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Legion Convention.
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Election of Officers and Mis
cellaneous Business Fea
ture Closing Day.
Kansas City, Nov. 2. (By the Asso-!
ialed Press) The national convention
f the American Iegion here today re
jected a report of its committee on res
chit ions castigating George Harvey,
American Ambassador to Great Britain,
jmd declaring him unfit to hold office
in the American Government. The vote
to table waa 576 to 444, with 50 not
voting.
The action dealing with Ambassador
Harvey came after a brisk fight on
ic floor, in which Colonel Harvey
hs severely arraigned and defended
' y delegates.
The resolution asserted the Ambas-:m1"i-'s
remarks at the Pilgrims' day
: aliquot in London,' shortly after he
i --rived in England, in regard to the
;i 'tives that actuated America's en-:-
;hc into the war, were "false and
r.mie." constituting a "gross slander"
: n the service men and women of
' country.
iter the original Harvey resolution
! ! been tabled, a substitute resolution
X: adopted. It was couched in less
:Kitic terms and was adopted by
t ;!L.niinHis vote.
;T OF RESOLUTION.
'I !-.- Harvey resolution read:
Whereas, George Harvey, American
A ebu-sador to Great Britain, a colonel
1 ; the courtesy of a South Carolina
, A :rnor, has sen fit in a recent pub-V.'-
address to cast reflection upon the
k: ves actuating the American people
i i enttring the recent World war, by
-iying that tney were controlled by
fear and selfishness, and,
"Whereas, such statements, even if
u, would be peculiarly out of place
-".d coming from the public spokesman
!,r a great people, but, being as they
; re. false and untrue, constitute a
uress and malicious slander on the
t,ood name of the entire American
ecp'.e. and particularly upon the mem-
vy of thosew ho haveg iven their lives
the sake of humanity.
"Now. therefore, be it resolved, that
the words of George W. Harvey at t'ne
Pi'srims banquet in London are a mis-
-'i calumny' worthy, only of a little
mind, dominated by envy and jealousy,
and incapable of appreciating the high-
i- id-iuls of life and therefore- ascrib
ing to others the only motives which
it is able to understand that we, there
fore, respectively represent to the
J 'resident cf the United States that the
said George Harvey is unworthy to hold
nny office whatsoever in the gift of
ihe American people and that a pub
lic i" buke and an immediate recall
would be punishment mild in form com
pand with the enormity of the offense
which is committed: and that the na
tional adjutant be instructed 'to send a
npy of this re?olutionto the President
of the United States."
Kansas City. Mo.. Nov. 2. (By the
Associated Press) Amid cheers. the
ational convention of the American Le-
- "ii today adopted the report of its
' yislutivs committee reaffirming the or
ganization's stand on the question of
mediate Federal compensation for
.-vice men and asking that such ac-
. n lie taken "without further quivoca-
ion or delay "
The convention, although late in get
::ng started, raced through a quantity
f 'routine business this morning and
i'-ared the way for consideration of
'ne report, of the committee on resolu-
i r.s and the election of officers, the
j':t.-:.anding features on the concluding
'retrain.
Tne resolution on Federal compensa
tor! presented by J. S. Serugham, of
'.' biaska, said that, "after careful con-
- iteration of all the arguments ad'
.-trie 'd in opposition to 'the measure,
;:.' 'lading the letter of the Secretary of
: Treasury and the address of Fres
: l--i:t Harding, we still firmly believe
i the justice, fairness and immediate
; .-r-essity of the adjusted compensation
ur UHure."
UOITJ) REGULATE REDS.
The convention also adopted a report
; tii Americanism committee cover
on wide range of subjects, including
i re -n ingent regulation of radical ac
:vi'is. Recommendations also were
. -e! as to the restriction of immigra
ioii. Many of the clauses in the Amer-M-anisin
committor's report will be in
li.eran.d in the report of the reselu
;"ns ' oinmittee, it was announced from
V- floor.
The convention paused in its work
1 r a short time to hear addresses by
:arles iJertrand, of France, president
the Inter-Allied Veterans' Associa
1 1' .ii, ;m organization made up of allied
x -service men, and R. B. Maxwell, of
- Gieat War Veterans' Association
Canada.
The American Legion band of Duluth,
i'lii., was declared winner or the $1,
'" in ijo in the contest participated in
i lands from all sections of the United
' e S .
i'attle Creek. Mich., was first in the
-m -'orps contest.
V resolution castigating Colonel
'" -;rge Harvey, American Ambassodar
(irvut Britain, for a speech made
''"ii alter his arrival in England and
"' uhjch he discussed Ajnerica's rea
' as tor entering the war was included
a fhe resolutions committee's report.
he resolution was greeted with
ii-ers.
Thomas W. Miller, of Delaware,
'I'D Property ' Custodian, began read-
K the report of the resolutions com
" e. after a motion for a noon recess
' ' : lOSt.
Hi" resolution declared Mr. Harvey
:s "unworthy to hold any office what
" ! in the eift of the American
' "pie, and that a public rebuke and an
tii-udiate recall would be punishment"
1 i!d in form "compared with the enor
'! of the offense which he has com
piled. "
IW ('ENSURE HARDING.
1- inhei s of the committee on resolu-
" said prior to the presentation of
i' report that a resolution censuring,
' ' I'i' in Harding for urging recom
' ' i"iit of compensation legislation
taken in, (,y the committee late
' niplii lor diEcusion. The rcsolu-
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Cordell HulL
HULL PROMISES
MILITANT FIGHT
Shortcomings of Present
Administration to be Sent
Out to Voters.
St. Louis. Nov. 2. (By the Associated
Prcss. Development of the Democat
ic National Committee into the "most
militant and efficient organization" with
in his capacity and dissemination of
facts concerning the "shortcomings" of
the present national Administration
among the "average citizens" is in
brief to be the policy of Cordell Hull,
the new Democratic chairman, as out
lined today to The Associated Press. Mr.
Hul lexpects to leave late touay tor
Washington, arriving there tomorrow
evening.
The new chairman's policies are
briefly outlined in the following state
ment: "The first step in administering the
affairs of the committee will be to pay
off the present indebtedness and create
a good atmosphere in which to work.
We shall try to pay all debts ai ah early
date-
"We shall also proceed at once with
establishment of a thorough organiza
tion in the various states and counties.
In this sanie connection, we Avail strive
to..-.m.aintain an efficient publicity bu
reau to get unbiased and accurate facts
relating to the shortcomings of the
Republican convention before the aver
age citizens.
"People have been fed tip on a v&st
amount of misrepresentation, misinfor
mation and falsehoods , conce rning the
true record of the Democratic Adminis
tration, covering the period since 391$.
Subsequent events and da;!y happenings
have exploded a vast number of these
falsehootls, which at times were very
dangerous.
"We shall make every possible effort
to develop the . Democratic Natter al
Committee into the most militant and
efficient organization within our power
to do so."
MARSHALL TO BE NOMINEE?
St. Louis, Nov. 2. Former United
States Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, of
Illinois, who attended the Democratic
National Committee meeting yesterday,
said the fight between the McAdoo and
Cox contingents for chairmanship was
as profitless as "a mutiny in an army
preparing for war over the selection
of a drill sergeant for dress parade".
He said the conflict between the Mc
Adoo and Cox fodces over the organ
ization . would make former Vice-President
Thomas R- Marshall the nominee
for President . in-1924. ... -
Mr. Lewis '-'advocated the abolition of
the Democratic National Committee and
all other party national committees, de
claring they are not needed in national
elections. -
HOUSE DEMOCRATS PLEASED
Washington, Nov. 2. Democratic
members of the House at a conference
today unanimously adopted a resolu
tion expressing - "appreciation and
thanks for the. able leadership and
faithful and unselfish service" rendered
ly George White as chairman of the
Democratic National Committee and
congratulating the committee on the
selection of Cordell Hull as Mr. White's
successor. .
"Mr. Hull's patriotism, statesmanship,
knowledge of political history and poli
cy and his elements of leadership," the
resolution stated, "peculiarly fit him
for this position at this time of national
and world stress when the country is
in the control of a party without a
program or -guiding policy, wandering
in the maze of pre-election promises,
seeking the path of political expediency
to lead it to safety while every interest
of this nation and of the world clwilien
ges us to definite-constructive effort
toward national and world readjust
ment and -rehabilitation.: '
"Knowing his personal character, un
selfish devotion to his country and his
ability as a leader disclosed during his
long service in the House, witn confi
dence in the success of his leadership,
we pledge him as to our fellow demo
crats throughout the nation ouv united
support."
FORMER EMPEROR ON
WAY OUT OF HUNGARY
Budapest,. Nov. 2. Former Emperor
Charles todav was on his way out of
Hungary to begin what appeared to be
permanent exile. He and former Em
press Zita left Tihany yesterday for
Dunafoeldvar, a town on the Danube
below this city, and there they went on
board the British gunboat' Glow Worm.
Arrangements have been made to land
the erstwhile monarch at Galtza, Ru
mania, a city about 100 miles from the
mouth of Danube. .
Preparations were being made here
today for a special session of the Hun
garian national assembly tomorrow, at
which time a resolution deposing the
Hapsburg dynasty from the throne will
be presented. The assembly was con
voked by the Government in response
to an ultimatum from the Allied powers,
directing that all ties between the Haps
ourg family and Hungary be formally
Foreign Competition Aided
and Abetted in Crippling
Merchant Marine.
RAILROADS AT FAULT.
Government Funds Used to
Furnish Competition to
Government Shipping.
New York, Nov. 2. Foreign - compe
tition, "aided and abetted by Ameri
cans," was declared today by United
States Senator Joseph E. Ransdell, of
Louisiana.' in an address before the
Advertising Club of New Tork, to be
one of the "underlying causes that
are crippling the development of the
American merchant marine.' Nearly
a score of American railroads, he said,
including some of the greatest sys
tems, have filed with the Interstate
Commerce Commission copies of con
tracts in which they agreed to use
their best efforts to secure freight
"for foreign shipping companies to the
exclusion of others."
Senator Ransdell cited as examples
contracts between the Pennsylvania
System and Purness, Withy & Co.,
a British corporation; between the
Baltimore &, Ohio Railroad and the
Ncrth German Lloyd Line, and the
Boston & Albany Railroad and the
Curard line. H
"Exclusive use of facilities is grant
ed in many cases," the speaker said;
"free wharfage and freight handling
is given, special arrangements on
through bills of lading and many other
privileges accorded. t
INSTANCES ARE CITED.
"The Boston & Albany Railroad, in
its agreement with the Cunard Line,
grants' the free and exclusive use of
certain piers, and in addition further
piedges under certain conditions, a
reduced rate of 'i 1-2, cents per
hundred pounds for freight in carload
lots
"As a result of the operation of the
various contracts, well over a million
tons of freight are turned over annu
ally by American railroads to foreign
ships.
"The most amazing aspect of the sit
uation, however, is that the railroads,
supplied with funds from the United
States Treasury, have been utilizing
their resources to build up the business
and swell the profits of foreign compe
tition of the Government's shipping. In
other words, the government of the
United States is placed in the position
of using its money to foster competition
with itself. If the American railroads
are not prepared to give tQ the Ameri
can merchant marine the same aid they
extend to foreigners, steps should be
taken to end these conditions." .
SERVICE NOT DEPENDABLE
Aside from foreign competition, fail
ure of American ship owners to assure
"depenbability of service" was declared
by Senator Ransdell to be a probable
explanation of the transportation of
such a large proportion of American
comAierce in alien bottoms.
Enforcement of the merchant marine
act of 1920, ' "especially of those sec
tions providing for the maintenance of
new trade routes, equality of opportun
ity for America's ports generally, prefer
ential rail rates on shipments by Amer
ican vessels and discriminating duties
and tonnage dues" was recommended
by Mr. Ransdell.
"The shipping problem is not a sec
tional one, but a national one," he said,
"and a solution is possible only with
the co-operation of all parts of the
United States."
BRITISH DELEGATION
ENROUTE TO COUNTRY
London, Nov. 2.--A. J. Balfour, head
of the British delegation at the Wash
ington conference on limitation of arm
aments and Par Eastern questions, left
London at 9:30 o'clock this morning for
Liverpool. He will embark in that
cit this afternoon on the liner Em
press of France for Quebec, from
which city he will go direct to Wash
ington, expecting to arrive there No
vember 10.
Accompanying Mr. Balfour were six
members of the British secretariat,
chiefly experts in far eastern affairs.
PRESIDENT HARDING IS 56.
Washington, Nov. 2 President Hard
ing celebrated his 56th birthday today
c;vietly at the White House, no ep-cial
program having been arranged for the
occasion. Scores of congratulatory
Utters and telegrams were received
during the day from friends through
out the country, and many from
abroad.
Tipton Bud has written t' th' offi
cials o' th' railway unions askin' 'em
t' hurry an' strike while his wife is in
Minnesota. Ike Lark has a 7-passenger
tourin' car which th' owner may have
by payin fer repaintin' wheels an'
chamrin' motor number- ".
Symbol of Italy's 500,000
Dead Lies in State in Ca
thedral in Rome.
GREETED BY THRONGS
Royalty and Peasant Silent
ly Pay Tribute to Coun
try's War Hero.
Rome. Nov. 2. Solemn reverence by
King and peasant was paid to Italy's
"unknown soldier", smybol of her five
hundred thousand dead, when the body
arrived in Rome this morning and was
transported on a gun carriage to the
church of Santa Maria Degli Angeli. It
will there lie in state until its final in
terment Friday in the "altar of the
country" under the Victor Emmanuel
monument.
The train bearing the body arrived in
a suburb of Rome last night, being met
by the mayor and members of the mu
nicipal council. The cars of the train
were virtually filled with floral tributes
to the "unknown soldier", more than
1.500 wreaths having been placed
aboard bv the authorities of nearly 100
towns through which the train had
passed on its trip from Aquilia. north
east of Venice, to Rome. Delegations
of former soldiers and local organiza
tions also sent flowers. The King and
queen, as the chief mourners, stood
with bowed heads as the coffin, drape!
in the tri-color, was carried from the
traiii on the shoulders of eight valorous
non-commissioned officers to the wait
ing gun carriage. Members of the royal
household, Princes and Princesses-, min
isters of state, senators and deputies,
the general staffs of the army and navy
crippled veterans, widows and mothers
all united in silent honor for the dead.
SOMBRE, SILENT CROWD
The cortege was formed in the station
square and, betwen lines of soldiers at
present arms, proceeded to the church,
which was but three blocks away. The
route was filled with a sombre, silent
crowd all in adoration for the unknown.
All watched with eager eyes the pas
sage of the procession, then bowed in
reverence as the gun carriage bearing
the body passed.
By its side walked as an escort of
honor, the little more than a score of
men decorated with Italy's highest mil
itary honor, "The Gold Medal for Va
lor." these were Italy's living bravest.
Then followed the King and the royat
family, as .the chief mourners, followed
by the ministers, tkegenerals, admirals,
diplomatic corps,Y supreme court judges,
mayors of the large cities, representa
tives of the widows, mothers and crip
pled soldiers organizations. r
In the square in front of the chumh
the advance guard of the cortege lined
un and waited the arrivalof the body.
When the gun carriage reached the
door of the church, it stopped and the
eight chosen non-commissioned officers
bore it on their shoulders into the
church, where they placed it upon a
specially built catafalque. The King
then entered, followed by the rest of
the procession.
Following the religious service, the
King, followed by the assembled digni
taries of state, left the 'church for thQ
Quirinal. There the procession was dis
persed. -
Meanwhile, the body of the unknown
coldier was laid in state on the cata
falque. The crowd which lined the route
massed toward the church. The doors
were thrown open for the public and
thousands passed through the edifice
every hour.
In conjunction with the ceremonies.
Minister of War Gasparotto published
an ordr of the day to the army an
nouncing that the Kiner had conferred
the gold medal for military valor on
the "unknown soldier," describing him
as "the son of a brave race who fell
fighting, not hoping for any reward,
but the victory and the greatness of
his mother country."
SEVERE COMPETITION
IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY
Boston, Nov. 2. Domestic competi
tion with the textile industry of New
England is more severe than that from
any foreign country, Ralph E. Loper.
of Fall River, declared today in an
address at the opening session of the
Fall meeting of the National Associa
tion of Cotton Manufacturers.
Few new textile mills have been
erected in New England in recent
years, he said, because legislation and
other factors, which resulted in snort
er hours of labor and higher wages,
made it more profitable to build in
other sections. , ,
"No tariff wall can protect us from
this competition," he added. "Frequent
ly the advantage to domestic competi
tors through lower costs amounts to
fully 6 or 8 cents per pound on coarse
goods."
DECREASE IN PUBLIC
DEBT DURING MONTH
Washington, Nov. 2. A reduction of
about $465,000,000 in the public debt
during October was announced today
by the Treasury.
The total public debt on September
30 stood at $23,924,108,125.06, while Oc
tober 31 the total was $23,459,148,496.59,
making a decrease for the period of
$464,959,628.47.
The heavy decrease in the national
cfebt during the last month, officials
said, was accounted for by heavy re
demption of Government securities.
Nearly $400, COO'COO worth of Treasury
certificates were retired while the usual
Treasury financing was omitted Octo
ber 15 and no new certificates issued
mtil November 1.
ARMISTICE DAY WILL
BE NATIONAL HOLIDAY
Washington, Nov. 2. Armistice Day,
November 11, will be declared a na
tional holiday in honor of America's un
known soldier to be buried that day in
Arlington.
Congressional action on a resolution
requesting the President and all State
Governors to proclaim the day a holi
day was . completed , today through
adoption by the Senate. Issuance of
the proclamation by Mr. Harding is
expected within a few days.'
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Staff Correspondent of The ew
Copj rIKIi,t, 1921, by Sews Publishing- Co.
(In this the third of a series of signi
ficant dispatches David Lawrence, the
famous Washington correspondent, tells
why the United States considers the al
liance between Japan and Great Bri
tain as a menace to America and the
inside story of how the coming confer
ence on Armament happened to be
called.)
Washington, Nov. 2. The United
States has never liked the Anglo-Japanese
alliance. Republican and Demo
cratic administrations alike have felt
that alliances only led to dangerous
misunderstandings. Europe has reveal
ed the mischief which a system of al
liances develops. The formation of an
alliance in Central Europe between Ger
many. Austria-Hungary and Italy was
offset only by an entente cordiale be
tween Great Britain, France and Rus
sia. It led to war.
But the objection to the Anglo-Japanese
alliance has not been merely that
it sets up England, the greatest naval
power in the world, as a working part
ner of Japan with whom America has
been having in recent years some trou
blesome disputes. It is that spurred
on by the knowledge of such a partner
ship, the Japanese have assumed an at
titude toward China wherein American,
French, British, German and Russian
interests .were likely to be permanently
injured. Of course, for the moment,
Germany and Russia are out of it but
essentially it is the grouping of Europe
and America on the one hand and Ja
pan on the other. Would England stand
by her European friends and her Amer
ican kinsmen and would she bring Ja
pan within the circle of international
concord and compel her military lead
ers to refrain from acts which spelled
ultimate domination of China and East
ern Asia? WTouId England help or hin
der the task of making Japan play the
game on a plane of equality with other
nations? Would Japan pledge herself
to heln restore the sovereignty of China
which has become the catspaw of na
tions? Great Britain has insisted that her
alliance prevented her from making
protests to Japan. It has been left to
the United States alone to keep a vigi
lant eye on Japanese pretensions.
CRISIS BRINGS ACTION.
The crisis came at the time the Do-
CHINA FAILS TO
MEET HER DEBT
Such Action Constitutes a
Serious Failure of Coun
try's Stability.
Washington, Nov. 2. Attention of
the: Chinese Government has been call
ed through Minister Schurman, at Pek
ing, to the seriousness of the failure of
that Government to meet its obligations
in connection with payment of principal
and emi-annual interest on the five
and a half million dollar loan extended
by the Continental and Comercial Trust
and Savings Company, of Chicago.
Payment of the loan and the last half
year's interest was due yesterday and
Minister Schurman was directed by the
State Department to indicate to Chinese
officials the feeling of the United
States Government that defaulting such
obligations constituted a very serious
failure of Gevernmental stability.
It was said at the State Department
that no word had come from the min
ister or from the representatives of the
bankers in Peking indicating what ar
rangement, if any, had been made to
meet the obligation. It also was indi
cated that the Department did not have
in contemplation any steps in the mat
ter beyond the representations made
throuh the legation in Peking.
MANY FLOWERS WILL
BE IN BRITISH WREATH
London, Nov. 2. Red roses from
England; . white chrysanthemums,
maple leaves and arum lillies from
overseas dominions, violets and forget-me-nots
from Wales, Shamrocks from
Ireland, and heather from Scotland,
will have their place in the wreath
which Mrs. Julia McCudden, mother of
a British soldier who fell during the
war, will place on the tomb of the
American unknown soldier at Arling
ton, Vu.. on November 11. Mrs. Mc
Cudden is now on her way to America
with the wreath, and it is stated the
flowers were placed on a block of ice
six feet square, so that their fresh
ness might be preserved.
Mrs. McCudden is the mother of the
late Major McCudden. of the Royal Air
Fdrce, who Drought down a number of
German aviators during the war. She
was chosen from a large number of
war-bereaved women by the Pilgrim
Fathers' Association as the one to take
the wreath to America.
ENDLESS DEATHCHAIN
FOR RAT POPULATION
New York. Nov. 2. An endless chain
of death is being prepared for the rat
population of New York, the city
health department announced today.
A half dozen of the city's six mil
lion rats will be inocculated, it is said
with a serum which will cause their
death shortly after tney have been
released to return to their fellows.
Experts say the carcasses will be eat
en by other states. . These, in turn,
will die and provide poison serum for
succeeding links in the endless chain,
it is claimed.
HOUSE WILL REFUSE
TO ACCEPT SALES TAX
Washington, Nov.' 2. Aroused by the
growth of sentiment in th? Senate for
the sales tax, Chairman Fordney and
Representatives Green, Iowaj". and
Longworth, Ohio, of the House ways
and means' comr..iltee, informed Senate
leaders tocay that under no circum
stances would the House accept a sales
tax at this time.
BRANDEIS' SISTER APPOINTED.
New York. Nov. 2. Miss Susan Bran
deis, a sister of United States Supreme
Court Justice Brandeis, has been ap
pointed a special assistant to " United
States Attorney Hayward to investi
gate the building trades.
v..
minion Premiers were iti session. The
British government didn't want to of
fend Japan by publicly refusing to re
new the Anglo-Japanese alliance. What
would be the good of that, it was ar
gued? It would only drive Japan into
an attitude of hostility.
Japan need not fear impovished Rus
sia or helpless Germany. She need only
be concerned about Great Britain and
the United States. Financially distress
ed as is the British empire, Japan
might feel herself capable of going it
alone in the Far East. Britain was too
much absorbed in domestic troubles to
disturb 'Japan's pretensions while the
United States was not inclined to go to
war over China's plight. She was too
far away and her people were already
sick of war expenditure. Japan, how
ever, had expended little money dur
ing the war and was near enough to
China to offer the Japanese imperialists
golden oportunities for commercial gain
by exploiting China's resources.
Great Britain counselled against the
abrupt cancellation of the Anglo-Japa
nese aliance. Couldn't some other way
be found to acomplish the same end
and at the same time prevent Japanese
aggression? Diplomacy moves in
strange ways its" wonders to perform.
Couldn't the United States lend a Help
ing hand?
.Just about the same time that the
Imperial Conference was meeting in
London and the Premier of Canada was
expressing himself frankly on the sub
ject of renewing the Anglo-Japanese al
liance, public sentiment in the United
States was being marshalled in favor of
a reduction of armament. Senator
Borah's pleas were being heeded. The
tax burden was so heavy that the call
ing of an armament conference to stop
the race in armaments was advocated
on every side. President Harding didn't
favor the Borah resolution because it
limited the conference merely to Great
Britain, the United States and Japan.
He insisted that it ought to include all
the major Powers.
UNWRITTEN CHAPTER.
Then it was that an unwritten hut
significant chapter developed in Lon
don. President Harding admitted pub
licly that he had been sounding out the
Powers on the subject of an armament
conference. Ambassador Harvey was
entrusted with that mission. America
wanted an armament conference called
(Continued from Page Ten.)
INDIANA MINERS
HAVE QUIT WORK
As V Protest Against the
Injunction Issued by a
Federal Judge.
Indianapolis, Ind., Nov- 2. Work in
the Indiana coal field was practically
at a standstill today as a result of
walkouts of 20,000 men employed at
approximately "300 mines in the State,
according to reports received at union
headquarters at Terre Haute.
Widespread walkouts in the soft coal
fields of the country were expected at
international headquarters of the United
Mine Workers of America. No reports,
however, were available there as to
conditions in the sixteen states into
which messages were sent last night
by the union chiefs, advising that dis
continuance by operators of the "check
off", as prescribed by Federal Judge A.
B. Anderson's injunction, was to, be
treated as breaking the existing wage
agreement.
Atcthe Terre Haute headquarters of
the Indiana miners, it was said that the
only mines working today were a few
of the smaller plants. No formal order
for a strike had been issued at the
headquarters, but officials said such
was under consideration.
Protest against the temporary injunc
tion issued by Judge Anderson was
voiced at numerous meetings held last
night throughout the Indiana fields and
officers of the union said there was lit
tle prospect of a resumption of work
until the writ was set aside or modified.
Operators of the Indiana field will meet
Thursday night at Terre Haute to dis
cuss the situation.
P. H.' Penna, secretary of the Indiana
Bituminous Coal Operators' Association,
in a statement today, took issue with
President John L. Lewis and other
union officials, whether obedience of the
injunction would result in violation
of a contract between miners and oper
ators, assertinbg that the contract pro
vided that both parties were bound by
any decision of a Federal court;
COMMITTEE CALLED
TO MEET ON FRIDAY
Washington, Nov. 2. Call for the
first meeting of the standing commiV
tee of the national conference on
unemployment in New York Friday
l as been sent out by Secretary Hoover,
it was announced today by Edward
Eyre Hunt, secretary of the confer
ence. The present status of unemployment
and the progress of emergency rae-is
ures in cities. Mr. Hunt saki. would
bo placed before the committee, and
special committees would be selected
to begin the study of seasonal and
cyclical phases of the unemployment
problem to establish permanent meas
ures of providing steady work for
wage earners.
The standing committee, which was
f-.imed by the conference to carry on
its- work, has the power to convena the
full conference at any time.
PREMIER BRIAND NOT
TO REMAIN FOR LONG
On Board the Steamer Lafayette,
Nov. 1. (By Wireless via Paris to the
Associated Press) Premier Briand is
not likely to attend more than the first
ten days of the armament conference
sessions in Washington, according to
present indications. His plans,, as he
tentatively decided upon them today,
call for his return to France on board
the liner Paris November 23, her sail
ing being delayed a day or two to fit
in with his arrangements. He thinks
it unlikely that he can remain in
America longer!.
All the invitations the Premier has
received for functions in America have
been referred to Ambassadpr Jusserand,
who will arrange the program for M.
Briand's" stay in the United States
People Not Buying Automt
biles as Rapidly as They
Did in 1919.
RAINS NOT GENERA
Large Parts of State Sti
Without Adequate Rain
fall; Little Idleness.
BY JULE B. WARREN.
Staff Correspondent of The IVewg.
Raleigh, Nov. 2. The Department
State is not looking for such a large i
creas? in the number of automobil
used in North Carolina next vear as
other years, if the intitial order of tl
Department for1 automobile licen
plates for the coming year is an indie
tion of the estimates. And of oour
this is an estimate, but the contract
the Secretary of State with the coi
pany getting the contract is such th
additional numbers may be ordered
it is found necesary to have them.
The - numker of automobiles so f
registered in North Carolina for tl
1921-22 license year has reached 131.00
which is about what the old ye
closed with. While the Departme
still believes that a large number
people are running their machines' wit
out the proper State lieense, or: a
otherwise violating the license law, tl
number of machines licensed now
more nearly in line with the actu
number in the State jthan has been tl
case since the expiration of the
license year. There will not be as lan
an a parent increase this year becau
of the several thousand machines th
were exempted. The last automobi
license law exempted from taxation r
State, municipally and county-own
machines. This included all of
school trucks or any other vehic
which was used by some public offici
Or some department of State, city ai
county government. '
The contract fcr the new licen
plates was awarded to the Adan
Stamping and Stationary Company
St. Louis the same company that mat
the plates last year. There were
bidders, but the St. Louis concern W:
the lowest. It wll make the plates th
year for seven and one-eighth cen
each. The bids ranged from this up
12.6 cents each, but' the higher bid w?
made on a combination license pla
and tail light. This was a new inventive
submitted by D. F. Giles and others
Marion. N. C, and is a very attract!
proposition. The number is stencil
in tin and forms the covering for
hollow background, in which the tt
light was fitted:--- The stenciled lette
are one colar and the background a
other, so that the plate is much moi
easily distinguished at night than is tl
plate row being used. But the Depai
ment of State did not feel that it wou '
be justified in making the addition
expenditures for this improvemen
Consequently the contract was let !
th-Adams company for a minimum
177,000 plates. This is a decrease t:
compared with the order placed Wit
the successful bidders last year, whe
the price of tobacco and cotton W
such that planters and business me
felt justified in purchasing the basolir
burners. Soon after the year starte
however, the price of things whic
make the State roll in prosperity, dro)
ped from top to the bottom,' and tt
folks simply stopped buying . autonv
biles. Consequently the sale of licent
tags was not ns great as the normi
increase would have made it.
The plates this year reflect the d'
crease in the price of tin and painl
which go into the making of the pr
duct. The State buys the next year
supply of numbers for abrmt thrcl
cents less than they were purdhase
last year.
OCTOBER EMPLOYMENT WORK.,
The six free employment bureaus i
the State found jobs for 1228 peopl
during the month of October, whic
was just 101 less than the number pla
ed on jobs during September. The Sel
tember totals were increased Well b
yond the average on account of ther
being an unusually heavy report froi
the Wilmington office for that whol
month. In addition there were five ri
port days in September. I
Raleigh displaced Wilmington thl
month in the number of placement
made. The office here found jobs fo
333 people during the month, but Wi
mington came up closely behind wit
326 placements. The Charlotte offlc
found jobs for 209 people, Winstor
Salem was fourth with 180 placements,
while Greensboro was fifth with 14k
The new office at Asheville, which starr
ed up during the last week in th
month, reported 34 placements mad
during the opening days. It is just gel
ting under way, and the people of th
mountain city are just beginning .t
take advantage of the oportunity to us
it in finding jobs for themselves. :
RAINS NOT GENERAL. 1
The weather bureau of Raleigh re
ports that the rains in North CarolinJ
during the past three days have po
been general. The nrecinitation at Hat
eras was 3 1-2 inches, at Graham
Rougemont and Raleigh about an incft
and in other sections there was but i
quarter of an inch of rain during th
three days. These rains did not. heir
the water supply as much as might b:
expected, for it fel so slowly that mucl
more of it was absorbed by the parche
earth than flowed off into the creek I
and tranches which flow into the reser
voirs of various water supplies. Th
weather bureau gives some hope fi
more rains this week. : V
LONG STRETCH ROAD
Within about a year's time it will b
possible to go from the Johnston coun
ty line east of Raliegh to the Orange
Durham county line west of Durham oi
(Continued on Pajre EleTen.)
IMPAIR
Charlotte and vicinity: Fair tonigb
and Thursday; somewhat cooler t)
night with frost. Moderate to genti
northwest winds.
North Carolina:. Fair tonight an(
Thursday, cooler in east and frost n
west portion tonight: Thursday fair.
South Carolina: Fair tonight art
Thursday; slightly cooler in east am
jrost in normwesi portion ionium. ,
'on lulled on ! Fifln-V