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r nnn' NEW 16 PAGES TODAY M NIGHT EDITION A AND EVENING CHRONICLE "GREATER CHARLOTTE'S HOME NEWSPAPER 9 9 Succeeds White A- Coming Conference Means End Of Anglo-Jap Alliance Motive Back of Adding Far Eastern Questions to the Agenda of the Arms Parley Revealed by Lawrence; Fight for Open Door in China. STATECONTRAC Head of Democra T FIT TO HI BY ITALIANS W fflOTOI 1BLIC OFF! LICENSE PLATE C CAB T 0 4 TillU CHARLOTTE, N. C, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1921. gl yg FIVE CENT IM IKUV HflKu KY I Snorts White A AOCTrwCDC A DC DEVEPEl fT D Am HELPED RVII Q mm CITIZEN TO ULU zzz FOR NE 11 111 . 2mWiM Ui U. J, I 1 olution Censuring Him Was Presented Today to Legion Convention. substitute" PASSED. 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- v& mm mm. 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