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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN THE WEATHER North and iouth Carolina Kiln Thursday; colder In xtrm west portion; Increasing aaat ahlfttng to touth wind. i A PAGES I Z TODAY "DEDICATED TO THE UP-BUILDING OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA- ESTABLISHED 1868. ASHEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2, 1922. PRICE HVE CENTS IV,'. 31 Plan Construction Of Big Dam To Restore Fine Toxaway Lake 4 IIIIU PLEASED Ai THE POSSIBILITIES Dam Will Cost Between $125,000 and $150,000, It Is Stated. WILL ALSODEVELOP ENTIRE COUNTRY Property Is Owned by Pittsburgh Men, Who Will Rebuild. Erection of a concrete dam to re store lake Toxaway will be started between March 1 and April 1, ac cording to present plans, it wag an nounced yesterday by C. E. Orr, representative of the owners. The former dan? which was of dirt, was destroyed about 8o days! after the flood of 1)18 and no attempt has since been made to restore tho lake. Plana are being Completed by Charles E. Waddell, engineer, and call for a dam of the same shape as the Marshall dam of the North Carolina Electrical Power oom pany. 100 feet wide,! S 5 feet high, 60 feet at the base and ten feet at the top. Between i $125,000 and $150,000 will be spent in erecting the dam U was said yesterday, The highway from the Hender son to Jaokaon county lines will pass the resort and it Is now being plained to have the road cross the Toxaway river over the dam to be constructed, building a concrete bridge. Engineers Interested in the pro ject are enthusiastic over the waterpower possibilities in the vi cinity Of Toxaway and it is de clared that provisions will be made In the new dam for taking water out for power purposes. A pipe will be inserted and the sum total of Toxaway and Horsepasture rivers, Indian and Bearwallow creeks, will be 40,000 horsepower. It is declared that at least $4,000. 000 will be required to develop the power project, which would be. the largest single producing plant in ,the Carolina!. There Is a fall, of 1.900 feet In a aietance or nve lViiles. --- - " FNCINF f FIIXINfS T.AKK CAN I 1 BE STARTED SHORTLY V- Approxlmatelysix months will be a ... i uj a . nAriinUta tm Tnvfl urn V dam, it was stated, but water can be diverted Into the lake as soon as a small section of the dam Is completed. The area of the lake will be one square mile and the surface will fee 2,998 feet ahove sea level. The Marshall dam, after which the new Toxaway project will be shaped was one of the only dams in this section to withstand the heavy floods Of 1916. Announcement of the rebuilding "f the Toxaway lake has been hailed with Interest In Western North Carolina and It Is asserted that at one time the resort was one of the most attractive In the'Land of the Sky. The fishing and boat ing on the lake was famed In all n u ts of the south and many north ern people visited the hotel each summer. it is hoped to have the resort in it former magniflcance by July 1. it was said and If the present plans nre carried out on time, the formal opening will be In time for the summer business. The hotel which at present Is practically ready for occupancy, with slight renovations and Improvements, will be readv 'or the formal opening, It was said nd the nine-hole golf course, boat houses and other features wilt also ho opened to the publlo during the fomlng summer. TOXAWAY 18 TOWER rOR OBSERVING COUNTRY lake Toxaway Is located on a i ugged plateau, almost at the sum mit of the mountains and is the western terminus of tha Transyl vdnia division of the Southern rail- a - . . . . ..Iftinfftfl t iiisa. jvipunv ibhwmi linear the lake. Is an excellent view point of nature S wonaenana. r Its summit the observer takes tn the Piedmont plateau, with more than a hundred peaks vlsrble, while in the far distance are the rugged, Di'tursque outlines of the Smoky mountains of Tennessee; part In the upbuilding ot the Land Tlie resort played an important of the Sky as a playground and it Is certain to again corns Into its own, officials say. E. H. Jennings and R. H. Jennings,' jr., of Pitts burgh, are owners of the prop erty and are carrying out the project for rebuilding the lake and opening the resort. tTNF.RAL SERVICE IS - HELD FOR MISS DORTCH WINCHESTER. Vs.." Feb. 1 "uneral services were held - this rternoon - in Grace j Episcopal church, at Berrrville. over, tho body of Miss Helen DortcJv ov ernment employe; who was killed last Saturday night in the Knicker bocker theater disaster in Wash ington. The body was brought last night from Berryville by her brother, Tyson Dortch, govern ment tax attorney, of New York and her sister, Miss Sellna Dortch, of Berryville, who went to Wash ington on receipt of news of her sister's death. Miss Dortch leaves Hso her mother, Mrs. Mattle Wil liams Dortch and another brothef. Dr. Allen W. Dortch, of Arkansas City, Kas. FOCR NATIVES KILLED CAIjCUTTA. Feb. 1. (By the As sociated Press) Four native were killed and six wounded by the po lice who fired on a crowd which had declined to disperse near I'ab da Benrsl. Jininrv ST. Tim trou- ! had its origin in the errest l Parents KillTheir Children In Order To Eat In Russia GENEVA.. Feb. 1. -(By The As sociated Tress) Famine has now reached such a terrible degree in the Orenburg dixtrlct of llufsia that people are killing each other and parents are eating their chil dren, says a telegram received hero today from a representative in Moscow cf Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, head of the international commit tee of Russian relief. The representative's telegram addressed to the Geneva bureau of the- international committee was based upon Information received from a Russian representative at tached to the American relief ad ministration at Orenburg. The following authentic ex amples, says the telegram, occurred in the village of Tullakova; A man named Tumvatulla Ilal lin, ate the corpse of his brother. A woman named Housna, ate two of her children, and a man named Absam, devoured his daughter. Other cases of cannibalism were reported from the district of Corny near Orenburg, whither people ar rived on foot, having walked 200 to 250 versts in order 'to obtain American aid. (A verst is .66 of a mile). , SECTION HIT BY 5 President anct-Frivate Sec retary Walk Through Wrecked District. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. (By the Associated Tress.) President Harding went out for himself ear ly this evening and got a first hand view of the slush-bound capital. Having read newspaper descrip tions of the aftermath of the blix xard, the President decided to take some exercise and see for himself. So, accompanied by Secretary Christian, he slipped away from the White House Just before 6 o'clock and headed for the "F" Lstreet shopping district, which Is to Washington hat Fifth avenue is to New York . and Michigan boulevard la to Chicago. Thousands of government clerks, Other home-goers and late shop pers were wallowing almost help lessly in the sea of slush or gin gerly picking their way Over the dirty, ice-covered pavements as they Jostled along or scrambled to get aboard the scarce and over burdened trolley cars. Flappers with flopping goloshes, winter girls. In knickers and young blades who inhabit the capital's late afternoon promenade street rubbed elbows with the President sa he trudged along some of them without recognizing him. i in fact, the President voyaged through the slush almost a la Haroun Al-Raschlld and surveyed the dirty snow banks still piled neck high In the busy streets three days after the snow stopped fall ing; waded through water' and slush ankle deep in the chuck holes in the pavements;' saw doz ens of stalled motor cars and trucks and the small army of workmen struggling with the mess. WANTS QUICK ACTION Mr. Harding ventured as far down as the patent office, with the secret service men puffing be hind, and then turned homeward to dinner, going over practically the same route. Common report has had it that the President was much interested in the plaint of capital citizens that the work "of clearing up tno re mains of the bllward is going slowly and he may have gone forth to see for himself. At the White House it was said he wanted ft little exercise before dinner. HALSEY SCORES SECOND PERFECT ANSWER KKWARK. N. J., Feb. 1. Sam uel Armstrong Halsey, who scored "double A" on the famous Edison questionnaire a year ago, has made another perfect rocord for answering smartly and accurately. In a ceremony at Trinity cathe dral tonight at which Thomas A. Edison's son. Charles, acted as best .man while .becoming his brother- in-law, Halsey orally responded, "I Ho" and "I will" to the inter rogation of Dean Arthur Durper, and never mlsseda syllable. Last year's performance Ulti mately won. Halsoy his present position of personnel manager of the Edison works tonight's s life situation as the husband of Miss Charlotte Woodruff Hawkins, whose slater Is Mrs. Charles Edi son. : , . ... ACCITRE CHANCELLOR WIRTH BREACH OF FAITH , BERLIN. Feb. 1 (By The As soclated Press) The spokesmen for the German people's party are unhesitating In accusing Chancel lor Wlrth of breach of faith in ap pointing Dr. Walter Rathenau as minister for the extension of tne present coalition to the Inclusion of the people's party led by Gustav Btreseman. . . The people's party now charges that It notified Dr. Wlrth that no cabinet appointments should be made until the reconstruction of the government on a four-party eoalltlon basis was effected, inas much as prospective success for the forthcoming compulsory loan taxation law and general repara tion policies were largely depen dent upon the complexion of the new ministry. Meantime the fate of the new ..Hiinn .-ems to be in abeyance , Mwtiuhn.wrat li.rt. the people's par- HARD VIS TS MSMM t t COMMISSIONERS E STATEMENT Henderson Board's Right to Employ Counsel Questioned. WAS IN REGARD TO LEGISLATION Explain Acts of the Board Up to Present Time. . HENDERSONVIIX.B. Feb. 1.-- Legielatlvo proposals involving tho government of Henderson county, made at the last sesston of the general assembly and public dls- cusf'lon of them has led the county commissioners, W. P. Bane, chair man, G. B. Hill and John V. Staton. to issue a statement ad dressed "to The People of Hen derson county." " The commissioners have ulaced their statement in the hands of editors of the local newspapers ai.d The Hendersonvilln Times will this week carry it in full. Tart of the statement Is as follows: To the Peoplo of Henderson county: "The allowance and payment out of public funds of the legal expenses incurred in opposing cer tain proposals of local legislation ?t the recent session of the gen eral assembly is being assailed in certain quarters as an unauthor ised and wrongful act on the part of the undersigned board of county commissioners; and this upon no less an authority than the opinion to that openly avowed by Jamei j. F.ritt, of counsel for A. E. Hud- gns in the pending controversy over ths accounts and settlements of said Hudgens as tax collector and treasurer of Henderson county. VOLICY OF BOARD "Hitherto It has been the settled poiicy of this board and of Its legal advisers to pass without no tice all and singular the multitude of misleading reports and injurious innuendoes with which an over zealous propaganda has bombard ed public opinion, to the studied prejudice of our every endeavor to secure a correct and orderly accounting for public funds and somtthlng like business efficiency in the administration of the public affairs of Henderson county. We have been content to bide our time, so that ultimately misrepresenta tion might be answered by achieved results. But such con siderations hardly sutRce when the legality of our official acts is pub licly questioned by a lawyer and publicist of the rank of Mr, Britt, notwithstanding his position as the retained counsel at Mr. Hudgens necessarily impresses his 'Opinion with an aspect of hostile partisan ship. 'Whatever "our confidence ill the legality and propriety of our conduct; ws recognize ths opinion of Mr. Britt as imposing upon us an inescapable obligation forth with to give ths fullest publicity to all the facta, to the end tbat the action thus impugned may be Intelligently and conscientiously Judged by the people whose ser vants we are. ...;-- ,v , "There can be ni correct under standing of tiie -questions , involved without a statement of the anteced ent facts Which led up to the legis lative proposals which the board of commissioners successfully opposed. As bearing upon the merits of the proposed road bill, which-is herein after set out in full, we state the material facts, as follows: REFERENCE TO ROAD BONDS "A few months after it was in ducted into office, this board, after much urging, made sale at par to lo cal banks of JMO.000 In road bonds, and for reasons which the public very well understands, the proceeds of that sale were carried on deposit until needed, in equal amounts, without REGARD POSITION Interest, in this purchasing banks, namely, tbe First Bank and Trust company and tihe Citlsens' National bank. This sale was made and the transaction carried through upon the faith of existing laws, to-wit: (1) the law which gave to the uonularly elected board of commissioner full control of the money realized by the sails of said bonds and which pro vided that It couM only be paid out upon the orders of said board, and (!) tihe law which gave all matters of the construction and Improvement of the publlo roads of the county Into tihe control and management of a board of three road trustees, namely, the chairman of the Kard of county commissioners, as an ex-officlo mem ber, and two others to be appointed by said board; so that full control both of the bond money and of ths results to be achieved by Its expen diture waaslodced In the local popu larly elected government of Hender son county. Wblle approximately half a million dollars of this bond money was still held on deposit without Interest in tihe banks named, the president of the First National Bank and Trust company. In his capacity as the rep resentative of Henderson county In the state legislature, introduced in the house of representatives a bill which was understood to have the full support and approval of the vice president of said bank, in his ca pacity as the senator from said coun ty. Here the statement included a copy of the house bill, which would have created m hlghrwsy commission composed of J. O. Bell. C. K. Brooks, Frank Staton, F. S. Wetmur and Harry M. Roberts, whose term of office would have not emlred until March 1, 1S2S, The Wll orovlded for "ulttmate control ana supervision of all the other road officers In said county." , The statement of the commissioners continues: TRUSTEES OF ROADS t "As to the personnel of the board of road trustees proposed to be cre ated and appointed by said hill. It will be noted that J. O. Bell Is a di rector of the First Bank and Trust company, that Frank Staton is a brother of a director who is also vice- resident of the same bank, that F. . Wetmur 'o Is a director of said First Bank and Trust company, and that C. E. Brooks Is a director, and active vk--preldent of the Citlsens' National bank, leaving only one non bank member, Harry M. Roberta. And it will be noted further that said board was authorized Itself to fill such vacancies as might occur in its own body, and that at ths expiration of the terms of office of the mem bers of said board their successors should be appointed' by- the legisla ture. It will thus be seen that the most careful provision was made to set aside and perpetually disallow any manner of control of said half mil lion dollar road fund or of the gen eral road affairs of Henderson county by the voters or by the locally elect ed officers of said county. "In connection with the road bill above set out. bank president and representative Clarke Introduced an other bHl which likewise wes under stood to have ths full support and approval of bank president and Sen ator Oates. - . This bill, It Is said, planed ths fi nancial matters of the county In ab solute control of the finance board. i f rrsfrrsrs .rf-rrJ Hands Out Some Good Treatment ToTfnsOldBird NEW YORK Feb. 1 Magis trate Douran was asked today to decide whether it was too cold yesterday for a cockatoo to be out on the streets, but he did not comply. He merely suspen ded sentence on a fortune teller who owned the cockatoo, which the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals submitted should have been kent indoors in such weather as New York is having. The cockatoo who lifts cards from a box In assisting his mas ter to tell fortunes behaved nice ly In court. He was so pleased wRh the decision that he reachod down and gave tho boss a love peck. FIRE DESTROYS JEWELRY STORE IN QUEEN CITY Loss Is Roughly Estimat ed at $100,000 Prob bly More, Said. BANK BUILDINGS ALSO DAMAGED Not a Spectacular Blaze, But One Which Caused a Hard Fight. CHARLOTTE, N C, Feb. 1. Fire tonight gutted the store of Garibaldi and Br tins, one of the largest jewelry concerns In the Carolinas. and spread to the store of John S. Blake drug company, the Security Savings bank and the Brown Betty tea room and cafe teria, in the same block and re sulted In much water damage to the latter places. The total loss was roughly esti mated from 1100,000 upward when the Are Was finally gotten under control shortly after midnight. Most of the diamonds, watches and jewelry were In the big Are vault and was not believed to have been damaged. A large stock of heavier goods, silverware, etc., will run the loss up by many thousands of dollars In addition to the de struction of the costly furniture and fixtures. While, the fire was not spectac ular, It required several hours of strenuous efforts on the part of the entire fire fighting fojrce of the city to stop it. MosKalfcihe first hour was devoted to effBHs to de termine ths exact lrcatlon. Finally the firs, was located tn the base Went of the Jewelry store, used ss a 'coal storage room, which was a veritable furnace. Soon the flames ate their way up through ths floor destroying the furnishings and ruining much of tha stock and fin ally breaking through tho second and third floors sjid the roof. The two upper floors were used as offices by professional men. The actual firs damage to the other places was slight, the chief damage being effected by streams of water. ALTY DEAL OF C IS E W. W. Guy Buys 1,275 Feet on Biltmore Ave nueConsideration Sale of 1J a nV one-half acres of land with a frontage on Biltmore avenue of 1.276 feet ami known as the holdings of ths Appalachian Realty company was affected yes terday when papers were filed in the office of the register of deeds transferring the property from the Appalachian Realty company, of whtch George Stephens is presi dent, to W. W. Guy of Marion. Sale of the two tracts in the vil lage of Biltmore which involved 180.000, according to the revenue stamps on the two deeds, marks one of ths important real estate sales of the new year. One of the tracts is on the west side of Biltmore avenue and has a frontage of J25 feet. The other tract is on tho east side of Bilt more avenue and has a frontage of about HO feet, making a total frontage on Birtmore avenue of ap proximately 1,275 feet. tt is understood Mr. Guy has some associates In ths purchase of the property and that they have in mind later development of it for commercial purposes. Mr. Guy is president and general manager of ths Blanton Grocery company, whit operates wholesale grocery houses at Shelby. Marion and Sprues Pins, and is known as one of ths most successful and enter prising business men in Western North Carolina. : ' The purchase includes all of the holdings of the Appalachian Real ty company, north of ths Swanna noa river, and is well located with reference to commercial use. WILLIAMS LEAVES TO SEOIN SENTENCE ATLANTA, Feb. 1. John S. Wil liams of Jasper county convicted of ths murder of one of a dosen negro farm hands alleged to have been kill ed to hide peonage, left here today for Mllledgeville to start serving bis life sentence on the stale farm. In a written ' statement to the public given out at the county Jail here Williams reiterated his claim of n eieencs and .expressed hops that sooner or later '''the great wrong done me will be righted." , . , POSTMASTER GENERAL, GOES TO FLORIDA WASHINGTON, Keb, 1. Postmaster-General Hays will spend the next 10 days at Miami, Fla., In an effort to regain his health which has been poor for several weeks as a result of a cold and the railroad wreck tn which he was Involved, It was said today at the postoffice department. Mr. Hays was enrouts today to the NATURE MADE w DNESDAY norma city. IDS ROVED L BY Former Director General McAdoo Appears Be fore Committee. UNIFICATION WAS A WISE MOVEMENT Carriers Did Great Busi ness During Year of 1920. WASHINGTON. Feb. 1. The raHnmds of the country were in hitter physical condition at the end of the period of federal con tiol than they had been when taken over during the war, Wil li! m G. McAdoo, former secretary cf the treasury and war-time di-veclor-general of railroads todny told the senate Interstate com merce committeo in giving an ac counting of his guardianship of the properties during. 1918. Mr. Mc Adoo will continue his statement tt morrow. Mr. McAdoo contended railroad label- had been loyal, remaining at Its post when more lucrative em plovmpnt was offered in other in dustries and that wage Increases made while ho was director-gen-crul were not excessive but sub sequently were further increased. The railroads when turned back to their owners, he declared, with 4.00C more locomotives, 28,815 more freight cars and 1.05.1 more passenger cars than they had pos sessed at the beginning of federal ccntrol. "were In cendltlon to meet the heaviest traffic demands In their hiBtory." - ' The credit of the railroads' was destroyed before the war." Mr. McAdoo told the committee, quot ing statements by railroad execu tives on the subject. The railroad executives, he added, did not pro duce under' federal control the re sults as to revenue and operation they had brought about prior to that time. DID AS 1UEY CHOSE The railroads were permitted to continue for four months after federal control was established with little Interference in the wav of management, said Mr. McAdoo, hut the regional reorganization, h" contended, was necessary In May, 1918, when he- "became convinced thst the managements of the rail roads by the railroad corporations could not produce desired results. 1'nifieatlon of the rSilroads, the former director continued, saved $118,000,000 in operating expenses in 1S18. Throughout federal con trol, experienced railroad I execu tives were In charge of th prop erties under his direction he said, denying "the - deliberate attempts made to create the Impression that I made Immediate drastic changes In the management of the rail roads and disregarding the experi ence and ability of the able rail mad men of the country, attempt ed to run the railroads upon new and untried theories of my own.'' WANTED TO HELP ROADS Replying to a question by Sena tor Fernald, . republican, Maine, Mr. McAdoo declared he did nut advocate pooling of business by the railroads under private control but favored assisting the roads in competing for traffic. If the railroads were in "de plorable conditions" when returned to the corporations March 1, 1920, and If their equipment was in the "worst condition ever known," Mr. McAdoo asked how was it possible thai as stated In the testimony of their executives they handled "the largest volume of traffic" in thetr hlstcry, Performance of this "greatest task" he added, was possible be cause "during the period of fed eral control Si, III, 840,291 was ex pended in Improvements, additions, betterments and equipment which mads the railroad properties an in finitely better transportation ma chine than on January 1. 191? when the government took pos session." - Considerable time was given by Mr. McAdoo during the afternoon session to a discussion of railroad wage conditions. He said that in his opinion railroad labor was grossly under-paid at the time the government took control and there were many grave abuses in the matter of working conditions. It was necessary, he continued, to fix tales of psy for railroad employes that would enable the railroads o command their share of the coun try's labor so that this basic neces sity of ths war could function, at the required point GEORGIA COURT MAKES A NEW KUIDfG ATLANTA. Ga.. Feb. 1. Fos session of liquor in tha pocket of a man who Is .driving an automobile does not Justify confiscation of the machine under tha stats law which provides for sunh action when the automobile Is "used for transpor tation" of liquor, the eGorgia court of appeals held today, Ths case came un on an anneal of Carl Tutton of Gwinnett county, who asserted lis was taking a quart of whiskey to his sick wife snd who fought confiscation ot the ma chine ordered by tha lower state courts. INFLUENZA BECOMING SOMEWHAT. SERIOUS NEW YORK, Feb. 1. -The nurses' advisory council, organized during ths influenza epidemic of Kit, was called together by Health Commissioner Copeland today to combat ths present outbreak of ths disease, which today Increased by 1,012 cases with 20 deaths. Dr. Copeland announced -that 6 addi tional inspectors and nurses have been appointed by the board of health to enlarge facilities for cop ing with ths disease. OVERRULE MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL PEAKE CASE KNOXVILftyB. Tenn., Feb. 1. Mo tion for a new trial In Uie case of J. T. Peake, eharaed with the mur der of H. B. AiNburn, December I. last, In W4nston-alern, N. C was overruled here today by Judge A. R. Nelson and Peake was allowed an snupeal for a writ of certiorari and supersedeas from the court of civil appeals for a review of his cast by that court. A direct anneal wu not allewsd bv DURING GOVERNMENT Po wers Agree On Limitation Naval A rmaments And Reach Decision As To Shantung America Retains Total Of 18 Ships Under The Terms Of Five-Power Arms Treaty WASHINGTON. Veb. 1. The draft tretity for limitation of naval armament submitted today to the plenary session of the Washington conference aiU'uins only the ful lowing preiainbln In explanation of the purposes of the five contract ing governments in reaching the agreements set forth: "Pairing to contribute to the rilNlntmmnee of the general peace, and to reduce the burdens of com petition in armament; "Have resolved that, with a view to accomplishing theso purposes to conclude a treaty to limit their re spective musil armament and to that end 1it appointed as their plenlpotenl laris ." The names of tho delegates of the powers follow. The trea'tv is divided into three chapters. (Hispter one contains the general language of the agree ments, covered in 20 separate arti cles, Charter two contains the detail ed, spool He agreements on naval matters, many of them In compli cated tabular form which amplify and comploto the meaning of tho general agreements of chapter one. Chapter three is devoted to "mis cellaneous provisions" and contains four additional articles of the treaty. -haitPr one ii headed: AGHKEMENT IN CHAPTER ONE "Oonnral provisions relating to the limitation of naval armament." Article one thereunder la merely the agreement to limit naval arma ment as provided In ths treaty. Article two provides that the contracting powers may retain re spectively capital ships specified in part one. chapter two. The ships thus named In part one are as fol lows: , UNITED STATES Maryland, California, Tennessee, Idaho, New Mexico, Mississippi, Arl tona, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Neva da, New York, Texas. Arkansas, Wyoming, Florida, Utah, North Dakota, Delaware; total tonnage 600,. 50, GREAT BRITAIN Royal Moveretgn, Royal Oak, Re venge, Resolutloe, Ramlllles, Malaya, Valient, Harhain, Queen Fllliabeth, Warsplte, Benbow, Emperor of India, iron. Duke, Marlborough, Hood, Ke newn. Hepulae, Tiger., Thunderer, S GAINED SIGNAL VICTORY IN THE SENATE Due to His Efforts Sev eral Changes Made In Refunding Debt Bill. iniamK tnais III ISHSTtLtl Cltulft , tin tt. u. a, irrir WASH UNO TON. Feb. ena. tor Simmons won several signal victories on the find on the refund ing bill. The measure ss tt passed, contains all trio limitations upon ths powers of the secretary and commission proposed in the pro viso and amendment offered In ths committee by Senator Simmons ex cept that Which limits the power ot the secretary with reference to ths extension of time of payment of in terest and adjusting the method of payment. Ths senator's amendment in the committee provided in general terms that nothing In bill should be construed ss giving the com rnlmrion power to extend the time of payment nf principal and inter est beyond 1947 or to cancel any part of the principal or interest or to ex-change the bonds of one gov ernment for those of another. These several propositions wore agreed to and were written in the senate bill but ths limitation pro posed in his amendment denying the commission unlimited power to extend the time of payment of In terest without the consent of con gress was not and the bill as pass ed a-tvss the onrnmisnlon unlimited newer with respect to the c.xten-' stop and adjustment ot methods of payment. The bill as originally reoorted by the senate committee Imposed no limitations whatsoever upon ths powers of the commission but sraws it carle blano to make such settle ment as It saw fit. The only limi tations are those that Senator Sim mons fought so doggedly for In the committee and Which were finally accepted and reoorted to the sen ate. Of all the limitations proposed by Senator Simmons In his original proviso he and his detnocratiu col leagues regarded the one relating to the interest the most Important snd It is the one the secretary of the treasury Is uncompromlsodly fighting. CANADIAN SERGEANT RUCOVWtS MEMORY OTTAWA. Feb. 1. Quartemws ter Sergeant William Salt, of the Canadian forestry corps reported todav at dominion headquarters of the great war veterans association with a story of having had his memory beaten ut of him in 1919 snd knocfcCri ek two years later. Ball said hs had been beaten and robbed La Bordeaux In April, 181. and that hs had lost all rec ollection of his Canadian home. Later he Joined ths Spanish for eign legion and cVaimed recently to have recovered his memory af ter an officer had hit him on the head with a rifle In a Jail In Rota, Morocco, : . Ball was posted as a deserter after his disapweara nc and the veterans association has been con ducting a search for him in behalf of his wife, who lives in Port lions, SIMMON King fleorss V. AJax, Centcurian; total limnago. MO.ttiO, FRANCE FlrctHgne; I,orrslne, Trnvence. Paris France, Joan Hart. 1'ourhet, Diderot, Voltaire: total tonnage 2ai,17. ITALY Andrea Dorla, f'alo Dulllo, Conte dl Csvour. Uulllo Osare, lnnardo da Vinci, mute Allghlerl, Rome, Napolt, Vlltorlo Tminanuelle, Rrglna Elcnca: tnial tonnage 182,800. JAPAN HOLDS MUTSU Mutsu, Nsgato. lfniigla. Ise, Tama ahlro, Fu-so, Klrlshlms, Harautia. Hlyel, Kongo; total tonnage 301,830. Article two then provides that on the coming Into force of the treaty all other capital ships "built or build ing" by the five powers shall be dis posed of as prescribed In chapter two, part two, the reference being to the extensive "rules for scrapping vessels of war," carried In the part two men tioned. In addition to the specified capital ships, it Is provided that "the tlnlted States may complete and retain two ships of the West Virginia class now under-construrtlon" and on their com pletion disposed of the North Dakota and Delaware under the scrapping rules, while Great Britain may con- struct two new capital ships not to exceed 35,000 tons standard displace ment each and dispose of the Thun derer, King Ueorge V, AJax and Cen turian under the scrsDDlng rules. Article three is the agreement e-t the powers to build or acquire no new capital ships except as replace ment tonnage. Article four Is the naval ratio agree ment allowing tonnage aggregates for capital ship replacement 'as follows: United (Hates 626.000 tons; British empire 825,000 tons; France, 1BT.00S tons; Italy 178.000 tons! Japan 815,000 tons, which aggregatea ths powers agree not to exceed. Article five Axes a limit of 25,000 tons snd article six a limit of IS Inches on guns carried by newly con structed ships, TOTAL TONNAGE FIXED Article seven fixes the total ton nage of aircraft carriers at: United Htate 135.000; British empire 185,900; France 80,000; Italy 80,000; Japan 8t, 000 and article sight cover replace ments. Article nine fixes a limit of 27,000 tons for this class of ships except that each power may construct two car riers' of a maximum of 13.000 ton each, or may convert war craft other Wise to be swapped Into such carriers. -H'hiiwh es rn wu RE D LT OF TARRIFF BILL Experts Confer With Fi nance Coinmittee Mem bers Wednesday. WASHINGTON. Feb. t. Half dosen or mors experts discussed the various tariff valuation plant for ssveral hours today before re publican members of ths senate finance committee, but at ths finish sentiment among the senators ap parently was no nearer crystaHs. tlon than it before. Some com mitteemen I. thought a decision might b reached, within a few days, but others thought, it would be put off for a week or more un til consideration of aoeclflo rates in the bill had been concluded. The discussion today, whicb was behind closed doors, was said to have covered ths whole range of plans suggested. Including that in the Fordney 1111 Which endorsod In a memorial adopted by ths Na tional Aseoolaitlon of Manufactur ers in convention here yesterday snd today presented to the ma jority committeemen bv J. L, Ed gerton. of Nashville, Tenn., presi dent of the association. Ths experts still srs divided a between tbe several proposal and some senators said that after list ening to thetr statements they wers If anything, less determined as to Which plan Should be aaoptea. The majority members expected to get through with the .specific rates in a short time. They have been converting, ad valorsm duties Into soectflo rates wherever possi ble with a view to making more .1 nmlnlHlrtitlnn nf the laiW and some estimated that fifteen per cent of the as valorem rates naa been so converted, ItlO MT1T KTARTK.D i AGAINST TEXAS COMPANV ' NEW YOftK, Feb 1. Tho Texas Coast Development company be gan suit in tho state supreme court today against the Texas company, seeking Judgment of upwards of 125,000,000 In a transaction involv ing snl and sulphur properties in Brazora county. Texas, said to be worth 800.000. 000. The complaint, signed by Arthur M. WIckwIre. attorney for the de velopment company, ann support ed by an affidavit by Thomas A. Nevlns. its president charged the Texas company with an "unlawful and fraudulent scheme to obtain Dossesslon .of more than 87,600 acres of land which the court is asked to retransfer and reassign to the tialntiff. The Texas company Is accused of having withheld from the de velopment company knowledge of the discovery ot large suipnur de posits on land that had been leased from It and by so doing, it was al leged, the plaintiff was unable to meet mortgages due, resulting, in foreclosure and the bidding in of the property by ths Texas eom pany. Other allegations refer to the drilling of oil wells on the land, which ths complaint alleges had not been carried out according PUBLICANS LEMMA RESU ES 0 TREAT, DURING NEXT FEW DAYS Hughes Beads the Pact In Respect to Armament -Limitation. OPEN SESSION OF CONFERENCE HELD France Will Treat Witb' China With Regard to . ; Former's Holdings. ( THt iXtOCIdTKD fKBBI) . WA8IUNOTON. Feb. 1 Unlsss ' present plans are changed, the : Washington conference will give ' . lo the world eight treaties, to seven of which the tJnited Btstes will bs a party. This Is the list: Four - power Pacific treaty; signed Peoember 13. Five-power naval ' limitation treaty; ready for signature. Five-power submsrlns ana nel son gas treaty; ready for slgna- ; eii '2 power treaty allocating German Pacific cables; drafting. ' Nlne-ipower treaty on Colnece . tariff; drafting. t American-Japanese trety re garding Vs;ovlrtually seady for , signature. f fJhlnese-Japanes treaty rs- , garding Shantung; Hearing com ' pietion, . . , ' , ' WASHINGTON, Feb. I. (Byths Associated Press.)-Ths Washing ton negotiations for limitation of armament reached their consum mation today when a plenary ses sion of ths arm conference gave definite and publlo approval to the two trsates limiting navies and re stricting the use oC new agencies of warfare. ."".-"iT-. '-: . One of the covenants thus sealed After eleven weeks ot debate es tablishes a fixed ratio of capital hip strength between ths fivs great powers and ths other pledges them against unrestricted submarine warfare. Snd us of poison "gas. Within a day or two the plenipo tentiaries ot ths United States. Great Britain, Japan, Francs and Italy will formally affix their sig natures. At the sam session ths far east ern wing: of ths conference moved forward toward completion of Its tasks by announcing oftioially the terms of ths Shantung settlement, and by giving final approval to nine of 'ths resolutions adopted in committee in regard to Chinese problems. Ths agreement on Shan tung already has been put into a draft treaty between -Japan and China,; and ths other tar eastern settlements are to ba smbodled in at least two general conventions which; will come before the con ference shortly. .;, v : As soon a Japan's Intsntlon to withdraw from Shantung had been definitely stated, ths British an nounced formally tot ths first time that their government was ready to hand back to China tha lease-' hold of Wel-Hal-Wel. Ths French let; it bs known tonight, however, that they expected to treat directly with China over possible retire-, ment from their- lessed territory; at Kwantchow Wan, a decision1 which appeared to becloud the prospect of any general conference agreement regarding ths Chinese leased territories. PROHIBIT ARMS IMPORTATION : Two other conference projects,' one relating to ths Chinese eastern railway and the other to ths prohl bltlon of Importation of arms into China, also encountered serious obstacles when ths committee work? of the delegates was re sumed lets today. The Japanese made some technics! objections to the Chines eastern proposal which, couplf d with Chinese and French opposition to some features, re sulted in appointment of a Japan-. ess-French-Chinese sub-comntlttse to consider a compromise. The Italians and Japanese presented such pertinent reservations to the arms importation resolution that it was virtually decided not to press It for adoption. The five power naval limitation treaty, whose text was made pubtin, for the first time with Its submission i to today's plsnarjr session, contained no surprises snd was approved by the conference without general discussion. Its terms, which had been completely forecast by published accounts et the negotiations, provided for a (-6-8-. 1S l. capital ship ratio for ths United States. Great Urttaln, Japan, France snd Italy, respectively, imposs various restrictions on ths sise and armament of other types ef warcraft, and esiab- Hah a Mortifications "status quo" In the PrUHc, " OUTLAW SUBMARINES III the separata submarine and pois on gas treaty an attempt is mads tn outlaw submarines as commerce de stroyers and to prohibit chemical warfare altogether. The language of the convention follows almost exsot ly ths terms of the root resolution sdopted by the armaments commit tee several weeks ago. Secretary Hughes presented the naval limitation treaty to the confer ence, and in a speech of 40 minutes, explained Its provisions and d.v.srvd it preserved without vital change the American limitation proposal laid he fore the opening uieetimr of the con ference by him on November 11. He was followed by Albert Karraut, head of the French delegation, wlo'd! claimed for his country th mllltsr Istio purposes he said had hee:i a . trlbnted to it durlnar the Washington negotiations and then the roil of the :t five power . was called and imsjit- mous approval of the treaty itltiKi nods of the bead all around thu te ' . The submarine and polrcn treaty was read by Ellltu Hont. thor of the proposals en which f " based. The covenant, he J'i Jiyr rest for fulfillment upon the Hue 1 public of the world, which t fln i ; , j to overthrow the predlctUS t ot A "cynical" that the rules , ld ' c J Would bs violated whenevr any j er In future found 'ltsolf vfllt its Is ' against, the wail. The only I speech before ths format vote of . r crovsl was made by Senator B'i 1 sr, for Italy, and voiced general proval ef the two trt !. . It was with even hriffer rttsmi-ilo AFFIX NAM wo non-oo-operator pickets. -. ty has cvoieu. ui court to agreement.
Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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