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HE CH AKLO TTE NEW PAGES SUNDAY EDITION TVV A V AND EVENING CHRONICLE "GR EATER CHARLOTTE'S HOME NEWSPAPER" "1 r",'OTTfly;?T",-:"!,".V'1; 1S8' Snnday. 110. i-l"MM C1IU.M1. 1LLtallit.licda IJMia. CHARLOTTE, N. C, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1921. THE CHAHLOTTE SEWS Consolidated ITtTPl? TTTAn? PTTNTQ THE EVESLNG CHROMCLE- May S. 1814. I KltLi F i Ej KjEjI ID rDiTiriCM ill? tam ?I9rt A MPT? jv Measure Introduced in thc House to Validate All School Levies. Al),jOrKX NEXT WEEK. 0 Now Bills to Be Intro fjuad After Tuesday; speed Limit Increased. i; .11 I F. B. WARREN, i l ,,rrr.iinlpnt of l'hp . hi. Tlv Department of .. .j . through the cduca i.rtco or' the House, paved ttl-vuent of the school tax v Vy i rYeting. through Mat ;.'!tie chnirman of the cora--i;:c. rion. a lull which vali !, school taxes levied, legal v of taxes by each county ,,iippfs tp to o9 cents for 'years 10:i-2. and. 1922-23, v levies made for building ..-.! funds this past year and iit thf levy for these funds i- shall not go above 7 1-2 r..,-;-;l.cs a redistribution of ,!;nn fund. . answer of the Department , n and th Legislature to i'u of the Supreme Court in 'ounty decision to make riit provision about the mud-s.-'.vol tax situation. ? -. ;.: X - . .... t I ' .'I ' h " ' 'lliiiOW ( ASK OUT OF COURT. . - will throw the Yadkin coun- ', ';,...( T.., Ash- county cases out of :avii!'-s that any levy that ..' will be legal, and like- . .. that schools may partic- :, C'laihzation tuna when up to 39 cents. The ,,rr of r.owie and the Yadkin .t:untssicners all along has .-. the Inn- srvM participation in .- f ind could be secured by the a artifs after they had used ho j'leney a "0 cent rate would en the values in their counties ... horizontal cuts in values were rizc-1 this bill, introduced as result of the reversal of the . .,...y ca?e jn Supreme Court. four than trs: . hra-s al! tax rates for school levied by counties in excess :ts this year. P.: cents as the rate which '...-vied next year before any ,a participate in the equaliza ! to he!;i run the schools six ;d- an equalizing fund of .". it;c oa-"1 of $7r,000, to aid a coupf i'.s. . !.; vtt no action in the na i rit n.andamus may be otap'l canty authorities to .vHt.-r "ate than prescribed in Olll'f Of F.vinonnn I A JLJ ? 1UV11VV Consumed by Jury Kocktini-I. X V llfw. in i : i I t l est.) A jury fleliberatintr on tlio ease of Mrs. Anderson, charged with hquor violations, today drank the quart bottle of whiskey which was held as evidence, and returnee' a verdict of not guilty. When the jurymen returned J mmi, auer meir session in the j' room, the judge asked for the rience. The foreman sheep' drev forth the quart bottle. S iiatl l)een full when they reti' T , contained only four drops. A half dozen indictments have been returned on this evidence. The district attorney believed th indict ments now may have to be quashed. DEVELOPS YS WL it Inspirational Addresses Fea ture Second of Three-day Meetings. SUNDAY'S PROGRAM. TOM SLAUGHTER KILLED BY MAN HE LET ESCAPE " ' '"' ,H r.f I'M i. T Oil AIMOl KN.MENT. I 'I - ii.-.a-" today passed the joint res- i -..xlnz 1 '!- nlior 13 as the final t : mi reduction of bills with the ; ad.iotirntr.ent will be possi- i S.ittiiday. of 8 4 to 4 the House pass- i a-..i reading the Rrooks bill r-r Lending the $710,000 ' and the bill goes lo the bill against capital pun-a- up from th: judiciary . ; h au unfavorable report, to revive tho inras :i..iiS" df(.atol the mo t : '-ill giving cities and : a-lit to ajipoint planning rs vas assod after many I ' -n exempted from it. o nassed tht! bill. ln- -'.''Hi limit in residential :. IS to 20 and on coun- .'"i i 30 miles an hour a r h discussion the Sams - oa' ri gistiation of bond . '-"th-divisions of State and -'. authorities with the ' ,. ;sr-.i s -ennd readin i ..r:H- up .Monday night in' few amendments will the Senate. It will enable "".her taxing units to keep ir bonded debt, will force " ef sinking fund3 and who fail to meet in-rrj-a ipai at maturity. Sen ai.d others declare the bill : .: es:siv( step in public fi i in ir.yny years. Forger, Who Escaped With Bandit, Killed Him as They Dodged Posses. TO BE GIVEN REWARD. MX CREW FAILED TO FOLLOW ORDERS Teo. 10. The Philadel hng Railway Company, its investigation of the Meo'v. last Monday, in ive persons lost their out. a statement that '.i-!y establishes that the ai---efl by the failure of .ar;hfr l'il to ofiey ibe eive,i at Jiryn Athyn, -a in to take a siding at wait, there until train ' passed." 17. ?v mm ti ' rn nn vnnn j riur r i raw Mia mi nrmt' And is Not to Be Tried for Murder, Governor McRae, of Arkansas, Says. Little Rock, Ark.. Dec. 10. "The cards were stacked against Tom Slaughter; but he died with his shoes on. That's the way he wanted to go." 1 his tribute to the voting but ganw and notorious bandit leader and killer was mumbled to a prison guard here tonight by Clifton Taylor, negro, a member of Slaughter's band of six con victs who "crushed out" of the Arkan sas penitentiary early Friday. Taylor had just arrived with James O Unwnril ivViif ton f nnroil trt tVvT-PA years from Hot Springs for forgery, aim Jim v ta. iit'gio LUiiviii, ill un- tody of officers. The trio members Ben ton last night after Howard had snot ana Kinea tneir leaaer. Clio ii o-l- -t-oc? Ir ill a1 Vtr TTi-tio rr1 lac night as he lay on the ground in a ravine near Benton where he had led his little band of desperadoes after a His body was taken to Benton this af ternoon, wnere it wm be neia Dy ha una count:-' officilas until an inqtiest is held. The inquest probably will be com pleted by non - tomorrow when the. body it i i 1 J3 wm oe urougni nere anu nt-iu. iu; UiUWtt V-V, ' v-. siato- nffiViata tnnTsrVit rommiinicated rt-;li aitiiitrlitrty'a mntViAr and sister at Dallas, Texas, asking for disposition of tne noaj". Howard will not be prosecuted for killing Slaughter. Governor .McRae made plain tonight in announcing that the $500 reward offered by the State of Arkinsas for the capture "dead or alive" of the bandit leader would be given to Howard. KiatP officials nublick' expressed ap proval of Howard's action in killing Slaughter. Public sentiment, however, appeared to be with the slain bandit chief. 'jvlnr nnrroborntpd Howard's story that the latter deliberately shot Slaugh- ilOWART OF ACT Howard calmly told of his act. " t ini.iArl KiA.usrhter's band yesterday for the purpose of killing him if I got ., nr " said be. f got the chance and Slaughter is dead. ' -r.i-n on huddled around a camp- fire. Slaughter was lying before the fire. Hp held his gun in his rignt nana and used his left arm as a puiow uii "t tnow if was mv best chance, and I whirled on him with my gun, order ing him to straighten out his hands be fore him. . . ' "He jumped up. trying to train his .run All TY1 C Mill I srot in the first shot. "I knew it was his life then or mine. "I shot him twice through the head and once through the heart. i-V nftpr T shot him. but he thrashed around in the bushes and groaned for fifteen minutes." tj,,,,-i rioninrfvfl that he attempted to make prisoners of the five negroes, hut throe of them uname juh, j T.,f vriitis Cannon escaped. -rr.c io l.Plived to be seriously .I..v,,wi t ;i.-ott'i5P 'Ruster. whom How ard declares he shot after he had kill ed Slaughter. . m i--,c!c;oa TTPrp SPOUfinS tne , .mi . Pnntnn for the three ne oroos. All are heavily armed, and a. hnttl is imminent, officers beneveu. Aff;i.,ia nt Ronton were incensed .i lnr-nprl that the Oovernoi :e,.,io. tn turn over to Howard thc- ...,ov.i mniiov which had been of staiichtpr. They declared Tr i ,il Torfl nrprpnted tiic nan MO A ill U Li.'.'- '-fJ " J " break as be had been informed from the' start of the plotting of the gang to TKn,. nanTnrpf", it was only in the hone of getting the. reward that he shot. Slaughter. r-- ,i,ior'.. hod,, was found exact! where Howard said it would be. One v,upt from Howard' .45 calibre ro- r,n awnv the rierht side ot Slaughter's face. Another shot had lnio hQr-lr nnd n third had rip- 1 , . ot -f thP bandit s left hand. Apparently Slaughter had been MIIJl l'i3 Identification of Slaughter a body vas nos'tive. It was viewea at ncmuu w.v warn DemDsev and two prison guards. ... r,- it, norcriiK najcked the lit . i . . TiPTitnn todav when Slaugh- body arrived. Officers could not keep back the curious and finally the j ,i i.onflit wis olaced on a wagon which was drawn to the center of "the square" and permittee, tne puum; i The penitentiary officials and the Arkansas Governor were m uua.iB y1; !nrv tAfin,, while a rigid investigation was being made of Slaugh ter's flight. Belief that persons within the' prison had given him the GermSh- made automatic piLui, c : t iiti th. guards, was heard cxnressed. The gun has not been re- covei-pd. A negro who eeseapea wiui Slaughter and to whom the gun was -iven bv the outlaw said he dropped it in the Saline River wnue neeing nun. "Something More" is Start ing-Word of Themes Be ing Discussed. Four-Power Agreement, To Keepr eace In he jracihc, Is R atified And Will ' - Supplant The Anglo-Japanese Treaty OPPOSITION Ti ATY FL P IN SEN AT Inspirational addresses and group discussions lined the program of the second day's session of the third an nual Older Boys' Conference, which opened Friday afternoon at Trinity Methodist church. Nearly 300 older boys from .the counties in this section of the State are in attendance at the conference, which is the last of a se ries conducted this Fall by the State committee of the Y. M. C. A. through out North Carolina. Interesting services closed Satur day's session. Saturday night the larg est crowd of the conference was pres ent, a number of fathers and mothers being in the audience. Mrs. Thomas W. Bickett, who has spoken at several conferences in the State on the subject of "The Worth while Girl" and who has made a great impression on the other groups was to have spoken at the Charlotte confer ence, but was unable to come on ac count of illness. She, however, sent the following message to the conference, through Roy L. Vail, State boys' work secretary: "Tell the boys, with my love, that the girls worthwhile are strong1, beau tiful and pure. The girls who make men want to be better and liner will be looking for a man worthwhile. Slay our boys find such a. girl and be worthy of her." Beemer Harrill. of Chester, S. C, former captain of the 1920 University of North Carolina football eleven, spoke in a convincing manner on "Something More in Athletics. His remarks were couched in the usual gripping phrases of a man. who has gained experience on the lime-lined gridiron and tne boys listened atten tively to his every word. MORALE AS 'A FACTOR. Morale is the deciding factor in any athletic contest, said Mr. Harrill, and morale comes from an educated heart. The spirit of Jesus Christ in the heart of an athlete will cause him to play fairly, squarely and above board, b.e said. "Go in, go through and keep going" is a football motto that could easily be applied in every day walks of life, he added. E. A. Cole, in speaking on "Some thing More in the Other Fellow" held the attention of the crowded room with his mechanical illustrations. He exhibited bits of iron and steel and showed how "something more" put in a piece of scrap iron would make it into the finest of steel. Ho explained that a tiny portion of carbon made the difference. "Something more" of Christ in a boy will make him better, asserted the speaker. He used many other devices and concretely drove home his thoughts. Rev. Daniel lverson, pastor of Tenth Avenue Presbyterian church, discuss ed "Something More in Life." His re marks were telling and made a strong appeal to the young fellows seated in the pews. A feature of the evening was the singing of the. Junior choir of Haw thorne Lane Methodist church. With the three sessions Sunday the conference will come to a close. A prayer service will be held at 8:30 a. m. and Dwight Chalmers, student sec retary at Davidson College will speak on "Something More in Prayer. Harry F. Comer, student secretary at the University of North Carolina, will speak at 3 p. m. at Trinity church. His subject will be "Some thing More in the Master Man." At least 500 boys are expected to crowd into the building for the afternoon session. Rev. Dr. J. E. Abernethy, pastor of Trinity Methodist emircn, will deliver the closing address of the conference on "Something More in the Days Ahead." The final session will begin at 7:30 p. m. AFTERNOON SESSION. Tn nn exceedinslv interesting and in structive lecture on "Something More in the Bible," Rev. E. A. Penick .Jr., St. Petpr's Knisconal church. at the afternoon session tirged the boys to read tne iJioie to learn oi numan nature, to eret an insight into the his tory of the world, and to acquire a per sonal knowledge of the Creator. The Bible, he said, is a book of knowledge nnd one that Is interesting. Rev. Dr. W. H. Frazer, president of Queens college, spoke on "Something More in the Boy." He emphasized rVinmrtpr rpmitation. and education. and earnestly pleaded with the boys to make use of tneir taients ana Training. His address was interspersed with amusing stories, that appealed greatly trw thp hox-R in the audience. Seth J. Perkinson, of Asheville, who hn cbarsro of the music of tne confer ence again led the singing, which was followed by the devoitonal period con rhir-terf bv Mr. Penick. At the "close of the afternoon session some of the boys were guests of Char lotte Rotarians on an auiomoone riae over the city. MORNING MEETING. At the opening sesion of the second dnv Dr. H. B. Arbuckle of the Davidson faculty SDOke on "The Four Thtno-s that Count in Life." He enum erated them as follows: foresight, fel faithfulness and faith. He il lustrated each with a natural history story showing tne qualities exempimea in different animals. The ant is an ex omnip of foresisrht. He stores up his food for the Winter and prepares for a rainy day. D'eiiowsmp is snown in the life of the grasshoppers, which gather and move in droves, without a king. The spider is an object of faith fulness. The spider, independent of others' aid, weaves its own web and works and works until it is finished. The cony, by first believing it can pro tect itself, hides in the crevices of (.Continued on r ti.v.nU.n . Has Strong Resemblance to the League of Nations Covenant. WILL CAUSE FIGHT. Borah Group Expected to Oppose it; Democrats Will Vote for It. BY LAWRENCE MARTIN, Fnited Press Staff Correspondent. AVashington. Dec. 10. Senatorial op position to the four-Power treaty of Washington for preserving peace in the Pacific flared up today within an hour after Senator Lodge had made the treaty public at a plenary session of the Arms Conference. The opposition came from both Dem ocrats and Republicans. Roth object ed to the pact because, they said, it was like the Wilson League of Na tions covenant. The Democrats, head ed by Senator Pat Harrison, of Missis sippi, said it was like- the League but not enough , like it. The Republicans headed by Senator Borah, said it was too much like the League. DEMOCRATIC SUBSTITUTE. Democratic Senators will offer as res ervations to it in th Senate portions of Articles 10, 11. 11 and 13 of the League of Nations covenant. Article 10 provides for the respecting am preservation of the political indepen dence and territorial integrity of all members of the League. The Treaty of Washington' binds the four Powers to respect the territorial integrity of all the others and to confer on means for preserving it against-raggression Dy airy outside Power.. - But, t.he Democrats pointed out. the Treaty" of Washington is . vague and in definite as to the measures to be tak en in preserving territorial integrity The League covenant on the contrary, is definite. It provides in Articles 11, 12 and 13 for an economic boycott of an aggressor nation, for arbitration of disputes, and for a definite agreement not to go to war for a fixed period These definite safeguards should be in corporated in the new treaty, Demo crats declared. They regard the treaty as a long step towards American entrance into the League of Nations. BORAH RESERVES COMMENT. While Senator Borah would not dis cuss the treaty for publication without further study of it, he made no secret of the fact that Article 2, was to him but an echo of Article 10, of the League covenant. Borah's anti-League fight was centered on Article 10. Article 2, of the Washington treaty provides that if any nation attacks Pa cific possessions of any nation includ ed in the new treaty, the four Pow ers shall confer on the best, means of meeting the situation. This, in the opinion of some Senators, imposes an obligation on all four Powers to h?7p preserve the territorial status of the others, so far at least as the Pacific is concerned, even to the extent of us ing force. It was clearly indicated, from the general attitude of Senators, that th discussion will parallel the lines of the League fight. Administration leaders said the treatv would be ratified without mud opposition. They based their predic tion on public opinion and the terms of the pact themselves, which, they said, would disarm any but partisan critics. Senator Borah, Idaho, Republican "frreconoilable" leader, saJd: "It would be hazarding a great deal to undertake to express myself until I have Citudied the text of the proposed treaty. It is too important a matter Text Of Treaty Between The Powers Washington, Dec. 10. (United Press.) The text of the treaty be tween the four powers for the maintenance of peace in the Pacific fol lows: The United States of America, the British Empire, France and Ja pan: With a view to the preservation of the general peace and the main tenance of their rights in relation to their insular possessions and insu lar dominions in the region of the Pacific ocean. Have determined to conclude a treaty to this effect and have appoint ed as their plenipotentiaries. The president of the United States of America, Mis Majesty, the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. and Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the seas, Emperor of India. For the Dominion of New Zealand. And for the Dominion of . Canada. For the Commonwealth of Australia. For India, The president of the French Republic, His Majesty, the Emperor of Japan, Who, having communicated their Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows: The High Contracting Parties agree as between themselves to re spect their rights in relation to their insular possessions and insular do minions in the region of the Pacific Ocean. If there should develop between any of the high contracting parties a controversy arising out of any Pacific question and involving their rights which is not satisfactrily settled by diplomacy and is likely to affect the harmonious accord now happily subsisting between them, they shall invite the other high contracting parties to a joint conference to which the whole subject will be referred for consideration and adjust ment. 2. If the said rights are threatened by the aggressive action of r.ny other power, the high contracting parties shall communicate with one an other fully and frankly in order to arrive at an understanding as to the most efficient measures to be taken, jointly or separately, to meet the exigencies of the particular situation. 3. This agreement shall remain in force for 10 years from the time it shall take effect, and, after the expiration of said period it shall continue to be in force subject to the right of any of the high contract ing1 parties to terminate it upon it upon 12-months notice. 4. This agreement shall be ratified as soon as possible in accordance with the constitutional methods of the high contracting parties ami shall take effect on the deposit of ratifications, which shall take place at Washington, and thereupon the agreement between Great Britain ana Japan, which was concluded at London on July 13th, 1911, shall terminate. ENACE OF WAR N THE PACIFIC S DISPOSED OF Powers Agree to Respect Rights of Each Other in Pacific Matters. YAP QUESTION IS NEARLYSETTLED Formal Settlement Between the Tw o Countries May Be Reached Monday. BY HERBERT A. WAEKER. United Press St ft Correspondent, AVashington. Dec. 10. The famous Tap question, now recognized as vitally affecting the success of the Conference on Disarmament, is on the verge of final -settlement: This information was made known today by a high authority of th Amer ican delegation, who revelaed- that a formal settlement of the Tap problem is probably only a matter of hours. The Yap question being, in brief, the opposition of the United States to the award of the mandate over the Is land of Tap to Japan was aquestion oT grave controversy between the Uni ted States and Japan just before the present conference was called. But then an informal settlement of this problem was reached between Sec retary of State Hughes and Ambassador Shidehara of Japan, and little has been saidi of Yap since. Today, however. Yap was jerked out of obscurity again when Senator Lodge, in reierring to tne quaarupie xacinc treaty, state ARE WAITING ON REPLYjOF TOKIO Acceptance of Hughes' Plan for Naval Limitation Vir tually Assured. BY HARRY L. ROGERS. International .News Staff Corresv"ntieiit Washington, Pec. 10. Acceptance of the Hughes plan for naval limita tion is virtually assured as a result of the unanimously favorable reception accordea to the four-Power treat- pro posal today, according to a high naval official tonight. The amicable solution afforded by the treaty of the delicate question of abrogation the Anglo-Japanese al liance, it was stated, has removed the chief obstacle to the naval limitation plan and the reply from Tokio, expect ed momentarily, is regarded as perfect ly certain to be in the affirmative. Decision on the question of the na val ratio was scheduled to have been made today by the Japanese Imperial Cabinet meeting in Tokio, but, at a late hour tonight, the Japanese delega tion had not yet received word of a decision. Cable congestion was given as the probable explanation of the delay. Ths Japanese reply, to be acceptable ANGLO-JAP ALLIANCE. Is Supplanted by New Four Power Treaty Ratified Publicly Saturday. d, as one of the two rcser-, tu thc United States, must endorse the the United tates. that the I p ratio, it was emphatically stated -jlinn nf th ... i , , till Ani.lH-.OVI .ifim.'ll i r. n .wli A. tanging o rthe new treaty wass aepenu- " -ji"- maiit.. v. cnt on the making of a convention with Japanese headquarters it was regarded for a settlement of the di3 pr-icueany cerrain mat tne lokio government would indicate its willing ness to accept the Hughes plan, with (Continued on Vase Xine.) Buildin material hain't only doubled, hut ther's th' heavy hospital expense an' danger o' losin' your reason while tryin' t have a house built. What tVw drunk people we do see -are cer tainly nickled. . Japan providing Yap question. A few hours later, it was revealed that this convention has been completed and is about to be signed. Lodge's reservation regarding is looked upon as merely showin; the many international problems facing the conference and the questions con nected with the major problems of the conference are almost inextricably in terlocked. Senator Lodge made this reservation, it was declared on high authority, to serve notice that the rights of the Uni ted States in the former German islands in the Pacific mandated to Japan and the British Dominions, as dsfined by Secreary Hughes, are not affected by the terms of the new Pacific treaty. TERMS OF SETTLEMENT. The terms of the Yap settlement are understood to be: 1. That the United States and other hp 1 ions are to have extra-territorial rights for landing cables and for other cable purposes and are to enjoy the open door and equal opportunity goner ally in the Island of Yap. 2. That Japan retains the mandate over Yap, after giving guarantees for the above rights of other nations. 3. That the former German cables radiating- about the Island of Yap be disposed of so that the United "States will have the cable from Yap to Gaum: Japan that from Yap to Shanghai, the Chinese end of which was diverted to Japanese shores during the war; and Holland the line from Yap to Menado, in the Dutch East Indies. These were virtually the terms of the informal settlement arrived at be tween Hughes ar.d Shidehara before the Arms Conference was called. The Y'ap convention, or treat-, proba bly will be signed by Hughes and Shide hara for the United States and Ja pan the possible qualification that the status quo of fortifications in Guam. Yap ! tne Philippines and other points in the how i ar Pacific should be maintained. lne United States would be willing to accept this qualification, officials in dicated, in view of the guarantees giv en to all powers in the Pacific under the four-Power treaty. "For the United States to insist at this time upon carrying out plans for fortifying Guam," a high naval offi cial states, "would scarcely be in har mony with the spirit of the treaty." HAWAII IS EXCEPTION. Any suggestion that freedom of ac tion of the United States with respect to Hawaii should be limited will be staunchly resisted, however, it was de clared. "Hawaii should no more be made the subject of negotiations than San Fran cisco Bay," a high official declared. "The jslands should be regarded as a part of Continental United States, in asmuch as they are so near to our Pa cific coast as to constitute surely a de fensive base. The general feeling of American naval experts is that to in- (Contlnned on Page Alne.) BIG DEMONSTRATION STAGED BY STRIKERS Kansas City, Kas., Dec. 10. Packing house strikers and strike sympathizers, who have been held in leash with dif ficulty the last two days, started a riot at the "Big Five" packing plants here tonight. More than 1,200 men and women took part in the demonstration and scores of shots were fired. Tony Conkovich, The Y'an convention also may cover! ri, Tt,-0 cirmnni th ninnta nn American rights in the other former thfeatene(j the hundreds of strike break German islands north of the Equator ; erg reported to be housed in the build- in tne jracuic auwaicu ua.iui, i jngs indicated. ' ! There may have to be another con vention to take care of American rights in mandated territories generally the world over, but Hughes, in his last note on this subject to the powers, suggest ed certain changes in the mandate terms for the administration of these territories, such as in the . Near East and Africa to protect American rights, which, if adopted, probably will make another convention unnecessary. KNOX BOOSTING ROOSEVELT. New York, Dec. 10. Theodore Roose velt, assistant Secretary of the Navy, is being boomed by Frank Knox, Re publican leader of New Hampshire, for next Goxernor of New York, it was learned here tonight. Two hundred police were rushed to the district and endeavored to disperse the rioters. THREE ARE THOUGHT TO HAVE PERISHED BY GEORGE R. HOLMES. International 'Xtvrm Staff Correspondent Washington, Dec. 10. With one swift stroke, the four great powers of the world today kicked the obnoxious Anglo-Japanese alliance into the interna tional ash-heap and substituted in its stead a short document of 390 words. which is designed to end for 10 years, probably for a great deal longer the overhanging menace of war in the Pa cific. Under the terms of this new four power pact, given to and approved by the world today, the Governments of the United States, Great Britain, Japan and France agree to respect the rights of each other in the Pacific and not go to war over disputes that may arisv until they have completely threshed out the matter in common conference If the interests of any one of the four powers is menaced by an outsider, then the four treaty powers will "commun icate fully and frankly" with one an other over l ow this menace is to bo met and overcome. Only the attachment of signatures on behalf of the United States, Japan. Great Britain and France and the rati fication of the treaty by the constitu tional agencies of each government, re main to be :( accomplished before the treaty becomes operative. , The actual signing-will take place at soon as the United States and Japan reach an agreement concerning Yap- now almost completed and little diffi culty is anticipated with regard to rn ification. The authorized spokesmen for th foreign powers directly concerned form ally accepted the treaty on behalf of their governments, the four minor pow ers indirectly concerned expressed their approval of it, and as for the Unitco States' Senate, there is no one in ask ington tonight who believes that the Senate will turn down that which its own majority leader sponsored before the world conference at its historic meeting today. SOME CRITICISM. Some criticism of the pact is expect ed by Administration officials. Within a. few hours after the text of the treaty became public property, there were Kiig- gestions that Article II of the new treaty was suspiciously like the inu h- hated Article X of the League of .Na tions covenant. Article II says: "If the said right.' are threatened by the aggressive action of any other power, the high contract ing parties shall communicate with one another fully and frankly in order to arrive at an understanding as to the most efficient measures to be taken, jointly or separately, to meet the ex igencies of the particular situation." Article X of the covenant said: "The members of the League undertake to re spect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all members of the League." Members of the delegation were quick to challenge any similarity. They point ed out that Article II does not pledge any of the powers to "preserve the interests of any party or parties. It only pledges the signatory powers to "communicate fully and frankly with one another" over what is to be done. It can be officially stated that the United States interprets this clause as in no way committing the United States lo do anything more than communicate fully and frankly. The official view of the United States is that there is no obligation to send any forces into arm ed conflict, unless Congress so orders. One of the highest officials of the Ad ministration said: "E have only the deepest sympathy with any one who be lieves there is any blood relationship between article X and article II." It is also the official view of the Uni ted States that nothing in the treaty can be construed as affecting problems on the mainlands of the nations involv ed such as the California immigra tion question, or any questions relating to China. The treaty, in short, is con strued by the United States to mean nothing more than "insular posses sions" and problems affecting the Pa cific waters. GREATEST FEACE STEP Foreign spokesmen were hailing the new treaty tonight as the greatest, step in the direction of world peace, that has been taken in years. Secreta ry of State Hughes himself expressed some such feeling whn, at the ciose of today's historic sassion in Continen tal Hall, he said: "Gentlemen, we :iai been dealing Dana.", lexas, Dec. 10. Three per sons were believed to be trapped and burned to death and three others were injured in a fire which broke out in the Consolidated Film Company tonight. The fire started from an explosion of the chemical tanks, it is believed. The flames jumped across the street, setting fire to the Western Auto Sup ply Company, and threatening film ex changes on ihc other side of the street. (Continued ' on Far Twelre.) IJJJJIIIIII!II:DEx, . North Carolina and South Carolina:' Fair Sunday and Monday; little hansc in temperature. j pursuers. i
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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