Newspapers / Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, … / Dec. 12, 1921, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
O v Weather Today FAIR AND COLD TONIGIIT AND TUESDAY. MKMBCB Or TVS ASSOCIATED FUSS TIm aaaoetatad Praia la axchjalTcly ntltld to th IN for publication of all mi dhpatchaa erdlt4 ta it or aot otbarwlM craditrd in this paper and ala tha local lunri published. THE SALISBURY KVKN. INO P08T la a Utmbar of Tba Aaaociatad Praia aa4 ata tea afUrnboo reports. KMfil - a aa am a AAAA-VWlriJV)) V0L.17.N0. 121. 1200,000,0 0 0 IN TEXTILE PLANTS III N.C.1PINSAYS r i Represents An Increase of 84 Plants Yearly Value of Output is Over $259, 213,725. . x (BY MAX ADERNETHY) Raleigh, Dec. 12. Textile manu r faeturing plants In North Carolina now under operation represents an invested capital of more than two hundred million dollars, according to Commissioner of Labor and Printing M. L. Shipman whose biennial review of the industry uhows 508 plants reporting an in vested capital of li)7,758,932. Thirty-eight mills have failed to send in their reports for the two year period, but the total number of mills reporting since the last biennial review in 1918 represents an increase of 84 plants. The es t'mated value of the pearly output from all but 62 mills is $259,243, 725. Raw material used by the textile plants exclusive of the knittlntr mills was 305,2(50,311 pounds. The tptal number of spindles re ported is $5 255,320; looms, 72,514; cards, 12,119, and the number of horse-power utilized at regular in tervals was 218,883. Cotton, wool en, cordage and silk mills employ 73, 592, and the estimated num ber of dependents intimately asso ciated with the cotton mill indus try in this state in the capacity of. ware-earners and ieir families is 214,843. "An index to the industrial prog ress of the state during the past two years," says Commissioner Shipman. "is furnished by the continued growth of the cotton mill industry. Industrially North Carolina has rapidly advanced to that position of output and pros- ' perity were continued expansion will be controlled only by basic limitations. No fact relating to the advancement of the state is more important, or more signifi cant to th student of social and economic conditions in North Car olina than the vigor, the persist ency and the success that has fol- ( lowed the introduction of this branch of manufacture. The last biennial period has witnessed the usual development of the textile industry. : "The extent to which an inlus- -,tr gives, employment and: the -amount which it pays in wages is manv instenees than tie capital it requites, the cost of materials, the value of nroducts or pven the nriH. ed value through the process of manufacture. The wage-earners in all branches of the textile industry of the state combined, present a formidable arrav of men, women and children. The number of each class reported for the period cov ered by this report shows a healthy increase over the previous two -years. The wage level is also higher, but this condition may not be maintained in the immediate future on account of business de pression which appeared during the latter part of 1920. The high average wages paid males during tie last biennial period $(3.58 per dav: females, $4.23. "Estimated unemployment in the textile industry of the state at the time this report goes to press is small in comparison to conditions reported from other sections of the country. This is due to the "ict that both day and ntrht forces have been maintained, although on short time (in some instances), which has enabled the operators hold out the hope of fulltime iterations when market conditions rhnw improvement." Regarding the knitting mills of North Carolina Commissioner Ehinman says: "There has been a noticeable ex pansion, of this industry the past two years as evidenced by the statistices, but it does not neces sarily follow that the manufac turers have encountered no ob rtacles in the operation of their plants. The demand for their ca pacity output experienced during f the vear 1919 and tha fir t.i 1920 has not since been maintained i extraordinary fluctuations in the Mime ui mw materials nave pre "ailedi the wage scale also has been unstable,, and various other rausea have kent mnufacturers in p state of pedplexity. However, depressing times are passing; many plants -which shut down - a little while ago are resuming oper ations and the knitting industry looks to the future with hope and confidence." Summary ' Knitting mills: Number of spin dles employed, 216,782; knitting machines, 20,444; sewing1 machines, 1.128; number horsepower, 22,338; number employes, adults: male, 5 775: female. 9,413: children, (un f'er 15 years), 1,275: Total num rr of employes. 16,493: number dependent on mills for a livelihood, 29.416. High average daily wage paid men is reported to be $5.60; low est average, $2.61. Highest aver age paid - women, $4.35: lowest, $1.80. Sixteen mills report the use. of steam for power; 109 employ elec tricity exclusively; 15 steam and electricity; one steam and water: ' two, water; and thhe remainder ..... vnu jivwh xiviu in ternal combustion engines. THE BABY COLONEL OF , KENTUCKY $-? ; - iHere is a real, sure-enough colonel. He's Colonel Dick Stoll, Jr., officially appointed to the staff of Gov. Edwin P. Morrow. Colonel Dick is only one year old and is the son of 'Circuit Judge Stoll of Lexington. E About Two Thousand Pre vent Miners From Go ing to Work Friends of Alex Howatt. (Br Tha AaaociaUd Prm) Pittsburg, Kan. Dec. 12. A mob of women estimated at two thou sand, the wives and. relatives of Kansas coal miners, adherents of Alexander Howat, stormed mine number 17 of the Jackson-Walker company shortly after five o'clock this morning and prevented min ers employed at the' mines from returning to work.- The women apparently had no leader and were principally for eigners. The mob formed In Franklin about a mile from the mine. Men estimated in number at about three hundred formed also but did not march on the mine. About 125 miners have been working in the Jackson-Walker shaft. Many were going to the mine in their motor cars and by the interurban which passes near the mine. , This morning the women after assembling at Franklin marched down the public highway which parallels the interurban to the station near the ine and refused to let mine workers leave the car. The women stopped motor cars and ripped off many side curtains. If there were miners in the car they were told they could not re turn to work. Other persons were compelled to stop and wait until the women permitted them to go. EXPLOSION AT MINE (Br Tha Aueclatcd Prms) Pittsburgh, Kan., Dec. 12. The explosion of a boiler at the Victory mine, .near Chicopee, this morning gave rise to reports that the mine had been dynamited. , CATERPILLAR PARADE Melbourne, Dec. 12. Myriads of caterpillars are passing over the lower part of the river ak Mur willumbah, on the border of New South Wajes and Queensland. Eating and warking over the ground, they sound like 'rustling wind. PRISON FOR SEDITION. Bristol, Engi, Dc. 12. Justice Avery, sentenced a fellow class mate of Cambridge University to six months' imprisonment, ' on a charge of making seditious speech es to unemployed. BURGLARS REPENT. i z z z London, Dec. 12. Thieves who broke into the house of Lieut. Col. J. H. Levey and stole the family jewelry, including the colonel's medals, returned the decorations the next day. They kept the jew els. COTTON MARKET Further Advance in Cotton. New York, Dec. 12. There was a further advance in the cotton market this morning -on covering over the government crop estimate and fresh buying promoted by firmness of Liverpool, better feel ing over Manchester and a more favorable report from the domes tic goods trade. First prices were firm at an advance of 14 to 45 points and more active positions sold 40 to 48 points net higher right after the call with January and March touching 18.12 and May 17.96. Opening Firm. New York, Dec. 12. Cotton fu tures opened firm. December 18.00 January 17.85 " March 17.95 May 17.75 July 17.35 Concord Market Concord, Dec.- 12. Cotton sold for 17 cents on the local market. (Cotton mills: One hundred and "eighty-four report the use of elec tric power; 40 employ steam; 60 use steam and electricity; 21 steam and water; 11 electricity and wa ter; 16 steam, water and electrici ty; 16 generate their own power and 29 overlooked this item in reporting. KANSAS WOMEN STOP MIN IK iinnpT ip nurn L mmoi lo uvlk i - BSBrar FOR THE FARMER M' wm W WALLACE THINKS ik W&m II Says Troubles of Farmers Are Due to World Wide Conditions and the World War. Washington, Dec 11. Freely and frankly discussing the present plight of the American farmer, Secretary Wallace tells the Presi dent in his first annual resort to day that thero "seems to be good reason for believing that the worst is over and that we may rea sonably hope for gradual improve vents from now on." He adds that "a clear recognition of the con ditions as they exist should help us to realize this hope." In large part the troubles of the farmer today are due to world-wide conditions and in the inevitable re sult of the world war, the Secre tary of Agriculture says, addinx that it (a not to ba expected that by some "miraculous transforma tion" the period of adversity may be turned over night into a period of prosperity. High rates, big crops produced in the face of high costs, unem ployment in other industries in the country with attendant lessening buying of foodstuffs, and the lack of foreign markets for the farm surplus are given by the Secretary as the more immediate causes for present conditions in agriculture. He lays particular stress upon lack of foreign markets for farm surplus are given by the Secretary as the more immediate causes.for present conditions in agriculture. He, lays particular stress upon the lack of foreign marktts and high freight rates. "It is a terrible indictment of modern civilization," he asserts, "that with such abundance . here there are millions of people over seas Buffering for the bare neces sities and other millions starving to death. And surely we are sadly lacking in our understanding of economic laws or in our adjust ment to them when the production of bounteous crops grown by the hard labor of 13,000,000 farmers and farm workers and their fami lies is permitted to play such a large part in paralyzing our in dustries and bua'ness at home. Large advances in freight rates, while bearable in time of high prices. Mr. Wallace say if con tinued are bound to involve a re making of the Amencan agricul tural map. ' 'The simple process of marking, up the transportation "cost a few cents a hundred pounds," the Sec retary writes, "has the , same ef fect on the surplus producing state as picking it up and setting it down 100 to 300 miles farther from the market. Agriculture is depressed until the rates are lowered or until population and industry shift to meet this new condition." With the heavy consuming pop ulation of the country massed near the eastern coast long distances from the producing areas, Mr. Wallace says, substantial advances in the transportation costs have the effect of imposing differential against American producers in fa vor of their competitors in foreign lands, particularly those to the South of this country, who have the advantage of cheap water transportation. The agriculture secretary thinks that when the country llnally emerges from the present condi tion it will 1'nd itself at the be ginning of a new agricultural era, Pointing to the large increase in the country's population and the fact that most of the easily culti vated land has been taken up, he said the time is not far distant when home needs will require prac- ticallp all that American farms produce in the average year. "This means," he adds, "a more intensive agriculture, with larger production per acre and lessened cost, if we are to meet foreign competition and still maintain our standard of living." The department is planning to meet these new . conditions, Mr. Wallace continues, by strengthen ing certain , phases of its work, more especially the scientific re search, the applications of the re sult of research to farm practice, more extended studies of market ing farm crops with a view to re ducing costs, investigation of both producton and consumpton at home and abroad for the purpose of better adjusting American pro ducton to market needs, and stu dies looking toward making avail able to the farmer those devices of modern business which . provide needed credit on easy terms and which may' help to distribute pro duction risks more equitably. The, amounts asked for this work in the coming fiscal year have been "reduced to the minimum," the secretary says, adding that in the future the appropriations should be increased just as rapidly as needed. In this connection, Mr. Wallace draws attention to the advisability of Congress granting permission for the combining of the Bureaus of Markets and Crop Estimates and the Office of Farm Manage ment, into which would be merged all the forces of the department that are engaged in agricultural economic work- : . (Continued on page six.) SALISBURY, N. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1921 HOW SUB CREW ESCAPED "SPSS wn '-;afe i; iWA , '.rr ijA". hi iftl ,'V ft HOW CREW ESCAPED FROM S-48 The crew of 41 of the U. S. submarine S-48 were trapped w hen it sank off Bridgeport, Conn. The men and officers crawled through the torpedo tube, indicated by arrow, when gas fumes filled the c raft. . The rescue boat is Standard Oil Tug 28, ' T0ARB1TRATE Say Operations Are About Normal and Won't Arbi trateUnion Officials to Washington. , (Br Tha AusciaUl Pm . Chicago, Dec. 12, Packing house officials of Chicago reiter ated today that the strike declared about a week ago by the Amalga mated meat cutters and butchers union hd not interfered material ly with normal operation and also stated that they would stand firm in their refusal to meet arbitration I B G 5 REFUSES h ta-i' i" " I me umvn omciaia were -cti.-iLiu- recent wagff cuts and fcccretary Dennis Lane and President Corne lius H. Hays have both gone to f V BBililiK (.Ull vu lajf LUC on iac aim ... - . . - Jipuse, a negro packer employe, wjio was beaten by strike sym pathizers a few days ago and af terwards shot and wounded to brothers acting as pickets, was taken from a hospital there last night and lynched. In Kansas City, Kansas, strike .sympathizers are also said to have called a worker to the door or his home and fired several shots at him. , MORSE INVITES. A FULL PEOBE BY OFFICIALS (By Tha Atuclatml Pnn New York, Dec. 12. 'Emphasiz ing "his hurried return to America voluntarily Cnas. W. Morse, ship builder, whose contracts are under federal investigation and who was requested to come home immedi ately by Attorney .General Daugh- erty, said in a statement today that he would "unhesitatingly ap pear any place and before any tribunal the government would re quire." This statement was issued aboard the steamer Paris after the tiiip builder was met at the pier by his attorney and had declined to be interviewed. He said Mr. Morse would proceed direct to Washing ton "to meet anv demand male un- on him." Through his counsel Mr. Morse, who was Jaeld aboard1 the he T I i. tt i I J i""' "tT.e,' iraoneT?u'? ,e"uv:! afternoon. iui kiie cauiiai ai, c uuucn hub FIRST ARREST IN BIO U. S. MAIL ROBBERY Jersey City, Dec. 12. The first arrest in connsction with the $2, 000,000 mail robbery in Lower Broadway, New York, several weeks ago became known today when Frank Claabrise was ordered arraigned before Federal Commis ssioncr Queen. Calabrise is charged with the theft of four packages of registered mail and was secretly arrested a month ago and confined in jail here by. postal authorities. 8,340,000 BALES COTTON ESTIMATE a a (By The Associated Press) Washington, Dec. 12. The cotton' crop for the year will amount to 8,989,403,000 pounds which is equivalent to 8,340,000 bales of 500 pounds gross, the department of agri- culture announced today in its final estimate. . . wage question before President TITtM. i -f- wii Harding and the department of -twductd this evening. This bill labor with a view to Jiaving the 7uld .make St possible for cot President ask the packers to meet Jon mi11. 0PeraVve1u tnanj officials of the organization. j farmers to abandon their work and No report of violence has been continue to live in the house of made to the stock-yard policemen ' owner aftcf the ejectment papers within tha last 24 hours. I'r A the Vsent time a . in Frt w-h TVir. vwi tenant may occupy a house a NIGHT SESSIONS E Lawmakers at Raleigh Hurrying Work Up to Adjourn Next Saturday Night. (BY MAX ABKRNETHY) jlaleigh, Dec. 12. Night sessions tonight of both the house and sen ate will help clear up the work of the legislature which wants to ad journ at the end of this week. The senate gets the municipal finance act and the school deficit bill both for the tirst reading tonight and will handle them in the usual three a n m a T . a a days. So far as known no axtended . , .......:, - - J?" y'... 'f!ff? IOr mgcltias A bin Sn'g to have ejectment proceedings , effect.ve immediately . .. : . . .,, i : . tl . years time after the papers are served, provided he gives a rent bond to cover the amount of a year's rent. If the proposed law is passed the house owner will have to give bond against damage.- Tho Sands bill providing for supervision of local bond issues, I will pass third reading in the sen- aie ionium, n is erjieciea. DENBY MAKES HIS FIRST NAVY REPORT Washington, Dec. 11. Secretary Denby, in his first annual report, made public today, announces that he has "no recommendation to make at this time relative to the naval establishment." A proposed future policy for the navy is em bodied in the American proposal to the arms conference, but Mr. Den by omits any reference to this. His enly statement as regards the con ference is a recognition of "Tha ardous and excellent work" per formed by the navy general board and individual naval officials in the preparation of information prelim inary to if. ft The tiaval budget for thIPnext fiscal year already has been sub mitted to Congress. It is based uipon the old policy of "a navy sec ond to none" and contemplates con tinuation of the construction of nihe battleships and six battlecruis i u:-u ..u i i j- If"' Tl""- rJurirZ1 ine svmencBii prupuaai iui biie lim itation of world naval forces. The total of the budget, 431, 754,000, is $264,000,000 less than the original estimates, Mr. Denby's report ; discloses, -the reductions having been made as a result of conferences of" naval officials and budget officers. ; BRING BURMESE OPERA Rangoon, Burma, Dec. 12. A native opera company has left here for London and New York to pro duce a full Burmese opera. It usually takes two or three days for one performance. ! GIVES BIRTH TO EIGHT CHILDREN Mexico City, Dec. 12. Frcm ; Tampico comes the report published by el Universal that Senora Enriquita Ruibo at that place gave birth yesterday to , eight chi'dren, but none sur vived. The mother Is w'elL : Tha Mexico City medical as sociation is showing much in terest in the report and has in stituted an investigation as to ita authenticity. BY LEG SLAM J CHIEFF 0 FSTAFF , . . Cut of Fifty Thousand Would Leave the" Na tion Without Its First Combat Force. Washington, Dec. 12. Warning against a permanent reduction of the regular army below 200,000 en listed men is sounded in the last annual report of Major General Peyton C. March, now retired, war time chief ot staff of the army. The reoort covers the 12 months' period preceding the general's re tirement from the post of chief of staff on last July 1, when ho was succeeded by General Pershing, with Major General , Hurbord as j deputy chief Qf staff. General March declares in his 1 frr 4Viaat 4 Vi a rfna Vi o f an nrmv of 1CO.O00 men, the strength now authorized by mandate of Con- cress, furnishes 7o per cent as much national defense as a force of 200,009 "is a fallacy." "The 50,000 men above the 150, 000,' 'he says, "is the combat part in instant readiness to meet what ever emergency may develop. The redrction to 150.000 will almost annihilate this force, constantly needed in peace, and providing the life-saving' .first line to hold back the enemy of war until the second line elements of defense aro, mobil ized." General March asserts that now that the war has been won thero is "grave danger" that the Amer ican people will lose sight of "the fortunate escape from indescrib able calamity that ordinarily is the fruit of unpreparedness." Let it not be forgotten, he adds, that it required 17 months for the United States to put an independent army in the field in France, and asks what would have happened had France required so long a time to put into line the first fighting unit. "Aftd yet we hear," he says.'a million men can spring to arms overnight!" Turning to the question of uni versal military training, the gen eral says that "if that portion of the manhood of the nation which would serve with the colors in time of war could appreciate what it means when untrained men must be hurried into battle they prob- I GAMS mmm ably TKoaldyotc. oyejryelinjngly 1 cp,a dafiaaasa of ibbiBw gov for tha training in time or peace ernment. that wold fit them for their duties rJ ifc . ... "The untrained men that were rushed to the front in our armies," ho adds, ' must always pay a fear ful toll in needless loss of life be cause of their lack of training." "The former 'chief of staff re views the activities of the army and the staff during his last year of service at great length and de clares in cinclusion that "the general staff as now organized un der the provisions of the act of June 4, 1920 (army reorganization act), is functioning smoothly and with a high degree of efficiency," "In the face of criticism, unde served and unwarranted" he edds. "their work has continued on a high plane of excellence and their morale has remained unshaken and unimpaired. They have deserved well of their country." THREE DANGEROUSLY ' HURT IN ACCIDENT (Br A. W. HICKS) Spencer. Dec. 12. Motorists re turning to Spencer Sunday night brought reports of a serious auto mobile accident which occurred about dark Sunday afternoon four miles north of Lexington on the Winston-Salem Southbound rail road when a large touring car driven by Mrs. John Travis, of Lex ington, crashed through the can isters of a bridge over a deep cut. The car fell something like 20 feet falling top side down pinioning, un derneath Mr. and Mrs. Travis and their eight-year-old daughhter, who were the only occupants of the ill fated machine. All were danger ously hurt and a large crowd which soon gathered prized the car up and . got the injured out, rushing them to Lexington for surgical treatment. The accident occurred lust where a double reverse curve in the road includes a high bridge across the railroad tracks. So forceful was the impact of the ma chine that the railing on one side of the bridge was torn down. The mystery is that any or the occu pants of th car got out alive. ULSTER PREMIER TELLS MEETING LLOYD GEORGE Belfast: Dec. 12. By The As sociated Press). Sir James Craig, lUlster premier, presided over the meeting of the Ulster party and in formed his supuporters of his re cent conversations with Premier Lloyd George in London. It is un officially reported that the proceed ings grew stormy when Sir James informed the meeting that Lloyd George had maintained an unyield ing attitude toward Ulster. It was intimated that except for a few trifling changes the British premier declined to make any concessions, his attitude being that "there is the treaty and it stands." LUCK DESERTS OLDEST MAN . sfts DJURC) CHEMDIN Paris, Dec. 12. Djuro Chemdin, 146-year-old Turk, is out of work and luck. He's too old to tote pianos, tho hes' done that all his life in Con stantinople. And he's too young-looking to exhibit himself as the world's old est man, which he came to Paris to do. . Djuro's eyes are bright and his step firm though his birth registra tion is dated 1775. Doctors say hell live to b 160. Commerce Secretary May Head Commission to . Disarm Provincials. Bv Wm. Philip Slmms) Washington, Dec. 12. Herbert Hoover, now secretary of com merce, may head an international commission to disarm China. China now has the largest stand ing army or group of armies of any nation in the world. The e act number of troops is not known even to the minister of war in Peking, but it is estimated to be between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000. These troops, are under various "tuchuns" or provincial military srovernors. who either' are onlv who either nominally under Pekiir els art in The ".tuchuns" ilevy and collest taxes, force direct contributions from the inhabitants, obtain loans from, local bankers virtually at the, point of a gun, print and circulate paper money of their own imakr ing, graft and "squeeze" and wage wars as independent war lords while Peking looks on in utter helplessirs. Rrusi Down War Lords. ' Members of the Chinese delega tion here admit little can be done towards getting China back on her feet until these "paper tigers" are destroyed. The moBt powerful among the "tuchuns" do not hesi tate to wring funds from the Peking government, when there is any money to wring, and openly dictate to the president and his cabinet. ' China can not demobilize the armies of the "tuchuns" alone, so it has been advanced in confer ence circles here that the. Pacific powers, including China, should get together in the matter. It is proposed that a disarma ment commission be named and that the sum . of $50,000,000 be loaned to China as a demobiliza tion fund. Secretary of Commtrce Hoover is mentioned as chairman of this commission. Give Soldiers Peace Jobs. . Representatives of the commis sion would work with the Chinese government and aid in the work of disarming the "tuchun" armies. Soldiers would be demobilized, giv en back pay they are in most cases many months in arrears and a small bonus and sent back to their home provinces. There they would ibe put to work on much needed public works 'highways, roilroads, canal widening and the like. .' Without their armies, the "tu chuns" power would be gone. The wines and tobacco revenues, it is suggested, could be used to guarantee the $50,000,000 loan. The Chinese,, it is, understood, have been approached informally on the subject and in the same way have accepted the proposition tentatively, particularly the idea of Secretary Hoover as the head of the international commission. SPITE CHURCH GOING London, Dec. 12.-The Russian cathedral in the Saxon square,- in the center of this city, is being torn down. It had been built 80 years ago by the wife of a former Russian governor of Warsaw, des pite the promise of the former kings of Poland that the square would remain open. British Delegates to Depart. Washington, Dec. 12. (By the Associated Press.) All of the British delegates to the arms con ference except Sir . Auckland Geddes, British ambassador here, have arranged to sail for home December SI on the steamer Olym pic, feeling that the main issue of the conference will have been disposed of by that time. PACIFY CHI PRICE 2 CENTS SUBMARINES TO BE NEXT BIG PROBLEM OF CONFERENCE On AH Other Major Sub jects Delegates Profess to See Prospect of An Early Solution. Washington. Dec. 12. (By ths Associated Press.) Submarines promise the nrsent arms confer ence its next big issue. On nil othfr major subjects before the conferenre the deletratp profcM to'l;v to soo projects of an early solution. But tho question ' as to whether the submarine will b included in quantity in flceti tt the future in developing widely divergent minion-. Th problems of nival ratio, fortificat'ins in the Pacific and nnval holiday, wh'le still an open ouestion, is regarded more or li bound together and thair settle ment simultaneously in the hesr future is said to have been facili tated bv the new agreement be tween the United States, Gnnt Britain, Japan and France for the preservation of peace in the Paci fic. The far eastern negotiations are also dcribed as proceeding satisfactorily with sentiment "'de veloping in sime quarters to mako the final accomplishment ,. of tha conference in that direction a basis for a formal nine power treaty. in stead of merely a "gentleman's agreement" or joint declaration of policy. The submarine problem, how ever, is involving among other things the ouestion of whether un der sea croft are to be considered legitimate instruments of war fare is said by delegate to be en tirely separate from all of these. In the American naval reduction plan Great Britain and the United States each would be given a sub marine tannage of 90.000 tons. compared with 54,000 -for Japan aim a.quamiv -yet to 03 nxed tor France end Italy. Great Britain think these figures should be cuf in half and a British spokesman predicted today the conflict of views might lead to "considsrable controversy." The British believe the French and Italians and proba bly the Japanese are preparing to stand together in favor of a largo use of submarines. They do . not know.- exactly how- the ' Unit-! States stands on tVnt ..dn ' - tnem Deyond the original proposal. It was said today thj Brfti&h will not attempt to make an issue on the question if convinced the ma jority of the conference was op posed to them. But they said frankly they intend to mnke a strong effort to present the Britbh viewpoint. . The British also are hooingr it may be possible to induce the con ference, through naval exparta, U consent to some variation of tha original naval holiday proposal, evidently counting on Japan's sup port of any plan that would keep at least some of the naval con struction Work under way. -?, . a On the question of Pacific forti fications the opinions of most of the various national groups .ara more or less obscure but the Brit ish are said to expect fortification to be made the subject of still an- other special treaty, confined . to the United States, Japan and the Netherlands. They believe Great Britain need not be a party to this treaty as the only fortifications she has in Pacific waters aro ot Hong Kong and on the. mainland of Asia. - ; ;.. , , Yap Question is Settled. V Washington, Dec. 12 (By the Associated Press.) .The contro versy between the United States' and Japan over the ig.land of Yap has been settled and the terms of settlement will be announced' this "trenoon. Secretary Hughe today told the far eastern committee of the Washington conference. The agreement forms a treaty which includes all the islands over which Japan has mandates in addition to i ap. The pact has been approved y the government heads but an nouncement as to whether it has been fuljy signed is withheld. Al though the terms Of the treaty are neid for ocial announcement in the daily communique of the far east committee it is understood the convention gives the United States certain definite rights on tha island 01 ,aP. including cable rights. -To Withdraw Jap PostofliceW" Washington, Dec. 12. (By the Associated Press.)-slapa; thru its arms conference delegation has announced to the powers repre- J eastern commit tee of the Washington conference a willingness to withdraw Japan- SS.Cm?6" from China Janu , Viviani to Leave. V . Washington, Dec. 12. (By the Associated Press.) Rene Viviani, TifApremie: of France nl head or that nation's delegation to the arms conference since the depart ure of Premier Briand, made plans today to eail far home Wednesday on the steamship Paris with Ma dame Viviani and several other members of the French delegation. BEWARE FAKE "COPS' London, Dec, 12 Thieves have broken into a warehouse contain ing policemen's uniforms and tak en 30 suits and overcoats. Pal.M believe they will disguise them selves in the uniforms to carry out further exploits.
Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Dec. 12, 1921, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75