nr
i
NEWS
n
r
6
NIGHT
EDITION
e JLJL J
AND EVENING CHRONICLE
TODAY
"GREATER CHARLOTTE'S HOME NEWSPAPER"
niUU.nUK KWS F.jtnltliKlaorl. Daily. 1SSS; Snnday, 1910.
i;U;M(i CIIKOMCXE Established, 1JMW,
CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1921.
THE CHARLOTTE NEWS ( Consolidated IpTJTPT? T?TYri? PTTXTTC
THE EVEXLXC CHRONICLE (May 8, 1914. ( IVlrj riVL JCiil 1 0
PAGES
Vi
r. ,
fflffijlMS
lav mmiw cpa no
if lull VIC QlRm-.
uthorn Motion Picture
rvtsition Will be Opened
j Tuesday Night.
miominent" visitors.
j7 ov. Notable Figure in
j Industry, Will Attend
! Paring the Week.
. :ccomo, overnight, the
- ,.f n'i a We figures of the motion
industry, Charlotte awaited
iht' day Tuesday with eag
.1 ,i;t;on for the approach of the
,.; which would mark the for
:i;:i!i of the Southern Motion
.-' imposition, the first event of
. , h,-iii in the Carolina.?,
; ., i .-.' promoted on a scale
:,.'.! eat brilliant promise of a
: ; ;'ur days.
, i , nii. day was designated
M.'ippum 1 'ay in compliment to
;',.po Hampton, one of t hs First
. -.ai'star. who arrived here Moa
wis accnueu many attentions
,!..; a nd Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs.
- ii'ai'.-neid prominently known in
.:,. h u p:et ure industry, aecom-
j ; I:.- Louis. Jr.. who has won
K :. a banc an ! orchestra director
! lr.s tender years and small sta-
, 'lis weigh: being only 43 1-2
, and his sister. Miss Clarice
: :it kl. a t'alous dancer, also were
j. .-..'.s of Monday afternoon,
j ;,. -hard Barthtlmess. a popular star,
i. Wi'.'iains. general manager, and
h , ; !;(!. secretary, all of the First
Sl , tm' organization, arrived in Char
! Tu-.-sd.iy morning. Miss Shirley
f. , a. -;ar of Fox pictures. Mrs. Mary
, f iinuus portrayer of "mother"
iwv playing und-. r the Hodkin
i .- ; i (;.:! . and a number of other fa-
oers(. n;ig s in filmdom were ex
! .1 during Tuesday and Wednes-.i:-y
taonring.
IZI KOIJ IS EXPECTED.
one of the greatest
- in the industry and president of
..i.io -.-s 1 'layers-Lasky Corpora
,va expected to arrive from New
a'.c Tuesday or early Wednesday.
XV-: tied that he would be ac-
; ",.y several executives of his
.I :
, ..! hundred theater owners of
a.-oiiiu-s. members of the Caro
a.i.V: n of the Motion Picture
; Owners' Association of Arner
.".i signified their intention of
:!:.' 'In exposition, which was
.; .u tmi" auspices of the asso
President Percy Wells, of
:iu on. a me to Charlotte Mor.
;:i .?'abiishr-d association heacl-i-
at the Selwyn hotel, which
nwtnining the other distin-g-.-'-ts
of the exposition. The
;': n v.-id hold the sessions of its
winier meeting here dur
i, prrgress of the exposition.
pv.ph-r of matters of peculiar
i-n' to the t! eater owners were
: t rojrrams for discussion and
action, no announcement
doming during the morning
.-;(" if; e information relative to
i if ( i5 to be considered.
1'
i
S. 1
I I K. HI AM) TO PRESIDE.
n.arles A. Bland, former Char-
will formally declare the
- :. opened and make all speech
f introduction when the prominent
'"r ure presented to the exosition
: ::! Secretary Herbert C. Wales
d Tuesday morning from his
- tabMshed headquarters at the
hat the doors of the exposi
' i -I; will be held in the City
i :!. ihji. will be opened at 7 o'clock
''! program will begin promptly
s 'i'ifk. Thi- ensuing hour will
h
f,
8.
. '. t n
to introductions, short talks
Ix.r of visiting film stars and
th.' features of the evening
:! beginning of production of
' siuon's feature photoplay,
the scenes of which will be
i the Auditorium stage in full
the exposition visitors. Miss
. Mr. Barthelmess and other
ilay--rs before the camera, as
h- young Carolina beauties,
in ilif popularity contests re-tiduct'-d
by theaters through
two States, will appear in
s made Tuesday night.
I V.'INNERS COMING.
o'
' ' v.-iiiors of the contests at thi
; "'"''''' ;: : the Imperial in Charlotte
' etivly Miss Ursular Heiclt
-L.-s Odi-ssu Hunter. Winners in
' ' were arriving Tuesday
'' '''-'i on almost every train and the
' ' raiiuber, about 30, were expected
! - i' Charlotte before the opening
' '' --iiss Mnrnpton has volunteered,
' :r!ii(,i.meeil, to asist these young
1 1 1 i!i thi-ir "make up" and in other-
f' sCTiinf them briefly in the most
" t; ' "ay it portraying the parts
-'.M them. Freeman II. Owens,
, 1 . o . n ihrector and motion picture
"' i , will have charge of the
:,''.i-J ;u.,n ativities.
-, ening during the four days of
' '' ' - h additional scenes of this
ir" 1 be made on the Auditorium
da ny other scenes will be made
!r;;"!!"! interest in nad near this
- scenario for this nicture was
; : Uailey T. Greerne, a Char--pai).
-r iuan, in collaboration
'tor Owens.
thiee sides of the Auditorium
ii i : ; v
b 0U(J
' "ii arranged double rows of ex
''joths, in which producers and
:,i of motion pictures and deal
! i - aue wiuipraent have arranged
y of unique interest to the pub
" Y'eil as those whose interest is
'f'l'y in the producing, distributing
a. jJtiiitr iihasf s ttf the. indnstrv.
:
5 1 1 .,
"AM EACH EVENING.
i
f i'hjf
it v. ning at the conclusion of ihe
11 Programs, dancing will begin,
'r- visiting stars participating,
nsyivania Serenaders, one of
1 hia's far. ous orchestras, v;hich
11 augmented for this occasion,
1 ' '!' ! this musical programs. Ex
''' opening day, afternoonj and
g programs will be rendered, it
'"flounced. A grand ball, which
xl"jsition executives declare will
' ' i' 'lie rr-ost briliant affairs of
i "r held in Charlotte, is one
"it standing features of Friday
Amerir - Expelled
FronWlexico City
l-xif .x.. Nov. 29 WUliani F.
I?uc resident of Hie American
As n of Mexico, crossed 1 lie
In. today, Graving been expelled
fron .lexico Cil.v.
CRAIG DEMANDS
NEW PROPOSALS
Must Be Made by Tuesday
or Irish Negotiations Will
Come to An End.
Belfast. Nov. 29. By the Asso-c-uied
Press) "By Tsiday. next,
these negotiations will have broken
down or the Prime Minister will
send me new pr posais for consid
eration by the Cabinet," said the
t statement made by Str James Craig
to the l ister Parliament today with
regard to the Irish peace negotia
tions. "Meantime," the l ister premier's
statement added, "the rights of Ul
ster will lie in no way sacrificed or
compromised."
Kelfast. Nov. 29. By the Associated
Press.) !ir James Craig, the Ulster
Premier, speaking before the Northern
Parliament here today, said he had told
Prime Minister ldoyd-George that the
British Government's proposals to Uls
ter for the settlement of the Irish ques
tion were utterly impossible. He said
Ulster would not enter an all-Ireland
parliament under the present conditions
but was prepared to discuss other avt
nues lor settlement.
The Premier said the accounts of the
Government's! plan for an all-Ireland
Parliament that had appeared in the
press were "fairly accurate."
Sir James made these statements in
speaking to a motion for adjournment.
Replying to a ciue.-tion, he
dd the
Xorthern Ireland Cabinet had given
-iructions for the immediate enrolment
of 700 whole-time "specials." and live
thousand part-time "specials" to com
plete the establishment of these forces.
I.onduii. Nov. 29. (By the Associated
Press) Admission of the possibilitv
that Ulster and the south of Ireland
may some day unite "of their own free
wills" in the government of all Ireland
is ascribed to Sir James Craig, CTs.vr
Premier, in an interview published lo
clay by The Daily Mirror.
"I do not say that Ulster will r ever
accept an all-Ireland council, though
the Sinn Fein says it will never aceppt
any other scheme." Sir James is quot
ed as saying. "What we say is, let. 1he
Sinn Fein first prove its ability to gov
ern itself along constitutional lines. Iet
it win Ulster's confidence Dy practical
proof of its fairness towards P.e soutn
ern unionists. Then, in the course of
time, the two Irish governments might
coalesce of their own free wiiis."
"I cannot sav whether this would b
good or bad; of that I am not ( i.nviuced.
it might be very bad, for. while Ulster
-emains a part of the United Kindlon,
England can always land troops :n Ire
ond by way of Ulster, if Great Brita'n's
-afety is jeopardized by anv cause af
fecting Irish harbors or coast?."
"If Ulster conceded all th-? Sinn Fein's
.Vina nds." he continued, "the whole
world would throw its hats 'nto the air
in a frenzy of joy and relief. There
would be world-wide thanksgiving ser
vices in the churches and wonderful
scenes of happiness. But Knglaud
would then banish Ireland from its
mind, and turn its thoughts .to its ovn
problems, and, if the Sinn Fein began
to oppress Ulster under the all-Ireland
council. England would then answer
Ulster's complaints by saying 'You ac
cepted the council: you must, manage
your own affairs now'. Indeed, Eng
land would have no right to interfere."
Sir James was quoted as outlining
imaginary eases of oppression, such as
the enforcement of Catholic teaching
through legislation. "Remember reli
gion is behind this historical quarrel,
although little is said in that regard,"
he was quoted, "and that is the sort of
thing that would be likely to happen.
Another supposition was that th?
Sinn Fein, with its lack of experience ir.
industrial affairs, might easily wreck
Ulster's important industries by ill
considered legislation.
Sir James contended that the guaran
tees promised Ulster by Premier Lloyd
George would not protect her against
such liabilities.
MISS CLARKE SUBJECT
TO FITS MELANCHOLY
Orlando, Fla., Nov. 29. G. L. Smith,
who has been assistant postmaster at
West Palm Beach for the last four
years, was the rirst witness put on
the stand by the defense in the Lena
Clarke trial here today. Mr. Smith
testified to the erratic conduct of the
firfpnriant. who. he said, after the
deaht of her brother Paul, was subject
to fits of melancholy, we wouia otten
hnve to call her several times before
he could get a response, though Mis3
Clarke was nearby.
Another of her peculiarities, he said,
was her fascination for the blending
of colors. She would often put a
fifty-cent stamp on a letter, he said,
to make the color or the stamp blend
with the envelope.
DECISION IS UP TO
SECRETARY MELLON
Washington. Nov. 29. While his
own judgment is that the agent is
blameless under the circumstances,
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes has
decided to refer to Secretary Mellon
for final decision the charges made by
Mayor Stewart, of Savannah, (la., that
Special Prohibition Agent E. B. Hen
son raided a home without a warrant.
The Savannah mayor complained to
President Harding and the Georgia
Senators that Henson ha I entered the
home of Miss Bessie Gaiden "without
justification and apparently without a
warrant." An inuiry by Commissioner
Haynes was said to have developed
that Henson had a warrant for the
raiding of another dwelling and enter
ed that of Miss Garden by mistake.
FAIR
4 an1 -trifririiitv; Fn.ii innioht,
VUti mw v ' w
and Wednesday; little change in tem
perature. Gentle west and northwest
winds.
North and South Carolina: Fair to
night and Wednesday; no change in
temperature.
fr
u
General Improvement is
Shown in Industrial and
Employment Situation.
DEMOCRAT"" ELECTED.
Mark Squires Succeeds J. E. j
Kanipe in the Senate;
Shipman Worried.
.
BY jn,E B. WARREN. ;
Staff Correspondent of The Aews.
Raleigh, Nov. 29. That there is a
general improvement in the industrial
and employment situation in North
Carolina is the opinion of the "Indus
trial Employment Survey Bulletin"
published by the Federal employment
service which has been making a study
bf conditions in all parts of the coun
try. The "Bulletin" draws its conclu
sions 'l'oni reports received from 1S6
cotton mills, 40 lumber plants, IS fer
tilizer manufacturing concerns and a
number of other industries.
Tile publication runs about a month
behind and it is reasonable to presume
that conditions are somewhat better
now than they were when the copy
was prepared. The following- notes
about the different towns show that
there . s a large housing shortage in
nearly all of th.' larger towns with the
exception of Winston-Salem. Charlotte
reports a very marked increase in
biuldin activity during the past few
months with better prospects for meet
ing the housing shortage.
A number of the cities report that
the letting of road contracts has prac
tically absorbed all of the common and
unskilled labor in their sections, while
building operations are giving employ
ment to a large number of carpenters
and other skilled wood workers. The
additional lettings of contracts since
the reports were sent in will help con
ditions in other sections of the State.
The report of the six free employ
ment bureaus for the week also shows
some improvement over previous
weeks. The bureaus found jobs for
326 of the 365 who were referred,
which was about 95 per cent. Regis
trot ions of those seeking jobs during
the week was 40 per cent more than
this number, however, there being 513
applications or registrations with the
different bureaus. The number of wo
men seeking work this past week was
larger than usual, 112 registering with
the six bureaus. There were requests
for help for only 301 people.
Wilmington continues to lead in the
number of placements made. This of
fice found jobs for 28 people during
the week; Raleigh with 82 was -second
Winston-Salem third with 49 Asheviile
had 35; Greensboro 34, and Charlotte
found jobs for 28 people during the
weke. Of the total 63 were women and
263 jobs were found for men.
A DEMOCRAT ELECTED
Reports have reached Raleigh to the
effect that Mark Squires, of Lenoir,
who was defeated for the State Senate
by J. E. Kanipe a Republican in the
general election, has defeated his Re
publican opponent for the honor of sit
ting in the special session. The district
is nomally Republican and its election
returns ran true to form in the gen
eral election when Mr. Kanipe was sent
to the Senate, although Mr. Squires
made a very good run.
Since the last session of the Legisla
ture Senator Kanipe has been appointed
to a Federal position with the marshal
of Western North Carolina, and conse
quently resigned his seat in the Senate.
When the special elections were called
Mr. Squires announced that he would
be a candidate for the short session,
and while there was Republican oppo
sition, bested his opponents. He got an
unusually good vote, while the Repub
licans failed to poll their normal
strength.
JIITCH SHIPMAN WORRIED
One of the difficulties and perplexities
of woman's entry into .the political
arena is now confronting Commissioner
of Labor and Printing Mitchell L. Ship
man, who is trying to correct the copy
for the roll calls for the House and Sen
ate for the special session. Despite the
fact that some of the members of both
houses have resigned and the names
of the new Representatives and Sena
tors have not been officially sent to
Raleigh, Mr. Shipman got along with
out the slightest hitch until he came to
the name of the Representative from
Buncombe county.
It so happens that Buncombe, show
ing its belief in suffrage, sent a woman
to the Legislature in 1921. On the old
roll call for the regular session she
was listed: as "Clement", for it was
Miss Mary Exum, a woman lawyer of
Asheviile who came down here with
Representative Young to represent Bun
combe. But since the last general session
Miss Clement has married. And therein
comes the hitch. Mr. Shipman is wrest
ling with the problem of whether or
not he should put the Buncombe county
Representative down as Mrs. E. E.
Stafford, or Mrs. Mary Clement Staf
ford or Mrs. Mary Exum Clement Staf
ford, which he thinks decidedly too long
for the roll call. Legally Buncombe's
(Continued on Page Thirteen.)
BOY MILLIONAIRE
LEAVES SHOW GIRL
fev
15
1 "AH
Vr
1 - -
PL V.
J7 JJ&f
5
t
i ts.
V 1
V.-. vX ..........
Am
1
Mm
:.. v. -.v.v ...t-.
Jessie Reid CaswelL
Dan Caswell, boy millionaire of
Cleveland, O., whose elopement a
year ago with Jessie Reed, beauti
ful Follies show girl, caused a sen
sation, breakfasted with his wife
at a Boston hotel after havinpr at
tended a Hallowe'en party with
her the night before. Th"i3 on the
eve of his institution of divorce
proceedings against her. j
GUY'S PATERNITY
AGAIN IS ARGUED
Stiliman Divorce Roarings
Resumed Today Before
Referee Gleason.
- - i
' PoTighlteepsie, N T., Nov. 29. As a
defense of the paternity of Baby Guy
Stiliman, the register of the St. Regis
Hotel in New, York was introduced to
day in the divorce suit of James A.
Stiliman against Mrs. Anne U. Still
man to show that Mr. and Mrs. Stil,
man had a suite of rooms there tor
two weeks beginning February 15, 1913,
nine months before the birth of Guy.
On February 16. it was said, the
register disclosed that Fred Beauvais.
part Indian guide, who Mr. Stiliman
alleges is Guy's father, was assigned
to a room at the St.. Regis, and a nota
tion was made to charge it to Mr.
Stillman's account.
Mr. and Mrs. Stiliman. Beauvais.
two of the Stiliman children and a
nurse remained at the hotel two weeks,
it was understood tr have been testified
by Charles Nascond and Theodore
Roth, employes of t'?c St. Regis
Just before the hearing began. Mrc
Stiliman arrived bv train and wa'kd
to the chambers of Referee ""Xaniel .1.
Oleason. Mr. Stiliman, as usual, was
not in attendance
Beauvais" rocrn was on the fourth
floor and the Stiliman suite on the
sixth floor, Nascond was said to have
testified. He. told of seeing Mr. Still
man enter the apartment where his
wife was a guest, more than once, it
was reported.
Roth, a head waiter, testified that
Mrs. Stiliman often dined with her
mother, Mrs. James Brown Potter, but
he had never been her with her husband,-
although he had noticed both of
them at the hotel.
When these two witnesses had been
( ross-examined, an adjournment was
taken until Tuesday.
WEEK SET ASIDE FOR
RAILROADS HEARING
Washington. Nov. 29. The railroads
will be given from December 14 a il
tc justify in hearings the present level
of transportation charges, the Inter
state Commerce Commission announced
today in making public a question
naire to the carriers. It is intended
to guide all persons interested m
appearing in the general investigation
the commission is to make.
The roads are asked whether present
rates are reasonable in the aggregat3
i: the country as a whole, or reason
able in the territorial rate groups, and
if not, to what extent they need modi
fication. It asks definite financial
showing as to what returns the car
riers are earning and what prospects
they have for the future; what h is
been done to reduce operating ex
penses; what charges have alreaav
been made in individual commodity
rates, and what has been expended oft
maintenance.
The commission also invites arg-i
ment as to what rate of return rail
reads should be entitled to earn upon
their property holdings after Marc'i
1. 1922, .when the transportation act's
6 per cent standard of railroad earn
irgs expires.
NEW ENGLAND CITIES
SLOWLY RECOVERING
Boston, Nov. 29. New England cities
arid towns were ' recovering slowly to
day from the damage and confusion
caused by the storms of the last two
days. While efforts were being made
to restore lighting, communication and
transportation services, a new storm of
hail began in eastern Masaschusetta,
the weather turned cold again and the
icy burden. that prostrated wires, poles,
and limbs of trees increased. Hope that
ights' could be provided -tonight for
nearly two score cities and towns,
that were in darkness last night, lessened-.
. . .
Harding
In Ft
nanciai
Important Step in the Direction of Readjustment of
World Exchange and Trade to be Taken; Admin
istration Finds Co-operation Essential.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
MaA" Correspondent of The 'en.
Copyright, IB21, by Aews Publishing Co.
Washington, Nov. 2b. America has
decided to join hands with the other
Powers of the world in an effort to sta-'will hardly be passive even though her
bilize international exchange. j delegates will not have the power to
The United States has accepted the I commit this country to any definite plan
invitation of the allied governments to! of action. The Harding Administration
be represented at a conference to be ! intends to throw the full weight of its
held abroad in the near future at which j influence on the side of financial recon
the whole question of exchange will be ' struction. This has been urged for many
examined. J months by leading bankers as well as
This is the most important step in by such influential organisations as the
the direction of financial readjustment j United States Chamber of Commerce,
which has been taken since the armis- j So vital has the question of international
tice. If successful the movement may, finance become that men like Frank
have a far-reaching effect upon the re- Vanderlip and James Simpson of Mar
vival of business in America and partic-1 shall Field and Company, who have just
ularly in the restoration of markets for! returned from Europe are insisting that
the sale of American agricultural and j chaos will follow if America doesn't
man u f a c-1 u red prod u ct s.
WILL TAKE TIME
r a long time there
has been a
persistent effort on the part of Euro
pean countries to elicit America's inter
est in an international financial con
ference. There has even been a sugges
tion that the question of the war debts
of the Allies might be discussed at the
armament conference at Washington
but the idea has been abandoned. The
movement to reconstruct the world's
finances will be a slow evolutionary one
and will not be confined to a single con
ference but to a series of meetinsrs
which may take the better part of the!
year. The whole thing is the outgrowth!
of the recommendations made at the j
last international conference at Brus-1
sels but it now has the moral support
of the United States government which
means that more results will be accom
plished. Just who the American representa- j
l ives will be is not known but undoubt-j
ny some hanker- or bankers ot prom
inence. 1 hese men will be in the nature
f observers and will not be authorized j
to conclude any agreements binding
the United States but will explore the!
whole field and brinr back to this coun- ;
1 ,ir vaf.nmi'innfMj tirino XTrll1 mio'nt VA !
laid before American bankers in a series
of conferences such as President Hard
ing held at the White House last
Spring. When there is agreement
among American bankers as to the
proper course to be pursued, there prob
ably will be a final conference in Wash
ington at which the whole fiscal situa
tion of the world will be reviewed and
NAVAL EXPERTS
FAILED TO MEET
Conference " is""" Postponed
Until Tomorrow at Re
quest of Delegation.
Washington. Nov. 29. (By the Asso
ciated Press) The meeting today of
the "Big Five" naval experts, ihe first
general conference of the naval men,
scheduled for nearly a week, was post
poned until tomorrow at the request
of one of the delegations. No official
statement as to the reason for :iio
postponement or the da egation making
the request was given
The meeting called ior todav had
been looked upon as of particular sig
nificance because it w.ts kn .wn that
the experts have pract Tjaily concluded
their examination of fne facts and fig
ures which underlie Se :"'iy I'r.ghes'
proposal for a ten-year holiday and a
subsequent limitation af naval arma
ment on the basis of a ratio,
as regards Great Britain, the United
StatAi anrl .Tflnan TM-.- r Yn,.r: ivf 1111- 1
derstood to have been dealing for the
last dav or so in the inter-group ex
changes of documents wih factors of
the proposal of stco-idary inipa:,,an-'e
as compared with th .-ppl cation of
the plan to capital ship strength.
There was some ind'eation that th.
Japanese had sought the postpone'
ment. although this was r.ot capable of
confirmation in conference circles gen
orally. It was known h j ever, :n
view of the statemer.t las", night ly
Vice Admiral Kato chief i.ail exp. it
of the Japanese group i'wt ."apan
still was hopeful a 10-"'"-I fleet ratio
would be accepted instead of the
American "5-5-3" proposal'. Because cf
this, it was regarded that the commit
tee of experts might still face consid
erable discussion before a reoort to
the conference committee itself vaa
framed. For the American viewpoint
both as to American experts and i.s
to the membership of the American
delegation, it was asserted that no al
teration of the "5 5-3" ratio would be
acceptable to the United States.
Stew Nugent writes his mother from
Michigan that he wuz th' only one in
a class o' fourteen t' successfully pass
. j a . rw" i l
an auto ineii examination , at ioieau,
Ohio,' recently,
is takin' tongue
mussin' her lips-
Miss Tawney Apple
control t keep from
Decides To Join
conferences
definite plans laid for financing the
trade of the globe.
WILL TAKE ACTIVE PART
America's part in the deliberations
save the financial situation abroad
Along this line cablegrams from Paris
today tell of the decision of the repara
tions commission to appoint a commit
tee of bankers and experts in interna
tional exchange to devise means fo
preventing a snoek to exchange rates
whenever Germany pays or fails to pay
her regular reparation payments. Al
though the United States doesn't re
ceive any reparation money, neverthe
less mis country is deeply interested in
international exchange and therefore
America will have her observers at th
conterence to be heid in Paris next
month which is described in the Paris
press dispatches.
I'OLICY OF CO OPERATION
In other words, it may be taken for
granted that the Harding Administra
tion has embarked upon a policy of co
operation with other Governments not
merely for the reduction of armament
i burdens and the settlement of such
matters as disturb the peace of the Far
' East but financial questions which have
I been hanging in the air ever since the
j war ended and W'hich admittedly have
; clone more to disturb business condi
tions evorywnere man any other sm
gle factor. The drop in exchange ha?
prevented America from selling her
goods abroad. All sorts of artificial
measures to relieve exchange have been
suggested but the tendency now is to
avoid experimental measures and to go
the root of the trouble. The theory
t upon which the next conterence will
j proceed, it is suggested by persons
i familiar with the Administration view
(Continued on rage Fourteen.)
STREET WORK IS
S00NT0 START
Commissioner St ancill Hopes
to Begin Operations Ear
ly in December.
When the street improvement bonds,
sold last Saturday, are delivered in New
York December 9 and the money is
available, a start on the paving of more
than 14 miles of city streets will be
made, says W. S. Stancill, Commission
er of public works.
Contracts for the work have already
been let to Blythe Bros., at a figure
slightly in excess of $500,000, and as
soon as possible the work will be initial
ed and as much done before Winter
sets in.
Priority of streets to be paved will
be determined bv the amount of pre
liminary work already out of the way,
the commissioner explained. Those
streets, for which paving has been peti
tioned, and on which curb has been put
in place, grading done, and gas, water
and sewer mains laid, will be the first
to be actually paved, said" Mr. Stancill.
The weather will also determiii"
which streets will be worked first, he
continued, pointing out that thosf
streets whjch are greatly traveled will
have to wait until the coming of warm
wreather. He said that it will be im
possible to dig up a street, which has
heavy traffic and let it remain torn up
for a week, a month or longer, because
the weather does :ft permit work.
If all things were equal Mr. Stancill
said, the first streets to receive a coat
ing of asphalt would be those on which
paving would benefit the greatest num
ber of persons. Yet there are many en
gineering unequalities that creep in and
each particular situation must be met,
the commissioner said.
More than 14 miles will be paved be
fore the program is finished, including
the pavement of streets and sidewalks.
Property owners have petitioned the
commissioners and they will pay for
the pavement abutting on their proper
ty. The city will pay for the pavement
at street intersections.
The commissioners are planning wa
ter and sewer extensions in conjunc
tion with the paving program. The re
mainder of the $1,200,000 bond issue,
taken last Saturday by New York bond
buvers, after the $500,000 is spent for
streets and $200,000 for the erection of
a filtration plant for the water depart
ment will be used in the water and
sewer extensions.-
Streets which are to be paved must
have the water and sewer mains laid
before the pavement is put in place.
M. Stancill explained. He also pointed
out that some streets which already
have water and sewer mains, must
again be dugged up. Some of the mains
have been in the ground nearly 40 years
and they must be replaced before the
pavement is laid, he added.
OHIO RIVER FLOODS
SWEEPING LOWLANDS
Pittsburg. Pa.. Nov. 29. The first
November flood in more than 20 years
was today sweeping down the Oh'o
River from the upper reaches of the
Monongahela and Allegheny, the e-sult-of
an almost continuous rainfall
for several days. The flood stage, 22
feet at the Point Bridge, was reached
before daybreak and a few hours later
the Ohio was rising three-tenths of a
foot an hour,-with predictions from the
Weather Bureau that the crest will
be reached soon after noon.
Scores of persons living in file low
lands of the north side wero taken
from their homes in boats by the po
lice, while rising waters compelled the
suspension of operations in a number
of mills and factories.
Reports from points along the Mo
nongahela River said the damage would
be heavy but no estimate could be
made until the JJopd had receded.
COMMANDER OF
LOST BATTALION
TAKES OWN LIFE
Lieut. Col. Charles W. Whit
tlesey is Missing from
Steamship Toloa.
WAS AMERICAN HERO.
Surrounded and Without
Water, He Told German,
"You Go to Hell."
New York, Nof. 29. Secret brooding
over the memories of his experiences
in the war, from which he emerged
one of America's greatest individual
heroes, was ascribed today by friends
and relatives of Lieut. Col. Charles W.
Whittlesey as the cause of his taking
his life Sunday while on the way to
Havana.
Leaving several letters, presumably
explaining his act, the commander of
the "Lost Battalion" disappeared from
the steamship Toloa, 24 hours oiu
from New York. His intimate friends
had no idea he was making an ocean
voyage.
Members of his family and business
associates were incredulous at first
when a wireless dispatch reported him
missing. But, as evidence accumulated,
they reluctantly came to the conclu
sion that the missing man was Colonel
Whittlesey. And then they recalled in
cidents, which, pierced together in the
iight of his tragic death, might have
been recognized as indications that hi.
spirit was shaken by recurrent mem
ories of his brothers-in-arins, who had
died before his eyes in France.
The last blow, they said, more try
ing than the rest, was in Washington
a fortnight ago when he took part in
the funeral services for America's Un
known soldier. He returned from the
capital more depressed than before,
the haunting visions clearer than
ever, bearing him down. There he
had met hundreds of former friends
md had marked anew the gaps in the
. anks of the men he loved.
"His mind stopped," was the explana
: ion of Robert. Forsyth Little, of the
aw firm of White and Case, with
which Colonel Whittlesey had been as
sociated for about a year. "It had all
t could bear, remarkable mind though
t was. I don't think there is a man
n tre country wno nas nad tne try
ing experiences Colonel Whittlesey has
'.iad in the past, two years.
LWAS ACCESSIBLE.
"He w;as the hero who was always5
accessible . to. those who thought lu
ould help them. The disabled, the
tobies'1!, the friendless, the widows of
:he 'war rail of them were on his
mind constantly. For the last two
rears ihere has scarcely been an hour
ivhen the grief and horror of the war
ivas not. brought vividly and specifically
icforo him."
Colonel Whittlesey had told no one.
apparently, that he was going to Ha
vana. When he left his office Fridny
afternoon, it was with some cheery re
mark regarding the Army-Navy fool
ball game, which he intended to sec.
At his boarding house on East Forty
fourth street, he told friends he was
going away "to be by mlself to rest"
when he left Saturday morning with
a traveling bag. He was in the habit
of taking week-end trips and his go
ing was unmarked by any unusual cir
cumstances. Colonel Whittlesey's uncle, C. W.
Whittlesey, of New York, agreed with
his nephew's legal asosciates that h
had come back trom Arlington with the
recollection induced by the memorial
services weighing heavily on his mind.
John B. Pruyn, Colonel Whittlesey's
lose friend and former law partner,
also shared the general, view of the
a use for the tragedy.
"His experience in the army, partic
ularly in the Argonne, was a tremend
ous strain," he said.
"It affected him more than hie
friends knew. His was always a re
served nature, and kept his feelings
himself. He did not break under tnii
strain, or anything like it. To all ap
pearance he was normal.
DEPRESSED BY UNKNOWN.
"But on Armistice Day, he went tx
Washington and took part in the cere
monies as one of the medal of honor
men. This, added to what bad gom
before, was more than he could stand.
Outwardly, there was no great change
in him after he came back, but in talk
ing today with those who knew him
best. I have come upon little details, in
significant temperaments which indi
cate, when woven together, great de
pression of spirit."
Colonel Whittlesey's name leaped in
to world-wide promim nee overman
through his retort to the German offi
cer who caled on him to surrender af
ter he was surrounded in the Argonne.
For four days and nights his com
mand, the First Battalion, 308th infan
try, 77th division, had lain under fire,
cut off from aid. without food or fresh
water. All but 87 men had been killei
or wounded.
Blindfolded and under the protection
of a white flag", a German soldier stum
bled into the American strong point.
"Surrender," he cried, "in the name
of humanity" and he told how. from
the German trenches, the agonized
cries of the American wounded could bt
heard. But Colcrel Whittlesey's mes
sage to the enemy was not that he
would lay down his arms, "i'ou o tc
hell," he said. ,
A few hours later, American reseives
attacked all along the line, the Ger
mans were pushed back and the little
band of survivors saved.
On his return to the United Stat. s
he was voted the Congressional medal
of honor, the most coveted American
decoration for heroism, and a few
months after the armistice, the Ger
man officer, who called on him to sur
render, made a public statement ex-
tollinar the courage and dogged del
r-
mination of his former foe.
News of the famous soldier's disap
nearance came in the following mes
sage, received here from the captain
of
Ihe ship:
"Passenger named C. W. Whittlesey
disappeared. Left several letters."
ITALIAN DESTROYER SINKS
London, Nov. 29. The Italian des
troyer Centrauro has gone down in the
Mediterranean off the port of Adalia
during a storm, according to advices
from Brindisi to
The Daily Mail, (ine
listed in available na-
Centrauro is not
val registers).