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Weather Today PAIR TONIGHT AND WEDNES DAY COLDER mmm. wanrn or m associated rant TIm aaaaciatad Praaa ti laialjr antitiad to Ik aaa (or publication of all Mil dtt pate baa eradliad to It or not otharwiaa eradiUd In this papa and alM th local nawa publiahad. THE SALISUUKT KVfcN. Uta POST la a uicinbar of Tha Aaaoclatad Praat aa4 ft tha aiuraooa raporta. VOL. 17. NO. 122. SALISBURY, N. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1921 PRICE 2 CENTS, i ( prima eka BILL LIKELY TO Stubbs Bill Providing for Constitutional Conven tion Will Be Defeated, It is Predicted. (BY MAX ABERMETIIY) Raleigh, Dec. 13. Repeal of the ! rtate-wide primary law ia the pur- pose of a bill introduced in t;he j House of Representatives at last; night's session by Will Neal, ofi JWcDowell county. Representative Neal introduced " annual Ulll Bb me tegular orn- I fion last January-February but it failed of passage. One change is made in the bill and that is county i officers shall still be selected by the j county primaries. This provision was not in the old bill. Tho com mittee an elections in the House j will consider the measure, report- j ing it either favorably or unfavor-j ably or without prejudice. j All predictions as to the fate of ' the bill are that it will either be "killed" in the committe or de feated when it reaches the floor of the House. But the prophets may be wrong;- the bill might pass by a bare majority. Obtaining approval cf the committee is the first ob stacle that must be overcome be fore the question of passage in the House Is considered. j There is a preponderance of sen-, timent for repeal of the- primary I law, said Representative Neal, and it ia because. of this that I have again introduced my pet measure. Selection of county officials may still be made in the primary, this made when the 'first bill was intro-1 duced. Defeat of the Stubbs bilL'provid- ing for a constitutional convention in this state is freely predicted in t he lower house even if the Senate does not i?ass the measure as it did nt the regular session of 1921. The bill proposes the calling of a convention to rewrite, revise and amend the state constitution, mak ing the old document live up to present day needs in matters of taxation, and so forth. North Car olina's constitution in its present form is said by advocates of the bil lto be antiquated and badly out oi aaie, iney wouia write anew the organic law of the state.J . Opponent! of the measure, and thwV' IffTrrgater ptyportoT''of members in the House opposed to the bill than in tihe Senate, do not like the idea of tampering with what they declare is the only thing left in the state that has not been "done-over." They are eternally opposed to a constitutional conven tion either this year, 1923 or at any other time. . . . The House committee on educa tion has sent the Matthews bill providing for a maximum levy of 30 cents for schools in the state baek to their body with a favor able report. It is unlikely that any determined fieht will be made to defeat this bill. The committee on prepositions and grievances reported unfavor ably the bill fathered by the North Carolina Board of Accountancy which would force the state audi tor and other state departments to employ members of the state board, or accountants recommended by this board, in all county audits and audits of state departments. , Major Baxter Durham, state nuditor, went before the commit tee and urged that it be defeated, pointing out that its passage would make it difficult to obtain the work that his department was charged with doing. Governor Morrison had but few petitions for executive clemency on the opening day of December "pardon week." Four applications were declined in the following order, there being no cases in which tho governor thoght it advisable to interfere: Bessie Logan, Guilford, serving four years for the larceny of an au tomobile; . Charles Hajina, Wake county, serving Ave years for high way robbery; Grover Hanes, Guil ford county, serving three years for the larceny of an automobile; Ferebee Blake, Wake county, serv ing five years for forgery. WAKE FOREST HAZING EPISODE IN COURT (Br Tha Aaaaciatad Prcai) Raleigh, Dec. 12. The rfecent Wake Forest college hazing epi sode resulting dn the shooting of a sophomore by a freshman be cause the latter resisted the ac tion of hazers reached the courts today when, J. L. Sanders and 0. B. Sikes, expelled sophomores, pleaded guilty to the charges of hazing Rv R. Patterson, a fresh man. Patterson pleaded guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and was fined $50 and costs, while the others were given a suspended judgment for two years on pay ment of costs. BANDITS GGET $13,000. - (Mr Tha Aaaodatet Praia) . Mount Clemens, Mich., Dec. 13. Two armed bandits held up the Half Way State Bank at Half Way, near here, today and escap ed with the sum of $13,000. The bandits fled in an automobile, go ing in the direction of Detroit. BE SLAUGHTERED HE HELPS WIFE GET DIVORCE v COUNTESS vF DROGHEDA London, Dec.Nl3. "I'm not com ing back home. If you want a di vorce, you'll find evidence at the Gfeat Northern Hotel." The Earl of Progheda wrote that to' his wife. She followed directions. In court she produced a chamber maid from the hotel who swore she had seen the earle there with a woman not his wife. Explorer Has Been En route to the Recruiting Officer for Three Years From North. Nome, Alaska, Dec. 13. An Arc tice adventurer, ; B. D. Seaman, Bailed into Nome -from the frozen north this month and, not knowing that the war was over, tried to en list in the American army so he could fight in .France. Seaman said he had been three years getting to Nome from the Coronation Gulf country, which lies far East on Canada's Arctic coast, and during his journey had receiv ed, no news from the outside world. He left the gulf, he declared, in Oc tober, 1918, when he first heard the United States had entered the war. Seaman was formerly a mem ber of the Royal Northewestern Mounted Police. Soon after Seaman started for Nome the small schooner on which he was journeying was wrecked in the ice, he said, and he and his companions were forced to walk 27 days before they came to an Es kimo village. On their way they liv ed on roots. Seaman gave an niteresting de scription of t the life of the Es kimos of Coronation Gulf. The natives, he said, still use the bow and arrow but are gradually get ting accustomed to the use of fire arms, which were introduced re cently. The natives live of cari bou and' seal. A rifle in the Coronation country sells for $160, cartridges for 30 cents each, sugar is $1 a pound, butter $3.80 a pound and milk $1 a can, Seaman said. The cost of clotihing, however, is lower, a "par ka" cape being sold for $4, muck luks, or native shoes, for 50 cents a pair and fine fur mitten for three boxes of one-cent matches. .Mounted police in the Coronation country get mail someitmes three years old. Once, before he left, a constable got quick service on a letter, it being delivered from Eng land in 13 months. Seaman said he probably would go back to Coronation Gulf, "where a big pot of trouble like a war doesn't reach us until it is all over." IRISH BISHOPS MEET (Br Tha AasxUtra Prraa) Dublin, Dec. 13. (By the Asso ciated Press). The. Irish bishops after the meeting presided over by Cardinal Logue to consider their attitude as to the Ariglo-Jrish agreement issued a statement this afternoon of a non-committal char acter. It implored divine blessing on the deliberation of the Dail Ei reann and said that body would be sure to have the best interests of the country in mind. COTTON MARKET Steadier Tone in Cotton : New York, Dec. 13. The rela tively firm showing of the Liver pool market and more favorable British trade advices gave the cot ton market a steadier tone during today's early trading; After open ing steady at an adance of 4 points to a decline of 9 points active months soon showed net gains of $ to 12 points with January selling at 17.29. Opening Steady. New York, Dec. 13. Cotton fu tures opened steady. December 17.40 January 17.10 . March 17.08 May 16.94 July .... ......... 16.60 Concord Market Concord, Dec. 13. Cotton sold for 17 cents on the local market i i .: .t aT WANTS TO ENL ST H FICHT GERMANS PUN SHMEtfl FOR DRAFT EVADERS Adjutant General Harris Recommends That. Con gress Appropriate $250, for the Work. Washington. Dec. 12. Energet ic pursuit ana punishment of the more than 1000,000 men who evad ed the draft during the World War is urgently recommended by Major General Harris Adjutant General of the Army, in his report made public today by the Secretary -of War. To bring those guilty to trial, he recommends that Con gress appropriate $250,000 to pay rewards of $50 for each draft de serter delivered to the military authorities. "It is impeartive," he declares, "that the Government exhibit the greatest possible energy in pursu ing thes men and in punishing all who are found guilty. If the gov ernment permits these deserters to escape the punishment provided for their offense, consquences of the grave3t import will certainly ensue. "Inaction of this sort would tend to set a premium on evasion of military service, with the inev itable result that, should another national emergency arise and an other selective draft be put in op eration, the number of men at tempting to evade the perform ance of military duty will mount to a figure so large as to imperil the Nation through interfering very seriously with the rapid building-up of an emergeucy Army.'' General Harris says the publi cation of the "slacker lists," by the newspapers "provjed highlo useful for the purpose of straight ening out the records of a number of non-wilful deserters whose names were included therein, des pite all the care and effort expend ed in an attempt to include none but those of willful deserters," He shows that less than one hal of one per cent of the names pub lished have been found to be those of non-willful deserters and says these have been removed from the lists. General Harris' report shows that reported desertions from the regula army in the fiscal year ended last June 30 totalled 14,563. ro. 4.157 per cent, the largest per-rentage-TiineT909r. m --uearty four times as great as that in the preceding fiscal year. He says the marked increase probably can be accounted for "by the fact that the vast majority of the deserters were new recruits who found the army discipline more irksome than they had anticipated. "The number of the reported desertions," he adds, "is in excess of the number of actual desertions as many of the men . will be returned to mili ary control and acquitted of the charge of desertion, while others will be convicted of the lesser of fense of absent without leave." SLAYER OF TEACHER LEFT NO CLEW BEHIND Br Tha Anorlatrd Pra) Waukon, Iowa, Dec. 13. .No clew to the murderer of Miss Edda Magneson, school teacher who was beaten to death yesterday after noon at her school near town, has been found today, Mrs. Gunda Martindale, Sheriff of Allamekee county said. Mrs. Martindale has been sheriff since May 1, last when her husband who held the office died and she was appointed to fill the unexpired term. MARSHAL FOCH TO BID U. S. FAREWELL , New York, Dec. 13. Marshal Foch, generalissamo of France, will reach here late today to say fare well to the metropolis and to the United States. Hp Warinaa. day on the steamship Paris for r ranee. Since his arrival here, October 27 as a guest of the American Le gion, Foch has traveled 20,000 miles and visited nearly every large city in the (United States and Canada. FOUR MEN PERISH IN A $200,000 BLAZE Passiac, N. J., Dec. 13. Four men reported missing after an ex plosion and fire yesterday which damaged the plant of the Hayden Chemical Company of America to the extent of $200,000 were found today. When they failed to return to their homes last night firemen began searching the ruins of the plant. All of the 30 injured are ex pected to recover. HEART OVER WEIGHT Shoreditch, Eng., Dec. 13. It was found at an inquest on the sudden death of Edward Ashmore that his heart weighed 38 onces. The normal weight of a human heart is eight .or nine ounces. AIR RIDERS WARNED London, Dec. 13. The air min istry has issued a warning to air plane passengers not to drop ar ticles during flight.; A fine of $1000 or six months imprisonment is imposed for any infraction. ISREGOMMENDED REORGANIZATION OF WHOLE FEDERAL FUNCTIONS, RECOMMENDED, HOOVER Washington, Dec. 13. Secretary Hoover, in his first annual report made public today, tells President Harding that the establishment of a real Department of Commerce, "effective in service to producers, manufacturers and distributors, able to give economic interpreta tion of Importance to the American public generally, and to stimulate American' trade and merchant ma rine,"' requires ?'& thorough reor ganization and entire regrouping of the federal functions bearing on these problems." He adds, however, that inasmuch as these matters are now actively before Congress and the administration it is not necessary on this occasion to en ter into a discussion of them. "As I assumed offico on March 4, 1921," the Commerce Secretary writes the President, "this report covers but four months of the ad ministration of the Department un der by direction. The new adminis tration during this four months de voted itself to two primary ques tions: "First. Reorganization of the de partmental expenditures. "Second. Reorganization of those bureaus concerned with industry and trade, that they may become of more effective service to the community. "The result of the reorganiza tion enabled a revision of the esti mates of expenditures for the fis cal year 1921-22, so that while the total appropriations available for the department for this period are SZ4.222.192. Vet it now seems proo CHILD BURNED TO DEATH IN CRADLE A most distressing tragedy oc curred in the St. Matthew's neigh borhood last Sunday morning when the little child of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Luckebill burned to death. The mother had left the child in the cradle while she was out getting ready to go to church. A coal of fire must have popped into the cradle and ignited the bed cloth ing or some clothes lying on a chair nearby which she had laid out to put on before going to church. The room was full of smoke when she entered and the cradle and child burning. When she reach ed it the child was apparently al ready stifled or burned to death, having inhaled the flames. The funeral was conducted at St. Matthews Lutheran church on Monday at 11 o'clock by the pas tor, Rev. G. H. Cooper. TMUrRP.7.2T.ir.T OICTS . .. m Tfl VT.4RS(C w"15- Tn'S' ' n women ZZT9 Af?fpatd nVstttantiflfto the slfcriff ex (Br Tha Aaaadataa1 Frcaah . . Cochran, Ga., Dee. 13, Plead ing guilty last night in superior court here for four counts charg ing embezzlement and three of felonv, U. S. Patrick, former cash- : i r:.:.n.. k.l Svti- ier of the Citizens' bank of Coch ran who. was convicted on Novem ber 6 of embezzlement of seven thousand dollars from the same bank was given sentences aggre gating from 22 to 38 years. Patrick left this morning for Atlanta where he will appear be fore the state prison committee and be acsigned to the state peni tentiary or the state prison farm. A run was started on the bank March 2, 1920 when it becaime known that Patrick, the cashier, had gone.. The bank successfully met the run paying all depositors in full. Patrick returned to Coch ran in the summer Of 1920 and the eight indictments were returned against him. , It is alleged his shortages totalled approximately ; that destroyed their boarding $139,000. ' (house near Royal Oak. a suburb, Passage of the sentence was de-( early today. .Three others, a wo ferred until yesterday. Upon re-1 man and two children, were badly ceiving the verdict, Patrick feinted and was unconscious for several minutes. ULSTER BITTER OVER THE IRISH TREATY (Br Tha Aasaciato4 Prna) ' London, Dec. 13. Notwith standing the bitter feeling in -Ulster against England, the great majority of the people are against going under the (Dublin parlia ment, says the Belfast correspon dent of the Morning Post. This follows a statement from the; same corresponaeni on ounaay re- i . c j porting a remarkable change of sentiment after publication of the treaty terms. The business community and people generally are, he says, "smarting under a sense of irre parable iniury" to a degree not experienced for 150 years. The .toast to the king has been 'ex punged from programs of impend ing functions as done at several gatherings Saturday and the cor respondent adds that this is a sympton of a change in temper of the people. TO PRINT CORRESPONDENCE Belfast, Dec. 13. (By the As sociated Press.) Prime Minister Lloyd George has informed Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier, that in view of Sir James' state ment in the Ulster parliament pes terday on the correspondence re garding the Irish conference he proposes to publish the correspon dence immediately. REAL WAR STORY ; Paris, Dec. 13. The first col umes of the French official history of the war are expected to be pub lished in the early part of 1922. They will deal with the opening campaigns of 1914. able that the expenses during this fiscal year will approximate $20, 200,000, showing a total saving of about $4,000,000, or 16 2-3 per cent, of the available appropriations. "The results of reorganization of the bureaus concerning industry and trade are in part indicated by the increase in volume of demand upon the department for helpful action or information. These de mands have now reached a rate of over 500,000 per annum. "The further practical results to American commerce and industry will bo more evident later in the year and comment upon them can best be deferred until results have been further realized." Secretary Hoover calls attention that while the total foreign trade of the nation decreased by $3,176, 626,000 during the past fiscal year,' there was a slight increase in the visible balance of trade in favor of the United States as a result of the year's operations. "Exporta for the year totalled $6,385,636,039 against $7,950,429, 180 thme year before while imports were $3,654,449,430 against $5, 238,352,114. The balance of trade for the year, was $2,731,186,609 compared with $2,711,807,512 the year before. Part of the shrinkage in the val ue of foreign trade is due, the re port says, "to lower prices rather than to diminished quantities and part tohe general unsettled con ditions in the countries to whom KANSAS WOMEN VIOLENT TODAY Pittsburgh, Kan., Dec. 13. The militant . women . marchers of the Kansas coal fields went into action again this morning before day break and stopped miners from working at three mines of the Cen tral Coal and Coke company. Seven motor cars were wrecked m the melee and several persons were in jured. Violence featured the attack of the women this morning. The crowd this morning was larger than the mob which stopped work at the Jackson-Walker mine near Franklin yesterday morning. That mob was estimated at 2,000. This morning the women threw stones and red pepper. The dinner buckets of 18 mine workers were seized and the contents thrown at the miners and officials. The miners withdrew from their work. , . Sheriff Milt Gould and deputies were at No 151 when , he moh cept to pelt him witn oreaa ana butter. The sheriff said he would report the riot to the state officials today. As at yesterday morning's mob the members of a larger mob of women remained in the back- I ground. The men took no part ! tha arf taMr nnnn thtt tninera i in the attack upon the miners ex cept that a few threw rocks at the building as they passed along the road trailing the women on the way to mine No. 48. Another mob of women stormed several mines of the Sheridan Coal Company at Mulberry this morning and stop ped the men at work there. Mul berry is ten miles from the Cen tral mines, stormed by women early today. EIGHT PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH IN MICHIGAN (Br Tha AaaactaUa' Prtaa) Detroit, Dec. 13. Eight per sons were burned to death in a fire injured and were taken to a hos pital where it is said their chance for recovery is slight. One man and seven children are the dead. The man. is named Wakeii, and his four children and three children who were family. visiting the Wakeu i MENONITES SETTLE IN STATE OF ALABAMA (Br Tha AaaocUUd Praaa YeMnw Pinp. Ala.. TW. 13. Otjp thousand Menonites, occupying 18 cars, arrived here todav from i ' . . - - - Regina, Saskatchewan. The colon ists brought with them cows, horses sheep, household effects, musical and farm implements and were preported to immediately start to housekeeping and the preparation of the soil for next pear's crop. An advance guard had purchased lands and provided temporary shelter. The Menonite colony is situated in the heart of the Ala bama lumber belt where timber is plentiful and the soil productive. BANDITS GET $30,000 INJURE AN AUTOIST j Greenville, 111., Dec. 13. Four t bandits entered Panaman near J here, robbed the bank of Panaman of between $25,000 and $30,000, nera up seven men in a pool room next to the bank and wounded an autoist who, they believed was pursuing them and made their escape. MARINES HURT IN BRAWL (By Tha Aaaaciatad Praaa) Washington, Dec. 13. Three American marines were slightly in ' jured in "the fiesta day brawl" of Thursday in Managua, Nicaragua, I reports to the navy department to- IHav laid. AN UNFAVORABLE REPORT MADE OH PRIMARY REPEAL Women, Led By Mrs. Jos ephus Daniels, Appeal to Committee Against Repeal of Measure. (BY MAX ABKRNETHY) Raleigh, Dec. 13. The $710,000 school deficit bill passed second reading in the senate today with out opposition or discussion, but the Everett resolution calling on the departments of revenue and education for information about tax rates and horizontal cuts in values, came from the committee with an unfavorable report and no effort was made to revive it. After passing second reading Monday night the Elmer Long bill requiring publication of all peti tions for refund of taxes by the commissioner of revenue and board of equilization was today with drawn from the calendar and sent to the joint judiciary for consider ation. It is predicted the bill will not again reach the -floor of the senate. . x . The primary repeal bill came to the house on an unfavorable Committee report, 6-8, but was re vived on a minority report. Theh committee heard - the bill this nicrning when Mrs. Josephus Dan iels, Dr. Delia Dixon Carroll and Mrs. Palmer Jerman spoke against 'epeal of the primary. Fisher, "of Transylvania, intro duced a bill requesting the inter state commeroe commission to be gin revising freight and passenger rates in North Carolina by at least 15 per cent. The bill calling for a constitu tional convention in 1923 and in troduced in the senat by Senator Stubbs may come up at tonight's session of the sriate. Senator Stubbs asked postponement this morning because of the absence of large numbers of members from the nenate, some of whom are out of the city. O'CONNOR GIVES 5,000 . ' POLICEMEN A CHASE (Br Tha Aaaadato4 Praaa) Chicago, Dec. 12. Lucky Tom my O'Connor, gunman and killer, who had been lead to the death cell in the Cook county jail to await hanging hext .Thursday morning, for, the killing ,oJL a. pa ncenian. Instead was today leading a combined force of 5,000 police men and deputies merry chase after his sensational escape from the county ja!Q here yesterday. Four jail guards weTe overpow ered by O'Connor and four other prisoners but O'Connor's reputa tion as a killed suffered when he failed to use a revolver which had been smuggled to him. The jail breaking was charac terized by Chief of Police Fitz simmons as a frame up between O'Connor and the jail officer and the chief ordered his men to bring in O'Connor dead or alive. ' ONLY HEARD WHAT WATSON SAID HE SAW (Br Tha Aaaaclata Praaa) Savannah, Ga., Dec; 13. A Y chancellor of Savannah who was in France attached to Persing's headquarters as a field clerk and who was named by Senator Wat son as one who had seen a man de serted in the field to die after be ing wounded during a charge says he did not see the incident but was told it happened. PUTS ONE OVER ON DEMOCRATS Raleigh, Dec. 13 The real joke of the special session became known todav when it wm Isarnivt that the general assembly had ap pointed a republican, WhHtshire Griffith, as treasurer of Henderson county. . me Din was introduced by Representative Clark, himself a republican, and it was entitled. "An Act to Separate the Office of Tax Collector and Treasurer of Henderson County." Democratic legislators, not dreaming a bill with such a harm less looking title could have so much explosive material in it, let it go through without scrutiny. After it passed both houses, or, in fact when it was Jisted by the sec retary of State's office tmhiv. it was found the bill had provided ior tne creation or a treasurers office and the appointment of Mr. Griffith for a period of three years, or until the next regular election, when he will be voted upon by the people. U-BOAT CONVICT GONE Hamburg, Ger., Dec. 13. Search has been started for the U-Boat Officer Boldt, who escaped while serving a four-year term for sinking the Lladovery Castle, British hospital ship. WON'T HAVE TO WORK Riga, Dec. 13 Jt has just peen learned here that a decree for the abolition of compulsory labor in Russia has been brought up before the Council of the Peoples' Com missaries. - Sculpture by means of a special photographic apartua is a recent British invention. . YES, SHE SMOKES You'd hardly think that this worker with fork over her shoulder and cigaret in her hand is a pres ident's wife. She's the wife of Kalenin, president of Russia. , U.S. LAKES HAND Employes Do Better Work On Days That They Have Not Quarrelled With Other Half. San FTancisco, Calif Do 13 Uncle Sam wants hi married em ployes to be,haopy at. honie sof iney can. ue enicieni-m iimr wim and, to accomplish this result in ne; or his San Francisco offices, has decided to take the role of peacemaker and help , patch up domestic trouble. . The new rule, said to be the most remarkable of its kind ever put into effect In any federal of fice in the United States, was an nounced recently to the 400 mar ried men and women employes of the office of the San Francisco col lector of customs by W. B. Hamil ton, who recently became head of the otttce. . Portions of Mr. Hamilton's talk follow: "A married man or a married woman anust be happy while they are at work or they will not do their work well. "A married man cannot reach full efficiency in his work if he comes to the office after a fight with his wife. "A married woman a woman being more tempermental than a man isnt any good aH day long if she quarreled with her husband at breakfast. "It is not alone' a humanitarian duty, it is a service to the govern ment, if by patching up troubles at home, I can make the 400 mar ried folks in the" United States Customs Service all happyl They will work more efficiently. Before Mr. Hamilton made his talk he held an hour's conference with one of his male employes and the employe's wife, who had been in trouble at home. A doctor and a minister of the i gospel -were present at, the .conference. Fol lowing the interview the married man went whistling back to his work and the wife went home smiling. ; . DISCUSS REDUCTION OF COTTON ACREAGE (Br Tha Aaaaciatad Praaa) Memphis, Dec. 13. Addresses by Frank O. Lowden, former gover nor of Illinois, and Nathan Adams of Dallas, Texas, and consideration of a resolution proposing restric tion of the cotton acreage next year to the same proportions plant ed in cotton this year made up the program of the final session of to day's conference of Southern abnk ers, merchants and farmers which met here yesterday to devise plans for cotton acreage limitation and crop diversification. SOLDIER COMPENSATION BE ARRANGED SOON IB Tha Aaaaciatad Praaa Indianapolis, Dec. 13. Enact ment of - the veterans adjusted compensation bill will be com pleted by congress in 30 days, ac cording to information given Han ford MacNider, national comman der of the American Legion, by Senator McCumber, author of the bill in the senate, and Representa tive Fordney, of Michigan. Mr. MacNider wired thir information today to Lemuel Bowles, national adjutant of the legion. QUADRUPLE PACT SIGHED BY FOUR BIG 1 I United States Signs Pro viding the Yap Treaty is Passed Satisfactorily. Washington, Dec. 13. .The new quadrangle treaty to preserve peace in the Pacific was signed this morning by the plenipotentiaries of the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan. The signatures were affirmed in the ante room of the se;retary of state. There wai no formal cere mony and no one was present ex crpt the plenipotentiaries, ,',their secretaries and advisers. ; ...!..'' The American delegates signed first under an alphabetic arrange ment. The powers put their names to the document and affixed -the seals a few minutes after 11 o'clock. The approval of the United State3 was given on a written con dition providing that the American-Japanese treaty regarding Yaj must be concluded before the' four power agreement is binding. Except for the reservatirn,i which are expected to be erased in n few days by signature of' the Yap treaty the new Pacific agree ment requires only parliamentary ratification by the various govern-, ments to make it effective."1 The American official copy of the" docu ment now goes to ths Whitt House for transmission by Presi dent Harding to the senate. Tht new pact, it is generallo believed today, will be coni'rmsd by the senate in snort time. Before the signing the Ameri can reservations regarding Yap were handed to the Japanese, in English and agreed to by them.,;. Domestic Questions Excepted " : Washington, De;. 13. (By. the Associated Press.) The American reservations attached to the four power treaty when signed today contained a provision that domes tic questions of the various pow ers will not be considered in the scope of the treaty. The reserva tion is in two parts the first of which declares the. treaty shall in no way be .binding as regards the policy of the United States to ward mandated islands in the Pacific. American Delegates to Meet. Washington, Dec 13. A meet ing, pf the . American arms dele gates has- been:.:: called for. 2:" "i o'clock this afternoon, presumably for- consideration of a naval pro sTm. 7 ' , V Lafollette Attack Pact Washington, Dec. 13. Declaring the new four-power Pacific treaty had "all of the iniquities of ,th? league of nations with none of . the virtues claimed, for the document," Senator Lafollette, Republican, of Wisconsin, today announced in, a formal statement that he was pre pared to "do all in my power td prevent ratification." . ' ,;, SUGAR FOR EXPORT" - (By Tha Aaaadatcd Prcaa) - Washington, Dec. 13.t A meas ure has been prepared for introduc tion in congress, with administra tion approval, to allow tha refine ment of 500,000 tons of Cuban sugar in bond in the United States refineries for shipment to export without the payment of tariff duties. " : .''"'" AUTO DERAILS TRAIN (Br Tha Aaaaciatad Prcail ? Red Springs, Dec. 13. An en gine and two cars were demiUd near here yesterday, when Atlantic Coast Line passenger tra;n No. 61 struck an automobile at a railway crossing, killing almost ; instantly the driver, Aimer G ilehrist, , of Wagram. Fireman, Mangin was slightly injured.' 'Although the passengers were badly shaken, up none were . reported injured. ( ? MORSE'S BOND $50,009 - (By Tha AancisUd Prcaa'i - '' " Washington, Dec. 13. Chas. W, Morse, ; New York shipbuilder, whose transactions with the .ship ping board are under federal in vestigationwas arraigned bafore United States Commissioner Jsaach R Hitt today on a warrant charg ing conspiracy to defraud the Uni ted States, The warrant was serv ed on Mr. Morse in Commissioner Hitt's office by United . States Deputy Marshal Fields. Morse plead not guilty and waived a hearing and furnished bond fji, the sum of $50,000 for his appearance before the grand jury. . .""? UNIVERSITY IN DANGER Vienna, Dec. 13. The rector of Vienna university has appealed to the public for funds to maintain activities. Lack of funds, he' says, is threatening the life of the uni versity. . WED BROTHER'S WIDOWS London, Dec- J3. Since the passing, tost July, of the law lejr aliziner .marriasre between a man and his brother's widow, it is esti mated more than 6000 person.! have been wed under it. 12-CENT EGG COMING Bedord, Eng- Dee. 13. 'Mar!, -I men here predict the price of er will rise to 12 cents each i ' Christmas. It is due to anoV -egg shortage, they say.- AY
Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, N.C.)
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