THE NEWS, CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
[ROUBLE BREWING
THROUGH FRAME
HER PROPOSAL TO BUILD TEN
CAPITAL SHIPS STRIKES THE
CONFERENCE DUMB.
IN DISACCORD WITH THEORY
Strong Inclination in American and
British Circles Not to Take the
Proposition Seriously.
Washington.—Announcement by the
British spokesman that France has
asked before the naval sub-committee
of 15 for authority in agreement with
the other four naval powers to build
ten 35,000-ton capital ships struck the,,
arms conference with stunning force.
The proposal was wholly out of ac
cord with theories on which the naval
confrees have proceeded up to this
time that there was a strong inclina
tion in British and American circles
not to take it seriously. The feeling
was said to rest in part on what Pre
mier Briand said at the second plen
ary session in regard to the American
proposals for naval limitation.
Mr. Briand’s reference to “princi
ples” was construed at the time as
acceptance for France of the four prin
ciples laid down by Mr. Hughes in his
proposals.
Paragraph A of the four principles
stated was as follows.
“The elimination of all capital ship
building programs, either actual or
projected.”
Paragraph B reads:
“That regard should be had to the
existing naval strength of the confer
ring powers.”
In view of these plain statements of
the purpose of the conference, and ap
parent French agreement in those pur
poses, officials of delegations other
than the French have been wholly at a
Joss to account for France’s desire now
to add ten 35,000-ton “post-Jutland”
ships to her navy by 1935.
The proposal was believed in some
quarters to be a trading proposition
to accomplish some other purpose not
clearly discernable except to the
French.
Would Issue Bonds.
Washington.—The Southern railway
asked the interstate commerce com
mission for permission to issue and
sell $30,000,000 in gold bonds to bear
interest at 6 1-2 per cent to mature
April, 1956. The railroad proposes
with the funds thus obtained to pay
$22,588 000 for redemption of out
standing short-term notes, and $2,355,-
000 to extinguish a government loan.
The balance, the application said, will
be held in the treasury of the corpor
ation as reimbursement for capital bet
terment expenditures already made.
Governor’s Picture on Money.
Montgomery, Ala.—Gov. Thomas E.
Kilby, of Alabama, is the first living
American to have his portrait on an
official piece of United States money.
On the Alabama centennial half dol
lar, authorized by act of congress, a
profile likeness of Governor Kilby ap
pears side by side with that of William
W. Bibb, Alabama’s first governor.
Asks Reduction of Rates.
Washington.—Railroad traffic exe^
cutives have been requested by Sec
retary Hoover to reduce freight rates
one dollar a ton on coal from eastern
producing districts to Atlantic ports
in order to allow American producers
to meet increasing competition
Pine May be Sold France.
Memphis, Tenn.—Negotations are
under way for the sale by Southern
pine interests to the French Govern
ment of approximately 240,000,000 feet
of pine lumber, valued at between $7,-
000,000 and $8,000,000, according to an
announcement at a meeting here of
Southern Yellow Pine Producers.
One Killed; Many Wounded.
Cornelia, Ga.—Vernon Grant, deputy
sheriff, and two other members of a
posse were shot, an alleged blockader
was killed and another believed to be
seriously wounded in a battle between
liquor runners and a posse of officers
near View, Habersham county.
23,000 Idle Mine Workers.
Scranton, Pa.—There are 23,000 idle
mine workers in district number one
of the United Mine Workers and un
less the coal business improves
promptly, in the neighborhood of 25,-
000 will be added to this number with
in a few days.
Epidemic of Influenza.
Coblenz.—Many of the American
soldiers are in the hospital suffering
from influenza, which is epidemic.
There are at present 150 cases of the
disease, which is of a moderate type.
Reduced Rates Sustained.
Washington. — Reduced rates on
grain, grain products and hay in trans-
Mississi-ppi territory, which the car
riers recently sought to have suspend
ed for six months, were sustained by
the interstate commerce commission.
Rouse Suceeds Flood.
Washington. — Representative Ar
thur B. Rouse, of Kentucky has been
selected chairman of the democratic
congressional committee to succeed
the late Representative Henry D.
Flood, of Virginia, it was announced.
SENIOR LADD’S PREDICTION 1
Representative Sinclair of North Da
kota Also Cricised the Present
Monetary System.
Washington, — Failure of present
day financial and credit systems to
meet the needs of the people is threat
ening the destruction of the fundamen
tal American industry, agriculture,
Senator Ladd, of North Dakota, de
clared in opening the conference called
by him to seek legislative relief from
the situation. Senator Ladd described
his proposed federal loan bureau as
one method of relief, asserting that
through it the government would re
sume its proper function of issuing
money and of providing credit to all
the people on terms of equality.
Estimating that a loss to “all in
dustrial classes” during the last few
years of 88 billions of dollars, with an
equal loss in purchasing power, had re
sulted from deflated value of farm pro
ducts, he declared that this could be
traced to the “non-functioning of cap
ital” held by a few great corporations.
The federal loan bureau bill pro
posed to advance credits to farmers
on warehouse receipts, on city real es
tate up to 50 per cent of its value, on
farms to 60 per cent and farm im
provements to 40 per cent.
Representative James H. Sinclair, of
North Dakota, also criticised the pres
ent monetary system, declaring the
federal reserve board was “controlled
absolutely by bankers for the benefit
of bankers.”
Fifty Billion Marks.
Warsaw.—Gold and jewels estimat
ed to be worth fifty billion Polish
marks—the Russian Soviet govern
ment’s first payment to Poland under
the treaty of peace signed at Riga on
March 18 last—have arrived here.
Diamonds, rubies and other precious
stones and gold bars filling 100 cases
in all were brought here on a special
train under military escort.
Harding Approves Design.
Washington—President Harding ap
proved the design of the medal which,
under the army bill of June 5, 1920, he
was authorized to present to the City
of Verdun in the name of the Congress
and people of the United States.
Had Plans to Seize Castle.
Copenhagen.—The police have dis
covered plans showing that the home
less unemployed in Copenhagen con
templated seizure of the Christians-
borg castle, which is the King’s offi
cial residence and the meeting place
of the Danish Parliament, intending to
use it as a sleeping place.
Should Be Encouraged.
Pinehurst, N. C.—Dr. Lorenz, Aus
trian surgeon working among the crip
pled children in this country, “should
be helped and encouraged,” declared
Dr. Charles H. Mayo, of Rochester,
Minn., in a statement here.
Naval Ratio is Agreed To.
Washington. — Consideration of the
naval ratio question was understood
to have been completed by the Big
Three of the Washington conference.
.Meeting at the. state department.
Secretary Hughes, Arthur J. Balfour
and Admiral Bacon Kato spent an hour
discussing it, it was understood, the
naval ratio question and, at the break-
up of the session, it was indicated,
they would not meet again. This was
taken to forecast final and complete
agreement on the limitation of naval
armament as regards the United
States, Japan and Great Britain.
Check-Off Injunction Remanded.
Chicago. — The injunction banning
the check-off system of collecting min
ers’ dues recently issued by Judge A.
G. Anderson, in federal court at In
dianapolis. was ordered recast by the
United States circuit court of appeals.
War Tax on Express.
New York.—Elimination of the war
tax on express shipments, effective
January 1, will result in a saving of
$1,500,000 a month for users of this
service, G. C. Taylor, president of the
American Railway Express company
declared in a statement.
During the first ten months of the
current year, he said, the tax on ex
press shipments amounted to about
$13,000,000. The average express
charge was $1.50.
— ,
Congressional Recess.
Washington.—The senate adopted
the Curtis resolution that congress ad
journ for its holiday recess from De
cember 22 to January 3. The resolu
tion now goes to the house where fa
vorable action is anticipated.
Launch Cruiser Concord.
Philadelphia. — The light cruiser
Concord, one of ten of this type vessel
being built by the government, was
launched at Cramps Shipyards. The
cruiser was sponsored by Miss Helen
Bagley Buttrick, of Concord, Mass.
Gang Members Surrounded.
Jackson, Ky.—Three members of
the band which raided the Breathitt
county jail, killing one man, fatally
wounding a woman and seriously
wounding another, were surrounded
by state troops in a cave on John
Little’s creek, 12 miles from here.
Peru Mobilizes Troops.
Buenos Aires.—Peru has decreed
the mobilization of 393 officers and
11,300 troops and is sending seven
regiments to Ticaco, in the province
of Tacna.
FOGH BIDS WED
STATES FAREWELL
AMID CHEERING THRONGS WAR
SCARRED HERO OF WORLD
SAILS FOR FRANCE.
DECEIVED GIFTS EVERYWHERE
Heard the Voice of America From
Upwards of Seventeen Million of
Men, Women, and Children.
New York.—Ferdinand Foch, gray
and slight, but bearing with him
every honor that America could be
stow upon one of alien citizenship,
bade farewell to cheering throngs
here and sailed away to France.
In his baggage were six great
cases filled with gifts from the peo
ple of this continent, who thronged
to see him during his tour of the
United States and Canada and lend
their voices to acclaim the man who
hurled Germany’s legions back from
the soil of France and won victory
in history’s greatest conflict. Since
coming to America late in October,
Marshal Foch has traveled nearly 15,-
000 miles, made more than 500
speeches, attended luncheons and
banquets beyond computation and
has heard the voice of America from
upwards of 17,000,000 men and wo
men and children.
Farewell Message.
“I have come to love all Americans
for their spirit of diligence and for
their generous-heartedness,” said the
marshal in his farewell message to
the people of America, transmitted
through the American Legion Week-
ly. organ of the ex-service men’s or
ganization, before sailing for home.
“With deep regret I bid you good-
bye,” the allied leader said. “For al
most seven weeks the legion has en
tertained me marvelousy in your
splendid country. My experience here
leads to two thoughts.
“When first I met you and came to
admire you as fighters, cheerful, sub
ject to discipline under your splendid
leader, General Pershing, the days
were dark indeed. Yet you smiled
then as you fought, and your cheer
fulness and bravery helped much to
bring us victory and peace.
“When next I met you. it was in
your country. The alarms of war
were over. You were engaged ac
tively in those pursuits of peace
which the so essential to happiness
and prosperity—hard work. I have
come to love all Americans for their
spirit of diligence, for their generous-
heartedness. France and the United
States are indeed close together, as
they always have been.
Asks Appropriation for Russians.
Washington.—Effective food relief
in Russia must be administered by
congressional action, Secretary Hoov
er declared to the house foreign af
fairs committee in asking an appro
priation of $20,000,000 for the pur
chase of food supplies for starving
Russia.
Timber Supply is Near End.
New York. — This country faces
great danger from the exhaustion of
its timber supply within the next de
cade, according 'to Martin L. Davey,
former member of congress from
Ohio and an authority on tree preser
vation, who issued- a warning to
America at the annual conservation
congress of the Ameripa Game Pro
tective association at the Waldorf-
Astoria hotel.
Texas Mob Hangs White Man.
Waco, Tex. — “Curley’’ Hackney,
white, about 30 years old, arrested in
connection with an attack on an
eight-year-od girl, was taken from the
city jail and hanged three miles
south of town.
Cotton Consumed in November.
Washington. — Cotton consumed
during November amounted to 526,-
610 bales of lint and 53,257 bales of
inters, compared with 332,712 of lint
and 34,827 of linters in November of
last year, the census bureau an
nounced.
China’s Offer to Tokio.
Washington. — The counter pro
posal of China for the purchase from
Japan of the Kioa Chow-Tsinanfu
railroad in Shantung province has
been cabled to Tokio by the Japan
ese arms conference delegation.
Wants Treaty Abrogated.
Washington.—The Chinese delega
tion asked of the powers represent
ed in the Far Eastern committee of
the Washington conference that the
famous twenty-one demands treaty of
1915 be abrogated.
France Will Forego Payments.
Paris.—France? is willing tempor
arily to forego cash reparations pay
ments from Germany, a high official
in the French foreign office told the
Associated Press.
Ex-Crown Prince to Return.
Doorn, Holland.—The former Ger
man crown prince, who since Novem
ber, 1918, has lived at Wieringen, is
now planning to return to Germany
and expects to request permission of
the Dutch government for his depar
ture early in the spring.
DESERTERS MOST NOT ESCAPE
Report Shows That Reported Deser
tions From Regular Army in Fis
cal Year Totalled 14,563.
Washington. — Energetic pursuit
and punishment of the more than 100,-
000 men who evaded the draft during
the world war is urgently recommend
ed by Major General Harris, adjutant
general of the army, in his report
made public by the secretary of war.
To bring those guilty to trial, he rec
ommends that congress appropriate
$250,000 to pay rewards of $50 for
each draft deserter delivered to the
military authorities.
“It is imperative,” he declares, “that
thy government exhibit the greatest
possible energy in pursuing these men
and in punishing all who are found
guilty. If the government permit thews
desers to escape the punishment pro
vided for their offense, consequences
of the gravest import will certainty
ensue.
“Inaction of thia sort would tend to
set a premium bn evasion of military
service with the inevitable result that,
should another national emergency
arise and another selective draft be
put in operation, the number of men
attempting to evade the performance
of military duty will mount to a figure
so large as to emperil the nation
through interfering very seriously
with the rapid building up of an emer
gency army.”
General Harris says the publication
of the “slacker lists,” by the newspa
pers “proved highly useful for the
purpose of straightening out the rec
ords of a number of non-willful de
serters whose names were included
therein, despite all the care and effort
expended in an attempt to include
none but those of willful deserters.”
He shows that less than one-half of
one per cent of the names published
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 regular
army in the fiscal year ended last
June 30, totalled 14,563, or 4.57 per
cent, the largest percentage since 1909,
and nearly 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 dis
cipline more irksome than they had
anticipated.”
To Change Circuit.
Richmand, Va.—W. B. Bradley, pres
ident of the Virginia league, announc
ed that a meeting of the league direc
tors will be held in Norfolk to decide
what cities will compose the league
next year.
Morse at Capital.
Washington.—Charles W. Morse of
New York, who was recalled from
France by Attorney General Daugh
erty in connection with an investiga
tion of transactions with the shipping
board, arrived here accompanied by
his son, Irwin, and his attorney, Mil-
ton L. Lambert.
Seek Withdrawal of Troops.
Havana.—Withdrawal of American
troops stationed in Cuba will be re
quested by the Government under a
joint resolution passed by both houses
of Congress.
Believes in Ford Project.
Orange, N. J.—Thomas E. Edison,
who recently accompanied Henry Ford
on an inspection trip to the govern
ment’s water power development at
Muscle Shoals, Ala., declared the au
tomobile manufacturer could make the
Muscle Shoals project hum, not only
getting his rental but a good profit
for the people.
. Teacher Awarded Damages.
Atlantic City, N. J.—Miss Mary L.
Weeks, a school teacher, whose home
is in Warrenton, Va., has been award
ed a verdict of $1,163 by Referee
Charles Corbin, in a suit brought
against the Galloway township school
board under the employers’ liability
act. Miss Weeks took a stick from an
unruly pupil and, in trying to break
it over her knee, ^st her balance and
fell to the floor, breaking her hip. She
was in a hospital for several months
and never fully recovered from her
injury, it was testified.
Floods Result in 10 Deaths.
Seattle, Wash. — Ten persons are
known to have been killed, a number
of others injured and heavy property
damage has been done by railroad ac
cidents and landslides caused by the
worst flood western Washington has
known in years.
81 Moplahs Killed.
Calicut, British India. — Eighty-one
Moplahs have been killed and fifteen
made prisoners during a clash with
the military near Chervar. The Brit
ish had only one Sepoy wounded.
Eight Persons *urn to Death.
Detroit, Mich.—Eight persons were
burned to death in a fire that destroy
ed their boarding house near Royal
Oak, a suburb.. Three others, a woman
and two children, were badly injured
and were taken to a hospital.
Foch Wil! Say His Farewells.
New York. —• Marshal Ferdinand
Foch, generalssimo of France, wil
reach here to say his farewell to the
metropolis and to the United States
He sails Wednesday on the steame’
Paris for France.
NONET TOTED FOR
RUSSIA RELIEF
BILL PASSED AUTHORIZING AN
EXPENDITURE OF TWENTY
MILLION DOLLARS.
TWO SOLID HOURS OF DEBATE
Opponents of Measure Clajm That
Connditions of Distress Also Pre
vail in This Country.
Washington.—A bill authorizing the
President to expend $20,000,000 out of
the funds of the United States Grain
corporation for relief of the distressed
and starving people of Russia was
passed by the house, 114 to 51.
Opponents of the measure fought it
to the last and forced a roll call on
the ground that the vote as announced
did not include a quorum of the house.
The roll call resulted 181 to 71 and
the bill now goes to the senate.
In wrangling over the measure the
house attempted to chop it to pieces
with amendments. The first actual
test was an amendment by Represen
tative Bankhead (democrat) of Ala
bama to reduce the amount from $20,-
000,000 to $10,000,000, which was de
feated 78 to 60.
There had been two solid hours of
debate, during which a flood of elo
quence was let loose on the arguments
that the starving Russian children,
regardless of the bolshevik ruin that
had brought about their distress,
should have their cry for bread
silenced with American food, when a
new fight was started over proposals
to tear the bill to pieces.
Protesting against the use of funds
for the people of any foreign nation,
Chairman Madden of the appropria
tions committee declared it was not
easy to vote a tax on the backs of the
American people and cry at the same
time for economy.
“There are conditions of distress in
this country which would appall con
gress if I dared relate them,” Mr.
Madden shouted, adding that informa
tion to this effect had been laid before
him confidentially.
“But I cannot see my way clear to
vote money out of the treasury,” said
the chairman, “when it is not to be
used to relieve the distress of the
people we were sent here to serve.”
When the time came to receive
amendments, more than a score of
members, jumping to their feet, de
manded recognition. In the midst of
the flood of them, Representative
Goodykoontz (republican) of West Vir
ginia stepped forward with a new
proposal which would direct the
President to spend $20,000,000 for re
lieving distress among the “starving
hungry and unemployed citizens of
the United States.” It was howled out
on a point of order, but the West Vir
ginia republican stood his ground.
“My amendment may not come with
in the rules of the house,” Mr. Goody
koontz declared above the din, “but it
at least has the merit of coming with
in the constitution of the United
States.”
Agricultural Loans.
Washington.—Approval of 182 ad
vances for agricultural and livestock
purposes aggregating nearly $7,000,-
000 was announced by the war finance
corporation.
The loans included:
Georgia, $461,000; North Carolina,
$110,000; South Carolina, $306,000;
and Virginia, $46,000.
Wedding to Cost $150,000.
London.—In spite of the compara
tive poverty of the British royal fam
ily, due to the excessive increase in
the cost of living, it was learned that
the wedding of Princess Mary to Vis
count Lascelles is to cost nearly $150,-
000. It will be the costliest function
of its kind since the wedding of King
George.
British Ratify Treaty.
London.—Prolonged cheering greet
ed the announcement that both houses
of the British parliament had ratified
the treaty creating the Irish Free
State by emphatic majorities.
Collides With U. S. Destroyer.
New York.—Wireless messages re
ceived here stated that the steamship
Panama had collided with the United
States destroyer Graham, off Seagirt,
N. J. The Panama, with 107 passen
gers on board, sent out S. 0. S. calls.
Take $10,000 From Theater.
New York.—Three bandits entered
the Capitol theater building, held up
the auditor, Louis Faulkner, and three
other theater employes and escaped
down a fire escape with $10,000 they
took from the safe.
To Clear Up Wall Street Explosion.
Washington.—The arrest in Warsaw
of Wolfe Lindenfeld will clear up the
entire mystery of the Wall street ex
plosion of September 16, 1920, it was
stated by William J. Burns, head of
the department of justice’s bureau of
investigation.
Badits Raid Town.
Buenos Aires.—The small town of
Lasheras, in Santa Cruz province, has
been raided and sacked by 600 ban
dits, according to dispatches from Do-
mora and Riverdavia.
HEALTHFUL B
IN STRUNG BLOOD
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SAW THING IN RIGHT LIGHT
Old Mose Taylor Undoubtedly Had
the Situation Sized Up, but Who
Got the Dime?
“At the end of a Georgia negro
meeting,” says an Atlanta man, “it
was decided to take up a collection for
charity. The chairman passed the hat
himself. He dropped a dime in it for
a nest-egg. Every right hand encoun
tered that hat, and yet, at the end,
when the chairman turned the hat
over and shook it, not so much as his
own contribution dropped out.
“‘Fo’ de land’s sake!” he cried. T
has even lost de dime I started with !*
"All the rows of dusky faces looked
puzzled. Who was the lucky man?
Finally the venerable Mose Taylor
summed up the situation.
“ ‘Gentlemen,’ he said solemnly, ris
ing from his seat, ‘der ’pears to be &
great moral lesson round heah some-
wheah !’ ”—Pittsburgh Dispatch.
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Not for a While.
He was a bachelor in the forties and
she was a sweet young thing of twen
ty, but he loved her and was courting
her vigorously in all the ways an old
bachelor knows how to woo a young
maid. Then one night he decided he
would sing to her. Going to the piano,
he picked up some loose sheets of
music and began to play. Finally he
came to one which pleased him and
began to sing:
“Grow old with me— The best
Of—”
But the sweet young thing had in
terrupted him very forcibly. “I won’t
do it,” she tossed back impudently, “at
least, not for 25 years.”—Brooklyn
Standard Union.
Cuticura for Pimply Faces.
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smear them with Cuticura Ointment.
Wash off in five minutes with Cuti
cura Soap and hot water. Once clear
keep your skin clear by using them for
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clude Cuticura Talcum. Advertisement.
On the Other Hand.
The late Edgar Saltus, the brilliant
and satirical novelist, said one day at
a New York wedding breakfast, where
the bridegroom was a millionaire of
forty-five:
“Our Rockefellers and Schwabs and
Russell Sages married in their first
youth. Well, our successful men don’t
marry now as early as they used to,
but, on the other hand—”
And Mr. Saltus looked round the
table with a bland smile.
“On the other hand, they marry
oftener.”
Taken in Turn.
"Let’s see, whom were we discus
sing?” “I forget! Who went out of
the dressing room last?”—London
Mail.