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v CHARLOTTE MEWS 20 PAGES NIGHT EDITION TODAY AND EVENING .CHRONICLE "GR EATER CHARL O TT E ' S HO ME NEWS PAP ER " Tl ..yF.MNG CHRONICLE Established, 1003. ' S,AU' CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1921. THE CHARLOTTE NEWS' J Consolidated IPRIPI? I?T7I? inTmn 1HE EVENING CHRONICLE May 8, 1914. f MXIKjLi rlYHi LHiJN 1 C 66 oiple Alliaoce Off.;-Labor ecldes To Strike WILLIAMS' CASE IS FVPECTED 10 GUi 10 JURY FRIDAY! cinal Pleas of Counsel Were Heard uuring morning Sitting: of the Court. Covins-1'"1 c'a- APril 8- John S. Williams jasper county planter, was J " - V. nnM..trt4- 1 J t -;i:in? to SaCTllll.c liic tuunti. uvea negroes on his farm to hi3 ,f e'ever . ep.-r.riiv ana pnue oi position, uie ;IL iv;i.s"told here today by former I'VUn'.rin Howard. . -' '. tims notrroes who had been , ;vti' rut of jai1' an( whom he said hold n tne farm by force to 'ni? ' mid i;1 making the closing argument hr the state .Johnson followed with the .a' pica for acquittal and it appeared ' tiie fudge's charge would be com ' i nn,1 the case in the hands of c inrv nriore mm, ' J . ... -1 .J . U 4- J -v. rv .i'li'.'t believe the statement of Maiinins. negro farm boss, that ' helped Williams kill the men, che -V't'fcat thev were killed and that V- . : 1 , s - r : )r ,Tonn?on assaiiw ..wanning as tx rfffsV.,1 liar und an admitted mur ,,'r'er, wh on his own statement Tcoked a nigger in the head as he. vjld an ox." Manr.inc's ignorance had allow?.1 'n to believe he "was as guilty as rilliam?" of peonage and that fur ;'h?d him a motive for the killings, j declared. Manr.irc hsd termed t"he Depart--t of Justice agents, whose peonage -vestieaiion preceded the killings, t'-'ited States protectors" and John n'5 reference to this caused a laugh :he packed court room the first oc sion !-eee?sitating even a formal ran r order during the day. Williams got his sons away from farms before the killings started, ward nrsrued, and Johnson replied of the murder investigation, said to his speech that Williams' sons were ' day he was beginning to take more : cn trial ano aiso arguea tne jury remember Williams himself was be : tried for only one of the alleged irders. The trial has been shortened by the tsentation of only one witness for e defense, Y ilhams taking the stand his own behalf yesterday as the v attempt by. his attorneys to reiute testimony of the state s star wit- ss. C'.vde Manning, negro boss on e Williams' Farm, that the eleven groes were killed at the defendant's ders. Asserting his "absolute inno: ice" of the murder charge, Williams, was not sworn and therefore, under' & e Georgia law, not subjected to cross? xamlnation, declared in his statement the jury he held Manning as the an having a "probable motive lor i e killings. Defense counsel later ught to support this statement by tell g the jury that Manning, ignorant the nenaltv for peonage, naa Decome armed at the Federal investigation. Closing argument for the prosecution 1 be made today by W. M. Howard, mer congressman from Georgia, is Green F. Johnson, of Monticello, i. chief counsel for the defense, will ake final plea for acquittal, rnvi ge of opening and closing argument as given the defense by reason of its wing introduced the defendant as us y witness. Barring a mistrial, there are three pos verdicts, according to opening gument of both sides, acquittal or Mvi.tion of murder, with a chance the latter being accompanied by a commendation for mercy which would tomatk-allv change the death penalty 'iff imprisonment. Should Williams be acquitted of the esent charge, he would not be free, Solicitor General Brand announced le would U- held for trial on two other, Jrd.r ittrns returned against him in s count v in connection with the !path of three negroes. me courtroom was packed .to capa aeain today, spectators standing ouluVr to shoulder in the aisles and ! the space between the spectators' N's and the railing of the bar. High nooi studt-nts were given the morn- off from school to hear the closing sunientg. Mr. Howard, closinsr for the state, p.ea the eleven farm hands killed and ted out all came from jails in At- F'-a or Macon except one who was fd out of jail in Monticello, and worked for Williams or his sons. The Williams' farm and those adjoin ? operated iv his nn were referred M-s the -plague spot" by Mr. Howard. otners on the place seemed im Jn' he added, "and seemed able to e and move on the Williams planta- r-S WilhdUt o-Mtiner tVlia rlrPadful COn- f?'Jn 01' (iisraup nf rlonth." he eleven nptrrnea tnkpn from jails 'vrk on the farms met death within ! f'Vfclvo davs from February 24 to jh 8, he said, and added he would V'" a cause for this "scourge oi a,h ' as physicians look for the cause Pestii' rice. Howai -j then turned to th sub peui ag.; and briefly outlined its ;! in -Mexico and traced it to the J -n Fwj. iawg were made against :fi i'i ami 1r,A of invpstieations by f Pai-trn, ri; of Justice agens on the Wil place February 18. Howard did not make the direct lh2' I'conage was the cause of u: Sr-oury. f death," seeming to leave ,VU1 to draw it9 own conclusions Howard turned to the defense's .f' that Clyde Manning, believing he ,las guilty as Williams was" of the u"ige :h;iri-e rv.io-V.f- Viavo L-illpH the !n T'u --' .ii..v t Aiie i Mf nker ilonnnnrP1 KUCn an as. ir.t'-a.siMe and, his voice rising for 'the first tirni "En pitch "-nerl ii.tz-i o .1 ; , : in "Jie thi .... If th ' motive. . lrif! jljI'V -,-, t it-OKI- In rioliPVft , , "Ss storv apfiisine- Williams a.nd . Ut, the flttrvnpv rnrtinned. the 1 that th l.:n: 1 '"1 'ein 1 11,.. . V. ler lueisuiis iur mem it 'gainst his own pride and position . i 1 t na J5 nOt t lillCr ft-, "4Unnn rtr-Tirt as i,,rit, i !.. i As , hide tneir bodies vir. n Williams and Manning jw ' "-wn ior tne Killings, ivii. ,.arJ astterl- Kay, . . ..... r '1 hp nave an sons to protect? ake an - any Property? Did ae nr.... "Jniracts with these stocK- i lns aa though he were the de- Introducinll JurNewSenators NO. 1. FRANK R. GO' 7g (Republican) j Former Governor, Now Sena tor from Idaho, 'Succeed ing Mr. Nugent. Mr. Reader: Meet former Governor Frank R. Gooding of Idaho, who several months ago succeeded Mr. John P. Nugent as United States senator from Idaho. Senator Gooding is a short man, inclined to both stoutness and baVJ ness. He is quiet and unobtrusive. He is reputed to be a very wealthy man. Politically, he and Senator "William E. Borah, his Idaho col league, have been usually unsympa thetic with each other. Senator Gooding was born in Eng land, but his parents brought him to this country when he was a boy. He lived first at Paw Paw, Mich. He was 15 when he journeyed to California. Six years later he went to Idaho. For many years he was a mining company contractor, but for the last 20 year's he has de voted himself to stock raising and farming. Besides being the owner of one of the largest flocks of sheep war 9 HARRIS' ACCOUNTi GIVEN CREDENCE Police Officials Incline to, the Belief That Confes sion of Murder is True. New York, April 8. Impressed by the detailed account of the Joseph Bowne Elwell murder, " given at Buf falo yesterday by Roy Harris, former Governor Whitman, who is in charere. seriously Harris' alleged confession of complicity in the crime. Mr. Whitman at first had been skeptical of Harris' story, told Wed nesday night after his arrest in Buf falo. This skepticism, it was ex plained, was due to the fact that the authorities already - had received seven different confession, six by letter and one In person. It was reported today that Mr. Whit man was making an effort to have Harris brought to the city. Harris, arrested on a forgery charge, signed statement that he and YYilliam Dun- can, a friend, were hired, with prom ise of $5,000 each, to kill the turfman. He claimed that - a woman known to him as "Mrs. "Fairchild," employed them- .. Detention of a New York woman, whose photograph was identified ten tatively by Harris -as that of "Mrs. Fairchild," was suggested to Mr. Whit man by- the district attorney at Buf falo, but Mr,. Whitman decided to wait for further developments before tak ing action. CANNOT DISCARD CONFESSION. Buffalo, N. Y.. April 8. Police of this city and New York who have closely examined Roy Harris regard ing details of the' murder of Joseph B. ElvVll, in New York, last June, declared today they could not discard Harris' alleged confession of partici pation in tine crime as wholly false. Erroneous or conflicting incidents cit ed in the report confession, the offi cers said, might be attributed to faulty memory. . One important point which would tend to give weight to the confes sion was the statement by Harris that he and his companion smoked cigar ettes of a certain brand while lying in wait for - Elwell. Stubs of cigar ettes were found on the floor by de tectives after the murder. Harris collapsed in his cell this KfJf. him ,L " , V : disposition of the police to regard his story of the Elwell jmurder as a. fake, Harris said: "I've told my story and the police i have failed to trip me up. If they want to kick me out of jail now, I den't care. My conscience is clear, because I've got this thing off my chest." HOOVER CONTINUES TALKS ON BUSINESS Washington. ADril 8. Secretary Hoover continued today the series of conferences with representatives "f leading industries looking toward the formation of an advisory council to the Department of Commerce, com posed of business men. Members of the National Automo bile Chamber of Commerce and later representatives from the American Dyes Institute met with the secretary and discussed the personnel of com mittees to represent their industries on the council and general ideas for the expansion of their branches of the country's trade. . ' PROPOSED INCREASE FOUND UNJUSTIFIED -Washington, April 8. Proposed in creases of twenty cents a ton in the joint rates on coal from mines on the Cumberland railroad to points -on the Louisville & Nashville and connections Georgia, Florida and Alabama were found by the Inti rstate Commerce Com mission today to be- not justified. ,The proposed schedules- now under suspen sion were ordered cancelled. Charlotte and Vicinity:. Unsettled with probably showers tonight and Sat urday; little change in temperature. Gentle to moderate southerly winds. North and South Carolina; Umet innivht and Saturday, probably Hlf asrMfp' - In Idaho, he has to his credit a farm of several thousand acres in his home state. WOMEN BONDERS ORGANIZE DRIVE Two Hundred New Voters from Over City Make Plans at Selwyn Luncheon The $2,000,000 bond issue received the biggest boost of the campaign when 200 women, representing .every ,ward and voting precinct in Charlotte township, gathered at luncheon in the assembly room of the Selwyn Hotel Friday and planned for an extensive drive to insure success at the special election April 19. The. occasion was unique in that it marked tht- first exclusive gathering of women at a luncheon in Charlotte to plan for a public movement of this nature. Only six men were pres ent, five representatives of the men's good roads organization and a repre sentative of The Charlotte News. The women directed their own plans for waging their campaign and made stir ring speeches in support of the meas ure. Chairmen, or chairwomen, for each voting precinct in Charlotte township were appointed, and every woman present was instructed to serve on the committee in her precinct. Addi tional workers will be solicited and a campaign which will leave "no stone unturned" -will be inaugurated imme diately in behalf of the bond issue. The spirit with which the women entered into hte contest, was demon strated at the meeting was declared by bond boosters as a death-blow to the anti-bond men. The gathering was made up of women from every section of the city. The women committee will start out Friday afternoon to round up members of their sex who are not registered. The registration books will close Saturday and the women are de termined that all who are qualified to vote shall place their names upon the books. Beginning Monday, their campaign to induce the voters of Charlotte to cast their ballots for the bond issue 'will be waged. Details of the campaign, iu re wonted out by the various com mittees probably Will include a house-to-house campaign, the distribution of literature and th einstitution of other methods likel yto produce results. Another, meeting of the women will be held in the asserfbly room of the Chamber of Commerce next Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock . Committeps will i De expected to make .reports on the p es the watime ad Plans outlined for continuing the cam paign up until sunset on the ovnine- fOf the 19th. Another luncheon will h J held, the latter part of next week to receive reports, instill, enthusiasm in- to tne workers and to discuss the campaign generally. Mrs. J. Q. Myers, appointed chair man of the women's auxiliary of the Mecklenburg Good Roads association at the roganization meeting Thursday morning, presided over the meeting Friday. Mrs. J.' M. Clark served as secretary. ' . Attending the meeting as represen tatives of the Mecklenburg Good Roads Association were T. T. Allison, Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick, ' Clarence. O. - Kuester J- M. Clark and Dr. J. R. Alexander.' These five men established another precedent, for this day of precedent breaking and precedent-establishing, by serving the women dinners. Ow ing to the exceptionally large crowd present it was impossible for the waiters to serve the tables with rapidity, and the five . men went to work as assistants. The precinct chairmen, as announced by Mrs. Myers, are as follows: Ward 1, Box 1: Mrs. Henry Thomas; Ward 1, Box 2: Mrs. S. It. Alexander. Ward 2: Mrs. C. C. Hook. - Ward 3, Box 1: Mrs. J. Zagora; Box 2: .Mrs. W. M. Bell. Ward 4, Box 1: Mrs. L. B. . Newell: isox z: Mrs. vv. m. counts. Ward 5: Mrs! R IT. Martin. Ward 6: . Mrs. Heriot Clat-kson. Ward 7: Mrs. E. L. Mason. Ward 8: Mrs. Joe Garibaldi. Ward 9: Mrs. H. A. Murrill. Ward 10: Mrs. R. G. Auten. Ward 11: Mrs. John Kimbrell. Myers Park: Mrs. Hamilton O. Jones. Dilworth, Precinct 2: Mrs. H. D. Elizabeth Mills: Mrs. L.' H. Painter. . North Charlotte: . Mrs. W. A. House. Chadwick-Hoskins: Miss Nettie Shoaf. Several of the preoinct "chairmen spoke In support of the - bond issue and " pledered their best efforts in waging a thorough campaign in . their precinct. Among others speaking were Mrs. E. " Mason j -Mra. Gordou ifinger ana Mrs. viyers. , The diners were divided into groups, all residents of a -ward or section be ing assigned to a specially designated piace at iue mifra. j.h3 iwinu abled the committcewomen to discusi GOVERNOR GOESj d AKTncFrnn SIJpi BONDS rOR SALE1 Believes That There Will be No Difficulty in Advanta geously Placing Part. By JULE B. WARREN. Staff Correspondent of The News. Raleigh, April 8. In normal times, there would be absolutely no trouble in disposing of the state bonds, declar ed Governor Cameron Morrison on the eve of his departure for New York city and other financial centers where he and Treasurer Lacy will seek placement of a part of the bonds authorized by the legislature. North Carolina's credit is in fine shape, .the Governor declared. In fact, it is one of the few states in the union which has liquid assets of suffi cient amount to practically wipe out the state debt. The state has a bonded debt of about eleven million dollars. Over against this liability, the state owns railroad property which, it is esti mated, will bring at least that amount. It owns the controlling stock in the road from Charlotte to Goldsboro and from Goldsboro to Morehead City. Con servative business men believe that the state's stock in these two roads would easily bring a sufficient amount to wipe out the state debt. Consequently, any talk about the credit of the state being i i a precarious condition is foolish and absurd, in the opinion of the governor. Ne other Southern state has such assets to off-set its bonded debt, and few other states in the union can make such a showing. Consequently there would be no trouble in disposing of the bonds in normal times at a. five per cent interest rate. Even in these times of distressed money and bond markets, when great sums of the world's wealth are destroyed the governor has hopes of being able rr nerotiate loans at advantageous m terest rates or of selling the bonds at In the opinion of the governor a spe cial session of the legislature would be unless in face of the present difficulty. The .trouble is constitutional rather than legislative, and 'the constitutional trouble is in the limitation of the tax ing power of the state. The average Northern state places no limit on the ability of the legislature to levy taxes. The Southern states, acquiring their constitutions during the carpet bag days, placed a constitutional limit on taxation in order to hold down the wild cat reconstruction legislatures of those days, and in practically ail of the Southern states these limitation clauses have been retained in' the constitution. The governor" believes the ' levy of an ad valorem tax five cents, which is the limit the legislature could levy, since two thirds of - the fifteen cent limit must be left for counties, would hurt the chances for the bonds rather than help them. The sale of bonds at a favorable figure is predicated on the ability of the state to raise the monej' with which to pay the interest and re tire the bonds, and the chances for a sale are even better when the state has not exhausted its taxing resources than when it has levied up to the limit. Consequently the governor believes the fact that the state has the right to levy a five cent ad valorem tax which has not been exhausted, will aid in the sale of. the bonds rather than hurt it. Consequently there is no special good the special session of legislature could do. On the other hand, members of the legislature who are in the city this week, declare that if the governor and treasurer find it impossible to sell the bonds at a five per cent interest rate, the special session might meet and authorize an increase in this rate. That however, it is believed would not meet the general approval of the people, for while there is a widespread .demand for money with which to carry out the progressive-legislation of the 1921 assem bly, few people would be willing to pledge the credit of the state for the next thirty or forty years for bonds that wilj bear more than five per, cent inter est, especially in view of the fact that every financier believes the rate will come dwn and the bond market show marked improvement in the near, fu ture. The governor believes and will ar gue to th. bond people of New York that the legislature has levied more than is amply sufficient totake care of the whole fifty million dollars in bontlj, and no one contemplates selling the full authorization during the first year. The tax on automobiles will bring in sufficient money, to pay five per cent in terest on fifty million dollars, and the (Continued on Page Twelve.) Grand forced sale o buggy whips, petticoats an' mustache cups at th' Trade Palace t'day. Speakin o auto mobiles, we kin recall when a feller with. $3,000 could buy a home, a horse th' PhlladHnhv Ten- Hughes Assumes Leadership In Formulating Foreign Policies Rain Insurance Is Taken For College Game On Saturday Every tick of the clock marks a nov elty, and one of the most extraordinary ever occurring in this section, so far as known, is that an Insurance policy has. been issued by The Insurance Service, company, of Winston-Salem, insuring the Davidson and State College baseball teams against bad weather for their game in Charlotte Saturday. According to G. S. Lindgren, meteolo gist of the local weather bureau, several such instances have been recorded in New York and other large cities but, to his knowledge, this is the first instance of its kind ever happening in this sec tion of the country. A letter from the Insurance Service Company to the local weather bureau has been received which reads: "We have issued a policy insuring Davidson College and North Carolina State College baseball teams at Wearn Field in Charlotte April 9, 1921, against loss of attendance by reason of one tenth of an inch of rainfall or more be tween the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m." The letter means that should there be any loss at all in attendance by rea son of rain on that day. between the specified hours the company' will make good the loss. WHITE AWARD IS NOT ACCEPTABLE Panama's Reiterated Refus al to Accept Unanimously Approved by Assembly. Panama, April 8. (By the Associated Press.) The foreign office's reply to the note of the American Secretary of State, Charles E. Hughes, of March 16, reiterating Pan ma's refusal to accept the White award as a basis for set tlement of the Costa Rican boundary controversy, was approved unani unanimously by the national assembly in extraordinary session Thursday ev ening. The assembly declared it was pre pared to accept whatever consequence might follow national determination to preserve territorial integrity. ; It is expected the foreign office will forward the note to Washington today. The assembly also passed the first reading of the proposed decree grant ing to the president the right to expend $50,000 to retain the services of three Panaman and three foreign experts to support the government in its fight against - the validity of 1 the White award. POLAND IS EXPECTED TO GET CHOICE PART Paris, April 8. General Lerond, head of the inter-allied commission which supervised the recent plebiscite in Upper Silesia, arrived in Paris to day, bringing wth him, it is suppose!, the report on the plebiscite, upon which the supreme council must, be fore April 21, under the terms of the peace treaty., decide the boundaries oe- tween Poland and Germany in this district. It is considered unlikely here that the demands of the Germans .that th? result should be considered as a whole, and the entire , district given them be cause they secured a maiority of tne total vote, will be taken seriously. The peace treaty is interpreted as obliging the supreme council to assign to Po land the districts which gave a major ity in her favor. CONSIDER CURRENCY REFORM. Managua, Nicaragua, April '8. Nic araguan, Costa Rican and United States government officials are exchang ing views relative to currency reform in Central America. The Costa Rican national assembly has also begun con sidering of the subject. y Bordeaux Great for Mixture Plants Bordeaux Mixture is great stuff for plant diseases, says" today's plant les son, of the American Forestry Associa tion. Often it is the case that you will want to combine insecticides with fungicitides in spraying, and Bordeaux Mixture is the thing. However, it should be remembered that Bordeaux Mixture is not fatal to insects but is an effective control for various types of fungous disease. Here is the com bination for making the mixture: Copper sulphate, blue stone or blue vitriol, three ounces. Lump of hy drated lime, three ounces- Water, two and one-half gallons. Procure the ingredients at a, drug or seed store. If lump lime is used, it must be fresh. Instead of ,lump lime, some prefer fresh hydrated lime. This is the lime to which enough wa ter to dry-slake it has been added. It is a powder and does not require slaking. Use containers of wood, glass "or earthenware. In ' one con tainer, dissolve the copper sulphate in about one-half gallon of hot water and then dilute with enough cold wa ter to make a total of one and one fourth gallons; or wrap the copper sul phate in a small piece of cheesecloth, fill a quart jar with cold water and suspend the copper sulphate into the top of th.e water; in a' couple of - hours it will be dissolved. In another ves sel slake ' the' lime and; dilute with enough water to make 6ne and one quarter gallons. . If hydrated lime is used, simply mix it with water. Then pour these two solutions together, pour ing the solution of copper sulphate slowly into the mixture of lime . and water, stirring vigorously while this process is under , way. The stirring By DAVID LAWRENCE, Staff Correspondent of The News. Copyright 1931, by News Publishing Co. Washington, April 8. Charles Evans Hughes has assumed the leadership in formulating America's foreign policy. There is no longer any question about the directing force behind the new administration no longer any doubt about it on capitol hill, where reservatio lists, irreconcilables and bitter-enders have had their own way dur ing the last two years, and no longer any- doubt at the executive end of the avenue where Mr. Harding, true to the pledge he made in Florida, has given Mr. Hughes complete freedom of action in the conduct of foreign relations. The significance ot what has been going on more or less under the sur faceor rather on the quiet in the last fortnight is just beginning to be j fully understood. The process of mak mg ca-jii personality in tne situation understand that after all, the executive is charged with the conduct of foreign relations under the constitution and that the Secretary of State accepted the portfolio with that idea in his mind, was accomplished without friction or dissension. There is no trace of dis cord, above or below the surface of things. Practically everybody con cerned recognizes that Charles Evans Hughes is a dominant mind and that he means to do the best he can with the tangle in which he found Ameri ca's foreign- relations and that, while the senate foreign - relations committee will be consulted, the initiative must rest, as it always has, with the De partment of State. Already Senator Lodge, whose diffi culties as republican leader were mul tiplex when his party was on the of fensive, in this congress is using his talents as a conciliator in bringing the party into line back of Mr. Hughes from a defensive point of view.. Of course, a handful of senators may nev er play ball at all but the republican majority . is sufficiently large to put through any Harding-Hughes policies that come before the senate or house in respect to foreign ' relations. Most of the talk about the Knox resolution must be accepted with the knowledge that Secretary Hughes will determine the exact moment when it is discreet for congress to act. This is no mere seizure by him of the reins of power because of personal or official pride. It is due to the practicalities of the situation. Mr. Hughes has em barked on the boldest, if not the most difficult policy that has ever before con fronted an American Secretary of State. Every day he is negotiating with foreign governments," listening to vp nml conversations, listening to lomats or examining carefully the con fidential memoranda or our amuiEa. dors and ministers abroad. He must have a free hand. President Hard-ins- recognized it at the outset. The senate foreign relatons committee now Secretary Hughes is trying to -retain for America the rights which our gov ernment says accrued to us as a result of the war, whether or not the Ver M(ii trpatv is siened. The strong 'language of Mr. Hughes' declaration and his powertui logic nave u mended on all sides here but it is re alized that the Allies will not supinely surrender to the American viewpoint. They will bicker and barter as long as they can. There are already indications that London is getting ready to ques tion Mr. Hughes' arguments on the ground that war questions wim v many were closed by the treaty of Ver- aT1(1 that wriile a willingness ex istg to treat Amreica equitably, it must be understood that the treaty is not under negotiation but a closed inciaeni because forty nations have signed it. From the European viewpoint, the situation is complicated not because of any antipathy to America's arguments but because, to re-open the treaty, may offer Germany a loophole of escape from her obligations. For instance some diplomats see a particular danger in granting America's point on that article of the Versailles treaty whereby Ger many was to renounce all her rights and claims to overseas possessions only to the principal allied and associated powers. Germany might range herself alongside the United States in declar ing any provisions of the Versailles treaty invalid because the United States did not become a member of the repar ations commission, for example, or take part in other decisions provided for by the treaty. The. Allies have had enough experience with Germany not to offer her chances to escape by 'technicalities such as this. Secretary Hughes will try to compel Europe to give America equal treat ment throughout the world on all ques tions arising out of the war and may withhold agreement to the famous par agraph 5, whereby America would pledge herself to come to the military aid ' of Europe in an emergency, until the various points in this week's note are accepted by the powers. All this requires definite negotiation and .that's why the executive must say when con gress shall or shall not pass resolutions having a bearing on foreign policy." And last but not least, when the Knox resolution is passed, a treaty with Germany must be made either with or without the consent of the Allies. Indi cations already point to the. fact that the Harding administration will make a pro-Ally rather than a pro-German peace. This means that, the .separate peace treaty whereby America avoids the obligations of the treaty of Ver scaillcs will be negotiated not with Ger many but with the Allies, who are co receivers with America of all Germany's rights. Charles Evans Hughes, whose legal ability won him fame when he was , a member of America's highest court, has tackled this intricate problem with a determination to do the best thing for America irrespective of poli tical considerations or campaign chat ter. The first step in the program has been the elimination of congressional meddling. Mr. Hughes is Secretary, of State. ; MERRIMAN AND WHITE WILL MEET IN FINALS Pinehurst, April 8. B. P. Merriman, of " Waterbury, and Gardiner White, of Nassau, will meet tomorrow in the finals of the North and' South ama teur golf championship. In the semi finals today, White defeated Perry Adair, Atlanta, 1 4 and 3 while , Merri man defeated Frank Dyer, of Upper MINERS REFUSED TO CONFER WITH OWNERSOF PITS Refusal Due to Stipulation That Return of Pumpmen Should Get Precedence. London, April 8. (By the Associ ated Press.) The railwaymen and transport workers this evening de-. .. cided to strike in sympathy with the miners Tuesday morning, fail ing the re-opening of negotiations for a settlement of the coal strike. . London, April 8. (By The Asso ciated Press.) The intention of the British government to issue an ap peal for volunteers for the transport and 'other essential services in view of the prospective triple alliance strike was announced in the house of commons late today by Mr. Lloyd George, the prime minister. A royal proclamation would call up the army and navy reserves, he said The government also intends to enroll special constables and form a special emergency force for a period of ninety days to protect the police in the execution of their duty, the prime minister added. After recounting the day's events, from which he drew the conclusion that the miners' federation is determined to allow the mines to go to destruction in the belief that, by such action, it will be able to intimidate the nation into surrender, Mr. Lloyd-George declared it was the duty of the government, as the trustees of the nation, to prevent this catastrophe. He then announced the measures to be taken and read the king's emergency proclamation. J. Austen Chamberlain, the govern ment leader in the house, moved that the king's message be taken under consideration Monday. Amid cries of tomorrow," the motion was agreed t and the house adjourned. London, April 8 (By the Asso ciated Press) All' efforts by Mr. Lloyd-George, the prime minister, to bring the miners and the mine owners together to discuss the dif ferences which led to the strike in the coal fields having failed, the miners' executives went into con ference this afternoon with their partners in the triple alliance the transport workers and the railway men to decide when the members of the allied organizations should be called out in a sympathetic strike. Last night's decision by the prime minister at the suggestion of the more moderate labor interests to invite th miners and owners to a conference this morning, at which the first sub jeeffer discussion' would" be "the ro- ' sumption of pumping to clear the mines of water, led the sreneral pub lic t& believe a settlement was in sight and that the impending strike promising to be the greatest in thf history of the country, would "be avert ed. The miners, however, were adamant in their stand, insisting there shou-'d be no restriction regarding the ques tions to be discussed by the conferees and an exchange of letters' between them and Mr. Lloyd-George failed to change their minds. The government was just as firm in its view that the threatened destruc tion of the mines by flooding should be first considered. Thus, early this aftemnnn it r.amA be known that a deadlock had been reached and that apparently nothing short of a backdown by the government could avert the industrial upheaval. The triple alliance, which has now taken over command of labor's side of the controversy, has a membership of o22'n2 miners' 300,000 railway men and 250,000 transport workers. London, April 8.(By the Asso ciated Press) Great Britain today appeared to be face to face with an industrial crisis of unprecedent ed proportions. The National Union of Railwaymen and the Federa tion of Transport Workers derided to strike in support of British miners, who have been out since early this week. , Hone that the miners and the owners of coal pits might meet the government officials to discuss means of settling the strike were apparently blasted shortly after noon when it was announced the miners had refused to meet their employers. The miners' refusal was because of the stipultaion that the return of the ' pumpmen and engineers to work ' should be the first question settled at the conference. The miners' position was that the meeting should be en tirely free from restrictions upon the discussions. The answer of the miners was that the condition Hid down providing that the safety of the mines must first be discussed stood in the way of the re sumption of the negotiations. TO CALL GENERAL STRIKES. London, April 8. (By the Associate! Press) Leaders of the National Fed eration of Transport Workers and of the National Union of Railwaymen, which organizations have voted to up port the miners in the great coal strike, decided this morning upon a strike by the two unions. This brings the entire power of the "triple al liance of labor" into the greatest in dustrial controversy in England for many years. Official announcement that the "triple alliance" had decided upon a strike was made shortly after noon to day. - A general strike of the railroaders and transport workers will be callerl unless the striking miners and the owners of British coal pits reach a settlement. MAY ASK AMERICAN MINERS TO STOP FILLING BRITISH ORDERS. Montreal, April 8. The American Federation of Labor is asked to urge the United Mine Workers of America to refuse to mine coal for export to Great Britain, Or for use' by English ships during the British coal strike in a resolution today before the executive committee of the Federated. Trades and Labor Council. The - resolution was referred to the committee at a meeting last night after a stormy discussion. The executive committe was instruct ed: to take any action it deemed advis able regarding the resolution without making any further report to the xoun-. showers; not much change in tempera-1 Montclair, 2 upt --ntmucj on I'ajte Two.) 1