house which he manages had been robbed of 1100. Three footpads took 1 80 from Thomas Stankofsky In th Bronx after beat ing him unconscious. Two of them were captured. EUG. V. DEBS TO LEAVE Receives Tidings of Commuta tion Calmly, Reserving Com ment UjitUJHels Free. TO HOLD FAMILY REUNION tsr Aandiud mm) Atlanta, Dec. 24. Eugene V. Debs was formally notified today that his 10-year sentence had been commuted to expire tomorrow, and a far a could be learned, received th tidings calmly, reserving any comment he might want to make until he la actually outside the walls of th Atlanta federal peniten tiary. Detailed Instructions ss to th hour of release bad not been received at the prison tonlfht, and, following ordinary procedure, the Socialist leader would be allowed to leave tomorrow at a,ny time suitable to him. All arrangements for departure for his horn In Terr Haute. Ind.. for a Christmas reunion with his wife and family have been made by Theodora Debs, brother of the prisoner, and Da vid Karsten, a Socialist leader of New York, both of whom have been her for several days. His plan for the future are to be made after arrival horn, his friends said, i Th government will provide trans porlutlun, S In cash and a complete outfit of civilian clothes. He has his choice between a dark blue or brown suit, but the other garments are uni form and Include a hat. The Socialist leader has been room ing In th hospital building most of his time here and does not mingle with the other Inmates, generally. No outsid ers, either, have seen him recently, It was said by J. E. Dychs. warden, and his brother and friends here were wait ing to welcome him outside the gates. "perry Congratulate rtrba. Washington, Dec. 24. Marvin Gates Sperry, national president of the Pri vate Soldiers and Sailors' legion, sent a telegram today to Eugene V. Debs congratulating him on th commuta tion of his sentence. The great major ity of the private soldiers and mil lions of other Christian citizens, the message stated, will praise the action of President Harding In granting ex ecutive clemency to Debs and other political prisoners. ONE Jl BOH SPOILS Till AT. OP A TKWKF.SSEE MI'HUKR CASE Shelhyvllle, Tcnn., liec. 24 After approximately 24 hours of deliberating, the Jury in the case of W. H. Carroll, charged with the murder of Dr. U. K. llorton at . Warlrace, Tenu, May it, reported tonight that the vote stood 11 to 1 for acquittal, Following Its re port the Jury was discharged. NO DAILY NEWS MONDAY The Dally News Is going to take a "night oft" this Christmas night and as a consequence there will be no paper published Monday morning. Those of the News family who week after week and month after month throughout the year have tolled on Sunday night as on any other night that the thousands of readers may have their Monday morning paper feel that ths friends of th Dally News will not begrudge them this on Bun day night in the year In which to "Indulge" with their families around the home fires. THE GREENSBORO NEWS COMPANY MANGER. IDAY GIVE! Cautious Senators Will Try to Reflect People's Pulse. BIG BURDEN FOR LODGE He Must Overcome a Lot of Anti- Alliance Sentiment He Helped to Create. BONUS AWAITING ACTION M Member Of tWngreaa 4:oeee Something Mnat Be Doae la Way Of Roan Leglalatlen Bnt Dread To Take Hubs. DtllT Km Sum ind IWnsr ip nVs, 111 ilk luUdlm (St Uual Win) Washington, Deo. 14. Th fat of th treaty of Washington may b d aided during th next 10 day. Ths holiday ross of Congress, coupled with reduced railroad rate, ha amp tied Washington of Congressmen and senator. who are occupying a lofty peroh on th top rail f th fence, waiting for a crystallisation of senti ment, will have a chsno to fsel th puis of their constituents before they return to Washington January t. Ths manner In which tb plain vetsrs react to th nsw departure In Ameri can affair will soon b refleoted In th senate debate Polling th senate on th new treaty has been found to be an almost Impossible task. Scores of senator refuse to dlsclos at thl early date what their attltud will be when th "how-down" some. Movement For Reservations. History repeats Itself In th com ment on Senator Lodge's reported statement that to "amend th treaty I to ruin It." This declaration served to bring up recollection ot President Wilson's similar statement about ths Versailles treaty, which was hooted at on Capttot hall. Th Lodg declare tlon ha given Impetus to th move ment to attach clarifying reservations Bom member of Congress who havs heard by mall from their constituents say that th folks "back horn" are mystified at the new alliance. The American antipathy to foreign alll ance of all kinds, which was Intensl fled by ths tremendous campaign against tb lesgue of nations, la as sertlng Itself. Th quastlon Is being asked, "Why Is It necessary to enter th quadruple alliance?" On th abil ity of th treaty advocates to show ths commensurate advantage to the United State from the new alliance equal to the liabilities and obligations Incurred will depend the ultimate fat of th treaty of Washington. It may be so arranged that Senator Lodge can be released from hi duties a on of th American delegates In order to bear the brunt of the fight for the treaty. It la conceded that he will have to make votes by a clear cut argument on the merits of the treaty rather than by dependence on another personally conducted tour of the Pacific Islands, which has been so much crit icised In his speech before the last plenary session. Anti-Leaguers Still Active. Th real crux of the situation Is whether Benslor Curtis, Republican whip, and Lodge, the Republican floor leader, can swing enough votes on the majority side. Ths srgumsnt Is being used by Republican senators of the anti-league of nations element that th pro-league Republican element, repre sented by Hughes snd Hoot, dragged their weaker associate, the feeble Lodge, Into an arrangement which savors of the league of nations. Ths antl-leaguera ssy that if the United States Is to embrsce th league, It would be far better to take tb Ver sailles covenant than a poor Imitation. On th other hand, It Is argued, If league membership for this country In volves a violation of American tradi tions, so much worse is the Pacific pact, which may result in this nation aligning Itself In the event of a dis turbance in that region, with a brown race against a white people. Probably the most annoying as well as the most difficult problem of legisla tion that confronts the present Con gress Is the soldiers' bonus, which ap peals with great force to Republicans and Democrats alike. Those of both parties confess that the mattsr hss already been delayed too long, ss it should have been disposed of early after the armistice. It is certain llmt the Republicans have no speeiflo program, which In cludes the soldiers' bonus, for Repre sentative Monilell, Republican leader (Continued on 1 age Four.) AMERICANS NOT ME ;e Japan Refuses to Give Up Her o-o-j &hare. FRENCH ALSO UNWILLING . I Wilms i II p American Delegates Offer to Cut America s Undersea Tonnage From 90.000 to 60,000. BRITISH IN LOSING GAME Brltlak Pall ta Oet Conference Abollak All Submarines And Join Wllk United States ta Plan ta Red are World's Tnnnngew. Il tMcitud rraa.1 Washington, Dec. 14. An American ffort to compromise the submarine controversy failed of Jmmedlat suc-v ces today before th arms conference) naval committee when Japan refused to depart from th "J-5-1" ratio pro portion of submerslbl for her flee and French action wa deferreg pending advices from Pari. Whin th committee adjourned aft four hour debate to meet again mil Tuesday, soma members of the Ameri can group appsared discouraged ore th prospect of any early agreement on submarines, although negotiation are to continue. Th American compromise plan, pre sented after th Brltlak ffort fo complete suppression ot subrnarlne had been shelved, proposed 10.001 ton limitation tor Great Britain and th United State Instead of th original Amerloan figure of 10,000 tons each, and virtually a statu quo for th oth. r three powers. Th British delegation, falling to obtain favorable aotlon on suppres sion of submarines, aooepted th new Amerioan reduction schsra. Th French group Indicated that It would be unacceptable, but deferred full an swer pending Pari advice. Japan flatly held out for th full (4,000 ton In submarines under th original American "l-l-l" ratio plan. Italy ao oepted th compromise plan, condition-. ed on a submsrlne tonnag parity with Franos, th Italian delegate con tending that 11,500 ton would be the oorreot limitation for both Frano and Italy. . Franc Want SO ,0O0 Tons. Th French delegation Indicated that It would not oppose parity with Italy in submarines as wall a capital ships LuP withheld approval of any tounaa limitation of less than th 10,000 ton tlgur suggested by Frenok experts. Under a statu quo Franc would hav about 43,000 ton la aubins-.-dblea turn American group mint it plain that, whll It had great sympathy fori the British viewpoint In opposing all submarin warfare, It was Inclined to agree with th American advlaory com- mittea that atitimarlnna a I..IH. mat weapon. It wa said th mattsr had been discussed with President Harding and that th willingness of th American government to proceed at soma future dat toward an In ternational itlaeiiaalnn nt inhmi.. warfare on a wider basis than th present conference had bn Indicat ed. It was also Indicated that th Amer ican delegation would bring into th conference later a resolution condemn ing In formal fashion for th five pow er such use of submarines a wis mad by Germany during th world war. Befor th British proposal was shelved, which was don taoltly and without comment or formal aotlon, Arthur J. Halfour mad a final plea for th British ess against under, water craft. At th same time he plac ed formally on tb record of th con ference a eoncls statement of Brit ish view on this point and urged that a world conference be called later' again to take up th question. America Offer Rig Sacrifice. To Indue agreement, th Amerlcsit delegation again offered, a In th capital ship proposal, to make th greatest sacrlflcs In tonnag. Ameri can figure show a present submarine strength of 96,000 ton for th United State and It.OOOtons for Orest Britain. Under the compromise plan the- United States thus would scrap IS.000 ton and the British 21,000. The effect ot th American-British agreement today, had It been ratified by the other thre power, would hav been a net re duction of nearly 00,00b tons In th world submarine tonnage. Tie American compromise plan ap peared to have been aimed at meeting half way th desires of each power In submarine tonnage limitation. It an attempt to solve the controvsrsy that had arisen In th naval commit tes with Oreat Britain and Franc In direct opposition and poles apart lit their views as to submarines in war. The British deslr to reduce submarin tonnage would havs been met In a large degree on the on hand under th American plan, while on the other the French desire to Increase submsrlne tonnage and the French submarine ratio ss compared to Orest Britain and America also would hav been mst In approximately the same degree. Action of Jspan In refusing to swerve from the line of th 6-6-1 rstlo Injected a wholly new (lenient Into the controversy and that and ultimata French decision on the compromise pmposal constitute the point of de parture for the resumption of nego tiations onTuesday. TAKE NEGRO AND BOOZE FROM TRAIN IN ASIIBORO Tke Stuff Broke In Ills firln Young Folka Home From College For Holiday. ISMdtl u Dill Seal Ashboro, Den. 14. Jim Cegle. a ne gro, was taken from a Norfolk snd Southern train here tndsy with two gallons and one pint of whisky In a suit case. Cagle was drunk and ths whisky broke In his grip, lit wss placed In Jell here. All th young people of this pluc who are students at the colleges In mo are u nomo ror ine vnnst- mas holidays. W. C. Hammer, representative In Congress, returned home lust night for the holidays. Christmas services will be held at all the chnrches here tomorrow. UTAH KHlNAPI-in A.1I) ROBIIRB MAY lIK FUR CRIME! Chicago, Dec. 14. Clyde Timmons, who, according to the police, has con fessed holding up a train on the Oregon Short Line railroad near Salt Lake City last August, may bs sent bsck to Utah for trial and face a possible firing squad. The police were consid ering this move tonight after an an nouncement by United States Commis sioner Mason that Utah statutes pro vide ths death penalty for train rek-.btra.
Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, N.C.)
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