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TO Mews ma is irirar Lien frriit Kirik CmlliKtll'l Mk aUl4 iwiwtm Fridayi aida Mtllf fait end mIM ' erver Mi year paper. Sewd leasee! iv Mr khn extJrttW Is ver Is td SBllWtag mssm eery. V ' ' VOLCXIV. NO. 155. SIXTEEN PACES TODAY. RALEIGH. N. C, FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 2. 1921. PRICE' FIVE CENTS j SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. 1 VILSOH RETURNS TO BEGIfl TREATY ilGHflipTE Foreign Relations- CommlW tee Invited To White House For Conference PRESIDENT TAKES UP DET.Vi.S OF LEAGUE Lodfe and Taft Had Adro cated League Covenant, But Massachusetts Sena, tor For Partisan Purposes Becomes Opponent When Wilson Comes Back WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW IM BV JOSEPH P. TUMULTY. . - .(34tl-Is4Jtet,) CHAPTKR XL. THK TREATY FIOHT Upon hi return home from Paris the President imediotely invited is most cordial fashion, thf mem ler of the SeDtto Foreign Delation Committee to confer with him at the White House. Rome of them nho received the invitation imme diately announced that a a eondi . Won precedent to their acceptance they would insist that the confer ence should not be secret In .tmx acter and that what would happen there should be disclosed to the public. The President quickly, ae eepted the conditions proposed by the Kepuhliah Senators ind made a statement from the White House thnt the conditions which the eon ii'ices nn i -d ere highly acceptable to him, and that he tin willinjr and anxio.us to fire to the. public a stenographic report of everything thnt transpired In view of subsequent history, the conversation teteen the President and Senator Herding shout the dis tinetion between "legal"' and "mor nl'' obligations, which was interest ins at the time, takes on an added interest. Said Senator Harding: "If there is nothing more than a moral obligation on the part of any members of the League, what avail Articles JO and IIP The President Why, Sena tor, it is turpriting that Question atinnhl be tsked. - If we under take an obligation, we are bound it tho ntoct solemn way to rar . ry jt oqK 't . . , Eeoator Harding If yoO be lieve that 'there It nothing: mora to this than a moral obligation, ray nation will aaau.nc a war. al ahligatioa ea Iti own aecoant It Jt a moral bligatioat The point 1 am trying to get at la. Suppose something ejrisei aifeet ing the peace of the world and the Council takes atcpa ai pro vhled hare, to coaserre. jr tre serre and annouaec its decision, ani every nation ia the League take advantage of the construc tion that you place upon these articles and says: "Well, this ia oaly a moral obligation and we assume that the nation involved does net deserve our participa tion or protection," and the whole thing amount! to nothing bnt an expression of the League Council. The President There ia a na tional good conscience in such a i matter. I should think that was oae of the most serious things that eould possibly happen. When I speak of a legal -obligation I mean one that specifically bindt you to do a particular thing nader certain, sanctions. That ia a legal obligation and, if I may say so, has a greater binding force; only there al ways remains in the moral obli gation the right to eaereise one'i -judgment at to whether it ie indeed incumbent upon one in tl.ose circuit . tances U do that thing. In every moral obliga tion there it an element of judg ment. In a legal obligation there ia no element of judgment, racing HU Critic. Never before did the President show himself more) tactful or more t i .lant ia rrnartee. Surrounded by twenty or thirty men, headed by Senator Lodge, who hated him With bitterness that was intense, the President with,, quiet courtesy, par- riM every blow aimed at htm, No quritioat, W matter how point ed it was, teemed to disturb his eereaity. He aeted like a lawyer who knew hit ease from top to bottom, aad who had confidence la the great cause he was representing. Hit eards were -frankly laid npoa, the table and he appeared like a fight int champion, ready to meet all com era. Indeed, this very attitude of - frankness, .openness, sincerity', aed etarteay. one could tee from the aldellaea, was a- cause of discomfort to Beaator iLodge aad the Bepabli cans grouped about him. and one raid alto .cm written - upoa , the facet of the Democratic Senators ia that little room a look of pride that they, aad a leader who carried him "elf so nllaBtly and who eo bril liantly met every onalaught of the aemy. ; The President titieipated aa abrupt adjournment of the con ference 'with a courteous invitation to hincheoa. Beaator Lodge: had Just turned to the President aad taidt "Mr. President, I do aot with U Interfere la say way, Ml the eoafer eaee htt now hated aboat three Mn ahd a half, aad H Vt half aa hew after the luaeh hour." Where poa the President eaidt "Will aot yon foatlemea take luncheoa with el It wui be rery - detifhtfaL " It wat evldeat that thla latltatloa M eordially eoaTeyed, brake the lea f formality which ap to that time pervaded,! meeting, aad like beyt ut of MhooL forgetaat the great affair Ja which they had all playeJ CCeatlaued em. Page Tawt Study State's History and Folk Lore DR. D. H. BILL, Balelga, Praeldeat SUte Utenry Aad lb- torieal Aaeoclatlon. Historical Society Hears. Dr. D. H. Hill and Dr. Sledd Twenty-first Annual Session Begins Its Two-Day Pro gram Here DR. SAMUEL CROTHERS IS SPEAKER TONIGHT Worth Carolina Folk Lore So. ciety Will Hold Its Meeting This Afternoon Celebrating the twenty first aani versary or its organization, me North Oapolina literary and Histor ical Society held the first aeuion of its annual meeting in the auditorium of the Woman's Club last evening. with President Paniel Harvey K'll and Dr. Benjamin Sledd, the latter Professor of Knglisli at Wake For est College, delivering the principal addresses. The. hitherto untold story of the means by which the Boilth solved the nroblem of furnishing arms and munitions to ita armies durtog me Civil "War was the theme of the hiatorieal'tddrese by Dr. Hill. The original program included an address by Homer L; Ferguson, president of the Newoort Kewt bhipbuibilng and Drydock Co, in wnjeh he intended to discuss exoedienta to wnrea we sa tlnn waa ftut in the recent wtr to overcome material handieapa. More than a hundred men and wo men prominent in the State 'i intel lectntl life were present at the oet- aion last nirht. and many othert are expected to attend the sessions this mornirur. this afterrloon tnd tonurnt The chief epeaker tt the concluding aemioa will be Dr. Samuel MCUtiora Crothers,. of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Business lesaious will oeeupy the afternoon, together ith a meeting of the state oik Lore Society which will be held at 2:80 in the House of Beprcsenta- tivea. Sannlvlnc The Army. A phase of Southern achievement usually neglected by historians was discussed with admirable clarity in Dr. Hill's uner dealing- with the difficulties encountered by the Con federacy in arming and equipping the armies thst were thrown into the field at the beginning of the conflict ia 1861, and how well the South met a situation that aeemea at the beginning beyond solution. For the background of. hit discus sion, the speaker pictured the wide difference in material resources with which the North and South begin the conflict. The Union had twenty milliett people and a wide diversity of industry that coma oe -xurnea eaailv into the channels of war. The Confederacy had five million white people and ita one industry ol agri culture. In the North there were abundant factories, thousands of skilled work men. unfettered porta through which war material eotria do unponea. strong navy and merchant marine, and aa abundance of native rawsrna teriaL Ia the South, sesreely any iron or lead or topper, or any of the ehemlealt thtt enter into the mannfaetnre of powder, and but hand Ail of woAmen" whoM hands mvU be turned to the tatka of mamiiBnirw Of actual arms equipment, mere were but few more than a hundred thousand rifle and lost thaa a thou taad eaenon distributed ia the few arsenals ia the South, while in the North there were many-timee that number concentrated ia arsenate, in the beginning of the war, while flushed with victory ana it enemies - a i . (Continued on Page Two) NEGROES FLOGGED BY PARTY OF. ROBED. MEN ...c " ' DeaUon, Tout, Dee L Three aegroee wtr floned by a bead of robed aad hooded mea Thort day alght, It became kaowa today whea they reported the affair to the peiio.. They, were told, to eoavey a. warming to aegroet her' aot to minglt with tht whites, according to the ttorie tod the police.' One of tht alleged . victims, 73 year old, wm seriously hurt.. The aegroet aid the white- rebed . men told them that tkey were -member of the Denieoa Klaa of th KaighU of th Ka una Klaa. , f m i ii . To Take Ore laalHato. . Saavilla. Va- Dee. L Th PttW teriaa Synod of Vlrgiaia wUl take ever the DaaviUe Military Iattitnte atxt JaM aad operate it m A pro pers tory school for Hampdea-Sydaey CoHege, It -wm -aanoraced today."-. 8. Parkinaoa ha beta appointed trastM to repreeeat tk tyaoet la x - 7 .' . - . DR. JAMES BPRUNT. Wilmington, Preeldesit North Carellaa Folk Lore Society. Jewels and Other Valuables Taken During Disturb ances In Vienna Vienna, Dee. 1. (By the Assoei ated Press.) In the widespread rioting which took place ia Vienna today many Americans staying at the hotels were attacked, and eome of them were subjected to rough treatment. Mrs. Hand, the wife of a colonel of the United States Army, and her daughter were robbed of furs and clothing, but on the same floor, Col. and Mrs. Miller, IT. 8. A displayed the American flag and spoke English, and the rioters with drow from their room. - Of the hotels the New Bristol end the Old Bristol suffered most. They were partially wrecked and looted to the.eecond floor. Inquiries "at the hotel disclosed that many gueste were robbed of clothing and"" jewels, la tome In stances the jewelt being tora from the ears. Seemingly the most rowdy ele ments swept through the inner city, they were joined by the wont erimi nal classes, committing all klnde of excesses. At seven o'clock tonight the streets were quiet, and further dittrubaaees of a serious nature are aot looked for. The Associated Press correspond ent tsked one of a squad of police men who idly watched the wrecking of the Hotel Imperial, if there were not sufficient police to handle the situation. He replied"We are tired of shooting and being shot. These people are hungry and desperate; so are many of us." Reataaranta LeoUd. The disturbances today were the most serious since the downfall of the monarchy. They epread through out the inner city, and practically every unshuttered window was smashed. All the famous restaurants and hotels frequented by foreign visitors were entered, looted and partly Wrecked, and the luxury shops robbed, while the police t without interfering. The disturbances are described as purely economic, due to the growing scarcity and cost of the necessaries of life. They had their inception in a general strike in the industrial suburb ol Floridsdorf. The work men marched to parliament and were joined by thousands from their dis trict. A deputation waited oa Chan eellor .Schober and demanded the abolition of the stock exchange, eon fiscation of foreign tecarttiet and a more effective food'eoutroL , Caase ef Rioting. The deputation received an evttive answer, in its 'opinion, and aa the demonstration before parliament be gan .to disband, gangs composed of many hundreds broke awtoy aad be gs the work of 'destruction; , The rioter divided into several eolumns, One attacking the eafet, hotels aad stores, another ttorming th empty stock exchange, while others proceed ed to 'the chopping district, where they attacked every well-dressed per son and stormed and plundered. Voeana la bow a woeful tight. AH tht eafet are closed aad the streets are ia darkness. The occupants of the hotels, hearing-that tea workmen threatened to renew th attack, fled early in, th afternoon and remained huddled ia doorways ia w residen tial quarters, begging for shelter. Larg ,erpwds collected oa th ring, disco ssing meant to prelect them selves aad .their poetettioa. ; TEN PERSONS KILLED 7 IN RAILROAD WRECK Pertlaad, Ore, Dec LTsl killed aad eltxy injured wm tW toll tokea la a aead-M emUltteev f tw OreM-WaeklBgtoi BaU. reed aad Navigatioa Compear paaeoBger tralM aear Cecil, i Oregon, early today according to lateat report tonight to tMowat ' ' head erne hero, j Tke Uat ef deed wm ImctmmI ' later today frem tit to tea hy:'' - the fladlag of Ut bedlea f Umt anidenUfied meat ia the wreck, ago. They war aald to M raib ' reed lakorert. I - i ' CeiMr eilelt Mid ear -tai Tettigattoa wm la aveffrea to de " tormU the. eM f the eUU RIOTERS ATTACK MANY AMERICANS HARDING VANTS PI1WER TO TINKER UN TARIFF BILL 11 Will Ask Congress FofAu- thonty To Make Amend ments NOT EXPECTED THAT CONGRESS WILL AGREE Senator Simmons Informed That Jam of Earlj Busi ness Games Delay In Fed. era! Farm Loan Bank at Columbia; Brinson Recor. erinf From Operation The Newt tnd Observer Bureau, 003 District National Bank rtidg., By EDWARD E. BRITTON. (By Special Leased Wire.) Wathington, Dee. I. Tariff tinfc ering talk la bow porting up in Washington and the latest of this ia that President Harding hat a plan of hit own for picking hit party out of the pit of de'sy into which it fell after loud shouts thtt the tariff wat the first thing that waa to be given attention when the extra set sion began. True, it it that the House made an early start at it, but when the mon strosity that was born with Ir, Fordney, ehief emciator at the birth, went over to the Senate there were some hearings held. But soon there was an abrupt close to these and the House tariff bill has been collecting dust iu the pigeon hole to which it waa con signed. All that the country got was the enactment of a hurtful emergency tariff, bill and its enactment when it hat expired by limitation. I resident Harding ears now so the report goes to "let George do it" with Warren Gamaliel Harding playing the roll of George. The understanding is that early after Congress meets in regular session this month he will ask that It enact legislation that will permit him to amend tariff rates by executive order at an emergency measure in the aid of American business. It does not appear that the Sen ate at any early day will be able to enact- a tariff bill and to the plat now laid to be on the progrem ie for President Harding to at tempt to relieve the Republican party by becoming tariff arbiter, That he will be able to get away with ueh a proposition is hardly to be believed, for those ia -Go.- grest who have been fighting In the interests ef the people feel that with President Harding having absolute power to amend rates, big business will get the lion's share of any amendments that may be made. Thit meant that if tuch atw and radical proposition is made to Cengrest that there will be bitter debate with the probability that the permission sought will not be given. Te Became Hearing! Seoa According to the Penrose sehed ule, hearings on the tariff bill will be returned on December 7, with the tobacco schedule first and the cot ton schedule next on the list, while he has snnuonced ,that there will be nothing further is to hearings on tht American valuation plan. As to thit it it said that Treasury ex ports let to working out in what Biapnei this would affect American but! nets have not yet completed gathering data, aad this would mean another delay in revising the bill, carrying it over into the new year. Numbers of persons from North Carolina are expected to be here to go before the Senate finance com mittee oa the tobacco and the cot ton schedules. Senator Penrose has annonneed that he expects the hear inn to be over in two weeks, but (Continued on Page Two.) EDISON AND FORD TO GO TO MUSCLE SHOALS Detroit, Dee, 1. Thomas A Edi sob, who will accompany Honry Ford ia aa inspection of the Muscle Shoalt, Alabama, nitrate and water power project, arrived here today in Mr. Ford't private ear. Mr. Edison wat taken immediately to the Ford home at Dearborn. Mr. Ford aad Mr. Edison will discus details of the Detroit mtnu factum's offer to the government for the Muscle Shoals plant and ex peet to leave here for the Booth to morrow or Saturday. A number of engineers of the Ford organization will aeeompany the party. How Ion a time will be apent it Muscle Shoals is not known. It it understood, however, that the in- tpeetioB to be made will be of the most minute nature. . .Declare Dividend. Chicago. Dec 1. Betrs Boebuek tnd Company today aanouneed the regular quarterly dividend of S1-7S a share oa th preferred stock, pay able January 1 to shareholders ex record December 15. The: Effort To Oust Wilton From ... pretidtnCy During His ILiness Joteph P. Tumulty tells about it la hit story, "Wood row Wilson At Z Kaw Him, In tomorrow' New and 'Observer. 4 , This I the moat interesting part of th Tumulty nrratlv 'Ke jOr Hortk Carolina aewtpaper wUl have it. ";i Thoeo wh have aot reid the earlier chapter will certainly want to sa the later ravelatioBt. Mr. Tumulty give Barnes aad detail. 1 There ate many ether abeorbinf Ueldeate earwaieled ia the later chapter d m eeiise TaaaKy. story ef WUeoa, every weekday aad Saaday ta th No 4 Obearvetv -. , CONSIDER MEANS TO :S. Government Officials Aroused Over Departure of N. Y. Shipbuilder EXPECTED TO LAND AT HAVRE EARLY TODAY Departed From Country Jnst As Government Was About To Place Investiga tions of His Transactions With Shipping Board Be fore Federal Jury Washington, Pec. 1. -Aroused by the departure of Charlee W. Morse, New York shipbuilder, from the country just as the government is about to place before a federal- grand jury its investigation of his trsnsae- tions with the Shipping Board, ort- xials of various department! are considering tonight wlnt means may be taken to bring him back to the United States. It ia hoped, Department of .tus- tii-e officials said- thji wot can be sent to the French government in time to permit Morse's detention at Havre tomorrow morning when, ac cording to latest advices, the French steamer Paris, on which he sailed from New York, is due to dock. No Order Iseaed Earlv in the day the Justic De partment called on the Navy Depart ment to send a destroyer to meet the vessel outaida of Havre and take Worse off the ship. No such order was issued by the Nsvy Department, however, and officials declared later they were without authority to act in that manner. Tonight a plan to cancel the pass port issned to Mr. Mir waa under consideration. The effect of such action, it is understood, probably would be that the French govern men might, under representations from tho United States, refuse to permit him to land. His return to the United States on the Paris prob ably would result Sons I nee Statement. Meanwhile, Erwiu A. and Harry F. Horse, sons of Charles W. Morse, through their attorney, Wilton J. Lambert, issued a statement here to nigh declaring that their father had sailed on the Paris under a pas-poll issued to him ia hia own name and Without kaowlerlgw of the gatora tent's intended action before the grand jury. It was their belief, the statoment said, that the government knew Morse had sailed before th'is contemplated action became known. Morse sailed under advice of his physician "that he would have to undergo aa operation if he desired .to save his life," the statement said, adding that he would return when ever his presence was desired "and when he it ia physical condition to do so. Departure Unknown Justice Department officials de elared that nothing was known of Morses department until it waa re ported from New York last night. Morse was granted a passport sev eral months ago, state department officials said, and this passport pre sumably was good at he time of his sailing. No passport is necessary for a citisen of this country to leave the United States, it was explained, but the State Department issued them as the most convenient proof of American citizenship which is re quired for admission to virtually all foreign countries. No Official Comment High government officials were not inclined to discuss the efforts being made to effect the return of Mor Be to thit country. Secretary Hughe conferred with Ambassador Jusscr- and of France, at the State Depart meat, bnt it wis not disclosed wheth (Continued on Page Two) FIVE JAPANESE LOSE LIVES DURING STORM Vancouver, B. C, Dee. 1. Five Japanese . tailors lost their livet when the Japanese auxiliary echoon er Koon Maro foundered 200 milee off Cape Flatter in a southwest gale Tuesday, according to a wireless re port received today. The remaindor of the crew was rescued by the Jap anese ttoamer Tosan Maru, outward bound from Tamoma to Japan. First reports were that ill mem ben of the crew were saved. ANOTHER DEATH OCCURS , AS RESULT OF BIC FIRE New Haven, Conn, Dee. 1. John J. Dunn, scorched in the Bialto Theatre fire of Sunday night, died today. Ilia death bring the list of aetual fire victim to seven. ' Nine hospital patients were re ported thit tftornooa is ia ex tremely sevionj condition. 8o many inquiries hid been made about tup- posed missing persons that Coronor Mix ordered a careful examiaatioa of the ruins ' of the theatre. The ashes were sifted, but up till after noon firemen and policemen had fooad a, trace ef hums bones. - , ... :. . , ;i : ' ,7, BRING MORSE BACK TO THE U Harding To Stress Tariff And The MerQhant Marine Message To New Congress Next Week Will Deal Prin cipally With Theae Subjects; Favors a Ship Sub sidy And Wants Tariff Rates Based On In voice Values Wellington, Dec. . Prewldent Harding's message to the new Con gress neit week, it was declared in high official circles today, will deal principally with two subjects: The tariff and merchant marine. Of the tariff. Mr. Harding is ex petted by those close to tha White House to sa.v that its revisioa and passage at the earliest possible date is hrgnetly necaaeitry and that it should Ik stripped of such pro visions as ould endanger or un duly dclny its passnge. Favera Ship Sebaldy. Concerning merchant marine questions, Mr. Harding is expect ed to take a definite stand for the granting of some sort of ship sub sidy, probably in tha nature of preferential rates and routes, as supplementary" to the granting ef fren tolls to roastwiae shipping through the Panama Canal. It was expected also In the same quart ers that the President would dis cuss Section L'i of the Jones Act dealing with the abrogation of trade treaties by the executive. Study of the situation was said to have developed a feeling on the part of administration ontciali that it wou'd be difficult, if not iinpos sihle, to carry out the provisions of this section. Tariff Matters Flrat. Tariff matters, Senate leaders in sisted, will occupy the prominent position in the message. It was as serted that Mr. Hnrding wnnld ask that rates in the House bill, now In the hands of ths Senate Finance Committee, be flved on the old bais of invoice values rather than on the House provision of Amer ican wholesale vii'uation. His rea son for that atnnd, arermling to some of his councillors, wssVlhajt T Walnut Creek Will Fill Needs For Next Ten Years CLUB WOMEN WILL BECOME CENSORS No Club Lecturer Can Pro mulgate Views In State Without Endorsemen Rocky Mount, Dee. 1. No elub lecturer will be allowed to promul gate his or her views in North Csrolina without endorsement by the department . of the Women's Federation ef Clubs under which his or her subject falls and the legislative committee, according to a resolution adopted here thit morning by the Council of the Federation upon motion of Mrs. R. K. Cotten. Adoption of the censorship reso lution featured the concluding session of the Council, which de cided to hold its next meeting at Pinehurst next fall in connec tion with the meeting oftlre South eastern Council, which embrscei seven Southern States. The specific date for the meeting waa not fixed. Steps were also taken to raise I S.'i.OOO fund for the Federation during the eurrcnt year by levying a T0 per cent assessment upon each club member. The Council passed a resolution agreeing to furnish the living rooms of the five new buildings recently erected at Saniarcand through the social service department of which Mrs. S. C. Sitterson, of Kinston, is chairman, Mrs. F. R. Mic.haux, vice president of the State Federa tion, of Greensboro, to'.d of the plans that were being made for tho club convention in the Gate City next May aad gave a tentative out line of the program. Mrs. Charles E. Quillan, of Waynesville, made a report upon industrial and so cial conditions in the State. She especially told of the needs of the ex-service" men and urged the elub members to continue their work and aid along this line more particularly during the approaching holiday season. She urged that the study of the labor problem and conditions he included in the clubs programs and. emphasir.ed the fact that women must crystallize put) lie opinion la the State. A conference of the district pres idents with Mrs. John K Gilmer, of Winston-Salem, presiding and a special session of the executive committee of the legislative council of Women's organizations, Miss Elsie Riddick of Kaleigh, presiding were two other 1 features of the morning. The sessions adjourned at boob after which the Council members were guests of the Rocky Mount Woman a Cmb nt a luncheon at the Woman's Club cafeteria, this social event bringing the meeting aero to a ciose. Mistrial Ia Marder Case. Celumbut, Ga., Dee, lvA u.Utria was declared here late today iy 'he case or La. u. uammona, cnurgcu With wife murder, after the jury had bee a set 28 hours. It wat announced th cat would be tried again at the aext term of court. The prosecution sa sorted Hammond shot his wife be cause ftf iafatusUon for mother womia bnt he told the jury her death .wa accidental. Clark Starts Proceedings . Atbmta, Ot,. Dee. 1. Proceedings for the recovery of property valued at iliflW were startel ia the niton teuBty superior court today by C. r.-Clirkey Imperial- Kteagle of the Ka Klua Klaa, agaiast Harry D. Tar. roll. Onad Goblia of th ''Capitol Domain," f taalactea, B. t). he and been sum red it would be better to apply the new system piece-meal than by employing the plan on all commodities at one time. To that end,' It was stated alto, the President etprcted to urge an optional provision in the meas ure, empoe ering him to apply the home value b.iia'v here, after cer tain surveys, it is found to be ad visable or nci;cisry. Such a course was rvgnrded by Cotigressinnsl tariff builders as obviating the nr cessity for computing the rstes on what opponents of the American valuation plan describe as unknown qwantities. Allied Debt Refunding. Mr. Harding it expected to urge immediate passage of the allied debt refunding hill. While this was represented as his attitude to day, a divergence of opinion among Senators as to the Wisdom of raking up the measure during the aesaions of the conference on limitation of armaments, it waa taid by some. may yet force a change .in that stand. The Senate finance committee is not in agreement over what should )e done. Senator Penrose, the chairman, Senators Smoot, of Utah, Watson, of Indiana and several oth era arguing that there could be no mbarraasnient for the arms con feronce developed by the debate on the funding measure. On the other hand. Senator Curtis, a emn mittee member and vice chairman of the Senate Republican confer enee is well as Senator Ixidge the conference head end one of the American delegates to the srms meeting, are strongly opposed to consideration of the debt bill at thi is time. Engineer Reports That Other sources, Qt supply Are Prohibitive in Cost PROPOSEsTxPENDITURE OF HALF MILLION NOW Would Duplicate Lake XaL eUrh Plant With Heme Hirer Project In Beserre Declaring that Walnut Creek, if properlv dorelopl, will yield sum cient water to All the needs of Ral eigh for t!:e ner, t n years Wil Iram C. O.ien, the c trailing erji r.fer retained bvth-i r'v, has recoin mended that approximately 500,000 bo exneno d Immedia'elv tj in crime present 5n lities nd that drvrjop ment of the resources offered by N'eirse river bo reserved for the fu ture. The recommendations e.otitem plate the improvement of lke Ral eigh and the construction of a dupll cate plant. Mr. Olson's report, which has been in the hands of Commissioner of Public. Works John 11. Bray since Mosjay will he formally laid before the Citv Commissioners at their meet ing today. Mr. Bray, it is slso ex pected, will submit his recommunda tions concerning action on the re port this morning, and these reeom mendations will adhere closely to the report, it is understood. In his report, Mr. Otsea discards possibilities offered by Crabtree creek and Swift ereek a involving prohibitive cost and advises against any immediate utilisation of Neuse river on the same ground. Each of these projects is treated exhaustively Com d trite of Costa. Estimates fuf each ef the projects under consideration at submitted by Mr. Olsen are at fellow : Crabtree creek, steam operated construction eost, fv7,030; annua operating coat, 175,r320. Crabtree ereek, electrically opent ed, construction eost, (896,424; aa nual operating eost, $158,016. Walnut ereek, construction cost, $400,OS4; annual operating eost, $75,- ltto. , Swift ereek, construction eost, ta24,084; annual operating eost, $142, 077. Neuse river, ' construction eost, tl.291,183; annual operating cost, It it pointed out in the report that the present location of the pumping atutiOn, which enables a maximum use of the force of gravity, is the material factor ia the great idvint- (Continued oa Page Two) FOUrf CREW MEMBERS REACH HORE SAFELY Destroyer Da Long Aground Off California Coast; To Xescua Others Saa Francisco, Dee. lc Fur eea men eame ashore ssfely from the deetroyer D Long,' which' treat shore early today oa th recks s mil And a half south ef Half Mbea Bay, Col. . Early ia th afternoon th 'deetroyer swung broadside against the chore aad began to pound badly, according to report from the scene. - . . , ' tb fleer aad crew aumber about 100 mea, Th four mea who reached" that were Ensign B. T. Tcfatead, Fice man G. M. Leeper, Torpedomaa Sherman and Beanvan Eirech. - Twelfth Nival District headquar tere ald -m Hao hast As yasesd th ' deetroyer despite r the heavy tea aad that the erevr weald be take eS saf ty : . -.- , '-.,'"- BRITISH LEADERS USING INFLUENCE IN RATIO DISPUTE Making Effort To Harmonize Japan's Views With Those of United States MAY NOT RECOGNIZE REQUEST AS FORMAL. Principals To Naval Contra- versy Do Not Regard Ne gotiations As Deadlocked; Think Japan Will Abandon Proposal ; Shantung Taiu gle Up Again Washington, Dee. I. (By the At. ' soeinte.d Press.)-Great Britain, aa the ally of Japan, it using her. in. flue nee to bring the Japanese rlew in the naval ratio dispute into har mony with those of the United States. With this development1, the lipa se pleiiiKientiriea again hava - submitted the whole question to their home government. Britain's lafloeae. The exact nature of the latest move for a solution of the ratio problem ia not disclosed, but it is indicated that , Great Britain has found a double nterest in the success of the nego tiations becau.so she has accepted in principle the American 353 pro posal and because on the other hand' she is in alliance with Japan, whe ssks for a ratio of "10 10 7." All the principals on both side of tho controversy refused tonight to reeoguice the situation as a deadlock. The American delegates, it wis said authoritatively, were even deellntntV to regard Rnron Kato's proposal for an increaseil Japanese strength a a formal presentation of the Japan viewpoint. They were confident, , IS -was declared, that the 10 10 7 proper' tion would he abandoned befora Japan's final statement of poeitien, ie placed before the conference Not Formal Request. ', It la apparent that if the proposal of tha Japanese statesman ia aot, to be regarded as formal, the reason lies in the fact that it wat aot ( "passed across the table" at a formal session of tha arms conference et any of its regularly constituted tub divisions. , Baron Kato's request for aa tavt, crease over the American rati waa communicated to Secretary Haghaa . and Arthur J. Balfour at a meeting r of the three late Tuesday afternooa' la relating frankly hit government's -' position, the Japanese plenipotentiary touched on the reason which im- pelied him to make the request aaeT asked that the question of national needs be taken into account in dej terraining the new naval- relativity Frank Exchangee, j In response, Secretary Hughe aad!-' Mr. Balfour made plain tha oppoi tion of the American and Britiabr delegntinns to vitally changing tha basis of ratio determined upoa and' Baron Kato indicated he desired bos': fore going further to communicate again with his government. Bine1 then the three have not met to disp ells the question, but their OBj versa! ions are to be resumed whea' further advices have been leoeivedt from Tokio. Shant Matter Un. During the luil a new attempt waw begun today to settle the long de bated Shantung controversy, but ia, view of the status of the naval aegoel tiations, the Shantung conversation' were looked on by many of the del gatee as a small part of the maia picture, becretary Hughea and Mr.- Balfour, exercising their "good ofi-4 eea, met with the Japanese aad1 Chinese delegations for a prelimi nary survey of the situation and! then left American and British 'ob servers'' on the ground to aid inf whatever way they can to bring tha two oriental groups into agreement. The part taken by Mr. Hughe and. Mr. Balfour m the meeting wat taid to have been confined to a general statement of confidence that a just and fair solution would be reached' Baron Kato responding for Japea!. and; Minister Sze for China, witht general expression of gratificatioa ia the interest taken by the two Otherd powers. The session lasted littia. more than an hour, and afterward ih wat indicated that it had not been! determined whether Japan or China; should make the first move. TherJ will be another meeting tomorrow, L Note of Optimism .' The note of optimism over thai outcomo of the naval discussions was particularly manifest tonight taoact the Japanese. While refraining front any comment on the British position. Baron Kato said he would aot regareV the situation as corstituting a dead lock, and another members of tha Japanese delegation,, using a differ ent phrase, emphatued that w at) not pessimistic. Th submission of th entire ject to Tok o Indicate that Bade the Japanese system it will b coa- tidered by the Japanese cabinet sa , well si by the diplomatic advisory V council, a body composed of emiaeat V Japanese, chiefly former minister.. Representative Japanese xpreeed . th opinion tonight that ia order to) "r reach a decision every element eoa, nerted with the queetioa mntt ba; taken Into eonaideratioa with tho J retnlt that th exchange hcaatjghh . be slowed dowa approslably. ; '.","! i , , . ,Ua T -"Big Three," .7 ? 8 far a th Washington and el th itutioa it concerned, th problem- la regarded tt having aarrrew' d down, te direct aad twrtoial ex change -aawag : the naval Hid Tbr Secretary Hughes, Mr. Bal four aad Bar Kato. Th- ora mitte ef ttval expert will be aviilable, ,of : course,- if farther questions f fact have- te b work ed ent, fit that postibility teems re- BMts."TB jBttear af potiey-aio- ' be decided, by tar pletipoteatiari 7 (Oeatiaeed a Pag TweX