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ARMAMENT MATTER IS UP TO HARDING WASHINGTON CONFERENCE HAS BEEN EMPOWERED TO DEAL WITH THE QUESTION. PRESENT SOLUTION DOUBTFUL Probable That Land Armaments Is to be Handled by League Commission on Same Basis as Naval. ~ rt f * F Geneva.—The commission on,disar mament of the council of the League of Nations In its full report finds that the Washington conference can better ileal with the question of naval disar mament than the league and that it can he more effectively secured by common agreement among the great powers. The discussion of this subject' by the assembly commission thus far is In line with this conclusion, involv ing a slow but sure policy. With re gard to land armaments also It np- pears that the name policy has the upper hand. It is probable that the will cijine up before the as sembly on that basis, "Mankind is still too far removed from the ideals of peace to make pos sible at present the solution of the question of disarmament." Is the final conclusion of the council's" commis sion. * The replies to the assembly's re quest that the governments limit their expend'Miros for the purpose of arma ments for two years to the amount of this year's budget are quoted in sup port of the commission's contention. Mellon's Estimate Correct. Washington. lncomplete treasury reports of collections of September 15 Installments of Income and excess profits taxes Indicated a practical certainty that Secretary Mellon's esti mate of $525,000,000 will be realized, officials said. Masked Men Raid Distillery. Bloomfleld. Ky. Twenty masked and armed men overpowered two guards at the R McClasky & Sons distillery and escaped In seven tour ing cars with 88 cases and three bar rels of whiskey. Object to Vicious Textbooks. Tokio.—Formation of a committee which would submit school textbooks to a critical examination', with a view to rooting out sources of International prejudice. Ignorance and hatred, is recommended by a representative group of Japanese peace workers. Washington. Wholesale prices in creased 2.75 per cent in August over July levels, wholesale food prices lead ing in the advance with an Increase of 13.5 per cent, according to figures made public by the department of la bor. I Five Dynamiter* Captured. Chicago.—Fourteen hundred sticks of dynamite, three Inches In diameter and ten Inches long, and 100 sticks ol T NY were seized by, police fol lowing the capture of Ave dynamiters in the act of bombing a shoe repair shop. Hun Celebration Broken Up. Berlin.—A celebration at Wllmers dorff of the battle of Tannenburg, fol lowing the anniversary of that en gagement, fought in East Prussia In 1»14. was broken no bv socialists and communists, who overpowered the na tionalists. Cotton Association to Mner.^ Columbia. Sr C.—J. Skottowe Wan namaker, president of the American Cotton association, announced that the association had accepted an Invi tation to hold Its next annual meeting 1 in Birmingham October 26-29. r - Drowned While Aiding Brother. Beaufort, 8. V.—William Haddock, a white boy 21 years of age, was drown ed near his home at Hundred Pines while attempting to rescue his brother who had called for help 8,000 View Body of Actress. Los Angeles. Approximately 8.000 persons viewed the body of Miss Vir ginia Rappe, motion picture actress, for whose alleged murder Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle is held In the San ■ Francisco prison. Strike Is Voted, But Deferred. Chicago. Railroad shopmen be longing to the Six Federated Shop Crafts union have voted to strike against the general railroad wage re duction of July 1, 1921. but will defer .action. ■ Few Signs of Improvement. Washington. Signs of Improved conditions in Europe are still few, ac cording to the monthly summary of the economic and financial bummary there. Issued by the commerce depart ment. f dll Station Burns. Tampa, Fla. Fire, which It Is thought originated from a stray loco motive spark, swept the Gulf Refin ing company's property at Port Tampa City, doln|- damage of approximately £30,000. NO DECREASE IN ' GRDSSJAXATION A LATE AMENDMENT PROVIDES FOR A TAX OF $6.40 PER GALLON ON SPIRITS. j TAXATION IS §3O PER HEAD | Estimate Made is That Senate Bill Will Provide a Revenue of $3,400,- 000,000 in Next Calendar Year. , ' Washington.—Scant promise of any material decrease in fhe gross amount j of tuxation to be levied during the i nexl calendar year Is held out by the f amended tax bill, which Senator Pen ; rose, republican, Pennsylvania, chair man of the senate finance committee, ar.d his administration associates com pleted. it is believed that between $3,200,- | 000,000 and $3,400,000,000 in revenue Is provided by the Penrose bill, al i though an exact estimate has not been nia do. • It was estimated that the house tax [ bill would provide "$2,960,000,000 for | the next calendar year; A tax of approximately S3O is laid upon every man, woman and child in ; the country for the present fiscal yisar by the bill. One of the eleventh-hour provisions | adopted was an amendment by Sena ! tor Calder of New York imposing a i tax of $6.40 a gallon on all distilled I spirits withdrawn from bond, except that used in manufacturing. Red Cross Returns Children. San Francisco. —Ninety per cent of i the 800 Russian boys and girls of '.ha | I'etrograd Children's Colony, which j were taken practically around the j world to reach home by the American ! Red Cross, have been safely returned to their parents. Men Must Be Reinstated. Chicago.—The United States Rail road Labor Board ordered the Butl-jr Railroad company to reinstate tvto I foremen who had been discharged bo ! cause they belonged to the same in lon ! as workmen under them. Blanket Indictment Issued. Logan, W. Va. A blanket Indict ! ment charging murder against 325 "soldiers" of the' miners' army which attacked Logan county two weeks ago, I was returned by a special grand Jury. Antarctic Expedition. London. An antarctic expedition ! headed by Sir Ernest Shaekleton, the • famous explorer, sailed on the steam ship Quest. Ancient Temple is Discovered. Athens.—The foundations of a large Boric temple have been discovered at Slcyon. The temple, which was de stroyed (hiring the Rome epoch, is probably that of Artemis. Cotton and Wheat Prices Drop. Washington.—American cotton and wheat prices took a huge drop in for eign markets, it waß shown by figures made public by the department of com merce. i Argentine Drought is Broken. Washington—The big drought, Which has menaced the Argentine wheat crop, Is broken, according to a cable received by the department of com merce. Ku Klux Meeting Abandoned. Ixitilsvllle. Ky.—lt was announced by organizers of the Ku Klux Klan that the meeting advertised in Louis ville had been *lven up. Japan to Retain Mandate. Washington;— Japan Is to retain her mandate over the island of Yap, ac cording to a definite understanding In authoritative quarters here. Ultimatum Reaches De Valera. London. British government will not allow the creation of a republic In Ireland Is in the hands of the Sinn Fein Services-for the Dead. New York. —Memorial services for the 15 men of the American navy who loßt their lives in the ZR-2 disaster, was helJ at the navy yard in Brook lyn. Retail Food Prices Higher. Washington.—Retail food prices in cr«M»d an average of 4.3 per cent in August, as compared with July prices, according to figures made public by the department of labor. The statis tics were compiled from reports from 51 cities. Rioting at Belfast. Belfast. Two boys were wounded during serious disorders, in the Vere street district of this city. Troops were rushed to the scene and a man who Interfered with them received a bayonet wound. New York Clearing House. New York - The actual condition of clearing house banks and trust com panies for the week shows they hold (1>4.625.240 reserve In excess of legal requirements. This la an Increase of 138,256,310 from last week. , I—King Cnrisuan ijenmark reviewing school children*of Greenland on ills tirst visit to Unit possession of the Dunish crown. 2 —Bolshevik icebreaker Lenin sailing from I.eith, England, with food for the starving Rus sians. 3—Peace Portal on the American-Canadian border at Blaine, Wash., just dedicated. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Delegates and Agenda for the Armament Conference Are Being Determined. FOUR SELECTED FOR AMERICA Secretary Hughes Suggests Topics for Discussion—League of Nations Elects Moore Judge of Inter national Court Senate Completes Its Draft of Tix Bill. Preliminary work on the conference on limitation of nrmaments and Far Eastern problems Is going on steadily, and before long It will be known just who will take part in the meeting, and in a general way what they will dis cuss. The several nations concerned are selecting their representatives, those for the United States being the first to be announced. President Har ding has appointed for that high duty Secretary of State Hughes, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Ellhu Root and Senator Oscar W. Underwood—three Republicans and one Democrat. As Premier Hara will be unable to come, Admiral Baron Kato has been select ed to head the Japanese delegation, and Ambassador to the United States Shldehara will also be a member. It la still believed Premier Lloyd George will lead the British contingent, and It Is likely that his associates will be Andrew Bonnr Law, Secretary for War Evans and Lord Lee of Eareham. first ( kn r iT~nf the admiralty. The Brit ish dominions, especially Australia, New Zealand and Canada, have been strenuously arguing their right to rep resentation in.the conference In view of their great Interst In matters con cerning the Pacific anil Far East, and It Is believed that some of their lead ing statesmen will be asked to attend in the capacity of advisers. Two more nations have been added to the list of those Invited to the con ference. With the consent of five prin cipal powers Holland and Belgium will participate In the proceedings In sofar as their Interests 'ln the Far East are concerned. Their status thus will be the same as that of China, for It Is not to be supposed they will take part In the discussion on armaments. Diplomatic conversations and infor mal exchanges between the govern ments concerned have progressed so far that Secretary Hughes has been able to send to the other four great powers and to China a, suggested out line of the topics for the_conference. This proposed agenda has not been made public, pending its acceptance by the other governments, but Is believed to Include, aside from limitation of armaments, these suggestions: Territorial Integrity of Russia, the open door, and equal opportunity for economic activities, the powers acting «» trustees until Russia shall have re covered and set central, represen tative government! Territorial 'lntegrity of China and the "open door." The substitution of International co operation for the past practice of seek ing selfish, monopolistic advantages In China. Assistance to China in achieving ad ministrative, fiscal and judicial re forms. A T»kyo newspaper says Mr. Hughes also Includes in his suggestions man dates If they have not been previously settled, and Manchuria and the Chi nese Eastern railway. That question of mandates—meaning in this case es pecially Yap—ls causing the Japanese a lot of worry. They don't want It brought up In the conference and are doing their utmost to get It settled be fore the Washington meet opens. Their continued occupation of Shantung is another matter they desired to keep out of the conference, but In this they are likely to l»e disappointed. They hare asked China to enter Into private negotiations for the settlement of that controversy, but the more Intelligent elements in China rely on the Wash ington meeting to right their country's wrongs, and the Peking government THE ALAMAfrCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C. has refused Japan's proposition, fear ing that it would be overthrown If It 4icceptel. 45omfrjf the leaders In that government have long been suspected of being pro-Japanese. An Interesting report in Washington is that Robert Lansing, former secretary of state un der President Wilson, will be an ad viser to Hie Chinese delegation. The assembly of thp League of Na tions continues to function, in disre gard of the assertions of various per sonages that the league Is virtually dead. Parenthetically, it may be said that the treaty of Versailles guaran tees the league's life for 30 years for the purposes of administering the Saar basin and the control of Danzig. The chief accomplishment of the. assembly last week was the election of judges of the international court of Justice. Elihu Root having declined, for per sonal reasons, to be a candidate, the Latin-American group brought about the election of John Bassett Moore of New York. He and ten others were accepted by the council. Three deputy Judges also were elected and con firmed, but there was trouble over the choice of the fourth deputy. Three times the assembly elected Senor Al varez of Chile, dnd three times the council voted for M. Descamps of Bel glum. At last the deadlock was re ferred to a committee. Senor Amador of Panama threatened to withdraw his delegation If Alvarez was not accepted by the council. The question of the league's compe tence to judge the Tacna-Arica dis pute and the Chile-Bolivia treaty was referred to a committee of three Jur ists. Senor Edwards of Chile" stated that he was not prepared to admit that the league was licensed to Intrude in purely South American affairs In, vio lation of the Monroe doctrine. Senor Aramayo of Bolivia, having received new instructions from La Paz, with drew his demand that the dispute with Chile be Included In the agenda of the assembly. * . The Irish—meaning the Sinn Feln ers—\Vere willing to hold a conference with the British cabinet at Inverness this week, as proposed by Premier Lloyd George, but, as was easily pre dicted, they didn't want to submit to the only condition Imposed, that the Sinn Fein must abandon Its demand for separation from the empire. De Valera sent Harry Boland and Joseph McGrath with his acceptance of the In vitation, but In his letter he made sev eral reservations, chief of which was his objection to admitting Ireland's al legiance to the British crown before entering the conference. He also ar gued that If the premier objected to the secession of Ireland from the em pire not support the seces sion of Ulster from Ireland.* Mr. Lloyd George* sent the couriers to Dublin with a message to De Valera that his note was unsatisfac tory and he had better write another. This the governor supplemented by a telegram to De Valera canceling the arrangements for the Inverness con ference because he felt that. In view of the Irish attitude, negotiations would be useless. The premier was as conciliatory as he could be con sistently, but at this writing It Is uncertain whether the negoti ations for peace will continue. The Dall Klrann, however, named Its dele gates for thA-onference, If It Is held, artd De Valera is not one of them. The delegates are: Arthur Griffith, founder of Sinn Fein and republican foreign minister; Michael Collins, minister of finance; Robert Barton, secretary of economic affairs; Eamon Duggan, chief Irish republican army liaison officer, who helped to arrange the truce, and George Gavan „Duffy, the Irish envoy to Rome, Several of these men are classed as moderates. The Freeman's Journal of Dublin says: "Their task may have Its difficulties, but Ks successful accom plishment will be the crpwn of a great achievement. Both nations iiave their hearts set on an honorable ending here and now to the struggle of centuries. Their desire U well within the realm of possibility and'practicability. All the effom of the wotfhPße wreckers In Great Britain hitherto have failed. There Is then enough statesmanship in the Irish delegation to confirm that failure and to complete a fabric of peace." Director of the Budget Dawes has Informed the senate finance committee of the details of the cut of $350,000,000 In the ordinary government expendi tures for the current fiscal year. Re ductions for the War department, ship-' ping board, railroads, veterans' bureau and in miscellaneous places will pro vide $305,000,000 of this. The remain der will be saved by better co-ordina tion in •handling departmental pQr chases and sales of supplies. The finance committee completed its redrafting of the house tax bill and experts began getting the measure ready for presentation in the senate on September 21. "Disregarding tbe rec ommendations of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, the committee voted to repeal the excess pjofits tax begin ning January 1, 1922, and the capital stock tax effective in 1922, and to sub stitute for these a fiat corporation tax of 15 per cent, effective January 1, 1922. Among other changes In the house bill voted by the committee are retention of freight and passenger transportation taxes at half their pres ent rates and those on express ship ment* and oil pipe lines at their pres ent rates for another year, and con tinuation of many miscellaneous taxes which tfie house voted to repeal. The fight against the Ku KTux Klan is growing more Interesting and more widespread every day, and the Klan is fighting back against lt» enemies with vigor. Various papers in many parts of the country have undertaken "ex posures" of the organization and its methods and aims, and the Klan has started or says it will start li)>el suits against those publications that misrep resent It. In Chicago an organization called the National Unity council has been formed with the avowed purpose of suppressing the Klan and its so called "invisible empire." The council, which Is to be extended throughout the country, Is headed by Edward F. Dunne, former governor of Illinois. He says the Ku Klux are a menace to the nation because they "avowedly pro scribe millions of their fellow citizens solely becuuse, either they worship God in a manner permitted by the Con stitution of the United States, or be cause they were born without the Uni ted States. They place the black man without the pale of the law. Such or ganizations foment racial, religious and political enmities instead of en couraging comity and friendship be tween all classes of American citizens, which should be the aim of every broad-minded American." Meanwhile the Klan continues to grow* in numbers with extraordinary rapidity, now having, it is said, more thau half a million members, and be ing organized in every state in the Union except New Hampshire, Utah and Montana. The great packing concerns of Ar mour, Swift, Wilson and Cudahy last week put Into operation the newly de vised "American shop representation" system, their government-sponsored agreement with their workers ba\lng expired. All disputes are to be sub mitted to shop councils comprised of employees' elected representatives and persons selected by the employers, and national councils, to which shop coun cils may appeal, are to be formed in similar manner. Employees' represen tatives must be employed in the shop and must be citizens or have out thwir first papers. Any person Is eligi ble for employment, whether a unlpn member or not. While this is "open shop," the packers say it is not a change of policy since they always have been open shop. Ninety per cent of their workers, they say, assented to the plan. The terrific flood that struck San An tonlo and other parts of Texas has sub sided, but Its full results are just be ginning to be realized. Several hun dred persons, mostly negroes and Mex icans. perished. The property San Antonio Is placed at $3.01)0.000 and elsewhere at $10,000,000. The mayor of the city*appealed to Washington for army tents and cots for the thousands of homeless refugees. The British cruiser Dauntless, bear ing the bodies of the American victims of the ZK-2 disaster, arrived at New York Friday, escorted by a fleet of air craft, destroyers and other vessels. Saturday afternoon the dead were accorded the full navaj honors doc those who gave their Uvea In Ua« Una of duty. CONDENSED NEWS FROM THE OLD NORTH STATE SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST TO CAROUNIANS. Charlotte—Plans for American Le gion Day at the'exposition was ar ranged. It will be observed either September 26 or 28. Monroe.—Mrs. I. J. Brady died at the home of her parents in Jackson township after an illness t>f more than a year, with pellagra. Greensboro. According to to Mar vin M. Boyles, who has charge of the city water department, the amount of water now flowing into the pumping station is normal again. Lenoir. Caldwell county, through County Agent Roberts, is staging' a campaign for the organization of a co-operative creamery. '■ Goldsboro.—Goldi#)oro tobacco mar ket continues to increase in pounds and high prices. l One hundred thous and pounds on local market averag ing 20 cents. .Charlotte. —The Calvine mil!, last of eight Charlotte mills closed on June 1 as a result of the strike of textile operatives, has opened. This mill is one of the Chadwick-Soskins system. Burlington.—The death of Clarence, the 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Quails, occurred at their home in West Burlington, following an illness of several days with meningitis. Mount Gilead. The Montgomery county chamber of commerce, organ ized here a short time ago, is wag ing an active campaign for member ship in all points of the county and meeting with gratifying success. Wadesboro. Wadesboro has been facing a greatly diminished water supply. While there has been no real water famine in the strictest sense of the word, yet the supply has not been entirely adequate to the needs of the city. Charlotte. Fire of undetermined origin, raging for two hours, gutted the big department store of Efird Brothers on East' Trade street, de stroying and damaging the stock of goods estimated at $300,000 in value. Carthage.—The Bismarck Hosiery Mlil is running on full time with all orders needed. The manager turned down a large order from New York. Burlington.—W. E. Sharpe was un animously re-elected president of the Burlington chamber of commerce at a meeting of the board of directors. Durham.—The water in the big ros ervoir at the Country Club is now 39 Inches below the normal supply line, the lowest it has ever been In the his tory of Durham. Lumberton. —The water in Lumber river is the lowest in many years, and unless sufficient rain falls soon to bring the water up in the river Lum berton will be without filtered water. Enfield. —Traveling men arriving by train or motor in Enfield last week were greeted with the cheerful news that the Macklin Hotel, the town's latest enterprise, stood ready to ac commodate thetn. Hickory.—Good showers throughout this section of the s'tate have come-to the rescue of crops, which had suf fered by the drouth, and farmers be lieve that the sweet potato crop yield will be much greater than was at first believed. Wilson.—An attempt was made to -break open the safe in the office of Williams & Palmer, lumber and fuel dealers, bloodhounds from Raeford were put on the trail and in five min utes ran to cover Charles Boykin, a Wilson negro. Burlington.-—While the water situa tion iH Buriington has been serious, auxiliary wells havo been brought in to service and at no time during the recent drought has this city been hampered, it was announced by the Burlington chamber of commerce. Fayetteville.—A determined move ment inaugurated by business inter ests of this city to have a third lock and dam placed on the Cape Fear river to assure the desired eight-foot channel from Wilmington to FayetU ville, is now assuming definite shape. Statesville.—According to estimat by County Agent R. W. Graeber, the jjotton crop of Iredell county will be about 50 per cent of normal. "The to bacco yield in the county will be only about one-third of what It was last year. Salisbury. Will A. Hall, of Frank lin township, has been appointed dep uty United States- marshal to succeed Captain H. C. Trott, of Salisbury, who held the position under Marshal Webb. Mr. Hall has already assumed his new place. Gastonia. Sunnyslde community went off on a new progressive tangent at a meeting when an executive com mittee was selected and charged to prweed at once to plan for the estab lishment of a public library for that community. •• . 625,000 BOTTLES . SOLD IN NEW YORK Biggest Thing of Kind Ever Seen in That State, Declares Big Wholesaler. », The fact that (£5,000 bottles of Tan ,ac have been sold in the state of New Vork since its introduction there less {imn -one year ago, is a> big business Item that will attract unusual atten tion throughout 'the entire East, for nothing like it has ever happened be fore. It' breaks 'records, Mr. Georga B. Evans, manager of the Gibson-Snow Company, the well known wholesale druggists, with branches in Albany, Buffalo, Roches ter and Syracuse, recently announced that the preparation was now selling in their trade territories alone at the phenomenal rate of approximately 500,- 000 bottles a year. "If the present rate continues," said Mr. Evans, "this rate alone will prob ably require considerably over 750,000 bottles a year. This is a tremendous figure, but I am really conservative in liaWng this statement." - 1 Tanlac is Wd by leading druggists everywhere.-—Advertisement. No Change! 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